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

• •` • I *it a :~~~~r~U~tt • K A FTER Covent-garden Opera—EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-lane Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Haymarket Theatre (—EVANS' to SUP, . After Adelphi Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Olympic Theatre EVANS' to SUP. . After Strand Theatre After New Royalty Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After St. James's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. _ After Prince of \Vales' Theatr e EVANS' to SUP . London Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Eight. MAISON DORBE, THE NOW FASHIONABLE RESTAURANT AND LUNCHEON BAR, GLASSHOUSE-STREET (One door from Regent-street), CUISINE FRANCAISE, &c. High-class Wines at wholesale prices. Spirits and Beers, ace. Private room for Parties. HAMPERS PREPARED AND SENT OFF TO ORDER. Terms, CASH. On and after MONDAY, Dec. 9, SUPPERS from Nine P•tn. to One a.m. Manager, CHARLES CASTLE. KINAHAN'S LL. WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 1865. This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Medal. It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, Ss. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. ha O n b,:r i v , e wh the is lt k e y d .,, Seal, Pink Label, and Cork Branded " Kina- MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859). 14. 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 X F ORD, 6, OXFORD-STREET, W. During the Week will be given a GRAND SELEC TION from Offenbach's Comic Operetta, ORPHEE AUX ENFERS, LA TROVATURE, and the New Cantata MERRY CHRISTMAS. Principal Artistes: Misses Russell, Rivers, and Fitz 'lll7; Messrs. Bury, Mari e; R. Greene, and De Brenner. Fullßand an d Ch orus: I nstrumentalists: Miss Bryant ; Messrs. At..llinr. and PI inPton• COMEDY, &c., by the LEVI icITES.. "S FRED. FREN ti, r. H. fiduKARDS, and ALFRED PERRIER. Mr. E. W. HACKNEY will make his appearance again this evening. Conductor—Mr. F. Jonghmans. Private boxes, 10s. 6d. ; stalls, balcony, and grand pro- Menaie, Is.—THIS EVENING. fA.NTERBURY HALL-NEW —Great Success under the management of W. HOLLAND, tiole Lessee, late Proprietor of Weston's Music Hall. Great t erations and Improvements.—An entire new Company. vi r at 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, entitled 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, is. 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; SEAN BOND, the unrivalled Equilibrist; the Brothers DANIELS; SIDNEY BARNES; Miss ALICE DUNNING; "Miss FITZWILLIAMS. ry Evening. Bishop's and Hatton's celebrated Glees, by Miss TREMAINE, Miss Melville, R. Lascelles, T. Godden, and Mr. P. Corri. Fall Orchestra which will perform the popular Overtures of the Great Master's. The whole under the direction of Mr. P. CORRL i , The doors will open at 7, commence at 7.30. No alteration n the Prices of admission. Private boxes, 10s. 6d., to be secured !tthritchelrs Royal Library, Old Bond-street ; and Sams' Library, 6 t. James's • also at the Box-office at the Hall from 10 until four o'clock. Special No tice .- The astonishing Hicken Family on Feb. 3 ; V rt ur Lloyd on Feb. 10; Miss Smithson, Jolly Nash, Hairy and and Oliver's Christy Minstrels on Easter Monday. M ADAME 1 USSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER- STREET. A Lif • 0-size PORTRAIT MODEL of THEODORE, KI VG of inASINIA, is now added; also all tho Kings and Queens J3f cit American Celebrities, &c. A PORTRAIT MODEL -R EDBRICK BAKER, is now added to the Chamber of 18 rr " B . Open from 11 till dusk, and from 7 to 10. Admittance, • ; children under 10, 6d. Extra rooms, 6d. ARGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly Thi s Sole Proprietor, Mr B. B. 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Cure '% j Ao. 5 . 8,216 of the Marchioness de Lrehtin, of seven years' _otnplaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness, irrit ‘ alalny, iesWit'ileaanervoes palpitation all over, bad iligeston,. constan, sleep and the most intolerable nervous agitation. de Lk,' °- 7 8, of dyspepsia, from the Right lion. the Lord Stuart harea L ord - Lieutenant of the County of Waterford:-- I thlelerived much beriellt from yinrexeellent r, -A—STUART OR Dr omana, Capp oqu i u, CO un:y WateKixd." Curs,e yo. 4 9,832.-01 fifty ye ars' indescribable agony from Spa s „.,P l3 , nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency tres s s• .