The Sun. — London, England, 1868-01-24 00:00:00

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(as he S SUC- , ENT of el the Jon s- Lion of affairs td that NTON'S it was of the ght ba Seniite (lonbt3 If Mr. vote in ? lle IN, and et; but ate has turned hat will size the k-Chief :e their d feud Rith )ded hi efeats ; e 81111 z' happy ) is the ,e PRE- s back. 'd, arid it there roceed- silent© 3rificed ty, and receive him an i 'limes. ttion, De and I:vei ;ce 'crated Le by Da woved by ess, SLICK ver com e throats aead and neuralgia, rn, head sicknesc, scrofula, nach and le's health ome, July specially d himself which he ed a sur ;ss cannot lazette du ts, tirabet aed lungs, deafness. Lieut. of Fifty 1 , 011611055 . mess and ' the man,: L, withou • ttaetied.- 5 lbs. Us.; 0., No, 71, ?iceadilly ; 0, and 259, iste. BawtrY, ;e, Black trbord, of buildings , 'sanurcb, of the late e, to Jane , Dyco, COL m Church 54: s 20th of M. 11* lace, Clif 3aptain . -ilegent's [ard ca stl e, e y WOO' Pauer: 6 onieroct, WEB WS No 112 ' OoontY of High-class Wines at wholesale prices. Spirits and Beers, &C. Private room for Parties. HAMPERS PREPARED AND SENT OFF TO ORDER. Terms, CAS On and after MONDAY, Dec. 9, SUPPERS from Nine p.m. to One a.m. Manager, CH A.IILES CASTLE. "(IN AHAN'S EX T H A IB . ITIOVNHIIBSeSK Y. - DUBLIN This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles. 3s. Si., at the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at 8. GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork Branded " Kina han's LL Whisky." M- UTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament. 1859), 11 RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON, ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free hold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay able weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. T H E 0 X F OR D, 6. OXFORD-STREET, W. During the Week will be given a GRAND SELEC TION from Offenbach's Comic Operetta, ORPIJEE AUX ENFERS, LA TROVATORE, and the New Cantata MERRY CHRISTMAS. Principal Artistes: Misses Russell, Rivers, and Fitz- Ilenry ; Messrs. Bury, Marler, 11. Greene, dDe Brenner. Pull Baud and Chorus: Instrumentalists an : Miss Bryant ; Messrs. Paque, Melling, and Plumpton. COMEDY, &c., by the LEVITES, Miss awl Mr. FOS TER, FRED. FREN3II, Mr. H. RICKARDS, and ALFRED PERRIER. Mr. E. W. MACKNEY will make his appearance again this evening. Conducfor—Mr. F. Jonghtnans. Private boxes. 10s. 6d. ; stalls, balcony, and grand pro menade, Is.—THIS EVENING. CANTERI3URY HALL-NEW MANAGEMENT. —Great Success under the management of W. HOLLAND , Sole Lessee, lat , Proprietor of Weston's Music Hall. Great Alterations and Improvements.—An entire new Company.— First appearance of Oliver's Christy Minstrel troupe. Great success of Mr. Fred. Evans (of the Royal Alhambra and Crys tal Palace), Miss Randall, E. Towers, Vincent. Simpson. Garrett, and corps de ballet. Ballet, en titled BUMBLE. STUMBLE, and TUMBLE, with new scenery and effects. Original music by Alfred Lee. The Great Vance, Nat Ogden, Pat Sellers, Annie Adams, Master Goodman, Brothers Girarde, Leroni, Miss Fitz henry. A magnificent band, numbering 23 performers, assisted by the drums and bugles of the 2d Battalion Scots Fusilier Guards. Musical Director, Mr. Alfred Lee, composer of "Cham pagne Charlie." Mr. James Ellis, assistant manager. Prices of Admission—Balcony and Area, 6d. Stalls, ls. Doors open at 7, commence at half-past. Special Notice.—George Leybourne, the original Champagne Charlie, is exclusively engaged for this establishment only, and Will shortly appear. WEST° N'S GRAND MUSIC HALL. Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey. The Great VANCE; GEORGE LEYBOURNE, the Lion Comique; JEAN BOND, the unrivalled Equilibrist; the Brothers DANIELS; SIDNEY BARNES; Miss ALICE DUNNING; Miss FITZWILLIAMS. Every Evening. Bishop's and Hatton's celebrated Glees, by Miss TREMAINE, Miss Melville, It. Lascelles, T. Godden, and Mr. P. CorH. Full Orchestra, which will perform the popular Overtures of the Great Masters. The whole under the direction of Mr. P. CORRI. The doors will open at 7. commence at 7.30. No alteration in the prices of admission. Private boxes, 10s. 6d., to be secured at Mitchell's Royal Library, Old Bond-street; and Sams' Library, St. James's; also at the Box-office at the Hall from 10 until four o'clock. Special Notice.- The astonishing Hicken Family on Feb. 3; A rthur Lloyd on F e b. 10 ; Miss Smithson, Jolly Nash, Hairy and Xattio King, and Oliver's Christy Minstrels on Easter Monday. A-DAME 1 USSAMYS EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. Life-size PORTRAIT MODEL of THEODORE, KING of DYSSINIA, is now added; also all the Kings and Queens of ."11,g'lind, American Celebrities, etc. A PORTRAIT MODEL FREDERICK BAKER, is now added to the Chamber of orrors. Open from 11 till dusk, and from 7 to 10. Admittance, ".; children under 10, 6d. Extra rooms, Gd. ARGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly _ . Sole Proprietor, Mt R. R. BRINELL. This mamificent Terpsichorean and Musical Establishment, by ~,g been Re-decorated in the highest style of Italian art Messrs. Rubardt and other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN _or. the AUTUMN SEA SON. S olo Euphon i on . Si g nor Mona. ( : )10 Cornet, 31. Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti. Doors open at halt-past 8. Admission, is.; Reservea Seats, 2s. VEANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers, and wholesale of JOHN BURCIESS and SON. 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM. -AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacioug and pleasant, is adulated to be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, Confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient consumption. It fre quently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, and admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption its effects are truly be neficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief in a few minutes after tak ing it. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, °I, Xing William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by all drug- Eists, in b o ttl es, 134 d., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. .I . T particular, and ask for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam) The "'tine and address are engraved on the stamn. QPANISII FLY is the acting ingredient , in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily til'!)duces whiskers and thickens hair, Price Is. Gd..and 6 ` 1 •; sent by post for 54, 84, 3114144 stamps,—ALEX. ROSS, Holborn, London, and all Chemists. "Tale of a Hair," 61 WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in one clay by usire.r ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. This pre • Pp.ration gradual:y iLte 'urn in a few hours, re , • lug the very r0.,! - . en , Ly t fur GU stamps.- • 1:14,1‘ ...• IFIAIII-CUELING FLUID, ITigh Tiolborn, L , Lowrin n ._ :I IX. 'I"iILING FLUID curls 3 :'uic's' 0011:!oul,11 . , 11:Cr :limp: , y applied. Sold at 5,. (;.1. r 1. • • • l, t'i. an 1111 stumps. of all t C r REY HAIR.— 9 4R. II i 11011 - lorn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S lIAIR DYE nroduces a perfect colour a ule diately it is used. It is pel'in.in It, and perfectly natural in Acet. Price 3s. Gd.. ss. GI.. and la,. sent by post for 54, 84, 4, 144 ntarcins; and all Cheinis:, Bloom of [I Alit DESTROYER.- -2-18, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. Ross",-; DEPILATORY removes super -o°llB hair from the face , neck_ and arms, without effect to the _, IL Price 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. 61; sent for 54, 84, and 144 —4l Pe.—llad of all Chemists. Skin Tonic, ss. 61 DIMPLE REMOVER. All diseases of the SKIN improved by one dose of ILEX. ROSS'S VEGE i43:ILE PILLS. They remove redness, sallowness, .to. 20 d. and 7s. Gd.; or post for 40 and 100 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 'ugh Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 21. ML Alit COL( -- )un \\„: damping the ten, (1 , , „head wt hth::; I,e,:u: if ,1 1:y W:th, in seven O the ha i r assittn, its and s remains so by r _asional using. 