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LOCK - STITCII SEWING MACHINE ON THE ROTATING HOOK PRINCIPLE. SILENT INSURANCE OFFICE. Wanted a gentleman of influence as Inspector. Salary £2OO. Applicants will state Present and past occupation. Address, X. Y. Z., 49, Frederick- Street, Gray's Inn-road. TEA, especially for New Years' Gifts, but good and cheap for any time. A Chinese catty, lined with lead, containing 141 b. of delicious Black Tea, sent, carriage tree, to all England, on receipt of 405., by PHILLIPS and Co., ,ea merchants, No. 8, King William-street, City, London, E.C. 4 . 11 Y quantity may be had at 3s. per lb. A price list post free o n application. SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS. ORNAAIENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, ane, Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort went of VASES, Figures , Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink- Il i nds, beautiful inlaid hales, Paper Weights, &c., in Italian, Master, Parian, Marl - le Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported tld manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her * , a, testy, 149, Strand, W.C., London. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS, Y' 4 BALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate the new edition of Yell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facilitate the inte ar.ing stu d y, f MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY, and can be had T a 4, 10, 20, 50, to 50 guineas each. LA, 4 ACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINERA s'.Y is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at 149, Strand. THORLEY'S HORSE and CATTLE SPIC E.— ta . For HORSES, it is indispensable in promoting and sus liTag all the animal functions in health and vigour. For p r „` 4 .., II COWS, it is invaluable, increasing the quantity_ and im ii"„volg the quality of milk. For BEASTS, nothing can compare i t `L'o it for feeding quickly. For SHEEP, PIGS, DOGS, ki %-15 BITS, and POULTRY, its effects in One Month will exceed I, `,9xPectation. In Penny Packets only, of all Corn Chandlers t h 6 C ndon, and of all Grocers, Druggists, and Corn Dealers in oUntry. B 0 K-B I N K O'S g44-'• CHEMICAL MANUFACTORY, 3, CITY GARDENS, CITY , London, N. )7INKO'S PATENT IMPERIAL PAPER —3, , BLUE, for Laundry and Household Purposes. This Blue needs no recommendation it will recommend itself. Every WZ,Y vvho h as used it is charmed with its clettirmess, simplicity, a „" 4 cheapness.. Sold in Penny Packets, and is far cheaper than .Y other Blue. IRINKO'S BAKING POWDER, LIEBIG'S PRINCIPLE. Warranted Free from Alum. Penny Packets. ind ed. and is. Canisters. tINKO'S PATENT IMPERIAL PIICENIX I n POWDER. Muslins, or any other Fabrics, being dipped v " . solution of this powder, will not take fire, thereby pre "ting danger to life. In Canisters, 6d. and ls. each. tINKO'S PATENT IMPERIAL BRILLIANT FLUID. For Cleansing Window, Looking, Plate, and all oUler kinds of Glass. In Bottles, ad. and Is. each. ' 7 VINE FLAVOURED STRONG BEEF TEA, AT ABOUT 2iD. A PINT. ASK FOR LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF MEAT, It 'C,AJIMING BARON LIEBIG, THE INVENTOR'S, SIGNATURE ON EVERY JAR. Being the only guarantee of genuineness. VITIRE WHEAT FLOUR. (CHAPMAN and Co.'s PATENT.) Is recommended by the Faculty as the best food for INFANTS, as it is very easy of digestion, and contains in due proportion all the sub stances required for a healthy growth. ENTIREV 'MAN FLOUR. (CHAPMAN and Co.'s PATENT.) Is acknowledged to be the most wholesome and nutritious diet for CHILDREN, its richness in earthy phosphates ensuring healthy develop ment of the teeth and bony frame. t I‘TT IRE WHEAT FLOUR. (CHAPMAN and Co.'s PATENT.) Is recommended for the use of Invalids, as far more sustaining than Arrowroot, Corn Flour, &c., which are often rejected, when the Entire ketm, Wheat Flour is taken with relish. of Family Grocers, &c., in 3d., 6d., and ls. packets, and 3a. tins. Wholesale of ORLANDO JONES and Co., _ 18 13illiter-street, Manufacturers of the GOLD MEDAL RICE STARCH. THE BLOOD PURIFIER— Old Dr. JACOB medic YOWNSEND'S SARSAPARILLA. This extraordinary teocine has a singular influence over the blood, which it I) 4 l 2ehes and purifies. It removes all pimples and blotches, D u ` 4 les the system, and acts like a c h arm, As a sustaining and 10,, 1 Ying tonic it is invaluable, and highly recommended in ki,F-standing cases of indigestion, nervousness, coughs, scro thrLgout, dropsy, and wasting of flesh. Sold by all druggists. t e e depot, No. 131, Fleet-street, London.—Caution : Get the a nd blue wrapper, with the Doctor's head in the centre. 11 8 ° ther genuine. In bottles 2s. 6d., 45., 45. 6d., 78. 6d., and kea ; .The old Dr.'s Sarsaparilla Pills are . the most popul ar tori4lne known for all bilious affections, liver and stomach 11 84 184 ot; and indigestion, as proved by thousands. Also, ktmcparilla Ointment, the best soother of all sores, burns, and 15 , 3 0 8 each in boxes, ls. lid., 2s. 9d.. and 4s. 6d. ;by post, and 60 stamps. ALEX PLY is the Acting Ingredient in .'EX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily pro -40% "makers and Thickens Hair. Price, 3s. 6d., ss. S&L, and 48, lit,* e n born by post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—Alex. Ross, %II Holborn, and all chemists. rf .. , • ..,..,,, ' ~„ 7, , ici..... . -. . , 1' '. illi 1 ':- . • . . . , . ~. . . • i :,--• . . . _ . • • . . . .. . . e• . . . - . . .. • , , . . . . . .. •, , ._..... .._ . ..,_ . . , . . .. . ... . . - ~. . . . . . _. . .1 ' womaga.m.mauxEmwm.o . . . • , --"---•-:-' . _ . . ' . N°. 