The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-19 00:00:00

NORWICH UNION FIRE OFFICE.
The full tieneet of the reduction of duty to la 61 per cent.
owe to insurers effecting pouches with this Company.
IT this reduction and the BonasSystem of the Norwich Union,
the cost of insurance Is reduced to a minimum amount.
The rates id premium are In no case higher than those charged
11 the other principal offices giving no bonus to their Insurers.
The duo psi,' to Government for the year late eras £61.15E
lla . the amount insured on farming stock was 610,203,37 E.
Fs prospectuses apply at the Society's Ounces, 50, Yteet-street,
. and Surreyatreet, Norwich.

scIENTIVIC aed MISCILLANZOUS APPARATUS.
MK. J. C. STEVENS will BELL by AUCTION,
at his Vreat Room $B, King-street, Covent-garden,
TO.MORPOW. Dec 20. ft halt-past 12 precisely, ant-rate
DIisoLVING VIEW MAGIC LA M'N, with a great variety
of well painted dldrs, twn expensive panoramas, several capital
mask al boles. breech loading guns, nacroscopes, tekueope.. opera
and race glasses, cameraa and lenses, and other photographic
apparatus. k le,trical and galvanic apparatus, to.—On view the
ineneagef sale, and cataloger had.

KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY.
DUBLIN EXHIBITION, MSS.
This celebrated old IRISH WHISKY gained the DUBLIN
TIME MEDAL—It is pure, =Ltd, mellow, delkious, and very
wholesome. Sold In bottles, Si. ltd. each, at the retail houses In
London by the agents In the principal towns In England or
wholesale at S, Great Windmill-street, London, w.—oheeeee the
red seal, pink label, and cork blinded ••Kinahan's LL Whisky.

rro HOTEL KEEPERS and large CONSU
J. The Cheapest House in London for YOULTRY, GAME, and
all kinds of DAIRY VROGITCK.
Wiltshire Bacon, by *le or half-side
Good family Cheese 7tl. to 74.1. per lb.
line Culture Cheese: Bisl. per lb.
Port, KlCtry, and (lame are now eery cheep.
W. and J. LTA YIAtICS, 35, little Fulteney-street,Goldenssquare.
Estabtlehed Half a Century.

grtANDLES.—If you do not want your candles
exclusively for show, but with pleasantness of appearance
require exceUeuce of burning, buy "PRICE'S OOLD MEDAL
PALMITIN E, ' or their "Sherwood Palmitin.," or their good
old•fashloncl "Belmont Sperm," or "Belmont Wax," or their
Best," .• Nu. X,* " No. 3," or " Battersea" Composite, In prefer-
ence to the nuest, and most transparent Parailine Candles But
if you mast have the extreme transparency of pure Parafilne,
"Price's Paraffin." or their " Belmontine" will give It to you In
perfection, and at a more moderate pVrice than Is usually charged
for any other really fest-class Paraens Candles
The new toilet wasp " PRICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE,"
containing half its weight of their concentrated distilled Glyce-
rine, should he In general use In every house before the winter
comes on, because of Its admirable elf eels in preventing chapping
of the hands and face. In every house there ought also to be
one of the sealed bottles of their concentrated Distilled Glyee-
rine, known everywhere as „Price's Olpoenne," and prescribed
by the most eminent medical men abroad as well as at home,
as the one only Glycerine for medicinal use whether externally

PRICE'. FANCY SOAPS of the different sorts usually made
am excellent. and command a constantly Increasing sale. The
"Solidified Glycerine" spoken of above is, however, the one
fancy seep to use.
PRISE'S NEW PATENT NIGHT LIGHTS," for burning In
the wide Masse*, are believed to be the very best night liable
made. "Price's t Midi' Night Lights," for burning without
glasses, and their different sorts of • Chamber Candles" are so
well known, and so generally need and appcedated as not to need
say special notice here.

CAr(CANDLES.—A Hint to Purchasers.—Do not
ake sure th.it you know what price you are paying per
Imid for your candles until you have stripped them and put
le the scale. Some candles are right weight without the
IRS some with moderately thick wrappers, some with very
Ykk wrapper" and some are not nearlight weight with
:17r is however tllicit PRICE'S "GOLD SIEDAL PAULl-
"Sherwood Palmitin'," "Belmont Sperm," and "Bel.
moot Wax," "Best," " No. 2," " No. h." and ' Battersea"
Composite', "Price's Panama," and " Belmontine," and all
the other candles of Price's Patent Candle Company (Limited),
are till weight without the wrappers.

OHRISTMAS.—Another Novelty in Candlea.—
vv PATENT PAKII-COLOCIUD CANDLES, l
awn& or stripes, Mike°, Green. Mauve or Amber. Moe b.6d.
per lib. box of four camiles.sa amid M the Clfte Beseptiee of She
&San, and at the Lord Maroes BaNust. Vey be obtained of
all dealers in tow newt country wiiMmal• of J. C. and J. FIELD,
Upper Marsh, Lambeth, Loudon.

PRICE'S SOLIDIFIED GLYCERINE
(Patented).—Oold medal, Paris 1987.—The newest and
best toilet soon, wears well. gives a rich and fngrsnt lather, Is
methyl, tree hem cocoa nut oil or suer of alkali, and coolants
half Its weight of Price's distilled glycerine.
Retailed by all chemists, grocers, fie., In 4d. and &L tablets.
PRICES PATENT CANDLE COMPANY (baited),
Sebum% Works, Battersea. &W.

