The Sun. — London, England, 1868-08-31 00:00:00

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T: . • -"" ( "'''ga ..4 ) • 13: 1 `_ sizo kis ej:ine. c d e a le L brated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dublin • - 1 - 1 . 74 ' f ........: :::: . --, ci.. • Aro, A c : 400 1 / 4 ` t.,, ~' .fit . . t . _ . ~..i . ~ 1 . s well as ''. . ' • • '''' s LI 1 1 P.. -si c ': •.. - ",. - ' 7 le l Pere, Mild, Mellow ,D and very Wholesome. ~ - , - .• , k 3-.. 1 _,_•:".e ~,„ ."-*•••:1:, 77'7, ' ' l' - - ,--'•- • ' • - ',as - ) srsrs ! ft . ' ' ' . "... 7 1 . 1 0.,. sl. -.9w -.1,' ..0 ••liiii‘. 3sachuSetts • . Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by I ...1i,„ .;--, 0:, - .9.,,,,:..... , (_• 'A- . ; 3 • •,,,, ro, atievi 1::-. ~eS . '5,..., • 4 3 - of public ' `u o. ti cb a:e r its in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at , ... yorr '. , i ~ , , I ,Nz ... 1 9.-.,.... et P 7 ••••••• • - ' \ "-k. ' W ':: •-'- b • '''• -- - - - ,7--..i ni A ; 4 ''"‘ - '' - " '''' the one r- GREAT - WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON; W. s •‘•:•te . . : \Z ‘ Sri:' , .. - i ••• 4 : " ...., , -"---' -- zif -7' :itic „,,.. ~,, - - f r.-•,,,, -. ...- .-..;-- 2) 1 ,, s- , „4.• i ~,...„ ,1. , ,! • t , • , -$0 , ,•-• .. ... ...• l'' ... eg ••,,,,, s e•_ completion _ e the Red Seal, Pink Label! and Cork Branded "gins l nun'sid: Whisky." . . . • , .a,n•••.` . .- ~ , ~ - 1 . injunction . ' . . siii,ssiss.......-• - • • _ _ _ _ li as finally ITUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION - --i.,;0--4 °. 23 . 782 • . , or transfer • '..' THE ► SUN LONDON - - MONDAY EVENING , A U ( UST. 31 - 1868. ";!,!-.,.aneorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859), / • - 3 1 undergone A . D i i•,•ti,nSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON, • • • , 3 Drew and h ~, `If"jES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free Now reasly,,at-all the Libraries, in 3 vols., .• ..•, , - 1 . OIL and •NORTII-IVESTERN RAIL- s HARE DEPARTMENT.---THE CONSER- the embankment. She was nearer to ) - , _; e r Je9aseholct Property, for One, two, oz three years, re Now •ut Erie r01e,7 kIY, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. II RF' -E ' IV IVE S. -1-4. WA - fr.-WARWICK RACES, Ist and .2d Sept, VATIVE LAND SOCIETY.-Shares may be taken out the engine. She never lost sight of th( anise groat “us free on receipt of stamped envelope. T By the Author of " Margaret and her Bridesmaids." . ds 1868. daily at the Norfolk-street Offices, or investors at a distance can 'se seriously -.-___ EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. : " These volinnes 'are most interesting, well written, and highly FIRST and SECOND CLASS RETURN TICKETS be'eurolled as members by correspondence. Present rate of in terest, five per cent. per annum, payable in half-yearly warrants, was about an hour on the spot. The ------- entertaining."-ObsertOr. _ issued from LGNDON , (Eusten,..liroad-street, Daiston, was enveloped in the flames. The Whe , penses and with participation of any pronts declared annually above that icellaneous WESTON'S Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Highbury, Kensington, Chelsea, , Batitensea, and Clapham • ,.,. rate. No partnership liability, and power of withdrawal of sub- fire, but the body never was in the - Junction stations), to LEAMINGTON and WARWICK, seriptions on shares Alt twenty-eight days' notice. The taking strength of OVAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. ' on MONDAY, 31st August, and. intervening days, will of land is entirely opifenal. was not more than five yards from th Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey. Crown Svcs, cloth, 7s. 6d., ,Tebb oppe - be available to Return by any Train (Irish and Limited CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, tire. All the fire was nearer to llolyl is is given THE FLYING FARINIS inREWSTER'S (SIR DAVID) LETTERS ON Secretary. Mails excspted) from Warwick and Leamington to Lon g) NATURAL MAGIC: With Introductory Chapters ou Offices-33, Norfolk-street, Strand, W.C. was. The flames were perhaps more that party .- Every Evening. the Being and Facultiea of MALI, and the latest additional Phe- don, up to and including Thursday, 3d September. ; uomcna of Natural Magic. By J. A. SMITH, Author of a Treatise ,_, , z - , height of the room. !ley were a Ir. . IVESTON'S ou the Structure of Matter, &c., &c. -1 i , • c:i in ...-: • COMPAGNIE GENERAL E TRANSAT enee of the ••.t 1 1 1 . LANTIQUE. than the railway banks. She had to itt OYAL MUS I C II AL L, HOLBORN. ,_.., r a.i se c• • which has - ...., 4, Rne c . :e la Pain, Paris. heat was so great. The wind came si Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey. FRENCII MAIL STEAMERS. the large THE SPANISH MINSTRELS lust published, price Is. 6,1., by post•ls. Bd., the Second Edition, with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus- 0a 7 3 ,, , ca, , n ic at ..., - , 5 •,-. - N I_llV YORK. the line from the sea. s on their The Assessor remarked that he the --.----- Every Evening. tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks, ~.., r...) P 4 .. 0 - ts. .... ' .Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New York. fleeted the it EVELATIoNs OF QUACKS AND RATES OF PASSAGE. dente of this witness worthless, thou are in good WESTON'S .QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the 4 1 A s s ~•,.., ::'_ .4, 1 g s s i, g . . From TIAVRE or BREST tO NEW YORK. prominent 1-I,OVAL MUSIC II AL L, HOLBORN. "Medical Circular." 7 1 - E5 4. c* r ... - 1 -.... - -..' ' ,-4 F .= 4 C... N. G - First ',.llas's .-i ..,, ..)700 fr. did not seem to think so. , London: H. &Mere, 21e, Regent-street. Second Class. 423 fr. ' Mr. Edwards-Wood-I certainly d he English Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey. - The nuirterons reviews of this startling work by the Saturday co • 1 , 4 , 4 5 , . ~-, ~, ~,, „ 3 7,,,, , ~.; CI .4 C. Third Class .. ..... r, at an ad- • THE JUVENILE ACTRESSES Review, Punch, Weekly' Dispatch. Public Opinion, end other 4 E -I , CO .1", , n v-4 r-I •• , :t , • - others who are no mean judges of evh , 1 a-,.... • • - ','''.--' - c-.* , :Prom Paris to New York, via Havre or Brest, including Every Evening. journals, recommending its universal. rierueal, are reprinted with es —el Ikt h 4, , .10 CO, CO ,CO C essed. Of ' Free List entirely suspended, Press excepted. this edition. . se- railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. , third class, I heard what evi•lence she could give .. ,:,, -,,,; . .., . -,=, -se 4 ' • <=, ,•'. ~ 285 fr. • ;nt says:- _ ,-, ,--, .• A . 9 '-' r-4 -4 right to produce her in order to cc than had A NGLO - AMERICAN TIMES, 4 .:2, -1 8 WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. . c h.) ANTER .B U R Y HAL L. ..ni AN INTER:NATION A- LNE iVSPA.PEtt, ''' C- ) g : . -1 '''' '''' - • " {D • ' '''' '.. c ' ,Leave St. Nazairo on the 16th of each month for St. few weak testimony of Mrs. Dicken. Sole Proprietor, W. HOLLAND. Devoted to American Intelligenes, ENLARGED to 21 ca T . . ,:=, •xo c .•'-• s , , - • c z , Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico, The Assessor had no doubt that Mi 3ed to ease piyine.i?niation of London,. the Great Wonder, NIBLO, on the ?AGES- Repor ta - of Con zre4s, Perao aal, Fbaancial, Mining, , ki t S -, . 1 3 -,, : , El c' '" r'' Haiti, Santiago de Cuba Guadeloupe, Martinique. recession of gre at l y raPoze, on two bars only; performance surpassing the Retiree 1, Sce. _Members of Pion anent, Commercial : Men, ,-, cp i- , giiest 91 ...., •-+ E 5 4 1 7t 1 ., . 'no co JAPAN, NORTII A ' ND SOUTEI PACIFIO, AND was stating what she believed to be tI e t. lusters by throring double somersaults; the greatest feat and those having , an ta the United States, will flu. 1 CENTITAL AMERICA (via Panama). By the Assessor-Alrs. Dicken wa: the market TZP),3o4.rfortned by any artist iti the world-in addition to George thls newspaper ofti,se. 14 on 0• 0 '''Lc'z - ty still felt d oll urn r i jut-The great Fred. French-Immense success of Published every 6A.TURDAY 3LORrIgG, price 4d. .ka 1 d e - , .23 rg q ,-.. .C 4 '''' Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar tiet, ❑(,,,, Trontie of 'Christy Minstrels, introducing 15 Star At- ~..., ~..", • 3 ci 2 4-I ,--, - ". :•1 NLO unique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon, ...:„,„) .... the people to came out of the bur, xt 90 days, 15. Catherine•street, Strand, :: - ' Aspinwall (tstliniits of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca- The wind Blew towards me, and ye E A ,, , _ Lae greatest Troupe in London-The grand WATTEAU • VD • al ii . * c , • • ho growing a ,,,,,•.!;r, introducing Mdlle. Cetrle, Lilley Carlo, Herr Carle, - - . m s? ° ,2 • '''' 4 '''' ..: ~, 4 El" - a\ •et 4 a ss -V' •I)611o, Guadeloup; 'Trinidad, Deterara, Paramaribo, Z . • P.' Mrs. Dicken at the other side of the t id this fall, I q re si tille. Burlet-The Great Daniel-Oceana , on the Invisible PARTMENPS.