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The old quar ries were found by the Parisians the most conve nient place in the neighbourhood for preserving and protecting from desecration the remains of their forefathers, and a portion of the subterranean labyrinth was solemnly consecrated to be used as a cemetery. lu a garden of the Itue de la Tomb() Isq)ire a shaft had been sunk into the catacombs. Here the long processions halted, the carts were backed, tilted, and their contents shot down the shaft. This work continued at intervals during many nights. IA 1810 and the following years, after the rest - ration of Christian worship in France, the cata combs were surveyed, pillars were built, and drains made to carry off the water. The banes were carefully arranged along the walls of the vaults, keeping distinct the cemeteries from which they were originally brought. The skulls form three rows in mast places; the space between them is fined by the large arm and leg bones, carefully piled; the rib:, vertebrae, and all the smaller boaes fill iu promiscuous heaps the space left between the rows of skulls and the rock. In many of the recesses or chapels which we passed the workmen employed in arranging these ghastly objects have indulged their sense for the beautiful, and have built up ornamental and varied designs with the horrid fragments at their disposal. In scriptions on stone indicate the cemeteries from which the remains have come. All human bones brought to light by the actual rebuilding of Parisi are conveyed to the catacombs. The most recent additions appear to have been contributed in 1861 by the cemetery of Vaugirard. At equal dis-' tances stone tablets are set up, with inscribed sentences on life, death, and eternity selected from Holy Writ, Thomas it Kempis, Seneca, and the Latin authors, from Lamartine, Delille, from Duels, and even inferior poets. My wish to copy some of them was somewhat uncivilly interrupted by one of the surveyors telling me that we could not pass the whole day underground. On one of the principa pillars are carved the words —MEMENTO . Qua PULVIS . ES. And on a well which occupies appa rently the centre of the labyrinth—SlCUT . UNDA . DIES . NOSTRI . FLUXERUNT. The concentrated light of all our candles failed to reveal the unhappy gold fish which are said to enliven its waters. A collection of diseased bones, which are kept sepa rate, would be of more use to suffering humanity in the glass cases of a pathological museum than in these inaccessible recesses. )ad is Is aro mado WESTON'S ROYAL MUSIC II A LL, HOLBORN. Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey. 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HOBBS, HART, and CO., 76, CHEAPSIDE, E.C. 1, tho ;o on ;tau), London, 4th August., 1868. Gentlemen,—At your request we have much pleasure in handing you the present report on• the cable recom mended by us to be laid from Brest to St. Pierre, and from St. Pierre to the coast of the United States. The deep sca cable adopted is almost exactly similar to that used in 1865 and 1866. The groat merit of this form is its strength, both absolute and relative to the strains required while laying the cable. The actual strength of this hemp and steel cable is 71 tons, while the strain re quired for submersion need not exceed 14 cwt. Even if it should be necessary to haul hack any portion already the strain need not exceed 11 tons in the deepest water. The strength is, therefore, amply sufficient to meet all contingencies, with a margin quite as great as is allowed in any ordintay engineering construction or operation. We need hardly remind you of the experimental proof which has been given that this form of cable can, even if broken in the deepest water, be recovered by dredging, but we take the oppartunity of expressing our deliberate opinion that this success was not fortuitous, but that the experi ment might be repeated as often as required with a like result. The power of transmitting messages through long submarine lines is no longer a matter of doubt, and the laws affecting their transmission are well understood. We can promise with certainty that through your enlarged core you will be able to send twelve words per minute, and by improved methods of signalling we expect to in crease this minimum considerably. Tho length of your cable, which will be in deep water, will be no greater than that of the existing cables, and it will rest on the same smooth and safe bottom. 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It is impossible to refrain from the thought that among the rows of skulls which grin down upon us from right and left as we pass along, some must have belonged to the most eminent men in France and adorned the salons of Paris by the brains which they once contained ! To heighten our interest we were told by one of the inspectors that the skull of Louis Philippe Egalitd was undoubtedly among those which had been brought from the churchyard of the Rue de la Vile l'Eveque. No doubt an ex perienced phrenologist would confidently point it out. It is computed that about three millions of skulls, if not more, adorn the walls of the catacombs of Paris. To us the dark galleries through which we wandered seemed to form an intricate labyrinth, but, somehow or other, they led us back to the black gate by which we had entered. 11 , e passed about two hours among the shades below, and were heartily glad to see the daylight again. ards, in , and in ng-holt which ady has Aus- AS H' S FILTERING ICE SAFES. Important to Purchasers.—Mr. ASH'S PATENT RE FRIGERATORS being by far the most perfect and scientific yet produced. purchasers should beware of imitations advertised as new inventions. Ash's Ice Safe alone combines the following advantages : The block ice is kept free from taint, and the pure water passed into a stone filter, ice-cold, and delicious for drink ing; mixed provisions of every kind —even onions, butter, cheese, strawberries, milk, &c.— may be shut in the same com partment without imparting the slightest odour one to the other. The atmosphere is perfectly dry and cold, the ventilation perfect. 