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This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the 1) prize Medal. It Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London the Agents in the principal towns in England: or wholesale 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink. Label and Cork Branded " ban's LL Whisky" J "Miner [es Were 1 of stiff . When creased, on. " I t ldly dis- Times ing fact s of this her the nuisance be sure, ale new THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1868. lITUAL AN M (Incorporated lj by Acyoliilrrii.AenStSloBsC9)lA.TlON 14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. LONDON, N°. 23,881. And 38, WREN'S-ROAD, BRIGHTON PRICE.... 4d. STAMPED bd. ADVANCES MONEY neon personal s'ecutity, Bills of Sale, Free hold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay able weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. 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ARGYLL R OM S.-OPEN EVERY EVENING for Instrumental Music and Dancing.—The Rooms have been magnificently re-decorated by Messrs. Uubardt awl Co. The celebrated Hand will perform during the week arnutractive - Programriie of Operatic - Selections and"VoliiilliF Dance Music. Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock. Admission, is ; Balcony, 2s. WINDATTT.T. STREET, PICCADILLY. Musical Director and Conductor—Signor LUIGI CURTI JHN BITRGESS.AND SON'S Original and Superior ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES, also MANYIELD'S PATENT PICKLES, are perfectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS AND SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. COUNTER CLOTHS FOR LICENCED VICTUALLERS. (SHE only article really suitable for that purpose, 1 ss. 6d. per dozen, hemmed, ready for use. Address 105, Fleet-street, and 5, The Pavement, Clapham. GLASS CLOTHS SUITABLE FOR LICENCED VICTUALLERS, 7s. 9d. PER DOZEN. 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HOTELS, Taverns, Public Houses, A &c., for DISPOSAL, in all parts of London and vicinity.— Advances made by Brewers to suitable parties, and to nearly the whole amount of purchaae in some special cases Wanted, full particulars of good bona fide businesses of every kind, and at a'l prises. Apl ;vote register kept for special negotiation, orders for which may be either given by letter or through my trade travellers. No charge for entry.—P. B. HALL, Printing Rouse-square, E. 0., Wholesale Agent for Messrs. Jameson and Co , Distillers, Dublin. SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL, DREADNOUGHT, off Greenwich, for Sick and Diseased Seamen of All Na'icns, who are received without any recommendation. The receipts from all sources during the past year were £879 less than the expenditure. SUBSCRIPTIONS thankfully received by Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers, Birchin-lane and by the.. Secretary, at the Society's office, 86, King William street, London, E.C. Qualification for a Governor, 21s. annually ; Life Governor, £lO 10s. TilE METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT INSTITUTION. President—His Grace the Duko of WELLINGTON. Treasurers—The Right Hon. Russell Gurney, M.P., and Col. W. F. Grant. DONATIONS and SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly solicited, to enable the Board to meet the greatly increased expenditure of this old Charity. 240 adults are received at Walton ; 80 children at Mitcham and Hendon. Bankers—London Joint-Stock Bank, Pall-mall. CHARLES HOLMES, Secretary. Office, 32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly. WSTABLISHMENT for GENTLEWOMEN ui during TEMPORARY ILLNESS. The relatives of Clergymen, Naval, Military, and Pro fessional Men, Governesses, and Artists may, for a small weekly payment, receive the comforts of a HOME, com bined with the best medical and surgical treatment, at the establishment, 90, Upper Harley-street. This establishment, which was opened in 1850, is patro nised by her Majesty. The Bishop of London is Visitor, and it is managed by the Marchioness of Ormonde, the Lady Laura Palmer, Mrs. Edward Romilly, the Lady Caroline Russell, Mrs. Cecil Russell, and other ladies. All information respecting it may be obtained on writ ten or personal application to the Lady Superintendent. Subscriptions received at the Institution, and by the Treasurer, at Messrs. Coutts and Co.'s, 59, Strand._ W. C. SPRING RICE, Hon. Sec. NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861. Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of, CAMBRIDGE, 8.G., whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of the kingdom. The object of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng lish education, and practical instruction In the kitchen, house, and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other wise provided for when they attain 18 years of age, to obtain Suitable situations for them. The Committee e.tnestly appeal for support. The Charity Is entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. HENRY HINGSOOTE, Treaßtirer W H. WAIWICIC Secretary. Office, 121, Pall-null, W REALTIT RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. I)U BARRY'S delicionshealth-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Food. THE REVALEN T A ARABIOA eaves fifty times its cost in other remedies, and restores Perfect digestion strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy the most disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric de rangements, bremorrheids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, bilioUsness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gent, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neu ralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking tits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at the pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is the most digestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable or invalids and infants in all complaints. IMPORTANT CAlmox.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than slopy imitations to which, without autho rity, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. Henceforth none will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holi ness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No. 18 ,413):—"Rome, July 21st, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du darry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a walateful at every meal. Tt has produced a surprisingly teneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot Praise this excellent food too highly." Cure No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Breban of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervous ness, irritability, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation.l Cure No. 78, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Water ford :—" I have derived much benefit from your excellent rood.—STITART DE DECIES, Dromana, Cappoquin, County Waterford." Cure No. 49,832.—0 f fifty years' indescribable agony from dy g p e p s i n , nervonsness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, of Lynn, Norfolk. _ _ _ Ci:;re 47,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme n . rvousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner ols fan ChM. Cure No. 5 6,314.