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LOWTH, Author of "The Wanderer in Arabia," &c. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. (From the Anglo-American Times.) The Russian victory in Bokhara has excited India, and drawn attention to the Muscovite ad vance towards her frontier. The class, or as the Spectator calls them, " the club." and the feeling which originated the Affghen campaign, are still potent in India, though controlled by the lessened authority which must always result from a speedy commuuiceti ni with the ho no ceaatry. The utter blindness which led Lord AUCKLAND and his ad visers into that meat disastrous war is now apparent. Vet, in spite of the light which shines behind, the path before remains alenet as dark as ever, and there is no gueran...ee th it the nation may not again "put its foot into it." When we glance at what Teerd AUCILAND did, in the face of the brow l facts which oueht to have been then as patent to him as they are now to us, we see how little can be left to the discretion of the ordinary Vic Toys, who, gene rally being selected from politically successful Peers, practically know nothing of India or of Asiatic politics. Lord AUCKLAND marched an army into Cabal, not only penetrating through the wildest mountains, inhabited by uncivilized and fanatical tribes, but he crossed an empire containing little less than nine millions of warlike inhabitants, controlled by RUNJEET SING, a despotic Monarbh, of singular military genius and political capacity. The Indus, from the Himalayah to the sea, then passed through no British territory. The advanced frontier touched on the most southern branch of that river, the Sutlej, and from Ferozepore and Loodianab, at least to Delhi and Meerut, the country was without a road. Thus with a base so ill-formed, with the Punjaub solely restrained from open hostility by the intelligence of one man, the Governor-General had the temerity to attack a scarcely practicable distri3t, with the Seikhs and the great Kalsa army then in the zenith of their power in his rear. A. ruler who could so ill calculate his own position could scarcely be expected to estimate justly the position and difficulties of his supposed enemy. He who is regardless of a base for himself would not attach importance to the want of a base for the military operations of his antagonists. The intention was to check-mate Russia, and for this his advisers counselled the control of Affghanistan. At that time Russia was infinitely further from the British frontier than now, the tribes of the Caucasus were unsubdued, and there was as much danger of the British marching an army to Archangel as of the Russians crossing the Sutlej. Since Lord AUCKLAND'S time Russia has made great progress in Asia, and recent events seem now to indicate the occupation of Samarcand and the complete conquest of Bokhara. But the progress of Russia in no de gree equals that of the British is India within late years, for the tendency there has been to develope resources more than to extend dominion, and in that development lies real power. It is true that Russia has subdued the tribes of the Caucasus, that she has conquered Bokhara, and fairly penetrated from the unknown north into the circle of Asiatic potentates, that she has fairly established herself on the Oxus, and from Samarcand can exert a potent influence among all the . Tartar tribes; but the British have conquered the Kalsa army and annexed the Punjaub, carrying their Empire of India to its natural frontier, the mountain barrier that walls it in. Railroads now connect the cities to which scarcely roads led in the days of Lord AUCKLAND. The Indus from the spot where it ceases to be a mere stream flows almost from its source to the sea through British dominion, railroads run along its banks, and fleets of steamers ply oa its waters. Commu nication, too, is almost instantaneous with Eng land, and the Overland Route has developed into a great highway. If we compare the Russian pro gress with that of the British—supposing they are destined to meet in Asia as enemies—that of the latter is the more strengthening and better qualified to maintain a successful struggle. Although science and the skill of the engineer have, and will mate rially aid Russia in her advance, still the difficul ties placed by nature in her way are so stupendous as to be almost insurmountable. The recognized chief of the Tartar tribes, with the banner of Islam raised for a crusade against the Feringhees in India, would be a potent enemy, and might repeat the oft-experienced conquest of Hindostan by the mountaineers of Central Asia. Bat ,can a Russian General ever succed in such a role? We believe it to be impossible, for it is wholly opposed to the principle upon which Russia acts. She cannot maintain a policy in Europe directly at variance with the policy in Asia. She cannot lead a Chris tian rising against Moslem supremacy in Turkey, add a Moslem rising against Christian supremacy in India. She cannot at the same time use the Christian to suppress the recognized head of the Moslem faith in Constantinople, and use the Moslem to re-establish the Mahomedan faith at Delhi. She cannot paiat the Crescent on one side and the Cross on the other, nor is it possible for the CZAR to attempt so to dissimulate, for as a power Russia must stand as the great upholder of the Greek Church, a sentiment deeply inwrought in the hearts of her people. This is the safeguard of the British power in India, for there is no denying the fact, if Russia could raise the green banner, and head a holy war against the Christian, that the British power in India w )uld be in extreme danger. Taking things, however, as they are, and presum ing that Russia would at thebest