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wic 1t...." Lmerica is that eiVi" d t ravers' urse- 1-13e )t then the really to es on the :, and ne t 'hough but in a ncien t Drado and part of the surveyo rs best rail• ins on the which thei the walla L etand sib traced for !itches ar e ly also be u crockery 'orin in eV uality an ns in art re built of To all "2 - thnusaud hat tribe 9 . NEWc p F rr RECEIVEL 10 NOv KINAHAN'S LL. WHISKY. DUBLIN EXHIBM ON, 1865. This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin prize Medal. Iti Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, is. 81, at the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the principal tc wns in England; or wholesale at Observe t he 8, REAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. G Red Seal, Pink Label and Cork Branded " Kina ban's LL Whisky.' XIUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION 4 -" , - (Incorporated by Act of Pftrliament, 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' s _ . ble Weekly ; m on thl y, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped encelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. WESTON'S ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Pronrietor, Mr. J. S. Svreasey. THE FLYING PARDUS Every Evening. WESTON'S yAL ML USIC UAL, HOLBORN. t)o Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey. THE SPANISH MINSTRELS Every Evening. WESTON'S 13 OVAL MUSIC 11 A LL, HOLBORN. PrJprletor, Mr. T. S. Swe 'soy. THE JUVENILE ArITRE93E3 Every Evening. Free List entirely snspen , l34, Press eseepte.l. Notice.—Miss Nelly Power's First and Farewell 11 en e fit on Thursday, Sept. 17. CANTERBURY HALL. Sole Proprietor, W. HOLLAND. Flying Trapeze, on two bars only; performrpassing the ,T ea t Nhsters by throwing double somersaults; the greatest feat tier performed by any artist in the world —in addition to George Ybourne The great Frad. French—lmmense success of gelland's Troupe of Christy Minstrels, introducing 15 Star /la iptes, the greatest Troupe in London—The grand WATTEAU andIT'LET, introducing Mdlle. Carle, Lilley Carle, Herr Carle, Fire. Mdlle. Burlet —The Great Daniel—Oceans on the Invisible Special Notice.—ln consequence of the immense success of I nr.•o the free list is entirely suspended, the press excepted. Manager—Mr. James Ellis. usical Director—Mr. Jesse Williams. Stalls and Crystal Saloon, is.; Area and Balcony, 6i. Doors open at half-past 7, commence at 8 o'clock. . _ %lAD AME USS AIM'S EXHIBITION, Raker-street.=-A PORTR kIT MODEL of Count von tr a- , IARCK, in the uniform of a Prussian General, is now added Admission, Is.; Children under ten years of age , 6 d.; -- ""ra Rooms, 6d. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 pm. ARGYLL R 0 OM S.-OPEN EVERY KVENING . for Instrumental Music and ncing. —The and 4lll 3 have been magnificently re-decorated by Messrs. , tubardt an attractive Co. The celebrated Band will perform during the week attractive Programme of Operatic Selections and popular uatice Music. _ _ _ Doors open at halt-past Eight o'clock. Admission, is ; Balcony, 2s. WINDMILL STREET, PICCADILLY. Musical Director and Conductor—Signor LUIGI CURTI, bINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.- „ The medical pnfezeion for Thirty Years have ap roved of this pure solution of Magnesia as the best ' e roGdy for Acidity of the Stomach, Heartburn, Headache, CO, and Indigestion ; and as the best mild aperient for a elicate constitutions, especially adapted for Ladies, Chil "rep, and infants. DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, 172 , New Bond-street, London; and of all other chemists throughout the world. iURNISHED HOUSES, from £2 2s. to £ 2O per Week.-1). 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It strengthens the voice and lungs, relieves indi -Be4tion, pains in the chest and back, and is especially re- I C l "lnlended to children for assisting the growth, promoting health and symmetry of figure, superseding the use of ~taces and stays. Price from 10s. 61 each.-66, Berners '7"et, Oxford -street, W. Illustrated circulars forwarded. SPANISH FLY is the actince ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S OANTHARIDES OIL, which 81)3 ° 4 ily produces whiskers and thickens hair. Price 3s. 61., 58. 6 d., and 10s. 61; sent by post for 51, 81, and 144 StI n I I)3.—ALEX. ROSS, '2lB, High Holborn, London, aryl all Chemists. " Tale of a 'flair," Gil 'WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns curet in one day by using ILEX. ROSS'S [JIRO P 0 1 1 :_his preparation graduagy dissolveq the Corn in a few f u tirs, removing the very root- Price 45.; pent by past °r 6 0 stamps.— 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Face Powder, ls. FAIR -CURLING FLUID, 248, High HolhDrn, Londnn. A.LEX. ROSS- 1 8 CURLING FUND SOlcurls Ladies' Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. or at 3s. 64., ss. 6.1., and 10s. 6.1.; sent free for 51, 84, I tld 144 stamps.—Had of all Chemists. Advice upon all subjects of the Toilet. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— e ; ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect te tett. immediately it is useri. It is permanent,- and per cry natural in effect. Prices 3s. 63., ss. 6(1., an-1 10s. fl ,•; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps; and all Y uen fists. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d. DESTROYER.-248, Hicth Holborn, , 4 „ London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPIL ‘TORY re :1" 1,8 superfluous hair from the face, neck, and armq, WW qA ut effect to the skin. Price 3s. 6d., ss. 61., and 10s. " 4, Sent for 51, 81, and 144 stamps. Rad of all Chemists. Skin Tonic, ss. 6d. ptmpLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the yr, skin are imoroved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S B ,riET ABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness. Lownes s , &o. 2s. 9d. and is. 64.; or post for 40 and 100 0.1 1 4 ( r e —ILEX. ROSS, 218, High Holborn, London, and mists. • ---- Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. Gd. rtAIR COLOUR 1171$11.—By damping the head with this beautifully-p9rfnmed Wash. in 6g0(111 or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and li t wi 'eina ins so by an oemlional using. Ws. nd. ; sent for A n X . ROSS, 213, High Holborn, London, d all Chem EXists. 10. 1 't Published, 2d.; sent by the author for 3 stam pa, GLINF.Si and BEAUTY; being a Pamphlet 4, tb descriptive of articles and means TISA4 for linrov to appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Lparlon. Had of all booksellers. 1114L IR RESTORED WITTIOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. BARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Food. stir THE REVALENT A ARABICA 1 „ 01 4 fifty times its cost in other re,nediHs, and restores t .' E r ect digestion strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, n, sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the e ff,, s disordered or enfcabled—removing speedily and ctually indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con „4ll4° ran habitual constipation, diarrhosa, gastric de ' t ie _gettlents, hromorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, 'eusness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, iii - I , arr fie. colds, influenza, noises in the hoad and ears, r,iiTtatism, gout, • impurities, eruptions, hysteria,. n.eu hen', irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, ~t_r.burn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramp, spasms, q ta ''a and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sTking 012 b ronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at ti l(3, Pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is (5, invalids digestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable and infants in all complaints. %,,11.13011:rarr CAtrrum—Beware of the many unsavoury tit' More than slopy imitations to which, without antho bll3', Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. renc eforth none will doubt the valuable properties of tei Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabic& Invalids' bee 'afants' Food, since to the thousands of blssins it be f , alr eady received from invalids whose posi e tion g had 4t deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holi -88 the Po whose , health has been perfectly restored it after thirty ars of unsuccessful medical treatment. IR 4 ,1 11 0te from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Curd No. 1/0'1" 1 : — "Rotne July 21st, 1866.