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The Earl of Carnarvon is the president of the assn. ciation. client of ms, who L 12,000 A TES. Repub ptember , ws that iinst the In the 22,825; in of last m 4,00 0 Le latter• f ~ption 0 tho first ;horse Ighana in Cali' hey wil l )g 9,5 46 ; feat then ake they majority 18,29 3 ; ns of the juges 00 ers, and , if these Irried by vhich will take indicate ralifornl a Le Demo luor laws Couraged agust 181 Lie Club , , that 1 10 the Pol l ' eived by ,husiasi ll ' favourite :encjr f or caplain e3 lira Were haves pport U; , w WO IIIGI vent , irl , Kting UlSP holders, lat t hel i refer'''. ited Ol e Ojosls i° As 0° , 4 St U ra r . Lore tbao (iv ,n opP- A w ore av er, be esideneY; ldress ili f f FBA I '` on the the l ith ,nd be d 5 wing _, t " r. on the to C ell ' ana b irth ved i'ro ' n ssing the ,boye tile s :en by m ales ", noilu cet " lay (the Lt times that t " t i c ket, s ' , s E wA thou gh %Atersel- ad P i " o s ra thir d - 0 14 m ost 3 an d all a t ' a den° ,er, tole e - I rers v 'e UOll rhos ae fi ts tried tbe; tliee e 10 abit 3l) Wi th leE+ led 413$ 0:1 0 thous° m oclor° 11. of isif o be A j ter• daub c e, a d_ter o a f Escil 0 4 ° th ehor 0 oi Os° 0, Yr , ra• © Po' 15t 3 315 5 ;,/ doW A °c tire% Dia °V 0 0, Aclll3l Wl ll ' -Se A : fit" J'ee" f Ca . 30 , t 0- 5 a• ,61 St• ort s t 0301) te e quell p 4 lO N1:0 11- 11 1 , :N o ?1,.) e t ra 41111 # iktITTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION ancorPorated lqy'Ae ot Parliament, 1859), 14, RUSSELL -STREET COVENT t -GARDEN, LONDON, A hold or L easehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay able weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted. Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope. EDWARD HARPER, Secretary. WESTON'S ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. • Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Stressey. THE FLYING PARDUS Every Evening. WESTON'S ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Swensey. THE SPANISH MINSTRELS • Every Evening. 'WESTON'S ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN. Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey. THE JUVENILE ACTRESSES Every Evening. Free List entirely suspended, Press excepted. Special Notice.—Miss Nelly Power's First and Farewell Benefit on Thursday, Sept. 17. CANTERBURY HALL. Prorietor, W. HoLL. I ,,The Sensation of Sole London p , the Great Wonder AND , NIBLO, on the 'Ying Trapeze, on two , n .s 0a.7! performance surpassing the groat Masters by thvowia , :naale somersaults; the greatest feat t , er performed' by P. 37 in the world —in addition to George ~...e_Thourite The g Frad. French—lmmense success of " - ‘Aland'S Troupe or Christy Minstrels, introducing 15 Star Ar tst6s. the greates. Troune London—The grand WATTELG a Attiv, introducing tddlle. Carle. Lilley Carle, Herr Carle, an 1 Rdlle Burlet —The Great Daniel — Ocean on the Invisible Wire. • I,l s Pedal Notice.—ln consequence of the immense success of itto the free list is entirely suspended, the press excepted. Manager—Mr. James Ellis. vbsical Direetor—Mr. Jesse Williams. Stalls and Crystal Saloon, Is.; Area and Balcony, Gd. Doors open at half-past 7, commence at 8 o'clock. Vir A. I) AME I USSA.ITD'S EXHIBITTON, Riker-street. —A. PORTR IT MODEL of Count von ad nAti3OK, in the uniform of a Prussian Geuerai, is now Admission, 1-.- Children under ten --sera of age, 6d.; c4tra Roo . ms, 6d. Opei2l;om 11 a.m. till 10 pm. AR GYLL ROOMS.—OPEN EVERY EVENING for Instrumental Music and Dancing.—The 4 " °111 S have been magnificently re-decorated by Messrs. liubardt " 4 1 Co. The celebrated Band will perform during the week Danee attra , ctive Programme of Operatic Selections and popular Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock. Admission, is ; Balcony, 2s. WINDMILL STREET, PICCADILLY. Musical Director and Conductor—Signor LUIGI CURTI. DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAGNESIA.- The medical pr , fe.sion for Thirty Years have ap proved -of this pure solution of Magnesia as the best telliody for Acidity of the Stomach, Heartburn, Headache, ,Goult, and Indigestion ; and as the best mild aperient for u ., e licate constitutions, especially adapted for Ladies, Chil dren, and infants'. DINNEFORD and CO., Chemists, 172, New Boni-stroet, London; and of all other chemists throughout the world. 'FURNISHED HOUSES, from £2 2s. to £2O per Week.—D. S. HCIIIPEICE4 hts at all timPs a . I Mbe r f Firs -class 4.1141 D 4 . 0 to be r. FIT farnishe or a nfqraished, or sold. more .artioatarly In the net thlyntr -2!)old uI ivdAnhtna, Upper iortrool. Forett-hitl, and vt-s1- " 0 7.—PartInlars mw be had ac the Udice, Prtattag goose /1114re. w 1211)114 E3_and APIRPKENCS WA.sTrED t . ) be LET or AIL!) IT Tit 4 :4 for >i dc' pROPERTY, FREEHOLD or LEASEHOLD. D. T. RIDEPIIR.IttIS has sontirriar applications for deseriotton, WHIRTY which will woo' tool Intere .t cutlty. I t oT.t of rep Or nnt objeotA to T. D 471 13bries oan 4t all ton nal Ni4to nra tor all (1.8 i` 1,14 of b tainesil's Hotels, ho IS a. Aro , soli and minst,rr Aptly, V. Estate Anent. Print -11; Rouse-8(0.i e. ROUNTD SITOULDE RS, S rOOPING HABITS, PIGEON CHESTS, and other Deformities, are pre-- 11 3 , 1 *Q and cured hy wearing CHANDLER'S IMPROVED •GIEN IO CREST-EXPANDING BRACE, for both seas of all '". It strengthens the voice and lungs, relieves indi gestion, pains in the chest and back, and is especially re- Zufnencled to children forassisting the growth, promoting' h ea lth and symmetrT of figure, superseding the use of _! 4 ces and stays. Price from 10s. 64. each.-66, Berners "lreeti Oxford -street, W. Illustrated circulars forwarded. SPANISH FLY is the acting ingrerlient in ALEX. ROSS'S OANTHARIDES OIL, which /i'llsedily produces whiskers and thickens hair. Price 3s. 64. °B. 61 ., and 10s. 61. sent by pnst for 51, 81, and 144 6b141 1 3 .---ALEY ROSS, 218, High Holborn, London, an an Ohenaists. * " Talc) of a flair," &1. VON D E RFUL DISC OVE RY.—Corns cared T h . in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO. h preirtration grxinaly dissolves the Corn in a few /o ° lirs, removing tho very root Price 43.; sent by post. " stam High Holborn, London, and all Cheraists. Face Powder, is. lINIR-CURLIVI FLITID;24B. High Holborn. London. -- ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID f c rs tulles' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. .2 1 4 at 3s. , ss. 6 , 1., and 10a. 61.: sent fres for 51, 81, ." ..4 14 4 stamps.—Had . of all Chemist 4. Ad;riee upon all subjects of the Toilet. High Holborn, London.— to F ksLES. ROSS'S HAIR DYE oduces a perfect otr imm3diately it is used. It is pa n ne nent, and per 66,ictlY natural in effect. Prices 3s. 61, ss. 6d., and 10s. (.):; ant by po s t f o r 54, 84, a n d 144 stamps ; and all 'ennsts. Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d. AIR DESTROYER.-248, Hiqh Holborn, London.—ACHY. ROSS'S DEPILATORY re wi.ro superfluo u s h a i r f rom th e f ace , neck, and arms, %C lo ut effe c t t o th e s ki n . P r i ce 3 s . 6d., os. 6d., and lOs. ; sent for 54, 84, and 144 stamps._ 7 llad of all Chemists. Skin Tonic, &4.6c1. PNPLE RENIOVER.—XII disease 3 of the Ve r , skin are improved by o ne d o se o f ALEX. ROSS'S eye VET SKIN PILLS. They remove redness. stywness, cue . 2s. 9d. and 7s. 6d.; or post for 40 and 100 o.ll7,l3,:enlists.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn , London, and —" S(3IENTIFI . O AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.. ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of.a. new and elegant as sortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe lisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper Weights, &c., in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derby shire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate the new edition of Lyell's Elements of Geology ; thy will greatly facili tate the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at 149, Strand. Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. 6d. COLOUR WASH.—By damping the Rev r , head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in . .e rn 7: or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and st A , l , ll. os so by an occasional using. 1 0s. ; sent for 1t.„_,14.41)11. ch A e L in t is X ts. . ROSS, 20, High Holborn, London, b Published, 2d.; sent by the author for 3 stamps, G LINTS'', and BEAUTY; being a Pamphlet i descriptive of articles and means used for imp-ov- Oc. , 7 til p aPpearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Hol -) Loudon. Had of all booksellers. RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE. 1 0" BARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids' and Infants' Fool. att,„o_ THE REVA.LENTA ARABICA pe r t' nftY times its cost in other remedies, and restores reirLt digestion strong nerves, so 9 lungs, h n e e a t ! g th v y . liver, aio, e , Bu _,ing sleep, functional regularit a d to the ely,; " uiEmrdered or enfeebled—removing n a speedily and ttirnetnally indigestion (dyspepsia . ), s atthma, con ra4 P t ien, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, 11 gastric de 440einents, hemorrhoids, liver complaints, in n t flatulency, throats, a : diphtheria, nei ,lien. „ l ,%ness, biliousness, fevers, o colds, influenza , .noises s in the bond and ears, rak;astiem, gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neu hea7, irritability, sleeplessness, acidity,. prlp s i_ta a t s i m on s: ~,turtburc, headache, debility, dropsy, cramp, t fit,, , i ?a and sickness even . in pregnancy or sinking tli:O ro tichitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at „i n t Of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is (5 1 . °Bt digestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable ON-slide and infants in all complaints. 114(14._(-)ItTANT CAuriox.—Beware of the many unsavoury ry tit- "lore than slopy imitations to whicb, without autho fi Ba ron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached. ris referth none will doubt the valuable p i r c o a pzt v ie e s lid o e f , and l at rY% health-restoring Revalenta b ba„ Elfanta' Food since to the thousands of blessings it b„,„4lready received from invalidsposition had whose po f a his bean ßolf- it t e l2 ,, ed hopeless, we may now add that of it ft p ope, whose health has been perfectly restored W., er thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment. 18 .44 11 \ ()t43 from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No. 11 01 l ' - ^"ltome July 21st, 1866.—The health of the t hE, 3" Felb er is excellent, especially since, abandoning all ,11 ', I nedies, he has confined himself . entirely_ to Du Dimei nevalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a 111 at every meal It has produced a . surprisingly PrZr, i4 , l effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot 0 1 %,„`", 18 excellent food too highly." Yesr B . - ,F 40 . 5 8,216 of the Marchioness de Breban . of seven 11 ' 8 4 • liv er complaint, wasting away, debility, nervous 481•4,1Ylitability, with a nervous palpitation all . over, bad e '„ 1, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable e tu r v al, itation. t of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord fordDeci.es, LOrd-Lioutenant of the County of Water kl7f)°4.--g.,„l„have derived much benefit from your excellent 'r DE DEciEs, Dromana, Cappoquin, County 0; / ,, ' A r ala ''". 4 9,832. - Of fifty years' indescribable . agony ' of at len j'a P e Psia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, itt s Pagm • knee and vomiting. Maria Jolly, 071 'la, Norfelll-; sic s' n'tvore 47 ,121. Wee Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme v " 8 i ncligestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner ,, elir e Ni k „ es ., eal.B d' -'4,814.—Mr. Samuel Lawton, Leicester, of two ho ,arrhues 21 b,, „F',004 is ' sold in Canisters,at ls. lid. ; 11b., 2s. ; °(1.; 121 h., 22 . 2 1 1 b 40a. The 121 b. and 241 b. t-111;8%e"riagef s o . receipt *. ' of P. O. Order. Also Du ''n eatc, R ep "rave Arabica Chocolate Powder is packed in ~,11),14;6'N Per 12 s at 2s for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for . 48 a bout " s *, fOr 288 cup. P t 305.,' for 576 cups at 555. Being free f c ,c_ ne I t nn Y Per ci s ip s The 30s. and 555. tins are sent ` 3 'N n r yige in En gland on receipt of Post Office Order. aloe -,BARRY and Co. 77, Regent-street, Lfmdon ; la-"teeclah,2Lnual and Masods ; also at 4, Cheapside, 61, mttttreat; 63 and 1,50, Oxford-street ; 1?1, monk. I VA WA% ou Um. owl 40114 ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Railway Terminus, King's Cross. Patron—Hor Most Gracious 31AJESTY the QUEEN. Vice-Patron— His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G. President—His Grace the Duke of rincenEncit, 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. Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abcburch-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co„. Herries and Co.; Ransom And Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.;Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Williams, Dea:cou, and Co.; Nisbet Aild QOl DogiattgiaL 14 at tram /0 ~..,,,. iou. Jus t published, price ls. 6d., by post Is. Bd., the Second Edition, with Addenda, containing adlitional Facts and Cases, in illus tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks, EVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND fa QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the "Medical Circular." London: It Belliere, 219, Regent-street. The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch, Public Opinion, end other journals, recommending its y chve.rsal perusal, are reprinted with this e Edon. ANGLO - AMERICAN TIMES, AN iNrEttNATIOT JF4PIPEzt, De7oted t, A-nacicaq fatelli4ele?, EN L.A.KG ND t) 21 rAG K 11.1)0: al of Cm tees. Vorx) t t., lotuAncial, Railroal, &a Ile fibers of P.ali tmmt, Co.ortsoczia.l Alea, and those havia4 an Interest in rhs Untied States, will tia thrs ticwspsper of use. Published every 4 ITURD I.Y 110 aN . r ca, prime Id. 15. Catharine-stree', Strand. A PATEN I'S.—Part of a Ten-r , 'tamed llouse, ft_ pleasantly situated in Islington.—Apply at No. 6, Crowland-terrace, Englefield-road, N. VUEtNISHED 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. CILATITAM.—APARTMENTS well Furnished ‘J and highly Respectable in a Gentleman's Private Family; pleasantly situate, with large Garden. Attend ance and every comfort. Very convenieLt for Rail or Omnibus to City and West-end. Apply at the Residence, 34, Lark-Hall Rise, Clipha-n, S.W;; or to Mr. STETENS, The Pavement, Clapham Common. CHIV EP PE'S MINERAL WATERS.- k --- 7 By Special Appointment to Her Majesty and H.R.H. the Prince of Wales.—Every bottle is protected by a label, having name and trade mark. Manufactories London, Liverpool, Derby, Bristol, Glasgow, Malvern. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be received by the Commissariat Officers respectively in charge of the undermentioned Districts, until Twelve o'clock Noon, on the 29th September, 186 4 , for the SUPPLY of FORAGE, for the use of her Majesty's Troops, from Ist November, 1868, to 30th April, 1869 : NORTH BRITISH. Commissariat Office, 3, Hill-street, Edinburgh, Hamilton. I Perth. I.diuburgh, Leith Fort, and Piershill. NO RTI Commissariat Office, Barract Ashton-under-Lyne. Birmingham. Bradford. Burnley. Bury. Coventry. Leeds. Liverpool. 