The Sun.
London, England, 1865-04-25 00:00:00

No. 22.729.

Articles of Association of the Company when required ;
and I authorise you to place my name on the Register of
3/embers in respect of the Shares allotted to me.

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Usual Signature
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Date

REMEMBER, YOU WILL SEE YOUR
FRIENDS at " EVANS'. " After the Opera we
sC .i 1 Sup there!

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1865.

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at
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"Kinahan's LL Whisky."

MR. BAILLIE COCHRANE'S NEW WORK:
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 2 vol-., ‘,ls.,

pRACTICAL GEOLOGY.—King's College,
London.

Professor TENNANT, F.G.S., will commence a COURSE
of LECTURES on FRIDAY MORNING, April 28, at Nine
o'clock, having especial reference to the application of Geo-
logy to Engineering. Mining. Architecture, and Agriculture.
The Lectures will be continued on each succeeding Wednes-
day acd Friday at the same hour. Fee, £1 lie. 6d.
. .

Z. W. JELF, D D , PrincipaL

HIS•TOIIIC PICTURES,
By A. BAILLIE COCIIRANE,

From the Times, April 21.—" Mr. Baillie Cochrane has
published two entertaining volumes of studies from history.
They are lively reading. •My aim,' he says, has been to ch -
pict events generally known in a light and, if possible, a
picturesque manner.' Mr. Cochrane has been quite success-
ful in carrying out his intention. The work is a study of the
more interesting moments of history—what, indeed, the
author himself calls it, Historic Pictures.' "

Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

Fcap. Bvo., neat cloth binding, 38. 6d.,

MANUAL S ON PROPERTY.
By THOMAS MORRIS, Architect.

1. A CLUE TO RAILWAY COMPENSATION, the
Value of Estates, &o.
"Exceedingly cogent."—Railway Times.

-DANK OF BRITISH NORTH AMERICA
Incorporated by Royal Charter.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a VACANCY has
occurred in the Direction of this Bank by the death of Arthur
Woodruff Jaffray, Esq , which will be filled up at the ensuing
Annual General Meeting.

eiRYSTAL PALACE.-NOW VISIT THE
PALACE.— Delightful Spring Appearance of Gardens
awl Park. Nature in early beauty.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—The AMUSEMENTS
provided for the Easter Holidays having proved so at-
tractive and amusing, particularly to children, they will be
continued from Tuesday to Friday, when they must positively
terminate. •
Under the dircetion of Mr. Nelson Lee, the Martinette
Brothers, and tve funny little Grime:di, in their clever per-
formances ; and the very laughable pantomimic Ballet by the
Lauri Family wilt be continued daily.
The IN izard of the North and Miss Anderson, also for the
above four days only, in their "World of Magic and Second
Sight" in the Concert•room. Admission. Sixpence.
These additional attractions cannot be continued after

By the terms of the Deed of Settlement. it is required as
follows :

" That every proprietor intending to become a candidate,
or to propose some other proprietor as a candidate for the
office of Director, must, within ten days from the time when
the advertisement shall have been inserted, signit y, by some
writing under his or hPr hand, to be left within the same ten
days at the office of the Corporation, either his intention to
become a candidate, or the name and place of abode of the
candida' a intended to be proposed by him or her.

Names of candidates cannot therefore be received after the
6th of May next.
By order of the Court,
C. M'NAB, Secretary.
7, St. Helen's-place, London, April 25, 1865.

2. A DISCOURSE UPON DILAPIDATIONS : their
Nature and the Principles of Assessment succinctly de-
monstrated.
"Handy and c'early written.”—Churchman.
"Compact and well arranged."—Building News.
Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers' Hall Court, E.C.

Just ready, price is. 6d.,

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MURRAY and CO.'S BOOK of INFORMA-
TION fur RAILWAY TRAVELLERS, RAILWAY
OFFICIALS, Ara, Illustrated with Anecdotes, by BOND,
Sup G. W. Railway.
Murray and Co„ 13, Paternoster-row ; and all booksellers
and ra•lway bookstalls.

The BOOK of the DAY and EVERY MAN'S BOOK.
Just published, price Is. 6d , by post, free, Is. Bd.,

REVELATION of QUACKS and QUACKERY.
By DETECTOR.

For notices of this startling work see the "Saturday Re-
view" of April 1, entitled "Quacks and Quackery ;" the
"Weekly Dispatch" of April 9, " The Quacks and their
Crimes ;" "The Sun" of April 12, " 'Detector's' Broadside
on Quacks and Quackery."
GUIDE TO TIIE QUACKS OF LONDON.

THE CREDIT FONCIER AND MOBILIER
OF ENGLAND (Limited,.
Authorised Capital £4.000,C00, in 200,000 sharei of £2O each.
Capital Subscribed £2,000,000, in 10,000 shares of
£2O each.

Skating Hall, Chinese Collection, Chimpanzee, Bowls,
Archery, Cricket, Boats, .to.
Doors open at Ten. One Shilling ; Children, Sixpence.

Capitii Paid-up • £5CO,OOO
Reserve Fund
Dividend Reserve Fund £70,600
DIRECTORS. .

