The Sun. — London, England, 1868-04-20 00:00:00

79 - - 7 - \ t Ar I.C)Tra I ( AZ i „Ira . IRISH "WHISKY gained the Dublin `‘" ) i 1r r It is Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. - • o; •.+44 —tte 7 44 44 - L 7 ' -• 4,0 • nßorr l 446. Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London; by - D ' ) the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at \ ) 1 0" 4. 8 , GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal. Pink Label. and Cork Branded " Bina- hs,a'B LL Whisky,,, CANTERBURY H ALL, New Management.—Sole Proprietor, W. HOLLAND. .__ GI GANTIC AND COSTLY EASTER ENTERTAINMENT. .„.:The new Programme contains Two New Ballets, viz., a Grand Zatteau Ballet, in which Miss Esther Austin, of the te ren ia, and Royal Lyceum Theatre, and Madame Carle, Lilly Carle, and Herr Carle, from Paris and principal London Theatres, intro inieing the Parisian Quadrille. Extra Corps do Ballet, Splendid 3 1 atin d :resses and gorgeous New Scenery by Messrs. Caney, Hen - C i r l s°n, and Migney, of Royal Italian Opera, Covent-garden. The ole of the Dances and the entire Ballet and Costumes pro !,°°ed under the di rec ti on o f M a d ame C o lli er , late of Astley's and Royal Alhambra Palace. Also a German Legendary Demon Ballet, entitled THE FROLICS OF THE FIEND, or the Devil Among the Tourists. Written and arranged by Mr. F. Evans, t. n(' Ported by himself and Messrs. Vincent, Towers, Garratt, Jones. and Miss Am Rosalind, and Corps de Ballet. The whole of the M us i c for both Ballets entirely original, and com rosed expros_ , siy by Alfred Lee, Musical Director to the estab ishment. The reat Vance, Harry Liston, Mr. R. Coombes (Author and Comedian), Louie Sherrington, Daniel the Great (the Negro In strumentalist) andM Hamilton. ETHARDO, the great Spiral m eens . ,T. tomst (from the Crystal Palace), in a new performance. The whole to conclude with a marvellous entertainment (never Witnessed before), entitled THE REVELS of THE ATHLETES, when some 40 Gymnasts (English and Continental), will appear at one time on the stage intheir various performances, under the d irection of Mr. James Ellis, Professor of Gymnastics. No advance in prices. Stalls and Crystal Lounge, ls.; Area and Balcony, 6d. Doors open at 7, commence at 8. X. 23,668. Just published, price is. Gd., by post ls. 81., the Second Edition, with Addenda, containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks, REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: H. Bs.lliere, 219, Regent-street. The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, and other journals, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted with this edition. ANGLO - AMERICAN TIMES, AN IN TERNATION AL NE WSPA.PE Devoted to American Intelligence, ENLARGED to 24 PAGES. Reports of Con zress, Persona!, Financial, Mining, R.ailroa I, &c. Members of Parliament, Conanierzial Men, and those having an interest in the United States, will dal this ncwspaper of use. Published every SATURDAY MORNING, price 4d. 15, Catherine-street, Strand. 31[UTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859), 14, RUSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON, ADVANCES MONEY upon perknal security, Bills of Sale, Free hold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay able weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "The programme is really an unusually good one."--Standar,d. "The 'Canterbury' is one of the sights of London which mist tot be missed."—Morning Advertiser. "The 'Canterbury' is one of the sights of London for astound ing performances."—Sun. "Those who are only familiar with the 'Canterbury' as it used to be will hardly recognise it under the new direction, so much is it improved."—Morning Herald. DIINVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords. " V.R." IRISH WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.O Established 1808. Quotations on application. FAIS ANS, PERDRIX, ET VOLAILLE. A LA NOBLESSE FRANOISE. JAMES CHAMBERLIN, POST.OFFICE-STREET, Norwich, Angleterre, fournit le Spanish Meal qui a ete employe avec le plus grand succes pour elever et nourrir les faisans, les perdrix, &c. &c. M. J. CHAMBERLIN vient de reeevoir la lettre suivante relative h son Spanish Meal pour &ever les Faisans, de M. le Vicomte de la Panouse, Inspecteur general des Forets de la Couronne de Sa Majeste Imperial() Napoleon 11. Administration generale des Domaines et Forets de la Couronne, Compiegne. L'lnspecteur des Forets de la Couronne It la residence de Compiegne soussigne, certifie avoir employe ii la nour riture des Faisandeaux le Spanish Meal provenant de la Maison James Chamberlin de Norwich, et en avoir obtenu les meilleurs resultats. Los Faisandeaux et les Faisans mangent tres bien cette substance. Elle les rend tres forts et leur chair est tits bonne. Veuillez agreer, Monsieur, L'assurance de ma consideration distingude, Vte. A de la PANOUSE, La Noblesse et les grinds Proprietaires sur le Continent, au recu des trois timbres de 400. peuvent avoir franco un Byre contonant les ddtails relatifs 4 la nourriture dos oiseaux ci-dessus mentionnes, avec trois cents certificate, les prix, &c. &c. L'addresser Mons. JAMES CHAMBERLIN, Post-office-street, Norwich, A ngleterre. PARTRIDGE AND COOPER' WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, or FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CELLNCRILY-LAND), LONDON, E.O, THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLF-SALE PRICES. PATIRTAGE PAID TO THE COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s. Per ream. a. d. Fine Cream Laid Note: a cheap paper .... 3 0 Superfine Cream Laid Note: much approved 4 0 Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note; especially recom mended 5 6 Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note 7 0 Straw Paper, " Patent ;" adapted for rapid writing Large Commercial Note Papers 38., 45., 55., and 6 0 Foolscap Papers, blue or cream 10s. 61, 12s. 6d., and 14 0 Outsides Foolscap, thick hand-made Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 45.; ruled ditto 4 6 Tinted Lined Note -five quires ls. ed., or 5 6 per 1,000 Nverfine Cream or Blue Envelopes 4s. 61, 53. 