'HERN. -street, Hulmo, Manchester. Manchester. Newcastle-on-Tyne. Northampton. Preston. ...heffield. Weedon. York. EASTERN. Commissariat Office, Camp, Colchester. I \ orwich. SOUTII-EASTE RN. Commissariat Office, 4, Castle-street, Dover. Dover. Shorucliffe. Colchester. Ipswich. Brighton. Canterbury WESTERN. Commissariat Office, 20, East Emma-place, Stonehouse, Plymouth. I Plymouth, Devonport, Tre gantle and Scraesdon Forts, Maker Barracks and Heights Bristol and Horfield. Exeter and Topsham. SOUTH-WESTERN. Commissariat Office, St. Thomas-street, Portsmouth. Dorchester. Chichester. Portsmouth and Hilsea. I Netley. LONDON. Commissariat Office, 103, Victoria-street, London, S.W. 1. Enfield. 4. Hyde Park, Kensington, 2. Hampton Court. Regent's Park, and Horse 3. Hounslow, including En- Guards. ca.mpments on the Heath, 5. Sandhurst. and Kneller Hall. 6 Windsor, CHATHAM. Commissariat Office, Barracks, Chatham. Chatham. WOOLWICH. Commissariat Mc°, Royal Artillery Barracks, Woolwich, S.E. Maidstone. Warley. I Shoeburyness. Woolwich. Forms of tender and conditions of contract may be obtained on application at the above offices, by letter addressed to the Senior Commissariat Officer of the district, or in person; between the hours of ten and four o'cloek, and no tender will de enter tained unless made upon the form so maintained. Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up and signed, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered at the dis trict office, under closed envelope (marked "Tender" on the out side) before twelve o'clock noon on the 29th September. no. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS.—A NEVER-FAILING RElEDY.—Pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluabla 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 create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous I;yst - eba.:—Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, chemist, - 8, King Oitarigg-cross, London, and by most druggists, in boxes, ls. lc, and three times the quantity iu one, 2s. 9d. 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. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. IVHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred Medical men to be the most effective invention in the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided -a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi site resisting power is supplied by the 'Sloe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circ,lar may be 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. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 268.6 d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, Is. A Double Truss, 31s. d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d. foStLoffice Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT VLASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed. CH ARLES A. WALKER, Secretary. Office, 54, Cheapside, London, FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON F EMAL PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN STITUTION. Preside It—Rey. CANON DALE. CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, C ; Francis Nicholls, Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, 6.0. E. W. THOMAS See., 200, Easton-road, N W. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, Caledonian-road, Islington, N. Supported by Voluntary Contributions. This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was established at King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted free Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co. 60, Lombard street, Messrs. Ransom and Bouve rie, 1, Hon. Sec., / Smith. Esc. GEo. REID, Sec. °. 23,791. THE SUN, LONDON, Tai UI*SDA • EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1868. OUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST, regularly supplied to the House of Lords. " V.R." MISS WHISKY. DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V.R." OLD IRISH WHISKY, BELFAST. London Offices and Stores, 4, BEAUFORT-BUILDINGS, STRAND, W.C. Established 1803. Quotations on application. EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Empowered by Special Act of Parliament. For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in Situations of Trust. Chairman- General Sir FREDERIC Slum, K.H., F.E.S. Policies payable during Life- .7 ludisputable—Not liable to - Forfeiture. . Annual Income exceeds Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds. The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants, and full particulars of the popular Principles of this Society, will be found in the New Prospectus, which will be forwarded to applicants post free. HENRY LAKE, General Manager. 313, Regent-street, and 17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, ROYAL INSURANCE BUILDINGS, Lombard-street, London, and Liverpool. EPITOME of ANNUAL REPORT for 1867. The " ROYAL" has never had a larger body of Constituents than now. FIRE BRANCH. PREMIUMS in 1867 £460,553 being a larger revenue than in any preceding year. LossEs by Fire in 1867 £292,125 NET Pnorrrs, after paying all losses and ex penses £56,873 _ LIFE BRANCH. Annual Average tlf new business in 1865-6-7...., £BOl,OOO Do. during previous Quinquenniarn £688,000 Amount added to Life Reserves in 1887 £128,583 LIFE PROPOSALS now effected will participate in the increased share of Profits recently conceded to Policy holders. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in Loudon. August, 1868. COMPAGNIE GENE RALE TRANSAT LANTIQUE. 4, Rue de la Pais, Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for New York. RATES OF PASSAGE. From HAVRE Or BREST to NEW YORK. First Olass 7OO fr. Second Class 425 fr. Third Class From Paris to New York, via Havre or Brest, including railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class, 285 fr. CONTRACT FOR COALS FOR SAN PAULO DE LOANDO. Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset House, f-ept. 1, 1868. THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRELAND, do hereby give Notice, that on TUES DAY, the 29th inst., at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to CON TRACT for supplying and delivering on °ail her Ma jesty's Steamships and Vessels at San Paulo do Loando all such quantities of . SMOKELESS SOUTH WALES COALS as may from time to time be ordered under a Contract for Twelve Months certain, from the Ist of April, 1869, - and afterwards, until the expiration of six months warning. A Form of the Tender and Conditions of Contra t may be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's De partment, Admiralty, Somerset house. No Tender will be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him duly authorized in writir•g. Every Tender must ho addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words, " Tender for Coals for San Paulo de Loando," and must also be delivered at the Department of the Storekeeper-Gemi ni!, Admiralty, Somerset House, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the aunt of ..VittO for the duo performance of the Contract. By order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. CON TRAC r FOR FLOUR AND, CONES FOR THE ROYAL HOSPITAL AT GREENWICH. . Contract Department, Admiralty, Somerset liotte,. 