The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-22 00:00:00

INSPECTION OF PUBLIC VEHICLES.

Dr. Jeaffreson furnishes an important communica-
tion on the subject of the propagation of disease by
public vehicles. Ile refers to the notice that was
issued last June by the committee of the " Hospital
Carriage Fund." In this the public are informed
that seven " ambulances " have been established and
placed in various stations for the removal of a fever
or smallpox patient to or from any of the
hospitals. The authorities of the Smallpox Hospital
were the only ones who refused to accept
or further the use of a smallpox ambulance: The
Act of Parliament prohibiting the use of street cabs
for the conveyance of those suffering from infectious
diseases is, in Dr. Jeaffreson's opinion, a dead letter,
and he does not wish it to be otherwise until a suffi-
cient number of ambulances have been established,
and until the public know how and where to obtain
them. To put the prohibition in force now would
increase the existing danger of infection by inter-
fering with the removal of patients from the houses
of uninfected inhabitants, or from where their stay
would be injurious to themselve

COFFEE AS IN PARIS.—It has frequently been
attempted, by various inventions, to enable the Londoners
to brew cafe noir as in Paris, but every effort has
hitherto failed, owing to the complicated and dangerous
methods put forward. however, the groat desideratum
has been at last accomplished by Messrs. Mayer and Son,
of Paris, who have opened a depot in Fleet-street for the
sale of their new coffee machine, which produces the Pari-
sian luxury in the very best manner. The new machine
is undoubtedly efficient, it is very elegant in appearance,
moderato in price, and, above all, so simple, that even a
girl of twelve years of age can by its aid produce cafe, noir.
To the lovers of coff,e the machine of the Mesrs. Mayer
will be a great treasure, and no doubt it will soon be in
general use in all the large establishments at the West-
end of the town. The depot of Messrs. Mayer will be found
well worthy of a visit, as the articles there displayed are
not confined to the coffee machine. There is a remark-
ably clever arrangement, in the shape of a foot warmer,
which ran be used either in a church or a railway carriage,
and so portable that it can be carried in the pocket, not
being wuell larger than an octavo volume. The heat is
produced by a small lamp, so constructed that it cannot
by any nv:ans become disarranged. Those having a
taste for effervescing drinks will find a very
pretty little instrument by which they can be made and
consumed at pleasure, time not deteriorating the sparkling
liquid when once produced. Messrs. Mayer's establish-
meat will be found very interesting, and those desirous
only of inspecting the useful articles introduced to them
by the patentees will be certain to be received with true
Parisian politeness.
I)UNvILLE and Co., Belfast, are the largest
holders of Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports
tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co.,
Belfast; cc 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, London W.C.---(Ad
vertisement.]

METROPOLITAN GOSSlP—Thursday.

