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KINAHAN'S LL. WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 1865. • This celebrated OLD IRISH wrnsity , 'gained the Dublin prize Medal. It Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the principal tcwns in England; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal. Pink Label . and Cork Branded " Bina han's LL Whisky.' ItrUTITAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION j I! (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859), 14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON, And 38, QITREN'S-ROAD, BRIGHTON 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. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. A PORTIt %IT MODEL of MADAVIE RACHEL is now added.—Admission, Is. Open from eleven a.m. till five p.m., and from seven till ten p.m. ; and on Boxing Day from nine a.m. till ten p m. ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey (late Weston). - Chestnts' Holidays.— Great Comic Festival.—An entire change of Company:—Mr. A. G. Vance—Mr. J. G•. Forde. E. D. Davis. Mr. A. Lloyd. the Brothers Daniels, Miss Louie Sher rington, Miss Kate Bella, Miss Etty Gray, the Brothers Voltaire, and a host of other talented artistes. Mr. P. Core, Musical Director. Ear Mr. JOH BROWN (from the Christy's Minstrels, St. James's Hall), Champion Dancer of the World, is engaged, and will shortly appear. ANTERBITRY HALL, Westminster-road.- 1,..) Sole Proprietor Mr. W. HOLLAND.—Unheard-of Attraction for the Christmas Holidays.—Arthur Lloyd, George Leybourne, Harry and Katie King ; Sydney Franks, the most original Comic Singer, and justly termed the Sam Cowell Redivivus: the Fiflis Troupe of French Female Acrobats; the wondrous and thrilling Performance of the Chantrells. Two grand Ballets every evening. MASANIELLO, with superb Italian scenery, supported by the prettiest Corps de Ballet in England ; and the grand, new, and original Ballet, entitled THE FAIRY HAUNT OF THE BUTTERFLIES ; or, King Catechemalive ; King Catchemalive, Fred Evans ; Prince Pretty Pet, Miss Marie Smithers ; Queen of the Butterflies, Miss Louise Smithers; Gauzewing, Miss Butler; Attendant to Prince Pretty Pet, Miss Amy Rosalind The superb and costly Scenery painted and Mechanical Elects invented by Messrs. Dayes, Canny, and Wigney, Scenic Artist of the Royal Italian Opera House, Covent-garden. The Dances and (lair° Ballet invented and arranged by Madame Collier; new and originusio by,lessia. Williams. Musical Director. ACtiff.7, Manager, J. Ellis ; Chairman and Stage Manager, W. Hamilton. Area and Balcony. 6d, ; Stalls, ls. ; Reserved Stalls, ls. 6d. ARGYLL ROOMS.-OPEN EVERY EVENING for Instrumental Music and Dancing. —The Rooms have been magnificently re-decorated by Messrs. Rnbardt and Co. The celebrated Band will perform during the week an attractive Programme of Operatic Selections and popular Dance Music. _ _ _ Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock. Admission, Is.; Balcony, 2s. WINDMILL STREET, PICCADILLY. Musical Director and Conductor—Signor LUIGI CURTI J OHN BURGESS AND SON'S Original and JSuperior ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES, also MANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES, are perfectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS AND SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. D R. BING'S DANDELION and QUININE LIVER PILLS (Without Mercury). The very beet remedy for BILE, WIND, INDIGESTION, ACIDITY, HEADACHE, HEARTBURN, &c., And acknowledged by many eminent surgeons to be the safe t and mildest pills for every constitution. In boxes at 18.14 d., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d., at all chemists , COUNTER CLOTHS FOR LICENCED VICTUALLERS. (SHE only article really suitable for that purpose, 1 58. 6d. per dozen, hemmed, ready for use. Address 105, Fleet-street, and 5, The Pavement, Clapham. GLASS CLOTHS SUITABLE FOR LICENCED VICTUALLERS, 7s. 9d. PER DOZEN. ILLIAM HOLDICH and CO., No. 105, T Fleet-street, foot of Ludgate hill ; and No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common. TABLE CLOTHS, in every Width and Length, expressly for Licenced Victuallers. Damask Napkins for Tray Cloths, Drills for Bar Aprons and Towellings of every description. Patterns gratis and post free. CARDIGAN JACKETS made expressly for Bar 1.../ use, Warm and Elastic, from ss. 6d. each, for _Mies' and Gentlemen's use. WILLIAM HOLDICH ind Co., LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, 105, Fleet street, City, and No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common. lATILLIAM. HOLDICH and CO.; LICENSED VicnrAmins' DRAPERS, Established 1842, at 105, Fleet-street, City; Southern Branch—No. 5, The Pave ment, Clapham-common. Patterns gratis and poit free, with Price List. TO LICENCED VICTUALLERS. ESTABLISHED 1842. WILLIAM HOLDICH and CO., LICENOED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, No. 105, Fleet-street, corner of Farrinp,-don-qtreet ; anel at No 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common (Southern Branch). HOTELS, Taverns, Public Houses, &c., for DISPOSAL, in all parts of London and vicinity.— Advances made by Brewers to suitable parties, and to nearly the whole amount of purchase in some special cases Wanted. full particulars of good bona Me businesses of every kind, and at all prices. Apt ivate register kept for special negotiation, orders for which may be either given by letter or through my trade travellers. No charge for entry.—P. B. HILL, Printing House-square, E.C,'., Wholesale Agent for Messrs. Jameson and Co , Distillers, Dublin. QEAINIEN'S HOSPITAL, DREADNOUGHT, k- , off Greenwich, for Sick and Diseased Seamen of All Naticns, who are received without any recommendation. The receipts from all sources during the past year were £879 less than the expenditure. SUBSCRIPTIONS thankfully received by Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers, Birchin-lane ; and by the Secretary, at the Society's office, 86, Sing William street, London, E.C. Qualification for a Governor, 21s. annually ; Life Governor, £lolos. VSTABLISTIMENT for GENTLEWOMEN L 4 during TEMPORARY ILLNESS. The relatives of Clergymen, Naval. Military, and Pro fessional Men, Governesses, and Artists may, for a small weekly payment, receive the comforts of a HOME, com bined with the best medical and surgical treatment, at the establishment, 90, Upper Harley-street. This establishment, which was opened in 1850, is patro nised by her Majesty. The Bishop of London is Visitor, and it is managed by the Marchioness of Ormonde, the Lady Laura Palmer, Mrs. Edward Romilly, the Lady Caroline Russell, Mrs. Cecil Russell, and other ladies. All information respecting it may be obtained on writ ten or personal application to the Lady Superintendent. Subscriptions received at the Institution, and by the Treasurer, at Messrs. Contts and Co.'s, 59, Strand. W. C. SPRING RICE, Hon. Sec. • NA'T'IONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham - common , 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 girls a plain Eng lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house, and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other wise provided for when they attain 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. HSNRY KINGSCOTE, Treasurer W H. WAFWICIE Secretary. Office, 121, Pall-mall, W REALM RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. DU BARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids' and Infanta' 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 sumption, 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, palpitation, 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 Rove.lents Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holi ness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No. 18,413):—"Rome, July 21st, 1866.