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A€ all Libraries, in 3 vols., FENTON'S QUEST; -1-* The New Novel, by the Author of "Lady Audley's Secret," &c. " APARTMENTS TO LET " Is the Title of CHARLES CLARKE'S CHRISTMAS ANNUAL. Third series, for 1870, price 4d. C. H. CLARKE, 13, PATERNOSTER ROW And all Booksellers and 2 . ewsmen. ion hey him Ind the hed ,rith der teat end and dish rad om - .ear, aing Asa e of and Leers lone , evon 0 to V the d on ;et vious: lable beent 30Ukt e. Int ...------ ___, n , 016 of IT. LlB, the e hare , Rev' !harle: ranee !haffY, , Esq., golf o ot o , NOW READY, CHARLES K ENT'S POEMS. THE FIRST COLLECTIVE EDITION. Handsomely bound in cloth, bevelled boards, Crown Octavo, price Seven Shillings and Sixpence. "As many of these compositions are already old acquaintances, we need only glance at the picturesque and appreciative de lineations of poets in their haunts, called 'Dreamland ;* at the rich and finished transcript from nature, entitled • Fructidor at the chivalrous tone of the writer's mind and its sympathy with modern ideas, as evidenced in such poems as `Larnartine in February ;' at his simple and genuine pathos, of which • Amelia' is a type ; and at his sympathy with the animated pleasures of rural life, in evidence of which we may cite The Morris Dancers.' • Aletheia ' is the longest, and, on the whole, the noblest poem in the collection. It will be recurred to not only for its beauty of description, but for its pure and elevated philosophy. The reader will note not only the atmosphere in which the chief figure moves, but also the full and appropriate details which enrich the picture. The high and varied merits of the book ought to insure its popularity."—Athenaeum. • • • "Mr. Charles Kent, the Editor of The Sun,' ranks very high as a poet."—Publishers' Circular. , "The versatility of style, and the fresh and vigorous writing in these poems, lend a charm which we seldom find in the poetry of the day."—Examiner. " Poems marked by grace, feeling, and strong love of nature, and a cultivated and genial spirit."—Daily News. " The poems which appear for the first time in this volume are not unworthy of the author's earlier productions."—Daily Telegraph. " Mr. Kent may not aspire to be classed among the ' Dii Majores ' of the poetic court, but assuredly he will take a very respectable position among the lesser divinities."—Standard. "There is much that is very beautiful in the poems before us—a collection of the thoughts, the emotions, the feelings of a whole lifetime."—Tablet. The "Rock " expresses its " cordial admiration for the genius and the taste of Mr. Kent as a poet of very considerable powers and culture," adding, " The real vigour of Mr. Kent's poetical spirit manifests itself chiefly in dealing with the feelings. Re is equally at home in pathos and in terror, and in strains that go right to the heart and stir the emotions to the lowest depths." "Mr. Charles Kent has long been known to wield a facile pen in writing poems of the class just indicated, and it is but fair to add that he takes high rank among the minor poets."— Echo. The "Westminster Review." while regretting it " cannot join in the chorus of praise, nor share in the enthusiasm which has been raised over Mr. Kent's poems," adds that it " cannot, how ever, part with the book without expressing a word of praise for its generous t , ne and sympathies." "He is a true poet, and his works will live."—News of the World. "We have the pleasant task of welcoming, as a real addition to the ranks of our true poets, Mr. Kent. He is something more than a mere versifier ; he is a real poet, and has proved it. ' Milton at Cripplegate '—an exquisite picture of the blind old poet discoursing sweet sounds upon the organ in solitary but resigned sadness—is a poem that ought to live. Such of our readers as care for the roll of Milton's own blank verse, for thoroughly poetic fancies, for delicate imagery, and fora high and pure tone of moral feeling, we must leave .to ponder over this short poem for themselves."—London Figaro. "That very graceful poem which appeared in the ' Times' as a welcome to Longfellow, and which, from the initials, was attributed to the author of Hypatia, was written by Mr. Charles Kent, the Editor of ' The Sun,' and was worthy of a priest of Phoebus Apollo."—Punch. " We find in the volume a luxuriant imagery, the fruit of a life-long study of nature. 