The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-17 00:00:00

" SHERWOOD ECONOMIO BED LIGHTS,"
in packets of 36 candles for one shilling, intended for use
where cheapness 14 a great object, will be found an improve-
ment on the ordinary candles, as they gutter less.
Special candle ticks to fit thin candles, 18. and 2s. 6d. each •
reducing sockets, making them fit any candlesticks, 2d. each
TOILET SOAPS.
Sherwood Brown Windsor Soap, with a pleasant scent.
Belmont Glycerine Soap, contains Yrice's Glycerine.
Camphor and Glycerine Soap, fo tender skins in winter.

GLYCERINE. SHERWOODOLR
• Price's Glycerine" may be Cleans gloves and removes
had from any Chemist, in grease and other stains.
capsuled bottles, lettered Perfumed, in capsuled bot-
" Prica's Patent," from 6d. ties, 6d. and is. each.
upwards. Impure Glycerine
has been sold ,axt the state-
ment that it is "equal to
Prices."

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Wholesale by Prtoe a Patent
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This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and Lgacies.
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a con iderable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer. Edward Mas-
ten/lan, 14:sq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ;
Drummond and Co. ; Giyn and Co. • Herries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co'. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; W.Hiams, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; L Barned and
CO., Liverpool; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.
6TANFORD SMITH, beorotary,

Considerable interest has been excited during the
last two days by the announcement in the Washing-
ton journals, and thence copied by those of New
York, that Mr. Blair, sen., the guide, counsellor,
and friend of Mr. Lincoln, and his son, Mr. Mont-
gomery Blair, late Postmaster-General, and a mem-
ber of the Cabinet, had gone to the army of Gen.
Grant with instructions from the President to pro-
ceed to Richmond under flag of truce. It was as-
Belted that these gentlemen were the bearers of a
proposition to the Southern President, and that the
proposition they conveyed was a return to the Union
and the old Constitution, coupled with amnesty,
forgiveness, oblivion, or whatever else it might suit
the pride of the South to call, for all the events of
the last four years ; a junction of the two great
armies of the North and the South, under Lee as the
generalissimo, a defiant proclamation of the Monroe
doctrine, and then a triumphal march upon Mexico
for the expulsion of the French and the Emperor
Maximilian. The wildness of this idea was no ha-
pediment to its popular acceptance, though if Wall-
street had believed that the South would listen to
such, terms, which it assuredly did not, gold would
have risen to a much higher premium than it has
yet attained, to mark the sense entertained by men
of business of such a reckless change of a civil to a
foreign war of inappreciable magnitude. Whatever
may have been the object of the Messrs. Blair in
proceeding to the Army of the Potomac, whether it
were merely to gratify their own curiosity, or to
make some sort of a proposition to the authorities
of Richmond, to which Mr. Lincoln was privy,
they did not pass the Federal lines, but, after
remaining two days at General Grant's head-
quarters, returned to Washington. So far there
seems to be an end of all the speculation founded
upon their journey. They were not, however, the
only distinguished visitors that have made their
way to the Federal army, supposed to be charged
with a message to Richmond. High as Mr. Blair,
sen., may stand in the confidence of Mr. Lincoln,
there is another person, who, if common rumour be
not an arrant impostor, stands higher than he, and
who exercises on the President's mind au influence
akin to that exercised over
.Louis XI. by Olivier le
Dain, the barber. The gentleman in question is a
Dr. Zacharie, appointed some time ago by Mr.
Lincoln " Chiropedist in general to the armies of
the Union," and who in this capacity acquired
a considerable fortune in a very short space
of time. Dr. Zacharie was despatched to Richmond
a year ago or more, and crossed the line under a flag
of truce. What was his mission no one knew at the
time, though no one suspected that he had gone into
the enemy's camp merely to perform upon the
feet of the Southern President, his secretaries, and
his generals the same professional service he had
rendered to Mr. Lincoln and the halting heroes of
the army of the Potomac. Immediately after the
occupation of Savannah by Sherman Dr. Zacharie
was, it is asserted—thoughthefact has not yet found
its way to the newspapers—despatched by Mr. Lin-
coln on a second embassy to Richmond. What his
mission may mean it is idle to conjecture ; but the
fact that Mr. Lincoln should make choice of such a
negotiator, either for a great object or a small one
is certainly singular, and as such deserves passing
mention in the history of the time. Dr. Zacharie is
reported to be a person of varied attainments, of
refined manners, and of a persuasive address, with
materials enough at the tip of his tongue to add a
few supplementary sheets to the next addition of
" Joe Miller's Jests" that any enterprising book-
seller in the Old World or the New may think it
profitable to publish. It is, perhaps, the last of these
accomplishments that has recommended him to the
congenial President.
Although the blockade by sea of the Southern
cities is well maintained everywhere except at Wil-
mington, the commercial intercourse of North and
South by land is freer than might be ,supposed. Se-
veral regulations of the Treasury Department
granting permission under certain circumstances to
Northern traders to purchase cotton, sugar, and
other commodities in the " rebellious" States have
been issued from time to time under Mr. Chase
and his successor. On the 22d of December Mr.
Fessenden published an amended regulation, No.
55, setting forth the future practice to be observed,
which was approved and signed by Mr. Lin-
coln on the same day. From this document
it appears that all " permits" previously
granted to Federal citizens to trade with the South
are to be held valid on one main and three subsidi-
ary conditions. The main condition is that such
permits have not been violated or abused. The sub-
sidiary conditions are that goods purchased under
such permits shall be removable from the South to
the North without liability to seizure or confisca-
tion on the part of the Federal authorities ; first, if
they have been wholly paid for prior to the 4th of
July, 1864 ; and second, if they have been partly
paid for and a legal obligation duly entered into to
pay the balance on remainder. If, however, only
a portion of such goods has been paid for, and the
purchaser bar entered into no legal obligation by

BREAKFAST BEVERAGE.—Homceopathie practitioners,
and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa
as being the most healthful of all beverages. When the doc-
trine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this country,
there were to be obt .fined no preparations of cocoa either at-
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut
was either supplied to the crude state, or so unskilfully
manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
Homoeopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1834 to turn
his attention to this subject, and at length succeeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first
to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined
by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli-
cious aroma. Dr. Hassall, in his work, "Food and its
Adulteratiols," says -"Cocoa contains a great variety of im-
portant nutritive principles—every ingredient necessary to
the growth and sustenance of the body." Again: "As a
nutritive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee
or tea." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a
breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured
in tin-lined ilb., fib:, and 11b. labelled packets, and bold by
all grocers, confectioners, and chemiste.---EADTT.]