The Sun.
London, England, 1865-12-28 00:00:00

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
an I Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant assort-
ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, oeautlful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &0., in Italian,
talabast!r, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &o.
Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine-
ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS.
11 [NE RALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly facilitate
tee interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY,
and can be had at 2,5, 10. 20.50, to 500 guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
R A.LOGY is given by Mr.TENNAN T,F.G.S., at 149. Strand.

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 *ALES, K.G
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCL RUCH, E.G.

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 l e,qacies
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 considerable period averaged between
3,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are 'capable of
containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Has •
terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co.;HArries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and CO.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay awl Co. ; llama, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co , Bernars-street ; T. Barned and
. Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 8.
STANFORD SMITH. Secretary.

SAILORS' ORPHAN
/10.11 E, Hampstead.
PATRON—TI
Tnusl

GIRLS' SCHOOL and
Offices, 77, CornhilL
le QUEEN.
CEEB.

Capt. the Hon. Francis Maude, I The Rev. Canon Champneys
R.N. Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P.
TREASURERS.
EL 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.
The Committee earnestly APPEAL for CONTRIBU-
TIONS to meet the increasing applications through the
recent storms and loss of life at sea, andt o enable them
eventually to obtain premises more commensurate with the
necessities of this great maritime country, which loses 2,000
sailors annually by casualties alone, without including those
who may perish by war.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the bankers, Messrs.,
Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre-
tary, at the Offices, No. 77, Cornhill.
R. SWEETING, Hon. Sao.
CHARLES RASH, Sea.

TEETH AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.
Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and
SONS, Dentists,
30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand,
Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station.
Their painless artificial teeth are unequalled for economy,
durability, comfort, and all purposes of articulation and mas-
tication. Operations of every kind being unnecessary, the
most nervous patient can be supplied without fear of pain or
inconvenience.
Consultation free. Teeth from ss, Sets from sto 25 gs.,
warranted.
For the efficacy, utility, and success of their system, vide
" Lancet."
Daily attendance at 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and
448, Strand, London • 11, Whitefriargate, Hull ; 10, Norfolk-
street, Sheffield; 4, iast-parade, Leeds; and 14, StNieholas-
street, Scarbro'.
Observe—Established 1830. No connection with any of the
same name.

THE BOMBAY MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company'S steam-
ship Poonah, Captain Curling, with the heavy
Bombay mails, has arrived. She brings 40 pas-
sagas anu 6 lamages specie, value £1,710 tam/
a general cargo, consisting of 154 boxes orang es,
22 boxes dates, 4 cases opium, 4 bales cotton, 298
packages sundries, and 1,464 bales raw silk, value
£135,000.

The Poonah experienced fine weather throughout
the passage. On the 20th inst. she signalled the
steamer Delta, and on the 24th, at noon, the steamer
Nyanza, steering to the south ; she reported having
experienced very bad weather.
Her Majesty's ships Victoria, Pelican, Gibraltar,
Caledonia, Resistance, Royal Oak, Hydra, Firefly,
Psyche, Hibernia, Racer, and Surprise, were at
Malta ; and at Alexandria the usual Egyptian
squadron, French frigate Perdrix, and troopships
Zouave and Sevre.

GIBRALTAR, Dec. 22.

The Spanish corvette Isabel la Catolica, 14 guns,
left Cadiz on the 20th, to reinforce the Spanish
squadron in the waters of the Havanna.
Gen. Yauch, the commandant of the neighbouring
district, paid avisit yesterday to his Excellency the
Governor. He crossed over in a Spanish war steamer,
and landed at the new mole, where he was received
by a guard of honour of the 23d Royal Welsh
Fusiliers. The ships of war Racoon, Skylark, and
and the guns of the garrison
fißrededP°alseamluatilenci yards,
salute. e

The new armour-clad frigate Alabama is only
awaiting the screw sloop Consuelo, which is nearly
ready, to proceed in concert, to join Admiral
Pareja's squadron in the waters of Chili. It is
expected 'vessels will sail about the 25th.
Gibraltarte Chronicle of the 18th says :
eh