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Office, 5 , Red Lion-square, W.C., London.—During the last 10 years this Institution has been instrumental in rescuing a vast number of poor girls from a life of degradation and misery. The plan adopted has been to seek the wanderers in the streets of London and gather them together at the midnight hour, when short and faithful addresses have been given. During the present year the Meetings have been held nearly every week in some of the most frequented districts of the metropolis. The promoters have abundant evidence that these efforts have been most successful in effecting a great moral change in many fallen ones. To enable them to , continue their important work, FUNDS are earnestly solicited, and will be thankfully received by Mr. John Stabb, Hon. Sec., 5, Red Lion-square, W.C., London ; and at the Union Bank of London (Carey-street Branch), W.C. A LEXANDRA ORPHANAGE for INFANTS, Hornsey-rise, near Highgate, N. Children eligible from any part of the Kingdom. 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S""PE'S BOTTLES Are protected by a Label having Name and Trade Mark. Manufactories at London, Liverpool, Derby, Bristol, Glasgow and Maliern. SOCIETY for ORGANISING CHARITABLE RELIEF and REPRESSING MENDICITY. President—The Lord Bishop of LONDON. Chairman—The Earl of LICHFIELD. Treasurer - 11. B. Praed, Esq. Hon. Secs.—Alsager Hay Hill and George M. Hicke, 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, Leinster-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. 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Nrumber of beds available with proposed addition, 164. ''he Hospital is entirely dependent on voluntary support. Bankers, Mena. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street HENRY SEWELL, ilon. Scc. Offices, 24, Finsbury-circus. RICHARD P. SLATER, Sec. HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON. REFUGES FOR HOMELESS AND DESTITUTE C.KILDREN and CHICHESTER TRAINING SHlP.—Upwards of 500 Boys and Girls ate now being supported in these Refuges and Ship. ' Owing to the benevolent and praiseworthy exertions which have for several months been made to aid the hick and. Wounded iri the present War, the Muds for the support of these Refuges and Ship have decreased considerably. . An urgent appeal is therefore made for assistance to support the inmates. £l5 will keep a i boy or a girl for one year, and £1 Sc. for a month. Contributions thankfully received by the London and West minster Bank, 214, High Holborn, W. 4., and 41, Lothbury, E.C., and by WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary. No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C. IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN CUSTOMS LOAN FOR £1,000,000 STERLING. The HALF-YEARLY INTEREST on the above Bands, due on the Ist February next, will be paid on that day and any suc ceeding day, at the Counting-house of Messrs. J. Henry Schroder and Co., 145, Leadenhall-street, between the hours of Ten and Two o'clock. The Coupons must be left for examina tion three clear days before applying for payment. London, 16th January, 1871. THE CENTRAL PRESS. TELEGRA.PHIC NEWS. The liberal arrangements made by the Post Office for the transmission of news have largely increased the demand for telegraphic intelligence. The Proprietor of the CENTRAL PRESS is now supplyin; upwards of seven hundred news papers and newsrooms, whereas the total number of subscribers supplied by all the telegraph companies under the old system did not exceed 306. _ The followinz services of news have been arranged with the view of meeting in the most efficient and economical manner the requirements of newspaper proprietors and the managers of Exchanges, News - Rooms, and Ilotela. - - It will be seen that for 395. per quarter, or 6d. per day, all important news that transpires from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. can he telegraphed to any part of the United Kingdom where there is a postal telegraph office. A full supply of news, including extracts from the London Morning, Papers, with the text of all important foreign tele grams end official communications, such as the Queen's Speech, are comprised in services 2,3, 4, and 7, and are supplied for £lO 14s. 6d. per quarter, or 12s. per annum. TELEGRAPHIC SERVICES. 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They are forwarded direct, and the most careful arrangements are ii ade to ensure their prompt dispatch.