hold but the same position in her conquests as the English do in theirs, that is control the country they occupy by military supremacy if they have to fight it out, it would be as a Christian power against a Christian power, the Russian against the British, the natives on each side being influenced and controlled by the strength of character, the military genius, the cou rage, and the wealth of each antagonist. In such a combat, we believe, that England has nothing to fear. Her army abounds with men, as does the na tion, singularly well qualified to rule and direct native tribes. The power of the purse is her's beyond comparison, and her prestige in the regions where the contest only can take place is, and must for many years be, far higher. Unless Russia, as a Christian power, can secure the cordial co-operation of Persia and Affghanistan, which we hold to be impossible, she could never undertake the conquest of India with the most distant prospect of success; and even with that co-operation, a great defeat in the Punjaub would lead to the annihila tion of her army, and throw her back from the con quests already achieved. The British danger and the Russian danger must ever be the same in a na tive uprising behind against their supremacy. But we cannot doubt that the danger to the Russian in this will always be greater than the danger to the British, because along the path to her base are tribes whom no policy can conciliate,, whom no law binds, who live by plunder, and whom it is next to impos sible to punish. Therefore they can rise against the Russians with comparative impunity, while in India the leaders of such a revolt carry their lives in their hands. No folly could be greater than that of re peating Lord AUCKLAND'S mistake in flue attempt to occupy Affghanistan. If Russia ever reaches Herat, England's plan is to throw into Cabul a few selected officers to be incorporated into the A3IEER'S army with arms and funds. These gentlemen may be safely left to make the-most of the position, speaking the language, and assuming, as they will, almost the appearance of Affghaus ; but to attempt to hold the passes by a British force is simply to turn against the British the hostility of the in habitants. It is impossible for the Affghan to be taught who his enemy is 'otherwise than by his eyes, and where his scimitar can reach a stranger that stranger is the man. 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It is clearly the true policy TOF the _r to avail himself of this feeling. Let the Russian, if he chooses to enter Affghanistan, draw on his head the hostility of the inhabitants, and use every available means of making that hostility as for midable as possible. If Russia can force the pas sage, and afterwards be successful in a war in India against the British, the Muscovite will deserve the sway of Asia, and the chances are that he will be assured as well of the sway of Europe, for he will have shown himself to be the greatest master of mili tary tactics, the greatest surtnnuater of - obstacles the world has ever known, and, in a military point of view, he will have earned the right of control wherever he can place his foot. Bat where the British utterly failed is the Lice of far fewer difficul ties, the In-sian is not likely, unien by a miracle, to sucve I ; au I until the days o miracles return, we believe England haslittle to fear from .11.uzcoi ite ag gressiol. B it why should the Indian " Cltib" take it for granted that R t.ssi.ti 3 obj .;,:t is British India? Asia is wide enough for both the Caristian Po..vers, and 11 , 1siiat6 his hitherto been a civilizi ng o gleans, except those sh e bpenetrate throu g h tli r r .l ei e n . s 14. to b 4n le o ‘ r r al i k ec ai3fr, g n i o l w shte i r i o o par o c, i t c,llied,ri and the natural culties hedging in that prtion of Asia t which she is pushing her conquests, an 1 we can see no reason why the two Christiaa Po .vers shotild not work in unison and friendship, rather than set A3ia in a blaze which must consume one, and may con mune both. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. What, asks the Times, is to be said of this meeting in the Guildhall? Nothing, except that it is a monument of the folly of its promoters. It is, of course, easy to say that the meeting was packed. No doubt it was packed. There was a plentiful supply of persons on both sides in capable of understanding the merits of the question at issue, and consistently disinclined to listen to any argu ments from any person who was opposed to the conclusions they were employed to support. Neither Liberal nor Tory has the better of the comparison. The proof is simple. The Lord Mayor was assailed with clamour directly he appeared, and not a word he spoke was heard beyond the reporters, although all he endeavoured to say was that, although his own opinions were well known, he hoped a fair hearing would be given to every one, and be especially bespoke it for Sir John Lubbock, the first speaker. The Liberals in the hall having thus discredited themselves, the Conservatives refused to listen to Sir John Lubbock. It is evident that neither party can afford to throw dirt at the other. Nor could any other result than that which did happen have been expected by reasonable persons. To suppose that an expression of opinion upon a subject on which men are keenly divided can be elicited from a mixed crowd as a sequel to a carefully-considered argument on both sides is absurd. It would be as rational to convene an eautl number of Irish Protestants and Irish Roman Catholics to concoct a common form of worship. Such a pro ceeding as this is nowadays wholly out of date. Mr. Goschen confided to fhe reporters that he would rather address a somewhat stormy meeting than a