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it as he a news- ,nder in ne time measures that any a scurvy definite i by evi neans of a by the which he subjects e rest to a Liver itnself to reigners, subjects ►rwarded ;aged in the 28th Govern- this in- !outa, 11 from United which to iplete to lEWS , 0 112, i2ty Of AFTER Covent-garden Open • After Drury-lane Theatre After Haymarket Theatre After Adelphi Theatre E After Olympic Theatre I After Strand Theatre After New Royalty Theatre I After St. James's Theatre E Alter Prince of Wales' rheatre ' _is' to . .P. Loudon Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden. Voca Entertainment at. Eight. MAISON DOREE, • THE NOW FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT AND LUNCHEON BAR, GLASSHOUSE-STREET (Ono door from Regent-street), CUISINE FRANCAISE, &c. High-class Wines at wholesale prices. Spirits and Beers, &c. Private room for Parties. HAMPERS PREPARED AND CENT 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 , 1865. This celebrated OLD IRISH EXHIBITION WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. 81, at the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the principal towns in Englaul; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red • Seal, Pink Label, and Cork Branded "Kina has LL Whisky " - 4.171.Ma1R 4- 24 , .................... , k , 7 ~./. , 1 R NEWSPAPER t . ',a , . .... __ . . , . _____:;/, ~?%. _ ov - : - t 5 . .,), ( YA- , ' 7 , 4 .0. 0 4 1 -IY-‘) ~,: 4 , • . A ft- , •15*. JV 7 . ' .a 1 • Az- -4,- ; ,. • _ ..-.*at4„.e . i..-.,. /t,... . ~, 0 4 . 1 -17 ; ;4 ti,g2, -- ^ 4 L . 4l i ... ''' EVANS' to SUP. 5i _ F -4 ,-,. ,?. ..f. l 'tt ' :'N I —. 1 ; r il :, . --. ' _ -‘,.-., 4 , OFt.• , lt ,__, __ , r t , , , ---Ni k .. s — 63 - "--1 - ,-,- t., 1 , C-4. ft V7 tl ,e. - 6 4 -- \: EVANS' to SUP, .I a ' ... „ I, ,/ ' l / 4 -. 4 s ' Nzy• N,.., i , ~ ....... t, ..,..,,%" . ...,.. . IT____ EVA.NS' to SUP. 1 ... ) 1 .1 •-/ - EVANS' to SUP. -. .w... ,EVANS' to SUP. '\ 1.,„ .. i ..- ' ....::::-.,.., e 4.7 5 ,14i, . -4 •xlv z , ri ;--7, 1 4 ' l7 : 7 ' ~ ./. lA, 0 ' \-1:4- • imn IT . t'''''' 4% ' -,.„—,„ -------- -:-. -,.- 0 ,0) 4- • ---nto EVANS' to SUP. •,..,. ,- ' ''- m -t 4--- ____' - , EVANS' to SUP. EvA:‘,l!--:' sUP ‘ 1 a6.6, n ~~/~ - ~. ~-~~ WESTON'S GRAND MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey. Immense success of the following talented Artistes:—Mr. A• G. VAnE; the astonishing HICKEN FAMILY; Mr. W. WAITE, the great Transformation Dancer (from the Lyceum): Miss AGNES WRIGHT, the charming Serio-Comic ; SIDNEY FRANKS, Csan lique; Sik,aor Dorm the One Leg Dancer; Miss AUSTIN, the great Impersonator; E. D. DAVIS, with his two sons, Tommy and Joey, and Sailor Williams. Bishop's and Hatton's celebrated Glees. Full Orchestra, which will perform . the popular OVertnres of the Great Masters. The whole under the direction of Mr. P. CORRL The doors open at 7.30. No alteration in the prices of ad mission. 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.- Easter Festival—Mr, Vance is re-engaged; J. G. Forde. Jolly Nash, Sidney Barnes, Miss Smithson, Laura Fenoulhet, Hairy and Rattle Sing, Oliver's Minstrels, and Le Petit Blondin at this hall only. N.B.—Mr. Frank Hall, the celebrated Author of Comic Songs, will make his first appearance at this hall on Friday, April 3, and 'Will sing a new Song (written expressly by himself for this hall) on the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. PRICY 4d. STAMPED bd. argument that this man should now be in favour of greenback redemption. The loan was advertized with the appraval of the G worm - ilea as repayable in gold, an I successive Treasury Ministers pronounced the matter to be beyond controversy. The moral right is so clear as to be almost indisputable, but the real strength of the bondholders in opposition to any tampering with the debt, lies in 012 consequences likely to foll.)w. Let us balance the probable gain with the probable losses to the nation of enforcing such a bill as Senator SIJEIZMAN'S. One per cent. would make an annual reduction in the interest of two and a half millions a year, and that would be the outside profit to the country. Now the question is, at what price would this be purchased ? Credit is the strength of a civilized nation ; in peace , enabling it to develope the national resources ; and in war, to uphold the national interest, honour, and independence. Although a mere name —it is the most potent influence. Without it, a civiliz nation sinks into bankruptcy; alike powerless to foster industry, or to protect its citizens. Money is the sinews of modern warfare. On it, is built and maintained the only efficient fleets, and they cannot be built and maintained by any other means. By money, armies are equipped and supported in the field, and although the material may be supplied by patriotism, trained and effective forces can only be obtained by money. Without it a country can have no fleet, and her armies must degenerate into lawless mobs. Credit alone can supply the Govern ment with money when needed ; there is no other means except forced contributions, the poor and desperate resort of a degraded despotism, which commences a struggle, by making enemies of its own people. An injury to credit, therefore, is the most fatal a State can sustain, yet it is the injury the greatest of all countries, proposes to inflict on itself. This is the first strong point of the credi tors. The next hits more directly at the people. Suppose the bondholders refused to accept the re duction, the alternative then is payment in green backs at par. The market price in the United States is now 10 premium ; and the immediate effect must be to strike that off, and, in common with the Five-Twenties, to depreciate all Govern ment securities. A loss would immediately be sustained sufficient to produce a violent panic, and dislocate the whole trade of the nation, and that would be followed by consequences the reverse of what these agitators intended. Western produce " hogs and brealstuffs," instead of rising to infla tion prices, would become a drug, and among the heaviest sufferers would be the West. Nor could the Government redeem the B )nds except by a fresh is,aie of greenbacks, which would be adding fuel to the fire of the crisis, as well as to the national dis credit. This is the second point iu favour of the creditors. The United States is the greatest pro ducer of the precious metals. It is a palpable folly for a producer systematically to depreciate his own productions. Even were it possible to make the'world believe that paper was better than coin, the great Re public is the last country to lead in such a revolution. The heavy losses to the .United States from the failure of Southern staples can alone be made good by the increasing mining development of the Pacific States. Having expended millions in destroying the industries of the South, is the Republic simul taneously to impair its credit and lessen the value of the exports, on which it must rely for repairing the waste? If the citizens of the Atlantic and Middle States insist on depreciating the products of those of the Pacific, they will generate an indignant opposition which will go far to create a split. California adheres to specie payments, and has steadily set her face against paper theories. This is the third strong point of the creditors. The fourth is even .more purely a domestic question. Four-fifths of the Bonds being held in the United States, almost the whole, weight of any measure of Repudiation falls on its citizens. If the Government is coerced into rubbing Hama - to give Tom relief, it will merely rob the most industrious, the mast patriotic of its people, who helped the country in its time of trial, to aid those who did not do so. It will reward loyalty with repudiation, and a generous confidence with a barefaced robbery. Why should the country do this . ? A certain portion of its citizens would be mulcted for the benefit of another portion, the national gain by the one class being exactly