A Series of Papers relative to Quacks, which appeared in
the " Medical Menhir," with the signature of "Detector,"
has been republished in the form of a short pamphlet. The
reader of " Punch" should read this pamphlet also. He has
often read, in the pages of "Punch," of certain Quacks, frau-
dulent and noisome, who obtain money by false pretences,
and more money by -menaces and extortion, from green
young men. For their names, which " Punch" would not
advertise, he has referred his readers to the lower corner of
the advertisim; columns of low newspapers, amongst which
too mauy of Mr. Punch's" contemporaries, especially in the
country, may still be enumerated. But now he begs to pub-
lish the information that a nominal list of these miscreants,
with copies of their puffs and other particulars concerning
them, needful to be known, will be found in the pamphL t
above referred to, which is entitled "Revelations of Quacks
and Quackery," and is to be had at the "Medical Circular "
Office, 20, King William-street, Strand, W.C.
The vile practices, the monstrous impudence; the cruel
rapacity, and the enormous gains of the obscene tribe of
Quacks, the mischief they do, the ruin they work, even to
the caupation of suicide, are fully set forth in " Revelations
of Quacks ar.d Qackery." And mark espec'ally that, as
aforesaid, the names of the Quacks are publishel. The
pamphlet iu question thus constitutes a regular Quack Di-
rectory, by consulting which every young man may know
where he may go if he wishes to get plundered and destroyed.
'-Buy, therefore, reader, by all means buy "Revelations of
Quacks and Quackery." Its contents will astonish and amuse
you, whi e they invoke your indignation and disgust. Of
course you do not want it on account of its warnings for your
own sake, but you doubtless do for that of the many simple-
tons with whom you must be acquainted, if your acquaint-
ance is large. " Who are the Quacks that 'Punch' means ?"
Consider what it is to he able to answer this question of the
young and inexperienced, and, for charity's.sake, if for no
other, go and provide yourself with "Revelations of Quacks
and Quackery," by Detector.—Punch, April 12.

GREAT HANDEL FESTIVAL.-NUMBERED
STALLS at the Crystal Palace and at 2, Exeter Hall.
The alterations in. the Corner-Galleries were completed and
tested on Good Friday, with the most satisfactory results.
Hundreds of additional excellent seats arc now at disposal.
The Side Galleries and the front rows of raise i seats, S and
SS, will also be on issue. Sets, Two-and-a-half Guineas ;
Single Tickets, One Guinea.
•
REHEARSAL—Friday, June 23.
A limited number of Admission Tickets will be issued
this day at Five Sbillino, When. these are sold the price
will be raised to' Seven Shillings and Sixp nce, or by pay-
ment on the day Ten Shillings and Sixpence.
Centre blOcks of numbered reserved seats, C and CC, and
G and GG, for this Rehearsal, Five Shillings each. The seats
on these blocks will be arranged the same as on the Festival
days. Early application essential.
Full particulars of Excursion Trains from distant parts,
including admission to this Great Rehearsal, will be duly
announced.

Cheques and Post-office Orders payable to George Grove.

THE NEW SEASON TICKET will admit
11 on Saturday next.

The Right Hon. JAMES STUART WORTLEY, Governor.
James Levick, Esq., Merchant, King's Arms-
yard, Deputy-
James Nugent Daniell, Esq., Chairman of the Governors.
Alliance Bank (Limited),
James Childs. Esq., London.
Alexander Dunbar, Esq.. Old Broal-street, London.

har tes Ellis, ESQ., Lloyd's.
Adolphe Hakim, Esq. (Messrs. Pinto, Hakim Brothers, and
Co.), London.
1 he Hon. T. C. Haliburton, Chairman of the Canada
Agency Association, London.
William Harrison, Esq. (Messrs. Young, Harrison, and
Bevan), Director of the Thames and Mersey Insurance
Company.
Richard Stuart Lane, Esq. (Messrs. Lane, Hankey, atd Co.),

. ..
London. . - , ..
Charles E. Newbon, Esq.. London.
Henry Pownall, Esq., J.P., Russell-squar3 London.
Joseph Mackrill Smith, E-q. (J. tilackrill Smith and Co.), Old
Broad-street, London.
Edward Warner, Esq, M.P., London.
John Westmorland, Esq. (Director of the Royal Lisurance

Company), London.
Albert Grant, Esq., Managing Director.

BANKERS.
The Agra and Masterman's Bank (Limited).
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths.
The National Bank, London, Dublin, and its Branches In
Ireland.
The Alliance Bank (Limited), London, Liverpool, and Man-
chester.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Newbon, Evans, and Co., Nicholas-lane, E.C.

SECRETARY.
Alfred Lowe, Esq.
OFFICES.
17 and 18, Cornhill, London.

Mvcrrlptoßearpow.
EGYPTIAN HALL, PICCADILLY
(THE LATE ALBERT SMITH'S ROOM).
OPEN EVERY NIGHT at Elea, and Saturday after-
noon at Three, with Colonel STODARE'S entirely New
Entertainment, MAGIC and VENTRILOQUISM
Stalls, 35.; Area, 25.; Gallery, Is.
A. NIMMO, Acting Manager.

m., and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr.
JO f4N PARRY, will appear in their new entertain-
ment, entitled. A PECULIAR FAMILY, by William
Brough. New scenery by T. and W. Grieve. To conclude
with MRS. ROSELEAF AT THE SEASIDE, by Mr. John
Parry. Every Evenine, except Saturday, at 8. Wednesday
and Saturday afrernoons, at 3. ROYAL GALLERY OF
ILLUSTRA PION, 14, Regent-street.

Demy Bvo.. extra cloth, 6s. 6d.,
IFE : Its NATURE, VARIETIES, and
PHENOMENA. By LEO H. GRINDON. Third
Edition.
" Mr. Grindon's book has reached, but will not stop at, the
third edition. It is the work of a scholar, a Christian, and a
man of real ecience."—horning Herald.
" To those who delight in the exercise of their intellectual
powers, these very thoughtful and beautifully-written reflec-
tions will be a welcome boon, and the source long afterwards,
we may rest assured._ of many fruitful meditations and plea-
sant memories." —Sun.