flat assem bly collected by ticket within closed doors ; but the right of meeting, of which we aro so justly jealous, is the right of meeting of persons of the same way of thinking. In the United States, to which we may appeal on such a point, scarcely any other form of meeting is known. The comparison of arguments and the comparison a strength can be only made judiciously in the assemblies of representative opinion, in which is vested the ultimate power of directing the policy of a nation. The only good the Times can hope from the m m o e r e e tin of g a is e , im th i a le t r it eh m a:a y et c e h r. eck N t o h ti e lin a g tt o em am p e t o t f o it h d o i l r d eo a tl i y iy . For the immediate purpose for which it was convened it was worthless. It did not even appear which side could outdo the other in clamour, though the comparison would have been futile if it had been possible. In the House of Commons the shouts from the Conservative benches are in variably more hearty and united than those from the Liberal side, and yet the Conservatives are constantly out voted. At the hustings the balance of tumult is no cri terion of the result of the poll. Those who went to the Guildhall, if there were any so benighted, to discover which way the constituency would go next November, must have come away as wise as they went. Mr. Goschen declared that the coming election would shew that the Liberals were in the majority,, and we entirely agree with him, but our opinion is formed, as his was, independently of the saturnalia in Guildhalls Apropos to this meeting the Daily News declares that all over England the meetings held on this subject are either limited to supporters of th: , Establishment, like the one at the Cannon-street Hotel, or are assailed and dis turbed by the noisy ruffianism of the diStrict, organised to prevent any expression of opinion. Nowhere do the sup porters of the Irish Church dare to ask the free vote of an open meetitl7,. Nowhere do they dare to submit the ques tion to the deliberate judgment of the English people. They know that the reason and conscience of the people are against them ; that in no free gathering of English men could they holm to get a verdict on the evidence. They have no case, and they abuse the counsel ; no argu- • ment, and they browbeat the jury ; no plea, aLd they will not hear the verdict, and hope to drown the sentence in clamour. It is a forlorn hope, but we may leave them to cherish it. The Post bas a smart attack upon the Ministry. Com• mencing with Mr. Disraeli, it deprecates his love of self glorification ; it sets down Lord Abercorn as a mere courtier, but admits that his policy in Ireland-has on the whole been good ; Mr. Hardy is a respectable man, who speaks out his opinions boldly, but acts on the views of Mr. Disraeli. Of Lord Stanley, however, the Post has little good to say. By playing the equivocal part of voting with the highest Tories and coquetting with the Ultra• Radicals, his lordship has got for the moment a sort of general position which has induced all parties to exag gerate his merits and to overlook Lis deficiencies. It is really too much to parade before us as a statesman of vigour and genius a man who has some qualities of a second-rate kind, but who is singularly deficient in conception, pre cision, and decision. Our Foreign Secretary indeed is laborious, and can master the details of a question, but he is like a general who can get an army together, but does not know when it is in the field what to do with it. No amount of information leads him to a conclusion. In the famous Luxemburg treaty he stood hesitating as to whether he should sign it, until Europe was on the very brink of war, and then nullified his signature by declaring that it pledged him to nothing ; thus renewing the Euro pean agitation, which still continues, and which the recognised union of three great Powers against the ambition of any fourth one would have kept per manently at rest. In the case of the Mermaid, where a British vessel was unaccountably sunk by the guns of a Spanish fortress, in the case of Abyssinia, where a British agent was imprisoned and tortured, his wavering and cynical nature was only roused into action by the strong expression of l ull'e opinion. In Eastern affairs he certainly deserves the praise of having done nothing where he might have done a great deal of mis chief ; but one cannot help feeling that there still remains in that quarter of the world a brooding spirit of dis turbance which a more clear and decided course would have put down. The two orders of men most to be dreaded as statesmen are those who are constantly fussing about nothing, and those who are indifferent as to everything. Lord Stanley is in all things the same. He cannot decide to what party he belongs at home, nor what policy he should adopt abroad. It is absurd to attribute to him the merits of a politital man who has ever done anything. His presiding distinction is his impotence, a harmless peculiarity of which one need not be ashamed, but of which it is ridiculous to boast. The boast, indeed, in the more unwise in this instance, because it is accompanied by a censure. Ilow was it, if Lord Clarendon left affairs in the desperate condition which Mr. Disraeli so graphically paints, that Lord Derby begged him to continue to administer our foreign affairs ? This is a question which still waits for an answer. The Daily Telegraph, in answer to the question "What shall be done unto the man whom the nation delighteth to honour ?" says that the wish of the nation undoubtedly is that Sir Robert Napier—the soldier who has thus shed lustre on our arms— should receive the honour of a peer age ; there can bo no question that the Crown will be ready to use