The Sun. — London, England, 1868-05-06 00:00:00

ti . ~ LRECE;VE!) 2,R „Pt liIN AHAN'S LL. WHISKY. - DUBLIN , Th is celebrated OL EXHIBITION 1865. Priz e M edal, D IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold - in B o t t l es, is. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in th e pr i ncipal towns in England; or wholesale at 8, G REAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the s R k ed " Seal, Pink Label e,nd Cork Blinded " Kina- LL Whiy. JAPANESE IMPERIAL TROUPE. LYCEUM THEATRE. GRAND 31 1ORNING PERFOR MANCES every WEDNES and SATURDAY, commencing at half-pat T wo, and ter, !Il',. in ating at half-p ast F our. The Day Entertainments, fully equal ,19 those of the Evening, are particularly recommended to Fami with Children, arthey avoid the crush attending the Eight o'clock E ntertainments. Doors open at Two. CANTERBURY HALL. ii' New Management. —W. HOLLAN D , S o l e Proprietor, returns t?! thanks to the entire Press for their valuable notices ou the man agement and the entertainments, one and all having pro eeouneed them unrivalled and an immense success. Two magni ft e nt and costly Ballets, Band of Twenty-tive, Fifty Dancers in Ballet, Ethardo and Forty Acrobats, and all the Comic !..31_flgrs of the day', including the great Vance, Harry Liston, . I'9 e Sherrington, and Daniels (the great Negro Delineator). EXTRACTS FROM SOME OF THE OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. appeal "Wi th so powerful a concentration of those attractions which most strongly to tho tastes of the visitors. it is not sur vT,T,T that the hall is nightly thron&ecL"—Daily Telegraph. programme is an unusually good one."—Standard. ` The Canterbury' is one of the sights of London which must hot be. mis sed." —Morning Advertiser. :The `Canterbury' is one of the sights of London for astound ` performances."—Sun. to Those who are only familiar with the 'Canterbury' as it used . i wall hardly recognise it under the new direction, so much im p ro ved". -Morning Herald. b " I lan entertainment has never Wen surpassed, and can scarcely e imagined or describEra. Stalls and Crystal Lounge, Is.; Area and Balcony, '6d. Doors open at half-past. 7, commence at 8 o'clock. WESTON'S ROYAL MU SIC HALL, HOLBORN. Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey. TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS OF THE MONSTRE ENTERTAIN ' MENT AT THIS HALL ONLY. LE PETIT BLONDIN (the marvellous Ropn D +neer), Mr A. G. VANCE, Mr. J. G. FORDE, JOLLY NASH, Miss SMITHSON, Miss TREMAINE, Miss BROUGHAM, Mr. SIDNEY BARNES, Mr. R. LASCELLES, and OLIVER'S MINSTRELS. Mr. J. Llusir, Chairman, from the Oxford. Pull Orchestra, allowed to be the best band at any Music Ball in London. GREAT ALTERATIONS.—The whole of the Area magnificently carpeted and resented by the eminent firm of Chandler and Co., of Holborn, and converted into the most convenient Halls in London (vido the Public Press). Separate entrance to the Private Boxes and Operatic Lounges. Pl aces to b e secure d a t Mit c h e ll' s , S am ' s, Bubb's, and other librarians. Mr. P. CORR; Musical Director. N.B.—Miss KATE SANTLY will appear shortly. Special Notice. —Mr. P. CorH's Animal Benefit, Thurs day, May 21. ENERAL SIR ROBERT NAPIER, and Or THEODORE, KING OF ABY 4 SINIA (Portrait Models of), aro now added to MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Bakes -street. Admission, Is. •, Children under ten years of age, ed.: Extra Rooms, 6d.; Open from 11 a m. till 10 p.m. ARGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly This Sole Proprietor, Mr R. R. BIUNELL. h„ ulftgnificent Terpsichorean aud Musical Establishment, . 0 7/14 been Re-decorated in the highest style of Italian art Messrs. Mahar& awl other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN 'Ol tho AUTUNIN SEASON. Solo Euohonion. Signor Moses; *QIO Cornet, X Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti. Doors open at half -fast 8. Admission, is.; Resolved Setts, 2s. FURNISTIED HOUSES,- from £2 2s. to £2O n Per We e t_D . s. rfuumanci has at forames a libber of Firc-elass ft.14.1;1D0; , 4t.: Xi to be LET.ish:l troounfornished. or eolrl, more r` artirrilarly in the ael.,hb :t17.• hitv" ' ivdenbiara, Upp :r lorwoot r rrzat.bilt. *al not .."—Parti^al ”be had a• th • Ufaee, Printing ll.mae- B quare. ' 2-5 may a. t.. 1101j3`.`' n, , an I A.Pkit r AENT PS W.L CTED and to bn LET or So I, 0 all it , t'ES:ii , l4 for DiSP tiA.i., ,t:. 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Price 4s. ; sent by pest Cheo l i sts u lPs• —2lB, High Holborn, London, and all Face Powder, ls. t , _------__________ plit-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, and s L Lr !""n• ALEX. ROSS'S CUR LIN . G . F LU . 1D 8 0 , Idles' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. ... 1 :' at 33. 61., ss. 6,1., and 104. 6d. • sent fray for 54, 81, ‘ua til s tamps.-11ad of all Chemists. Advice upon all subjects of the Toilet. cfltEY HAIR. -248, High Holborn, London.— colour ?i,LEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE pro duces a perfect fectlitrimldia.toly it is used. It is permanent, and per -6,1 Y natural in effect. Prices 3s. Gd., ss. Gd., and 10s. ~he • ; se fists. by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps; and all L• in Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d. nAIR DESTROYER.-248. High Holborn, L ondon. —ALEX. ROSS'S DEPIL kNORY re w(Jes superfluous hair from the face neck, and arms, (ow -lout effect to the ski n . Price 3s. 6d. , , ss. 6d., and 10s. ". ; sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps. —Had of all Chemists. Skin Tonic, ss. 6d. 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A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can not fail to fit, forwardel by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being seat to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. Gd., and 31s. Gd. Post age , ls. A Double Truss, 31 s. d., 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 ELASTIC STOCKIN GS, 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. PRINTING. —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 3, Ohurch-row, Savoy, Strand, W.O. Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. 6d. FAIR, COLOUR NVASH.—By damping the head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in eseven or ten gays the hair assumes its original colour, and n m ains so by an occas i ona l us i ng. 10s. 6d. ; sent for trips. ALEX. RO SS, 248, High Holborn, London, Rd all Chemists. IJust published, 2d. •, sent by the author for 3 stamps, T GLINESS and BEAUTY ; being a Pamphlet descriptive of articles and mean s use d for improv 148°rn, Lon do n the appea Had of all rance. B booksellers.ALEX. ROSS, 248, High llol '. 814 R. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new de cription of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without t sP h ri ngs, wires, or ligatures. 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B A.RRY'S delicate h ea lth- res t or in g Inva lids ' an(' Infants' Food. save THE REVALENTA ARABICA na,, s fifty times its cost in other remedies, and restores . re7r_ect.digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, tc ;iilu - : 8 11_ 11 ; i g y sleep, functional regularity, ,i2cl energy to the ..:t disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily and indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma,. con zini:rperiLo_n, habitual constipation, diarrhooa, all gastric de ber;o"ntn, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, Noma : 4 in as m s : biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, the us, colds influenza, noises in the head and ears, g'out, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, n . (311-- 11414', irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, nausea tburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, fit s,b and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking the ~,ronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains t!t, th e ,F ll ° f the stomach and between the shoulders. . It is for r °Bt d igestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable i‘ nvalids and infants in all complaints. kIaci""MANT C AUTlorr.