- Aberdeen, Cattle—Saturday. London, Corn Averages—Once Birmingham, Corn—Thursday. a week. Bristol, Cattle—Thursday. IP Potatoes—Daily. PP Corn—Tuesday and I) Produce—Daily. Thursday. „ Provision—Daily. Clyde, Crushed Sugar—Daily. Leeds, Cattle—Wednesday. Cork, Butter—Daily. ' Corn—Tuesday. „ Corn—Saturday. Leith, Corn—Saturday. Doncaster, Cattle—Saturday. Liverpool, Cattle—Monday. Corn —Saturday. PP Corn—Opening rues- Dublin, Cattle—Thursday. day and Friday. „ Corn—Tuesday and /I Corn—Closing Tues- Friday. day and Friday. Edinburgh, Cattle —Wednes- „ Cotton—Opening Daily. day. IP IP —Closing Daily. PP Corn Wednes- „ Produce—Daily. day. Lincoln, Corn—Friday. Gloucester, Corn—Saturday. Maidstone, Corn—Thursday. Glas.,ow, Cattle—Thursday. Manchester, Cotton—Monday, 1, Corn—Wednesday. Wednesday, and Thursday, ~, Pig Iron—Opening at 4d. ; Tuesday, Friday, is. Daily. Manchester, Corn—Thursday. ~ „ —Closing Daily Newark, Corn—Wednesday. Hull, Cattle—Tuesday. Newcastle, Cattle—Tuesday. ~ Corn—Tuesday. PP Corn— Tuesday and Kirkcaldy, Corn—Saturday. Saturday. London, Cattle—Monday and Norwich, Corn—Saturday. Thursday. Reading, Corn—Saturday. ~, Cons--Opening Mon- Salford, Cattle—Tuesday. day, Wednesday, Southall, Cattle—Wednesday. and Friday. Wakefield, Cattle—Wednesday. ~ Corn—Closing Mon- „ Corn—Friday. clay, Wednesday, and Friday. BANK RETURNS, 395. per quarter. WIND AND WEATHER, 395. per quarter. SHIPPING LIST, arrivals at Gravesend, Fal mouth, and Queenstown, each 395. per quarter. NEW YORK PRICES, daily, 395. per quarter. SPORTING.—DetaiIs of terms for sporting news will be supplied in January next. - A discount of 10 per cent. is allowed on, arrangements for not less than twelve months. - CONDITIONS In all cases instructions to forward Telegrams are received subjbet to their acceptance and transmission by the Post Office. The Telegrams to be used only in one newspaper or news roorh, and g i re not to be copied. No order for bass than Three Months can be accepted, and prepayment is essential. Orders received on Monday MORNING can commence on the following Thursday ; orders received on Thursday MORNING can commence on the following Monday. Two weeks' notice must be given before the expiration of the current quarter if the service is not to be continued. WILLIAM SAUNDERS, Proprietor. 112, Strand, London, W. 0., December 1, 1870. THE UNITED LAND COIEPANY (LIMITED). NCT: IT. is hereby given that a GENERAL • MEETING of the Coin v ituy will be held at the Offices, 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, W.C., at Two of the clock p.m., on 310NDAY, the Sixth day of February, 1871, for the purpose of receiving the. Report of the Directors, of declaring a Dividend and' Bonus, and of transac ing the ordinary business of the Company. By order of the Board, 9th January, 1871. CHARLES GRUNEISEN, Secretary. N.B.—The SHARE TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from Monday next, the 16th instant, till Monday, the 6th February, inclusive. :33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, W.C. BONUS YEAR.-SPECIAL NOTICE, ei LE RICAL, M EDICA L, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ANNUAL INCOME, steadily 'increasing.... £230,355. ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested...... L 1,707,769. The NINTH BONUS will be declared inJanuary, 1872, and all With-Profit Policies in existence on the 30th June, 1871, will participate ; so that persons who complete such Assurances before June 30th next will share in, that ➢ivision, although one Premium only will have been paid. Report and Balance Sheets, Forms of Proposal, and every information, can be obtained of GEORGE CUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary. 13, St, James's-square, London, S.W. GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE OFFICE. Established 1821.—Subscribed Capital Two Millions. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. DIRECTORS: ICK IL JANSON, Esq. MES GOODSON, 'Esq. CHAIRMAN-FREDER] DEPUTY-CIIAIRMAN-JA J. G. Hubbard, Esq. G. J. Shaw Lefevre, Esq., M.P. John Martin, Esq. Augustus Prevost, Esq. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq. William Stevens, Esq. John G. Talbot, Esq., ➢I.P. Henry Vigne, Esq. Henry Ifulse Berens, Esq. Henry Bonham Carter, Esq Charles Wm. Curtis, Esq. Charles F. Devas, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq., Sir W. R. Farquhar, Bart. Archibald Hamilton, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq. Richard M. Harvey, Esq. SECRETARY—T. Tallemach, Esq. ACTUARY—SamueI Brown, Esq N.B.