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A FTER Covent-garden Opera—EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-lane Theatre .EVANS' to SUP. After Haymarket Theatre EVANS' to SUP, After Adelphi Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Olympia Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Stranii Theatre After New Royalty Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After St. James's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Prince of Wales' Cheatre EVANS' to SUP. Leaden Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Eight. N o . 23,639. MAISON DOREE, THE NOW FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT AND LADY CHATTERTON'S NEW NOVEL. On Friday, March 20, in 3 vols., COUNTRY COTERIES. By LADY CHATTERTON. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street LUNCHEON BAR, GLASSHOUSE-STREET (One door from Regent-street), CUISINE FRANCAISE, &c. High-class Wines at wholesale prices. Spirits and Beers, we. Private room for Parties. HAMPERS PREPARED AND RENT OFF TO ORDER. Terms, CASH. On and after MONDAY, Dec. 9, SUPPERS from Nine P.m. to One a.m. _ _ Manager, CHARLES CASTLE. KINAHAN'S LL. WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 1865. This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, aril very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., 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- LL Whisky." f .............._...._............._ ....._ .......... I. R . NEWSPAPER REG Y . 1 i 8 6 • • -.. . . / _......... 9"°' ---........-------...--..7. ....."......- iRECEIVE I MA Y 1 J ..,'' ~.,'-.j/: 8. 1 , •. . . T ~...___- . - „ ---'..-''-'-.- _ - " •...—_________ I . ------_ _ . _ • .......- ~ ~ . , ... • ~., . ~...., ' .. •--N.i, - /--.. - I, , ."' / 7-.7'."-- c l-- ° 4, et ....15' ';' 447 . 4151P • : • - te - r - E- . . . • - ~..., ... k , v con - bet 4, . i fi.404. , 1 /4)) ~.:7 ;. ...„.1,.....4. 1 .• , ...4. - {..54 . 11:.:7. .. , ~.,. , , ''.. • ue --_,_.., ..,Z, ~- ) ~,,',, / t'; . ( i , 1 X 1 _ mik. j.,....4 1:140k ~. ... . ....,, ~,%. icor * ...4P • ... :„.. ,1 ,... ...,,.: _Tr t. .1.V .H ...1 . . , v. 4 ' ..1.) . ~.!.. ' ...... q , .. a ~. ..._., .-- - :a... - , k. , ~„ --, .1. 4 .___ \ , pt # i ...r.-e _-----....„ 1 le --- ~ I / A. ._ 4- 4'Ve '''' a 7) .., ~ Cia' 2 ft% ••;1 ' -',•11,,•, ~.tt.....P --- I C4 ... , . . ~,c5 - • -,ze. - - P.- .P. , 41010. - •DRarr. . at -..... w -N., , it. r. \ ,_ 444 ....*.ve:25 .7 ' ,t- . • . 7 WESTON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey. In consequence of the great Success of Mr. A. G. VA limes new Songs he is re-engaged; DE ALBERT'S pleasing Divertisse ment; LISKA.RD, the versatile Musical Genius; the astonishing SICKEN FAMILY; Miss LOUISE; Mr. W. WArrE, the greatest Transformation Dancer in the World (from the Lyceum) ; SIDNEY FRANKS, Comique ; Signor DONTI, the great One Leg Dancer (their first appearance here). ...Bishop's and Hatton's celebrated Glees, by Miss TREMAINE, Miss Brougham, R. Lascelles, T. Godden, and Mr. P. Core. Full Orchestra, which will perform the popular Overtures of the Great Masters. Miss Agnes Wright, the new Serio-Comic, on Monday, 23d. The whole under the direction of Mr. P. CORRL • 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; Sams', St, James's; and all other acknowledged Libraries; also at the Box-office at the Hall from 10 until four o'clock. Special Notice.- J. G. Forde, linss Smithson, Jolly Nash, Hairy and Kattie King, and Oliver's Christy Minstrels, on Easter Monday. BLONDIN BLONDIN! ! BLONDIN !! 1 CANTERBURY HALL—SoIe Proprietor, W. HOLLAND.—BLONDIN a genuine Success.— RE ENGAGEMENT until further notice of the great and only ELONDIN, the Hero of Niagara. Deafening Applause at the wonderful performance on the HIGH ROPE at Nine o'clock, and the New Indian Ballet, with M. Blondin as JACK°, the " Monkey," at Ten o'clock. A host of talent , including the great VANCE, Annie Adams, Jester (the Talking Hand), Gerrards, Leroni, Louis Austen, Fred. Evans and his Troupe of Pantomimists. The suberb Crystal Saloon, the most gorgeous Saloon in England, with 1,600 feet of additional Looking - glass, by W. S. Londoi-road. No advance in prices. Stalls and Crystal Saloon, ls.; Area and Balcony, 6d. Open at Seven, commence at Half-past. 3/pDAME I USSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. Recent PORTRAIT MODELS of EARL DERBY and the Bight Hon. B. DISRAELI. Open from 11 in the morning till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p m. Admission, ls.; children under 10, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. A RGYLL ROOMS, WINDATTIT,-STREET, Piccadilly Sole Proprietor, Mr R. R. IhONELL. L This magnificent Terpsichorean and Musical Establishment, by been Re-decorated in the highest style of Italian art "Y Messrs. Rubardt and other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN for the AUTUMN SEASON. Solo Euphonion. Signor Moses.. Solo Cornet, M. Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti. Doors open at hall-past 8. • Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, 2s. STOOPING HABITS, ROUND SHOULDERS, PIGEON CHESTS and other Deformities, are pre vented and cured by wearing CHANDLER'S IMPROVED RYGIENIC CREST-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 for assisting the gro wth, p romotin g health and symmetry of figure, superseding the use of brace s and stays. Price from 10s. 6d. each.-66, Berners street, Oxford-street, W. Illustrated circulars forwarded. FURNISHED HOUSES, from £ 2 2 s. to £ 2O per Week.—D. S. HUMPEIBIES his at all times a Number of Firm-class RE WES to be LET. furnished 9r unfurnished. or sold, more particularly in the neizhbour hoods of Sydenham. Upper Sorwool. Forest-hill. and viol nEtT—Partioulars may be had at the Office, Printing House square. ROUSES and A.PARr AEN rs WA.NT rE D. and to be LET or SOLD. SUSI 1141 SS KS for DiSP,)SA.I., PROPERTY, FREEHOLD or LEASEHOLD. D. T. HUAPHRIKS has continual applications for all descriptions of PRJPERTY which will pay food interest .„,lor ntnphrte outlay. Houses out of rep sir not objected to. T. D. us can at all times find customers tor an descrip tions of businesses. Hotels, public bolts .8, (to , sold and transterrid. Apply, D. T. Humphries, Estate Agent, Print ing House-square. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedilyproduces whiskers and thickens hair. Price 3s. Gd., s s. 6d., and 10s. 6d.; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. " Tale of a Hair," 6d. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured ,„ in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S C HIROPO. hours, preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few !'ours, removing the very root. Pries 4s. ; sent by post for 60 stamps. 