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p hr.; 7JA pi " . ;, 7'• 'y A . A N°. 23,602. A FTER Covent-ga l e j i i k Opera—EVANS' to After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Haymarket Theatre EVANS' to SUP, After Adelphi Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Olympic Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Strand Theatre After New Royalty Theatre "VANS' to SUP. After St. James's Theatre ' V ANS' to SUP. After Prince of Wales' Theatre EVANS' to SUP. London Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Eight. MAISON DOREE, THE NOW FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT AND LUNCHEON BAR, GLASSHOUSE-STREET (One door from Regent-street), CUISINE FRANCAISE, &c. High-class Wines at wholesale prices. Spirits and Beers, &c. Private room for Parties. HAMPERS PREPARED AND SENT OFF TO ORDER. Terms, CASH. On and after MONDAY, Dec. 9, SUPPERS from Nine p.m. to One arm. Manager, CHARLES CASTLE. K INATIAN'S LL. WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 1835. This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Modal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s: 81, at the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the principal towns in England: or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork Branded " Kina han's LL Whisky." UTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859). 14. RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. LONDON, ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, 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. T LIE 0 X F ORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET. W. During the Week will be given a GRAND SELEC TION from Mailart's Comic Opera, LES DRAGONS DE VILLARS. Principal Artistes: Misses Russell, Rivers, and Fitz- Henry; Messrs. Bury, Marler, R. Greene, and De Brenner. Full Band and Chorus: Instrumentalists: Miss Bryant ; Messrs. Pique, Melling, and Plumpton. COMEDY, BURLESQUE, &c., by all the best artistes now in London. MACKNEY, the inimitable delineator of Negro Charac ter, specially and exclusively engaged here, will appear every evening. Conductor—Mr. F. Jonghmans. Private boxes, 10s. 6d.; stalls, balcony, and grand pro menaie, Is.—THIS EVENING. CANTERBURY HALL.—NEw MANAGEMENT. V./ —Great Success under the management of W. HOLLAND, Sole Lessee, late Proprietor of Weston's Music Hall. Great Alterations and Improvements.—An entire new. Company.— Immense success of Oliver's Christy Minstrel troupe. Great success of Mr. Fred. Evans (of the Royal Alhambra and Crys tal Palace), Miss Randall, E. Towers, Vincent, Simpson, Garrett, and corps de ballet. Ballet, entitled BUMBLE. STUMBLE, and TUMBLE, with new scenery and effects. Ori g inal Musi c b y Alfred Lee. The Great Vance, Nat Ogden, Pat Sellers, Annie Adams, Brothers Girarde, Leroni, Miss Fitzhenry. A magnificent bind, numbering 23 performers, assisted by the drums and bugles of the 2d Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards. Musical Director, Mr. Alfred Lee, composer of "Cham pagne Charlie." Mr. James Ellis, assistant manager. Prices of Admission—Balcony and Area, 6d. Stalls, Is. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past. Special Notice.—George Leybourne, the orizinal Champagne Charlie, is exclusively engaged for this establishment only, and will shortly appear. WEST 0 N'S GRAND M U SIC HALL. Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey. INThe Great VANCE; GEORGE LEYBOURNE, the Lion Comique ; the Brothers DANIELS; -LISKARD, the versatile Musical Genius; The astonishing MICKEN FAMILY; Miss FITZWILLIAMS. Every Evening. Bishop's and Hatton's celebrated Glees, by Miss TREMAINE, Miss Brougham, B. Lascelles, T. Godden, and Mr. P. Corri. Full Orchestra, which will perform the popular Overtures of the Great Masters. The whole under the direction of Mr. P. COBRI. The doors will open at 7. commence at 7.30. No alteration in the prices of admission. Private boxes, 10s. 6d., to be secured at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond-street; and Sams' Library, St. James's; also at the Box-office at the Hall from 10 until four o'clock. Special Notice.- Arthur Lloyd on Feb. 10; Miss Smithson, Jolly Nash, Hat ry and Hattie King, and Oliver's Christy Minstrels on Easter Monday. MADAM 14; I USSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER- STREET. A PORTRAIT MODEL of the late Eminent Tragedian, CHARLES KEAN, in the character of MACBETH, modelled from Sittings given by him to the late Mr. F. B. TUSSAIID. Admission, Is.; children under 10, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. Open from 11 in the morning till dusk, and from 7 till 10 in the evening. • A RGYLL ROOMS, IVINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly Sole Proprietor, Mt R. R. BurtrELL. This magnificent Terpsichorean and Musical Establishment, having been Re-decorated in the highest style of Italian art by Messrs. Rubardt and other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN for the AUTUMN SEASON. Solo Euphonion. Signor Mosca. Solo Cornet, M. Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti. Doors open at half-past S. Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, 2s. 'QPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which 41. speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. Price 3s. 6d., , ss. 6d., and 10s. 6d.; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 218, High Holborn, London, and I all Chemists " Tale of a Hair," 6d WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cored in one day by using AEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. This preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, removing the very root. Price 4s. ; bent by past for 60 stamps. 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Face Powder, is. HAIR -CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London. ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLTJID curls Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. 6d.; sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—Had of all Chemists. Advice upon all subjects of the Toilet. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect coloUr immediately it is used. It is permanent, and per fectly natural in effect. Prices 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. 6d.; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps ; and all Chemists. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d. DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY re moves superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms, without effect to the skin. Poice 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. 6d. ; sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps. —Had of all Chemists. Skin Tonic, ss. 6d. "DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sallowness, Sze. 2s. 9d. and is. 6d.; or post for 40 and 100 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. . • Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. 6d. HAIR COLOUR WASH.—By damping the head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in seven or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains so by an occasional using. 10s. 6d. ; sent for stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Just published, 2d.; sent by the author for 3 stamps, UGLINESS and BEAUTY ; being a Pamphlet descriptive of articles and means used for imp-ov big the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Hol born, London. Had of all booksellers. HEALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. DU BARRY'S delicate health-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Food. THE REVALENTA ARABICA saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, and restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the most disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con gumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric de rangements, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neu ralgia, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpifation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramp, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking fits, 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 for invalids and infants in all complaints. IMPORTANT CAUTION.