—The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a hateful 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 ness, 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 Stuart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Water ford :—" I have derived much benefit from your excellent food.—STTJAMT DE DECIES, Dromana, Cappoquin, County Waterford." Cure No. 49,832. Of fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation. flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, of Lynn, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner ous fancies. Cure No. 56,814.—Mr. Samuel Lawton, Leicester, of two years diarrhoea. The Food is sold in Canisters, at ls. 11d. 11b., 2s. 9d. ; 2 lb., 4s. 6d. ; 121 b., 225. ; 241 b., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b canisters, carriage free on receipt of P. 0. Order. Also Du airy s Revalenta Arabica Chocolate Powder is packed in ELI canisters : For 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s. Gd., for 48 clips at 65., for 283 cups at 305., for 576 caps at 555. Being about cue penny per cup. The 30s. and 555. tins are sent free of carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order. BARRY DU BARRY and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; also et ''ortnum and Mason's; also at 4, Cheapsido, 61, t Cracechuioh-street • 63 and 150, Oxford-street ; and 121, ITEM North-rad, London; and all,Cirovericand Cher:l3lsW. ;s him Or the les, it rtance mduet !er to •ed up I reli e bulk 6ys the uke of 'hance t case. La been parts ?base; 'Ve are 3 First ndence t the .lately l garys 1 bc ,roraise larmed of the Prus )ossible psburg to this Le waY, est the were 'russia. ranting se late i s, Mr. es not but it ud the now 1)0 ~ inde• Indian trgentg. Enid 1114 e by th e ince are rs 9, 7 ° ° ipanisl3 , pilke t o the hat the w ere of the nn ha.' ro - l Dee -1,000 10 IoY d' B 'mils to 3 h will narjr umber' eh anti ace in awl ry - igatOrf em ptOd tiolaSter lligaW f at the e ceutli balls , he fur rochi- Bur ps 0 cele' did pion , lot, P S tat ° ) c tobe r ollos ; 00,00 0 a bou ed over vis ited tain a [OOO. 'estio n 7rt, ba t ! n o 1 ' le d l s , 811 ric ,d y itobe7 I. 10 co,- rest a f o c olou r ' doWer ; 1111 ' c o- °. Co o ' f or o 5Y6 cups 55 , orl o ; s e t t, loco. _ _" the wi" grs• •1; o' ll4 &Aug" - stir lie - to S. IA" ;e, `~,~, ) 9. t .., )d-PArr tb e rraPoov A, wr 1 1 ' NT9 0 itl 1 . R RECEIVE! 5 !AN IV. 23,884. THE NEW AND POPULAR NOVELS. , Now ready, at all the Libraries, KATHLEEN. By the Author of "Raymond's Heroine." Second Edition. 3 vols. THE CROWN OF A LIFE. By the Author of "Agnes Tremorne," &c. 3 vole. NATURE'S NOBLEMAN. By . the Author of "Rachel's Secret," &c. 3 vole. THE WOMAN'S KINGDOM. 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AB C PATENT DESPATCH BOX.—JEN NER and KNEWSTUB'S newly-invented Patent A B C and 1, 2, 3, Despatch Boxes, "for general conve nience, for ready access to papers and methodical arrangement, have received the highest commenda tion." Price 10s. 6d. and upwards. " This is a valuable contrivance."—Punch, Nov. 14. " Cannot fail to be useful in the library and office."—Record. Will meet espe cially the requirements of literary, leg a l and official per sons."- Star. " A boon to all lovars of order."—lllus trated London News. "There can be no question as to the value of this invention."—Morning Post.—Jenner and Knewstub, Inventors of the Elgin Writing Case, 33, St. James's-street, and 66, Jermyn-street. HUNTING, SHOOTING, AND FISHING. The strongest man in the world cannot break the ever lasting Porpoise-skin Boot Laces made by GILL AND CO., 12, Brewer-street, Golden-square, London, W. Price Is. per pair; by post, 14 stamps; six pair; ss. FRENCH DUBBING.—This invaluable composition possesses the properties of preserving leather, rendering it supple and waterproof. It is identically the same dubbing as that used by • the best curriers in Milan (Aveyron). BOOTS, SHOES, and HARNESS are particularly bene fited by its application. Sold Wholesale and Retail by W. GILL and CO., Curriers and Leather Sellers, 12, Brewer-street, Golden- square. Price ls. 6d., 2s. 6d., and ss. per can. ?iICOLL, HAIRCUTTER to H.R.H. P r i nce of Wales, 40, Glasshouse-street, Regent-street, TRICHANOPHRON. Invented by Nicoll. The best preparation in the world for the Hair. No lady or gentleman should be without it. Sold in Bottles, 2s. 6d. Hair Restored and Baldness Prevented by NICOLL'S ELECTRIC HAIR REGENERATOR ----- - FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. - In Bottles, 2s. 6d. NICOLL'S GOLDEN TINCTURE FOR LADIES. For giving a Brilliant Golden Shade to Hair of any colour, in Bottles, Is. 6d. each. NICOLL'S CELEBRATED DEPILATORY. For removing stmerflous Hair. Sent free to any part of the three kingdoms on receipt of 20 postage stamps. P. 0.0. payable at Vigo-street, Regent-street. LADIES' CHIGNON FRIZETTES, in every Shade, Colour, , nd Size, from Is. to 2s. (a SHAMPOOING, BRUSHING by MACHINERY, charge Gd. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM. —AN EFFECT UAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately re lieving coughs, 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 fow 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, 130., 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. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant as sortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe lisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper Weights, &c., in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derby shire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, W.C., London. Mr. 'Pennant arranges elementary collections of ROOKS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facili tate the interesting study of MINERALOGY an.l GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each. - PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at 149, Strand. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred Medical men to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided —a, soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi site resisting power is supplied by the 51oc-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 bad, and the truss, which can rot fail to fit, forwardel by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. Gd., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 31s. d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 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 rtLASTIC STOCKINGS, 112,1 KNEE-CAPS, etc., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. HOME for the HELPLESS.—ST. JAMES'S DIOCESAN HOME for FEMALE PENITENTS (Hammersmith), under the immediate direction of the Bishop of London. The work carried on by a Sisterhood, "in faithful accordance with the principles of the Re formed'Church of England." FUNDS greatly needed• COUNCIL. The Bishop of LONDON Rev. J. W. Ayro Major-Gen. Rt. Hon. Percy Rev. F. G. Bloomfield Herbert, M.P. Hon. and Rev. F. Byng RO7. J. E. Kempe Rev. R. G. Baker Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys Rev. S. Brooke Rev. S. W. Lloyd The Lord Clinton Rev. A. Martineau Rev W. Cadman Rev. W. D. Maclagan E. Charrington, Esq. Rev. Daniel Moore Rev. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain Rev. J. Moorhouse Rev. E. Capel Cure J. D, Morton, Esq. Rev. J. E. Cox Rev. Canon Nepean Octavius Coope, Esq. Rev. E. Parry Arthur Currie, Esq. John Pearson, Esq., Q.C. Rev. J. Connell Rev. G. F. rrescott Rev. G. W. Furse Rev. F. Pigou C. J. Freake. Esq. R. T. Pigott, Esq. J. S. Gilliat, Esq. R. R. Pym, Esq. Rev. Dr. F. iTessey H ug h H. Seymour, Esq. H G Heald, Esq. R. Wade, Esq. R. Hook, Esq., Treasurer Loftus Wigram, Esq. Subscriptions will be received by any of the above; by Messrs. Harries, Farquhar, and Co; and by the Hon. Secretary, Rev. S. W. Lloyd, 14, Seymour-street, Port man-square, to whom communications may be addressed. GAME LICENCES. rHE COMMISSIONERS OF INLAND I REVENUE hereby give Notice that LISTS, containing the Names of all Persons who have taken out LICENCES to KILL and D FAL in GAME in the current Year, to 30th September last inclusive, have been printed for each Excise Collection. A Copy of the List, applicable to any District, may be obtained GRATIS on application at the Offices of the respective Collectors or Supervisors of Inland Revenue, Distributors or Sub-Distribu tors of Stamps, by whom Licences are issued. The Commissioners further give Notice that instructions have been issued to their Officers to take the necessary steps to prefer informations for penalties against all persons found in pursuit of or dealing in Game without license. WM. CORBETT, Secretary. Inland Revenne, Somerset House, London, October 29, 1868. JONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is the only I institution in the Metropolis for the treatment and prevention of contagious fevers. CONTRIBUTIONS will be gratefully received by Messrs. Dimsdale and Co., 50, Cornhill; Messrs. Drum mond, Charing-cross ; Messrs. Coutts, Strand ; Messrs. Hoare, Fleet-street ; and by the Secretary, at the Hospital, Liverpool-road, Islington, N. 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-I-His brace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, B.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 Covernors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a largo number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the dostimto 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, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Couttg and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co.; Herries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Pay . ,.e, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams, D3acon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Benton-Arm ; and at the hospital from 10 till 6. OYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES, West-hill, Putney-heath. Established 31st July, 1854. This Institution exists for the comfort. and relief of per sons (being above the pauper class) afflicted with incur able bodily disease. Relief is afforded-Ist. By supplying a home, with medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for the in valid. 2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to patients at their own homes. A now wing to the Hospital has just been completed at a cost of upwards of XlO,OOO, and FUNDS are urgently NEEDED to liquidate the expenses incurred. There are 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely dependent upon voluntary subscriptions. Nearly 300 approved applicants are awaiting election. For the maintenance of present operations, for tho ex tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe cially annual subscriptions, are earnestly solicited. Life subscriptions, £5 ss. and upwards; annual subscriptions, half a guinea and upwards, with votes in proportion. Information will be supplied, with the greatest ploasure, upon application to the Secretary, by whom contributions will be thankfully received. FREDERIC ANDREW, Secretary. 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An ILLU -TR TED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, stationery, Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, and Bags, &c , post free. Three Courses of Lectures on Common and Mercantile Law, Conveyancing, and the Law of Real Property and Equity, will be delivered in the Hall of the Society in the mouths of December, January, February, March, April, May, and June next. CENTRAL-FIRE BREECH-LOADING GUNS. E. H. REILLY and Co., 502, NEW OXFORD-STREET, LONDON. HOBBS, HART, and CO., No. 76, Cheapside, London. LOCKS—for Houses, Hotels, and Railway Offices. from 2s. to 165.: for Mansions and Banks, Bs. to 50s.—adapted for all pur poses. FIRE-RESISTING SAFES, for private use, 20 to 36 inch, £4 to 110 effaces, 24 to 72 inch, £lO to £l2O. H , H., an deo. solicit an examination (especially by engineers) of their three entirely NEW PRINCIPLES of construction for security Safes and Door;-:+=-Sep•Reportiu.-List of Prices. _ MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new de scription, of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the ori ginals by the closest observer ; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is gua ranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in masti cation. LAW CLASSES. In connexion with the lectures classes will be conducted under the guidance and superintendence of the lecturers, and will proceed concurrently with the lectures. The number of subscribers to each class will be limited, and the instruction given will be confined to an examination of the students upon the subject of a preceding lecture, or on portions of a given book bearing on the same subject. A sufficient number of classes will follow each lecture, and be of such duration as shall provide for the efficient instruc tion and examination of the students. The teaching of the lectures will thus be amplified, and impressed on the memory by the classes ; and the system of constant ex afniearion will test, from time to time, the progress made by the students. LECTURES on COMMON and MERCANTILE LAW, by CHARLES HENRY ANDERSON, Esq., Barrister at-Law. The Course will consist of Nine Lectures upon the fol lowing subjects : a. Simple Contracts. b. Contracts under Sral. c. The Contract of Sale. d. Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes, and Checks ; with the distinction between negotiable instruments and other simple contracts. e. Freight and Contracts of Affreightrnent, with the pe culiarities of Charter-parties and Bills of Lading. f. The Loss of a British Vessel and its consequences 1. To the Owner of the Vessel. 2. To the Owner of the Cargo. 8. To the Underwriter. g. In connexion with the foregoing will be considered the Rule of the Road at Sea as contrasted with that on Shore: also the Law of Negligence and the Liability of a Master for the acts of his Servant. In his private classes the reader will use as text-books —The Law of Contracts (Smith), An Action at Law (Smith), A Digest of Common Law (Anderson). LECTURES on CONVEYANCING and the LAW of REAL PROPERTY, by T. LL. MURRAY BROWNE, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. This Course will consist of Nine Lectures:— Lecture I. Introductory.—Practical Hints on the perusal and examination of Abstracts. Lectures 11., 111., IV. Settlements.-1. Settlements of Personal Estate; a. Investment of Trust Funds ; b. Usual Trustee Clauses, Appointment of Now Trustees; c. Usual Powers and Covenants, &c.: d. Remarks on the Effect of Recent Statutes-2. Settlements of Real Estate ; a. Estates for Life and in Remainder, Waste ; b. Jointures, Portions, &c : c. Usual Powers: Remarks on the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act; d. The Succession Duty Act-3. Disentailing Deeds, the existing Law of Entail 4. Practical Suggestions in connexion with the subject of Settlements. Lectures V., VI. W ills.-1. Usual Frame and Contents of a Will-2. Principles of Construction of Wills-3. Practical Hints on Drawing Wills. Lecture VII. Copyholds.-1. Introductory Remarks, Fines-2. Surrenders and Covenants to Surrender-3. Admissions-4. The Enfranchisement of Copholds. Lectures VIII., IX. Miscellaneous Deeds.