The political stagnation continues, and in the absence of
facts we are compelled to put up with fictions and rumours.
It is a fiction, for instance, and one which shews great
faculties of invention, that there is a split in the Cabinet.
Cabinets always " split " during the cold weather ; but so
soon as Parliament meets they generally (not always, as
General Peel, Lord Salisbury, and Lord Carnarvon could
testify) re-unite without a sign of fracture. In
the present instance, the time-honoured rumour
is • more than usually absurd, for rarely has there
been an Administration so thoroughly homogeneous
as the present. Very little has leaked out
yet respecting one of the two great subjects of Mr. Glad-
stone's programme—the Irish question—though there is
said to be some degree of trepidation among the extreme
Radicals lest the Government scheme should be less drastic
than they anticipated. As regards the other part of the
programme economy there can be no doubt
about the earnestness of the Government. Every
day brings some fresh proof of it. It is not
merely the underlings who are affected. It is
not only dockyardsmen and clerks in the public offices
who are feeling the new broom, though it is rumoured
that the War Office will have a taste of it
before long. The abolition of the post filled by
the late Mr. James Disraeli testified to the thorough-
ness of the new regime, for thereby Ministers
renounced a piece of preferment with which they might
easily have rewarded a steadfast or confirmed a wavering
supporter. This self-denial is confirmed by the fact
announced to-day, that Mr. Childers does not intend
to fill up the governorship of Greenwich Hos-
pital vacant by the death of Sir J. Gordon,
and will thereby save the country £3,000 a year. Simul-
taneously with this announcement, a circular is issued by
Mr. William Rathbone Greg, Controller of the Stationery
Department, and not unknown to readers of the Pall Mall
Gazette, exhorting the clerks to be more economical
in the use of stationery. There is room, indeed, for such
economy, and not only in quills (to which Mr.
Greg's circular refers). Why should the nation be
called upon to provide paper for all the Govern-
ment clerks when they wish to write private letters or
tales for the magazines ? I have known an instance
in which an official of the lower ranks has supplied his
daughter- living in service with office writing paper ad
It is thought probable that the Queen will open Parlia-
ment in person, and will make a public entry under the
Victoria Tower, instead of entering privately as of late
years. In that case it is to be hoped that she will wear
her robes, instead of merely sitting on them. Before then
another child will be added to the list of royal grand-
children. The confinement of the Princess Helena is
expected daily.
More than once Mr. Maguire has prepared the way for
important legislation in Ireland. Last year it was his
motion on the state of Ireland which forced Lord Nrayo to
announce the Government policy with regard to the
Church. He has already given notice that he will call
attention to the state of the property held in Ireland by
certain London companies, and he will thus open the
question of land tenure. He is now making a tour of
county Derry, in order to get the necessary information.
The Temperance party in Parliament mean to make
another move this session. Sir Wilfrid Lawson will pro-
bably introduce his Permissive Bill in March, and it is
hoped that the first reading will not be opposed. It is
calculated that there are about 120 M.P.'s who have more
or less pledged themselves to support the principle of
the bill—that the licensing of drink-shops is a
matter for the decision of the ratepayers. It
is expected that a much larger number than
this will remain neutral, for the question has gained much
ground lately, especially now that the Reform Bill
has greatly reduced the influence of the publicans. The
unseating of Mr. Whitworth, at Drogheda, has deprived
the Alliance of one of its most ardent supporters in
Parliament.
It is all but certain that before Parliament meets Mr.
Milner Gibson will have found a seat. At the present
time he is spoken of for two constituencies—Manchester,
where Mr. Birley is about to be unseated by reason of
belonging to a firm which has a Government con-
tract ; and Norwich, where Sir Henry Stracey
has been unseated for bribery. Mr. Gibson re-
presented Manchester for sixteen years, and has
therefore some sort of claim upon the seat. But Mr.
Ernest Jones, too, has a claim, since it was he who lost the
third seat in November through the operation of the
minority clause. To-morrow and Saturday an experi-
ment will be tried, which will have a great effect in decid-
ing the revived Ballot .question. The electors of Man-
chester will be asked to declare by Ballot which of the two
shall be the Liberal candidate. Manchester is generally
foremost in giving practical effect to new ideas.
Supposing Mr. Gibson is not chosen by his old constituents,
he is pretty nearly safe to be returned for Norwich. He