10,. stampa.—ALEX BOA t ligh llolborn, Lond.tu. :.0 1 a!: Chemists. rJust published, 2d.; sent by the author for 3 stamps, GIANESS and BEAUTY ; being a Pamphlet an desvriptive or ar.iele, an I means used for improving the .10S:i, *2lB Holborn, London. IALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. 011 -BARRY'S delicate hee.th-restoring Invalids and Infants' Food. S ave. THE REVALENTA ARABICA dig est t 3' tirnes its cost in other remedies, and restores pertee ee , styong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, rofreshing Junctional regularity, and energy to the mos! disordered ki,Qeebleci---removing speedily and effectually indigestion pia (liarrha, Cough, asthma, consumption, habitual coustipation, ce ' all gastric derangements, latemorrhouls, liver cora 181n' debilit eiplit,_ flatulency, nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, r4,,,, e a r t la, catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and Y, dropsy, cramps, gout, impurities, eruptions, heartburn nenra Y, sl eeplessness, acidity, palpitation, . headache,. vregrianc spasms, nausea and sickness even Of t 3' or at . sea, sinking fits, bronchitis, scrofula, tightnessthe th eil f,',"eat, pains at the pit of the stomach . and between and ,`_`9's• It is the most digestible and nourishing of all foods, ~,IJJtable for invalids and infants in all complaints. CAUTloN.—Beware of the many unsavoury , and 1,41 .. ; 1 1an sloppy imitations to which, without authority, Baron i e t' e s n ame is most audaciously attached. eforth none will doubt the valuable properties of Du F,bdhealth-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' and Infants' Si 1104%nce to the thousands of blessings it has already received ci nv s aljda whose position had been deemed hopeless, we may pe rf that of his Holiness the Pope, whose health has been tr eai .VJ restored by it after thirty years of unsuccessful , med , xua. `! ‘ , l t : We quote from the "Gazette du Midi," July 2a b ure Path er ''. l '):—" Rome, July 21st, 1366.—The health of the Holy di es, h.,1 excellent. especially since, abandoning all . other rs, , ine- Arabie'zi rood, confined himself entirely to Du Barvy :12evalLuta It of which he consumes a plateful at hl ilothteed a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health ano ci,,J..ieoii!ieSS cannot praise this excellent food too highly." liv e , g e( _ > N . 53,26 of th Marci.eness Behn, ven y?as' uio 1 plaint, wasting e away. li debility, ner r vou a sness, s irritabilitry, les,i,..ervcus palpitation all over, had digte.stion. constant sleep , eur„,: s : a nd the most intolerable nervous agitation. D„ - 0 . 78, of dyspepsia, front the Right Hon. the Lord St u a r t ha ve Lord - lieutenant of the County ofWaterford: —" 1 btc...,,lser_irea much benefit from your excellent DX dpsp,romna, Ca ppou County Witt erf . ,;r,,.' 0. 49 ,832.—0 f fifty years' indescribable agony from En„=_Dsla, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency. FiCklif'SS, and voiniriii4. 21:tritt Jolly. of Lynn. Norfolk: No. 47,121. —Miss Elirt - theth ,bleobs, of extreme nervous cur,n(l,:getien, gall; erings, iow slY:r:ts, and ncrvi,u, fancies. dia ri , l l: l\ 4 . Samuel Layton, Leicester, of two years , The i 'a. nod s sold i n C an!sters, at Is. lid.; llb., 2s. 9d.: 2ib., car r i a *4 121 1)., 228.; '24:b., 40s. The 1211). and 241 b. ca.ni,tcrc free on re ce i pt f Post-office Order, by BARRI Yttdand Co.. 77. Regent-street, London; also at Fur , e-tn on s, and sold by all respectable Grocers and Chemists. ON and After the Opening of the Queen's Theatre, Long-Acre, EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre FVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatr , EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. LONDON SINGING AND SUPPER CLUB. AT EVANS' COVENT (kARDEN VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT At Eight o'Clock. CIOMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANS ATLA \ TIQUE, A Place Vendome, Paris. NEW YORK, via HAVRE and BREST. The undermentioned Steamers will sail every 14 days, as fol lows:— NAPOLEO II Paddle VILLE DE PARIS Screw PEREIRE Screw ST. LAURENT Screw EUROPE Paddle ' RATES OF PASSAGE. Havre or Brest to New York, Ist class, £33 0 0 ~ 2d class, 17 0 0 3d class, 14 0 0 11 Agents—STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CO., S, Austinfriars, E.C. D U.N VILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH. WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. " V.R." IRISH WHISKY. jUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.O Established 1808. Quotations on application. T 0 0 ING HABITS, ROUND SHOULDERS, PIGEON CHESTS and other Deformities, are prevented and cured by wearing CHANDLER'S IMPROVED HYGIENIC CHEST EXPANDING BRACE, for both sexes of all ages. It strengthens the voice and lungs, relieves indigestion, pains in the chest and back, and is especially recommended to children for assist, ing the growth, promoting health and symmetry of figure, super seding the use of braces and stays. Price from los. 6d. each. —66, 13eruers-street, Oxford-street, W Illustrated circulars for warded. CEOLOGY.-KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. PROFE-SOR TENNANT. will commence a COURSE of LECTURES on Gb.OLOGY 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 will also be given on Thursday evenings from Bto 9. First Lecture, Jan. 23. Text-Bock, Lyell's "Elements of Geology." Professor Tennant accompanies his students to the Public Museums, and to places of Geological interest in the country. It. W. JKLF, D.D., Principal 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, is. 10d. Tea for the million, ls. ld. Price Lists post free on application at 9, Great St. Helen's Church-yard, Bishopsg,ate-street. FURNISHED HOUSES, from £2 2s. to £2O per Week.—D. S. HUMPHRIES his at all times a number of Firs.-class RESIDE CESto be LET. furnished or unfurnished, or sold, more artioularly in the neighbour hoods of Svdenham, Upper Sorwood. Forest-hill. and vici nity.—particulars may be had at the Office, Printing House square. HOUSES and APARTMENTS WANTED. and to be LET or SOLD, BUSI lESSFS for DISPOSAL, ( to, PROPERTY, FREEHOLD or LEASEHOLD. D. T. HUMPHRIxS has continual applications for all descriptions of PROPERTY which will pay good interest for outlay. Houses out of repiir not objected to. T. D. Humphries can at all times find customers for all descrip tions of businesses. Hotels, public houses, &e, sold and. transferr,d. Apply, D. T. Humphries, Estate Agent, Print ing House-square. DEAFNESS. —The Spiral Ear Tube, for Relief of Deafness (with Instructions for its use), fits spirally round the ear so close, and being flesh-colour, is unseen. Also Conversational Tubes, Cornets, Trumpets, and every other kind of hearing instruments.—SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. The ACHROMATIC and TINTED SPECTACLES, registered by S. and B. SOLOMONS, can only be obtained at their estab lishment, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. Copies of Testimo nials from the Ophthalmic Hospital. MR. 11.01\':', i,D, i:LG-EON-DEITIIST, 52, intr,du:•ed an entirely new description of 21.1iTIFillai, ;,xO , l without springs, wires, or liga tures. They so peilecity r_•,,ntl}le the natural teeth as not to be distinguished fio%:ni on:l1;.ils by the closest observer; they will never ;.r dec,:y, and will be found superior to any teeth ever bef,i'e method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that are loot,, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth stopped and ren dered sotuld end useful in masl:eation. L'2 , •-' 42e, - ,t. At home from 10 tills SCOT I"S LIVER AND BILIOUS PILLS.--A I\ EVER-FAILING REMEDY.—Prepared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddi ness, dizziness of the eyes, ,tc. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Prepared only and sold by W. Lam bert, Chemist. 6, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by most druggists, in boxes, Is. 14d., and three times the quantity in one, ud. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Yids. The renuine are a square green 'ackage, with Witham Lauber;:' engraved on the stamp. POWELL'S BALSAM OF ANISEED, for COUGHS, COLDS, 'ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, Sore Throat, Difficulty of Breathing, and all similar affections of the Respiratory Organs. Sold by Chemists and Medicine Vendors throughout the World. In Bottles only, price ls. 14d., 2s. 3d., and Ile. each. Established nearly half a Century. SATISFACTORY TATTER. 6, Wood-street, Milibank, Westminster, October 5, 1887 SlR,—Some months back I had an attack of Bronchitis, which left at times a tickling in the Throat, with other unpleasant feel ings. I was advised to try the BALSAM OF ANISEED; I did SO, and have found very great relief; it is most comforting in allay. ing the irritation, and giving strength to the voice. You are at liberty to make use of this as you think proper, and I earnestly hope that Others may benefit by it as I have done. With many thanks from your obedient servant, SAW:IBL DEAR, Dean's Verger, Westminster Abbey, To Mr. Powell. Ask for POWELL'S BALSAM of ANISEED PARTRIDGE AND COOPER , WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 102' FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY -LANE), LONDON, E.G. THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES. CARRIAGE PAID TO THE COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s. Per ream. 11. d. Fine Cream Laid Note: a cheap paper 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 33., 45., Is., and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream los. Gd., 12s. 6d., and 11 0 Outsides Foolscap, thick hand-made Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 45.; ruled ditto 4 6 Tinted Lined Note five quires ls. 6d., or 5 6 per 1,000 Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes 4s. Gd., Is. 6d., and 6 6 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 Accou n t B oo k s, C opy i ng P resses , Inkstands, Stationery Cabinets. Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, Bags, &c., post free. BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND FaHiIITTXD IN THE GREAT EXHIBI ows of 1851 and ISO), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be thd most effective invention in the cure. Live treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn teund the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moo-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that* cannot be detected, and maybe worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the Circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Yr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 106., 215., 2ss. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 81s. 6d., 425., and 625. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd. 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Funds greatly needed for their support. CHARLES A. WALKER, Sea Offices, 9G, Cheapside, E.C. et REAT NOE ml ERN HOSPITAL, I. Islington, N. Supported I.t. V ry Contributions. This Hospital ha,-, relieve t 1 t patients since it WED estalr &hod at King's-cross in I <,t; its are admitted free. Raukers—Menses. Its Ca t. , ICI Co., 60, Lombard-streeq Messrs. Ransom and B. n • ..'- - .lla,ll.—lfon. Sec., F. Smith, Esq. Gso. REID. lien. ROYAL F.REE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate •`einity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's-cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. Vice-Patron--His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the de lay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. 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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 Despatch, Public Opinion, and other journals, recommending its universal perusal are reprinted with this edition OONSOLIDATED BANK (Limited).—At a k) General Meeting of the Proprietors, held at the Lon don Tavern, Bishops;ate-street, in the City of London, on Thursday, 23d January, 1868, JOHN PENDER, Esq., in the Chair, the following Report was presented : In laying before the shareholders their usual half-yearly stateuient of accounts, the directors wish to draw attention to the general stagnation of trade and to the low rate of discount which have prevailed throughout the last six months. The bank has, during that period, made steady pro gress, and the number of its customers exhibits a continu ous increas The accounts show that, after payment of all current expenses, interest to customers, rebate of interest on bills iu hand, income tax, and directors' remuneration, there remains a net profit for the six months of £27,263 9 1 To which has to be added the balance from last half-year of B,lBB 4 7 Making a total of This sum it is proposed to appropriate as follows : To the payment of a divi dend, for the half-year, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free of income tax To reserved surplus fund (which, with interest already added, will then amount to £100,000) To special reserve fund (which will then be £20,000) Carrying forward to next account the balance of .£35,45113 8 It will be seen that in pursuance of the precautionary policy set forth in their last half-yearly statement, the di rectors have added a further sum of £lO,OOO to the special reserve fund. The directors have to lament the death of one of their most valued colleagues, Mr. James Aspinall Turner, the late deputy-chairman of the bank. His services to this institution, from his first connection with it to the period of his death, merit their ample and grateful recognition. The post thus rendered vacant has been offered to, and accepted by, Mr. Murray Gladstone. The directors retiring by rotation are Messrs. Matthew Curtis, Thomas Fairbairn, Edward Ryley Langworthy, Ivie Mackie, and John Fender. 'These gentlemen being eligible, will be proposed for re-election. The meeting will also be invited to elect two auditors. Messrs. David Chadwick and William Cooper offer them selves for re-election. The dividend warrants will be payable on and after the Ist February next. J. P. HEYWOOD, Chairman. BALANCE SHEET, DEC. 31, 1867. Dn. LIABILITIES. To capital paid up: 200,000 shares of £4 £BOO,OOO 0 0 each To reserve surplus fund To special reserve lO,OOO 0 0 To amount due by the bank on current, deposit, and other accounts... 2,184,783 7 1 To acceptances To balance of profit and loss auount, 30th June, 1867 B,lBB 4 7 To balance, being gross profits for the half-year ending 31st December, 1867, after payment of interest tacustomers, and making provision for bad and doubtful debts £3,247,427 16 1 Cu. ASSETS. By investments in Government Stocks, viz., New Three per Cents. and Three per Cent. Reduced £107,602 8 8 By cash in bank, at Bank of England, and at call By hills discounted, loans, and other securities By bank premises, London (Thread needle-street and Fenchurch-street) 190,752 5 0 By current expenses, London and Man chester 13,372 10 11 £3,247,427 16 1 PROFIT AND" Loss ACCOUNT. DR. To current expenses, London and Man chester, income tax, directors' remune ration, Ste To rebate on bills discounted, not yet due 4,506 1 11 To proposed dividend, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum 20,000 0 4 0 To reserved surplus fund 3,100 0 0 To special reserve lO,OOO 0 0 To balance carried forward to next ac count £53,330 6 6 CR. By balance of gross profits brought down £45,142 111 By balance of profit and loss account, June 30, 1867 B,lBB 4 7 £53,330 6 6 REPORT OF / THE AUDITORS. To the Shareholders of the Consolidated Bank (Limited). We have to report that we have examined the accounts and balance sheet of the Bank for the half year ending 31st December, 1867, and have signed the same as ex hibiting a true and correct view of the state of the corn pany's affairs, in conformity with the deed of settlement. DAVID CHADWICK (Chadwick & Co.)