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. POWELL'S BALSAM OF ANISEED, for COUGHS, COLDS, ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, Sore Throat, Difficulty of Breathing, and all similar affec tions of the Respiratory Organs. Sold by all Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the World. In Bottles only, price 18.111, 2s. 3d., and 11s. each. Established nearly half a century. SATISFACTORY LETTER. 5, Wood-street, Millbank, Westminster, October 5, 1867. Sir,—Some months back I bad an attack of Bronchitii, 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 your obedient ser vant, SAMUEL DEAR, Dean's Verger, Westminster Abbey. To Mr. Powell. Ask for POWELL'S BALSAM of ANISEED. Face Powder, ls. hAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London. ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID 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. aREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— •-ol ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect Colour immediately it is used. It is permanent, and per fectly natural in effect. Prices 3 s. 6 d., s s. 6 d., and 10 s. °d.; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps; and all Chemists. _ _ _ _ RUPTURES. —BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 180. 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—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi site resisting power is supplied by the bloc-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- Lot fail to fit, forwardel 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. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT PLASTIC STOCKINGS , KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d. UAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPIL i.TORY re- Moves superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms, Without effect to the skin. Price 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. ; sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—Had of all Chemists. Skin Tonic, ss. 6d. IF)IMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, S allowness, Stc. 2s. 9d. and 7s. 6d.; or post for 40 and 100 stamps. —ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. 6d. lIAIR 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 mean s used for improv ing the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Hol "3/11, London. Had of all booksellers. HEALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. 1)IJ BARRY'S delicate health -restoring Invalids' and Infanta' Food. TAT, REVALEN T A ARABICA B al'es 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 Host disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily and e ffectually indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con alueption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric de rangements, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, n ervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, r heumatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, nen f;algia, irrtability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, e artburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramp., spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at e pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is ormost digestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable invalids and infants in all complaints. htPoirr.orr CAUTION.—Beware of the many unsavoury a lld more than slopy imitations to which, without autho rity, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. aenceforth none will doubt the valuable properties of 1. ' 4 Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' a L tid Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it e already received from invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holi. lies the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. p e quote from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No. `4 3 . 0 41.3):—“R0me, July 21st, 1866.—The health of the ' l ; l 3' Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all tiler remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du T r rY's Revalenta Arabica Food, of 'which he consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly sneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot P r aise this excellent food too highly." Cure No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven ?lam' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervous rie, irritability, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad ;; I gestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable er l'ells agitation. Cure N 0.78, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord t uart de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Water f°rd:—" I have derived much benefit from your excellent VI. - -STUART DE DECIES, Dromana, Cappoquin, County aterford." f rn e ure No. 49,832. Of fifty years' indescribable agony th4 41 , (1 3 - epepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, o f T t ueecy, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme p er "neuess, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner ells fancies. Cure No. 56 814 —Mr Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two n.r a , • • diarrhoea. 21b° Food is sold in Canis ters, at ls. lid. ; 11b., 2s. 9d. ; e a :z 414 . 6d. ; 121 b., 225. ; 241 b., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b Bage free on receipt of Post-office Order b 1 4' 4 . 1 DUBAHRY and Co. 77, Regent-s toieet, London; at Fortnum and Mason's,kand sold. by respectable ° `wers and Clunniata.:l IROYAL 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, KG. 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 Clovernors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the 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 premises of this hospital aro 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. Coiitts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co, ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; and:at t the Hospital, from 10 till 5. Just published, price Is. Gd., by post ls. Bd., the Second Edition, with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks, REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch. Public Opinion, end other journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted with this edition. A.NGLO - AMERICAN TIMES, AN INTERNATIONAL NE ffSPAPE Devoted to American Intelligence, ENLARGED to 24 rAGEi. Reports of Con tress, Personal, Financial, Mining, Railroad, dm Members of Parliament, Commercial Men, and those having an interest in the United States, will lin I this newspaper of use. Published every SATURDAY MORNING, price 4d. 15, Catherine-street. Strand. Dui, 'VILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. " V.R." IRISH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.O Established 1808. Quotations on application. VIANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per- JAL fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107 , Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. ]IEETH PAINLESSLY STOPPED, 'with permanent enamel cement of the exact natural colour, guaranteed not to turn black or make the teeth look unsightly. MR. WEBB, DENTIST, • 27, NEW BOND-STREET, Many years with Mr. ESKELL, of 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street. DISCOVERY OF GUNPOWDER (TEA.)