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London, England, 1869-07-08

THE ASSOCIATION for the WELFARE of
the BLIND, 210, Oxford-street, and 127, Euston-road.
Patroness—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
This Institution affords employment in various ways to
172 blind men and women.
Pensions to various amounts are granted to the blind
who cannot earn their own living.
500 blind men and women aro applying for help, which
cannot be given for WANT of FUNDS.
Contributions will be thankfully received by the Secre-
tary, Rev. C. B. REID, M.A.
London, England, 1869-07-08

LONDON, 7'll URSDA Y, JULY 8, 1869.

The report of the Lords' Committee is to be
brought up to-morrow. The Irish Church Bill, it is
expected, will be read a third time in the Upper
'louse on Monday, and the probability is that,
within a week from to-day the Premier will move
that the Peers' ammlnents sh2.lt be considered.
Thereupon it will be seen how far practicable it may
be to secure the passing of the bill in some reasonable
shape this session by means of mutual concessions on
the part of the Lords and Commons, on the part of
the dominant Opposition in the House of Lords, and
on the part of the dominant Ministedalists in the
House of Commons. We do not believe for one, but
that some rational compromise will be carried out.
We cannot for a moment anticipate that, at this
advanced stage, matters will be brought to a dead
lo The Bill will be passed., And, at the same
time e r will not be stultified by its being
nliowe ie pass in a form altogether beyond recog
nition. " The amendments, as they now stand, place
it beyond all recognition. These amendments, there-
London, England, 1869-07-08

BALTIMORE.

The port of Baltimore, on the coast of Maryland, was a
heavy sufferer by the civil war, and its present condition
is, therefore, some guide to the recovery of the Southern
States from the effects of that exhausting struggle. On
this account the report of our Consul, to the effect that
the trade and population of the Maryland seaport are
progressing with great rapidity, is highly gratifying. In
1860 the inhabitants of the port numbered 212,000. They
are now 352,000. The progress of trade has been equally
striking. In 1864 the imports of Baltimore were valued at
6 millions of dollars, and the exports at 12 millions. 'The
values are now respectively 13i and 15 millions.
The few years of peace have been employed by the people
of the Southern States in re-establishing their former
trade with Baltimore, and beyond doubt their energy has
been rewarded with much success. Our Consul says:—
" With the gradual subsiding of political excitement in
the Southern States, and with their reconciliation to recon-
struction, this State is daily assuming its wonted com-
merce in cotton; in fact, since the close of the war,
which completely ruined the ikiaryland cotton market,
this trade has been steadily increasing. Baltjmore being
the nearest Atlantic market to a large section of cotton-
growing districts, and p,sse•ssing great facilities for trans-
port, there can be no doubt but that it will become a very
important cotton market, more especially as political
sympathies with the South will draw a considerable
portion of the trade to this city."
London, England, 1869-07-08

SPIRITUAL MAAIFESTATIONS.

Some more extraordinary "revelations of spiritualism"
were made at the last meeting of the Dialectical Society.
The Master of Lindsay handed in a paper detailing a
portion of his experiences. In answer to questions, he
stated that he was present when Mr. Home was carried
out of one window into the air, eighty-five feet above the
ground, and brought in at another window. On one occa-
sion he saw the apparition of Mr. Home's late wife when
sleeping in the same room with Mr. Home. Hs remem-
bered that a friend at Rome, when he was there, one day
advised him to play on three particular numbers. He
declined. His friend said he had dreamed those numbers
mould win, played f'r a small sum, and won.

Mr. Thomas Rowcroft, of South Norwood, stated that
he attended a seance last autumn, and among other extra-
ordinary phenctnena he had seen a spirit hand moving the
keys of an accordion, and most brilliant music produced.
The family commenced a hymn tune, but the key being
too low, the instrument gave the true pitch. The family
then sang three verses, the spirit playing in perfect time
and tune.

Mr. J. Jones, of Enmore Palk, said that he had at
twilight seen Mr. Home floating in the air on his back,
about six feet from, the ground, as if in water—there was
no action of his 1.04, simple floating in the air as if carried
by a current ; that he had, in the presence of several per-
sons sitting at an ordinary table, seen an exquisitely-formed
band and part of an arm rise between the dress and black
lace fall of a lady ; recognised the hand as that of
a deceased relative ; that he had scores of times
been touched by spiritual beings, and the sensation was
like that which would be felt by the pressure of a glove
filled with air. Ire had often seen the form of a hand
rise between the table and the cloth. On one occasion
the hand dissolved while he was vigorously pressing it ;
that on one occasion, in a party, he sang `• God save the
Queen," and a spirit played the seconds on au accordion.
lie once attended a dark seance. Before the lights were
put out he poured phosphorised oil on several musical in-
struments. When the lights were put out the instruments
were seen to ascend swiftly in the air, and float swiftly
round the room.