2d Sept., 1868. r HECOMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING- the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE LAND, do hereby give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the 22d inst., at half-past On , o'clock, thfly — Witt be rea4yOtt. , the Office of the Director-General of the Mectcal Depart ment of the Navy, Somerset House, in London, to treat with such persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for the supply of all such quantities of FLOUR AND CONES as shall from time to time be required for the use of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, under a Contract for Six Calendar Mouths. • The Flour t, be manufactured in the best manner, from sound English Wheat, of the best quality, and to be of the description known as "Best Whites ;" the Cones also to be of the best quality, and samples (one pound of each) must be produced by parties tendering. The Contractor will be allowed the use of the Hospital sacks. The Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty reserve to themselves an unlimited power of selection in accepting the Tenders. No Tender will be received unless made on the printed form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on application at the Department of the Medical Director- General, Admiralty, Somerset House, or to the Steward at the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, where also the condi tions of the Contract may be seen. No Tender will be received after half-past One o'clock on the 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 in writing. Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Flour and Cones," and must also be deli vered at the Medical Department, Somerset House, signed by two responsible persons engazing to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of £5OO for the due performance of the Contract. By order, ANTONIO BRADY, Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities. DRINTING.—TO PROPRIETORS OF NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &C. The Printing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done on exceedingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of particulars, with stamped.directed envelope for reply. Address—The Manager, "Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church-row, Savoy, Strand, W.C. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and clothing for the 126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship. • 150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street. 94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing; 370 children. £l5 will keep a boy or girl for and year. Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank, 214, High Holborn. and 41, Lothbury, I 5 .C. ~• and by WLLLIANI WILLI t US, 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 De st i tute Orphan Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of the kingdom. sTheobjec and practical object of theCpharcuea Charity is instruction to st giv e e nin orphan gins a plai n Eng lish education, the kitchen, house, and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not o th er ' wise provided for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain suitable situations for them. The Committee e.rnsstly appeal for support. The Charity, is entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions. HENRY KINGKOTE, Treasurer W H. WAFWICK Secretary. Oflice, 121, Pall mall, 1W T HE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES Ire as follows : ____ For Fallen Women. 28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road. stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke 13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington. to wn. Maize-hill Cottage, Green -205, Great Portland- street. wich. For Young Girls in Danger. 27, Church-row, Hampstead. 9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood. St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhuret-hill. Country Home—St. James's- street, Dover. Temporary Homo-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 are admitted about 1,000 friendless servants annually. The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to open another house for this pitiable class. The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli cants, whose histories are recorded in the applicant's book. The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I never read a report of any charitable institution which so entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my sympathy") may be bad on application. The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. %Imlay and Co. The Committee very earnestly commend its work to tho banavoient. DA i n; CU 444 8 5 , Qiultaitreet, Qiieepsidt 1 J OHN GOSNELL and - CO.'S CHERRY TOOTH PASTE is greatly anperior to any tooth 1 powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the .namel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the breath. Price ls. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper Thames-street London. BARRACK CONTRACTS Fur the Supply of PAILLASSE 'STRAW IN GREAT BRITAIN. WAR OFFICE, PALL MALL, LONDON, S.W., Ist September, 1868. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Secretary of State for War is prepared to receive Tenders for the supply of Straw for Paillasses at the various Barrack Stations in Great Britain, for a period of One Year, from the Ist November next. Tenders will not be entertained unless made upon the prcper printed Form, which may be obtained, with every requisi, e in formation, upon application at this Office, or to the variols Bar rack Masters, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock each day, Sundays excepted. The Tenders must be sent to this Office, addressed to the Director of Contracts, marked on the outside, "Tender for Paillasse Straw," on or before Saturday, 12th inst., after which day ~ o Tender will be received. The Secretary of State for War reserves the right of rejecting any or all of the Tenders. THOMIS HOWELL, Director of Contracts. ANFIELIYS PATENT PICKLES are per fectly puro and uncolour44. To be had of all dealers, and wholesale of JO EIN BURGESS-and SON, 107, Strand (corner of S:wvoy.stops), London. WHY - incur the ri s k s o f Li m it e d Liability, by taking Shares in Civil Serving or Co-operative Stores, when you can SANE TEN PER LEST. by PURCHASING of THE EAST INDIA. TEA. COMPANY, and can have the goods delivered atyour own door ? Teas of all descriptions from Is. 3d. per lb. upwards. Price Lists post frog, on appliation at the Company's Ware houses, 9, Great, St. Helen's-churchyard, gishopsgate. 14R. e.SKELL, SURGEON DENTIST, the Author of "PURE DENTISTRY, and What it Does for Us," "PA[NLESS TOOTH EXTR kOTION, or Anesthesia Locally Applied," "DENTAL SURGEERY—a Practical Treatise," &c., &c., may be Consulted Daily as hitherto from to to 4 o'clock. at his ONLY Residence, 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE (a few doors from Bond-street). PARTRIDGE AND COOPER. MANUFACTURING STATIONERS, 192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LONDON (E.C.) THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES. CARRIAGE PAID to the COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s. 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Au ILLU TR %TED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands, tationery, Cabinets, Postage tales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling Writing Cases, Desks, and ilags, &c , post free. SAUCE. —LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE. This delicious condiment, pronounced by connoisseurs "THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE," Is prepared solely by LEA and PERRINS. The public are respectfully cautioned against worthless imitations, and should see that Lea and Perrins' names are on wrapper, label, bottle, , and stopper. ASS for LEA and PEURINS' SAUCE. Sold wholesale and for export by the Proprietors, Wor cester; Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell ; Messrs. Barclay and Sons, London, &c., &c. ; and by Grocers and Oilmen universally. nR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DEN ris r, 52, Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new de scription of ARTIFICIAL TEE PEI, 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 nevor 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 pitiful operation, and will support - and preserve teeth 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. NOTHING IMPOSSrBLE. 