The Sun.
London, England, 1864-05-16 00:00:00

N°. 22,430.

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF " PAUL FERBOLL."
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215.,
JOHN GRES IV O L D.
By the Author of "Paul Ferrol'," &c.
Also now ready, in 3 vols.,
JANITA'S CROSS. By the Author of" St.Olaves."
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

Now ready, Illustrated by Millais, ss. bound,
CHEAP EDITION OF LES MISERABLES.
By VICTOR HUGO.
Authorised English Translation, forming the New Volume
of " Hurst and Blackett'a Standard Library of L heap Editions
of Popular Modern Wor. s."
"The merits Les Mfserables 'do not merely consist in
the conception of it as a whole. It abounds, page after page,
with details of unequalled beauty."—Quarterly Review.

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NEW NOVEL BY LADY GEORGIANA FULLERTON
At the end of the week, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
TOO STRANGE NO C TO BE TRUE,
By Lady GEORCIANA FULLERTON,
Author of "Ladybird," &c.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington,s'reet.

NEW SPORTING WORK BY THEAIITHOR OP " RA.NDLET

CROSS."
Illustrated by John Leech.
This day is published, price Is., with two coloured Illustra.
ticns by John Leech, No. I. of

Tour."
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NEW NOVEL, BY M. E. BRADDON.
This day, at all Libraries, in 3 vole. post Bvo.,
HENR Y DUNBAR,
By the Author of " Lady Audley's Secret," &c.
The Second Edition will be ready on Monday next.
London: John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street

NOTICE.—The First Edition of " HENRY
DUNBAR," the new Novel by the Author of "Lady
Audley's Secret," having been entirely exhausted, a Second
Edit'on of the Work is now at press, and will be ready on
MONDAY next, May 16th.
London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street.

DR. HARVEY ON CORPULENCE.
Second Edition, carefully revised, price is.,
ORPULENCE;
‘,..J Its Diminution and Cure, without Injury to Health,
with Remarks upon the various Maladies which may bo pro-
duced by too great obesity. By JOHN Hattvzr, M.D.
Smith and Co., 52, Long-acre; and all booksellers.

Forwarded free on receipt of 12 stamps,
AFEW OBSERVATIONS on GOUT and
RHEUMATISM, by one who has never failed to cure
the same whenever it has fallen in his way. A ample bottle
of the medicine forwarded free to all parts on receipt of 40
stamps. Address R. Cameron, 40, Tavistook-street, Covent-
garden, London.

MR. W. S. WOODIN'S
ELOPEMENT EXTRAORDINARY.

and
BACHELOR'S BOX,
an Entirely New Entertainment, at the Polygraphic Hall,
Kind William-street, Cnaring.cross, EVERY EVENING,
at eight (except Saturday); Saturday Morning's at three.—
Stalls, and box stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, Is. A
Plan of the Stalls may be seen, and Seats secured at the Hall
from eleven to five.
Next Morning Performance, Saturday, May 7, at three.

T H E
0 X F O R D,
fc , OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS EVENING, the MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR,
by Otto Nicola!; and UN BALLO IN MASCHERA ;
ported by the whole of the Talented Company.
Director. Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Comedy by UNSWORTH and EUGENE, Mr. T. Maclegan,
W. Randall, G. Hutchenson, G. W. Jester, Miss Welly Power
(the Juvenile comedienne), &c., &o.
Admission—Area, 6d, ; stalls and balcony, le. ; perste
boxes, 10s. 6d.

Open every Evening.

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 16, 1864.

CANTERBURY HALL.
Wes tmin ster-ro aI, London.

EVENI.SG—,---
Will be produced, with alterations and improvements
in production, the New Illusion, surpassing anything yet
attempted. entitled THE TERCEN cENA RY ; or,a NIGHT
WITH SHAKSPERE, written express'y by W. F. Vander-
yell, Esq., in which Mr. W. Randall will re-appear.
ALSO, PRINCE BLOSSOM;
OR, THE FAIRIES OF THE MAGIC FOUNTAIN AND THE

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FOREST OF SHADOWS !
"The figure of Fame, winged and trumpeted, passing and
reposing through the Magic Fountain, is so complete an
illusion that it wellnigh ceases to be illusory."--litorning
Star, Feb.l9.

Prince Blossom, Miss Townley.
In addition to the usual Entertainments of the establish-
ment, supported by the whole of the talented company, in-
cluding Arthur Lloyd, Miss Neily Pow.r, Air. T. Maclagan,
(3. W. Jester, &c.

A ission—Area, 6d.; Stalls and Balcony, is.