Dr. - narrated that a medical friend ca'led on a lady
patient. She said: "Last night I dreamt that the winner
of the Derby would be No. 19 on the racing card." lie
made inquiry, found No. 19 was "nowhere ;" 23 to 1
against it ; he took the bets, and cleared £2,000.
Mr. J- narrated that, when his late wife was ill,
early in March, he heard a voice, as if in the centre of his
head, repeating at short intervals, " The 7th, the 7th."
Considering it a prediction as to the fatal crisis day of his
wife, he went to the three attendants, told them that the
crisis day with Mrs. J. would be on the 7th of April, and
requested them to remember the date. When his two
sous came home in the afternoon he informed them. On
the morning of the 7th, when his wife was leaning on the
breast of one of her sous, she was seized. The scene was
fearful.
London, England, 1869-07-08

I'RIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMAL'E PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITIITION.

President—Rev. CANON DALE.
CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard street, KO.; Francis Nicholls,
Xeq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, N.O.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.
London, England, 1869-07-08

THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN.

THIS EVENING. at ~30, THE SMOKED MISER. After which,
THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mr. J.
C. Cooper, Mr. G. Honey, Mr. C. ;.,"oghlan, Mrs. HermannVezin,
Mrs. C. Horsman, &c.

PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss Marie Wilton
THIS EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne,
Addison, Glover, and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss
C. Addison, and Miss Jlarie Wilton. After which, A WINNING
HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET 3
romenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office
ipen from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL CURDENS, Regert's-pack, OPEN daily (ex-
ept Sundays). Admission, 18.; on Mondays, 6d. Children
nder twelTe.
London, England, 1869-07-08

EDUCATION IN TURKEY.

It is-customary for Christian merchants under the rule
of the Porte to ascribe the backward condition of Turkey,
and especially the deplorable state of education, to the
oppression of the Government. Our Consul at Bosna Serai,
Mr. Holmes emphatically declares that nothing can be more
false than these reports. Speaking of the state of educa-
tion in Bosnia, he says that it is Lad simply because
the people do not care to pay for any better.
The Government has always shewn itself ready
to aid the establishment of schools, but both Turks
and Christians think there is no need to be
better educated than their fathers, and desire no improve-
ment. "Half the evils attributed to the Turkish Govern-
ment arise from the ignorance, indolence, and superstition
of the populations themselves, and they must very much
change their nature Lefore a great and general advance in
civilisation can take place, do what the Government may
to promote it." Politicians who are accustomed to get
frantic over the sorrows of various nationalities under the
rule of the Porte will do well to keep these facts iu
ni;nd.

THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN.
Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLTVANI
EVERY EVENING, at 7.30, the very laughable fare THE
SMOKED MISER.

At 8 o'clock, Sheridan's inimitable comedy of THE SCIIOO 1.
FOR SCANDAL. Supported by the following celebrated
artistes :—Barty Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, George Honey, W. H.
Stephens, Charles Cogan, D. Evans, Lin Payne, A. Bernard,
E. Dys.s. and W. Arthur; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Jane
Rignold. Miss Louisa Thorne, Miss Amy Fawsitt, and Mrs.
Charles Horsman

Acting Manager—Axons StaLiviN,

OYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, at 7.30, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. nrke
and Belford: Mesdames Rtifton end Hughes.
After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne. times. Fen
ton, Turner, Chamberlains; Mesdames Bufton, L. Maitland, Sc.
To conclude sith HUE AND DYF

IN LOBE TH EATR E-R ( ) -1" A
T Sole Proprietor awl Manager. 3r. Sefton Puny.

Tll IS EVEN !NG. at 7. BI OW FOR PLOW: W
L'.. Vnr-nnn on, 3. dze ; Lydia
Foote

At 9.15. TT. J. ryron's grand Buriesque, THE COlV,ic.,,t
" 3 n'ITERS;" or. The Troublesome TNN^.I.P: Yesfil. J. C.larke,
3f arshall. Andrews. and ITurlstone ; Mesdames Julia St. George,
Brennan, Derenil, and C Thorne.
London, England, 1869-07-08

TIIF. 'WORKHOUSE INFIRMARY.

Another of those constantly-recurring cases of
hard dealing toward the sick in workhouses was
brought to light at a recent inquest at St. Pancras.
The new board of guardians at St. Pancras appointed
a temporary medical officer, who seems to have got
an idea into his head, or to have- given others the
that he had an idea that his
mission was to clear' the infirmary of patients. in
fulfilment of this humane duty, he kept cut
of the hospital all whom he possibly could,
and sent the inmates away as soon as the
worst part of the disease was passed. Of the conva-
lescent he took no account. But one day he carried
this strict rule a little too far. A woman was dis-
charged from the infirmary before the weakness
caused by scarlatina had passed away, and sent home
just at a time when she ought to have been carefully
nursed. Erysipelas begun almost immediately, and
the poor woman soon returned to seek readmission
to the workhouse. The medical officer still refused
to allow her to go into the infirmary; but symptoms
of delirium having come upon the patient, he was
obliged to yield. The permission, however, was
granted too late, as the woman died within a few
days. Another doctor who attended on the woman
thought death was accelerated by the want of attend-
ance, and the jury censured the temporary medical
officer as being guilty of " improper and dangerous "
conduct.
London, England, 1869-07-08

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION.

President—Rev: CANON DALE.