—Mr. Samnel Laxton, Leicester, of two Tears diarrhoea. The Food is sold in Canisters, at ls. lid. ; 11b., 2s. 9d. ; lb., 4s. 6d. ; 121 b., 225. ; 241 b., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b anisters, carriage free on receipt of P. 0. Order. Also Du airy s Revalenta Arabica Chocolate Powder is packed in t hl canisters : For 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 49 c eps at 65., for 288 c u p s a t 305., for 576 caps at 555. Being I, eut cne penny per cup. Te 30s. and 555. tins are sent b i ree of ca rr i age i n E ng l an d on rec ei p t o f Post O ffi ce Order. 'AR ftY D II BARRY and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; 1180 at Po r t num an d M ason ' s; a l so a t 4 , Ch eaps id e, 61 , , rac echnteta-street ; 63 and 150, Oxford-street ; and 121, ti 014 North-road, London and all Orocers. - and Oheraistri, ate with , an d be • believes !nee that leney at pared W h e as ked , uld have aiety W ggage "OPE - 'lowing 1, show by that Rion at Thom he 1864. to the opera e bow 1 [ stated icult to ould be Liver- Of in l ' ( which indegt a great her is t° is done/ ing lan" 3e wben [ r. yes realities be fo r ' Ln ith ,o inter" pa y the nor 0 1 / - Lr dipin . le wh el° ction of and IS eir 3treng t° rnoraott nclusl° ll RePu b- Jena to I if ° )lomatle that the Mean' ling waS sell said North' 3 whole :oase Of of ha" uld g r. Hun he did it' ' schief i 3 th wha t s to be e ruling nt in its amool) , e futur e loss of of t he the niosY, n sw if h ° ,nd rele olll6l , ;on, tOP the wif° °I ,h ire-11"e' ,t, the lifj r s fr Georg e s he late h 'L c 'o 3 ,, 6 0 1 iti; I li CP fle D"ill 3 1r. f , 10 4 ! set, •-e , sear, fr /0 0 t t, 13 DBti °' DIDO r 1l , 140 of 1)00 QECOND EDITION OF KATHLEEN By the Author of "Raymond's Beroine." "'Raymond's Heroine' was a good novel. 'Kathleen' is a better."—Saturday Review. " All lovers of a good novel will find diversion in the pages of 'Kathleen.' "—Athenteum. Hurst and Blackctt, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street, Just published, price Is. Gd., by post is. Sd., the Second Edition, with Addenda. containing additional Facts and Cases, in Rine tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks, 11,EVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: 11. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. 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"Cannot fail tube aseful in the library and office."—Record. Will meet espe cially the requirements of literary, legal and offi c i a l per sons."— Star. " A boon to all lovers of order."—lllus trated London News. "There can be no question as t o the value of this invention."—Morning Post.—Jenner and Knewstub, Inventors of the Elgin Writing Case, 33, St. James's-street, and 66, Jermyn-street. NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi dently recommended as a simple but certain Remedy for Indigestion, which is the cause of nearly all the diseases to which we are subject, being a medicine so uniformly grateful and beneficial that it is with justice ►ailed the " Natural Strengthener of the Human Stomach." " Norton's Pills" act as a powerful tonic and ge n tl e ape rient; are mild in their operation, safe under any cir zumstances, and thousands of persons can now bear testi mony to the benefits to be derived from their use, as they have been a never-failing Family Friend for upwards of 20 years. Sold in bottles at is. 14d., 2s. 9d., and lls. each, in every town in the kingdom. CAITTION. Be sure to ask for "NORTON'S PILLS," and do not be persuaded to purchase any of the various imitations which have sprung up in consequence of the success of " Norton's Camomile Pills." LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN EFFECT UAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately re lieving coughs, cold., confirmed cases of asthma, and idci pient consumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, and admirably allays the ticking which provokes frequent coughing. In approach ing consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca tion, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 13id., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Bo particular, and ask for Lambert's Asth matic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. SCIENTIFIO AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant as sortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe lisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper Weights, &c., in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze' Derby shire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facili tato the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at 149, Strand. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred Medical men to be the most effective invention in - the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided —a soft bandage b e i ng worn round the body, while t h e requi site resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it canno!, be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be bad, and the truss, which can rot fail to fit, for war d e i by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. A Single Truss, 165., 216., 266.6 d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d„ 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 529. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ULASTIC ST OCKINGS, 9_14 KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. GAME LICENCES. 'l - 1 HE COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND REVENUE hereby give Notice that LISTS, containing the Names of all Persons who have taken out LICENCES to HULL and D EAL in GAME in the current Year, to 30th September last inclusive, have been printed for each Excise Collection. A Copy of the List, applicable to any District, may be obtained GRATIS on application at the Offices of the respective Collectors or Supervisors of Inland Revenue, Distributors or Sub-Distribu tors of Stamps, by whom Licences are issued. The Commissioners further give Notice that instructions have been issued to• their Officers to take the necessary steps to prefer informations for penalties against all persons found in pursuit of or dealing in Game without license. Wilt CORBETT, Secretary. Inland Revenne, Somerset House, London, October 29, 1868. ALA. ONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is th e on l y institution in the Metropolis for the treatment and prevention of contagious fevers. CONTRIBUTIONS will be gratefully received by Messrs. Dimsdale and Co., 50, Cornhill; Messrs. Drum mond, Charing-cross; Messrs. Coutts, Strand ; Messrs. 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The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hansom, and Co., Ab e h urch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Herrics and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Pari.e, and Co.; Barclay and Co.;Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and C o ., Bernerm-street i and at the &vital from 10 till br CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s. per ream. s. d. Fine Cream Laid Note ; a cheap paper 3 0 Super:l_le Cream Laid Note; much approved 4 0 Su pet fineThiek Cream Laid Note ; especially recommended 5 6 Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note 7 .0 straw Paper, " Patent;" adapted for rapid writing 2 ' 6 Large Commercial Note Papers' 3s , 45., 55., and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, bine or cream 10s. 6d , 128. 