—M sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, of Lynn, Norfolk. ° 47,121. — Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervous ett,',la l gestion, gath er i n .. s low spirits, and nervous fancies. TiANo.r;6,Bl4r. Samuel Laxten, Leicester, of two years ca • i (R. ; rood s sold in Canisters, at Is. lid.; lib.. 2s. 9d.; 21b., sai l 121 b., 225.; 241 b., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 h. canisters, f ree on re ce i pt f Post-office Order, by BARRY DU % A WA' and Co.. 4s 77, llegent-street Londen• also at Fortnum s ews, and sold by all reapectabie Grocers and Chemists. id his; .dvan- y con to the r large 1 chil r idly Every h con y pen that it s gen ions of is and DWS :- tud for ;ountry au ill aquiva- letter, growl to. We veeping L savage gration nicl the ce near aliens in " But as mat of the ish that k which Ireland V clycieli strative s writer iey cast d letter. y return deavour Ass and d condi- .eatment genera- Lment on le quail ' to way a a word fie again. ng, to a ,ceessible .ession of common Emily ar -3 extend real ill- Lggravate ty sister's naturally, Lcate and na proved partially .ery °ma- Ler vastly r possess ily name ; the least able share" (notwith inherit ed ouring to . I take ap her on surround feeling in 1; I ignore e; I make her whY the warm .anches Of pre than a IT another f she does Drse treat- is," and of ate him on pulses and vineed by I saying a our con ch a letter what Tal- In a cril ournal nor 7 of those tend their from the his editor 3SS dealing atiment or d thinking .Feb. 19 —Feb. 1 1 .veb. 3 . ..Jan. 2= ..Feb. ...Jan. 2 7 Feb. 2 ...Jul. 27 ... Feb. 3 . ,—.J,a. 2' 2& ...Jan. 27 ...Jan 2' via .Feb .Feb 3 „fel). . Feb. 3 .j a r. 27 ..Jan. 24' _lO. 3' „Jan. 23 ' ....Jan. 23 ' ....Feb. 3. Feb 1' Ibt the valu a b l e, alenta Ar ° i ,oo clt of bles e „,o hadj n - ve. liness the e als iter thirtY Y„.„its, n the "( 1 °'"«, " The bo jt, si l abandon i l y' 7 to Du 33° t efa l , roes a P - ii cis` u gly bene not prnie e t of few e tl y e sA se March`` a y, wasting 6SCDO n all over , 0 0- intolerab l° i,ora le D e eies, n : do , No. 4 , 9 o s, la,. nervonsi'o,l 3, SiCkUe s %ertsf James 11° 0 0 oe. ; pitting of . 00. , rtant to isppY 3 most 11° ; ; 6d, ; 5 ih, and Co: , 182, Pl ec .2" '63, 150, all e Southseat cl• ugh ter. a y o r -Dearn e, ,f a 00' ) parisb Minorie, _ s ; if f o rof of Goo. u _ rts. esl t St. (113° Pftr .l 'i Fulforcl,olooe 5 , 0 1)1 1 Lodge, 9 0 1: ,gee Stresl 71y of o° l3 ' ° >f D. i t° TB. ro e, )oroug b-te ;ed 93 , ag 1 ,01 4 P 01, A./I T v of °ace, , fi2 tl the L.. lye 2,68 N°. 23,594 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24, 1868. PRICE.. 4d. STAMPED sd. 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 % .EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP. LONDON SINGING AND SUPPER CLUB. ' AT EVANS' COVENT GARDEN VOCAL EN'EERTAINAIENT At Eight o'Clock. LLE N, Mayor.—A COMMON COUNC I L'' , A holden in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of London, on Thursday, the 23d day of January, 1868. serVecily 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 Rathdrum 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 needs no comment. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. 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 desperate and abandoned men, who, in the prosecution of their base designs , have ruth essly sacrificed the lives and property of her Majesty's loyal subjects; and further declaring the resolute deterini rtation of this CourtA' 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 together for revolu tionary purposes under the name of Fenisns, whose reck lessesist, and unscrupulous violence it is the first dut y of the enthusiasmState, sustained by the ardent enthusias of a loyal and order-loving people, energetically to tiwith exemplary severity. and to punish WOODTHORPE. The Times, speaking of the rogressive Con3erva'_'sm, 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• 'ion with which we are j ast making military acquaintance• They held positions and passes, impregnable rocks, tracks COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANS ATLAN TIQITE, 8, Place Vendome, Paris. NEW YORK, via HAVRE and BREST. The undermentioned Steamers will sail every 14 days, as fol lows : NAPOLEO 11, Paddle VILLE DE PARIS Screw PEREIRE. Screw ST. LAUREN T Screw EUROPE Paddle RATES OF PASSAGE. Havre or Brest to New York, lst class, £33 0 0 2d class, 17 0 0 11 3d class, 14 0 0 Agents—STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and CO., 8, Austinfriars, E.C. 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, LTRICE'S NEW PATENT NIGHT LIGHTS," for burning in the wide glasses are the very best Night Lights made. "P It ICE'S CHILD S' NIGH T LIGHT S," are excellent, and burn without a glass. Order of any dealer. 