THE CREDIT FONCIER AND ATOBTLTER
OF ENGLAND (Limited).
At a Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company, held
This Day (Thursday), 20th April, 1865, at one o'clock p.m.,
The Right Hon. JAMES STUART WORTLEY, Governor,
in the Chair,
It was proposed, seconded, and carried unanimously,
That the Balance-sheet and Report, recommending a Divi-
dend and Bonus of Twenty Shillings per Share on the Oid
Shares ani Ten Shillings per Share on the New Shares, equal
to Forty per cent. per annam, be, and are hereby approved,
confirmed, and adopted.
It was also proposed, seconded, and carried unanimously,
That the best thanks of this Meeting are due, and are
hereby given, to the Governor, Deputy-Governors, and
Directors, for the care and attention they have given to the
interests of the Shareholders, and for the extremely satisfac-
tory results which have arisen therefrom.
It was also proposed, seconded, and carried unanimously,
That the cordial thanks of this Meeting are due, and are
hereby offered, to Albert Grant, Esq., the Managing Director,
for the talent and untiring energy displayed by him in the
administration of the affairs of the Company.
It sas f urther proposed, seconded, and carried unanimously,
That the thanks of this Meeting to given to Alfred Lowe,
Esq.. Secretary, for his unvarying courtesy and attention,
and to him and the other officers of the Company for their
industry and zeal during the past half-year.
By order of the Court of Directors,
J. STUART WORTLEY, Governor.
AL FRED LOWE, Secretary.

" The reader will find in it much thought and much read-
ing. There is plenty to think upon, plenty to study, plenty
to entertain."—lllustrated London News."

Unreserved seats, Is., 2s. ; stalls, la. ; stall chairs, ss. May
be secured in advance, without fee, at the Gallery.
OPERA DI CAMERA, every Tuesday and Thursday
at 3, and Saturday at 8.

rr HE 0 X FORD,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.

The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).
ORPFIE 14 AUX ENFERS, FAUST, and LA CIRCAS-
SIENNE will be performed during this week. Principal
artistes : —Mons. Lavessiere, Signor Spagnoll, M. Marini, Mr.
Green, and Misses Ellison and Barrie, with full Band and
Chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Comedy, by Mr. George Hodson (the celebrated Comedian
and Mimic), W. Randall, Little Bob, Miss Kate Balfe, Les
Freres Talliott, the Grotesque, D'Aubans, Madame Rams-
den, and Les Freres Stonette.

London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C,

Crown Bvo., cloth, 400 pages, price 55.,

TTEDDEN SPRINGS. By the Rev. J.
PARKER, of Manchester.

" The sermons of Dr. Parker are especial y noticeable for
clearness of thought and language. All seems as if it were
written with a pencil of 1 ght. . . . . Nature is every-
where in the ascendant, and hence its matchless force
There is no speaking for speaking's sake, no display of any
kind ; every word is an arrow directed to the mark."—Bri-
tish Standard.

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Every Evening at Half-past Seven. Admission—area, 6d.;
stalls and balcony, ls.; private boxes, 10s. 6d.

London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C.

280 pp., cloth, lettered, price 35.,

'VEGETABLE COOKERY.—Pastry, Pickling,
&c.

17 and 18, Cornhill, London, April 20, 1865.
Copics of the Balance-sheet and Report may be had on
application at the Offices.

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. his work is devoted
entirely to the proper cooking of vegetable,,, to preserving,
pickling, the preparation of sauces, soups, beverages, &a, &c.,
and forms a complete treatise upon the subject. Vegetables,
fruits, &c., constitute Vie half of our daily food : here is an
essay upon the best possible preparation of this half.
London : F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster-row, E.C.

lIAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn,.
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID curls
Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold
at 3s. 6d.; sent free for 5I stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine,
ls. 6d., or 20 stamps.

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GREY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.—
ALEX. ROSS'S charges for Dyeing the hair perma-
nently- Ladies' . Hair from 7s. 6d. ; Gentlemen's from ss.
The Dye is sold at 3s. 6d, or sent free for 54 stamps. It I s
most easy of use.

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SECOND-HAND BOOKS ON SALE.

Purchasers of Books for Public or Private Libraries, Mer-
chants, Shipping Agents, intending Emigrants. and others,
are r spectfully invited to apply for the APRIL LIS f of
WORKS withdrawn from Mudie's Librar for gale.
This List includes C- pt. Speke's Discovery of the Source of
the Nile—Sir H. AlcoMes Capital of th Tycoon—Memoirs
of Bishop Blomfield—Stanley's Sermons in the East—King-
lake's Invasion of the Crimea—Life of Edward Irving—Our
Old Home—Howitt's History of the Supernatural - Lady's
Visit to Manilla and Japan—Lowth'. Wanderer in Western
France—Lord William Lennox's Biographical Reminiscences

jjAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX.'ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes,
without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face,
neck, and arms. 3s. 6d.; sent the same day as ordered by post
tor 5 t stamps.

SPANISII FLY is the acting ingredient in
ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which ,peedily
produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent tree f'or 54
stamps.—ALES. ROSS, 248 ,Iligh Holborn, London. Essay
311 Hair, Id.

Earl Stanhope's Life of Pitt—Queen 31ab—Rachel Ray
and more than One Thousanq other Works of the past and
present seasons, at the lowest current prices.
CHARLES EDWARD MUDIE, New Oltiord-street,
London.

PIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin
are improved by one dose of' ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE-
TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness
Rte 28. 9d.; by post for 40 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 243, High
Holborn, London.

ALEX. ROSS' FACE POWDER, is. ; sent for
14 stamps; Eye Colour, 3s. rld., or 54 stamps. Skin
tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or su stamps.
Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps.—AL X. ROSS, 218,
High Holborn, London.