—...-.
CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1868 are ear-
nestly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard street, 1e..C.; Francis Nicholls,
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.O.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.
London, England, 1869-07-08

results, simply it very little blood-letting on no part
of the Frenchman,.who appears to have been slightly
wounded by a sabre cut in the arm. It would have
been hardly worth while directing public attention
to the affair but for the warning it gives to English-
men not to indulge in the strong language and still
stronger physical arguments with . which they are
wont to treat impertinence in their own country."

HEARTHSTONE MANURE.

The high rate of mortality at St. Kilda has drawn
forth some remarks, and has puzzled the doctors
exceedingly. Here, they said, was good air provided
for the people by nature, and yet they seemed in no
wise to be better for it—to be worse, indeed, than
the inhabitants of many large towns. Dr. Morgan,
the author of "Town Life Among the Poorest," has
discovered the reason for the high death-rate in the
hovels of St. Kilda. There in no smoke-hole in the cabins
which afford shelter to the people of the island.
Manure is so scarce in the island that the smoke
cannot be allowed to escape, it is too precious. For
twelve long months the soot is deposited in pitchy
layers upon the inner surface of the roof. With
the return of spring so much of the thatch as
is possessed of fertilising properties is carefully
removed, the roofing being restored to its original
thickness by the addition of fresh straw on the out-
side. The process is yearly repeated. To this indoor
manufacture cf manure the frightful sacrifice of
infant life in this secluded isbind is, Dr. Morgan
believes, mainly to be ascribed. There is something
grimly humorous in thus hoarding up puffs of smoke
to the destruction of human life.
London, England, 1869-07-08

RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.

VVTLIITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(Perfected and Exhibited in the Great Exhibitions
of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards of Five Hundred
Medical men to be the most effective inrontion in
the curative treatment of HERNIA. Tho use of a steel
spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is hero avoided—a
soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi-
site resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and
Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that
it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A
descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can-
cot fail to fit, forwardei by post, on the circumference of
the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the
manufacturer,

Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. Gd., and 31s. Gd. Postage,
ls. A Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 42e., and 525. 6d. Postage,
ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss. 425. and Us. 6d. Postage,
le. 10d.

Post-office Orders to be made payable to John Whitt,
Post-office, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT

L'ILAS TIC STOCKINGS,
132.4 KNEE-CAPS, &e., for Varicose Veins and all eases
of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They
are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and aro
drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Prico 4s. 6d., is. Gd.,
10s., and 16s. each. Postage, Gd.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.
London, England, 1869-07-08

C. J. Freake. Esq. I H. T. Pigott, Esq.

J. S. Gilliat, Edq. I R. R. Pyin, Esq.
Rev. Dr. F Hessey Hugh H. Seymour, Esq.
H G Heald, Esq. H. Wade, Esq.
IL Hook, Esq., Treasurer L Loftus Wigram, Esq.

Subscriptions will be received by any of the above ; by
Messrs. Harries, Farquhar, and Co ; and by the Hon.
Secretary, Rev. S. W. Lloyd, 14, Seymour-street, Port-
man-square, to whom commur ications may be addressed.

LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL is the only
institution in the Metropolis for the treatment and
prevention of contagious fevers.
CONTRIBUTIONS will be gratefully received by
Messrs. Dimsdale and Co., 50, Cornhill ; -Messrs. Drum-
mond, Charing-cross ; Messrs. Coutts, Strand ; Messrs.
Hoare, Fleet-street ; and by the Secretary, at the Hospital,
Liverpool-road, Islington, N.

NSTABLISHMENT for GENTLEWOMEN
1:4 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 Ormonde, the
Lady Laura Palmer, Mrs. Edward Romilly, the Lady
Caroline Russell, Mrs. Cecil Russell, and othei ladies.
All information 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. Coults and Co.'s, 59, Strand.
W. C SPRING BICE lion. Sec.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Groat Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QuitEN.
Vico-Patron—
His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.

President—His Grace the Duke of Ilucct.F.t7mt. 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 `.or 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 promises of this hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contrib,..tions aro received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ;
Hurries end Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Pa.r.e, and Co.; Barclay and Co.; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co.,;Bornors-street ; and at
the Hospital from 10 till b.
London, England, 1869-07-08

TIIE WAIL OFFICE.

The difficulty which has lately interposed in giving
effect to the new system of army control will be re-
moved by the adoption of an important modification.
Mr. Lowe could not, on behalf of the Treasury, con-
sent that one of the great spending departments
should have the control of its own accounts and
finance. So the local control of the finance busi-
ness will be conducted by a special staff unconnected
with any of the executive branches.
The Owl states that the office of Deputy Judge-
Advocate-General, which report had essigncd to Mr.
O'Dowd, sub-editor of the Army and Nary Gazette,
will not be filled until the Treasury has reported on
the nature tnd the extent of the duties, and whether
concentration with the legal department of the. War
Office and the Horse Guards may not be desirable.

AN ENGL7E.4I LORD CALLED TO ANSWER.