..... Large quantities of the very finest descriptions have been discovered in Great St. Helen's, at the Warehouses of the " EAST. INDIA TEA COMPANY," --• 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, ls. 10d. Tea for the million, ls. ld. Price Lists post free on application at 9, Great St. Helen's Church-yard, Bishopsgate-street. GEOLOGY. -KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. PROFESSOR TENANT, F.G.S., COMM ENO ED A COURSE of LEaruit ES 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-Book, 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 TVIR. 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 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 that are loose, and is gua ranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in masti cation. 52, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN ..1.4 EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately re lieving coughs, cold., confirmed cases of asthma, and inci pient consumption. It frequently , cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, and admirably allays the ticking which piovokes frequent coughing. In approach ing consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca tion, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 131 d., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asth matic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. RI N 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 envelope for reply. Address—The Manager, " Sun" Printing Offices 8, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was established at King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted free. Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co., 60, Lombard street, Messrs. Ransom and Bouverie, 1, Pall-mall—Hon. See., F. Smith, Esq. GEO. REID, Sec. FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN STITUTION. President—Rev. 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, EC.; Francis Nicholls, ksq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C. E. W. THOMAS, Sec., 200, Euston-road, NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849 . Enlarged 1861 Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, E.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 ago, to obtain suitable situations for them. The Committee earnestly appeal for supp ort. The Charity is entirely sustained by Treasurer, and subscriptions. H KINGSCOTE, TTPSSUTOI W. H. WARWICK, Secretary. Office, 121, Pall-mall, SiVir a-day was at appeared in ations. :onsiderable ad a decline Sales have 15 for new 01, and gold rpool prices .need mate and barley Feb. 28. )od specula spot, oil the tdard white. ving are the c., or ls. 3d. of turpen- ;2s. per gad. £66 Bs. for lon. Tallow .ondon. rce.) t quiet and 7 to $2 50. iBe. Barley icco in fair pork quiet, iere was no ioulders and a at 113 to Lard active at 20c for tras $8 62} No. 1, and ; new is Id at 82 to to 55l i c for 1e ; sales at 8 for No. 2, moderately me mess in $lB. Lard 10c loose ; ides 131 to was barely advance of $lO 75 to r ; common cattle more As to-day-- . corn, 8,000 ;hipments— corn, 3,600 unchanged. middling at t unchanged ;2 70. Corn Rye firmer; stiff. Mess at Keokuk oulders ; 12 13c for clear ; shoulders sides 14 to . d firm and 15 to 151-0. L-day-1,20 0 L; 1,800 do. s to medium 25 to $8 75• •n, 78 to 85c. 30. Lard, alders, llfc ; ides, 140. lc; receipts r : superfine firm : clear 141 to 141. 0, to 90e. nd steady; is 5,756 do., 155. Neal Gold 141 t• 11, e, pr i me to our firmer; to $l4 50. 84c. Bacon •rive at 13 0 , Lard ad- Inticipation o ;th, and We Still, ex e's trade as transactions and holders she advance. ! extra s 32 * about s'2 a i quot,ationg, the large Aping List, y a pretty g pr i ce s for tons N os ' 35 and $ 33 Lad already Allentown , brands. I t , f the Penn' isposed of, r advanced e h Ding. T- L at present a yar . We terms no Chere is n° being still Ur. Janie! Statistics 0' xence to the hoped 141.' vous, -t ra ly agg ravti" but perfect o L rabica Fo ° A' n co nsidere - asthma, C° p. trio derails; nervoushq its, colds, O i l, , gout, hoP, s , 31e epleSshe", lit y, drop at guancY clf the ch houl dors, _7 O Du Bar" f 'he health and oiling ) Du Bars s a plate ..1 ly benell.to to du .nal tl raber W e s eased lu h .; deafness' d eutenarl, t ,„ d 83/ " nervousx ,- i s i sickness •8 of the mat'oi Inch, Witl i T y attacheu•o; • 5 lbs• 2C0., ~° : ;y; , Pices...„,,e A . 150, and emists. =_ ,_ .. ...._ .. ......../.... e° Esse, tl''' le rife of J. ,ad oast , Ili° )per 1 31.°°j er. relit city Ob is r od of the D- O;111 Oug L A.ll St 01; - f soi 4 t L., g eo rt, 9 0un n iiSt nighla- Ow iibvil, ur t, , Elm-c° rrace, °id° a 2il•Fildle4 Of 70; Vea city, ao NDi t— i it 11 ce, THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1868. THE MORTON TESTIMONIAL. 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Mr. GREGORY, admitting the general accuracy of Lord Mayo's picture of the progressive condition of Ire land, and allowing that Fenianism was confined to one part of the country, and was utterly impracticable in its aims, maintained that there was much discontent afloat which ought to be dealt with immediately; and it ought to be dealt with as nearly as possible in the same spirit as an Irish Parliament .would handle it in. On the land question, stability of tenure was the first thing to be ob tained, and if Mr. Bright's plan could be accompanied by some provision against subdivision it might confer great benefits on Ireland. On the question of education, reply ing to Mr. Horsman's remarks, he denied that the Roman Catholic laity required protection against their hierarchy, and showed that in asking for denominational edu cation, primary and university, they required no more than was claimed by Protestants. The first objections to the mixed system of education came from the Protestant clergy, and though the Roman Catholic bishops had condemned the principle on which the Queen's Colleges were based, they had not car ried their opposition to greater length. But at the bottom of all Irish difficulties lay the State Church, and, speaking as a Protestant, he recommended Mr. Bright's scheme to the consideration of Protestants. Personally be was in favour of the endowment of the three denominations in Ireland ; but he acknowledged that public opinion was against endowments. Simply to sweep away the Church would be an unstatesmanlike solution, and must leave much bitterness and animosity behind. Looking to the great difficulties which beset the question, its settlement must be attained by a compromise, and one item of that compromise ought to be the conveyance to each denomina tion of a lump sum, with a condition in the case of Roman Catholics