CONSULT Mr. A. ESKELL'S popular and
reliable TREATISE on the TEE PR before having
recourse to the Dentist. " The expense is not great, and it
will well repay perusal."
Published by John Clements, Little Pulteney-street ; and
may be had through any bookseller, from Simpkin, Marshall,
and Co., Stationers'-hall-court. Price, 7d.; in cloth, 13d.

lUDIE'S SELECT LIBRARY.
T NTY-TH IRD YEAR.
The Library was Established in April, 1E142, in order to
promote the widest possible circulation of the best Books in
every departmen of Literature.
From its commencement great care has been taken to ren-
der the Library In every way worthy of the cordi ,1 encou-
ragement it has receiv,d. Books of every shade of opinion
on all subjects of public interest have been freely added ; and
in cases where the demand has been general, hundreds, and
in some instances thousands, of copies of the choicer Works
have Ueen provided for the use of Subscribers.
Revised Lists of Works recently added to the Library, and
Catalogues of Surplus Copies withdrawn for Sale, are now
ready, ,(ia i will be forwarded on application.
New Oxford-street, London, April, 1864.

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THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to ihn 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
han 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
obfeetnhesemnotsat recentwayin efiayseesyffs. Here are brief details of a few
P• V., aged 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother.
d. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged is, fallen, mother dead,
A. 8., a2,ed 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, hnmeless, deserted by her parents,
M. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. IL, aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
L. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
M. A. W., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen .street, Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Co.. Lombard-Street.

City Office-4, King-eireet, Cheapside.
Branch Establishments:

SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and
11011 E, Hampstead. Offices. 77, Cornhill.
PATRON—The QUEEN.
TRUSTEES.
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Capt. the Hon. Francis Maude, I The Rev. Canon f hampneys
R.N.
TREASURERSThomas Baring, Esq , M.P.

R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. I Robert Hanbury, Esq
This Institution is designed to supply a great national
want, viz., an asylum for the orphan daughters of sailors in
the Royal Navy and Merchants Service and of Marines.
It clothes, maintains, and educates them for domestic
service and provides a home free of expense for former
inmates while out of situations, thus shielding them from the
temptations they might otherwise be exposed to.
Tie Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU-
TIONS to meet the increasing applications through the
recent storms and loss f life at sea, and to enable them
even ually to obtain premises more commensurate with the
necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000
sailors annually by casualties alone, without including these
who may perish by war.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the bankerP, Messrs.
Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre-
tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill.
R. SWEETTNG, Hon. Sec.
CHARLES NASH. See.

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JOHN GOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOTH-PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; fives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to the
the breath. Pr.ce ls. td.-12, Three King-court, Lombard-
street, Loud- n.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
Commissariat Office, Aldershot, April 9, 1865.
TENDERS will be received at this Office, until 12 o'clock
(noon) on Wednesday, 26th April, 1865, from persons who
may be willing to enter into CON T itACTS for the supply of
FLOUR (Ration and Hospital), AND MEAT,
in such quantities as may be required, from Ist June to 30th
November, 1865, for the use of her Majesty s Forces stationed
at Aldelshot Camp, and within the command.
These being three distinct Contracts, separase Tenders are
required for each description of Flour and for Meat.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on application at th s office, by letter addressed to the
Senior Commissariat Officer, or in person, between the hours
of ten and four o', lee .%
The Venders must be properly filled up, signed, and deli-
vered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the
outside " Tender for Army Supplies"), by thehour appointed,
and no Tender will be noticed that Shall not be in compliance
with these conditions.

ROYAL 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 WA LE S, K.G
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mac-
rinan,
Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ;
Drummond and Co. ; •Glyn and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom
BarclaCo. ;
y and Co.
and Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
and Co. ; W dliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gur-
ney,; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; I. Barred and
CO., Liverpool; Sad at the Hospital, from 10 till 5.

STANF'OSD EMITIT, Beoretam

CANTERBURY HALL
The Oxford, and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).
HODGE PODGE,
(According to Act of Parliament).
CANTERBURY HALL—EVERY EVENING
at half-past Nine o'clock.
In addition to the other attractions of this wonderful
establishment.

EASTER HOLIDAYS.—Mdme. TUSSAUD'S
EXHIBITION. Established 36 years, at the Bazaar,
Baker-street.
A full-length Portrait model, life-size, of the late
RICHARD COBDEN, M.P., taken during the period of the
Great Anti-Corn Law League Agitation, my be seen in the
Hall of Kings.

NEW ADDITIONS.—ModeIs, life-size, of the YOUNG
KING- of GREECE, and MURRAY, who was Regent of
Scotland in the time of Mary Queen of Scots.
Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

