The Sun.
London, England, 1865-03-31 00:00:00

DIRECTORS.

J. R. Thomson, Esq. (Messrs. J. R. Thomson and Co.,
London, Cape Town, and Algoa Bay), Chairman of the
London and South African Bank.
John Hay, Esq., Shipowner, Sunderland and London.
H. Maynard, Esq. (Messrs. Maynard Brothers, London and

Port- Elizabeth).
Henry Ellis, Esq. (Messrs. Henry Ellis and Sons), 17,

Gracechurch-street.
Joseph Levick, Esq. (Messrs. Levicks and Sherman, Lon-

don and Cape TOwsn).
Arthur Pardew, Esq., Shipowner, Plymouth and London.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
London and South African Bank for the Colonies.

SOLICITORS.

Messrs. Ellis, Parker, and Clarke, St. Michael's-alley,
Cornhill.

BROKERS—Nessus. P. Cazenovo and Co., 52, Thread-
needle-street.
AuntTon—George Thomson, Esq. (Auditor, Batik of
London).

SHIP BROKERS.
Messrs. Henry Ellis and Sons, 17, Gracechurch-street.
Offices-17, Gracechurch-street.
This Company has been formed for the purpose of sup-
plying a want long existing among merchants in London,
trading with the Cape of Good Hope, for direct and regular
steam communication from London.
In order to show the profitable character of the busi-
ness to be transacted by such a line of steamers, it is
only necessary to point to the extraordinary results ob-
tained by the Union Company for tfieir line from South-
ampton to the Cape.
It is intended for these steamers to call either at Fal-
mouth or Plymouth for the embarkation and delivery of
mails and passengers.
There is a very largp and remunerative passenger
traffic. The exports and imports of the colony" are yearly
increasing, and the preference shown for steam carriage
over the sailing lines is becoming greater, as merchants
recognise that the saving in time, interest of money, and
insurance more than repay the additional freight obtained
by steamships.
A fleet of steamers has already been secured under
favourable circumstances, and at a moderate price. They
are new, of full power, and of high class, and it is confi-
dently expected that with them the Company will be able
to complete the passage from London to Cape Town in
about 30 days.
The steamers will be transferred to the Company at cost

Two-thirds of the capital have alreadye byeen subscribed
and the share-list will consequently remain open for a
short period only..
Applications for shares to be •made. according to•the
icAnnexed form to the Bankors, XesSrs. 'Glyn, Mills, Carrie,
7. and to. ; or to the Brokers, Messrs. P. Cazenove and Co.

•
TIE LONDON AND SOUTH AFRICAN STEA.SI-SHIP
COAIPANY.(Limited).
To the Director,.
Gentlemen, - •rtid to your Bankeis the sum of
£ I request .that you will allot me shares of
£27 each in the above-named Company, and.l authorise you
to insert n y name on the Register of nembers for the same,
or -any less, number of share so allotted ; and I agree to
accept such shares, or any less number, to I ay.the £4 further
on allotment, and to sign the Articles of Alllsoetatioll if, and
when, roquired to do so.
Koine in full
Address
Description
Usual signature

The CR I DIT FONCIER and MOBILIER of ENGLAND
(Limited , in conjunct ion wilh the IMPE 'UAL 'MERCAN-
TIL E CREDIT ASS'OCIATIO .74 ( Lintited), are prepared
to It QEIVE SIT RSCRIV noNs for the CAPITAL. of
• THE MILLWALL FREEHOLD LAND and,
' - - - - *DOCKS COMPANY. -
ilia.; porated by special Act of Parliament 27 and 2; Vie., cap.
245, 15th July,--1864, under the tide of the Millwall Canal
Company.
The liabilitj.of the shireholders is limited to the amount of
their shares. •
Interest during construction is guaranteed at 7 percent. per
annum upon th, ful y pail-up shares, and at 6 per cent. up 'a
those p.id by instalments. Interest payable half-yearly, on
31st March and 3'th September in each year.
Capital, £310,000, in 25,r0 / shares of £2O each, with the usual
- • - - - Debenture Powers.
Deposit, .£i per shareon application, and £4 on allotment.
Calls 12,t to.exceed £1 108. per Share, and not to be made at
- ' intervtis of sles• ,th an • t hree months.
• , -. . DIRECTORS.
Sir JAMES-DA.LIIYMPI. ..,. ELI' IIINSTONE, Bait, M:P.,
ChArrnan. •
WigiUrn-Let, Esq., M.P., Director of the. London annConnty
Bank, Deputy-Chairman.
Jdnies' -Childs- gig,- Directof •of the Credit Fonder and
Mobilier of Eng Lind (Limitedz.
NarthanieL J. Fenner, Esq. (Messrs. N. J. and U. Fenner),
Millwall. ' - • - 4 1 .
W lnney, Esq., C.E.,Bankside, Southwark, and Field-place,
HorShani, Sus-ex. - . A-,...
James Levick, Esq , Peputy-Governor of the Credit Fonder
and Mobil‘er of ki,'ngiand f(firuited).
J. `Mackri CI Smith, Esq., Director-of the Credit Fonder and
Mobillbr ot-14;oglAnd (Limite.l). • •-- - -•- ' • • •
F. G. Westmorland, Esq., Dire tor of the Imperial Mercan-
tile Credit Association.(l.lmte4)._ • . •
4 ", i--. ." BAN PIE ItS:'- ' • '
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, Currie and Cp.- 67, Lombard-e., E.C.
ENGINEERS.
John Fowler, Esq., C. 4, Queen-sqnare-place,,Westminater,-
EnTineer-io-Cbiet_N i, • . , . . .
W. Wilson, Esq, C.E., Queen-square, Westminster.
. SOLICITORS..
Messrs. jlargrove, Fowler; and Blunt, 3, Victoria-street, •
• Westminster.
..
. , • % BROKERS. s
Ressrs.,Laurenee, Son, and Peirce, 7, Angel-court, Throg-
Morton:street.-
• SECRETARY.
11. T. R,,binson, Esq.
_ Temporary Offic( s—Nos. 17 and 18, Con:thin:EA