24 508 ,• . • . , • CiIYSTAL PALACE:—The GREAT PANTO- MIME GULLIVER ; or Harlequin Brobdignau, the Fairy mterprise, and the Demon„ Bow:wow, by 11. B. Farnie, produced , by E. T. Smith THIS DAY and during Christmas Holidays. Miss M . ' Williams Parkes, Master Percy Roselle, Miss Thirlwall, Messrs. A. - 1 -• Williams, Yarnold, T. IL Frien4.l ; Clowns, Harry Bolen° a nd Hurst Adolphe Rowella, &c.: 150 "'Children, Mdlle. Soltke, 'old Corps ddßallet of 100, &c. Gorgeous Transformation and N ot'aer Scenes by Mt. F. Fenton. .Music by Mr. W. Corri. Beau- .. tiful Deceptions, Giant Christmas Tree, Fancy-Fair, &c. Palace ..'reealil# warmed daily by fifty miles of hot- wa ter pipes. Besides the ,Pantornime, varied Amusements, under the direct j ,( toil of M r. N e l sen Lee, at r. 30. . On the G r eat Stage, including Senores Gonza rind Romah, the marvellous Mexican Athletes of t he Golden-Wing -; the De Lacy Brothers :. Emm ett ' s Perform- -I , l g Goat ; the . Brothers Daniels ; D'Auban and Warde's IS 'anghable Pallet, &c. • Fine Arts Court Picture Gallery, War Court , Photosculptural B views of Pompeii , War Sketches in Picture Gallery, Skating, Curling, 1101 e Shooting, "and other out-door amusements. with Admission, 3londay to Friday, One Shilling; Saturday; 2s. 43d. ; Scotl ' I. by Guinea Season Tickets., Present issue dating twelve , in ouths from This Day. at all entranc es, Children Half-price. E] geserved Seats, 2s. 6d. aid ls. AI irge reduction on taking ten. -- lie /kit GY f ,T, ROOMS, GREAT • WINDMILL-STREET, W.C. 1 - Piccadilly. , „The extraordinary success which has attended the production t . ' , the Shadow Dance, with the brilliant and varied effects et li e elect:ic light on the groups of dancers that nightly partici- ' Vtn...in it, combined with the admirable Operatic and Dance i i t la ic Selections presented in the often-changed programmes, mo st bad the gratifying effect of making the ir,sent one the price _ pat extensively patronized season since its first opening. The rbrated Orchestra, under the direction of its highly efficient ° Signor Luigi Curti. performs the choicest and latest _com- positions of all distinguished composers—the solos in which are Z . lried to the eminent mrphouienist; Signor L. 1.1.08C194 Messrs. , r `i (iraves, L. Silberberg, and other able artirtcs. Manager, Mr. i°l, as Pitts. Professor Llalliman, M.C. Admission, ls.; Resorted Seats, 2s. R. R. BItINELL, Proprietor. lii Tale of a Hair, 6d, °NDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured in [ita c , 4 "e day by usin LEX. ROS'S CHIROPO. This re la ti elbor). r adlially dissolves the Corn S in a few hours, removing ' °t all chemists. ; Price 4s. sent by post for 60 stamps. 248, High DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS.-- A NEVER-FAILING REMEDY.—Prepared without any mercurial ingredient,will be found invaluable to all whosuffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, 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 ex cellent; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole ner vous system.—Prepared only and sold by W. Lambert, chemist, 8 King William-street, Charing-cross, London, and by most drug gists, in boxes ' ls. lid, and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9 d. Bg. sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine at in a square green package, with " William Lambert, 8, King William -street, Charing-cross," engraved on the Government stamp. DINNEFOR D' S FLUID MAGNESIA.- The medical profession for Thirty Years have approved of this pure solution of Magnesia as the best remedy for Acidity of the Stomach, Heartburn, Headache, Gout, and Indigestion ; and as the best mild aperient for delicate constitutions, especially adapted for Ladies, Children, and Infants. DINNEFORI) and CO., Chemists, 172, New Bond-street, London, and of all other Chemists throughout the world. / ‘ „ LEXANDRA ORPHANAGE for INFANTS, Hornsey-rise, near Highgate, N. Children eligible from any part of the Kingdom. Under the immediate patronage of Their Royal Highnesses the PRINCE and PRINCESS of WALES, and the CROWN PRINCESS of PRUSSIA. A MEETING of Governors was held on THURSDAY, November 17 1870, at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street, for the ELECTION of TEN INFANTS, Two of whom to be retained until sixteen years of age. ROBERT JONES, Esq., Sheriff of London and Middlesex, in the Chair. At the close of the Ballot the following were declared to be SUCCESSFUL: — ELECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL SIXTEEN 1 EARS OF AGE. 1. Scarlett, Alice Maud.... 635 12. Bloom, Louisa .. '6ll ELECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL NINE YEARS O F AGE. 3. Richards, Henry William 648 7. Stevens, Elizabeth ~ .. 452 4. Leigh, Charles Edward,. 