—Beware of the many unsavoury ttTpre than slopy imitations to which, without autho -4 Bar on Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. bil Bsr eforth none will doubt the valuable propertiesof andand 1 arq'S h ealth -restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' ?rents' Food, since to the thousands of blessings i bees ft ",, e adY received from invalids whose position had tavves: tabf,tein; e t d hi llopeless, we may now add that of his Had laY it e - "Pe, whose health has been perfectly restore rty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. 4 44 1° te from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No. 11°1 Y P l a :-. " - th"t?ree, July 21st, 1866.—The health of the keth er er is excellent, especially since, abandoning all r,„o„l.emedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du t1a,01161 Ilevalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a s aefiei a l t ° Very meal. It has produced a . surprisingly Prai se ~?:t effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot hour:'),l3 excellent food too highly." ears, i : - N 0 . 5 8,216 of the Marchioness de Tlrchan, of seven ; `lYer ,2 1 6 of wasting away, debility, nervous die,stirritability, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad nerv,..", constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable enrue agitation. 13tt lart e ri ll° ' 78 , of _y-p i a., f ra the Right Hon. the Lord ord, o_,Decies, Lor b d- e Lieute r nant of the County of Water t ood - 1, I have denved much benefit from your excellent ete .--1311-T O•T DE DEciEs, Dromana, Cappoquin, County 0 rferd.,, f roo i lir d e IT°. 49 ,832. —Of fifty years' indescribable spry lati4VeP3is, nervousness asthma, cough, constipation, . °I t YtittVP,sm 8, sickness,' and vomiting. liana Jolly, Cure ii. (3 '1, 0 1k. nerv ous 0. 4t.,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme O ue k u r 3s, i ndigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner henre " 3 ,• - al. d . °. A 814 . M Samuel L ton Leicester, of two ~, 8 lar r b , --r . Lax ton, 6 , xb e L ., •cea. t ` ett l l 33 l 4 : : ., r de d 4.r i ri s icasgoehi in_ 0. a,nisters, a t ls. lid. ; 11b. 2s. 9d. ; niat t „ , .. 2 1b., 2 9 s • 241 b 40s. The 121 b. and' 241 b. cr s ,' rby , , free on receipt t o Post-office Order, by ~,„. at 1.0,,, wi.ttitY and 7 Regent-s treet, London ; ...Qc, .1:111, . Co. , I - ' ll3 and oh — alaSOl V B 7:andigiOld by all respectable "enlists. R OYAL 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 — Ms Royal Highness the Princo of WALES, K.G. Prosident-I-His trace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the 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 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. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co, ; Berries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams, D neon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co. Demers-street ;:and at the Hospital, from 10 till L. 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. Sec., F. Smith, Esq. GEO. REID, Sec. THE GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANY, ofue—Horseferry-road, Westminster, 2d May, 1868. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of . the PROPRIETORS of this Company will be held at this Office, on FRIDAY, the 29th day of May instant, pursuant to the Act of the 59th year of his late Majesty George the Third, fur the election of Three Directors of this Company for four years, who will then go out of office by effiux of time, and are eligible to be re-elected; and should a Ballot bo required:it will continue open for four hours from its commencement. The Chair will be taken at 12 o'clock precisely. By Order of the Court of Directors. JOHN ORWELL PHILLIPS, Secretary. COMPAGNIE GENEItALE TRA.NS ATLA\TIQT.JE', 8, Place Vendome, Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS, CHINA, JAPAN, NORTE' AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND CENTRAL AMERICA. (via Panama). 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EGERTON. - "This story possesses'a charm that is quite in escribable. It is evidently the work of a very accomplished lady, one familiar with the best society. The heroine interests us from the first, for very seldom has a more graceful or charming creature flitted across the fields of romance."—U. S. Mag Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Just published, price Is. 61, by post ls. Bd., the Second Edition, with Addenda, containifig additional Facts and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks, REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACItERY. 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, and other journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted - with this edition. 2.4iNGLO -AMERICAN TIMES, AN IN TERNATION A L NE iVSPA.PE Devoted to American Intelligence. ENLARGED to 21 PAGE'S. 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TEETH PAINLESSLY STOPPED, with X. 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 QTOOPING HABITS, ROUND SHOULDERS, 1.7 PIGEON CHESTS and other Deformities, are pre vented and cured by wearing CHANDLER'S IMPROVED H YGIE NI C CICEST-EXPANDING LACE, for both sexes of all ages. It strengthens the voice and lungs, relieves indi gestion, pains in the chest and back, and is especially re commended to children forassisting the growth, promoting health and symmetry of figure, superseding the use of braces and stays. Price from 10s. 6J. each.-66, Terners street, Oxford-street, W. Illustrated circulars forwarded. PAIS A.NS, PERDRIX, ET VOLAILLE. A LA NOBLESSE FBANcAISE. • JAMES CHAMBERLIN, POST OFFICE-STREET, Norwich, Angleterre, fournit lo Spanish Meal qui a ete employe avec lo plus grand succes pour elever et nourrir les faisar.s, les perdrix, &c. M. J. 0 HAMBERLIN vient de recevoir Ia lettre suivante relative it, son Spanish Meal pour elever les Faisans, do M. le Vicomte do la Panouse, Inspacteur general des Forets de la Couronno de Sa Majestd Imperiale Napoleon IL Administration generale dos Dominos et Forets de la Couronne, Compiegne. L'lnspecteur des Forets de la Couronue it la residence do Compiegne soussigne, e,ertitio avoir employe h la nour riture des Faisandeaux le Spanish Meal provenant de la Maison James Chamberlin do Norwich, et en avoir obtenu les meilleurs resultats. Les Faisandeaux et les Faisans mangont tree bien cotte substance. Elle les rend trey forts et leur chair est tres bonne. Veuillez agreer, Monsieur, L'assurance do ma consideration distinguee, Vte. A de la PANOUSE, La Noblesse et les Brands Proprietaires sur le Continent, au recu des trois timbres de 40e. peuvent avoir franco un livre contenant les details relatifs h la nourriture des oiseaux ci-dessus mentionnes, avec trois cants certificate, les prix, &c. L'a,ddresser h Mons. JAMES CHAMBERLIN, Post-office-street, Norwich, Angleterre. NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi dently recommended as a simple but certain Remedy for Indigestion, which is the cause of nearly all the diseases to which we are subject, being a medicine so uniformly grateful and beneficial that it is with jastice called the' Natural Strengthener of the Human Stomach." Norton's Pills" act as a powerful tonic and gentle ape rient.; are mild in their operation, safe under any cir cumstances, and thousands of persons can now bear testi mony to the benefits to be derived from their use, as they have been a never-failing Family Friend for upwards of 20 ye vs. Sold in bottles at ls. lid., 2s. 9J., and lls. each, in every town in the kingdom. CAUTION. Bo sure to ask for " NOR•f6I6 PILLS," and do not be persuaded to purchase any, of Ow various imitations which have sprung up in consequence of the success of " Norton's Camomile Pills." NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMA.RELLA. restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemist; succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also ss, 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red R'ull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street, London, E.C. ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed. CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary. Office, 98, Cheapside, London, BM HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and clothing for the 126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship. 150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street. 94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing; 370 children. £l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year. Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank, 214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, E.C.; and by WILLIAM WILLI ARTS, Secretary. No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.—LONDON FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN STITUTION. President—Rev. CANON DALE. Comm:moss for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, E.C. ; Francis Nicholls, Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C. E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Buston-road, N.W. THE SUN. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NAY 6, 1868. A FTER HE It MAJESTY'S OPERA, DRUEY-LANE--EVANS' TO SUP. After Drury-lane Opera EvANs' to SLT. After Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-land Opera EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to Sue. London Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden Vocal Entertainment at Eight. . rpHE JONGIIMANS TESTIMONIAL.- The friends of Mr. PERIDthAND JONGLIMANS, who has been for many years - connected with the Oxford and Canterbury Hall as "Le Chef d'Orchestra," have 'proposed to present that gentle man with a Testimonial, in order that they may prove their ap preciation of his talents as a At,iolic servant, and their esteem for his private character. r TIE JONGHMANS TESTIMONIAL.- Subscriptions may be forwarded to Chas. Head, Esq., Southside House, Tuffnall-park Chas. Bush, Esq., Kingslo.nti road; Charles Morton, Esq., the Oxford; Fredk. Strange, Esq., the Alhambra; Edward Weston, Esq., Maison Doree; William Holland, Esq., Canterbury Hall; John Coney, Esq., Panton street; William Henry Pyne, Esq., the Oxford; Chas. Standley, Esq., Farringdon-street; and W. F. Vandervell, Esq., Honorary Secretary, the Oxford. OLAPIIAM.—APARTMENTS well Furnished Ik.,J and highly Respectable in a Gentleman's Private Family, pleasantly situato, with large Garden. Attend ance and every comfort. Very convenient for Rail or Omnibus to City and West-end. Apply at the Residence, 34, Lark Hall Rise, Clapham, S.W.; or to Mr. STEVENS, The Pavement, Claphatn Common. 1 O BE LET, UNFURNISHED, a PARLOUR and TWO BED-ROOMS, with Gas, Ste., in tho most eligible part of St. Paul's-r o ad, C a mden-square, N.W. Apply at 44, St. Paul's-road, Camden-square, N.W. QC El WEI' PE'S MINERAL WATERS.-By Special Appointment to Her Majesty and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.—Every bottle is protected by a label, having name and trade mark.—London, Liverpool, Derby, Bristol, Glasgow, Malvern. PICKLES had o f all ar d e eal p e e r r s, - 31 A f e N c t IFylpEn r I. e and ' uncoloured . S PA TE N I , O b and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. 11ADAME RACHEL, the great Beautifier to the Ladies of the Royal Courts of Europe, can be CONSULTED at her Private Residence 50, Maddox-street, from ten till four daily, and at 47A, New Bond-street. Madlle. Rachel attends at the Rue de la Paix and Rue de Choiseul, Paris. All other persons endeavouring to copy the beautiful art of which she is the sole professor, and who are vending dangerous and destructive compounds, under the name of enamels, powders, and liquids, in imitation of her Royal Arabian Preparations, commit a gross fraud upon ladies. nu. sco rrs LIVER, and BILIOUS PILLS.—A NEVER-FAILING REMEDY.—Pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluabla to all who suffer from bili ous and liver comp l a i n t s , indiges tion, wind, spasms, g iddi ness, dizziness o f th e e y es , & 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 a nd and sold by W. a nd strengthen the whole nervous system.— P re e pared o Lambert, chemist, 8, Ki ng W illiam-stree t, Charing-cross, London, and by most d ruggists, in b oxes , l s . lid., and three times the quantit y 1 u one, 2s. Pd. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine aro a square green package, on the stamp. with ti William Lambert" engraved THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES ve as follows : For Fallen Women. 28, Church-row, Ha 150, New Sent-road. stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke 13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington. town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green -205, Great Portland street. wich. For You ng Gi r l s i n D a nger. 27, Ch urc h -row, H a mpstead. 9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s - wood. St. Mary' s L odge, Buck h urs t-hill. Country Home --St. James's-street, Dover. Home-85, Temporary — °n 2 e-86, Queen-street, Cheapside. The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. The committee ale deeply anxious to open another house for this pitiable:class. The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book. In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee have under their charge throe homes for servants of good character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless servants annually. The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I never read a report of any charitable institution which so entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my sympathy") may . be had on application. The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co. The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the benevolent. DANL. CODPER Sec. 85, Queen-street, Cheapside. PERFECTION IN DENTISTRY. 31ESSRS. GABRI I E BI L S , I o p f ENTISTS (Established London 56, IT:-trley-street, Cavendish-square, 64, Ludgate-hill, E.C., 71 Liverpool..., 1.34, Duke-street, and Brighton have ju€t published a NEW PAMPHLET explaining their Painless System of Dentistry, and self-adhesive Artifi cial Teeth without springs, at MODERATE Umutaßs, which may be had free by post for four stamps. A PICTURE OF THE BLACK COUNTRY. Mr. Elihu Burritt, United States Consul at Birmingham, England, has described the appearance of South Stafford shire and East Worcestershire—commonly called the Black Country —as seen from the ruins of Dudley Castle at night. He says—" The theme would well befit the laureate of England at the best moments of his i ns pi ra ti on . I n figures beyond my prosaic conception, ho would describe a scene which cannot be paralleled on the globe. For an unpootical man like myself, it is difficult to get hold of similes which would enable the reader to picture the scene in his mind. A writer of a military turn of fancy might say that it was the sublimest battle scene ever en acted on earth ; that ten thousand Titans were essaying to breach heaven with a thousand mortars, each charged with a small red-hot bill. It might look like that, not only t 9 General Grant or Sherman, but oven to men who never wore a sword. There was an amphitheatre of twenty miles span, ridged to the purple clouds. Planted at artillery intervals on this encircling, ridge and at musket shot spaces in the da"k valley be tween , a thousand batteries, mounted with large ordnance, white at the mouth with the fury of their bom bardment, were pouring their cross fires of shot and shell into the cloud works of the lower heavens. Wolverhamp