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Fee, 2s. 6d, Ant COLOUR WASH.—By damping the aspen head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in y e ,, or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and -4 ' 4 8 so by an occasional using. 10s. 6d. ; sent for tit an , - ` l3B . —ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, 44(1 all oh ......,_____ ernisLs. e t Publish e d, 2d . ; sent by the author for 3 stamps, LI NESS and BEAUTY ; b e i ng a P amp hl e t des criptive oflt art and means us e d f or improv bernthPpearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Hol ' Lo ci• Tiad of all booksellers. i r --- _--_______ %Arriirß itE STORED wrrsouT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE.. 4 ' 13A.RRY'S delicious health- res t or i ng Invalids' and Infants' Food. Rav e' , ~,, THE REVALENTA ARA.BICA 13e r i - 'it' times its cost in other remedies, and restores k•elmeekt digestion strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy theiver effect o ble -8 1 1 Z Sleep, functional regularity, and energy to s at disordered or enfeebled-removing speedily an i ndigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma,. con tatt,°o, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric de he4r"",,-,,MAntS, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, eati:.,",B4ese, biliousness, fevers, sore . throats, dihtheria, ears, 2.11,,,,'L h5 u5, colds, influenza, noises in the bead and _ l'illgi: 4at ißill, gout, impurities, eruptions, hyster neu h i'").,-1, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, 11:4-`1re, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, 'spasms, we, -- . . te . b,...uu sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking tlle',„feechitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pain lt th e ~v," of the stomach and between the shoulders. . is for r °Bt digestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable litt;velids and infants in all complaints. and °IITANT Cawriox.-Bevrare of the many unsavoury rity,rre than slopy imitations to which, without au o il, Bares Liebig's name is most audaciously attaohed. 1) 4 illeeierth none will doubt the valuable properties . of ;Ind 1,.,,1TY health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids' 4 4 --, ' a lit& Food, since to the thousands of blessings it be:natready ce.v, 6 „ re ied from invalids whose position had , i ess 41-1.1,ed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holid uY it r e r ePe, 'whose health has been perfectly restore Vir e after thirty ye medical treatment. 18,1411\°te from the n Ga z e t te du Midi, July 25th (Cure No. 11 01 ':--"lio July 21st, 1866.-The health of the °theVathor i e ra eleellent, especiall since, aban . doning all 13, retn e ,,,_ 41.1.„,,. ..es, he has confined himself entirely to Du Plat 4 1 "sevalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a bet lefi ll ei a l t e ver"' meal. It has produced a surprisingly Prai se th i,. effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot Cu re 1,.8 excellent food too highly." 3r ears' I , " 0 . 5 8,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan of seven ee,, lvor Ili+ „complaint, wasting away, debility, nervous digeetlie-audity, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad (70.__Ti, eonstant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable ourus agitation., illart e 14° ' 78 , of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord ford . de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Water -1„._florl .; I have derived- much benefit from your excellent wat's-trTnAhT DE DEciEs, Dromana, Cappoquin, County e :14 ." fi, 4 l dy e , c'• 9,832. -Of fifty years' indescribable . agony -,4Elilet,cepsie, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, ° L I.l.4,,J.'._''Pasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, oure zyorlolk. eerv ou 4 0. 4i.,121.- Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme °° ' l, 3 fa n .', gestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner- O ti e 'es. 7' ' 4l.Br d?"' 66,814. ---Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two TI - 10; r1 lice.a. 21b ., ~t eed is sold in Canisters, at ls. lid. ; 11b., 2s. Pd. ; e , , luis tA : 6 d. ; 121 b., 22s ; 241 b., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b ,lart„,l., carriage free On recept of P. 0. Order. Also Du tit' ecisitteer"l"t4 „ Arabica Chocolate Powder is packed in c u i‘ ps at 6 , '',' 'or 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3.5. 6d., for . 48 about 1-.' for 28 8 cups at 30s. for 576 cups at 555. Being ;fee of ° ,„`" P, e nnY Por cup Th ' e 30s. and 555. tins are sent alisraeweea4rtonAtnlißanYdai‘nrduCoon.:s7;7, 41Alt/WZ'age in England on receipt of Post Office Order. street ; 63 and 150, a 0 ls z o Regent-s meet, London ; Oxford-street t C re b e e t a ; p a si n d d e, 2 6 1 1 , , London ; and all Grocers and Chemists. O N t IlL l l\i rciad' DRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE oitt(S447.ItAPLIIj34ENrit,CULLDREN are being maintained in the per atinuni-":11PIIA.N ASYLUM, at the moderate rate 1 Ake ) tit, IL Funds greatly needed. CHARLES 4.. wAuaga, Secretary. ' " 14131416 1 LOW E 0 a, . D R. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER lJ PILLS.—A NE VER-FAILING REMEDY.—Pre pii-ed without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indiges tion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they creato appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.—Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing cross, London, and by most druggists, in boxes, ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one, 2s. Pd. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert" engraved on the stamp. • NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE. AGIJA AMARELLA restores the Human . Hair to its pristine huo, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 16s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street. Loudon. E.C. 