The Ham:ltons are very good to the scandal-
mongers, or the scludal-mongers behave very badly
to them, for there is always some trouble in which
either the Luke himself, or some relative of the same
name, is stated to have got. The latest story from
Paris concerns the Duke's brother, whose hasty
temper has caused him the inconvenience of
a duel. The Herald, which gives currency to the
story, adds :—" It is satisfactory to know that the
nwainir has come off without 111137 very lamentable
London, England, 1869-07-08

TIHE HOSPITAL for WOMEN, Soho-square.
11_ —Bankers : Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co. ;
Messrs. Ransom, Bouverie, and Co.—The Committee
APPEAL very earnestly for CONTRIBUTIONS. The
Hospital is row open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri-
days to out-patients who are treated without letters of
recommendation.

HENRY B. INGRAM, Secretary.
London, England, 1869-07-08

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London, England, 1869-07-08

(From Der Morgen Stern.)

"Royalty depends for continuance on its possessors.
Royalty without virtue is a symbol and a sham. With
virtue it may be productive of use to the Democracy.
The speech of the fortunate young man who seeks to rule
our land is likely to do him good. Amid the tinsel and
corruption of Courta he seeks to keep his mind unsullied
and, to the best of his lights, to do his duty."

(From Der Morgen Post.)

-"The speech of the Prince last night was singularly
graceful and happy. Ms rhetoric is felicitous, and, united
with a prepossessing appearance, could not but produce a
cheering effect on his audience. Some of his sentences are
worthy the days of Von Grattan and Von Shell. What
could be better than his exordium?—` It has given me
much pleasure to be present at your meeting to-day
Could more, or as much, be said in as few words? Ile
spoke from the heart, and the people will appreciate the•
effort."

(From Die Teigliche Naclaicliten.)

" In addressing the Carvers and Gilders the Prince ex-
hibited a considerable knowledge of political economy.
This science, but little known to princes, is perhaps the
cornerstone of monarchies. The Prince is evidently alive
to the merits of this society. Without the Gliders it
would be impossible to maintain the standard price of
gold. Professor Jevons has calculated that but for the
consumption of gold in the gilding trade the price of that
article would fall from .£3 17s. 6d. to /2 Bs. ld. We
trust that after the thoughtful speech of the Prince some
reform may be introduced into our banking legislation."

(From Die Fahne.)
"While Messrs. Von Gladstone, Von Bright, and their
crew are caballing basely to upset the foundations of our
faith, it is pleasing to perceive how royalty ever asserts
its true greatness. With the Carvers and Gilders are
bound up our early associations, as well as the ground-
work of our aspirations. To the cultivation of these arts
we owe much that is ennoblirg. They refine our taste,
stimulate our understanding, and lead us to higher
things."

[For the benefit of our non-German readers, we would
add that the papers hero quoted with German titles are
as follows :—Times, Daily Telegraph, Morning Star,
Morning Post, Daily News, and Standard].
London, England, 1869-07-08

TAP. SCOTT S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS.
A NEVER-FAILING REMEDY.—Prepared with-
out any mercurial ingredient, will be found invaluable to
all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indiges-
tion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c.
For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine,
and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent ;
mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they
create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the
whole nervous system.—Prepared only and sold by W.
Lambert, chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross,
London, and by most druggists, in boxes, ls. lid., and
three times the quantity in one, 2s. Pd. Be sure to ask for
Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are in
a square green package, with " William Lambert, 8, King
William-street, Charing-cross," engraved on the Govern-
ment stamp.
London, England, 1869-07-08

BRITON MEDICAL AND GENERAL
_ LIFE ASSOCIATION.

Chief Offices-429, 6trand, London.
TRUSTEES.
Lieut.-General Sir J. E. L. Partridge, Esq., P.R.S.
I Dupuis, K.C.B. travels Webb, Esq.
Sir James Duke, Bart. W. Tyler Smith, M.D.
Sir W. Fergusson, Barl,, Millis Coventry, E:.q.
CRAIRMAN OF THE' oAnn—FCIS WEBB, Esq.
13-
lUN

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN —W. TYLER SMITH, Esq.
EXTRACTS from the FIFTEENTH ANNEAL RE-
PORT, read at the Annual General Meeting held at the
Society's House on Thursday, 18th March, FRANCIS
WEBB, Esq., in the chair.
The directors have received 3,212 proposals for assur-
ing the sum of £972,866 18s. 9d. 2,472 policies were
issued, assuring £703,451 4s. and producing in annual
premiums the sum of £25,227 Bd.
The following tabulated retu:
ness transactions during the thr'

•ns exhibit' the new busi-
,e quinquennial periods :
London, England, 1869-07-08

N ()THING IMPOSSIBLE.

A GIJA. AMARELLA restores the Human Hair
IL to its pristine hue, no matter at what age.
GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid
4 one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect-
log this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public
in a more concentrated form, and at a lotrer price.
Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; a!so 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each,
including brush.
Red Bull Wharf, Ant
street London. E.C.

.ssage, 93, Upper Thames-

CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8
Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLET .5
romenade Concert, Band of 60. Begin at 8. Is. Box-oflict
pen from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL G &EDENS, Rogerrs-paik. OPEN daily (ex-
opt Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mends ys, 6d. Children
nder twelve. 64.

t tOWI
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London, England, 1869-07-08

CALLAGHAN'S OPERA, RACE, and FIELD
GLASSES, of Matchless quality.
23A, NEW BOND-STREET (corner of Conduit-street).

