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_ ~~ • R, ' ~_ _ _ . ♦ . ; I r ? F• - 1868 f 41, 4 3Ztg# vo• _ . ,\4„, '4-, , 4 • . • s". INAh. * . . _F.II . 7 ..14 ,4, '•-• 1 60 '• 'mum% " 1% " 17 11 44 Dn. -Aft .• 4 REttrv - Eff2, s ~~ ~ ~ ~ yHE BISHOP OF LONDON on Pacific ) in good t. for the mparativo he second WITAHAN'S LL. WHISKY. - DUBLIN T his celebrated OLD IRISH EXHIBITION WHISKY gained the Dublin Prize Modal. It Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome. Sold in Bottles, 3s. the Retail Houses in London; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at hates LL the Red LONDON, W. ed "Kina- Observe the : Red Seal Pink Label S and Cork Brand MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION ncorporated by Act of Parliament, 18 59), 4:514. RUSSELL STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON, AN • bola CBS MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free ablor Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay 0r eekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills p rom ptly discounted. Illa free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary; WESTON'S ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. En tlinsi • Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Swoasey. astic reception of GEORGE LEOPOLD and GERALDINE, in their daring feats on the Lofty Trapeze. :TRIUMPHANT SUCCESS OF THE SERIO COMIC FESTIVAL. Ifiss LOUIE SHERRINGTON, Miss NELLY POWER, and Miss ANNIE ANDERSON, Miss EHM A. ALFORD, GEORGE ELLIS, the Australian Comic; Mr. E. D. t i ..A.IS and his t wo sons, Tom and Joe ; Miss FLO b-rpE, Miss ROSALIE, Mr. R. LASCELLES, the la-asang English B a llai Singers, and Mr. J. tIUSK, the asso Profited°. the Notice.—Misses Florence and Lelia Elam, Juvenile Actrosses and Vocalists, who appeared on tb n daY, Aug. 3, f or th e fi rs t ti me i n London, have created Bateman Familyatestsensation since the memorable debut o f the at the St. James's, and are engaged to rustevery evening at 9.30 at this Establishment on l y . xust be seen to be appreciated. Mitchell' s , p Ttnenade, I.s. yrivat e B oxes, 10s. 6d. (separate entrance); St a ll s an d ALutehell's,Balcony, 6d. Places to be secur ed at Sam's, Bubb's, and other librarians. • The whole under the direction of Mr. P. Count The Sensation C A NTERBURY HALL. n of London, e t t h o o r, G W re . a H t HOLLAND. Nn3 ~ io LO on the the evertgrmlTsrapeze, on two bars only; performance surpassing feat „„, a f ters by throwing double somersaults; the greatest Leybg A rr° ,.,,cclbY any artist in the world—in addition to George Holland.,ri;•"° great Fred. French—lmmense success of Cates, the D,. -°lll)e ,_ of Christy Minstrels, introducing 15 Star Ar tistes, - •'' ea •„ s rst Troupe in London—The grand WAXIBLIT and 3/' e intr " ue big Xldlle. Carle. Lilley Carlo, Herr Carle, ...._ a . Burlet— Wire. The Great Daniel—Oceana on the Invisible B Pccial N • v i ce.—ln consequence of the immense success o f •• , .L0 th oti e free list is entirely suspended. the press excepted. Manager—Mr. James Ellis. Musical Director—Mr. Jesse Williams. Stalls and Crystal Saloon, Is.; Ares and Balcony, 6d Door s open at half-past 7. commence at 8 o'clock. --- ,ADAMS lIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION.- A PORTR SIT MODEL of H.R.H. the DUKE OF ten "BURGH. is now added. Admission , I s.; Children under 11 m • " a " of age, 6d.: Napoleon Rooms , 6 d . extra. O p en from the morning until 10 at night. DINNEF ORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.- The medical profession for Thirty Years have ap proved of this pure solution of Magnesia as the best 3 1 3_nlecly for Acidity of the Stomach, Heartburn, Headache, d and Indigestion ; and as the best mild aperient for constitutions, especially adapted for Ladies, Chil we; and Infants. 172, DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, New Bond-street, London ; and of all other chemists throughout the world. FURNISHED HOUSES, from £2 2s. to £2O Per Week.—D. S. IIIIMPFIR.I63 his at all timPa a __tuber of tetra t-elasa RMIDICNICEI to by! LET. furnished Kr unfurnished, or sold, more na;tienlarly in the nelzhbour tri of Srdenham UPpPr Norwood. 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It strengthens the voice and lungs r elieves indi gestion, pains in th e c h es t and back, and is especially re- Oraended to children for assisting tho growth, promoting br e: th and symmetry of figure, superseding the use of st ,: ( 1 8 and stays. Price from 10s. 6d. each.-66, Berners ''"l Ozford-street, W. Illustrated circulars forwarded. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in ALEX. ROSS'S OANTHARIDES OIL, which s"`'ullYprodnces whiskers and thickens hair. Price 3s. 6d., amps, 64., and 10s. 6d. ; sent by post for 51, 84, and 114 a u III P%—A.LEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and Chemists. " Tale of a Hair," 6d. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns oared in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. h us Preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few fo u _iirs, removing the very root. Price 4s. ; sent by past ,5 60 stalnps. 248, High Holborn, London, and all übetnists. Face Powder, Is. RAM-CURLING FLUID, 248. High Holborn, London. ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID sold [ Adios' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. at. 3s. 64 ss. 6.1., and 10s. 6d.; sent free for 51, 81, an d 144 stamps. —Had of all Chemists. Advice upon all subjects of the Toilet. V t ./MY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London. — ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect lullr immediately it is used. It is permanent, and per s'AeraictlY natural i n e ff ec t. P r i ce s 3s. 6d., ss. Gd., and 10s , Al smit by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps; and all sts. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d 1:1---AJEt DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn, London.—ALEX. ROSS'S DEPIL ITORY re. znov withoutuPfl hair from the face, neck and arms, 4,,effect to the skin. Price 3s. Gd., ss. 6 1. , and 10s. sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—Had of all Chemists. Skin Tonic, ss. 6d. IMPLE RE HOVER,.—AII diseases of the v„, skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S' earIITABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness. st a ,„ 3w. n 6 ss, Sce. 2s. 9d. and 7s. 6d.; or post for 40 and 100 all -;138*---ALEX. ROSS, 218, High Holborn, London, and Cemists. Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. 6d. 14AIR COLOUR WASH.—By damping the head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in vern Ye ai n or ten d ays th e h a i r assumes its original colour, and 'sta ll ., 48 so by an occasional using. 