is a resident of the eastern counties, and, though lie is
known best as one of the Manchester school, is neither
by education nor in appearance a Manchester man. He
is the son of an officer in the army ; he was educated at
Cambridge, and he has all his life been a country
gentleman, having his seat near Saxmundham, in Suffolk.
He is, moreover, one of the most elaborate dressers in
London, in that respect resembling another well-known
but now deceased Radical, Tom Duncombe. Mr. Gibson
is a good-looking man, though now in his 62nd year, and
if somewhat of a fainéant Minister, has done good service
as a private member.
Mr. Bruce has now fully exculpated himself in all fair
minds with respect to his reprieve of the convict
Bisgrove. No one now doubts that the Queen's preroga-
tive was rightly used in this instance. The case is very
different from-one which happened some years ago, in
which a very distinguished colleague of Mr. Bruce's bore a
leading part. A murderer had been condemned to death.
The distinguished Minister (then a comparatively
unknown man), being greatly averse to capital
punishment, exerted himself successfully to obtain
a mitigation of the sentence, and the murderer was
transported to Australia. Years passed, and one day the
distinguished Minister, still, however, a private member of
Parliament, was travelling, and fell into conversation with
a fellow passenger on the subject of death penalty. He
related the case in which he had played so active a part,
and asserted his satisfaction at the course which be had
taken. " Yes," replied his companion, "and that man
afterwards committed three murders in Australia." Pro-
found silence ensued, which was not interrupted until the
end of the journey.
London is to be scandalised very shortly by a trial
involving the reputation of the heir to a peerage.
I alluded to this case in a former letter, and I
now learn that the scandal, which was then the talk of
private circles, will soon be public property. The person
in question has already appeared in a by no means envi-
able position, and ought to have been prosecuted by the
Crown, but has escaped, out of regard to his father, I pre-
sume. To that father this son has been a life-long
reproach. Years ago, when the first heard that the second
was about to be married, he wrote to the lady and told her
that he felt bound to warn her of the character of his son ;
and, in doing so, he used words too strong to be repeated.
The warning had no effect, the marriage took place, and
for a time the prodigal seemed to have reformed himself.
But certain circumstances which took place four years
ago shewed that the reformation was but a sham one.
Since then father and son have been estranged.
The latest act of this prospective peer has been to
forge his brother's name to bills amounting to
£-1,000. When the first of these came to the
knowledge of the person whose name had been used,
he nobly accepted the responsibility rather than expose
his family to fresh disgrace. It was soon found that there
would be no limit to the drain upon his generosity ; so
when, as they will shortly do, the holders of the bills sue
him, the whole transaction will be revealed. Meanwhile
the criminal has taken to flight, thinking banishment in
the North is better than residence in an English gaol.
The courts at Westminster are likely to witness two
remarkable actions for libel. One is the case of Edmunds
v. Greenwood. It will be remembered that when some
four years ago the " Edmunds scandal," as it was called,
came to light, involving Lord Westbury and one of
his sons, Messrs. Hindmarch and Greenwood were
appointed to investigate the charge made against
Mr. Edmunds, that he had embezzled certain
sums which he had received in his post at the
Patent Office. A report very damaging to Mr.
Edmunds was drawn up, and he was deprived of his
office. Latterly he has succeeded in proving, before one
of the judges, that he was to a great extent, if not entirely,
innocent of the offence imputed to him, and as he owed
his deprivation to the adverse report, he has instituted
proceedings for libel against Mr. Greenwood, one of the
authors of it. Probably, Mr. Greenwood will plead
that his communication was privileged. In the other case
the plaintiff has a similar name to the first plaintiff's.
He is Dr. Edmonds, of Fitzroy-square, who has brought
an action against another London physician, Dr. Snow
Beck. Dr. Edmonds is one of the physicians at the
Lying-in Hospital, Endell-street, and has introduced
several changes there. Amongst others he has replaced
the old-fashioned nurses by members of the Female Medical
College, and he has also discontinued the use of alcoholic
stimulants in ordinary cases. These changes have been
vnnarl; ably successful, for not a single case of
death had occurred in the hospital a few days ago,
and I believe none has occurred since. But reformers
must always count upon having enemies, and Dr. Edmonds
has found his among the old nurses and the supporters of
alcoholic treatment. A certain Dr. Snow Beck has carried
his hostility' so far that he has accused Dr. Edmonds of