} Auditors. WM. COOPER (Cooper Brothers & Co.) 15th January, 1868. The Secretary having read the notice convening the meeting, the report and balance-sheet were taken as read. It was moved by the CHAIRMAN, seconded by Mr. J. P. KENNARD, and resolved unanimously : "That the report of the directors he received and adopted, and that the same be printed and circulated among the shareholders." It was resolved unanimously as follows : " That the following gentlemen, who retire by rotation from the board of directors, be and are hereby re-elected directors of the company : Messrs. Matthew Curtis, Thomas Fairbairn, Edward ltyloy Langworthy, Ivie Mackie, and John Fender." "That a dividend for the half-year ending 31st Decem ber, 1867, be now declared, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, free from income tax, and payable on the Ist February next." " That Messrs. David Chadwick and William Cooper be and are hereby re-elected as auditors of the company." "That the thanks of the proprietors be given to the chairman for his courteous conduct in the chair, and to the board of directors for their zealous attention to the affairs of the bank." "That the thanks of the meeting be given to the mana gers and other officers of the bank for their services dur ing the past half-year.' JOHN FENDER, Chairman. Extracted from the i AGAR, Secretary. CONSOLIDATED BANK (Limited). — Subscribed Capital Paid-up Capita 1........... Reserve Fund lOO,OOO JOHN PEMBERTON HEYWOOD, Esq., London and Liverpool, Chairman. MURRAY GLADSTONE, Esq., Manchester, Deputy- Chairman. London—City Office, 52, Threadneedle-street. Manchester—Office, 46, Pall id :di. Loudon —Charing-cross Branch, 450, West Strand. Current accounts kept London on the terms ruling with the Joint Stock Banks. Deposit Accounts —Money will be received on deposit at seven days' notice of withdrawal. The rate of interest al lowed will vary with the Bank rate, and will be announced from time to time by public a dvertisement. The Bank will also receive money on deposit fur a fixed period, at a rate to be agreed upon. Circular notes and letters of credit issued, and every other description of banking business transacted. By order, T. J. AGAR, Secretary. i t,mi; : ir FOR INDIGESTION. NORTO N'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi dently reoommenticd as a simple but certain Remedy for indigestion, which is the cause of nearly all the diseases to which wo are subject, being a medicine so uniformly gratef u l and beneficial that it is with justice called the " Natural Strengthener of the Human Stomach." "Norton's Pills" act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient; are mild in their operation, safe under any circumstances, and thousands of persons can now bear testimony to the benefits to be derived from their use, as they have been a never-failing Family Friend for upwards of 20 years. 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While the universal cry, «Justice to Ireland," is in everybody's mouth, I take leave, with a view of putting the saddle upon the right horse, through the columns of The Sun, to draw attention to a few facts. Not many years ago, " before an emigration such as the world has never before witnessed," such was the scramble for land in Ireland—" the bulk of the Irish people are and were dependent upon agricul ture"—that they readily, greedily seized every op portunity of securing land regardless of the amount of rent demanded. Among the landed proprietors were several who were, and had been for some years, heavily mortgaged to England, paying in terest, in some instances promising it, at the rate of £5 to £6 per cent. per annum ; and it was not an unusual thing for an Irish landlord, mortgaged to the hall door, to raise the rent upon the unfortunate tenant, upon capital expended by him in the im provement of the landlord's property. Many of the landlords of that period, putting the family pedigree aside, could boast of little but pride and poverty, yet being blessed with "long families," failing both the means and the inclination to have their sons brought up to professions, wherein they might have learnt that " property has its duties as well as its rights," and where, by diligence and ap plication, position and independence were to be secured, one and all were carefully trained to the less lucrative yet still gentlemanly occupations, pastimes in England--enjoyed mostly by heads of families— of ill y on to money, a sharp it became of hunting, shooting, and so forth ; and i n th e ab saenndc e w o a f s a otherpart ofm ea th n e s o f f am ra il i look-out and to ascertain upon what farms improve ments had been carried out. Mind there were no leases ; " the Irish tenant-at-will is virtually a serf ;" he has " no abiding interest in the land he holds," Five per cent. or more of the rent had to be remitted to the English creditor ; consequently, impoverished land, let at a certain price per acre, being improved by an outlay it became of a greater annual value, when the landlord demanded a higher rental, not upon his own investment, but upon the capital and industry of the tenants, who, having no leases, merely " a temporary grasp of the holding which supported them and their families," were necessi tated either to:submit to the increased demand, or driven, " left the shores of the country to pursue their fortunes in a foreign land." Some years since, when there was a scarcity of gold in England, and there are persons still living who can bear evidence of the fact, that when Irish tenants were paying rents to Irish landlords, a period when banking accommodation, discounts, and paper currency were alike limited, there being but one bank in the country, and that bank having but one or two branches, that the landlords were squeezing the rents from the tenants in guineas, and which were only received by them as light gold at 20s. and 21s. each, while the same coins in Eng land were at a considerable premium, in some in stances as high as 275. The Incumbered Estate Court has been termed a gain and a boon to Ireland ; be that as it may, the working has in many instances been ruin to England. Previous to the passing of that act, considerable sums had been advanced by English capitalists on mortgage to Irish landlords. Still further to facili tate and encourage the flow of capital into that part of the United Kingdom, a bill had been prepared and brought into the House of Commons by an Irish M.P., and who was also an Irish landlord, and which afterwards became an Act of Parliament, and is known as " Lynch's Act," which empowered English trustees, subject to a reference to the Eng lish Court of Chancery, to buy out Irish funds upon Irish mortgages. This was readily taken advantage of by the legal profession, not only of Ireland, but of that of England also. The solicitors of the bor rowers and lenders, in " union of heart and spirit," soon arrived at an understanding ; a sum to include costs was agreed to, and under '° Lynch's Act" con siderable sums were advanced, in not a few instances upon insufficient security, to the great detriment, if not the ruin, of many innocent parties. Under this boon to Ireland, the Incumbered Estate Court, land not unfrequently changed hands at ten years' purchase or a little over, which, to save the consciences of trustees advancing other people's money, had been valued at twenty, in some instances at twenty-five, years' purchase. By this act legal means were provided by which borrowers were enabled to repay lenders at the rate of 103. in the pound—an easy mode of raising capital for an im poverished country without an appeal to the sympa thies of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Is this what is called " a marvellous power of enchantment in the promoting of just and fair dealing ?" I have seen somewhat of Ireland, and have been, and still am, in the habit of meeting Irishmen, and on many occasions I have heard it advanced by Irishmen, that whatever misfortunes or disasters befall Irish landlords they richly deserve them. In drawing attention to the facts that I have stated, I have acted upon the principle that reform should begin at home ; still there are other Irish grievances to which the Government must not be indifferent. England has " played the role of the greatest revolutionist in Europe.e The English press and Englishmen, with but few exceptions, approved, nay sanctioned, whqt was termed the