1141URNI FURE, CARPETS, BEDDING, and
FLOORCLOTH, CARRIAGE-FREE to any house in
the kingdom, regardless of amount or distance. First. class
goods at second-class prices. Terms peculiarly liberal to
Clergymen and Gentlemen. An immense stock to select
from, displayed in Showrcoms occupying an acre of ground.
Every article warranted.
CLEKGYMEN and GENTLEMEN ABOUT TO FUR-
NISH are respectfully informed that Messrs. Cobbett and
. are publishing an entirely New Edition of their un-
equalled HOUSE F URNISHING GUIDE, illustrated br4lo
adm -able engravings of every description of Furniture and
Leasteads, with prices attached. A copy sent gi atis and
post-free on application. This costly work also contains
complete estimates fur furnishing on the following revised
cale

A Six-roomed Parsonage
An Eight-roomed ditto
A Ten-roomed ditto
A Twelve-roomed ditto
Together with a (rice List of purified Redding, and a mass
of valuable informationto all requiring househ)id furniture,
earpete, or bedding. References kindly permitted to Clergy-
men and gentlemen in or near Great Malvern, SouthApton,
Chichester, Bury, Ely, Preston, Grimsby, Ryde, P 1 with,
Wells. Oxford, Brighton, Gainsborough, Margate. Kidder-
minster, Wellington, Croydon, Cambridge, Staines, Dorking,
St. Alban's, Worcester, Ipswich, Peterborough, St. David's,
Wrexham, and above 500 other places in all parts of Great

ALHAMBRA PALACE.-NATHALIE
(Monitor to the Prince Imperial' LEONTINE and
BLANCHE, three of the most elegant., accomplished,, and
wondrous gymnasts in the world. First appearance, THIS
EVENING (Whit-Monday).
Admission —Grand Hall, rd. ; Balconies, is.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA. - WONDERFUL
ATTRACTION. Commence at llalf-paFt Seven.

CalifiETT and CO., General House Furnishers, Deptford.
bridge, London, S.E.

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

NEW ADDITION.—A full length model of ARTHUR
JOIIN DEVINE, who recently suffered the extreme penalty
of the law in front of Newgate for the murder of Mr. Duck,
in Little Chesterfield.s•reet, Marylebone, is now to be seen
in the Chamber of Physiognomy at Madame Tassaud's His-
torical Gallery, Baker street.
Open from 11 in the morning till 10 at night.
Admittance, Is. ; extra rooms, 6d.

TFIE WELLINGTON THREE SHILLING
DINNER, consisting of Soup, Fish, Made Dish,
Joint, Sweet, &0., is served daily from 3 to 9 p.m , and on
Sundays from 5 to 8.30 p.m.
Private Rooms for large or small parties.
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By order,
JOHN CATES, Manager.
The Wellington, St. James's-street.
Entrance, HO, Piccadilly.

ARGYLL ROOM IS, Windmill-street,
Piccadilly,
IS OPEN EVERY EVENING.
During the evening an unparalleled repertoire of Dance
Music, Selections and Overtures, is performed by the cele-
brated Argyll Band, forty in number.
Doors Open at Half-past 8, commence at 9.
Admission is.

Manager, M. GRENET.

P
AR I S.-GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE.
Established in 1855.—Situated in the most Central
part of Paris, Rue de Rivoli and Place du Palais Royal—Six
hundred Bedrooms at from 3 to 20fr.-60 Sitting-rooms at
from 4 to 20fr.—a richly decorated Dining Saloon—Table
d'Hote at six o'clock—Public Coffee and Dining Rooms—
Choice Wines—Dinners served a la carte both in the dining-
rooms and the private apartments—Reading and Conversa-
tion Saloons; also Saloons for Musical, Wedding, and other
parties—all Newspapers and Serial Publications received—
Divans, Coffee, Smoking, and Billiard Rooms—numerous
Bath-rooms —Carriages on the premises—first-class Private
Equipages at command—Omnibuses running to all the rail.
way stations—Postal Letter-box—Telegraph office day and
night—Photographic studio—a staff of Servants speaking all
Languages.

-DIGS! PIGS! PIGS!-INDIAN PIG MEAL,
without husks, supplied to the Royal farms, Windsor,
and in every county in England, 10s 6d per cwt. ; one cwt.
equal to 1 cwt. barley or any meal. Delivered free in Lon.
don. Established 1858.— THOMAS PEA.RCE, Manager, 66,
Lant-street, Southwark.

MESSRS. BOTT. JACKSON, AND CO.
execute COMMISSIONS on all rnoes throughout the
year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. London and
Westminster Bank. Post-office Orders payable at Camber-
well-park.

Address—BoTT and JACKSON, "Man of the World" Wine
Stores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London.

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

FOUR PENNY PACKETS of HARPER
TWELVETREES' GLYCERINE SOAP POWDER
and half a pound of Soap will wash fifty counterpanes in Nix
hours, and sheets, shirts, table linen, kc., in half the usu
time.—See Mrs. Goulder's Report, Chelsea, Laundry, S.W.
Sold by grocers and druggists. Works, Bromley-by-Bow,
London, E.

MERCHANTS, MANUFACTURERS,
TRADERS, AND EXECUTORS.
ACCOUNTS arranged and adjusted, and Balance Sheets
prepared.—Financ:al operations organised and Banking fa-
°Rites arranged.—Cash Advances made on Trade Stock,
Dock Warrants, and other Securities, and Sales effected.—
The Agency of Provincial and Foreign Firms undertaken.
Address, Messrs. BANKES and Co., Accountants, 20,
Devereux-court, Strand, London, W.C.

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
and Dining-room, eonsisting of a new and elegant assort-
ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &c., in Italian,
Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, Am
Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine-
ralogist to her Maiesty, 119, Stand, W.C., London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS,
MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly
facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON-
CHOLOGY, And GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas
each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
itALOtir is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 112, Strand, W.C.