—Fire Policies which expire at Christmas must be renewed at the Head Office, or with the Agents, on or before the 9th of January. Prospectuses and forms of proposal, with the Actnary's valua tion and statement of the assets and liabilities in the Life Branch, free on application to the Company's Agents, or to the Secretary. TELL GREAT MANCHESTER SCAN DAL CASE. In the Divorce Court, the cause of " Milne v. Milne and Fowler " has been again before his lordship. It will be remembered that the co-respondent, Robinson Fowler, was formerly stipendiary magistrate for the city of Man chester, and the respondent was the wife of the chairman of the Quarter Sessions for the Salford Hundred. At the original trial there was practically no defence, and Lord Penzance granted a decree nisi for a dissolution of the marriage. Mr. Milne then asked for damages, but it was agreed that they should be assessed at £1,500, and for that amount the jury found. The question of costs was then .reserved, and it was with reference to them that the cause now came before the court.—Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., now moved that both the respondent and the co respondent should be condemned in the costs of the suit. He pointed out that none of the pleas of connivance, wilful neglect, or cruelty had been persevered in. Mrs. Milne had a large amount of property, whilst the petitioner had only a limited in come, and the co-respondent had no money.-- Sir 'John Karslake, Q.C., in a long argument, doubted whether the court had power to condemn a respondent in costs. He also pointed out that Mrs. Milne's property was left for her personal use, and that it would practically be encumbered with her husband's debt to his attorney. —Lord Penzance did not doubt that the court had the power to condemn the respondent in costs where she had money. He would make an order that the respondent in this case shouldpay them. The only reason against it was that wives generally had their costs paid ; but that was only because the Court presumed they had not any moue y. If the respondent objected to any of the items in the costs she could come before the Judge in Chambers, and he would decide whether she ought to pay them or not. STREET TRAMWAYS. On Monday night at the rooms of the Social Science Association, a paper was read by Mr. Jolts Noble on " Street Tramways ; ought they to be constructed by local governing bodies, or by private enterprise ?" Dr Brewer, M.P., occupied the chair. Mr. Noble re marked that the only difference between the question and the State purchase of railways, as he viewed it, was that no great vested interests had yet been created in tramways on public roads. The objection of the Metropolitan Board of Works to undertake the construc tion of street tramways, on the assumption that such a proceeding would meet with public dislavour, was not well grounded, as in Liverpool the corporation had resolved upon such a course without_ any serious public objection being raised. He then proceeded to show that there was no need for apprehension that the enter prise would not prove a commercial success, by adducing the satisfactory results of the working of similar undertakings in various cities of America. In conclusion, he urged the necessity of a royal commis sion being appointed to inquire into the subject, and de termining whether it was better at once to authorise local bodies to undertake the construction of street tramways than conferring upon those bodies powers of purchase at the end of 21 years; and he further contended that the effect would be greatly to diminish the weight of the local burdens, which had now by general assent reached their maximum of oppression in the shape of rates. A discus sion ensued upon the paper, the chairman, who 1 ook part therein, expressing a very decided opinion in opposition to a suggestion offered that the Government should, as they had done with the post-office and the telegraphs, undertake the management and working of street tramways. The hon. gentleman pointed out how such an undertaking was irreconcileable with the proper func tions of Government, and how seriously it would distract the attention of the Government from its legiti mate duties. He has decidedly objected to the Board of Works taking upon itself such a work when the vestries, which it represented were so unfavourable to the intro duction of tramways in the public streets ; yet he believed the time would come when vestries would change their feeling on the subject. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Further restrictions, it would appear, are to be placed upon foreigners inspecting our dockyards, for an order has arrived at Chatham dockyard from the Admiralty, giving direction§ that no foreigners are to be allowed to inspect the yard unless by special order granted by the Lords of the Admiralty. Other precautions will be taken in order to prevent foreigners obtaining an entry into the yards in company with others who may be natives of this country. _ _ _ The - Iron Duke, 14, double screw, armour-plated, iron ship, Captain Lambert, has made a preliniinary trial of her engines at Plymouth. The en gives made 75 revolu tions per minute going out to sea, and 81 revolutions on the return to the Sound. The machinery worked very satisfactorily. The necessary instructions have been received at the Pembroke dockyard to proceed immediately with the building of another gunboat similar to the Coquette, now in course of construction at this yard. A saving is about to be effected in the ropemaking at the dockyards by turning to profitable account the refuse from the hemp. This refuse has hitherto, as useless, been burnt ; but it is understood that an offer has been made to, and accepted by, the authorities to purchase this refuse at £ll per ton, it having been found that it can be used in the manufacture of paper. On Monday afternoon the trial of the 35-ton gun at the proof butts, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, was advanced another stage with the same satisfactory results. Two rounds were fired from the the gun with charges of 1201 b. of pebble powder and similar projectiles, of 7001 b. weight each. The force of the explosion caused the gun to recoil up the inclined plane to the top at both discharges, return ing to the loading position - of itself. A number of mili tary officers were present to witness the experiments not withstanding the inclement weather. The final trial has been postponed for a few days in order to allow time for the gun to be examined. On that occasion it will be fired with the maximum proof-charge of 1501 b. of powder. A. NONAGENARIAN.—The oldest clergyman in. the diocese of Oxford, the Rev. Thomas Walden .Haniner, has just died at the great age of 92. He was vicar nf Little Missenden, Bucks, for sixty years, and rector of Simpson, in the same county, for twenty-five years. He was formerly a member of Brasenose College, Oxford, where lie graduated B.A. in 1803 and M.A . in-1307. „.. BREAKFAST. —EU.S'S COCOA.--GRATEFUL AND COM FORTING.—The very agreeable character of this preparation has rendered it a general favourite. The Civil Service Gazette re marks :—" By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. Each packet is labelled--JABos EPPS (C.: CO., Homoeo pathic Chemists. London. Also, makers of Epps's Cacaoine, a very thin evening beverage. —Ad vt. THE IRRIGATION COMPANY OF FRANCE. Lords Justices James and Mellish had before them an appeal from a decision of Vice-Chancellor Malins with respect to the Irrigation Company of France. Originally Mr. Charles Burton Fox, of Newport, Monmouthshire, the holder of three hundred shares with £5,500 paid up, presented a petition for the compulsory liquidation of the company (with the alternative of a voluntary winding up under supervision); for the renewal Of the present liquidators; Mr. T. Cave, M.P. for Barnstaple, and Mr. Alexander Young ; and for liberty to take legal proceed ings for setting aside the scheme for the conversion of the company into a French company. The company was brought out in 1866, under the auspices of the Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England, four of whose directors —Mr. R. Stuart Lane and three others—were appointed to act on the Irrigation board, whose object was to acquire concessions granted by the Imperial Government of France. The petitioner alleged that the business of the company was fraudulently conducted for the benefit of the Credit Foncier, as evidenced in the dealings which led to the acquisition of the first concession, when the shareholders were charged £90,000, of which £60,000 was retained by the Credit Foncier, and, in addition to which, the