The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-26 00:00:00

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RS. MONEY WIGRAM and SONS' ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS.
NEIB Bmackwia.red. Dodeittas of frfrAm u;il PA lII= of 25,000 A PREFERENCE SHARES of £lO each,
®ate AthiTRAILL—For —mos (fit Philip) Direst bearing S_per Cent. Interest, and Redeemable at £lO per
au leave the Docks on MONDAY, Jammu r (calling at Ply- ; Share. THE CREDIT FONCIER of ENGLAND (Limited; are
timed to receive APPLICATIONS for the above Shwa in
lip' dik the miendid clipper Ale
in 1,000 tons,
y 'T TomEO, Commander : Ong in the East India Docks, BELGIAN PUBLIC WORKS COMPANY
is 4L''
Bir 90,0331100datiOui for all dames of passengers are ensue- , jlmitedl.
peed, and she will wry an experienced ozoa.—Tor freight Capital 1350.000, in MOW Shires 110 each.
Ito ALLPORT and MO with Mews. Divided into 15,000 A Preference Shares, of i.. 10 each.
YO.`
jiO,aMISZIL and SUNS, 7, Leadeahall-street. (Being the Shares now offered for Sttbecription.)
And 10,000 B Deterred Shares, of £lO each.
DISZCTORS.
Frederic Bonitos, Esq., M.P., Metropolitan Board of Works.
Albert Omnt, Esq., II P., London.
Lent.-Colonel Edward Neville, Clarges-street.
John Irving Pascoe, EN., Righbury New-park.
Henry Pownall, Esq., Russell-square.
Edward Warner. isq., M.P., London.
00101131.71N0 ENOINEZIL —J. W. Baralgette, Esq., C.E., Engineer-
in-Chief to the Metropolitan Board of Works.
Bahama—Ma'am Smith, Payne, and Smiths, I, Lombard-atreet,
B.C. •
SOUCITORS.-11 ism West and King, S.
Charlotte-tow, Mansion-
house, B.C.
BROKER&
YMCAS Cope, Esq.. 1, Angel-court, Throgmerten.etreet, EC.
Mews. Price and Divot, St, Threadneedle-street, E.C.
00ces—tit.
armar Ciementlhouse, Clement's-Tlane, London, B.C.
firm —W. J. L HEBI O, Maq.

AMERICA.

TIIIHEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.
Sole Lemee and Manager, Mr. F. B. cffarreiereff.
SPECIAL MORNING PWORMANCES of the OLAND PAZ- of Paris.)
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TOMIME, on THURSDAY, FRIDAY, and SATURDAY, Dec. sz. (Per the City
28, and th, 1866, and on every Monday, Wednesday. and Sant-
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.
Drdualdariicnrices toandthsetan.following parts of the theatre : First Circle,
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day during the month of January. Children and Schools at re-
In the United States Senate, on the 12th inst.,
THIS EVENING (Wednesday), December 26, Mar Mejeetes Mr. Morgan introduced the followingloint resolu-
servants will perform the Comedletta A DAY AFT= THE lion of thanks to Mr. Cyrus W. Field, which was
Isabel Adams. and Mrs. Hodson. After which will be
_pro-
WEDDING. Moore Sinclair, Harcourt, J. Johnstone, Mini ,a
....erred to the Committee on Foreign Relations :
dined the Drury-lane Comb Christmas Annuatentftled N UMBER
atoannuiryta-wwwritteminnn by, Mdiorimmir. B L.
and painted
withby
mrgovgeownsii. arefore,sPreigh7
counted 2:rie
NIP:
or Harlequin and the Gnome-Ring of the Giant Besoived,—That the thanks of Congress be, and hereby
courage,
determination. Field, of
in establishing
Yoriiihk,ingfortehisie.
llamarley. Grotesque Masks and Costumes, invented and
Sir, graphic communication, by means of the Atlantic cable.
by kw Fanciful Fanciful Ballet. arranged br
I 1 World and the New ;
John Cormack, with popular sod characteristic Music, se acted I traversing through mid ocean between the Old
and composed by Mr. J. H. Tully. Characters in the opening by and that the President of
Miss Lydia Thompson. Miss E. Bodenhain, Miss Hudspeth, Miss
tag.ozint Miss Seymour, Miss L. Wilmot, Mir E. Brougluim, the United States be requested to cause a gold
• Firma aleeer7. and !Ira H. Vandenlmil• ire.: Mr. Ton, medal to be struck, with suitable emblems, devices,
Matthews, Mr. C. Seyton, Mr. F. Bersby, Mr. leihdaroes. Mr. I lino x
J. Robins, Mr. E. Clifton, and Master Percy Roselle. inscriptions, to be presented to Mr. Field.
pantomimist& Harry Bolen° and Mr. C. Lauri, Clown: Mr. W.
The liariequlnade include' the services of those popular , —Resolved, that when the medal shall have been struck,
1 the President shall cause a copy of this joint resolution to
A. Barnes and Mr. J. Morris, Pantaloons ; Mr. J. Comma and
Mr. S. Saville, Harlequins: Madame Bolen() and Millie. Adele •be engrossed on parchment, and shall transmit the same,
Ilinfaatne. Coblidesm:ldanneslrish. Th.fetg,gmbyallitedistbarl)numepaciteriiil'or nepw? nes'tl'e
' together with the medal, to Mr. Field, to be presented to
Dancers, 16 in number. The whole produced underthe mecum
hepeau, by Mejliton, tbe Grotesque ; a new Troupe of French him in the name of the people of the United States of
I Assenes.—Resolved, that a sufficient sum of money to
Prices : Private boxes. 1, 2. 3,4, and 6 guineas ; stalls, 7s. ;
of Mr. Edward Stirling. carry this resolution into effect is hereby appropriated out
dress circle, 6s. : first eirete,_ 4a. ; balcony seats, hi.: pit. 2e.: of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
lower gallery. It ; upper gallery, ed. Box-4011m open from 10 till 1
6 daily. Doors open as half-Pad 6; commence at 7.
district of Columbia was then taken up The bill to regulate the elective franchise in the
STODARE'Sgame) THEATRE of ' eioq.being, on Mr. Cowan's amendment, to strike
sa the (Ines-
MURRY.. -HALL. PIAXIADILIAisess. -,. • 4
-.0 WHO* HI r TODAY, To-morrow, Friday, and Saturday 1.4911 t (411..W614. di
"jar. .ler. WM", of Mblobtrri;
Mornings and Evening', at 3 and S earnestly argued in favour of the amendment,
I maintaining that the suffrage should be universal,
without restriction as to race, colour, or sex. The
amendment was rejected. Mr. Dixon then offered
an amendment providing
to that ability to read and
write should be necessary qualify any person to
vote who has not hitherto voted in the district.
On the 13th the subject was resumed, and finally
Mr. Dixon's amendment was rejected. An amend-
ment fur the punishment of persons giving or ac-
cepting bribes was then passed ' • various verbal
amendments were made, and the bill was carried
by a vote of 32 yeas to 15 nays.
On the 14th Mr. Sprague introduced a joint
resolution instructing the Secretary of the Navy
to direct the naval °thous at Panama and Aapin-
wall to aid those engaged in the survey of the new
route to the Pacific, through the isthmus of Darien,
whenever practicable without expense to the
government. The Senate then adjourned to the
3rd of January, 1867.
In the House of Representatives, on the 12th,
unanimous consent was asked for the introduction
of resolutions assigning to the loyal States the
right to tax national banks in lieu of State claims
for war expenses, calling for information as to the
withdrawal of national currency, and declaring that
the withdrawal of more than four millions a
month would not add to the general welfare ; that
the constitutional amendment is the most concilia-
tory offer that the rebel States could expect, and
that the theory of universal amnesty ought to be
discouraged by every loyal patriot. In the house,
on the 14th inst., Mr. Kamera introduced a bill to
authorise the construction of a line of telegraph
under the direction of the post-office department.
Mr. Washburn, of Illinois, also introduced a bill
for the construction of a government telegraph from
Washington to New York city. Mr. Julian in-
troduced a bill providing civil governments for the
districts lately in revolt against the United States,
and for the restoration of said districts to their
forfeited rights of States of the Union. North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala-
bama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiaxia, Texas,
and Virginia are to be erected into temporary and
territorial governments, the executive power
to be vested in governors, to hold office until their
successors shall be appointed and qualified, unless
sooner removed by the President of the United
States: They are to have the veto power. All
the other machinery of territorial government is
provided, including a Legislative Assembly and
delegates to Congress. The people, wider certain
rules, (are authorised to form State governments,
the constitutions to be submitted for popular ratifi-
cation. The electors are confined to the loyal male
citizens of the United States who shall take and
subscribe the oath of allegiance, but no person who
has held or exercised any office, civil or military,
State or Confederate, under the rebel usurpation,
or who has voluntarily borne arms against the
United States, shall vote, or be eligible to be elected
' as delegate to the Convention
' Mr. Stevens introduced a bill to re-establish
' civil government in North Carolina, stating that
lie did so at the request of several gentlemen from
that State. The bill was read twice, and referred
to the Committee on Territories. It provides for a
convention of loyal citizens, to be held at Raleigh
on the 20th May next, to frame a new State con-
stitution, to be submitted to Congress for amend-
ment, ratification, or rejection. The bill recounts
the qualifications necessary for eligibility to sit in
the convention, &c. The New York Herald says:
The important bill for the reconstruction of North Caro-
lina from the very foundation, which Mr. Stevens intro-
duced in the House of Representatives, is the last, most
thorough, and we think final plan of settling the whole
question of Southern restoration. It is comprehensive,
and both liberal and conservative at the same time. It
leaves no room for quibbling about pretended rights, based
upon a state of things anterior to the subjugation
BARNSLEY, TUESDAY AFTERNOON. lof the South. It deals frankly and directly with the
Yesterday a quantity of puddled clay was put actual condition and status of that section of the country.
down the No. 1 pit, whilst the No. 2 shaft continued to It is, we are persuaded, the surest and readiest way to
emit quantities of choke-damp at intervals after being . restore the South within the shortest time practicable.
clear for a few minutes. Whilst some of the engineers This bill, it is true, only provides for " re-establishing
were on the pit, just after the meeting, several of the ' civil government in North Carolina, to enable it to re-
persons on the grounds adjoining heard the rumbling
uoise from the No. 2 shaft, which generally precedes some its former relations as one of the constituent States
an explosion. These on the pit bank imme. of the American Union ;" but it is undoubtedly the plan
diately left. Some of thecae present said they ,in substance which is to be applied to all the other rebel
believed it to be caused by a fall at the bottom, States. And, although it was introduced in a quiet,
bat those whose ears have been attuned of late to such
unostentatious manner, " at the request," as Mr. Stevens
sounds considered that an explosion had taken place, butfrom North Carolina •"
hail in a great measure been stilled. Whatever may said, of several " gentlemen ,
have been the cause a man hes been placed on the top to it was evidently carefully prepared and endorsed by the
watch it night and day. The experiment about to be dominant party in Congress as a platform and bads of
made of taking the gas out of the pit by means of a pipe general action. In introducing this measure, framed by the
is being looked forward to with the greatest interest by mind of a statesman, Mr. Stevens has abandoned the rae
our colliery proprietors. A similar experiment was made
some years since at a colliery near Wakefield, he sometimes takes as an extreme radical parti' Wontand
when the gas was burnt after it ascended is made the leader of a great party for carrying
a
to the top : that pit, however, was not so . grand and comprehensive policy. The bill was referred
large or so deep as the Oaks. That there is a vast quan- to the Committee of Territories, but
ility is up
we supposle it will
be
tity of gas in the pit cannot be doubted, as in addition to n
not lie there long. In all probabil soon
what may be expected from the usual sources there is the question
. brought before Congress again, when the whole quest
feeder, which has hitherto made sufficient to supply the
lamps in the engine plane, pouring out ,its volume. To- ,of restoration will be discussed and disposed of for all the
day a number of men were busily engaged in putting uP n other rebel States, as well as for North Carolina.
placards within a radius of 150 yards of the pit, with the
A Washington despatch to the New York Times
words " Smelting strictly prohibited," and "No lights ,
whatever allowed." This is in connexion with the ! says :
attempt we made to draw the gas with a pipe, as there I The public will do well to receive with exceeding ca
is every reason to believe it will spread, and of course ' lion statements telegraphed from this city in regard to
would easily ignite. Every precaution is being taken to
near to the contemplated changes in the duties levied on various
prevent accidents, and no one is allowed to go
pit•bank. Yesterday evening, another of the men who articles of foreign importation. Nothing is at all settled
were brought out alive on the occasion of the first explo- 1 in regard to these matters, and many of the assertions of
sbm expired, after suffering greatly from the burns re- I specific facts about the proposed tariff are premature, or
ceived. His name was Charles Wellesley, and from the ' put forth for speculative purposes.
first no hopes were entertained of his recovery. There are ;
A bill introduced into the House, proposing that
now only four left alive, and of those two are in a fair
way of recovery, whilst the other two are in s doubtful the Secretary of the Treasury sell two millions of
state. To-day the widows and children were well taken I gold weekly on certain conditions was eliciting
care of by the Miners' Association being provided with
ample materials fora good and subsianti.4 dinner, dnc. considerable discussion at Washington.
General Butler's seat in Congress is to be con-
--•—•"---1-------! tested by the democratic candidate who was
SMoalrto IN A MINE.--John Turnbull, a pitman, defeated at the election.
was brought before the Tynemouth county magistrates on I A large number of distilleries in New York city
Monday, charged with smoking in the workings of Bark- I had been seized by the government, for alleged
worth coal-pit about a month ago. Smoking bad been pro- I
hibited in the pit, and in the section of the mine wrought 1
, evasions of the revenue laws.
The Welland Canal was officially closed on the
with safety-lamps a pitman, named Thomas Cole, smelt
15th inst. for the winter season.
the reek of tobacco, and turning round to the prisoner, 1
he said, " You are not smoking there?" The prisoner 1 Cyrus W. Field Sena at Washington, arranging
replied that be was just taking two or three draws. with the government about matters connected
with
the Atlantic Cable.
Cole then knocked the pipe out of the prisoner's mouth
and stamped on it. The bench, after hearing the evidence, I The funeral of Don Augustin G. Yturbide, son
considered the case proved, and they expressed their I
determination of making a seveie example of the prisoner ,of ca'tholic chapel,
by committing him for six weeks to Morpeth Gaol, with j the 14th, at St. John's Roman . _ _ Yturbide L , Emperor of Mexico took plaCe on
- hard labour. At the Sunderland police court Thomas i Philadelphia. The remains were interred in the
ASPHALTS ROOFING FELT. Burn, a young man 17 years of age, was charged with I same vault with the mother and brother of the
ONE PENNY pir Square Foot, •
ClOl7 or RHEUMATISM is quickly relieved CROGGON and Co.,
ktanufacturem• forbidden. The pipe had been taken out of is pcvet .
having taken a pipe down Ryhope Pit, though
ille'
.7^ and cured in a few days by that oelebrated Medicine, i 63, New IseawWeet, London, E.C. it Tall 'deceased. The ceremony was privately conducted,
Poe •
11 GOUT and RHEUMATIC PIUS. Obtained through Sa. Breadatreet, ket He was sentenced to 14 days in Durham Gaol, I Ve7 few Persona being
I By way of San Francisco a few details of Mexican
with hard labour.
ssa Giseilst, at la lid. sad la. ed. pee bou. . tia, Georgeequare, Glasgow. 2, Ooree-plassas, UverpooL reeent.

