The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-29 00:00:00

BEDROOM CANDLES.

"pRICE'S CANDLES, which will not drop
grease when carried."—Thin, very hard candles
sold in boxes is. and 3s. each, are recommended as the best
carriers.
" EXTRA HARD 5.12 CHAMBER CANDLES,"

-
sold in boxes 28. each. Thicker candles intended for those
who will not burn thin.
" SHERWOOD ECONOIJIO BED LIGHTS,"

in packets of 36 candles for one shilling, intended for use
where cheapness is a great object, will be found an improve-
ment on the ordinary candles, as they gutter less.
Special candlesticks to fit thin candles, Is. and 25. 6d. each;
reducing sockets, making them fit any candlesticks, 2d. each.
TOILET SOAPS.'
Shemood Brown Windsor Soap, with a pleasant scent.
Belmont Glycerine Soap, contains erice's 9lycerine.
Camphor and Glycerine Soap, fo tender skins in winter.
GLYCERINE. SHERWOODOLE
" Price's Glycerine" may be Cleans gloves and removes
had from any Chemist, in grease and other stains.
capsuled bottles, lettered Perfumed, in capsuled bot-
" Prices Patent," from 6d. tles, 6d. and Is. each.
upwards. Impure Glycerine
has been sold on the state-
ment that it is "equal to
Prices."

Retail throng:b. any Grocer. _
Wholesale by Prior's Patent Candle Corapany
London.

This volume supplies a want long fe't. Cookery books
exist in abundance, but they relate almost exclusively to the
preparation of dishes from animal food. This work is devoted
entirely to the proper cooking of vegetables, to preserving,
pickling, the preparation of sauces, soups, beverages, &a, &c.,
and forms a complete treatise upon the subject. Vegetables,
fruits, &c., constitute the half of our daily food : here is an
essay upon the best possible preparation of this half.
London : P. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C.

PARIS.-GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE.—
Establishbd in 1855.—Situated in the most Central
part of Paris, Rue de Rivoli and Place du Palate Royal—Six
Hundren Bed-rooms at from 3fr. to 2ofr.—Sixty bitting--
rooms at from 41r. to nr.—a richly-decorated Dining Saloon
—Table d'llote at six o'clock—Public Coffee and Dining
Rooms Choice Wines—Dinners served 4 la carte both in the
dining rooms and the private apartments—Reading and
Conversation Saloons; also Saloons for Musical, Wedding,
and other parties—all Newspapers and Serial Publications
reccived—Divans, Coffee, Smoking and Billiard Rooms—
numerous Bath-rooms—Carriages on the premises—first-
class Private Equipages at command -Omnibuses running
to all the railway st +tions—i't stal Letter- box—Telegnpn
Office day and night—PhiAgfil

T E OX-I+ 0 RD,
0, OXFORD STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).

ORPHICE AUX ENFERS (Offenbach's brilliant Opera
Comique), is achieving an unprecedented success. Vide, the
Song : of Bceotia ;" " The Hymn to Bacchus ;" and
the spirited "Hilliho " Chorus, by Eurydice, Diana, Cupid,
and ( horus ; the side-splitting "Couplets," by Minerva,
Diana, Venus, Cupid, Pluto, and Chorus ; and final Mtnuet
and Galop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz-
henry, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Walmsley; Messrs. Greene and
Lascelles.

Crawl Revival of NORIIA. (Norma, Miss Russell` ; Adel-
gisa, Madame Maria); and Selections from MARTH & and
LA TRAVIATA ; together with LoCke's celebrated Music
to MACBETH.

Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

THE DESCENT OF MERCURY, by Mr. Jas. TaMOM.
LE MONSTRE CITARME, by M. SILVESTRE.
ii he I)'AUBANS in their famous Character Sketches.
Comedy, by Mr. WILLIAM RANDALL," Mr. GASTON
MURRAY, and all the procurable Talent of the day.
Instrumental Solos, $O.,
boxes, 10s. 6d.
Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is. ; private

ANTERBURY HALL.
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PERFUME and BOUQUET , the NEW OPTICAL ILLU-
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brought into requisition, written by Mr. W. F. Vandervell.
The usual Operatic Selections. the Anthropophaginian, dtc.
Comedy by Mr. W. Randal', T. Stacey, W. Hilton, and the
Wondrous Indian Rope Trick by Messrs. W. Hilton and
Kelley.