that a part of it should be applied to the purchase of glebe lands and manses. He ex horted the enemies of the Church to be content with dis-establishment, and avowed his wish that the question should be deferred until the new Par liament, which would deal with it on a larger basis. l A a t t o o n n s g w o i t for improvements, and an improved administration of rail thhe r therm e e r d o i e p s e he m suggested o a d n i s r e c of t dippubliclomatic nreey ways. _ _ Mr. CONOLLY augured; much good from the practical turn of the debate, and while maintaining that Irish Pro testants were not indisposed to a calm and just settle ment of the Church question, intimated that he should oppose Lord Mayo's Land Bill if it was like that of last year. _ As Mr. Conolly sat down more than a score members sprang up to continue the debate in all parts of the house, but chiefly on the Liberal benches, and the Speaker called on Mr. W. H. GL ADSTONE, who, in a very successful maiden speech, argued that the circumstances of Ireland required a bolder treatment than the Ministerial pro gramme. Fenianism, he held, was not so dangerous as the subdued and smothered feelings of discontent, which prevailed extensively, and on which it fed. The cause of this discontent he defined to be the illiberal policy we had pursued towards the Irish people, both as cultivators of the soil and as Roman Catholics. He advocated a system of certain and liberal compensation for improvements, and this he would substitute for the tenant-right custom which we did not altogether approve. Deeply regretting that the Government had no policy in regard to the Church, he insisted that no time should be lost by Parlia ment in pronouncing for the principle of religious equality, and he combatted the plea that to disestablish the Irish Church would strike a blow at the English Church, show ing in how many circumstances the two differed. The one was an insult to the vast majority of the population, while the other was in entire accordance with the feelings of the people among whom it was established. On the question of education, though he should have preferred a fusing of all educational establishments into one Uni versity, he did not disapprove the plan of the Government to charter a Catholic University. Lord CASTLEROSSE complained of the timidity of the Government in not dealing with the Church. He ex pressed a strong opinion in favour of a measure for com pensation to tenants, and predicted that Parliament would not consent to the plan of a Catholic University. The discussion was continued on the same side by Mr. De la, Poer and Mr. Synan ; by Colonel Bruen, who argued against the establishment of fixity of tenure by law, and approved the endowment of a Catholic Uni versity ; and by Mr. Kendall, who justified the course of the Government on the three points—Land, Church, and Education. Mr. GLADSTONE, who rose just before ten o'clock, and was loudly cheered by the Opposition, pointed out that, numerous as had been the blots hit in the Ministe rial programme, their greatest error of all was that they had failed to realise the grave fact that we had reached a crisis in the Irish question. Ireland had an account with this country which had endured for centuries, and in the opinion of every enlightened nation in the world, much as wo had done, we had not done enough to place ourselves in the right. The most recent proof of this failure of the Government to grasp the gravity of the occasion was Sir Stafford Northcote's speech, for the impartiality of the Executive Government, to which he trusted, was not suf ficient to to counterbalance the injurious effect of unjust laws. Time, his second palliative, had been tried some centuries, and of the third palliative—justice —he remarked that Sir Stafford's idea of it included the maintenance of the Irish Church. Admitting that Lord Mayo's account of the state of Ireland was, on the whole accurate, he argued that the co-existence of material progress with widespread discontent was a proof that some unsatisfied necessity still existed, and in enforcing the gravity of the political crisis he pointed to the depletion of Ireland by emigration, the repeated suspension of the Habeas Corpus, and the invasion of England by Fenianism. Mr. Gladstone next discussed at length the adequacy of the Government policy to the exigencies of the case under six heads, viz. :—Parliamentary Reform, the Re peal of the Ecclesiastical Titles Act, Railways, Education, Land, and the Church. The first three he dismissed very briefly, and on the question of University education he remarked that the Roman Catholics had a real grievance. Ho defended the action of Lord .Russell's Government in 1866 on this subject, and in discussing Lord Mayo's sug gestion ha insisted, with much emphasis, that Parliament had never voluntarily undertaken the support of denomi national Universities and schools ; but, on the contrary, of late years it had been sedulously endeavouring to get rid of all votes of a purely denominational character. Mr. Disraeli must know as well as any one that such a scheme as this could not be carried into effect ; it was a mere idea in fact, which in reality was dead before it had lived; and in the absence of any information as to the views of the Roman Catholic bishops it might be described as another "leap in the dark." But it was impossible to give a final opinion on the University question until the view of Par liament on the Irish Church was ascertained, for if a sweeping :policy were adopted it would bo necessary to consider how far Trinity College could be made :avail able. On the land question Mr. Gladstone assorted that the real grievance of the Irish people had been acknowledged by the: Devon Commission, which had recommended a measure of compensation for im provements. A just land law he had laid down to be one under which, in the absence of any contract between land lord and tenant, the improvements effected by the tenant should be his property, and he preferred to trust rather to to the operation of such a security than to any measure for fixity of tenure. Commenting on Mr. Bright's plan, he pointed out some difficulties to it ; he suggested that if the Government took possession of the Irish Church property, the experiment could be tried there. Passing to the Church question, Mr. Gladstone congratulated the House on the rapid advance of public opinion, as shown, perhaps, more forcibly in the defence of the Church than in the attack. After condemning strenuously Lord Mayo's hint at an in crease in the Regium Donum and a subsidy to the . Roman Catholics from the Consolidated Fund, and ridiculing the Government pleas for delay, he announced, amid loud cheers from the Opposition, his opinion that the Church, as a State Church, must cease to exist. Religious equality must be established, difficult though the operation might be; but he decidedly condemned the principle of bringing the Church by grants