IN what " Happy Land" can 1 see you after the
"Opera?" I only know of One HAPPY LAND
In which a Gentleman may Sup—EVANS% COVENT-
GARDEN, my dear fellow!

lUNAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC,
BRANDY.
This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest
FRENCH BRANDY,
It ij 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

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

THE EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AM)
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING a
CANAL COMPANY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the SIXTH
HOLDERS of the EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AND
CANAL COMPANY will be held at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street, in the City of London, on MONDAY,
the 30th day of May instant, at one o'clock ProolselY*
the SHARE-
The Transfer Books of the Company will be closed from
the 20th to the 30th instant, both days inclusive.
By order of the Board of Directors,
JOHN wESTWOOD, Secretary.
27, Cannon-street, London F C.,
2d F. 9
2d May, 1864.

THE MADRAS IRRIGATION and CANAL
COMPANY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the TENTH ORDI-
NARY GENERAL MEETING of the SHAREHOLERS of
the MADRAS IRRIGATION AND CANAL COMPANY
will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopezate-street, in
the City of London, on SATURDAY the 28th day of May,
instant, at 1 o'clock, precisely. ,
The transfer books of the Company will be closed from the
18th to the 28th instant, both days inolusive.—By order of the
Board of Directors.

JOHN WESTWOOD, Secretary.
27, Cannon-street, London, E.C., 2d May, 1804.

CIREAT EAS TERN RAILWAY COMPANY.
kA FIVE PER CENT. PREFERENCE SHARES.
The Directors of the Great Eastern Railway Company
hereby give notice that, in accordance with the Act, the
THIRD CALL of £2lo+. per S 4 are is payable on or before
MONDAY, the 23d May, 1861, at the Union Bank of London,
Princes-street, Mansion-house, London ; or at Messrs. Glyn,
Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, London.
It will be necessary for the holder of the Scrip to present
the same to the Bankers at the time of making payment. in
order to have the receipt properly filled up.
The Five per Cent. interest will be paid on the Ist of
March, and on the Ist of September, in,each year.
By Order.
B. OWEN, Secretary.
Blshopsgate Terminus, 11th April, 1864.

NEW PATENT CURTAIN HOOK that
requires no sewing, and, if reversed, can be used for
many purposes. To be had of all shops in town or country.
Patentees, W. TENT and Co., 2s, Birchin-lane, London, E.C.

AMERICA.
(REUTER'S TELEGRAM.)

(Per the Australasian.)
NEW YORK, MAY 4.
A heavy storm has delayed operations in Virginia
for a day or two past, but the news of a great
battle is daily expected. All reliable information
thus far received concerning General Lee's move-
ments indicates that he will not fall back to.
wards Richmond, but will offer battle on the
Rapidan, or possibly assume the offensive. His
troops are being concentrated at Orange Court-
house. A considerable rebel force is at Fredericks-
burg, throwing up earthworks on the heights.
One division of Longstreet's army is said to be at
Honour Court-house in reserve. All accounts agree

in admitting the recent heavy reinforcements re-
ceived by General Lee. His army is believed to
number at least one hundred thousand men. He
is said to have twenty-two thousand effective
cavalry.

The rear of Beauregard's army passed through
Petersburg on the 30th ult., according to rebel
accounts. The town of Madison Court-house has
been burned by the Federal troops. The reason
assigned is that a body of rebels took refuge in the
place, and fired upon Union troops from the houses.
A Federal cavalry force encountered a email body
of Mosby's guerillas near Upperville, and, after a
brisk fight, captured 20 of them.
The army of the Potomac is represented to be
larger than General Lee's, and in excellent fighting
condition.

Islington.— Two Eight-roomed Mons:-s.
•.,-VER. AN DREW HIND SELL, by
AUCTION, at the Mart, on TUESDAY, May 17. 18;74,
at 12 for 1 o'c:ock, in two lots, the de 'rabic HOUSE 4, Nos 3
and 5, Elmore-street, Lower-road, Islington, each containing
eight r, ourt and washhouse, with gardens.
May be viewed by cards from the Auctioneer only, and
particulars, with conditions of sale, had at the piineipat Inns
in the neighbourhood ; at the Auction Mart ; and at the
Auctioneer's Office, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's.

Southern papers say that a battle near Chatta-
nooga is near at hand. Johnston's force is said to
be 65,000. Be was expecting to be joined by a
portion of troops under Forrest, who is reported to
have received large additions to his force in Ken-
tucky and Tennessee,

rarnet.—A Pair of Semi-detached Villas.

MR. ANDREW HIND will SELL, by
AUCTION, at the Mart, on TUESDAY, May 17, 1814,
at 12 for 1 o'clock, in two lots, the convenient Freenold Seven-
roomed COTTAGES, Nos. 1 and 2, Lai caster-roa 1, New
Barnet, within two minutes' walk of a statio a and half an
hour's ride from town. Let to respectable yearly tenants
at £44 per annum, but possession of one may be had.
May be viewed by permission of the tenants, and particu.
lars, with conditions of sale, bad at the Railway Tavern ; of
C. Parke, EEq., solicitor, 37, Moorgate-street ; at the Auction
Mart ; and at the Auctioneer's Office corner of Little Carter,
lane, St, Paul's.