-1. Credi tors' Trust Deods-2. Separation Deeds— 3. Articles of Partnership, &c. In these lectures and classes the Introductions and Notes to Mr. Davidson's Precedents will be especially referred to. As elementary works, Mr. Joshua Williams's Books on Real and Personal Property are recommended. EQUITY LECTURES, by Sir GEORGE YOUNG, Bart., Bar . rister-at-Law. This course will consist of Nine Lectures : Lecture 1. Review of Equity, and suggested arrange ments for purposes of Study. Lecture IL The Jurisdiction in matters of Account; generally, Apportionment and Contribution. Lecture 111. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account, continued : specially, between Principal and Agent. Lecture IV. The Jurisdiction in matters of Accounts continued: specially, between Partners. Lecture V: The Jurisdiction in matters of Administra- Lion : 1. The Administration of Assets. Lectures VI., VII. The Administrative Jurisdiction, cohtinued : 2. The Administration of Trusts, as enlarged by recent statutory enactment. Lectures VIII., IX. Injunctions. Books recommended : —Story's Equity Jurisprudence, chapters 8,9, 10, 13, 1,,, 23 ; Haddan's Administrative jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery. Smith's Manual of Equity and White and Tudor's Lead ing Cases in Equity will be the books principally referred to during the course. The subscription payable for the Lectures— For all the Foreach three courses. course. By clerks of members By clerks of gentlemen not members By all other persons not being members The subscription payable for the law classes— For all the branches of Foreach instruction. branch'. By every subscriber £s 5 0 £2 12 6 Members of the Society may attend the lectures without subscribing. To prevent interruption at the lectures, subscribers cannot be admitted to the hall after the lecture has com menced. E. W. Williamson, Secretary. Law Society's Hall, Oct., 1868. N.B. Gentlemen may subscribe for and attend the lec tures and classes, either separately or collectively ; but as the instruction given in the classes will have special re ference to preceding lectures, it is recommended that those who desire to attend the classes should also attend the lectures. THE LONDON SURGICAL HOME for DISEASES and ACCIDENTS of WOMEN, for the Reception of Gentlewomen and Females of Respect ability upon a weekly payment. Under the management of Mr. Baker Brown. Tho private medical attendants of the patients aro in vited to visit them, and to meet in consultation before treatment. Full particulars can be obtained on application to the Lady-Superintendent, 18, Stanley-terrace, Notting-hill, W. ; or to Mr. Bak er B rown , 136 , Harley-street, W. 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] 870 children. 415 will keep a boy or girl for one year. Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank 214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, E.C. ; and by WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary. No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. 52, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER-FAILING REMEDY.—Pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indiges tion, wind, spasms, 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 strengthen the whole nervous system.—Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by most druggists, in boxes, is. lfd., 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. V.11.-TOWER. SALE OF STORES.—By order of the Secretary of State for War.—Mr. GEORGE SPILLMAN will Sell by Public Auction in the Tower, on IL trESDAY, 12th of January, 1869, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon precisely, the following Stores: Bedding. f Haversacks. I Brass. Tin Sheets. Musquet Stocks. Iron. Accoutrements. Engine Hose. Tools. May be Viewed at the Tower from 10 to 4 o'clock the Three Days previous to the Day of Sale, and Catalogues may be had at the War-office, Pall-mall ; the Tower; and Royal Arsenal, Wool wich. INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE. India Office, Ist December, 1868. NOTICE is Hereby Given, that an examination of Candidates for 20 appointments as Assistant-Surgeons in her Majesty's Indian Medical Service will be held at Chelsea Hospital on the Bth February, 1869. Copies of the regulations for the examination of Candi dates, together with information regarding the pay and retiring allowances of Indian Medical Officers, may be ob tained on applicati n at the Military Department, India Office, Westminster, S.W. T. T. PEARS, Major-General, Military Secretary. CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA. CANDIDATES intending to present themselves at the Open Competition, commencing on March it;, are reminded that Certificates of Birth, Health, and Character should be sent to the Secretary to the Civil Service Commis sioners, London, S.W., on or before the Ist of February. Regu lations may be obtained on application. INDIA OFFICE, 15th Octob er , 1868.-- By order of the Secretary of State for India in Council. Notice is hereby given, that packages, stated to contain reserved articles from the estates of deceased Officers and soldiers of the late East India Company's Service, and of Her Majesty's Indian Military Forces, have from time to time been received from the Governments of the-respec tive Presidencies in India. Packages containing. articles reserved from the follow ing estates remain unclaimed, viz.:- 11. Babington, W. R., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical Department. 12. Briggs, F. W., Rev., Madras Establishment. 17A. Barclay, J. S., Captain, 39th Madras Native Infantry. 20. Coust, H. A. 0., Captain, 2d Madras Native Veteran Battalion. 21. Carter, C., Captain, 38th Madras Native infantry. 26. Chancy, A., Lieutenant, 39th Madras Native In fantry. 33. Doune, J. T., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical Department. • 42. Dillas, It., Lieutenant, 3d Madras European Regi ment. 48. Edmonston, W., Sergeant-Major, 28th Madras Native Infantry. 52. Fenning, D. A., Colonel, Ist Madras Light Cavalry. 63. Grinelack, E., Private, 104th Foot. 65. Harris, J. D., Lieutenant, 28th Madras Native In- Infantry. 69. Hawes, J. C., Brevet-Maior, Ist Madras Fusiliers. 7;. Halliday, J., Sergeant, Bengal Establishment. 79. Johnston, J. McM., Captain, 4th Madras Native In fantry. 83. Keighly, F., Lieutenant, 24th Madras Native In fantry. 85. Kensington, H. 8., Ensign, 32d Madras Njstive In fantry. 117. Owen, M., Lieutenant, 88th Madras Native Infantry. 128. Redmond, J. J., Lieutenant, 7th Madras Native In fantry. 134 A. Ryan, P., Deputy Commissary, Madras Sappers and Miners. 142. Shedden, Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical De partment. 150 n. Stothert, R., Major, 4th Bengal Native Infantry. 154. Walker, A., Captain, Madras Establishment. 165. Walker, T., Sergeant-Major, 7th Madras Native In fantry. 170. Wright, W., Sergeant, Madras Sappers and Miners. Applications for such packages should be made by next of kin of the deceased, or by the legal representatives of such next of kin, to the Military Secretary, at this Office. In the event of any of the packages in question remain ing unclaimed for the turther period of six months from this date, they will be opened, the contents be disposed of by sale, and the amount realized be credited to the estate of the deceased. T. T. PEARS, Major-General, Military Secretary. PRICE.... 4d. STAMPED &d. CO MPAGNIE GENE RALE TRANSAT _ LANTIQUE. 4. Rue de la Paix. Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New York. RATES OF PASSAGE. From lIAvRE or BREST to NEW YORK. First ;;lass 7OO fr. Second Class 425 fr. Third Class From Paris to Now York, via Havre or Brest, including railway ticket, 725 fr..; second class, 440 fr. ; third class 285 fr. WEST INnIES AND MEXICO. Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St. Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico, Haiti. Santiago do Cubs, Guadelonpe. Martinique. JAPAN, NORTH .AND.SOUTII PACIFIC, AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama). Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon, Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Girayra, Porto Ca bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo, Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union, San Francisco, China, and JapaL. Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this company, can be bad of STRINGER PEMBBROKE, and Co., Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C. wF. THOMAS AND CO.S PATENT SEWING MACHINES. —The celebrated No. 2 Ma chine, unequalled for general work, £lO. The new Domestic Machines, complete (Lock Stitch), .£5 Is., £6 Gs., and .£B. Catalogues free. —W. F. THOMAS and Co., 1 and 2, Cheapside, and Regent-circus, Oxford-street, London. • //VATTKENPHAST'S BOOTS, Y 10, PALL-HALL, EAST, LONDON, S.W. Choose your fit, and have your number registered for future supplies; and obtain all the advantages of special lasts, at far lower cost. AT CHRISTMAS many persons are induced to take more than is wholesome. Two or three of PARR'S LIFE PILLS will clear off ACIDITIES, and remove FEVERISH HEADACHE and other unpleasant symp toms, without pain or inconvenience. PARR'S LIFE PILLS may be obtained of any Medicine Vendor, in boxes. Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and in Family Packets, lls. each. Directions with each box. EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in Situations of Trust. Chairman— General Sir FREDEItIC SMITH, N.H., F.R.S. Policies payable during Life—lndisputable—Not liable to Forfeiture. Annual Income exceeds Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds. The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants, and full particulars of the popular Principles of this Society, will be found in the New Prospectus, which will be forwarded to applicants post free. HENRY LAKE, General Manager. 816, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place Pall mall, London. THE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.—Every Policy effected with this Society by the 31st inst. will have the advantage of one year in every Annual Bonus. The Directors give notice that the Policies of the Society be come Indisputable, and are relieved of all conditions (except payment of the annual premiums), when they have remained unchallenged for five years, and the life assured has completed his 30th year. The bonus additions allotted by the Society are highly satisfac tory. In a recent claim the addition toe £l,OOO assurance, dated 1845, amounted to £l,OlO, making the total payment £2,010. CHARLES INGALL, Actuary. No. 39, King-street, Cheapside, London, December, 1863. THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON and GLOBK INSURANCE COMPANY. Offices-1, Dalo-street7 Liverpool; 7, Cornhill; and Charing-cross, London. The Invested Funds now amount to £3,401,055, the Fire Revenue to £836,816 and that of the Life to £259,039. The moderate rate s o f pr e mium, w ith a guaranteed fixed Bonus for the Life Policies of this Company, and their value as SPECIAL SECURITIES to third parties, render them particularly advantageous. Whole-world leave is granted on reasonable terms, and claims aro paid thirty days after admission. JOIIN ATKINS, Resident Secretary. THE GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE 1. ASSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1821. No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Subscribed Capital Two Millions. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE POLICIES which expire at CHRISTMAS must be Renewed within Fifteen Days at this Office, or with the Company's Agents throughout the Kingd om , o th erw ise they b ecome void. All Insurances now have the benefit of the Reduced Duty of Is. 6d. per cent. For Prospectus and other information apply to the Com pany's Agents, or to T. TALLEMACH, Secretary. A.D. 1720. 11 0Y AL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION. (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. Offices—ROYAL EXCHANGE, London. Branch Office-29, Pall Mall, S.W. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq Governor. JAMES STEWART 11loosoN, Esq Sub-• Governor. CHARLES JoHN 311ANNiNo, E5q....... Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Robert Barclay, Esq. John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Edward James Daniell, Esq. Willian Davidson, Esq. Lancelot William Dent, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq. Charles Hermann Goschen, Esq. Riversdalo Wm. Grenfell, Esq. Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Medical Referee, Sami William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. Egerton Hubbard, Esq. Nevile Lubbock, Esq. George Forbes Maleolmson, Esq. Lord Joseeline Win. Percy. Charles Robinson, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. Luel Solly, Esq., F.R.S. NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of FIRE PREMIUMS falling duo at Christmas will expire on the 9th of January. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on advantageous terms. The linty on Fire Assurances has been reduced to the uniform rate of ls. Gd. per cent, per annum. No charge is made by this Corpo:ation for Fire Policy or Stamp, however small the Assurance may be. F. 44 CUING STOCK.—No Extra Charge is made for the use of Steam Thrashing Machines. The Rever , ionary Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES has averaged nearly 2 per cent, per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may bo insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Aseured Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption under Royal Charter from the liabilities of part nership. The advantages of modern practice, with the secu rity of an Office whose resources have been tested by the experience of nearly a CENTURY AID A HALF. c ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROPFAT Pt ga4.E.LE, Secretary. _ • PR INT I N 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 envelope for reply. Address—The Manager, "Sun" Printing Offices, 8, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE ORPHAN OHILDREN are being maintained in tho ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed. CH.IRLES A. WALKER, Secretary. Me, 54, Oheapside, Lonlon, E.O ,I.A.IIIARIT AN FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN LI and CHILDREN, Lower Seymour-street, Portman square. The only free Hospital for dis-aces of women. 2,746 patients were treated last month without letters of recommendation. Subscriptions and donations are much needed, and will be received by Messrs. Ha tchard. Picca dilly; Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.; Messrs. Barclay, Coutts, Glyn, Ransom ; and by the Secretary. rIIE HOSPITAL for WOMEN, Soho-square. —Bankers : Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.; Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co.—The Committee APPEAL very earnestly for CONTRIBUTIONS. The Hospitahis now open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri days to out-patients who aro treated without letters of recommendation. HENRY B. INGRAM, Secretary. 3 3 . 0 111 6 7 ZjL-C. i ~ ~ ~\ ~ U ~:J`''~~fj / l'fl / 4 ) /.//7 . . • . , . . . . . . . // .~'~'~L INDIA OFFICE, DECEMBER 10, 1868. By order of the SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA in Council. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that it is intended to send to India annually a certain numbbr of YOUNG MEN, trained and educated for ultimate employment in the higher branches of the Department for the conserva tion and management of the Forests under the Govern ment of India. Eight young men will be selected in February next to go to India at the end of 1871. __. - The salary will be at first £3OO a year, and the salaries of the appointments in the three Presidencies range be tween that sum and £1,900 a year. Promotions will de pend upon efficiency, and the occurrence of vacancies in the higher grades. Applicants must be British subjects above 17 and under 25 years of age. As active habits and a strong constitution are most im portant, candidates will have to undergo a strict medical examination. They must send to the Revenue Department of the India Office, on or before the Bth of January, 1869, a statement of their names and parentage, with a certificate of birth, and of being posssesod of a competent knowledge of the following subjects, and they must be prepared o undergo an examination in them :- 1, English writing from dictation and English com position. 2. Arithmetic in all its branches. 3. Algebra, elementary principles, simple and quadratic equations, ratios and proportions, logarithms, arithmetical and geometrical progression. 4. Geometry (Ist, 2d, 3d, 4th, and 6th books of Euclid) and plane trigonometry. 5. Free hand and plan drawing. G. A good colloquial knowledge of either French or German, with the facility to read and translate the works of some classical writer in the language. A preference will be given to those candidates who obtain a certain proficiency in,- 1. Surveying and land measuring. 2. The elements of any of the following natural sciences : Mechanical and natural philosophy. Chemistry. Botany. Geology. If selected, they will ba further required to go through a course of training and instruction in Forestry and cog nate sciences for two years and a half, in France or Ger many, previous to their departure for India, and the Sec retary of State will contribute £5O at the end of each half year towards the expenses of their training, in the case of such candidates as are favourably reported on by their in structors. In addition to this, if it should be found prac ticable, the young men will be required to place them selves under an approved forester in Scotland for a few months before they go out to India. More detailed information as to these appointments may be had on application to the Under Secretary of State for India, India Office, Westminster. (Signed) HERMAN MERIVALE. pOLICE N 0 T I C E. STREET CROSSING SIGNALS. BRIDGE-STREET, NEW PALACE-YARD. CAUTION• STOP. The Semaphore Arms The Semaphore Arms lowered, and by Night with extended, awl by Night with a Green Light. with a Red Light. By the Signal " CAUTION," all persons in charge of Vehicles sod Horses are warned to pass over the Crossing with care, and due regard to the safety of Foot Passen gers. The Signal "STOP," will only be displayed when it is. necessary that Vehicles and Horses shall be actually stopped on each side of the Crossing, to allow the passage of Persons on Foot ; notice being thus given to all Per sons in charge of Vehicles and Horses to stop clear of the Crossing. RICHARD MAYNE, Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. Metropolitan Police Office, December 10, 1868. IFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms —1 of this year (1868) the National Lifeboat Institution contributed to the saving of 754 lives from various ship wrecks and 19 vessels from destruction. The Institution also expended £14,657 in the same period on its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting £2,090 for re wards. The Committee of the Institution earnestly appeal to the public for assistance to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on their 189 Lifeboat Establishments. Contributions will be thankfully received by the London and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London. R OYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, ROYAL INSURANCE. BUILDINGS, Lombard-street . , London, and Liverpool. EPITOME of ANNUAL REPORT for 1867. The " ROYAL" has never had a larger body of Constituents than now. FIRE BRANCH'. PREMIUMS in 1867 £460,553 boing a larger revenue than in any preceding year. LOSSES by Fire in 1867, £292,125 NET PROFITS, after paying all losses and ex penses £56,373 LIFE BRANCH. Annual Average of new business in 1865-64 £BOl,OOO Do. during previous Quinquennium £688,000 Amount added to Life Reserves in 1867 £128,583 LIFE PROPOSALS now effected will participate in the increased share of P ro fit s recently conceded to Policy holders. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. August, 1868. KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal street, Lincoln's-inn.—The Committee earnestly APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current ex penses. Assistance is urgently needed. F. ALFRED BEDWELL, Vice-Chairman. JAMES BLYTH, Secretary. FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN STITUTION. President—fey. °MN DALE. CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 18G8 are ear nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard street, E.C.; Francis Nicholls, Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C. E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W. TILE METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT INSTITUTION. President—His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON. Treasurers—The Right Hon. Russell Gurney, M.P., and Col. W. F. Grant. DONATIONS and SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly solicited, to enable the Board to meet the greatly increased expenditure of this old Charity. 240 adults are received at Walton ; 80 children at Mitcham and Hendon. Bankers—London Joint-Stock Bank, Pall-mall. CHARLES HOLMES, Secretary. Office, 32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly. J3RITISH - ORPHAN ASYLUM, Mackenzie-park, Slough (formerly at Clapham-rise). Instituted 1827. Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. For the gratuitous board, clothing, and education of destitute orphans from all parts of the British dominions, and of all denominations, whose parents were once in prosperous circumstances. One hundred and seventy-five orphans now in the In stitution ; ample room for about 30 more. Increased support indispensable, as this Charity is not endowed, and is in the greatest need of further pecuniary assistance. _ _ _ Subscribers and the public are invited to inspect the Institution, and judge as to the nature of the Charity and its peculiar claims. The last Report can be obtained on application to the Secretary. THOS. TILSON, Chairman. CHAS. LEE, M.A. AUBREY C. PRICE, MAI Hon. Seca ALFRED MACKENZ E, Secretary. Offices, 73, Cheapside, London, E.C. Bankers—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin -100 and Memo. 114,Twod, &OWN Idambator. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was establisbel at Bing's-cross in 1856. Patients aro admitted free. Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co., GO, Lombard. street, Messrs. Ransom and Bouverie, 1, Pall-mall.—Hon, See., Smith. Esa. GEO. REID, Sec. THE ROYAL HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the MUST, City-road.