The Redpolen.rrived on Saturday evening from Tangier
with his Royal Righness Prince Alfred on his return from
his hunting expedition in Barbary. The prince proceeded
to Tangier on Monday last, accompanied by Lieutenant H.
Haig, R.E., and Lieutenant Campbell, R.N. The baggage
was sent on into the country, and his royal highness and
suite were entertained at the legation house for that night.
On Tuesday mottling early his royal highness and party,
including Sir John Drummond Hay, made an early start
for Arzylu, which they reached by two o'clock. The same
evening they made an excursion, but the hunting was
without sport. Next day, unfortunately, was stormy, and
heavy rain centinned all day ; nevertheless, the royal party
was undaunted, but their chase through storms was at-
tended with indifferent sport, the party only killing two
boars among them. At night they rested at the house of
the British Consular agent, stud the next morning started
for Dar-el-Clue—si mountain ridge 14 miles from Tangier
—where tents were pitched for their accommodation. His
royal highness shot on the road, and made a good bag of
various birds. The party slept that night in tents and the
next day hunted the boar. The wind was high and pierc-
ingly cold as is seldom experienced in that region. About
a dozen boars were started, but not one had the politeness
to come out in tho direction of . his royal highness, so that
he could only obtain a long shot at two that trotted past at
had better luck,
ra bl considerable stance. Mr. Green, who was of the party,
ving fired at three boars, two of which
ho brought down. None of the other Christians had shots,
and the Moors, ai bad luck would have it, always missed.
Althoughdghaimm thees as
himself
w could
were not so successful in finding and
have been wished, his royal highness
be a thorough sportsman and a splendid
showe
killing
e
shot at partridges, and appeared to enjoy much the rough
wild life of the 'tent and camp' in Northern Africa."
The following British vessels have arrived here
since the 17th inst.:--The steamer Tiber, 7 days,
20d: Cardiff
from Liverpool ; brig Martha, 35 days, from Liver-
pool ; steamer Grecian, 5} days, from Liverpool;
R.V.Y.C. schooner Medea, from Cowes ; steamer
7 days, from Cardiff ; R.Y.S. schooner
from Plymouth ; schooner Kate,
10 adays,sn
rdiff ; brig Squire, 12 days, from
Newport ; steamer Minerva, 5 days, from Cardiff ;
Diadem,Bmofro
and brigantine Diana, 16 days, from Cardiff.
Exchanges are unaltered.
Her Majesty's ships Racoon and Skylark arc in
the harbour.

SALOON STEAMPACKETS.—The Woolwich and
Waterman's Steampacket Companies have just purchased
two splendid and fast going saloon steamboats, fitted up in
a most excellent style, with every requisite for the com-
fort of passengers. They are intended for the London,
Gravesend, and Southend traffic for the summer season,
and others of the same class will be provided.

Mr. BULL suggested the use of placards, as being
less expensive than the postage of circulars.
The CHAIRMAN continued—He wished to observe,
on the general subject of the cattle plague, that he
was one of those who thought that the Government
did not take the steps they ought to have done on
the outbreak of the disease. Had they acted with
energy, decision, and promptitude, they might have
prevented much of the mischief which had arisen
through cattle being allowed to disseminate the dis-
ease from London to all parts of the country. He
was glad to find that they were beginning to see
their error, according to their last Order in Council.
It would, however, have been better had they taken
the whole responsibility, and made a uniform sys-
tem applicable to the whole country; for, although
an enlargement of the area of the " local authority"
would in a great measure induce uniformity in a
county, yet the fact was that no further off than
Oxfordshire at the present time a very different and
loose system was in force, and cattle could be taken
to almost any place in the county, which was suffer-
ing frightfully from the disease. The new order
would produce uniformity in each county. It was
possible that the Government fancied that the far-
mers would withhold the desired information, and
they accordingly promised to keep it a secret.
(Laughter.) Well, nobody cared much about that,
and he would put no value on the promise ; but at
any rate he hoped the Board of Guardians would
think it worth while to render the information re-
quired. .
The Rev. Dr. BOOTH agreed with the chairman
as to the reprehensible apathy and shirking of duty
—for he could not otherwise call it—displayed by
the present Government as to the cattle plague.
Instead of taking the responsibility on themselves,
though they had had applications from the Royal
Agricultural Association, and the approbation and
consent of nearly everybody, including their own
commissioners, to such a course, they had only
moved one step further, substituting a county for
the merely local division. Now, those places which
were on the confines of two counties remained in
the same position as before ; and though Bucks, at
the next Quarter Sessions, might enact stringent
regulations for the whole county, yet Oxfordshire,
or Berks, or Beds might pass those resolutions,
which he had seen, bit which were worse than use-
less, for under the pretence of passing regulations
to stop the transit of cattle they had encouraged
it rather than otherwise, than to do which it would
really have been better to pass no order at all, and
leave it to the good feelings of the farmers. It was
nothing but an invitation to evade the order. If it
was worth while to collect the proposed returns, Go-
vernment ought to be allowed no excuse for inac-
tion; but the request for information ought to be
met frankly, cordially, and fully throughout the
country. He did not think the returns would be of
any value; with that, however, the guardians had
nothing to do, their duty being merely to render the
information.

After some further discussion, it was resolved to
draw up a circular, to be signed by the chairman on
behalf of the meeting, soliciting the property owners
of the district embraced in the union to send in the
returns as desired.