—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 Arabic& 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 k 7 it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No. 68,413): —" Rome, July 21st, 1866.—The health of the nloly Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, ho has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a Plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot Praise this excellent food too highly." Cure No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven Years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervous ;less, irritability, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous agitation. Cure No. 78, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord B telrt de Decies. Lord-Lieutonant of the County of Water ford —" I have derived much benefit from your excellent f I.—STUART DE DECIEN Dromana, Cappoquin, County H terford." Cure No. 49,832. - Of fifty years' indescribable agony f rom dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, lettulency spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, ° I Lynn, Norfolk. • Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobe, of extreme ki qrvousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner- Nr cTs fancies. Cure No. L6,814.—Mr. Samuel Lawton, Leicester, of two Years diarrhoea. The Food is sold in Canisters, at ls. lid. ; 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 'lb, 4s. Gd. ; 121 b., 228. ; 241 b., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. Z t nisters, carriage free on receipt of Post-office Order, by a IARRY DU BARRY and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; 80 at Fortnum and Mason's, and sold by all respectable Q rocers and Chemists. T HE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES are as follows : For Fallen Women. 28, Chur c h: row , Hamp- 150, New Kent-road. stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke 13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington. town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green -205, Great Portland-street. with. For Young Girls in Danger. 27, Church-row, Irampstead. 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, The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. The committee me 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. 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. Tho 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 applic a tion. The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co. The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the benevolent. DANL. COOPER, Sec. 85, Queen-street, Cheapside. ON and After the Opening of the Queen's Theatre, Long-Acre, EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatro •EVANS' to SUP.' After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatr. EV ', \ S' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to - SUP. • LONDON SINUIN; i AND 'UPPER CLUB. AT EVANS' COVENT GAR DEN 1( C , ;-!.AL EN TERTAI NM ENT At Eight o'Clock. C . OMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANS AMA\ TIQUE, 8, Place Vendome, Paris. NEW YORK, via HAVRE and BREST. The undermentioned Steamers will sail every 14 days, as fol lows:— NAPOLEO NI II Paddle VILLE DE PARIS Screw PEREIRE. Screw ST. LAURENT Screw EUROPE • Paddle RATES OF PASSAGE. Havre or Brest to New York, Ist class, £33 0 0 ~ 2d class, 17 0 0 • Sd class, 14 0 0 Agents—STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CO., 8, Austinfriars, E.O. WJN YILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, • Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. " V.R." IRISH WHISKY. DIJNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.O Established 1808. Quotations on application. DISCOVERY OF GUNPOWDER (TEA.)- Large quantifies of the very finest descriptions have been discovered in Great St. Helen's, at the - Warehouses of the --- • "EAST INDIA TEA COXPANY," and are going off rapidly at importers' prices. Also the most deli cious Kaisows and Monings ever shipped from China, from 2s. 6d. upwards. Family Tea, 25.; in half-chests, Is. 10d. Tea fox the million, is. ld. Price Lists post free on application at 9, Great St. Helen's Church-yard, Bishopsgate-street. FURNISHED HOUSES, from £2 2s. to £2O per Week.—D. S. HUMPHLUES his at all times a n.imber of First-elass RESIDn; NCE6 to be LET. furnished or unfurnished, or sold. more r articularly in the nei_thbour hoods of Sydenham. Upp.l. Norwood. Forest-hill. and vici nity.—Particulars may be had at the Mee, Printing House square. HOUSES and APARr MEN CS WANTED. and to be LET or SOLD, BUSINESSES for DISPOSAL, &o. - PROPERTY, FREEHOLD or LEASEHOLD. D. T. HUMPH BINS has continual applications for all descriptions of PROPERTY which will pay good interest for outlay. Houses out of repair not objected to. 'l'. D Humphries can at all timei find customers for all descrip tions of businesses. Hotels, public hoes 5, kc, sold and transferred. Apply, D. T. Humphries, Estate Agent, Print ing; House-square. GEOLOGY. -KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. PROFESSOR TENNANT, F.G.S., COMM ENO ti.D A COURSE of LECTURES on GEOLOGY on FRIDAY, January 24, at 9 a.m. They will be continued on each succeeding Wed nesday and Friday at the same hour. A shorter course is also given on Thursday evenings, from Bto 9. Text-Bock, Lyell's "Elements of Geology." Professor Tennant accompanies his students to the Public Museums, and to places of Geological in terest in the country. R. W. JELF, D.D., Principal PARTRIDGE AND COOPER, WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING STATIONERS 192* FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON, E.C. THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE 'PRICES. CARRIAGE PAID TO THE COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s. a. Fine Cream Laid Note: a cheap paper 0 Superfine Cream Laid Note: much approved 4 Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note; especially recent mended 5 6 Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Noto 7 0 Straw Paper, " Patent ;" adapted for rapid writing Large Commercial Note Papers 35., 45., 55., and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream 10s. 6d., 12s. 6d., and 14 0 Outsides Foolscap, thick hand-made Letter Paper for scribbling „plain, 45.; ruled ditto 4 6 Tinted Lined Note five quires ls. 6d., or .5 6 per 1,000 Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes 4s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 6 6 Extra Thick ditto, "Registered Secure" t 9 0 Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes 4 6 Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c. COLOUR STAMPING (Relief) reduced to ls. per 100. Polished steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, Bags, &c., post free. IIVR. 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 bo distinguished from the ori nals 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 teeth i hat 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 home from 10 till 5. CANDLEs, GLYCERINE, and SOAP.