;
Comic Illustrations of Negro character by LITTLE 808.
Admission—Area, ed.
Stalls and Balcony, Is.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
established upwards of 29 years at the Bazaar, Baker-

Jr-ea.
from life, is now added. Admittance, Is. ;
Full-length PORTRAIT MODEL of MULLER, taken
extra rooms, 6d.
Open from 11 till dusk, and from 7 till 10.

ARGYLL ROOMS Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.
Sole Proprietor, Mr. R. R. BIGNELL.
THIS EVENING, Reappearance at these Rooms, for a
,
short series, of the celebrated M. LEVY, the Paganini
Cornet-a-Piston Player. The Whirlwind Polka—Guards'
Selections at 9 o'clock.
Waltz—Carnival of Venice ; in addition to some Novelties.
Conductor—M. L. CITRTL
Doors open at half-Past B.—Admission, One Shilling.
Manager—M. GRENET.

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Freehold or Leasehold Property or having Business and
Houses to be disposed of, should'apply to Mr. CHARLES
MURRAY, Auctioneer and Valuer, 26, Gerrard-street,
Soho, W.
Valuations for Probate Administration, Fire Claims, Rail-
way Compensations, Szo. Rents Collected.

pRIZE ME D A L.--INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION, 1862.
FRANCIS TUCKER & CO, Wax Chandlers, &0., &a:.
To the Queen and the Prince of Wales.
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The Jurors' Report on Was and Church Candles, in 1862,
testifies to the excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers'
manufacture.
A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Franois
Tucker and Co., on the subject of
WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS,
says,—
I have found them fully equal to the recommendation
which y
alpatented..can relin
my turn, com-
Wi
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Finest
2s. 2d. per lb.
Ordinary quality .. • • • • • • .. 2s. Od. per lb.
qouu gaveity,
with
them,
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Best quality .. .. • • • • • • .. is. sd. per lb
Second quality • • '• • • .. is. 3d. per lb.
Third quality .. • • • • • • • • .. is. id. per lb.
Carriage paid hi London on Orders of Five Pounds in value.
FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO.,
:E,South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. manufactory_
Kensington (Established 1730).
The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture
of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar.

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.1.4 EFFECTUAL REMEDY, without confining the bowels
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in a few minutes after taking it. Prepared only and sold by
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cross, London, and by all druggists, in bottles, 134c1., and
three quantities in one, 2s. Od. each. Be particular. and ask
for Lambert's Asthmatic Balsam. The name and address are
engraved on the stamp.

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MOLLARD'S perfumed Toilet Sulphur Soap and
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Nothing equals the properties and qualities of the Soap No.
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of cutaneous affeCtions or rheumatism.
Perfumed toilet cream, cold cream, and pomatam for the
hair.
Barege cream for sulphur baths, without any disagreeable
odour.
All these preparations may be had at the central depot,
221 A, Regent-street, London, W. ; and at gems. Newbery
and Sons, Barclay and Sons. Edwards, Keating, Sanger and
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on at po arh_
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r.
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chemist,
119,
George-street