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 that are loose, and is gua ranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in masti cation. 52, Fleet -street. At homo from 10 till 5. ..._ RIIPTErRES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WlirrE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS Perfected and Exhibited in te Gxhibitions of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of reat Fiv E e 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 Moc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can xot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. JO [IN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. P os t age, Is. A. Double Truss, 31s. d., 425., and 525. ed. Postage, ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 625. 13d. Postage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT VLAS TIC STOCKI NGS, 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., 108., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. IRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON _ FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN STITITTION. President —Rev. CANON DALE. CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of tho Homes in 1868 are ear. neatly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon. quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, E.O. ; Francis Nicholls , Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.O. E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was establisbeaat King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted free. Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co. GO, Lomba r d. street, Messrs. R a n som an d B onverto, 1, Pall -math—lron, Sec., Y. Smith. E sa . GEo. REID, Sec. R OY AL 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 BUCCLEUCH, 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 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. Blown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co.; Glyn. and Co„. berries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co.;Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Bornors-str4t • snd at the Hospital , trove 10 till b. • The French Government has promised its support and assistance to the undertaking, and an honorary committee of the highest position has been formed in Paris. It has been generally acknowledged that, both for poli tical and commercial reasons, the laying of a direct and independent cable from the Continent of Europe to the United States was only a question of time, and consider ing the extraordinary increase of telegraphic messages wherever new facilities are afforded, it is to be expected that the new undertaking will create fresh traffic, inde pendent of that of the old companies, sufficient to insure earnings of equal if not greater amount. It will be the object of the new Company to fix such rates for messages as will secure the largest possible traffic. The price to be charged is intended to be £2 for a mes sage of 10 words, and it seems not too sanguine an expec tation that at this rate the line will find constant em ployment. The power of transmission of the now cable is estimated, according to the report of the engineers and electricians, at a minimum of twelve words per minute, which, allow ing 14 hours a-day for waste time, and consequently only ten hours a-day for actual work, and taking 300 working days in the year, gives, at the rate of £2 per message, an annual income of £432,000. Practically, the proportion of days and hours lost would in all probability be less than is assumed in this estimate. The working expenses of the new line may be calculated to amount at the utmost to £30,000 per annum. The proposed cable will be laid in two sections—the first from Brest, in France, to the French island of St. Pierre, off Newfoundland ; the second from St. Pierre either to New York direct or to a point between Boston and New York, with a special line to the last-named city. The length of the cable is as follows:- Ist section, from .Brest to St. Pierre 2,325 miles. 2nd section, from St. Pierre to the United States, about 722 „ To this length an amply 5u ,047 miles. fficient amount of B slack will be added. A contract has been entered into with the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Company to manufacture and lay the cable for the sum of £020,000, of which £BlO,OOO is payable in cash by agreed instalments during the manufacture and shipment of the cable. The remain ing £llO,OOO will be payable in the following manner, viz., £BO,OOO in fully paid up Shares, after the section from Brest to St. Pierre shall have been laid and tested satis factorily for thirty successive days ; £lO,OOO in cash after the section from St. Pierre to the United States shall have been laid and tested for thirty days, and the final payment of £20,000 in fully paid-up Shares after the entire cable shall have been six months in satisfactory operation. Allowing £lOO,OOO f or the construction of the land lines, engineers' charges, supervision, and all expenses up to the opening of the line, and deducting the consideration here after stated to be given for the concession upon success, there will remain a balance, by way of reserve, of £BO,OOO. Tho Great Eastern will be employed in laying the deep sea portion. Sir Samuel Canning with a competent staff will ha ie charge of the submersion of the cable. Sir James Anderson will act on behalf of, and watch over, the in terests of the Company. The cable is contracted to be shipped in June next, and the line is expected to be open for traffic in the course of next year. The cable will be of the best construction, and generally of the same description as those manufactured by the Tele graph Construction Company for the Atlantic and Anglo- American Telegraph Companies. The cable will be pro tected by tar like the 1865 cable, and advantage has been taken of all the experience since gained. In accordance with the unanimous recommendation of the engineers and electricians, the weight of copper in the conductor has been increased from 300Ib. to 4001 b. per knot. By this means