—The wards for in-patients are constantly full, those for ont-patients crowded daily. FUNDS greatly needed. CHARLES L. KEMP, Secretary. H OSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT, Golden-square, W. President-lEs Grace the Duke of GRAFTON. The Committee of Management earnestly APPEAL for FUNDS to help them to meet the heavy current expenses. Upwards of 18,000 poor persons have been relieved in the last six years. GEORGE WOOD, Secretary. THE ROYAL INFIRMARY f or DIS EASES of CHILDREN and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge- Upwards of 100 poor sick children aro relieved daily at this Hospital. The Committee most earnestly solicit Contributions, to enable them to continue the benefits of medical aid to those numerous poor suffering children, who are rendered so helpless by sickness and poverty. Bankers, Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard street; and by Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand. CHARLES J. F. RENTON, Secretary. Waterloo-bridge-road, S E. BRITISH HOME for INCURABLES, Clap ham-rise, Instituted in 1861. Patroness—H.R.H. the Princess of WALES. This Institution provides a home for life, with good nursing and skilled medical attendance, for persons over 20 years of age and above the pauper class, who are hope lessly afflicted with incurable disease. Pensions of £2O per annum are also granted. The Home was opened in September, 1863 ; 71 in patients and 106 annuitants have been elected. Elections in May and November. Forms of application may be ob tained from the Secretary. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are earnestly solicited. Bankers —Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard street, E.C. ; Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W. ED WD. WEAVER, Sec. Offices, 73, Cheapside, E.C. THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES are as follows : For Fallen Women. 28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road. stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke 13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington. town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green -205, Groat Portland• street. wich. For Young Girls in Danger. 27, Church-row, Hampstead. 9, Henstridgo-villas, St. John s-wood. St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill. Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover. Temporary Horne-85, Queen-street, Cheapside. In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee have under their charge three homes for servants of good charactel-, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless servants annually. The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to open another house for this pitiable class. The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book. The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I never road 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 banlsers aro Messrs. Barclay and Co. The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the benevolent. DANI 4. CODPER, Sec la Queen-§trett Cheapaide. • road. ~,~> r) a~ POPE ELCHANAN.-A JEWISH LEGEND BY S. BARING GOULD. (Abridged front Once a Year, the Christmas Number of Once a Week.) In the early part of the eleventh century there dwelt at Mainz, or Mayence, on the Rhine, a wise old rabbi, Schimon, or Simeon, haggadol bar-Isaac, bar-Abun, great in his knowledge of Talmudic rites and disquisitions, the favourite pupil of Raf Alph. Rabbi Simeon had an only child, a son, called Elchanan, a boy of singular beauty and of precocious wit. When the labours of the day were over, the rabbi loved to spend his evenings in instructing or sporting with his child. Listen to some of the maxims the old man taught his son —wise maxims gathered out of the Talmud: —" Be measured in speech, and take heed that thy words do not give occasion of error to another."—" Choose a teacher, gain a friend, and of all men think well."--" Courage is royalty uncrowned."—" If one man calls you an ass, go on your way and heed him not ; but if a second calls you the same, then look out for thistles."— "Modesty is man's most glorious ornament."—" The virtues of three sorts of men are famous even in Heaven —that of a young man who, living in a great city, preserves his simplicity ; that of a poor man who, in the midst of opportunities of fraud, preserves his integrity ; V at of a rich man, who gives abundant alms and says nothing about it." Sometimes the rabbi drew forth a chess-table, and he and his little son played together, and the father taught his boy the moves of the game, and how-to use prudence and foresight, and exercise thought and skill even in pas times. When they thus played, the house-mother looked on, smiling to see the rabbi withdraw his power, and pur posely move his pieces indiscreetly, so as to give Elchanan opportunities of checkmating him. On Sabbath day the rabbi and his wife were at the synagogue, and they left the child at home to the care of Margaret, a charwoman, whom they called in every Sab bath day to clean the house. Now Margaret was a pious Christian woman, and very zealous in her own belief. As she was much in the company of the child, she became passionately facrorhim. As she, week after week, saw how goodly was the child Elchanan, her heart yearned after him, that she might rescue him from Jewish dark. ness, and place him in Gospel light, set him in Christian freedom. Now, when a woman's heart and convictions run in the same groove, little room is given to common sense to correct them ; and, instead of weighing her purpose in the balance of justice, she deceived herself with the sophistry 4 her own heart. So, on this Sabbath of which lam telling, finding the house deserted by master and mistress, she caught up th'b laughing child in her arms, covered it with kisses, and fled with it. When the old couple returned from the synagogue, they found the door open ; they entered their house, and called Margaret, but there was no answer. " She has taken the boy forth for a stroll," said the rabbi. They waited for the return of the old woman ; but hour after hour slid by, and no Margaret returned. Then fear and grief overcame the parents, and they searched the house in vain. Then they hurried to the houses of their kinsmen to inquire whether Elchanan was there, but also in vain. Darkness came on, and the great city was buried in obscurity; but the patrolling watchmen lit upon the un happy parents wandering through the streets, bewailing their vanished child ; and, moved with compassion, they aided them in their search, but it proved wholly in vain. The Rabbi Simeon possessed a mirror, framed in silver ,• it had been m a d e un d er th e con j unct i on of powerful planets, with the aid of good angels invoked by the learned man, and of metals purified under the influence of their proper planets. This mirror had the power of shewing the rabbi, when he questioned it, what he desired to know. The question might only be asked at midnight—for then only had the mirror its magic property. But though he tried the mirror, it would not answer. In vain, again and again, did the rabbi question his glass; on the one subject of his son's fate it was silent. But what was hidden from Simeon, the father, we can reveal. Margaret had fled with the child from Mayence, along the Rhine bank, and bad not separated from him till she reached the famous Abbey of Lorch, and there she left him in the monastery church, asleep on the altar steps, having first left a little scrap of paper on the child's breast, to notify to those who should find him that he was unbaptised. Presently the abbot, in full vestments, entered, preceded by serving boys, and went towards the altar : but when the children saw a little lad asleep on the steps, they started aside, and the abbot paused, bent, lifted him up, looked attentively at the calm sleeping face of the little Jewish boy, and bore him into the convent, Then Margaret was glad. Years passed away, and the grief the parents had felt for their child's loss was chastened, but never was wholly obliterated. The anniversary of his abduction they observed in fasting, retirement, and tears. The rabbi was so old that he was but seldom able to teach