balanced (minus the portion held abroad) by the national loss to the other class ; that is, Uncle Smi will take the money out of one pocket and put it into the other, and call that a fine financial operation. Putting aside such considerations as Uncle SAM being thought a c heat, and losing a l arge amoun t o f his power of financing in the future, this would be the only result. But people are not ruined or heavily mulcted with impunity. The benefit to the others will be so slight as to be scarcely felt ; the loss to the victims so great and direct, as, when realized, to call forth a loud cry of indignation and rage. Thus the bond holders being of the community, each man able to make his neighbour feel, ought to lose no time in doing so, that the neighbours, having a foretaste of what they will get on repudiation, may know at least one of its drawbacks before they are committed to the measure. These are but the more obvious ob jections on which the bondholders may rely in the struggle. If they gird up their loins in defence they will soon see how strong is their position—one only to be succe ss f u ll y carr i e d, by a l oss to the at tacking party, out of all proportion to his gain, and an assault which no general in his senses would make if he fully understood the sacrifices it would entail. Therefore it is clearly the policy of the bondholders to take every possible means of letting the threatening force know that they will defend their position to the last, and at a cost to the be siegers, too heavy to be incurred, if in their senses, and with their eyes open. The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is about 1091 per cent. At this rate there is no profit on the importation of gold from the United States. [AnvErtTlSENlENT.)—Henceforth no ono will doubt the valuable properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids and Infants Food, since to the thousands of blessings it has already received from Invalids whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "Gazette du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1866.—'• The health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which ho consumes a plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this excellent food too highly." We extract a few out of more than 68,000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable ner vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. N 0.49,832 : " Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts, of Friruley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derangement, and partial deafness Important Caution.— Beware of the many unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without authority Baron Liebig's name is most auda ciously attached In tins at Is. 11d.; 1 lb., 2a 9d. ; 2 lbs., 4s. Gd, •, 5 lbs. Ils. ; 12 lbs., 225.; 21 lbs., 405.— BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Piccadilly ; and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside ; 63, 150, and 298, Oxford-street; 030. Strand and all grocers and chemists. Births. BARKER —On the 31st ult., at The Grange, .Rotherhain, the wife of Junes E. Barker, Esq., of a son. LANGE—On the 30th ult., Mrs. Christian Lange, of 99, Strand, of a daughter. THORNE—Oa the 3tst ult., at Fleetwood, the wife of C. A. Thorn , , Esq., RN., of a son. , Marriages. PLUMP - I'ON -alArn -On the 31st ult., at Wavertree, Wil liam, only son of the late James Plutnpton, Esq., of Low 11i11 House, to Ann Ogden, daughter of the late John James Maud. MAssriELD—LENY—On the 31st ult., at Edinburgh, James L. Mansfield, Esq., advocate, to Roberta, daughter of the late James M. Leny, Esq., of Dalswinton. Deaths. BEEDELL—On the 31st ult., John Beedell, Esq., Tiverton, Devon. DANE—On the 30th ult., at 24 , New Finchley-road, Thos. Dane, aged 80. Fmtnis - On the 30th ult., at Cheltenham, Richard Ferris, E~q, aged 76. GURNEY —On the 31st ult., at Pope's-grove, Twickenham, Mr. George Gurney, aged 64. SALUSIWRY—On the 30th ult., at Llanwern, Monmouth shire, Sir Charles Salusbury, Dart., aged 7:4 le career many a itain by e vessels er coin it : Capture. 25, 1865 1864 1864 • 1865 26, 1865 1864 28, 1863 28, „ 13 , ~ —, 1861 4, „ 1, 1865 21, „ 28 , •I, 22, 25, 26, „ . 1, „ )1 27' II 27, „ 28, „ 28, 1866 23, 1865 12, 1864 13, „ 28, 1865 28, „ 28, „ 22, 7? 25; ;; 1, I, 23, „ 23, „ 4, „ 28, „ 22, „ 26, „ and the 311 19. :arch 19. CROOK- steamer, -Cleared w York. stearaar, LIVER- oil Gal r Plate ; for New Bazaar, a, screw The ed 19th 3M the 'rom the a heavy :e num- March om New v York ; AMPTON, a Hain- !O. —Ar )r, from I York. mi Now rownie, trch 21. m New z. —T he 27 N., e Sarah ?ono for merican arrived, he Lady irrived, March tYPORT, ) to-day or-deck, ensign, mt 16ft. stand letters ; is also a an old , and of Arrived, and the DERRY, , which en on a LONDIN! BLONDIN!! BLONDIN !! I el AN "'ERB URY H A LL. —Sole Proprietor, W. HOLLAND.—BLONDIN a genuine Success.— Last week but One of the great and only BLONDIN, the Hero of Niagara. Deafening Applause at the wonderful perfor mance on the HIGH ROPE at Nine o'clock, and the New Indian Ballet, with M. Blondin as JACKO, the " Monkey," at Ten o'clock. A host of talent, including the great VANCE, Annie Adams, Jester (the Talking Hand), Gerrards, the great Daniels, Mr. Hamilton (baritone), Fred. Evans and hisyrroupe of Pantomimists. The suberb Crystal Saloon ' the most gorgeo u s S a l oon i n E ng l a nd, 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. Special Notice.—M. Blondin will carry any gentleman on his back across the High Rope every evening. M ADAME USSAUD'S EXHIBITION, 'BAKER- STREET. - A PORTRAIT MODEL of MILES WEATHERILL is now added to the Chamber of Horrors. ' Admission, ls.; children under 10, 6d. Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. OPen from 11 in the morning till dusk, and from 7 till 10 p m. ARGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly Proprietor, Mr R. R. BIaNELL. This magnificent Terpsichorean and Musical Establishment, ding been Re-decorated in the highest style of Italian art by Messrs. Rubardt and other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN for the AUTUMN SEASON. Solo Eaphonion. Signor Moses.; solo Cornet, M. Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti. Doors open at halt-past 8. Admission, is.; Reserved Seats, 2s. TOOPING HABITS, ROUND SEIOULDERS, * , -- 1 PIGEON CHESTS and other Deformities, are pre vented and cured by wearing CHANDLER'S IMPROVED RYaIENIC CHEST-EXPANDING BRACE, for both sexes of all ages. It strengthens the voice and lungs, relieves indi gestion, pains in the chest and back, and is especially re commended to children forassisting the growth, promoting health and symmetry of figure, superseding the nse of braces and stays. Price from 10s. 6d. each.-66, Berners street, Oxford-street, W. Illustrated circulars forwarded. FURNISHED HOUSES, from £2 2s. to £2O per Week.—D. S. HUAPHEIES' his at all times a nAunber of Firec-class RE6ID2: NIC to be LET. furnished or unfurnished. or sold. more particularly in the neizhbanr hoods of Sydenham, Upper Sorwood. Forest-hill, and vizi 4ttY.—Partionlare may be had at the Office, Printing House aqUare. ROUSES and APAR' , WEN rs WANTED. and to be LET or SOLD, BUSI,TESSICS for DISPOSA.G. jto. PROPERTY, FREEHOLD or LEASEHOLD. D. T. HMI PFIRINIS has contin ial applications for all descriptions of PRJPERTY which wilt pay trooi interest for outlay. Houses out of rep air not objected to. T. D. Humphries can at all time. 4 find customers for all do.s3rip tions of biainesses. Hotels, public hods 5, , sold and i . ansterr,;(l. Apply, D. T. Humphries, Estate Agent, Print -1,14 House-square. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. Price 3s. 6d., . s ‘ s : 6 d., and 10s. 6d. ; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 ' I4I ' I I 3 s. —ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. " Tale of a Hair," 6d. IVUNDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cared in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. 