having caused the death of one of his patients. The
facts are as follows :—A poor woman, a patient in the
hospital, got over her confinement very well, but was
suffering from rapid consumption. Dr. Edmonds advisei
that she should be sent to a consumption hospital, and
accordingly she was removed to her own home. The
night after her arrival there she felt so ill that she sent
for a medical man; who, on seeing her, declared that
there was nothing the matter with her, and scolded the
patient for having sent for him. However, she died the
next day, and her death is charged against Dr. Edmonds.
In his own vindication he has brought the action against'
Dr. Beck, who a week or two ago was brought up before
the magistrates on the charge of assaulting Dr. Edmonds,
a charge which was fully sustained.
In music and the drama there is not jnuch to say. The
pantomimes are still running, and there are nightly roars
of laughter at ridiculous postures on the part of the
men, and primval costumes on the part of the
women.—Mr. Robertson has produced a " new "
play at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, which
he calls " School," but which some impertinent
spectator has the audacity to say he saw years ago in
Germany, when it was called "Aschenbriidel," and said to
be written by Robert Benedix. The Welsh clergyman's
daughter, Miss Edith Wynne, who has returned from her
wanderjahre in Italy, sang most charmingly last night at
Mr. Boosey's ballad concert in St. James's Hall ; so,
too, did Madame Lemmens-Sherrington. But surely
Madame Sainton-Dolby would consult her musical repu-
tation best by retiring. Mr. Buchanan begins his readings
from his own poetry on Monday.

In literary news there are one or two events which will
interest your reader. The authoress of the "Girl of the
Period" articles in the Saturday Review is at last discovered
to be Mrs. Linton, the wife of our finest wood engraver,
and the joint producer, with her husband, of illustrated
books on the Lakes and on the New Forest.
Another lady writer, Miss Harriet Martineau, is, I am
sorry to say, in such bad health that she could not revise
the reprint volume of biographic sketches which she has
just brought out. She is now in her 67th year. The long-
looked-for diary of the late Henry Crabbe Robinson
is to be published in the spring by Macmillan.
It is edited by Dr. Sadler. Mr. Lecky, the young
and very successful author of the "History of Rationalism,"
has in the press a " History of European Morals, from
Augustus to Charlemagne." Sir John Taylor Coleridge
has expanded his brief memoir of Keble, which appeared
in the Guardian, into a volume of 600 pages—not bad
work for a man in his 79th year. The publishers
of it, Messrs. Parker, announce a volume of
poems by Keble, which will be sure to have
many readers. Mr. Hotten promises the letters
of Mary Lamb, sister of Charles Lamb. Mr. W. R.
Greg, whose name has already appeared in this letter,
has written a very remarkable iittle book of thirty pages,
entitled " Truth versus Edification," intended as a reply
to Mr. Matthew Arnold's strictures on Bishop Colenso.
Another new magazine, the West End, is announced,
Messrs. Arthur A'Beckett, the editor, and Matthew
Morgan, the artist, have bought the copyright of the
Tomahawk " for a good round sum in thousands "—a long
price, considering how lamentably the publication has fallen
off lately.
One of the tournaments in connection with the British
Chess Association will terminate this week. The first and
second prizes in the handicap lie between Messrs. Steinitz
and Wisker. Should no accident decide otherwise, the
German professional, who is undoubtedly the finest player
in Europe, will take the first prize, and the Hull amateur
the second.
We have had queer weather here to-day. A bright
morning ; a dense fog, which in ten minutes brought us
midnight darkness, which lasted for an hour, and then
cleared again.