This Company is incorporated for the purpose of supply-
ing, under circumstances peculiarly advantageous to the
Shareholders, the great demand for wharves, sites for manu-
factories, ship-building yards, and graving docks within
the port of London, which the natural increase of trade,
combined with the removal of existing water frontage by
the formation of the Thames Embankment, and other me-
tropolitan improvements, has created.
The Company is incorporated by a special Act of Parlia-
ment passed last session, by which is obtained power to
acquire a large tract of land at Millwall, consisting of up-
wards of 198 acres of freehold land adjoining the East and
West India Docks. This land will be rendered available
for the purposes above-mentioned, by the construction
within its area of large docks or basins, with access for the
largest vessels both from Blackwall and Limehouse
Reaches ; so that the deep water frontage thus created by
the works will become immediately valuable in the highest
degree for wharves, granaries, manufactories, ship-building
yards, and similar purposes ; and, from the water being
always kept at high level, the saving of time and cost in
all operations of lighterage, loading and unloading, which
may be effected without respect to tides, will render this
site far more valuable than land abutting on the Thames
itself.

The proposed works will also include the construction
of public Graving Docks of the largest dimensions, capable
of receiving vessels of even greater size than H.M. iron-
clad ship Warrior, and of accommodating H.M. frigate
Northumberland, now building on the premises of the
Millwall Ironworks, immediately adjoining this Company's
property. It is a remarkable fact that for the immense
mercantile fleet of the Port of London there is but one
public graving dock on the Thames of sufficient capacity
to take in a vessel of even ordinary dimensions. All the
other graving docks are in the hands of private builders,
Who require to execute the works and repairs themselves ;
and it is therefore not unusual for ships to be sent from the
Thames to Southampton, and even to Liverpool, to be
docked for repairs.
From the circumstance of the area proposed to be occu-
pied lying on an average about ten feet below high-water
mark, the works will be executed with unusual facility,
the material excavated being used to raise the adjoining
land to a convenient level above high-water.
The main roads which traverse the site of the proposed
works afford good access to them ; and application is being
Made to Parliament in the present session by the Black-
Wall Railway Company for an extension of the Blackwall
and North London Railway systems, by which direct
railway communication will be afforded for the whole of
the Company's works, wharves, and docks with the entire
railway system of England.
As a Land Company, the present undertaking has enor-
mous advantages from the unusual ample powers granted
by its special Act of Parliament, by means of which it will
become possessed, after appropriating about 56 acres for
the Docks and Graving Docks, of upwards of 140 acres,
with a water frontage of more than 10,000 feet, and from
400 to 800 feet in depth--the whole of which, on comple-
tion of the Docks, will become immediately available for
letting, on building leases at freehold ground-rents. Be
sides this source of revenue, estimated to produce upwards
of £50,000 per annum, the Company will also derive a
further large income of about £40,000 per annum, the rents
of the Graving Docks, and from dues and charges from the
docks, basins, wharves, &c., making a total estimated re-
venue of £90,000 per annum.
In calculating the estimate of dividends very much will
depend upon the mode found most practicable in dealing
with the income of the Company ; if the ground-rents
should be capitalised and sold as they accrue, and taking
them at thirty years' purchase, it is estimated that
Within a period of five years the capital, including the ad-
ditional amount intended to be applied for to complete the
works, will have been repaid, with a bonus of upwards of
75 per cent., and the revenue of the docks and royalties and
dues still be available for dividend to the Shareholders ;
should, however, the whole rentals and revenues be main-
tained in hand, a dividend (after providing for expenses,
interest on debentures, &c.) may fairly be looked for at the
rate of 10 per cent. per annum, and, when it is considered
that the greater part of this is from freehold ground-rents,
the valuable description of the property this Company pos-
sesses will be at once apparent.
The Directors have much pleasure in being able to an-
nounce that the whole of the works will be undertaken by
Messrs. Kelk and Aird, the eminent Contractors, and that
a contract for the first portion to be executed has been
entered into with them, and arrangements made for the
Payment by them of interest during construction of the
works at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum on the Share
Capital paid up by instalments, and of 7 per cent. per an-
num on all Shares applied for and allotted as fully paid-up
Shares. The interest will be payable at Messrs. Glyn and
Co.'s Bank, half-yearly, on 31st March and 30th Septem-
ber in each year. The first payment will be made 30th
September, 1865.
It is believed that so sound a scheme, and one which so
Specially addresses itself to the investor, is seldom brought
before the public. The basis of the enterprise being free-
hold land and ground-rents removes from it all character
of speculation, so often the leading feature in public com-
panies ; and as a British and home security it will doubt-
less be appreciated by those who, while expecting good
Profits upon their investments, yet look for solid security.
An accompanying plan shows the whole of the works as
Proposed when complete.
Copies of the Act of Parliament and plans may be seen
at the Offices of the Solicitors. Applications for Shares in
be made to the Secretary, at
the accompanying form may
the Offices of the Company. or to the Credit Foncier and
Mobilier of England (Limited), 17 and 18, Cornhill ; also
to the Imperial Mercantile Credit Association (Limited),
95, Bishopsgate-street Within • to the Bankers and Brokers;
but no application will be entertained unless the deposit
of £1 per Share on the number applied for has been duly
Paid to the Company's Bankers. In the event of no allot-
ment being made to the applicant, the deposit will be
Promptly returned in full.
28th March, 1865.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR £5 PAID SHARES.
Bearing 6 per cent. interest during construction.
(To be retained by the Bankers).
No.
To the Directors of the 111,441 Freehold Lod And Doke

No. 22,708.