6d., and 6 6 tra, Thick ditto, "Registered Secure" 9 0 Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes 4 6 Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c. COLOUR STAMPING (Relief) reduced to Is. per 100. Polished steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the prices charged by the retail houses. An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account rooks, Copying Presses, Inkstands ' Stationery Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, Bags, 64., post free. PRICId4... ld. STAMPED sd. lives and often the property of women ; though pos sibly this theory is a convenient invention, devised to escape work, by the lazy lords of the creation. Some of the women were very pretty, with delicate features and • rich olive complexions, not much darker than that of a Spanish brunette; but their charms were marred in British eyes by the usual Abysinian taste kir grease and dist iste for soap. As the Americans say, we are a sadly prejudiced people. News came in here from the captives to-day, dated Feb. 3, but only to the stereotyped effect that they were well, and that Theodore was drag ging his heavy guns and baggage on to Magdala. I forgot to ask whether Gobaze was watch ing" him. He has been plundering the people of Dalanta, despite all his oaths and promises of friendship, so they are again in revolt. Probably his army must have supplies, and can only get them by plunder. The country in this immediate neighbourhood does not seem very fertile, but by a dexterous stroke of diplomacy Captain Speedy, late " Basha Fellaka" to Theodore, now chief interpreter in our Intelli gence Department, diverted a quantity of grain on its way to a neighbouring market into our camp, so that the horses and baggage animals have been well supplied. A little further on, at Lake Ashangi, supplies are said to abound. Major Grant, the African traveller, who has gone on ahead to open the market, gives in his official report a most satis factory account of the fertility of the country, and of the eager, enthusiastic reception with which the inhabitants have welcomed him. WESTON'S ROYAL MU SIC HALL, HOLBORN. Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey. TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS OF THE EASTER FESTIVAL AND MONSTRE ENTERTAINMENT AT THIS HALL ONLY. LE PETIT BLONDIN (the marvellous Rope P incer), Mr. A. G. VANCE, Mr. J. G. FORDE, JOLLY NASH , Alias S 141ITHSON Miss FENOULLIET, BARRY and RA.TTIE KING, Miss TREMAINE, Miss BROUGHAM, kiss COVENEY, Mr. SIDNEY BARNES, Mr. J. HUSK, Mr. R. LASCELLES, and OLIVER'S MINSTRELS. Full Orchestra, allowed to be the best band at any Music gall in London, The whole under the direction of Mr. P. CORRI. N.B.—Miss KATE SANTLY will appear shortly. EASTER HOLIDAYS. IVIADAME 1 lISSAUD'S EXHIBITION, BAKER-STREET. NEW ADDITION.—A Life-size Portrait Model of the 'night Hon, the EARL of SHAFTESBURY in the mag tificentrobes of the Order of the Garter ; also of DOCTOR LIVINGS TONE. Admission, is. ; children under ten, 6d.; the Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. ARGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET, Piccadilly Sole Proprietor, Ms R. R. BPINELL. b a T v l al l s a , nlagnificent Terpsichorean and Musical Establishme nt, b t, been Re-decorated in the highest style of Ita lian art J Messrs. Rubardt and other eminent artists, is NOW OPEN for the AUTUMN SEASON. Solo Euphonion. Signor Moses; ' 9l O Cornet, M. Graves. Conductor, Signor Curti. Doors open at half-past S. Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, 2s. _INFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per fectly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers, a nd wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, • 1.07, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. FILTRNISHED HOUSES, from £2 2s. to £2O per Week.—D. S. HUMPHRIES hts at all tiws a cumber of First-class RESIDE \IC MS to be LET. furnishei r 1 u nfurnished, or sold, more particularly in the neizhbour j9ls of Sydenham, Upper Sorwood. Forest-hill, and viol "'V.—Particulars may be had at the Office, Printing House- Nuare. lIDUSES and APART NIENTS WANTED. and to be LET or SOLD, BUSINESSES for DISPOSAL, &o. PROPERTY FREEHOLD or LEASEHOLD. T. EnTSIPHRIES has continual applications for for 'seiPfions of PROPERTY which will ps.y good interest p i _ outlay. Houses out of repair not objected to. T. D. iifoPhries can at all times find customers for all sold and businesses. Hotels, public hous3s, cto , sold and R e o r n r s , : e d :sci A us p i p e l . y, D. T. Humphries, Estate Agent. Print- SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDE S OI L , which s s Peedily p ro d uces w hi s k ers an d thi c kens hair. Price 3 s. 6d., 6d .7 and 10s. 6d. • sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stallll3B * ALEX ROSS, 248, High Ho lb orn , London, and all Chemists.* • " Tale of a Hair," 6d. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured This in one day by using ALEX. R OSS'S CHIROPO. hours prep ara ti on gradually dissolves the Corn in a few f or s i removing the very root. Price 4 s. ; sent b y p ost o h 60 stamps. 248, High Holborn, London, and all enlists. Face Powder, is. RAM-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn, c ur l ,londnn. ALEX. ROSS'S CIIRLII•1 ° G FLEW 8 - Ladies' or Gentlemen'. J ai- immediately it is applied. fold at ss. 6d 6d and O. tid • sent free for 54, 84, end 144 stamps.—Had of all Chemists. Advice upon all subjects of the Toilet. GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.— ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produc es a p erfect colour immediately 't is used. It is permanent, and per- V 37 natural in effect. Prices 3s. 6c1., ss. 6d., and 10s, ...; sent by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps ; and al ] kinetuists. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d. DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, 1 :1 London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY re loves superfluous hair m the face neck, and arms, rlthout effect to the skin. fro Price 3s. 6d. , , ss. 6d., and 10s. ". ; sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps. —Rad of all Chemists. Skin Tonic, ss. 6d. 11 IMPLE ROVER.—AII diseases of the skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S 'VEGETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness , s allowness &o. 2s. 9d. and 7s. 6d.; or post for 40 and 100 sta mps , ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. 6d. ITAIR COLOUR WASH.—By damping the head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in Bevan or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains go by an occasional using. 10s. 6d. • sent for stamps. —ALEX. ROSS, 218, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists. Just published, 2d.: sent by the a u th or f or 3 stamps, ITGLINESS and BEAUTY ; being a P am phl e i descriptive of articles and means used f or i mprov . tag the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Hot Dorn, London. Had oi all booksellers. IIEALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. DU BARRY'S delicate health-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Food. THE REVALENTA ARABIOA ati3r es fift7 times its cost in other remedies, and restores g Perfect digestion stron nerves, sound lun healthy Hirer, refreshing sleep, , functional regularity, and gs, energy t o the most disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily and effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con -Baluption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric de- L aa gercents, haemorrhoids , liver complaints, flatulency, --vrvoueness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, r trr hs, colds, influenza, noises in the head and ears, raleumatism gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, nen h irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, .