ton, on the extreme left, stood by her black mortars, which shot their red volleys into the night. Coseley, and Bil ston, and Wednesbury replied bomb for bomb, and set the clouds on fire above with their lighted matches. Dudley, Oldbury, Albion, and Smethwick, on the right, plied their heavy breachers at the iron-works on the other side of the valley; whilst West Bromwich and distant Walsall showed that their men were standing as bravely to their guns, and that their guns were charged t:3 the muzzle with the grape and canister of the mine. The canals twisting and cross ing through the field of battle showed by patches in ihe light like bleeding veins. There were no clouds except of smoke over the scene ; but there were large strips of darkness floating with crimson fringes into the red sea on which the white moon rode like the or:nined angel of ..peace. "For all that glowing empire was peace. Peace has her battle-fields as well as war, and this was her Water loo. Hero she had mustered fifty regiments of her swart veterans, armed with all the weapons of her exhaustless arsenal—with Minie picks and Schneider hammers, and file-edged swords that cut at their sides. Those great mouthed mortars, belching forth globes of fire, were her huge muzzle-loaders. And all this was the thick of one of her great battles by night —only one of the three hundred a year she fights in that dark valley with the elements. What are all the mines and countermines of war compared with the hundreds her sappers had dug fifty fathoms below the visible surface of this battle scene Where or when did war ever dig such deep trenches, or fill them with such battalions, or bring its land and sea forcesi into action with such united and concen trated power? There were 10,000 pickmon sending up from holes 500 feet deep cartridges for loading the cupola cannon that were reddening the night with their blaze. Here were the deck or surface brigades standing to their batteries, and making each look like the old picture of Gibraltar. There were the Brade Works at the right centre of the line, discharging a thousand spades, hoes, trowels, and pruning-hooks an hour. Further down, towards Birmingham, there was a well-mounted battery, that poured forth a shower of bolts and nuts ; and Chance's great fortress was all ablaze, with its hot fountains sand ing out acres of glass, to be parceled into panes of every size. To the right of us. to the left and front of us, the t w h h e o w l e o a rl m d p t h h i e t he e h a o t u r e s a w n d a s s i m n a l e l l - o a s r e m s a c o t f i o p n e , a w e e ok — r e ing o tt o p ) : t for hoes for Brazil and harpoons for Behring's Straits, and, for all the countries between, every tool used in honest labour." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS-LAST EVENING. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. AFTER THE ROYAL ITALIAN. OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN—EVANS' TO SUP. • After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP. After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP. After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP. London Singing and Supper Club, EVA N S', Covent garden Vocal Entertainment at Eight. CONTRACT FOR HAIR FELT. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, April 29, 1868. MIIE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH - ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND do hereby give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the 12th May next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persens as may bo willing to CONTRACT for, supplying and delivering into Store, at her Majesty's several Dockyard; all such quantities of HAIR FELT a may from time to time be ordered under a Contract for twolge months certai n , an d f ur th er un til t h e exp i ra ti o n of three months' warning. The average annual consumption for the last three years, a Sample of the Felt, and a Form of the Tender and Con— ditions of Contract may be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's Department, Admiralty, Somerset House. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Hair Felt," and must also be delivered at the 'DepartmentA the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somer set House, accompanied by a letter signed by two respon sible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of o£soo for the due performance of the Contract. By order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Coutra,cts and Public Securities. JOHN GOVELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder ; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from deny, and s--on-trts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price is. uJ. -h 1 Bull Wharf, 03, Upper Thames-street, London. CONTRACT FOR FRESH OX BEEF. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, May 2, 1868. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE OF LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND do hereby Give Notice, that on MONDAY, the let June next., at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be rea. ,4 y to treat with such persons as may ba willing to CONTRACT for supplying (under separate Contracts) all such quantities of FRESH OX BEEF as may be demand( and Vessels at the the 31st December, ad for the use of her Majesty's Ships following places, from the Ist July to 1868, both days included, viz. : ENGLAND, &c. (Jersey and Guern- Berwick Cowes Dartmouth Deal, and in the Portland and Port land Roads Plymouth (Oxen) Portsmouth (do.) Sheerness (do.) Ramsgato Scilly Southampton Swansea Tor q uay Weymouth Wivenhoe • Yarmouth (North). Littlehampton Liverpool London Bridge to Woolwich, in clusive Lymington Milford Ha van. Pembroke and Pater - N etley Newhaven North Shields _ Penzance Downs Dover Exmouth Falmouth Fleetwood Fowey Gravesend Greenhithe Ilarwich Holyhead Ilull,llawkeßoads„ and in the Hum . bar Aberdeen Ardrisbaig Granton 1 Queensforry Bantry Belfast Queenstown and Kinsale Rathmullen Valentia Waterford. Westport (for EDUCATION BILL. Earl GRANVILLE asked the noble duke opposite whether it was his intention to bring on this bill on Thurs day next. The Duke of MARLBOROUGH said that he thought that was too early a period. It would bo brought on on Thursday week. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES BILL. The Earl of LICHFIELD, in moving the second read ing of this bill, said that ho would only occupy a short time in calling their lordships' attentio n to the conditions of the bill. He stated that, in addition to the number of societies which were registered, there were many which were Lot, and therefore, when ho moved for the returns of• those societies, he knew that there . were many which did not come under their lordships' notice. If ho had moved that there should be a return of all those receiving out door relief, it would be very difficult to furnish, inasmuch as some guardians gave only slight relief, and others a great deal. Consequently, any returns from a board of guardians would not be reliable. He must now, howeve r assert that he believed that the conditions of the Poor-law did not interfere with any of the habits of frugality of those persons who became members of these societies. He could also assert that these societies carried on most extensive operations. In the third clause of the bill the provisions had been purposely misreprosenied, but even those petitions against the bill came from three societies. This clause was that which related to the mem bers of friendly societies insuring the lives of those per sons in the same house with themselves, but he was pre ' pared to say that this bill did not interfere with the regulations of friendly societies, nor prevent members from insuring the lives of their children fer funeral ex penses. He also could assure their lordships that provi sions for the admission of minors wore expressly provided for. In other clauses