10s. 6 d. ; sent fo r ttu e--ALEX. ROSS , 218, Hi g h Holborn, London, all oh enlists. U l „. B t Published, 2d. •, sent by the author for 3 stamps , GLINESS' and BEAUTY ; being a Pamphle i ag descriptive of articles and means used for improv aPPearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Hot 140ndon. Had of all booksellers. I i% A . rT I:I I RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. BARRY'S delicio us health-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Food. sav A . n , THE REVALENTA ARABIOA 21Z4,., - LutY times its cost in other remedies, and res l t . or e e r s .7ect digestion strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy , re' o esb ing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the e fr Bt uisorclered or enfeebled—removing speedily an 64 etnally indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma,. con r a M p ti en, habitual constipation, diarrhcea, all gastric de tergements, hteraorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency, atveusness birousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria, a ,„, , rh aT Zs, colds, influenza, noises in the head a . nd ears, ral v - i" at imn, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation, 4artburn, heada c h e , d e bilit y, d ro p s y, cra mp, spastys, , 118 ,4 and s i c k ness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking bronchitis scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at M I ; „ s Pit ef the stomach and between the shoulders. It is fo i • " °B t digestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable l'avalids and infants in all complaints. httrPoltrAsT CAUTION.—Beware of the many unsavoury itore than slopy imitations to which, without autho -%.3% Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. 13 b ee l;Aeb alr c'e ead f°r y th none will doubt the valuable properties of a Ban g's health-restoring Rovalenta Arabic.% invalids' 1: 1 4 ; I nfants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it received from invalids whose position bad sß il :teemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holi b; teemed Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored w e after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. 184anote from th e G aze tt e d u Midi, July 25th (Cure No. ri o,iy v)tt;-_th:rrliosnieex, excellent, nt,2lst, especially 1866.—The health of the since, abandoning all 14,:er remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du te);'B,Revalenta Arabica Food, of which ho consiimpsa b ell li t at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly 1178essfie.caivl fleet on Ms health, and his Holiness cannot 'ldu the s e ©cellent food too highly." Yea rs i : a Yo• 58,216 of the Marchioness de Rrehan of seven complaint, wasting away, debility, nervous , irr itability, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad °Zgestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable eus af.,,itation.l kw,. re N 0.78, of dy s p eps i a, f rom th e Ri g ht H on. th e L or d for 4 . t ae Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Water food I have derived much benefit from your excellent WaC rior T l3 4ilur DE DECIES, Dromana, Cappoquin, County Ouro fro rg d 0. 49 832. fifty years' indescribable agony HM 1 4, 3 ' 8 1 7 ' 3 1)841, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, of r 4 eY, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly, r,'Ynn, Norfolk. , Alro Iler vo „ No. 47 ,121._ Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme vo ila f"sness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and Dor en:lV"' Year s e di o. 56,814.-31 r. Samuel Lawton, Leicester, of two T he F • in Canisters, at is. llb., 2s. 9d. ; canisters. 611 . ; 1211). 225. ; 40s. Thr , 121 h. and 2411) 2 l l la h r ry 4 • rrc' e d iT i rr s ia so go ld 'fr ee on receipt of P. 0. Order. Also Du ti„ nevalenta Arabica Chocolate Powder is packed in canisters For 12 cups at 2s, for 21 cups at 6d., for 48 ii 4 ,rtlo t i t e C t : r . r , i f n o e 2 i B n B E cu ri p s at 30q. for 576 cups at 555. Being fre e r °ll ° penny per cup. The ' 30s. and 555. tins are sent England on receipt of Post Office Order. ill s IV Y DU BARRY and Co., 77, Regent-scre.t, London; ° at Fortnum and Mason's; also at 4, Cheapside, 61, ealeclairch-street ;63 and 150, Oxford-street • and 121 North -road, London ; and all Grocers and 'Chemists., Gr R AT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian -road, Islington, N. T bis . ‘ p upported by Voluntary Contribution?.est espital has re li eved 481,9°4 patients since . fr e - e. Is becl it King's-cross in 1856. Patients aro admitted strileeattik,e,rs--Mossrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co., CO, Lombard- E3 o ,_ ma-ssrs. 'Ransom and Be,ouveri 1, Pall-mall.—Hon. . Smith, Esc. GEo. REID, SOC. WHY incur the risks of Limited Liability, by taking Shares in Civil Service or Co-operative Stores, when you can SAVE TEN. PER GEST. by PURCHASING of THE EAST INDIA TEA COMPANY, and can have tho goods delivered at your own door ? Teas of all descriptions from is. 3d. per lb. upwards. Price Lists post free, on application at the Company's Ware houses, 9, Great St. Helen's -churchyard, Bishopsgate. AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN ILA EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels or affecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is admitted to be the best medicine for immediately re lieving coughs, cold. c onfirmed cases of asthma, and inci pient consumption. 'lt frequently cures persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable, and admirably allays the ticking which pi ovokes frequent coughing. In approach ing consumption its effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca tion, may depend on relief in a few minntes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, Chemist, 8, Bing William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 18F1., and three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular, and ask for Lambert's Asth matic Balsam. The name and address are engraved on the stamp. NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi dently recommended as a simple but certain Remedy for Indigestion, which is the cause of nearly all the diseases to which we are subject, being a medicine so uniformly grateful and beneficial that it is with justice tailed the " Natural Strengthener of the Human Stomach." " Norton's Pills" act as a powerful tonic and gentle ape rient; are mild in their operation, safe under any cir cumstances, and thousands of persons can now bear testi mony to the benefits to be derived from their use, as they have been a never-failing Family Friend for upwards of 20 years. Sold in bottles at ls. lid., 2s. 9d., and lls. each, in every town in the kingdom. CAUTION. Be sure to ask for "NORTON'S PILLS," and do not be persuaded to purchase any of the various imitations which have sprung up in consequence of the success of 4, Norton's Camomile Pills." n.. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new de scription of ARTIFICIAL TEETII, 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 i hat 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 home from 10 till 5. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. Tho use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is hero avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi site resisting power is supplied by the Uoc-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 bo had, and the truss, which can rot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6 d. Post a g e, A Double Truss, 31s. d., 425, and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS , KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all eases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They aro porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and aro drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. Gd., 10s., and Hs. each. Postage, Gd. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. PRINTING. —TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, Stc. The Printing and Machining of Newspapers, &C., done on exceedingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager, " Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM., at the moderate rate of .C 26 per annum each. Funds greatly needed. CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary. Office, 51, Claeapside, London, E.C, HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and clothing for the 126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship. 150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street. 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.O ; and by WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary. No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields. NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common, Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861. Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, E.G., whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of tho kingdom. The object of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house, and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other wise provided for when they attain 15 years of ago, to obtain suitable situations for them. The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. HENRY KINGSCOTE, Treasurer. W H. WAFWICK Secretary. Office, 121, Pall-mall, S.W ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Groat Northern Railway Terminus, King's Cross. Patron—Her Most Gracious Me..rEsTY the QUEEN. Vice-Patron— His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. Pressi.lent•LlTis Grace the Duke of Buccran'yett, 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 destiLuto 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 aro 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 C o ., Ab c h urc h - l ano ; 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., Burners-street; and at the Hospital, from 10 till 5 decrease, 621,053 ; i Union ; of the 1,000 ; in- Bonds are ford, Rock currency. neglected, rises well ; are lower ds are dull art icuhrly 3 prospects ins do not ,oetn, there to See the increasing L few more ,eds of the ave of na- Tennessee in the next r past obli )t to borrow ;pudiatiou• y ever did, to Tannes t() credit of 'cent. at a vhen due ? obligations e whole, it ito as pro- , July 24. readily ob meats, and lnecrus col d demand 6-half to six per cent.— to 7 cents quoted at weak, the 's. —Mining excitement which has show a fair 311 had ad- his evening 109 99 22 35 red ;ippi 3O )wer 30 kers 94 red ins for the few York: - - to - to 5 to 115} to 1141 1-1- to 111/ 21 to 1121 9 to 109 9} to 109 81 to 1081 81- to 109 24 to 1091 . 521 to 52 . 451 to 45t . 23 to 24 . 46 to 46} . 251 to 26 Sayles, of ; espouses Per cent. :: 93 71 ~ 76 in the quota ndoa marlot the prouiluul boon as much been affecte d g pito), they )n a coutiutleu orsA,lo; ateue ut they leave Rom mo i m prove' ,us, but tile , ' e as this d 3 l last quotoll The traus 46 " ;d. in, preuvtarell wif° n f e , tb ° ,Ughte r. f 00 1 ' the Wife ° at be t ;t., „We, L. ovg ot l‘' ,otitis, yo c , k. oe r, leo of P . 10 11° ' Be11j:1111111105e, 1;54' 1 ales urf, 1....cr05, X0%0( 131ackw ood , tl'e uv erues - ' 'ret at)° °sljl A ber e d 65. 00 0 ' _road, vec A NIA" —Ko - o f Oalc'' col cati In the N°. 23,766. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., itOBERT FALCONER. By Gip: }E 3tiW DONALD, LLD., Author of "Alec Fcirbes," &c. " This book is one of intense reality and truthfulness. It reads like an absolutely faithful history of a life. If our criticism in duees our readers to. open Mr. Mae Donald's book, they will assuredly be amply repaid in the perusal of it."--Pall-Mall Gazette. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street 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 procceiings of the Advertising Quacks, REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: H. Balliere, 219, Regent-street. The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, and other journals, reeommendlniats universal perusal, are reprinted with this edition. ANGLO - AMERICAN TIMES, AN INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPER, Devoted to American In telllgene .% EN LA RG14113 to 21 yAGES. Reports of Con tress, Personal, Financial, Mining, Railroad, &o. Members of Parliament, Comnetrcial Men, and those havinz an interest in the United States, will Sal this newspaper of use. Published every S A.T URD 3.Y MORNING, price 4d. 15. Catherineistreef. Strand. A PARTMEN art of a Ten-roomed House, pleasantly situated iu Islington.—Apply at No. 6, Crowland-terrace, Englefield-road, N. FUR\ 'SHED APARTMENTS.—A Drawing Room and Bed Room to be Let, situated in a cheerful and healthy part of Kensington, in the house of a Private Family. Applications through Messrs. G. W. Bayley and Wickham, New land-terrace, Kensington. VLA.PITAIT—APARTMENTS well Furnished J and highly Respectable in a Gentleman's Private Family, pleasantly situate, with large Garden. Attend ance and every comfort. Very convenier.t for Rail or Omnibus to City and West-end. Apply at the Residence, 34, Lark Hall Rise, Clapham, S.W.; or to Mr. Snivitss, The Pavement, Clapham Common. DUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY VELPAST, 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 1805. Quotations on application. IitrANFIELD'S PATENT PICKLES are per foctly pure and uncoloured. To be had of all dealers, and wholesale of JOHN BURGESS and SON, 107, Strand (corner of Savoy-steps), London. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 12, 1868. INDIA-OFFICE, 27TH JULY, 1868. FHB SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA. in COUNCIL having confirmed the following RULES goinulgated by the Governor-General of India in Council, regarding .LEAVE of ABSENCE to COVENANTED CIVIL SERVANTS, publishes the same in supercession of all previous Rules and Orders on the subject. These Rules will take effect from the Ist July, 1868, and are not intended to apply to Covenanted Civil Servants, who are Members of the Councils of the Governor-Cmeral, or of the Governors of Bombay and Madras, or who are Judges of a High Court. RULES REGARDING LEAVE OF ABSENCE TO COVENANTED CIVIL SERVANTS. DEFINITIONS. I. In the following Rules— " Actual Service" includes the period during which an officer is on duty, also periods spent on privilege and sub sidiary leave, and periods during which an officer, not on leave, may be out of employ on subsistence allowance in India. "Extraordinary Leave" means any leave granted other wise than under these Rules. " Long Extraordinary Leave" means extraordinary leave extending beyond ti period of three months. "Long Furlough" means furlough extending beyond a period of three months. " Salary" includes acting allowances. An Officer's "Station" means that station to which he stands appointed, or such other place as the Government to which he is subordinate may determine. CHAPTER I. FURLOUGH. 11. The maximum period of furlough, which can be granted to any officer during the whole period of his ser vice is limited to six years. 