THE EVACUATION OF RICHMOND

I have long known that the continued tenure of
the Confederate lines around Petersburg and Rich-
mond by Lee's army was felt by Mr. Davis, by
Generals Lee and Breckinridge, and by every other
wise military head, to be a grievous blunder. But
to withdraw from those lines, with the Virginia roads
two feet deep in mud, and with Lee's artillery horses
reduced in number and weak from inanition, while
Grant commanded not only any amount of horse-
flesh, but illimitable supplies of forage to feed them,
was obviously impossible. Not only were the Con-
federate artillery horses half-starved, but the Con-
federate cavalry, from want of forage in the Rich-
mond and Petersburg lines, had almost ceased to
exist. Add to this that the shortness of ration oc-
casioned such desertions from the Confederate ranks
as have never previously been remembered ; that in
the month of February alone General Lee reported
the desertion of no less than 1,200 of his choicest
veterans, and it will be,seen that the further tenure
of Richmond and Petersburg by Lee's army has
long been felt to be a question not so much of weeks
as of days. Nevertheless, Generals Lee and Long-
street, and many others of their gallant associates,
continued to maintain an undaunted front, in the
hope of some possible political turn hi their favour
either at the North or in Europe, and with but faint
expectation that if General Lee should ever be forced
fiom his lines he would be enabled to keep together
any such organised body of men as could be dignified,
with the name of an army. I may here mention
that if General Sheridan had been able some few
weeks ago to get across the swollen James River
between Lynchburg and Richmond, and to swoop
down upon the Danville Railroad, he would probably
have met with little or no opposition, and that the
end would have come some 40 or 50 days earlier.
Upon the afternoon of Saturday, April 1, Rich-
mond, long familiar with the sights and sounds of
war, wore its usual look of unconscious security, and
there were but few persons acquainted with the fact
that Sheridan, with some 6,000 or 8,000 cavalry,
supported by Warren's corps of infantry and artil-
lery, was at work upon General Lee's right, that
he was opposed only by a handful of Confederate
cavalry, and that momentous events were probably
at hand. It should be mentioned that for some days
prior to the opening of April Grant had been mass-
ing troops on his extreme left, near Hatcher's Run,
and that Lee had been compelled to mass corres-
pondingly on his own extreme right. But, in
addition to massing on his left, Grant had with-
drawn all his troops, save two small divisions,
from the north of James River and from the
Bermuda Hundred lines, and had placed them
opposite to General A. P. Hill's corps, at a spot
where, in the immediate neighbourhood of Peters-
burg, it was known that the Confederate lines were
weakly manned. It was not until Saturday, the Ist,
that Gen. Lee discovered that Gen. Ord and his
troops had been withdrawn from the north side, and
that he set to work also to bring Gen. Longstreet
and most of his men across the river to the south
side. My impression is that before Longstreet had
taken position near Petersburg, the Federal attack
of Sunday morning, conducted by Generals Wright
and Ord, had been successfully delivered. Be that
as it may, at 5 upon the morning of Sunday, the 2d,
the Federals swept forwarl in a fine broad front, and
ran fairly over A. P. Hill's weak lines of defence.
Onward, right onward, the Federals eagerly pressed,
until they got into the immediate neighbourhood of
General Lee's headquarters. I believe that in one
or two spots the Confederates, and especially
Mahone and Gordon, succeeded in re-establishing
their lines, but the fact remained that a broad belt
of the Confederate earthworks, including four or
five important forts, was in Grant's possession, and
General Lee immediately saw that the evacuation
of Petersburg, and consequently of Richmond, was
inevitable. He telegraphed at once to Richmond,
desiring that everything necessary' for its instant
evacuation should be done (your readers wi▪ ll have.
gathered that the first steps towards its evacuation
were taken two months ago), and announci▪
ng that
the enemy would probably enter and take posses-
sion the following morning at daybreak. Upon the
arrival of Gen. Lee's despatch in Richmond President
Davis was occupying his accustomed seat during
morning service in the Church of St. Paul's, in which
church, served by the same c.lergyman, the Prince of
Wales attended divine service upen the occasion j

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LEVEL RAILWAY CROSSlNGS.—Yesterday an in-
quiry was held by Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for Kent,
at the 801 l Inn, Sydenham, respecting tho death of Emma
Chant, aged 47 years. The deceased was the wife of a gar-
dener living at 5, Crown-place, Bell-green, and on Thursday
last she proceeded with a friend and two children to the
Lower Sydenham station to come up to town. It was neces-
sary for her to cross the line to get her tickets at the
booking-office. Upon coming back to her companions she
was run down by the express train and cut to pieces.
Mr. Magnus Morehen, C.E., said that he crossed just after
the deceased to get a ticket, and as he saw a train coining
up he asked for his ticket in haste, thinking that it was the
up-train for London. The station-master who gave him the
ticket, however, said, " Oh, that is a special train ; you
must not cross." Tho witness immediately afterwards saw
the deceased knocked down. There was a down-train at
the platform just previouSly, and the deceased was pre-
vented by it from seeing the express coming along. She
began to cross as soon as the down-train moved on from
the platform. Mr. James Hyde, station-master at Lower
Sydenham, said that he had closed his window and gone
on to the platform (whence ho saw the express approach-
ing); the deceased applied to him for a ticket, but he cau-
tioned her, saying, "Don't cross, the up-express is com-
ing." The Coroner said that a caution that an engineer
would understand would bo quite unintelligible to a
woman knowing nothing about "up" and " down" ex-
presses. It was evident she imagined when the down train
moved on that the line was safe. The witness said that he
could not help that. The Coroner said that he could have
helped it. He should have seen that she did not cross. The
witness said that he had to deliver the tickets to the
apas-
sengers, and he had only one junior porter (a lad of 17) to
assist him; he could not be in two places at once. The
Coroner said that there ought to be a bridge for the cross-
ing. The witness said that would be of no use, for the
passengers all came at the last moment for their tickets,
and they would not have time to cross the bridge ; they
would cross the metals. It would never do to offend
the passengers by refusing tickets for a minute before
trains were expected to come up. It was proved that when
deceased was already on the lino a signal-man (the porter
was collecting tickets) called out to her, but she did not
hear him. The jury returned a verdict, That deceased
was killed by a certain express train on the Mid-Kent Rail-
way, but that no person or persons wilfully caused her
death, and they recommended that a foot-bridge should be
erected to save the passengers from the danger of crossing
on the metals." The same Coroner held an inquest at the
Foresters' Tavern, Forest-hill, on the remains of John
Hayward, aged 54 years. The deceased was a porter in the
employ of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
Company, at Forest-hill station. He had been in the cora-
-1 pang's service 23 years, but was only a week at the station
in question. On Friday last Charles Stanford, a ticket
collector, and the deceased proceeded to cross the line as a
down train was expected at the further platform. The
station is a double one, there being a platform in the
centre, having two lines of metals on either side. The
witness saw the Dover express coming, and he shouted to
down
platform, and and escaped the Dover
on the further line of
Xs,
deceased " Make haste, Dover express up." The deceased
jumped
metals, and was instantly struck and cut to pieces by
another up-express, belonging to the South-Eastern Com-
empreesd ob n
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then centre
jumped
Com-
pany. Stanford was in the act of jumping too when ho
caught sight of the express ; he threw himself down on
the platform, and thus saved his life, the engine actually
touching his trousers. There was a tunnel for passengers
at this station to cross by, but the servants of the company
always crossed on the level. The express engine did not
whistle according to the rule. The jury returned a verdict
" That deceased was killed by being run over by an express
train, and not by the wilful act of any person or persons
whatever."