greater rapidity of transmission is obtained. In tracing the route a detour has been made to avoid the risk of icebergs and anchorage on the banks of Newfound land. It is on these banks that all accidents to the exist ing cables have occurred. Sir James Anderson has recorded his opinion that the object thus sought f or w ill b e fully attained. The Concessionaires, by an agreement dated 3d August, 1868, and scheduled to the Articles of Association, have agreed to transfer to the Company their concession from the Imperial Government of France, together with all their rights under the concession from the State of New York, and the benefit of the undermentioned agreements, and to defray all expenses up to the registration of the Company in consideration of 5,000 fully paid Shares, to be allotted to them whenever the Cable shall have been successfully laid, and shall have continued to work satis factorily for 30 days. They will also be entitled to receive one-fifth part of the surplus net profits in each year, after setting aside a reserve fund, equal to 5 per cent. of the net profits, and after payment of a divid en d o f 10 per cent. to the Shareholders. These contingent profits will, for con venience, be attached to a portion of the fully paid shares. It will be seen from this that the Concessionaires look only _ to the success of the undertaking for their remuneration, and for the repayment of the expenses they have already incurred. Copies of the Agreements and of the Memorandum and Articles of Association, and of the Concessions, lie for in spection at the Offices of the Solicitors of the Company, Messrs. Bischoff, Coxo, and Bompaq, 19, Colotuan-street. Prospectuses and Forms of Application for Shares may be obtained at the Offices of the Company, Bartholomew House, and at the Union Bank of London, Princes-street, and their various branches, COPIES OF REPORTS OF SIR JAMES ANDERSON SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, MESSRS. VARLEV CLARKE, FORDE, AND JENKIN. , London, 3d August, 1868. Baron Emile d'Erlanger, Julius Router, Esq. Dear Sirs,—With reference to the route projected for the cable between Brest and America, I have recommended it for the following reasons : By keeping in the 500 fathom line upon Milne bank and around the southern edge of the Grand bank there is no possibility of ice, or of any other agency that GREI be sug gested, injuring the cable. The northern edge of the Grand bank was avoided, because it is uncertain at what depth the icebergs ground. They are said, upon good authority, to ground at times in 90 fathoms. It is not certain at what depth the vessels employed in the seal trade may sometimes choose to drop an anchor for the purpose of keeping their station in the track of ice floes. These dangers are avoided by the track chosen for the proposed cable, and I am justified by my own exper i ence in saying that the track from the southern edge of the Grand bank to St. Pierre, and thence to the place of land ing in America, is entirely free from any danger from ice, and does not cross any anchorage resorted to by the fleet of fishing vessels. The cable upon the Milne bank and from the Grand bank to St. Pierre, and thence to America (upwards of 1,200 miles), will be laid in water of such easy depth that repairs will be a matter of certainty ; and we are justified, from the soundings which already plot, in affizatipg that SCHOOL OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE, ADMIRALTY, Bth August, 1868. THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the AD MIRALTY HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that the arrangements for the ADMISSION of persons, not already in the Government service, to the Royal School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering as ADMIRALTY PUPILS, will, for the present year, be as follows : Candidates must not be less than 18 or more than 21 years of age, and must have served at least two years in private shipbuilding or engineering establishments, or must give satisfactory proof that they have in some way been so connected with shipbuilding or engineering opera tions as to become well-grounded in the elementary prin ciples and practice thereof. The pupils will be selected by competitive examination, the subjects for which, and aumbers of marks assigned for each, are as follows : Marks. Pure mathematics, including arithmetic, mensura tion, geometry (plain and descriptive), plane tri gonometry, and the elements of the differential and integral calculus 2,500 Applied mathematics, • including mechanics and hydrostatics m 1,000 Practical shipb u ildi ng, including laying-off (for shipwright's candidates only) ... 2,500 Practical marine engineering (for engineer candi dates only) ... ..„ ... 2500 French , 500 Elements of physic and chymistry ••• ••• .........750 " English grammar an d composition ... ••• • .7„ Geography and History m ••• ••• "• ' ,7` n" 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 S..thool or in the dockyards. Seven months of each year—viz., from October till May —will be devoted to study at the School, and the tomaining five months to actual work and 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 theirsubsequent 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 Saptember and three following days. By command of their Lordships, HENRY GORDON LENNOX. RIN TIN PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c. The Printing and Machi n i ng of Newhaven, &c., done on exceedingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Oflices, if requi re d. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with s t a mped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager, "Sun" Printing Offices, 8, Church-row, Savoy, Stra4 HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and clothing for the 196 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship. 160 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street, 94 girls in the Befuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing aTO children. £l5 will keep a boy or girl for ono year. Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank 214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, KC. • and by WILLIAM WILII 4MS, Secretary. No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoltes-inn-fields. NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, Richmond, Surrey Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861. Under thepatronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, E.G., whereby a home has been afforded for 280 D est i tute Orphan -Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of tile kingdom. The object of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house, and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other wise provided for when they attain 18 years of age, to obtain suitable situations for them. The Col/mittso earnestly appeal for suppo r t. Th e Ch ar it y i s entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. HENRY KINGSOOTE, Treasurer, W S. WARWICK Secretary. Office, 121, Pall-mall, S W IHE RESCUE E. sre as fol: For Faller 30CIETY'S HOMES lows : a Women. 28, Church-row, Iramp- 150, New Kent-road. stead. 48 Church-street, Stoke 13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington. town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green -205, Great Portland street. with. For Young Girls in Danger. 27, Church-row, Hampstead. 9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood. St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill. Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover. Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside. In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee have under their charge three homes for servants of good character, in which aro admitted about 1,000 friendless servants annually. The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. Tho 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 aro 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. Barclay and Co. The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the benevolent. DANL. COnEB, Sec, _.135 Queen-West, Clzoopeide. • The following appears in a contemporary :—lt is not easy for the ordinary English sightseer in Paris to satisfy his curiosity by a descent into the famous catacombs—diffieilis descensus. Formerly one of the regular sights of Paris, they have now been long closed to the general public, and but very few Parisians of the younger generation have ex plored those dismal vaults. Four times a year the metropolitan surveyors officially inspect the great ossuary, to report on the condition of the pillars and piers which have been built to prop the exca vated galleries, and a select few, whose applications to the Prefect of the Seine have been backed by influential recommendations, are allowed on these occasions to accompany them. Notice that the ex pedition is about to proceed is often received many months after the application has been sent to the Hotel de Ville, and a prolonged residence in Paris seems to be an indispensable condition for obtain. ing a sight of the catacombs. I was fortunate enough, says the correspondent of a contemporary, a few days ago to accompany one of these periodical visits of inspection. The appointed place of meeting was in the courtyard, at the back of the office for collecting the octroi at the former Barriere d'Enfer. M. Nadar, in the bulky Paris guide which was printed for the use of visitors to the Exhibition last year, describes midnight as the hour usually appointed for these excursions, but this is probably merely a literary artifice destined to throw additional gloom over his narrative. We met at noon in considerable numbers, chatting in every language of Europe, and all provided with candles, railway lamps, and matches. On the arrival of the metropolitan surveyors the door of a low building, which occupies one side of the courtyard, was un locked, and displayed a steep flight of narrow steps leading underground. The inspectors mustered the company, the candles were lit, and one by one we descended. The hubbub of conversation was at once hushed. We were about to visit the silent abodes of the dead. Perhaps some of us involunta rily remembered ghastly tales of men who had lost their way in this subterranean labyrinth and had never returned to their friends and the bright sun shine above. Ninety steps led us to the level ground, and we walked during twenty minutes or half an hour through a narrow, damp, low passage cut in the calcareous rock. By raising my hand I could easily touch the vault above. Right and left we passed by innumerable openings leading away into mys terious gloom and silence. They were each closed with a wooden barrier, so that we could not, had we been tempted, turn from the right path. Sur veyors opened and closed the march. We were in the ancient quarries from which the stone Paris is built of has been extracted from the Roman period down to the reign of Louis XIV. The subter r& nean galleries extend under the suburhs of St Germain, St. Jaques, and St. Marcel. The neigh bourhood of the Luxemburg Palace and Gardene„ and of the Pantheon, are undermined by their. But probably they have not the vast extent or depth which popular legend ascribes to them. Towards the end of last century great alarm was felt throughout Paris by the sudden sinking of several houses near the Barrire d'Enfer. Even at present purchasers are shy of investing the building plots that have been recently created by the ruthless destruction of part of the Luxemburg Gardens, in consequence of the doubtful reputation for stability of the ground. Since the occurrence of the accidents above men- tioned, subterranean Paris has been carefully sur veyed by order of the municipal authorities. Large sums have been spent on props and pillars, on piers and buttresses, and a curious map of the catacombs has been published by M. de Fourcy, C.E. The cellars of M. Dutnenil's great brewery occupy gal leries of these old quarries, and persons who are curious to form an idea of the catacombs of Paris can do so easily by applying at No. 15, Rue du Marche aux Chevaux, the counting