111. Subject to the above limit, one year's furlough shall be placed re the credit of each officer for every four years of actual service. IV. No furlough shall be taken before the completion of eight years' actual service, except under Rule VIII. V. Furlough shall not be repeated until three years from the date of the last return from long extraordinary leave, or long furlough, except under Rule VIII. Leave taken under Chapters 11. and 111., but no other leave, shall be reckoned as part of the said three years. VI. The maximum term of furlough to be taken at any one time shall be two years. VII. Except as hereinafter provided, an officer when on furlough shall retain a lien on his substantive appoint ment, or on an appointment of similar character and not less salary, and he shall be granted allowances at the rate of 50 per cent. of his average salary for the previous three years, or for the period which has elapsed since his last return from long furlough, or long extraordinary leave, if that period be less than three years. In calculating such average, the time spent and the allowances drawn under any leave, excepting privilege leave under Chapter_ll., shall be omitted. Provided that no officer on furlough shall draw pure than £1,200 or less than £3OO per annum. VIII. Under Medical Certificate (a.) Furlough may be taken on the above-mentioned conditions, without reference to the amount at credit under Rule 111. (b.) Furlough for a period not exceeding one year may be taken, even if less than three years have elapsed since the last return from long extraordinary leave or long fur lough. When on farleugh under this clause an officer will not retain a lien on his appointment, and will be en titled only to subgistence allowance, unless he has com pleted six monthPactual service since his last return from long extraordinary leave or long furlough, and there re main some leave to his credit under Rule 111., in which case the officer will retain a lien on his appointment, and will draw allowances as calculated under Rule VII., until that credit be exhausted, but in no case for a period ex ceeding one year. (c.) Furlough taken without medical certificate, or under clause (a) of this Rule, may be extended beyond fwo' years for a period not exceeding one year. When on fur lough under this clause an officer will not retain a lien on his appointment, and will be entitled only to subsistence allowance. IX. Furlough taken or extended under Rule VIII. is subject to the provision of Rule 11. X. Furlough taken in India will bo reckoned from the date of the officer quitting his station to the date of his return thereto. Furlough taken out of India will be reckoned from the date of embarkation to the date of return. In the event of the furlough being taken partly in India, and partly out of India, the commencement and termina tion of the furlough will be determined by the above Rules, according as the furlough begins or ends in or out of India. XI. For the interval elapsing between departure from his station and the commencement of furlough, and be tween the termination of furlough and the re-arrival at his station, an officer shall be allowed subsidiary leave not ordinarily exceeding in each case thirty days. During those periods his allowances; will be calculated in the same way as his furlough allowances, but without limitation as to maximum and minimum. Provided that, if the officer has, under these Rules, lost his lien on his appointment, he shall draw subsistence allowance of his rank. Subsidiary leave shall count as service and residence. XII. Applications for furlough will in all cases be sub mitted to the Government to which, the applicant is sub ordinate, and will be' dealt with in such manner as the Governor-General of India in Council may from time to time prescribe. XIII. Subject to the exigencies of the service, both as regards the number of furloughs avail`ale!e at any one time, and as regards individual applications, of e hich exigencies the Government of India, Madras, or Bombay, as the case may be, shall be exclusively the judge, furloughs will be granted under these Rules. XIV. All applications for furlough under medical certi ficate, in accordance with these Rules, will be granted without restriction. XV. lf, owing to the exigencies of the service, it may be necessary to place any limit on the number of officers who may be absent on furlough at the same time, applica tions not supported by medical certificate will bo granted in the following order:— The applicant to whose credit the greatest amount of furlough remains under Rule 111. shall have the preference. If two or more applicants are on an equality in this respect, the preference shall be given to the applicant, whose actual service iu India is longest, reckoning, in the case of an officer who has not taken long extraordinary leave or long furlough, from the date of arrival in India, and in the case of an officer who has taken long extraor dinary leave or long furlough, from the date of his last return from such leave or furlough. If two or more applicants are equal in both respects, the preference shall be given to the senior in the Grada tion List. XVI. The term of residence qualifying for pension shall be 21 years, but no leave, except privilege leave and sub sidiary leave, shall count as residence. XVII. The term of service qualifying for pension shall be 20 years. CHAPTER 11. PRIVILEGE LEAVE. XVIII. Subject to the exigencies of the State, an officer who has completed eleven months' continuous duty may take privilege leave for one month without deduction from his salary, retaining a lion on his appointment, whether substantive or officiating. Provided that, in the case of his holding an officiating appointment, such lien and his acting allowance will cease on the resumption of charge by the officer to whom the substantive appointment belongs. XIX. In the same manner, and under the same condi tions, two or three months' privilege leave may be taken when an officer has completed continuous duty of twenty two or twenty-three months respectively. XX. Privilege leave may, at the discretion of the local Government, be taken in separate instalments. No second instalment shall be taken until after the completion of six months' continuous duty from the expiry of the first in stalment. In this case the eleven months qualifying for fresh privilege leave will be reckoned from the expiry of the first instalment, the period of the second instalment being omitted from the calcuhtioa. Provided that the whole l rivilege leave taken at any one time shall not exceed three months, and that no accumulation of privilege leave beyond that period shall be admitted. XXI. If an officer shall over-stay his privilege leave, he shall forfeit all salary during the time of his remaining so absent; and, if ho shall so continue absent for more than one week, his office shall become vacant. XXII. Privilege leave shall be reckoned as residence and service. CHAPTER 111. SPECIAL LEAVE. XXIII. Special leave, on urgent private affairs, may be granted at the discretion of the local Government for a period not exceeding six months. In respect of retention of a lieu on appointment, of allowances drawn during the leave, and of subsidiary leave, tho conditions of special leave shall be the same as those prescribed for furlough. Special leave shall not be reckoned as residence. XXIV. Rule XXI. shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to an officer overstaying spacial leave. XXV. Special leave may be repeated without allow ances after intervals of at least six years' actual service. CHAPTER IV. GENERAL. XXVI. Furlough, privilege, leave, and special leave shall not be taken as such in continuation of each other; but, if an officer ab sent on one of these classes of leave be allowed to change it for another, the whole period of his absence shall be held to be under the class of leave for which it was changed. XXVII. Subject to considerations of State, there will be no restriction as to the places where an officer may reside when on leave. XXVIII. Leave