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SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
a ld Dining-room, eonsisting of a new and eiegant assort-
me at VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paperweights, &0., in Italian,
Alabas -er, Parian, Marble. Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &O.
Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine-
ralogist to her Hajesty, 149, Stand, W.C.. London.

Mr. Tennant arranes elementary collections of ROCKS.
MINERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly taoilitate
the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY,
and can be had at 2.5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each.
PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
RALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT. at 149. Strand, W.C.

SAILORS' ORPHAN GIRLS' SCHOOL and
HOILE, Hampstead. Offices, 77, Cornhill.
PATRON—The QUEEN.
TRUSTEES.
Capt.. the Hon. Francis Maude, The Rev. Canon c hampngs
R.N. I Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P.
TREASURERS.
R. C. L. Bevan, Esq. I Robert Hanbury, Esq.
This Institutio7i is designed to supply a great national
want, viz., an asylum for the orphaq daughters of sailors in
the Royal 7ofavy and Merchants Service and of Marines.
It 01'..)thes, 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 Commit iea earnestly APP HA L. 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
sa4ors annually by casualties alone, without including those
who may perish by war _ _ _

Subscriptions thinkfully received by the bankers, Messrs.
Barclay, Bevan, and Co., Lombard-street, and by the Secre-
tary, at the Offices, No. 77. Cornhill:
R. SWERTING, Hon. Sec.
CHARLS.IB NASH, Sec.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to ho 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
ban 455 poor. friendless, young females were rejected 'rorn
want of P UN DS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
obfeetnheSemnotsatwrecayenlnt cflarseesyte_ars. Here are brief details of a few
I'2 'P., aged 16, fallen, mother dead. deserted by her father.
M. A. I'., aged 3, homeles bath parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother.
D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C.A „, p., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A armed 16, fallen, both parents dead.
S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents,
aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. IL, aged 17, fatten, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fatten, father dead.
aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both par, nts dead.
M. A. "Ve.. agfed 17, fallen, parents arents dead.
at newr
inibu t
et home
oono
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both de td.
r rel..
oh
Dueap ;LT 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.
1815 be,
ureecee
n 1 v.
seer
egerta, teehfuelalpya
ibyde theor
bSyeemr Secretary,
Barclay and Co., Lombard-street.

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 WALES, K.G
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.

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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 legacies.
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.
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 Ku-
)erman, 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 and Co, ; Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Har-
ney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co. , Berners-street ; I. Darned and
Co.. Liverpool; and at t ostal.om 10 till 5.
STANFORD SHIT 11, Bearetary.

110 ME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N.,
for the Reception, from all parts of the Kingdom, of
Outcast and Destitute Boys, :and those verging on crime,
under 10 years of age.

President—ROßEßT HANBURY, Esq., M.p,
VICE-PRESIDENTS.

Stephen Cave, Esq., 3LP. I Sir S. M. Peto, Bart., M.P.
I Abel Smith, Esq., 31,1).
Henry E.
I
COMMITTEE.
Mr Alex. Anderson.
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.331Bierri.v..RAE11:01
Alfred
rjele.ridT:Sasobhrrol
uer
Sinclair.
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Mr. E. H. Burrows.
EMGorulrneye,YLEV.
I Mr. W. J. Maxwell.
Mr. A. D. Chapman.
Mr. E. P. (ledge.
Mr. George Moore.
Mr. Francis Lyeett. I Mr. R. T. Turnbull.
Treasurer—W. H. Within., Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.C,
Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. o...harles, 26, Suffolk-street,
11.11-Mall East, S.W '
Bankers—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, 1, Lombard-

streei,
The mode of admission to the House is twofold,
Ist. By election of the subscribers. B iys thus admitted
are received free, boarded, clothed, educated, and tiught i ill
they are 11 years o' age.
With the view to secure the election of the most deserving
cases, the Committe have from the first discouraged canvas-
sing, and they do not print any addresses of the subscribers.
The voting papers contain a description of each case, as care-
ful y investigated by the Committee, and with this informa-
tion the subscribers are able to judge for themselves as to
those most eligible for free admission.

