The Sun.
London, England, 1864-03-15 00:00:00

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No. 22,377.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 15, 1864.

THE GENERAL CREDIT AND FINANCE COMPANY
OF LONDON (Limited),
INVITE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE
BRITISH COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER
ISLAND INVESTMENT COMPANY (Limited).
Capital £500,000, with power to increase.
First Issue, £250,C00, in 10,000 shares of £25 each.
Deposit on appli.ation, £1 per share. Payment on allot-
ment, .£2.
It is expected that no more than £5 per share will be re-
quired to be called up ; sub cquent calls, if any, will not
exceed £?, per share, and will not be made at less intervAls
than three months.

THE ENGLISH and FOREIGN LIBRARY
COMPANY (Limited),

WHERE CAN WE MEET AFTER THE
PANTOMIMES ? My dear Fellow, Gentlemen sup
at E VANS', Covent-garden.

THE CALAMITY AT SHEFFIELD.

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DIRECTORS.

Major-General Sir HENRY C RA WL INSON,K.C.B., F.R.S.,
1, Hill-street, Berkeley-square, Chairman.
Right Hon. Viscount Bury. M.P., 48, Rutland-gate.
The Very Rev. the Dean of Chichester, F.R.S.
The Rev. G. R. Gleig, Chaplain-General to the Forces, 8,
Warwick-square.
Charles Nettie, Esq., M.P., Oriel College, Oxford.
Coleridge J. Kennaird, Esq , F.R U.S., Fenchurch-street
Ferdinand Freiligrath, Esq., Bank of Switzerland, Royal
Exchange-buildings.
John William Kaye, Esq., 59, Lincoln's-inn-fields
Robert Bell, Esq , F.R.S.L., 14, York-street, Portman-square
John Ba 1, Esq. (Messrs Quilter and Ball), 3, Moorgate-
street, E.C.
The Company guarantee the circulation of all new works
of value or interest immediately after publication,
RThe Library embraces special departments of science and
the liberal professions, and of foreign literature in all its
branches.

KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. OOGNAC,
BRANDY.
This celebrated Old IRIS WHISKY rivals the finest
FRENCH BRANDY,
It Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome.
Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by
the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale
at

TRUSTEES.
Jervoise Smith, Esq. 1 Henry Kingseote, Esq.
DIRECTORS.

8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, W.
Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label, and Cork branded
" Kinahan's LL Whisky."

James Anderson, Esq. (Messrs. Anderson, Thomson, and
Co.), Director of the Bank of British Columbia.
James Caird, Esq_, M.P.
George Campbell, Esq. (Messrs. H. N. Dickson, and Co., Lon-
don ; and Dickson, Campbe,l, and Co., Victoria, Vancouver
Island).
Joseph Fry, Esq. (Messrs. Trueman and Fry), Director of
the Canada Agency Association.
T. V. L. Mackean, Esq k.hairman of the Bank of British
Columbia.
Alexander Morrison, Esq., Director of the Bank of Otago.
Prideaux Selby, Esq., Director of the Vancouver Island Land
and Coal Mining Company.

Works not in the Library are purchased at the request of
subscribers.
Books are delivered to town subscribers by the Company's
carts daily with a radius of three miles, and twice weekly
within five miles.

Term of subscription from two guineas upwards. Details
of terms for town and cmintry subscribers forwarded on ap-
plication.
Holders of 10 shares and upwards entitled to special ad-
vantages as subscribers. .

BANKERS IN LONDON,
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith.
BANKERS IN BRITISH COLUMBIA AND VANCOUVER

SAMUEL BEVAN, Secy.

ISLAND.
The Bank of British Columbia.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Baxter, Bose, Norton, and Co.
AGENTS.

The General Credit and Finance Company of London
Limited).
TEMPORARY OFFICES.

125, Gresham House, and at the Offices of the General Credi
and Finance Company, 7, Lothbury.
SICRETARY (pro tem.) —Mr. George Stephens.

This Company is established for the purpose of extending
to British Columbia and Vancouver Island principles of
business that have long since been adopted in other colonies
with very beneficial results both to the English capitalist
and the local property holder.
The Company will raise moneys on debentures on its own
credit, on terms prevalent in tnis market, and will apply the
moneys so obtained to mortgage of real estate or other secu-
rities of a substantial and productive character in the two
colonies, at the much higher rates procurable there. When
it is mentioned that in British Columbia and Vancouver
Island from 12 to 16 per cent. per annum is regarded as a
favourable rate of interest at which to b rrow money on un-
exceptionable securities, it wil at once be seen how consider-
able is the margin of profit that will arise to the Company
under this head.
T ie acquirement of property by purchase, to a limited ex-
tent, whether from the Government direct or from private
owners, will also, in cases presenting the prospect of advan-
tageous and early resale, have attention from the Company—
it is considered that the Government of the two colonies may
be induced, in consideration of the encouragement which the
Company will have the opportunity of offering to immigra-
tion, to accord grants of land to the Company under regulated
conditions of settlement.
The Company will also act as Agents in all matters of In-
vestment and Finance as between the home capitalist and
the colonial property holder.
The Company's business in the colonies will be conducted
by specially seiected managers. The securities selected will
be subjected to the strietest examination both as to title and
value.
The debenture holder, under this course of business, will
not only have the security of the subscribed capital, but also
the entire assets of the Company.
The prospects of the shareholders are best exemplified by '
the large returns on capital obtained by the shareholders of
similar institutions.