—The health of the nth Pa.the r is excellent, especially since, abandoning all ha r e r r r emedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du • t 3 e : f l e Revalenta Ambles Food, of which he consirrs a Le a tl al at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly Prm s - „ e 'al effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot q'' this excellent food too highly." Yo ttr No. 58,216 of the Marchioness do Broban of seven 4 " . 8 livor complaint, wasting away, debility, nervous ili4pl!Titability, with a nervous palpitation all over. bad t er a ‘ l( m, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable 0 °lts agitation. tk ti t r t e ,., ll.o . 78, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord (era " " Denies, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Water-, fo od I have derived much benefit from your excellent WateTrfogrTcitca, wr DE DECIES, Dromans, Cappoquin, County Ou r , 'Jo h , d 110 - 49,832. -Of fifty years' indescribable agonyg afttl ah Ys P e Paia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, °f I -c Y , spasms sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, e:n. Norfolk.' na cre : No. 47 ,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme Velig f a su aaa, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nor "earsAc-les• ° • 56 ,g11.-llr. Samuel Laxton, Loicester, of two T h _ 21h , 4 7 . „0 , 1 is sold in Canisters, at Is. ; 2e. 9d. ; e,Anig,,;_a care2l, 225. ; 241 b., 40s. Tho 121 b. and 211 b. age free on receipt of P. O. Order, Also De tin "eVaiOnta Arahica Chocolate Powder is packed in eiip, :iatt 4 iterts : For 12 clips at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48 h es ” for 288 Cups at 30s , for 576 cups at 555. Being 'ree " e Penny per cUp Th . () 30s and 555. tins are sent • 1 8 1 .18 ,,f/ f y c l r tr f ag i) e . in .. _Eß g la n . d on recoil; tof Post Office Order. Gr ") at p ortzl .3 . _4- MIX and C 0.., 77, gent-scre Londo 6 n . ; also 4, Cheapside, " r ov ,--umt 63 and Oxford-street ; and 121, -4 0 4c 1 1 LO4do ; 6n4 611 arc 6Y6 441Gi Chemist:. (1 . 23,79 i how. ructure 1 waits yet ,be period, a date far coeval, or le mOullds river ha s Leidz, of e a wort 01 Alueri~'' are OW cane', the a. Th eir ssil bourn' consider' oclusiou to . t races °r )ra coavv ,tern iS i° 0 t 1 pe-a I . 00 it, oce 0.0 61 as cooYood , 0 )1 f. th c ', 6. 3 ill tDe kr a- C orre 6 f e 0 ti lted ' ..51 11 6 6, °15 I° o o t° tOD Ntrs• Arthur onle'E et, yuter• fly h of e ; :e ottat:',sll ti° ° ree ° ►t d idg : r c6 : 4 0 - 8 , ; t 4 e 11 : ; .' BAl,„ar ia' )1.1t4 p ies 3, 1 7 " ) ,„ 11 ,0 04 s 'corb e° 11 r ter t°° ' )f " ou thaiil t°° io s I°l° ga me a vY -40 0° 0 0 go n i nAil Just published. price Is. 61, by post is. 31, the Second Edition. with Addenda e.ritaining a 1 iitional Facts and Cases, in illus.. tration of till nett ions proceedings of Um AlvertisingQaacks, REV ELATIONS OF QU CK7i • AND QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: 11. BaMere, 219, Regent-street. The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch. Public Opinion, Arri other journals, ref.ioinniending its universal perusal, are reprints!' with this eiition. NGLO -AMERICAN TIMES, aV INCERNATI , IN tL NE vVIL'APE t, De rotes t ► Am0.103, , 1 Inteltl4e tilt, El E. &IV-3.E )to 21 rAG WA. • 1t...p0r.s of (33a res, t!, e 111. 1 ,13.0, Itailroa &t. obers of Y.rii ,rn nt, t.;u.oar:trial %let, an,l this !t:tvl az an int.;,134 is 111 Uutt..ti State.,. (Ws Pewsp 'per of use. . • l'abddhed avery 3X.rtJ a, DIY NIORS G. price 4d. 15. Cattv.rian-dree. Strand. A PA.RTMEN rs.—Part of a ten-roomed House, _CIL • pleasantly situated iu Islington.—Apply at No. 6, Ceowland-Orrace, Englefield-road, N. FURNISHED APARTMENTS.—A Drawing Room and Bed Room to be Let, situated in a cheerful and healthy part of Kensington, in the house of a Private Family. Applications through Messrs. G. W. Bayley and Wickham, New land-terrace, Kensington. VLAPHA.II.—APARTAIENTS well Furnished V and highly Respectable in a Gentleman's Private Family, pleasantly situate, with large Garden. Attend ance and every comfort. Very convenient for Rail or Omnibus to City and West-end. Apply at the Residence, 34, Lark Hall Rise Claphem, or to *.STRTIDIS The Pavement, Clitgi,Vainmon. QC El WEP PE'S MINERAL WATERS.- By Special Appointment to Her Majesty and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.—Everl., bottle is protected by a label, having name and trade mark. Manufactories London, Liverpool, Derby, Bristol, Glasgow, Malvern. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be received by the Commissariat Officers respecti ely in charge of the undermentioned Districts, until Twelve o'clock Noon. on the 29th September, 186 4 , for the SUPPLY of FORAGE, for the use of her Majesty's Troops, from Ist November, 1863, to 30th April, 1869 : NORTH BRITISH. Commissariat Office, 3, Hill-street, Edinburgh. Hamilton. Perth. I.diuburgh, Leith Fort, and Piershill. NORTHERN. Commissariat Office, Barrack-streetel Hms, Manch9ster. Ashton-under-Lyne. Manchester. Birmingham. Newcastle-on -Tyne. Bradford. Northampton. Burnley. Preston. Bury. Sheffield. Coventry. Weedon. Leeds. York. Liverpool. EAST. Commissariat Office. 'ERN. Camp. Colchester. .‘ orivich. Colchester. Ipswich. SOUTH-EAST E RN. Commissariat Office, 4, Castle-street, Dover. I Dover. I Shorneliffe. WESTERN. Commissariat Office, 20, East Emma-place, Stonehouse, Plymouth. Plymouth, Devonport, Tre gautle and Scraesdon Forts, Maker Barracks and Heights. ESTERN. comas-street, Portsmouth. Chichester. Netley. )ON. ictoria-street, London, S.W. 4. Hyde Park, Kensington, Regent's Park, and Horse Guards. 5. San ihurst. 6 Windsor, • CHATHAM. Commissariat Office, Barracks, Chatham. Chatham. WOOLWICH. Brigh ton. Canterbury. Bristol and Hortlaid. Exeter and Topsham. SOUTII-W Commissariat Office, St. TI Dorchester. Portsmouth and Hiism LONI Commissariat Office, 103, Vi 1. Enfield. _ 2. Hampton Court. 3. Hounslow, including En campments on the Heath, and Kneller Hall. Commissariat (Me, Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, S.E. Maidstone. Warley. I Shoeburyness. Woolwich. Forms of tender and conditions of contract may be obtained on application at the above offices, by letter addressed to the Senior Commissariat Officer or the district, or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'cloek,.and no tender will be enter tained unless made upon the form so maintained. Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up and signed, and no Tender will be noticedunless delivered at the dis trict office, undelc closed envelope (marked "Tender" on the out side), before twelve o'clock noon on the 29th September. scarrs BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER-AILING REMEDY.—Pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indiges tion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, tte. 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. Lambert, chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by most druggists, in boxes, ls. 11d., and three times the quantity iu one, 2s. 9d. Be' ure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert" engraved on the stamp. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. nRNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library , V and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant as sortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe lisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Table; Paper Weights, &c., in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derby shire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, W.C., London. Mr. 'Pennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facili tate the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at 149, Strand. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS V V (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 apd 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Ilundred Medical men to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi site resisting power is supplied by the floc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circ , dar may bo had, and the truss, which can rot fail to fit, forws.rdel by post, on the circumference of the body, two incues below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. JO FIN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 26e. 61., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 31s. Gd., 425., and 525. GI Postage, is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT 17LAST,IC STOCKINGS, _A KNEE-CAPS, t!cc., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. (NE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the ROYAL A LB YAIT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate of £25 por annum each. Funds greatly needed. CH ARLES A. WALK ER, Secretary. Office, 54, Cheapside, London, E.O FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON F 141 MAL E PREVEN g: and REFORMATORY IN STITUTION. Preeideat —fey. CANON DALE. CONTRIBUTIONSIO; the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear nestly solicited, which may be tout to_bankers, Messrs, Blon quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, C.; Francis Nicholls, Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, N.C. E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was established at King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted free .. Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co., 60, Lombard street, Messrs. Ransom and Bonverio, 1, Pall.inall.—Hon. Sec., / Smith. Esa. GEo. REID, Soc. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's Cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN. Vice-Patron— _ His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. President:-Flie Grape the Duke of BUCOLEUCII, B.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged be tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevolent, as the premises of this hoipital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co„- [ferries awl Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Dncoo, and Co.; Nisbet aud, Co., Bergeri-etraet and at the go*ltal, iron 10 tail E?. / 4171 s • i ci, • -- 11, - • - • . / ~ , - I,tbB , _ . . ,1v r' ........ ,_ 4,5 , \ • , 40 . , • 31 ... ,1i . .. „... . ~,:I‘.-...."71:‘, 17 4 .: _ •,...g.,., --.0...,4;„:„-- . , . 4 & * ......, ~...... . . ~ \ ____j : -.. A , ._ ..4 - ... 7.•. -- ,: :: 1 , , - ,,, , N z,. I . ,il i N ar; ..ic<7., . .. r . ....,-, -. .4Se. ..... 4.. , 4 , ..,.. , t ---._„ '7 -"' -2 -'-' 1 . ':', l 4 - 01" 15" • •••• . c. . .-__ '. -- , -•-. / '--..- •.,* I'. • - - --- ''' f •• - ' 4, ? , , , /- ' •,- t ' . t:\ • "4„,;,,, N."-, .„ - , _....., --- , _,, - : - _-,..N . . % . i ~,,, . /.3 . , •--.lry . , . I I . ~. r' : • ..,, • k , -; : . - t-ii I ' 7 --`, - '' \ 7 • (0... Z - `'--t 6:... z‘i, • .-, ..,,,,14 - 94-, •., P $ 1 ',,, . ! I t > I ••• . . k .- Ve TX4 , i - • ---'- -t - • ~k,N,i.l.h, ct‘ P - ' I X • , - a il Ra , 1 - •ia" nnorz, ,N4,..........----- , - -';;,:. i ...- -,.., . .., - - rber t. e , , .. - ,p pra, ~. ,.-::,. .xir ... ___7 . 4 '',.97-:•-4 . 4- , : - ' ____-- THE SUN, LONDON, Trt URt‘DA EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1868. UNVILLt'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, - BELFAST, • regularly supplied to the House of Lords. " V.R.' IRISH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH "WHISKY, t BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAti'D, Established 1803., Quotations on application. EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY Empowered by Special Mt of Parliament. For Life Assurance, 'Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in Situationa of Trust. Chairman.- General Sir FILEDEUIC SMITH, K.TI., F.R.S. _ _ Policies payable during Life 7 ltylisputable—Not liable to Forfoituire. Anna it Ina;nno e]cml3 Thrco liandra 1 and Fifty Thousand Pounds. . . • 1 The Annuity Tables, offeriny, spec:lAl advantages to Annuitants, and full particulars of the popular Principles of this Society, will b 3 foand in the New Proc , poctas, which will be forwarded to applicants post free. HENRY LAKE, General Manager. 31G, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. OY AL INSURANCE COMPANY, ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDINGS, • Lombard-street, London, and Liverpool. EPITOME of ANNUAL REPORT for 1867. The " Ror.A.t." has never had a.larger body of Constituents than now. FIRE BRANCH. PREMIUMS in 1867 £160,553 being a larger revenue than in any preceding year. LOSSES by Fire in 1867 £292,125 NET PROFITS, after paying all losses and ex penses £56,373 LIFE BRANCH. Annual Average of new, business in 1865-6-7 £BOl,OOO Do. during previous Quinquennium £688.000 Amount added to Life Reserves in 1867 . £128,583 LIFE PROPOSALS _now effected will participate in the Increased shato of Proffts.reCeitly conceded -to -Policy holders. _ . PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in Loudon. August, 1868. COMPAGNIE GEN E RAL E TRANSAT LANTIQUE. 4, Rue de la Paix, Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New York. RATES OF PASSAGE. From HAVRE Or BREST to NEW YORK. First Mass 7OO fr. Second Class 425 fr. Third Class - 275 fr. From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brest, including railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class, 285 fr. WEST IN nIES AND MEXICO. Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St. Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico, Haiti. Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique. JAPAN, NORTH AND SOU 111 P A CIFIC, AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama). Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar tiniqne, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon, Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo, Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union, San Francisco, China, and Japai— Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this company, can be had of STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co., Agents, 8, Austiufriars, London, E.C. CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR SAN PAULO DE LOANDO. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, - ept. 1, 1868. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the TIMED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, do hereby give Notice, that on TUES DAY, the 29th inst., at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to CON TRACT for supplying and delivering on oard her Ma jesty's Steamships and Vessels at San Paulo de Loando all such quantities of SMOKELESS SOUTH WALES COALS as may from time to time be ordered under a Contract for Twelve Months certain, from the Ist of April, 1869, and afterwards, until the expiration of six months warning. A. Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contra t may be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's De partment, Admiralty, Somerset House. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will auy be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorized in writing. Every Tender must he addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words, " Tender for Coals for San Paulo de Loando," and must also be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-Gene ral, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of .£5OO for the due performance of the Contract. By order, • ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. CONTRACT FOR FLOUR AND CONES FOR THE ROYAL HOSPITAL AT'GREENWICH. • • Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, 2,1 Sept., 1868. T .HEcommissio NIERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of. GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND do hereby give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the 22d inst., at half-past On, o'clock, they will be ready, at the Office of the Director-General of the Med:cal Depart ment of the Navy, Somerset House, in London, to treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for the supply of all such quantities of FLOUR -AND CONES as shall from limetotinebe required for the use of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, under a Contract for Six Calendar Months. . The Flour t be manufactured in the best manner, from sound English Wheat, of the best quality, and to be of the description known as," Best Whites ;" the Cones also to be of the best quality, and samples (one pound of each) must be produced by parties tendering. The Contractor will be allowed the use of the Hospital sacks. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders. No Tender will be received unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on application at the Department of the Medical Director- General, Admiralty, Somerset House, or to the Steward at the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, where also the condi tions of the Contract may be seen. No Tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on the clay of treaty ; and it will not be required that the party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend at the office on the day of Contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communi cated to him in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "'Tender for Flour and Cones," and must also be deli vered at the Medical Department, Somerset House, signed by two responsible persons engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of £5OO for the due performance of the Contract. By order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. pRINTIN G.—TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c. The Printing and Machining of Newspapers, Btc., done on exceedingly favourable terms: Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelop for reply. Address—The Managor, "Sun" Printing Offices, 8, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and clothing for the 126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship. 150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street; 94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing. 370 children. £l5 will keep a boy or . girl for one year. Contributions received by the Loudon and Westminster Bank , 211, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, ; and by WILLIAM WILLI OdS, Secretary. No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-flelds. NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861. Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G., whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, front all parts of the kingdom. The object of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house, and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other wise provided for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain suitable situations for them. The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. HENRY K?NGSCOTE, Treasurer W H. WAFWICK Secretary. Office, 121, Pall mall, THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S 'Rams are as follows : For Fallen Women. 28, Church-row, flamp- 150, New Kent-road. stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke 13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington. town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green -205, Great Portland• street. with. For Young Girls in Danger. 27, Church-row, Hampstead. 9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood. St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill. Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover. Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside. In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee have under their charge three homes for servants of good character, in which arc admitted about 1,000 friendless servants annually. The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to upen another house for this pitiable class. The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book. The Society's Report(of which a contributor writes, "I never read a report of any charitable institution which so entirely commended .itself to my mind r and awoke my sympathy") may be had on application. The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Its bankers are ••Messrs. Baeclay and Co. The Committee very earnestly commend ita work to the benevolent. DANL. =PER Sec. 851 Quelketrot j Chospoidei JOliN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth powder; gives the teeth a, pearl whiteness, protects the -name] from decLy, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to -the breath. Price Is. 6d.--Red Bull Wharf, 03, Upper T strpet. London. liARRACK CONTRA.CTS For the Supply of PAILLASSE STRAW IN (411 EAT BRITAIN. Whit Omen, PALL MALL, LONDON, S.W., Ist September, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Secretary of State for War is prepared to rec.eive Tend:,rs for the supply of Straw for Palliasses at the various - Barrack Stations in Great Britain, for a period of One Year, from ILA Ist November next. Tenders not be entertaintAl unless male upon the prcper printed Form, which may be obtained, with every requisi,e in formation, upon application at this Office, or to the var;oas Bar rack Masters, between the hours of 10 aad 4 o'clock each day, Sundays excepted. ' The Tenders mast be sent to this Offie, addressed to the Director of Contracts, marked on the out .3ide; "Tender for Paillasse Straw,!' on or before .Saturday, 12th inst., after which day uo Tender will be receive:l. The Secretary of State for War reserves the right of rejecting any or all of the Tenders. rHoiA.s HOWELL, Director of 'Contracts. ANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES arc per -31. fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers, and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. WHY incur the risks of Limited Liability, by V V taking Shares in Civil Serviel or Co-operative Stores,-when you can SAVE TEN PER Gaff.- by PURCHASING of THE EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, and can have the goods delivered at your own door ? Teas of all descriptions from is. 3d. per lb. upwards. Price Lists post free, on application at the Company's Ware houses, 9, Great, St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate. B. ESKEItt..i. titmasoat--,DorTisT, the Author of "PURE DENTISTRY, and What it Does for Us," " ' PAINLESS TOOTH EXTRACTION, or AnTsthesia Locally Applied," "DENTAL SURGERY—a Practical Treatise," &c., &c., may be Consulted Daily as hitherto from 10 to 4 o'clock, at his ONLY Residence, 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE (a few doors from Bond-street). PARTRIDGE AND COOPER. MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CILLNCERY-LINE), LONDON (S.C.) ME PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES. CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS. OVER 20s. per ream. s. d. 