Company (Incorporated by Special Act of Parliament,
27 and 28 Vict., cap. 255, 25th July, 1864, under the title
of the Millwall Canal Company).
Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers, Messrs.
Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., the sum of £ , being
a deposit of £1 per Share on • Shares in the above
Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that
number, and I agree to accept such Shares, or any less num-
ber you may allot to me, and I agree to pay the sum of £4
per Share on allotment, and I authorise you to insert my
name on the Register of Members for the number of Shares
allotted to me.

be made available towards the payment duo on allotment,
and the balance, if any, returned to the applicant.
Prospectuses and Forms of Applications for Shares may
be made to the Solicitors, the Bankers, Brokers, and to the
Manager, at the Offices of the Company, No. 60, King
William-street (opposite Eastcheap), London.

REMEMBER, YOU WILL SEE YOUR
FRIENDS at " EVANS'. " After the Opera w,:
shall Sup there!

I:ichard Penney, New Burlington-street.

THE PEOPLE'S PICKWICK.

Usual Signature
Name in full
Residence
Profession
Date , 1865.
Or if fully. paid-up Shares are required, on the following
form :

KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY v. COGNAC
BRANDY.
This celebrated Old IRISH WHISKY rivals the finest.
FRENCH BRANDY,
It ii Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome.
Sold in Bottles, 3s. Sd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by.
the Agents in the principal towns in England ; or wholesale

193, Piccadilly.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR FULLY PAID-UP

SHARES.
Bearing 7 per cent. interest during construction.
(To be retained by the Bankers).
No.
To the Directors of the Millwall Freehold Land and Docks
Company (Incorporated by Special_Act of Parliament,
27 and 28 Vict., cap. 255,•25th July, 1864, under the title

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

ORYSTAL PALACE.-TO-MORROW.-
k) SATURDAY CONCERT and AFTERNOON PRO-
MENADE.
Vocalists—Wile. LEIBHART and Mons. LAVESSIERE
(from the Theatre Lyrique). Solo Pianoforte—Madame
'ARABELLA GODDARD.

of the Millwall Canal Company).
Gentlemen,—Having paid to your Bankers, Messrs.
Glyn, Mills, Currie, and Co., the sum of £ , being
a deposit of £1 per Share on Shares in the above
Company, I hereby request that you will allot me that
number of fully paid-up Shares, and I agree to accept such
Shares, or any less- number you . may allot to me, and I
agree to pay the sum of £l9 per Share on Allotment, and
I authorise you to insert my name on the Register of
Members for the number of Shares allotted to me.

Programme includes Overture, Scherz ; and Finale, Schu-
mann ; Concerto Pianoforte iu E flat, Beethoven; Overture,
"Midsummer Night's Dream," Mendelssohn.

Admission—Half--a-Crown ' • or by Guinea Season Tickets,
free. Rese ved Seats, Hatt a Crown.

MR. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr.
JOHN PARRY, will appear in their new entertain-
ment, entitled A PECULIAR FAMILY, by Mr. William
Brough. New scenery by T. and H. Grieve. Every Evening,
except Saturday, at 8. Saturday af(ernoon, at 3. ROYAL
GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regent-street.

Usual Signature
same in full

Residence
Profession
Date

1865.

COMPANY
• (Limited).
FOR LIFE,' FIRE, AND GUARANTEE.
Incorporated under theCompanies,Act, 1862, which limits
the
,liability of each` Shareholder to the amount of his
Shares: • - • '
Capital-One Million, in sD,:oooSlis' ,res of £2O each.
First Issue .25,000 Shares,-.with pos,wv to create 10,000
, SpeCial Fdreign Sluifes..of SOO, francs each.
Deposit-Xl-per Share on-Application, and £1 to be paid
on Allotment, beyond • which no-further Call is contem-
plated.
• DirlECTons: : I •
The:Right Hon. Lord •Xisconnt: Malden, 39, Lowndes-
street, 13elgrave-square, andiondwiter House, Rickmans-
worth, Herts. "
William Watson, Esq., bitistel ttitd Weston-super-Mare,
Director of Bristol and Fgetfr Railway.
Thomas Pain, Esq., Triford,.Wills,-and Windham Club,
Director St. James's-square, . of tai& Salisbury and Yeovil
r
Lieiit.-Colonel H.. E~Austen,,J.P'7 Huritspill
•
Somerset:-
The'Rev. James GaOuiTy Fussell, .16, Cadogan-place,
Belgrayessquare, an& tho,Chantry, Fyrome.
Francis Jayes, Esq., •28, Parliameflt-street, and Castle
Hill, Eablig. ' •
Arthur Palliser, Eact, Fulham. •
William Watson Prole,. ESq., 1, Kensington Park-
gardens East. -
Hugh: Wird Saunders; Esq., J.P., Chobham House,
Bagshot.-
James Syddall, Esq,, gannracturer, Manchester.':'
With piiiver-t6 ad to their, number.
Influential gentle Men •ayo forming- Local Boards in
„
Liverpool, Manchester, and other important towns.
COUNCIL OF -A-DMINISTRATIOIc- FOR FRANCE.
PIiESIDEXTL-M.' fe Due do MELFORT, Paris: •
M. le Prince Adam Tisznierskl, Ruo,yastiglione, Paris.
M. lo ,MarqUis do tethisy, AncienTair de France, Rue
'de l'Univefitd, Faubourggt; Germain. • - • •
M. le Cointe ile Bonkars; Ancien Capitaine d'Etat-Major,
proprietaire Rio St: Dominique, Fanhourg St. Germain.-
M. le_ Comte do Mentblp.nt, Rue de .Tiiroli; Paris. -
M. •Eitgena Decainpa,,'Ancien Avocat Cour de Cas-
sation, et au Consiel d'Etat, -RueLaßouphefoucauld, Paris.
' M. Horrerre, Maire do -Paris, 2d Ariondisement, Admi-
nistrateur do la Fitineo Maritime, Rini Richelieu, Paris.
,B*NN4ns .IN PAWS.
Messrs., Charles Laffitte and Co., 48: bis Rue Basse du
-• • Rempart.'
: „ . • COXSEIL JUDrCAIRE.-
34, Lion Jaybert;,,Doctour,en Droit, *avocat hla Cour
d'O , Rue Iri-ionne.
• , •
„ - --liftsahlcim,4r? PARIS.
Mons. L.-Mi'de Bikouse, 2, -Rue Chabanais.
COU.N,VIL•QF;A:DM.INISTRATION POR ITALY.
PRESIDE.NTIC le Ice CHATMES 'PONIAT OWSKE
Grand &c.; Florence. •
Male Comte• Paul Tolomei, Prefect of the Palace of his.
Majeety the King of Italy..
: M. la-Marquis Lotteringo Della StufOnspector-Geneial
of the• Household of his Mtviesty the Kings of Italy.
M. Sebastian Fenzi (Messrs. E. Fenzi and Co.), BankerS,
Floreree. " ' •
M. le Baron French (Messrs., French an'a'Co.), Bankers,'
Flprpnce.
BANKERS.
Messrs. E. Fenzi and Co., Florence.
Gentlemen of high position are forming Councils of Ad-
ministration in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and Sweden.
COUNCIL OF ADMINISTRATION FOR THE