—Part of a Ten-roomed House, ,--, '.N - - -, -. LA ~..z. , - 5. , .0, -, - ..7.,-1 4,, .1 c• ... Cayenne, 4c., Cattalo Valparaiso, ex., San Jose, La Union, ,_, ~., By Mr. Littler Mrs. Dickers N If all kinds )1 8 ...l'ecial Notice.-In consequence of the immense success of pleasantly situated iu Islington.-Apply at No. 6, 1 ---c) . 74 ,75 - ., • 4 wz San rIIII2CISCO, China% and Japan. ,-, ea . • cs ca in ~, . • c:: , ."4 • Ilmed •books, w 4 full details of all the routes of this nearer to the engine than the Post- Durable re- • ,, sl,O the free list is entirely suspended, the press excepted. Crowland-terrace, Englefield-road, N.; E E -,t ~ , , j 4 g 'J. Ts F. , gi Manager-Mr. James Ellis. • • • company, can be tlll of ' Z••-i 5 'i a ' al '.i. El ' c ? -1 -5. 4 -F4 F., '' little nearer, not much in advance o h and West ' 3Titsical Director-Mr. Jesse Williams. STRIER, PEIIBBROKE, and Co., F URNISHED' APARTMENTS.-A Drawing . a., • , . - Agonts, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C. was nearer the carriages th it were 1 good fall • Stalls and Crystal Saloon, ls.; Area and Balcony, gcl. Doors open at half -past 7. commence at B'o'clock. •itli good , ' _, -,.... -....._ Room and Bed Room to be Let, situated in a cheerful and 0Z i E i ~5 a' ' '` . "" 4-I =' ' A i i - 2: "'0 c ~, healthy part of Kensington, in toe honse of a Private Family. ' P ....., 5 e , z _.,_, ~.., s.., could not tell whether it was a first or • for all it - Applications through Messrs. G. W. Bayley and Wickham, Now- '-' "--) d 2 •E' , 4- : ,2, E UROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY'. DAVE TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, il l --- - . . - land-terrace, Kensington. ''' r.; ,4 3 2 1 42: a. ~.., __, . Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. de "3 "', s r'-' carriage Mrs. Dicken was pleadin epic of the t ismA I 3 9ker-street.-A PORTR ITT MODEL of Count von - ,sl., -: ,_, 0 4 1:••• c. , 3 , ...., ,i- 4 -'• For Life Assurance; Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in ,_,. E-3 4 . co co ,0% se Situations of Truat. standing, I think, four or five yards ( 1,4,6 R O K, in the uniform of a Prussian General, is now CLAPHAM. -APARTMENTS Well Furnished ' the carriages. She was standing bet' tslinvolved ' Ezra Admission, 1..; Children under ten years of age, 6d.; and highly Respectable in a Gentleman's Private ' ~1, 1 73 , . ~,,, , ''.' , l .5 •0' 0 0 Chairman-General Sir ntEDERIe SXITH, 1i../1., F. 4 . 9., tnscends in Rooms, 6d. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. Family, pleasantly situate, with large Garden. Attend- .%,. ,', 5 : - - . E- co -1 , cr, s!-_,' 0 • Policies payable during Life-Indisputable--Not liable to on the sea side. Forfeiture. time. The - ,__, 5 ,:z. ~. c, c... ~ .... , t.... c> ,--, Annual/neon:le exceeds Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Tar. Edwards Wood inquired whet] ed their in- AR GIC L L R 0 0 M S.-OPEN EVERY Omnibus to City and West-end. Apply at the Residence, *' ::, . Pounds. ' ' ' • ''' 4 . --. sot' was a shareholder in the Londoi mportation • EVE . It oo „,„ , NING for Instrumental Music and Dancing.-The 31, Lark Hall Rise, Clapham, S.W.; or to Mr. STMTENs/ , The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants, • and full parficulars of the popular Principlaaof this Society, will IVestern Company. The Pavement, Clapham Common. •a, , se upon the ; „,,“)., ,, o nave been magnificently re-decorated by Messrs. itubardt ,•. /1 be founci.in the New Prospectus, which will be forwarded to r s',7_`.-' • The celebrated Band will perform during the week i • • • • • '''' PI applicants post free. -.., ... the Assessor said he was not, and id because Daneattractive Programme of Operatic Selections and popular i ri UNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHLSKY, ,--, . .---- HENRY LAKE, General Manager. 4. , , p e 3 • T it rg nished at the ORE stion. t the mercylusic. BE,VAST, w cs. w 0 , 1 „. gi . , 316, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, Lerndon. Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock. 5- so . 't Mr. Goddard protested against HI taining the Admission, is ; Balcony, 2s. regularly supplied to the Howe of Lords. • " ; ss >5. 0 st :7- 4 ,?:, ia..:, ;a if " V.R." IRISH WHISKY. . , ~., .... „..,•I , 1-7 . •••••• . '.. ri. 3 . '4 . t 1 - W - lk , NIT A T TIATCNTD AV PP nrll4 P A ATV did Mr.l,ittler. and Mr. Galbraith. - - I 1 U ......, i L. L _ -.' L.-. 1 cibB • , . i 1 ~... 4 , .. ...At:, . .. A ,.....„, • ..,_. „... / r. tp ,,.. '-'11:b.,.. . (4 4„1. . a.* • I''- ' - ' - 4\450. -- 1. - ' ' •-- , 4 , ... f gfr''' , . .t. ''' •- - :-'2.' * v4,,i -.N _ , , . ..r" ~,z r.,,, 7 _.,....- tf...... t ':,,... - , .....ti, ~ ....1.4,4 4 . ....._ s : t **' ...‘„' - . 7 --7;'''' .4o 4 , - - .. • , '", ir '-:''',:. , , , .,' 5 ,_,_.,-- - -7, - -' .- _7 4) '':t,, , .v.. , 11 -.." f ., -; . .'.. _ ,' 1,,,- A 1 • . •,. -,,,,.. ,-,--..•-•..:1 ... • ~.k.., IN , - „.,,,_,.. umpgr -1 , 1,. r , '......- , r.r. ~ .. - •• , .21,11P,,,a, -. Y., , ~. . , ...., . r C4. Va ig . l 7: , rf . .-_ , , k _ • 4 4, if V ro, J .... , . „ ...- . • • : , :1.. _ , ~.N ......_ , ....-10 . R 2, aft . , i i. .., 011 9, ~ ,,: zo tr, A ii hn , ot P ,_,,. 4. f_ , • r . „, , ~ . , .... e . --- -1 , . , , * -' " --, r / c .,: ,, , c ,,, ,,,,,,... , ,--,-. . - • - ~ m,-----7:-- ,_ ~,..7, „,. _.4 ,,4,.., ~..,;. . , ~,„..... BRUIT. ' - fa . ~..„ _.,,..,,,,,....\\ .....„ ./,,,,, c. ,., ../411 '').' 51e,.., , / ": 4 ' " ..„, - _,-, --• • .. • ... 1 ~~__ BPLRIT OP THE PUBLIC sTOUIZNALS, The Times says that Mr. Hunt's reply to Mr. Gladstone consists mainly of what lawyers call " confession and avoidance." The charge that the present Ministry have increased the optional expenditure of the country byabout three millions in two years is acknowledged, but it said in defence that the additional outlay has been cora.., pelled by reasons of policy, every one of which must be admitted to be sound on examination. Mr. Hunt accord. ingly gives in detail the items which make up the greater part of the three millions to be accounted for. The apology of the Chancellor of the Exchequer does not meet the whole of the charges. The late Ministry left the present Ministry a legacy of decreasing. expenditure. We say this although perfectly conscious that engage ments had been entered into' by Lord Russell's Govern ment which would create fresh demands on the Exchequer. This plea, which has been pushed to an excess, can always be brought fora aril. No Government ever existed which had not made some preparations in advance requiring new expenditure, but an economical Government provides the money for new expenses by cutting off or reducing expenditure elsewhere. This is what was clone in the conduct of affairs by the late Ministry. The policy inaugurated by the late Government has not been continued by the present. It has launched out in all directions, and retrenched in none. Half-a -million spent in the dock yards may have some influence on that wavering body of electors, very limited in number, who determine by the way they give their votes whether Devonport shall be represented by two Liberals or two Conservatives. It may change the politics of the member for Chatham, and have some influence at Ports mouth ; but proof is altogether wanting that it has in any way increased the efficiency of the navy. Protests have been constantly recorded against the inflated expenditure proposed by the Government, and when the nation is called upon to decide to what Administration it will give its confidence, the question of the relative esti mates of the two great parties properly becomes an element in the decision. And as such and such alone we commend it to the consideration of the constituencies. PHICF 4d. STAMPED 51 the embankment. She was nearer to Abergele than the engine. She never lost sight of the engine.. She was about an hour on the spot. The engine never was enveloped hi the flames. The wheels were in the fire, but the body never was in the flames. She was not more than five yards from the edge of the fire. All the fire was nearer to Holyhead than she was. The flames were perhaps more than half the height of the room. "ley were a little higher than the railway banks. She had to remove, the heat was so great. The wind came straight across the line from the sea. on the main line. The place was on an incline. I should have thought that the waggons would have gone down the line by their own weight without any backing of the train. I brought the train to a stand on receiving the signal. I was again sent ahead by the signal of Robert Jones; I again got a signal from Jones to stop, and did so. I got a third signal from Jones to come back into the siding. I don't know positively, but, to the best of