allowance shall be payable monthly, if payment is taken in India, and quarterly if payment is taken in England. :CHAPTER V. TEMPORARY RULES. XXIX. Whatever aggregate amount out of the three years' furlough and three years' sick leave, under the Rules until now in force, at present remains to be taken by an officer under the said Rit:es, shall remain to be taken by him under Rules now promulgated. XXX. Any officer now in the service shall, when next proceeding on furlough, elect whether he will draw allow ances at the higher minimum rate of £5OO per annum (not exceeding his total salary at the time). If he shall so elect, he will, in any future furlough, be limited, as to allowance, to the lower maximum rate of £1 ; 000 per annum. XXXI. Any officer now absent on leave, who has no appointment, may, o❑ his return, and until he again holds an appointment carrytug equal pay to that of the substan tive appointment which be last held, draw the subsistence allowance of his rank, together with 7a per cent. of the pay of any appointment in which he shall officiate. Pro vided that the total salary so drawn by him shall not ex ceed the pay of the appointment, in which he is officiating , . This Rule shall apply to any officer who may have already returned from furlough. XXXII. Any officer now absent on furlough, or under medical certificate, may elect whether the remainder of his leave shall be taken under these Rules from the date of their promulgation. If he shall so elect, Rule XXX. shall not apply to him. RULES REGARDING ACTING ALLOWANCES. I. An officer holding a substantive appointment, and officiating in an appointment of a higher grade or class, shall draw acting allowance calculated at SO per cent. on the first 2,000 rs., and 20 per cent. on the remainder of the pay of the appointment in which h-) is officiating. Provided that, if the acting allowance so calculated do not amount to two-thirds of the difference between the pay of the two appoiutmentF, it shall be raised to two thirds. _ . Provided further, that in no case shall the whole salary so drawn exceed the pay of the appointment in which the officer is officiating. IL An officer holding no substantive, but only an offi ciating, appointment, shall, subject to the provisoes in Rule 1., draw, in addition to the subsistence allowance of his rank, 50 per cent. of the pay of the appointment in which he is officiating. 111. In the case of an officer officiating in an appoint ment the pay of which is progressive, his acting allow ances shall be calculated on the mean pay of the said appointment, provided that the whale salary so drawn shall Lot exceed the minimum pay of the said appoint went. CLINTON. COMPAGNIE GENEIIALE TRANSAT _ LANTIQUE. 4, Rue do In l'aix Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Leave every 14 days, front Havre and Brest, for New York. RATES OF PASSAGE. From HAVRE Or BitEST to NEW YORK. First Class Second Class 425 fr. Third Class ........... r .. 275 fr. From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brest, including railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class, 285 fr. CO:KTIIACT . F OI :t: M E O G U E T T H A . BLES AT PORTS- Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, July 31, 1868. 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Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. Gd., and 15s. each; including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93 , Upper Thames street, London. E.C. IMPORTANT TO SPECULATORS. THE present most eminent Speculations can be strongly recommenied as offering every prospect of great success: With a single stake of £2 you can realise £ .6,000!! with £lO £45.00011 with £8 £37,(00!1 with £1 £20,000! ! with one shilling £4,00011 For Prospectuses apply without delay to Euoinc TILLOT, General Merchant, Guernsey. CHINESE 'PROGRESS. (From the Anglo-American Tinges.) One of the show places in Peking is an Observa tory erected on the giant wall enclosing the Tartar city. Tastefully mounted instrumcuts stand there exposed to the weather, as well as bronze globes, on which are raised brass stars to depict the heavens. Curious and complex as satne are, ex- quisitely finished as is the workmanship, some years ago no magnifying glass was there in use, although telescopes had attained a high degree of perfection in the neighbouring island of Japan. Beneath this Observatory stands the Han-lin College, where the students live in long rows of low buildings enclosed by a high wall. It now appears that the Chinese Government are taking vigorous steps to obtain a more perfect observatory, and a university on a comprehensive scale, with the view of introducing into the empire the science and inventions .of the West. An account is given in the Transactions of the German Oriental Society, derived from the Peking State Gazette, showing the steps taken by the Emperor's advisers to attain these ends. When the father of the present monarch, who is a mere boy, fled from Peking to Jehol, on the approach of the Allies, the man who assumed power was Prince Kung, a member of the royal f a mily, to whose liberal views and statesmanlike policy the sal vation of the empire is mainly due. A man of his intellectual capacity coming into official communication with the ambassadors of the Great Powers formed the best channel for conveying Western knowledge into the young Emperor's mind. Recent events have shown unmistakably the bent of Prince Kung's policy, and its effect on the Government of his Sovereign. Almost immediately a Chinese embassy will arrive in England, with an intelligent member of the American diplomatic ser vice at its head. This mission is doubtless some of Prince Kung's work; and although with a narrow mindedness which no education can wholly eradi cate, the spirit in England is to regard it with sus picion as a Chinese dodge, the very terms of the treaty with the United States, which we last week published, as those to be proposed to the Western Powers, ought to dispel so mean and ungenerous an interpretation. The Peking Gazette gives facts which might correct these unworthy surmises, as they mark a new epoch in Chinese history. It appears that Prince Kling, who is at the head of the Foreign Ministry, addressed a petition to the Emperor from his Board, embodying several proposals, chief among which were the foundation of a mathernati- I cal and astronomical college. The Emperor received this so favourably that the plan was at once adopted, and the buildings, including an astronomical ob servatory on a large scale, commenced. The petition reached the Emperor in December, 1866, and in the following February the Prince's memo rial and proposals were published in the Gazette. In it the employment of foreign professors is insisted on, and the reasons urged with great art, so as to meet the turn of the Chinese mind. It is well known that the pride of civilization has been in herited by China through generations, while Em pires have grown up, culminated, and passed out of record. To break down a pleasing vanity trans mitted through countless ancestors among those who highly venerate the opinions of their fore fathers could be no light task, and Prince Kung must have had rare courage and determination thus to face the inborn prejudice of the nation. While adhering to his declared intention he manages to soothe and even to administer a fillip to Chinese pride. He asserts that instead of their being dis ciples of the West, it is the West that derived the sciences of astronomy, mathematics, and many others from China carrying them to higher perfec tion, and what the Chinese now desire is not only to pull up to a level with the Western nations in the studies they gave them, but to carry their knowledge further. Anticipating an objection that in the matter of steamers and machinery they might be bought from the European makers without this trouble and with less expense, the memorial thus replies :—" These people, in the first place, do not know that China has to learn a great deal more than how to make steamers and guns ; and further, even with regard to these, what they propose is a temporary measure, whilst we propose to go to the PRICE . . 