house of the brewery. The entrances to the quarries, of which there were more than sixty, it is said, have been for the most part closed. We reached the gate of the necropolis. It is painted black, flanked with columns, and bears the inscription— RAB , ULTRA . METAB . REQUIESCUNT BEATAM . SPENI SPECTANTES. The vast ossuary into which we now entered was formed in the following manner :—ln 1784 intra mural interments were discontinued in Paris by an order in council, and the old churchyard of the innocents was first cl.eared ; other burial-places followed, and were closed and cleared in their turn. Respect for the dead is one of the most deeply rooted of the religious feelings of the French people, as every one who has visited the cemetery of Pclra la Chaise knows, and as recent debates in the Senate, on the proposed removal of part of the cemetery of Montmartre, prove. A Frenchman who neglects to visit the tomb of his parents, and at least once a year to decorate it with wreaths, is very ill thought of ; and the utilitarians in France have not been successful in demonstrating to their countrymen that old churchyards are but quarries of phosphate of lime. The bones were carefully removed at the end of last century from the closed Parisian churchyards at night, I On Monday the Lords of the Admiralty reviewed Le {Royal Marines in the Brickfield to the east ward of the Devonport defences. Their Lordships were accompanied by Major-General Spencer, the commander of the forces in the west, and by Ad miral Drummond. The number of Marines present was 672 rank and file, under Col.-Commandant William Francis Foote, 16 captains, 32 lieutenants, two adjutants, &c. After their Lordships had com pleted their duties at the Royal Marine Barracks, they proceeded to the Royal William Victualling yard, where they were received by Superintendent Tatham, the Master Attendant, W. T. ‘Vheeler ; Mr. Jamieson, storekeeper, and the other officers. The accounts having been examined, and the stores, bakery, &c., inspected, Vice-Admiral Sir Alexander Milne, K.C.8., and his colleagues, went to the Royal Naval Hospital, and being attended by In spector-Gen. Dr. Davidson, C. 8., and his staff, passed through several of the wards, stores, &c. They then visited the Royal Albert Hospital, Devon port, a public building maintained by subscriptions. Here Mr. T. Woollcombe, chairman, and Captains Edye and Batman attended their Lordships in their minute survey of the lock ward, supported in part by Government aid. The cleanly condition of the entire establishment appeared to elicit the appro bation of the visitors. The members of the Board were then conveyed in their steam-yacht, the En chantress, to the iron armour-plated screw steam ship, Northumberland, 26, Captain Roderick Dew, C. 8., in Hamoaze. They dined with Port-Ad miral Sir William R. Martin, K.C.8., at Mount Wise, and in the evening patronised the ball at Pearse's Royal Hotel, Plymouth, in aid of the British Female Orphan Asylum. Yesterday the Lords of the Admiralty concluded their annual in spection at Devonport by visiting the remainder of the ships of war in port. In consequence of the absence of the First Lord there will be no levee. Brigandage seems to be now becoming almost as formidable in Hungary as in Southern Italy. The papers give alarming accounts of the depreda. 'ions of banditti in various parts of the country, 'n4:l especially of the feats of the brigand chief named Youhash, who is the terror of the district of Somogyi. Wonderful stories are related of this chief's reckless courage. Once he kept a patrol of soldiers at bay for more than an hour by shooting at them from the window of a country inn, where he had taken refuge, every now and then throwing them a bottle of wine "to keep up their spirits." At last the soldiers threatened to set fire to the building, upon which he said he would come out. He kept his word, but rushed out at them so sud denly that before they could seize him he escaped into an adjoining wood. Shortly after a Jew came to the patrol complaining that Youhash had just robbed him. The soldiers hastened to the spot, but as they were passing through the wood they were shot down one by one by Youhash, who was lying there in ambush, and only one or two of them escaped. On another occasion he attacked a gamekeeper, and robbed him of his gun, but re turned it a few days after with a letter, in which he said he had since provided himself with plenty of arms, and ho feared the gamekeeper might be mourning the loss of his favourite weapon. General de Moltke, who is at the head of the Prussian general staff, accompanied by a numerous suite of officers, has recently visited the scenes of the several battles Uettingen, Hammelburg, and Kissingen. Among other innovations in the Prus sian military organisation, which have been sug gested by the experience of the campaign of 1866, is the incorporation of the camp suttlers and vivan dieres into a regularly organised body. The Sappho, owned by Messrs. C. and R. Poillon, of the New York Club, started on a voyage across the ocean to Cowes, England, on Wednesday, July 29. She is 125 feet in length, 26.8 feet beam, 11 feet deep, and about 300 tons burden. The object of her owners in sending her to England is to find a purchaser ; if unsuccessful in this attempt in Eurcpe, the yacht will be sent to San Francisco. Captain Thomas P. Bald win takes her across. The Sappho is valued at $40,000. S. It. Bearce and Co., of Lewiston, got their drive of between nine and ten millions of logs safely in the boom. Sixty-five mon were 79 days in getting them through from Lake Umbagog, and the last logs were passed over the rocks just one hour before the river became too low to admit of passage. This is the greatest log driving the State of Maine can boast. EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE are the properties of Lamplough's Pyretic Saline, curing tho worst headaches, sickness, skin, or biliary affections. Pleasant, palatable, and iAYigorating• §9ld _by all Chogiilso.7[Aclyt.l NORWICH, W EDNESDAY. ~ •,, . ... . TO the British Asiociation the lines have often fallen in pleasant places, but the sojourn q the savants in this "city in an orchard"seems likely to prove exceptionally agreeable. Beautiful for situation, replete with antiquities, success ! fully engaged in modern Manufactures, the seat of a bishopriC, andliossessed of a cultivated society, Norwich is a place Peculiarly suitable for the entertainment of a learned body such as that commencing its 38th annual meeting here to-night. This could hardly have been said of it once, if there was any foundation for the quaint apostrophe of Bale : " 0 citie of England, whose glory standeth mo re i n b e ll ie chere than in serche of wisclome. God bye !"