in the school. As the rabbi walked about the streets, all men saluted him, of whatever creed they were, recognising in him one who was sanctified by age and affliction. Among those who most reverenced him was the bishop of the city, under whose mild sway the Jews had lived long in peace, and had prospered. But one day a bull came to Mayence from Rome, com manding the bishop to forbid within the principality all exercise of Jewish ceremonial, circumcisions, Sabbath keeping, and religious washings. The Hebrews were filled with dismay. The bishop would willingly have suffered them to follow their own rites, but the Papal brief was couched in such stern, uncompromising terms, that he felt there was no possible means of evading it. One way of escape was alone open. They must send a deputation to Rome to intercede with the Pope, and during the period he would not proceed with the execution of the orders. A deputation was chosen by the sorrowful Hebrews, and at the head of it was placed the Rabbi Simeon. The little party left Mayence, and the Jews in the city promised to expedite them with their prayers. After a toilsome journey, rendered slow by the feebleness of the aged Simeon, the deputation reached Rome, and sought out a cardinal who might introduce them to his Holiness. When the cardinal heard their object he was full of sur prise. " This is strange," said he,• "his Holi ness i s remar k a b le for his consideration for the Jews, and in this city th ey are treated with unexampled - kindness. Surely the Bishop of Mayence must have originated the plan of persecu tion., and must have urged the Pope to issue a brief to permit it." " Nay, not so," answered Simeon, falteringly ; " behold the brief itself ; our bishop is too good and merciful thus to_oppress an unhappy alien people." When the cardinal read the bull he was the more astonished. " You Jews of Mayence must have committed some grievous outrage to have thus incensed his Holiness." " Not so," again replied the old rabbi ; " our consciences are clear of any crime wilfully committed which might call down on us so dire a judgment." Then the cardinal was silent ; but promised to introduce the deputation to the Pope on the morrow. At the appointed time the elders of Mayence were intro. duced to the Lateran. They found the Pope seated at a chess-table, in white cassock and white skull cap, and his face was so gentle and beamed with such benevolence that the old men wondered and took heart. Then the Pope rose and said : " I will hear but one of your party, my friends ; let the eldest of you remain ; and in confidence and alone shall this matter be discussed between us." The Rabbi Simeon, therefore, remained, whilst the other ' Jews withdrew. Then the Pop e , looking about him, bade the ecclesiastics and officers in waiting to retire. Now, as soon as those twain were left alone face to face, the aged Simeon fell prostrate at the feet of the Pope, and his white hair was scattered over the white hem of the Papal garment. But the Holy Father suddenly, and with strange agitation, stooped and caught the old Jew up, and bade him seat himself, and not think to fall down at the feet of such an one as he. So the venerable man sat down on one side of the chess table and the Pope sat down on the other side. Thus seated they began to talk. Simeon pleaded the cause of his people. " I have heard ill reports of the Jews of Mayence," said the Pope ; "they have been speaking bitter and threatening words of the Christians, and there is fear lest they should rise and do some injury to those a m ong w h om they dwell." "Alas ! your Holiness," answered Simeon ; "idle and foolish young men, braggarts, and malcontents are to be found amongst Hebrews as amongst all people." " That is true," replied the Pope, looking into the old man's eyes ; " but have you not taught the young to be measured in speech, and take heed to their words, lest they give occasion of error to others ?' " " It is even so," said the rabbi, shaking his head; "but some men will never learn." "Ah !" interrupted the prelate, musingly ; " a wise proverb has it, 'lf one man calls you an ass, go on your way, and heed him not ; but if a second calls you the same, then look out for thistles.' Our young men now-a-days ignore the second as they ignored the first ;" and a smile played about his lips. " If your Holiness would but pass over the folly of our idle talkers ! No evil, you may be sure, was intended, Most offend with their lips. But because of idle words we should not indulge in revenge. " You speak boldly, old man !" said the Pope, sharply. " I am bold, your Holiness, because of the trouble of my people." " And I respect it," answered the successor of St. Peter ; " for courage is royalty uncrowned." The rabbi lifted his eyes, and looked with surprise at the great prelate before him. He saw that his lips twitched, and that his eyelids fluttered nervously. " I have he ar d o f you, o ld man, " cont i nue d the Pope ; " your name has r eac h e d even to t hi s i m perial and sacred city. There is a good proverb, The virtues of three sorts of men are famous even in heaven : that of a young man who, living in a great city, preserves his simplicity ; that of a poor man who, in the midst of opportunities of fraud, preserves his integrity ; that of a rich man, who gives abundant alms and says nothing about it.' Now you, venerable man, have been placed in these three positions, as is well known to me by report—simple, full of integrity, and abundant in alms, without boasting thereof, have you ever been." " Your Holiness is pleased to flatter." " No, no," answered the Pope ; and then rising and walking to the window, he muttered, `" Modesty is man's most glorious ornament."' After a few moments the Pope returned to his place, and taking up a chessman, said to the old rabbi, You play, I suppose ?" Simeon replied in the affirmative, somewhat surprised at the change of topic ; but ready to humour the man who held the fate of his people in his hands. They arranged their chess-men and played. " Check-mate," said the Pope. Instantly the old Jew sprang to his feet, convulsed with agitation, and striving to articulate a word, but unable. " Why are you, so old and wise a man, thus disturbed at the loss of a game ?" asked the Holy Father. For some moments the trembling old man could not speak. At length, laying his thin wrinkled hand on the shoulder of the Pope, the venerable rabbi faltered forth— " That move—that move ! I taught it to my boy—to Elchanan—years—years ago. It is known to no other." Then the Pope rose, and the tear s b ro ke in a stream from his eye s ; and when the clergy and officers, an hour after, wondering at the long audience, entered the room, they found father and son locked in each other's embrace, and Christian and Jewish tears mingled in a common stream. So the law of Moses and the law of Christ kissed, and were recouciled. THE WELLINGTON, 51, St. James's-street, S.W. DINNER from the joint, with vegetable, bread, cteese, and attendance, 2s. SET DINNER, including soup, fish, joints, and sweets, with attendance, as. The WELLINGTON DINNER, a most recherché dinner, with dessert and attendance, ss. A comfortable SMOKING ROOM, and the best BILLIARD BOOM in London. THE ASSOCIATION for th e WELFARE o f the BLIND, 210, Oxford-street, and 127, Euston-road. Patroness—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN. This Institution affords employment in various ways to 172 blind men and women. Pensions to various amounts are granted to the blind who cannot earn their own living. 500 blind men and women aro applying for help, which cannot be given for WANT of FUNDS. Contributions will be thankfully received by the Secre tary, Rev. C. B. REID, M.A.