conversion, call it by what name you may, of the Church property in Italy to the purposes of the State. Iu the case of Poland, the same power ex cited, nay aroused, the sympathies of what is desig nated the civilised world. No less an authority ththa Earl Russell had declared publicly, that nations have a right, without any foreign interference, to choose their own forms of government. Witness what is written in reference to the occupation of Rome by the French. Any suggestion in the case of the Irish Church Establishment is denounced by the English press— that same press that upheld the conversion in Italy, at an attempt at confiscation, spoliation, robbery, and so forth. If the Irish are dissatisfied with their present form of government, and it is admitted on all hands that reforms are necessary, why is it that that which is allowed by English Statesmen as a right to other nations, in the case of Ireland is to be put down as rebellion, treason, felony, and so forth ? The Irish have not forgotten " aliens in religion, strangers in blood." Reverse the case. Let an attempt be made to saddle, nay impose, the Roman Catholic Church of Ireland upon Protestant England, how long would 22,000 soldiers and 12,000 constabulary be able to keep in subjection this " peaceful and peace-loving people ?" The aristocracy of England is generally and de servedly respected. The case, however, is clear ; the higher appointments in the Established Church, both in England and Ireland, are in the gift of the Ministry, and as these offer comfortable provisions for the younger sons of the nobility the system is not likely to be modified but under pressure. I must not conclude without quoting from the Standard of a late date. After mentioning, under the head "Ireland," that " the marriage of Lord Bra bazon, son of the Earl of Meath, a popular land lord in Wicklow, with Lady Mary Jane Maitland, daughter of the Earl of Lauderdale, which took place at St. George's, Hanover-square, yesterday," continues : "At Rathdt um the tenants dined, under the presidency of the agents, and various toasts were drunk. The Rev. Mr. Murphy, a Roman Catholic priest, in replying to the toast of the tenants, said that if other landlords followed the example of the Earl of Meath there would be less Fenianism, if any at all." This nevds no comment. A LLEN, Mayor.—A COMMON COUNCIL, _CA holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on Thursday, the 23d day of January, 1868. Resolved unanimously,— That an humble Address be presented to her Majesty the Queen, expressing the indignation and sorrow with which this Court has heard of crimes of violence and out rage committed by certain deep( rate and abandoned men, who, in the prosecution of their base designs, have ruth essly sacrificed the lives and property of her blajesty's loyal subjects; and further declaring the resolute determi nation of this Court to support the constituted authorities i n their efforts to preserve law and order within this realm, and to suppress that secret, disloyal, and seditious organisation of a body of men banded.to4ether for revolu tionary purposes under the name of Fenians, whose reck less and unscrupulous violence it is the first duty of the State, sustained by the ardent enthusiasm of a loyal and order-loving people, energetically to resist, and to punish with exemplary severity. woorynioß PE. HUNTING. We extract the following from a graphic sketch, entitled " Broadbury Moor—The Chase," by M. F. H., and published in Baily's Maga:ine for the current month : " On—on —they clink, with a fair and holding scent, carrying a grand head, with a noble volume of tongue, at which the hard-riding farmers re joice greatly. Oh, daag it, if we be a bit behind, us can hear 'em,' and that's summat always. Drat those hounds, that don't say nort about it.' And honest John Barleycorn is right —a silent brute is undeserving of the name of foxhound. He is in perpetual mischief, requires constant watching, and in a woodland, by getting away single-handed with his fox, destroys the chance of a run day after day. Hounds hang back sluggishly, and do not press forward with a hound a mile ahead; they decline to hunt his foil, and in a continuous range of large woods the very best of whips cannot get at the persistent sinner, for he must trust to sight and his own judgment of the whereabouts a fox would be likely to break, in order to stop him. The defect is about the worst a foxhound can have; it nullifies and renders him improper for the chase, and only fit for a halter. Bis apologist—if such incompetent there be—on the plea of pace, may rest assured that true and per fect hounds, on the best scent and in extreme pace, whimper on the line, flinging their tongues freely at the several fences, and it is only when the fox is sink ing, and with bristles up, that they run silently in the last few moments for blood. A hound chary of tongue may be rendered mute by injudicious treat ment ; and a surplusage of whipcord, by a coarse whipper-in at the time of entry, may dispirit a hound, and render him anxious ever afterwards to get away unperceived, as the French say—sans battre tambour. Again, a hound overmatched in pace is disposed to skirt cunningly, and avoids pro claiming his want of ability, Still, independent of all plausible excuse, it must be admitted that the vice of running mute is hereditary, and becoming general throughout the more accredited kennels of England. It is a fearful vice, destructive of sport ; and the worst feature of the case is that it is rendering that sport unpopular with its best and truest friends, the yeomen and farmers of Eng land. A public writer on hunting subjects has said, " Censure has 'been expressed concerning certain fashionable packs of the day that they are deficient of tongue. It is an assertion that I cannot re spond to." What position in the field, fore or aft, could Providence have allotted that flatterer of crude error ? Three of the grand packs of the day, of hereditary and long-standing worth, are running solemnly mute—with others straining back to them, more or less in the same untoward pre dicament. The writer goes on to say, in describing rhp t r h oaa e lkcinee middle of a run :--" At this crisis there is no great amount cetroemhtnop euaornpfada comparatively revy,oe of Osbaldeston. y i t tr h he e tae pace n tuirvne w n bigl but scent, t n o t Ti t a p teewrdmi does will Furrier i rant make ert ' prove anything bearing upon t s h il e fern p eet o i i y u , ti whereas n c d u ea t h o t e h n y e . F lady Furrier s r et p hx a pack dog were h o u n viciouslyds opened were brothers and sisters, descending from the Monson blood famous for tongue. Was the dog pack slow ? These hounds passed into the posses sion of Mr. Harvey Combe, with Will Todd, from Badminton, as huntsman. They ran mixed, and the bitches acquired tongue. The Furrier bitches were afterwards crossed with fresh blood judi ciously selected, and produced the five couple lot, with full and free tongue, which were bou g ht in at the sale at Tatt ersa ll' s f or 1,300 guineas. The descendants of the Beaufort Justice, by the Nichol Justice, by Jasper, by Egremont Justice, sent un entered to Badminton in 1812, were noted for voice, and those who can remember Joiner, Jupiter, Jericho, Jason, Jessie, Jessamine, Danger, Diligent, and others of that race, may also recollect Will Long's comparing them to a "ring of bells." Were they deficient in pace ? Take the Duke of Grafton's hounds that went to Assheton Smith with Saffron by Belvoir Splendour, Nelson by Belvoir Rustic, Nigel, grandson of the Berkeley Harrowgate, with Collier and Pontiff, by the Illeynell Pon tiff—all of them combined foot and tongue. When Mr. Drake took the Mostyn hounds that had be come voiceless from the lavish use made of their favourite Lady, he had recourse to the Ward Ber tram, Pilgrim, and Rascal, the Beaufort Denmark, Warrior, and 'Wellington, the Belvoir Fatal and Guider, and Sir Tatton Sykes's Wildair, by Splen dour, by the Hill Alfred, by Lord Middleton's Dar ling, straining back to the Vernon Vigilant sort of Osbaldeston, to re .4ain the lost voice; and truer hunt ers, quicker in their work, with freedom of tongue, than the late Mr. Drake's hounds, were never pro duced at the covert side. Masters of hounds are not ready to give two hundred guineas for five silent hounds. The Herod, Hecuba, and Harrow gate descendants of the Berkeley, also, are notorious for flinging their tongue well and musically. It is clear that mute hounds are the consequence of a want of attention in breeding, and a sacrifice made to symmetry and pace, which is bringing discredit on many a good kennel. FOUR OLD LADIES.