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ENTIRE 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. E NTIRE NY HEAT 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. ENTIRE WHEAT FLOUR. (CHAPMAN and Co.'s PATENT.) • Is recommended for the use of Invalids, as frac more sustaining than Arrowroot, Corn Flour, &c., which are often rejected, when the Entire Wheat Flour is taken with relish. Retail of Family Grocers, &c., in 3d., Gd., and is. packets, and 3s. tins. Wholesale of ORLANDO JONES and Co., 18 Billiter-street, Manufacturers of the GOLD MEDAL RICE STARCH. SOIIWEPPE'S MINERAL WATERS. SCHWEPPE'S SODA. WATER, So celebrated now for upwards of a century. 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The receipts of cotton at the United States ports on February 13 amounted to 43,000 bales. The Toronto Legislature has voted thirty thousand dollars to assist immigration, and twenty thousand to clear free lots for settlers and to erect houses. A girl named Eley, aged 13, died at Leeds on Tuesday from hydrophobia, having been bitten in the hand by a dog a few weeks ago. SUICIDE OF A BUTLER.—An inquest was held on Saturday at the Marylebone Workhouse on the body of William Garrett, a butler. Latterly deceased had been in low spirits, and complained of pains in his head and want of sleep. On Thursday afternoon he was found in the coal-cellar of the house where he was employed, with his throat cut and a razor lying by his side. Life was quite extinct. The jury returned a verdict of suicide while in a state of unsound mind. THE CLAN CAMPBELL MARRIAGE PREBRNT TO THE PRINCESS LOIIISE.—The general committee appointed by the Clan Campbell met on Friday at the Caledonian Hotel, Edinburgh, for the purpose of choosing the present to be given to her Royal Highness Princess Louise. After inspecting a number of designs and ornaments by some of the best jewellers in the kingdom, they fixed upon four designs by Messrs. Mackay and Cunningham, of Edin burgh; Messrs. Garrard, Crown jewellers; and Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, to be sent to her royal highness, from which she will be invited to make her own selection. OXFORD UNIVERSITY.—The publication of the New Oxford Calendar enables us to supply the following interesting particulars as regards the number of members of the University, &c.:—Members of Convocation 1871, 4,323 ; members on the books, 8,236 ; matriculations, 569; M.A.'s, 222; B.A.'s, 402. Of the members on the books, 36 are down as of ICeble College, 26 at Charlsley Private Hall, and 98 unattached students. The total of members of Convocation in the previous year Was 4,327, and on the books 8,045, of whom only 66 were unattached, shewing a considerable increase in the latter class of students. There were 583 matriculations in 1869, 231 M.A.'s, and 350 B.A.'s. TOUCHING WEATHER. —The Clerk of the Weather is of the same family as Jack Frost, Hoyle, Cocker, Mrs. Grundy, Mrs. Harris. Mrs. Malaprop, and the Oldest In habitant. His biography yet remains to be written. De rangement of the digestive organs, irritability of temper, family differences, sulkiness, sleepiness, sleeplessness, suicide, " shooting " corns, shirts of indifferent colour, pains in the joints, hair out of curl, tough mutton, inability to fulfil an engagement to join a slow party, are all the weather. The next census returns will shew how many Sersons were talking about the weather on the night of unday this 2nd of April. If there was no uncertainty about our weather, if it was always monotonously fine, with no fogs, no protracted absences of the sun, no heavy showers to be' caught in, no equinoctial gales, no hailstones the size of pullets' eggs, and no east wind—what would become of small talk ! We should have to invent new openings for conversation, as they do for chess. The weather exhausts us, but we shall never exhaust th weather. Blessings on the weather ! (From Judy.) Workmen generally on strike—Blacksmiths. The Ground of Insanity—The Battle-field. What is a collision ?—Two trains trying to pass on the same lines. BINKO'S PATENT IMPERIAL BRILLIANT PLUM. For Cleansing Window, Looking, Plate, and all other kinds of Glass. In Bottles, 6d. and ls. each. FINE FLAVOURED STRONG BEEF TEA, AT ABOUT 2P. A PINT. ASK FOR LIEBIG COMPANY'S EXTRACT OF MEAT, REQUIRING BARON LIEBIG, THE INVENTOR'S, SIGNATURE ON EVERY JAR. Being the only guarantee of genuineness. COULSON'S IRISH DAMASK LINEN, &c JAMES COULSON & Co., MANUFACTURERS TO THE QUEEN MANUFACTORY- LISBURN, COUNTY ANTRIM, IRELAND, LONDON WAREHOUSE- 11, PALL MALL EAST, S.W. LONDON INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF 1871.