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 claims the 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 work which occupied nearly the whole of one long session, and which has left as much to be done as I would well employ another. There are also other points on which nearly all sides, if not quite all, have come- to some sort of agreement; either by slow convelsion or by the surrender of hobbies and bigotries, such 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; and accordingly there exists the basis of what may be called parliamentary negotiation. What more is it necessary to add to a programme already likely to task the powers of the performers, the patience of the public, 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 I 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 Contasens 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, expressed the common creed of statesmen, divines, philosophers, sages, madmen, and impostors landed by stress of politics on the Conservative shore. In those days the object was to discover a watchword which could divide, an accusation which could cam/ crate, and a challenge which could never possibly come to a reasonable issue or amicable adjustment. The Standarl 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. Eright and Mr. Beaks. 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 his 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 swill not tolerate the attempts of a faction to drive them from dike by making party clues. tinny of great social reforms, which require for their success, that they should be considered without party bias, and fer the preparation of which no men are better qualified tha the present Ministers of the Crown. According to the Daily ITc ts., there existed at the close £ 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 recess seems to be to dine out. They will be known in history as the Convivial Administration, D UNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly' supplied to the House of Lords. • " V.R." IRISH WHISKY. PAINLESS DENTISTRY. 31ESSRS. GABRIEL, (Established , o f London 5B, Harley-street, Cavendish-square, „ Liverpool 34, Duke-street, and Brighton have just published a NEW PAMPHLET explaining their Pain less System of Dentistry, and seni,adhebive Teeth without springs, at MODERATE CI:LABORS. which may bo had fros by post for four stamps. Government by banquets is a part of the new Conserva- - • tive theory of politics. Bristol has followed the hospitable example cf 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 water. The partakers of the Lenten entertain ment provided for them .111 Bristol might well sigh forthe strong wine tf Lord Derby's eloquence and the stimulating bitters of Mr. Disraeli's sarcasm. Possibly, Lord Stanley was weighed down by his companion Secretaries of State. H e m ay 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 s ympathy. The elections go against them in towns ano counties. Local managers 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 ovations which have been paid to 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 of 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 greaij battle that had been so bravely fought. It is true tho two chiefs of the Conservatives were not there. They dl 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. Lord 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 expert logician, he has acquitted himself well in the prac tical business of government. He has tried a fall and got the best of it, with the veteran Machiavel of Western diplomacy ; be has skilfully extricated himself from all committal in European complicat ions which do not directly concern us • he has boldly grapp led with the fAbtitsusdnelaasn difficulty, and faced the issue with patriotic or becomes an Englishman. laysß e presentatives in the United States ePo downst dtehvaottetLa Reconstructionleader totheAm B e i r il i , ca w n hi q e u h es h ti a o s n. It .passed the House of p the restoration to some six civilby a majori ty government of a ibnoutththreeSouth to a o one a , n a e b n s absolutely a t n e l d y rdeescelravreess for l some future act of legislation theon moielestoftiemost t e p of the bill to which the Lower mwhilileiohnsthoefy Americandceitrizivensed. of r t e h r e ka p p o s l , iti i c ie a x l ve r N i . g e l r i , ts th o e i most remarkable fea ur t k ho.s. jus given its assent is supplied by the valuable, indeed we might o in ne ak o e f s necessary, depository of the u de e l deliberate 1 9 a ° t n e g a r t e t s a s c which sayit pre t s n u i c e i n i t a an p d o d st is . mi N ;s \ i r o