—David Garrick's widow sur vived that eminent tragedian 43 years, and died in 1822, aged 99. She had before her marriage been a dancer on the boards of Drury-lane, and was a native of Vienna. She died in her chair, retaining her faculties to the last. Bailey cites, too vaguely perhaps for the sceptical, the Hon. Mrs. Watkins, of Glamorganshire, who died in 1790, aged 110. The year before she died she made a trip from Wales to London to see Mrs. Siddons act. Nine visits did she make to the theatre during her stay, retiring prudently before the after-piece; and, besides this, she sat for her portrait, and ascended to the " whispering gallery" at St. Paul's. She got safe home, and London did not prove her Capua, as it did Old Parr's. A more irrefragable case, perhaps, is that of Mrs. Williams, of Moor-park, Harts, and Bride-head, Dorset, who died, aged 102, in 1811, and of whom her great grandson avers that she was couched for cataract when 81, and made a speech, upstanding, to her tenantry, when they congratulated her on her hundredth birthday. No attempt has been made to invalidate this communication of her descendant. The three old ladies above men tioned might object' to the company into which for the nonce wo introduce them, in taking next Mrs., or, as she was commonly called, " Lady" Le wson, an eccentric widow, who died iu London in 1806 at the age of 103. Born in Essex-street, Strand, and married early, she was left a rich widow at six-and-twenty. For the rest of her days her chief companions were an old man-servant, two dogs, and a cat. In dress she was fanciful and particular, adhering stead fastly to the fashions of her youth, when George I. was king. But she was a decided foe to cleanliness. Her rooms were never washed, seldom swept, and. to per sonal ablutions she was an utter stranger. " People who washed themselves," she said, " were always catching cold." She used to smear her neck with hog's lard, and to " top up," as regarded her cheeks, with rose-pink. Her health was good to the last, and she cut two new teeth at 87. She was buried at Bunhill-fields burying-ground.— Oiarteily Review. The Times, speaking of the p'-ogressive Conservatm, as enunciated by Lord Stanley, likens the Tories to men who, having long been accustomed to fight only from be hind walls and earthworks, are agreeably surprised to find they can hold their own in the open field. Their political country has hitherto resembled the geography of the re zit-as with which we are just snaking military acquaintance- They held positions and passes, impregnable rooks, tracks of which the secret was known to but few, gorges and defiles of which the terror even exceeded the physical difficulty. Ensconced behind the institutions of the country, and whatever they chose to call an institution, they left the plains, the people, and the natural resources to the invader. Under these circumstances, though the Conservative citadels remained intact, the Whigs throve, prospered, and multiplied, eating the fruits and gathering the harvest. The Conservatives have been at length starved out, wearied, and compelled to break covert, rather to the surprise of the foe, and, it would seem, not quite to his satisfaction. Lord Stanley is evidently determined to say and do as much as a Conservative can say and do, and at the same time what no Whig can object to. He claims for free consi deration in the political balance any institution and law upon which there can be two honest opinions, and he also claimsthe right and duty of indefinite post ponement, according to circumstances. He cannot be ac cused of having said too little at Bristol ; but, on the other hand, he has not committed himself beyond existing arrangements and absolute necessities. We have to finish the great wotk which occupied nearly the whole of one long session, and which has left as much to be done as would well employ another. There are also other points on which nearly all sides, if not criite all, have come to some sort of agreement, eithim t by slvw conversion or by the surrender of hobbies anebszetries, stleh as the neces sity of giving England some form of that national educa tion already enjoyed by Ireland and Scotland, and the wisdom of satisfying, if possible, and within the bounds of reason, the Irish demand for tenants' compensation. These are now open questions. They represent principles which conflicting parties have come equally to recognise ; thebe p c ale o l e d r s po of r t l i h a e m p e n e r t f a o r n n y e n r s e g , o the t i a t p i o a nW t patience and accordi ng ly th ere ex i sts the basis of what may o h f a t t he m p o u r b e lic i: it necessary to a dd t o a programme already likely to task and the limits of the time ? Lord Stanley does not see the absolute necessity of settling the question of the Irish Church before next August for ever and for aye. When a great politician was once asked how he contrived to do so much, his reply was, " By doing one thing at a time." We shall have to do a good many things this year, and it is so completely sufficient to say that there is not time this year to put the Irish Church on the table of the House of Commons that the postponement cannot be considered in the slightest degree prejudicial to a future treatment of the confessed difficulty. This is very different language from that which, thirty-five years ago, and still more recently, expressedthe common creed of statesmen, divines, philosophers, sages, madmen, and impostors landed by stress of politics on the Conservative shure. In those days the object was to discover a watchword which could divide, an accusation which could exasr erAte, and a challenge which could never possibly come to a reasonable issue or amicable adjustment. The Standard claims for Lord Stanley that he has spoken the views of the people. He has given concise and vigorous expression to the national sentiment. He spoke as a party leader, but he spoke, too, for the country. In the great questions which now occupy the public mind there is really but one party, although partisans may attempt to get up others. Earl Russell is as isolated as Mr. Bright and Mr. Bcales. They may try, as Mr. Hardy said, in his powerful speech, to make Ireland the battle. ground of party ; they may endeavour to make a profit even out of Fenianism, but they will not succeed in the endeavour. The country prefers that the present MinistrY should retain office ; it expects from Lord Derby and hit colleagues that they will complete their great Reform by Acts for Ireland and Scotland, by a Boundaries Bill, and a bill for preventing bribery and corruption ; it knows that they will maintain order at home, and, as far as it is in the power of any English Government, peace abroad. It feels that the honour and interests of England are safe in their hands, and it will not tolerate the attempts of a faction to drive them from office by making party clues. tions of great social reforms, which require for their success, that they should be considered without party bias, and for the preparation of which no men are better qualified the; the present Ministers of the Crown. According* the Dairy Nels, there existed at the close I the last; century, society in London containing a great many members eminent in literature and science, which was known as the Dining Club. Her Majesty's present Ministers constitute a similar society. Their chief busi ness during the reqess seems to be to dine out. They will be known in history as the Convivial Administration. Government by banquets is a part of the new Conserva tive theory of politics. Bristol has followed the hospitable