N.B.—Sole Agent to Voigtlander, Vienna.

AGENTS WANTED EVERY W HERE
to introduce commodities valuable to every householder
high and low. This offers a highly remunerative Commission lo
Tradesmen, Travellers, Gentlemen's Servants, &c. Apply with
two stamps to R. MARRISON, Great Orford-street, Norwich.

LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY.
CONVERSION OF DEBENTURES INTO DEBEN-

TURE STOCK.

The Directors are now prepared to enter into arrange-
ments for converting the Debentures of the Corn any into
equivalent amounts of Perpetual Four per Cent. Deben-
ture Stock, and also to receive applications for allotments
of the same Stock, at par, to be applied in the repayment
of Debentures falling due.
Any amount of Stock, not being a fraction of a pound,
can be subscribed for and transferred.
A commission of (one-half) per cent. is allowed to
applicants, and the Stock will be inscribed in the Com-
pany's books free of all expense.
The interest will bo paid half-yearly on the 15th
January and 15th July. by warrant.
The Stock thus raised will be entitled .to the same
priority against the property and income of the Company
as the Deb .nture Bond Debt, ranking before the Com-
pany's entire Stock and Share Capital of Thirty Millions
(1:30,000,000), and will be the first charge on a net
income now amounting to upwards of Three Millions
(.£3,000,000) annually.
-Further particulars and forms of application may be
obtained by letter addressed to the undersigned.
STEPHEN REA Y, Secretary.
Euston Station, July, 1859.
London, England, 1869-07-08

THEATRE-ROYAL., HOLBORN.
Sole Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN

EVERY EVENING, at 7.30, the very laughable fare THE
SMOKED MISER.

At 8 o'clock, Sheridan's inimitable remedy of THE FC ROOT,
"FOR SCANDAL. Supported by the following celebrated
itrtistes :—Barty Sullivan, J. C. Cowper, (-; eorge Honey, W. H.
Stephens, Charles Coglan, D. Evans, Lin -Bayne. A. Bernard.
E. Dyes, and W. Arthur; Mrs. Hermann Vezin, Miss Jane
Rignold, Miss Louisa Thorne, Miss Amy Fawsitt, and Mrs.
Charles Horsman

Acting Manager—Amonr SULLIVAN,

P OYAL STRAND THEATRE.
JA Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs Swanborough.
THIS EVENING, at 7.20, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. 'ilLrke
and Belford; Mesdames Button and Hughes.
After which. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs Thorne..Tamos, Fen
ton, Turner, Chamberlains; Mesdames Bufton, L. Maitland, &c.
To conclude Rith HUE AND DYF
London, England, 1869-07-08

THE GOVERNMENT TF.LEGRAPIIS RILL.

The Lady News is tolerably well satisfied with the
Government Te!e.:raphs Bill, but thinks it should be
clearly understood that if Government is granted a
monopoly of telegraphic business, this is clone, not in
order that any pecuniary profit may be earned by
the Exchequer, but that whatever surplus there is
may be applied to the reduction of charges and the ex-
tension of facilities. The principle on which the Post
Office contributes over a million a year to the
revenue is altogether wrong. It means a tax upon
letter-writers, whereas all that the Government
ought to require is a sufficient payment to defray the
cost of letter-carrying. Some objection is likely to
be raised to the proposed doubling of the cost of
telegraphing in the metropolltan district. it is
urged that in London the telegraph may be of instant
domestic util.ty, and that th important source of
revenue ought to be developed instead of repressed.
As a matter of fact, however, the restrictions. which
accompany the sixpenny rite are so numerous as ti
render it to a large extent unavailable.

DIPLOMATIC AND COLONIAL NEWS.

There is a good deal of talk about the absence
of the military attachCs of the foreign em-
bassies from the Windsor review. It is said that
no invitations were issued to these representatives of
foreign Powers, and the Under-Secretary fur
Foreign Aihirs will be called upon to account for
the omission.

It is rumoured that Lord Howden „is to be ap-
pointed our Minister at Madrid, and the rumour
gives rise to a good deal of smprise. It is true that
Lord Bowden filled this post from 1850 to 1858, but
he is no w 70 years old, and is eight years older than
Sir John Crampton, whom he is to succeed. Our
relations with Spain have for a long time past been
of a very delicate kind, and have required a good deal
more vigour and tact than have been exhibited
hitherto. Under these circumstances, the appoint-
ment of a septuagenarian does not commend itself to
common sense. The Spanish Government have just
appointed to the Court of St. James's Don Manuel
Rands, at present Minister for Spain at Vienna.
Mr. Musgrave, Governor of Newfoundland, is to
be appointed Governor of British Columbia, in the
place of Governor Seymour, deceased. Mr. Middle-
ton, Secretary of Legation at Rio Janeiro, has been
appointed Chargé d'Nraire3 to the Republic of
Venezuela, in place of Mr. Fagan, who lately died of
yellow fever. The successors to Mr. Musgrave in
Newfoundland, and Sir Arthur Rumbold in the
Virgin Islands, have not yet been appointed.
The death is announced of Sir 'William Byam, who
was for several years President of the Council of
Antigua. He was previously in the lath Hussars,
served in the Peninsular War, and was wounded at
Waterloo. He was knighted in 1850, and was 77
years old at his death.
London, England, 1869-07-08