‘eartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms, nausea and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking ,ts, b ronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pa i ns at pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is e a lcist digestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable for invalids and infants in all complaints. 31PORTANT CAUTION .-- Beware of the many unsavoury an d ri more than slopy imitations to which, without autho t, Baron Liebig's rame is most audaciously attached. b'",ficefortk l oone will doubt the valuable properties of Parry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabic& Invalids' taeand Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it already received from invalids whose position bad 1 1 deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holi ness the Pope, whose 7 health has been perfectly restored it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. 6 8 , i rluote from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No. i t 3)" Rome, July 21st, 1866.—The health of the ot lll - Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all Bar e r „ r re medies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a f ateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly en 2fici al effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot pra ise_•! this excellent food too highly." n' 111 , 13 No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven ears liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervous riiBB, irritability, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad „_gestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable Mervous agitatio n. il t ure N 0.78, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord f f ,: a rt de Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Water h;l:—" I have d erive d muc h b e nefit from your excellent .STUART DE DECIES, Dromana, Cappoquin, County at ----Serf ord." from No. 49,832. Of fifty years' indescribable agony 11 4 - 1 111 ,, I d TsPepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, o f j eacy, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, /nu, Norfolk. Cure No. 47,121. Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme aervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner vous fancies. Cure No. 56,814.—Mr. Samuel Lawton, Leicester, of two /ears diarrhoea. c„ The Food is sold in Canisters, at is. ; band 9d. • 4ib., 4s. 6d. ; 121 b , 225. ; 241 b., 40s. The 121b24113 ' , canisters, carriage . free on receipt of Post-office Order by also DU BARRY and Co., 77, Regent-s treet, London ; se at Fortnum and Mason's, and sold by all respectable grocers and Chemists. NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, _ Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861 'pkier the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, MG, gltrearebY a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan 4 ` . 1 of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of kingdom. RaThe object of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng _ eduction, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house, nsnelaundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other :P. p r ovided for when th e y atta i n 15 y ea rs of age, to obtain table sit uat i ons for them. e Commi ttee earnestly mn Th initirely by appeal for support. The Charity is stained donations and subscriptions. HENRY KINGSCOTE, Treasurer °Z ee, 121, Pall mall, S W WH. WAIWICIC, Secretary. THE SUN, LONDON, I:llo_'‘`. , ;DAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1868. A FTER THE ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDUN—EVANS' TO SIV. After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP. After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP. After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP. After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP. After Covent-garden Opera EVANS' to SUP. London Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Eight. LONDON AND NORTH- WESTERN RAILWAY. RACES AND TROTTING MATCH AT SUDBURY. On Saturday, April 25, a SPECIAL TRAIN will leave London (Euston Station) for SUDBUJAY at 1.20 p.m., re turning from Sudbury in the evening at 7.20 p.m. A TRAIN in connection will leave Broad-street (City Terminus) for WILLESDEN JUNCTION at 12.40 noon, Shoreditch at 12.33, Dalston Junction at 12.46, Camden road at 12.56 noon. A TRAIN will also leave Kensington for WILLESDEN JUNCTION at 1.10 p.m. Passengers from Kensington, Broad-street, Dalston, and Shoreditch will have to change carriages at Willesden Junction both going and returning. FARES TO SUDBURY AND BACK. Covered Carriages. From Euston 7/ Broad-street 11 Shoreditch I, Dalston . 77 Camden Town 77 Kensington By order, W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Enston Station, April, 1868. ls. 6d. COMYAGNIE GENERALE TRANS ATLA'NTIQUE, 8, Place Vendome, Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS, CHINA, JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH PACIFIC, AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama). Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar tinique, 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 Japan. WEST INDIES 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. NEW YORK Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New York. From HAVRE.—ApriI 9th and 23d, May 7th and 21st, June 4th and 18th, July 2d and 16th. From BREST —March 28th, April 11th and 25th, May 9th and 23d, June 6th and 20th, July 4th and 18th. RATES OF PASSAGE. From HATES or BREST to NEW YORK. First Class 700 fr. j Cabin. Second Class Third Class 275 fr. From Paris to Now York, via Havre or Brest, includ ing railway ticket, 850 fr. and 725 fr., according to cabin ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class, 285 fr. Hand-books, with full details of all the routes of this Company, can be had of STRINGER, PEMBROKE, and Co., Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C. CONTRACT FOR VULCANISED INDIA, RUBBER, • _ . Contract Department, Admiralty, om9rset,„ House, April J, 1868.. ' • THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND do hereby give Notice, that 'on TUESDAY, the 28th instant, at Two o'clock, they will b e read y to treat with such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into Store ' at her Majesty's several Dockyards, all such quantities of VULCANISED INDIA RUBBER, and PACKING, and T ÜBIN G, as may from time to time be ordered under a Contract for twelve months certain, and further until the expiration of three months' warning. The average annual expenditure for the last three years may be ascertained, Patterns of the Articles may be seen and a Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contract may be obtained at the above Department. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any he noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for Vulcanised India Rubber, &c. " and must also be delivered at the Department of t he Storekeeper-General, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed by a responsible person, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the stun of £2OO for the due per formance of the Contract. By ordel, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. CONTRACT FOR CANDLES. 'Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, Gth April, 1868. riIHE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING 1. the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT 'BRITAIN and IRE LAND do hereby give Notice, that on WE ONESDAY, the 29th instant, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into Store at her Majesty's Dockyards at Deptford and Woolw ich all such quan ties of CANDLES as play from time to time be ordered, under a Contract for 12 Months certain, and further until the expiration of two months' warning. A Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contract may be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's Depart ment, Admiralty, Somerset House. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for bim duly auth i prised in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Candles," and must also be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper - General, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed by a re sponsible person engaging to become bound with the per son tendering in the sum of £2OO for the due performance of the Contract. By order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. ARMY CONTRACTS. War-office, Pall-Mall, London, S.W, 6th April, 1868. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the SECRETARY of STATE for WAR will be pre pared to receive tenders for the supply of BREAD and MEAT Fort he use of her Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following Districts, during a period of Six Months, com mencing Ist June, 1868, viz. : N. Britain District, :Commissariat Office, 3, Hill-street, Edinburgh. Barrack-st., Hulmo, Manchester. The Camp, Col chester. 4, Castle-st., Dover. 20, E. Emma-place, Plymouth. St. Thomas-street, Portsmouth. 109, Victoria-st., S.W. The Barracks, Chatham. RoyalArtilleryßar. Woolwich. Grosvenor-street, Jersey. Printed Forms of Tender, initialed and numbered, and conditions of Contract may bp obtained on application to the. Senior Commissariat Officer of the district, and no Tender will be entertained unless made upon the printed form so obtained. The Tenders must be sent to this office, addressed to the Director of Contracts, marked on the outside, "Tender for Commissariat Supplies," before Twelve o'clock, on Tuesday, the 21st instant, after which day no Tender will be received. The Secretary of State for War reserves the right of rejecting any or all of the Tenders. THOMAS HOWELL, Director of Contracts. Northern. Eastern South-Eastern „ Western !„ South-Western „ London Chatham Woolwich „ Chan. Islands „ 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. 91 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 London and Westminster Bank, 214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, E.G.; and by WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary. No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES are as follows -- For Fallen Women. • 28, Church-row, Hatay- 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, Ilenstridge-villas, St. John s-wood. St. Mary's Lodge, 13nekhurst-hill. Country Home—St. James's- street, Dover. Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside. The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. The committee 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 In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee have under their charge throe homes for servants of good character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless servants annually. 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") . ma.y . be bad on. application. The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co. The Committee very esznestly commend its work to the benevolent. DANL. CO )PER, See. 85, Queen-street Cheirpsidee A FTER II Elt MAJESTY'S DRURY-LANE—EVANS' TO SUP Alter Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to . SUP. After Drury-lane Opera Eve's'. to SUP. After Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to SUP. After Drury-lane Opera EVANS' to SUP. London Singing and Supper Club, EVANS', Covent-garden. Vocal Entertainment at Light. OPERA, THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION of PICTURES by FRENCH and FLEMISH ARTISTS IS NOW OPEN at the GALLERY, 120, PALL-MALL. Admission, ls.; Catalogue, 6d Mutual Assurance without Mutual Liability.—Profits may be applied so as to make policies payable in Life time, or so as alternately to reduce the Premiums on Second-class Lives to First-class Rates. . BRITISEI EQUITABLE ASSURANCE COMPANY, 4, QUEBN-STREET-PLACE, SOUTHWARK BRIDOE, LONDON, E.C. _ No Antount. 2073 £353,700 2845 501,175 3839 ... 66.1,997 YeArg' 1865-6 1866-7 1867-8 Annual Prams, £10,899 15,318 20,303 3 £46,520 ". 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GABRIEL, DENTISTS (Established 1815), of London 56, Harley-street, Cavendish -square, 77 Liverpool 134, Duke-street, and Brighton h -street, have just published a NEW PAMPHLET explaining their Painless System of Dentistry, and self-adhesive Artifi cial Teeth without springs, at MODERATE CHARGES, w hich may be had free by post f or f our stamps. opposed perhaps the most important step which has been taken during the expedition, and which has so ar conduced most to its success—namely, the re- duction of the followers, and the coneqnent esta- blishment of the force upon an European instead of an Anglo-Indian footing, and it could never have been properly carried out if one, who is not merely an Anglo-Indian of a bygone age, but is even with out the advantage of having seen active service in the field since he was a subaltern, had been dis- charging the influential duties of Quartermaster- General. It is to be hoped that Colonel Phayre will not be called on to resume the post which he has wisely relinquished. It