its prerogative for that purpose ; nor can we suppose that Sir Robert Napier will decline a high honour thus cordially offered in the name o f a grateful country. There are, however, certain difficulties in the way, none of them by any means insuperable, though perhaps needing somewhat delicate treatment. Sir Robert is an Indian officer by service, and his elevation to the peerage would of COUNC recall for the same honour one or two names of public ser vants having already the highest claims to the esteem of the people and the favour of the Crown. Then there must arise the question of the necessary grant to maintain the (lima's , of a noble title, becoming as it does part of the historic records of the land. On the other baud, the gains are manifest and im portant. There is no reason why the elevation of Sir Robert Napier to the House of Lords should not be followed by the addition of other illustrious names to the roll of our peerage, and such an accession of talent, expe rience, and noble services would add to the strength of the hereditary chamber. It is with sui new blood that the hereditary order must be fortified, if it is to resist the spirit of the times ; and the peers themselves might gladly hail the principle of thus finding a reinforced raison d'etra tox pi* PcOn. • •-• ler of •onnd, f3Ol - the e Pre least (John in his ant in apart; L ngtorl )itr ita relate, over - Con -3 equal ) ra the ow lie ) shal ) plow' Board. ch 110 Ross Pacific 'a of ver, th e 'ter. 4atlAns . of 6 310.9: 6 aura Cortall" c bureb , , Esq. kingt° l3 ' . Da5131 Le s!!;' ag ed ' fr. usral, ursio r • i s• a 1311 oCio cel ' 10 - ) 1 9, NO 1 Q C ,u 317 REST AT NIGHT may be secured by taking two or three of PARR'S LIFE PILLS. They remove every uncomfortable sensation, and never fail to produce sound and refreshing sleep. QCH WEI' PE'S MINERAL WATERS. - By, Special Appointment to Her Majesty and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.—Every bottle is protected by a label, having name and trade mark. Manufactories—London, Liverpool. Derby, Bristol, Glasgow, Malvern. IVER. ESKELL, SURGEON DENTIST, the Author IUIL of "PURE DENTISTRY, and What it Does for Us," "PAINLESS TOOTH EXTRACTION, or Antesthesin 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). PHE AS ANT S, PARTRIDGES, and POULTRY. —Landed Proprietors, Gentry, &c., of the United Kingdom wishing to rear Game for 1868 and to bo successful, are respectfully asked to send six stamps for Mr. CHAMBERLIN'S new BOOK, containing 600 certificates of the utility of his FOOD. J. 0. supplies the Crowned Heads of England and France and the chief of the aristocracy. By the use of his "Spanish Meal" any quantity of birds can be raised. The hundreds of thousands of heads of Game reared on my system during the last ten years proves its utility ; the loss from every cause has not averaged three to the hun dred. Gapes and Roup (the two most fatal diseases which attack game) the birds have been and always aro free from. This is attributable to their robust constitution and excellent condition. Pheasants fed on my food show their beautiful plumage with hardness and closeness of feather to the greatest advantage; they cannot be sur passed. The magnificent Foreign and English Pheasants at the Zoological Society's Gardens, London, and his Imperial Majesty's Pheasantry at Compiegne and St. Germains, are fed with my food. Address, Mr. JAMES CHAMBERLIN, Post-office street, Norwich, England. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM. — AN EFFECTUAL 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, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and inci 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, 141., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asth matic Balsam. The name and address aro engraved on the stamp. 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 bo found superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support ae.l preserve teeth that are loose, ani is gua ranteed to restore articulation cud mastication. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound an 1 useful in masti cation. 53, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETrERi PATENT. NviiiTos - moc-muN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1831 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a stool spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided —a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi site resisting power is supplied by the lloc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may bo had, and the truss, which can rot fail to fit, forwarded by post., on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 3 . 1.5. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6.1. Postage, is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT FLASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the begs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpsnsive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d. JOHN METE, Manufactgrer, 228, Piccadilly. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A GUA. AMARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what ago. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. hive 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 ifir,-AeL London. E.C. PRINTING. —TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, itc. The Printing and Machining of NOWSpeLpArS, &C., done on exceedingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stampsd diro c t e d envelop o for reply. Address—The Manager, " San" Printing Offices, 3, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE k ORPHA.N . CHILDREN are being me,intainecl in the ROYAL ALBERT ORPLI t.N ASYLUM, at the moderate rate of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed. CH A.RLES A. WALKER, Secretary. 