DOG LICENSES.—CAUTION.
mHE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND RE-
-1 VENUE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES
granted in the year 1868 expired on the 31st December
last, and every person keeping a dog in the current year is
required forthwith to take out a new License.
The duty payable for each dog kept is Five Shillings.
The penalty for keeping a dog without License is Five
Pounds. . _

A License is not transferable from one person to
another.
A License may be obtained by the owner giving his
name and address, and the name of the place where the
dog is kept, on application at
The Office of the Collector of Inland In the l
neigh-
Revenue, bourbood of the
The Office of the Distributor of Stamps applicant's re-
Or sidence.
A Money Order Post Office.
Licenses will also be granted by the several Supervisors
of Inland Rev,nue.
Persons residing at a distance from any of the above
offices, by transmitting with their application Inland
Revenue (Receipt) or Postage Stamps for the proper
amount of duty, to the Collector of Inland Revenue for
the Dis iict, will receive a license in return by post.
WM. COBBET I'. Secretary.

LIFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the Storms
of the past eighteen months the National Lifeboat.
Institution contributed to the saving of 1,270 lives from
various shipwracks and 32 vessels from destruction. The
Institntion also expended £27,641 in the same period on
its Lifeboat Establishments, in addition to granting
£3,793 for rewards.
The.lnstitution has now 207 Lifeboat Stations under
its management.

Contributions will be thankfully received by the London
and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis,
Esq., at the.institution, 14, John-stre©t Adelphi, London.
London, England, 1869-07-08

THE SITh, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING,

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS,

results; simply a very little blood-letting on tne pars
of the Frenchman, who appears to have been slightly
wounded by a sabre cut in the arm. It would have
been hardly worth while directing public attention
to the affair but for the warning it gives to English-
men not to indulge in the strong language and still
stronger physical arguments with which they are
wont to treat impertinence in their own country."

HEARTHSTONE MANURE.

The high rate of mortality at St. Kilda has drawn
forth some remarks, and has puzzled the doctors
exceedingly. Here, they said, was good air provided
for the people by nature, and yet they seemed in no
wise to be better for it—to be worse, indeed, than
the inhabitants of many large towns. Dr. Morgan,
the author of " Town Life Among the Poorest," has
discovered the reason for the high death-rate in the
hovels of St. K ilda. There iv no smoke-hole in the cabins
which afford shelter to the people of the island.
Manure is so scarce in the island that the smoke
cannot be allowed to escape, it is too precious. For
twelve lung months the soot is deposited in pitchy
layers upon the inner surface of the roof. With
the return of spring so much of the thatch as
is possessed of fertilising properties is carefully
removed, the roofing being restored to its original
thickness by the addition of fresh straw on the out-
side. The process is yearly repeated. To this indoor
manufacture of manure the frightful sacrifice of
infant life in this secluded island is, Dr. Morgan
believes, mainly to be ascribed. There is something
grimly humorous in thus hoarding up puffs of smoke
to the destruction of human life.
London, England, 1869-07-08

INDIA OFFICE, 29th January, 1869.
By order of the Secretary of State for India in
Council.
Notice is hereby given, that packages, stated to contain
reserved articles from the estates of deceased Officers and
soldiers of the late East India Company's Service, and of
Iler Majesty's Indian Military Forces, hare from time to
time been received from the Governments of the respec-
tive Presidencies in India.
Packages containing articles reserved from the follow-
ing estates remain unclaimed, viz.:-
8. 8011, H., Lieutenant, 2d Madras Native Infantry.
10. Bouthflower, W. IL, Surgeon, Madras Medical
Department.
13. Buchan, C., Sub- Conductor, Madras Establishment.
22. Cheyne, A., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical
Department.
24. UOCiltarlf r-Az K., Lieutenant, 50th Madras Native
Infantry.
25. Carlow, W. A., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical
Department.
53. Floud, E., Lieutenant, 32d Madras Native In-
fantry.
59. Grant, Lieutenant, sth Madras Light Cavalry.
60. Gunthorpe, W. M., Major, Gth Madras Native in-
fantry.
76. Jervis, S. W., Lieutenant, 36th Madras Native In-
fantry.
78. James, E., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical De-
partment.
94. Maingay, J. W., Lieutenant, 38th Madras Native
Infantry.
98. Marriott, B. W. F., Lieutenant, 13th Madras Na-
tive Infantry.
113. Neale, F., Cadet, Madras Establishment.
121. - Perring, J. W. C., Lieutenant, 35th Madras Nativo
Infantry.
124. Pinchard, J., Lieutenant, Madras Horse Artillery.
1268. Preston, Richard 8., Lieutenant, Madras Infantry.
138. Robertson, A., Resign, Ist Madras Native Infantry.
140. Stewart, M., Lieutenant, Madras Artillery.
140. Stoddart, J. A., Captain, sth Madras Native In-
fantry.
150 A. Stewart, G., Ensign, 36th Madras Native Infantry.
155. Watson, G. H., Lieutenant, 19th Madras Native
Infantry.
156. Ward, A.. Oaptain, Ist Madras Fusiliers.
158. Wynter, W., Lieutenant, 52d Madras Native In-
fantry.
163. Weymouth, Captain, 42d Madras Native Infantry.
A pplicatious for such packages should be made by next
of kin of the deceased, or by the legal representatives of
such next of kin, to the Military Secretary, at this Office.
In the event of any of the packages in question remain-
ing unclaimed for the further period of six months from
this date, they will be opened, the contents be disposed of
by sale, and the amount realized be credited to the estate
of the deceased.