it was expressly set out that mem bers of these societies should he able to insure their chil dren. Other clauses related to the transfer from one society to another. This transfer was in many cases a great hardship. Other conditions provided for those who found themselves excluded by forfeiture, but provided that they should not lose the benefit of their subscriptions until duo notice had been given them. In his bill facilities were given for redress if there was any difficulty in obtaining that return which the members were entitled to. The cpnso queue° often was that a friendly sod ity became another class of society, and the member became, without his own consent or knowledge, a mombor of the other one. Friendly societies did most useful work amongst the working classes. There wore such societies as the Odd Fellows and the Foresters, who numbered between them near 100,000 members; and he would ask how it was, with re gard to the petition against his bill, that these two societies had not joined in condemning it if they disapproved of it? The societies from which those petitions came were signed by members who had no management over these societies whatever. He found that the expenditure of these societies exceeded their income, and he thought that there could bo no question that the society which had not more than ono yea r 's i ncome mus t b 3 i nso l ven t. These societies had petitioned to b s h ear d aga i ns t the bill, but what would bo the effect of this? It would only show the importance of the bill. With these remarks he should conclude that part of the attack upon it. He concluded with the remark that it was necessary that re turns relating to the expenditure, income, &c., of those burial societies should be made, and that their lordships should carefully look into them. A great deal of the money of these societies was left in the hands of the col lectors and agents. The bill was read a 'second time, and their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COIVIMONS-LAST EVENING. The SPEAKER, took his seat at 4 o'clock. THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT. In reply to Mr. BAGWELL, The Earl of MAYO said there were when the applies - tion was made for the continuance of the suspension of the Act 96 persons in confinement. That morning thero were only 23, of whom 14 had received offers of liberty if they would leave the country, or give good security for their good behaviour. He believed in a short tima all effects of the operation of the Act would cease'. THE REFORM ACT. Mr. SCHREIBER asked the First Lord of the Treasury, with reference to his answer of the 18th February upon the same subject, when he would state what recommenda tions he was prepared to make for the enfranchisement of compound householders in parishes not within existing borough boundaries, but which must bo wholly or in part added to boroughs, and of whom the Boundary Com missioners report that " they will be precluded from quali fying as voters in the year 1869, unless some special pro vision is made for their protection." Mr. DISRAELI said the matter was not included in the Boundary BM, because it was proposed that he should bring up a clause when the report was made, and the reason it was not embodied in the bill was because such a course might be rendered unnecessary. THE MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. Mr. GLADSTONE said he had to move the adjourn ment of the house, in order that an opportunity might be given to the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Disraeli) of ex plaining the declaration he had made in the second edition of his speech which he made when he (Mr. Gladstone) had no opportunity of asking for an explanation. The right hon. gentleman had informed the house that, having had an audience of her Majesty, and explained to her Majesty the position in which the Ministry stood by the result of the vote that had been come to in that house, that if her Majesty preferred to adopt a different course to that suggested, viz., a dissolu tion of Parliament, they were quite ready to place their resignation in her hands. Her Majesty, the right hon. gen tleman informed them, had thought it right not to receive the resignation of the Ministry, but to adopt the suggested dissolution of Parliament as soon as the state of the public business permitted. (Hear, hear.) Tho statement of the right honourable gentleman, according to one of the members for the Tower Hamlets, made her Majesty the suggestor, not the acceptor or rejector, of advice, and he felt that that was altogether a now posi tion to place the Crown in. The'explanation given by the right hon. gentleman opposite was that her Majesty had • given her sanction to a dissolution without reference to either the old or the new constituencies. But a statement had boon made in another place by the Duke of Richmond to the effect that the Premier bad tendered to her Majesty the resignation of the Ministry on Friday, but her Majesty took time to consider, and on Saturday the right hon. gentleman again saw her Majesty, and then the suggestion of the dissolution was accepted and the resignation of the Ministry refused. The statement of the noble duke did not accord with the communication made by the right hon. gentleman to the House of Com mons, and he wished to know whether the dissolution was to be made and Parliament elected by the old or new con - stituencies. (Hear, hear.) The term that dissolution was to tako place as soon as the state of the public business permitted was a very vague statement. He wished to know whether the Duke of Richmond spoke the feelings of the Government as a whole ? (Hear, hear.) Mr. DISRAELI said he had no wish last night to address the house a second time, but questions had been put to him in such a pointed manner that ho could not remain silent. With respect to the statement of the right hon. gentleman that ha hal no opportunity of replying to the statement which ho had made, he begged to remind the hon. gentleman that the adjournment of the house had been moved, which rendered it quite open to the right hon. gentleman to have addressed the house at the time had he felt so disposed, so that his statement that he had not the opprtunity had no foundation in fact. (Hear, hear.) It was for the convenience of both sides .that no misunderstanding should _exist, and in thus referring to the two ad dresses he had ma le he could not see there was the slightest difference. (Hear, hear.) After ho had waited on her Majesty and obtained au audience, he re commended a dissolution of Parliament. (Hear, hear.) He did certainly state to her the per sonal claims of the .Government, but that if a step different from that recommended was thought ad visable, the Government were quite ready to tender their resignation. Mr. BRIGHT would like to know whether the appeal would be made to the present constituencies. Mr. DISRAELI did not think that he had anything to do with the explanation he was then giving, which related to what took place when he was at Osborne. He reconsidered the dissolution without any par ticular reservation, as soon as the state of the public business pe►mitted, and that advice her Majesty was pleased to adopt. Her Majesty was quite aware of the exact position of affairs, and he thought as soon as the supplemen tary measures of reform were concluded the business might be so forwarded as that the appeal might be made to the now constituencies, but that had nothing to do with his visit to Osborne. On that occasion he.did recommend a dissolution, and he did tender the resignation of the Government. Ho thought his statement as the Premier ought to be taken as authentic—(hear, hear)—and if a different impression prevailed with respect to the state ment made by the noble duke in another place, he thought the logical conclusion was that he (the Duke of Richmond) should be called upon for an explanation. (Hear, hear.) Mr. BOUVERIE said the