is at once creditable to him and fortunate for the force that he has selected work for which his abilities eminently qualify him, and in which the gravest error of judgment he can commit is to take a bad instead of a good road. In consequence of news received from Mr. Mtn zinger, who has gone ahead on a diplomatic mission to Gobaze, and is now only some 40 miles from Mag dala, an order was sent off at 12 o'clock last night that the troops which were to have left Antalo on the 25th inst. should come up as soon as possible. The news was to the effect that Theodore,emboldened pos sibly by our slow progress, had ceased to fear being overtaken and attacked on the march, and had re sumed his efforts to reach Magdala, with the full in tention of making a stand there. Ile had crossed the Bashilo, and was within about ten miles of Magdala. It is very difficult to know how far to believe any Abyssinian intelligence. It is sus pected that even the letters from the captives—at any rate, from those with Theodore—are written at his dictation. But still, if any one is now likely to get correct information, it is Mr. Munzinger, as well from his present position near Magdala as from his intimate knowledge of Abyssinian customs and character, and as the news, moreover, is not in itself improbable, except, per haps, on the principle that " it is too good to be true," it is generally believed here, and has put the force into high spirits. They are even ready to believe in the prospect of reaching Magdala before the end of this month, as our Cemmander in-Chief seems bent upon it. It is not easy to tell what the distance is. The maps are little to be relied upon, and the Abyssinians them selves have the most hopelessly vague notions of distance, usually estimating the length of a jour ney by the time which they happen to take in get ting over it. But still, from a comparison of van-- ; oils accounts; there is good reason to believe 'that : Magdala is not now,. at the outside, more than -120 miles off. Marching at the average rate of 10 miles a day, the army would thus have, between this and the end of the month, five days to spare for breath ing halts or accidental stoppages. This rate would be child's play over ordinary ground, or even through a country in which sufficient supplies were procurable; but it is no joke when roads have to be made and supplies carried over an incessant series of rugged, precipitous hills. Our troops declare that if this is the " table land of Abyssinia" the table has been turned wrong side up, and that we are marching over the legs, and Mr. Laing will be gratified to know that the Bombay army could scarcely have better training for "keeping it in wind" than its present occupation of toiling up one side of a hill in order to toil down the other. How ever, it is expected, nevertheless, that Magdala will be reached before the end of this month, if the Commander-in-Chief pushes on without wait ing for the elephants and big guns, and this is pup posed to be his present intention. 'I here is even a talk of tents and everything but arms and two or three days' rations being discarded, as the force gets very near Magdala, in the hope of surprising Theodore by a sudden rush and forcing au engage ment, but this must of course depend upon what intelligence is received further on: All this has put the army into excellent spirits, and it is in no less excellent health, the climate im proving, if anything, as we get further on. The sickness, both among officers and men, is far below the usual average. I myself know of only one officer whose health bas failed him, though unfor tunately he is one of the last who could be spared. Captain Hozier, who came out here•as Sir Robert Napier's aide-de-camp, but soon proved so useful he was made Assistant Military Secretary, has been obliged by acute rheumatism to remain behind, and it is feared that he will have to abandon the expedition altogether. His departure is felt as a great loss by all who knew his abilities as an officer, or his genial qualities as a companion, but more especially by Colonel Dillon, Sir Robert's inde fatigable secretary, whose arduous labours and responsibilities Captain Hozier shared. The public, too, have lost in him the man most competent, from his rare combination of professional knowledge with literary power, to write the history of the Abys sinian campaign. MAKHAN, March 17. We marched here yesterday from Attala, a dis tance of about lb miles, The march was a very difficult one, over a series of ascents and descents, which so severely tried the baggage animals that _ . . many broke down and had to be relieved of their loads, a greater number did not arrive till this morning, although they left Attala very early yes terday, and four have died. A halt is in conse- quence necessary to-day, only the 33d going on to make the road, which is said to be a fearfully bad one, between this and Lake Ashangi. It is a ques tion whether these long marches do not waste more time than they save ; but in this campaign so many points have to be considered before a suitable halt ing-place can be selected that it is easier to denounce long marches than to avoid them. Yesterday's march, too, like the blunder about the Muzno road, had done good service by causing a severely minute inquiry into the state of the Transport Train. It speaks volumes for the improved con dition of this corps that not one mule bad to be rejected altogether, and only 26 were declared unfit, for the present, to carry loads. Only one muleteer had to be sent into hospital, and two pro nounced unfit to pursue the march on foot. The journey began by an ascent, very steep, but not difficult, of I,looft. up a road part of which had, oddly enough, been made by Theodore during an invasion into Tigre, for some of his famous guns. The Abyssinians will no doubt consider our use of it a judgment upon him, and special sign of the objection entertained by Providence to road making. The next ascent must have brought us not very much less than 11,000 ft. above the level of the sea, and although it was only half-past 3 o'clock, the tempe rature was bitterly cold. The view was more than usually magnificent, even for Abyssinia, and had, moreover, a peculiar and singularly striking charac ter of its own. Instead of the ordinary tangle of mountain chains, intersecting each other in every variety of form and elevation, with nothing but a deep ravine here and there to vary the monotony of the scene, we saw immediately beneath us a splendid series of richly-cultivated terraces, sinking in gra dual succession until the last disappeared in a forest of junipers, some 2,000 ft. or more below the peak on which we stood, while far away eastwards, to wards the country of the Azobo Gallas, there stretched a vast expanse of plain, with fantastic