The Company has taken powers which will enable it to
effect an union with any other Company having kindred ob-
jects in any of the British North American colonies.
The Board of the Company consists of gentlemen who have
either applied the same principles of business to other colo-
nies, or who, from their connection with the North American
possessions, will be regarded as authorities upon the subject
of Colonial securities.
As fields for investment British Columbia and Vancouver
Island may be said to be unsurpassed in advantages. The
rise and progress of these colonies have been most rapid ; the
imports into the port of Victoria (Vancouver Island) alone
during the six months ending June, 1863, were 1,866,513
dole., being an excess over those of the first half of the pre-
vious year of upwards of 160,,,u0 dole. The value of property
in Vancouver Island has more than doubled during the last
three years. The agricultural capacity of British Columbia
is now also fast attracting attention.
The Memorandum and Articles of Association can be in-
spected at the Offices of the Solicitors, Messrs. Baxter, Rose,
Norton, and Co., 6, Victoria-street, Westminster, or at the
Temporary Offices of the Company.

THE WARRANT BANKING COMPANY
(Limited.)
FOR ADVANCES ON MERCHANDISE AND SECURITIES.)
Incorporated under the Companies' Act, 1862.
Capital £2,0,0,000, in 40,000 shares of £5O each.
Yr it Issue, 20,000 shares.
Deposit £1 per share on application, and £1 per share on
allotment. Future calls will not exceed £5 per share, at
intervals of three months.

DIRECTORS.
Joseph Bravo, Esq., of J. Bravo and Co., London.
Archibald Bruce, Esq., of the late firm of Bruce and Co.,
Abchurch-lane, London.
W. J. R. Cotton, Esq., of Culverwell, Broo's, and Cotton,
London.
A. D. De Pass, Esq., of De Pass and Sons, London.
Abel Heywood. Esq., ex-Mayor of Manchester, Director of
the Alliance Bank, Manchester.
George Harvey Jay, Esq., Tokenhouse-yard, late of the firm
of Quilter, Ball, and Jay, London.
Thomas Jolly, Esq., of Thom is .lolly and Co , Manchester.
William APAndrew, Esq., of William M`Andrew and Sons,
London.
H. R. Marriott, Esq., of Henry Marriot' and Co., Manchester.
William M. Neill, Esq., of Neill Brothers and Co., London
and Manchester.
George Palmer Robinson, Esq, Director of the Alliance
Bank, London.
Albert ft cardo, Esq., of A. and W. Ricardo, London.
William Rawstron, Esq., of Ralph Rawstron, Manchester.
RANKERS,
London, Liverpool, and Manchester—The Alliance Bank.
SOLICITORS.
London—Messrs. Fygon, Tathams, Curling, and Walls, Fre-
derick',--plaoe, Old Jewry.
„ Messrs. Flux and Argles, Mincing-lane.
Liverpool —Messrs. Fletcher, Hull, and Stone.
Manchester—Messrs. Sale, Worthington, Shipman, and
Seddon,

BROKERS.
London—Messrs. J. and J. Whitehead, Moorgate-street.
Liverpool—Messrs. Gasquoine and Chamberlain.
Manchester—Messrs. Shore and Kirk.

TEMPORARY OFFICES.
21, Throgmorton-street, London.

PROSPECTUS.
While Exchange Banks and Credit Institu'ions have been
established to connect this country financially with almost
every foreign market, and to give fact Hies for conveying to
our shores every description of merchandi.e, Ft.'s remarkable
that as soon as the operation of importing is performed the
monetary facilities are withdrawn. The bills drawn upon
our merchants mature, and must either be met by the mer-
chant's capital unaided, or by sales. Thug, when tempo-
rarily there is an excess of any commodity imported, its
price is undu'y depressed, and s, riou+ losses are incurre
Ordinary bankers and discount houses dislike making ad-
vances upon merchandise, having no organisation for exa-
mining the goods and correct y estimating their value.
What they want are good bills, drawn on those who, know-
ing the value, have accepted for a fair advance. Division of
labour is here as elsewhere found to be most convenient and
profitable.