my belief, the person at the siding now was the station-master's son. I was backing then to put some more waggons into the siding, and also for the purpose of pushing all the waggons as far they could go into the siding, in order to make room to get the rest of the train into the siding, and so leave the main line clear for the Irish mail. While doing this I saw the waggons I had backed running down, but they had not yet reached the tail of the train, which had been left on the main line. I had not seen any one put a break on. I saw oue person running after them first, Richard Williams, and I afterwards saw Jones run after them. Neither of those men caught the trucks before the latter reached the tail end of the train. I did not see the trucks strike the tail-end of the train. The last time I saw them I should suppose they must have been 30 or 40 yards apart from the tail-end. The three trucks passed round the curve. I could see the tail-end of the train from the points, and I could also see the three trucks which had been " kicked off" the train. I did not sa k e the tail start off, but I saw the two lots 61 tlucks moving—one lot being apart from the other. The lots were, I should say, 30 or 40 yards apart when I last saw them. Ido not know what started the tail first. The 'descending trucks remained within my sight only a few seconds. The curve took them out of sight. I started to run after the trucks, but . was stopped by Richard Williams. I think it was ,20 or 25 minutes past 12 when I ar rived at Llanddulas station, but I did not look at my watch. When I saw the trucks running down it was 12.35 or thereabouts. I believe the Irish mail is due at Llanddulas station at 12.38. There . is no appointed time In the book for it to pass Llanddulas, hut: it is timed to pass Abergele at 12.84. It is about three and a half miles from Abergele to LlanddulaS.- • The Assessor remarked that he thought the evi dence of this witness worthless, though Ur. Wood did not seem to think so. Mr. Edwards-Wood—l certainly do not, nor do others who are no mean judges of evidence. When I heard what evidence she could give, I thought it right to produce her in order to corroborate the testimony of Mrs. Dicken. The Assessor had no doubt that Miss Haughton was stating what she believed to be the truth. By the Assessor—Mrs. Dicken was pleading to the people to exile out of the burning carriage. The wind Blew towards me, and yet I could see Mrs. Dicken at the other side of the train. By Mr. Litler—Mrs. Dicken was standing nearer to the engine than the Post-office van—a little nearer, not much in advance of the van. I was nearer the carriages tint were not burnt. I could not tell whether it was a first or a second-class carriage Mrs. Dicken was pleading. She was standing, I think, four or five yards distance from the carriages. She was standing between the rails on the sea side. The Post compares the apology of Mr. Ward Hunt to the hero of one of M. Edmond:About's noveLs, who was accustomed, in the accounts he rendered to his highly virtuous father, to put down all the more doubtful items of his rackety expenditure as poles au whist. So the Con. servatives, when asked how it- is that they exceed their allowance, always reply, " National - defences." But this fact stands.out, that in a time of peace and in full swing of- a policy of non-intervention, the Ministry has increased our fighting expenditure (even as estimated, and if expe rience is a guide till increase it still more when actually incurred) by £1,p44,914, which amounts to upwards of eight per cent. ' Can anybody shew that the " national defences" are eight per cent. better - for it? The Post doubts it ; but perhaps the Government will be able to give some startling, and, as yet, unexpected information in the matter. time. Tho ed their in mportation se upon the .Id, because t the mercy taining the ~ this is, i f nt concern• a matter of Mr. Edwards Wood inquired whether the Asses sor was a shareholder in the London and North- Western Company. The Assessor said he was not, and he was asto nished at the question. Mr. Goddard protested against the question, as did Mr. -Littler and Mr. Galbraith. ARGYLL ROOM S.—OPEN EVERY t oo ' I WENG for Instrumental Music and Dancing.—The T.B have been magnificently re-decorated by Messrs. ltubardt R7`The celebrated Band will perform during the week „ at Programme of Operatic Selections and popular ya uce Musi c. Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock. Admission, is ; Balcony, 2s. WINDMILL STREET, PICCADILLY. Musical Director and Conductor—Signor LITIGI CURTI. A 1 I pi ' * le i 4 ' EFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA. — The mekal profession for Thirty 'ears have ap- L' 'ed of thi ' pure sehition. of Magneifia as the best o„ e i . c lY fe dity of Ole Stomach. Heartburn, Headache, 7 rauct ndigestion ; and as the best mild aperient for r i _ 4 cat° 'lSti . titutios especially adapted for Ladies, Chil t\,3:64li'and infants. --'* 1 , 72 .- ...DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, 5 New Bon'd-strael, Likia'o'n; and of all other chemists . L_______ . 5 5 - tliroughotit"thetiorld. 4 t"' oa 0 0 , a n 5. t a, . e 4 1-1 • r--. 0 0 0 • • 2.4 p • 1-4 .4 • • : 4 p di tce:7l ROYAL. INSURANCE QQMPANY, ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDINGS, Loinbard-street, London, and Liverpool. EPITOIIE of ANNUAL REPORT for 1867. The " ROYAL" has never hail a larger body of Constituents than now. FIRE BRANCH. , • PREMIII.MS in 1867 £160,553 being a larger revenue than in any preceding DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.O. Established 1808. Quotations on application. Mr. Edwards Wood had been desired to ask the question. The Assessor thought Mr. Edwards Wood ought to hgve exercised a discretion before putting such a question. ion. Tho 1-4 hat are tho minds and WHY incur the risks of Limited Liability, by taking Shares in Civil Service or Co-oporative. Stores, when you can SAVE TEN PER °EST. by PURCHASING of THE EAST INDIA. TEA. COMPANY, By.ottler. s, W. CAWKWET L ' General Manager. Euston SiitiOn, 17th August, 1868. Evidence was here given in identification of some property belonging to the late Mr. Lovatt Ferrall, of Ellesmere. Eyidence was also given tracing Mr. Ferrall to the train at Chester. A licensed porter stated that he had assisted . into that train a gentle man Whose photograph was produced in court, and which was one of the late Mr. Ferrall. At this,stage of the proceedings Mr. Littler ap plied for an adjournment. The Court acceded to the application, and the inquiry was-adjourned to an early hour on Tuesday morning, when the evidende of the guard will be resumed. - year• • , LOSSES by'Fire in 1867 -' 4 ' £292,125 NET PROFITS, after paying all lossef and ex, pauses £56,373 LIFE IIIiANC I II. - and can jry; the goods delivered at your own door? Te of all descriptions from Is. 3d. per lb. upwards. Pti Lists post free, on application at the Company's War houses, 9, Great St. Helen's-churchyard, Bishopsgate. le a permit rest the AC while they ve no clear nr methods. ctly traced. though not 1 the great y reported, unary fever hus." But numbers at. &c., proves oos not de contagious lifted along oction with stication of is likely to i the Ist of Dment, was ),1 75 41c. ?,831 31c * 0,000 ___.—. 3,756 8 1 ° . )54,27 614x, being c ur : i nce the I s , ' 00 is due to which are t statement fiscal year , statement' —Arrieri:t_a 1881) 11.31! 1861) 1 10 1 , 00 to io9 k, Tirginia 6 6 forth Carn lroad 12 tie vor 136 i to Milwaul o° Paul Pre' t° 50/ ern, 4 Mie bi g 6l 14 Ortb er l Ivelan d 00 to 1 001, 14, Chic 3 g ° 7th-wast e° &dams Er 24 to 241 1 Pacific 31'11' ConWs p/ er L orican 1 •13 ; v YoA'' rk y 5 k, ski onaP., AUg• 4 " . 15 , 49 l e s the ');, a s been ' st )oeu alio ° quotat i orded tra en re b it s be , althier Olt rhtly no a ite To 865 ies' lt . ) p - be 3x the • i o . 3 „ seourit the vslotli'cl: 5 Of nate, pcea n had, pet L°CSS the xfj o i hir ty : te da 660:h0e-al h of the:6 - I other 'l'utib y's BeL i t t ie ,4l ; t every i s heal! 3, vi o t l ighlY• 21 6 of NO. 68 'i s iett eeraP . 00 PS I P "A t 6 the 511°S r t " I'd Still, 0, rs' dY B ,„,,P e p P s o " ro neY, sP a Dir' 46, 27° ' og s ' ceased 1 0 /0 , 3afnesse tlO, l ad in 0, 131 a w aroll I'l 0 ; 5 lbslll' ~ giC )r 1 2 It', cuPs„. 0 :'„$ ..,'rec e ' i r i ,d o. 10. CO., fists• ant: the rife Se" errac -a Iroor Inner , tb ° Ill'e a i fa, soo• -11 „ p the, P , -1. to of I -4( 10' , vir. vo , he th _ lot ,. o f I: 3 W rels 'ont i inn' , -e OW ).5 ., of mid jiesesl ;00, ltb ElotoJ, 7 , e 3- „ 14° 10 0 io lato re (le o ;up- yore'4t dge, AN DI* /' „ of As 0°24 FURNISHED HOUSES, from £2 2s. to £2O Pet•Week.