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It instantly relieves the most intense head ache and thirst, and if given with lime-juice syrup Is a specific in gout and rheumatism.-113, Holborn-hill, London, E.C. " PAINLESS DEN nsTRY !" A NEW 1"1/11 5 HIET, ' Freo'by post for four stamps. nESSRS. GABRIEL, (Established 1815.) London 56, Harley-street, Ca,vanlish-sinue, W. 61, Ludgate-hill, E.U., Liverpool 131, Duke-strut, and Brighton h -street, ATTENDANCE DAILY. FETES 11V THE ALPS. (From a Correspondent of the Times.) tIoN, Monday Morning. Sarcastic remarks have been made on the Eng lish custom of celebrating everything by a dinner. Unfriendly critics have gone the length of saying that if London were destroyed we should comme morate the event in borne newly-found Freemasons' Tavern, or go down the river and condole with each other over a dish of whitebait at Greenwich or Blackwall. It must be owned that with us public dinners are an institution ; but it is a fact that on the Continent they have, if not exactly the same kind of thing, something analogous to it. They go much greater lengths than we do in connecting pleasure with business. A fete is with them an in evitable concomitant of any commercial or social movement in favour of which it may be desirable to secure public approbation. If we open a hun dred miles or two of railway, the directors invite a company to be passengers by the first train, a din ner is given at the terminus, and there is an end of the whole business of inauguration. To-day ten new miles of an iron way have been opened in the Canton of Valais, and the fetes to celebrate the event commenced on Friday night, and will not terminate for sonic days to come. It is right, however, to at once premise that those ten miles form part of an undertaking of even more than European importance. They are a portion of a line which is to give a direct railway communica tion between Paris and Milan via the Simplon Rail way, and which, its projectors state, will form part of the highway between England and our Indian empire. The scheme has the approval of M. Les seps, the projector of the Suez Canal, who regards it as a supplement of his own plan for shortening the overland route to India, and I think I have seen enough within the last few days to warrant me in saying that the Simplon Railway is not regarded with any disfavour by the French Government. The whole affair is essentially French. The de monstration now being made in its favour was actually commenced in Paris, and has been carried on till, in the midst of the Alps, and at many hun. dreds of miles from that city, it has its culmination under circumstances altogether unparalleled in the history of commercial enterprise. The company which has undertaken this work is styled 6 ' La Nouvelle Compagnie Anonyme de la Ligne Inter nationale d'ltalie par le Simplon." For some time it has been in possession of a line well known to tourists in Switzerland—the railway from Bouveret, on the south-east extremity of the L ike of Geneva, to the town from which I now write. From here the company intends to carry the line through the district between this point and Brieg, thence through the Simplon, and on to Arena, in Italy. To-day an advance has been made on the road Brieg as far as Sierre. Henceforward travellers to the Simplon or to . Zermatt may go ten miles fur ther by rail, that being the distance in English measurement from Sion to Sierre. Brieg is over 23 miles beyond the point to which the railway has now been carried, and Brieg must ,be reached before the Swiss end of• the Simplon can bo entered upon. Already there is a railway over lliont Cenis, Mnd one is being tunnelled ,throughit. For a long Man iEQ wsy through the it! Qottkiii been talked of, and now we have this plan o one by . the Simplon. I shall reserve for a fu'ure letter same remarks on the comparative merits of the competing schemes. As the ceremony of inau guration to Sierre. did not conc'u le till past mi l nigitt, and as this coaa.nuuicatioa mast be pose I at the railway staq >n by 4 Mimic this morning, 1 must for the present confine myself ti what I have been witnessing during the last two or three days. The directo -s of the company were very liberal in their invi!atiarts to the inauguration fetes, which, according ta their letter, were to commence at Geneva on Saturd ty forenoon, imme.liately after the arrival of tin express from Paris dae in the former city at 11 o'clock. Very w any of the invited h td• left Paris ou Thursday or early on Friday in Ruing but, perhaps, no larger number of psraoui ever de parted from any station in a train of exclusively first-class carr:ages than that which assembled ac the Paris terminus of the Lyons Railway on Friday evening. Geneva is a favourite spot with tourists about to enter Switzerland, and the season for Swiss tours is now at its height. There was, therefore, a rush of ordinary travellers on Friday night ; and, in addition, there were some hundreds of the in vited coming to assist at the fetes. The train was of immense length, but all the passengers were seated without noise or confusioa by 20 minutes to 9, the hour of departure. We got off to the minute, and arrived at Macon at 6 o'clock on Saturday morning, only a very few minutes behind the time at which we were due there. But there was a rather ludicrous circumstance in connection with our arris val and appearance at Macon. The night bad been very hot, and one window at least in every carriage had been left open. When we entered the refresh ment-room at Macon everybody began to scare at everybody else, and every one to laugh at his or her neighbour. Had we descended from chimneys we could not have been much more sooty. We looked like a monster party of sweeps out for a holiday. The fuel used all night by the locomotives which drew the train must have been of the most abomi nably dirty character. We discovered that it had done the • mischief. Probably the Lyons Com pany bad . been trying an experiment with some new kind of charbon. If so, it is to be hoped they will not repeat it without due notice to pas sengers. We reached Geneva at •11 o'clock, Geneva time, which is ne trly 20 minutes in ad vance of that of Paris; and it was arranged that the whole of the invited should leave for Bouveret at half-past 12. Precisely at that hour the steamer which was to convey them left the north quay. The point of departure was close to the splendid bridge called after Mont Blanc, and near to the Isle of Jean Jacques Rousseau. The Simplon, the steamer fitted up for the occasion, was radiant in brilliant flags and steamers, and as she left her moorings and got out into the middle of the lake she was saluted by a long and continuous cannon ading from the steamers lying on the 'south quay, the usual place for departure and arrival for steamers traversing the • lake. The Simplon re turned the salutes from miniature guns placed both on stem and stern. A capital band on board com menced its performance, and the guests cheered "La Ligne d'ltalie." Nearly all of them were French. The journalism of France was largely re presented among the visitors. The French, and especially the Parisians, are not a travelling people, and very many of the gentlemen on board the Simplon had never been in Switzerland before. It need hardly be said that, apart from its trans cendent beauties, the Lake of Geneva had peculiar interest for them. The words of Voltaire, " Mon lac est le premier," were quoted more than once ; there was anxious gazing at the island of 'Jean Jacques, and when this was no longer iu view we had a general look oat for the portion of the shore near which the villa of Madame de Stael is situate. Iu order to give the invited a full view of all that is to be seen from the lake, the Simplon crossed and recrossed from the north to the south sides. A great portion of the latter is French ter ritory since the