Unreserved seats, ls., 28. ; stalls, Zs. ; stall chairs, ss. May
he..secnred at the Gallery without fee, -
uPERA DI CAMERA, every Tuesday and Thursday
Morning, and Saturday at 8.

r H E 0 X FORD,
6, OXFORD STREET, W.
The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).

_ . .
ORPHEE. AUX ENFERS, FAUST, and NORMA will
be performed during this week. Principal artrstes : —Mons.
Lavessiere, Signor Spagnoli, Mr. Green, and Misses Ellison
and Barrie, with full Band and Chorus, conducted by Mr. F.
Jonglunans.

Comedy, by Mr. George Hodson (the celebrated Comedian
and Mimic\ W. Randall, Little Bob, Miss Kate Balle, Les
Frees Tailiott, and the Grotesque, D'Aubans.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonglimans.
Every Evening at Half-past Seven. Admission—a:ea, 6d.;
stalls and balcony, is.; private boxes, 10s. 6d.

CIANTERBURY HALL.
‘..1 The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited).
HODGE PODGE,
(According to Act of Parliament). '
CANTERBURY ALL.—EVERY EVENING
at half-past Nine o'clock

ROYAL CAMBRIDGE MUSIC HALL,
Commercial-street, Shoreditch.
(Close to the Great Eastern TerminusN
Sole Proprietor, Mr. G. W. NUGENT.
Operatic Selection, SONNAMBULA. Prima Donna, Miss
ELLIzON.
Comic --NELLY POWER, HARRIETT COVENEY. J.
G. PORDE. WEST, FRED. FRENCH, 311dlle. CE RITO"
SYLVEs R. .The BROTHERS'. A I.TOFF, from the
Theatre Desarts, Louen, and the ELLISTRAIS, from the
Crystal Palace.
Stalls, ls. ; balcony, 6d. ; area, 4d. Open every evening at
Seven o'clock.
Manager and Conductor, Mr. C. GREVILLE.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
established 29 years at the Bazaar, Baker-street.

NEW ADDITIONS.—A Full-length PORTRAIT MODEL
of MULLER, taken from life, and corrected from the Cast
taken by Doctor Donovan; also a full-length MODEL, of
KOHL, taken at his trial -are now added to the Chamber of.
Physiognomy.
Open, it till dusk, and 7 till 10 evening.
Admittance, One Shilling ; extra rooms, Sixpence. - ' -

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.
GRAND CASINO. CONCERT. First time in England,
Gungl's new German Toy Waltz. Prince Imperial Quadrille,
Huguenots, Robert le Diable, William Tell, and a variety of
Dance Music.
Conductor, M. LUIGI CURTL
Admission, One Shilling.
3lanager, M. GRENET.

CITY SH O W-R OO M
FOR
GLASS AND CHINA,
147, HOUNDSDITCH.

T DEFRIES and. SONS' TABLE GLASS,
• Cat and Engraved. okthe choicest detignsk
DEFRIES and SON-
S' DINNER, DESSERT,
P. 17 • and Tea Ware, of the newest patterns.
DEFRIES and SON-
S' LUSTRES, TAZZAS,
tY • and Flower Vnees for the present season.
DEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS,
tl • r the Dining-room, in Bronze, Ormolu, and Silver.
T DEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS'
el • in Crystal, for the Drawing-room, for Gas or Candles.
' -
T DEFRIES and SONS' CHANDELIERS,
.3 • in Crystal, in the Venetian and Grecian designs, for
India.

T DEFRIES and SONS' SPECIAL DESIGNS
tl • in Lamps for India.
JJDEFRIES and SONS' WALL LIGHT
• Chandeliers, in Crystal, for India (Registered).
JDEFRIES and SONS promptly execute CLUB
• Mess, and General Furnishing Orders oi.China, Glass,

JJDEFRIES and SONS supply MERCHANTS
• with Pattern Books and Special Designs.