A.RD LINE.—BRITISH and NORTH I
CUANVERICAN ROYAL MAII STRAW SHIPS, appointed by
pie Admiralty to sail between LIVERPOOL and NEW YORK,
at
between LIVERPOOL and BOSTON, the Roston ships
at Halifax to land and receive passengers and milk Thcfirg
swim or other vessels ere appointed to sell from Liverpool.
fialinag at Cork to receive the malls:
PERSIA, for NEW YORK, Saturday, Dec. N.).
AstA, fur BOSTON. Saturday, Jan. 5.
'MBA, for NNW YORK, Saturday, Jan. 12.
• Taking Pamengers and goods for Name and Havannah, ,to
be trade' red at New York ,subject to the permission of the
BMW. States =Writhe) on board the 1.51.8.8. Corsica
pusage.money, including 'tetrad's fee end provisions, bat
Without wines or liquors Halifax and Boston, chief cabin,
get; second cabin, Ltd. To New York, chief cabin, £26 second
mid& £lB.—Apply to J. H. Poord. 62, Old Broad-street, Leiden;
J. IL Currie, Havre, and 12, Place de la Bourse, Paris;
pares, 30, Jamaicaktreet, Glasgow; D. and C. Maclver. Queens-
10wn : or D. and D. Heaver, S. Watermreet, rimmed.
Mates.—BY mall steamers following Persia. 29th December,
• 1966. the rates of passage money will be:—From Liverpool to
Nom,, chief cabin, £3l : second cabin, gti. To Halifax-and
chid (*bin, £25 ; sewed Cabin, £2O.

PROSPECTUS. •
The object of this Company Is to carry out the eoectedons
granted by the Municipal Council of Brussels, in concert with
the authorities of the province of Brabant, and the Belgian
Government, for the drainage and coincideut improvements of
the capital of Belgium.
The magnitude and value of these concession will be under-
stood by the fact that they include subsidies to be received by
the Company in cash and annuities of the value together
26,000,00 u trams, or £1,040,000 sterling, which have been voted
by all the anthoritiss and sanctioned by the crown.
The ouslosseiamiline tat lba-priaripatvirt at Sitaireetti
were exaiid. and verified by Mr.-. 7. Basalgette, Engineer-
in-Chief to the Metropolitan linen! of Works of London, under
the sanction et that body ; and these estimates have bean further
tested by months of minute and careful revision on the part of
contractors and their respective engineers.
It is intended that the whole of the works shall be completed
within four years.
The importiume of the undertaking is evidenced In the pro-
tracted official debates in the Brussels Hunkipal Council, and
also in the Belgian Chambers and Senate, on the subject, and by
the special report thereon from Lord Howard de Walden, her
Majesty's Minhaer Plenipotentiary at Brussels, transmitted by
the Fari of Clarendon, through Sir George Grey, to the Metro-
politan Board of Works, in London, and recorded In their
minutee under date of Slay 18, 1860, an Walla of which Is
annexed to this prospectus.
His Majesty the King of the Belgians has expressed his desire
to inaugurate the works by laying Use first stone in state cere-
mony, which Is fixed to take place at Brussels, on Wednesday,
the kind of January next.
It will be at once seen by this brief description of the emcee-
don that it is one of no ordinary character.
The capital of the Company Is teed at 6350,000, In 25,000
shares of £lO each, divided into ,000 A preference shares, and
10.00011 deferred shares.
The privileges attached to the respective share capital are as
follows:
The A preference shares are to be redeemed out of the assets
of the Company, by drawings by lot, and each share paid off at
£l5 per share, being a bonus of DS per share. The drawhogs will
take place on the following dates, viz. • .
On the tbid January, 1870, 6,250 Shane, or Z 61,500
1871, 6,210 „ £118,500
„ 1872, 6,250 „ £02.500
„ „ 1873, 6,250 „ £112,500

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. LIVERPOOL, NEW YORI
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-I.lll2llMObetr tali-powered Clyde-Boilt fremilWiliegpiidge.
Mgr*, Shit United States nal*
n.om LIVitLFOOL tarp YORK i
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EDINBURGH. Wednesday,
err! OF DI BLIN, Wednesday, Jan. S.
Asti every Wedneeday and danarday.
Cabin pie by the mail steamers NORM ~7 WildinißlC
17, and guineas, according to the accommodation.
• leeward panne Includes a hill suppV, et oboopoked One.
tor Canada end the United- MANI booked cm
hiCaLtrantageons tennis— For further partimatis to
IN MAN, W., Water4treet, Liverpool ; and to
. sal MCI% 61. King William-Meg. Imadom
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ST. JAMES'S GRAND HALL.
THE CHRISTY'S effIUSTMAS FFIGIVAL.
In order to afford their visitors an lucremod amount of &cram-
molatioe during the Holidays the Proprietors of the CHRISTY
MINSTRELS have secured the above magnificent hall for a ser'es
of EXTRA GRAND DAY and EVENING PERFORMANCES, as
under:
This Afternoon 'Wednesday`, at 3.
This Evening (Wediseeday , at 8
To-morrow (Thursday) Aftmoon, December 37, at 3.
Tomorrow Thursday) Eveulug, December 27, at &
Friday Afternoon, December ffi, at 3.
Friday Evening, December 8, at 8.
Saturday Afternoon., December 29, at 3.
Saturday livening, !member 29, at &
DOUBLE PROGRAMME. DOUBLE COMPANY.
TWENTY-SEVEN PERFORMERS.
New COMIC SHADOW PANTOMOLE by NELSON LEE
Eight STAR Comedians.
Two thousand comfortable meta.
ONE SHILLINti. Balcony 2a.: Stalls, 35. lenient* 55.
Open at 2 and 7.
Afternoon performances terminate In time to admit of visiting
the Pantomimes at night.