—A1l communications respecting Advertisements in the Industrial and Fine Arcs Catalogues should be addressed immediately to J. M JOHNSON AND SONS, Printers and Publishers to H.M. Commissioners for the Official Catalogues, &c. 3, Castlj-street, Holborn, Feb. 1, 1871. CITY OF LONDON VOLUNTEER FUND PRESIDENT.—THE RIGHT I COMMI (With power to add MR. ALDERMAN B Lieut.-Col. Aikman, V.C. Alderman Sir Joseph Causton Mr. Alderman Cotton Samuel Deacon, Esq. Mr. Alderman Gibbons Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq., M.P., F.R.G.S. P. Northall Laurie, Esq. Lieut.-Col. Laurie Sir' ohn Lubbock, Bart, M.P., F.R.S. lON. THE LORD MAYOR. [TTEE. to their number.) ESLEY, CHAIRMAN. Charles Henry Mills Esq. M.P. Lieut.-Col. Man John Paterson, Esq. Alfred de Rothschild, Esq. Martin R. Smith, Esq. Lieut.-Col. Warde Lieut.-Col. Walmisley Major-Gen. Sir Andrew Scot Waugh, R.E., F.R.S. HoN. SECRETARY. CAPTAIN GOODLIFFE (17, Finsbury-place South, E.C.) TREASURERS.—MESSRS. SMITH, PAYNE, AND SMITHS In appealing to their fellow-citizens, the Committee are im pelled by a deep conviction that the Volunteer Forces generally have not received that support to which they are entitled. The five regiments specially belonging to the City, numbering over 3,500 men, are now without the advantages which have been afforded by most of the great towns 'of the kingdom. The Volunteers have devoted their time, and largely contributed out of,their means,, to the exceptionally heavy charges incident to City Corps, but which now press very severely. The Committee therefore desire to provide for the City Regiments a good Rifle Range, Drill Ground, and suitable Headquarters and Armouries, of which they are entirely destitute. The Committee appeal with confidence to the patriotism and liberality of the Citizens of London thus to ensure the permanence and efficiency of its contingent to the Reserved Forces of the kingdom. The following subscriptions have already been received : s. d. The Governor and Company of the Bank of England .. 100 0 0 The Grocers' Company 100 0 0 The Mercers' Company 50 0 0 The Saddlers' Com- £ s. d. Messrs. Mitchell Bros. 10 10 0 „ SharpandTerry 5 5 0 „ Roberts, Lub bock,anclCo 50 0 0 „ Henry Rogers, Sons, and Co 10 10 0 „ George Brettle and Co .... „ Caldecott, Sons, pany 21 0 0 Messrs. Baring 8r05... 100 0 0 „ Rothschild and Sons ...... 100 0 0 „ Smith, Payne, 50 0 0 and C 0..... 20 0 0 Mr. Alderman Besley . 21 0 0 P. Northall Laurie, Esq. . . 10 10 0 Lieut.-Col. Warde .. 100 0 0 „ Aikman, and co 100 0 0 „ Glyn, Mills, and Co ...: 100 0 0 „ Hoares ...... 100 0 0 11 Brown, Ship ley, and Co. 100 0 0 „ Williams, Dea • con, and Co. 50 0 0 „ Prescott,Qrote _ _ _ V.C. ... 100 0 0 „ Laurie .. 100 0 0 John Paterson, Esq .. 10 10 0 James Vickers, Esq... 5 5 0 Charles Phillips, Es 1. 5 0 0 H. H. Haycock, Esq.. 10 10 0 A. M'Dougall, Esq. .. 5 5 0 Messrs. J. and 11. Morley .... IP Brown, Paris, and C 0..... 10 10 0 „ Slater, Buck ingham, and Co and Co".. 50 0 0 „ Barnett and Co 50 0 0 „ F. Ruth and Co 50 0 0 „ J. S. Morgan _ _ 100 0 0 and Co. :.. 50 0 0 „ Bosanquet and _ _ Co. ..... 25 0 0 „ Gledstanes and Co ........ 25 0 0 „ Jos. Causton and Sons .. 21 0 0 „ Goslings...... 50 0 0 „ Thomson, Bo nar, and Co. 21 0 0 , Child and Co.. 50 0 0 Truman,Hitch cock, andCo 5 5 0 „ John Peterson anti C,o .... 5 5 0 „ WeddandLobb 5 5 0 „ Keyser and Ricardos .. 10 10 0 5 5 0 „ Bansllys,Wes tall, and Spence.... „ C. W. Bourne and Co. .... „ DentAllcroft, 5 50 and Co The Merchant Taylors' Company ..... .... 31 10 0 TheFishmongers'.Corn pany .............. 100 0 0 : 10 10 0 Subscriptions will be receive SMITU, PAYNE, and BMITII4I, Bankers. Id by the Treasurers, Messrs mil by most of the principal EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament. leer Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity iu Situations of Trust. Chief Office-17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. Annual Income, £300,000. Capital, subscribed by more than 1,600 Shareholders, nearly £BOO,OOO. DIRECTORS. CHAIRMAN—GeneraI Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., F.R.S. The Rev: A. Alston, D.D. R. M. Carter, Esq., M.P. E. Hamilton Anson, Esq. Edmund Heeley, Esq. A. R. Bristow, Esq. Reginald Read, Esq., M.D. This Society are now ISSUING COMPLETE LIFE POLICIES. The peculiar features of these Policies are as follow :- 1. The Payments Cease after Ten or Twenty Years. 2. The Policy is not forfeited by the non-payment of renewal premium during the ten or twenty years. 3. The Assurer is entitled for each yearly payment he has made to a paid-up Policy for one-tenth or one-twentieth of the sum Assured. HENRY B. PARMINTER, Manager. BONUS YEAR.