i n ien of executive power, the President is commander-in-chief of prerogatives of the President. As the the military and naval forces of the Republic, and possesses creating military governorships in the South 'fused N a y ]. thoseich are r r e i g i h n t :id o e f nt a a P l P° to in ' both Houses of Congress last sprinT John son proceeded to exercise his linden ..ited Mr r . appointing and removing military governors, accord ing to his ioleasure. This led to a collision between him and Congress, the latter contending that the rights exercised by Mr. Johnson solely devolved on General Grant, who held the office of commander of the forces. After some discussion General Grant, however, admitted that the supreme military authority rested in the hands of the President, and the wishes of Mr. Johnson were accordingly carried into execution. The House of 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 : ghlffiteiTtocble i r ol officers 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 tie present bill may therefore be regarded in the light , of a direct challenge from onCongress.ie That Mr. Johnson will refuse his as sent to this bill in be takenl t evens of its being sanc tioned by the Sen ate may between the for granted, and if, as is most probable, his isveto is over ruled by Congress, an ine vitable collision ' P104(.101;4 and Lis Parliament will take place. , / li ~.. . . , 0 (7 - - -----sz-.,. „Lyz-----/d , ,./a: -f 7 / , ~,,,, N ,. .. . ~,, . . , . . 7 ►,,,,,--- • ~,...,„. , a frf'rWW -, • ' _-__. . i th. --' - •. - A, 4 ‘. 4 .. .. ~,y ,C 7 (1 1----- * TORT:SHIRE LABOUR 7% 0 , 447 ~,,, . _ ,r;:.------- ' . :44. i (54 i7,4 14 t 11111 4 .-, 0:01.21-r, • 4 Wg'V . • k, r4 r . . 4. ail- ~ -7 - - kc 7 , l *.el (i !, , .. , - ,'''.. ,,, .?;•!;t:,,,. - - - = ::--.: 4-1 i / ..„, , 40" --- , .°, fr. = - Nz\ . ve. - , e ,-. .... 1 k., . ~ ..• , -• -Ar- . .- _r• .• 14 ~ (41 4 . ,:- ri cf,.• : :t. t 6.r , sf , -- '..• ' - . - ,-, --... . .. ~ . , c , ," , i' t •_• , - „ • ~, . • • ------- ''' . ...,.•„.; - \ s : * L . l it t i - .---11• 17 41eA"" 19 i- 1 ''' . 4. '- -- .717 W l''S I°Eal • -'' ' '''• .4.- . T v •-,.,- ,1 , __ . , 7, ...... , .. v y ip s . .Aj . olvo i ~.. l ik x . . 7. ' 1,- - I IL% • - • i.-„, - _- ' * IV • N , -,:. ' 4 ' g ---- - 4 ___i 7 - . r4 , 2_,'2 , '. • • 'ERS. A. correspondent of the Manchester Examiner thus writes . rom Malton :—" The present is a time of great tisialfor he labourers in the agricultural divisions of Yorkshire. l'he fine autumn enabled the farmers to get very forward with work on the land, and gave them the whip hand at be ' state' • hirings,' where a decided and successful )nslaught . s made against high wages. This same season has caused work to be very scarce, and it is )itiable to see in every town and village numbers of willing workers standing about without any hope of Imployment. 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 b - s. to Gs. per bushel, the miserable :oadition of the labourer with wife and famny may be )etter imagined than described. There is a general mpression that wages, with the present price of food, use 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 tnd family, pay house-rent, and keep possibly a wife and 'our or five children—in many cases not more than ls. per iead per week. The state of poverty and utter want with which these poor people are surrounded only now and again tomes before the world, when a coroner's inquest on some :ase of starvation affords the material. One of these cases )ccurred last week in the family of a labourer employed at flarpliatn, East Yorkshire, and the Driffield correspondent )f a local paper has given these details The deceased, fsabella Dixon, was the child of Jolin Dixon, labourer, who, while he got his meals at his master's house (three wiles off), had to keep a wife and five yorag, children )n 7s. a week. One morning last week the mother and aer five children rose from bed, and the only breakfast their cupboard afforded was half of a cold, sad dumpling, and a turnip from the field. These they warmed up for ;heir morning's meal. They had then to fast until night, 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 :iously devoured. The consequences were ififligestion, liarrhcea, and convulsions in the child, for which a dose of salts and senna was administered, and the child died. Tho ' coroner and jury found the house in a wretched state, and 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 case) m the Driffield side of the Voids, and says hundreds of families of five to seven members have to subsist on Gs. to Ts. a week." DUNVILLE and CO.'S "V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAn London Offices and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W. O Established 1808. Quotations on application. QTOOPING HABITS, ROUND SHOU LDERS, 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, supM Boding the use of braces and, gt v@r P rirulitfawa Circulars for warded.. GEOLOGY. -KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. PROFE , SOR TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence 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 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. R. W. JELF, 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, ls. 10d. Tea for the million, Is. ld. Price Lists post free on application at 9, Great St. Helen's Church-yard, Bishopsgate-street. 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President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1328, 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. It affords relief to ft large number of in-patients, and, in adaz tion to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevo lent, as the premises of this hospital are capabte of containing several hundred more beds bad the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hanson. and Co., Abcbureh-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Berries and Co.; Ransom and Co.; Prescott, Grote. and Co.; Smith. Payne, and Co.; Barelayand Co.; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Bernere•street; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 0. HUNTING. We extract the following from a graphic sketch, entitled " Broadbury Moor—The Chase," by M. F. IL, and pnbli i phed in Baily's Magazine 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 bard-riding farmers re joice greatly. Oh, daag it, if we be a bit behi n d, us - can b oo ., 9 ei nis----and that's aummat 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. His 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 picks 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 the middle of a run :—" At this crisis there is no great amount of cry ; the pace will not permit it !" Pace, extreme pace, with a burning scent, will make hounds comparatively retentive, but that does not prove anything bearing upon the point in question. Take the hounds of Osbaldeston. The Furrier lady pack were viciously silent, whereas the Furrier dog hounds opened freely, and they 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 bought in at the sale at Tattersall's for 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 Meynell 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 R asca l, th e B eau f or t D enmar k, 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 regain 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 sho 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, Herts, 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 descoudant. The three old ladies above men tioned might object to the company into which for the nonce we introduce them, in taking next Mrs., or, as she was commonly called, "Lady" Lewson, au eccentric widow, who died in London in 1809 at the age of 105. 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 sho was fanciful and particular, adhering stead fastly to the fashions of her youth, when George I. was king. But sh© was a decided foe to cleanliness. Her rooms wore never washed, seldom swept, and to per sonal ablutions she was an utter stranger. " People who washed themselves," sho 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.— Quarterly Review. JUSTICE TO IRELAND. Ireland," is ►l'i,ih thc? ( U F. :I 9 :7.A A ! - -' - " C(1-1211911 H" 4 : 4-.T ..l 9 l. l l7ti E e N e T t . o ) in everybody's mouth, 1. t,‘1,..„ cave, with a view of right horse, through the columns of The San, to drow attentibn . tO a few :rears ago, " before an emigration such as the world has nev7 facts. Not many" before witnessed," such was the scramble for land in Irela:d—" 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 ball door s to raise the rent upon the unfortunate tenant, upon capital expended by Lim 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 heals of families— of hunting, shooting, and so forth ; and in the ab sence of other means of raising money, it became and was a part of the family duty to keep a sharp, 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 r ent had to be remitted to the let at a certaineEnglishcredi pricetor ; per acre, b consequently, impoverished land,e in g improved by an outlay it became of a greater annual value, when the landlord demanded a higher rental, not as upon his own investment , but upon the capital and industry of the tenants, w ho, having no leases , merely " a temporary hr pof the holdi ng w hi c h 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 alcommodation, 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, cons iderable sums had been advanced by English capitalists on mortgage to Irish landlord s . 