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London, England, 1865-09-07 00:00:00

HAIR DESTROYER, 248, High Holborn,
London.—AL EX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes,
without effect to the skin, superfluous hair from the face,
neck, and arms. Ss. 6d.; sent the same day as ordered by post
for 54 stamps.

QPANISEI FLY is the acting ingredient in
1...7 ALEX. ROSS'S CANTIIARIDES OIL, which speedily
produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d.; sent free for 54
stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248 , High Holborn, London. Essay
on flair; Id.

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

ALEX. ROSS' FACE POWDER, ls. ; sent for
14 stamps; Eye Colour, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps. Skin
tonic produces a transcendent complexion, 45., or 60 stamps.
Bloom of Roses, 3s. 6d., or 54 stamps.—ALta. ROSS, 248,
High Holborn, London.

HOME for LITTLE BOYS, Tottenham, N.,
for the Reception, from all parts of the Kingdom, of
Outcast and Destitute Boys, and those verging on crime,
und 10 years ot age.
President—ROßEßT HANEURY, Esq., M.P,
Viet -r RESIDENTS.
M.P. Sir S. M. Peto, Bart., M.P.
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COMMITTEE.
Mr Alex. Anderson. Rev. it M`SorleY•
Mr. E. H. Burrows. Mr. J. Maxwell.
Mr. A. D. Chapman. Mr. Altred Short.
Mr. E. F. Gedge. Mr. Robert Sinclair.
Mr. George Moore. Mr. E. J. Tabrum.
Mr. Francis Lycett. Mr. R. T. Turnbull.
Treasurer—W. H. \Villalls, Esq., 78, Basinghall-street. E.C.
Honorary Secretary—Mr. A. 0. Charles, 26, Suffolk-street,
all-Mall East, S.W
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The British American Provinces.

(From the Special Correspondent of the Times)

OTTAWA, Aug. 19.
For two generations it has been the practice
throughout the United States, with the exception of
Massachusetts and Virginia, to remove the seats of
Legislature from the great cities to small towns
situated as nearly as possible in the centre of
the Commonwealth. The reasons alleged were—
first, the facility of access, supposed to lie in the
equidistance of the Parliamentary centre from all
points of the State; and, second, the freedom from
mob influence and intimidation, to be found in the
rural districts, and which could not be expected amid
the rowdy and excitable population of large manu-
facturing and commercial cities. For a system of
government whichrests upon the suffrages of a whole
people, in which the mob (to use the word in no
offensive sense) forms so large a proportion of the
constituency, the plea of such a necessity is some-
what damaging. No one ever heard that the Parlia-
ment of Great Britain was not as safe in Westmin-
ster as it would have been in Kenilworth; but the
people of the large States of New York,
Pennsylva-
nia, and Ohio mistrusted the crowd too much, though
they always boast of its educated intelligence, to
consent that populous and wealthy New York, Phi-
ladelphia, and Cincinnati should be the seat of the
Legislature. The consequence is that the capitals of
these and most other States of the Union are but in-
, considerable places, deriving a fictitious importance
from the presence once a year of the local Legislature,
but striving in vain to expand into the size or the
dignity of cities. Washington itself, selected for the
same reasons as the capital of the Union, has little of
the appearance, and none of the amenities, of a veri-
table metropolis. It is a place of immense promise
and small performance. Its design upon the topo-
graphical chart is magnificent. Its actual condition
is petty and disappointing--a mixture of imposing
public edifices, separated from each other by long
intervals of inferior or half-built streets, in which
the pigstye, the cabbage-garden, and the wooden
shanty, alternate with the brick house and the marble
mansion. Unpaved and unfinished, dirty and dis-
reputable, swarming with beershops, groggeries,
gambling dens, and brothels, Washington can give
no other excuse for its existence than the meeting
of a Congress, which would have been much better
housed at New York.

To a great extent this unflattering but not incor-
rect description applies to Ottawa, the legislative
capital of Upper and Lower Canada, and, if the
proposed Confederation of the Provinces be consum-
mated, of the British American Union. Its situation
is much more picturesque than that of Washington,
and the noble quadrangle formed by the Houses of
Parliament and the Government offices, standing
on the crest of a hill which overlooks the beautiful
valley of the still more beautiful river, from which
the city takes its name, is alone sufficient to impress
upon it a character of individuality and grandeur
which few cities in America possess. In Ottawa
the memory of the oldest inhabitant extends no
further into antiquity than 39 years. It was but in
1826 that the first tree was cut down in the wilder-
ness, on which the city now stands, and when Colo-
nel By, of the Royal Engineers, gave the name of
Bytown to the little collection of wooden huts that
were the first results of his scientific " prospecting"
in this lonely region. Now, the streets of the
capital that has been arbitrarily, and, perhaps, un-
fortunately, fixed in this out-of-the-way spot are
laid down on a scale sufficient to accommodate
150,000 or 200,000 inhabitants. Though so lately
covered with forest trees, scarcely a bush flourishes
within the municipal boundaries. With a strange
wantonness of destruction on the part of the early
settlers, and with an equally strange want of
foresight on the part of the municipality, not
an old tree remains and not a new tree has
been planted to supply its place. As the heat in
summer is as oppressive in this latitude as in New
York, the omission to plant such umbrageous trees
as are to be found lining the main thoroughfares of
all the cities and towns of the Federal Union is not
easily to be accounted for on any principle consis-
tent with the public spirit, or even the common sense
of the place. It is true that the evil admits of
remedy. Nevertheless, it is to be feared that the ,