500 BUSINESSES.-Mr. ANDW. HIND'S
MAY LIST,
Containing Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, &t'., Gratis
Letters, enclose stamp.—Partioulars entered free. '
OFFICES—CORNER OF LITTLE CARTER-LANE, ST. PAUL'S.

HOUSES.—Mr. ANDREW HIND has for
SALE five COTTAGES, close to a station; six miles
rtom town, producing* £65 per annum. Ground rent, £2O.
Price £5OO. Part may remain on morte,cra7e. Also the fol-
lowatg:--Wandsworth eight freehold, £l,OOO ; ditto, Six
leasehold, £7' 0 ; Teddington, four, £5OO ; Notting-hill, three,
£1,020, &c. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's.

Advices from
North Carolina announce the eva-
cuation of Washington by the Federal troops on
the 28th alt. The object was to concentrate for
the defence of
Newburn, which is threatened
by the rebels with
an immediate attack from a
large land force and three powerful rams. The
rebel ram in the Neuse river had
moved down to
within four miles of the city, but could not make
an attack until a rise took place in the river. This
ram is said to draw nine feet, and to be much more
formidable than the one which assisted in the cap-
ture of Plymouth,

has been
eFwebeekrn by General Palmer.
superseded in the com-
maGGneednnaeefrraaNll Beauregard is said to be in command:of
troops
re had occurred at Wilmington,
i n Northh hie
arrival Carolina, i n
Virginia.
another
property to the value of 5,000,000 do's.
mount announces
destroying theA
sl t r
ous
Latest Louisiana state that the
army
Kirby Smith. All the Federal transports and
with the exception of the Eastport, had
, oof
Generala d
vsa from
a fallen baex to Alexan,
rebels under General
d riaclosely followedic e
13k
n bys
b
gun-
boats,reached
the
fells
at
Alexandria.

WHOLESALE SODA.WATER BUSINESS.
Mr. ANDREW HIND has for SALE a flrrt-clsss
provincial BUSINESS, the proprietor retiring. Profits £7OO
per annum. Rent of house, shop, manufactory, stabling, .to.,
£4B. Price, including the extensive plant, van., hones, 5,000
dozen of bottles. and every requisite for a trade, £1,700. Ao-
commod.tion for part. Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane,
St. Paul's.

CITY PREMISES.--Mr. ANDREW HIND
has for DISPOSAL the LEASE of a large HOUSE,
near St. Paul's, containing thirteen morns, suitable for offices
or warehouse. Rent £lOO. Terms 14 years. Price £1,400.
Also a commanding shop and basement in Cannon-streets
Offices, corner of Little Carter-lane, St. Paul's.

PHEASANT REAItING for 1864.
CHAMBERLIN'S AROMATIC SPANISH MEAL
paired
AKER RICE, PELLET D. S. MEAT RAVES, pre-
with C AYCAR E XCEL, SIOR, is he most efficacious
food for rearing and feeding Genie, preventing gapes, snarls,
and death.
BOOKS on V' eeding and the proper Management of Game,
from hatching to maturity, with over 200 testimonials from
the nobility and gamekeepers, with prices, posted free on re-
ceipt Qf two stamps, by Mr. James Chamberlin, Spanish Wine
Merchant, opposite the Exchange, Norwich.
UHAMBER LIN'S CANADIAN POULTRY MEAL, for
all the year round, 16s. per cwt., including hag. The use of
this food keeps the chickens in perfect health; and the in-
crease of eggs, of the richest colour and flavour, is marvellous.
Dog Greaves, 10s. per cwt. Please state price
when ordering'.
N.B.—Athices received daily of the efficacy of the Spanish
Meal and Caycars. One gentleman wines, ` All my oun
pheasants last season were alertly, and several died ; those that were strong enongh to eat your Spanish Meal recovered
ill two dart% and became tine and beautiful birds."
_ .___

A rebel cavalry force under Van Zandt had ap-
peared at Cheneyville, 19 miles below Alexandria.
Theor rebels a
u to have a large cavalry
claim that Kirby Smith captured
also
force near
c Batonin the recent battles in Louisiana 2,500 prisoners,
35 pieces of artilleryj and 200 waggons.
A Cairo despatch states that the forces in Ar.
kansas under Generals Steele and, Thayer had accounts
Gebel
eeb
ts nugo,
attacked the rebels near Prairie de Anna and driven
them towards Washington, Arkansas. General
Steele then tweed end marched rapidly towards
Camden, which point had been strongly fortified by
the tebelsi'but subsequently abandoned, General
Price commanding the rebel forces, seeing General
Steele's intention, attempted to reach Camden before
him, but in this he was unsuccessful. On the 17th
General Steele's army was in Camden, but whether
acting on the defensive, or purposing another ad-
vance, is not stated. A Mobile despatchadated
April 20, says :....„ The Federals under Steele are
surrounded on the Little Missouri, Arkansas, and
waiting for reinforcements."
The U. S. gunboat Petrel was boarded and cap-
tured on the 23d ult., near Yazoo City, by some of
Wirt Adams's rebel cavalry. The force under
General Adams is estimated at between 3,000 and
5,000. The rebels make desperate attacks upon
all Federal boats passing in the Mississippi river,
and the navigation of that stream, except by iron-
clads, is deemed very hazardous,
Two hundred rebel cavalry under Colonel Powers
dashed into Port ,Hudson recently and Captured
one gun and 19 prisoners, killing and wounding
about 90.

days, was passed.