THE CHINESE MISSION IN EUROPE.

The letters received at Washington from Mr.

BURLINGAME'S Embassy accounted for the previous
inaction and spoke hopefully of future success. The
late Ministry had received the mission most cour-
teously, but as dissolution hung over it the Ambas
sailor from China thought it useless to fret its last
moments with business which could lead to no prac-

tical result. -Indeed, his Excellency ANSON BURLIN-
GAME, withoutbeing accused of any time-serving pro-
pensities, very naturally strove more to get his hand
on the pulse of the coming men than to listen to
the dying speeches and confessions of the expiring
Tory Cabinet. The result has justified his Excel-
lency, for he got through his business with Yankee
expedition when he knew with whom to deal.
The late British episode in China will con-
vince the EMPEROR'S Government at Peking
of the value of this mission. It is amusing to see

the trap into which poor Consul MEDIIURST
has fallen, a full, true, and particular account of
which is to be found in the Times of last Monday.

At the moment Lord CLARENDON was conceding
Mr. BURLINGAME'S just !demands, Mr. MEDITURST

was enforcing his diplomatic notions on the man-
darins of Nanking, under the guns of her MA-
JESTY'S fleet, commanded by Admiral KEPPEL.
The correspondent draws a pitiable account of the
Viceroy, TSENG, and his successor elect, MA, on
learning the unalterable determination of the Bri-
tish to take the Chinese gunboat Tung-Che, as a
material guarantee for the fulfilment of the stipula-
tions Mr. MEDHURST had thrust on the mandarins,
literally, at the point of the bayonet. Poor TSENG
had arranged to proceed in his gunboat towards
the seat of his new government, escorted by a pro-
cession of mandarins, and high festival was to be
held in the steamer, then decorated for the occa-
sion. This had to be foregone, and he had to drain
to the bitterest dregs the cup of his humiliation.
"TSENG turned in his agony to the subordinate con-
sular officers of the party, and begged them to in-
tercede with their chief. But Mr. MEDHURST was
firm ; he knew too well the hollowness of Chinese
promises, and the value of making some show of
power for the benefit of the people; and TSENG was
told thatif the Tung-che were not quietly given up she
would be taken." After detailing the measures taken
by the British Consul to humiliate the Chinese and
obtain reparation for the injuries done by the mob
of Yang-chow, the correspondent adds—" Great
credit is due to Mr. MEDHURST for the ability and
energy. he has shown throughout the whole negotia-
tions, and to Sir RUTIIERFORD ALCOCK for the
wise and vigorous support he has lent to the for-
mer's actions. It is fortunate that the Shanghai
Consulate was so well filled at the emergency."
Now, we have no fault to find with Mr. MEDHURST
for his conduct in this affair, but, on the contrary,
think he deserves credit for the energy and deter-
mination with which he performed a disagree-
able duty. What we condemn is the system
which erects the accuser into both judge and exe-
cutioner, which is simply a proclamation of ruling
in China by the strong arm, while we endeavour to
enforce on the Chinese, the propriety, the morality
of adhering to the terms of treaties thus made. The
day for such action as that taken by Mr. MED-
HURST has now passed away—let us hope for ever—
as far as China is concerned ; for while these trans-
actions were progressing the principle was recog-
nized by the British Secretary for Foreign Affairs
that complaints should not be settled by the arbi-
trary acts of Consuls, and men-of-war, directed
against the local authorities, but be referred to the
supreme Government at Peking, and no hostile
action was to be taken unless sanctioned by her
MAJESTY'S Ministers. The Times condemned the
course adopted by Mr. MEDHURST, and, what is un-
usual with it, refused to be guided by the light of
its correspondent. It received Mr. Buitusomm's
mission by casting every difficulty in his way it
could arouse in British prejudices ; but Mr. BUR-
LINGAME has been successful, and the Times now
endorses that success with its approval—a charac-
teristic peculiarity which shows how qualified it is
to represent the average JOHN BULL. We are not
concerned, however, with the opinions of the Times,
except, in so far as they are supposed to reflect those
of the nation ; but we are concerned with the prin-
ciple secured, upon which we heartily congratulate
the Ambassador from China. It must be a
source of no small gratification to him that he
was enabled to overcome the machinations of
those he sketched as the East Indian planters, the
opium smugglers, slaveowners, and others of that
genus who consistently oppose all progress, and
manage to muster so strongly in London when th
sort of work has to be done. Mr. BURLINGAMF: be-
lieves in a frank, fair statement of his case, without
any diplomatic double-dealing or chicanery ; taking
the firm ground of equal justice to all. There is
one subject, however, which should not be over-
looked, now that the Yang-chow affair has been
settled and that the Chinese mission has left Lon-
don. The injustice of humiliating TSENG and MA
at Nanking for the acts of a Yang-chow mob will
leave its sting behind, and make enemies of two