—A Gold Medal was awarded at the Paris Exhibition to Price's Patent Candle Company Limited, for " Candles, Glycerine, and Soap"—the only one to any British exhibi tor for these three things combined. The chief Candles of the Company arc their " BELMONTINE" and "PRICE'S PARAFFINE" for those who must have the extreme transparency of pure Paraffine their "GOLD MEDAL PALMITINE" and " SHERWOOD PALMITINE," for those who, while desiring candles of great beauty, require also steady brilliancy of light and freedom from smoke and smell; their good old-fashioned " BELMONT SPERM AND WAX," and "BEST" "No. 2," " No. 3," and "BATTERSEA" COMPOSITES for those who require only perfect burning without caring for transparency; and their "CHAMBER" Candles, hard, and of small diameter, to avoid the dropping of grease when carried.'Their new toilet soap, "PRICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE" con tains half its weight of their. distilled Glycerine, and should be the one toilet soap in use, especially in winter, because of its admirable effects in preventing chapping of the hands and face. There ought also to be in every house one of the sealed bottles of their patent distilled Glycerine, knwn every where as " PRICES GLYCERINE, two or three dropS of which, mixed with three or four times as much water, will in a day or two remove chapping and roughness of skin, whether of adults or children ; and when this is effected, a single drop of the undiluted Gl y cerine applied once a day will prevent the recurrence of the c happing and roughness. insist on having " Price's Glycerine in the Company's own sealed bottles, quantities of cheap impure Glycerine being now sold in the shops because of the low rate at which the dealers can buy it in comparison with Price's. All the good medical authorities abroad as well as at home order " PRICE'S" as the one only Glycerine to be used. " PRICE'S NEW PATENT NIGHT LIGHTS" for burning in the wide glasses are believed to be the very best Night Lights made. " PRICE'S CHILD'S NIGHT LIGHTS" are known everywhere, and are excellent for burning without a glass. ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed. CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary. Office, 98, Cheapside, London, E.O HOMELESS 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. 370 children. £l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year. Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank, 214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbnry, ic.C.; and by WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary. No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. NTATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, IN Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861 Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.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 gills a plain Eng lish education, and practical instruction m the kitchen, house, and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other wise provided for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain suitable situations for them. The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. Office, 121, Pall-mall, S.W. HENRY KINGSCOTS, Treasurer. W. H. WARWICE, Secretary. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 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 steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided - soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi site resisting power is supplied by the &too-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 be had; and the truss, which can cot 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 31s. Gd. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. Gd. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ALASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veios ant all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Lep?, Sprains, &c. They 'tire porous, light in texture, and mexp.insive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. • Price 4s. 61., 7s. 6J., 10s., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d.. . . JOHN WHITE, 'MantifaCtOcr;2A Pica elillg. a•- , _ THE N A TIONAL. BAN.K. (Established 1835.) Capital Subscribed, £1,500,000. Paid up, £1,500,000. Rest or Undivided Profits, 4543,889., DIRECTORS. Sir J. N. M'Kenna, M.P. Hon. Albert H. Petro. Albert Ricardo, Esq. Rowand Ronald, Eq. Samuel Saunders, Esq. J. Boglo Smith, Esq. Edmund Smithwick, Esq. Philip Vanderbyl, Esq., M.P. Jeremiah Dunne, Esq. Peter M'Evoy Gartlan, Esq. B. H. Hartley, Esq. F. B. Renshaw, Esq. Sir Ralph Howard, Bart. Harvey Lewis, Esq., M.P. Admiral Sir Burton Mac- Namara. David Mahony, Esq. REPORT of the Directors of the NATIONAL BANK to the Proprietors at the THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, held at the Bank, Old Broad- street, 28th January, 1868— Sir J. N. IP/KENNA, 31. P., in the Chair. The Directors of the National Bank have the pleas:in of presenting to the Proprietors the Thirty-third Annual Report of the state of the Society, made up to the close of 1867. In July last the Directors submitted to the Proprietors their report for the half year ending the 30th June ; their present statement incorporates the profit and loss account for the two half years of 1867, agreeably with precedent heretofore observed. _ _ _ _ The dividends and extra dividends payable for the year 1867 have been declared at the.nitrae rides - ars those - paid for 1866. _ _ _ The following accounts in the usual form exhibit the state of the Company's affairs at the close of 18E7 : ASSETS and LIABILITIES.— The NATIONAL BANK, 31st December. Cu. ASSETS. Gold and silver coin at Branches £560,625 12 8 Cash on hand and at the Bank of England 630,522 010 Advances on securities at ca 11..... 751,273 9 10 Government funds, Exchequer bills, Ex chequer bonds, and debentures... 333,126 3 7 Ditto advanced, parliamentary and other deposits 12,505 0 0 Advances on securities at sundry dates, and current accounts 2,342,240 18 5 Bills discounted . 3,612,319 8 9 Bankers' guarantees and securities held against acceptances per contra lBB,lBl 0 0 Bank premises in London, Dublin, and Branches, freehold and leasehold 185,197 2 2 4'8,615,99319 3 DR. LIABILITIES. Notes in circulation Due by the Bank on deposits and current accounts Acceptances to bankers' drafts and ou security lBB,lBl 0 0 Capital paid up £1,500,000 0 0 Rest or undivide d profits at this date 2,043,889 13 9 £3,615,99319 8 PROFIT and LOSS ACCOUNT of the NATIONAL BANK, for the year ending 31st December, 1867. 1867. Jan. Half-year's dividend at 8 per cent. per annum 460,000 0 0 With extra dividend, 16s. per share 40,000 0 0 July. Half-year's divi- ---. £lOO,OOO 0 0 dend at 8 per cent. per an num With extra divi dend, 16s. per share 40,000 0 0 Dec.3l. To balance, being the amount of 100,000 0 0 rest at this dato .................. 543,899 13 9 £743,889 13 9 Rest or undivided profits at December , 1866 Net profit for the half year to 30th June last £101,338 10 5 Net profit for the half year to 31st Decem ber' 1867, after writ ingoff all bad, and pro viding for all doubtful debts... £93,045 0 5 Lessrebate of inte rest on bills not due 10,748 0 0 --------- 82,297 0 5 183,685 10 10 £743,889 13 9 - - 1 ALBERT RICARDO. Examined and found correct, ROWAND RONALD. Since these accounts were made up, a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per annum on the paid-up capital of the Bank, and an extra dividend of 16s. per share, together £2 a share, have been declared on the 50,000 shares which constitute the .Company's capital ; and the same are now payable at the head offices and branches of the Com pany. The dividend and extra dividend now payable for the half-year ending 31st December, 1867, amount together to £lOO,OOO. The Directors desire to state that the decrease in the profits of the half-year is solely due to the low rates which have prevailed for money, particularly on discounts and advances on securities in the City of London. The deposits and creditor balances of customers have increased in the year by £115,463, and the circulation is also slightly in excess of the amount at the close of 1866, showing that, notwithstanding the general stagnation of business, there is actual progress to record in some of the most important departments of the business of the Bank. As " the Rest," which is available to a reasonable ex tent to equalize dividends, has been considerably