STRAid to NEW YORE.-lINITED STATES
• NAIL LINK—REDUCED Plitla—The sptesultd and
• ferestate alde-wheal steamers of the New York end Havre Room
wy Oompasy an agpotsted to tests for New York as follows 7

I
irons labnostla
nedneWan. le 17
Talton 'Wednesday, Yell 13 inky, Feb. 14
tWednesday, liar. 13 ilonesday, Mar. 14

-From Havro.

res Phst Ltl and1111"44114
Ter further Lerch:Oars apply to JAB. A. HUTTON, Havre;
VBERBETT KANE, suid Co., Paris ;G. C. and B. H. PDX sad
Oa. Falmouth; or H. STARR and Co., 146, Cheapaide, London.

laßEMEN.—Direct Route to Hanover, Brune-
ya via, and Central Germany.—The North Germaria IluaZ
s s▪
erst-class screw steamer.+.l)l.liit, Ca, pistil KC
• he despatched from llorselydown on THURSDAY, Dec. Pi
Wkwel.permlttine,, at 10 MIL, •Pl at Brunswick Pier,
for passengers, at II nom—Pares to Bremw At
gad is ; return Whets, AS and SI 104.—AppLy at CHAPLIN'S
Rafersal Ottee, Regent-drens, W. ; or to PHILLIPPS, GRAVES,
71IILLIPPS and Co., lit. Dunstan's-boom IL Donstaa's4lll. LC.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High
Holborn —This very elegant and spacious establishment
Daring been entirely redecorated, OPEN EVERY EVENING. The
grand band, conducted by Mr. W. M. Packer, will perform 13 ig h
a choice mobcaps of operatic and dance music. Open at half -
past ft does at 11. Atimbeion.

Total Shares ... t 5.000 t 250,000
until so drawn, and paid off, each share to bear Interest at the
rate of 8 per cent. per annum, payable half .yearly, on Ist JlllllllO7
and Ist July in each year, for which interest warrants will be
attached to the Shane.
Reckoning the redemption at the dates and at the bonus
named, tie investment will pay subscribers a rate of interest as
allows :—Those shares which are drawn, and thus are
To be paid off on 22nd January, 1870, will have received a total
1 interest and bonus of 84 per eeut. per Annum.
Those to be I aid off on find January, 1871, will have received
a total interest and bonus of IDS per cent. per annum.
• Those to he paid off on tindJanuary, lilt, will have received
a total interest and banns of 18 per cent. pee annum.
Those to be paid off on Vial January, 1573, will have received
a total interest and bonus of 161 per cent. per annum.
The Directors do not pledge themselves to make an allotment
to every applicant, nor to allot the whole of the shame, it being
their desire to place this small capital in the hands of buns Mc
investors.
The it Deferred Shares represent the concessionaires' interest
in the Company. •
These shares will not be entitled either to pay-
ment of any interest or capital until the whole of the Pref
erenceean
e
I Shares have received their capital back, with the nbonus becom
befre referred to : therefore the Deferred Shares
practicallyo awl virtually a guarantoe to the Preference Shares. e
Applicatious for shares may 1w made In the seaweed form,
hich lIIIIIA be accompanied b the yment of tg per share de-
positw , without which no applicationsill be considered.

KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY..I
DUBLIN EXHIBITION, 1865.
mu celebrated old IRISH WHISK Y gained the DUBLIN
PRIZE MEDAL—It is pare, mild, mellow, delicious, and very
wholewome. Sold in bottles, 3a. Bd. each, at the retail honer In
Loudon: by the agents in the principal towns in England ; or
wholesale at 8, Great Windmillotreet, London, W. Ob•erwe tbe
red seal, pink label, and cork branded “Kinallates LL Whisky.'
BARLOW'S PATENT CASK STAND, a new
invention, m admirably contrived that a toll butt, as well
as smaller casks, may be raised or tilted on it without labour or
trouble. Its action kso impalpable that the sediment of the
moat limpid fluid by no possibility can be disturbed. Price 95.,
145.. to suit St 9, and 18 gallon casks.
BARLOW'S SELF-ACTING SYPHON TAP. I
No vent-peg required. No more flat beer or soar wine.
Price 4s. 6d. ; ditto, electroplated, Oa—Apply direct to JAMES
BARLOW, patentee, 14, ping Williametreet, kis:Won-house.
See that hls name and address are en every article ; all others
are spurious imitations. Engravings gratis. Established 1820.

QTEA3I to GOTllElsattrita from London
S.) dirert.—only Reviler Communicatlon.—The unrivalled
twin screwatcamers MARY, Captain LEIGH, 1.000 tons, 230-
unmeutmer. trolll City Canal Buoy, and the OUSTAF WASA,
copula STIEHL COO tons, 100-hone power, from Norselydown,
are despatched nitern.itely every week, weather permitting.
NM ES Se.: £2 •?.s ; gl.—For freight or passage, &c.. apply
timplia's Universal °thee, W. ; or to PHILLIPS, GHAVR4,
I'HILLIITS and Co., Si Dunstan's-house, Crow-lane, Great
Tower-Wert, LC.

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METROPOLITAN
anut RAesILWAY.
Tralus every 11.

METROPOLITAN- RAILWAY.
Moor.;ate-street Station.

ETROPOLITAN RAILWAY.
Aldem,-,ateatreet Station.

MAGIC LANTERN AND DISSOLVINO VIEWS.
NEGRETTI and ZAMBRA'S NEW ILLUS-
TRATED BOOR, describing the OXY-HYDROGEN and
DIY-CALCIUM LIGHTS, painting on gam• spectral effects
and floats. Price one shilUn . —l, Ilatton•garden; in, Cornhlll
lit Regent-street ; and 153, Cata}ogues of lanterns,
slides. 4tc.., post tree.

ETROPOLITAN RAILWAY.
Varrbigtion-street Station.

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.
King's-crows Station.

FOR )/ OF APPLICATION FOR SHARE&
To be retained by the Bankers.

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

METROPOLIr-street
StatkTANm. RAILWAY.
Gowe

`co.
TO THE DIRECTORS OP THE BELOIAS PUBLIC WOW COMPANY
(LIMITED).
Gentlemen.—lisylng paid to your bankers. Messrs. Smith,
Payne, end Smiths, the sum of B deposit
of £5 per share on A Preference shares in the above
Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that number,
and I agree to accept such shares or any less numbeagree r youto may
allot t..eon the terms of the prospectus, and p
mean
the deposit on allotment, and to sign the memorandum and
I articles of association of the Company as duly registered, whe
required, and I authorise you to Insert toy name on the register
of members for the number of shares allotted to inc.
Usual signature
Name in full
Residence
Profession
Date. December, 1866.
The above is only a short extract front the detailed Prospectus,
which cot he had. with copy of the letter of the British Minister
In Brussels to Vert of Clarendon, on application to the Secretary,
at the otters of the l'onmany.