annexation of Savoy and Nice. It is now in the department of Haute Savoie. Even any one previously ignorant of that fact might easily have surmised it yesterday. At the French landing places everything and every one, the gen darmerie -included, were in gala • turnout. The übiquitous eagle was on all sorts of standards and flagstaffs, and as the Simplon passed an extraordi- • nary quantity of powder was expended in doing honour and wishing God-speed to the French company now about to peaceably invade Italy. The villa of Prince Napoleon Jerome is on the north side of the lake, which is all in Swiss territory. I believe the Prince is not in Switzer land at present, but in and about the beautiful little rustic residence of Count Walewski, near the extremity of the French territory and close to the margin of the lake, there were greetings. Sa lutes were exchanged as the steamer passed, an 1 a number of ladies stood on the balcony of the villa and the grounds surrounding the house. There was not Ling, however, like a spec'acle till the Simplon, crossing from the Castle of Chalon, approached Bouveret, closely followed by another steamer belonging to the company, and which had kept along by the south bank. This second steamer also sported the French and Swiss colours in pro fusion, and was plentifully provided with little broadside guns. As the two boats neared Bouveret salutes were fired from different points up the mountains which tower over the town. In some cases one could see neither the guns nor the men who fired them. The report and the red glare which followed it appeared here and there in situations where one might least have expected them. The shots followed in rapid though irre gular succession, and were echoed and re-echoed with marvellous effect through the giant chain of Alps leading up to Mont Blanc. It was now past six o'clock, and the setting sun coloured the sur face of the distant waters with an azure hue of exquisite beauty, while the portion shaded by the mountains retained that light blue colour which forms one of the most striking characteristics of Lake Leman. The station at .Bonvel et had been converted into a vast summer-house in the midst of a well-pl uted garden. Fir trees and other evergreens had been removed from other places, and brought to that spot for the occasion. A special train was drawn up in front of the station. The locomotive was so decked out in garlands that nothing but the top of its funnel presented the or dinary appearance. Immediately behind the en gine was a large waggon got up as a bower, around which were fruit trees and creeping plants. In this a band was stationed. From Bouveret up to Sierra the country forms a portion of the Canton of Va lais. At Bouveret there was an official reception by the local authorities, who warmly congratulated M. La Valette, the president, and the other mem ber of the council of administration of the railway company. When the congratulations had been gone through, the party of travellers entered the train, which left the station amid . a flourish of trumpets and the loud and repeated acclamations of a dense crowd of the inhabitants. At all the sta tions on the way to Sion the populations had turned out and awaited the special train. By the time we had reached Mouthey, the second on the route, it had become dark, but the station itself was illuminated with oil lamps, and improvised trees, which had been planted in front of it a few hours before, were hung with coloured limps. Across the road was an arch of evergreens, from which Chinese lanterns of various colours were sus pended. As the train entered the station the band played " God save the Queen." Why 'our national anthem was chosen I know not, but probably it was because hor Majesty is Sovereign of British India. We all descended at Mothey, and there was a de monstration in favour of Fzance. Shouts of " Vive la France," were followed by cries of " Vivent les Parisians !"4.a, compliment which v 044 tha, Ciiilol3 U 2 tot higUlt- pitch ottatimium. They 4 Pitleh'.... 4d. STAMPED 5?, responded with " Vice la Suisse!" The tunnel through which we entered St. ➢Maurice was illutni natcd with a suddeness and effect whiCh drew forth the warmest expressions of almiration. At one in stant the subway through the mountain was green, next it was red, mid then green again. Every stone m the great cavern was visible ith startling dis tinctness. At St. Maurice there were more illumi nations, more salutes, and more fireworks ; but at • Sion, our destination for the night, a t ;reldight pro . eessi•ni Was tuned to give variety and still greater drauiatic effect to the reception of the Simplon. company in the Canton of the Valais.' When the trrin pulled up at this station there wt:re the in complimeats and congr..tulations between the town, represrnted by the principal ;y, Lority, and the railway company, as personifie I by NI. La Valente. . Then a small regiment of hardy moun taineers, walking two and two, andeach c arying a blazing toich, preceded a procession of the leading inhabirants and the directors of the company. Some hundreds of visitors, each attended by a porter or two carrying baggage, brought up the rear. There was not a vehicle of any kind to be had ; so .that we were all processionists whether we liked it or not—and in ►uy of us did not like it—over a very dusty real of three-Tuners of a mile in length. But all this feting was only a leading up to what has been done to-day. It may aifely be said that • to-day's fetes have been perfectly unique. Never was any other.railway inaugurated as the line be- . 1 tween Sion and Sierra has been. No such inaugu- ' ration could be held anywhere but in the midst of mountains like the Alps ; and when the only other Alpine' line was opened, that over Mont Cenis, the ceremony was performed in a style that had no pretensions to amazing effects such as those accom plished to-day. The special train by which the line was to be opened started from here at about one o'clock, and arrived at Sierre in a little more than half an hour. All the way from Sion the new line runs through a country abounding with magnificent scenery. Tnere are lofty ranges of mountains on either side ; those to the right are covered with ver dure nearly to the tops ; those to the left are sub. ; lime in their enormous height and savage desola tion. Several of them were c,appe I with snow even yesterday, after a long continuance of hot wea ther, and when the sun was positively of scorch. ing heat. There is an easy incline all the way to Sierre, but the station lies in a valley surrounded on all sides by gigantic mountains. The neighbourhood of the little town is always picturesque. Yesterday it was much more so than usual. The canton of Switzer land is having its Tir at Sierre, and there is an en campment all about the shooting-ground. The green slopes rising from the valley were dotted all over with little white tents, and M. La Valette and his company had come in to assist Nature and the Tir in making still more picturesque one of the most beautiful spots in this most beautiful country. The president of the railway administration and his col leagues contrived a spectacle which carried one back to the Middle Ages, and at the same time kept him ever conscious that he lived in the engineering period of the 19th century. The locomotive was brought to a stand some 300 feet short of a canopy raised on a little green mound. The canopy was formed of wood work, concealed by. foliage, amid which fruit and flowers of various kinds were placed as if they had grown there. Beneath the canopy sat a venerable-looking old man, with white linen flowing down on his shoulders. He was arrayed in the full pontificals of a Roman Catholic bishop. Around him stood the canons of his chapter with 'heir scarlet rochets and white surplices. This was the Bishop of Sion, who was in