directors were to receive large pecuniary benefits, in the shape of commission at the expense of the shareholders. The concerns of the com pany were conducted so recklessly that eventually a liability of no less than half a million sterling was created ; and in this state of things the directors nego tiated for the transfer of the company to a body of - Frerch --- specut.xtbrs; --tbe-'-effv-a -, Of-which-' would -bo :t o prevent by the change of jurisdiction any investiga tion by English tribunals into the conduct of the directors, as well as to deprive those who should effect au.exchange of shares of half the amount they had paid in. At the same time, in spite of the remonstrance of the petitioner and other shareholders, the voluntary liquidation of the English Company was proceeded with ; and Mr. Fox sought to impugn the conduct of the direc tors, on the ground that the whole transaction was ultra vices, and in direct contravention of the 161st section of the Act of Parliament. But Vice-Chancellor Mathis dismissed the petition, on the ground that it was not shewn that the compulsory liquidation would be more beneficial to the interests of the shareholders than a volun tary one. Against that decision Mr. Fox now appealed, and it is expected that the proeeedings will occupy the attention of the Court for some considerable time. THE CANADIAN FISHERIES QUESTION. The question of the Canadian Fisheries continues to excite great interest in the United States. The New York Herald, always prompt to take up the topic of the day, devotes more than a page of close print to a summary of the views and feelings of the disputants. The account is an impartial one, for the same space is devoted to the opinions of the Dominion statesmen as to the sentiments of Massachusetts. The members of the Canadian Govern ment maintain that it is not true, as staled by the Presi dent, that they are applying any new measures of severity to American fishermen in their waters. On the contrary, they have practically surrendered a very important point, the headland point, and only enforce their exclusive fishery property, three miles from shore. They were amazed at the tone of the President's message and the charge he brought against them, and hint that an eminent American of great influence named " Buncombe" has something to do with it. Through all the period between the Treaty of 1818 and the Reciprocity Treaty of 1854, the Canadians maintain that when they seized offending ves sels they always did so without notice. So far from being unfavourably disposed towards American fishermen, they argue that they have made many and valuable concessions, allowing them the right; to fish in all the bays and harbours up to the three-mile limit, while the advantages under the Reciprocity Treaty were, they consider, mainly on the side of the Americans. Canada got nothing under it at all equivalent to the un unlimited fishing right of the United States, and the Canadians are amazed that it should ever have been repealed by the American Government. The Canadians have this season resumed their position under the treaty of 1818, only maintaining the two points of the exclusive inshore fishing line, and the absolute necessary distinction of character between a fishing and trading vessel. As for the St. Lawrence naviga tion, they profess themselves perplexed to know what the President meant. They should not have thought it possible for anyone to forget the Falls of Niagara, but the President seems to have overlooked the fact that the natural waterway from Lake Superior to the ocean is considerably impeded by falls and rapids. Some of these are reckoned among the physical wonders of the world. They must reckon among the pc,litical wonders that an American statesman should leave them out of view. The Canadians declare that the water way of the St. Lawrence basin is only navigable by ;their canals, and these are used as freely by the Americans as by them selves. On the other hand the fishermeri.'of Gloucester, Massachusetts, are full of indignant histories of affronts and illusage received at the hands of the Dominion authorities. The New Fork Herald of the 7th inst. gives the following important rumour from W as hi ng t on: —" It i s reported that the Adminstration is perfecting a plan whereby the Government shall resume specie payments before the Ist of January, 1872." A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Royal