DEFRIES and SONS have just added Five
eJ • New Snow-Rooms to their extensive Manufactory.
They have now on show the largest assortment in the world
of the above goods or their own manufacture. Pt
MANUFACTORY AND SHOW-ROOMS,
147. Houudsditch.

HAIR-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 51 stamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine,
is. 6d., oc 20 stamps.

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

!VTR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn,
London.—AL EX. 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
for 51 !tamps.

SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in
ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which tpeedily
produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free for 54
stamps.—ALES. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London. Essay
)n Hair, Id.

DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the skin
are improved by one dose of. ALEX. ROSS'S VEGE-
TABLE SKIN PILL. They remove redness, sallowness
&c. 2s. 9d.; by post for 40 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High
Holborn, London.

ALEX. ROSS' FACE POWDER, Is. ; sent for
14 stamps; Eye Colour, 3s. Bd., or 54 stamps. Skin
tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or cu stamps.
Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps.—ALEX. Ross. 218,
High Holborn, London.

CONSULT Mr. A. ESKELL'S popular and
reliable TREATISE on the TEETH 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 booksel er, from Simpkin, Marshall,
and Co., Stationers'-hall-court. Price, 7d.; in cloth, 13d.

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IDor her a RACHEL, world-renowned
lirh preservingVeenhancing youth, beauty, grace, and loveliness, and whose
Royal Arabian, Circassian, Baths, Spica s, and Perfumes ren-
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the hair, teeth, and complexion beautiful beyond com-
parison, giving the appearance of youth and beauty to per sons
however tar advanced in years, have caused her name to stand
a marvel of the age, of which delicate and costly arts she
stands the sole possessor.-47A, New Bond-street.

TEETH.—Mr. ESKELL'S exclusive PATENT.
The right to this patent was secured to Mr. Eskell, of
8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street, by a Royal seal (July 17,
860), a• d can only be procurel at his residence, where speci-
mens may be seen. and every information can be obtained.
Under this patent, artificial teeth, to last a lifetime, are
made, and fitted in a few hours without pain or extractions.
They support loose teeth and protect tender gums ; their re-
semblance to nature J 4 perfect and undetectable, and they are
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RICHMOMD, March 4.