METROPOLITAN
—RAILWAY.
Portland-road Station.

(REUTER'S TT,LEGRA3IB.)
BELGIUM.
BRUSSELS, DEc. 25.

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.
Regent-circus station ;opposite the Polytechnic Inatitu -
Um Regent-An:et . The Metropolitan Railway Company's
itneelal Omnibuses to and from Portland-road Station meet every
train.

The Miatiteur Beige of this morning says : " In
oonsequance of the spread of the cattle plague in
Holland more rigorous measures have become
necessary for the repression of fraud on the frontier
of Eastern Flanders, and several other communes
have therefore been placed under the provisions of
the law of February 7, 184.6."

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY
tinker-street Station.

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.
FAlganre-o ad Station.

4ETROPOLITAN RAILWAY.
BI hop's-road Station.

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY.
Trains every five minutes.
311' FENTON, General Manager.

THE BELGIAN PUBLIC WORKS COMPANY
(Lindte(P.
N ()TICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the LISTS of APPLOSED
LI-
CATION for SHARES In the above Company will be C
no FE. I DAY next, tbe 2sth instant, for London, and SATURDAY,
the '2lrth instant, for Country Applications.
By order of the Board,
W. J. L. iIIERIOT, Secretary.
St. Clemente-house. Clement's-lane, RC.

THE ATLANTIC YACHT RACE.
HURST CASTLE, Dec. 25.
The yacht Henrietta passed Hurst Castle at
4 p.m. for Cowes

AIETROPOLIT.A.N and GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAYS --CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.
EX IRA TRAINS bro. een the City, King's.eross, °ewer-street,
B.rtland-r,sld. Ittaent-dr,us. Baker-street, Edgware road, and
Padditrzton, Hammersmith, Kensington, SheyhenEs-bush, Not-
ting hill, and Westbournepark.

COWES, Dec. 25.
The Henrietta arrived off here at 3.40 p.m.
Neither of the other yachts is in sight.

HAVANA SEGAB. AGENCY, 2, Canute-road
Docks, SouthamPbm. and 77, REOENT-STREET,LONDON
(two doors from St. lames's Hall'.—The proprietors draw atten-
tion to the success which has attended the establishment of this
agency, and which has resulted iu the supply of their importa-
tions to ninny of the most important elute, hotels, and private
consumers in the kingdom. The stock offered Po the attention
of connoisseurs comprises nearly SOO kinds of the choicest
productions of the most celebrated Havana nresenumuf in
actories, and
is the finest selection of Havens !emirs at pt existing
Lhrope, the whole being the exclusive importation of this esteho -
blisluueut from its agents and resident buyers in Havana, w,
from long experience, exercise the greatest care in selecting only
the finest brands and sort+, and who ship the same direct to the
warehouses ia the Southampton Docks. These advantages
enable the proprietors to supply GUARANTEED HAVANA
SEGA wholesale and retail. at prices lower for the respective
kinds than it is lac for other houses to quote Terms, cash,
or an undoubted introduction. Proapectuses on application to
the proprietors, WOLFF, PHILLIPS, and Co.
Havana Seger and Commission Agency, Southampton,
and 77, Regent-street, London.

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
MAItsEILLES. Dsc. 25.
The Ripon, with the above mails, arrived at 6
o'clitck this evening. All well.
The mails leave for London at 10 p.m.

rpo IMPORTERS, Shippers, Steam Shipping
• Companies, and ConsiTnees of Foreign Goods, by steamers ,
or otherwise into the Port of London —The pr%,rictors of
Free bade hart, 'Weill', and Upper Free Trade Wharf, Dow-
gate Dock, ',per Thames-street, OFFER FACILITIES to the
above.—Further information may be obtained on application, by
Mkt or in person, to It. CLAY and Co., wharteras and war-
▪ keepers.—Onices, tl3, Upper Thames-street.

THE BARNSLEY COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

UNITED STATES 5-20 COCPONS BOUGHT.
American tlovornment and Railway Securities of all
ilmcdp[inns purchased and for sale, by GLENN and Co., 32,
.Rew Broad-gccet. o ~0 Debt of he nited States
a since 1,4 January,siv. .ir 0‘
iLEN X antd Co.U's American Finapaidn-
cial Circular, issued every Yriday, forwarded on application.
- -

TWO
THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED
Pul:Nla4 WAYI ;:1), fur three years, on mortgage of first-
dam lung kuehohl property, at present proaneing more than
bee lar annum. - Addle,* to Mr. WM. WILLIAMS, surveyor,
•
queen-meet, cheapsete.

TEA is CHEAPER THIN EVER.-Is. 6d., 25.,
I:RNITURE, Merchandise, &c., BOUGHT for prices M which Malin and
V
Co., tea
per pound are the
merchants, 8, King wintam-street, eny. London. E.C.
1 ready money, or cash noiS rowed on Fame, with or without are Bening good and flue BLACK TEA. A price current post free.
rsmoval. UV Houses, furnished or untarnished, wanted !mice- 40s. worth carriage fret to any railway station or market town In
dlately for applitant4.—Apply to xr. BAY NE, Grosvenor BOWS the United K ingdurn. Obeerve.—PlilLLlPS and Co. have no
sad kfst.te Az,eu, ), -2• A, Bn•ok-street, Grosvenor-square. agen an
ts, nor y connection with any house in worceater or Swan-
les. Sugars are supplied at market prices.

GREAT B.USSELL-STREET,
Price Lista free. ! A VALUABLE CHRISTMAS PRESENT.—A
1-1 CHINESE CADDY, coitainhig 1816 e. of really good BLACK
CAUTION. The PERMANENT STEAM TEA. sent carriage free to any ndiway station or inarket town In
DYk:l NG Li oki PAN V' ; BAY -AV ATER BRANCH is 24, West- England. Ireland, Scotland, or Wales, on receipt of 405., hy
bourne-grove : and the dile( onice,9,Great Ruaaell-street,Totten- PIiLLLIPS and Co., tea mertkants, 8, King William-street. City
damn-court-road.Priv' Lists free. X.C.
- - -- - • - •
14 ISI3IELS CHRISTMAS PRESENTS.— T 0 HOT E L S and large consumers.
-Kt Scent clots, fans, toilet scts. smelling bottles, fancy um.* Fine YORK ILAMS, 111 per lb.: Ayliabury and Dorset
tc . in Immense variety, front 01
to r 0 guineas. Ornaments for Rutters, Cheshire, Cheddar, and Stilton Cheese, in fine condition:
Chnomas trees, Chri,tnuts sachets, Bd., la, and 2.i. 8.1. Christ- game, mid all deaciptwas a poultry cheaper than any other
1111 anis, :,..s. per do. H. Premiums to all purchasers übove ss, house In London.
Thee hst sent on applicr.tion. F. KIMMEL, Perfumer to Her At W. and J. li:. TAYLOR'S, SS, LITTLE PLTLTENKY-STREET
lanai Highness the Prince.' of Wales, 95, mused ; 1* Regent- GOLDEN...SQUARE.
street: ,ii.tl 24. ConihilL Families and hotels waited on with regularity. Carts to all
parts of the West-end every hour.

