The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-26 00:00:00

SPlltlli OF

THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

TlMES.—Another great battle has been fought
among the woods of Virginia. Unwearied by a
struggle of nearly a week, the Federals returned to
the attack on Thursday, the 12th inst., and there
ensued what appears to have been one of the most
-"inters of the war. The last of the first
bloody este.- -^eral 1 ee in front of Spott-
setiee of bnttlem left ex..— '-deral army, re-
sylvania Court-house' with the 1 „__ ~nished
pulsed but hot routed, before hifn. So amine.—
*as the vigour of the Confederates that the last
attack had been theits, and the greatest slaughter
inflicted on their adversaries had heen in a contest
in which the Federals had to hold the ground they
had gained. But during the night of Wednesday
the Federal General Hancock changed his position
from the right to the left centre of the Federal line,
and at daybreak on the morning of Thursday, the
12th, he assaulted Lee's right. Of his BliCCte9 there
are the usual varying accounts. The first state-
ments, evidently derived from persons who quitted
the field while the battle was in progress, are to
the effect that Hancock captured 25 cannon and
3,000 prisoners, among whom were three Generals.
But the battle which began at this early hour
continued during the whole day, and, according to
later intelligence, the course of the day's fighting
materially altered the position which Hancock had
gained in the morning. It seems that this attack
on the Confederate right was a surprise, and that
the capture of prisoners and cannon, even if as im-
portant as stated, could not be taken as a proof of
general success. The battle which followed was, on
the whole, to the advantage of the Confederates.
" Of the cannon captured," it is said, " many re-
mained on disputed ground on Thursday night,
while it is not perfectly clear that a number of them
were not recaptured by the Confederates." But still
more important is the news that no success what-
ever attended the Federals at other points of
the line, their assaults against Lee's centre and
left being invariably repulsed with great slaughter.
At nightfall the Confederates maintained their
position in front of Spotteylvania Court-house,
but during Thursday night Lee, repeating the
manoeuvre which he has twice practised during the
campaign, retreated to take up a stronger position.
To this position General Grant, impeded by the
heavy fall of rain and the bad state of the roads,
could not readily follow him, and it is possible that
the carnage may again for a few days be stayed.
This great battle may, then, be said to have been
indecisive at a time when an indecisive battle is really
a victory to the South. The strategy of Grant con-
sists simply in pushing forward his whole force,
hurling it against the Southern positions, and in-
flicting loss on the enemy by submitting to a loss
which is probahly greater on his own side. The
battle of the 12th was no doubt one of the most
bloody of the war. The carnage, we are told, was
awful—" the men fell like grain." No estimate of
the loss is given. Such generalship as this, though
it certainly is not of a high order, may tend for a
time to keep up the enrage of the North by inspir-
ing the belief that the South is likely to be wearied
out by the constant attack of armies more powerful
than its own. Bat such a plan of campaign may
soon be shown to be dangerous and even fatal. Gen.
Grant, with a fine army, has attacked position after
position, and been repulsed in a series of actions
which must very much have lessened his strength.
As yet his advance towards the Confederate capital
has not done much to inspire the North with hopes
of ultimate success. Although he has approached
nearer Richmond than any of his predecessors by
the same road, yet the price of gold obstinately
keeps up, and the tone of the Northern Press is far
less jubilant than at the time of Pope's or Hooker's
exploits. Indeed, to look for large results from the
present campaign requires a high degree of faith in
Federal good fortune. To expect that the most
splendid victory of Grant will do much to bring the
war to a close is to forget the character of the
Southern people and the vast extent of their terri-
tory. Even the sanguine North, when it sees these
successive days of bloodshed, which only end in
causing the Confederate army to draw back a short
distance to new positions that have been carefully
chosen and strengthened during three years past,
seems to feel the hopelessness of the contest in
which it is engaged. No one who considers the
matter eau fail to perceive that the further Grant
advances through a thpopulated country, along
wretched roads, and with the ever-lengthening line
of his communications exposed to the Confederate
cavalry and guerillas, the more unable will he be to
keep up his attacks on the Confederates, who, on the
contrary, fall back on their resources and fight in a
country which is entirely their own. Even if we
give the name of victories to the battles after which
General Grant advances, we may say that, after a
few more such victories, he will be undone. It is
not only the large number of men who are sub-
tracted from the army by death or wounds, but the