CiAll-Eltorr'S COIN' Stitbiric
‘i An Mreattal and Stledyiketnedi for the Gout, Rheu-
matism, Sciatica, Lund and Neuralgia. This invaluable
Medicine la .13U prt-eininently efficacious as to admit of no
pahtlllel, instances have been known, in which sufferers have
been confined to their apartments, hand and foot,
under the most intense agony, whose sufferings writhing
, oto the aato.
nishment of their friends, have been wholly
reinVed in less
than 24 hours after taking the above medicine, and themselves
rendered ab'e to resume their avocations. Indeed, the effect
has been !such, and brought about in so harmless and speedy
a manner, that the proprietor, with the utmost confidence,
Challenges the medical world to produce a medicine equal to
it. To the constitution it is harmless; to the fluids of the
human frame it adds an agreeable impetus ; to the system
generally it is invigorating to a degree unparalleled ; and
male or female may take it to equal advantage. A dose of
the above medicine taken about once a month operates most
effectually in preventing a return of the complain,. Price
Is. ltd., 2s. 9c1., and 4s. 6d. per bottle. Prepared only by the
Proprietor, R Cameron, 40, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden,
London. Wholesale London agents—Barclay and Son, 95,
Farringdon-street ; Butler and Crispe, 4, Cheapside, corner
of St. Paul's Churchyard; Cleaver, 63, Oxford-street; Dart,
30, Southampton-street, Strand; Sanger, 150, Oxford-street,
A sample bottle forwarded flee from the manufactory on re-
ceipt of 40 stamps.

ROY A L FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALE •,,K.G
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward 3lasterman, Esq.
The numerous and urgent appeals of the sick poor for ad-
missien compel the Committee to entreat the bounty of the
affluent and humane, as the medical officers are daily obliged
t.) treat as out-patients many dtstres ling cases which, with
more adequate i un ds, they would gladly admit into the wards.
gacies, which are received by
Esq., Nicholas-lane;
The premises of the Hospital are capable of containing 500
beds.
ond and Co. ; Harries and
The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on
also
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Messrs.i,
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Co.s
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Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith,
Payne, and Co. ;
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and Co. ; Jones Loy Deacon ; Barclay
and Co. ; Denison and Co. ;
.Williams, , and Co. ;
tli.n.Bsa.rned and Co.,
Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Coa,Berpernooeril-santrdeetat;
tshTeasuteorompaunal:nfrdomCol.o;

STANFORD S. SALITR Seoreb+►rp.

Rebel guerillas are reported to be numerous and
daring in Kentucky and West Tennessee,

Senators Gooch and Wade, who went to Fort
Pillow to investigate the alleged MasBßoro of negro
troops, have collected evidence confirming previous
reports. It is said that retaliatory measures will be
immediately adopted.
In the Federal Senate an amendment to the

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National Bank bill, requiring all associations doing
business under the Act to redeem their issues in
specie in six months after the rebellion shall be
crushed, was discussed and rejected.

The House Bill, appropriating 25,000,000 of
dollars for the volunteers called out for one hundred

to the House of Representatives a resolution was
adopted appointing a special committee to investi-
gate the serious charges of corruption made against
tho Treasury department.

An amendment to the Army Appropriation Bill
was adopted, placing negro troops on an equality
with white, as regards pay and rations,
Commodore W. D. Porter, brother of Admiral
David D. Porter of the Red River expedition, died
in New York on the Ist of May.

The naval General Court Martial yesterday
sentenced Admiral Wilkes to public reprimand and
suspension from service for three years. The
charges preferred against the Admiral were disobe-
dience of orders, neglect of duty, conduct unbecom-
ing an officer, and disrespectful conduct towards
his superior officer. He was found guilty under
each specification.

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no cavilling. We have the men, and we could not
have had them without tha measure. And now let any
Union man who complains of the measure test him.-
self by writing down in one line that he is in
favour of supporting the rebellion by force of arms,
and in the next that he is in favour of taking these
130,000 men from the Union side and placing them
where they would be but fir the measure he con-
demns. If ha cannot face his cause so stated, it is
only because he cannot face the truth. I add a
word which was not in the verbal conversation. In
telling this tale I attempt no compliment to my
own sagacity. I claim not to have controlled
events, but confess plainly that events have con-
trolled me. Now, at the end of three years' struggle
the nation's position is not what either party or
any man devised or expected. God alone can claim
it. Whether it is tending seems plain. If God
now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills
also that we of the North, as well as you of the
South, shall pay fairly for the complicity in that
wrong, impartial history will find therein new
oause to attest and revere the justice and goodness
of God.—Yours, truly,

A. LINCOLN.

COUTTS' BANK.

