The Sun.
London, England, 1865-10-06 00:00:00

REaLWAYL
Cash.

Acct.
••• ... 840
••• ... 1092 50
... 563 75
... 343 75
535 -
... 231 25
... 406 25
436 25
205
- 287 50

Orleans
Northern
Lyons and Mediterranean.
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa
Ditto to Barcelona
Roman

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The Suez Canal Company.

PARIS, OCt. 6.
A general meeting of the shareholders in the
Suez Canal Company took place yesterday.
M. de Lesseps stated that the company still held
an available capital of 180 millions francs. The
small canal for navigation would even next year
have an amount of traffic lucrative to the company
and useful to commerce. The great canal would,
he said, be terminated in 1868.

The report was unanimously approved by the
meeting.

Canterbury Hall.

Bewildered audiences continue tobe attracted to "Ko-ko-
ri-ko," the most resplendent and the most mysterious of all
the " Ghost Illusions" practised at that home of modern
magic, the Canterbury Hall. The scenic effects are daz-
zling in their brilliancy, and the optical surprises are now
accomplished with greater precision than ever. Is it the
pictorial display that attracts ? Has it been the cooling
influence of the waterfalls on the past summer evenings ?
Has "Ko-ko-ri-ko" perennial interest because an undaunted
British public is determined to find out its plot, and punish
the offender ? We confess to the hopeless endeavour to
comprehend the dark allusions which orally accompany
the brilliant pictures. Is Mr. W. Randall a Fenian, we
asked ourselves, that he keeps so perpetually asking the
audience " Why wasn't I a Chinese ?" It could not be in
emulation of the Chinese giant, 'Chang, because Mr.
Randall was persistently putting the question long
before that celestial's arrival. We noted every look,
word, and feature of the Ko-ko-ri-Kans, and
helplessly failed to discover what they were driving at,
and now resign the task to the friends of the legitimate
drama. But it is not because the destiny of the various
characters is hazy that their action is not extremely lively.
A mortal hatred seems to have sprung up between the
Ko-ko-ri-kan represented by Mr. Randall (who makes
up a sort of mixture of Confucius and Henry the Eighth)
and the Ko-ko-Ri-Kan depicted by Mrs. Randall, who ap-
pears as a young gentleman of the Giaour or Corsican
type. A broadsword combat is the result, without any
result. The British navy is still adequately represented
by five young ladies, who pass a severe competitive exa-
mination in hornpipes ; and Britannia shows her good
taste and appreciation by presiding, shield and trident
accompanying, at the final tableau—a gorgeous scene of fire-
works and illuminations. The appearance and disappear'
ance of the dramatis persona in the magic mirror continues
to excite universal surprise. The entertainments are
agreeably diversified with Mr. Alexander's ventriloquial
performance, the dancing of the d'Aubans, and the nigger
eccentricities of Messrs. Duriah and Davies. The sisters
Dashwood have also joined. Songs and part-songs are
also sung by Mr. Henshaw, Mr. Elton Williams, Mr.
Stuart, Mr. Nolan, Mr. Kimberley, Signor Tivoli, Mr. St.
Albyn, &c., Miss Hayes, Miss Mclnnis, and Miss Metz.
Offenbach, the inexhaustible, asserts his supremacy here,
as at the Oxford, and " No. 66," the last operatic selection
out, carries everything before it, Miss Russell and Mr. St.
Albyn, winning unbounded applause.

The inaugural lecture of the Oriental Section at
King's College, London, was delivered yesterday by Pro-
fessor John Cutler. The subject was—" On the Study of
the English, Roman, Hindu, and Mohammedan Systems,"
with especial regard to their salient points of agreement
and difference.

ROYAL SOUTH BUCKS AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
—The 33d ploughing match of this society took
place yesterday. at Salt-hill. The entries and the general
attendance were unusually numerous, and the field, with
its long row of drinking-booths, wandering minstrels, gipsy
fortune-tellers, was more like a fair or a country race-course
than an ordinary agricultural meeting. In the show of roots
there was a close competition, and the exhibition of garden
produce was of extraordinary excellence. The members
and supporters of the society dined together at the Wind-
mill, the High Sheriff of the County, Mr. N. G. Lambert,
in the chair. Mr. Du Pre, M.P., Sir H. Montgomery, Mr.
G. Gyll, Mr. C. J. Palmer, Mr. R. H. Saye, Mr. B. Gyll, the
Rev. C. A. Hall, the Rev. W. B. Marriott, Mr. Trumper,
Mr. C. B. Barrett, secretary to the society, and mtny
others of the leading gentry and farmers of the district
were present.
STABBING NEAR CHESTERFIELD.—At the Chester-
field County Police-court yesterday, before Mr.
G. Heathcote, John Charlesworth was charged with stab-
bing John Turton, near Chesterfield. It appeared that the
prosecutor was returning from Clay-cross to North Wing-
field about one o'clock on the morning of the Ist inst., in
company with a man named Bennett, when about half-way
they overtook the prisoner and entered into conversation
with him. Among other things the prosecutor alluded to a
young woman with whom the prisoner formerly kept com-
pany. He flew into a rage, struck the prosecutor to the
earth, and drew a knife and stabbed him in the shoulder.
Bennett at once ran to the prosecutor's assistance and go
him away. They ran up the road, and the prisoner fol-
lowed them. He overtook them, Ind they knotted stones
in their handkerchiefs and kept him at bay. Police-con-
stable Bacon apprehended the prisoner the next day, and
it came out in evidence that the knife referred to had been
drawn on several occasions before. The prisoner was
committed for trial at Derby Quarter Sessions.
BREAKFAST BEVERAGE. —Homceopath ic practitioners, and
the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa as be.ng
tile most healthful of alt bev_rages. When the doctrine of
homoeopathy was first intioducel into this country, there
were to be obtained no preparations of cocoa either attrac-
tive to the taste or accepta, le to the stomach ; the nut was
either sup2lied in the crude state, or so unskillay manu-
factured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
hotuceopathic chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn
his attention to this subje t, and at length suc3eeded, with
the assistance of elaborate machinery, is being the first to
produce an article pure in its composition, a id so refined by
the pert et trituration it le.eives in the process it passe4
hrough, “s to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps' cocoa is distinvuished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, with a delLious aroma
Or. Hassan. in his work, " Food and its Adulterations,"
eovrerthyeinbgirdeyd.iieintAnegarje,sa,.rAystoa tnhuetrgirtiovwe,thcocanoda
says—" Cocoa contains a great variety of importan, nutritive
much higher than either coffee or tea." three-
sp
standsusi eeni Pavi sustenance
/ions: —Two teaspoon iuls of the powder in a breakfast CUD,
filled up with bking water or milk. Secured in tin-lined
t-lb , and lib. labelled pael,.ete, and sold at le. ed.. per
ib. by grxerF, raPolicterg, and chemists.