8 preparation gra dually dissolves the Corn in a few hours, removing the very root. Price 4s. ; sent by past for GO stamps. 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Face Powder, ls. AIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London. ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID earls Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold at 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. 6d. ; sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—Had of all Chemists. Advice upon all subjects of the Toilet. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— colo ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect ur immediataly it is used. It is permanent, and per fectly natural in effect. Prices 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 108. 6 d.; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps; and all Chemists. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d. AIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London. —ALEX. ROSS'S DEPIL 4TORY re tnoves superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms, without effect to the skin. Price 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. 6d. ; sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—gad of all Chemists. Skin Tonic, 58. 6d PLE REMOVER.—AII , diseases of the 1. skin are improved by ono dose of ALEX. ROSS'S VEGETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sallowness, &c. 2s. 9d. and 7s. 6d.; or post for 40 and 100 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. P RIN T I N G.—TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c. The Printing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done on exceedingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if requir e d. E st i mates f orwar d e d on particulars, with stamped di rec t e d enve l o p e for reply. reeeipt of Address—The Manager, " Sun" Printing Offices 3, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. 6d. H AIR COLOUR WASH.—By dampin g the bead with this beautifully-pepfumed Wash, in seven or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains so by an occasional using. Ws. 6d. ; sent for ata niPs.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. UJust published 2d. ; sent by the author for 3 stamps, GLINESS' and BEAUTY ; bein g a Pamphlet descriptive of articles and means used for improv bothe appearance . By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Hol _-_----__; L • ondon Had of of all booksellers. ___ HEALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. )II BARRY'S delicate health-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Food. THE REVALENTA ARABICA sa ves fifty times its cost in other remedies, and restores Perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy' liver, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the Most disord ere d or enfeebled—removing speedily and effect ually indigestion (dy s p e p s i a ), coug h, as th ma , con -Irangllflaption, habitual co ns tip a ti on , di arr h oea, a ll gas t r i c de ements, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the hoad and ears, I rheu matism, gout, i mpur i t i es, erupt i ons, hysteria, neu ;aleartb gia, irritability, sleepl essness , ac idity, p a lpitati on , urn, headache, debility, d ro p s y, cramp, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, shaking 8, bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the cheat, pains at fthe pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is or digestibl e an d nour i s hi ng o f a ll f oo d s, an d su it a bl e for invalids and infants in all complaints. LIPOILTANT CAUTION.—Beware of the many unsavoury and more than slopy imitations to which, without saftho ntY, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. anlienceforth none will doubt the valuable properties of d arry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica has Ba rry's Food, si nce t o th e th ousan d s o f bl ess i ngs it r eadY received from invalids whose position ha . d Hess deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holf be'? the P oPe, whose health has been perfectly restored aet after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. 673,44u0te from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No. Rely ):— "lterne July 21st, 1866.—The health of the p p ath . other er is excellent, especially "tar re is since, abandoning all '"es, he has confined himself entirely to Du r Y 's pl a t eful at Levalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a _Yery meal. It has produced a surprisingly benpficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot pritse th is excell en t f oo d too hi g hl y. " Cure No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Broban, of seven years' liver eomplaint, wasting away, debility, nervous ars, irritailit, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad begrevs.of_fca..ons.tant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable US ItatlOn Cur© N " ". • Stuart• .B, ofdyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord f ua de Decies, Lord-Lioutenant of the County of Water f°,l:—" I have derived much benefit from your excellent ---STIJATIT DE DECIES, DrOMallo, Cappoquin, County Waterford ." fr Cure No. 49,832. Of fi fty years' indescribable agony fl°,l°,,(lYePepia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, ari leucy, spasms sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, of LYnc, Norfolk.' ue' No. 47,121.-- Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme voeriitifr:iiciesss: in digestion, gatherin g s, l o w spirits, and ner- No. 56 814. —M r . S amue l Lawton, Leicester, o f two y e ars diarrh oea. The Food is sold in Canister at Is. 1/d. ; 11b., 2s. 9d. ,Ca 2lb Al% 121 b., 225. 241 b 4 0s. Th e 121 b and 241 b. ; • ZalB6,cle.a;rriage free on receipt of Post-o ffi ce Order, by - CRY DU BARRY and Co., 77, Regent-s treet, London ; so at Fortnum and Ilason's, andisold by all respectable grocers and Chemists. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's Cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. Pico-Patron— His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. , This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish tho principle of froo admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Govvrnors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributior.s and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patient; and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the destimte 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„- Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Presoott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. Bernem-street ; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. N o . 23,653. Now ready, at all the Libraries. in 3 vols., COUNTRY COTERIES. By LADY CIIATTERTON. " A very interesting story. It displays throughout much ability, and contains some clever delineations of character."— Star. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE for APRIL, 1563. No. DO=E. Price 2s. Cd. CONTENTS. Horace : The Causes of his Popularity. Linda Tressel.—Part VII. Historical Sketches of the Reign of George lI.—No. 11. The Minister. William Edinondstoune Avtoun. Cornelius O'llowd.—Quack Remedies for Ireland—On our Partners in the Grand Cotillon—A New Opening for Younger Sons—On 1 6 Getting behind the Pump." Charles Kean and the Modern Stage. The Battle for Place. W. BLACKWOOD & SONS, Edinburgh and London. Just published, price is. Gd., by post is. 81, the Second Edition, with Addends, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus- tration of the nefarious aoceedings of the Advertising Quacks, RE VELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. 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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. 