576 8. Mather, Selina Agnes.. 439 5. Eyles, Alfred Henry .... 490 9. Bennett, Louisa Mary.. 431 0. Childs, Alice Rebecca .. 458 10. Curtis, Elizabeth Maud 429 A vote of thanks to the Chairman and to the Scrutineers terminated the proceedings. . JOSEPH SOUL, Hon. Secretary. 73, Cheapside, URGENT APPEAL.—The Committee very earnestly appeal for Contributions in aid of the BUILDING FUND especially, as well as for the general purposes of the Charity, which has no funded property, but depends wholly upon voluntary support. No salaries are paid but to the household. The Orphange is open to visitors. ZEAMEN'S HOSPITAL (late Dreadnought).— Notice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now RE /LOVED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green hdch, where any seaman, needing medical or surgical care, will be admitted on personal application, as heretofore, without in troduction or recommendation. The Society's offices are re moved from the City to the same building. KEMBALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary. Face Powder, le. D ti t DE STRO YER.-248, High Holborn.— f Ltx . 4% . ace • -.OSS , s Depilatory removes superfluous hair from 11,,e41, and arms without effect to the skin. Price eepal s ; l ( l ., and 10s. fkl. gent for 54 84, and 144 stamps. enlists. Skin Tonic bs. 6d. REMOVER.—AII Diseases of the Skin 78 bicalproved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S c VE s ET ,c tß an l 114.; 0 1 :J ° - They remove redness, sallowner, or 4, post for 40 and 100 stamps. Al ii. Ross, 248, High 440 b, and all chemists. Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. 6d. 1, 11111, KAIR24B, High Holborn, London.— fre , `" ,, elq ROSS' S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour im et, b.. 1, ieeB s used. It is permanent, and perfectly natural in 38. Gd.,post for 54 h sta biPs : and all Chemists. Bloom sen of Rosses, 3s. 6d. Aj b „ wi t , l3 ' h , C O LOR WASH.—By damping the head si„ , tai r —lB b eautifully perfumed wash, in seven or t .t e n n o d e a c y a s_ ich, mumes its original colour, and remains so by °, bor4:" Lo g n • ‘,los. "all6dnt for . stamps.—Alex. Ross, 248, High 'on, and chemists. tIAIII C -------- I ,Adi e ,tond on U ltl-ING FLUID, 248, HIGH HOLBORN. ILV., ' l 5 : (Leiiti erne L H . RR ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls 0! ai ; ~ - 1 . . and lo air immediately it is applied. Sold at ' Cher a i sts. 3 . ad. Sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stamps. ---- elvice upon all subjects of the Toilet, ---___ T tl ittt aubs e „,SPLENDID SPECULATIONS. Offer to VVI,T a tr irers the most favourable chances of great success. a " .4 --411 g stake of 12s. you can obtain £ 3,0 0 0 1, 1)11, , 425 With out , • • With LB, £07,000 ! For prospectuses —uB e3 , laY to EUGENE TLE,LOT, General Merchant, , RT . / ka.11:,,,,; f ', 14" forwarded by Morning and Evening -as -`" undeviating regularity, and delivered in Town as Advertisements inserted. Apply . to 11' 24 ' v La Oavendish-atreet,',W. Eatablished 1,60. SOCIETY for ORGANISING CHARITABLE RELIEF and REPRESSLNG MENDICITY. President—The Lord Bishop of LONDON. Chairman—The Earl of LICHFIELD. Treasurer —H. B. Praed, Esq. Hon. Secs.—Alsager Hay Hill and George M. Hicks, Esqs. Object of the Society.—The establishment of a Charity Office in every Poor Law District in the metropolis, such office to 'be the recognised centre of charitable organisation in each district. DISTRICT COMMITTEES in union with the Society : ST. MARYLEBONE.—Office, 151, Marylebone-road, N.W. ST. GEORGE'S, Hanover-square. -Office, 28, Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, W. WESTMINSTER.—Office, 38, James's-street, S.W. PADDINGTON.—Office, 3, Leiuster-street, W. MILE-END OLD-TOWN.—Office, Vestry-hall, Bancroft-road, Mile-end-road, E. BATTERSEA.—Office, 3, Verona-street, York-road, S.W. LAMBETH.—Office, 49, Upper Kennington-lane, S.E. CLAPHAM.—Office, 11, Polygon, S.W. CHELSEA.—Office, 57, Flood-street, S.W. KENSINGTON.—Office, 39, Holland-street, W. HAMPSTEAD.—Office, corner of Church-lane, High-street, N.W. DEPT.FORD.—Office, St. John's Mission-hall, King-street, Broad way, S.E. ST. MARY, NEWINGTON.—nice, 188, Walworth-road, S.E. ST. GILES'S-IN-THE-FlELDS.—Office, 7, High-street, St. Giles'. ST. PANCRAS.—Office, 17, )1 oburn-buildings, W.C. CONTRIBUTIONS towards the extension of this organisation throughout the metropolis may be paid at the office of the Society, or to Messrs. Coutts and Co., 50, Strand, W.C. The funds of the central office are for purposes of organisa tion only, not for relief. C. B. P. BOSANQUET, Secretary. C. J. RIBTON-TURNER, Organising Secretary. Office, 15, Buckingham-street, Strand, W.C. THE LAIEST EDITION of " THE SUN' supplied as soon as published, every Evening, by S WILSON, news%gent, and special agent for the North-western District, 24, Delincey-itieet, Camden-town, N.W CITY of LONDON HOSPITAL for DISEASES of tht CHEST, Victoria Park. Special APPEAL for the NEW WING Amount still required, £4,000. Number of beds now occupied, 120. umber of beds available with proposed addition, 164. °he Hospital is entirely dependent on voluntary support. ankers, Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street HENRY SEWELL, lion. Soc. Offices, 24, Finsbury-circus. RICHARD F. SLATER, Sec. OLDRIDGE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA is un equalled in its effect in producing Luxuriant Whiskers and Moustachios. It is an infallible remedy . for Baldness, and con tains the essential requisites for Cleansing, Bcautifying, and Restoring the Hair. 22, WELLINGTON-STREET, STRAND,. LONDON, W.C. SSAVIOUR'S HOSPITAL and REFUGE, • Alfred-terrace, Upper Holloway, N.