great point had not been answered, viz., was the appeal to be made to the old or new constituencies. (Hear.) The Government certainly did not possess the confidence of the House of Commons on the subject of the Irish Church. Mr. CARDWELL wished to know whether the advice given to her Majesty was direct or contingent, and was any threat to be held over Parliament ? Sir S. NORTHCOTE said the advice given was direct, and there was intended to be held out a menace of dis solution. Mr. AYRTON thought the name of the Queen had been .used in a most unconstitutional manna; and he felt that the house bad not had a frank explanation cf what had taken place between the right hon. gentleman and her M.ajßsty. Mr. GRAVES said the business of the country was being sacrificed to make way for a bitter party warfare. He thought rather than help on such a state of things the duty of all was to throw oil on the troubled waters. Mr. B. OSBOR:KE said there was ono kind of petroleum oil that was not at all calculated to calm the troubled waters, and everything that he had seen only showed him that the great thing to be effected was delay. Mr. lIORSMAN condemned the conduct of the Pre mier, and he demanded to know whether the right hon. gentleman bad the power to dissolve the Parliament at any moment. (Immense cheers.) Ho felt ho had a right to a distinct answer to that question, and would have it. (Loud cheers.) After soma remarks from Mr. J. GoLnsurrn and Sir IL EDWARDES, Mr. WHITBREAD joined in deploring the introduc tion of the Queen's name, and refused to believe, until it was so stated explicitly, that she bad armed the Minister with a general power to dissolve whenever he pleased. He urged the Premier to state whether this power existed, and for what purposes it was to be used. Mr. LOWE, "for the third and last 'time," as he said, asked for a plain answer to this—Do the Government adopt tho Duke of Richmond's language ? Mr. DISRAELI denied that he had been the first to in troduce the Queen's name improperly into the discussion. All his references to her Majesty had been made in the spirit of the constitution and with her Majesty's permis sion. Complaining of the constant repetition of tho ques tion in a new form as it was answered in another, and de precating these attacks on the Government without notice on the simple authority of newspaper extracts, he stated that his advice to her Majesty was confined entirely to the question of the Irish Church, and that her permission to dissolve was also confined to that question. If any other difficulty arose it would be necessary for him to seek another audience and to take the pleasure of her Majesty. To those who taunted the Government with not dissolv ing at once he pointed out the unprecedented circumstance of the case, and that everybody knew it to be for the pub lic interest that as wide an iuterpcetation as possible should bo given to the words "as soon as the state of public busi ness will permit." Referring to a remark of Mr. Whit bread, he denied that the course lie had indicated for the Government on the second and third Resolutions pledged them not to oppose the bill Mr. Gladstone meant to bring in. Mr. LIDDELL expressed his regret that the Govern ment had not resigned, and appealed to Mr. Gladstone now that he had carried his first Resolution, not to continue what could lead to no practical result this session. Mr. Crawford and Mr. Whalley made some remarks, and the discussion was brought to a close by the Speaker de ciding-, in answer to an appeal from Mr. Griffith, that though it was technically irregular to refer to debates in the Lords, exceptions were occasionally allowed, especi ally on Ministerial declarations affecting the position of the House of Commons. Lord E. CECIL moved for a Royal Commissicn to in quire into the present state of military education in this country, and more especially into the training of candi dates for commissions in the army, and in the constitution, system of education, and discipline of the Royal Military Academy at Woolwich, and of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. Sir J. PAKINGTON readily acceded to the motion, admitting that the present system of military education was defective in many respects, and must be considerably improved if the army was to be made more of a profes sion. Before the motion was formally carried there was a long and desultory conversation, in which Mr. O'Reilly, Col. North, Mr. M. Chambers, Colonel Sykes, Mr. Alderman Lusk, General Herbert, and others took part. Mr. FAWCETT moved a resolution in favour of ex tending the system of competitive examination to India, and sketched a plan by which simultaneous examinations might bo held, not only in London, but in Calcutta, 89111- bay, and Madras. From this he anticipated a larger em ployment of natives in the Government of India, and ho showed also that it would be a great boon to the Anglo- Indian s . Mr. TREVELYAN opposed the motion, on the ground that it would introduce into the service a crowd of natives whose precocity of intellect would enable them to pass these examinations, but who would be entirely deficient in the manly morale of our present Civil Service. As a more judicious means of admitting the natives to a share in the Government of India, he recommended that those who have proved their superior fitness for situations at present held exclusively by members in the covenanted service should be appointed to them without undergoing competitive examinations, and he moved an amendment to th•it effect. Colonel SYKES and Mr. NEATE spoke in favour of em ploying the natives in larger numbers, and in more im portant posts. Sir S. NORTHCOTE expressed his general concur rence in the substance and aim of the motion, but pointed out several important practical difficulties in the working of a system of simultaneous examination. Though a warm friend to the competitive system, he doubted whether it would obtain for us a class of natives fit for all the duties and responsibilities of high administrative offices ; and this, ho intimated, was the opinion of great Indian authorities, who wore extremely anxious to em ploy natives more generally in the Government of the country. Both at home and in India the Government was extremely anxious to introduce the natives into the highest class of offices, and the principle of Mr. Trevelyan's amendment which was embodied in a clause of the India Government Bill he had just brought in, was a better mode of a selectiouthan a competitive system. Under the circumstances, he begged Mr. Fawcett to withdraw his motion, which he ultimately consented to do. The amendment was also withdrawn. Mr. MILL bronght in two bills for the creation of Municip•J Corporations within the metropolis, which, ex cept in a few unimportant particulars, are identical with those he introduced last year. They propose that there shall be a municipality for each Parliamentary borough (the Corporation of London being preserved), all grouped round a central municipality, in which the -Board of Works would be merged, and to which the management of the general affairs of the metropolis is to be com mitted. Some other business was disposed of, and the house was counted out at 20 minutes to one o'clock. THE TEA DUTY Is REDUCED --ifornintan's Pare Tea iS sold Bd. per pound Cheaper. This interesting 'hot will, when fully known, even further increase the demand for these Choice, long-approved Teas. They are not sold loose, but only in Packets, signed "Horirliiian," London. SCOTLAND. Greenock Leith, Leith Roads, & Frith of Forth [RELAND. Kenmaro Kilrush Buncraua (Lough! Killibegs S willy) Kingstown and Castletownsend Dublin Crookhaven Lough Foyle Foynes Mill Cove (Bore- Galwayhaven) N.B.—The Contractors are to supply good, fat, well-fed Ox Beef, as NO HEIFER. MEAT will be admitted. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to themselves an unlimited power of selectiun in accepting the Tenders. Particular attention is called to the revised conditions of the Sheerness Contract, which is to include supplies to all ships and vessels between Chatham and the Great Nore, both inclusive; also the Naval Barracks at Sheer ness. Parties Tendering for Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Sheerness, are to specify in their Tenders a rate per• 100 lbs. for live Oxen, delivered in the usual manner; and also a rate per 100 lbs. for fresh Ox Beef, delivered in the car case, should the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty think proper to demand the Beef to be delivered iu the car case, instead of live Oxen, during any period of the con tract; and no attention will be paid to any offers not so made. Separate Tenders must be male for each Port, and at a rate per 100Ibs. ' and no attention will be paid to any off. re not so made. Contractors, in claiming payment for the supplies of Beef, are to make out their luyoiceS in Pounds at per 10O1bs. The Cattle for Falmouth to be slaughtered on the spot, and - the Cattle for Portland to be slaughtered not farther from that port than Weymouth ; the Contractors for Portland and Dartmouth are also to deliver the Meat on board H. M .'s. ships and vessels. The Contractor for Gravesend is to be a resident there. The Contractor for Portland and Weymouth is to re side at Weymouth. The Contractor for any of the other places is to reside on the spot, or to have an Agent resident there, whose name and address must be given on the Tender. Conditions of the Contracts may be seen in the Lo) by of the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admi ralty, Somerset House, W.C. ; or by applying to the Super intendents of the Victqling Establishments at Deptford, Gosport, and Plymouth ; the Superintendents of her Ma jesty's Dockyards at Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, and Pembroke ; the Agent for the Victualling at HaulbovAine ; the Officers conducting the Packet Service at Dover, Liver pool, and Southampton ; the Secretary to the Postmaster- General, Dublin ; to the Collectors of her Majesty's Gus toms at Aberdeen I Greenock I Scilly,. Belfast Berwick Harwich Hull Shields Swansea Waterford Westport Wexford Weymouth Yarmouth Cowes Jersey & Guernsey Dartmouth 1 Loncloudorfy Falmouth. I Lough Foyle) Fleetwood Newhaven Fowoy Penzance Gal way Ramsgate And to the postmasters at each of the other places. Forms of Tender may also be obtained on application at the Lobby of the Department above mentioned, or to the proper officer at either of the above places. No tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon on the day of Treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose ; but it will not be necessary that the party tendering or an agent appointed by him should attend at this Office, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and to his proposed sureties in writing. Every Tender must be delivered at the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, and signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of £1,500 for the due performance of each of the Contracts for Sheer ness, Port mouth, Plymouth, and Queenstown and Kinsale ; and in the sum of £3OO for each of the other Contracts. The Contractors to pay half the amount of the Stamps on their Contracts and Bonds. By Order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861 Under the patronage of 1 3.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G., whereby a home has been afforded for 230 Destitute Orphan Girls of all ages, classe s , and denominations, from a ll parts of the kingdom. The object of the Cha r it y is give orphan girls a plain Eng lish education, and pr ac ti cal instruction , in the kitchen, house, and laundry, to fit them f or d omestic serv i ce; an d, if not other w ise provided for wh en t h ey attain 15 years of age , t o obtain suitable situations for th em. The Committee earn es tl y appeal for support. Th e Charity is to • entirely sustained by 0 - o ""•..tions and subscriptions. HENRY KINOSCOTE , Treasurer s Office, 121, Pall mall, s W WH. WARWICK, Secretary. CONTRACTS FOR VEGETABLES. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, 2d May, 1868. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND do hereby give Notice, that on MONDAY, the Ist June next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supplyinv all such quantities of VEGETABLES as may be demanded for the use of her Majesty's Ships and Vessels at the following places, from the Ist July, 1868, to the 31st March, 1871, both days included, viz. : ENGLAND. Torquay Wivenhoo Fleetwood Newhaven Fowey Netley Lymington Scilly SCOTLAND. Aberdeen Ardrishaig IRELAND. Buncrana (Lough Swilly) Killibegs, Separate Tenders must be made for each port, and at a rate per 100 lbs. instead of at per cwt., and no attention wil be paid to any offers not so made. Contractors in claiming payment for Vegetables supplied are to make out their Invoices in pounds at per 100 pounds. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to themselves an unlimited power of s.lection in accepting the Tenders. Forms of Tender may be obtained, and particular atten tion is called to the Conditions of tbo Contracts, which may be seen at the Lobby of the Departmen, of the Con troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House ; or by applying to the Collector of Customs at Aberdeen, Fleet wood, Fowey, Newhaven, Scilly, or to the Postmaster at each of the other place'. No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose ; but it will not be necessary that the party tendering, or an agent appointed by hire, should attend at this office, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and his proposed sureties in writing. Every Tender must be delivered to the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, and signed by two responsible parsons, engaging to be come bound with the person tendering in the sum of £lOO for each of the Contracts. The Contractors to pay half the amount of the Stamps on their Contracts and Bonds. By order. ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. - ~i ~ti • , _rnicto STAMPED 51 LIBERATION SOCIETY. The eighth triennial conference of this society has been held in the large room of the Ctinnon-street Hotel. About 900 delegates attended, including several from the prin. cTpal Dissenting bodies in England, and about 150 from London and its neighbourhood. Amongst those present were Mr. Barnes, M P., Mr. E. Baines, M.P., Mr. Duncan McLaren, M.P., Sir F. Crossley, M.P., Sir John Cray, M.P., Sir John Bowring, Mr. E. Miall l Mr. Ca Williams (secretary), &c. The Rev. J. P. MunsELL (Leicester) presided, and deli vered an address, in which he compared the past and present of the society. Mr. CARVELL WILLIAMS presented the report of the executive committee, which referred to the parliamentary reverses which the committee had to report of the last triennial conference. An unbroken series of successes could now be reported. The report described at length the steps taken by the society to promote the abolition of the Irish Establishment, from the time of Mr. Aliall's motion, in 1853, to the recent triumphant divisions, which affirmed that it ought to cease to exist as an establish. meat. Mr. Gladstone's course in relation to the ques tion was warmly eulogised, and the salutary effects of the recent debates and divisions, both in Ireland and Eng. land, were commented on. The discussion of the details of disestablishment would greatly further the society's object, and the endeavour to connect the English with the Irish Establishment was hastening the catastrophe it was intended to avert. Mr. WILLIAM EDWARDS, the treasurer, then presented a financial statement, from which it appeared that, including the balance in hand at the beginning of the last financial year, the total receipts had been £8,564 2s. Bd. The expenditure amounted to £7,489 3s. id., leaving in the treasurer's