Yesterday afternoon a meeting of members of the bar
convened by the Attorney-General, was held in the Dining.
hall of Lincoln's-inn, to take into consideration the scheme
of reporting recommended by the committee appointed on
Dec. 2, 1863. The meeting was numerously attended.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, on taking the chair, said ho
would state in a few words why the meeting had been con•
voned. On Dec. 2 last year a meeting of the bar was called
upon a requisition sent to him, and at that meeting a coin-
mittePwas appointed, to consider whether any plan could
be proposed for the amendment of the present system of
editing, and preparing, and publishing law reports. The
committee whioh was appointed consisted of gentlemen
eminent in their profession, both as Queen's counsel and
behind the bar, and they reported on June 14. Their report
and recommendations had been widely circulated, and it had
been thought proper that the bar should have the opportu-
nity of meeting and considering whether the subject was
ripe for action or not, and accordingly a meeting was held
there on July 2, when Mr Amphlett moved the adoption of
_ _

the report, and Mr Best and Mr Miller moved an amend-
ment; and an amendment was eventually carried that the
further consideration of the matter should be postponed till
a day to be fixed in November by the Attorney-General.
He would now call on Mr Daniel to move the first resolu-
tion in the place of Mr Amphlett, who, ho was sorry to say,
was absent in consequence of a domestic bereavement.
Mr DANIEL, Q.C., said ho would not go over the old
round of the evils of the present system. He would _neither
" • e— "—eh- eeetegee to- he der4ived
from standard reports, if such could be esteblishe nut
ho would at once proceed to bring before them the
scheme which the committee had devised as a practical
remedy fora practical grievance. He would look at it in
a commercial point of view, sa that they might consider
whet her it was likely to be self-supporting. The commit-
tee sought to obtain information as to the circulation of
the authorised reports, as they were called, previous to the
cemmencement of the present system of competition. They
wont back to the time of Barnewall and Cresswell and MeH-
vale, and Jacob and Walker, to the years 1824 and 1625,
the system of competition not beginning till the years 1832
or 1833. They ascertained from various sources that the
regular issue of the Queen's Bench reports in 1824 and 1826
up to the end of Barnewell and Cresswell was 4,000, and
the regular issue of the Chancery reports was 2,000. Well,
then, basing themselves on the 2,000, which was the small-
est amount of circulation existing 40 years ago, the com-
mittee endeavoured to ascertain whether on that small
circulation a scheme could be devised which, commercially
speaking, would be self-supporting at a subscription of five
guineas per annum, and for that purpose the committee
endeavoured, through several of its members, to obtain
information from those who were competent to give it. He
placed himself in communication with Messrs Cloves, the
printers, of Duke-street, Stamford-street, and requested
them to furnish him with the cost price of a set of reports,
selecting for the purpose one of the most expensive of the
present authorised reports—Clark's House of Lords Reports
—a part which was charged to the profession at 12s 6d, and
he requested them to give him an estimate of the cost of
printing, :paper, sale, and distribution of each such part,
excluding from it all publisher's commission and the pro-
prietor's profit. The result was that for an issue of 500 the
cost would be is 101 d—of 1,000, is 4d—of 2,000, is Id—of
3,000, 111 d—of 4,000, 10d—and of 5,000, 10Id per copy of
that which was now charged to the profession at 12s 6d.
These figures seemed to him so striking that if true he could
not avoid coming to the conclusion that there was a radical
defect in the present system, as regarded consumers. Mr
Hemming, to whom he showed these figures, pointed out
that there was an omission of one item for correcting the
press. That would be small if the cases were carefully
edited, as it was proposed they should be, before being sent
to the printers, but he had added 75 per cent of the cost
of composition, and that would increase the 101 d to 11d.
These figurescoincided with others obtained by Mr Lindley,
with information given them by Mr Longueville Giffard,
and they coincided also with the results of the reports of the
Law Amendment Society published in 1852 and 1853. Fol-
lowing these data, the report proceeded upon the assumption
that the salaries in the aggregate would be £10,700 a-year,
and that the first moiety of the salaries should be guaranteed
out of the consolidated or suitors' fund. Individually he
had no desire such a source should be resorted to; he did
not think it would be necessary, and he did not think it
would be granted if it were asked for, and the committee re-
commend that in case payment of the first moiety of th•
salaries should not be obtained out of the consolidated or
suitors' fund, it should be made a term of contract with the
printers or publishers that they should pay it out of the
proceeds of the sale of the reports. This scheme had been
spoken of as unbusinesslike ; but Mr Westlake, whose com-
petency no one would doubt, had gone through the figures,
and was satisfied they were rather over thwn under esti-
mated. Not satisfied with this, however, he went last Sa-
turday to Mr Clewed' counting-house, and putting this do-
cument into his hand asked him to take it, and appended to
it this question, "Assuming that the reports in each year
would make eight octavo volumes of 800 pages each, in your
opinion, without any capital being guaranteed from anyother
quarter, would any printer undertake it 2" and the answer
was—" I would rather not give a hypothetical opinion ; we
are quite willing to undertake it on the above conditions. Do
not let it be supposed we are tendering for such a thing, but
I should be very much surprised if any printer with a au&
cient capital would return you any other answer." It
must not be supposed that there would be 35 per cent. for
publisher's commission, but the actual cost of one set of
standard reports, making up eight volumes per annum,
could be had on a circulation of 2,000 copies, at 5 guineas
per annum, that being the circulation which, before corn-
petition began, was the legitimate circulation of chancery
reports. And he thought that when they considered
the immense increase in the members of the pro-
fession, and how the reports of the English courts
ourhink
they
yonwieesre and
iwnearegrernetgparadretdef
theas galuehthe,orhietiedsin
did
not t
reasonable in expecting that the standard reports at five
guineas a set per annum would be self-supporting. He had
assumed that eight volumes a year would be printed. He
believed that in that there was an error, but an error on the
side of excess, because one of the conditions of the system
suggested would be that there should be proper judgment
in the selection of the cases, which would considerably re-
duce the number. In conclusion, he moved that the report
of the committee be adopted.
Mr DICKENSON seconded.
Mr W. M. BEST moved an amendment to the effect that
the words "that the reports shall be prepared by reporters
under the supervision of editors," be omitted. If the editors
were merely to read the reports to correct typographical
errors there could be no objection, except that they were to
receive £6OO a-year for that which a clerk could do. But if
they were to suppress or alter the reports there would arise I