The groat banking.house of Coutts and Co. arose
under circumstances not less striking than those
connected with tha history of Jones, Loyd, and Co.
The father of Mr. Coutts was a merchant at Edin-
burgh who had four sons, the two youngest of
whom, James and Thomas, were brought up in the
paternal counting-house. James, at the age of
twenty-five, came to London, and first settled in
St. Mary Axe as a Scotch merchant, from which
business, however, he subsequently retired to be-
come a banker. He took a house in the Strand,
the same in which the firm still exists; and he was
joined here, some years after, by his brother Thomas
as a partner—the business being carried on under
the name of James and Thomas Coutts. James Coutts

died early, and Thomas was then left sole pro-
prietor of the bank. His high integrity, joined to
a very enterprising spirit, soon gained him many
friends, and made him remarkably successful in his
business. A characteristic instance both of his
shrewdness and enterprise is given by Mr. Lawson,
in his" History of Banking." In the early part of his
career Mr. Coutts, anxious to secure the cordial co-
operation of the heads of the various banking
houses in London, was in the habit of frequently

inviting them to dinner. On one of these occasions
the manager of a City bank, in retailing the news
of the day, accidentally remarked that a certain
nobleman had applied to his firm for the loan of
£30,000 and had been refused. Mr. Coutta listened
and said nothing; but the moment his guests had
retired, about ten o'clock in the evening, he started
off to the house of the nobleman mentioned and
requested the honour of an interview with his lord-
ship the next day. On the following morning the
nobleman called at the bank. Mr. Ccutts received
him with the greatest politeness, and, taking 30
one-thousand pound notes from a drawer, presented
them to his lordship. The latter, very agreeably
surprised, exclaimed—" But what security am I to
give you ?" " I shall be satisfied with your lord-
ship's note of hand," was the reply. The I 0 U was
instantly given, with the remark, " I find I shall
only require for the present £10,000; I therefore
return you £20,000, with which you will be
pleased to open an account in my name." The
generous—or, as it may more truly be called,
exceedingly well calculated—act of Mr. Coutts was
not lost upon the nobleman, who, in addition to
paying in within a few months £200,000 to his ac-
count, the produce of the sale of an estate, recom-
mended several high personages to patronise the
bank in the Strand. Among the new clients who
did so patronise it was King George 111.
Mr. Coutts had not only many friends bat real
admirers among the nobility, and was an object of
attraction to not a few designing matrons, who
would have been but too happy to marry their
noble but portionless daughter to the rich
banker. These aristocratic matrimonial specula-
tions were somewhat radely dispelled by the choice
which Mr.:Coutts made of a wife, in the person of
Elizabeth Starkey, a domestic in his brother's
service. The union was productive, it is said, of great
happiness to the banker; and, though children of a
servant, his three daughters married three noble-
men—namely, the Marquis of Bute, the Earl of
Guildford, and the celebrated Sir Francis Bur-
dett. After the death of his first wife Mr. Coutts
gave his hand to Miss Mellon, an actress. On this
second marriage, both Mr. and Mrs. Coutts were
made the constant subjects of unworthy ridicule,
which, however, had no other effect than that of
strengthening the confidence of the husband in
his wife. This confidence was displayed in a
remarkable manner in the last will and testament
of Mr. Coutts. By this will he left the whole of his for-
tunc,amounting to above £900,000, to his widow, for
her sole use and benefit, and at her absolute disposal
without the deduction of a single legacy to any
person. Mrs Coutts subsequently married the Duke
of St. Albans; but under her marriage settlement
wisely reserved to herself the whole control of the
immense fortune left to her by her first husband.
Oa her death she bequeathed the, vast property to
the favourite grand-daughter of Mr Coutts, Miss
Angela Burdett—the estimable and beneficent lady,
founder of so many churches and schools, who is
now well known as Miss Angela Burdett Coutts.
Miss A. B. Coutts continues to be the principal
proprietor of the old bank in the Strand, the busi.
ness being conducted for her by trustees, under the
old style of Coutta and Co.—Railway News.

THE POLISH INSURRECTION.--Colonel Raczkow-
ski, one of the most idefatigable chiefs of the
Polish insurrection, who quitted Paris in February. 1863,
to take part in the events then taking place in Poland, and
who remained there after that period, and was present at
various actions fought with the Russians, has arrived in
Paris. He is, perhaps, the only one of the insurrectionary
Chiefs who exposed his life so many hundred times without
ever having been wounded. Colonel Raczkowski is an old
officer of the Prussian army. He subsequently served in
the Brazilian army with the rank of captain. He had just
arrived in Paris from the Brazils when the Polish insur-
rection broke out, and he hastened to assist his countrymen
in throwing off the Muscovite yoke. General Bossah, who
fought so long and so successfully in the palatinates of San-
domir and of Cracow, has joined his family at Geneva. It
appears from the information received from various sources
that the insurrection in Poland has been completely sup-
pressed.