—D. SAIUMPLIIIIE.3 his at all times a 0,-,(1 of le:rat-class REIID \TCF: .3 to be . L FIT. furnished h' n u l l furaished.Ar more r artioularly in the neighbour fift°B Qt. Svdenharn, Upper, Norwood. Forest-hill. and viol s„,„: Partioalars rnly-Ve had at the Otlioe, Printing House- .1 1) U 31 1' , 5 and APAR V %LEN rs VirA.3TED. and to be LET or SOLD. BUST \TENSES for DISPOSA L. P ROPERTY , FREEHOLD or LEASEHOLD. klt de 0 . T. HUNIPIXXIRS has continual applications for fo r n sP,,riPtions of PROPERTY which will pay good interest 11 4 " 4 "alr. Houses oreof repsir not obkoted to. T, D. tt o „ r oPhries can at all time; find customers - for all descrip try"' of basinesses. lintels, public houll, &c., sold and j„ oifPrr.)tl. Apply, D. T. Humphries, Estate Agent. Print- Rourte-squale. S EIOUL DE RS, STVOPING HABITS, VGEON CHEATS,' and otheeDeformities, are pro ifiivitad cured by wearing CILA.NDLEIL'S IMPROVED CHEST-4CPA.NDING BRACE, foi both sexes of all it strengthens the voice and lungs, relieves indi -i' to " l ° ll rpains in the chest and back, and is especially re he:l,l'lll3, ndad to children for assisting the growth, promoting La and symmetry of figure, superseding the use of it `l_lee . B and stays. .Price from 10s. 6d. each.-66, Berners 7WrOxford-street, W. Illustrated circulars forwarded. rAN I S FLY is the acting ingredient in 8 ALEX. ROSS'S CANTIIARIDES OIL, which 681313edily produces whiskers and thickens hair. Price 3s. 6d., et a 61 .1 and 10s. 64.; sent by post for 51, 81, and 141 n313, --A:LEX ROSS, 218, High Holborn, London, and MI Chemists • " Tale of a Hair," 6d. • ONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cure.l This in ono day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO.ho Preparation gradualy dissolves the Corn in a fecv t o ." ,3 , removing the very root. Price 4s. ; sent by past ou_ ernistsstamps. 218, High Holborn, London, and all Faco Powder, la TIAIR-CURLI:SiG FLUID, 248, High Holborn, London. ALEK. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID 8 `,' 3 Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. .ad °lcl at 3s. 6d 5s- 6d and 10s. 6d.; A - stamps. —Had ofall Chemists. sent free for 54, 84, Ad , 'Fice upon all subjects of the Toilet. GptEy AIR. —2 18, High Holborn, London . toin ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect fi r immediately it, is used. It is permanent, and per- WY natural in effect. Prices 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. .eteistt aqu by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps; and all s. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d. IT AI R DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, ondon.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPIL ITORY re tlitii;',B superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms, 'lit effect to the skin. Price 3s. 6d., ss. 6d., and 10s. Sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps. : Rad of all Chemists. Skin Tonic, ss. 6d. l I MPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the p, Akin are i mprove d by one d ose o f ALEX. ROSS'S l itt et TABLE SKIN PILLS. They re m ove redness, ob" w ness, &c. 2s. 9d. and 7s. 6d.; or post for 40 and 100 aII7, I ' B .—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and Qaenaists. Advice upon tho Toilet. Fee, 2s. 6d. tiklß COLOUR WASH.—By damping the epee head w ith thi s b e a u tifully-perfu me d W as h, i n t atna llt or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and eta ins so by an occasional using. 10s. 6d. ; sent for a c A.Lfl enliX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, ll h • s ts. t b . 4 Published, 2d. ; sent by the author for 3 stamps, ki-LINESS and BEAUTY ; being a Pamphlet t , descriptive of articles and means used for improv -1(419 appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Had of all booksellers. ic V 4 ,l'a RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. B ARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Food. kt e . „, THE REVALENTA ARABICA Pert: luty times its cost in other remedies, and restores . tafraL,cligestion strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, teo s t'g sleep, functional regularity, to the energ li and effe disordered or enfeebled—removing epee eti u e , t , 4 ., ally indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthmrt, con t'au,v,; i ° l3 , habitual constipation, diarrhbea, all gastric de he , ts, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, eAta,. °ll , s lices, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, th e - -. 8, colds, influenza, noises in the hoad and ears, taigintaatism, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, nru irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, 11 ‘11 5 ;" 441 , headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, 64, - 7 .. 5 and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sTki at Mu; T' o nchitis, scrofula, tightness of the che - ' t the ,Pin lt is , 2 ' a .t of the stomach and between the shoulders. for it,°,Bt, digestible and nourishing of all foods , and suitable 4i - 1 Pills and infants in all complaints. kid —I tTANT CAUTION.—BOWare of the many nnsavo t ury_ tity."4,,ore than slopy imitations to which, without &n e t° ti f ,'" a ron Liebig's name is most audaciously attaelr -nceforth none will doubt the valuable properties . of r -11 7 8 health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids 11 1 ,, - ' 4 , lards' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it h oc ; 41re a d . _ y received from invalids whose position had tleeined hopeless we may now add that of his Holid "lit • :, - r € :_?°Pe, whose' health has been perfectly restore - bcr thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No. 40 1 , 0-L4'" - "Rome, July 21st, 1866.—The health of the ,tli,.'tlter is excellent, especially since, abandoning all Il arrO ,te ,, r nedies, he has confined himself entirel to Du rateV, nevalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a l 'eeee e i, t 4 ,t every meal.. It has produced a surprisingly Pr2gsaL, effect on his health, and , his Holiness cannot Cure Lnis excellent food too highly.' Year e . l Yo. 5 8,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan of seven 11 4- - I ,var complaint, wasting away . , dpbility, nervou ad ietvetli:,stilritability, with a nervous palpitation all over, b ", constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable on lie agitation. i t tna;t o o N 9,. 7 8, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord ',era • ,„. -li eeiect, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Water haVO'derived much benefit from your excellent wafe --- rfor T ei tT,A , lrr DE DECIES, Dromana, Cappoquin, County f Cur e - "`o• 4 9,832. —Of fifty years' indescribable . agony I ‘ atul 11„8Pe1381e, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, "L L eY, g P a smqsickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, Yon Nn f „ cur e lq o r 4^ 1•17 0 , 18 _ • 47.,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme v "e fan B '-', I ndigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner ,, () tire 11 1 0 ",' "% a rs dia n .h . ""+ Bl4 .--Mr. Samuel Lawton, Leicester, of two h e ( ca. 211 )., 4 mood is sold in Canisters, at ls. ; 11b., 2s. 9d. ; .„ ° %ni ete e ,', 1 21 b., 22s ; 241 b., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b. 4-narry,,;sit:v4rriage free on . recept of P. 0. Order. Also Du Lill Canister alenta. Arabica Chocolate Powder is packed in eltp a at 6 _ Por 1.2 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3,5. Gd., for 48 ebo ut 5. 7 for 288 cups at 305., for 576 cups at 555. Being b fr ee of ,s„ e P e llnY Per cup. The 30s. and 555. tins are sent -. 4.llltf,lage in England on receipt of Post Office Order. 418:w ;9:: 134reltent Yand Co., 77, Regent-street, London; Qracee or and M ' • also at 4, Cheapside, 61, As" es t• d 121, d 150, Oxford-stree , au North -roads London; and all Circroera and Oltemistx pARTRIDGE AND COOPER. 14IANUFACTITRING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.C.) THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES. CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s. ... per ream. s. d. Fine Cream Laid Note ; a cheap paper 3 ~0 Superfine Cream Laid Note; much approved SupeifineThiek Cream Laid Note ; especially recommended 5., G Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note 7 `' C Straw Paper, " Patent;" adapted for rapid writing 2 0 Large Commercial Note Papers 38., 48., 55., and G .0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream........ 105. 6d., 12s. 61, and 14 ,6 Outsides Foolscap 6 Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 4s. • ruled ditto, 4' vl Tintpd Lined Note five quires for ls. 6d., or 5 6m Double Thick Cream Wove "Club House" Note, five quires for 2s. 6(1. Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4s 6d, 5s Gd, & Gs 6d Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s Gd per 1,000 Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c., 38 COLOUR STAMPING (Relief) reduced to Is. per 100. Polished steel dies sunk by the best artists in tbe trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An ILLU ,TR TED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, stationery, Cabinets, Postage ,tales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, and Bags, &c , post free. • SCIENTIFIC) AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,- and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant as sortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe lisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, 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. TennantMr: arrAnges PlAitientAry collections of ROCKS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facili tatu the interesting: study of MINERALOGY anal GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,5, 10, 23, 50, to 500 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at 149, Strand. MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new de scription of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the ori ginals by the closest observer they will never change colour or decay, and will be found superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth hat are loose, and is gua ranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed tooth stopped and rendered sound and useful in masti cation. 52, Fleot-street. At home from 10 till 5. __`~~ 1,800 1,890 RUPTURES,-.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred 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 Nloc-Main Pad and Patent Lover, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A. descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can sot fail to fit, forw%rdel by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 268.6 d., and 31s. 61 Postage, ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss. 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT VLASTIC STOCKINGS, PJ KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. nNE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE kir ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed. CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary. Office, M, Cheapside, London, E.O FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN • STITIITION. _ _ _ President—Rev, CANON Dila CONTRTBITTIONS for tho support of the Homes in 18G8 are ear nestly solicited, which may bo sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, 141 C. ; Francis Nicholls, Xsq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.O. E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Easton-rod, N.W. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was establisbect at King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted free. Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds t and Co., 60, Lombard street, Messrs. Ransom and Bouvene, 1, Pall-malL—Hon. Sec., L Smith. Esa. CEo. REID, Sec. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—FUNDS are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and clothing for the 128 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: 870 children. £l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year. Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank , 214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, E.C.; and by WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary. No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. 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-Pairon— _ His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. _ _ President:—His Grace the Duke of BuccLuicH, K.G. This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly dependent fer support on voluntary contributioLs and legacies. It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in addition to this, the average number of attendance of the destitute sick has for a considerable period averaged be tween 3,000 and 4,000 weekly. The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the benevolent, as the premises of this hospital are capable of containing several hundred more beds had the Committee the requisite funds to maintain them. Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn_ and Co„. Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Borners-street;; and at the glopital, from 10 till 5. ALE OF • GOODS FOR CHARGES._ rou The EAST tind WEST INDIA DOCK COMPANY • hereby fy e notice to the Holtlep,of sundry Parcels of Mahogany, Brazil Wood, Pedal:, Braziletto W v od, Rosevrood, Red SaundereWood, --Walnut-Wood, Hard and Unraked Wood, 'Maple Wood, Ebony, Tulip Wood, Crocus Ebony, • 2 Palm Wood, Lignum Vitae, Hymn Wood, :' , Box Wood, .- Sapan Wood, Quassia Wood, Satin Wood. Logwood, Zebra Wed, Fustic, Lancewoocl Spars, Imported Priori , to Ist January, 181, lying at the West India Dock Wood - Wharves, that it is their intention t..SELL the 3A 11E for Chaves unless the amounts due thereoOtre paid on or before the let day of October next. - Lists of the Gdods may be inspected at this House. By order of the Court of Directors. .• GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary. East and . India India Dock House, Billiter -4 are, Aug. 19, 1868. : - ! . 1. SCHOOL OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE, &c. Al/31111.ALTY, Bth August, 1868. rriair LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the AD MIRALTY HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that the arrangements for the ADMISSION ot s persons, not already in tha.qovernment service, to the Royal School of Naval Architeeture and Marine Engineering as 2WMIRALTY PUPILS, will, for the present year, bo as follows : Candidates must not be less than - 18 or nlore than 21 years of age, and must have served at least taro years in private ghipbuildinfg or engineering establishments, or must give satisfactory proof that they have in some way been so connected W th,shipbuilding or engineering opera tios as to become 4voll-grouuded in the elementary prin cifaes and practice 'thereof. The pupils will be selected by competitive examination, the subjocts for which and Autnbers,of marks assigned for each, are as follows : Marks. Pure mathematics including arithmetic, mensura tion, geometry (plain and d•scriptive), plane tri - gonornotry, and the elements of the differential and integral calculus 2,500 Applied in aliematies, including mechanics and hydrostatics ... ••• 1,000 Practical shipbuilding, including laying-off (for shipwright's candidates only) 2,500 Practical marine engineering (for engineer candi dates only) ... 2,500 French ... 500 Elements of physic and chymistry 750 English grammar and composition ... 750 Geography and History ... 750 No candidate will be admitted who does not obtain at least two-thirds of the full number of marks in the two first-named subjects, and three-fifths of the full number, either for practical shipbuilding or marine engineering. The last four subjects, although counting in the compe tition, will not be considered obligatory. The candidates who may be selected will be treated, while attached to the School, in all respects as the Admi ralty pupils; they will receive wages the same as dock yard apprentices, commencing at ls. 6d. per day for six days per week for first year, and increasing yearly 3d. per day till it reaches 2s. per day ; and in addition a subsist ence allowance of 3s. per day for seven days per week while away from their homes, either at the Szhool or in the dockyards. Seven months of each year—viz., from October till May —will be devoted to study at the School, and the remaining five months to actual work awl the acquirement of practi cal knowledge in the dockyards. It is to be understood that the Admiralty make no en gagements to employ these pupils after the completion of their course of study; and they must rely on their own worth as educated naval architects for obtaining employ ment in their subsequent career. The number of such pupils to be selected this year is one shipwright and one engineer. Persons desirous of competing must forward their names, with a certificate of birth, and of the grounds on which they consider themselves practically qualified, enclosing proper certificates to that effect, to the Secretary of the Admiralty, not later than the Ist September. The candidates should also state whether they wish to be examined as engineers or shipwrights. The examination will take place on the 28th September and three following days. By command of their Lordships, HENRY GORDON LENNOX. LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately re lieving coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and inci pient consumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, and admirably allays the ticking which provokes frequent coughing. In approach ing consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca tion, may depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 130., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asth matic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. PRINTING. —TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c. The Printing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done on exceedingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager, "Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. 