61, and 14 6 Outsides Foolscap 6 6 Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 4s. • ruled ditto, 4 G Tinted Lined Note 11C8 quires for is. 61, or 5 6 Double Thick Cream Wove "Club House" IN ote, five quires for 2s. 6d, Fuperftne Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4s Gd, 5s 6d. & Gs 6d Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s 6d per 1,000 Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &e., 3s COLOUR STA. M PING (Relief) reduced to 18. per 100. Polished steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An ILLU , TR ITED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, stationery, Cabinets, Postage cccales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, and Bags, &c , post free. 'INDIA OFFICE, 15th October, 1868. By order of .the Secretary of State for India in Council. Notice is hereby given, that packages, stated to contain reserved articles from the estates of deceased Officers and soldiers of the late East India Company's Service, and of Her Majesty's Indian Military Forces, have from time to time been received froni the Governments of the respec tive Presidencies in India. Packages containing articles reserved from the follow ing estates remain unclaimed, viz.:— 11. Babington, W. R., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical Department. 12. Briggs, F. W., Rev., Madras Establishment. 17A. Barclay, J. S., Captain, 39th Madras NatiVe Infantry. 20. Coust, H. A. 0., Captain, 2d Madras Native Veteran Battalion. 21. Carter, C., Captain, 38th Madras Native infantry. 26. Chancy, A., Lieutenant, 39th Madras Native In fantry. 33. Donne, J. T., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical Department. 42. Dillas, R., Lieutenant, 3d Madras European Regi ment. 48. Edmonston, W., Sergeant-Major, 28th Madras Native Infantry. 52. Fenning, D. A., Colonel, Ist Madras Light Cavalry. 63. Grinelack, E., Private, 104th Foot. 65. Harris, J. D., Lieutenant, 28th Madras Native In- Infantry. 69. Hawes, J. C., Brevet-Maior, Ist Madras Fusiliers. 7% Halliday, J., Sergeant, Bengal Establishment. 79. Johnston, J. McM., Captain, 4th Madras Native In fantry. 83. Keighly, F., Lieutenant, 24th Madras Native In fantry. 85. Kensington, H. 8., Ensign, 32d Madras Native In fantry. 117. Owen, M., Lieutenant, 38th Madras Native Infantry. 128. Redmond, J. J., Lieutenant, 7th Madras Native In fantry. 134 A. Ryan P., Deputy Commissary, Madras Sappers and Miners. 142. Shedden, Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical De partment. 1508. Stoned, R., Major, 4th Bengal Native Infantry. 154. Walker, A., Captain, Madras Establishment. 165. Walker, T., Sergeant-Major, 7th Madras Native In fantry. 170. Wright,' W., Sergeant, Madras Sappers and Miners. Applications for such packages should be made by next of kin of the deceased, or by the legal representatives of such next of kin, to the Military Secretary, at this Office. in the event of any of the packages in question remain ing unclaimed for the'turther period of six months from this date, they will be opened, the contents be disposed of by sale, and the amount realized be credited to the estate of the deceased. T. T. PEARS, Major-General, Military Secretary. I)RINTIN G.—TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c. The Printing and Machining of Newspapers, &0., done on exceedingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager, "Sun" Printing Offices, 8, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.O. (NE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE v ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the ROY AL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM., at the moderate rate of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed. CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary. Office, 54, Cheapside, London, E.O QAMARITAN FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman square. The only free Hospital for diseases of women. 2,746 patients were treated last month without letters of recommendation. Subscriptions and donations are much needed. any will be received by Messrs. Hatchard. Picca dilly ; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs. Barclay, ()mitts, Glyn, Ransom ; and by the Secretary. nium HOSPITAL for WOMEN, Soho-square. It. —Bankers : Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.; Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co.—The Committee APPEAL very earnestly for CONTRIBUTIONS. The Hospital •is now open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri days to ont-patients who aro treated without letters of recommendation. HENRY B. INGRAM, Secretary. THE ASSOCIATION for the WELFARE of the BLIND, 210, Oxford-street, and 127, Euston-road. Patroness—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. This Institution affords employment in various ways to 172 blind men and women. Pensions to various amounts are granted to the blind who cannot earn their own living. 500 blind men and women aro applying for help, which cannot be given for WANT of FUNDS. Contributions will be thankfully received by the Secre tary, Rev. C. B. REID, M.A. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions." This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was establisbeJ at King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted free- Bankers--Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co., 60, Lombard street, Messrs. Ransom and Bouverie, 1, Pall-mall.—Hon. Sec., / Smith. Esa. GEo. REID, Sec. MLLE ROYAL HOSPITAL for DISEASES of 1 the MUST, City-road.—The wards for in-patients aro constantly full, those for out-patients crowded daily. FUNDS greatly needed. CHARLES L. KEMP, Secretary. H OSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT, Golden-square, W. President—His Grace the Duke of GRAFTON. The Committee of Management earnestly APPEAL for FUNDS td help them to meet the heavy current expenses. Upwards of 18,000 poor persons have been relieved in the last six years. GEORGE WOOD, Secretary. THE ROYAL INFIRMARY for DISEASES of CHILDREN and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge road. Upwards of 100 poor sick children are relieved daily at this Hospital. The Committee most earnestly solicit Contributions, to enable them to continue the benefits of medical aid to those numerous poor suffering children, who are rendered so helpless by sickness and poverty. Bankers, Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard street; ansl by Messrs. Colitis and Co., Strand. CHARLES J. F. RENTON, Secretary. Waterloo-bridge-road, S E. B RITISH HOME for INCURABLES, Clap ham-rise. instituted in 1861. Patroness—H.R.H. the Princess of WALES. This Institution provides a home for life, with good nursing and skilled medical attendance, for persons over 20 years of age and above the pauper class, who aro hope lessly afflicted with incurable disease. Pensions of £2O per annum are also granted. The Home was opened in September, 1863; 71 in patients and 106 annuitants have been elected. Elections in May and November. Forms of application may be ob tained from the Secretary. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are earnestly solicited. Bankers—Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard street, E.C. ; Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W. ED WD. WEAVER, Sec. Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.C. THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES ire as follows : For Fallen Women. 28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent -road. stead. 