a ug _ mented on the average of the last four years, the Direc tors, in view of the exceptionally low rates of interest which have prevailed for the past half-year, do not con sider it advisable to vary the ordinary dividend and extra dividend. The Pireetors who retire by rotation this year are James Bogle Smith, Esq., Frazer Bradshaw Ilenshaw, Esq., and Sir Joseph Neale M'Kenua, M.P., who, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election. Admiral Sir Burton MacNamara, who has been appointed to a seat vacated since last meeting, also retires by rotation, and being eligible offers himself for re-election. Since the last Annual General Meeting three vacancies have occurred by the retirement of their respected col leagues, James Allao, Esq., John O'Meara, Esq and Thomas William Hough, Esq., to whose vacaut seats the Directors have nominated respectively Peter McEvoy Ciartlan, Esq., the Honourable Albert Henry Petro, and Admiral Sir Burton MacNamara. The appointments of the two former gentlemen, Mr. Gartlaud and the Honourable Albert H. Petre, who do not retire by rotat i on , require confirmation by the shareholders. Since the close of the year the Directors hsve detertnireci on opening at Notting-hill their Sixth Metropolitan Branch, at the request of some of the most influential in habitants of the district. _ Approved by the Court, ALBERT IL PETRE, Chairman, London, Jan. 24, 1868. FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON _lf FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN STITITTION. President—Bev. CANON DALE. CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of — the Homes in 1868 are ear nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Bosan quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, K.C.; Francis Nicholls, Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C. E. W. THOMAS, Sec., 200, Euston-read, Per ream. p the na is mixed 1 the strict, nness, pos of the homas ns to 18, col lace of ctor of lace of LreS on sleeted min F. uth as reports ;sisting • The oration ey will n well ington. )rt Will ) wife of ord-hill, A. Farr, I, Brom sq., of a ,gne-sur ury-park ncis. mingfot d late Rey. a, Salop, Barnarcll tal, Chel- 30ua ty of Tolling- Nichols , ~-Genor3 l ''''''.. iDUSVIS , , No 1 12, County Of - . . ... ,t9----"-t..----"ef...- ...e.-- -- X- - r--T--- ...-...--Z-2.--..6 e-- e-e----e-- - e. , <•-.• 4 e , ~,:- P;'----€:-----------52.-----;°----de ~,,!/....""J ... .....-:..._ "', ' • r• • • THE GREAT GALE.. , i _ - _, - - -..:-. -,_ -.. - .7.t:; 4 7.. __ls' , - 1 tit I*.I NIIP ' .• - 4......4,- t ~,,e-) ) • -...-e- „,„ 0,—....., •::7 - -. .-:... X .... . 4 (.. , . • • . .. i ] , V)} LOSS OF LIFE. 7- -- • ‘r:11, „.- 1 k k\ , *--; 4 4(5,F .' • •taut • iv, t? . • ; \_ 4°,l ?-T - -x! . - - ;-7.:',- • • } - .-i /.....,. ... , -..0--_, \„..... 1 ,•-' ' , &---..-,), , ' • - - -54,:. , N •• , - 1 ,/ N, \, 1 The metropolis was visited on Friciay evening by a F'- g - 1 . • ....4„. 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Indeed, \ -.1 4 i -..- , ...,__, ~...yi- v.. , , e , „.... ----= ___ - c _.-4.4- / i -----____--- The metropolis was visited on Frlaay evening ny a heavy gale, which continued to rage with great fury throughout the night, and almost attained to the violence of a perfect hurricane on the following morning. Indeed, it was not till late on Saturday afternoon that the tempest began perceptibly to abate, after having wrought an amount of havoc to life, limb, and property which would not seem to have been equalled for many long years past. On the Thames the damage done to shipping has been great, and several persons in charge of the river craft have perished. Some reports give the number drowned at from sixteen to eighteen souls. The catalogue of houses un roofed, chimney stacks and signboards blown down, windows dashed in and similar casualties, attended in many cases with serious injury to the person, and in not a few more with fatal results, is exceed. ingly heavy. The district of Bow seems to have suffered severely from the effects of the hurricane. At the dyeworks of Messrs. Farman and Sons, Old Ford, a shaft fell, shortly after one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, upon the roof of one of the workshops, causing the death of three women and injuring several others. The upper portion of the shaft fell straight through the roof, the brickwork scattering in the room beneath, in which a great many women were working, and carrying away the floor and part of the walls. Women, roofing, and flooring were all heaped together upon the basement, and when assistance was procured and the rubbish and bricks partially cleared away, the dead body of Isabella M'Cormack, a married woman; aged 44 years, was drawn out from under a rafter in a fearfully mutilated state. Next was discovered underneath the debris Elizabeth . Thomson, aged 40 years, a married woman, living at 9, Summer-street, Bow. Both her legs were fractured, and severe contusions were upon almost every part of her. body. She was still alive, and was at once conveyed to. the London Hospital, but she expired five minutes after• her arrival there. At the eastern part of the basement the body of Grace Drenning, aged 38, married, and living at 14, Spring-street, Bow, was found covered with bricks and rubbish. Mrs. Drenning, who was dead, was sister to. Mrs. M'Cormack, who also lost her life by this melancholy accident. The other sufferers who were at work in the room when the shaft fell were Elizabeth Furnace, aged 10 ; Mary Furnace, 40 ; Elizabeth Turner, 78 ; Elizabeth Field, 70 ; and Mary Marshall, aged , 74 years. These poor women, like those who were killed, were covered with dust and rubbish, and were scarcely recognisable. All were suffering from severe contusions ; one had her thigh frac. tured, and three received a serious shock to the nervous system. They were taken to the London Hospital, where every attention was paid them by Mr. F. M. Mackenzie, the house-surgeon. It is consEered by the medical men that the older women are in a very precarious condition. At Old Ford, Mr. Carman, surgeon, of Bow, rendered every assistance in his power to the women as they were taken out. The buildings at the dyeworks are evidently old, and a shaft may now be seen elevated above them, having a bend in it and iron staybars attached to it. In Shadwell the gable-end of a house, in which a family named Mumford lived, was blown down. John Mumford and his children—John, aged 12 years, and Eliza, aged 9 months—were sitting in a room upstairs at the time. Mumford jumped out of a window and injured his back, and his son, who at the time was carrying his little sister, received several contusions from the bricks. T . .e infant was much cut about the head. Mumford was attended as an outpatient at the London Hospital, and the children remain in at present. PRICE.... 