To meet this want, which every merchant must acknow-
ledge, the Warrant Bank.ng Company is formed. The bu.i-
ness of the Company will mainly insist in making advances
upon deposit of the staple articles of produce, represented by
dock warrants or other means of absolute assignment, duly
inspected and valued on behalf of the Company, and with a
proper margin to allow for depreciation.
These advances will be made in a ceptances by the Com-
pany of the drafts of its customers, and as every bill will re-
Present mer handise readily convert ble, and b, at the same
time secured by the whole ea ital of a powerlul Company, the
exact position of which will be patent to al', there can be no
doubt that the whole Dis ount Market will be available when
it is desired by the holder to turn the bill into °Ash.
It will be readily apparent that the existence of such an
institution, while it will be of great service to merchants, and
increase the stability of the entire class, will be an equal con-
venience to bankers and discount firms, furnishing them with
a class of bills rarely obtainable. In order to render the due
payment of the Company's acceptances certain, the Directors
undertake that the entire paid-up capital of the Company
will be invested, and, so far as practicable, remain invested in
British and East Indian Government securities, and upon
deposit at call, and it is proposed that the capital thus paid
up and invested within the first year shall reach the sum of
at least £200,( O.
The field which exists for such an undertaking will be at
once apparent from a glance at the Board of Trade returns of
foreign irnpors for the past year, which amounted (not to
speak of home produce) to over X200,(00,000. If we estimate
the average stock of fon ign goods held in warehouse, as
equal to three months' saJnsumption, it would represent an
amount of £50,000,000.
Advances may also be made when deemed advisable uron
,tocks and Shares, in permanent undertakings readily con-
vertible.
A re ,sonable proportion will always be maintained be-
tween the extent of business undertaken aed the cal ed-up
capital. Should it be necessary, the latter will be increased
to one million sterling, to be invested as already indicated,
simply as a g-uarantea fund.
Branches will, in due time, be established at Liverpool,
Manchester, Glasgow, &e.
Tle Directors will not receive any remuneration until the
shareholders have been paid £5 per cent. by way of dividend
on their paid-up capital. Atter payment of IS per cent, the
Directors will receive one-fifth of the nett profits.
No promotion money will be paid for originating this un-
dertaking. The preliminary expenses will be confined to the
necessary disbursements

NEW AND CHEAPER EDITION.
On March 18, in 1 vol., with Portrait, 65., bound,
MEMOIRS OF QUEEN HORTENSE,
MOTHER OF NAPOLEON 111.
" This book furnishes a biography of the beautiful and un•
happy Queen more satisfactory than any we have yet met
with."—Daily News.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

NEW NOVEL BY ➢iRS. BENNETT.
On Thursday next, at all Libraries, in 3 vol.,
Q TELL A. By Author of " The Cottage Girl."
London: John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street.

Immediately, in Two Vols. Bvo., with Map, price 325.,
MEXICO: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
By MICHEL CHEVALIER,

Prospectuses and forms of application for shares may be
obtained of the brokers, bankers, solicitors, and at the tem-
porary offices of the Company, but no application for shares
will be considered unTess a deposit of £1 per share has been
previou•ly p id to the bankers of the Company.
In the event of no a lo?ment being made the deposit will be
returned without deduction, and should the number allotted
be less than the number applied for, the payment in excess
will be applied towards the balance of the deposit.

FORA OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
To be retained by the Bankers.

No.—
To the Director 3 of the Warrant Banking Company
tL mited).
Gentlemen,—Having pIA to your Bankers the sum of ,
being a Depo,it of Xi per share on shares in the above
Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that num-
ber, and I agree to become a member of the Company in re-
spect of such shares, or in respect of any leas number you may
arot me ; and to pay on allotment the further deposit of Li
P r share thereon, and I reqest that my name may be placed
on the Register of Members for the s, area so alloted.
ame in full
Residence
Profession or business
Date

Member of the Institute and Senator of France.
London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street

Next week, in Two post Byo., price 215.,
D WELLERS ON THE THRESHOLD.
By W. H. DAVENPORT ADAMS,
Author of "Famous Beauties and Historic Women," dm.
London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street.

This Day, at all Librarios, in 3 vols.,
SIR VICTOR'S CHOICE.
The New Novel. By Author of "The Cross of Honour."
London : John Maxwell and Co,. 122, Fleet-street.

THE AUTO GRAPHIC MIRROR,
No 3, will appear THIS DAY, the 15th instant, price
is., by post is. id. Contents :—A letter from George IV.,
when Prince of Wales, about the Princess Caroline ; from the
Due D'Orleans, the Dnke of Wellington, Marshal Bugeaud,
Baron Brunnow, Guizot, Thiers, Lord Byron, Gibbon (the
Historian', Strauss (the Author of "The Life of Jesus"
Fenimore Cooper, Miss Foote, Madame Ristori, and Ts o
ketches, with Autograph, by the late Mr. Thackeray.
Office-110, Strand, W.C.

THE WELLINGTON THREE SHILLING
DINNER, consisting of Soup, Fish, Entrée, Joint,
Sweet, &c., is served daily from 3 to 9, and on Sundays from
5 to 8.30.
Private Rooms for large or small parties.
JOHN CATES, Manager.
The Wellington, St. James's-street.
Entrance, 160, Piccadilly.

THE OXFORD,
(, OXFORD STREET, W.

THIS EVENING, will be performed the new and success-
ful Opera, by M. Guonod, FAUN, embracing the entire
company of this establishment, with augmented band and
chorus ; and other Musical Entertainments, supported by the
following talented artistes : —Misses Russell. Fitz-Henry,
Tyrrell,,VV almsley ; Messrs. Morley, Tivoli, Green, ,tc.

Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

UNSWORTII and EUGENE will make their re-appear-
ance This Evening.
Comedy, by Mr. T. Maclsgan, W. Randall, G. llutchenson,
G. W. Jester, Miss Nelly Power (the juvenile comedienne),
&c.

Will shortly be produoei, THE MERRY WIVES OF
WINDSOR, by Otto Nicolai; ant THE TWO GENTLE-
MEN OF VERONA, by Sir Henry Bishop.
. . . .

Admission--Area, 6d. ; stalls and baleany, ls. ; private
baxes, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL.
The Fairy Entertainment, entitled

PRINCE BLOSSOM IN THE LAND OF SHADOWS!
Is written expressly for this establishment by W. F. Vander-
veil, author of the celebrated " Enchanted Hash," and en-
ables Mr. Morton, with the aid of Professor Pepper's Optical
Illusion (known as the Ghost), to produce effects never before
contemplated, and which have all teen duly registered by
him and Mr. J. H. Weston under the title of "The Ghost in
the Magic Fountains." By this new arrangement, that
which is in reality nothing but a shadow, becomes to all ap-
pearance endowed with life, and when "Fame" takes her
flight through the burning Cataracts, and the Naiads seek
their beds in the Crystal Waters, form a coup d'ceil of beauty
unparalleled even in fairy romance.
Prince Blossom (with the Song of all Nations), Miss Townley.
The Marvellous Illusion will take place every Evening at
half-past Nine o'c'ock.
All the wonderful entertainment of the establishment, as
usual, in addition to the above.

Admission—Area, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, is.
Open every Evening.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA. -
The ROYAL CIRQUE of the NETHERLANDS.—
This, the first Company in the World, comprising the greatest
Artistes in the profession, an ft including Mdlle. Louise
Loisset, the greatest Femsle Rider of the age, will appear for
a limited period on WEDNESDAY next. Morning Per-
formance at Two o'clock Evening at half-past seven.
Mone. Francois Loisset, Director.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA.
THIS EVENING (Monday), and TO-MORROW
(Tuesday), the MI•iCE I.LANEOUS ENTERTAINMENT.
The New and Elegant Ballet Divertisement every evening.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL
GALLERY; established 28 years at the Bazaar,
Baker-street.

A full-length model of VICTOR TOWNLEY is now
added to the Chamber of Physiognomy.
Admission, 18. ; extra rooms, 6d. Open from 11 till dusk,
and from 7 till 10.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street,
Piccadilly,
IS OPEN EVERY EVENING.

During the eveninv. an unparalleled repertoire of Dance
Music, Selections and Overtures, is performed by the cele-
brated Argyll Band, forty in number.
Doors Open et Half-past 8, commence at 9.
Admission is.
Manager, M. GRENET.

44A, MADDOX-STREET, REGENT-STREET, W.
THE LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM.
Open daily from 10 till 10. Where may be seen the
Astees ; Bushman and Wife ; Julia Pastrana and Infant ;
Eng and Shang, the Siamese Twins; and upwards of 3,000
Models, Natural Preparations, Ste. Egyptian Mummies,
unwrapped, 4,000 years old. Admission, One Shilling (tor
Gentlemen only).

QPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented
Ki Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the
Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra-
ordinary relief to weak, di ,n, and defective vision.—S. and B
SOLOMON S, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.

TEAM from LONDON to NEW YORE.
l'he British and American Steam Navigation Company
(Limited) will DESPATCH one of the undermentioned
Splendid Fast Screw Steamers TWICE EACH MONTH for
New York :

... .....
Tons. Horse Power.
LONDON 2,500 500
Capt. GLOVER.
WESTMINSTER 2,500
DUBLIN 2 5OO ..... 500 ..... Capt. FROM).
NEW YORK 2,500 „... 500
...„ Capt. HARRIS.
passenger
These magnificent vessels ire unsurpassed by any ocean-
going steamer, and have accommodation for s re-
,.
plete with every comfort. The Line will commence "an
early date ; the exact day to be fixed in a latter announi-
ment. To load in the Victoria Docks. _ .

For freight or passage aptly to the Company's Agents,
Alfred Laming and Cu., 70, Co:nhilL

TEN PER CENT. MORTGAGE BONDS.—
STRAND MUSIC HALL COMPANY (Limited)
BONDS of £5O each, are now ready for issue, constituting a
First Charge upon the Property of the Company, repayable
in Three Years, and bearing Interest at £lO per Cent. per
Annum, p Dyable haltiyearly.

Apply at the Offices of the Company, 345, Strand, W.C.
or to Mr. G. T. Taylor, Steck and Share Broker, 11, Token
house-yard, E.C. • ~.
By Order Of the Board,

FREDERIC LAWRANCE, Secy.

SH ORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA-
PHIC TEACHER. 6d. ; free by post, 7d.

LONDON ARMOURY COMPANY
(Limited).
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the ORDINARY
GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders will be held at
the Offices of the Company, No. 36, King William-street,
London-bridge, on THURSDAY, 31st March, 1884, at Twelve
o'clock precisely, when the Directors' Report will be sub-
mitted.

Also, for the purpose of electing Auditors, and filling up
the annual vacancies in the direction.