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. PROFE -4SOR TE NANT, F.G.S., COMM ENO ED A COURSE of LECTURES on GEOLOGY on FRIDAY, January 24, at 9 a.m. They will be continued on each succeeding Wed nesday and Friday at the same hour A shorter course is also given on Thursday evenings, from Bto 9. Text-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 LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately re lieving coughs, cold, confirmed cases of asthma, and inci pient consumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, and admirably allays the ticking which provokes frequent coughing. In approach ing consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca tion, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 13-id., and three quantities i n one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Larnbert's Asth matic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. DOWELL'S BALSAM OF ANISEED, for IL COUGHS, CCLDS, ASTLIM .1, 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 ls. lid., 2s. 3d., and Ils. each. Established nearly half a century. SATISFACTORY LETTER-. 5, Wood-street, Millbank, Westminster, October 5, 1867. _ _ _ _ Sir,—Some months back I had an'attack of Bronchitis, which left at times a tickling in my Throat, with other unpleasant feelings. I was advised to try the BALSAM OF ANISEED; I did so, and have found very great relief ; it is most comforting in allaying irritation, andgivlng 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 M r. 'Powell. Ask for PO WELL'S BALS AM of ANISEED. RUPTURES.-By ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected anti Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effacts, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while tho requi site resisting power is supplied by the tloc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it nnand may be worn during sleep. A de ca scrip o ti t v b c, e detected, circular rm may be had, and the truss, which can rot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. Gd., and 31s. 6d. Postage, is. A Double Truss, 31s. d., 425, and - 525. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT LASTIC STOCKINGS, JD KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose - Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous , lighti n texture, and inexpensive, and are drawnon g li ke an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 100., and 16s. each. Postage, Gd. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. 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, kloi 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.malk—Hon. Sec., F. Smith, 'sq. GEO. REID, Sec. FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.—LONDON F EMAL IC PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN STITUTION. President—Rev. CANON DALE. COIiTRMUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear neatly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Bosan quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, 1.:.C.; Francis Nicholls, Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.C. E. W. THOMAS, Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W. NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861 Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, MG., 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 lit them for domestic service; and, it not other wise provided for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain suitable situations for them. The Committee eqrnestly appeal for support. The Charity is entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. HENRY KINGSCOTE, Treasurer, W. H. WARWICK, Secretary. Office, 121, Pall-mall, NW IHE SUN, LQNDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1808. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE. COMPANY. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Acts of Parliament. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Policies should be renewed within fifteen days from the 25th inst. Receipts may be had of the various agencies and branches, and at the Head Office. London : 61, Threadneedle-street, E.C. „ West-End Office, 8, Waterloo-place, S.W. March, 1868. TnE MORTON TESTIMONIAL. EVE AL Gentlemen, friends of Mr. CIIARLES MORTON, of "THE OXFORD," have formed them selves into a Committee for the purpose of raising _FUNDS for a TESTIMONIAL, to be presented' to him, expressive of the high sense entertained both of his public character and private worth. Subscriptions already received : E. B. Jones, Esq .....£5 5 OJ. M. Levy, Esq £5 5 0 Fred. Strange, Esq. 5 5 0 Samuel Field, Esq 3 3 0 E. Williams, Esq... 5 5 0 E. Garcia, Esq 2 2 0 E. Loibl, Esq 5 5 0 E. Ayres, Esq 2 2 0 E. Winder, E5q..... 5 5 0 Mrs. 'Williams 2 2 0 C. BuQb, Esq 5 5 0 A.W.Bidduloti,Esq. 2 2 0 E.W.Mackney,Esq 5 5 0 C. J. Pa wle, Esq '2 2 0 D. Jacobs, Esq. 5 5 0 J. Macdonald, Esq 2 2 0 H. Hart, Esq 5 5 0 Miss Williams E. Villiers, Lsq 5 5 0 Master 1 11 6 W. Holland, Esq 5 5 0 Unsworth Eugene 1 1 0 W.Moreditb, Esq 5 5 0 R. Preece, Esq 1 1 0 J. S. S weasey,Esq... 5 5 0 A Friend 1 1 0 —. Brown, Esq 5 5 0 Messrs. Ray and Son 1 1 0 R. Botting, Esq 5 5 0 Mrs. Serbs, Knights- John Wilton, Esq 5 5 0 bridge 1 1 0 P. &J. Belton, Esq s. 5 5 0 S. Adams, Esq 5 5 0 F. Stqnley, Esq 5 5 0 Messrs. Winter and Sons 5 5 0 Miss Russell 5 5 0 H. Huggins, Esq... 5 .5 0 Sydney Jacobs, Esq. 1 1 0 J. Stevens, Esq.,. Margate 1 1 0 —. Watts, Esq 1 1 0 W. Smalley, Esq , 1 1 0 A. Wentzell, Esq 1 1 0 Subscription Books are open at the London and County Bank, Oxford-street Branch; and the East London Bank, Cornhill ; or Subscriptions will be recciv'd and acknow ledged by JOHN WILTON, Hon. qacretary and Treasurer. St. - James's Hall, March 10, 1668. pt - tAsltsrrs, PARTRIDGES, and A. POULTRY.—Landed Proprietors, Gentry, &c., of the United Kingdom wishing to rear Game for 1868 and to be successful, are respectfully asked to send six stamps for Mr. CHAMBERLIN'S new BOOK, containing SOO certificates of the utility of his FOOD. J. 0. supplies the Crowned Heads of England and France and the chief of the aristocracy. By the use of his "Spanish Meal" any quantity of birds can be raised. The hundreds of thousands of heads of Game reared on my system during the last ten years proves its utility ; the loss from every cause has not averaged three to the hun dred. Gapes and Roup (the two most fatal diseases which attack game) the birds have been and always are free from. This is attributable to their robust constitution and excellent condition. Pheasants fed on my food show their beautiful plumage with hardness and closeness of feather to the greatest advantage; they cannot be sur passed. The magnificent Foreign and English Pheasants at the Zoological Society's Gardens, London, and his Imperial Majesty's Pheasantry at Compiegne and St. Germains, are fed with my food. Address, Mr. JAMES CHAMBERLIN, Post-office street, Norwich, England. fijAPHANI.—APARTMENTS well Furnished V and highly Respectable in a Gentleman's Private 'Family, pleasantly sitwtte, with large G mien. Attend ance and every comfort. Very convenier.t for Rail or Omnibus to City and West-end. Apply at the Residenco, 34, Lark Hall Rise, Chipbam, S.W.; or to Mr. STEVENS, The Pavement, Clapham Common. 1 O BE LET, UNFURNISHED, a PARLOUR and TWO BED ROOMS, with G:l3, &c., in the most eligible part of St. Paul's-road, Camden—quire, N.W. Apply at 44 ) St. Paul's-road, Camden-square, N.W. .1 GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the enamel from dee ty, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price Is. Gd.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street, London. ''TEETH PAINLESSLY STOPPED, with JIL permanent enamel cement of the exact natural colour, guaranteed not to turn black or make the teeth look unsightly. ME. WEBB, DENTIST, 27, NEW BOND-STREET, Many years with Mr. EsicELL, of 8, Grosvenor-street. Bond-street. vi A FIE LD S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers, and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. BETTS'S CAPSULES.