—This Institution affords a Refuge for Women seeking to abandon a life of sin especially those about to become mothers, and provides a Home for the Children of such. FUNDS are very urgently NEEDED. Bankers, London and South Western (Holloway Branch). HUGH R. GOUGH, Hon, Sec. Thy Exchange Buildings were on fire for several hours on 6iti-rday. There has been but little damage done, the fire not being very great at any time ; but continuing to burn, owing to there not being a proper supply of water consequent on the frost. The fire broke out in the offices of Mr. Ryland, metal broker. BRITISH cArmoLics AND THE POPE. A formal protest of the Catholics of the United King dom against the invasion of Rome has been signed by numerous English Catholics—among others by the Earl of Denbigh, Earl Dunraven, Lord Arundell of Wardour, Lord 'ferries, Lord H. Kerr, Sir George Bowyer, Mr. J. H. Washington Hibbert, Mr. Aubrey de Vere, and many others. They state their alarm at the maxims which are familiarly on the lips of those who are consenting to the conduct of the King of Italy, and proceed :—lt is, secondly, as subjects of the British throne, that we contemplate the event with sorrow and dismay. We fear , the avenging hand of Provi dence. Our country is not without its disaffection, our legislation and history have not been such as utterly to deprive conspiracy and revolt of all palliation. When we shall be in difficulties, domestic treason may assume, by foreign ins!.ig:•.tion, dimensions far beeond any ever attairrediu tile' Rome of our days o and there may be those found too able and too willing to play the ficti tious part of liberators, with motives and means such as those as have now prospered against Rome. Thirdly, as Catholics rejoicing in the faith and Church of Christ, we deeply feel the peculiar aggravation which attends this crime. It is a sacrilege of deepest dye, and of wideSt consequences of evil. It is an open blow struck at the cause of God and His Christ in the person of the servant of His servants. It is a blow struck at the centre whence flows the very life-blood of the Church. The work of evangelising the world is impeded, and is meant to be pirmanently arrested. at the main source of its action. This is, indeed, outwardly the work of an ambitious and aggressive State ; but behind it are the associated enemies of the name and the very thought of God. Now Ready, lOST OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for • 1871 (72nd"year), price 365., 155., and 10s., with Map. IX ROME COUNTIES . DIRECTORY (7th Edition); price 405., With Maps. UILDING TRADES DIRECTORY, compris lug every Trade and 'Profession in ' any way connected L the Architectural and Building Trades throughout England, land, and Wales, prieb 255., NGINEERS and IRON and METAL TRADES DIRECTORY, -being a Companion Worie to the above, le 30s. elly and Co., 51; Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, ; Simpkin, Marshall, andeo., and all Booksellers. " APARTMENTS TO LET" Is the Title of CHARLES CLARKE'S CHRISTMAS ANNUAL. Third series, for 1870, ready in November, vice 4d. C. H. CLARKE / 13, PA'T ARNOSTER [LOW And all ocq:selleTs and. `lewsnien. .N ow Published, WINTER JOURNEY TO ROME AND BACK, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE OPENING OF THE (ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, AND GLANCES AT MILAN, FLORENCE, NAPLES, POMPEII, AND VENICE. BY WILLIAM ENTLL. STANFORD, Charing Cross. Price 4s. 6d " Mr. W. Evil has written a lively and agreeable account of A Winter Journey to Rome.' His descriptions of scenery in the Alps and of the Italian cities are exceedingly graphic, shewing much sympathy with nature, and a relined intelligence, Though the style of the book is somewhat sketchy, it is thoroughly readable, especially in the passages referring to the Council, which have in some degree the value of contemporary history."— Daily Telegraph. "Those who have followed the well-known route, and visited the spots described by Mr. Evill, are scarcely likely to add much to their fund of information by reading his lively sketches ; yet we are far from saying that the publication is superfluous. To gain knowledge is not the only object which induces a man or woman to take ap a new volume ; and if Mr. Evill does not add distinctly to our stock, he has the art—a rare one—of placing familiar scenes in a fresh and agreeable light. . . . . The book has the merit of being thoroughly readable."