4d. STAMPED sd. In the City, at No. 1, Prince's-place, Coleman-street, an immense stack of chimneys, the brickwork of which weighed nine tons, was blown down. It fell on the roof almost in a mass, and brought down two-thirds of it into the upper rooms of the house. In these rooms were three children—Thomas William Myall, aged 9, Lucy Elizabeth, his sister, and Emily Banks, a girl of 14, who was engaged minding the baby. The baby was killed on the spot. Some of the rafters, falling so as to form a sort of pent house from the mantleshelf to the flooring right over the girl Banks, saved her life, but she was injured, though not seriously, by being struck with portions of bricks and tiles. The boy escaped unhurt. A block of brickwork weighing half a ton fell within four inches of the little girl's head. Her escape was something miraculous. It was thought she had been killed, until, to the surprise of those who entered the building, she crawled out from among the rubbish. The house where the accident took place is one of a row said to be 200 years old. The Strand did not escape the ravages of the gale, for ..,everal sheets of glass in the Charing-cross Hotel and It.a.ilway_Statian Aware.. demolished;- - and it"v with - no little difficulty that cabs could be brought with passengers to the entrance gates. One of the public cabriolets was blown over, and the driver pitched headforemost into the road, but he escaped with slight injury ; the passengers, However, were not quite so fortunate, as they were much shaken, and one gentleman received a compound fracture of the left clavicle. It would be impossil le to give a tithe of the minor acci dents arising in all parts of the metropolis from the fury of the storm. In Brunswick-road, Camberwell, a number of second rate houses have been recently erected; the outbuildings are covered with zinc or lead, and the wind, getting under the metal, forced it off the roofs, and notwithstanding its great weight, it was driven through the air a distance of thirty yards, when it fell upon a small cottage, the pro. perty of Mr. Wyatt, and forced in the roof, severely injuring a young girl name,l Hannah Godsall, who was also obliged to be removed to the hospital. Among other damages occasioned by the gale a largo new building at Mr. Spurgeon's Orphanage, Stockwell, built by voluntary subscriptions, and which had cost £6OO, was totally demolished, the materials alone remaining. At the Crystal Palace the damage was but slight, and confined almost entirely to the fiat roof over the Eyptian Court. The hurricane was felt with some severity among the shipping at Woolwich. A coal brig, laden, was working her way up the river, and when off the dockyard she wa3 struck amidships by a light vessel, and went down, and now lies in about four fathoms of water on the North Woolwich shore. In the neighbourhood of Windsor the gale blew down ;Juildings and tore up by the roots many fine oaks, elms, and beech trees in the Forest and the Home Park. The tele,graph wires being destroyed, the messages have to be sent part of the way by train. So great and destructive a hurricane has not being witnessed in the neighbourhood of Windsor for many years past. In the port and harbour of Chatham every precaution was taken on board the vessels of war and other ships to enable them to ride out the gale at their anchorage. In the river two barges, both deeply laden, foundered, the whole of the crew fortunately escaping. The damage oc casioned by the gale has been of a serious character, and numerous casualties are reported. During the height the hurricane the wind blew down a considerable portion of the lofty boundary wall at the Chatham Con vict Prison, St. Alary's,'at the part adjoining the Royal En. gineerstore-yard, making complete breach of about 300 ft. in length in that structure. The wind at the same time caught a portion:of the wall at the Royal Marine Barracks, adjoining the dockyard, which it blew down. At Brompton a thick stack of chimneys was blown down , carrying away in its fall a portion of two buildings, the inmates escaping injury in an almost miraculous manner. At the time the gale was raging with the greatest fury the wi n d caug h t the roofing of No. 7 buildi n g slip in Chatham dockyard, the thick zinc covering of which, for a considerable extent, being twisted up and carried away like so much paper. In consequence of the high sea running at Sheerness, no boats were allowed to leave any of the ships for the shore during the day. In Liverpool the storm was probably of unprecedented severity. It has certainly not been equalled during this generation. Here and there chimney -pots and slates strewed the streets, and occasionally a whole stack was thrown over. At 11, Harrington -street (Messrs. Swindon and Hodges, law-stationers) the chimney-stack was blown over, and falling through, the rubbish severely injured two young men, named Hodges and Gill, apprentices, and made a complete wreck of the room. Gill was dangerously hurt about the head and was removed to the infirmary. At the office of Messrs. Satterfield and Fox, Rumford. place, the chimney was blown over, and falling through the roof, two clerks and a boy were hurt, one of them seriously. An unoccupied house near ono of the docks was unroofed. About eleven o'clock in the forenoon the entire roof of the large building in Crosshall-street, occu. pied by Messrs. Rankin and Co., ironfounders, was com pletely blown down and carried away by the violence of the storm. In Grafton-street, Toxteth Park, Samuel Hough, a coal dealer, was standing in his yard shortly after noon, when a chimney-pot struck him on the head, • killing him on the spot. The river throughout the whole of Saturday presented a scene of wild and exciting grandeur. So rough was the weather that all except the Woodside and Seacombe ferry-boats were obliged to cease running, and even they could not keep time. Her Majesty's ship Viper, which is anchored off the Prince's stage, began during th.co.morn}i,nogrtttoincalrtaeglyhsehreanhcal:iorssteaal.d to drift towards the stage. and was able to work her way further into the river. A schooner was reported on the West Hoyle Bank ; crew saved by the Point of Ayr Lifeboat. 11Ir. A. S. Finlay, M.P. for Argyllshire, has issued an address announcing his intention of resigning his seat. The Scotsman states that the Marquis of Lorne will be the Liberal candidate. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 3, 1868. it AN FIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fcctly puro and uncoloured. 'Pn be bad of all dealers, and wholesale of JOLIN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. R. sco rrs LIVER and BILIOUS VLLS.—A NEVER-FAILING REMEDY.—Pre pared without any mereurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, Bromley, Kent, will bo found invaluable to :111 who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indiges tion, wind, spurns, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness,- as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, promote digestion, and stiengthen the whole nervous system.—Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, chemist, 6, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and , by most druggists, in boxes, ls. 14d., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d,, Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, With "William Lambert" engraved on the stamp. . . DOWELL'S BALSAM OF ANISEED, for 1_ COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMA BRRONCHITIS, Sore Throat, Difficulty of Breathing, and all similar affec tions of the Res ! aimtory Orgsns. Sold by all Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the World. In Bottles only, price ls. lid., 2s. 3d., and lls. each. Established nearly half a century. Now ready, it all the'Librdries, in 3 vols., . JEA NIE'S QUIET By the Author of LIFE "St. °lave's," "Alec's Bride," &c. " A charming story, worthy of careful perusal Every page contains some pure and noble thought."—Observer. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Gre,atlfarlborough-street. VD OBERT COCKS and Co.'s NEW MUSIC. —RESIGNATION. Sacred Song. Words from Holy Writ. Music by Mi ss M. LINDSAY. 35.; free for 19 stamps. WOO LATE ! TOO LATE ! Sacred Song. Poetry by ALFRED TENNYSO Esq, D.0.T.., Poet Laureate. The popular setting of this Poem is by Miss M. Lindsay (Mrs. J. W. Bliss). 3s. ; free by post 19 stamps. 114 PIN LEY RICHARDS'S RECOLLECTIONS. _LP so. • 3, "The Queen's Dream," 39. vNo. 14, "The Dove" (Y deryn pur) 3e. each ; free for 19 stamps. HAMILTON'S MODERN INSTRUCTIONS for the PIANOFORTE. 612th Edition 45.; free for 28 stamps. "It is unapproached by anything of the kind that has hitherto been produced."—Oriental Circular, March 26. London : Robert Cocks and Co,, New Burlington-street. Just published, price ls. 6d., by post ls. Sd., the Second Edition, with Addenda, containi ng additional Facts and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks, REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY. By IiETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: li. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. The numerous reviews of this startling w3stir by, tlke Saturday Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Publik. Manion; and other journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted with this edition. Major-General Beadle, late of the Bengal Engi neers, and for many years consulting engineer to the Government of • Bengal and the Government of India. Major-General Beadle left for Calcutta by the first steamer in December last, and after exa mining the Nulhatee . line will proceed to take charge of the agent's office at Luckuow. Mr. Wilson will continue to hold the respocsible position of chief engineer to the company, and, in reference to this arrangement, the Board consider that great credit was due to him for the energetic manner in which, under considerable difficulties, he succeeded in opening the Lucknow and Cawnpore line within a period of three years from obtaining possession of the land. The traffic receipts on the Lucknow "and Cawnpore line from • the 23d of April to the end of October, 1867, amounted to £8,174, and the expenditure to £4,529, leaving a balance of 83,645. The traffic receipts on the line for the week ending the 10th November amounted to £692, and for the week ending the 17th of November to £647. • NORTHERN OF FRANCE. The traffic receipts on this company's old and new lines for the week ending the 14th of January amounted to £58,070, and for the corresponding week last year to £56,672, showing an increase of £1,398. SATISFACTORY LETTER'. 5, Wood-street, Millhank, Westminster, • UCtober 5, 1867. Sir,—Some months back I had an attack.of Bronchitis, which.left at times a tickling in my Throat, with other unpleasant feelings. I was advised to try the BALSAM OF ANISEED; I did so, and have found very great relief ; it is most comforting in allaying irritation, and giving strength to the voice. You are at liberty to make use of this as you think pro per, and I earnestly hope that others may benefit by it as I have done.—With many thanks from yonr obedient ser vant, SAMUEL DEAR, Dean's Verger, Westminster Abbey. To Mr. Powell. _ Ask for POWELL'S BALSAM of ANISEED. F. THOMAS & CO.'S PATENT • SEWING MACHINES. The celebrated No. 2 Machine, unequalled for general work, £lO. The new Domestic Machines complete (Lock Stitch), £5 55., £6 Gs., and £B. Catalogues free. W. F. Thomas and Co., 1 and 2, Cheapside, and Regent circus, Oxford-street, London. 1 OOPING HABITS, ROUND SHOULDERS, PIGEON GUESTS and other Deformities, aro pre vented and cured by wearing CHANDLER'S IMPROVED HYGIENIC CIIEST-EXPANDING BRACE, for both sexes of all ages. It strengthens the voice and lungs, relieves indi gestion, pains in the chest and back, and is especially re commended to children forassisting the growth, promoting health and symmetry of figure, superseding the use of braces and stays. Price from 10s. 6d. each.-66, Berners street, Oxford-street, W. Illustrated circulars forwarded. pRIN TIN G.—TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c. The Printing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done on exceedingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelops for reply. Address—The Manager, "Sun" Printing Offices, 8, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. CONTRACTS FOR MILITARY PURVEYOR'S STORES. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all parties desirous of tendering for the supply of such quantities of the undermen tioned articles, namely:- 1. Mustard, Pepper, Salt, &c. 2. Blacking and other cleaning articles. 3. Bottled Ale and Porter, Sherry and Brandy. 4. Milk, Fowls, r ggs, and Fish. 5. Potatoes, Vegetables, Lemons, Oranges, &..c. as may be required during a period of 12 mouths from Ist of March, 1863, for the service of the MILITARY HOSPIT‘A LS AT ALDERSHOT CAMP, That particulars and forms of tender may be obtained by ap plication to the Principal Purveyor to the Forces, at his office, New Hospital, South Camp, Aldershot. Sealed Tenders mast be delivered at the said office of the Prin beiepfaolre the Purveyor , BthproperlyFebruary, f1 18 11 6 e 3 11 , accompanied and signed (in triplicate) on or by samples. W. J. A. TUCKER, Principal Purveyor to the Forces. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Cnntributions. This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was established at King's-cross in 1856. Patients arc admitted free. Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co. GO, Lombard street, Messrs. Ransom and Bouverie, 1, Pall-mall.—Hon. Soc., F. Smith, Esq. GEO. REID, Sec. 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-Ill's Grace the Duke of Bucci.Ei7cli, 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--0a 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 destitute 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 promises 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., „lbchurch-lane ; also by „Alessi's. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyu and Co, ; Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co Berners-street ; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. PAINLESS DENTISTRY. 31ESSRS. GABRIEL, DENTISTS (Established 1815), of London 5B, llarley-street, Cavendish-square, 64, Ludgate-hill, E.C., Liverpool 34, Duke-street, and Brighton have just published a NEW PAMPHLET explaining their Painless System of Dentistry, and self-adhesive Teeth without springs, at MODERATE GIIARGES, which may be had free by post for four stamps. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. MIDLAND. A meeting was held at Southwell on Friday to protest against the proposed abandonment of this company's authorised line between Mansfield and Southwell. Mr. R. Milward presided. The meet ing was addressed by Mr. W. 11. Barrow, M.P., Mr. T. B. T. Hildyard, M.P., and other gentlemen, and letters were read from Mr. Hodgkinson, M.P., and the Speaker of the house of Commons, op posing the course which the directors at present propose to adopt with regard to the line. It was resolved that a strong remonstrance should be made to the directors against the contemplated postpone ment and abandonment, and that any application to Parliament with that object should be strenu ously opposed. OUDE AND ROHILKUND (LIMITED). The report of the directors states that they are informed by the chief engineer that the permanent way answers very well in every respect. The engines are also reported to have worked most satis factorily ; the carriages and waggons were found to require certain alterations, and, as the assistance for carrying out these alterations had to be procured from Calcutta, it was considered expedient, to pre vent delay in opening the line, to borrow vehicles from the East Indian Railway, who on application readily and most obligingly lent them. The total receipts on capital account amounted to £399,626, and the total expenditure to £372,924, leaving in hand on the 20th of June, 1867, a balance of £26,702. The whole of the expenditure incurred up to the 31st of December, 1866, was allow e d b y t h e Secre tary of State to be included in the guarantee, with the exception of £50,000 on account of the Nulhatee line ; that sum had now been formed into a separate stock, called the Nulbatce Railway Stock, and has been allotted to the shareholders according to their holdings on the 7th of August, 1867, at the rate of 10s. for each share. In respect to the further ope rations of the company, the Secretary of State having expressed a desire that it sh ou ld b e l e ft t o the Government of India to decide the order iu which the works should be carried on, the Board at once stated their views to the agent, that no time might be lost in communicating them to the Government. The estimates called for have been received for 230 miles of the system, comprising the extension