4 A.MARELLA. restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded fie perfect ing thin wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames street,London. . E C. AMORNING awl EVENING DRA.UGEI C. LAIPLOUGH'S PYRETIC SALINE is most agreeable and efficacious, preventing and curing fevers, skin complaints, and inflammation. It instantly ralieves the most intense head ache and thirst, and if given with lime-juice syrup is a specific in gout and rheumatism.--113, Holborn-hill, London, E.C. • cf , PAINLESS- DEN rrs ray !" A NEW PAMPHLET, Free by post for four stamps. ESS R S. GA.BIt I E L, (Established 1815.) Londo❑ 53, LI trley-street, Cavaalish-sTiare, W. 61, Ltri;ate-hill, E.q., Liverpool i 34, Duke-street, and Brighton h -street, ATTENDANCE DAILY. FETES 1N THE ALPS. (From a Correspondent of the Times.) LION, Monday Morning. Sarcastic remarks have been made on the Eng lish custom of celebrating everything by a dinner. Unfriendly critics have gone the length of saying that if London were destroyed we should comme morate the event in some newly-found Freemasons' Tavern, or go down the river and condole with each other over a dish of whitebait at Greenwich or Blackwall. It must be owned that with us public dinners are an institution; but it is a fact that on have, if not exactly the, same kind of thing, somethi ng ana l ogous t o it. They the Continent they go much greater lengths than we do in connecting pleasure with business. A. fete is with them an in evitable concomitant of any commercial or social movement in favour of which it may be desirable to secure public approbation. If we open a hun dred miles or two of r a il wa y, th e directors invite a company to be passen gers by the first train, a din ner is given at the terminus, and there is an end of the whole business of inauguration. To-thy ten new miles of an iron way have been opened in the Canton of Valais, and the fetes to celebrate the event commenced on Friday night, and will not terminate for some days to come. It is right, however, to at once premise that those ten miles form part of an undertaking of even more than European importance. They are a portion of a line which is to give a direot railway communica tion between Paris and Milan via the Simplon Rail way, and which, its projectors state, will form part of the highway between England and our Indian empire. The scheme has the approval of M. Les scps, the pr. , jector of the Suez Canal, who regards it as a supplement of his own plan for shortening the overland route to India, and I think I have seen enough within the last few days to warrant me in saying that the Simplon Railway is not regarded with any disfavour by the French Government. The whole affair is essentially French. The de monstration now being made in its favour was actually commenced in Paris, and has been carried on till, in the midst of the Alps, and at many hun. dreds of miles from that city, it has its culmination under circumstances altogether unparalleled in the history of commercial enterprise. The company which has undertaken this work is styled " La Nouvelle Compagnie Anonym de la Ligne Inter nationale d'ltalie par le Simplon." For some time it has been in possession of a line well known to tourists in Switzerland—the railway from Bouveret, on the south-east extremity of the L tke of Geneva, to the town from which I now write. From here the company intends to carry the line through the distract between this point and Brieg, thence through the Simplon, and on to Arona, in Italy. To-day an advance. has been made on the road Brieg as far as Sierre. Henceforward travellers to the Simplon or to Zermatt may go ten miles fur ther by rail, that being the distance in English measurement from Sion to Sierre. Brieg is over 23 miles beyond the point to which the railway has now been carried, and Brieg must be reached before the Swiss end of the Simplon can be entered upon. Already there is a railway over Mont Cenis, and one is being tunnelled through it. For a long 4ii Iry tilguel gig §t. 110 been talked of, and now we have this plan o one by the Simplon. I shall reserve for a future letter some remarks on the comparative merits of the competing schemes. As the ceremony of inau guration to Sierre did not conclude till past mi '- night, and as this communication must be pox e 1 at the railway statim by 4 o'clock this morning, I must for the present confine myself to what I have been witnessing during the last two or three clays. The directors of the company were very liberal in their invitations to.the inauguration fetes, which, according to their letter, were to commence at G.;neva on Saturd ty forenoon, immediately after the arrival of the express from Paris due in the former citeeat 11 o'de:ie. Very many of the invited hid left Paris on Thursday or early on Friday morning ; but, perhaps, no larger number of persone ever de parted from any station in a train of exclusively first-class cert.:ages than that which aesernbl,el at the Paris terminus of the Lyons Reilwey on Friday evening. Geneva is a favourite spot with tourists about to enter Switzerland, and the season for Swiss tom. is now at its height. Tie.re was, therefore, a rush of ordinary travellers on Friday night ; and, in addition, there were sonic hundreds of the in vited coming to assist at the fetes. The train was of immense length, but all the passengers were seated without noise or confusion by 20 minutes to 9, the hour of departure. We got_off to the /blunt., arrived at Macon at 6 o'clock on Saturday morning, only a very few minutes behind the time at which we were due there. But there was a rather ludicrous circumstance in connection with our arri val and appearance at Macon. The night had been very hot, and one window at least in every carriage had been left open. When we entered the refresh ment-room at Macon everybody began to stare at everybody else, and every one to laugh at his or her neighbour. Had we descended from chimneys we could not have been much more sooty. We looked like a monster party of sweeps out for a holiday. The fuel used all night by the locomotives which drew the train must have been of the most abomi nably dirty character. We discovered that it had done the mischief. Probably the Lyons Com pany had been trying an experiment with some new kind of charbon. If so, it is to be hop el they will not repeat it without due notice to pas sengers. We reached Geneva at 11 o'clock, Geneva time, which is ne irly 20 minutes in ad vance of that of Paris; and it was arranged that the whole of the invited should leave for Bouveret at half-past 12. Precisely at that hour the steamer which was to convey them left the north quay. The point of departure was close to the splendid bridge called after Mont Blanc, and near to the Isle of Jean Jacques Rousseau. The Simplon, the steamer fitted up for the occasion, was radiant in brilliant flags and steamers, and as she left her moorings and got out into the middle of the lake she was saluted by a long and continuous cannon ading from the steamers lying on the south quay, the usual place for departure and arrival for steamers traversing the lake. The Simplon re turned the salutes from miniature guns placed both on stem and stern. A capital band on board com menced its performance, and the guests cheered "La Ligne d'ltalie." Nearly all of them were French. The journalism of France was largely re presented among the visitors. The French, and especially the Parisians, are not a travelling people, and very many of the gentlemen on board the Simplon had never been in Switzerland before. It need . hardly be said that, apart from its trans cendent beauties, the Lake of Geneva had peculiar interest for them. The words of Voltaire, " Mon lac est le premier," were quoted more than once ; there was anxious gazing at the island of Jean 'Jacques, and‘when this was no longer iu