2d. Bf papirnt of ss. a week, made quarterly in advance.
Alt children must be under 10 y, ars of age at the time of
admission. Those received on payment are admitted at any
time as soon as approved by the Committee,
Elections of children to be athuitted free will take place as
frequently AS the increase in the annual subscriptions will
admit, till the Home is full ; they will then be held periodi-
cally
Forms of application for the admission of children may be
had at the Some, and of the Honorary Oeerettry,

" SPECTATOR"
ought to '
ToriesH E
there
whenTON PARTY PROSPECTS.—The
at the coming elections, for
nothing to do a Tory is the natural
person to do it.
bill the Government For the first time since the reform
is going to the country without
any particular reason, without a programme, and
without a
cry,
fearing nothing, promising nothing,
and asking nothing except not to be discharged.
There is nothing Fit ing in foreign affairs, for the
danger of intervention
.. in America is over, and the
country has for
questions. We havethe moment forgotten all other
not even an Asiatic campaign
on our hands, and E although there is of course a little
war going on— ngland never being at peace for
more than three
is earnestly months at atime—no party at home
Zealand. favourable or opposed to the war in New
Government may do what it likes, one
party as much as
the other, and nobody will be re-
quired even to
rhprofess his faith as to the matter on
the hustings. only great colonial question in
hand, the confederatione
b of British North America,
is only understood ya few, and those few on both
sides of the home unanimously
hid down by the Colonial support the policy
Minister. There is not
at this moment a subject
outside these islands upon
which public opinion is
seriously divided, not a
which visible project of action will lose or attract a
is
hundred votes. Nobody
is nothing
to do or to endure
anything, and when there
endured even Lord Malmesbury nothing to be done or
may be considered
efficient. At home the absence of purpose is even
more conspicuous, so conspicu ons that it is hard to
believe it is not designed.o the question which
most interests the most powerful of all the minori-
ties, Parliamentary reform, Government
produces no policy, but distinctlynot only
declares that it
does not intend to produce one. It will accept the
decision of the people on whichever
side it may be,
and carry it out obediently, but it will take no lead.
It does not wish to admit
working
men
to
the franchise, or to reject them, pr to suggest a
compromise, and it is at the same time by no means
unwilling to
do any one of the
three. On ecclesi-
astical affairs it has nothing to dvise, and indeed
if
no tendency to reveal, for the Lord Chancellor
is a foe to Church action, Sir R
oundell Palmer has
high ideas of Church independence ; if Lord Pal-
merston nominates Recordite Bishops Mr. Gladstone
has been endorsed by Dr. Fuse Indeed righteous-
ness and peace have kissed each
andother in the shape
of Dr. Pusey and the Record, for the hour the
Church parties have nothing to
quarrel about.
before There is no ecclesiastical question the country
except that of Church-rates, and on that Govern-
ment expresses no policy except a
On finance, profound willing-
ness to do as it may be bidden. the
malt tax excepted, the nation is unanimous, and the
malt tax does not to any perceptible degree interest
the boroughs inwhich the campaign t ultimately
be fought out. Nobody is very anxious
about either
shrink f
expenditure or economy, for parties rom an
avowed cry for outlay—though they willhave to
risk it one day in the Education Department—and
the pressure of taxes has been so lightened that a
cry for econO
my seems a work of supererogation.
Upon that suNect Government promisesnothing .
except to-spend as little as it can manage consist-
ently with the efficiency of the public service,"
' which efficiency it will define in accordance with the