—Mr. BETTS, of No. 1, Wharf-road, City-rhad, desires to give public no tice 4Jiat the Lord Chancellor's judgments of the Bth inst. (see Times of the 10th inst.) do not in any way affect any person using any Capsules made by Mr. Betts, and bear ing his name, or name and address, all of which may be used without risk or question.—Fob. 15, 1868. SP ANISII COLONIAL £8 PER CENT. LOAN, 1868. For £2,335,000 NOMINAL, or, £2, 171,550 EFFECTIVE. For the use of, and secured upon the Revenues of, the Spanish Colonies of Cuba, Porto Rico, end the Philip pine Islands. II& Majesty the Queen of Spain having, by Royal de cree, under date of 19th of March, 1868, with the consent of the Council of Ministers, .auth3rised the above Loan, Messrs. Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt have contracted with the Spanish Government for the issue of such •Loan, and are now prepared to receive subscriptions at their Office, Founder's-court, Lothbury. By Art. 3 of the said Decree the Government of her Majesty engages to pay the Interest and Sinking Fund of this Loan, and by Art. 4 it secures it on the revenues of the Provinces of Cuba, Porto Rico, and the Phillippine Islands. _ _ The Loan will be emitted in Bonds to bearer of £lOO, £5OO, and £l,OOO each, bearing interest at 8 per cont. per annum, from the Ist September, 1868, with Coupons at tached, payable half yearly on the Ist March and the Ist September, at the Offices of Messrs. Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt, in London. Tho Bonds are by the Contract expressly exempted from taxes or duties of every kind on the part of the Spanish Government, and they will be signed laj , a representative of the Spanish Govertni-Hint,ThfifiriipPinTdd-forlite,pur pose. By the operation of a cumulative sinking fund the Bonds will be repayable in fifteen years from Ist March, 1868. _ _ _ The Bonds to be redeemed will be determined by half yearly drawings, in the presence of a Notary Public, in January and July in each year; and the Bonds drawn will be paid off at par, without any deduction, at the Offices of Messrs. Bischoffsheim and Goldschmidt, in Lon don, on the following Ist March and Ist September in each year. The first drawing will take place in January, 1870. The price of emission is £93 por £lOO, payable as follows : ...- . On application .£s per cont. On allotment l5 „ April 20 - May 20 l5 „ June 21 l5 „ July 20 August 20 £l3 Less Coupon for intermediate Interest, deducting Income Tax 2 .1 £9l per cent. Subscribers may anticipate the above periods of pay ment, and receive a discount at the rate of £4 per cent. per annum. In case of failure to pay any of the above instalments at the prescribed period, all previous payments will he liable to forfeiture. Application must be made in the annexed form, to the Imperial Bank, Lothbury, nocompanied by a deposit of £5 per cent. on the amount applied for. In case the allotment should not require the whole de posit the surplus will be returned. Scrip Certificates will be delivered in exchange for the Banker's receipt for the first instalment, which will b 3 exchanged for Bonds to ha issued as soon as possible after payment of the last instalment. Certified translations of the documents relating to this Loan may be seen at the Offices of Messrs. Baxter, Rose, Norton, and Co., 6, Victoria-street, Westminster Abbey, S.W. Prospectuses and forms of application may bo obtained at the same place ; at Messrs. Bischoffsheim and Gold sehmidt, Pounder's-court; and at the Imperial Bank, Lothbury, whore all payments are to be made. ALE BY AUCTION, by M. Vincent 1.7 CHAPUIS, Solicitor, Lyons, place Imperiale, 41 (to which foreigners will be admitted), in ONE LOT. In the sales court of the court of common pleas, Lyons (Tribu na l civil) of property belonging to coproprtetors, majors and minors, consisting of the MINES of Pyrite, Copper, Iron, and Zinc at Chessy and Sain-Bel (RhOne), the grant of which comprises 18,600 hectares, 46,96 U acres, THE', WORKS OF CHESSY, for the manufacture of chemical productions, and of all the landed property situated in that parish, comprising about 82 acres. THE BUILDINGS AND LANDS situated in the parishes of Sourcieux, Che vinay, Courzieux, Brussieux, Bessenay, Saint-Pierre-la- Palud and Sain-Bel (Rhone), comprising about 82 acres. MINES OF LA GIRAUDIERE, the right of which com prises about 741 acres. The right of seeking for mines at Saint-Clement-sous- Valsonne, Grandis and Vultorte (Rhone). WORKS OF ST.-FON4, parish of Venis s i eux (Rhone, for the manufacture of chemical productions, and of the landed property belonging thereto, comprising about 126 acres, served by a branch of the main railway line from Paris to Lyons and the Mediterranean. Also the lease of the chemical works of 11. Bouvard, senior, situate at Saint-Fong, parish of Venissioux (Rhone). WORKS OF SAINT-CHRIST, near Vienne (Isere), for the manufac ture of chemictil productions, including the lease of the buildings belonging to the mine and factory com pany, of the banks of the Rhone. WORKS OF L'OZE RAIE, near Avignon (Vaucluse), for the manufacture of chemical productions, and of the lauded property belonging thereto, comprising about 71 acres. Also the lease of the works of le Poutet, near Avignon (Vaucluse). WORKS of MARENNES (Charente-Infe rieure), for the manufacture of chemical productions and of thelanded property belonging thereto, comprising about 49 acres. OF AN ESTATE CALLED DU COFFEE and the rights of grant and seeking for mines, the whole situated at Moncoustant, in the parish of Cadarcet (Ara ridge). OF A PIECE OF LAND comprising about 7 or 8 acres, situated at Bobigny, in the plain of Saint- Denis, near Paris. OF A PIECE OF LAND, situated at Couternon (Cate d'Or), of the grant and right of seek ing for mines and of a piece of land, situated at Rochefort (Drome). (The stock and implements of the mines and works will be sold at the same time.) Ist Lot, piece of land and right of seeking for mines at Valsonne (RhOne). 2d Lot, right of seeking for mines at Chichilienne (here). Sale to take place on SATURDAY, 25th of April, 1868. To be put up at £280,000. (Signed) VINCENT CHAPUIS. N.B.—Apply for particulars—lst, to me CHAPUIS, pro secuting solicitor ; 2d, to me GERIN ; 3d, to me RUBY, colitigant solicitors. To the Record Office of the Court of Common Pleas, at Lyons, where the conditions are deposited and may be examined. To the firm, quai Saint-Antoine, where all the title deeds, documents, vouchers, inventories, and notes relative to the property may be examined. Copies of the plans accom panying the conditions are deposited at the Firm. Plans of the interior works of the Chessy and Sain-Bel mines may be consulted in the offices at bourcieux. PARTRIDGE AN]) COOPER' WHOLESALE MANUFAOTLJBING STATIONERS, 192' FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON, E.O. THE PUBLIC) SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES. "--__._- CARRIAGE PAID TO THE COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 202. Per ream. a. d. Fine Cream Laid Note : a ch e ap paper _ _______ ... 3 0 Superfine Cream Laid Note: much approved 4 0 Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note; especially recom mended 5 6 Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note 7 0 Straw Paper, " Patent;" adapted for rapid writing Large Commercial Note Papers 35., 45., 55., and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream .. ..... .10s. 6d., 12s. 6d., and 14 0 Outsides Foolscap, thick hand-made Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 45.; ruled ditto 4 6 Tinted Lined Note . five quires is. 6d., or 5 6 per 1,000 Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes 4s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 6 8 Extra Thick ditto, "Registered Secure" 9 0 Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes 4 6 . Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, & c . COLOUR STAMPING (Relief) reduced to is. per 100. Polished steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Rooks, Copying Presses, Inkstands, Stationery Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, Bags, &c., post free. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGUA AMARELLA 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 Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each, including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street, London, E.C. CONTRACT FOR TIN CANS FOR OIL. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, March 28, 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 WEDNES DAY, the Bth April next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford all such quan tities of 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 ny the London and Westminster Bank, 214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, E.O. • and by WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary. No. 8; Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. THE RESCUE F. %re as for 3OCIETY'S HOMES [lows : For Fallen Women. 28, Church-row, Vamp- 150, New Kent-road. stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke 13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington. town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green -205, Groat Portland-street. I wich. For Young Girls in Danger. 27, Church-row, Irampstead. 9, Honstridge-villas, St. John's-wood. St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill. Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover. Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside. The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. The committee 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 three homes for servants of good character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless servants annually. The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co. The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the benevolent. DANL. COOPER, Sec. 85, Queen-street, Cheapside. MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new de scription of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the ori nals by the closest observer ; they will never change colour or decay, and will be , found superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction, of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth i hat are loose, and is gua ranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in masti cation. . _ 52, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5. 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 rieut; are mild in their operation, safe under any cir cumstances, and thousands of persons can now boar testi mony to the benefits to be derived from their use, as they have been a never-failing Family Friend for upwards of 20 years. Sold in bottles at ls. lid., 2s. 9d., and lis. each, in every town in the kingdom. CAUTION. Be sure to ask for" NORTON'S PILLS," and do not be persuaded to purchase any of the various imitations which have sprung up in consequence of the success of " Norton's Camomile Pills." CONTRACTS FOR NORWAY SPARS. Contract Department, Admiralty, Sonierset House, March 20, 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 TUESDAY, the 14th April next, at T wo o'clock, they will be ready to trea with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for sevola supplying .lDoc a k n y d ard de s, livering 40 'Store, at her Majesty's 10,950 NORWAY SPARS, by the 31st December, 1868. The Spars (except such as may bo rejected) to be exempted from the payment of Customs duties. A Distribution of the Spars, and the Form of theTonder and Conditions of Contract, may bo seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's Department, Admiralty, Somer set 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 Norway Spars," and must also be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of £25 per cent. on the value for the due performance of the Contract. By order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Oontracts and Public Securities. TIN CANS, to contain oil, as shall from time to time be demanded under a Contract f or t we l ve mon ths certain, and, f ur th er , until the expiration of three months' warning. Their Lordships reserve to themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders. No Tender will be received unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, and which may be obtained on application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where the conditions of the Contract may be seen. No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon an the day of treaty; and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communicated to him and to his proposed sureties in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the loft-hand corner the words Tender for Tin Cans for Oil," and must also be delivered at the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admi ralty, Somerset House, signed by two responsible persons engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of £2OO for the due performance of the Contract. By order. ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. SAUCE. —LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. This delicious condiment, pronounced by connoisseurs "THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE," Is prepared solely by LEA and PERRINS. The public are respectfully cautioned against worthless imitations, and should see that Lea and Pardus' names are on wrapper, label, bottle, and stopper. ASK for LEA and PERRINS' SAUCE. Sold wholesale and for export by the Proprietors, Wor cester ; Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell ; Messrs. Barclay and Sons, London, &c., &c. ; and by Grocers and Oilmen universally. IMPREGNABLE SAFES AND LOCKS. Messrs. HOBBS, HART, and CO. call the special atten tion of BANKERS, GOLDSMITHS, JEWELLERS, and others in possession of valuable property, to their NEWLY PATENTED SAFE, which is so constricted as to be im pregnable against all the artifices of the BURGLAR in the use of the drill, the wedge, the screw, or the crowbar, by having its sides and angles held together by a system of Tubular Dovetailir.g, instead of the old practice of riveting; the Tubes by which they are hold together being filled by molten iron, so as to form a homogeneous mass, with the edges of the Safe overlapping - each other within the Tubes. The Doors are also protected by a newly-invented Lock, which is invulnerable against the most skilled class of burglars, as well as the most scientific mechanicians. LOCKS of every description for Mansions, Hotels, Dwelling-houses, &c., at moderate prices. Descriptive Price Lists free, on application to Messrs. HOBBS, HART, and CO., 76, CHEAPSIDE, E.C. CONTRACT FOR PIG IRON. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, March 23, 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 T UESDAY, the 7th of April next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into store at her Majesty's several dockyards 600 Tons of Soft Melting PIG IRON, according to a distribution which, with a form of the ofeticoenratiTec t' D m ep ay artment, Admiralty,- be seen in the lobby o te f nd t e h r e an s d conditions torekeeper G 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 Pig Iron," and must also be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a letter, signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 425 per cent. on the value, for the due performance of the contract. By order. ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. CONTRACT FOR HAMMOCKS.HAMMOCK S. C on t rac t Department, Ad m i ra lt y , S omerse t douse, Mar c h 11, 1868. • TIIE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND do hereby give Notice, th a t on TUESDAY, th e 7th April next, at 'Two o clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into Store, at her Majesty's Dockyard, at Deptford, 50,000 HAMMOCKS. Patterns of the Hammocks, and a Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contract, may be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's Department, AdMiralty, Somer set 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 Hammocks," and must also be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of £25 per cent. on the value for the due performance of the Contract. By order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. PAINLESS DENTISTRY. nESSRS. GABRI I E B k DENTISTS (Established London 56, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, 64, Ludgate-hill, 8.0., - Liverpool 134, Duke-street, and Brighton have just published a NEW PAMPHLET explaining their Painless System of Dentistry, and self-adhesive Artifi cial Teeth without springs, at MODERATE CHARGES, which may be had free by post for four stamps. GRERNBACK REDE3IP2ION. • (From the Anglo-American Times.) 