powerful officials which may bear fruit hereafter
The reception given to. the Embassy in
where some ill-advised papery--the Standard for
instance—likened the mission to a troop of Chiner
jugglers, has produced an effect sure to react int
Peking. It was the more marked, as the contras
was immediate between the hospitable welcon3e t,
London'
ten-
dered in America, which has, we believe, been OA
lowedby a reception little less distinguished
tll
inFan°rance'_
Common prudence might have suggested
course, while courtesy prompted a kindlier greetliflga
to strangers who had broken through the crust °.
thousand years' seclusion, to get into conipanicati°
with the outer world.-4-ing/o-American Times.

THE LATE MR. JOHN DICKINSON'

issued
We of the present day, with our newsPaPera t
daily by the hundred thousand, can form but a bill
idea of w bat was the state of the paper m•
this
ture, now so important a branch of industryrnineuteble,
country, even at so late a period as the com
paper helilbge
meat of the present century. Instead of
reeled off in webs many feet in width, and at t.a
rate sometimes of upwards of a mile in the hour
die
length, each sheet had at that time to be 113%0
separately on a mould by hand, and bad then, re
be subjected to various subsequent processes heleo
it was in a state fit for use. To obtain an ilnifcrst
and continuous supply for any purpose was °lied
a matter of impossibility, and the necessitibe,
applying machinery to this manufacture was hat:
t.
ginning to be felt, while the success which had
sir
tended its introduction into the spinning and wevae;
ing industries gave encouragement of success. 'l,
the whole change from a system of manufacture :1i
most medi:eval in its rudeness was comprised witlit,
ted
the lifetime and was in great measure effe°
the exertions and ingenuity of the gentleman wh°s„a
name we have placed at the head of this article, a"
who was buried on Monday last at Kensal-greoe°:
John Dickinson, eldest son of Capt. T. Diekh's,-,,:a
R.N., was born on the 29th of March, 1782, The
had therefore nearly completed his 78th year at
l
time of his decease. His father, of a north coa
family, was himself the son of a naval caPt:l;
and his mother came of an old French flu:nil/ca.
Cosses, of Brissac, though her immediate an,lct
tors had been driven by the revocation of the I'o.,
of Nautes to settle in this country,' It is Pra-
bable that, as has been the case in many other 103
stances, it was to this infusion of French bi;je,
that much of the inventive faculty to which wo
Dickinson owed his subsdquent success ntain
due. The intimacy subsisting between `-'3' at
Dickinson's family and Andrew Strahac' his
that time the King's printer, iniluenceid and
future career as connected with the B uPPIYf his
manufacture of paper. On the expiration 0- r° ak,
indentures he commenced business in Walb
l'
and shortly after joined Mr. Charles citier..
man, brother of the late Mr. Longman, °f Fa ae,
noster-row, and for some time M.P. for maidatoljtv
and carried on business with him, and subseTilieje
with his nephew in the premises in the Old at the
, It was not, however, until the year 1806 tiT:ciefi•
I first patent " for manufacturing paper of an 11nier,
nite length" was taken out by Henry Fournripa.
and this was soon followed by Mr. Dickinson 's
for
tent of June 30, 1807, for rnachinercoar
cutting and planing paper thus which
drinier's patent for the paper macbinet "oo
still bears his name, was taken out in the "gr.
year ; and it was about this time that anty
tn Dickinson cemenced his career as a paper 01
ear
facturer by the purchase of Apsley-rnilli °toe
Hemel Hempsted, to which in the coursed two
four other mills in Hertfordshire were add::Abet:a
of them constructed, and the water power is
created under his own superintendence. I',i'slar
1807, before the commencement of the ren'iridge
campaign, that he invented a new cannon carm-oilea
paper, made by mixing together linen and Ws.; lo•
rags in certain proportions, so that after the
sion it was prevented from retaining sparks 0 tar°
In 1809 he patented machinery for themanti °
coo'
of paper by means of an ingeniously coast
cylinder of brass, covered with wire gauze and cr
hick
meted with an air-pump, a form of machine litho
still remains in use. 'This was followed by
patents for the manufacture of finely-faced cc)PArfor
plate paper by a sort of veneering process, at
a machine to cut cards, both of which were led
cessful inventions, and the former especially tea itt,
much to increase his reputation. In 1826 ti,,°.eact4
vented the process of introducing coloured 00,
into the body of paper at the instant of its tllti4
facture which was again improved on in °
183' tied
preservative against forgery will have been nwd
by holders of Exchequer bills, and many a tihswere
remember it in the stamped envelopes whic'f thy
issued by Government after the adoption 00 of
penny postage system, in the introdOti° jd
which Mr. Dickenson had taken great interee"e'r or
1832 we find him again patenting a kart ta
two
strainer for cleaning pulp from impurities, att fat/
years later applying magnets for the roil:Oval° OP'
portions of iron that may happen to be ill tike
P
and thus preventing ironmould in the Pe'Pe,l:;orcire:,
sides these, he took out other patents for '7,tetory
ments, more or less important, in the Mariti.iii re
of paper, almost up to the period of his fin;aef oat°
tiring from business in 1857. Such is a hrrkieoelli.
line of the principal inventions of gr. PiLe .0°,7
in connection with the manufacture,
he must be regarded as one of the foonne'reaor
of which he was for many years the fined
wised chief. But his,energies were not COnfrieou;
manufacturing and mechanical details • hi°,loo ah
ship with the principal publishers of l'en-brettre
Edinburgh was intimate and lasting, and; -aeislieni
him in contact with most of the dist:tad 'd
authors of his day. He was a member 01 'Foll°4'a
the learned societies, and was inlB4selentel:,teat
of the Royal Society, to which he coninin,-er frog'
1851, some observations on the supply a Waipacloilt
the chalk stratum in the neighbourhood 0f thoP.fgefi
containing much valuable information as Wile leci
colation of water through chalk. In his la a ere'hti I
ho took much interest in astronomy, ahti.,oo;if
an observatory at his country house, .6-"A-baio"Bl.'
of which he had been at once architect alwthe ge°:
As a magistrate he took an active part i° ',I be° ;
ral concerns of the county. He was a libeLa Oiled
factor to numerous charitable institutionol peed
cially to hospitals, and was for many 9,e3rn-d,
the registrars of the Royal Literary .r tt-rf, av,cl
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RINAHAN'S LT,. WHISKY. DUBL:
EXHIBITION. 1865.
This celebrated OLD IRISH WHISKY gained the Dul
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It Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesome.
Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London
the Agents in the principal tcwns in England: or wholesale
8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W.
Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label and Oork Branded "
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ITUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION
LT I (Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 1859),
14, RIJSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON,
Arid 33, QUEEN'S-ROAD, BRIGHTON
ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free
hold or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay-
able weekly, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted.
Forms free on receipt of stamped envelope.
EDWARD HARPER, Secretary.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EX RIBTTTON.
PORTR tIT MODELS of MARSHAL SERRANO and
GE'ERAL PRIM are nnw Aded.—&dmittance. la.; children
under ten years of age, f d.; extra rooms, GI Open from eleven
a.m. till ten p m.

ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN.
Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey (late Weston).
Everybody in London should pay a visit to this Establishment
and see the MONSTRE CHRISTMAS EN TERTAINMENT.—
Vile (he Public Press. Mr. A. G. Vance. Mr. J. G. Forth). E.
D. Davis, Air. A. Lloyd. the Brothers Daniels, Miss Louie Sher-
rington, Miss Kate Bella, Miss Etty Gray, the Brothers Voltaire,
and a host of other talented artistes. Prices as usual.
Mr. P. Corri, Musical Director.
War Notice.—The celebrated Iris Minstrels, 20 in number
(W. G. BOSS), and Mr. JON: BROWN (from the Christy's
,• • Minstrels, St. James's Hall), will shortly appear.