NO. 9,

eqtRISTMAS PRESENTS and NEW YEAR'S
•-, GifTa for all who court the nay and festive scenes.-- SBORNE'S STILTON is THE Cheese.
2OWLAN DS' MACASS.th OIL, a presen 11(14' er and 004er of 0
the bah. beyond all pree,..lent. !Lowlands' Kalydor, for impart-
big 'radiant bloom to the complexion. and a softness and deli-
incy to the bawl:. arias, awl neck. !Lowlands' Odonto. or Pearl EASY CHAIRS, COUCHES, and SOFAS,
best quality. Upward% of 300 different shapes constantly
Dentifrice, 1.,r eivina' a pe.al-like whiteness to the teeth. and fra- ou ‘iew for selection and immediate delivery. Easy chairs made
ri4e to ti. breath. The patron:me of royalty throughout
, their creneral use by rank and fashion, and the tinker- to any shape on approval. At T. H. FILSIER and SON'S Manu-
factory. 31, 3% and , Berner's-street, W., and 34 and 35, Charles-
Ilk known efficacy of these articles, give them a celebrity nn- street. Oxford-street, W. An illustrated priced catalogue sent
Welded.— Sold by chemists and perfumers.—Aak for " How- poiwt,,,,e.
lands"' articles.

LAITUE.—The LETTUCE contains an active CARPETS
sa. Browsels 3a. M. per yard
ncple, the Intucine, which peemsses all the soothing V (,usitl price sa. 6d.) Many patterns to select from. tapes
Ifices of opoimo eithontitsdangers.-21r. O. JOZEAU, French try, Kidderminster, Dutch, felts. blankets, sheeting', and floor
, 411, Haymraket, prepares a Syrup and a Pate o Lantos cloths, equally cheap. Also g 16,000 worth furniture being offer, '
fellitutel. highly recommended by the Medical Profession for at very reduced prices, to make room for estensive altos—
colds, astluna, bronchitis, and all chest affections. Syrup, 2t.ild.; at WM. WALNE'S, 133 to 139, Newington Butt", S.
rats. IL Itd. and 2 3d. Pate, by post, is. so add 60. 6d —._

•
LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM, AM FIELD'S PATENT SELF-FITTING 1
CANDLER, from IA. per lb. upwards, In all sizes.
It'd_ in effectual remedy, without confining the bowels or YIELD'S PRIZE MEDAL PARA TIME CANDLES
`Rectilag the head, truly einem:ions and pleasant, is admitted to :the original;, Is. Bd. per lb.
he the Lest medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds, : To be bad cd all dealers in town and country.
to
cases of asthma, and incipient consumption. It ire. I
gently cures persona whom the faculty pronounce incurable '
admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing. tiVERCOATS for the present Season.—The
hi al'Prischlua consumption its effects are truly beneficial. NEW WINTER OVERCOATS, of best materials, am tees
PIISINAJ deprived of sleep, or even lying down for fear of suffoca- 0.4-n.hand and made to order, at
We, ma depend on relief in a few minutes after taking it..— HAMILTON and xnrrratrs.
rreyared only and sold by W. LAMBERT, chemist, 8, King Wil- Tailors and Overcoat Makers.
lima-stree_ t, Charing-crow, London, and by all druggists, in 105, STRAND, oppoelas leeter-hall.
"Mks, 1344., and three quantities in one, M. 9d. Be particular
SIM a* for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address
us mewed on the stamp.

.c. 11; ; .it
IF. !
4AresAk

news have been received. Letters from Mazatlan
and Guaymas give no later news. A number of
liberal troops had otzupied Coloma. They were
saidto be 3,000 strong. The report of the death of
General Placido Vega was unfounded. He was
with Juarez at Chihuahua.
An Acapulco letter, dated Dec. 4, from General
Montenegro to the Mexican Imperial Consul at
San Francisco, Oates that there is no truth in the
report that the Imperialists intended to evacuate
that place, and says that no official account has
been received there of the capture of Coloma. The
Imperial General Oronoz still occupied part of the
state of Oajaca, and at Tehuantepec the Imperial
Colonel Toledo defeated a body of liberals who went
from Oajaca to attack him. Per contra, passengers
by the Panama steamer report a fleet of French
vessels in the harbour of Acapulco, one of which
had a large number of troops on board, and report
that the French would evacuate the place in a few
days. The French commander had attempted to
levy contributions on the town of Acapulco and the
property of the Pacific Steamship Company, but
the arrival of the United States steamer stopped
the proceedings. It was also said at Coloma that
the French were defeated near Tehuantepec, three
hundred of whom reached the coast and sent to
Mazatlan for relief.
The North Carolina Legislature has in both
branches rejected the constitutional amendment ;
Altelower Rouse by a vote of 93 to 10, and the
Senate by a vote of 44 against 1. North Carolina
was considered more favourable to the amendment
than any other Southern State.
In the Georgia Legislature a resolution to ap-
point commissioners to visit Washington, to ascertain
upon what terms Congress would allow a complete
restoration of the Southern States, was laid on the
table by a decided vote.
Governor Fletcher, of Missouri, has stationed 34
companies of cavalry in Jackson and Lafayette
counties in that State, virtually establishing
martial law. He announces, however, that the
troops will be withdrawn whenever the laws can be
enforced without them.