up other denominations to the level of from the Consolidated Fund, and the plan for redividing her revenues among the clergy of different denominations. Those plans had long passed the point of practical possi bility. On the whole, he agreed very much w ith Mr. Bright, s Mr.mode l o a f , e u ff i r e e c I i ntog thwiistghrderaatwopehriastiomn.otiollne, rbecuotmbineenindteid mated that unless Mr. Disraeli's speech differed altogether from the speeches of his colleagues, it would be the duty of the Opposition to ask a decided opinion from t he house on this question ; and it must not be a mere empty decla ration, but it must be attended by some practical step which would show the Irish people that Parliament was now in earnest. Mr. DISRAELI, who was loudly cheered, commenced by ironically bewailing the unhappy fate which made the commencement of his Ministerial career coincident with the imperious necessity of immediately rattling an account seven centuries old. Examining the elements of the Irish crisis, as stated by Mr. Gladstone, ho showed that all of them had existed while he was in office, and that no at tempt had been made to deal with thorn. Commencing with the University project, ho defended the Ministerial programme in detail. The object of the proposed charter was to extend to the Irish Roman Catholics the opportu nity they had long desired of giving their children the benefits of a higher education under the influence of their own priesthood, and the sarcasms of Mr. ilorsman that it FORAGE, for the use of her Majesty's Land Forces, stationed in the following places, from Ist May to 31st October, 1868 : LONDON DlSTRlCT—Commissariat Office, 109, Vic toiia-street, London, S.W. 1. Enfield 2. Hampton Court 3. Hounslow and Kneller Hall 4. Hyde Park, Kensington, Regent's Park, & Horse Guards 5. Sandhurst 6. Windsor Jommissariat Office, Barrack , Manchester. 9. Newcastle-on-Tyne 10. Northampton 11. Preston 12. Sheffield 13. Weodon 14. York 15. Manchester NORTHERN DISTRICT—( street, Hu'me ; 1. Ashton-under-Lyne 2. Birmingham 3. Bradford 4. Burnley 5. Bury 6. Coventry 7. Leeds 8. 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The Duko of RICHMOND moved the second reading of this bill, which was for the purpose of giving extension of time in the construction of railways. It would enable the Board of Trade to extend the time of making a railway for two years, and he (the noble duke) believed chat it would be found to act beneficially not only to the railways but to the public and the owners of land. The 'Duke of CLEVELAND said that, supposing that the company thought fit to abandon the line, what would be the course pursued. The Duke of RICHMOND remarked that the bill was not for an abandonment, but for an extension of time if it was passed. .SSION (ORDERS IN EltcmusEtshelnArseiaidwaAseLcocnodxttimlme COUNCIL) BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the third reading of this bill, and said that the Judicial Committee ha€t thought that it was their duty to inform her Majesty that the two orders in council did not meet the exigencies of the changes which occurred from time to time in ecclesiastical pro perty, therefore this bill was introduced. The bill was then read a third time and passed. The hcuse then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS —LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. COVENTRY ELECTION PETITION. The Commission appointed to try the merits of the petition against the last return for Coventry reported that they were of opinion that Mr. Jackson was unduly elected, on the ground that bribery had been committed by his agents. THE SPEECHES OP THE REVS. MR. FERRARS AND MR. LAVELLE. In reply to Mr. COGAN and Mr. CAvENDISH BENTINCK, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND said his attention had been called to the speeches of the two rev. gentlemen mentioned. The speech of Mr. Ferrars was delivered at a Protestant Defence Association meeting, and although ho was of opinion that the speech in ques tion, was of a very violent character, it was in fact no violation of the law, and therefore no prosecution was in tended to be taken. The other speech was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Lavelle at a dinner given to that gentleman in Dublin, on which occasion the room was decorated with the namos of 3Pllanus, Meagher, Wolf Tone, Fitzgerald, and O'Brien, persons convicted of treason. He felt that the speech was a most mischievous one, yet it was not prudent to institute criminal proceed ings against the rev, gentleman at the present moment. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. Captain VIVIAN asked the Chancellorof the Exchequer whether the estimate of the probable expenditure on ac count of the Abyssinian expedition, which was presented to the house in N ovem b er last, was lik e ly to be exceeded ; and if so, whether he was prepared to say to what extent, and what were the circumstances which account for the same ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was usual for hon. members to wait until the financial stato meht or budget was brought before the housa to ascertain the result of certain estimates, because it was highly inconvenient for the public service to have the information got by piecemeal from the Go vernment by means of questions put across the table. However, he would answer the question on the present occasion, because the public mind had been made uneasy by the publication of certain statements in the newspapers with respect to the great expenditure the country would be called upon to make on account of the expedition in Abyssinia. His noble friend in November last stated that, in the event of the expedition lasting until the end of April, the amount required from the Consolidated Fund would be three and a half millions or four millions of money. From the best information he could obtain upon the subject ho felt he was quite correct in saying that down to the present time the expenses would be covered by the lo west of those two amounts. (Hear, hear.) THE STATE OF IRELAND-THE ADJOURNED DEBATE. The adjourned debate on the state of Ireland was re sumed this evening by Mr. MONSELL, who commenced by congratulating the hon. member for Cork upon the ability with which he had brought the motion forward, and the interest it had occasioned not only in that house but throughout the coun try. He then went on to refer to the state and condition of the people of Ireland, and said there could be no question that they had improved in education , and the result of that was, that as a people they had become more sensitive and more difficult to govern except upon the principle of justice. (Hear, hear.) They might make all the efforts they could to further improve education in Ire-. laud, but until they made the University of Dublin a national institution they would fail. (Hear, hoar.) Having touched upon the land question, he commented upon that part of the question which