Without a moment's lull the war, for the first
time in its history, has raged. furiously through the
winter, and, undeterred by such floods of rain as
never heralded early spring, Sherman strives to push
northward through the swamps and pine-barrens of
the Carolinas, while Sheridan drives southward at
the heart which Virginia has so long stood at bay to
cover, while Grant peers anxiously for a weak spot
in the armour with which Lee has girdled Richmond,
and which, undaunted as ever, he_ still defends.
Were my time passed exclusively in camp, where
the pleasantest hours I have known in Secessia have
been spent, and where I tae counsel only from the
language of soldiers, I should say that the campaign
of 1865 opens more hopefully for the confederates
than the • campaign 0f1864. On the other hand,
were my whole time passed in Richmond and my
visits to the Confederate Congress of daily occur-
rence; I should say that the rebellion begins toucher
ala fin, that Southern resistance is on the eve of
being stamped'out; and President Davis soon likely
to be in a condition to join Candide's assemblage of
di r caned 1t41)6. The truth, probably, lies be=
to den these two extremes of opinion; but I incline
•
toad e belief that it is more faithfUlly represented by
the
linorc6l, Sr abitedfaith and valour of the soldiers
.than oy, tire' contemptible irresolution' of timorous
spe'culat'ors- or the bewildered depression of vacilla
!ting Congressmen. It' is difficult to 'speak - with
patience On the subject of letrfslative -bodies called
to deliberate in the supreMe agony of
,a nation,
-which it is not too harsh' io.s-Ay :that, in, times like
these, they are utterly unworthy to represent.
'Aould,that could pass by: this subject in silence,
br delineate by such a raw of asterisks, as- constitute
•
Certain chapters of " Tristram Shan4"'thO- recent
deliberations, of the Confederate Congrees.' • To me
it seenis that the conduct, language, and 'gearing of
t4eiHouse,of Congress, both at - Richmond and
Washington, throughouerAis terrible American
crisis' have been such as tobring republican institu-
tions into derison and discredit all over the globe.
For 100 days in the Capitol nader the ghadow of
which am writing the' fiothy'war of words has
furiously raged, but up to the present honr not a
single measure to augment the strength-of General
Lee's army,: or fill by taxation Mr. Trenholm's
coffers, has passed into legal 'existence. For nearly
three months Gen: Lee's dOinands fOr the enlistment
of negroes was met with Congressional asservations
that the -time for such a met is not come, until
suddenly, within the last few days, a cry has been
heard of " Too late !" Oscillating between the
cries of " Not yet" and " Too late," more inter-eked
in prosecuting petty malignities at h9me than in
broadly breasting a common foe abroad, thinking
solely whether some remote country district of
North Carolina or Georgia will continua to its re-
presentative some pitiful $3,000 or 0,000 per -an-
-num for yet another two years, the politicians 'of
the South, emulating the example of their brethren
in the North have br6unlit the very name of
their craft and calling into ridicule and execra-
tion. The times are ripe for the assumption by
General Lee of a military dictatorship, and never
did there figure in history an eminent sol-
dier to whom a people's liberties might
more safely be committed, but who had less of the
temper of a Cromwell or a Napoleon, than Robert
E. Lee. We are promised that the Negro Enlist-
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holm will next week be passed ; but it is sickening
to think of the weary weeks which have been wasted
in a vacillation which has given heart to the Fede-
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the soldiers who take their tone from Longstreet or
Lee. Lately I have heard in this town language
which it must have been difficult to utter in the pre-
sence-of the widows of Stuart, Stonewall Jackson,
and thousands of others who gave their lives that
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nomination, and, almost without exception, the
women of Virginia have given no uncertain sound,
but have stimulated by the most powerful of human
levers, love and faith, the courage and endurance of
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It is idle to pretend that any danger is so me-
nacing to the Confederates as the army of Sher-
man. For more than nine months Grant, blocked
by the lines around Petersburg and Richmond, has
made no material step in advance, until it has be-
come a received opinion that Richmond's triple
line of fortifications, if manned by even a third of
the number ever likely to assail it, is practically
impregnable. It is known, too, that Grant has
latterly been making bitter complaints about the
material which has been added to his ranks. But
the army of Sherman, composed of the finest
stuff which the Federals have ever put in the field,
flushed by a career of success unbroken since it
first advanced, ten months ago, from Dalton, in-
toxicated by the plaudits of its countrymen, for-
midable in numbers, and still more so in morale,
streams resistlessly upwards from the South, and it
is felt that if ever an American battle promised to
be decisive it will be the battle seemingly destined
to take place in the neighbourhood of Raleigh
between Johnston and Sherman. Your readers
will have followed Sherman's course since he cap-
tured Columbia and flanked his enemy out of
Charleston and Wilmington. In the first instance
it seemed to be Sherman's design to advance along
the railroad which connects Columbia with Charlotte
in North Carolina ; but whether he was checked by
Beauregard's firm attitude (previous to the assump-
tion of command by Johnston) on the Catawba
River to the south of Charlotte, or whether he was
baffled by the difficulty of moving supplies and
artillery through the miry swamps of the Carolinas,
Sherman, shortly after capturing Columbia, struck
eastwards towards the sea coast with the apparent
design of making a fresh sea base at Fayetteville,
which is connected with Wilmington by the Cape
Fear River. Simultaneously a strong force of Fede-
rals, probably 20,000 strong, under Gen. Schofield,
is striking inwards from the coast at Newbern, with
a view to effecting a junction with Sherman near
to Goldsborough—an important station on the Wil-
mington and Weldon Railroad, and distant not more
than 40 miles from Fayetteville. It seems proba-
ble that the coming battle will be fought on the
line between Goldsborough and Fayetteville, unless
Johnston elects to give up Raleigh to his enemy
with a view to getting him deeper into the heart of
North Carolina before he ventures upon battle.
Meanwhile the old lesson of the war about the
immensity of Southern distances is again likely to be
taught to Sherman. In order to gain a new base at
Wilmington he has been compelled to set free the
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that the impossibility of starving out the Confede-
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from South Carolina and Georgia, and the abun-
dant resources of Virginia and North Carolina are
available for Lee, will be learnt before many weeks
have flown. The obvious danger which menaces
Secessia is that, in order to defeat Sherman, Lee
may be compelled so to weaken his army as to be
unable to hold the lines around Petersburg and
Richmond. But it will, I think, be found that in
the coming battles the Confederates will fight with
the old elan and impetuosity which carried •against
superior numbers :the heights of Chanceliorsville,
and bracketted with Albuera the recent name of
Gaines' Mill.

innocent, and that he courted investigation ;Aat
he had no intention to leave the country, andithatii:
in fact, he only sold off his hay.

The magistrates thbught there was very little at

present to cross-examine upon.
After a long contention between the learned

In that distant south-west of the Confederacy,
which is both to Confederates and Federals a sealed
volume, a prOmise of a brighter Confederate future
seems in store. A despatch from General Forrest—
a man who when the true history of the war is
known will share with Jackson and Lee its .choicest
honours—announces that he has a force which is,
in his judgment, more than a match for General
Thomas, and that the campaign of 1865 opens better
for the Confedefates than any of its predecessOrS.
Such an utterance from the mouth of -a man who is
as little given to boasting as Lee himself will com-
mand respect,...e.v.e.n.i9..Washington....
,But of more inn-portance than the words of Gee4l tOriest is the faCt
thatin Georgia and Alabama a grpa,t ofCon-
federate enthusiam•is-nnnonnoed.' Tliepluckylittie
town of MobilO.Willneit fall into:Canby'shands with=
out a sharp and; if anYtithigiiike:dfsater*
arrests Sherman,: eve .*:are , prom*d: assigpmee
,frpi*
lukewarmi•Gecqgia, to. an extent:whieh seemltd little
likely two Mouths inhumanity of Shermaff;
the rabid exultatiOn of the New York Pres,
consciousness" of the unutterable horrors'
Yankee dominion will entail, aredriVing Southerners
to the front zvith*something of the- enthitsfaiin,of
1861,-; an d,•.belhe'aiesult of the hiuninent .battlemirhat.
itinkayi they reflect no clisgrage !Ton
floiqederate..apisf.7:- From across the
ere, according,-to' the tantalising rumours which
hate reaehed m'for thela,st 12 months; 50,000
federates in.th.e-itiiireSt state of efficiency liave long
b?en rev-chili:lg on the fat of the land; there comes;a:
•
voice-which sayS that some fighting ~.*ill year•he
done; Altogether; I angdailypore convinces hat
lichuzopd fads ,a,?.d7„1,,ee Land sTosaston,are driven
from4he,field, it is-but,thefirst stage of this 'e.olossal.
revolution which will then be completed. There. ill
ensue a time when every important town of the South
will reqUixeto be held by a Yankee. garrison when •
a problm -which Lord Stanley--well describ'ed 'some
months agd as far transcending id difficulty anything
the. Federals have_ yet accomplished will. be presented
for their, ; .when the exultation of New;Xprk
will be
.exchanged for
.soternes's .aild.right-.reason,
and when it Will be"realised that.the: closingl3"Ceile of
this mightiest-reyolution*drarna will not be played
out save in the.tinies .of our children'fichiklien;