A E`,lY S PA P

THE DRAWING-ROOM, 1-,-144'
By command of the Queen a Drawing Ro*F.ifif,
held on S i.turday at St. James's Palace by her
Highness the Princess of Wales, on behalf of 124
Majesty.
Presentations at this Court are, by the Queen's
pleasure, to be considered as equivalent to presen-
tations made to her Majesty.
The Prince and Princess of Wales, attended by
the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, and escorted
by a party of Life Guards, proceeded from Marl-
borough House, and arrived at St. Jamcs's Palace
at St. James's Palace at about two o'clock, where
their Royal Highnesses were received by the Mis-
tresses of the Robes and the great eflicers of the
Queen's Household.
Her Royal Highness the Grand Ducheso of
Mecklenburg-Strelifz arrived at the Palace,
attended by the Lady Caroline Cot and Baron
von Plesson.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of C=-
bridge arrived, attended by Ldy Geraldine Somer-
set and Colonel H. Purves.
His Royal Highness the Doke of Cambridge
arrived, attended by Colonel Tyrwhitt.
His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe-
Wiemar was present at the Drawing Room.
Her Majesty's Body Guard of the Honourable
Corps of Gentlemen at Arms was on duty in the
State Saloons, under the command of the Lieu-

tenant.
The Royal Body Guard of the Yeomen of the
Guard was on duty, under the command of Colonel
Bourke, the Exon in waiting.
Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales took
her station in the front of the Throne, accompanied
by the Prince of Wales and the other members of
the Royal Family.

In attendance on the Princess of Wales were the
Duchess of Wellington, Mistress of the Robes to the
Queen ; the Marchioness of Ely, the Countess of
Geinsborough, the Countess of Desert, the Coun-
tess of Caledon, and the Viscountess Jocelyn,
Ladies of the Bedchamber to the Queen; Countess
De Gray, Lady of the Bedchamber to the Princess
of Wales ; Lady Caroline Copley, the Hon. Mrs.
George Campbell, Viscountess Chewton, the Hon.
Mrs. Alexander Gordon, and Lady Codrington,
Bedchamber Women to the Queen; the Hon.
Mrs. William C. Grey, Bedchamber Woman to
the ,Princess of Wales; the Hon. Lucy Maria
Kerr, the Hon. Caroline Fanny Cavendish, the
Hon. Flora C. J. Macdonald, the Hon. Emily Cath-
cart, the Hon. Horatia Charlotte Stepford, the Hon.
Harriett Phipps, the Hon. Emma Lascelles, and
the Hon. Lucy C. Lyttelton, Maids of Honour to
the Queen ; the Earl of St. Germans, Lord Steward;
the Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain ; the Mar-
quis of Ailesbury, Master of the Horse; Colonel
the Hon. Sir Charles B, Phipps, Keeper of the
Privy Purse ; Lord Alfred Paget, M.P., Clerk
Marshall; Viscount Bury, Treasurer of the Queen's
Household ; Lord Proby, Comptroller of the Queen's
Household; Viscount Castleross, Vice-Chamberlain;
Lord Methuen, Lord in Waiting, and Captain Sir
William Horse, R.N., Groom in Waiting to the
Queen; the Marquis of Abercorn (acting for Earl
Spencer), Groom of the Stole to his Royal High-
ness the Prince of Wales; Lient..General Knollys,
Comptroller and Treasurer of the Prince's House-
hold ; Lord Alfred Hervey, Lord of the Bed-
chamber, and the Hon. Robert H. Meade, Groom
of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales ; Lord
Harris, Chamberlain to the Princess of Wales ;
Major C. Teesdale, Equerry to the Prince of Wales ;
and the two Pages of Honour in Waiting on the
Queen.

The Princess of Wales wore a rich black silk train
trimmed with a deep border of crape and jet; a
petticoat of black silk covered with bouffants and
ruches of crape, and ornamented with jet ; head-
dress a tiara of jet, with black feathers and tulle
veil ; ornaments jet. Her Royal Highness also
wore the Victoria and Albert badge, and the insignia
of the order of Isabella of Portugal.
Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Meek-
lenhurg-Strelitz wore a train of rich black silk
trimmed with bkck lace, and a white petticoat
trimmed with satin ribbon and black lace; head-
dress a tiara of diamonds and sapphires, feathers
and veil; stomacher and necklace diamonds and
sapphires.

DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM SEARLE.—It is with
great regret we announce the decease of Mr. WM.
Searle, who expired in his 49th year a few minutes before 1
o'clock on Friday morning. Wall known to the public as
an excellent actor, and much esteemed by the profession,
the intelligence of hie death will be received by both play-
goers and performers with deep sorrow. Mr. Wm. Searle
was born in January, 1816, and having lost both his parents
before his 14th year, he sought employment in a solicitor's
office, where he remained two years. Finding his taste led
him to the stage, he made his debut as a youth of 16 at the
Surrey; Theatre, then under Osbaldiston's management, and
the encouragement he received induced him to apply for
and obtain a situation at the Adelphi, where he played for
some time a series of small parts. After some provincial
tractice with Down in York Circuit, and Smith in the Nor.
with Circuit, ho came back to town prepared to take a
higher range of parts. He joined the Strand Theatre, of
which the late W. J. Hammond was then manager, and
made his first recognised " hit" in the part of Bats in
Douglas Jerrold's " Perils of Pippins." Havingreai
7 years at the Strand, he became a prominent member.ihh h
of
of
the late George Wild's company at the Olympic, wherem n
e
stayed till 1844. Soon after he aceeptel the position ho
stage manager of the City of London Theatre,
which
filled with credit to himself and advantage to the manage-
ment for nearly 14 years. He afterwards occupied the post
of stage-manager at Astley's. Mr. Searle was an admir-
able "character' actor, and in the picturesque dressing of
his parts showed much of the care and artistic judgment of
Mr. 0. Smith, on whose peculiari Searle
of acting he had
also
a
evidently
membermodelled
h
of
s matic r
own.a i‘'
profession, and who bids
fair to achieve professional success.—Er leaves
a. a son, who
is their
Lord Llanover has left town for Llanover, South
Wales.