—which seems to imply that the inhabitants were devoted with an undue measure of enthusiasm to the duties of the trencher. Sauntering through the streeta(Nand be holding even in the far distance so muelf as-a ghost not of a wave, it is hard to believe that the capital of East, Anglia was once a fishing town. Yet such was actually the case, until the arm of the sea which ran up to it got inconti. nently choked, and henceforth confined all the bloaters to Yarmouth. If lam rightly informed, there is an official entry extant providing for the payment of the ground rent of the monastery of St. Edinundsbury, on the site of which now stands the church of St. Edmund, in a given number of lasts of herrings. It need hardly be said that the name of the city is essentially Saxon, Norwich being a contrac tion of north-wic, a northern fortress or town, and the curious medley which the place presents in its architecture shews that it was a constant bone of contention between the Saxons and the Danes. If we arc to believe the old distich familiar to all who have visited Norfolk— " Caistor was a city when Norwich was none, And Norwich was built of Caistor stone " we must assume that the city sprang from the decay of the Yenta Icenorum of the Romans, on the site of which stands the present village of Caistor. The historical associations of Norwich are numerous. Amongst the most curious of these is the one relating to Henry I. That monarch, being short of cash on the eve of a trip to France, used this city as a pawnshop, actually depositing the brown jewels, including the crown, with the mayor and corporation, as security for the advance of the neces sary funds. I believe 2,000 marks represented the sum the king obtained, the jewels being worth 8,000 marks; and the corporation had absolute power of sale in case the loan was not punctually returned. In all my experience of strange cities, I never met with one whose geography was half so aggravating as this. In a walk of a quarter of a mile the unwary visitor is deluded at least a dozen times to turn from the straight road into what look undeniably like short cuts to the goal he desires to reach, only to find that he is landed in what they call here "plains "—large open spaces, many of them containing gardens—which lead him nowhere. The only thing at all counterbalancing this annoyance is the dis covery of little nests of quaint buildings which look as if they had been transported bodily from some old Flemish town. The castle and the cathedral— about which more in another letter —are, fortunately, two conspicuous landmarks, serving in some sort as the direc tion-posts to the traveller ; but even with these aids he is a wise man who shall be able to find his way easily about Norwich before he has lived there a month. Apropos of the castle may be mentioned a curious fact. Next door to the building there used to stand a public-house kept by one of the officials, and here, the day before their execu• tion, condemned criminals were allowed to exhibit them. selves at so much per head, the money thus received being expended in providing them with their final meal ! The arrangements for the accommodation of the Associa tion appear to be admirable. Several improvements are ob servable in the reception-room, the chief of which is that the business connected with the issue of tickets and the supply of information is carried on in an apartment separate from that devoted to the visitors for the purposes of reading and writing. The post office which is always opened in the reception-room is this year made available, not only for letters stamped with her Majesty's likeness, but also for communication between the members and associates. A large number of these have already arrived, and, to be candid, the people of Norwich seemed quite prepared to receive them, if charging double prices for beds and provisions could be taken as any proof of a hearty welcome. It is a source of regret that the president of the Royal Geographical Society, who is always secure of a warm welcome in whatever section he appears, will not be present this year. Sir Roderick is, I am told, in Switzerland, not being in very good health. It has been hinted, but I attach little importance to the suggestion, that he does not care to meet Professor Sedgwick. A deputation has arrived from Edinburgh, to urge the claims of that city upon the council as the place of meeting in 1870. This is the first time that the Scottish capital has made an overture of its hospital Next the Association. Its great rival is Liverpool. year Exeter or Plymouth will receive the Association. To which the honour Ivill be accorded will be decided on the last day of the present meeting. This morning the General Committee and the Committee of Sections met for the transaction of routine business in St. Peter's Hall. The inaugural address of Dr. Hooker, the president, is looked forward to with unusual interest. Dr. Hooker is the director of the Royal Gardens, Kew. He was at one time a surgeon on board one of her Majesty's vessels, and has been a great traveller. llis paper on "Insular Flowers," read at Nottingham the year before last, leads the members to expect great things from the new president this evening. The address will be delivered at 8 o'clock in the Drill Hall. In addition to the usual work of the sections and the two inevitable soir6es, the committee have arranged for two