Extraordinary Charge of embezzlement,

gentlemen,

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(From, the .6herbornp Journal),, ' e

Mr. Bidwell was sworn to his deposition. He is
an accountant at Liverpool, of 20 years' standing,
and he was employed to investigate the accounts of
the prisoner, and he swore that he had found ac-
counts entered falsely and fraudulently, and that he
had received moneys which he had not accounted
for. That he had charged money as being remitted
to Messrs. Hoare, which he had paid to his private
account, and that he had misappropriated several
thousands of pounds, among them being the two
sums named.

Superintendent Lewis was then sworn, and stated
that he apprehended the prisoner. He came readily.
He heard several persons say that the furniture was
all sold.

Mr. Lewis read the bill of the prisoner's sale,-
21 acres of wheat straw, the sheep feed of 30 acres,
three fat Devon steers, and some hay. He then
called—

Mr. Helmsley, defendant's solicitor, who declared
that defendant had not attempted to evade any of
the. Chancery proceedings ; that a distress had been
put in upon the prisoner for rent, and that on appli-
cation to the Vice-Chancellor be had allowed an
injunction. It was stated in the answer to the
application that the prisoner was about to leave the
country. He went out to Sardinia about the pro-
motion of a railway, but he came back again. The
defendant's answer in the Chancery proceedings
was now before counsel. In cross-examination he
said he was connected with the prisoner. He had
books relating to the prisoner's accounts, but did
not know that they belonged to Lord Shaftesbu
aithey:wWe'Cluplicate books. He *was nOtAkaid77-.
t4atthe prisonar kept 15 hunters about the agUntrtt
On his.£4so a
'Thomas G. Bell, prisoner's clerk, vas ^caued~f
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Edward Watera, Fjsoner's.l3rOtlief,-*
swore thatfhe believed he had not ;the- sliihtest
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ieption of leaving"Pie:con.p.try.
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bank, with a view of securing the 'earlietf—p&ssible
distribution of the UsSti amolig the
_Oreditors. His
w'orshipthe.Mayor Henry Wiggan).again oc-
cupied'ilit chair; and the attendance was even more •
nuinerous.thanfat" the-first meeting held a, feviclare
'after the bank failure., ,The greatest excitement;;
prevailed during the proceedings.
The Rev. *Dr. MiLiER, the chairman of the credi-
tors' investigation committee, read a voluminous re-
port aslo the causes of the failure of the bank, the
stoppage of which, the -committee remarked, would
form an epoch of painful and-surpassing importance
in the history of the Midland metropolis, the em-
barrassine_ and but ._too,terriblyaifinona_effeeta: of
which had yet to work themselves out, and must be
felt for many years to come. After tracing the
past history of the bank since the accession of the
Messrs. Marshall in the month of January,
1854, the committee report that the causes of
the growing deficiency were apparent in the low of
interest to the bank by the enormous withdrawals by
the Attwood family. The amount of indebtedness
on the part of the several partners was stated as
follows :—George Attwood, £225,000 ; Richard
Spooner (deducting total value of estates, life policies,
and proportion of profits), £3,448 ; Thomas Att-
wood, £12,286 ; Thomas Aurelius Attwood, £6,769
—making a total indebtedness of £257,493. The
surviving partner, Mr. Henry Marshall, was returned
as a debtor to the bank to the amount of £1,545 ; but
for this there was an estate which would be available
for the creditors. As regards the gross profits of
the bank it was found that in the 11 years (from
Jan. 1, 1854 to Jan. 1, 1865, without making any
provision for bad debts) these profits were £49,019
19s. Id., or little more than £4,000 a year ; and the
large amount of bad debts had swollen the defici-
ency to upwards of £340,000. The committee re-
capitulated the substance of an interview a deputa-
tion from the creditors' committee had with Mr.
Wolverley Attwood, and laid before the meeting
the final reply of that gentleman to their appeal, in
which, while expressing his sympathy for the un-
fortunate creditors, he did not admit his moral
obligation to contribute any sum towards making
up the loss the sufferers by the bank failure had
sustained. The statements made at the former
meeting by Mr. Whateley were stated to have been
found substantially correct, and the committee
added, as the result of their careful inquiries, that
the late bank had been hopelessly insolvent for
eleven years, and that confidence in its stability,
both by depositors and customers, was rather in-
creasing than waning, up to Christmas last. The
report went on to say that the committee had ad-
vertised for tenders for the purchase of the business
and assets of the late bank, and of the tenders
which had been received the committee recom-
mended the acceptance of that of the Birmingham
Joint-Stock Bank (Limited), whose offer was to
purchase the property and assets upon the terms of
paying the creditors of the late bank a dividend of
lls. 3d. in the pound, taking upon themselves (the
purchasers) all costs and expenses. (Cheers.) The
committee, with the approval of the assignees, were
unanimous in recommending that this offer be ac-
cepted by the creditors, and that a resolution be
passed accordingly.
On the motion of Dr. WRIGHTSON, seconded by
Mr. J. R. ALLEN, it was unanimously resolved :
" That this meeting having heard the report of the
committee, is of opinion that the tender of the
Birmingham Joint-Stock Banking Company
(Limited) to purchase the property and assets of
the late bank of Messrs. Attwoods, Spooner, Mar-
shalls, and Co., upon the terms of paying the cre-
ditors an early dividend of 11s. 3d. in the pound,
and taking upon themselves (the purchasers) all
costs and expenses, ought to be accepted by the
creditors."