datics..•

DEAN STANLEY ON CHBISTM.
AS AND ITS
ASSOCIATIONS

-
Yesterday morning the Very Rev. Dr. Stanley,
the Dean of Westminster, preached a most interesting
sermon to the Abbey. selecting for his text the 9th chap-
ter of the prophecy of Isaiah, verse s—" For every battle
of the warrior is with confused noise and garments rolled
in blood, but this shall be with burning and fuel of lira
For unto us • child is born, unto us a son is given, and the
government shall be upon his shoulder ; and his name
shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty Cod,
the Everlasting Father, the Prises of Peace." After an
allusion to the nistorical circumstances connected with the
text, he said the day on which they wemassembled recalled
an event in the history of that place of which that also
was the anniversary, and that abbey the scene. Some
present might remember. that last year they celebrated
in that abbey, on Innocents'-day, the 800th anniversary
of its foundation by the last hereditary Saxon king.
They had now advanced another year, and on that day
(Christmas-day) they commemorated the 800th anti-
venary of the tint coronation celebrated in that abbey
—the coronation of William the Conqueror. That coro-
nation was so remarkable, not only as being the fast in a
long unbroken aeries which had since been one of the chief
glories of Wesininster Abbey but from its own intrinsic
interest, and the marvellous lessons it conveyed, that it
would not be without use for him to describe it. A great
battle, which had decided the fate of England, had been
fought in October. William entered London as a stranger
and a conqueror, but he was determined to mount the
throne according to all the forms which ancient usage had
prescribed. On that great Christmas festival, the
usual coronation day of Angle-Saxon princes, in
fikull 4es4_ elf Jettininas then . acensdnred—.lhe
caPilid Of England, d with his courtiers
and his army in the newly-littered abbey. He took his
stand at the altar beside King Edward's torah, an indomi-
table conqueror, successor to the frail fantastic prince of
whom he ',poke last year, Edward the Confessor. Outside,
in the gardens, were stationed the Norman cavalry ; inside
the abbey were the Norman nobles and the Saxon people,
distinct as French and English, but nevertheless feeling
an equal interest in the events of that day. At that time
the question was addressed to those present—to the Nor-
mans in French, by a French prelate, the Bishop of Con-
stance—to the Saxons by an English prelate, whether
they would have King William to reign over them. Each
returned a shout of welcome ; but the shout was so loud,
and the discord of the two rival languages so
as to arouse the Norman soldiers, who peat
burst
into the church. A wild panic ensued, then came a
bloody massacre, and the day ended in wild confusion.
The abbey was left almost empty, but the king and the
I
, assistant clergy stood by the side of the altar, end for the
first time the Conqueror was ten ificd and trembled from
I head to foot in an extremity of fear. The sacred forms
About 100 of the principal hop-planters in Rest
Kent met at Canterbury, under the presidency of Mr. were hurried through, the ail was put on his face mid the
PETER MARTEN, "to take into consideration the present crown on his head • and thus, wildly and fiercely, was
unsatisfactory date of the relations between the hop- inaugurated the English monarchy—thus began the eerie'
grower and the hop-merchant, as evinced by the large of those Kitimat and peaceful Oarelnonialf which had never
number of growths that have this year been rejected at ceased within its walls. Who could have thought that
th cm that memorable day the two disciorekuit natione
e Kale."
The Crisaestait, having made a few preliminary °beans- should have come together, that those languages so
tions, said the question for discussion was one that had intelligible each to each should have been blended into
been before them by the late extraordinary hop season, I one—that a dynasty enthroned in a state of blood
and the usprecedented number of returns made by the should have become settled in the affections of the pimple?
factors ; it was to consider the partial and unsatisfactory IYet so it had been, and it was no unworthy subject of tam-
manner in which the bop trade was carried on. He never j templation on that sacred day. Those ancient implements
remembered s season when the hop had retained its aroma I of warfare had been burued (as they always were in ancient
and essence better than the last, and the causes that had times), and their ashes had been scattered to the winds.
led to so many returns was a tit subject for inquiry by the I The proud Norman and` he humble Saxon had been united
planter. The difficulty no doubt arose to some extent in Cu. nation—the grea English people—the French and
from the fact that when the hops were sold no purchase 1 English linguava hail boon blooded wt. ono laagoar, anti
note was obtained, thus leaving it open for the purchaser i the descendent of William the Conqueror and his Saxon
to return any quantity he pleased. This had been so I rival was seated on the throne of England—the centre of
largely taken advantage of lately, that it was felt English oonstitution— the heart of the English empire.
medy should if possible be provided, and perhaps the best i The two great nations he had alluded to were at the time
course to adopt would bei for a committee to take the sub- in the womb of the abbey of that day ; without the
ject into consideration and report thereon. (Hear.) Norman conqueror there would have been no pro-
Sir Baooe W. Bermes, M.P., said that although he gross ; without his Saxon subjects there would have
I had not personally sulfured from the evil complained of, been no solidity. Both qualities hail marked the history
he had no doubt it was one of a very serious character, of the English people ever sin Ce. Antiquity and novelty
land warranted the planter in taking rare that he made grigiwwwey and democracy, the rich ~„,1 tgo poor, had tam
such a contract when he told his hops that they should interwoven with the constitution, secui:ng amongst us
not be returned to him. This was dime in selling corn, peace and good will as they bed never been secured
land no difficulty arose, except indeed a fraud was cone. mut:gm any other people. Christmas-day was not now
' witted by substituting one growth for another. When to Eugland a stonily signal of bloodshed and niisunder-
hope were sold there ought to be no future risk. Let the standing, but it bound man to man runt both to Cud,
grower show what lie had to sell, and the purchaser cone equally in bonds of Christian love and English sympathy
.
must it be likes—this will determine the price ; but there •• Unto us," might they well say in a lower sense, " a child
must be something wrong in a spitem which allowed an is born,►and his name is Wonderful, Counsellor, Prince of
unfair advantage on one side. One proposition he under- Peace." What lesions might not be learned from all this.
stood heal been made with a view to remedy the evil com- Re might apply his subject to private quarrels amongst
Plained of, viz., to establish a hop mart. That might or neighbours, to friends who had parted asunder ; but he
might not be the proper course, but the evil would uotbe might go • p
resent fuher than this, awl point out how it ap-
got rid of unless persons attending that mart took greater plied to the pcondition of the English church. From
precautions than were at present adopted. (Hear, hear.) the first there had been two tendencies in the English
Sir Brook concluded by submitting a proposition to the church, but without iliatruying it. The church of
effectEng-
that a committee he appointed to consoler the pre- land was a mixed and double church, because England was
sent unsatisfactory method in which the hop trade is con- A mixed and double nation. If it were not so it would not
thereon suggesting a
ducted, and to draw up a report be a natioal church. In theses e dap, theic was a great coo-
remedy. (Het betwenen two great juirti, and the same thing they
Mr. Ronrirr LAKE, in seconding the motion, remarked had in the state and constitution. Again, if they looked
that for the last 20 years he had seen that the only way at the first exhortation in the Prayer-hook they would see
by which the hop-growere of East Kent could hold their that it was composed of half Norman. half English words.
own was to have their sales at home. They grew an aiticle For example, knowledge was Saxon, confess was French,
that could not be produced in any otherpsrt of the world— meet together was Saxon, assemble was French, humble
(hear, hear)—and if they only held together they could es- was French, lowly was Saxon, goodness was Maxon,
tablish their rights. If four-fifths of the ho-lanters in and mei cy was French. Some of them might re-
East Kent said, "We will have our hops soil at Canter- e
gret that phreare had been left in the Prayer-book
bury and nowhere else" is great boon would result, for which savoured of the superstition which prevailed
their buyers would be oomelled to come to the mart. before the Ilefortuation, while others mightto regret
The CHAIP.MAN said thate perhaps some gentleman would that phrases bad been left which PCtineli favour
like to give an instance of the evil in the trade which cons the rational spirit of modern times. Both these certainly
the subject of their grievance. Ho did not doubt, how- did exist together, and the °My real breach of Chrietian
ever, but that it hod been pretty generally felt. faith and Christian charity was alien either party thought
Sir. LAKE answered that an instance had occurred with it necessary to have the church and nation to itself and to
him, where a deduction of 2/. per cwt. had been demanded drive the other out. Let them take for exemple the
on twelvWor fourteen pockets of bops. after the sale ; and divergence of opinion which there was on the subject of the
what could he do but submit to It, since if he sold some Lord's Supper. Ever since the Reformation them had been
and not others lie would have to take the rejected into two opposite tendencies, two separate for
of th
oughtoht
another market, with the accompanying disadvantage 't on this subject. Some, with the Church of o
Indeed, he was required to warrant that the contents of the great reformer Luther, had found pleasure in figuring
summer, or submit to a reduction of If. per cwt. on them. wine, identifying thine tokens with the body and blood of
other pockets would keep good until the following to themselves the special nearness of Christ in the bread and
Mr. KINGsNORTH expressed an opinion that if one-half Christ himself, while with the Swi-s reformer Zwingliva
of the hop-growers in kast Rent funned themselves into and the Reformed Church otle ra hiol found pleasure in
a company, they would do away with the necessity for a believing that the Saviour's presence was in the
meeting like the present, inasmuch as that course would heart, withiuund not without, that the spiritual life itself
protect them. A weekly or fortnightly sale should be held was brought nearby thcremembrance of If iii deatli,by living
during the season ; they should sell through a factor or faith, and nothy the mere outward act and cm &loon
of thy. Traced
otherwise ; and no hope should be permitted to leave the of the conflict had been
left in the very
words e outs-
pent until money or bills had been received for them munion office. The Dean pointed out the N arious changes
that existed at present ; for, in truth, from the time the gone, and showed that the policy of the church had been
(Hear, hear.) That would do away with the humbug which the words in the Coniniunion Service hail under-
copper, there was a gigantic juggling business being done serve the spirit of both. The true policy of the church
bops were drawn until they were put into the brewer's
with them. What then was the remedy'. had been not to throw away either of the forms that had
not to ignore the views of either great party, but to pre-
bops
h mon
Voice—Do away with the BorougolmlY• been used, yet so to blend them together in that most
Mr. Kieeintowni concluded by expressing his convic- solemn act of fellowship, so that they might feel them-
Non that the establishment of a hop mart would act as a selves to be not two, but one people. Since the first con-
deterrent to the present system. tlictone party had been constantly endeavouring to drivethe
Sir.
the Caeren said the old custom of the trade other out, idways at • great lose to itself, as it would have
was for the grower to receive payment on the Saturday been a loss to the Norman or Saxon if one had succeeded
week following the sale, and now he hardly knew when in defeating the other. But the spirit of the nation and of
be would receive payment. By the old arrangement, if the church had been too strong for either of those parties,
the hops were "slack," or hail any other defect, it was
and he trusted that it would contiuue thus strong, in order
i taken into consideration at the time, and a corresponding that all might claim the blessed privilep of social inter-
' Price given for them. The adoption of certain rules course and Christian coronmuion. " If, sail the Dean,
would obviate the present difficulty ; and, although he did "any have tried with untiring enerp to ibis,: usout,the true
not propose an amendment to the proposition, be thought Christian retaliation will be with untiring forbearance to
that in amending the existing system the factors should be try te keep them in, even although we might be inclined
consulted. most strongly to condemn their practices. Thus would
The CHAIRMAN then put the motion, and it was carried peace be secured without any compromise or fuaion of out-
unanimously. ward ceremonies, but upon the grearntss of Oars love
committee of gentlemen to carry out the terms of the first a sermon which was listened to with deep attention, by
Mr. C. J. PLUMPTRE next moved the appointment of • and the greatness of luau's duty. ' The Dean concluded
resolution. In doing so, he observed that he had been told earnestly deprecating divisions between Ritualists rind min-
comments:anon could not be obtained between grower and rather outs pje:d to Him who had been euip y
by persons well acquainted with the hop trade that direct Ritioants, Rationalists and anti-Eat ioualists, counselling
cousumer, and although he was not prepared to set his termed " the l'nnce of Peace."
night be well for the committee to give this subject their the service, and an %imam: 3 num r o
opinion against that of the persons he referred to, it The choir nil transept:ll7'4l,m
edonseltecrowfire.lednodnusrtf.
unlined during the administration of theholy Com-
attention.
This resolution having been also carried rem. pis., niunion.
Mr. HAMMOND, who attended as a deputation from the
committee appointed at the common hall of the citizens of
Canterbury,-held that morning, explained what had been
done.
Mr. WELBY suggested an amalgamation of the two com-
mittees, but
The CHAIRMAN thought that for the present it would be
well for them to work separately.
This idea meeting with the and the
iproval of the majority of
those present, it was amngetl to be acted upon,
prooeedinp terminated wit a vote of thanks to the
chairman.
A second meeting was held at the common ball, for the
purpose of promoting the establishment of a hop mart
under the auspices of the corporation, the mayor presiding.
?dr. Hamilton (of the Inland Revenue.offloe) detailed the
mode of procedure adopted in Worcester, where such a mart
had been instituted. The motion was unanimously car-
ried, as was also the appointment of a committee to assist
the corporation, and to confer with the
this on
the subject. Canterbury having adopted mportant
step, it heremee a serious question ther &similar move-
for the convenience of West Kent growers.
treat might not be advantageously itsued in Maidstone,