it had been decided not to interfere with by legislation, and in the course of his remarks the hon. gentleman said it would be impossible for any Government to improve the condition of Ireland until the house had decided the great question which so affected the well being and tranquillity of that country—namely, the question of the maintenance of the Established Church in Ireland. The great disturbing element in Ireland was the want of religious equality, and when that was brought about in that country, the Irish people would support the national institutions quite as loyally and ener getically as either the English or the Scotch. (Hear.) lie put it to the house whether it was wise at this particular period to carry ou a religious warfare. Lot them fully consider the question of the Established Church in Ireland, and to obtain tranquillity let them at once place it on a footing of equality. It was the last link of the chain of conquest they were called upon to break, and as the last portion of an ascent was always the most difficult, so led urged the Govern ment to go onward —they would be sustained by the strong arm of justice, and the great reward for all exertion —a reward which a statesman would most truly value— would be the stability of peace in Ireland. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BUTLER JOHNSTONE next addressed the house. He condemned the policy of the Government to wards Ireland. He denied it was what the First Lord of the Treasury had stated it to be, viz., a truly liberal ~_ ,7 •''' -- Y G /- PRICE.... 4cl. STAMPED td. was meant to conciliate Ultranlontanism was absurd, as he show ed by a recapitulation of the facts relating to the Queen's College, which Mr. Horsman, he said, had tetally misrepre sented. He vindicated next the land policy of the Govern ment, premising that in this and all otherpoiuts the Govern ment had proposed, not that which was theoretically per fect, but which was practical and practicable. They had picked out all those points on which there was a genera agreement that legislation was possible, while they had referred to a Commission those points only which were not ripe for decision, and he characterised the assertion that the object of the Commission was delay as "the lees and refuse of factious insinuation." Passing to the Church question, and admitting that the Irish Church was not in the position ho should wish to see her, having in her com munion the majority of the people, Mr. Disraeli discussed and defended the principle of ecclesiastical endowments. Ho denied that the spirit of the age was opposed to en dowments, as had been laid down by Mr. Bright, who, with the aid of the philosophers, bad apparently converted Mr. Gladstone to the same opinion. He warned the house that it was not the comparatively limited issue of the Irish Church, it was the principle of ecclesiastical endowments, an entire revolution in the national habit and character, which was at stake. Drawing from the Ministerial benches loud and continuous cheering, he denied the moral competence of the house to decide that issue with out an appeal to the country. It was a question which the country alone could decide. For thirty years the Liberal party had been in power, but what bad they done to prepare the pablic mind for such a revolution? This Parliament, he held, ought not to decide it ; it ought to be reserved for the new and enlarged constituencies. Being personally in favour of ecclesiastical endowments, he strongly objected to the destruction of the Irish Church. The violence and confiscation with which it must be ac companied would be a great detriment to Ireland, where there had already been violence and confiscation enough ; but he reserved to himself the right of considering the labours of the Commission now sitting, and at the same time he expressed a decided opinion that the moment had arrived when there must be a considerable change in the condition of the unendowed clergy of Ireland which would elevate their influence. By this he did not mean what was vulgarly called "paying the priests," making them the stipendiaries of the State, of which ho strongly disap proved. Referring to his oft-quoted speech of 1841, he maintained that, though expressed perhaps with tho heed less rhetoric which appeared to be the appanage of all who sat below the gangway, the sentiment of it was right, and he concluded by avowing his belief that the Minis terial programme was the commencement of a new policy for Ireland. The motion and amendment were withdrawn, and the debate came to a close. In committee several supplemental votes in the Civil Service Estimates were agreed to. Some other business was disposed of, and the House adjourned at five minutes to two o'clock. IsIEWSPAPER 14_ THE - IBM CIItTR . = In connecti on w ith the debate on Irelan r t . o Y .stated that durin g th e ex i s t ence o f t h e PalmeAllon-Blisell S Administration the question of Ireland and the Irish Church was twice brought forward by Mr. Dillwyn—on the 19th May, 1863, and on the 28th March, 1865. On both occasions he was met by the strenuous opposition of the Whig Government, who succeeded in preventing any vote being taken upon them. In the debate on the last occasion Sir George Grey, the Whig Home Secretary, said : " Her Majesty's Government deem it their duty not to give their assent to the resolution proposed." Later in the debate ?.[r. Gladstone, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, said, against the expediency of Mr. Dillwyn's motion : " The first question for a Govern ment is whether what they can do will tend to the good of the people over whose interests they are in an especial manner appointed to watch. The answer to that question must govern their conduct, and it will not do for a Govern ment to shape their conduct according to anything ex traneous to that answer. If they could see their way to the attainment of a satisfactory end it would be their duty to grapple with all the difficulties of the case. It would be their duty to consider—whether surplus or no surplus— what obligations of the Act of Union remain to be ful filled, and how they ought to be performed. It would be their duty to consider whether, in the event of any change —any modification in the Established Church, the pro perty of the Church ought to be applied in one way or another. But it is not their duty to consider these ques tions at all—it is not their duty to propagate one opinion or another on this subject, unless they see their way by casting their influence into the scale to bring about a state of things in consonance with the general principles of jus tice, the welfare of the whole community, and particularly with the feelings and happiness of the people of Ireland. The dictates of propriety and good sense must govern - the proceedings of any Administration which means to do its duty to the country. These principles must govern us on this occasion, whether or not we may be able