view we had a general look oat for the _portion of the shore near which the villa of Madame de Steel is situate. In order to give the invited a full view of all that is to be seen from the lake, the Simplon crossed and recrossed from the north to the south sides. A great portion of the latter is French ter ritory since the annexation of S ivoy aid It is now in the department of Haute Savoie. Even any 2ne previously ignorant of that fact might easily have surmised it 3 esterday. At the French landing places everything and every one, the gen , darmerie included, were in gala .tarticare --- Tha übiquitous eagle was on all sorts of standards and flagstaffs, and as the Simplon passed an extraordi nary quantity of powder was exi,ended in doing honour and wishing God-speed to the French company now about to peaceably invade Italy:• The villa of Prince Napoleon Jerome is on the north side of the lake, which is all in Swiss territory. I believe the Prince is not in Switzer land at present, but in and about the beautiful little rustic residence of Count Walewski, near the extremity of the French territory and close to the margin of the lake, there were greetings. Sa lutes were exchanged as the steamer passed, and a number of ladies stood on the balcony of the villa and the grounds surrounding the house. There was not Ling, however, like a spectacle till the Simplon, crossing from the Castle of Chalon, approached Bouveret, closely followed by another steamer belonging to the company, and which had kept along by the south bank. This second steamer also sported the French and Swiss colours in pro fusion, and was plentifully provided with little broadside guns. As the two boats neared Bouveret salutes were fired fram different points up the mountains which tower over the town. 1n some cases one could see neither the guns nor the men who fired them. The report and the red glare which followed it appeared here and there in situations where one might least have expected them. The shots followed in rapid though irre gular succession, and were echoed and re-echoed with marvellous effect through the giant chain of Alps leading up to Mont Blanc. it was now past six o'clock, and the setting sun coloured the stir face of the distant waters with an azure hue •of exquisite beauty, while the portion shaded by the mountains retained that light blue colour which forms one of the most striking characteristics of Lake Leman. The station at Bouveret had been converted into a vast summer-house in the midst of a well-planted garden. Fir trees and other evergreens had been removed from other places, and brought to that spot for the occasion. A special train was drawn up in front of the station. The locomotive was so decked out in garlands that nothing but the top of its funnel presented the or dinary appearance. Immediately behind the en gine was a large waggon got up as a bower, around which were fruit trees and creeping plants. In this a band was stationed. From Bouveret up to Sierre the country forms a portion of the Canton of Va lais. At Bouveret there was an official reception by the local authorities, who warmly congratulated M. La Valette, the president, and the other mem ber of the council of administration of the railway company. When the congratulations had been gone through, the party of travellers entered the train, which left the station amid a flourish of trumpets and the loud and repeated acclamations of a dense crowd of the inhabitants. At all the sta tions on the way to Sion the pcip . ulatioits hail turned out and awaited the special train. By the time we had reached Mouthey, the second on the route, it had become dark, but the station itself was illuminated with oil lamps, and improvised trees, which had been planted in front of it a few hours before, were hung with coloured 1 Limps. Across the road was an arch of Mkgreens, from which Chinese lanterns of various colours were sus pended. As the train entered the station the band played " God save the Queen." Why oar national sßthem was chosen know not, but probably it was because her Majesty is Sovereign of British India. We all descended at Mothey, istfrettite was a de monstration in favour of France.- ghouts of 44 Vice la Prance 1" were followed by cries of " Vivent les Parisians complicanir which worked the Vidtqf Up tg Oglost pitc4) of %Swim. They w 4 PRIM. . 4d. STAMPiD sd. responded with " Vice la Sa&se !" The tunnel through which we entered St Maurice was illutni nated with a suddeness and effect which drew forth the warmest expressions of admiration. At one in stant Use subway through the mountain was green, next it was red, and then green again. Every stone of the great cavern was visible with startling dis tinctness. At St. Maui ice there were more illumi nations, more salutes, and more fireworks; but at Sion, our destination for the night, a torchlight pro cession was added to give variety aid still greater dramatic effect to the reception of the Simplon company in the Canton of the Valais. When the twin pulled up at this station there were the in evitable compliments and congratulations between the town, In represented by the principal authority, and the rail way company, as personified by M. La Valette. Then a small regiment of hardy moun taineers, walking two and two, andeach carrying a blazing torch, preceded a procession of the leading inhabitants and the directors of the csnapaay. Some hundreds of visitors, each attended by a porter or two carrying baggage, brought up the rear. There was not, a vehicle of any kind to be had ; so that we were all processionists whether we liked it or not—and many of us did not like it—over a very dusty road of three-quarters of a mile in length. But all all this feting was only a lasAingsup to what has been done to-day. It may safely be said that to-day's fetes have been perfectly unique. Never was any other railway inaugurated as the line be tween Sion and Stern has been. No such inaugu ration could be held anywhere but in the midst of mountains like the Alps ; and when the only other Alpine line was opened, that over Mont Cenis, the ceremony was performed in a style that had no pretensions to amazing effects such as those accom plished to-day. The special train by which the line was to be opened started from here at about one o'clock, and arrived at Sierre in a little more than half an hour. All the way from Sion the new line runs through a country abounding with magnificent scenery. There are lofty ranges of mountains on either side ; those to the right are covered with ver dure nearly to the tops ; those to the left are sub lime in their enormous height and savage desola tion. Several of them were capped with snow even yes*.erday, after a long continuance of hot wea ther, and when the sun was positively of scorch.. ing heat. There is an easy incline all the way to Sierre, but the station lies in a valley surrounded on all sides by gigautic mountains. The neighbourhood of the little town is always picturesque. Yesterday it was much more so than usual. The canton of Switzer land is having its Tir at Sierre, and there is au en campment all about the shooting-ground. The green slopes rising from the valley were dotted all over with little white tents, and M. La Valette and his company had come in to assist Nature and the Tir in making still more picturesque one of the most beautiful spots in this most beautiful country. The president of the railway administration and his col leagues contrived a spectacle which carried one back to the Middle Ages, and at the same time kept him ever conscious that he lived in the engineering period of the 19th century. The locomotive was brought to a stand some 300 feet short of a canopy raised on a little green mound. The canopy was formed of wood work, concealed by foliage, amid which fruit and flowers