example of Manchester and Edinburgh. It has not been quite so fortunate in its guests. Lord Stanley is an exceedingly able man— the one member of the present Administration in whom any confidence is felt outside_ the limits of his party. But 'he does not add to his other eminent qualities the merit of being an attractive after-dinner speaker. His speech might have been delivered after a repast of herbs and :eater. The partakers of the Lenten entertain meneproyided for them .at Bristol might well sigh fortbe strong wine of Lord D er b y ' s e l oquence and the stimu l at i ng bitters of Mr. Disraeli's sarcasm. Possibly, Lord Stanley was weighed down by his companion Secretaries of State., He may have thought that it was his duty to keep him self on the level of Sir John Pakington and M. Gathorne Hardy. If this was his aim, he achieved a very tolerable success. A duller piece of festivity than the Bristol dinner cannot be imagined. The Conservative party in a few of our larger towns appear to labour under an extraordinary delusion : they believe that the banquets which they themselves give to their leaders are expressions of popular sympathy. The elections go against them in towns ano counties. Local massagers send invitations to Cabinet Ministers, order a profuse entertainment, induce a thou. sand or fifteen hundred well-to-do gentlemen to buy tickets—and popular sympathy with Conservatism is esta blished. The magnificent ovati ons w hi c h h ave b een pa id t o her Majesty's Ministers during the last few months are well ' calculated, in the opinion of the Herald, to atone for the fatigues and trials cd a session in Parliament almost un precedented in the difficulties which had to be grappled with by the Government which came in with a minority. Latest and not least of these compliments was that grand banquet of Wednesday last at Bristol. The 1,400 gentlemen of the loyal West who assembled under the presidency of the Duke of Beaufort, on the banks of Avon, were of one mind in their opinion of the conduct of the Government, and raised one voice in testimony of their sympathy with the great battle that had been so bravely fought. It is true the two chiefs of the Conservatives were not there. They de their duty and they do enough if they appear once or twice in public during the recess. Lord Derby . and Mr. Disraeli have had their say for the present. Lora Derby, on Wednesday, was worthily represented by his son. Mr. Disraeli spoke by . the mouth of three of his colleagues, of whom the foremost is only second to himself in position and influence. The speech of Lord Stanley has always been characterised, not by a partial pen, as one of the happiest of his efforts. Though we trust it may be long before he is called to bear the mantle of his father, we cannot speak of Lord Stanley as only of the statesman of the future. He is not only the practised orator and the t e i x e p a r l btusloigniecsis of an hgeohvasernamceqnut. H ittedh e i h m a s s elf tri w ed ell a finadthaendprgaoct the best of it, with the veteran Machiavel of Western diplomacy ; he has skilfully extricated himself from all committal in European complications which do not directly concern us ; he has boldly grappled with the Abyssinian It Americanquestion. now lays down that the Recons t ruc tion Bill, which has b di e ffi co c m ul e t s y a , n an E d ng f li ac sh ed ma t n h! The Post devotes a leader to th e Am i ssue with patriotic fortitude as passed the House of Representatives in the United States by a majority of about thre e to one, a bsolutely declares all possesses "chief f u on th of the political rights of millions of American citizens d. Perhaps, however, the which they are now depri f the bill to which the ower most remarkable feature . o . its assent is supplied by has- just given end, and rteosesrovmees six House of Congress E c o w m il e g f o u v t e u r r n e m ac e t nt of in le tr sla S t o i it makes on one of the most the deliberate attack which i ht say one of the most necessary, valuable, indeed_wleermre g sident. As the depository of the prerogatives of tale the military and naval the i a u re appointment and dismission of C s o u n p g r re e rn ss e , m tl i i ii e ta la r t y te a r ut e h o o n ri te t n y d r in es g te t d ha in t the all those rights of which are incidental to such a post. When the bill creating military governorships in the South passed both Houses of Congress last spring, Mr. John sen proceeded to exercise his undoubted right of executive power, the President forcesresidenotf the is Republic, i e a r n -i ( n i appointing and removing military governors, accord. ing to his pleasure. This led to a collision rights exercised by Mr. Johnson solely devolved on General Grant, who held the office of commander of the M th m at an th d e forces. After some discussion General Grant, however, hands of the President, and the wishes of Mr. Johnson were accordingly carried into execution. The House of admitted between Representatives has now, however, resolved on clearing away any doubt which may have existed in reference to its previous intentions, by tranferring all powers of appoint ment and removal under the Reconstruction Act from the President to General Grant as commander-in-chief of the army. It will be recollected that in his message to Con gress the President declared that he would resist, if neces sary by force, any attempt to deprive him of the preroga• tives of his office, and the present bill may therefore bo regarded in the light of a direct challenge from Congress. That Mr. Johnson will refuse his assent to this bill in the events of its being _ sanctioned by the Senate may be taken for granted, and if, as is most probable, his veto is over ruled by Congress, an inevitable collision between the araideat mul kg l'arlianna will takil-PlaCe*. TEWS PAPE It . 1 . 1* 017 :1\ A correspondent Of the Mann "t, 'rom Malton :—" The present is a , gr the labourers in the agricultural divisk of trks e• "he fine autumn enabled thf) farmers to get very forward ith work on the land, and gave them the whip hand at 'sta' tr - hirings,' where a decided and successful mslaught a made against high wages. This same •eason has caused work to be very scarce, and it is )itiable to see in every town and village natabers of villing workers standing about without any hope of 'mployment. Even the usual 'spell' of road-clear ng from snow, and parish pay for it, has failed this Tear. With no work, coals advancing, flour 3s. per tone, and potatoes (as retailed to the poor customer in mall quantities) from ss. to 6s. per bushel, the miserable ;ondition of the labourer with wife and family may be )otter imagined than described. There is a general mpression that wages, with the present price of food, tre too low, but want of work is worse. Upon the Wolds here is another feature which is now productive of much suffering. A custom prevails of ` meating ' the labourer n the farmer's house, and paying him additional wages of )erhaps 7s. per week, upon which he has to clothe himself slid family, pay house-rent, and keep possibly a wife and 'our or five children—in many cases not more than is. per lead per week. The state of poverty and utter want with which these poor people arc surrounded only now and again tomes before the world, when a coroners inquest on some :ase of starvation affords the material. One of these cases )ccurred last week in the family of a labourer employed at fiarpliatu, East Yorkshire, and the DriffieM correspondent )f a local paper has given these details :—' The deceased, Esabella Dixon, was the child of John Dixon, labourer, who, while he got his meals at his master's house (three piles off), had to keep a wife and five yotmg children )n 7s. a week. One morning last week the mother and cer five children rose from bed, and the only breakfast their cupboard afforded was half of a cold, sad dumpling, tnd a turnip from the field. These they warmed up for ;heir morning's meal. They had then to fait until might, when by some means they got a little flour. With this a lake was made, some kind neighbour giving a little tripping to it. After the day's fast