The Regis. er Books of the Company will be closed from
Thursday, 17th inst., to Thursday, 14th proximo, inclusive.
Any Shareholder wishing to propose any one as a candi-
date for the office .1 Director or Auditor must give notice in
writing, to be left at the Office of the Company at least six
days previous to the meeting, stating the name, address, and
occupation of every such candidate.
ARCHIBALD HAMILTON, Chairman.
WALTER W. RITCHIE, Secretary.
London, 14th March, 1864.

ST. MARK'S HOSPITAL for FISTULA and
other DISEASES of the RECTUM,

Founded 1835.
Treasurer—GEOßGE GLAS SANDEMAN, D.P.

Notice is hereby given, that in conformity with the resolu-
tion passed at the Annual Meeting of the Governors of this
Hospital. held on the 11th February last, an EXTRA-
ORDINARY MEETING of the Governors will be held at
the Institution, City-road, London, on THURSDAY, theith
April next, at 11 a.m. precisely, for he purpose of electing
two assistant-surgeons.
The ballot will commence at 11 o'clock, and close at 3 p.m.
Candidates are required to send their testimonials, under
cover, to the undersigned, on or before Thursday, the 24th
instant.

By order of the Treasurer,
JAMES FULLER WHISKIN, Secretary.
City-road, London, E.C., ➢larch 10. 1864.

SHAKSPERE SCHOOL OF THE ROYAL
DRAMATIC COLLEGE.
Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty the

QUEEN and his Royal Highness the PRINCE of
WALES.

The Council of the Royal Dramatic College. considering
that tite present is a favourable opportunity for promoting
one of the main purposes of the Institution they hare
founded, bez to invite public support in aid of the ERECTION
and ENDOWMENT of a SHAKSPERE SCHOOL for the
classical and general education, with scholarships, of the
Children of Actors or Actresses and Dramatic Authors—the
noblest and most fitting Monument to the memory of the
Player and Poet.

The Council of the Royal Dramatic College beg to apprize
the public, that all Subscriptions intended for the endow-
ment of the Shakspere School should be paid only to the
Master, New Theatre Royal Adolph! ; or to Messrs. Coutts,
Bankers, Strand, London.
A Public Meeting will shortly be held in the Royal Adelphi
Theatre to advance this object, of which due notice will be
given. Ladies, noblemen, gentlemen, and others interested in
carrying out this design, are requested to communicate with
the undersigned.
BENJAMIN WEBSTER, Master.

SHORTHAND.-PITMAN'S PHONOGRA-
PHIC MANUAL. Free by post, ls. 6d.

SH OR THAN D.-"PITMAN'S PHONO
GRAPHY forms an exceedingly efficient—probably
the MOST efficient—system of Shorthand that exists."—Sir
Rowland Hill.

IF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any
one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indigestion, or
Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS.
Their world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit.
Of all medicine vendors at Is. end 2s. 9cl. or free by
poet for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist
Lincoln.

MESSRS. BOTT, JACKSON, AND CO.
execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the
year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. London and
Westminster Bank. Post-office Orders payable at Camber-
well-park.
N.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup.
Address—Born and JACKSON, " Man of the World" Wine
toms, George-street, Camberwell-park, London.

AMBERT'S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN
JU EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels
or affecting the head, trulyefficacious and pleasant, is ad
mitted to be the best medicine for immediately relieving
coughs, colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con-
sumption. It frequently cures persons whom the faculty
pronounce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which
provokes frequent coughing. In approaching
consumption
it. effects are truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or
even lying down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief
in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared oniy and sold by,
W. LAMBERT, Chemist. 8, King-William-street, Charing"
cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 13d., and
three quantities in one, 2s. 9d. each. Be particular. and ask
for Lambert's Asthmatio Balsam, The name and address ae.
engraved on the gam.

Feb. 27, 1864.
Committee Room (open from 11 till 4), 411, Strand.
Secretary, Mr. Thomas Stuart.

ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
__ _.

London, 26th February, 1864.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the ORDINARY
ANNUAL COURT, and also that an EXTRAORDINARY
QUINQUENNIAL GENERAL COURT, will be held at
Radley's Hotel, Bride-street, Blackfriars, on SATURDAY,
the 1(411 March, 186 i, at Two o'clock precisely, for the follow-
ing purposes:—
ORDINARY ANNUAL COURT,

Ist. To consider and receive the Auditors' Report for the
year 1863 ; and
2dly. To elect Auditors for the present year.

EXTRAORDINARY AND QUINQUENNIAL COURT.
Ist. To consider and receive the Report of the Directors
upon the value of the Funds of the Society, and its
engagements; and the Valuation of the Policies,
prior to declaring a Bonus.
2dly. To declare the Sum to be allotted to the Members of
the Society as a B inns ; and
3dly. To elect four Directors, in consequence of the following
going out of office, by ballot, viz.:—
Henry Barnett, Esq.
Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, M.P.
Edward Charrington, Esq.
Pascoe Charles Glyn, Esq.
These gentlemen being, by the 153 d Article of the Deed of
Settlement, immediately eligible to be re-elected, are recom-
mended severally by the Board of Directors.
As the Resolutions of the Extraordinary General Court
will require confirmation, so Saturday, the 2d April, is ap-
pointed for that purpose, at Two o'clock precisely.
By order of the Board of Directors,
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary.