of various kinds were placed as if they had grown there. Beneath the canopy sat a ' venerable-looking old man, with white linen flowing down on his shoulders. He was arrayed in the full pontificals of a Roman Catholic bishop. Around him stood the canons of his chapter with their scarlet rochets and white surplices. This was the Bishop of Sion, who was in waiting to bliss the locomotive. Swiss soliliers, rifle in baud. kept guard near his chair. When the persons who had been conveyed by the train were lot down at a pavilion erected for 'the banquet which was to come off in the evening, and when the indispensable via dionuettr hal neon disposed of, a gun was was fired, and the engine, having blown a shrill and triumphant whistle, al vanced at a slow pace till within a few feet of where the bishop was seated. Mousei s ueur then rose and, with his mitre on his h ad and his pastoral staff in his left nand, advanced to the front of the canopy, where he delivered a really eloquent ad dress. With much fot ce he alluded to many of the scientific improvements which - have been made la our own day, and expressed the delight he felt at _ seeing the progress of intercommunication between the different peoples of the earth. He regarded the fact that be bad been selected to pronounce a bene diction on the engine as an act of faith on the part of the company—an acknowledgment before all men that God is the Lord of Science. In conclu sion, he said he hoped that no intercommunicadon with other people would ever make the inhabitants of the Canton of the Valais cast off their simplicity , of manners, impair the faith, or diminish a patri otism for which the Swiss were pre-eminent. The Bishop then read the prescribed prayers, and, sprinkling holy water on the engine, pronounced a benediction upon it and all the vast assembly who witnessed the ceremony. There was now a general movement to a pavilion, triumph in its way. A large which was a perfect tril wooden roof, supported at the corners on natural trees, some light woodwork outside, a gallery and tribune within, a fountain paying in the centre, evergreens, flowers, fruit, inscriptions in all direc tions, tables for between six and seven hundred people. This was the structure and its ornamenta tion, but no pavilion ever stood in a grander spot. From which ever side of it you looked there were the lofty Alps, range behind range, at but a short distance. In your immediate neighbourhood the Swiss valley, with its green slopes and quaint chalets, and the white huts of the riflemen. There were other tents about, too, in which the peasantry were in irking merry while awaiting the unrivalled illumination in the evening. The dinner was so plentiful in viands and wines that after the 650 guests had been entertained a banquet for all comers was carried on for several hours after wards. What the name of the caterer may be who managed this in the midst of the Alps, with only the resources of a village near at hand, I do not know. I think some of our London dinner con tractors ought to try and find it out. He might give them a useful lesson. Soup, fi.h, awl meats were served up hot, and there was coffee equAl to what is to be had at the best cafes in Paris. An exuberance in speaki,lg followed dinner, each orator as the Parole was gr tilted t.) him mounting a tri bune much higher than a c,,urch pulpit. [ should not, perhaps, omit to mention that among the toasts was " The English Press." The illumination commenced as soon as the even ing had become dark. A signal gun having been fired, a shower of rockets was sent up from au open space in front of the pavilion. For au instant this attracted the attention of a vast concourse of people which had by this time assembled in the vall-y. When the light of the rockets hal died away great was the astonishment of the stran:ers an 1 enthusi astic the admiration of all to find that the Alps Viemselves were illtuninatel. Fires burnt on some of the highest peaks ; fires blazed on the sides half way down ; and the flames of huge bonfires as cended from the base of the chain of tremendous mountains enclosing the valley. In another second fresh rockets shot up from the front of the pavilion, wheels of coloured fire flew round and sent red sparks and spangles in all direction ; cannon boomed, volleys of rifles were fired, bands played, and men and women and children joined in wild acclamations. The effect was absolutely magical. Ilia wonderful illumination continued for more than an hour, and must have been seen at places many miles distant from Sierra. An exclusion to the pass of the Gemmi is the ant oatry in tlao prozrAuwe of those ycluarhable fetes. The subjects for discussion are divided into four depart. ments :-1. Jurisprudence and Amendment of the Law ; president, the Right Hon. W. N. Massey ; and the special questions for discussion are arranged under three sections, viz,: Section A, International Law ; Section B, Municipal Law ; and Section 0, Repression of Crime. Of the. Department of Education Lord Lyttelton is the president, and the special questions for discussion refer to the question of making primary education compulsory, the means for instruction in science and art, and the improvement of at; two universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Of the Department of Health Dr. Rumsey is president, and the special questions for discussion refer to -the administra tion of public hospitals, the functions of medical officers of health, and the relation of water supply to health in towns. In the fourth department—Economy and Trade-- the subjects of an international coinlge, arbitration be tween masters and workmen, the administration ( d out door relief, and the social results of the employment of girls and women in 'manufactories will come under dis cussion. TILE ANGLO-DANISH TELEGRAPH, The Northern Daily Exi - ress states that on Tuesday morning, about eight o'clock, two steam-vessels arrived off Newbiggin-by-the-Sea ; the names of the vessels were tin Archimedes and the Chevy Chase, and they brought to our northern coast a submarine telegraph cable that is to connect England and Denmark. The cable belongs to the Danish, Norwegian, and English Tele graph Company, of Copenhagen. The cable has been made by the well-known cable manufanteers of the Teams, near Gateshead, Messrs. IL S. Newvall and Co. Therein a particular fckture 111 6ble, and that is, tht",.., core made by Mr. W. Hooper, of London, is of an india rubber insulation. This is the first time indiarubber has been applied to such a purpose for any long distance, and so far as tested it has worked wonderfully. It is coiled in tanks on board both ships, on the principle of Messrs. Newall's patent. The length of the cable from Sondervig, near Rinkjobing, Denmark, to Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, is about 340 miles. The Archimedes and the Chevy Chase — the former a vessel of 1,000 tons burthen, belonging to Messrs. Watts, Milburn, and Co., Blyth, and the latter.of about GOO tons burthen, owned by the Tyne Steam. Ship• ping Company —left the River Tyne on Monday week,with the cable on board. Mr. R. S. Newall (the mayor of Gateshead) went with the cable for the purpose of seeing it properly laid out, testing the insulation, &c. He was assisted by his electrician, Mr. Buifieb. They had a smooth passage, and by quick steaming they arrived off the Danish coast on the following Wednesday. On Saturday morning they left Christian• sand, proceeded to the coast off Sondervig, and suc ceeded in landing successfully the shore end of the cable. They were joined, on the Danish - side, by Messrs. Madsen and Lorenzen, gentlemen officially connected with the telegraphic service of the Danish Government. They then steamed direct towards the North Sea, laying out wanadtea feat sting wonderful