of the Luckuow and Cawnpore branch to Byram Ghate, the Benares branch, and the portion of the main line be tween them with the short branch to Fyzabai. The Board have received the authority of the Secretary of State to issue further capital to the ex tent of £1,000,000, which will in due course be offered to the proprietors rateably according to their interest or holding in the company's stock or shares. The directors report the retirement from the Board of the Marquis of Tweeddale, their late chairman. Considering the extensive operations to be s!iortly carried on, consequent upon the attainment of the Government guarantee, it was obvious to the board that it would be practically impossible for one offs • cer to conduct efficiently the duties of the two de partments of sgent and chief engineer, and they resolved, therefore, upon separating the appoint ments at once. For the office of agent the board have been fortunate in obtaining the services of RAILWAY BILLS. On Saturday, in Mr. Frere's Court, held in Com mittee-room 16, the following bills passed standing orders :--The Lancashire Union and London and North-Western. The Cork and Kinsale Junction Railway Bill was adjourned until the 17th inst., and the consideration of the Vale of Towy Railway Bill was further adjourned. In the case of the opposed Central Cornwall Railway Bill the examiner de clared that the standing orders had not been com plied with. In the Court presided over by Mr. Palgrave, in Committe room 17, the standing orders were declared not complied with in the case 3. of the Maryport District and Harbour and the Maryport Improvement and Harbour. The Isle of Wight (Newport Junction) Railway was again adjourned. The standing orders were declared to have been complied with in the following cases :—The Devon and Cornwall Railway, the Teign Valley Railway, the Athenry and Ennis Junction Railway, the Waterford and Limerick Railway, and the Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway Bills. The consideration of the Isle cf Wight Central Railway and the Sir howy Railway Bills was adjourned. 7'HE YORKSHIRE SALMON FISHERIES. The annual meetings of the Conservators of the Wharfe and Derwent boards of these fisheries were held on Thursday, January 23, at York. J. Meek, Esq., presided over the meeting of the Wharfe Board, and Colonel St Quintin over that of the Derwent Board. The business at each meeting was precisely the same, J. 11. Phillips, &q., of Beadlain Grange, Helmsley, opening each by the reading of the minutes. From these it appeared that a peti tion had been prepared for presentation to Parlia ment, praying for snore efficient legislation for the protection of salmon in the rivers of the kingdom. The petition was adopted. A number of queries which had been sent down by the Government in reference to the operations of the boards of the Wharfe and Derwent districts were then read, as well as the answers which Mr. Phillips had pre pared to them, and the latter Were unanimously adopted by the meetings. .; Jlr."Phillips read Lis report. "Owing to the notices prescribed in the Act of Parliament re quiring three mouths' publication, the commence ment of the fishing season was retarded until the Ist of May. The licenses issued on behalf of the board had realised the sum of £l6l, a revenue which, bearing in mind that three mouths of the open season had already elapsed, was considerably more than was anticipated, and was entirely derived from draft nets worked in the tidal portions of the river Ouse. From statistics transmitted to the secretary by the licencees, and carefully collated, there appeared to have been caught in the aggregate 3,204 salmon during the season. iMr. Phillips gathered from various reliable sources that salmon had not only increased in num ber, but likewise iu size and weight, but it was in vain to look for any great augmentation of fish until those obstructive weirs were provided with passes. The north-western part of Yorkshire, with its numerous diversified valleys and mountain streams, was strikingly adapted by nature for sal mon, yet these prolific sources of food were cut off, dried up, and destroyed by mill-proprietors for their own private benefit, and this at an immense loss to the rest of the community. Mr. Ashworth, the enterprising owner of the Galway an I Severn fisheries, stated that "nine-tenths of the salmon fishery proprietors of the kingdom are sacrificed for the benefit of the other tenth, viz., the mill-owning proprietors, and the nation lose food worth nearly half a million." In relation to this subject, Mr. Phillips could not refrain from mentioning that vast quantities of salmon were seen at the foot of Tad caster, even in December last, by the Rev. J. Chal loner, Mr. Bradley, and others, jumping and strug gling in vain to get over. Application was there fore made to the Home Secretary to allow them to be netted and turned in above the dam. High floods occurring in the interim, their good intentions were frustrated. He was, therefore, painfully convinced these fish had spawned below the dam and re turned to sea. The destruction of ova was, there fore, beyond calculation. They might only sup pose there were 100 pairs of salmon (a very low esti mate indeed), and that each hen fish was 10 pounds in weight, and calculating by the usual mode of a thousand to each 11b. weight of fish, they had a loss of one million ova! In addition to these there were others killed in trying to get up the mill wheel. Mr. Phillips alluded to the pernicious system of river pollution, which was increasing, and would yearly become worse unless some legislative measures were rigidly enforced. In the neighbour hood of Otley and Richmond there were numerous pollutions, both of fluid and solid kind, discharged into the rivers from the towns themselves, and from paper mills, gasworks, mines, woollen manufac tories, dye works, tanneries, &c., which fouled the rivers to a considerable extent ; and York, too, with its population of 46,000, was not exempt from blame, as the whole sewage from that city was drained into the river, and in dry weather was complained of as a great nuisance. He would next come to the consideration of fish ladders, of which only one had been erected in that district, viz., at Linton, nine miles above the city of York, on the river Ouse. The weir had been, on several occasions, surveyed by the late Mr. Ffennell, and various plans had been suggested as to the best mode of erecting a ladder, and as to where it was finally decided that it should be made. Mr. Ffennell strongly urged the navigation commissioners to allow it to be olaced in the centre weir, but those gentlemen having a fear lest a structure of that sort should in any way interfere with the stability of the dam, refused their sanction, and pointed out to Mr. Ffennell the present site by the side of the navigation sluices, where he might, if he thought proper, fix the ladder. As there was no alternative, it was erected there, and it was now ascertained that Mr. Ffenncll's opinion was in the main cor rect —its present position was away from the course of the river, and the top of it stretched past the broken water at the foot of the weir, where it was well known salmon were constantly to be seen vainly attempting to overleap the barrier. No: - withstanding these defects, it was believed that a great number of fish had ascended it. The corporation of York had decided to erect a ladder on the dam at Naburn during the approach ing summer; they had directed their surveyor to obtain plans and specifications of various kinds of ladders submitted to the council and inspectors of fisheries for their decision and approval. Whilst in London attending the Fishery Congress in June last, he examined a great number of models of lad ders that were exhibited on that occasion. Ile could not say that many of them, were of a very practical description, such as would admit salmon over the weirs at