groups of rocks and hillocks scattered over it in wild confusion, and looking like the ruins of some old mountain range. Upon the very summit of the nearest rock, and running round it exactly like a coronet, was an Abyssinian village of huts, coni cally-shaped, and compose I of wooden palisades, thatched with grass, and fenced in as a protection from the Gallas. With the exception of a few caves high up in one of the mountain slopes, this village was the only sign of human habita tion that I saw on the march. The country ap peared thinly peopled. We met, however, a num ber of women carrying grain in the direction of Attala, but scarcely any men. It is said that the Gallas kill every man they meet, but spare the lew iter )W -ten ng the Ary )ear the by rero by I in yes, 'OM len t ope, nce, .t of t, to The Ding lake ;ood nu y be 7ant rmer pies, tion and 3d a u It cor- Arne. Stt , • r dish ntiral Lister esent • Pa n / Wish- in a, to the ,t ex" Id the aeards f both 'Mir° . . „ „ . . . ranciE l ; aret% I sou. Rober t on of Era ol6 win• abort' .3130.161 !aptaill - t ut ast Vac ic- II tjle- a v e rt I J. A' , Wail" iichae l - • ' ' 10 1° c7f TAB. 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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—His Grace the Duke of Bucenzucll, 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 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 destizute 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. Berners-street ; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5. VONDERFUL SPORT IN ABYSSINIA. Sportsmen are noted for the vigour with which they draw the long bow. lii all ages man has allowed himself the greatest latitude when describ- ing his exploits in the field, more especially as a huntsman. When the sporting character gets into unknown wilds, then indeed on his return he is something awful, but many in these days of news paper correspondents do not wait for their return, and cannot be circumscribed by a narrow audience, so they soar into print, and make the world ring with their deeds. At the same time it not un- frequently happens that really truthful narratives are delivered through the pure ignorance of the public of the country and the scenes described. We remember an English officer telling an adventure to an unsophisticated English circle. Ile described five tigers as being in the bush, a statement received with winks and nudges, as the " bush" suggested to the English mind was that of a gooseberry bush, and they were not aware that the story-teller was speaking of a dense Indian jungle. Dr. Boustead's tale is worth repeating, and we give it as we found, it in the Pall-Mall of Tuesday last :- —"R. Boustead surgeon to the Abyssinian field force, has sent to the Field an account of a day's sport in Abyssinia which eclipses all other African travellers' tales on record. Mr. Boustead went out one day accompanied by a Shoho guide, a dhoolywallah, and a soldier servant, "to _try and bag a lion." The soldier soon knocked up in consequence of the tremendous nature of the country to be clambered over, and was left behind ; and Mr. Boustead, finding no lions, proceeded, in company with the Shoho and the doolywallab, to hunt for elephants. After incredible labour he came upon a herd of five "huge brutes, two with large tusks, one with medium, and two without any perceptible." He stalked the largest till within ten yards, when the elephant charged and, receiving a bullet in its fore head, dropped stone dead. To the next largest elephant Mr. Boustead administered " a right and left slick through the shoulder, both bullets well placed," and finished it up with a third bullet from his "little Mortimer (Enfield bore)," which smashed the animal's limb to atoms. As the Shoho and the dhoolywallah were dancing a dance of delight around the bodies of the fallen masters, a third elephant, an old bull, made at them, " galloping like a racehorse and screaming furiously," the Shoho shrieking, " Abiet, abiet, mundelli," which, being interpreted, means, " Lord, master, save me," ran straight up to Mr. Boustead, br;nging the infu riated brute upon him, and in passing accidentally knocked that gentleman down with the butt of a spare rifle he was carrying, and nearly fractured his skull. Mr. Boustead, nothing daunted, arose, calmly planted an ' 6 Enfield-sized bullet," also and cal from his " double Mortimer," through the elephant's brain, at a distance of five yards. The animal fell dead at two paces from the spot on which the ad venturous hunter was standing, and rolled over a tremendous precipice, carrying away large trees in his fall as if they had been rotten reeds. No sooner had this feat been achieved than a fourth elephant entered on the scene, " blowing and trumpeting hideously." It was received by the undaunted and unerring practitioner at twenty-five paces " with a heavy ball in the head, very high." This having no effect on it, a second barrel was administered rather low," and its course was for a moment checked. But on came the wounded brute again. The Shoho and the dhoolywallah had by this time bolted, ash-coloured with affright, and Mr. Bou stead stood alone. He motioned to the cowards to toss him a loaded rifle from the high rocks on which they had taken refuge. The rest of the story shall be told in his own words. Sir Samuel Baker never shot closer or more accu rately, or depicted his own feats more dramati cally :—" They chucked it down, and I caught it in the air as it fell, and gave the elephant a No. 12 through the shoulder, which disabled him. He tried to get up to the path where I was standing, but tumbled back, and in his rage commenced smashing to pieces everything in his way, making fearful noises. It was a rare sight to witness his wonderful strength ; he bore down trees of consi derable thickness by sheer strength and weight of body, and smashed their branches into thousands of atoms. Every bit of jungle was knocked to smithereens and trampled to pieces all around him ; and his vain endeavours to get at us, and his terrible rage at being foiled, were really most exciting to witness. He nearly succeeded in getting up the in cline to where I was, when I gave him the last bullet I had. His legs gave way, he staggered back on his hocks, and then rolled over heavily with a terrible groan. I can assure you I was thankful when it was all over, and that I was out of the row BO well." The fifth elephant appears to have escaped with its life.—Anglo-American Tunes. 