4d. STAMPED 51 foundation of the matter, and have a thing of eterniiy. We intend not menly to acquire the secret how to make these present machines, but others, better ones of higher, more perfect construction that any that now exist, or shall exist." But the great stumbling-block evidently, was the employment of foreign teachers in the new schools, and the memorial is directed to refuting those who considered it a dangerous innovation :—" There is only one thing which is really disgraceful, ani that is not learning from strangers, but being lyThind other people in culture. Now, it is not only the Western nations who vie with each other i❑ trying :o be foremost in all sciences, but there is even little Japan, lying in the Eastern Sea, sending men to England to learn the literature of that country, and to exercise themselves in mathematical com binations, so as to create a fleet of steamships after the European pattern. Verily, the fruits of the movement will soon be apparent. Let China look to her own, and leave such retrograde people who object to innovations and expect everything to come by itself to their own sloth and indolence, but . not drag the country with them into their disgrace ful state. One more objection we must meet—viz., that of its not being seemly for a learned man to apply himself to practical manufacturing and build ing, and plying instruments of architecture, &c. Now in the chapter Kackung of the Chou-li, which is the third sub-division of the classical work Li- Chi,' this will find its full refutation, for this chapter treats exclusively of workers in wood and of wheel-wrights. Let the scholars be the pos sessors of the theories, and may the common mechanics work out their ideas. There is no difficulty about that. Every learning must have some practical bearing if it would be useful." The memorial contains the following six proposals, each accompanied with an elaborate argument to show its advisability:—" 1. Only such graduates and employes are to be admitted to academical classes who, by a previous examination, have shown them selves sufficiently advanced to profit by the instruc tion. 2. The candidates shall live in the university itself, so that they shall not only have the advan tage of being constantly within easy reach of their masters during their private stuJies, but also in order that they themselves may yield less to the temptation of neglecting their work. For this pur pose also their absences shall be strictly noted down. 3. E cry month there shall be an examination on some one special subject, by way of testing the proficiencies of the single students, so that pro per distinctions and encouragements may be conferred. These examinations shall take plac3 in the presence of the Prince himself. 4 Every three years there will be a great general examination. The successful candidates shall be recommen led to the Throne, an 1 shall at once be suitably employed in the lower grades of the State service. The unsuccessful onr_ss shall continue their studies till the next examination. 5. The students shall be properly remunerated in order that they may apply themselves to their work with undivi led attention. Apart from the free living it is pro posed to give them ten tae!s monthly in order that they might not have to indulge in ' melancholy reflections.' Generosity is above all things the fittest stimulus for those who apply themselves to science and learning. 6. The progress wade by the students is to be properly and liberally acknowledged and rewarded, not merely in token of satisfaction with their labours, but also as an encouragement for those within and without who might not otherwise use all their energies for the purposes of study, since it is in the interest of the State and the commonweal to fire the ambition of study in every possible way." This document was followed by another two months later, as it appeared in the Peking Gazette, April 24, 1567, in reply to a counter-petition by Wo-Jen, principal member of the Imperial Council, who headed the opposition, and who had set forth the arguments against the employment of foreigners and the other designs of the innovators. He considered that in their great empire there were a sufficient number of able men proficient in mathematics, astronomy, and the other sciences to select as teachers, adding, " You need only to look for them." The skill with which Prince Kung is playing his cards can be seen in the way he met this opposition. Taking Councillor Wo at his word, an Imperial decree instantly charged him to look for them himself, and he was commissioned to form a rival institu tion rto try the competitive system. The effect was immediate ; for in two days the Gazette published an official communication : " That whereas Wo-Jen had been charged with point ing out men of proficiency, of whom he said there existed ample numbers in the empire, the same bad now sent in an immediate report, stating that he had not had any special men in his eye, and that he would never dare to propose this one or that one at haphazard—the said Wo shall not for all that be freed from the obligation he has thus undertaken. lle shall go on seeking for such indi viduals, and shall bring them under official notice, in order that they may receive their further education in the institution he will found in friendly rivalry to that of Prince Kung." And Wo was promoted to a seat in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Several known European pro fessors have been invited to some of the new chairs, and members of the learned professions have arrived at their destinations. Two years are allowed for mastering the Chinese language. It is not easy for Western nations fully to appreciate the re form Prince Kung is working. It will be in ternal far more than external, although the latter reform is in truth prodigious. China is so enormous in population that whatever really affects the Empire has an importance great in proportion. The system of appointments in China has long been by competitive examination, and it is but reasonable to suppose that the men educated in the new University will reach the highest dignities, and the Government virtually pass into their hands. This is clearly what Prince Kung aims at, and if he succeeds he will in a few years placearound the Emperor men skilled in West ern science, with a knowledge of political economy, and the rules upon which good government is based. Although the Chinese repel barbarian innovation, they are highly imitative, and will speedily adopt the new system when it is made to flow from their own fountain of honour and promotion. In this university we see one of the wisest and boldest steps ever taken, and destined, we doubt not, to produce an effect in the highest degree important. A new line of steamers between Bremen and New Orleans will be opened on the Ist of October. TILE BROKEN ATLANTIC CABLE.