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, from all parts of the kingdom. The object of tho Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng lish education, and practical instruct ion in tho kitchen, house, and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if no t o th er 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 linTascont, Treasurer W H. WARWICK Secretary. Office, 121, Pall-mall, S W THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES Are as follows : For Fallen Women, 28, Church-row, Hamp- 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, Choapside. In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee have under their charge three homes for servants of good character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless servants annually. The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to open another house for this pitiable class. The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book. The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I never read a report of any charitable institution which so entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my sympathy") may be had on application. The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Bt May and Co. The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the benevolent. DANL. CWPZR, See , 85, Queen-street, Chopeide, Annual Average of now business in 1865-6-7....: £BOl,OOO Do. during previous Quinquennium— £688,000 Amount added to Life Reserves in 1867 £128,583 LIVE 'PROPOSALS now effected will participate in the increased share of Profits recently conceded to Policy holders. t PERCY M. DOVE, Vanager and Actuary. • JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in Loudon. 4ugust, 1868. ItrATMELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To bey had of all dealers, and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. 0 I.IV EP P E'S MINERAL WATER S.= t.. 3 By SPecial Appointmens to Her Majesty and H.R.H. the Prince of Vitales.—Every bottle. is protected by a label, having na4e and trade mark. Maktfactorier-- London, Liverpool, Deiby, Bristol, Glasgow, Halpern. - • I - • e PAINLESS DENTISTRY !" A NEW 'PAMPHLET, - Free by postJor four stamps: vs • VIESSRS.'f_GA B R LYIIL LoadOn s 3(Established 1815.) , Harley-street, Caveudish-square, W. 61, Ludgate-hill, E.C., Liverpool 134, Duke-street, and Brighton ATTENDANCE DAILY. THE ACCIDEN7 70_ THE IRISH MIIL. __EIIOELE, Saturday. The fact that a witness has come forward to cor rohora.`e in some of its main particulars the extra ordinary narrative of Mrs. Dick en has very con siderably increased the interest in this inquiry. A respectable and intelligent-looking young girl, named Sarah Haughton, states positively that she saw Mrs. Dicken 44 pleading" to persons to come out of carriages in the fore part of the train, after the explosion had happened and while the flames were raging. Sarah Haughton says she was on the top of the embankment on the left side of the line, while Mrs. Dicken was on the sea-side, to the right of the down train. It is admitted that the wind was blowing from the sea and towards the embank ment, so that it carried the flames that way ; but the girl says she could see across the train, as she was standing towards the centre of the train, and at a point beyond that to which the fire then ex tended. Mr. Eyton, the Coroner's Assessor, with perhaps too much precipitancy, gave it as his opi nion that Sarah Haughton's evidence was " worth less." She may be, and probably is, mistaken ; but there has been other evidence, still stronger, iu the same direction, and it will be more satisfactory to the relatives of the victims of the accident and to the public to have it shown by evidence that Mrs. Dicken and Sarah Haughton are in error than to have their evidence disposed of by an opinion of its value formed by the Coroner's Assessor before the close of the inquiry. It is desirable that any pas senger who may have sat on the side of the mail train next the sea, and who may have seen the pro gress of the flames on that side immediately after the collision, should be here on Tuesday. The evidenea of Sara, the guard of the goods train, was listened to with the most anxious attention. As will be seen by the report of the proceedings, his examination by the Assessor had not concluded when the Court adjourned. His testimony, so far, has been given in a clear and apparently straight forward manner. He seemed to remember very closely all the material circumstances connected with the shunting operations on the day in question. Several other servants of the company are also to be produced for examination. TIIE INQUEST. The inquiry is conducted by Dr. Evan Pierce, Coroner ; with Mr. Eyton, of Flint, as his Asses sor. Mr. Littler, of the Northern Circuit, appears for the London and North-Western Company; Mr. Goddard, solicitor, of Dublin, appears for the rela tives of the late Lord and Lady Farnham and of Mr. and Mrs. Aylmer ; Mr. David Galbraith, of Dublin, is watching the proceedings for the family of the late Sir N. Chinnery ; Mr. Edwards-Wood, solicitor, of Birmingham, is present on behalf of the relatives of the late Captain Priestly Edwards and of the relatives of other deceased persons. After the despatch of our parcel yesterday, Sarah Anne Haughton was examined, and said she lived at Milton-cottage. On the 20th instant she was staying near Llanddulas. She saw the mail train coming in the direction of where she was. She saw smoke and flames, and ran to the palings on the embankment of the line. She did not see what caused the accident. She saw the carriages on fire. She ran when when she heard the crash, and having got over a wall saw the flames. By Mr. Edwards-Wood--When she reachel the palings she had to look down on the line. She saw the engine on its side and the tender across the line. The first carriage was on fire, the second was not ; but within less than a minute it had taken fire. She saw the passengers and Mrs. Dicken on the side of the line next the sea. Mrs. Dicken was lifting her hand, pleading to the people to come out of the carriages. She was then on the line next the sea. Mrs. Dicken was addressing people in the carriage next to the one on fire. It was before that Mrs. Dicken was lifting up her hand. By Mr. Littler—Witness was standing on a paling above the side of the cutting when she saw Mrs. Dicken doing this. She was about a dozen yards from the engine. The carriages were opposite to witness. The smoke was being driven straight from thQ direction of the trains to the Acide over , Alfred Sara, driver of the goods train, was then examined by the Assessokl drove the goods train. in ?question on the ':2oth inst. I had been in the habit of driving that . tP train for two years. I starte from Crewe. I came on to Chester, the first stcip-' ping-place. The time for leaving Chester was { 7,4. M.. The e.nd,of my journey with that train is. Bdtrgor: I believe I left Chester at the proper time. J keep no book showing the time I actually start. The breaksman has a book showing the time we, actually do keep. The time-table shows the tinie . we actually do keep. There were with me that' daY'rhomas Davis, the fireman, and two breaksmen: I believe Joseph White, senior, and Robert JoneS,,' janior, were the breaksmen who came with me as far as ,Rhyl. Richard Williams and the said'' Rdbert Jones were the breaksmen from Rhyl. I cannot tell the number of waggons I had when we started from Chester ; we picked up some on the road. We had no paraffin that I know of when we started. At St. David's works, Saltley, near Ches ter, we took up two waggons with barrels which I believed to contain oil. Ido not know what kind of oil is manufactured at those works. Those two waggons were placed in the rear of the train, next to the break-van—in front of the break-van. I have charge of the train as to working it - ; - the' breaksmen have to instruct me what to do. At Rhyl station the train was a long one. It had 47 waggons, some loaded and some empty, when we left Rhyl. We stopped at the Abergele station at from five to six minutes past 12. I cannot say how long we stopped. On the land side of the Abergele station—a little beyond the station—l had to drop some waggons. I had none to take up. I did some shunting there, which occepied from two to three minutes. To the best of my knowledge I left Abergele at eight or ten minutes past twelve. lam not positive, but, to the best of my judgment, we left five or six minutes before our time. The par ticular train