fact that the whole provisons of the army, both for
man and beast, have to be brought from a base of
operations a hundred miles distant, that the
wounded have to be taken back thither, and that,
in short, the great Federal army must be considered
as an expeditionary force sent into a country from
which it can gat her nothing, and through which it
must pass quickly or retreat. This is the state of
things in the fourth year of the war at the dis-
tance of less than a hundred miles from Washing-
ington. The last and greatest invasion of Vir-
ginia only results in the retirement of the Confede-
rate General from one strong position to another,
after battles in which he appeared almost invari-
ably to have held his own. Although it was fore-
told at the outbreak of hostilities that the South
must be exhausted in a few weeks, yet we have
them in the campaign of 1864: confronting the
largest Federal army ever levied by en army which
which appears equally strong, equally well armed,
and fully able to defend its territory. To what
resolution, what determination to be free, what
animosity and hatred towards the North, does such
a state of things testify ! Is it likely that the men
who have raised such an army out of their own re-
sources, with little or no help from foreign countries
will submit to a community whose Legislature even
now, in the crisis of the war, is busy with a bill
for giving to soldiers and sailors, both white and
coloured, homesteads from confiscated Confederate
estates ? Is it not evident that even if the campaign
were to place Richmond in the power of the Federals,
the war would continue with undiminished ferocity
in great territory of Virginia as in the other
South ? To our notions the only hope
States or
recognition by General Grant that
of peace is in t:,.
h he is set is hopeless, and in
the enterprise on w
his retreat from a positb2n which it will require
every day more skill to maint,.lin:. If the intelli-
gence from Virginia be indecisive, Tom other parts
it is plainly unfavourable to the Fede:als. It is
said that Forrest's cavalry gained possession of
Sherman's railway communications, and had de-
stroyed Federal transports on the Tennestlee and
Cumberland rivers. But the position of Banks is
still more lamentable. He appears to be entirely
hemmed in by the enemy. The Confederates have
erected batteries on the Red River, cutting off his
retreat ; his steamers with supplies and reinforce-
ments are sunk, and even the capture of Admiral
Porter's gunboats is considered inevitable. However
the war may go in Virginia, it is pretty clear that
the hold of the Federals is loosening on the South.
West, and that even their great resources are in-
sufficient for the permanent occupation of a territory
so vast.
HERALD.—Professor Goldwin Smith seems deter-
mined not to desert the cause of his allies, the
Federals of America. We should have little right
to interfere with this innocent flirtation, and should
certainly allow a disinterested Platonic affection to
reach its natural end, did not Mr Smith's exaggerated
friendship induce him to propound sentiments
derogatory to the dignity of this country and
prejudicial to the law of nations, It is not
necessary to reopen the technical discussion as to
the character borne by the Confederate man of war
the Georgia. Our columns have shown more than
once, that this vessel, having received her equip-
ment abroad, cannot by any possibility come
under the terms of the Foreign Enlistment Act,
however clearly it may be made out that she was
originally built in an English yard and afterwards
put into commission by President Davis. We
pass these considerations entirely, and so much
the more readily because they are familiar to
the British pnblic, and also because Professor
Smith hardly ventures to bring any direct imputa-
tion against their conclusiveness. His present posi-
tion is, that the Georgia has committed offences of
so heinous a nature that our municipal law ought to
punish them, or, if it cannot do so without being
strained, it ought to be altered, arid that the law of
nations, founded as it is upon pure ethics, ought, at
any rate, to step in in order to provide an adequate
remedy. We will take the postscript of his most
recent letter to a contemporary first, as in that may
be supposed to lie the gist of his whole argument.
He assures us that the defence of the Confederate
practice, which, it is insinuated, is piratical, of
burning captured ve4sels, is based upon a celebrated
saying of Lord Stowell, that " a hostile ship may be
destroyed in order to prevent its escape." The pro-
fessor takes occasion to remark that Lord Stowell
little thought what modern practices would be.
We have purposely given the sense rather than the
exact words of Nlr. Smith, for we might do him an
unintentional wrong if ice quoted his obscure lan-
guage without referring to the previous portion of
his letter. The conclusion, however, at which he
arrives is dangerous to his case. Lord Stowell
would, we grant, be amazed at the course of action
recommended by some of out aspiring jurists. The
founder of English mercantile law might well be
surprised to hear his canons, which were intended
for the protection of the weak against the strong,
applied to the creation of a supposed inviolability