waiting to bliss the locorautive. Swiss sol tiers, rifle in hand, kept guard near his chair. W hen the persons who had been conveyed by the train were let down at a pavilion erected fur the banquet which was to come off in the evening, and when the indispensable vie d'honneur had been disposed of, a gun was was fired, and the engine, having blown a shrill and triumphant whistle, ad vanced at a slow pace till within a few feet of where the bishop was seated. Monsei A neur then rose and, with his mitre on his h ad and his pastoral staff in his left laud, advanced to the front of the canopy, where he delivered- a really • eloquent ad dress. With much force he alluded to many of the scientific improvements which have been made is our own day, and expresSed the delight he felt at seeing the progress of intercommunicat'on between the different peoples of the earth. He regarded the fact that he had been selected to pronounce a bene diction on the engine as an act of faith on the part of the company—an acknowledgment before all men that God is the Lord of Science. In conelu sibn, he said he hoped that no intercommunication with other people would ever make the inhabitants of the Canton of the Valais cast off their simplicity of manners, impair the faith, or diminish a patri otism for which the Swiss were pre-eminent. The Bishop then read the prescribed prayers, and, sprinkling holy water on the engine, pronounced a benediction upon it and all the vast assembly who witnessed the ceremony. There was now a general movement to a pavilion, which was a perfect triumph in its way. A large wooden roof, supported at the corners on natural trees, some light woodwork outside, a gallery and tribune within, a fountain playing in the centre, evergreens, flowers, fruit, inscriptions in all direc tion, tables for betwten six and seven hundred people. This was the structure and its ornamenta tion, but no pavilion ever stood in a grander spot. From which ever side of it you looked there were the lofty Alps, range behind range, at but a short distance. In your immediate neighbourhood the Swiss valley, with its green slopes and quaint chalets, and the white huts of the riflemen. There were other tents about, too, in which the peasantry were making merry while awaiting the unrivalled illumination in the evening. The dinner was so plentiful in viands and wines that after the G5O guests had been entertained a banquet for all comers was carried on for several hours after wards. What the name of the caterer may be who , managed this in the midst of the Alps. with only • the resources of a village near at hand. I do not know. I think some of our Lvindon dinner con tractors ought to try and find it out. He might give them a useful lesson. Soup, fish, and meats were served up hot, and there was coffee egad to what is to be had at the best cafés in Paris. An exuberance in speaking followed dinner, each orator as the parole was granted to him mounting a tri bune much higher than a church pulpit. I should not, perk ips, omit to mention that among the toasts was " The English Press." The illumination commenced as soon as the even ing had become dark. A sigaal gun having been fired, a shower of rockets was sent up from au open space in front of the pavilion. For au instant this attracted the attention of a vast concourse of people which had by this time assembled in the vall-y. When the light of the rockets ha l died away great was the astonishment of the stran4ers and enthusi astic the admiration of all to find that the Alps themselves were illuminate 1. Fires burnt on some of the highest peaks ; fires blazed on the sides half way down ; arid the flames of huge bonfires as cended from the base of the chain of tremendous mountains enclosing the valley. In another second fresh rockets shot up from the froot of the pavilion, wheels of coloured fire flew round and sent red sparks and spangles in all direction ; cannon boomed, volleys of rifles were fired, bands played, and men and women and children joined in wild acclamations. The effect was absolutely magical. this wonderful illumination continued for more than an hour, and must have been seen at places many miles distant from Sierre. An excursion to the pass of the Gemmi is the next eatry in the programme of these remarkable fetes, 2s. 6d. quperfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4s 6d, 5s 6d, & Cs 6d Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s 6d per 1,000 Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c. , 3s COLOUR z•TA tiiPING (Relief) reduced to ls. per 100. Polished steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An IL•LU Tit TED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, tationery, Cabinets, Postage eales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, and Bags, , post free. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. A.GUA. ANIARELLX restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form; and at a lower price, Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. lted Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street. London. F.C. r Gzi 4 // Z , ih — , -I ‘ a SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION; The programme of proceedings of the twelfth annnal congress of the " National Association for the Promotion of Social Science," which will be held in Birmingham from the 30th of September to the 10th of October, is out. The Earl of Carnarron is the president of the asso• elation. The subjects for discussion are divided into four depart. meats :-1. Jurisprudence and Amendment of the Law ; president, the Right Hon. W. N. Massey ; and the special questions for discussion are arranged under three sections, viz,: Section A, International Law ; Section B, Municipal Law; and Section C, Repression of Crime. Of the Department of Education Lord Lytteltonis the president,. and the special questionsfor discussion refer to the question of making primary education compulsory, the means for Instruction in science and art, and the improvement of the two universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Of the Department of Health Dr. Eumsey is president, and the special questions for discussion refer to the administra. tion of public hospitals, the functions of mcdical officers of health, and the relation of water supply to health iit towns. Tic the fourth department—Economy and Trade — Vie subjects of an international coinage, arbitration be tween masters and workmen, the aqministration of out door relief, and the social resifts of the employment of girls and '.omen in manufactories will come under dis cussion. THE ANGLO-DANISH TELEGRAPH, The Hortlu'rn Dally Ex I ras states that on Tuesday morning, about eight o'clock, two steam-vessels arrived off Newbiggin-by-the-Sea ; the names of the vessels were the Archimedes and the Chevy Chase, and they brought to our northern coast a submarine telegraph cable that is to connect England and Denmark. The cable belongs to the Danish, Norwegian, and English Tele graph Company, of Copenhagen. The cable has been made by the well-known cable manufacturers of the Teams, near Gateshead, Messrs. R. S. Newall and Co. There is a particular feature in this cable, and that is, the core made by Mr. W. Hooper, of London, is of an india rubber insulation. This is the first time indiarubber has been applied to such a purpose for any long distance, and E 0 far as tested it has workedavonderfUlly. It is coiled in tanks on board both ships, on the principle of Messrs. Newall's patent. The length of the cable from Sondervig, near Rinkjobing, Denmark, to Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, is about 340 miles. The Archimedes and the Chevy Chase — the former a vessel of 1,000 tons burthen, belonging to Messrs. Watts, Milburn, and Co., Blyth, and the latter of about 600 tons burthen, owned by the Tyne Steam Ship ping Company —left