—On Monday night Mr. Willoughby Smith, the eminent electrician, left for Valentia, County Kerry, in pursuance of instructions from the joint committee of the Atlantic and Anglo-Ame rican Telegraph Companies. He was followed on Tues day morning by Mr. Latimer Clark, who will verify his tests, which at present show that the fault lies at about eighty miles from Newfoundland, in water not exceeding, if it reaches, 100 fathoms in depth, and that the interrup tion of communication is so complete as to put it almost beyond doubt that the injury has been caused by the grounding of an iceberg. Communication will, it is ex ' pected, be restored in less than a month ; but meanwhile the other cable is fully equal to the work required of it. Talking of the cable, it is stated that fully eighty per cent. of the receipts come from the American side. The sums paid for messages by the Atlantic Cable by the English press for a year, amounted to a total of £1,400, against exactly as many thousands paid by the American news papers. The newspapers have been lately teeming with refer ences to economy in tea by co-operation. Ilorniman and co. have for 30 years co- operatel through Agents to supply tea on more advantageous terms than by the ordinary channel; their tea reaches the consumer in the same pure state as it leaves the grower; as it is secured in packets. Williams College, Massachusetts, is to have an art gallery, with two largo halls for the open literary societies, to be erected west of the gymnasium ; and the frame building now on that site is to be removed and converted into a college boarding house on the commons system. The Bishop of London arrived at Bonn on Saturday last, accompanied by Mrs. Tait and his family, and by Mr. Ilassard, his private secretary. his lordship preached to the English congregation in the chapel of the university at the eleven o'clock service on Sunday. The chapel is a handsome building, erected in the reign of Louis XIV., as the private chapel of the country seat of the Electors (Archbishops) of Cologne. After the great French Revo lution the Electors of Cologne were almost virtually swept away. On the re-arrangement of Europe after the downfall of Napoleon, though the Archbishops of Cologne had estates re-assigned to them, the old country seat or palace at Bonn was never given back to them, but has been turned into a great and thriving uni versity for the German nation. The jubilee (or 50 years established) was celebrated at Bonn only last week, with the King of Prussia, the Crown Prince, and a brilliant company present. Between 300 and 400 English heard the Bishop of London preach. Morning prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Anderson (formerly Lincoln's Inn preacher), chaplain to the British residents at Bonn. The Bishop was again present at the afternoon service, and later visited the graves of Niebuhr and Bunsen, in the cemetery. Thirty years ago the Bishop of London attended a course of lectures at Bonn University, and was resident there for several months. This fact is said to have always formed a bond of union between his lordship and the late Prince Consort. . The Bishop of London is still well remembered by many of the old residents of Bonn as " the Rev. Mr. Tait," the young English clergyman who first established the English Sunday service. On Monday. his lordship called on some of the professors, and later left for Frankfort. THE METROPOLITAN CAB-DRIFERZ SOCIETY. The members of this Society held their first annual dinner at the Crystal Palace on Tuesday, Mr. George Potter in the chair. Great interest was attached to the meeting on account of the present disputes with the rail• way companies iu regard to " privileged cabs." The CHAIRMAN, in an interesting speech, proposed the toast of the evening," Success to the Cab-drivers' Society," and gave some account of the grievances under which the cabmen laboured. lie said that the number of licensed cabs in London was about 5,900, and if £5O was allowed as the average value of each cab and two horses, the aggregate worth of this cab property amounted to £294,500 ; but this property was subjected to an annual tax duty of £lOO,OOO. In his opinion it was the existence of this exorbitant taxation that was the principal cause of the dissatisfaction which existed in the cab trade. There must be a diminution in the cab taxation ; there must be a better and more humane system of police regula tions ; there must be increased and improved standing room for the vehicles, and the system which compelled numbers of cabs to crawl about the streets in search of jobs must be abolished. In conclusion, he advised the men to be conciliatory in their tone, and they would be sure to succeed. Mr. B. PEARCE, president of the society, responded to the toast, and entered fully into the operations of tho society and the remedies which were proposed by the cab men to improve their position. He said that informa tion in his possession justified him in stating that tho strike against the railway companies would terminato before the end of August in favour of the men. (Loud applause. ) The meeting was subsequently addressed by Messrs. Crompton, Barnes, Sawyer, Evans, and Silless, all 013- drivers ; and the proceedings, which were of importanco to this useful class of public servants, were brought to a close by a vote of thanks to the chair. AN INTERVIEW WITH THE FENIAN PRESIDENT. The Herald New York correspondent writes : " Fenianism is not dead ; its directors have learned by experience the value of silence ; they are quietly doing what formerly they did with much bluster and noise. I pretend to nu information concerning the exact time of the threatened raid upon Canada, or the points of. attack. I merely draw inferences from patent facts. I think that the movement will soon take place, and that its course will be over the ground selected in 1866. Certainly Fenians in considerable number have collected at B❑ffalo, Detroit, and St. Albans, and certainly the persons who are known to be the adjutants of O'Neill are passing hither and thither to confer with acknowledged leaders of Fenianism. Curious to know something of the personal appearance and traits of the Fenian ' President,' I lately secured an interview with that official,' at his headquarters. The office of the Fenian President' is upon the second and third floors of an unpretentious brick building in Fturth-street, in a central locality, and not more than one hundred feet from Broadway. No placards or signboards indicate the whereabouts of the 'Executive Mansion.' A few large show-bills, with harps, sun-bursts, and enormous letters, printed in green ink, are stuck to the walls on each side the street doorway ; these announce Fenian picnics at Jones's Wood, Elm Park, and other places. The stone steps of the old dwelling-house are battered and broken ; the dirty winding wooden stairway which leads up to the second floor trembles beneath th 3 bead. Turning sharply to the right, one sees an or en door : this leads to the main office of the Fenian Government.' This apartment, in the rear of the building, is perhaps twelve feet square. Its furniture consists of four chairs, a stool, and a desk. Directly opposite the door is an old•fashioned fireplace, over which hang pistols of every variety. In the corner to the left, and next the window, are half a dozen rifles and muskets. About the walls are crossed sabres and short swords, bowie-knives, and miscellaneous