48, Church-street, St o k e 13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington. town. I Maize-hill Cotta ge , Green -205, treat Portland- street. wich. For Young Girls in Danger. 27, Church-row, Hampstead. 9, Trenstridge-villas, St. John s-wood. St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill. Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover. Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside. In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee have under their charge three homes for servants of good character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless servants annually. The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to open another house for this pitiable class. The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli cants, whose histories are recorded in th e app li cant ' s b oo k . The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I never read a report of any charitable institution which so ' entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my sympathy") may . be had on application. The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co. Tho Committee very earnestly commend its work to the benevolent. DANL. OUDPER, Sec, 85, Queen-etnet 011eopside. Three Courses of Lectures on Common and Mercantile Law, Conveyancing, stn.l the Law of Real Property and Equity, will be delivered in the Hall of the Society in the months of December, January, February, March, April, May, and June next. • . LAW CLASSES. In connexion with the lectures classes will he conducted under the guidance and superintendence of the lecturers, and will proceed concurrently with tho lectures. The number of subscribers to -each class will be limited, and the instruction given will be confined to an examination of the students upon the subject of a preceding lecture, or on portions of a given book bearing on the same subject. A sufficient number of classes will follow each lecture, and be of such duration as shall provide for the efficient instruc lion and examination of the students. The teaching of the lectures will thus lie amplified, and impressed on the memory by the classes; and. the system of constant ex amination will test, from time to time, the progress made by the students. • LECTURES on COMMON and MERCANTILE LAW, by CHARLES HENRY ANDERSON, Esq., Barrister at-Law: The Course will consist of Nino Lectures upon the fol lowing subjects : a. Simple Contract. b. Contracts under:Seal. c. The Contract of Bale. d. Bills of Exchanke, Promissory Notes, and Checks ; with the distinction petween negotiable instruments and other simple contrO. e. Freight and facts of Affreightment, with the pe -enliarittewof Char , =r-parties and Bills of Lading. - f. The toss. of a British Vessel and its consequences 1. To the Owner of the Vessel. 2. To the Owner of the Cargo. 3. To the Underwriter. g. In connexion with the foregoing will be considered the Rule of the Road at Sea as contrasted with that on Shore: also the Law of Negligence and the Liability of a Master for the acts of his Servant. , in his private classes the reader will use as text-books The Law of Contracts (Smith), An Action at Law (Smith), A Digest of Common Law (Anderson). LECTURES on CONVEYANCING and the LAW of REAL PROPERTY, by T. LL. MURRAY BROWNE, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. This Course will consiat of Nine Lectures:— Lecture I. Introductory.—Practical Hints on the perusal and examination of Abstracts. Lectures IL, 111., IV. Settlements.-1. Settlements of Personal Estate; a. Investment of Trust Funds; b. Usual Trustee Clauses, Appointment of New Trustees; c. Usual Powers and Covenants, &c.: d. Remarks on the Effect of Recent Statutes-2. Settlements of Real Estate ; a. Estates for Life and in Remainder, Waste ; b. Jointures, Portions, &c : c. Usual Powers : Remarks on the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act; d. The. Succession Duty Act-3. Disentailing Deeds, the existing Law of Entail 4. Practical Suggestions in connexion with the subject of Settlements. Lectures V., VI. Wills.-1. Usual Frame and Contents of a Will-2. Principles of Construction of Wills-3. Practical Hints on Drawing Wills. Lecture VII. Copyholds.-1. Introductory Remarks, Fines-2. Surrenders and Covenants to Surrender-3. Admissions-4. The Enfranchisement of Copholds. Lectures VIII., IX. Miscellaneous Deeds.-1. Credi tors' Trust Deeds-2. Separation Deeds— 3. Articles of Partnership, &c. In these lectures and classes the Introductions and Notes to Mr. Davidson's Precedents will be especially referred to. _ _ As elementary works, Ur. Joshua Williams's Books on Real and Personal Property are recommended. EQUITY LECTURES, by Sir GEORGE YOUNG, Bart., Barrister-at-Law. This course will consist of Nine Lectures : Lecture 1. Review of Equity, and suggested arrange ments for purposes of Study. Lecture 11. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account; generally, Apportionment and Contribution. Lecture 111. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account, continued : specially, between Principal and Agent. Lecture T.V. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account, continued: specially, between Partners. Lecture V. The Jurisdiction in matters of Administra tion : 1. The Administration of Assets. Lectures VI., VII. The Administrative Jurisdiction, continued: 2. The Administration of Trusts, as enlarged by recent statutory . enactment. Lectures VIII., IX. Injunctions. Books recommended : —Story's Equity Jurisprudence, chapters 8,9, 10, 13, 1,:, 23 ; Haddan's Administrative Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery. Smith's Manual of Equity and White and Tudor's Lead ing Cases in Equity will be the books principally referred to during the course. The subscription payable for the Lectures— For all the Foreach three courses. course. By clerks of members ' £2 2 0 £1 1 0 By clerks of gentlemen not members ' —• 3 3 0 111 6 By all other persons not being members The subscription payable for the law classes— For all the branches of For each instruction. branch. By every subscriber £s 5 0 £2 12 6 Members of the Society may attend the lectures without subscribing. To preient interruption at the lectures, subscribers cannot be admitted to the hall after the lecture has com menced. Law Society's E. W. Williamson, Secretary. N.B. Gentlemen Oct., may subslB6B. cribe for and attend the lec tures and classes, either separately or collectively ; but as the instruction .given in the classes will have special re ference to preceding lectures, it is recommended that those who desire to attend the classes should also attend the lectures. THE LONDON SURGICAL, HOME for DISEASES and ACCIDENTS of WOMEN, for the Reception of Gentlewomen and Females of Respect ability u p on a w eekly payment. Under the management of Mr. Baker Brown. The private medical attendants of the patients are in vited to visit them, and to meet in consultation before treatment. Full particulars can be obtained on application to the Lady-Superintendent, 18, Stanley-terrace, Notting-hill, W. ; or to Mr. Baker Brown, 136, Harley-street, W. 11RIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN STITTJTION. President —.Rev. CANON DALE. CONTRIBUTIONS for the Support of the Homes in 1868 are ear nestly solicited, quet, Salt, and Co., 73, L o thb ar d Whic h maybe sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon street, KO. ; Francis Nicholls, Esq. (of the Co., 14, old Jewry Chambers, E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W. INDIA OFFICE, DECEMBER 10, 1868. By order of the SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA in Council. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that it is intended to send to India annually a certain numbor of YOUNG MEN, trained and educated for ultimate employment in the higher branches of the Department for the conserva tion and management of the Forests under the Govern ment of India. Eight young men will be selected in February next to go to India at the end of 1871. _ _ The salary will be at first £3OO a year, and the salaries of the appointments in the three Presidencies range be tween that sum and £1,900 a year. Promotions will de pend upon efficiency, and the occurrence of vacancies in the higher grades. Applicants must be British subjects above 17 and under 25 years of ago. As active habits and a strong constitution are most im portant, candidates will have to undergo a strict medical examination. They must send to the Revenue Department of the India Office, on or before the Bth of January, 1869, a statement of their names and parentage, with a certificate of birth, and of being posssesed of a competent knowledge of n? following subjects, and they must bo prepared o undergo an examination in them : _ _ _ 1, English writing from dictation and English com position. 2. Arithmetic in all its branches. 3. Algebra, elementary principlec', simple and quadratic equations, ratios and proportions, logarithms, arithmetical and geometrical progression. 4. Geometry (Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 6th books of Euclid) and plane trigonometry. 5. Free hand and plan drawing. 6. A good colloquial knowledge of either French or German, with the facility to read and translate the works of some classical writer in the language. A preference will be given to those candidates who obtain a certain proficiency in,- 1. Stirveying and land measuring. 2. The elements of any of the following natural sciences : Mechanical and natural philosophy. Chemistry. Botany. Geology. If selected, they will ba further required to go through a course of training and instruction in Forestry and cog nate sciences for two years and a half, in France or Ger many, previous to their departure for India, and the Sec retary of State will contribute £5O at the end of each half year towards the expenses of their training, in the case of such candidates as are favourably reported on by their in structors. In addition to this, if it should be found prac ticable, the young men will be required to place them selves under an approved forester in Scotland for a few months before they go out to India. More detailed information as to these appointments may he had on application to the Under Secretary of State for India, India Office Westminster. (Signed) HERMAN MERIVALE. pOL I C E N 0 T I C E. STREET CROSSING SIGNALS. BRIDGE-STREET, NEW PALACE-YARD. CAUTION. STOP. The Semaphore Arms The Semaphore Arms lowered, and by Night with extended, aid by Night with a Green Light. w i t h a Red Light. By the Signal "CAUTION," all persons in charge of Vehicles and Horses aro warned to pass over the Crossing with care, and due regard to the safety of Foot Passen gers. Tho Signal "STOP," will only be displayed when it is necessary that Vehicles and Horses shall be actually stopped on each side of the Crossing, to allow the passage of Persons on Foot; notice being thus giVen to all Per sons in chargo of Vehicles and Horses to stop clear of the Crossing. RICHARD MAYNE, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. Metropolitan Police Office, December 10, 1868. II O a lV r l e E e L arn E e S e S tl .7 B oo li it d for L thOe N p D h O a N se .— of F fo U od N a D u S d clothing for the °YSOF 126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship. 160 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street. 94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing3 370 children. Ll 5 will keep a boy or girl for one year. Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank 214, High Holborn, and 41 Lothbnry, E. 0.; and by iffILLIAM WILLI k MS, Secretary. No. 8, Groat Queen-street, Linco HOME for the HELPLESS.—ST. JAMES'S DIOCESAN HOW: for FEMALE PENITENTS (Hammersmith), under the immediate direction of the Bishop of London. The work carried on by a. Sisterhood, "in faithful accordance with the principles of the Re formed Churoh of England." FUNDS greatly needed • COUNCIL. The Bishop of LONDON Major-Caen. Rt. Iron. Percy Herbert, M.P. Rey. J. E. Kempe Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys Rev. J. W. Ayre Rev. F. G. Bloomfield and Rev. F. Byng Rev. R. G. Baker Rev. S. Brooke Rev. S. W. Lloyd The Lord Clinton Rev. A. Martineau Rev W. Cadman Rev. *.D.M --- acfag an E. Charrington, EFq. Rev. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain Rev. E. Capel Cure Rev. J. E. Cox Octavius Coope, Esq. Arthur Currie, Esq. Rev. J. Connell Rev. Daniel Moore Rev. J. Moorhouse J. D. Morton, Esq. Rev. Cant& Nepean Rev. E. Parry John Pearson, Esq., Q.O. Rev. G. F. Prescott Rev. F. Pigou Rev. 0. W. Purse 0. J. Freake, Esq. R. T. Pigott, Esq. J. S. Gilliat, Esq. R. R. Pym, Esq. Rev. Dr. F Hessey Hugh H. Seymour, Esq. H G Heald, Esq. R. Wade, Esq. R. Hook, Esq., Treasurer Loftus Wigram, Esq. Subscriptions will be received by any of the above ; by Messrs. Harries, Farquhar, and Co; and by the Hon. Secretary, Rev. S. W. Lloyd, 14, Sey mour - s t reet, Port man-square, to whom comma ications may be addressed. R OYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES, West-hill, Putney-heath. Established 31st July, 1851. This Institution exists for the comfort and relief of per sons (being above the pauper class) afflicted with incur able bodily disease. Relief is afforded—lst. By supplying a home, with medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for the in valid. 2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to patients at their own homes. A new wing to the Hospital has just been completed eta cost of upwards of £lO,OOO, and FUNDS are urgently NEEDED to liquidate the expenses Incurred. There are 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely dependent upon voluntary subscriptions. Nearly 300 approved applicants are awaiting election. For the maintenance of present operations, for the ex tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe cially annual subscriptions, are earnestly solicited. Life subscriptions, £5 ss. and upwards; annual subscriptions, half a guinea and upwards, with votes in proportion. Information will be supplied, with the greatest pleasure, upon application to the Secretary, by whom contributions will be thankfully received. FREDERIC ANDREW, Secretary. No. 10, Poultry, London, 8.0 . eeptember, 180, . • gl It IT I SH ORPHAN ASYLUM, iffi Mackenzie-park, Slough (formerly at Clapham-rise). Instituted 1827. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. _ For the gratuitous board, clothing, and education of destitute orphans from all parts of the British dominions, and of all denominations, whose parents were once in prosperous eireutnstatices. One hundred and seventy-five orphans now in the In stitution ; ample room for about 30 more. Increased support indispensable, as this Charity is not endowed, and is in the greatest need of further pecuniary assistance. Subscribers and the public are invited to inspect the Institution, and judge as to the nature of the Charity and its peculiar claims. The last Report can be obtained on application to the Secretary. THOS. TILSON, Chairman. CHAS. LEE, M.A. Hon. Secs. AUBREY C. PRICE, M.A., ALFRED MACKENZ E, Secretary. Offices, 73, Cheapside, London, E.C. Bankers—Messrs. Williams,Deacon, and Co., Birchin bale ; and Mews. litigwood, Dollars, Manchootor._ FARES. Slncee Journey Ticket. - ----- Return Ticket. Ist 2d 31 Ist 2d 3.1 Class. Class. Class' Class. Class. Class. Bd. 6.1. 4d. , ls. 9d. (:d. MYLES FENTON, General Manager. GREAT WESTI4]RN RAILWAY. CHRISTMAS HOLID kY3. ORDINARY RETURN TICKETS, issued at any Station on the Great Western Railway from WEDNESDAY, December 23, and following days, will be available until December 31, inclusive. Third-Class Return Tickets will bo issued by certain Trains from LONDON (Paddington, Victoria, Battersea, Chelsea, West Brompton, and Kensington Stations), to Exeter, Plymouth, Yeovil, Weymouth, and Dorchester, and vice versa, on WED NESDAY, December 23, and following days, available for Return up to and including THURSDAY, December 31. . . For further particulars see hand-bills. J. GRIRRSON, General Manager. Paddington, Dec., 1868, WATTKENPHAST'S BOOTS, 10, PALL-MALL, EAST, LONDON, S.W. Choose your fit, and have your number registered for future supplies; and obtain all the advantages of special lasts, at far lower cost. LONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN RAILWAY. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. RETURN TICKETS from and to all Stations on the London and North-Western Railway where they can usually be obtained, issued on WEDNESDAY, 23d December, and intervening days, will be available for Return on any day up to . and including THURSDAY, the 31st December. A similar Extension of Time will also be,,allorei-tor lAttnlY Tickets to and from Scotland, The Trains on Christmas Day will Run as on Sunday, with the addition of the 7.15 a.m. Irish Mail Train from Euston, the 7.31 a.m. Day Mail Train from Euston (with its Birmingham connec tions. viz., the 9.40 a.m. Rugby to Wolverhampton, and the 9.35 a.m, Birmingham to Stafford), and the 6.15 a.m. Up Mail from Dublin due at Euston at 6.25 p.m. The 7.30 a.m. Down Day Mail from Euston will be due at Car lisle at 5.45 p.m., and passengers for Scotland will go forward by the Caledonian, Glasgow, and South-Western, and North British Trains, at the same times as on week days. W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Euston Station, London, December, 1863. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TR ANSAT LANTIQUE. 4, Rue de la Paix. Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New York. RATES OF PASSAGE. From lIAVRE or BREST to NEW YORK. • First (Mass 7OO fr. Second Class 425 fr. Third Class .• 275 fr. From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brest, including railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class 285 fr. WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St. Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico, Haiti, Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique. JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND CENTRAL-AMERICA (via Panama). Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon, Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo, Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union, San Francisco, China, and Japar.. Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this company, can be had of STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co., Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C. "S E L F-C LOSIN G DOUBLE-GRIP' ACTION. CENTRAL-FIRE BREECH-LOADING GUNS. E. M. REILLY and Co., 502, NEW OXFORD-STREET, LONDON. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal street, Lincoln's-inn.—The Committee earnestly APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current ex penses. Assistance is urgently needed. F. ALLIED DEDWELL, Vice-Chairman. JAMES BLYTH, Secretary. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDINGS, Lombard-street, London, and Liverpool. EPITOME of ANNUAL REPORT for 1867. The " ROYAL" has never had a larger body of Constituents than now. FIRE BRANCH, PREMIUMS in 1867 being a larger reve nue th an i n any preceding year. LOSSES by Fire in 1867. £460,553 £292,125 NET PROFITS, after paying all losses and ex penses £56,873 LIFE BRANCH. Annual Average of new business in 1865-6-7 £Bol,ooo Do. during previous Quinquennium £688,000 Amount added to Life Reserves in 1867 £128,583 LIFE PROPOSALS now effected will participate in the increased share of Profits recently conceded to Policy holders. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. August, 1868. TO! GOSNF.I.J., and CO.'S CII ERRY ef TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth, powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from .I , c,y, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price Is. 61.—Red Bull Wharf, 03, Upper Thames-street. London. R. WEBB, Surgeon-Dentist, Author of "The IYI Latest linnroved System of Dentistry," second editio n ' just published, a n d sent free for two sta m p s . "Will well repay perusal." xpress. Attendance nine to six. Consultations free. New Bond-street. N.B. Many years with Al r. Eskell, of 8, Grosvenor-street. F. THOMAS AND CO.S PATENT SEWING MACHINES. —The celebrated No. 2 Ma chine, unequalled for general work, £lO. The new Domestic Machines, complete (Lock Stitch), £5 55., £6 65., and £B. Catalogues free. - W. F. 'I'HOMAS and Co., 1 and 2, Cheapside, and Regent-circus, Oxford-street, London. AT CHRISTMAS many persons are induced to take more than is wholesome. Two or three of PARR'S LIFE PILLS will clear off ACIDITIE•a, and remove FEVERISH HEADACHE awl other unpleasant symp toms, without pain or inconvenient'. IFli PILLS may be obsabia(l of any Medicine Venii,lC in . 2a. 9d., and in Family Packets, lls. eaca. with each box. MR. 1 , SKELL, SURGEON DENTIST, the Author of "PURE DENTISTRY, and What it Does for Us," "PAINLESS TOOTH EXTRACTION, or Ancesthesia Locally Applied," " DENTAL SURGERY—a Practical Treatise," &c., &c., may be Consulted Daily as hitherto from 10 to 4 o'clock, at his ONLY Residence, 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE (a few doors from Bond-street). HOBBS, HART, and CO., No. 76, Cheapside, London. LOOKS—for Houses, Hotels, and Railway Offices. from 2s. to 165.; for Mansions and Banks, Bs. to 50s.—adapted for all pur poses. FIRE-RESISTING SAFES, for private use, 20 to 36 inch, £4 to £lO Offices, 24 to 72 inch, £lO to £l2O. H , H., au dCo. solicit an examination (especially by engineers) of their three entirely NEW PRINCIPLES of construction for security Safes and Doors.—See Report in List of Prices. MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new de scription of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the ori ginals by the closest observer ; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve tenth that are loose, and is gua ranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in masti cation. 52, Fleet-street. At homo from 10 till 5. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE. India Office, Ist December, 1863. NOTICE is Hereby Given, that an examination of Candidates for 23 appointments as Assistant-Surgeons in her Majesty's Indian Medical Service will be held at Chelsea Hospital on the Bth FebruAry, 1869. Copies of the regulations for the examination of Candi dates, together with information regarding the pay and retiring allowances of Indian Medical Officers, may be ob tained on appttcati n at the Military Department, India Office, Westminster, S. W. T. T. PEARS, Major-General, Military Secretary. CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA. i'IANDIDATES intending to present themselves ‘J at the Open Competition, commencing on March 16,1569, are reminded that Certificates of Birth, Health, and Character should be sent to the Secretary to the Civil Service Commis sioners, London, S.W., on or before the Ist of February. Regu lations may be obtained on application. EUROPEAN . ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in Situations of Trust. Chairman— General Sir FREDERIC %urn, K.H., F.R.S. Policies payable during Life—lndisputable—Not liable to Forfeiture. Annual Income exceeds Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds. The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants, and full particulars of the popular di'rinciples of this Society, will be found in the New Prospectus, which will be forwarded to applicants poat free. HENRY LAKE, General Manager. 316, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place Pall mall, London. THE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.—Every Policy effected with this Society by the 31st inst. will have the advantage of one year in every Annual Bonus. The Directors give notice that the Policies of the Society be come Indisputable, and are relieved of all conditions (except payment of the annual premiums), when they have remained unchallenged for five years, and the life assured has completed his 30th year. The bonus additions allotted by the Society are highly satisfac tory. In a recent claim the addition to a .£l,OOO assurance, dated 1845, amounted to £l,OlO, making the total payment £2,010. CHARLES IN(ALL, Actuary.. No. 39, King-street, Cheapside, London, December, 1863. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON and GLOBE INSURANCE COMPANY. Offices-1, Dale-street, Liverpool; . 7, Cornhill ; and Charing-cross, London. The Invested Funds now amount to £3,401,055, the Fire Revenue to £836,816, and that of the Life to £259,039. The moderate rates of premium, with a guaranteed fi xe d Bonus for the Life Policies oethis Company, and their value as SPECIAL SECURITIES to third parties, render them particularly advantageous. Whole-world leave is granted on reasonable terms, and claims are paid thirty days after admission. JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary. A.D. 1720. R 0 YAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION. (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. Offices—ROYAL EXCHANGE, London. Branch Office-29, Pall Mall, S.W. Esq Governor. Isq Sub-Governor. Esq Deputy-Governor. (TORS , William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Egerton Hubbard, Esq. Nevile Lubbock, Esq. George Forbes Malcolmson, Esq. Lord Joseeline Wm. Percy. Charles Robinson, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. uel Solly, Esq., F.R.S. OCTAVIITS WIGRAM, JAMES STEWART lI9DGSON, E: CHARLES JOHN MANNING, E DIREC Robert Barclay, Esq. John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Edward James Daniell, Esq, William Davidson, E Lancelot William Dent Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq. Charles Hermann Goschen, Esq. Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq. Fran cis Alex . Hamilton, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Medical Referee, Sami NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of FIRE PREMIUMS falling duo at Christmas will expire on the 9th of January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on advantageous terms. The Duty on Fire Assurances has been reduced to the uniform rate of ls. Gd. per cent. per annum. No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy or Stamp, however smkll the Assurance may be. F.P CUING STOCK.— No Extra Charge is made for the use of Steam Thrashing Machines. The Rever , ionary Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the AsFured Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee of a largo invested Capital Stock, and exemption under Royal Charter from the liabilities of part nership. The advantages of modern practice, with the secu rity of an Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. ROYAL EXCRANGE 7 LONDON. Boa= P. 13Tri,ELE, Secretary. t even the change of Ministry has caused more elation than the recent political party at Hatfie9 ie. A year ago that mansion - was occupied:by a veteran English nobleman, one of the TeTv sdriivineold fashioned Tory peers. He was a man of more social influence than personal ability, and important private meetings of Conservative M.P.'s used to be held at his house in Arlington-street, rather than at the house of Lord Derby, in St. James's-square. The marquis died, full of years, and not without honour, and he was succeeded by his second son, who, some two or three years before, bad, while making a speech in the House of Commons, become, by the sudden death of his blind eldest brother, heir to the marquisate. That event removed from the House of Commons the most dangerous foe and most merciless critic whom Mr. Disraeli had. Scathing had been the sarcasms which Lord Robert Cecil had directed against the Conservative leader. There was no difficulty in recognising them, whether in the pages of the Saturday Review (whereof Lord Robert's brother-in law, Mr. Beresford Hope, was the chief proprietor) in the Quarterly Rtview, or in the short-lived but very brillihrt Bentley's Quarterly. These sarcasms ceased for a time when Lord Cranborne consented to form one of Lord Derby's third Cabinet in 1866. But in eight months the suspicion and dislike which the Conservative Secretary for 'lndia had always felt for the Conservative Chancellor of the Exchequer induced him to secede from the Cabinet. Onk,e more the political article in the Quarterly became the great literary event of the quarter, containing as it . did charges against the Con servative leaders and policy more bitter than could be found in the most partisan Radical organs. At length the Irish Church question turned up, and when the Suspensory Bill was brought into the House of Lords, Lord Salisbury, as he had then become, voted for it, because, as he said, the experience of the preceding year had taught him the danger of resisting changes—bad taught him that resistance was sure to be followed by a more complete surrender. That event may be said to have marked Lord Salisbury's secession from his party. When he became chairman of Sir Roundell Palmer's election • committee at Oxford, he gave another and emphatic manifestation of the change which he had n tide in his political position. The gather ing at Hatfield House is strici - 1y in accordance with pre ceding events. Conservatve journals- state that theye-40- . nothing in it, for the visit had been arranged several weeks ago. But this in nowise alters its significance. Lord Salisbury was too well acquainted with the course of public events not to know that somewhere about Christmas Mr. Gladstone would be Prime Minister. There is not a politician on either side who was not aware of this. Nor can there be any doubt that the Marquis thinks that the course recommended by Mr. Gladstone is more truly con servative for the Church than