On Saturday last the Earl of Shaftesbury, Lord-
Lieutenant of the county-, came down, to Slierboine,
attended by Mr. Bidwell, Accountant, of Liverpool,
and preferred an information, -upon which Captain
Falwasser at once issued a warrant for the arrest Of
Mr. Robert Short Watersi- for embezzling two sums
of £27 15s. 7d. and £25; in 1857, while steward to
the Earl of Shaftesbury.. The warrant was placed
in the hands of Superintendent Lewis, who Went to
LAindon on Sunday, and next day proceeded to a
place called Greenhurst, at-I:Wed, in Sure* distant
some eight miles from the Godstone-road station.
Here Mr. Waters occupied a farm, living in an
elegantly furnished house. The officer had had the
warrant backed, and was assisted by a Surrey con-
stable. He had to wait until nearly 11 o'clock,
when Mr. Waters drove up in a tandem, accom-
panied by a groom in livery. The superintendent
at once explained his unpleasant business, and a fly
having been procured, the prisoner was taken away,
handcuffed, to the Godstone police-station, where
he remained during the night. On Tuesday he was
brought down to Sherborne, and lodged in the
police-station here, and on Wednesday, at half-past
2, the prisoner was brought up and placed at the
bar, before Mr. John Goodden, Mr. J. F. Falwas-
ser, and Mr. W. N. Allford. The Earl of Shaftes-
bury appeared, accompanied by his solicitor, Mr.
Humphreys, of Newgate-street ; Mr. Lewis, of Ely-
place, appeared for Mr. Waters. As soon as the
doors were opened a very large body of persons
found their way into court, evidencing the greatest
interest in the matter.

Mr. Humphreys said he had the honour to ap-
pear on behalf of Lord Shaftesbury, who was the
prosecutor in this case against the prisoner at the
bar, who eras in his lordship's service for 12 years as
steward. He was the steward of the late Lord
Shaftesbury, and continued to fill the office after
the present earl came to the title and estates, and he
remained from the time his lordship came into the
possession of his property in 1851 down to July,
1853, when his lordship felt it to be his duty, in
consequence of some irregularities which he disco-
vered with respect to the accounts, to intimate to
the prisoner that he must either resign or be turned
away, and he thought proper to resign. His duties
as steward were these :—He had the management of
Lord Shaftesbury's estates in Dorsetshire, of his
estates in Yorkshire, and of his estates in Wiltshire,
ann was paid by a salary of £430 a year. He had a
.house to live in, and his travelling expenses were
paid. His duties were to receive the rents and other
moneys which were paid for or on behalf of Lord
Shaftesbury, and to pay them into his lordship's
account at the Blandford Bank. Lord Shaftesbury
also kept an account at Messrs. Hoare's, and the
moneys paid into the Blandford Bank would be
transmitted to the account in London. His lordship
also kept another account—an " estate account," at
Blandford, which he used to supply with money from
time to time, the arrangement being that about
£5,000 should be paid into this account, and that if
Mr. Waters wanted any further supply he had only
to make application for it. His lordship hid a
tenant named William Target, who was tenant of
Old Down Farm, at a rent of £272 a year, payable
half-yearly, but in point of fact the custom ap-
peared to be that he had a half-year's credit. The
defendant was charged with embezzling two sums of
£27 15s. 7d. and £25, the first being received in
January and the other in April, 1857. These two
sums were paid by Mr. Target, and they had never
been accounted for in any shape by the prisoner,
who had used them for his own purposes. He was
not in a condition to call before them Mr. Target
to-day, and all he proposed to do was to swear Lord
Shaftesbury and the accountant to their depositions
and ask for an adjournment, when he should be pre-
pared to show that the prisoner had embezzled
various sums amounting to several thousands of
pounds. The accounts had been thoroughly inves-
tigated by an accountant, and that accounted for
the delay in these proceedings, for which, indeed,
there was another reason. The prisoner had filed a
bill in Chancery against Lord Shaftesbury, and his
advice to his lordship was not to take ally criminal
steps until he had put in his answer. That had
been done, and his lordship was now acting not
only under his advice, and of his private soli-
citor, but of counsel as well. There was some reason
to believe the prisoner intended to leave the country
as he had a sale of stock and effects a few days be-
fore his apprehension.
His lordship was then sworn to his information,
which in effect was that he was informed and be-
lieved that there was a great defalcation in his
accounts.

A resolution was also passed requesting the
creditors' committee to continue their services for
such further time as may be necessary.
In reply to a question from Mr. J. Suckling.
Dr. MILLER said, with regard to the payment of
11s. 3d. in the pound, the Birmingham Joint-Stock
Bank directors would have to bring the matter
before their shareholders to get the proposal ratified
in the usual manner ; and he believed that at the
very earliest moment at which it was possible, after
the legal ratification of the bargain, the money
would be paid. (Hear, hear.) He added that no
unnecessary delay would be interposed by the com-
mittee or the assignees in realising the proposal.
The proceedings terminated with a vote of thanks
to the mayor.

Mr. Lewis proposed, if there was any objection
to an application for bail, to cross-examine his lord-
ship, He declared that the accused was entirely

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THIS EVENING, a New Farce, GOING TO THE DOGS.
Atter which, AS YOU LIKE IT. Messrs. James Ander-
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Ater wil'eN THE LOVE CHASE. Wildrake (his origi-
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Stephenson. Wid.)w tireen .1 th Stirlingt; Con-
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To conclude with THE STEEPLECHASE; or, In the
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Commence at 7.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
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