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He is a man of the world, a cool, shrewd observer, and could form a correct estimate of whatever came immediately before his eyes. But for the last twenty years he has been labouring under the " curse of kings.', Since his accession to power he has never- beheld France 'ace to face. He must either take her at a rude guess, or see through the medium of that cumbrous scaffolding of official administration which he has reared between himself and the nation, instead o: the regular edifice of a representative government such a France as M. de Persigny or M. Rouher choose to describe to him—a France ready to uphold Imperialism against the Emperor himself. Would it be impossible for the Emperor, on his sixtieth birthday, to turn over a new leaf ? Could he not extricate himself from his present embarrassing position by the partial abdication of his absolute power? Could he not atone for any error thaA may have occurred in the past by relinquishing undivided responsibility for the future? With all that may be deemed problematic and unsatisfactory in the Emperor's character, it would be impossible not to credit him with cenerous impulses. Something like regret and misgiving seems at times to assail Lim in the dreary solitude of lis elevation. It was not for his own sake, as he has often hinted, not for the gratification of personal or even dynasti4 ambition, that he accepted unbounded power. Ete has described Imperialism as by its nature progressive ; as a temporary structure ; a means to the end ; the application of force to the establishment of legal authority: When the end was attained, when order could be pronounced secure, the superstructure should be removed, and the " crowning of the edifice" would follow. There never, perhaps, was a moment when the fulfilment of these promises would come with a better grace. We would not presume to suggest what institutions may best suit the French temperament, though something might, perhaps, be contrived better than a State constituted in the shape of a pyramid, with nothing between the electing masses at ,the base and the elected autocrat at the summit. The Post is of opinion that the period for which the militia is called out is insufficient for drill, manoeuvres, and musketry practice. It points out that this latter might be attained by calling them out for rifle practice by com panies, and for two or three days beyond the usual time of training. It is certainly most unsatisfactory that this force should have no ball practice whatever, and the com paratively small sum required to effect this could not be refused by Parliament if the case were properly represented to it. Before the Easter recess there were undoubted in dications in the House of Commons of an earnest desire to adopt whatever measures were likely to be advan tageous for the militia ; in fact, the feeling was strongly in favour of this great and truly national force, and .therefore there are really r o grounds whatever for the assertion, now frequently made, that the force is likely to suffer irom neglect. The volunteers, from the very nature of their being, from their" marvellous and unexpected development, from the sustained energy of the movement, and from the novelty attaching to the force, are undoubtedy, and very rightly, great public favourites ; but the militia occupy a very different position, and can afford to be quite above tbesmallest trace of jehlousy. The tendency of modern military organisation is entirely in the direction of the appreciation and development of just such a force as our own militia, as a support of and an auxiliary to the regular troops, and occupying a distinct and honourable and superior position between them and the volunteers. The weekly article of the Daily Eon on trade and finance deals with the recent Railway Conference at Man chester. Our contemporary observes as remarkable that little stress was laid upon the power of a railway company (that is, the direction) to pledge the credit of the under- Eking in indirect debts, by Lloyd's bonds, temporary loans from bankers, overdrawn balances, financial transac tions, and the whole machinery for going to ruin. Rail- - way finance has always been discreditable. The practice has been to borrow from the banker upon future traffic receipts. The banker naturally lends upon a good margin, especially to a railway company receiving each week a large revenue ; but the principle is the same as in private life, and fundamentally wrong : it is the anticipation of - profits, instead of a prudent reserve from those already gained. Year after year the balance-sheets of dividend paying railway companies are accompanied with additions to capital, which make the practical reader ask himself wistfully, " Has any dividend been really earned ? " It is impossible at present to foresee what will be the end of such practices, although some of the inevit able consequence to shareholders it would be equally im possible not to perceive. One thing is certain, that unless a complete revolution takes place in railway management, ordinary shares in this class of property, which the public has been for thirty years learning to regard as capable of being held as a security only a little inferior to consols, will before long be avoided by all but the speculator. It would be a great misfortune, and a great disgrace to Eng land, if so vast a system of administration were to be thus discredited, and a legitimate business capable of being re duced to the simplest administrative rules depraved by -vices of management, and on that account every serious endeavour to bring it again under the control of sound principles should be applauded. The Herald remarks that nothing is more obvious or more certain than that, as far as legislation is concerned, the Whigs hive never been in earnest ; and the Radicals —whatever we may have to say of them—always have been. The Radicals seriously and honestly wish to extinguish the House of Lords, or to turn it into such a Senate as one may see in France or America; seriously and honestly wish to alter, not only the constitution of the constituencies, but also that of the House of Commons ; not only to give votes to working men, but to send working men to Parliament ; seriously and honestly wish to destroy the royal supremacy, to secu larise the universities, to destroy the union between Church and State ; in a word, to Americanise the land and its institutions. The Whigs, on the other hand, do not seriously and honestly wish to accomplish these results, but they pretend to wish to accomplish something like them—something that shall be thought by one set of people to help to bring them about, and by another set of people to help to stave them off—in order to keep them selves politically going. That is why they are invariably so anxious to get hold of Radical schemes, to toy with them, to parade them, to pretend to be half in favour of them, all the while that they cut their claws, stop their growth, and virtually immure them. No doubt they thought to do this with the question of the Church in Ireland. Earl Russell's