Mr. Disraeli's policy of passive resistance, or the wholesale suppression of Irish bishoprics recommended by the Royal Commissioners. It may well be imagined, therefore, that this has been one of the principal subjects of conversation at Hatfield. House. But rumour says that this is only one. Rumour asserts that the question of Ritualism has been under deliberation, though I confess I can hardly magine Mr. Lowe and his old antagonist, who turned him out of office, discussing such a topic as this. City men ihelieve that matters of interest to them have been dis- cussed, and yesterday evening there was a prevalent report that Government would purchase all the rail ways in the kingdom, and that Lord Salisbury, the successful chairman of the Great Eastern, had consented to hold office in the new department that would then be created. I mention this rumour under reserve, as the French say. It does not seem to be particularly credible, knowing that we have at the head of the Board of Trade a Minister most jealous of State intervention, and seeing, too, that this Minister was not one of the Hatfield party. No doubt we shall hear other solutions of what is by far the best Christmas puzzle out. The new Board of Admiralty met for the first time yesterday. Mr. Trevelyan will no doubt go through re-election after the issue of the remaining writs on the 29th. Mr. Goschen has taken charge of his department, and is working exceedingly hard. He is under a disadvan tage as compared with his predecessor, for Lord Devon had served his apprenticeship to the Poor-law Board as Secretary before becoming President, and was acquainted with all the routine of the department. This Mr. Goschen has to learn. Meanwhile he has given evidence that he does not mean to spare himself. For instance, there is a grand feud just now, between the Kensington rate payers and the Board, arising out of Mr. Hardy's Act for the erection of asylums, which will cost the ratepayers £90,000, and £5,000 a year to maintain, and involve an addition of sd. in the pound to rates already so high that 800 persons have recently been summoned for non-payment. Mr. Goschen has not been content to take the particulars second-hand, but a day or two ago went to Kensington in per Son, in order to inquire into the particulars. The President of the Poor-law Board has one of the most difficult posts in the whole Ministry. There is mutiny on the part of the subordinates against the heads, mutiny on the part of the ratepayers against the Board. Meanwhile, the rates are increasing with such terrible rapidity, that thousands are yearly passing from the ranks of ratepayers to those of rate-receivers. There ,is no doubt, I believe, but that Sir Richard Mayne will shortly retire, with a baronetcy and upon full pay. The Chief Commissioner is now getting on towards 80, and the twin evils of London criminality and pauperism require a younger man to deal with them. It is not yet officially stated who will be Sir Richard's successor, but I should not be surprised to learn that the Government had selected Sir Walter Crofton. His appointment would be more popular than any other that could be made, for he of all men who are likely to have the post seems best to understand the work of "rooting out " criminals. But he and everyone else will fail, an angel from heaven would fail to do the work thoroughly, until some vigorous reform of the licensing system is effected. It seems to be generally admitted that one of the pro minent questions of the coming session will be the Ballot. Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Cardwell have already announced their readiness to concede it—not that they like it, but that they consider it a lesser evil than intimidation. Mr. Goschen has also, I understand, come to view the matter in the same light. Mr. Bright, Mr. Stansfeld, Sir R. Collier, and Sir J. D. Coleridge have always been in favour of it. The Conservatives seem to have withdrawn their opposition to it. They do not deny that there has been intimidation, but only affirm that " it has been as much on the one side as on the other," a fact which they, of course, see makes in favour of the measure. It will be a remarkable fact if this measure should pass without any serious opposition from either side, after the many years of fruitless efforts to obtain even an experimental trial for it. I may add, that though Sir Henry Bulwer has taken charge of the matter, there is no jealousy on the part of Mr. Henry Berkeley. The old and the new member are quite in accord. The first of the contested elections since the general election has resulted in a Conservative triumph. This event was fully anticipated. The late. Captain Calcraft got in at Wareham simply through a split among the Conservative party ; the breach healed, the Conser vatives carried their man. The vacancy in South Derby shire caused by the death of Sir Thomas Gresley will result either in a walk over for Mr. Evans, one of the defeated candidates last month, or in a very severe contest. The Liberal loss at Wareham will be in all probability counterbalanced by a Liberal gain at Nottingham. Colonel Wright, who won a seat for the Conservatives there under precisely similar circumstances to those which enabled Captain Calcraft to win a seat for the Liberals at Ware ham, has found it expedient to retire. A large number of Liberals split their votes between him and Seely, thinking that the latter was safe. Their chagrin when they saw their favourite third may be imagined. It is fully expected that he will now be successful, although political parties are in such a disorganised state at Nottingham that an election there is more uncertain than in any other con stituency in the kingdom. A grievous scandal is being much talked about in London. There is, I fear, no reason to doubt but that the scandal is well founded. It is said that the son of a well-known Liberal statesman, who has already suffered severely through the escapades of • this member of his family, has added to other notorious offences that of forgery. Twice has his brother attempted to screen the wrong-doer by taking up the bills which were falsely endorsed, but it is believed that the offender is incorri gible, and that the law will have to take its course. University readers may like to know that next year's Senior Wrangler will, if Cambridge dons prophesy truly, be a Queen's man, and in 1870 the first place will be taken by a Johnian, the son of a Liverpool chemist, and who appears to be a prodigy of genius. One of Lord Stanley's last official acts was to grant Consul Cameron a pension of £350 as compensation for his captivity. Mr. Rassam gets a present of £5,000, and Lieutenant Prideaux and Dr. Blanc £2,000 each. The letter to Consul Cameron is dated December 7, a week after the resignation of the late Government was an. nounced. I have just seen a private telegram from the Continent announcing the proposal to hold a Congress for thd settle- ment of the Turco-Greek difficulty. I sincerely hope the proposal is not too late. The quarrel is very serious, and causes much anxiety here, though the new Government are acting as though they had resolutely determined not to go to war. Mr. Holman Hunt has not yet commenced work in Palestine, but still lingers in Florence. He finds so much difficulty in getting his design for his wife's mausoleum executed that he has taken lessons in sculpture, and is himself carrying out the work.