from going to the country pledged to bring forward
some great measure of reform in the next Parlia-
ment, the Government, through its mouth-piece,
Sir George Grey, would not promise to deal with
the question of Parliamentary Reform at all, and
does not ask for the support of the country on this
ground. If, indeed, there should be some persis-
tent and overwhelming expression of public opinion
in favour of Parliamentary Reform the Home
Secretary intimates that the Government would be
ready to do the behests of the country. But as any
such overpowering demonstration is very unlikely
to be made, especially since the Government de-
clines to lead the way and to put itself at the head
of the reform movement, it will be taken for granted
by the democratic section of politicians that the
question of reform and the extension of the suffrage
is postponed sine die. This is not an attitude which
a member of the Government representing a large
popular constituency will find conducive to his ease
and comfort. Mr. Layard may have some difficulty
in satisfying the electors of Southwark that the Go-
vernment have behaved fairly to the working
classes. Mr. Milner Gibson at Ashton-under-Lyne,
and Mr. Villiers at Wolverhampton, will be told
that a Liberal Government is abdicating its highest
functions in holding the language of Sir George
Grey. The Conservatives came out of the debate
with clean hands. Lord Derby, after the last general
election, repudiated his own Reform Bill, and de-
clared that he was no longer bound to propose
either that or any other measure of Parliamentary.
reform. The Conservatives have consistently op-
posed the measures of Mr. Locke King and Mr.
Baines. They have with some reason contended
that reform ought not to be dealt with bit by bit,
and that the £lO county franchise and a £6 borough
franchise cannot hope to pass either of those mea-
sures until they are introduced by the Govern-
ment, and made severally a Cabinet question.
The unanimity of the Conservatives in the
house will be imitated, at the hustings by their
adherents. Not a single stray Conservative slighted
the traditions of his party by voting for the £6 fran-
chise for the boroughs. Several old Whigs absented
themselves from the division. The majority of 74
in favour of the " previous question" was further
swelled by about 30 Liberals. Sixteen of the num-
ber are county members ; five represent Scotch, and
three Irish constituencies. Their names are Mr.,.
Adeane, Cambridgeshire ; Major Anson, Lichfield
Mr. Bonham Carter Winchester ; Lord John Browne,
Mayo ; Sir R. Bulkeley, Anglesea ; Sir M. Choline-
ley, Lincolnshire (North) ; Colonel Coke, Norfolk_
(East); Mr. Duff, Banff ; Lord Dunkellin,_G•awad.
(Borough); Mr. Finlay, Argyllshire ; Mr. F t
zlw
Ham, Malton ; Mr. Foley, Staffordshire South) ;
Mr. Foster, Staffordshire (South) Mr. Grenfell,

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inevitable, owing to a large increase in the
cost of the articles forming the rations of the
European troops. Yet even this will not account
for such an excess when we remember that the
European force has been reduced by 5,000 men, at
the usual estimate of £BO a head, making a sum of
£40,090. The most blameable part of Sir Charles's
Budget is his proposed means of making good his
deficit. Including the repeal of the income tax,
which at the small rate of 3 per cent. had already
yielded £1,200,000, and which is now well known
to have proved a popular tax with the native majo-
rity, it is a deficit that will amount to above
£2,400,000. The Budget imposes export duty on
tea, coffee, sugar, jute, silk, hides, and rice. Now
nearly all these articles have to compete with the
same products of foreign countries. The tea culti-
vation in its infancy has had to contend with the
skilfully-produced tea of China, and will now com-
pete also with that of Japan. Coffee, also a product
new to India, has to contend with that of Java and
1 Brazil—even with that of our own colony of Ceylon.
The sugar of India, even now while it is free, has a
difficulty in keeping its place in competition with
that of half a dozen fertile tropical lands. Jute is a
new article peculiar to India, but it has proved a
valuable substitute in many cases for hemp, flax,
and even for high-priced wool and extravagantly-
pricedthei
rp
lcaoctet on
against.
taxation recog-
nised untaxed as it has been, hardly main ms its
place against the better silks of China and Japan.
Rice has been already subject to an. export. duty,
Englandheeocontemplatedmpcompassed
a se.
unne-
cessaryepetraxceesntg.otosittr.aiglhttisintheTh tehliosdeesofofßlfedni:shAayveretso.. mtala.nindtiag
and in
andnteiteeth
hd theoinf
tßtothhui
easd
dgficdeontuatnahndtacrdstiyatl
fhsopeOsrr i
n theei
pia
se
to
f,20
years,
ear s ,
carrying out which the author of the Indian Budget
was himself an active and concurring agent. These
small imposts, however, are far from making up for
aloan
the deficit, and Sir Charles Trevelyan proposes to
supple-
ment. Sir Charles Wood has disallowed the export
slaoiiadn Indian
wo feiprl
administrators,e,2s
uOneoOaOl.s oi nt
d the doing
and for once at least Sir Charles and his Council
of a good and popular act.
raiseid,auvt duties,
saa,

JOHN WILKES AND THE CLERGY.—Dr. Rennell
Dean of Winchester, was on terms of intimacy
with Wilkes, who resided for some time in the Isle of
Wight ; where, he told the Dean, he associated by prefer-
ence with the clergy, alleging as his reason :—" When the
squirts get drunk, which they do daily, they begin railing
at religion, which I dislike. Now a Hampshire parson,
whether drunk or sober, never mentions religion at all."—
Fraser': Magazine. - _