the meal was vora ziously devoured. The consequences were indigestion, liarrhoea, and convulsions in therehild, for which a dose of salts and senna was axlrain .s 4ter‘eci, and tchild died. The coroner and jury iinnacllbe house in a wrePl64 state, anti the mother and children without food, and had to sub. scribe to relieve their immediate wants.' The correspon• dent referred to says this is far from being an isolated cans .n the Driffield side of the Wolds, and says hundreds of families of five to seven members have to subsist on Gs, to 7s. a week." EXTEISrSIVE FRAUDS. Some extensive defalcations by the secretary of the London United District Foresters' Society have just been brought to light, the amount in question being about C 3,500. On Thursday night the third adjourned general meeting of the delegates of the society was held at the Crown Tavern, Clerkenwell-green ; Mr. Morley in the ;hair. One hundred and thirty-seven delegates were present. The first business transacted was in reference to the accounts of the secretary, Mr. John Stimson, late of No. 16, Essex-street, Strand, and managing clerk to Messrs. Mayhew, Salmon, and Whiting, solicitors, of Great George-street. He absconded on the Ist inst. The funds of the society, consist ing of subscriptions from 57,192 members, nearly all of the working classes, were deposited in the London and Westminster Bank, and the secretary, who had the con trol of the money, had been found to have kept a second bankers' pass-book, by which means he was enabled to carry on a system of fraud for a long period, and he was looked upon almost as above suspicion. On the discovery of the fraud information was at once laid at Bow-street, and a warrant for his apprehension was granted, but instructions were not given that he was to be apprehended until the matter had been discussed by the society. Sergeant Kerby, 10 F, into whose hands the affair had been placed, had stayed the publishing of the reward bills, &c., and the apprehension of the runaway, until the meeting of the society had deter mined how to act. It was found, as above stated, that he, was deficient in his accounts to sums amounting in the aggregate to £3,500. He hall a salary from the society of about £350 a year. The first business of the meeting was the reading of a letter from Messrs. Mayhew, Salmon, and Whiting, expressing their willingness to com promise the matter, and offering to pay the stns of £l,OOO at any moment, and to give a security for £5OO mor within a space of three months if the meeting would forego criminal proceedings. The consideration of eels letter and the proposition contained tirerein raised a discussion which lasted for more than two hours. The chairman then put the question, when there appeared— For the acceptance of the letter, 63 ; against it, and for prosecuting the fugitive, 58. It was accordingly agreed that uo criminal measures should at present be adopted. The meeting, after it had appointed a deputation to wait upon Messrs. Mayhew, adjourned for two hours. Upon the re-assembling of the meeting, the trustees, who had waited upon Messrs. Mayhew and informed them that they had agreed to accept their proposition, stated that they had received a cheque from Mr. Mayhew for £l,OOO, which had been deposited in the London and Westminster Bank. O UEENSL AND GOLDFIELDS. The following is an extract from a private letter, dated Rockhampton, November 8, 1867 : " I have seen a little of bush life out here, having been to the Crocodile diggings, and also to several gold-bearing reefs. Yesterday a party of horsemen started off to a reef, and I will endeavour to describe the nature of this gold country, and the difference between a quartz reef and an alluvial digging. The weather was exquisite, and the route lay through an unbroken expanse of tree country, with no scrub or low bushes, and often the undulations resembled English park scenery. At the distance of eight miles from the town we came upon some bush huts. The road through the bush is, strictly speaking, a track. Some one had discovered the diggings, and ' squatted there. Others arrive, having 'blazed' their way along the trees—that is to say, they cut out a large piece of bark to mark the road. At these huts lived the men who were working the reef. Nothing could possibly look more un promising for gold, it being a flat, hard, forest country, covered with ties. But certain indications had shewn these experienced miners that a vein of gold hearing, quartz ay below. We soon sunk shafts, some 201 t., some 50ft, deep, and struck the vein. In this way they worked day after clay, bringing to the surface tons of hard rock, whicb lies piled up round every hole. There is the gold, sure enough, but how is it to be got at ? The quartz must be crushed, but there are no machines. In Victoria gold produces 3dwt. per ton, and pays well, but this quartz produces 3oz. to Goz. per ton, and even more. You can see the gold in every piece. A number of enterprising men in Rockhampton have formed a small company, and purchased a quartz-crushing machine in Mel bourne. It is now on its way here, and the object of our ride yesterday was to come to terms with the miners re specting it. A meeting was held in a hut yesterday, but it was difficult work dealing with these hard-handed, though rather thick-headed men. No decision was come to, but the thing is set in train. Before leaving our friends of the quartz, I will just try and describe their huts, which are of bark, so hard that it is called iron bark. For a few shillings the natives will cut enough to make a large hut. They cut it in lengths of about Oft., the width depending on the size of the tree—often it is 6ft. or Bft. wide. It is then a roll of hard bark, nearly an inch in thickness. They spread it out while damp, and put logs of wood upon it to make it straight. It then be. comes a solid board, and of these placed sid e b y s id e, and strengt h ene d with poles, a really good cottage, with sitting and bed rooms, is speedily built. A sloping roof defies the heaviest rain. The floor is earth ; but no matter, for it is as hard and dry as stone. There is a door which can be made quite fast, and another to the bedroom. In fact, it is a strong, well-built cottage, that would take a thief some time to break into. All the cooking is done at some distance outside, as the invariable bush rule is—no fire in the house. So, with no rent to pay, no rates, no taxes, these rough men seem thoroughly happy in their rough way. After the meeting we went off to the Crocodile dig gings, which we found all but deserted, the English having rushed off to some new discoveries adjacent. A. few hundred Chinamen were patiently at work, washing small modicums of gold from the dirt and rubbish left by the English. The latter had covered the country for miles with thousands of holes, varying in depth from 20ft. to 100 ft. ; and as they are never refilled, they form fearful pit-falls, as the entrances become grass-grown. John Chinaman is a patient animal. He goes on quietly working, and makes a living on diggings that the English have already washed out, and, moreover, he saves his gold when he finds it. At a quartz reef we visited on our return, we found a party of four men, whose captain had but one arm. A piece of stone on the root of a tree that hacl been blown down attracted his attention, and on looking at it he saw that it had gold in it. He searched, and soon found more. Ho and his three mates sunk three shafts, and raised some tons of ore, and there is little doubt this reef is even richer than the others. We sat for nearly an hour and smoked a pipe with these men, a knov, well whatnd .heard ,,, all th • r story. Th e y are experienced miners, they are about, and it is quite striking to see the perfect ca l mness with which they sit and talk about this ore under their feet, all th eir own, and teeming with wealth if only t h e y could extract it. Thus they live, or, rather, half starve, for months, quietly working at raising the ore, and trusting some day that they may -get it crushed. They would sell a share for £5O now. When the `crusher' commit may bo Worth thOgallda.",