MADAME RACHEL'S CIRCASSIAN
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SHEFFIELD, Monday Night.
It is only now, when the first agony of alarm is
over, that people begin to realise the full extent of
the disaster which has inflicted such destruction on
this neighbourhood. Even yet, however, the actual
loss and damage done to property can be but roughly
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ascertained, for even the loss of life occasioned by

it is but imperfectly revealed. Scarcely an hour
passes which does not bring intelligence of other
bodies found, or, what is almost the same, of per-
sons missing of whom no tidings can be gained.
The greater number of the bodies have been re-
moved to the wards of the Sheffield Union, and up
to Sunday night 92 had been identified. Very
many were lying there, however, of whom nothing
is known, and there is scarcely a pubiichouse which
has been spared in the neighbourhood of where the
greatest damage has been done which does not
contain one or more bodies waiting identification

lor removal. Six it is known have been recovered
as far. down the river as Doncaster, a fact that
seems cancLeive as to many being still beneath the
long extent of str: am between Doncaster and this
town. From various
:ources it can be gathered.
that apparently not less than 200 bodies have been
found, and time alone can tell how manymore will
be added to this fearful list. Certain it is that
many more are missing, and to be missing ,:fter
such a fearful calamity augurs the worst that can
be feared. Those identified in the wards of the
workhouse include males and females of every age,
from children of 14 days old to men of nearly 80.
Almost one-half are persons between the ages of 20
and 40—adults in the prime of life, whom we
may fairly presume possessed physical attributes
of strength and courage sufficient to have saved
themselves if any merely human means were of
avail against the tremendous catastrophe which
came upon them. Nothing, however, but those
providential accidents, if we may so term them,
seems to have averted the common fate from the
occupants of all the houses which the flood reached.
A few who by terror or instinct climbed to the roofs
of the submerged houses were thus saved ; many
who no doubt succeeded in gaining such temporary
asylums were afterwards drowned as the increasing
might of the waters swept walls and all before it.
There are instances of almost miraculous preserva-
tion from the flood, but none of escape from those
who were caught in its tremendous rush. For
those once in the flood there was no hope. They
were whirled away in what for the time was the
cataract which whelmed old and young in one fear-
ful death, and tall powerful men and unweaned
children are now lying side by side in the wards
devoted to the reception of the dead at Sheffield
Union. We subjoin the names of those who have
been identified, and from this it will be seen at a
glance that many more have yet to be recovered.
Only four of the Armitages have been found, though
10 are said to be missing, while only two of the
Tricketts have been recovered, though it is thought
certain that at least 10 were in the farmhouse on the
night when farm and homesteads were swept away
to the very foundations :
Ellen Chapman—William Halbert—Henry Gan-
non—Peter Gannon—George Snape—MaryCrump,
aged 74—Samuel Crump,3B—Martha Needham, 2
Thomas Petty, 34—Margaret Petty, 34—Mary
Petty, 11—Catherine Petty, 7—Thomas Petty, 3
Peter Webster, his wife, and three children—
Greaves Armitage, 28—Teuton—Isaac Turner, in-
fant—Alfred Coggan, 13—Eliza Coggan, 8--
William Coggan, 6—John Glover, 25—Sarah Ann
Glover, 25 Emma Sparks, Alfred Sparks,
Emma Sparks, Jane Peters, Julia Peters, Chris-
topher Peters, Phal')e Meadwood, 38—Christopher
B. Arculus, 3 John Hudson, 40 George
Hudson, s—Christopher Calton, 4G—Mary Calton,
30—Richard Hazlehurst, 70—Eliza Crownshaw,
Thomas Spooner, jun., 11—Charles Armitage, Ro-
bert Greavenor Marshall, Samuel Cuapnian, infant
—Thomas Bullard, James Atkinson, 40—Mrs.