The accounts and estimates of the British Museum were
issued on Friday. The expenditure for the financial year
ended 31st March last was in all £97,533, and a ba-
lance was carried to account for 1865-6 of £35,242 2s-.
9d. The estimate for next year is £100,164. The sum
granted for last year was £92,127. The increase is accounted
for by a sum of £7,600, being set down to meet the ex-
penses of further excavations at Budum, the purchase of
the Kokscharow collection of minerals, and purchases at
the Pourtales and St. Angelo collections. The total num-
ber of persons admitted to visit the general collections, ex-
clusive of readers last year was 432,339. This is less than
the number in any year since 1859. In 1862 double the
number of last year visited the museum. In 1861 the num-
ber was 641,886, and in 1863 440,801. The number of visits
to the reading-room for the purpose of study or research is
also less. Last year the visits were 105,899 ; in 1859 they
were 122,424 ; in 1861 130,410 ; and in 1863 107,821.
About 4,150 books seem to have been used in the reading-
room every day. Each reader has consulted on an average
11 volumes per day. Including music, atlases, and news-
papers, 38,842 volumes have been added to the library. Of
these 28,426 were purchased.
The additions to the department of manuscripts in the
course of the year are 609 manuscripts, 51 original charters,
and 71 bunco and seals ; to the Egerton collection 17 manu-
scripts and 3 original charters.
The acquisitions in the departments of Greek and Roman
antiquities include, of course, the purchase of the statues
from the Farneso Palace, at Rome. There is also a collection
of antiquities from Camirius, in the Island of Rhodes,
whero extensive excavations have been carried on by Mr.
Vice-Consul Biliotti and Mr. Salzmann. 2,560 coins and
medals, of which 1,305 are Greek, have been produced dur-
ing the year. In the report of Professor Owen wo meet
with the usual complaints respecting the space allotted to
the natural history collections, which restricts the labours
of the staff in regard to a largo proportion of the
specimens to the business of conservantoilolnen;tf,o,nwshiseretoas,n;
says the professor; " the purpose of the
instructively exhibited
or arranged under
econditionsrjminerals
hof
r
light and access facilitating scientific inquiryd display
sfp
atahnyed ;
speci-
mens com-
parison.
shouldpa r ison . Not
shownonl y
nh e
serialshells,
sequence,
birds,eu ce; andbut theeevery
be
mclaesuss
in
ofnacteturt•aalinhiostfortyh;esneober oaugbhart ttheesubueblk o
it
is only in a national or British Museum that adequate space
for such moans of advancing natural science can be afforded
or expected." Of the total number of additions, 12,873, to
the department of natural history, 7,688 are registered in
an
the 634
adts
department
te tho department of zoology, 4,651 in the department of
geology, d in
di the
additions
depaortf
department
teraof logy.
Amongst
geology the
most interesting in relation to questions as to the antiquity
of man, and the cranial and dental characters of primitive
races, are the partly petrified remains of the men who in-
habited the limestone caverns of the South of France at the
period when chamois, bouquetin, wild horse, reindeer, the
great extinct ox, &c., existed, and especially the reindeer,
abounded, in that part of Europe ; and at a period when the
use of metals being unknown, the primitive implements
were chipped flints, by means of which diverse weapons and.
instruments, including needles, were manufactured from
the bones and antlers of the beasts captured and killed for
food. On some of those bone instruments the reindeer and
horse bad been delineated in outline, with truth and spirit,
and these are probably among the earliest examples of the
graphic art. The value of this series of human remains,
discovered at Bruniquel by the Vicomte do Lastic in 1863,
depends upon the cal.° and accuracy with which every
material fact as to " matrix " "position," "chemical condi-
tion," &c., of the crania was ascertained, on which a con-
clusion as to their contemporaneity with the remains of the
extincts animals could be satisfactorily arrived at. To this
end the cavern was Visited by the reporter in January and
February, 1864 ; the human remains were inspected, and
• others were then exposed in situ, and one almost entire
cranium was removed And transferred to the British,
Museum, with the largo mass of breccia, detached at
, depth of four feet from the stalagmitic floor of the cavern,
and exhibiting, with other human remains and numerous
implements, conditions of imbedding identical with those
. of the bones and teeth of the Cert'us tarandue and Bos
printigenitm

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