•
ARGYLL ROOM S.-L-OPEN EVERY
EVENING for Instrumental Music and Dancing. —The
Rooms have been magnificently re-decorated by Messrs. It übardt
and Co. The celebrated Band will perform during the week
an attractive Programme of Operatic Selections and popular
Dance Music.
Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission, Is ; Balcony, 2s.
WINDMILL S'TitEET, PICCADILLY
Musical Director and Conductor—Signor LUIGI CURTI

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Consignee for NICHOLS and STONES' (the Burton Brewery)
celebrated PALE and other ALES ; Koatinge and Co.'s famous
Bordeaux Wines and Charente Brandies; and Irish and Scotch
Whiskies, from several of the best distilleries. Samples can
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of others wanted in town and country.

COUNTER CLOTHS FOR LICENCED
VICTUALLERS.

pHE only article really suitable for that purpose,
1 ss. 6d. rer dozen, hemmed, ready for use. Address
105, Fleet-street, and 5, The Pavement, Clapham.

GLASS CLOTHS SUITABLE FOR LICENCED
VICTUALLERS, 7s. 9d. PER DOZEN.
WILLIAM HOLDICH and CO., No. 105,
Fleet-street, foot of Ludgate hill ; and No. 5,
The Pavement, Clapham-common.

TABLE CLOTHS, in every Width and Length,
expressly for Licenced Victuallers. Damask Napkins
for Tray Cloths, Drills for Bar Aprons and Towellings of
every description. Patterns gratis and post free.

VARDIGAN JACKETS made expressly for Bar
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..Jadies' and Gentlemen's use. WILLIAM HOLDICH
Ind Co., LICENSED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, 105, Fleet-
street, City, and No. 5, The Pavement, Clapham-common.

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With Price List.

TO LICENCED VICTUALLERS.
ESTABLISHED 1842.
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LICENCED VICTUALLERS' DRAPERS, No.
105, Fleet-street, corner of FarrinTion-strent ; and at No.
5, The Pavement, Clapham-common (Southern Branch).

THE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON and
GLOW,: INSURANCE COSIPA NY.
Offices-1, Dale:street, Liverpool;_ 7, Cornhill; and

Charing-cross, 'London.
The Invested Funds now amount to £3,401,055. the
sire Revenue to £830,816, and that of the Life to £29,039.
The moderate rates of premium, with a guaranteed fixed
Bonus for the Life Policies of this Company, and their
value as SPECIAL SECURITIES to third parties,
render them particularly advantageous. Whole-world
leave is granted on reasonable terms, and claims are paid
thirty days after admission.
JOHN ATKINS, Resident Secretary.

SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL, DREADNOUGHT,
off Greenwich, for Sick and Diseased Seamen of All
Naticns, who are received without any recommendation.
The receipts from all sources daring the past year were
079 less than the expenditure.
SUBSCRIPTIONS thankfully received by Messrs.
Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers, Birchin-lane ; and by
the Secretary, at the Society's office, 86, King William-
Street, London, E.C.
Qualification for a Governor, 21s. annually ; 'Life
Governor, £lolos.

1-47,STABLISHMENT for GENTLEWOMEN

during TEMPORARY ILLNESS.
The relatives of Clergymen, Naval. Military, and Pro-
fessional Men, Governesses, and Artists may, for a small
Weekly payment, receive the comforts of a HOME, com-
bined with the best medical and surgical treatment, at the
establishment, 90, Upper Barley-street.
This establishment, which was opened in 1850, is patro-
nised by her Majesty. The Bishop of London is Visitor,
and it is managed by the Marchioness of Ormonds. the
Lady Laura Palmer, Mrs. Edward Romilly, the Lady
Caroline Russell, Mrs. Cecil Russell, and other ladies.
All inform&ion respecting it may be obtained on writ-
ten or personal application to the Lady Superintendent.
Subscriptions received at the Institution, and by the
Treasurer at Messrs. Coutts and Co.'s, 59, Strand.
W. C. SPRING RICE, Hon. Sec.

'NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861.
I7nder the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G.,
',hereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
uirls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of
the kingdom:,
~ The object of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng-
udi education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house,
lind laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other
Wise - • •
proviued for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain
suitable situations for them.
_ The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is
.11tirely sustained by donations and subscriptions.
HENRY lICINGSCOTE, Treasurer
W S. WAFWICIC Secretary.
-e•e• 121, Pall-mall, W

HRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM,
Mackenzie-park, Slough (formerly at Clapham-rise).
Instituted 1827,
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
For the gratuitous board, clothing, and education of
destitute orphans from all parts of the British dominions,
and of all denominations, whose parents were once in
prosperous circumstances.
one hundred and seventy-five orphans now in the In-
stitution ; ample room for about 30 more.
Increased support indispensable, as this Charity is not
endowed, and is in the greatest need of further pecuniary
assistance.
, Subscribers and the public are invited to inspect the
iLpstitution, and judge as to the nature of the Charity and
"13Peculiar
see last Report can be obtained on application to the
tarY•

THOS. TILSON, Chairman.
ACTTUABRS.EILECE.,PIk,RI.IA. OE, M.A.,} Hon. Secs.
ALFRED MACKENZIE, Secretary.
2ffices, 73, Cheapside, London, E.C.
1.,-,ua.rAlKers—essrs. William s, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-
and Messrs. Heywood Brothers. Manchester.