THE LATE LION KILLER !—A subscription hav-
ing been set on foot to relieve the aged mother of the late
Jules Gerard, it has met with so much success that the
poor old lady has been enabled to quit the house of cha-
rity at Nice, and rent a small home of her own. Some
11,000 f. have been collected for the grandmother and
grandchildren.

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(From the Times' #Special Southern Correspondent.)
NEW YORK, April 11.
Consummatum est. After a siege unparalleled in
the annals of modern warfare ; after enduring con-
version from a little country town officered by six
policemen into a frowning camp girdled with 40 miles
of earthworks and defended by tens of thousands of
men ; after inscribing its name as one of the most
famous of beleaguered cities indelibly upon the page
of history ; after demanding for its reduction a
period of no less than 1,452 days, or in other words
compelling Mr. Seward 17 times to renew his 90-
day bill ; after exacting at least a quarter of a mil-
lion lives spent in assaulting or defending it ; after
adding to its beautiful cemetery 50,000 new graves;
after seeing its tobacco warehouses converted into
loathsome prisons, its manufactories creating no-
thing but war material, its ironworks changed into
cannon foundries, its public edifices into depart-
mental bureaux, its men turned into soldiers, and
women almost without exception into mourners ;
after an expenditure upon its attack and defence
of a weight of iron and lead hardly inferior to
that of every building which its streets contained
—Richmond has fallen. Nor can it be pretended
that in the mind of those who have for some
months been behind the scenes in the Confederate
capital any other feeling rises at this moment so
prominently as astonishment that Grant's multitu-
dinous hosts, with all the vast resources of the North
available at City Point, and poured into their lap
by railroads stretching along Grant's lines, should
for nearly ten months have been held at bay by Lee's
ragged veterans, shrunken in numbers, scantily sup-
plied with food or clothing, tethered down to lines in
which the winter's frost, the summer's vertical sun,
the rain, dew, or snow had, without the stimulus of
coffee or spirits, or even of adequate food, to be un-
complainingly endured, and finally, dispirited by the
thought that all the valour which had so long baffled
the army of Grant had served but to bring upon
their backs the auxiliary army of Sherman.
It is far too early in these passionate times to enter
into a disquisition accounting for the events of the
2d and 3d of April. It is obvious that the causes
which led to them must have been manifold and di-
versified, and in some cases so subtle and mysterious
as to defy human analysis. But, speaking broadly
and briefly, I believe that the failure thus far of the
insurrection may be attributed to three principal
causes—first, and most materially, to the failure of
Johnston and the Western army to keep Sherman
out of Atlanta in the same manner as Lee and the
Eastern army kept Grant out of Petersburg and
Richmond ; secondly, to the imbecility of the Con-
federate Houses of Congress ; thirdly, and finally,
to the inherent weakness of President Davis's Go-
vernment, and to the inability or indisposition
evinced by him or General Lee to assume, at any
risk, the dictatorial powers which a jealous and
short-sighted Congress denied to either, but which
are alone adapted to the successful management of
revolutions. Reserving some further reflections
upon the philosophy of this revolution for a future
occasion, I desire at once to state that, without in
the least undervaluing the admirable tenacity of
Grant, the eager, impulsive earnestness of Sherman,
the soldierly qualities of Meade, and the valour
generally of the Federal armies, it is my deliberate
conviction that Lee has been defeated more from
the rear than from the front, and that nothing
but the possession of the very highest personal attri-
buties by its commander has averted from his army
the crushing blow which, according to all human
foresight, ought to have overtaken it some six
months sooner.

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of his visit to Richmond, and the President was
surrounded by a congregation, of which the
fairer portion was, as usual, arrayed with an
elegance which has long been an unfailing source of
wonder to those who reflect upon Richmond's four
years of blockade. Suddenly the sexton, approach-
ing President Davis, handed to him a paper, which
was slowly perused. Rising from his seat with
singular gravity and deliberation, Mr. Davis left the
church, and immediately afterwards several promi-
nent citizens were by the same sexton summoned to
follow him. It will be believed that the excitement
among those who remained was at its highest, but
it was remarked by sly observers that the excellent
clergyman, who has endeared himself to his con-
gregation by four years of brave and hearty sym-
pathy with their trials, did not omit to make
the usual collection—possibly with the -design of
impressing upon his congregation that nothing
unusual had happened, possibly to give credit
to a currency from which all felt that every
semblance of value was passing away. The congre-
gation was not slow to and quickly from
mouth to mouth flew the sad tidings that in a few
hours Richmond's long and gallant resistance would
be over. The scene that followed baffles description.
During the long afternoon and throughout the
feverish night, on horseback, in every description.
of cart, carriage, and vehicle, in every hurried train
that left the city, on canal barges, skiffs, and boats,
the exodus of officials and prominent citizens was
unintermitted. About Bin the evening President
Davis, accompanied by all the members of his
Cabinet, except General Breckenridge, started by
an express train for Danville, with a view to await
further tidings there, and thence to proceed and
form, if possible, the nucleus of a fresh Government
at Charlotte, in North Carolina. Up to the hour
of their departure from Richmond I can testify that
Mr. Davis and the three most prominent members
of his Cabinet went undauntedly forth to meet the
future, not without hope that General Lee would
be able to hold together a substantial remnant of
his army, and to effect a junction with General
Johnston. That hope, your readers are aware, has
been disappointed, nor shall I now attempt to gauge
the future history of those 10 or 11 vast provinces
which are still in heart as rebellious as ever, but of
which the organised resistance seems for the mo-
ment beaten down.