—Pall Mall Gazette. "Raving read the book through from cover to cover—of itself an eulogium from any reviewer—we could certainly not spare Mr. Evill's always animated, often graphic, and more than once or twice really eloquent descriptions, any more than we could spare his account of the wonderful pageantry of the Papal func tions in Rome, and of the marvellous masterpieces in sculpture and painting scattered among the Palaces and Basilicas. . . . As a graphic delineator of the superb scenery and the renowned cities through which he made this winter journey, he has acquitted himself admirably well."—Sun. " The author has evidently a feeling for the beautiful and the picturesque, 'and describes what he saw in forcible and some times eloquent language. .. . Notwithstanding his well worn subject, Mr. Evill has produced an agreeable little volume, which may not unprofitably detain the reader."—Daily News. " There is no pretension whatever about the book of travels, and though it relates very little of what is new, it tells of nothing that is uninteresting, vapid, or dull. To the truthfulness of its descriptions of places and works of art we can thoroughly testify, and assure our readers that such of them as are meditating au Italian tour could not possibly do better than furnish themselves with a copy."—Bell's Weekly Messenger. - - " Mr. Evill's visit to Rome was opportunely timed to enable him to witness the great gathering of prelates in attendance at the opening of the (Ecumenical Council ; his journey was accomplished with great rapidity, but his hasty en route sketches are lively and amusing."—Record. " In this pleasant little book we have an abundance of inter esting matter, such as a professed bookmaker might extend into the compass of two goodly volumes ln the very first page we are satisfied with the book, and are engrossed with its contents We recommend the entire little volume as well to readers as to intending tourists in search of continental information."—News of the World. " The ground was all new to Mr. Evill, and, in spite of the season of the year, he saw it under peculiarly favourable cir cumstances. He has an eye quick to see, and a pen that enables him to tell right pleasantly, and not a little vividly, what he has seen. . . . . Mr. Evill was fortunate enough, in company with his friend, Mr. Charles Kent, the poet, to see the pro cession in St. Peter's, on the opening day of the Vatican Council. His description of it is very graphic."—Western Morning News. - - " Italy has been described to the reading world again and azain, and, therefore, the charm of Mr: Evill's book is not the - charm Of 110Terty, but Irrial , ',l alarm - - There is-a by 1, inge nuous manner, that appeals to the reader. The author records his impressions and describes minutely the beauty of the Italian scenery without a thought of the travellers who have gone before. Some passages, descriptive, are really excellent. The exterior and interior of Milan cathedral are put before us in glowin ,, terms, and the long ceremonies of the opening of the (Ecumenical Council are forcibly described. His description of Venice is excellent. Mr. Evill's word-painting is far above the average of such descriptions. We are sure that readers, after a perusal of this book, will have a vivid impression of the scenery , described, and be grateful to Mr. Evil for his pleasant recollec tions."—Lloyd's Weekly News. "Accuracy of description will cause this little book to be read, and probably enjoyed, by those Englishmen and English women whom necessity keeps at home year after year . . . The profits are to be given to a charity, and we heartily wish it every success, and think that many untravelled Englishmen will find something to interest them in Mr. Evill's " Winter Journey to Rome."—The Examiner. "This little volume, containing, together with careful descrip tions of places and cities, an account of the opening of the (Ecumenical Council, it is worthy of notice, is dedicated, not in irony or without permission, but in friendship and with full authority, by a Protestant to a Roman Catholic. There may be many worse preparations for a visit to the city which still is queenlike, if no longer queen, than a perusal of this unpreten tious, but instructive volume ; and the author's remarks touching that Church, the services and worship of which serve to make up the entire life of modern Rome may grieve, but will not affront, a liberal Roman' Catholic, and may command the assent, but will R 00Cli the better feelings, of a Liberal Protestant."— Illustra ,London News. Best Advertising Paper in the Western Counties. THE WESTERN MORNING NEWS. A. First-Class Daily Paper, the oldest in the district. Inde pendent in opinions. The earliest and fullest in news. Circu lates among all classes and parties and the best medium for Advertisers. . _ Rates of charges and copies of the paper sent free upon appli cation to the Publisher, • Edward Hawkings, 31, George-street, Plymouth. - 101) B. 