hands at this date the sum of £1,074 19s. 7d. Mr. E. S. ROBINSON (Bristol) proposed the first re solution : " That the conference, in receiving and adopt ing the report of the executive committee and the treasurer's account now presented, expresses its devout gratitude to God for the recent unprecedented advance of public sentiment in the direction of the society's aims, and, congratulating the executive committee on the posi tion of increased pecuniary resources and on the satisfac tory results of their parliamentary labours, it expresses the hope that the society's supporters will avail themselves of the opportunities afforded by the course of public events for pursuing with unrelaxed energy the object for which the society was established." The resolutions was seconded by Rev. J. H. Hinton, supported by Mr. E. Baines, M.P., Sir John Bowring, and Mr. E. Mall, and unanimously adopted. Mr. DUNCAN M`LAREN, M.P., moved the next resolu tion. It was in the following words : " That the con ference rejoices at the triumphant and repeated majorities by which the House of Commons has resolved that ' it is necessary that the Established Church of Ireland should cease to exist as an establishment, due regard being had to all personal interests and all individual rights of property.' It desires to express warm admiration of the decision and earnestness displayed by Mr. Gladstone in the realisation of so important a result, as well as the hope that the policy which he has initiated will be strenuously supported by all the friends of religious equality, not only at the present time, but when the question is remitted to the country for its decision at the approaching general election." The resolution was seconded by the Rev. C. 11. Spur geon, and supported by Sir John Gray, M.P., Mr. Whit worth, M.P., and Sir F. Crossley, M.P., and unanimously adopted. Mr. 11. LEE (Manchester) moved, and the Rev. W. BRocK seconded, a resolution in respect to church rates, and the conference adjourned. In the evening the conference resumed its business, under the presidency of Mr. T. Barnes, M.P. A resolu tion was adopted on the abolition of university tests ; and a paper was read by the Rev. Edward White on "Modern Theories of Church Establishments," with espe cial reference to the rezent paper of Dean Stanley. The conference then adjourned. The death is announced of Sir Samuel Benjamin Auchmuty, of pneumonia, at the age of 81 years. A parliamentary return published chews that the quantity of proof spirits distilled in the :United Kingdom and Ireland, during the year ending the 31st December last, was 23,323,G13 gallons. The duty paid amounted to £11,382,594 53. 7d. The royal warrant amalgamating the army pur veying, store, and commissariat branches, and transferring the authority of the commissary -general-in-chief, the director of stores, and the purveyor-in-chief, to the con troller-in-chief, has, it is understood, been signed by her Majesty, and awaits promulgation. We have to announce a serious accident to Baron ce Sehmidthals, Secretary to the Embassy of the King of Prussia. The baron sustained a heavy fall and dislocat.(l his shoulder. Mr. Manley Sims was shortly in atteudauce, and at once reduced the dislocation. The baron is pro gressing favourably. A correspondent in Newtownlimavady writes : " I am informed that Dr. Watson, who assisted in ex tracting the bullet from the Duke of Edinburgh, is son of the late Mr. John 'Watson, Keeboll, near Castlerock, in this county. Mr. John Watson was a martyr to tenant right, and widespread sympathy was entertained for him in consequence."—Northern Whig. ABYSSINIA. —The Government is not yet in pos session of details in reference to the victory achieved by the British forces in Abyssinia on Good Friday. In the absence of any communication by telegraph, the public will not obtain any further intelligence concerning the death of King Theodore and the release of the prisoners until the arrival of the next mail, which is due about Monday next. A PLEASANT TRAVELLING COMPANION.—John Carter, a carter, of Bolton•le-Moors, has been charged at Clitheroe with attempting to throw passengers out of the train on Sunday night, while the train was in motion. He had got in at Whalley, drunk, and the passengers were heard to cry out " Murder." The prisoner said he did not intend to hurt anybody in the carriage, but only to kill himself. He was fined 20s. and costs, or fourteen days' imprisonment. BATTENING AT SHEFFIELD.—Strange to say, one of the still many representatives of " Mary Ann " has been apprehended at Sheffield while in the act of ratten ing three jobbing grinders who are said to be some what behind in their contributions to the union. The name of the rattened is Joseph Bradshaw, who three years ago was sentenced to a term of six months' hard labour for being engaged in a case of rattening. Late on Monday night he was seen to enter the wheel in which the three defaulting members worked by getting through one of the windows, and in this he was assisted by two com panions. While in the wheel a policeman who happened to be near was communicated with, and on his approach the two men, who were keeping watch outside, ran away. Wlign the police-officer got into the room where Bradshaw was, he found him sitting opposite the fireplace, in which, however, there was no fire, and three wheel-bands, which had been taken off the drums, were found rolled up close by his side, ready for removal. He pretended not to know anything about the bands, and on being brought before the magistrates he pleaded that he got into the wheel while in a state of intoxication. This they refused to believe, and granted the request of the chief constable for a remand. ATTEMPTED MURDER.. —A shocking occurrence is reported from Lowestoft, Suffolk, a young man, named Isaac Clarke, a cooper, having attempted to murder a Maria Simpson, by cutting single woman, named Anna her throat. It appears that Clarke had kept company with Simpson for some time, and had seduced her under a promise of marriage. She was recently delivered of a child, for the support of which Clarke had been ordered to pay. The young woman met Clarke by appointment in the High-street at Lowestoft, under a promise that he would give her some money. He then persuaded her to pass through a field with him, stating that it presented the shortest cut to her house. When in the field he attempted an assault upon her; she resisted, and he then threw her down and deliberately cut her throat with a sharp pocket-knife. Clarke then re. , turned to the High-street, wliere he met a young man, , named Moore, who, observing that Clarke's hands were! bloody, asked him if he had been fighting. Clarke re plied that he had murdered a young woman. Moore asked "Where ?" to which Clarke replied , " In the station•field,. went a short way together , and Clarke then said, " I dare and if you come with me you s hall see for y ourself." The y not go any further." Moore continued in the direction the prisoner had pointed out, and saw a young woman lying in a ditch by the side of the path. He immediately gave information to the police, two medical men were sent for t ant a small quantity of brandy having been administered to the poor girl, she revived sufficiently to state that Clarke had cut her throat. She was removed to her mother's house, and her deposition was at once taken before Mr. James Peto, one of the local magistrates. Clarke was taken into custody ; his hands were besmeared with blood, and the knife with which he had attempted the o r b . co , r r a r ob li o n at N d t v f e t was aw h f o a as w r s h h 4 rl e - l e t e s i n brutal remained saca f o e onn a ndd r ed f viu u etile collected ritn. deed sidnTe ceh : p v e: was shnagelaofilstaloil expressinganitkidneiloishnieisnxhtvoriseeemtPtitameseirtioysodidst; will recover. 3e a rail, 'alo, ;tive e us Ised ping rail. been g to i yert to i g '[ho at,d f the ve a a ted 3 re- isitS•