HOP PLANTESSTSDiIiiiIIt GRIEVANCES.

E FFECES OF THE FORBES MACK
Fothes Mackenzie managed to shut up public-houses on
Sunday, but he could not change the appetite which
prompted people to frequent them, and, the demand for
liquor remaining, certain enterprising individuals forth-
with availed themselves of that tacit permission to keep
*pm shop at forbidden times which attaches to the trade
of 'knout to supply the public craving. As long as they
confined themselves to selling whiskyscented
was done with cam-
phor and tinted with burnt sugar littlesceharm •
but lately—tee may have been observed from the polio:
reports—a liquid known as "finish," compound of methy-
lated spirits and French polish extensively used by furni-
ture polishers, has, from its supetior chespncu and strength,
come into vogue, and its effects upon its victims are so
dangerously maddening that the police have taken the
matter in band with the view of suppreasing the traffic.r
Lately these low " druggists" have, in addition to thei
usual surreptitious Sunday dram trade, been doing an
enormous business in " cholera mixtures," the panacea
being of course the whisky. The police authorities deter-
mine,) to make a beginning on one of the most notorious
of these druggist-shebeesers, and in order to procure
dence against him sent a detective in plain clothes to his
shop on Sunday, with directions to ask fur a dose of
cholera mixture. The druggid was no fool, however; and,
previous to handing his treacherous customer the usual
dose, he quietly dropped into his glass • few drops of
croton oil. The detective tossed it off, and very soon
found to hie cost that it was a cholera mixture with a ven-
geance. The story was not long in spreading through the
' force. and we are assured that it is out easy now to find
men ready to venture on liquor-drinking in plain clothes
in shebeens as a means of obtaining evidence. Before'
the adventure of our friend with the cholera mixture,
' evidence derived from taste was in high favour in the
faros.—Month British Daily Mail.

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