all times, and in large quantities. It occurred to him (and that opinion was shared by others) that in constricting a fish pass the nearer they copied nature, and the simpler the means they used, the more successful would be their efforts. Many of the ladders as at present constructed re sembled, more than anything else, fish traps. In the month of August last the Special Commis sioners for English fisheries visited the first four weirs on theWharfe, alsothose on the Dement, for the purpose of inspecting some o f th e wors t cas es pre paratory to trying them a few months. hence. From the circumstance that five of those weirs had fishing boxes attached to them, they were clearly within their jurisdiction. These questions of law, regard ing dams, reminded them . liow urgently an amended act was needed not only to give the Special Com missioners more extensive powers to deal with all obstructions to the passage of fish, but also remedy defects and deficiencies in the Acts of 1861. and 1865. There were also other important alterations required, viz., to put a stop to the pollution of rivers—extension of weekly close time—prohibiting the use of nets within 150 yards of any dam, and in non-tidal waters during night time. Also to re-enact the 231 George If. oap. 27, unfortunately repealed by the Salmon Fishery Act of 1861, which not only gave powers for the protection of spawn, fry, or brood of fish, all unsizeable fish and smelts proper under the size of five inches ; but also all fish included in the salmonidm family. Had not this act been repealed the Special Commis sioners could have effectually put a stop to all those mischievous set-nets which commit such whosesale destruction of fry and other edible fish ; not only in the Humber, but in various other tidal rivers throughout the kingdom. In closing the re port Mr. Phillips would just advert to the contem plated amalgamation of the two districts into one. The subject had been already discussed at both boards, and the conservators of each had expressed their willingness that the fusion should take place. With that view the usual notices required by the Act had been given by each board, and at the ex piration of six months the sanction of the Home Secretary only would be necessary to effect the alteration. The Trent I3oard had also signified their wish to surrender that portion of their district bordering on Yorkshire which comprised the natural half of the estuary of the Humber, extending east ward of the Trent Falls to Spurn Point, and th e ea coast to Flambro' Head. As this would give the board access to the sea, and likewise a share and supervision of the estuary, into which nearly all the rivers of the county were united, he though the arrangements in many respects would prove an advantageous one, and each board would then have the Ilumber as a natural boundary to their respective districts. The report was adopted. THE TWO KEANS. We know that Garrick and Kemble were, in their days, at the head of the dramatic profession, but of their comparative merits we have only the opinions of critics, which have ever been, and in all probability will ever be, in favour of the retiring or retired actor_ According to the feW *ha - reineffilior both the Beans, the son never had the ability of the father, no more than the father ever attained the excellence of John Kemble, in the notion of their common hearers. If such general preference of prelecessors b 2 right, artistic skill must be sadly in decay, and therefore we are justified in withholding belief front such verdicts. Actors, singers, and musicians are but exponents of the works of others, leaving no lasting trace behind of their own excel lence. It is the inevitable misfortune of their pro fession, and vain, in these days, would be ail attempts to draw a parallel between the dramatic excellence of father and son. Such, however, is not our purpose, but, on the moral to be derived from their lives, and on the lesson to be drawn from the dauntless energy of both, we would rapidly treat. Edmund Kean, the father, was the son of a scene carpenter, born in 1787, his mother being the daughter of George Saville Carey, a dramatic writer, and gran'daughter of Henry Carey, a more cele brated theatrical author and musical composer. From the low position of his parents, Edmund was introduced on the stage when quite a child, and at the young age of thirteen joined a provincial company. For years he lived and travelled in the background of the profession, now in England, now in Scotland, now in Ireland. lie did the general work of the straggling unknown, in tragedy, opera, farce, and pantomime ; tutored in all by his own genius only, and upheld in distress by faith in the result of his own perseverance. His failures are unrecorded, forthey were hurried unnoticed in the provinces, and therefore unlike those of his son, whose performances were patent to the London public from the first ill success in the character of Norval to his triumph in that of Hamlet. The son, Charles, appealed re peatedly till he obtained a favourable verdict on the metropolitan boards. The father, Edmund I (ean, burst like an unexpected meteor on the thea trical public, for his very patrons had but little faith in his success. lie, indeed, was but a desperate experiment of a failing management, and Drury Lane was not half filled to witness his first representation, which a critic of the period thus de scribes:—" There came on a small man, with an Italian face and fatal eye, harsh of voice, abrupt and angular in action. But his style was new ; there was the decision, the inspiration of genius in his look, tone, and bearing; and the attention of the audience soon ripened into enthusiasm." It was the starting post of a great career, and justly might he exclaim, on his return home that night, " Mary, our fortune is founded ; you shall have a carriage, and Charley shall go to Eton !"—Charley being then three years old. That the programme was not com pleted was only due to his dissoluteness and extra vagance. Strange to say, however, at the same period of life, at the comparatively early age of twenty-seven, father and son became popular tragedians in London, the one in 1814, the other in 1838, and both through years of study and perseverance. The father was literally nursed and educated on the stage; the son selected it as a mews of support for his discarded mother. To her theboy clung; for her he abandoned Eton at the age of sixteen years. The elder Kean succeeded John Kemble as actor alone, for his low habits prevented him from acquiring any standing in society. Not so the younger Kean, for whilst education fitted him for companionship with the scholar, his gentlemanly b earin g an d high moral con duct, suited him for the best and highest society' of the land. Enthusiastic in his profession, Charles Kean soared, as manager, above pecuniary con siderations, and placed the works of our great bard on the stage in a style that far eclipsed the examples of his worthy predecessor, Macready. Ills Whole life was indeed one to reverence and to emulate, not merely for its untiring perseverance, but for its moral worth as son, husband, and friend ; and known professionally, as otherwise, to our great colonies and the kindre I states of America, it is not England alone will mourn his untimely loss, but wherever the language of Shakespeare is spoken.---Rucing Times and Amateur Dramatic Chronicle. "We are informed that it is proposed to offer the post of Financial Member of Council in India to Sit R. Temple, lately Commissioner of the Central Provinces, and now Resident at Hyderabad. Sir Richard Temple has filled various important posts in the Civil Service of India, and has earned a high reputation. He was also selected by the late Mr. Wilson - as his assistant in the Financial Department, and then rendered very great services. ili de- ,ers, t of Port Tan-, OUSO ineil :e of day, ined and ition udgo s by I