Jepson, Benjamin Spooner, 75-11 tunah Spooner,
64—Sarah Ann Spooner, 7—John Vaughan, 64
Eliz ibeth Vaughan, 53—William Wolatenholme,
74—Thomas Ellstone, 34—Elizabeth Ellstone, 33
Thomas Ellstone, 14 days—Elizabeth Pickering,
23—Eliza Bright, 9—Alfred Bright, 4—George
Mills, 62—Caroline Okeley Watson, 9—Sidney
Varney, 21—George Tingle, 21—Susannah Gill-
yet, 53—Joseph Dyson, 40—Mary Dyson, 25
Dennis M'Lochlan, 68—Thomas Frarist,
James Trickett, 40—Jemima Trickett, 17—Mrs.
Armitage, 60—Mrs. Price, 28, and her son—Thomas
Atkinson, 14—Joseph Crapper, 14—Mrs. Snape,
Eliza Mappin, Thomas Spooner, Mrs. Pickering,
23—Alothea Hogue, 14—John Frith, 34—Thomas
Winter, 70—Sarah Bisby, 43—Arthur Doyson, 11
—Ann Armitage, 42—Ann Miles, .50—Isabella
Fould, 3—John Fould, s—Richard Snape, 20—
Selina Spooner, 38—Betsy Spooner, 9.
As regards the condition of the embankment or
dam which restrained the waters of the great
reservoir at Bradfield the most contradictory state-
ments are in circulation. To speak of it as an ordi-
nary reservoir would convey but a slight idea of
the mass of waters which was pent up between the
hills of Stannington and Losley. It was, in fact,
a small lake formed by building a dam or em-
bankment across a narrow valley, which collected
the watershed of the hills around. The area of water
thus enclosed was nearly a mile and a quarter in
length, and about a quarter of a mile broad, with a
depth varying from 60 to 70 feet in its centre, and
probably averaging about 40 feet throughout.
The Sheffield Daily Telegraph, which gives a most
clear and graphic narrative of the disaster through-
out, says, with reference to the dam, that to all
appearance the towering embankment intended to
confine the water within the prescribed limits was
powerful enough to bear whatever pressure might
be brought against it ; but the result proves that,
strong as it was, the water was far mightier. The
reservoir had been filling for some time past, and
on Friday it was full. The body of water was im-
mense, and before the strong wind which prevailed
on that day it rolled on to the embankment with
terrific force. These symptoms created fear in many.
The embankment was looked upon with some dis-
trust, and its power began to be silently questioned.
The fear spread, and Mr. Gunson, the resident en-
gineer, and Mr,Craven, the contractor, were sent for,
A warning was conveyed to Damfiask and Low
Bradfield, and the people waited in terror for the
coming signal. The navvies laboured on; all hands
worked with a will to avert the impending calamity.
On investigation large deep cracks were seen at the
top of the embankment, and this was considered of
sufficient importance to warrant speedy and deter-
mined efforts to let off the water, and so reduce the
pressure. The water was turned into the by-wash
and down the pipes; but soon after half-past 11,
when the reservoir was still only sft. or 6ft. from
being full, the evidences of danger became more
alarming. With a sudden rush, which caused a
sound similar to that made by the letting off large
quantities of steam, the water threw down the top
part of the embankment, and rolled through the
opening with frightful force. As it rushed down the
other side to the valley beyond it seemed to lick up
the materials of which the embankment was formed,
causing it to grow weaker and weaker, till at length
it gave way to its entire depth, and the mass of water
burst forth with a volume and power utterly over-
whelming. The workmen ran away in dismay, and
the stream dashed along the valley with fatal force.
Huge rocks, strong trees, bridges, mills which with
their heavy machinery seemed completely immov-
able, and houses were washed away as though they
were mere toys, and the catastrophe occuring in
the dead of night, brought with it a loss of life
in comparison with which the loss of property, great
as it is, sinks into insignificance. The gap made in
the embankment measures at the top from 80 to
100 yards, and at the bottom about 20 yards.
Through this opening the overwhelming body of
water dashed with terrible impetuosity, and as it