for the powerful and ambitious aggressor. Let Pro-
fessor Smith beware of using a system of reasoning
which is essentially two-edged, or otherwise the
weapon upon which he relies may injure his own
hand more than it can the body of his enemy. But
we deny that the Confederate defence rests upon.

the maxims of an English jurist, however eminent ;
it appeals to far older and more generally recog-
nised authority. Civilians of the greatest repu-
tation,lwho have spent the whole of their lives
in promoting the _ interests of civilisation by

the introduction of the mild tenets of Chris--

other into war, have Omitted that, in
Plane.,
case of fire J. any .
lawfulther disaster
ue: -thoi hickdestroy h cannot be
even
provided against, it
a neighbour's house to ensure our own personal
safety. The instance imagined is evidently
an extreun character, its necessity must not .!",e
o o
matter of mere guess-work, but must be capable of
demonstration. Confederate cruisers clearly come
under this category. _Neutral ports are closed
ae,-einat prizes ; the dismissal of captured Federaa
ships would lead to fatal information being givera
to other vessels, their retention would hamper thy'
captor and expose him beyond a shadow of doubt
to immediate capture. The Southern captain would
willingly take his prize to port if he could, for,
after all, he destroys either his own property or that
of the state from which he derives his commission.
We are not in the habit of blaming our Henry V,
because, completely outnumbered at Agincourt, he
declined, in the early part of that famous engage
ment to keep prisoners, and was obliged to adopt ar.
extremely sanguinary policy; much leas can we cen-
sure the Confederate officer who, when the ocean is
full of hostile vessels, is not regardless of the dictates
of humanity, who saves the lives of his prisoners e.t
the same time that by absolute necessity he is com-
pelled to burn their ship. All that we have a right
to expect from is that he respect the cargoes of newb
tral nations, but he is called upon, neither by jus-
tice nor by expediency, to treat his enemy as it his
goods were inviolable. Having cleared away pro.
judice with which Professor Smith would fain mys-
tify us in a simple matter, we shall be the less likely
to concur in any attempt to strain or alter our munie
cipal Jaw. Our courts of justice are open to the
stronger as to the weaker party ; but should the
cause of the latter triumph through the fair work-
ing out sf the institutions upon which we not un-
reasonably pride ourselves, to suppose that we
must then have recourse to fresh enactments, in
order to bolster up the strong, is to conceive
the people of England not only dead to all sense
of self-respect, but eager to commit acts of
unparalleled baseness ; it is to reverse our past
history and legislation. We do not, therefore,.
wonder at Mr. Smith's leaving this tangible ground
somewhat abruptly, and at his preferring to employ
some vague and unsatisfactory language upon in-
ternational law, or, as he would more -Justly style
it, the law of nations. We are quite ready to con-
cede to Mr. Smith—indeed, we would go further
than he dens—that the words "international law,"
as implying a kind of compact between different
countries, have been grossly abused, and that the
true law of nations must be looked for in high,
moral considerations. Granting that his data are
right, we cannot help thinking that the inference'
which a scholar so distinguished as Mr. Goldwis
Smith is draws from them is singularly illogical
and superficial. By implication he would have us
infer that the practice of burning ships, even when
adopted from sheer necessity, is so horrible that it
at once violates every known system of ethics. But
are questions of morals thus one-sided, or do tilev
profess to embrace the whole of the subject-matter'?'
Is it, or is it not, a moral consideration that on
nation may be intent upon gaining its indepen-
dence ; that another may be waging a war of ruth-
less ambition and extermination. ; that an invader
may bring into the field hosts of emigrant rnerce*
naries while the children of the soil are arrayed
against them upon bekalf of their own hearths
that these very chips, upon whose conflagration
piteous a lament is raised, may be engaged in car-
rying supplies to the invader ? Again, do morals
teach us, that if a ship is built in England, and
equipped in France we are to assert that it uses our
ports "as the base of its naval operations;" bii
that we are to shut our eyes to the fact that from-
those same ports issue emigrants, ammunition, and
all the other implements of war; that near our
coasts lie Federal ships in wait for the infant Con-
federate navy ; that the law of nations condemns
the weak, who act through necessity, who obey
the precepts of self-defence, but finds no fault jo
the strong and overbearing, whose passion is the
sole guide to action ? For ourselves we have re
inclination thus to play with morals ; we call
hardly think that Professor Smith would do so is
matters upon which he does not entertain a strong
bias, contrary alike to reason and fair dealing.

COUNTRY MARRETU.

LYNN-TUESDAY.