031ce, 98, Cheapsido, London, EA% FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON F 14:111L is; PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN - STITUTION. President —Rev. CANON DALE, Corrarounon for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, K.C.; Francis Nicholls, Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, N.C. E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N. JP. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was established at King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted free. Bankers -Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds,. and Co., 60, Lombard street, Messrs. Ransom' and Bouverw, 1, Pall-mall—Hon. Sec., F. Smith, Esq. GEO. REID, Sec. J'OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON. - FUNDS are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and 'clothing for the 126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship. 150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street. 94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing 870 children. £l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year. Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank, 214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, KC.; and by WILLIAM WLLLI &MS, Secretary. No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's Cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. Vice-Patron — His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. _ President- - --His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the destioito sick has for a considerable period averaged be tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. 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 s Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co, ; Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, D3acon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co. Berners-street 9,nd at the Hospital, from 10 till 5 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1868. FURNISHED APARTMENTS.—A Drawing Room and Bed Room to be Let, situated in a cheerful and healthy part of Kensington; in the house of a Private Family. Applications through Messrs. G. W. Bayley and Wickham, New land-terrace, Kensington. CILATIIA.M.—APARTMENTS well Furnished A.J and highly R9spectable in a Gentleman's Private Family, pleasantly situate, with larg3 Girden. Attend ance and every comfort. Very conveniett for Rail or Omnibus to City and West-end. Apply at the Residence, 31, Lark Hall Rise, Claphan, S.W.; or to Mr. STETENS, The Pavement, Clapham Common. rro BE LET, UNFULINISIIED, a PARLOUR and TWO B".FID- ROOMS, with Gas, in th© most eligible part of St. Paal's-roa.l, o.l,:nl3n—qnarA, N.W. Apply at 44, St. Paul's-road, Camden-squaro, N.V. CONTRACT FOR. RUTH. Contract Department, Somerset House, June 11, 1338. PIM COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING X. the OFFICE of LORD ILIGII ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, do hereby give Notice, that oo WEDNESDAY, the 24th inst., at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be ready t o treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supplying . and delivering into her Ma jesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, 50,000 Gallons of RUH, to be delivered within three weeks from date of Con tract. - - --- Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Rum. All the casks, except such as may be required for her Majesty's service, aro to be taken away from the said stores by and at the expense of the party whose Tender is accepted. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or of such part thereof only as thy may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also an unlimited power of selection. The Rum to be exempted from the Customs' duties, and parties tendering are to state where it is lying. Payment for the Rum will be made for the Proof Gal lons to one-tenth of a gallon, the liquid contents being as certained to the half gallon. Sample of the Rum to be sent in pints for each import mark, and the average strength of each mark Ex to be stated, and not an average of different marks or strengths of several imports, and any parcel of Rum that is found not to be of the same quality, mark, or average strength of the sample tendered and accepted, will be re jected by the officers. No Tender will be received unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset Douse, where the Conditions of the Contract may be seen. No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and to his proposed sureties in writing, when, but not before, the rejected samples are to be removed. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words, " Tender for Ruin," and must also he delivered at the De partment of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House. By order, ANTONIO Bit A.DY, Registrar Of Contracts and Public Securities. O L I C E NOTICE• DOGS. By virtue of the Metropolitan Streets Act, 1867, 30 and 31 Vict., cap. 134, sec. 18, and as to " The Metropolis" as defin3d by the said Act (with the exception of the City of London), that is to say, as to all Parishes and Places for the time being within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of Works, I, the Commissioner of the Police of the Metropolis, give notice, that I do hereby require, that from and after the 22d day of June until the 31st day of August next, every Dog while in the Streets and not led by some Person be Muzzled in such a manner as will admit of the animal breathing and drinking without obstruction. And further notice is hereby given, that from and after the said 22d day of June, and until the 31st day of August next, any Dog found loose in the Streets without such muzzle as above described will be taken possession of by the Police, and detained until the Owner has claimed it, has provided a proper muzzle, and paid all expenses con nected with such detention ; any Dog which has remained in the possession of the Police for three clear days with out the Owner claiming the same, and paying all expenses incurred by its detention, may be caused by me to be sold or destroyed. As witness my hand this 25th day of Mew, 1868. RICHARD MAYNE, The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. Metropolitan Police-office, 4, Whiteho.ll-placa. T HE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES %re as follows : For Fallen Women. 