--SPECIAL NOTICE, eILERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. ANNUAL INCOME, steadily increasing.... £230,355. ASSURANCE FUND, safely invested...... £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 Division, 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. L ONDON FREE AND OPEN CHURCH ASSOCIATION. OFFICE 25, NORFOLK-STREET, STRAND, W.C. (Instituted April 25th, 1866). PRESIDENT.—The Right Hon. Earl Nelson. VICE-PRESIDENTS.—The Bishops of Bangor, Capetown, Chi chester, Derry and Raphoe, Lichfield, Lincoln, Peterborough, and Tennessee, and about 250 Noblemen, M.P.'s, Church Digni taries, and Country Gentlemen. BANKERS.—Union Bank of London, Chancery Lane, W.C. Subscriptions for the year 1871 became due on the Ist of January. 'V FUNDS ARE URGENTLY REQUIRED. Publications and all Information to be obtained gratuitously from the undersigned. The Society's operations extend through out the Kingdom. OCTAVIUS L. HILLS, Treasurer. S. R. TowNSIIEND MAYER, Resident Secretary. February, 1871. THE COMIC PAPERS. ( From Punch. 1 THE BEST MAGAZINES.—CereaIs for Prance. EXCESSIVE BAlL.—Justice (to Bismarck) : " Your client was assaulted, and you ask that the defendant ' shall be bound over to keep the peace for many years.' But I cannot sanction a demand for exorbitant securi ties." ROGUES FALLING OUT.—Mamma : " What is baby cry ing for, Maggie r Maggie : " I don't know." Mamma : " And what are you looking so indignant about?" Maggie : "'That nasty greedy dog 's been and took and eaten my 'punge-take !" Mamma : " Why, I saw you eating a sponge cake a minute ago !" • Maggie : " o—that was baby's !" ONE TOO MANY.—Scene : Corner of wood from which fox is supposed to have broken. Hounds, on emerging from covert, suddenly throw up and seem undecided. General disappointment and disgust of master, who rides up to yokel standing near—" Did you see the fox break at this corner, my man?" Yokel • " Seen un? Yaas, I seed un coom oot, but (looking cunning)--I druv un back agen !" THE SMALLPDX IN LONDON. The Registrar General in his weekly bulletin of the public health says :—The fatal cases of smallpox in Lon don, which in the first five weeks of this year had averaged 151, rose to 211 !last week, sheaving a further increase of 15 upon the previous week. The mortality from smallpox varies with age. Thus in the last week the annual rate per thousand in children under five years of age was 10.7 ; in young persons of five and under 20 it was 3.2 ; in persons of the age 20-40 it was 2.7 ; in men and women of 40-60 it was 0.8 ; and after 60 the rate was nominal. This has an important bearing on the ques tion, does the protective power of vaccination wear out with time ? The persons who die in 1871 at the age 20-40 must have been born about the years 1831-51; while those who die at the age 40-60 must have been born about 1811 31. Now it is not likely that the numbers born in 1811-31 were vaccinated in any larger proportion than those born twenty years - later ; the balance is probably on the other side, yet the mortality at the advanced age 40- 60 was only one-third of the mortality at the age 20-40. The danger of dying from small-pox dimi nishes rapidly as age advances, which could not be the case if the effect of vaccination wore out with time. The facts of the the ten years 1851-1860 all over England bear out this deduction. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has named Monday, the Bth of May next, for the anniversary festival of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls, at which he has consented to preside. The Archbishop of Armagh begs to acknowledge with many thanks the receipt of the first halves of three Bank of England notes, Nos. 61,556, 61,557, 74,870, each for £2O, for the Irish Church Sustentation Fund, from a member of the Church of England. THE BUDGET.—The London correspondent of the Irish Times says the means to be adopted by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer for raising the necessary addi tional taxation will be simply the increase of the income tax from 4d. to Bd. It is rumoured that in the event of the resignation of the Marquis of Lorne, as M.P. for Argyleshire, the following gentlemen are likely to be named as caudidates„ viz, :—The Solicitor-General for Scotland; Mr. John Pender, of Minard Castle ; Mr. John Ramsay, of Kil dalton ; Mr. J. Macpherson, of Airds; and Mr. James Hunter, of Hafton. Her Majesty's troopship Malabar will return to Eng land from Bombay vid the Suez Canal, and arrange ments have been made by which it will no longer be necessary to embark and disembark troivs