notice of the legislature, with a view to their amendment.'l
The Chairman then put the various amendments to the
meeting seriatim, and they were all negatived by a large
majority, except Mr Hemming's, on which apparently
about an equal number of hands were held up for and
against, and the chairman said there must be a division.
Tellers were appointed, and the result was that there
were for the amendment 111, against it 126, and it was
consequently negatived.

The original motion was then put and carried.
Mr DANIEL then moved—" That the Attorney-Genera
be requested, as president of this meeting, to communicate
the resolution adopting the report to the Lord Chancellor

and the Benchers of the Inns of Court, to the S)ciety of
Sergeants' Inn, and to the Incorporated Law SLciety, with
a request on the part of the meeting that they may seve
rally be pleased to further the objects of the scheme." He

said-that from every quark'. of Eng,htnd they hai received
. .

o.mmtmicatione sanctioning the proceedings of the com-
mittee, and expressing hopes for the SUCCCPB of the scheme.
A BARRISTER—What is the number of subscriptions
Mr DANlEL—Something under 300, (Cries of "Oh.")
Could they expect it
.to be otherwise ? (Cries of "Cer-
tainly not," and laughter.)

The motion was then oarried unanimously, and votes of
thanks having been given to the Attorney-General for his
conduct in the chair, and to the committee for the trouble

hey have taken in the matter, the meeting separated.

Mr. Cobden on American Finance.

(From the limes' City Article.)