28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road. stead. 48, Church-stroet, Stoke 13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington. town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green -205, Great Portland- street. wish. For Young Girls in Danger. 27, Church-row, Hampstead. 9, Henstridge-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 (Marge three homes for servants of good character, in which aro admitted about 1,000 friendless servants annually. The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. The committee tue 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 the applicant's book. 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. Bb.eclay and Co. The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the benevolent. DANL. 00)FEli t Soc. k 8; Queen-street, Cheapside., I OLIN GOSNELL" and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price Is. 61—Red Bull Wharf, 03, Upper Thames-street, London. LAW LIFE - ASSURANCE OFFICE, Fleet street, London, E 0., June 3, 1863.—Notice is hereby given. that in conform7ty with the provisions of the Deed of Settlement a GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Law Life Assurance Society will he hell at the Society's Office, Fleet street, London, on WEDN r.SDAY, the 24th June inst., at Twelve o'clock at Noon precisely, to Elect Six Directors an I Two Audi tors, and for general purposeq . The Directors and AuditAke*kwho go out of ()nice by rotation will be proposed for re-election.' By order of the Directors. WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TiuNs- ATLAATI Q UE, 8, Place Vendome. Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS, CHINA, JAPAN, Nowra AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama). Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each mouth for Mar tinique, St. Martha (United Stat , - of Columbia), Colon, Aspinwall (Isthmus of Pana • 'lra, Porto Ca bello, Guaoleloupe, Trinidad, Paramaribo, Cayenne, &C., Callao, Valparais , 030, La Union, San Francisco, China, and Japa WEST INDIES A ,i - EXICO. Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St. Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico, Haiti, Santiago do Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique. NEW YORK Leave every 14 days, from Havro and Brest, for New York. From HAYRE.--June 18th, July 2d and 16th. From BREST —June 20th, July 4th and 18th. RATES OF PASSAGE. From HAVRE Or BREST to NEW YORK. First Class ?I • 7OO fr. Cabin. Second Class Third Class 275 fr. From Paris to Now York, via Havre or Brost, includ ing railway ticket, 850 fr. and 725 fr., according to cabin ; second class, 440 fr.; third class, 285 fr. Hand-books, with full details of all the routes of this Company, can be had of STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and Co., Agents, 8, Anstinfriars, London, E.C. A. MORNING and EVENING DRAUGHT. LAMPLOUGH'S PYRETIC SALINE is most agreeable and efficacious, preventing and curing fevers, skin complaints, and inflammation. It instantly relieves the most intense head ache and thirst, and if given with lime-juice syrup is a specific in gout and rheumatism.--11 3 , Holborn-hill, London, E.C.- it PAINLESS DENTISTRY !" A NEW PAMPHLET, Free by post for four stamps. ESSRS. GABRIEL, (Established 1815.) London 56, Harley-street, Cavendish-spare, W. 71 Liverpool 131, Duke-street, and Brighton ATTENDANCE DAILY. ARCHBISHOP MANNING AND THE CATHOLIC POOR SCHOOLS. The following pastoral letter of Archbishop Man ning was read on Sunday last in all the Catholic churches and chapels in the archdiocese : REVEREND AND DEAR BRETUREN, AND DEAR CHIL- DREN IN JESUS CIIRIST,-- After the great festival of the ever-blessed Tri nity, in which the presence of our Divine Lord seems to withdraw itself from us into the depths of the eternal glory, the festival of Corpus Christi re calls us to His near and all but visible presence. He is indeed ascended to the Father, but He is with us still in a mystery of incomprehensible intimacy, sweetness, and power. The blessed- Sacrament is the presence of Jesus veiled, but sensible. He reigns at the right hand of His Father, but He is here. And though our intelligence cannot compre hend the limits of this mystery, yet our hearts, illuminated by faith, can apprehend it ; that is, can lay hold of it, as the poor woman who touched the hem of His garment, and, holding fast by Him, became pervad t ed a b n y a consciousness of the spiritual life more intuitive than all reasoning and more as suring than all sense. This consciousness of the soul is keener than the eye, and its intuitions are sight. The door of the Taber nnaLrlee notpdioeerseulg h hide the Blessed Sacrament from faith, nor the veil of the Sacred Species conceal the divine perfections of the Sacred Heart. In the Blessed Sa crament, by a spiritual apprehension, we see the Per son of Jesus, G3l and Man, His divine perfec tions, His human character, and the sanctuary and source of all His grace and love—His Sacred Heart. It was by this revelation