I drive is called "the pick-up train." It has to pick up waggons at different stations. We are timed to shunt for the Irish mail at Rayns and Luptons siding. When we have doubts of being able to do it in time there we do it at Abergele sta tion—scmetimes even at Rhyl. On Thursday, the 20th, we intended to shunt at Llanddulas, the ordi nary place. We had some waggons to leave there and some to take up. The siding is under the con trol of the station-master at Llanddulas. He him self is the proper person to work the signals at that station. He was on duty himself on that day. Sometimes the station-master orders his son to work the signals. To the best of my knowledge it was the station-master himself who worked the signals on that day. I saw him near the signals. As soon as ever I arrived the signal was put up to " danger" to prevent anything else from coming up. That is the usual course. A portion only of the train was on this occasion shunted into the siding, because there was not room for the whole of it. Had there been room the whole of it would have been shunted into the siding. I could not of my own ac cord have shunted the train into the siding. I take my orders from the breaksman. On that occasion both the breaksmen gave me orders respecting the shunting. The instructions were given to me first of all by signal as I was drawing up. I drew up the engine just at the end of the platform, where the signal is placed. The break van and the two waggons next to it would be further from me than the points of the siding. A breaksman hooked off a portion of the waggons. Richard Williams then gave me the signal. I don't know whether two of the breaksmen or one of them unhooked the wag gons. The tail end of the train was taken off. I know they were unhooked, because when I started again I left part of the train behind. I saw nothing about the uncoupling till I got the signal and moved on. I got a signal to go ahead." It was given by the breaksman holding his arm up. I saw the tail of the train which I had left behind at different times within a space of, perhaps, from five to ten minutes. They were on the main line: I cannot swear as to the number of waggons left behind. There were the break-van, the two waggons with the oil, and one er two other loaded waggons. What these latter waggons were loaded with I do not know. When I had advanced far enough I got a signal to stop—one given with both arms. It was given by Williams. I obeyed it. I then got a signal from Jones to come back. The station-master was holding' the points. I stopped clear of the crossing and " fly shunted" 10 or 12 waggons to send them into the siding. To " fly shunt" is to give the waggons to be shunted sufficient impetus to send them into the siding without the engine going after them. lam not sure, but I believe it was Robert Jones detached the waggons. Those 10 or 12 wag gons formed the rear of the train when the other waggons and the van had been left on the main line. Richard Williams was standing and watching the waggons going into the siding. The waggons and van left on the main line were left standing by them selves. Jones was riding on the buffer of the last truck remaining in the train. When the train came to a stop he jumped down. Richards Williams was somewhere about the points. Having got the wag gons into the siding, I got another signal to come back again. I was on the Conway side of the points. Jones gave the signal. I backed a very few yards, when I stopped again in consequence of another signal from Jones. I saw three loaded waggons parted from the train, and went towards the waggons and van which had been left Ptandin g - 111.1SW;LLAIVEQUS NEWS. (Min: the A11,a16-Anierican Timms.) A primitive three-penpy piece of• 1642, one of ;the earliest and rarest coins of New Englantli. has been dug up .on'a street corner at Salem, MassachnEfetts. A nclw manufact?ring enterprise at Providence Is the :Rhode Lsland Building Block Company. These blocks ire to be a SuliAlute for brick and stone : for build ing, ana Ire made bytiucorporating together by an Hu _ =rise - wisure andTchenrical pi:opysses lime and sand into it substance as hard and cliirable as any stone. The blocks -:11.3 three 4 iitnes the - sine of an ordinary bribk, ;and aro turned out by the company's machine at the rate of 6,000 per day. By varying the' shape of the tnould orn.amental blocks of ,the most elaborate pattern can be prdclucod. e. Professoi F. H. Newhall, bf'Aliddleton, the for mer pastor of the Pynclidn , street church, who has been: absent a year in . Europe, has returned to Springfield, Massachusetts, very much improved in health. Professor W. " . N. Rice, who has been his companion in travelr will return about the middle of September, and at once enter upon duties connected with the chair of natural history at the Wesleyan University. Mr. Rice spent the winter at Berlin, and at tended the lectures at the university there; and both pro fessors have been diligent in collecting curiosities and a fu d of information concerning the old world as it is, and as t was. . _,_ he correspondent Qf , the,,Starylard says--" A. groat haul of thieves, or supposed thieves, has been made in Toronto. Detectives have arrested hip C. Moore and his wife, D. Thompson and his wife, J. A. Morton and his wife, Mrs. Sturges, and two or three other per sons. They are charged with the heavy robbery of the Merchants' Union Express Company, on tho Hudson River Railway, in New York, in May. Ono of them is an actor, another proprietor of an hotel, a third a schoolmaster. The Adams's Express Company has been robbed in Chi cago of $7,000. The intending thieves hired a room and put up a card. After occupying the room two days they received by express a package, purporting to contain a small sum of money. While the messenger was in the act of delivering this package he was seized by the throat ; chloroform was placed under his nose ; ho was beaten with an iron bar, and was finally robbed of all the money in his possession." General Harney was about to leave St. Louis and the Upper Mississippi, and to complete arrangements for removing the savages to the Northern reservations The following despatch to the Democrat is dated St. Louis . August 14 :—"Solomon City, Kansas.—Capt. Moody has just arrived here, and reports that on Wednesday a band of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe Indians attacked the settle- ment on Solomon River, fifty-miles north of here, killing David Deaugardis and B. B. Bell, and mortally wounding Mrs. Bell. The Indians also ravished two women on Plum Creek, and carried off two little girls belonging to Mr. A. A. Bell, living on Mulberry Creek. They alsc killed a German and wounded a boy on Brown Creek There i i a large number of persons missing from the vici nity of Brown Creek. All the stock has been run off, and the country is stripped of provisions." The changes in a country's climate by settlement and cultivation of the soil often seem strange and incon sistent. A letter from a late traveller in Nebraska notes some curious contrasts: "It is a frequent subject of re mark in the Ohio Valley, that settling the country, clear ing and ditching the land constantly makes it dryer ; that old wells and springs are drying up, and each suc ceeding summer branches run dry which never did be fore. ' The "French Agricultural Report" makes the same complaint, and calls upon the Government to stop the destruction of the forests, as the means of preserving the rivers. But here, with settle ment, exactly the reverse phenomena are presented, and the quantity of rain in Western Nebraska and Kansas has doubled within the memory of man. Perhaps this is duo somewhat to the trees planted on new farms, but I think, also, that breaking up the sod allows it to absorb more moisture than it could in the prairie state, and in many instances turning a hundred acres of sod will renew an old spring. French branches aro starting in gullies which have been dry for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. Thus, ' springs break out in the thirsty wilderness, and streams of water in the dry ground!' Here is an important principle at work, which will enable agriculture to make great ad vances on what is now the American desert." Akin to these are the facts of heavy rains this summer in Colorado and California States where the rule of dry summers seems to have been invariable heretofore. The New York papers report that Mr. P. T. Barnum ran a foot race on the 14th inst., at the Profile House, New Hampshire. He had several competitors, but distanced them all, after which he was borne from the field on the shoulders of the crowd. Several thousand spectators witnessed the race. News from Constantinople states that Admiral Farragut was to receive the visit of the Turkish Minis ters and of the diplomatic body on board his flagship the Franklin last Wednesday. On