evening addresses—one on Friday by Mr. Fergusson, F.R.S., on " The Archseology of Early Buddhist Monum en t s ;" an d one on Monday ev en i ng by Dr. Odling on " Reverse Chemical Actions." Arrangements have also been com pleted for excursions to Cromer, Lynn, Hunstanton, Walsingham, Holkham, and Yarmouth. With great courtesy Mr. R. J. H. Harvey, M.P. and Lady Harvey have invited all ladies and gentlemen holding Association tickets to a d6euner at Crown Point, in the Whittingham Grounds, a delightful s p o t a s h ort di stance from the city. Mr. Harvey will convey his guests thither by steamer. It will thus be seen that a busy week is before the Associa tion. THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. Dr. Hootan, in the course of his inaugural address, after referring to the absence of Sir Roderick Murchison (caused, he explained, through ill-health) and of Professor Sedgewick (who had met with an accident), stated that ho proposed to remark on the great advances made in botany in the last few years with a divergence into D arw i n i sm , after which h e would allude to the early history of man kind. His first duty as president would be to introduce to the Association the members of the International Congress of Pre-historic Archaeology then assembled in Norwich. Next he brought forward the subject of the efforts of a committee of the council to in duce the Secretary for India to adopt active measures to obtain reports on the physical form, manners, and cus toms of the indigenous population of India, and especially of those tribes which are still in the habit of erecting Megalethic monuments ; and he pointed out that within 300 miles of the capital of British India there is a tribe of semi-savages who erect dolmens, menares, cysts, and cromlechs, almost as gigantic as the Druidical remains of Europe. Some interesting accounts of the habits and customs of this Khasia people of East Bengal were given, and the president next proceeded to detail the pro ceedings of a committee of the Association in reference to obtaining the placing of the Natural History collections of the British Museum under one central management, and so arranged that they may be utilised in teaching the elements of zoology and physiology, while some assistance in this regard should he given to provincial and local museums. On the value of museums generally as adjuncts to instruction he dwelt at length. Turning to his own special science, he stated that great advances had been made during the last ten years in the depart ments of fossil botany and vegetable physiology. The knowledge of coal plants had been chiefly advanced by Geeppert and Unger on the Continent, and Dawson in Canada, and also by Mr. Binney, of Manchester, who had afforded much information on the least understood of the coal measures, known as calamites, which are shewn to be members of the family of equisetacea. A good deal was next said of the information as to tertiary mines and on fossil botany generally: while the subject of a series of papers by Mr. Darwin on the fertilisation of plants, in refe rence to discoveries in physiological botany, was elaborately expounded, dissertations on cowslips and primroses being specially dwelt upon • and it was stated that the disco veries mentioned had added whole chapters to the princi ples of botany, and that what Faraday's discoveries were to telegraphy Darwin's would prove to rural economy. Having thoroughly exhausted this subject, the president next went on to discuss the position now held in the scientific world by Mr. Darwin's theory of the origin of species by natural selection, and contended th a t th e trea tise was not, as had been asserted, declining in scientific favour ; but, so far from being a thing of the past, was an accepted doctrine with every philosophical naturalist, was elsewhere gaining adherents steadily, and was an avowed favourite with the rising schools of naturalists. This assertion was borne out by elaborate statements and illustrations, by which objections taken to the system on geological, astronomical, physical, and metaphysical grounds weie answered. The next phase of the address was devoted to the prospects which the present meeting of the Association opened. A new science—that of the early history of mankind, or pro-historic archreology, including the origin of language a n d o f ar t—had dawned upon the scientific world ; and one of its discoveries was, that man had inhabited the earth for many thousands of years be fore the historic period. At this point the deli cate subject of the respective attitudes of religion and science was discussed, and indications given possibility of their being able to o f w th a e lko desirablenessd!i hand-in-hand la d a together. It was centers:le 1 a great number of eminent clergymen of all denominations had adorned science by their writings and religion I.y their lives, and much was said to prove that professors of reli gion need not have that fear of science by which many of them seemed to be influenced ; and it was urged that there should be a union in search after trutl-, as it refers to the spiritual history an:l condition of mai of the archeologist and the religious teacher. After en larging and insisting on the value of science in establishing new facts and exposing old errors, the presi dent concluded by saying that the bond Al'hiell unites the physical and spiritual history of man, and the forces which manifest themselves in the alternate victories of mind and matter in the actions of the individual, are, of all subje c t s that physics and psych o l ogy h ave revealed to us, the most absorbing. and perhaps Inscrutable. In the investigation of these ph nmena is wrapped up lie past and the future, the whence and the w hith er of man's existence.; and after a knowledge of these the human soul still yearns and Passionately strives. Dr. Hooker resumed his seat amid loud cheers, and a cordial v o t e o f t h anks for his address was moved by c Pro fessor Huxley, seconded by Professor Tyndall, an sup rted the Mayor of Nozwieboyho heartily * welgomed tYt_