speech of last year and Mr. Gladstone's letter to one of his constituents at Oxford three years ago, are there to prove it. But this time the Radicals overtook them, and were not to be trifled with. The Irish Church ques tion had to be surrendered to its real parents. In Radical hands it now is, and naturally enough is growing apace. Let there be no mistake. It is not the Whigs—it is not Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone— who are the real parents of the famous resolutions. They were conceived by Mr. Bright and Mr. Miall ; and it is by them, and in obedience to their instincts, that the joint production of revolution and nonconformity is let loose upon the empire. The Telegraph replies to the criticisms of certain papers to the effect that there is something rather odd, not to say unworthy, in this relish of the Irish people for royal courtesy ; but in truth the English nation is just as suscep tible of what seems like slight, and just as ready to recog nise good feeling. The very organs of opinion that express surprise at the success of this visit expressed themselves in language hardly loyal because Queen Victoria, with only too sufficient cause, withheld from London for a few years the light of her countenance ; and we can easily imagine the tone and thoughts of all Englishmen if her Majesty thought proper to live entirely in Scotland for ten orfifteen. years. Can we wonder that in Ireland the traditional feeling of estrangement from English rule has been deepened by the absence of the sovereign, and that a people swayed by sentiment and apt to give way to emotion has felt sorely the slight indicated in the continued absence of the Queen? The Telegraph has never joined with those who wished to degrade Royalty into a mere social figure-head, and who thought that the Queen's highest function was to receive young ladies at drawing rooms or to give grand balls. But a sovereign is above all things the personal representative of the nation—she stands for the Empire. She is the sole " institution," to use the cant phrase of the day, that unites Englishmen . Scotchmen, Irishmen, and Colonists in one Imperial feel s of ing ; she is the outward and visible sign of unity tc which the majority of us are, and all of us o g r her be, proud. As such a symbol her e th ld n es n t er s e o m n, on i y s the and il r l e u g s a t r ri d or t r i e , n imperial nationality. representative ta l t v i e r es surround t ; i and r is indirectly an exaltation of our ow The Winchester has s o f ar re covered from h Bishop isla i te ) attack of as to be able to take an airing in his His lordship has not yet, however, recovered the faculty of speech. TRIPLE BIRTH. —The wife of a joiner, uamed Whitehead, residing in Calverley's-yard, Knaresborough, nas given birth to three children. They are all girls, and along with their mother are doing well. THE CITY RATCATCHER. Samuel Humm petitioned the Court of Sewers on the 7th inst., that he might be permitted " to go into the City sewers to catch rats, in which he has for the last eighteen years been en• gaged," and the surveyor having been heard thereon, the said Humm was solemnly informed by Alr:'De Jersey that he must not in future go below the surface. THE MORTON TESTIMONIAL. 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To BE LET, UNFURNISHED, a PARLOUR and TWO BED-ROOMS, with Gas, &c., in the most eligible part of St. Paul's-road, Camden-square, N.W. Apply at 44, St. Paul's-road, Camden-square, N.W. THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. (From the Times' Special Correspondent.) You will be glad to hear that the rumour to which I referred in my last letter turns out to be true, and that Sir Robert Napier will in future himself ac company the Pioneer Force. This is the best piece of news that it has been my good fortune to send home for some time, and ought to give as much satisfaction in England as it has given here, for it looks as if our " rapid advance upon Magdala," which has been so long beginning, has at last begun. We are indebted for this change to the big blunder just made in taking the roundabout, villainously bad road by Muzno instead of the shorter and better road by Beyt Mara, and our Quartermaster- General, Colonel Phayre, is consequently the hero of the hour, occupying an unwonted share of public attention, though, like many other heroes, he gets more abuse than praise. The abuse hap pens, in this instance, to be not altogether just. Colonel Phayre was only partially to blame, that awful mysterious bugbear of " political considera tions," with which a Quartermaster -General intermeddleth not, having chiefly determined the rejection of the Beyt Mara road. But the sufferers from the blunder, who, after ten days' in activity at Antalo, had suddenly to make a rush over an Abyssinian road, and then wait hungry and helpless in the cold until their animals overtook them, naturally wanted a victim, and Colonel Phayre, no less naturally, was the one chosen. Ile has been constituted, though some what unfairly, the " Aunt Sally" of the expedition, in consequence of his rushing about the country doing the work of a deputy-assistant, instead of remaining at his proper post in charge of his de partment near the Commander-in-Chief. This ab dication of power would be readily pardoned, and indeed applauded, by the force—since hi s represen tative at head-quarters, Captain Rolland, is a first rate officer—if Colonel Phayre were not under the inconvenient delusion that one Quartermaster- General, or, at any rate, one Col. Phayre, must be. equal to at least three deputy-assistants, and did not, therefore, i n sist upon doing all the work himself, with 44 no brother near the throne." Now, every one admits that he has enormous industry, and rare physical endurance. It is believed that b e can walk more and sleep less than any other man, native or European, in the force. But even these remarkable gifts leave him, when compared with three deputy-assistants, at a grave disadvantage in one all-important point —he cannot be in three places at once. Neither his country nor his Commander-in-Chief expects this from Colonel Phayre. If there bad been one assistant to survey the Muzno road and another the Beyt Mara, the big blunder would probably never have been made. however, Sir Robert has now peremptorily insisted that Colonel Phayre should no longer sacrifice himself for the good of his coun try or the amusement of the expeditionary force, and has therefore sent him two able assistants in Captain Fawcett and Lieutenant M'Gregor, and if he can only persuade himself to let them do a little work, under his supervision, he may, despite the sneers of his critics, be of very great service in ex ploring and surveying at the front. 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