of Himself that He inspired a humble and simple daughter of His Immaculate Mother to illuminate the Church of God with a special knowledge of His divine and human perfec tions. The profound and beautiful devotion of the Sacred Heart has in it depths which no saint can ever sound ; and yet it is easily and promptly learned by children. There can be no more fitting subject for our thoughts to-day than the intention of the Confraternity of the Sacred Heart. We will, there fore, draw out simply and practically some of the lessons and benefits which may be derived from it. Our earnest desire is that this Confraternity be erected its every church in the diocese ; and that the faithful be enrolled in 'it at as early an age as they are able intelligently to practise its light obli gations, and to understand its beauty and its sweet ness. The Confraternity of the Sacra Heart was founded first of all to offer to our Divine Lord a perpetual and special worship of love and adoration. The whole visible Church, indeed, in all the world, by a perpetual change, and succession of ever-recur ring acts of divine and public service at the altar, worships God without ceasing. A multitude that no man can number in every land is perpetually in secret prayer before Him. These two great offices of the Church, it is true, are always in activity. But the Confraternity of the Sacred Heart is something distinct from these. It is the union of a multitude of souls, who, by a special intentio n , consecra te themselves to make reparation to our di v i ne R e deemer for the sins and ingratitude of men, and to glorify Him for the dishonour He receives, not only from the world, but from His own disciples. It implies, therefore, on our part, a deliberate desire and choice to unite ourselves with Him, and to identify our joys and sorrows, our cares, intentions, and efforts with His own. A second intention, and an immediate conse quence from the first, is to promote in ourselves a deeper consciousness of our personal relation to Him, and of His personal relation to us. And this His presence. The more consc ious of the nearness with which we are bound habituallydto e pe Him ds as upon o w u e r t k il i e n rememberssme sense , of t'the more we shall be brother, and friend. This devotion teaches us to refer our acts, words, thoughts, sciples and intentions to Him ; to live as the d who were always around Him, and to measure all our life by His unseen judgment, ap proving or reproving our outward actions and our inward hearts. And this sense of His presence is not so much an intellectual as a moral perception. rfections, and of the human li neamen ts, so to speak, of His sacred mind and r I a t c i t m e r p , i o e f s heart, that is of the m i nute and personal features H an is i d n iv te hi ll e ige r n e t appreciation of His cha by which friends learn to know, to love, and to confide in one another. No language can be found to exceed the intimacy with which our Divine Lord and Shepherd knows each one of us by name and by character, and we a'so ought to learn by contemplation, meditation, and experience, the divine and human character of Jesus towards us. It is a cold and mutilated friendship which is all on one side. Theie must be reciprocal know ledge and mutual appreciation before there can be an union of hearts and an identity of will. The reason why we are so cold and distant towards aim is because we know Him so little. Our friend ship like our knowledge is superficial ; and it is superficial because we do not enter deeply enough' into the-knowledge of the Sacred Heart. But be sides this sense of His presence, and the percep tion of His character, there is also a consciousness of His personal love to us, which springs directly from the knowledge of His divine and human tenderness. We know what it is to con fide in the love of any one whose known gr. ►odness is certain and general, even though we have , never made trial of it, never received any person al evi dence of it towards ourselves. We know, however, how faint anti feeble this is compared Trith the loving and joyful trust which springs up i.t us as soon as any tokens of personal care, or kindness , or preference, have be'n shown to ourselves. "1 lave called thee by name," Vie L-s,ri says to his p( to t )le of old, as a pledge of Lis fatherly care. To be: called by name tells us that we are personally kno No, re membered, aril cared for: that the eye !old the heart of a friend are fixed on 113. A new sense of trust, confidence, and dependence arises in us. All that we knew him t) be in Him self, we thenceforward know him to be to us. From this springS up a sense of intimacy and mutual contract, and reciprocal interchange of gra titude for love, and obedience for guidance. Our faith, hope, and charity, which terminate in God, "have no need to ascend up into Heaven to bring down Christ from above," as the Apostle says, but find their object and their rest in the Sacred Heart ever near to us. Now, a further intention of this devotion is to obtain for those who practite it an interior light to understand the spiritual life and the objects of faith, on which it subsists. You will perceive at once that in the light of the Sacred Heart the mystery of the Incarnation, pro found and infinite in its beauty and its depth, be comes, so far as we can receive it, luminous and clear. It is no longer a mere exertion of divine wisdom, or power, or grace, but a manifestation of God, a deification and a beatification of man, an union of the Creator and of the creature in the Person of the Incarnate Word, which elevates man to the knowledge aud love of God, and thereby to eternal life, and to the vision of eternal peace. The Incarnation is the most explicit and emphatic