-414T1 RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE.
BARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids'
and Infants' Food.
THE REVALENTA ARABICA
:Lea fifty t
imes its cost in other remedies, and restores
-.._•=ect digestion strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver,
-",reshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to
atnhe_
too disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily d
effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), asthma,COO-
cough' gastric de-
De", toPtion, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all
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t.irvousness biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria,
ntrbBinfluenza, noises in the head and ears,
colds,
,„:',"atnatisrn gout, impurities, eruptions,. hysteria, nen-
irri'tability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation,mg
heats, irritability,
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ses. and sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking
ttie
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onchttis, scrofula, tightness of the chest,
Pit of the stomach and between the shoulders. It is
suitable
for invalids
most digestible and nourishing of.all foods, and
invalids and infants in all complaints.
AMPoRTANT CAUTION. Beware of the many unsavoury
wantl more than slopy imitations to which, without autho-
-AY, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached.
tre,nceforth none will doubt the valuable properties. of,
arrY's health-resterino• Revalenta Arabica
tas-- 41. fants' Food, since to "'the thousands. of blessings it
already received from invalids whose positionihaid
riren deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his t ol d
le the Pope, whose health has been perfectly res ore
it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment.
IR 64.11u,0te from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No.
e, n y
Oil of
1.
a:---the"rlTsmexceJllelnt,2l t, 1866.—The health of the
especially since, abandoning all
rer remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du
PYIS Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a
ateful at
A every meal. Tt has produced a surprisingly
..,3r_llle;cial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot
e this excellent food too highly."
ye‘4l.lBl,ellC. 0. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Rrehan of seven
livers
complaint, wasting away, debility, nervous-
49:,..!rritability, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad
tier constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable
vows a litat'
g teut.rtdiCa°'•lB.nonfdyspepsia, from the Right lion. the Lord
to Decks, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Water-
for4 I have derived much benefit from your
~excellent
IN-,(Aier DE DECIES, Dromana, Cappoquin, County
' 01'101,1
Cure ie.
freni 49,832.- Of fifty years' indescribable agony
flatuie YsPcPsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation,
L "Y, spasms' sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly,
tu
eTuu. Norfolkrvo° No. 47,121.--Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extremer
Pon, rBn?ss, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and no -
eur",(Xies.
Year .1'(• 56,814.—Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two
8 duirrh rna
The p •
lb, 4 nod is sold in Canisters, at ls. 11d. ; 11b., 2s. 9d.
cati6ts" ; 121 b., 225. ; 241 b., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b
arr:rs„„' carriage free on recept of P. 0. Order. Also Du
ti o•evalenta Arabica. Chocolate Powder is packed in
,i),ilaut stars : ?or 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48
about 68., for 288 cups at 305., for 576 c _Ts at 555. Being
00 urtne Penny per cup. The 305. and 555. tins are sent
14(14.^1rriage in England on rpceint of Post Office Order
4180 at ;1',31C1 BARRY and Co., 77, gegeut-strePt, London ;
ortnum and Mason's ; also at 4, Cheapside, 61,
tio-,7Jaoutstreet ;63 and 150, Oxford-street ; and 121, rth-raad, London and all Grocers and Chemists.

KING'S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Portugal-
street, Lincoln's-inn.—The Committee earnestly,
APPEAL for FUNDS to defray the heavy current ex-
penses. Assistance is urgently needed.
F. ALFRED BEDWELL, Vice-Chairman.
JAMES BLYTH, Secretary.

THE METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT
INSTITUTION.
President—His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON.
Treasurers—The Right Hon. Russell Gurney, M.P., and
Col. W. F. Grant.
DONATIONS and SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly
solicited, to enable the Board to meet the greatly increased
expenditure of this old Charity. 240 adults are received
at Walton ; 80 children at Mitcham and Hendon.
Bankers—London Joint-Stock Bank, Pall-mall.
CHARLES HOLMES, Secretary.
Office, 32, Sackville-street, Piccadilly.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vico-Patron—

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

This Hospital, founded iu the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent 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 considerable period averaged be-
tween 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 aro received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coats and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co.;
[lorries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Papw, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street and at
the Hospital from 10 till 5.