It will be believed that during that memorable
night there was no sleep in Richmond. In front of
every Government bureau, of every auditor's office,
around the Capitol, and upon each side of Capitol-
square, the glare of vast piles of burning papers
turned night into day. A S the night wore away
the tramp of Kershaw's division, and of Custis
Lee's local Militia was heard in the streets, and it
was felt that as the last men were now withdrawn
from the north side there was no longer any-
thing to interpose between Richmond and the
enemy. As the first streak of dawn heralded the
approach of day, several tremendous explosions
seemed to shake every building in Richmond to its
foundations. As I walked up between 5 and 6 in the
morning of Monday, the 3d, to catch the early train
upon the Fredericksburg Railroad, a vast column of
dense black smoke shot into the air, a huge, rum-
bling, earthquake-like reverberation rent the ground,
and the store of gunpowder garnered in the city
magazine passed out of existence. As the eye ranged
backwards along the James River, several bright jets
of flame in the region of Pearl and Cary streets au-
gured the breaking forth of that terrible conflagration
which subsequently swept across the heart of the city.
As the train moved off from the Fredericksburg depot
about 6 o'clock I parted with Mr. Conolly, the mem-
ber for Donegal, who had passed a month in Rich-
mond, and was upon this eventful morning still un-
decided whether to follow Gen. Lee's army or to
strike northwards like myself. About half-an-hour
after my departure Gen. Breckenridge, one of the
last passengers who traversed the already blazing
railroad bridge over the James River, started to re-
join his colleagues. About two hours after my eyes
rested for the last time upon the dingy old Capitol
under whose shadow I have passed so many hours,
the Stars and Stripes floated in triumph from its
rebellious roof. The scene which upon that Monday
morning greeted the incoming Federals will not soon,
I imagine, be obliterated from their memory. Upon
the edge of the roaring crackling flames, larcenous
negroes, crazy Irishwomen, in a word, all the
dangerous classes of Richmond (many of them
infuriated and made reckless by whisky, of which
hundreds of barrels had been emptied into the
streets), danced, and dived into cellars and into
the open and undefended doors of warehouses,
plying their search after plunder, with the
howls of demoniacs. Thousands of hogsheads of
tobacco, and among them, I believe, the ware-
houses which contained the French tobacco, which
has so long been a subject of diplomatic discussion
between Mr. Seward, Mr. Benjamin, and the Em-
peror's Government, added to the volume of the
flames. Never might Prospero's words, " Hell is
empty, and all the devils are here," have been more
appositely spoken. It was a scene unparalleled,
believe, even among the ghastly revelations of this
war.

N EWSPAPER

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through the old Atlantic telegraph c.!•1 442?
at which the cable has been shipped 6. e r
varied from 20 to 30 miles per day, : i's i s
calculated that, providing no delay takes place at
the works of Messrs. Glass, Elliot, and Co., of
Morden-wharf, Greenwich, where the cable is
manufactured at the rate of 100 miles per week, the
entire quantity will be shipped by the first week
in June, and the Great Eastern ready to take her
departure towards the latter end of the same month,
so as to fall in with the best possible weather to be
met with in the Atlantic. Although the construc-
tion of the tanks is complete, a numerous body of
mechanics and workmen are employed on board in
strengthening the ship by means of a system of
knees, butts, and deck beams, so as to support the
additional dead weight of the cable, and to over-
come the lateral pressure of the mass by confining
its dead weight to the centre of the ship, and thus
to lessen as much as possible the rolling propensity
of the Great Eastern when at sea with the three
tanks filled with the cable and water. The weight
of the new Atlantic cable is nearly double that of
the one originally laid, the weight of the entire
insulation of the cable submerged in 1858 being
2611 b. per nautical mile, while that of the new
cable is 4001 b. per nautical mile. The weight of
the new cable in air is 35 cwt. 3 qrs. per nautical
mile, and in water 14 cwt. per knot, or equal to
11 times its weight in water per knot ; or, in other
words, it will bear its own weight in 11 miles'
depth of water. The original Atlantic telegraph
cable weighed but 20 cwt. per mile in the air,
and rather more than 13 cwt. per nautical mile
in water, which would be equal to 4.85 times
ire weight in water per knot. In the cable
now in course of shipment the _ breaking
strength is 7 tons 15 cwt., while the breaking -
strength of the first laid cable was only 3f
tons, and the contract strain equal to 4.85 its
weight per knot in water. The contract strain of
the new cable is equal to 11 times its weight per
mile in water, or more than double the strength of
the cable first laid between this country and America.
The whole of the arrangements connected with the
shipment of the cable, and, indeed, with the equip-
ment and preparation of the Great Eastern, are
most ably carried out by Mr. Canning, the com-
pany's engineer, who has had the great advantage
of being similarly engaged on the occasion of the
first Atlantic cable being submerged. The Great
Eastern has commenced shipping her coals, about
2,000 tons of the 8,000 she will require having been
already received on board. The restrictions as to
the admission of visitors have recentlybeen removed,
and the public are now admitted to inspect the great
ship and witness the operation of shipping the
Atlantic cable on board.