The weather in the latter part of last week was execs-
sively hot , on Friday evening there was a heavy rail),
which was much wanted. At to-day's market there wa4
a moderate show otwht at, and the trade very film—in some'
instances at is per qr advance upon the prices of last week'
Spring corn unaltered.
White wheat 45s to 46s Barley. Vs to 369
Red .. 39s to 406 Grinding • ...I 0- F; to 305
Beans
Small 34s to 36s I Pcas --8 to --'4I

NEWCASTLE- ON -TYNE—TrESDA.Y.
Wheat in moderate supply this morning, and a firT,
feeling existed in the trade at the currencies of this 481
week.
Averages—Wheat, 40s—barley, 30s 2d—oats, 20s 7d•

HULL—TUESDAY.
At our corn market to-day the supply of wheat waS 51
large and the demand was firm. The rates of the Yi,ev,
preceding may be fully quoted. A small supply of bar,eici
and prices firm. Oats a steady sale. Beaus scarce, •°
rather dearer.
Wheat.... Old white.... per qr 42s Od to 44s 01; cl.
Old red
to 4,10 °ood t o 423 oo Od.
New white .. ~
New red .... „
Barley.... English malting 27s Oil to 343 6,1
Grinding 24s Od to 255 ea
Seal and Oderbruck
Holstein and Danish
Oats English, old :32
0 02
ss
00
d: ttt 000 332 141 3391°°3 ',
ii
Grinding
Archangel and Riga, per at osl2id to 13
Friesland and Dutch oBl3d to 031,qa
Swedish and Danish oBl2ld to 03'0
Beans ....English, old, per qr. 4os Od to 433 c 4
New pigeon 42s Od to 443 ea
New tick.
Egyptian
Peas Foreign boilers ..
Grinding
0a606 4,1
Tares ....Spring
Indian Corn
Linseed, feeding
crushing • 4os Od to 52,0 a 0
Linseed cakes (Hull) £B 5 0 to £9 x'i, 0
Foreign! 8 0 oto 9 ;--; 0
5
Rape cakes 5 0 oto 0 " 0
Bones 550 to 10

BRISTOL SUGAR—WEDNESDAY.
re'
There was an active demand for sugar, both raw an-400
fined, during the early part of the week, and aboqt
la
hogsheads Barbadoes were sold at very full prices. Ati/.
refiners disposed of their goods freely at advanced rates
rather extensive business has also been done in D:,
loaves to arrive. The wholesale grocers reperort
so, a large
ll
ness in the country. Within the last day howeve
the market has become quiet, and not much inquiry,

Persons in debt may obtain instant protection apillgo
imprisonment or seizure of their goods, and an entire Tele°,
from all debts and liabilities without publicity, by applicsti°
to Messrs. Marshall, solicitors of the Court of BankroP',.
Charges under £5 payable by easy instalments. Cline
(established 1830), 12, Hatton-garden. City branch--6. 31°'"
gate-street, Bank.—ADTT.

Births.
BuxToN.on the 24:.h inst., at Leytonstone, the wife of
--

T. Fowell Buxton, Esq., of.a daughter.
froctlt
Du CANE.—On the 25th inst., at 21, Queen's.gate-te--
the Hon. Mrs. Charles Da Cane, of a Fon and heir.
ro,
FARKES.—On the 22d inst., at 32, Priory-road, li,i11):1,
the wife of Sir H. S. Parkes, K.C.8., 11,8.8. L's
Shanghai, of a daughter.

HUDSON—CROSS.—On the Marri
2 a4thge& inst., at St. D,lO-0
Richmond, Surrey, George Hudson, Esq., sixth eivote
Hsrgreavo Hudson, Esq., of Leeds, to Frances -g6q.5
Eliz t, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Cross,
of Hull. tooo.
LArroN—Onn.—On the 24th inst., at the Catholic 'f`tb.
tolic Church, Islington, Maria Theresa, daughter °Of 13,
Rev. Frcd. W. 11. Layton, to Peter Orr, ESql
Loraine-road, Upper Holloway, late of Madras.