T. T. PEARS, Major-General,
Military Secretary.
London, England, 1869-07-08

THEATRE-ROYAL, lIAYMARKET.

THIS EVENING, BLUE DEVILS : Mr Compton and Mrs
After which, MARY RNER : Miss Hill. Miss
Bateman. Messrs. Howe, Compton, &c. Concluding with HIGH
LIFE BELOW STAIRS: Messrs. Buckstone, Howe, Kendal;
Miss F. Wright, Miss F. Gwynn.

THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPITT.
Tuts EVENING, at 7, DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Geo Bel-
more and Mrs Leigh Murray. At 8, EVE: Mr Benjamin Web-
ster, Mr H. Neville, Miss Furtado. Mrs Alfred Mellon. (tn. And
MD YOU EVER SEND YOUR. WIFE TO CAMBERWELL ?
Mr. G. Behnore.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs.Swanborongh.
Iflis EVENING, FOX v. GOOSE. Messrs. Bel-
ford, Clarke; Miss Button. JOAN OF ARC: Messrs. Thorne,
James, Fenton; uesdames Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Button. To
conclude with HUE AND DYE
London, England, 1869-07-08

EDUCATION IN TURKEY.
It is customary for Christian merchants under the rule
of the Porte to ascribe the backward condition of Turkey,
and especially the deplorable state of education, to the
oppression of the Government. Our Consul at Bosna Serai,
Mr. Holmes emphatically declares that nothing can be more
false than these reports. Speaking of the state of educa-
tion in Bosnia, he says that it is had simply because
the people do not care to pay for any better.
The Government has always shewn itself ready
to aid the establishment of schools, but both Turks
and Christians think there is no need to be
better educated than their fathers, and desire no improve-
ment. "Half the evils attributed to the Turkish Govern-
ment arise from the ignorance, indolence, and superstition
of the popultftions themselves, and they must very much
change their nature before a great and general advance in
civilisation can take place, do what the Government may
to promote it.' Politicians who are accustomed to get
frantic over the sorrows of various nationalities under the
rule of the Porte will do well to keep tilose facto lu
mind. '"
London, England, 1869-07-08

NOVA SCOTIA AND HIE UNITED STATES.

The agitation in Nova Scotia in favour of annexation to
the United States is exciting couEidtrable attention acr,es
the frontier. The .IVc w York Nation seems to think that
the movement ought to receive all due encouragement.
No doubt, as the Nation observes, throe hundred
thousand citizens of the same race, religion, and edu-
cation as the American people would be a welcome
addition to the body politic of the United States.
The Americans are always glad of an increase to their
family, and they would be especially delighted with any
addition which was made at the cost of Canada. In one
sense, however, the annexation is devoutly to be wished.
If the Nova Scotians could be turned over to the United
States for six months, they would be amply satisfied with
the experiment ; we should hear no more of the outcry
against enforced annexation to the Dominion. However,
the Nation is right in attaching some importance to this
movement, for one of the Nova Scotian papers goes so far
as to publish lists of the disaffected. A paper called the
New Idea, advocating the annexation of the whole of
Canada to the United States, is circulating in the neigh.
bourhood of Quebec.
London, England, 1869-07-08

CNE UND RE D & SEVENTY DESTITUTE
ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the
ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at tho moderate rate
of £25 per annum each. Funds graatly needed.
CHARLES Q. WAtKER, Secretary.
°Mee, 11, Cheapal 10, London,
London, England, 1869-07-08

THE G OVER N.3IENT TELEGRAPHS BILL.

The Daily I.l7tws is tolerably well satisfied with the
Government Te7e;raphs Bill, but thinks it should be
clearly understood that if Government is granted a
monupoty or telegraphic business, this is done, not in
order that any pecuniary profit may be earned by
the Exchequer, but that whatever surplus there is
may be applied to the reduction of charges and the ex-
tension of facilities. The principle on which the Post
Office contributes over a million a year to the
revenue is altogether wrong. It means a tax upon
letter-writers, whereas all that the Government
ought to require is a sufficient payment to defray the
cost of letter-carrying. Some objection is likely to
be raised to the proposed doubling of the cost of
telegraphing in the metropolitan distrkt. It is
urged that in London the telegraph may be of instant
domestic utiFty, and that this important source of
revenue ought to be developed instead of repressed.
As a matter of fact, however, the restrictions which
accompany the sixpenny rate are so numerous as b
render it to a large extent unavailable.