to p the cable. Theylaying rosteamedatful a cablelspeedall the y—at the same time. In such cases half-speed is adopted, and it is very rarely that this is gone beyond. The owners of the vessels may well feel giatified at the result attained. In returning, the weather was fine, and the cable was paid out very successfully. While off Newbiggin on Monday night the sea was so rough as to make it impos sible to splice the mid-cable to the shore end. They buoyed it at a distance of ten miles from the shore, awaiting favourable weather. Directly the cable is laid a message of congratuation will be transmitted to Denmark. Arrange ments have been made to commence business operations at once. The company has arranged with the United Kingdom Telegraph Company to work the traffic in this district, and a wire will be immediately fixed from the Newcastle station to Newbiggin-by-the-Sea. The land lines from Newbiggin to Newcastle belong to the Danish, Norwegian, English Telegraph Company (Limited). This company will work the traffic between Newbiggin and Newcastle, and within a few days stations will be opened at Cramlington, Bedlington, and in the course of time, no doubt, at other places in the district. Messages will be received in Newcastle at the post office, Quay-side, and in the respective post offices at the other places mentioned. The transmission from the cables will be effected by means of Professor Wheatstone's automatic instruments. These instruments " consist principally in the mechanical transmission of signals by means of con tacts given by series of perforations in bands of paper previously prepared and drawn through the manipulator ; the signals being printed by the recording instrument." The speed in transmission, it is expected, will be great. Sir Robert Phillimore has returned from abroad in excellent health. It will be remembered that he met with rather a serious accident a short time ego. SmALLrox AMONGST SIIEEP.---The Board of Cus toms have issued directions that sheep which are detained for slaughter at the wharves at any port under the provi sions of the Order in Council of the 20th August last, be submitted to a daily inspection by the veterinary surgeons. This order has been deemed necessary in consequence of the report from the veterinary department of the Privy Council, to the effect that where a number of animals are collected together cases of smallpox appear day by day, and that unless- there is constant supdvision the meat of diseased animals will certainly be sent to market. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH RUSSIA AND THE EAST.—We have ' authority for stating that arrangements are being made by the Danish, Norwegian, English Telegraph Company, of Copenhagen, to extend the telegraphic communication to the East, by laying a cable from Denmark to Russia.. By this means tele graphic communication with Russia can . be had direct from Newcastle-on-Tyne and the North, through 'the cables of the Danish, Norwegian, English Telegraph. Company, instead of by the circuitous and necessarily expensive route as at present. The advantages of such a cable to the commercial and political world will be very great, and it is to be hoped that success will attend the efforts of this company. The cable will, in all probability, be laid this year.—Northern Daily Express. HOSPITAL For. ANIMALS. —A bazaar has been held at Southport, in aid of the Southport and Lancashire branches of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Colonel Wilson Patten, M.P., who had been announced to take the chair, was unavoidably absent, and much disappointment was also experienced that Mr. Gladstone, one of the patrons of the society and a con tributor to the bazaar, and who is now the guest of Mr. Weld Blundell, whose seat is in the neighbourhood, hail not found it convenient to attend. It was stated in the course of the proceedings that the sum of £30,000, bequeathed by the late Mr. Brown for the purpose of founding a hospital in London, specially for the treatment of animals, was in the hands of the University of London, and that the hospital was about to be erected. THE COOLIE TRADE.—From Macao there are details of another terrible tragedy, the natural result of the accursed coolie trade. Free emigrants do not mutiny on their way to the land of their choice. File emigrants never set fire to the ship in which they are cooped up, never doomed themselves on the wide ocean to a certain and most terrible death. S,la,ves alone do these things. Men driven to desperation by their enforced removal from their families and homes—men tortured and driven, men condemned to a life of labour, or to a speedy death_ in a strange land—overworked, ill-fed, subject to punishment, without pay or prospect of return— these are the men who plunder, burn, and destroy, who, like those on board the ill-fated Thdrese, make twenty fruitless attempts to mutiny before the one that brings with it a fatal success— who massacre at one blow three-fourths of the crew of . their prison, force the captain by blows and threats to bear them back to their native land—who, utterly demoralised, fight recklessly among themselves till one-half of their number is gone, plunder the ship of all its wealth, and leave it almost a wreck at the first friendly land they comp to.—China Overland Trade Report, July 24. THE RATS IN THE MINE. —A miner of the Imperial Mine of Gold Hill, Nevada, publishes in a paper of that locality the following rat story. He says : "It is not generally known, except in mining localities, that rats inhabit the mines, but such, however, is the fact. From the top ground down to the lowest levels they are to be found in our mines. Some time since the Imperial Com pany stopped work at the lowest level for several days to repair the shaft just above it. After resuming work, the carman, who was the first to go below, went clown alone to run out the ore from the chutes, and as soon as the rats heard the old familiar sound of the car rumbling along the track, they rushed out from behind the timbers to welcome the presence of man once more. They ran up to the carman in squads, climbed all over him, then down to the station floor again, and scampered and gamboled around in ecstasies of unmistakable delight. When he started for the chute again with the car, they ran follow ing and playing around him, and when he had filled his car with ore and started back again for the shaft, they (the rats) sprang upon the car and ran all over it, and jumped and leaped as if mad. The carman cat down a moment to see what they would do, when they all huddled around and =rover him without the slightest apparent fear, and with out . 1-Ing to bite him. He did not hurt any of them, as lie i! they could live in such a place he felt in duty 1?9_11.11.1 :.t 44vp WEST IN' lES AND MEXICO. Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St. Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, New Orleans, Porto Rico, Haiti, Santiago de Cuba ' Guadeloupe, Martinique. JAPAN, NORTH AND SOUTH P CIFIC, AND CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panatua). Leave St. Nazaire on the Bth of each month for Mar tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon, Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, lemerara, Paramaribo, Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La Union, San Francisco, China, and JapaL. Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this company, can be bad of STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co., Agents, 8, Austiufriars, London, E.C. 'l -;',J 2 : . ' .4, NEW NOVEL BY TIIE AUTHOR OF " cAsrE." Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215., P E A R By the Author of "Caste," &c. L. Hurst and Blacken, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street. itic. rard s. oyes. limns