to deny the proposition of the hon. gentleman with reference to the position of the Irish Church ; and 1, for one, am not able to deny it. We therefore feel that we ought to decline following him into the lobby, and declare that it is the duty of the Government to give their early attention to the sub ject ; because, if we gave a vote to that effect, we should be committing one of the gravest offences of which a Government could be guilty-namely, giving a deliberate and solemn promise to the country, which promise it would be out of our power to fulfil." THE GOV 31iNMENT AND THE •• g'SLEGRAPHS. In one of the recent reports of the administrators of the Belgian telegraphs the following passage occurs : " Our reduction of tariff has a double object. First, to place the means of communication within the reach of all classes of the people, and to make it serviceable in all the relations of life ; and secondly, to increase telegraphic correspondence to the largest possible extent, and by thus stimulating the system, to make even those lines which are now unproductive yield a fair profit." The Chancellor of the Exchequer can require no better text than this when he introduces the bill which proposes to place the tele graph system of the United Kingdom under the manage ment of the Post Office. Until the intimation conveyed to our readers some weeks ago as to the intended opposition of the railway companies reached us, we were under the impression that the question of the transfer would be mainly a financial one, and confined to the telegraph com panies and Government, and we are still at a loss to under stand on what ground the threatened opposition is based. Doubtless railway telegraphic systems and those of tho companies are based on a plan of mutual help, and we apprehend that they would have to be so continued under the proposed Government regime; but beyond this, and probably the fear that if the telegraphs go the rail ways may be expected to follow, we can see no reason why railway companies should set up an opposi tion to the unanimous approval which the project has mit with at the hands, not only of the press, but of the highest commercial authorities in the country. Did we not remember how a sore break-down and disap pointment were predicted when the penny post was inau gurated, and how wondrously the elasticity and vigour of the postal system met and conquered all the obstacles and difficulties which hedged it round, we should doubt whether a department which transmits upwards of 800,000,000 of letters, which manages a money-order business amounting to upwards of £40,000,000 a year, which has within a few years added to its cares the management of an enormous savings bank business, and more recently that of life insurance, could efficiently bear the additional strain of the work connected with the telegraphs. But we have seen all these various systems worked out with a precision and rapidity which has won the admiration, not only of the people of this country, but of every civilised nation in the world. The defects and shortcomings of the administration of the telegraph companies have too frequently been experienced by the public to require any proof now. If the amalga mation takes place the Post Office authorities would be in duced to consider the vexed question of a Sunday delivery, and would send out no letters save those which bore a " stamp of urgency," say of at least sixpence, a boon would be conferred on the 20,000 hard-worked employes, which the public would not grudge them, and which they would deeply appreciate.—Eastern Morning News. Lord Alfred S. Churchill and Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.R.S., have become vice-presidents of the Public Museums and Free Libraries' Association. RATING BURDENS IN LIVERPOOL. -A crowded meeting of Liverpool ratepayers has been held, when reso lutionsprotesting against the present very heavy rates and urging the corporation to practise the strictest economy in its expenditure were agreed to. DEATH OF CA NON O'NEA L. —We regret to announce the death of the Very Rev. James Canon O'Neal, Vicar-General of the Roman Catholic diocese of Westminster, which occurred on Sunday night. The de ceased had been for many years one of the pastors of the Church of Our Lady, Grove-road, St. John's-wood. He was one of the leading men among the Catholic clergy of the metropolis, and a zealous promoter of all works of charity connected with the communion to which ho belonged. THE REPRESENTATION OF HUDDERSFIELD. —The greatest interest is felt in the election, and both parties express themselves sanguine of success. It is felt, however, that the withdrawal of Mr. Wright Mellor and the unity of the Liberals places Mr. Leatham's chance of victory be yond all question. Mr. Sleigh addressed three meetings ou Monday. In the evening the meeting held in the Theatre was a very disorderly one. Mr. Sleigh admitted that he had contested Lambeth on Liberal principles in 1862, but said his views had since been considerably modified. A resolu tion in his favour was negatived by a large majority. AN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION FOR WORKING MEN. —The Duke of Rutland, Earls Spencer, Lichfield, and Dude, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, M.P., and H. A. Bruce, M.P., Sir John Bowring, LL.D., the Hon. G. Denman, M.P., Messrs. A. H. Layard, M.P., D.C.L., T. Hughes, M.P., A. S. Ayrton, M.P., C. S. Butler, M.P., J. B. Smith, M.P., J. Stansfeld, M.P., Wingfield Digby, Alderman J. C. Lawrence, H. Cole, C. 8., Titus Salt, Hugh Mason, and Elihu Burritt, have consented to be vice-presidents of the Workmen's International Exhibition, 1869. A gentleman named Leach, of Alexandria, nas forwarded to the Museum of the Hartley Institution some specimens of arrows used by Abyssinian warriors. They are above three feet long. The sticks are made of vine branches and other tough woods. The heads are of iron. Some of the heads are of the ordinary lance shape—others are shaped like a flattened fish's head, and are barbed. One of the heads is an ugly weapon consisting of a sharp iron spike about six inches long, with a twisted serrated edge. Some of the heads are inserted into the sticks ; others are fastened very securely with a cord made of the skin of some animal, which is twisted round the stick when wet. Mr. Leach writes word that the Abyssinian spear is five feet six inches long, and is a formidable. looking weapon. LETTER OR MR. COBDEN.—The following letter was written by Mr. Cobden at a season which was perhaps one of the greatest political depression which the Liberal party has experienced since the Roform Bill of 1832. It was addressed to Mr. W. D. Christie, who sat in the House of Commons which repealed the Corn Laws, and voted with Mr. Cobden on that, as on all other questions of Liberal policy, throughout the struggle : " Midhurst, Dec. 12, 1863.