next season at Alexandria, as the ships will pass through the canal both on the homeward and outward voyages. The advan tages will be obvious in many ways. We regret to have to announce the alarming illness of the Earl of Milltown, at his seat, Russborough House. His lordship is suffering from a severe attack of congestion of the lungs, caught through a cold from hunt ing\with the Kildare hounds. Sir D. Corrigan and Dr. Stokes are in attendance, and report slightly favourable symptoms. A. TELEGRAPHIC FEAT. — Mercantile nu.ssa , ,xes be tween this country and India, over the lines of the Indo- European Telegraph Company and the Indian Government Cables, were instantaneously exc hanged direct, without any retransmission, between London and Bushire, at the head of the Persian Gulf, a distance of about 4,400 miles, and again between Bushire and India, a distance of about 1,100 miles. The messages were thus forwarded between the two countries with only one retransmission, a feat unex ampled in the history of the electric telegraph. Efforts are being made to establish, during the summer months, direct working without any retransmissions, the whole distance from London to Kurrachee. THE DOWRY TO THE PRINCESS LOIJISE.-011 Tuesday evening a general meeting of the committee ap pointed at the public meeting held, last week, at the Wel lington Music-hall, Brooke-street, Holborn, to organize a demonstration against the dowry to the Princess Louise, was held at the Hole-in-the-Wall, Hatton garden, Mr. Hooper in the chair. Mr. Johnson said this ques tion had been brought on in Parliament sooner than they anticipated ; it was therefore necessary that immediate action should be taken. The press had asserted that this movement had been got up by a few working men, of Republican prin ciples. This was untrue, as he believed eight working men out of ten would si:01 a petition against it. He was in favour of a great o i , ct. air meeting. Mr. Brightz moved that a meeting take place on Monday on Clerken well Green. It was necessary that some steps should be taken to elicit the opinions of the working classes. The preiis had misrepresented the working classes. In one parish the guardians could not get in the rates because the ratepayers were too poor. Considering that the parents of the young couple about to be married were wealthy, and that so much destitution existed, the dowry should not be paid out of the taxes of the country. Mr. Johnson, Mr. Blake, Mr. Boon, Mr. Oliver, Mr. Weber, and others addressed the meeting, and after some discus sion it was decided that a public meeting should be con vened on Clerkenwell Green for Sunday morning next. It was suggested that a meeting should be called i n Hyd e Park, but the consideration of the question was adjourned, and the meeting separated. ST. VALENTINE.-All sorts of stories are current about St. Valentine, whose festival was kept on Tuesday, as the Post-office authorities knew to their cost. The following account of his saintship we abridge from Alban Butler's "Lives of the Saints," vol. ii.:—" St. Valentine, Martyr, was a holy priest at Rome, who with St. Marius and his family, assisted the martyrs in the persecution under Claudius 11. He was apprehended and sent by the Emperor to the Prefect of Rome, who, on finding all his promises ineffectual to make him renounce his faith, com manded him to be beaten with clubs and afterwards to be beheaded. This sentence was executed on the 14th of February, about the year A.D. 270. Pope Julius is said to have built to his memory, near Ponte Mole, a church which for a long time gave its name to the gate now called Porta del Popolo but which formerly was known as Porta St. Valentini, and in classical. times as th e Porta. Flaminia. The greater part of his relics are now in a church not far from the gate. The name of Valentine is celebrated as that of an illustrious Martyr in the Sacramentary of St. Gregory, the Roman Missal of Thomasius, in the Calendar of Fronto, and in all other martyrologies of this day. To abolish the ' lewd, heathenish, and superstitious' custom of boys drawing the names of girls in honour of their goddess Februta Juno on the 15th of this month, several zealous pastors substituted the names of this and other saints in billets given on this day." Hence, probably, arose the connection of St. Valentine with the Post-office authorities by a gradual process which it is not difficult to understand. 21 0 0 B 0 C K-B I N K O'S H. CHEMICAL MANUFACTORY, 3, CITY GARDENS, CITY ROAD, London, N. he ch lay rer lee rat tat OS- was ap who not Baal ae I ring ence I for been they d be the was from had s the vern-