eahs. I, other
BowEN—On the 24th inst., at the residence of his mr„wet3)
in-law, Oak Villas, Gipsey-hill, Norwood, Jolla •
of Cannon-street, aged ife„%-otar
CoopEn.—On the 24th inst., at GAdeht idgc, lienue,vert
stead, Herts, the Rev. Naunton Rode Astley
fourth son of Sir Astley Fasten Cooper, Bert. „Alec
FERRIS—On the ;23d inst., at North Cottage, Prcl" letw.
terrace, Brighton, William Ferris, Esc! lai,te7
gunge Factory, third son of the late Rev. 40
rector of Dallington, Sussex. he3„,,t.
PENFOLD—On the 23d inst , at his residence, Ti'arharlt-
nuts, St. Margaret's, Twickenham, Middlesex,
'-
L Penfold, Esq., formerly of Croydon, aged 05.
SLEE—On the 25th inst., at 19, Earl's-terrace,
lelleO OP
Mrs. Elizabeth Noah Slee, aged 78. Tzicll%l4
MPSON—On Sunday morning, 22d inst.,
THOMr. "--
Thompson, of Bilston Staffordshire, aged 89. Or
VINALL—On the 24th, inst., at the Parsonage,
borough, Thomas Sutton Vinall, aged 20.

„Ifs,
London: Prind and Pvt.:failed by WILLIMIA-rot:, 112*
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at InE SUN OMee
Strand. In the Precinct of the savoy, n
Itifddleoex.—Thur;3day, day 26,_1864.

I

THE READING IRON WORKS
(Limited).

(LATE MESSRS. MARRETT, RXALL, AND ANDREWRS.)
Incorporated under " The Companies Act, 1852."
Capital .£200,000, in tO,OOO shares of £2O each.
First issue, 5,000 shares.
. _

• -•-- -£1 per share to be paid on appl cation, and 43 per share on
allotment.
Calls not to exceed £2 per share, at intervals of not less than
two months. Interest at the rate of 5 per cent, per annum
wilt be alloweci on all calls paid in advance.

DIRECTORS.
Adolphus Simonds, Esq., Ivy Lodge, and Bridge-stree,
Reading, Chairmam.
C. Andrewes, Esq., Greyfriar's House, and Kateagrove,
Reading..
Richard Attenborough, Esq., Whitley Grove. Reading.
Joseph Crockett, Esq., Victoria-square, Reading, Director of
the North Wilts Banking Company.
Exall, Esq., Castle-street, and Katosgrove, Reading,
Civil Engineer.
James Simond® Esq. (J. and C. Simonds and Co.), Newlands,
ilerks, and Reading, Banker.
Jams W. Silverthorne, Esq , 43, Regency-square, Brighton
With power to add to their number.

BANKERS.
Reading—Messrs. J. and C. Simonds and Co.
Loudon —Messrs. Faller, Banbury, and Co., Lombard-street.
SOLICITOR.
Charles P. Froom, Esq., Lineoln's-inn-iields, London.
BROKERS.
Messrs. Sandeman and Dobrev, 0, Royal Exchange-
buildings, City.

AUDITOR.
ltr. Stephen, Fa'brook, Manager of Messrs. Simonds' Bank,
Reading.
SECRETARIES.
Mr. Thomas James, Accountant and Financier of late Firm,
Katesgrove, Reading. Mr. Chas. Barber (pro tem-1 17 Abchurch-lane, Loudon, E.C.

OFFICES.
The Works, Ratesgrow, Reading.
London-17, Abehuroh-lane, City, E.C.