—My dear Christie, I am at this moment over whelmed with communications about my correspondence with the Times, and the plague of answering people must be my excuse for making but a brief reply to your letter. It would give me great pleasure to be able to help you in your views on the House of Commons. There is a sort of freemasonry always with me that identifies me with all tho.e who took a part in our League struggle ; and, with regard to political principles, I dare say we should now agree pretty much as we did on the corn question. But I really think lam about the least potential man alive in election matters. I am never consulted by anybody. There seems to be no principe • l s at stake anywhere, and the usual result is that the constituencies give themselves up to some rich man in their neighbourhood, or to the influence of a great railway or steamboat company. It is always so, that when great public questions are in abeyance the mean and unworthy motives grow into a force. Now, such a state of things is very unfavourable to my influence, for I am neither a rich man nor a railway or steamboat proprietor. How, then, can I be of any use to you ? This is really my whole case. I am willing, but incapable.—Ever yours truly, H. COBDEN." CATHOLIC POLICY. Now is the time for Catholics to show that they are not Tories merely, nor Whigs merely, but Catholics, prepared to test political mea sures simply by Catholic principles. This is not saying, as we were once accused by the Saturday Review of having said, that Catholics are to confine their action simply to the pro motion of their own immediate interests, and leave the nation, if so be, to perish. Quite the contrary. We believe the best way of serving the highest interests of the nation is the application of Catholic principles to poli tics. Fortunately, politics is not so much a matter of abstract discussion as a life of ac tion. At critical times like the present, when grave measures, affecting vital interests and involving essential principles, have to be set tled, Catholic politicians, in as far as they are something more than Whigs or Tories, appear to great advantage. They have a clear and certain rule of conduct to guide them in their judgment of the measures propounded by Tories or criticised and opposed by Whigs. In the confident hope that Catholics will be Catholic first, and Tory or Whig second, we look forward to a bold and independent judg ment on their part, whether in Parliament or out, on the policy already announced, or to be hereafter developed by the Government in re gard to the Irish Church and the question of education, both in England and in Ireland. The manner in which the Government pro poses to deal with the Irish Church has not the slightest chance of removing or remedying a national wrong, or helping in the least in appeasing the discontent of Ireland. The Go vernment, if it really intends endowing the Catholic Church, in order by this means to resist the disestablishment of the Irish Church, has committed the same kind of blunder which Sir Robert Peel's Government did in establishing the godless colleges. The means will not answer the end. The Catholic hier archy have persistently and emphatically re pudiated any endowment out of the revenues of the Protestant Establishment. Nothing is more incontestable than their determination of not entering in any manner into pecuniary relations with the State. In their mature and deliberate judgment they hold that any such connection with the State under the peculiar and actual condition of things in Ireland would not be for the good of religion. Under such circumstances, the proposal of the Government, without consulting the ecclesiastical authorities in Ireland, is worse than a folly ; it is an act of insincerity and duplicity. Such is not a worthy or statesmanlike manner of dealing with a great question. By such subterfuges or makeshifts the present Government shows that it pos sesses neither greater insight nor greater courage in dealing with a long-acknowledged anomaly than the Whig Governments, which, on e after another for a long series of years, have treated the Irish Church as a political shuttle-cock, to be tossed to and fro before the public eye whenever such a display of skill suited the exigencies of their miserable party prospects. As far as Catholics are concerned, the proposal, not of levelling down the Estab lishment, but of propping it up by endowing the Catholic Church can only meet with simple op position. For us it is not a question to be treated in the abstract ; we do not care to lose sight of the practical remedy to be applied to a long-standing abuse by a discussion as to the principle of the relations which ought to exist between the Church and the State as to the respective merits of endowment and the volun tary system, far less as to the obligation of the Catholic Episcopate of accepting, whenever it is proposed, endowment from the State. Of what is required by the highest interests of religion under existing circumstances in Ire land the Irish Episcopate, subject to the Supreme Head of the Church, is the sole judge. They have pronounced their opinion deliberately ; it is for Catholics to show that they are really under the influence, not of party spirit, but of Catholic principles, by resisting as one man, without reserve or after-thought of any kind, the scheme proposed by the Go vernment, in spite of the known judgment of the Episcopate, of endowing the Catholic Church in Ireland.—Westminster Gazette. MEG. By Mrs. Eiloart, Author of " The Curate's Discipline," &c. 3 Vols.—" Meg is a book which is every where well written, which has many well-drawn and ori ginal characters, and which is pervaded throughout by a tone of true, healthy, womanly feeling. It is humorous, it is pathetic, it shows much originality; it is full of ob servation. Some of the scenes which describe the diffi culties of a Ritualistic coterie are touched off 'with admir able spirit and humour. The story and fate of poor Meg herself isall full of tenderness, and pity, and pathos. There is a deep, clear moral in the whole book."—Star. DEATH OF DR. LEE.—The Rev. Dr. Robert Lee, minister of Old Greyfriars' Church, Edinburgh, and well known in connection with endeavours to introduce into the Church of Scotland what are called "innovations,' , died at Torquay on Saturday last. The doctor never recovered entirely from a severe shock of paralysis by which ho was attacked in May last, and he left Edin burgh for the south in October, for his health. Besides being minister of Old Greyfriars, Dr. Leo was Professor of Biblical Criticism in the University of Edinburgh, and one of the Deans of the Chapel Royal. Ho was in his 63d year. The newspapers are teeming with references to econo my in tea by co-operation. Hornistan and Co. have for 30 years co• operated through Agents to supply tea on more advantageous terms than by the ordinary channel; their tea reaches the consumer in the same pure state as it leaves the grower, as it is secured in packets. 4