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This lady died and his lordship again was married to the Hon Emily Elizabeth Thelusson, eldest daughter of the second Baron Rendelsham, by whom he had issue several sons and daughters. AMERICAN ADVICE TO ENGLAND. We are indebted to a correspondent for the following extracts from a letter he has recently received from an American gentleman occupying an official position on the Continent was glad to hear you say that you thought England ought to have taken a higher stand in the Russian question. I know no Englishman here that does not say the same. It is as certain as anything in the future can be that Russia and Prussia will try to divide Europe as they see it. As the Bus sian Ambassador said in my presence, " Russia has no objection to England talking in a Conference, but the Czar has already said that the Treaty of 1856 does not bind him, and he has nothing more to say." . . . Let England tell Prussia that she .cannot break the Treaty of 1867 in regard to Luxemburg, and let her say to Prussia, "Do you support Russia in. violating that of 1856 or not ? " Russia and Prussia understand each other, and Prussia will not forfeit her alliance. Let England then join France and defend herself and Europe. England can find 80,000 men, which is enough b decide the contest and put heart into Austria and Turkey, and to make Denmark shew her teeth. Let England land her soldiers upon the Continent -now;tuul-tneed never strike a,.blow. . -If she (England) would stop Russian and Prussian aggres sion by sii.itaining France in her struggle, America would cheer England.. Next spring, perhaps, when England finds Russia more arrogant than ever, Austria entirely cowed, Turkey being dismembered, she will at length rouse herself to fight on the Black Sea question. The fate of France will, perhaps, then be sealed ; America will throw all her sympathies with the Power which advocates the right of ships of war to sail in the Black Sea—a right she herself has never abrogated—and it may be that there will then be a strong enough sentiment to carry my country into war.—Pall Mall Gazette. The Premier will probably be in London next week for Cabinet business. THE JUDGE-ADVOCATE-GENERAL.—Mr. J. R. Davison, Q.C., who has been appointed Judge-Advocate- General, has issued an address to the electors of the city of Durham, intimating his acceptance of the office, and asking for a renewal of the suffrages of the electors. Mr. Davison has arrived in the city, but there is no appear ance of opposition. . ANOTHER ACCIDENT FROM A BROKEN TYRE. —A train leaving Carlisle early on Friday morning ran off the line at Burton and Holme Station on the London and North-Western Railway. Eleven carriages and trucks were precipitated down au embankment, and were much damaged, but the passengers and guards pro videntially escaped with a few scratches and bruises. The accident was caused by the breaking of a tyre, and the traffic on the line was delayed for four hours. ANOTHER MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. —On Friday morning printed bills were issued relative to the sudden disappearance, two weeks ago, of Mr. William Guthrie, a compositor in the printing office of a morning journal, who left his home in excellent health to join his regiment— the London Irish Volunteers—at Somerset house, to receive a mark of distinction from that corps, and has not since been heard of. Being a man of very steady habits and punctual at business, great fear for his safety is entertained by his wife and family. ANOTHER COLLISION ON THE LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—A serious accident occurred on the London and North Western Railway, near Man chester, on Saturday morning. The express train, leaving Stockport for Manchester at 9.40, after proceeding about a quarter of an hour on its journey, ran into a goods engine, which was standing on the line between Laven hulme and Longsight, in consequence of some shunting operation. The morning was very foggy, and the driver of the express did not see the obstruction till he was close upon it. The collision was very severe, and both engines are very much smashed. The drviers of both engines and the stoker of the goods engine were both hurt, and a num ber of passengers who were coming to Manchester to attend the Exchange, were severely shaken, but for tunately no lives have been lost. THE FASHIONS.— Velveteen and cloth are the mixtures most in vogue this season. Sometimes they are used in the same colour, and sometimes as contrasts, such as grey cloth and tnarron or chestnut-brown velvet. The favourite mixture for dressy toilettes is pale blue and prune colour, and black and pink, which latter contrast appears in the most novel styles. For evening wear a great many pink tulle dresses are made a 'lidded with black velvet dots and looped up with black velvet sashes, also black tulle dresses are made trimmed with pink ribbon in ribbled gros grain. These ribbons are arranged on the black skirts as four sashes, each terminating with a rosette, and so contrived that they have the effect of looping up the bouffantes of the dress.— John Bull. CONSECRATION OF ST. JUDE'S CHURCH, SOUTH KENSINGTON.—On Friday morning the Bishop of London consecrated a new church which has been erected in a district which until lately was composed of uncultivated fields and small market gardens lying between the Fulham road on the north, and the town of Kensington on the south, but which has now beeome one of the well-inhabited districts of South Kensington. The church, which is dedicated to St. Jude, is a very handsome structure, in the early decorated style of architecture, from the designs of Messrs. George and Henry Godwin. By a very inge nious contrivance very light galleries are introduced, and the nave and aisles so widened that the great bulk of the nuegation is brought towards the east end of the church. It will seat about 1,600 people, and the whole cost, including adjacent rooms, which will hold between 300 and 400 people, is about .dl,OOO. ale MANUFACTURE OF GUNS IN PARIS.