the River Tyne on Monday wcek,with the cable on board. Mr. R. S., Newall (the mayor of Gateshead) went with the cable for the purpose of seeing it properly laid out, testing the insulation, &c. He was assisted by his electrician, Mr. Buffieb. They had a smooth passage, and by quick steaming they arrived off the Danish coast on the following Wednesday. On Saturday morning they left Christian sand, proceeded to the coast off Sondervig, and suc ceeded in landing successfully the shore end of the cable. They were joined, on the Danish side, by Messrs. Madsen and Lorenzen, gentlemen officially connected with the telegraphic service of the Danish Government. They then steamed direct towards the North Sea, laying out and testing the cable. They steamed at full speed all the way—a feat wonderful to perform when laying a cable at the same time. In such cases half-speed is adopted, and it is very rarely that this is gone beyond. The owners of the vessels may well feel gratified at the result attained. In returning, the weather was fine, and the cable was paid out very successfully. While off Newbiggin on Monday night the sea was so rough as to make it impos sible to splice the mid-cable to the shore end. They buoyed it at a distance of ten miles from the shore, awaiting favourable weather. Directly the cable is laid a message of congrati ation will be transmitted to Denmark. Arrange. ments have been made to commence business operations at once. The company has arranged with the United Kingdom Telegraph Company to work the traffic in this district, and a wire will be immediately fixed from the Newcastle station to Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. The land lines from Newbiggin to Newcastle belong to the Danish, Norwegian, English Telegraph Company (Limited). This company will work the traffic between Newbiggin and Newcastle, and within a few days stations will be opened at Cramlington, Bedlington, and in the course of time, no doubt, at other places in the district. Messages will be received in Newcastle at the post office, Quay-side, and in the respective post offices at the other places mentioned. The transmission from the cables will be effected by means of Professor 'Wheatstone 's automatic instruments. These instruments " consist principally in the mechanical transmission of signals by means of con tacts given by series of perforations in bands of paper previously prepared and drawn through the manipulator ; the signals being printed by the recording instrument." The speed in transmission, it is expected, will be great. Sir Robert Phillimore has returned from abroad in excellent health. It will he remembered that he met with rather a eerious accident a short time ago. SMALLPDX AMONGST SHEEP.—The Board of Cus toms have issued directions that sheep which are detained for slaughter at the wharves at any pert under the provi sions of the Order in Council of the 20th August last, be submitted to a daily inspection by the veterinary surgeons. This order has been deemed necessary in consequence of the report from the veterinary department of the Privy Council, to the effect that where a number of animals are collected together cases of smallpox appear day by day, and that unless there is constant supervision the meat of diseased animals will certainly be sent to market. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH RUSSIA. AND THE EAST.—We have authority for stating that arrangements are being made by the Danish, Norwegian, English Telegraph Company, of Copenhagen, to extend the telegraphic communication to the East, by laying a cable from Denmark to Russia. By this means tele graphic communication with Russia can be had direct from Newcastle-on-Tyne and the North, through the cables of the Danish, Norwegian, English Telegraph Company, instead of by the circuitous and necessarily expensive route as at present. The advantages of such a cable to the commercial and political world will be very great, and it is to be hoped that success will attend the efforts of this company. The cable will, in all probability, be laid this year.—Northern Daily Express. HOSPITAL FOR ANIMALS. —A bazaar has been held at Southport, in aid of the Southport and Lancashire branches of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Colonel Wilson Patten, 111. P., who had been announced to take the chair, was unavoidably absent, and much disappointment was also experienced that Mr. Gladstone, one of the patrons of the society and a con tributor to the bazaar, and who is now the guest of Mr. Weld Blundell, whose seat is in the neighbourhood, had not found it ccnvenient to attend. It was stated in the course of the proceedings that the sum of £30,000, bequeathed by the late Mr. Brown for the purpose of founding a hospital in London, specially for the treatment of animals, was in the hands of the University of London, and that the hospital was about to be erected. THE COOLIE TRADE.—From Macao there are details of another terrible tragedy, the natural result of the accursed coolie trade. Free emigrants do not mutiny on their way to the land of their choice. Free emigrants never set fire to the ship in which they are cooped up, never doomed themselves on the wide ocean to a certain and most terrible death. Slaves alone do these things. Men driven to desperation by their enforced removal from. their families and homes—men tortured and driven, men condemned to a life of labour, or to a speedy death in a strange land—overworked, ill-fed, subject to punishment, without pay or prospect of return- these are the men who plunder, burn, and destroy, who, like those on board the ill-fated Thdrbse, make twenty fruitless attempts W mutiny before the one that brings with it a fatal success — Who massacre at one blow three-fourths of the crew of their prison, force the captain by blows and threats to bear them back to their native land—who, utterly demoralised, fight recklessly among themselves till one-half of their number is gone, plunder the ship of all its wealth, and leave it almost a wreck at the first friendly land they come to.--China Overland Trade Report, July 24. THE RATS IN THE MINE. A miner of the Imperial Mine of Gold Hill, Nevada, publishes in a paper , of that locality the following rat story. He says : "It is not generally known, except in mining localities, that rats inhabit the mines, but such, however, is the fact. From the top ground down to the lowest levels they are to be found in our mines. Some time since the Imperial Com pany stopped work at the lowest level for several days to repair the shaft just above it. After resuming work, the carman, who was the first to go below, went do' n alone to run out the ere from the chutes, and as coon as the rats heard the old familiar sound of the csr rumbling along the track,, they rushed out from behind the timbers to welcome the presence of man once more. They ran up to the carman in squads, climbed all over him, then down to the station floor again, and scampered and gamboled around in ecstasies of unmistakable delight. 'When he started for the chute again with the car, they ran follow• ing and playing around him, and when he had filled his car with ore and started back again for the shaft, they (the rats), sprang upon the car and ran all over it, and jumped and leaped as if mad; The carman sat down a moment to seo what they would do, when they all huddled around and ranover him without the slightest apparent fear, and with• out offering to bite him. He did not hurt any of them, ' as he sai,' if theysouldliv9 in such a place he felt in dutj L to I , :tiAii.4p___dvk V AL :I ;4 4 Q _ Q s th© city,` NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF ." c.ksrE." Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215., A L. By the Author of "Caste," &e. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Cireat Marlborough-street.