Theatres and other Places of Dramatic
Entertainment BilL

The following explanatory observations on this
bill have been transmitted to us by a gentleman
who is thoroughly conversant with the subject
The main object of this bill is to give greater facilities for
the establishment of theatres and other places of dramatic
entertainment, subject always to the censorship of the Lord
Chamberlain with respect to the character of the plays and
other entertainments there presented (see clause 5).
The bill does not take away any existing authority for
licensing (see clause 4). It creates an additional authority.
The subject of theatrical and musical entertainments was
considered by a select committee of the House of Commons
in 1853 and 1854. The committee comprised Mr. Villiers,
Sir George Grey, Sir J. Pakington, Mr. Sothern, and Mr.
Lowe. The committee observe in their report (p. 26) that
" dramatic and musical entertainments have a tendency,
under strict censorship, to raise the character of the people;
and there is evidence of a growing taste for such entertain-
ments among the working classes, and which it appears to
your committee may be made to serve as a powerful coun-
ter attraction to the public-house."

The committee further report that on consideration of
the whole of the evidence, and the public and private inte-
rests concerned, they had agreed to certain resolutions,
among which are the following :
" That no public theatrical or musical performance, pic-
torial or other representation or exhibition, should bo per-
mitted without a licence.

" That it should be open to all persons to obtain such
licence from the Lord Chamberlain, or other competent
authority, on payment of a sum not exceeding .£5 per annum,
and on giving bond and sureties for the observance of the
law and conditions of the licence."

(Report on Public-houses, &0., July 18, 1854.)
The recommendation of the committee is, in effect, that
there should be what has been called free trade in theatres,
subject only to the payment of a small fee in each case, and
to the giving of security for proper management. There
would, according to the plan of the committee, be no dis-
cretion as to the grant of a licence. An applicant would be
entitled to one, as of course, on paying the fee and giving the
security.
The promoters of the present bill might, relying on the
authority of this influential committee, have proposed a sys-
tem such as the report suggests. But they have limited
themselves to seeking the creation of an additional licensing
authority; not taking away the discretion, but trusting to
its proper exercise.

The new licensing authority they propose is the justices
in quarter sessions.

If the function of licensing places of theatrical entertain-
ment throughout Great Rritain was assigned to the Lord
Chamberlain (which is suggested as one alternative by the
select committee), a staff and establishment entailing con-
siderable expense would most probably be requisite. Ob-
jections of other kinds might be suggested.
The bill takes the existing act, which empowers quarter
sessions to license music halls and dancing saloons, and
gives it a twofold extension. (1.) It extends the operation
of the act to Great Britain generally, the act being limited
in operation to London and Westminster and twenty miles
round. (2.) It extends the scope of the act, so as to em-
brace all places for the public performance of stage plays
not authorised under some other enactment or privilege.
It is proposed that every licence under the act of Geo. 11.
should, ipso facto, sanction the performance of any enter-
tainment being a stage play within the meaning of that
term as used in the bill. There seems no good reason why
a license for music or for dancing should not carry the right
to the performance of an opera or burletta (for instance), or
of a ballet. Refined distinctions as to what is and is not a
stage play will be got rid of.

This effect, however, will not be given unconditionally to
a licence granted for ahouse orplace which had been already
licensed before the passing of the proposed act. The music
or dancing licence of such a house or place will not carry a
dramatic licence unless the construction and arrangements
of the house or place aro such as would be required on the
grant of a licence for the first time after the proposed act
(see the latter part of clause 2).

Clause 2 prescribes the rules for the safety of the public
which experience has shown to be necessary, with an ex-
ception for places already licensed.
Clause 3 gets rid of the restriction imposed by section 3
of the Act of George 11., preventing music halls, &c., being
opened before five p.m. This restriction is condemned in
the report of the select committee already referred to (p.
24). The other regulation, as to the inscription, is pro-
posed to be also repealed as useletis.
Clause 7 has a twofold operation. (I.) It extends to all
places licensed undor the Act of George 11. (as applied to
the proposed Act) the provisions of the Acts of 1833 and
1842, for the protection of the authors of plays, &c. Those
provi
whichonsextenda termstpresent onlyto "places of dramatic
entertainment," would
not
comprise a
mere
music ball. (2.) It extends to the Writer of the words of
a song the protection which the composer of the air has
under those acts.

Clause B—The enactment here referred to (among other
things) empowers the Excise authorities to grant a retail
licence to any person to sell beer, spirits, and wine in any
theatre or other place of public entertainment licensed by
justices, without the production of any certificate or autho-
rity for him to keep a common inn, alehouse, &c. It isun-
derstood that this enactment is (inpursuance of an opinion)
of the Attorney general of some years ago) regarded as
mandatory to the Excise authorities, so that, in practice,
any person having a theatre licensed by justices obtains
from the Excise authorities, on demand, a licence to sell
beer, &c., therein.
It is not thought expedient that this right should be con-
ferred on the licensees of quarter sessions under the
proposed Act. It is considered better that they should
bo entirely under the control of the justices with respect
to licences for sale of beer, &c. Clause 8 therefore
negatives the application in the case of the enactment
referred to.

NEW SCHEME OF LAW REPORTING.—WC learn,
on reliable authority, that the proposition that Sergoant's-
inn should send a member to the new council of reporting,
has been rejected by that body, all the judges present hav-
ing expressed themselves as opposed to the scheme.—
Solicitors' Journal.

FOUND DROWNED.—Yesterday Mr. H. J. Payne,
the coroner, held an inquest upon the body of a,
young woman picked up off Horselydown. The Waterman
who found the body said it was that of a woman of about
21, and had been in the water above two months. The
beadle, George Mummery, said the woman had been dressed
in a black silk dress, black shawl, and striped stockings,
but nearly nil her apparel had been rotted off by the action
of the water, and the body was quite decomposed. A verdict
of " Fouad drowned" was A once returned.

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