Albert Hall was held on Monday to settle the preliminaries for the ope n i ng b y th e Q ueen on t h e 29th o f March. Present, the Right Hon. H. A. Bruce. in the chair ; Sir T. Buddulph, Mr. Bowling., Mr. Cole, Mr. Thring, and Lieutenant-Colonel Scott, secretary. It was resolved to give the proprietors of seats and season ticket holders for the London International Exhibition special privileges in obtaining tickets of admission. A deputation of salesmen, butchers, and others interested in the trade in British cattle, on Monday had an interview with Earl de Grey, and pressed for the removal of the existing restrictions. These, it was alleged, had given rise to great dissatisfaction and inconvenience, and memorials complaining of the consequent injury to trade had been sent up from many parts of the United Kingdom. Mr. M`Cullagh Torrens, M.P., and Sir C. Wingfield, M.P., were amongst the speakers who enforced the views of the deputation. Earl de Grey would give no pledge that the cordon could be entirely removed, but he promised that the subject should receive the serious con sideration of the Government. DEATH F 11.0.11 DESTITUTION.—A woman named Maria Davidge has died at Langport from destitution. On viewing the body the jury found that the only vestige of furniture in the ground-floor room was a stool belonging to a neighbour, and an old bench that had served as a table. Upstairs there was no bed, nor furniture or clothing of any kind. The single room contained the remnants of an old stump bedstead, within the posts of which a quantity of filthy rags, with a quantity of wheat and oat dust, had been placed. This formed the bed upon which the deceased and her son, a boy 15 years old, had huddled together. The jury censured the youth for not obtaining assistance. REQUIEM MASS FOR MARSHAL PIUM.—A solemn Mass for the repose of the soul of the late Marshal Prim, has been celebrated at St. James's Spanish-place, London, in presence of a large number of Spanish residents. The music was Mozart's " Requiem," which was most effi ciently executed by the principal singers of the church choir, supported by a grand chorus of about 30 voices, with a full orchestral band, under the direction of Senor Lago, and Mr, Fagan, the organist of St. James's. The high altar. was draped in black, and black hangings were placed on the front of the organ gallery and some of the pillars of the church. A grand catafalque was erected in front of the altar ; on the top were placed a coronet, a marshal's baton and sword, and numerous lighted candles surrounded it. The ceremony concluded with the tensing of the catafalque and sprinkling of it with holy water. PICTURES ON HOSPITAL WALLS.— The Royal Hospital of Incurables at Putney, has, through the liberality of one of its warmest supporters, become what may not inappropriately be termed a "picture gallery.' A gentleman—one whose deligh t is to do g ood b y stealth," and would therefore not care to see Ins na me publicly associated with an act of most thoughtful bene volence,be allowed to speak of him as the ay hospital—has presented to it as thotre a t s though we w of m e many as 400 chromolithographs of the best kind, which he has had put into handsome frames, and hung round the walls of every apartment in the building where the afflicted patients lie helpless ; or, if able to move about, where they are accustomed to assemble. It is not easy to imagine with what pleasure these beautiful trans cripts of nature are viewed by the inmates, not a few of whom are incapable of seeing anything beyond the walls of the rooms in which, amid pain and suffering, they are, in all probability, destined to pass the remainder of their wearisome lives. Melrose Hall, the name of the hospital would well repay a visit; it is most beautifully situated, and is open to the public any day of the week. There are many vacant rooms the committee would most thankfully fill did its finances permit, and the afflicted in all parts of the country are craving for admis sion by hundreds ; for there is no distinction of locality, or sect, or creed, to render any oandidate ineligible; lie or she must be simply pronounced incurable—what a condition only to think of !--by -medical authority. We have no doubt the. donor of the pictures already.there would only be too glad to decorate the now empty apart ments as lie has those which are occupied. 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