TarHER and ()LENNY, 017171717E8.
establishment In London, nut door to Soutane.
Mau elrand. N.& Lista of atoosetry outfit for every purpose
sawarded d appoint
on apment to Iplication. ndia, MINN sod We Colonies, will be for-

WINTER OVERCOATS.
lOS, STRAND, OPPOSITE EXETER-HALL.
o=attention is given In this Establahment to WINTER
Ars, and n select stock is always kept on band at
HAMILTON sad ILIIIPTOWS,
TAILORS and OVIROUAT-lIALERS.

VHRISTMAS PRESENTS and NEW YEAR'S
V GIFTS fur all who court the gay and festive ocean.—
ROWLAIY DR JUACAnskit OIL, a preserver and beautifyer of
the hair beyond ail precedent. Rowlands' Kalydor, fur Impart-
/us a radiant bloom to the complexion and a softness and deli.
racy to the hands, arms, and neck. Rowlands' Odonto, or Pearl
Diontitrice, fur giving a pearl like whiteneu to the teeth, and frit.
=to the breath. The patronage of royalty throughout
, their general use by rank and fashion, and the tinker-
STiflyTmoira enemy of these articles, give them a celebrity tin-
peraßeled.—liiild by chemists and perfumers.—Ask for Row-
lands " articles.

LAMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM,
In Wet tual remedy, without confining the bowels or
at Whig the bead, truly metcacions and pleasant, is admitted to
be the best medicine for immediately relieving coughs, colds,
costumed cams of asthma, and Incipient consumption. It Un-
quietly cores persons whom the faculty pronounce incurable
admirably allays the tickling which provokes frequent coughing.
la approaching consumption its effects are truly beneficial
_blown deprived of sleep, or men lying down for fear of sulfas-
leek may depend on mild in a few minute. after taking W—
lo peted ooly aid sold by W. LAMBILBT chemist. 8, K lag Wt.
Lbaringeross, London, and by all druggists, In
lisihrealaw4d, and three QQuantities In one, b. 9d. lie particular
V ask for Lambert's Ashmatlo Bahasa Ilse nom* eml address
ileiersual r.n the stamp.

LAITUE.—The Lrrrucz oOntaina an active
pie, the lonicins, Mikis penman all the soothing
nplam without its demesne—J4.o. JOZEAU, French
40, Haymarket, prepense a Syrup and a rate of Loan*
Or Waal), highly recommended by the 31edical Yrelenuonlor
401111._ Whom, bronchatla, and all abut affectioes. Syrup, to. M..
me. le lid. ond to. M. hill, by peek la. Old sad M.

OZEAU'S COPAIIINIC.—In chronic or recent
diseases a cure is effected In an avenge of six days.
fflntored by the Parts Phyinclane Acedemy --Mold by all re-
steetab • chemists, 4s. ed. General Depot, 49, Haymarket.
Leedom ; at O. Joseao, the only Preach chemist with the
ffkionta of the Paris School of Pharmacy.

WARNING hy the CLERKENWELL
EXPLOSION.—f• BUILDER of this week, 4d., or by
Pata, °muds' Moo Views and Plan of a Gentleman's Ka
ickne—"Orry" Towers—Dangers of the Viten Islands—
,_lrorkmen's Thanes and Cholera—The Liverpool Competition—
'.°ollll,ll.„_ Houses Paris Exhibition sod Birmingham—The
.__.cmoaa of the tkrkenwell Explorion—Mkew Arches—Malta,
„..nt'erC, and other Articles, with all the news, sanitary, artls-
ot. and social —l, York•trent, Coveat-marden, and all newsmen.

THE LITE TAILORN' STRIKE. —The annual meet-
ing of the London Operative Tailors' Association was held
het sight at the Cambridge-hall, Newman-street, Oxford-
lariat ; Mr. George Druitt, the president, in the chair.
About 1,000 members were present, every one being strictly
excluded wlasio card of membership WY not clear since
the termination of the strike. In the course of the pro-
inedinp the balanoe-sheet of the strike fund was read. It
'hewed that the subscriptions received bad been 11,300 f,
nf which stun the Provincial Amalgamated Tailors' Society
had contributed the London tailors in work 2,413 W.,
tad the Loo 100 and provincial trade societies 5,2171., the
balance being made up by sundry miscellaneous subscrip-
iintn. The sum of 15,6811. bad been paid to the men on
*lke from April to October, the remainder of the
17,300/. with the exception of the balance of 8/. in
hand, having been paid for law expenses and other inci-
dentals eat:beefed with the strike.
A LITERoAT AT TILL CRTNTAL PALACE.—The
In
erYvtal Palace directors have applied to the National Life-
boat stitution to place in the central transept of the
Palace, during the ensuing Christmas holidays, one of its
San sew lifeboat., like those which have been doing such
food work in the recent storms. The committee of the
lifeboat Society have complied with this request, and or-
kullements ere accordingly now being made to send to the
Palate a fully equipp.d lifeboat, mounted on its trans-
teng writ . A somewhat similar boat was exhibited
tte PullUniversal Exhibition during the past summer.
THE FIRE IN LINCOLN'N-INN.—We are requested
it state that the premises of Messrs. Davis and Son,
thory-street, sustained no injury from the Are which Go-
tland la Lincoln's.inn on Tuesday night,