Attention has been called to the statements made

last week by Mr Cobden on American finance in
his speech' at Rochdale. Mr Cobden is reported to
have said that the annual amount which Mr Glad.
stone is now drawing from this country in time of
peace is very nearly the same as the amount of the
present Federal expenditure, assuming that expen-
diture to be £2,000,000 dole. per diem, and "having
regard to the depreciation of American currency
and the present rate of exchange." Furthermore
he asked, " Why is it that the American States
have laughed to scorn the prediction of all our
writers on finance who told them that they could
not go on with the war for six months without com•
ing to Europe for a loan ? How is it that they have
deceived and disappointed the whole of Europe ?''
—a question to which, in the midst of the cheers of
his audience, he immediately replied by intimating
that the whole secret lay in the fact that the Ame.
ricans, by their economical government, had saved
10 millions sterling per annum for the past 40 years
and had thus accumulated a " fabulous" sum to en-
able them to pass triumphantly through their pre-
sent terrific strain. It seems scarcely credible that
Mr Cobden could have made these assertions. In the
first place, by his announcement that an expenditure
of 2,000,000 dole. per diem, or £146,000,000 ster.
ling per annum, is to be considered only about equal
to our own expenditure of £70,000,000, " having
regard to the depreciation of the American cur-
rency," he notifies to all the world, not only that

the Americans never intend to redeem their note
liabilities at par, but that it is quite proper for them
at once to base their calculations upon this system
of repudiation. Next, when he asks how it is that
the Americans have langhed to scorn the prediction
regarding their coming to Europe for a loan, and
proceeds to account for it by their haring during
the last 49 years somewhere accumulated 400 mil-

lions sterling at compound interest, he simply in-
vents a reason for a fact which has no existence.
Throughout the entire war the Americans have so
besieged Europe for pecuniary assistance that they
are estimated to have obtained from Germany
alone 40 millions sterling, while Holland has
likewise contributed in proportionate abund-
ance. As far as this country and France are con•
cerned, we have had special deputations from Wash.
ington to ascertain our inclinations, and if the sums
procured from us have not been of the magnitude
anticipated it has been from no neglect on the part
of the Federal Government. As to the " fabulous
accumulations" of 40 years at compound interest,
their reality has yet to be demonstrated, since dur-
ing the whole of that period America has found
it necessary to appeal to Europe, and chiefly to
England—the country which Mr Cobden accuses
of having hopelessly wasted its substance—for the
capital to carry out all the public works by which
she has developed her resources. Moreover, even
supposing thecae savings to have been otherwise than
imaginary, many people would think it better not
to save at all than to do so in three years' saturnalia
of carnage and destruction. The fact is, that the
Americans have not "deceived and disappointed the
whole of Europe," and there is reason to fear that if
such a resalt is to be witnessed it will not be from
the astounding accumulations present to Mr Cob.
den's mind, bat from the adoption of Mr Cobden's
mode of reckoning the expenditure of & borrowed
dollar not at 4s 2d, but only at is 6d, As to the
Americans laughing to scorn the predictions of the
financial writers of this country, it would be more
charitable to them to assume that even if they con-
sidered us in error they would abstain from 1 h aug •
ing us to scorn, since at all events among financial
writers there has been no disposition except to warn
them of dangers which Englishmen, accustomed to

follows instructions, and would only yield to superior force,
as ho was not authorised to lose the steamer and sacrifice
the lives of the crew. Re gave the officer sufficient time to
carry his answer to the captain of the Invincible, which wan
all this time firing rockets and burning blue lights, when'ho
weighed anchor and at half steam passed the ironclad. When
about 1,000 yards ahead of her the Invincible chased the
Tunisian steamer, which put on full steam, and kept ahead
of her pursuer until they both neared the island of Zembri,
at the entrance of the bay, when the ,Tunisian steamer
boldly passed through the straits between the island and the
mainland. It being perilous for a large vessel to attempt
the passage at night, the Invincible had no other alterna-
tive but either to make the circuit of the island or return to
her anchorage. She preferred the latter course, and the
Tunisian steamer and Envoy thus escaped being captured
in Tunisian waters by the vessel of a foreign and a friendly
Power.

This affair, which is attributed to the political intempe-
rance of the French representative, has created a very pain-
ful sensation in Tunis. It has utterly disgusted tho
sian authorities, and it has humbled the Europeans to think
that so open a violation of every principle of public right
and international law should be perpetrated by the agent of
a great and powerful nation against a weak Government
which it pretends to protect against the encroachments of
others.

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