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rolled along the sullen roar was accompanied by
a rapid cracking sound which seemed like a con-
tinuous discharge of musketry. It was pro-
duced by the snapping of the trees, which were
carried away and hurled with terrific force against
any object that might obstruct their progress.
Fortunately a great majority of the cottagers and
others nearly beneath the dam had been warned of
what was likely to occur, and had made their esoape

in time. Only few lives comparatively were lost
here ; but every vestige of mill, forge, or house was
swept away. But at Hillsborough, Malin-bridge,
and along the Owlerton-road the greatest mischief
to life and property was done. Hundreds of peop!e
who slept in confidence on Friday night have, with
their houses, gone down the stream, and now sleet.
the long sleep of death. The great farmhouse of
Mr. James Trickett, with its 11 occupants, and two
or three cottages which were close by, are gone.
Malinbridge is gone, MrWilson's blacksmith's shop,
a scithe wheel-house, and a very large number of
dwelling-houses in Holme-lane have been swept
away with their occupants. In the centre of the
village was a large new pnblichouse, called the
Stag Inn, and of that pnblichouse there is only left
the arched crown of its cellar, under which some
barrels may be seen. Near the fragment of an out•
building that formerlybelonged to the farm some dead
horses are lying,and a number of large trees, stripped
of all their covering, lie, with their branches torn
ff and their roots washed clean, about the adjoin-
ing 1114ds. The torrent came in contact with a row
or terrace o!good-looking three-story houses, and
at the back a is cut off as if chopped off with a
hatchet, and so large is the portion taken away that
the houses on the left ett:nd like hens balanced on
one leg. About 30 houses hare been thrown down,
and some of them completely weskits d away in Holme
Lane. In some of these houses there were as many
as eleven, and in others eight persons drowl2ed. At
the Hillsborough brick row there was further loss
of life. Nearer the Hillsborough bridges, both of
which are down, James Atkinson and two sons, one
17 and the other 12 years of age, were drowned ;
and at the Masons' Arms, which is almost com-
pletely destroyed, the landlord (Mr. Pickering)
and three other members of the family have come
to an untimely end. Near Hillsborough many dead
bodied have been found, which were removed to the
neighbouring inns, but have since been conveyed to
the Sheffield Workhouse. The watermark shows
that some of the houses here have been submerged
nearly to the roof, others have been filled up to the
level of the second story,and in others which stand a
little higher the watermark is about shoulder-height.
The streets are quagmires, and the lower rooms of
the houses are nearly ankle deep in wet loam.
At Malin-bridge the river is narrow and bent, the
hills on each side are steep and lofty, and the build-
ings that stand on the banks of the Loxley are on
riband-like slopes of low land at the foot of the hills.
Near the water, and projeCting into it, were the
water-mills, and of these the wheels alone are to be
seen. One large work is partly saved and partly de;
stroyed. Placed in a position where the full set of the
current was thrown on the opposite side, it has lost
part of its walls, and its couple of cylindrical boilers,
removed from their beds, remind us of those ana-
tomical models in which the skin and ribs are re-
moved to exhibit the lungs. Near to these manu-
facturing premises are several whitewashed
houses three storeys in height, and on these the
water line is on a level with the tops of the win-
dows of the second floor. On the Owlerton side
the houses are with few exceptions either gutted
or demolished, but there still exists a wing
of Malin-bridge. A piece of street still stands,
and through the middle of this street trees, cattle,
and pieces of machinery, not to mention the
drowned of the upper village, have been driven.
Great stones have been bowled down the street like
marbles, castings from the neighbouring mill have
been floated along it like chips, and lie near a quar-
ter of a mile away from their original position, and
the appearance of the place as the inhabitants are
shovelling out sandy earth by the cartload from the
interior of their houses is most miserable. The
Sheffield lelegraph says :—" Judging from the way
in which the water spread itself out at this point
the remnant of houses at this spot must have looked
at one time like sunken arks in the middle of a lake.
The way iu which some houses have stood, while
others no weaker have fallen, may be accounted for
perhaps by the set of the current from side to side.
Certain it is that one house is taken and another left,
and that one side of a street nearest the river has
withstood the torrent, while of another that was
further from the water nothing refrains but broad,
flat-topped heaps of stene—heaps which must be
looked at and studied if you would understand that
each heap represents a house. In some parts a long
chain of houses has broken down, and a very low
bank of stone and lumber—a bank apparently not
more than 2ft. high—stands for what was so lately
a terrace. The stone houses appear to have resisted
the pressure worse than the slighter looking brick
ones, and their bones lie in such a manner as to give
us the idea that they had collapsed under hydraulic
pressure. One almost wonders how many people
are under these stones, for the dwellings look as if
they had dropped perpendicularly down upon their
inmates. Between the houses of Malin-bridge and
the hills there is a large piece of ground which the
river has spread over with its plunder. We notice
a kitchen dresser—a good, respectable article of
furniture—at gunshot distance from any house. Was
it the farmer's at the bend of the river, or did it be-
long to the landlady of the spruce inn of which no-
thing but the cellar can be found ? There are no less
than three kitchen boilers scattered unnoticed
among the stones. In a pool of dirty water an iron
bedstead in emerald green—a fancy article for the
class of house to which it had belonged—lies half
buried, and its mistress is probably either drifting
down the Don, or stretched on one of those boards
where the corpses are, for greater saving of space,
laid unwashed and much bruised close side by side.
The adhesiveness of mortar is shown in the beha-
viour of some of the brickwork. There are pieces of
brick wall that have, after being carried a consider-
able distance, hung together like boards. There are
sections of brick chimneys which lie on their sides
like boxes at several hundred yards from where
they were thrown down. A solitary perambulator
stands apart, and sometimes a bit of oilcloth, a man's
boot, or a piece of broken crockery crops up among
the stones, and, but for these signs of home, you
would not suspect that the stones laid down in a
confusion like that of the small boulders which lie at
the foot of the hills had ever formed the walls of a
house. There is one large tree that has got upon its
feet again, and there is a case where several others
have fastened their arms round one living one and
held their ground. A gig and some carts and rail-
way trucks have stuck in separate corners of the
river. The carts are farmers' carts ; the gig is said
to have been carried off the adjoining road with the
horse and driver. The houses we see at Owlerton
are exposed as if they had been made for the pur-
pose of exhibiting their interiors. In one room there
is an iron bedstead, in another an old mahogany
one, and in a third the floor has canted like a corn
shoot, and the bed and its occupants have been sent
down the river. A picture hangs against a wall,
which itself hangs in air without supports from be-
low. We have already alluded to the adhesiveness
of brickwork, and we have now to mention a snore
remarkable case. At the atone bridge there is, or
was on Sunday, a brick house which had been
brought down by the current with its roof and floor-
ing all complete. The story may seem an incredible
one, but the fact has been witnessed by thousands.
Another remarkable fact is the heavy burden of
earth which the flood brought down with it, It is
no uncommon thing to see men at work with spades
shovelling
ap the soil from the floor of what had been
their best room,
and as a rule the smallest rooms
appeared capable of furnishing several hundred-
weights of earth for carting away. The movement
of great Weights by hydraulic power was illustrated