—L'Avzi la France, a microscopic journ al, which is published in Paris, has furnished some details respecting the facture of weapons. It says thatfew days six hun dred breech -loading guns will be handed to the army of Paris. The greatest credit is due to those who have undertaken the work, and who have had to resort to con trivances on some occasions in order to execute their task for want of proper tools. For the most part the guns constructed at Paris are most excellent, and an experi ment made under the surveillance of a captive balloon shewed that their range was considerable. The Prussian cannon was inferior in range and in precision also. The Potier gun, as this is called, was proppsed under the Empire, but was not favourably received by the autho rities. THE WEEKLY PI WASS. THE MINISTRY. The Saturday Review says that "Mr. Gladstone and any of his colleagues who may be admitted to his intimate confidence, must find a sensible addition to their labours and anxieties in the necessity which has arisen for a partial reconstruction of the Cabinet. The loss of strength which the Government incurs by the resignation of Mr. Bright scarcely involves immediate danger to its existence. Notwithstanding the practical changes which have been made in the Constitution, it is still necessary that any party which proposes to overthrow a Government should have an alternative Cabinet ready to take office. The Conservatives have the same respectable body of adminis trators at their disposal who formerly served under Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli ; but in the present Parliament it is impOsSible that Mr. Disraeli should form a Govern ment. The extreme Liberals, on the other hand, though they might possibly withdraw their support .from the Government, have no organised staff of their own. Mr. Gladstone is their natural leader, inasmuch as he does . more for their cause than any champion whom they could select among themselves ; and they have a special element of weakness in the fact that they are entirely •unrepre sented; except perhaps by the • Lord Chancellor, in the House of Lords. It would be a strrin on the resources of the party to supply the placeS of Mr. Lowe, Mr. Card well, and Mr. Childers ; and they are certainly not pr , pared - at the srame time - to find , neeessors to Lord Gram: the Duke of Argyll, Lord Kimberley, and Lord De Grey. It is a great convenience to have a considerable number of qualified candidates for high office who are not corn ' gelled to submit to the chances of popular election ; and any list which could be drawn up of the most capable statesmen and adminiStrators in the country would at any time include a number of peers. On the whole, Mr. Gladstone may safely and prudently choose the best men whom he can find, without thinking it necessary to count the Votes which he may gain or lose. rt is satisfactory to be assured that Mr. Ayrton, who was supposed two years ago to have a chance of a place in the Cabinet, has by his administration of the Board. of Works made it impossible for the most partial of his friends to recommend his further promotion. JUNKERISM. The mischief this war is working in Germany itself comes out, says the Spectator, more strongly every day. Its first effect has been to develop what is called in India and America "land-hunger,"—the thirst for territorial acquisition irrespective of the uses to which the territory can be put; in other words, a spirit wholly inconsistant with the permanent maintenance of peace, the first con dition of which is immovable frontiers. Nations must fight if their frontiers are threatened, for otherwise they cease to exist. The second result has been to strengthen immensely the power of the armed caste which, under the name of Junkers, has for two centuries governed Prussia. This caste is absolutely peculiar to North Germany, and has no equivalent in any European country, or in any phrase ever employed in English politics . . This, the master evil of North Germany, has been enormously intensified by a war the first effect of which has been to justify the system. You say, argue the Junkers, that we are slavishly loyal. Our loyalty has made the Empire you desired. You protest against our militarismus, but without it the Turcos would have been ravaging your homes. You denounce our caste arrange ments ; what are they but bonds of the discipline which has done what all your anarchical chatter has for ages failed to do ? There is just enough truth in those arguments to make those who use them positive and those who deny them hesitate, and for years to come it can hardly be questioned that unless the Kaiser should abandon the Junkers they must prevail. Liberty in Germany, if the Empires continues as victorious as the Confederation, will be further off than ever. But if it does not ? Then we