'There is no country that manages to give a fuller expression to opinions on any passing question than the United States. But it is in the nature of such expression to be in a measure delusive ; for those most interested, even when a small minority, make their voices most loudly heard. We are not able as yet fully to realize the true strength of the current now running in favour of " Greenbacl Redemption," and its corollary, " Expansion." The facts arc that, depression having followed as a consequence on the inflation and waste of war, people feeling hurt, cry aloud for relief. A tight in my-market, stagnation in trade, burdensome taxation to make goof the vast expenditure, press at the very time that old channels of commerce have been dried lip. It need not surprise, that men should try to shake off the weight which bears most heavily, that crude and unreflecting ideas of finance should be enunciated, and mislead the ignorant and unscrupulous. In that portion of the country where the stringency is greatest, theorigin of the agitation may be looked for and afterwards its strength. In the Eastern States there is a glut of money, and interest rules lower than has been known for many years; but in the West money is difficult to procure and commands high terms. It was in the West, that the people most benefited by the war inflation, and it is there that the subsequent depression is most felt. Judg ing from conventions, from platform speeches, and from the principles enunciated by the popular can didates, we might conclude that a vast majority of the Western people are in favour of greenback re demption, and that the expansion theory, is only held in alesser degree. SHERMAN'S bill is a proof that leaders in the United States recognize the overwhelm ing strength of the torrent. In effect he says—" We re commend you, the bondholders, to divert the tide by accepting a compromise; a square opposition will bring its full force upon you, and you will be swept away altogether. Sacrifice a little, and you may thus save the great bulk of your investment." It is not the reduction of the interest from 6 to 5 per cent. with the guarantee on the face of the new Bond that it will be paid in gold which alarms the cre ditors of the United States ; it is the broken faith of those on whose honour they must wholly rely— the beginning of the end—the crevasse in the em bankment ! The question is—Does the Govern ment offer any better security for the five per cent. than for the six ?—that is, in surrendering a por tian of their claim, are the bondholders to get an equivalent ? If not, the matter is not one, of corn promise; but of coercion, for compromise is a settle ment by mutual concession. If it be coercion, who san tell where that coercion is to stop ? We all know that the man who can frighten another out of a portion of his rights seldom rests content till he has frightened his victim out of all—his suc cess being his incentive, and the very surrender on the part of the other that other's reason for a fur ther concession. What holds of individuals, holds of corporations and of nations. The bondholders, though not guaranteed repayment in gold on the face of their Bonds when issued, which in the igno rance of Legal-Tender notes was then thought imma terial, were in all other ways thus guaranteed by the authorized Ministers of the nation, by their agents, as well as by the clear statements of the Represen tatives and Senators who introduced and supported the loan bill. If advantage can be taken of an omis sion on which to ground a compromise forcing a concession from the creditors under a threat of using the omission against them, what is to prevent similar action in the future? The Govern ment will have committed an act, which, to say the least, is questionable ; those who lose character as a rule desire to get an equivalent for the loss, and the odds therefore are in favour of a further attack on the bondholders. They can never afterwards consider themselves safe; for any depression in trade will end in their being mulcted. It is then advisable for the creditors to make a strenuous stand against the first step, and it is worth while considering what chances they have of prevailing in such a struggle. In the first place, they have the benefit of a moral right. Hear what a former Chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means publicly said on the floor of the House at the time of contracting the debt—" A dollar in a miser's safe, unproductive, is a sore disturbance. Where could they invest it ? In United States loans at six per cent., redeemable in gold in twenty years—the best and most valuable permanent in vestment that could be desired. . . But widows and orphans are interested, and in tears lest their estates should be badly invested. I pity no one who has money invested in United States Bonds, payable in gold in twenty years, with interest, and semi-annually." It does not lessen the force of our 1:W 5 I' U'i T es—_p T. 72 L\' I~\ `~ '~ ~_~ V ~! ' ~~w • 1 ~ _ i i... R h. f I: , ' Cihs ; - ( -1 -:::. t' , THE COLLECTION OF INCOIMILA' ..'-- . i ,4. --0,------ \,4 . , i - ~ , y .4 . , / Mr. Mill has addressed the following letter Aht ic.-edit_;.L,L,/ of the Daily News :—" Sir, there has been somMlisclA sion in this day's papers on the unsatisfactory character of the revenue returns for the financial year just expired, so far as regards the income tax, the proceeds of which are said to be short by £663,000 of what they ought to be, if the additional penny imposed on account of the Abyssinian expedition had not been countervailed by a general falling off in the produce of the tax. But, if I may judge from what has taken place in my own neighbourhood, the amount of income tax collected up to the 31st of March is no test at all of the real produce of the year just expired. It is well known how anxiously Govern. ments used to exert themselves to get in every farthing of revenue that could be collected on the very last day of each quarter, in order that the quarterly, and still more the annual statements might exhibit the most favourable aspect possible. So far, however, is this course from having been taken en the present occasion, that neither I, nor, I believe, any person in this district, have yet been called upon for any income tax whatever on the year just expired, repeated inquiries at the collector's office having been met by the answer that he had not yet received the papers from the Income Tax Commissioners. It is not likely that this district is single in being thus dealt with. Is there a desire, not, as usual, to make the returns appear favourable, but to make them appear unfavourable, in order to obtain a readier acquiescence in additional taxation? At all events, it is fair to conclude that the apparent failing off in the pro ductiveness of the income tax is in part, if not wholly, a fallacious appearance, caused by the omission to collect the tax before the financial year had expired?' THE W BATHER DURING MARCH. The past month was remarkable for its mild and dry weather and high temperature—rather a contrast to last year, when we were visited by easterly winds for 23 days., ~This yeax the wind was not easterly from the llth of January till the 27th of the month. The greatest height of the barometer occurred on the 29th, it reading on that day, at 9 a.m., 30'612in. (barometer corrected for temperature, and reduced to mean sea level). The lowest was on the Bth, at 9 a.m., when it stood at 29'103 in. corrected and reduced). The mean atmospheric pressure was 29'990in. (corrected and reduced), it being 0 . 