DIPIOILt :C AND COLONIAL NEWS.

There is a good deal of tarc about the absence
of the military attnches of the foreign em-
bassies from the Windsor review. It is said that
no invitations were issued to these representatives of
foreign Powers, and the Under-Secretary for
Foreign Affairs will be called upon to account for
the omission.

It is rumoured that Lord llowden is to be ap•
pointed our Minister at Madrid, ant the rumour
gives rise to a good deal of surprise. It is true that
Lord Bowden filled this post from 1850 to 1858, but
he is now 70 years old, and is eight years older than
Sir John Crampton, 'whom he is to succeed. Cur
relations with Spain have for a long time past been
of a very delicate kind, and have required a good deal
more vigour and tact than have been exhibited
hitherto. tinder these circumstances, the appoint-
ment of a septuagenarian does not commend itself to
common sense. The Spanish Government have just
appointed to the Court of St. James's Don Manuel
Rands, at present Minister for Spain at Vienna.
Mr. Musgrave, Governor of Newfoundland, is to
be appointed Governor of British Columbia, in the
place of Governor Seymour, deceased. Mr. Middle-
ton, Secretary of Legation at Rio Janeiro, has been
appointed chargé d'Araires to the Republic of
Venezuela, in place of Mr. Fagan, who lately died of
yellow fever. The successors to Mr. Musgrave in
Newfoundland, and Sir Arthur Rumbold in the
Virgin Islands, have not yet been appointed.
The death is announced of Sir William Byam, who
was for several years President of the Council of
Antigua. He was previously in the 15th Hussars,
served in the Peninsular War, and was wounded at
Waterloo. He was knighted in 1859, and was 77
years old at his death.
London, England, 1869-07-08

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing
870 children.

Xl5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank
214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, E.C.; and by
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Socretary..,
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
London, England, 1869-07-08

COMPENSATION REQUIRED.

The Bankruptcy Bill is hardly just. It gives
privileges to a debtor by providing that his body
may not be taken in satisfaction for debt, while at
the same time it gives no compensation to the
" honest prison keeper," who has been obtaining
part of his living heretofore out of fees from
defaulters. The governors of prisons are said to
have been much grieved at this omission ; but the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, who seems to be
always hurting the feelings of somebody or other,
made them indignant. When the motion was made
for inserting a compensation clause in the bill,
Mr. Lowe, with due regard for the cash-box,
spoke of them to whom it was proposed to
pay damages as " those who presided over
the crimes and misery of others," and werA
on to liken them to the common hangman, to
whom, he said, it would be absurd to grant compen-
sation if capital punishment were abolished. Surely
with the omission, the injury, and the insult, prison
governors may be classed among men with
r
London, England, 1869-07-08

THE LONDON SURGICAL HOME for
DISEASES and ACCIDENTS of WOMEN, for
the Reception of Gentlewomen and Females of Respect-
ability upon a weekly payment. Under the management
of Mr. Baker Brown. •
The private medical attendants of the patients are
in vited to visit them, and to meet in consultation before
treatment.

Full particulars can be obtained on application to the
Lady-Superintendent, 18, Stanley-terrace, Notting-hill,
W. ; or to Mr. Baker Brown, 136, Harley-street, W.
London, England, 1869-07-08

LAB. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS.
A NEVER-FAILING REMEDY.—Prepared with-
out any mercurial ingredient, will be found invaluable to
all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indiges-
tion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c.
For habitual costiveness, as a family aperient medicine,
and as a purifier of the blood, they aro truly excellent ;
mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they
create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the
whole nervous system.—Prepared only and sold by W.
Lambert, chemist, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross,
London, and by most druggists, in boxes, ls. lid., and
three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for
Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine aro in
a square green package, with "William Lambert, 8, King
William-street, Charing-cross," engraved on the Govern-
ment stamp.
London, England, 1869-07-08

EAST AND WEST INDIA DOCK
COMPANY.
The COURT of DIRECTORS of the East and West India
Deck Company HE RE BY GIVE NOTICE, That a Half-yearly
Court or General Meeting of the said Company will be held—
pursuant to the directions of act Ist and 2nd William IV., cap.
52—at the Dock House No: 8, Billiter-square, on FRIDAY, the
•th day of July next, for the purpose of choosing and appoint-
ing Directors in the room of those going out of office by rotation.
The Directors retiring by rotation on the present occasion offer
themselves for re-election.
At this Meeting a Dividend will be declared on the Capital
Stock of the Company for the Half-year ending the 30th June.
By order of the Court.
GEORGE COLLIN, Secretary
East and West India Dock House,
Billiter-square, 6th July, 1869.
N.B.—The Chair will be taken at two o'c'ock precisely.
London, England, 1869-07-08

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
sre as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hump- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48 Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland street. wich.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Earnpstead.
9, llonstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary s Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's- street, Dover.
Temporary Home--85, Queen-street, Cheapside
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servaats of good
character, in which aro admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The committee ate deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories aro recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Repert (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
Tho Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers aro Messrs. Batclay and Co.
Tho Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. CO)PER, See.
Queen-street Cheanside.