Her Royal Highness the Princess Mary of Cam-
bridge wore a black glace silk train trimmed with
ruches of silk and tulle ; a petticoat of black glace
silk covaJd with tulle, richly trimmed with lace
and bows of satin ribbon ; headdress a diadem uf
diamonds, feathers, and silver tulle veil; stomacher,
necklace, and earrings of diamonds.
The Prince of Wales wore the uniform of the 10th
Hussars, of which regiment his Royal Highness is
colonel, with the insignia of the Garter and the Star
of India.

RATHER DTFFICI7LT TO SWALLOW.—" Fancy,"
said Sydney Smith, once sitting quietly at the Deanery of
St. Paul's with some ladies, when he was told that one of
the giraffes at the Zoological Gardens had caught a cold,
"fancy a giraffa with a sore throat 1"

THE PRINCE IMPERIAL is going to give a monstre
juvenile fete next Sunday to all those children of
his age who are members of the Loan Society for Indigent.
Workmen standing under his special patronage. Thero
will be twelve marionette theatres, two stages for jugglers,
and two great military orchestras on the spot, which has
been carefully selected in the reserved part of the Tuileries
Gardens. From 150 to 200 " marehands de Coco" will
furnish the young people with all kinds of sweet drinks,
while a bullet will cater for the grown-up population.
After this monster fete a balloon will go up ; and the
journals add that whoever, before Sunday, subscribes the
annual sum of sfr. 10c. will even now receive an
invitation.

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reliefs will represent scenes from Kepler's life, while the
pedestal will contain, in four niches, the
nicus, Tycho do Brahe, Michael Mastle
figures ganurdesjoosft Cnoupre,'
r-
the astronomical instrument maker. These figures will be
cast_ in bronze, and be about four feet high.
THE QUEEN, it is significantly remarked by the
Spectator, held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Wednes-
day. Her Majesty wore the blue riband and badge of the
Garter, the badges of the Victoria and Albert Order, and,
says the Court Circular, which does not make mistakes on
such points, "the Order of Queen Louise of Prussia."
NOT PAYING DEARLY FOR HIS WHISTLE—BUT
BEING WELL PAID FOR IT.—Music, it seems, has
still the charms the poet ascribed to it. Mr. Cox, eon a
an English physician of Valparaiso, had been exploring
an almost unknown inland sea in Chili and the river Limey,
when the party fell into the hands of a tribe of wild In-
dians. The Cacique wanted to kill him for visiting his
dominions without permission ; but Mr. Cox played hint
a tune on the flageolet, and the chief relented and let him
go. Sorely that Cacique must be an Austrian in an in-
choate state, with tendencies which will ultimately develop
into a passport system and a love icz opera. Admiral
Fitzroy, we perceive, thinks there is something in these
regions more valuable than Caciques, namely, three new
varieties of the potato.
MR. ANTHONY TROLLOTE'S SKILL AS A No.
VELIST.—He can write out the talk of people as no
one else can. He dos not hesitate to give himself the t
given trouble of recording in full what, at a great
crisis, his cha-
' meters might be supposed to say. Very of ten there are
three or four whole pages entirely filled with conversation,
and this conversation is never dell, or forced or epigram-
matic. Nor is it trivial. It seems to come from
d the people
as if it were inevitable it should come all
coloured with the peculiarities of each i anndividuystloit isnd all
.
seems good, sensible, apt talk in its way. Wa hean all is
excellent, one example is as good as another; but per-
haps, as a triumph over difficulties, we might select the
conversation of Lord de
Guest and Johnny Eames, when.
the Earl asks
his young friend to meet Colonel
Dale. There really is hardly any basis for talk
at all. There is very little that any of them can say that
can be made to affect the story, and all that can come under
this head might be easily got into a page or two. L.rd de
Guest is not made to wander into subjects foreign to the
main plot, or to call up anecdotes and rereinise,nces, and
things of that sort. He and Johnny talk about Lily Dale,
but they talk at once so fully and so naturally that it seems
as if a real conversation were going on; while yet what
they say has an interest, and we do not find ourselves get-
ting tired of their confidoices • —Saturday _Review.
WILLIAM tiIIaNSPERE. By Victor Hugo.—The
authorised English translation of this interesting
work has just been issued by Messrs. Hui st and Blackett
in
tying e 1 volume. This enthusiastic tribute of admiration to
our great national poet, and at the present time especially,
will be eagerly perused by all Englishmen. "M. Victor
Hugo (gays the Atlicnceum) has produced a notable and
brilliant book about Shakspere. M. Hugo sketches the life
of Shakspere, and makes of it a very effective picture.
Imaginative and pleasant fancy are mingled with the facts.
There is high colouring, but therewith a charm which has
not hitherto been found in any portrait of Shakspere painted
by a foreign hand."

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