conceive the first of the many things that must fall will be North-German Junkerism. A great defeat, a raising of the siege of Paris. a retreat without Metz and Strasburg, and Junkerism will have received its death-blow. Like Napoleonisni, its only justification is permanent success. For the repres sion of all freedom, the extinction of all individuality, the denial of all equality, the stifling of all true natural ness of life, it has but one compensation to offer, — efficiency in war, and that compensation wanting will no .more- be burue than a uniform, _would be permanently borne as a night dress. It was becoming intolerable be fore, and now, when it has een re-invigorated, when every band has been pulled tighter and every garment cut sharply to regulation, when the Kaiser is avowedly Commander-in-Chief, and a diplomatist apologises for mastering Europe by boasting that his highest title is that of major of dragoons, nothing but success, magnifi cent, unbroken, unmistakeable, can give it continued safety. And yet there are English Liberals, men jealous of a monarchy which is to the Prussian what a cap is to a helmet, men intolerant of an aristocracy which, compared with the Prussian, is what Lord Granville is to Bismarck, who half wish that Chanzy should not break through that beleaguering line. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. The President of the- Special Committee on Breech loading and Muzzle-loading Rifled Field Guns is Major- General Sir John St. George, K.C.8., Royal Artillery. The Army and IVami Gazette says that when the Royal Military College is carried out the system of " Com panies " will be abolished.—A story has been going about the clubs for some time, to which we hesitated to give currency until we learnt it to be authentic in all the main details. It strangely illustrates the extreme want of officers in the Loire Armies. It seems tha t a y oun g -gentleman of Irish family, lately a cadet at Woolwich, with not long to wait for his commission, took it into his head that it was a pity to lose so much good fighting as he lately was daily hearing of. So one night he was wanted at tattoo and not .to be found. Nor was he heard of for some days, and then only because he wrote of his having departed to join General D'Aurelle. Since then various accounts have been received of and from him. He not only reached the Army of the Loire, but succeeded in proving his military education to the satisfaction -of Gam betta's bureau, and, aided possibly by his Hibernian extraction, was forthwith gazetted as a captain of artil. lery. One can well imagine that a young man with the sort of energy'which carried the hero of this story so far in search of service may prove of value to his new masters in his new field of artillery study. We lately commented on certain irregular punishments administered on the crew of her Majesty's ship Chanticleer on the Pacific station, and we have heard that Rear-Admiral Farquhar has so admonished Commander Bridge that there is no likelihood of any recurrence of the conduct which has been complained of, and which created so much dissatisfaction amongst the crew. _ _ _ The United Servie Gazette says the First Lord of the Admiralty is progressing rapidly towards complete reco very.—The post of assistant-controller at Chatham will shortly become vacant by the transfer of Mr. Adams to a foreign station, probably Singapore. Surgeon-Major F. J. Mouat, M.D., of the Indian Medical Service, has been permitted to retire on a pension of £550 per annum. Deputy-Inspector-General of Hospitals J. C. Brown, C. 8., has been appointed Inspector-General, vice Dr. J. Murray, M.D., whose period of service has ex pired.—The "Beaufort" testimonial has been awarded to Lieutenant Alfred A. C. Parr, RN., 1870.—Their Lordships have been pleased to grant a gratuity of .£2O to John Guyer, a West Indian pilot, for assistance ren dered to H.M..S. Myrmidon, by which that vessel was prevented from being wrecked on Key West, not that blame could in any way be attached to the Navigating Lieutenant of the ship, who is well known in the service as a careful navigating officer. The Broad Arrow stays Lord Dufferin's Committee to inquire into the future designs of our war vessels will com mence its sittings at Whitehall in the early part of week. Colonel Pasley, Royal Engineers, has been appointed secretary to the Committee.—The rumoured changes at the Admiralty will not, under any circumstances, take place for the present.—A reward for distinguished service is at the disposal of the Crown, in consequence of the death of Major-General Robert Henry Lowth, C. 8., Lieutenant-Colonel retired. full-yay, 88th Foot.—With reference to the proposed reduction of the Military Head quarter Staff in Dublin, it is the opinion of those persons most conversant with the requirements of the service in Ireland, that such reduction would be highly impolitic, and that under existing circumstances it cannot possibly be carried into effect. THE NEW STAMP ACT.—We are enabled to give an unqualified contradiction to the statement made by " A City Solicitor," in the Daily News on Saturday with respect to the Stamp Act. 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