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 a l so . Th e so licitors of the bor rowers and lenders, i n "union of heart and sp irit," soon arrived at an u n d ers t an di n g ; a sum to include costs was agreed to, an d un d er '° Lynch's Act" con siderable sums were a d vance d,'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 10s. 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 richly deserve them. befalllodrawinglrish attention t o h ri e 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." The English press and Englishmen, with but few exceptions, approved, nay sanctioned, what was termed the conversion, call it by what name you may, of the Church property in Italy to the purposes of the State. In 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 than 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 w0u1d.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- inw ready, at all the Libraries, price Cs., post free for 72 stamps 4 - 1 ALIPHS AND SULTANS; being Tal es I.) omitted in the usual editions of the ARABIAN NIGHTS HTERTAINMENTS ; re-written and re-arranged by SYLVANUS aNLEY, F.L.S. L. Reeve and Co., 5, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden. 'LACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE for FEBRUARY, 1868. No. DCXXVIII. Price 2s. 6d. CONTENTS. Brownlows.—Conclusion. Memoirs of Sir Philip Francis. Linda Tress6l.—Part V. Cornelius O'Dowd. -Some Things not generally known. - Only an Irishman!—Taking it out in Money. • The Deadlock at Rome.—" Kriihwinckel." Historical Sketches of the Reign of George 11. No. I.—The Queen. Fenianism; and the Irish at Home and Abroad. The Queen of the Highlands. W. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. Itst Published, price ls. 6d., by post, is 84., the Second Edition, with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks. EVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND M~edicQUACKERY. By DETECTOR. R e printed from the al Circular." London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. The nume. .ons reviews of this startling work by the Saturday Weekly Despatch, Public Opinion, and other linvievr, Punch . • •• d • universal p eru s al are reprinte with journals, recommentilu, - this edition VUiN r 4 -, we At nft General Meeting of the Proprietors, held at don Tavern, Bishopsgato - street, in the City of London, Thursday, 23d January, 1868, JOHN PENDER, Esq., in the Chair, the following Report was presented:— In laying before the shareholders their usual half-yearly stateinent of accounts, the directors wish to draw attention to the g9neral 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 £35,451 13 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 Ponder. 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. DR. LIABILITIES. To capital paid up: 200,000 shares of £4 each £Boo,ooo 0 0 To reserve surplus fund To special reserve - 10,000 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 account, 30th June, 1867 B,lBB 4 7 To balance, being gross profits for the half-year ending 31st December, 1867, after payment of interest to customers, 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 bills discounted, loans, and other securities 2,434,745 19 9 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, &c. To rebate on bills dis coun t e d , no t ye t d ue 4,506 1 11 To proposed dividend, at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum 20,000 0 0 3 To reserved surplus fund ,100 0 0 To special reserve lO,OOO 0 0 To balance carried forward to next ac count Cn £53,330 6 6 By balance of gross profits brought down £45,142 111 By balance of profit and loss account, Juno 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 com pany's affairs, in conformity with the deed of settlement. DAVID CHADWICK (Chadwick & Co.)