Friday the Sultan was ex pected to pay a visit to the American admiral on board the Franklin. Musurus Paella, the Turkish Ambassador at the Court of St. James, arrived yesterday from London on leave of absence. Three students of Eastman College—l. P. Hind man, R. H. Gregory, and E. H. Waller, of Florida—swam a match across the Hudson at Poughkeepsie on the 10th inst. Hindman won the race, crossing in 25 minutes. Gregory was second. The danger of the attempt was considerable, and the authorities should interfere to pre vent a recurrence of foolhardy experiments. Pugilism, under the smiles of the fair sex, is fast attaining to the dignity of a "profession." When poor Adah Menken claimed to be the wite of John C. Heenan, a connection repudiated by the prize-fighter, she felt the humiliation the more bitterly from the worli's estimate of the man's status. The Spirit, in discussing the subject, says that Heenan is now married "to one of the most re fined, intelligent, and beautiful ladies who ever graced the American stage." Mike M'Coole seems to have drawn as good a prize in the matrimonial lottery. Mike paraded himself before the windows of a convent, and by his "elegant" appearance captivated Miss Mary Norton, the daughter of a wealthy contractor, to whom he has just been married in St. Louis. The event gives scope to the correspondents, and occupies mnch space in the local papers. We believe Mike is under an engagement to fight, and the young lady's advice about fulfilling it was, " If there is honour to gain, then fight ; if for money, then decline." The Herald declares that the masterly letter of the Chancellor of the Exchequer not merely repels the attack upon the financial - policy of the Government, but fastens the imputation of waste and extravagance upon Mr. Glad.. stone himself. The right honourable gentleman no doubt thought it rather shrewd tactics to supplement his anti- Church programme with a cry against Tory extravagance; and the aviditS , With which Mr. Hugh Childers took up his leader's cue indicated that the charge was to be utilised upon the hustings. The one indispensable condition of a successful move of this kind is that the Government maligned shall be content to remain silent under the. imputation. This condition has not been fulfilled in.the present instance, and all the calculations are necessarily overthrown. Mr. Ward Hunt has accepted the challenge - of his predecessor, has refuted his charges, and made some excessively damaging reflec tions upon his financial policy in 1866. Mr. Gladstone is hoist with his own petard, and the new Liberal cry is exploded ere it is a fortnight old. We shall hear no more of Tory extrava gance. The most inveterate . and " unscrupulous opponents of the Government will learn from the result of this tourney between the late and the present Chair 11 or of the Exchequer that the less said about finance the better. It is a question which the Liberal party are chiefly concerned to keep in the background as much as possible. Mr. Gladstone has burnt his fingers at it, and his friends willtertainly-be. careful not to touch that end of the poker for. the future. Says the Daily News, Mr. Ward Hunt's letter altogether fails to justify, or even to excuse, the large increase in the public expenditure under Tory rule. It is little more, • indeed, than a confession of the exigencies to which a weak overnment is almost necessarily reduced. Ard from that letter, with the uuwelzome facts which produced it, the country will be able to estimate the cost of keeping a weak Tory Ministry in office. During the last Circe years of -his administration: Mr. Gladstone reduced the expenditure by three millions, and with the command he had acquired over the depart ments, had ho remained in power, we may be sure the policy of retrenchment would have been carried still further. By this time the reduction would not improbably have reached five millions, thus bringing the current expenditure down to the sum which, according to Tory critics, is its natural and proper level. The Tory Government, however, instead of effecting this reduction, which, according to its own advocates, would have been so easy, have increased the public expenditure by three millions. According to the data supplied by themselves, the continuance in office of a weak Tory Government thus costs the country from six to eight millions annually. The sum of the whole account (the Standard remarks; is, that so far as the civil service expenditure is con cerned, the present Government has not increased it, except in the fulfilment of engagements entered into by the late Government, by more than the augmentation of the votes for the educational department and a grant towards the building of Glasgow University ; that of the other two millions of increase, absorbed by the army and navy, nearly half has gone to give increased pay ,and greater comforts to our soldiers and sailors, (and the remainder has been spent in ships and guns which were absolutely needed ; whilst the results of the expenditure in these two services are, that the conver sion of small arms is nearly completed, that our forts aro armed, that the navy has been brought into a much greater condition 'of efficiency, and that service in the army has been rendered so much more attractive, that twenty-six thousand veteran troops have re-engaged them selves. Not only has the country got good money's worth, for its increased outlay, but any postponement of the ad-, litional expenditure would have made the burden far more onerous when at last undertaken. No one, the Telegraph observes, blames the Government for converting our Enfield rifles, or for improving the pay of the private soldier ; the accusation is that it did not do these things without adding to the total expenditure of the country. Mr. Hunt must be reminded that changes h our national armaments, involving heavy cost, have not been peculiar to the time during which he has held office. Such causes of excessive outlay have been con tinuous for the last dozen years; they were of con stant occurrence between 1862 and 1866. Yet they were met by a Liberal Ministry which did not halt in the work of retrenchment. Here, then, is the whole difference between the two systems of adminstration. If Mr. Gladstone had held office as Chancellor of the Exchequer during the last two years, our rifles would have been converted and the pay of the army would have been increased ; but the work would have been accomplished step by step, simultaneously with the enforcement of judicious economies, which would have left the gross national expenditure no heavier than before. The Government or the Minister, no matter of what party, that does not make fresh expenditure conditional on A previous retrenchment will forfeit the splendid oppor tunities of the time, and will fail to gain the confidence of the people. The Standard, commenting on the evidence being given at the Abergele accident, draws attention to its unsatis factory nature with regard to the points whether the doors of the railway carriages were locked, and how quickly the fire spread. What can be said to the evidence of William Roberts, a mason, who states that he ran a quarter of a mile before he reached the train, and when he reached the ,pot " the carriage next to the Post-office van was just catching fire?" There is also the statement of the driver who leaped from the engine of the mail train. This state. ment is not yet a piece of sworn evidence, but it is righ. to refer to it for what it is worth. One version of this statement makes the driver say that, on recovering his footing after leaping from the engine, he gave a car riage key to a tall gentleman whom he never saw again. That gentleman, he says, was standing on the steps of a carriage, which almost immediately afterwards was seized by the flames. There is also the extraordinary evidence of the platelayers wife, Mrs. Dicken, supported as it is by the evidence of a young lady, Miss Haughton. Incredible as the statements of these two witnesses may appear, they are not to be dismissed without consideration. If mar vellous, the allegations are at least coherent ; nor can we finally decide that Miss Haughton's evidence is worthless, merely because, in the opinion of the Assessor, she was standing where she could not -have seen Mrs. Dicken, as she says she did. Mere flat contradiction from the company's solicitor is of little avail until testimony is produced to refute what is thus alleged. On the question of locked doors Lord Castlerosse has publicly declared, "I have sufficient ground for knowing that some of the London Carriages were locked on both sides." As for the Chester carriages, the statement of the engine -driver—though not yet given in legal form—indicates that some of these carriages were locked on the platform side, and thergfm very pooibly ox} the 04-§* 41§0. * sty 1