cutting tools. On the walls also hang, from brackets, heaps of blue and green uniforms, with red and yellow stripes, and upon the floor at the right is an immense box filled with green jackets trimmed with yellow cord ; these lest, lam told, :ro for the cavalry.' On the walls ale lithographs of Emmett, Corcoran, and Meagher, and highly-coloured prints of the Battle of Limestone Ridge,' and the ' Battle of Pigeon Hill.' In the works of art possibility of mistake is prevented by the fore thought of the artist, in giving to the coats of the British' a crimson of peculiar intensity, and to the dress of the Fenians a preturnaturally vivid green. While I look upon these pictorial treasures, the Fenian ' President' enters. He is saluted with great respect by two large, full-bearded men, in black garments, whom he addresses respectively as Colonel' and Major.' These men, after a few words, pass into the front room, uncarpeted and cheaply furnished. The ' President,' to whom I have been named, is a man of the middle size, rather robust in appearance, with a good head, a sharp blue eye, a face by no means lean, though bearing the unmistakable Celtic stamp. He wears a dark brown moustache. His smile is pleasant, his manner courteous, his words well chosen. He speaks with great caution. He requests me to be seated, and after a little desultory talk he gives me, at my request, a description of his movements at Fort Erie and elsewhere, in 1866. In a quick and soldierly manner he sketches out the campaign, shows the position of the Canadian troops and his own men, describes the trap into which he had nearly fallen, and explains the ease with which be crossed from Fort Erie after the regulars and the Canadians had driven him to the water's edge. He tells the story of his sacri•, flees for Fenianism, his success in recruiting 20,000 men in Tennessee alone, and the deceits practised by the self styled Fenian leaders. He speaks with great respect of the British troops, and with great contempt of the Canadian Milit:a. Finally, I ask him plumply, what he hopes to gain by attacking the people of the provinces. ' Sir,' says he, my principle is that every English man is an enemy to Ireland ; that when an Englishman is assaulted anywhere the whole nation must feel it ; and I think that England will never be brought to her senses except by this continual attack. England understands force, but she does not care for discussion. Socially, I think that the Canadians are very respectable people, and I have no personal grudge against them. But they are English.' I tell him that if a new movement is contemplated I suppose that the present year is the most favourable for Fenian pur poses. Well,' he replies, I have nothing to say on that subject. But General Grant knows, and the Democrats know, that the party which interferes' too strongly against us will get the vote of no Irishman.' Of course Ido not speak of O'Neill's plans, and only venture a hint—that if any attack be made this year it will take place before September. 'Either before or after,' he says with a laugh, if it take place this year.' And thus the inter. view ouch , . I come away convinced, not by what O'Neill has said, but by his manner, that the Fenian ' President' means mischief." The royal commissioners appointed to inquire into the pollution of rivers, navigable streams, &c., will shortly return to the metropolis, on the completion of their personal survey of the rivers Mersey and Ribble. The report on the rivers, it is expected, will be ready by the meeting of the new Parliament. DETERMINED SUICIDE. — The Surrey Standard gives an account of a singular suicide which has occurred in the parish of Preston. The deceased, Harriet Figg, was the wife of a gardener employed at Patcham. She appears to have fastened a cord to the top of a bedpost, then put her head through the noose while kneeling on the heel, and while in that position it would seem that she opened a large vein in her arm with a razor. Having done so, she shut the razor up, laid it on the lodge, and becoming weak from loss of blood, fainted, fell forytard, piwgitrpglecl by tbo 014, WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St. Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, Now Orleans, Porto Rico, Haiti, Santiago de Cuba Guadeloupe, Martinique. 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), Culon; Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panatra), Guayra, Porto _Ca bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribo, Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union, San Francisco, China, and Japan. 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. CONTRACTS FOR SUGAR, TOBACCO, AND PORT WINE. CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY, Somerset House, 6th August, 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 Thursday, the 20th instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at Deptford, the undermentioned Articles, viz ; • To be ten- Quantities. dered for at rates SUGAR 500,000 Pounds 1 per 100 TOBACCO lOO,OOO Pounds PORT WINE 2,000 Gallons per Gal. When to bo Delivered. One half of each quantity in three weeks from date of Contract, and the remainder-thereof in three weeks after wards, or earlier if preferred by the party tendering. Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of the Articles. Separate Tenders are to be made for each Article. Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit, or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and also au unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders. The Sugar, Tobacco, and Wine to be exempted from the Customs' Duties, and parties tendering are to state where they are lying. specify the if ship in which y the mirk and land ingEnacuhmTbeernodfereafochr S c i a ig sk ar o m r p u a s c t ka s im ported, and the country or place of its growth or produce; and an average sample (not less than 21b for each import mark) must be produced by the parties tendering, and not an average of different marks or several imports ; and any parcel that is found not to be of the same mark or average quality as the samples tendered and accepted will be re jected by the officers. Each Tender for Tobacco must specify the several trade marksand numbers, and the countries or places of its growth or produce, and a fresh-drawn dock sample of each cask or package must be produced by the parties tendering ; and any cask or package that is found not to be of the same mark, number, or quality as the sample tendered and ac cepted, will be rejected by the officers. Samples of the Wine (two pints) for each import mark must be produced by the parties tendering. No Tender will be received unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con troller of Victualling, Admiralty, somerset House, where the conditions of the Contracts may be seen. No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at Noon on the day of treaty ; and it will not be required that the party tendering or an agent on his behalf should attend at the office on the day of contract, as the result of the offer received from each person will be communi cated to him and to his proposed sureties in writing, when, but not before, the rejected samples are to be re moved. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-band corner the words " Tender for ," and must also be delivered at the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House. By order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.