} WM. COOPER (Cooper Brothers & Co.) 15th January, 1868. Auditors. The Secretary having read the notice convening the meeting, the report and balance-sheet were taken as read. It was moved by the CHAIRMAN, seoonded 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 Ryley 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 PENDER, Chairman. Extracted from the Minutes. T. J. AGAR, Secretary. CONSOLIDATED BANK (Limited). — Subscribed Capital Paid-np Capital BOO.OOO Reserve Fund lOO,OOO JOHN PEMBERTON HEYWOOD, Esq., London and Liverpool, Chairman. MURRAY GLADSTONE, Esq, Manchester, Deputy- Chairman. London—City Office, 6, 52, T lM hreadneedle-street. Manchester—Office, 4 Palall. Loudon —Charing-cross Branch, 450, West Strand. Current accounts kept in 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 advertisement. The Bank will also receive money on deposit for 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. AG4 VR, Secretary. „.. f i Olt Ilc7/1(11 ISTION. - fi\TORI ON a CAMOMILE are confi den Liy ro,orrncadcl as a simple but certain Remedy for rirligef;:dou, which is the came of ueariy all the diseases to Wiliest we are subject, being a medicine sc, Sr iformly grateful and bencilcial that it is with justice called the ” Natural Strm:;thoncr of the Human Stomach." "Not tou's Pills" act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient; are mild in their operation, sale under any c.rciunetauces, and thousands If persons can now bear testimony to the benefits to be derived from their use, as they have been a never-failing Family Friend I. - sr upl - ards of 20 years. Sold in bottles at is. 11 i, 2s. 9d., and lls. ea At, In every town in the kingdom. CAUTION. Be sure to ask for "NORTON'S PILLS," and do not be per imacted to purchase any of the various imitations which have sprung up in coniequeneo of tho success of ; Norton ' . 0941pliiiii. PAUL" AY EXTEATSIVE FI?AUDS. 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 chair. 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, raft managing clerk to Afessrs. Mayhew, Salmon, and Whiting, solicitors, of Great George-street. He absconded on the let 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 fur 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•strect, and a warrant for his apprehension was granted, but instructions were not given that he was to be apprehended until the matter had boon 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 hail 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 sum of £l,OOO I at any moment, and to give a sec ur ity f or £5OO mor within a space of time months if the meeting would forego criminal proceedings. The consideration of this letter and the proposition contained therein 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, SS. It, was accordingly agreed that no 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 bad 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. OUEENSLAND 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 trees. But certain indications had shewn these experienced miners that a vein of gold-bearing quartz ay below. We soon sunk shafts, some 20ft., some 50ft. deep, and struck the vein. In this way they worked day after day, bringing to the surface tons of hard rock, which 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 Gft., iil:sshn aedashbhseetaadrvrodi strong, os ag to n : I. r d asi d , n r .y well-built as stone. cottage,_ There i'. the width depending on the size of the tree—often it is Gft. or Bft. wide. It is then a roll of hard bark, nearly an inch in thickness. They spread it out while damp, and strengthened ne l O gs gs tah esonofleidd wood wboard,ithu p o n laen i s t d, to a orf e m talu a i ekyseeg placed straight.ade ed cottage, side b E istih t a h es e i n tca b inn e dg . is s T p h e e ed f i l l o y or b i u s i e l a t. rth A sloping roof defies made quite fast, and another to the s'a but no matter, for it door which can be t distance outside, as the invariable bedroom. In fact,. f t that s h w r o u u l l ed is—no take a fir t e hi i e n some time to break into. All the cooking is done at some 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, lie saves his gold whe n he finds it. At a quartz reef we visited o n our return, we found a party of four men, whose capta in had but one arm. A piece of stone on the root of a tree that had been blown down attracted his attention, and on looking at it he saw that it had gold in it. lie searched, and soon found more. .ini:n, and h He and his three mates sunk isl : l,i h te r t e lse e a tc s if h oo a i ri shafts, and aatrri a (lli i iy l s c al an nie r eathfihos their i d srr tt e litl i he ic eit" F srlei d es i e niners, knowing well what some aelnedn s rntiloc:ilikis,eieri smoked y f uaai o ari r en, ei pipe txei a ii e):::. experienced story. hey are about, and it is quite striking to see the perfect calmness with which they sit and talk about this ore under their feet, all their own, and teeming with wealth if only they 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 ' comes it may be worth thousands." 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