revela tion of love, of condescension, of union with our hearts through the assumption of a heart like our own. The heart of man became the heart of God in Him, that the heart of God might redeem and glorify the heart of man in us. . . And as the Sacred Heart interprets to us the mystery of the Incarnation, so it does also em phatically unfold the mystery of the Holy Sacra ment. There can be conceived no union with God in this world more intimate, purifying, illuminating, or full of love than the contemplation of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, except only the actual re ceiving of His Presence in Holy Communion : nor any union more personal and permanent than Holy Communion, except only the vision and presence of Jesus in His glory. The mystery of divine power whereby the substance of the bread and wine is changed into the substance of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ is seen in the light of the Sacred Heart to be the condition and the means by which the Sacred Heart itself is imparted to us. In the Holy Mass He offers it to God—in Holy Com munion He gives it to us. The love of Jesus, human and divine, surrounds this mystery of God's power, sanctity and justice, with a light in which its moral beauty and fitness shine luminously upon us. It is the love and sorrow of the Sacred Heart which gives to the Passion of Jesus on Calvebry and in Gethsemane its profound and persuasive beauty. It is this perception of His character which gives to His active life a moral sig nificance and perfection, and brings forth the mean ing which underlies all the literal history of the Gospel. They can be understood only by those who, by love and prayer, have the key or interpretation in their own hearts. _ _ There are also many other lights and lessons to be drawn from the Sacred Heart, but only one more now can be ad led. It teaches us in what our true perfection consists : not only in acts of external obedience, but in the graces of internal conformity with God. If we would be perfect we must be like llnn, and to be like Him we must be united to God in knowledge and love. This is the Gospel of eternal life, which is little understood. "If our Gospel be also hid, it is hi 1 to them that are lost ; in whom the God of this world bath blinded the min's of unbelievers, that the light of the Gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them. . . . For God who commanded the light to shine out of dark ness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Christ Jesus." What is the face of Jesus Christ but the Sacred Heart, the perfections of which radiated from the sacred countenance, not only in the glory of Thabor, but in the wounds and clouds of His passion. "This is the declaration which we have heard from him, and declare unto you : that God is light, and in him there is no darkness. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth. But if we walk in the light as he also is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin." It is to deceive ourselves, if we are to imagine that we are His disciples, while we are proud, im pure, or selfish. Humility, purity, charity, are the vital perfections of the Sacred Heart. They who are humble, pure, and charitable, are united with Him. They who are not so are not His, except in word and in name. They may have a name to live, but are dead. And this conformity to Him is both His gift and our duty : it is a grace both infused and acquired. It begins in our regeneration and His indwelling in our hearts. It is advanced and perfected by our fidelity and co-operation ; by acts of faith, hope, charity, contrition, self-denial, self chastisement, by habits of recollection and mental prayer, by Confession which renews our peace with Him, and by Communion which unites and sustains Vie union of the soul with His presence. No surer help to this life of conformity to Him can be found than the daily practices of this Confra ternity, that is the contemplation and adoration of the Sacred Heart, and the exercise of those works of piety and charity which are dear to it. Of these the first and chief is the salvation of souls; and of these, those who are dearest to Hint, the souls of His little ones. It is for this work that we ask your alms, as usual, year by year, on this festival. The Poor- School Committee, as we have already often told you, is charged with the high and vital work of training the teachers of our schools. The efficiency and morality of our schools depends upon the cha racter of the teachers. The welfare of our poor children is more directly affected by them than by any exc3pt the pastors of the Church. If they be in competent or unworthy the children suffer : and in them the families who will hereafter spring from them. It was a proverbial saying among the Jews that " the world is sustained by the breath of school children," and that, " because the children were neglected, Jerusalem perished." These are pro found truths, which ought to be appreciated a hun dredfold by those who know and love the Sacred Heart of the Incarnate Son of God. These are days in which we dare not relax in trianing able and Christian teachers. The religious education of this country is threatened, and will certainly before long be assailed. It is only by its elfi3iency and by its extension that it can be successfully de fended. We therefore earnestly appeal to you to assist the Poor School Committee, which has de served so well at our hands in the last twenty years, in rendering our Training Schools and its other works adequate to the demands of our education. And the peace of God, which surpasseth all understanding, keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. 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