230 in. in excess of the corresponding month of last year, and 0.063 in. above the average mean of the last six years ending 1866. The greatest heat (in the shade) was on the 31st, 59'0 deg. being registered on that date. The greatest degree of cold occurred on the 25th, when the thermometer was at 29 . 3 deg. The greatest diurnal range was on the 31st, the maximum temperature being 59'0 deg., and the minimum 33'8 deg., shewing a range of 26 deg. The mean temperature was 44'3 deg., 2'6 deg. above the average mean of the last six years ending 1866. The mean temperature of the dew-point (taken from two diurnal observations) was 39.4 deg. Assuming saturation at 100, as deduced from Mr. Glaisher's tables, third edition, the mean degree of humidity (also taken from two diurnal observations) was 83 deg., exactly the same average mean of the last- six years ending 1860, Frost was registered on two nights. The greatest fall of rain occurred on the 25th, on which day 0 '4lin. was registered. The rainfall, which ex tended over eighteen days, was 1 . 12 inches, it being 213 inches below the corresponding month of last year. The total rainfall for the last three months was 6 . 00 inches, and the corresponding month of last year 7'07 inches. The prevailing winds during the month were the equatorial winds, which arc from S. to W. inclusive. The greatest force of wind during the 24 hours was on the sth, front \V.N.W., 13silb. pressure being registered on the square foot; and the accumulated force of wind was from W. S. W., 84;1b. on the square foot. The polar winds were equal to 441 b. to the square foot. The transitions to polar winds were equal to 1721 b. The equatorial winds were equal to 25111 b., and the transitions to equatorial were only equal to 21b. The amount of horizontal movement of the air shown by Robinson's cup anemometer, during the past month was 6,032 miles, at the rate of 1971 miles in the 24 hours, equal to a continued pressure of 5/oz. on the square foot. RAILW AYS AND THE PUBLIC. A paper on the question " How to make railways remunerative to the shareholders, beneficial to the public, and profitable to the State," has been read at the Society of Arts by Mr. Raphael Brandon. 3 Tr. Webster, Q.C., occu pied the chair. Mr. Brandon's proposal is that Govern ment should avail itself of the power it possesses, and unite the whole of the railways under one general management, so that they should become a recognised branch of the public service, available for the whole population —a passenger being enabled to travel one journey of any distance in one given direction at a sum little more than nominal. lie supposes that the numbers at present tra velling would be increased six fold if they could travel one journey of any distance in one direction for the sum of areepeneo, which is the minimum sum he has based his calculations upon. Existing fares under the proposed minimum prices may remain as at present ; they are comparatively few, and would not affect the calcu lations. lie finds that during the year ending 1865, passenger trains to the number of 3,448,509 ran over 71,206,818 miles, carried 251,959,862 passengers, and produced £14,724,802 ; this gives au average of nearly 21 miles and 73 passengers for each train, that is about 34 passengers for each mile, the average fare paid by each pas senger being ls. 2d. Six times the number of passengers could be carried for a very small (if any) additionalexpense, and if a universal fare of 2d. was charged for any distance for each person, at a very moderate computation six times the present number would travel, and would produce £18,896,989, being £4,172,187 in excess of the present receipts. This calculation is made supposing that each person pays only a 3d. fare ; but as it would be necessary to divide the passengers into different classes, a much larger receipt may be reckoned upon ; for this pur pose he would divide the traffic first in half, supposing that half the passengers would travel by single fares, and these he would sub-divide into three classes as follows: at one shilling for first class, sixpence for second class, three pence for third class. The other half be considers would take yearly tickets, which would be issued for first and second class passengers at £25 and £l5 each respectively, giving the holders the privilege of travelling any distance in any direction, in carriages provided expressly for their use, With respect to goods traffic, he has not thought fit to enter into any calculations. Doubtless it would increase, but he does not think it at all likely to increase in the same proportion as the passenger traffic. For the Government to take up the railways no money would be needed; each shareholder would receive in return for his shares Government railway stock, bearing interest at 4 2-stbs per cent., guaranteed by the State. The idea of carrying a passenger from London to Edinburgh for 3d. may be said to be preposterous, but we must remember that it was not until Sir Rowland Hill had shewn its feasibility that anyone thought it reasonable to take a letter from London to Edinburgh for the same charge as from London to Richmond. It may be said that the analogy does not exist, that the half-ounce of a letter is nothing, but that a passenger is really heavy, and makes some difference in the cost of running a train. In reply, he says that the delivery of a letter is the most expen sive part of its cost to the Post Office, whereas a pas senger takes himself away ; that the average of trains run could each carry six times as many passengers as are now conveyed by them, and though the expense might be slightly increased, the increase could be but extremely small, while the receipts would be enormously augmented. The public would speedily reap the advantages of a com plete and harmonious system of management, with regular and continuous trains running in all directions, and a general diminution of expense ; trade would be benefited enormously by the increased facilities of traffic, while the effect upon the money market of at once converting ,£413,000,000 of sunk capital into readily convertible securities would be a stimulus of enormous value to the country. NEW ACT ON PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS.—By an Act of Parliament, which has received the Royal Assent, fees and other casual receipts, which from ancient usage, &c., have been .received by persons holding public offices under the Crown, are now to be paid into the Exchequer to the credit of the Consolidated Fund. Al deputation from the Royal Agricultural Society, consisting of Lord Walsingham, Lord Bridport, Lord Chesham, Colonel Kingscote, M.P., Mr. Torr, Dfr. Randall, and Mr. Hall Dare (secretary), has waited upon the Prince of Wales with the request that his Royal e lli-hness would act as president of the society during the ensuing year, to which the Prince consented. The Duke of Richmond (president) was unavoidably prevented from accompanying the deputation. R ED UCTION o f W.toES IN TILE IRON T RADE. — On Wednesaay the colliery proprietors Of South Stafford shire held a meeting at the Swan llotel, Wolverhampton, to consider the course to be pursued now that the Iron masters' Association have resolved to reduce the price of finished iron, and the rate of wages of the ironworkers. The district embraced by the meeting is what is known as the thin-coal, as distinguished from the thick-coal district (chiefly in East Worcestershire), and that is mainly de pendent upon the iron trade. - On other occasions when a rise or fall has taken place in iron and wages, there has been a corresponding movement in the thin-coal business, the change being a rise or fall, as the case may be, of 3d. a day in the miners' wages. This practice has been observed in the course which the meeting pursued, for it was re• solved " That the wages of colliers and miners be reduced day."