PROSPECTUS.
This Company has been formed for the purpose of pur-
'chasing and carrying on the important and well-known bust-
'tes or Engineers, Ironfounders, and Manufacturers of Ai.*,ricultural Machinery and Implements, e hich having been
established nearly half a century, has been conducted for the
hat thirty years by Messrs. Barrett, Exalt, and Andrewes.
While these gentlemen will realise by this transaction the
accumulated profits of many years, they will yet remain large
reho der , and continue to give their active co-operation
in conducting the fhttire businiss of the company.
The demand for machinery at home and abroad being so
extensive, capital to any extent can be profitably employed
in its production, end the recent transfer of so many of the
first-class engineering firms in the country to companies
firmed under the Act of 1862, among whom may be named
Ilessrs. rairbairn and Co., and Slessrs.Sharp, Stewart, and Co.,
of Manchester, Messrs. John Brown and Co., and Messrs. Cam-
nen and Co., of Sheffield, Messrs. Slaughter, Gruning, and
Lo., of Bristol, Ara, is at once proof of the advantageous cha-
racter t f the principie of association.
A pr,-,visional Agreement, equitable and satisfactory, has
been entered into with the Vendors, which secures to the
Company, a Ironalu the freehold known as "o The Katesgrove Works, Reading," together a ith ther
valuable freeholds and leaseholds, the goodwill, stock in
trade, plant, machinery, patent rights. &c.
The freeh consist of water-side premises, having a
River frontage of 440 feet, with a roadway on the other side,
and an average depth of '75 feet, on which are erected the
large and commodious foundry, smithy, boiler shops, engi-
neers', fitters', and erectors' shops, replete with the necessary
tools and m mhinery. The engine-house with its horizontal
engine of 40-horse power, pair of boilers, baths, gas works,
offices, tec., as well as the lofty and massive store rooms,
pattern stores, .sic A very large and commodious wood-
machine shop about 120 feet long by 30 feet wide, and a con-
verted timber yard occupies the site of another freeho'd.
h The leasehold property consists of 10 acres of meadow
land, separated by the River Kennet from the Katesgrove
freehold, and easily connected at any time by a bridge.
The remaining works, on which are additional steam en-
gines of thirty-five horse power, are h Id on annual tenure,
on which are the saw mills, stables, wood shops, store rooms,
iron house, and warehouses, smithy, sheds, show rooms,
offices, Atc., the whole of which are conveniently arranged.
The connections and Agencies established by the retiring
Firm, both in this country and in the Colonies, as well as
throughout Europe, combined with the signal success which
their manufactures have attained, and the leading position
which they hold, their recognised standing at the Interna-
tional Exhibitions in England in 1851 and 1862, and in France
in 1855, manifested also in the numerous and distinguished
Arizas they have taken throughout Europe, cannot fail to
secure to this Company a t rosperous future.
As a guarantee of the soundness of the undertakin, the
'V( ndors have agreed that they will not receive any interest
oe their shares until a minimum dividend of 5 per cent. has
been paid on the remainder of the subscribed cs,,ital, which
aereement is to ext end over a period of five years—while Mr.
William Exalt and Mr. Charles J. Andrewes,who have taken
respe-ti rely the Engineering and Commercial Manageme• t
in the business, will, as soon as the transfer is complete, take
Feats at the Board, and bring to bear their extensive and
valuable experience.
Whilst the Directors attach much importance to this agree-
ment with the Vendors, they think it right to state that they
have been advised by those capable of fo-ming a correct opi-
nion on the subject, that the shareholders may full hepate a safe and remunerative dividend, and will refore
enly add, in conclusion, that of the many enterprises now
bet, re the public, few can surpass it in this reasonable expec-
tation, inasmuch as its operations will not he suspended for
single day ; its connection is made, the profits will therefore
be immediate, and the Directors have every reason to hope
,that
faithfullysuccessors served the retiring firm, may be secured
11 Proanectuses and Forms of Application for Shares may be
of the Bankers, Brokers, Solicitors, and Secretary, at the
,71,_,,Ces of the Company in London or Reading. Each appli-
‘!",u must be accompanied with a deposit of 20s. per Share.
4,11. s Articles of Association may be inspected at the offices of
me sou
OliOr, 35, Lincoba's-inn-fields, London.

PRIZ4 MED AL-INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION, 1862.
FRANCIS TUCKER & CO., Wax Chandlers, da,
To the Queen and the Pence of Wales.
(Established 1720.)
The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862,
testifies to he excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers'
manufacture.

TuAckle
:tgdo&,ecolnDtihgne istuve,eitnoat letter addressed to Francis
WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS,
:
" I have found them fully equal to the recommendation
whichmnd you
them u gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, I com-
to the clergy for the use of the altar."
Finest quality, with Tatted Wicks, patented.. is, 2d. per lb.
Ordinary quality , •
s. od. per lb.
•• •• •• ••
VEGETABLE CIINDLES, with a Mixture of Wax.
Best quality
•• • • ls. sd. per lb.
Second quality • •
Third quality :: • • .. ls. 3d. per lb.
..
.. • ls. ld. l
Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds i per n
value..
FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO.,
8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. blanufactory—
Kensington (Established 1731).
The largest Establishmmt in England for the Manufacture
of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar

TEETH,--Mr. ESKELL'S INVENTION in
the construction of' ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the
following advantages :—A set or teeth, of excellent work-
manship and mechanism, can be made and fitted with the
most perfect accuracy and success, in a few hours, without
pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer all the purposes
of mastication and articulation. They are fitted without
wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly to the
gums, that they are quite immoveable, except at the option
of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the country can ad-
just these teeth to many cbangcs of the month without the
aid of a dentist. They are not so liable to injury, are always
useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Trea-
tise explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps.
Inspection of specimens and consultations free.-B,Grosvenor-
street, Bond-street, W, p I 4, 39, Bennett'a-hill, Bir-
mingha.