The Sun.
London, England, 1869-04-08 00:00:00

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INAHAN'S LL. WHISKY. —DU
_.. a EXHIBITION, 1865.
This celebrated ODD IRISH WHISKY gained the
prize Medal.
It Pure, Mild, Mellow, Delicious, and very Wholesm
Sold in Bottles, 3s. Rd., at the Retail Houses in Lor
the Agents in the principal tcurns in Eneland; or wholes
8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W,
Observe the Red Seal, Pink Label and Cork Branded
pan's LL Whisky.

11UTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION
1 (lncorporritod by Act of Parliament, 1559),
14, 1117SSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN, LONDON,
And :IS, QUEEN'S-ROAD, BRTGUTON

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.
*Vol ms free on receipt of 'damned enrelone.

Now ready, in 2 vols. Svo.. 3es.,
PRINCE CHARLES AND THE SPANISH
MAR HIAGE : A Chapter of English llistory-1617 to
1623—from Unpublished Documents in the Archives of Siman-
cas, Venice, and Brussels. By SAMUEL IIAWSON GA.RDI-
E it.
"Mr. Gardiner's valuable volumes are profoundly and vividly
interesting."—Daily Telegraph.
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

JGOSNELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay, and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price I.s. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 03, Upper
Thames-Street. London.

,CPARTMENTS.—One or Two Floors, with
Extra Bed 1100ilas if required. Close t) Omnibus, Rail,
,in,l Boat. Terms moderate.
.13, Chelsea Villas, Fulham-roa,d, Brompton.

EDWARD lIARPER, Secretary.

ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN.
Proprietor. Mr. J. S. Sweasev.
Unprecedented Success of the Easter Entertainment.
Mr. Arthur Lloyd in his impersonations of Professor in the
Original Christy's Minstrels—E. D. Davis, the greatest Ventrilo-
quist'of the day—Professor Beaumont in his wonderful Delusions
(Magic)—Lelia and Florence Ellis, the Juvenile Actresses—Mr.
C. Burton, Transformation dancer. in .teu Outracters —Miss
Packer, from the Theatre Royal, Glasgow—Miss Fella, Miss
Lizzie Reed, Serie -Comics—llarry and Battle King, Irish
Duettists—and a host of other talented artistes.

READAYLE SHORT-HAND, SELF-TAUGIIT :
Being a System by which people can teach themselves:
write the longest wont without lifting the pen ;
,read what they
write; and correspond with friends at home or abroad. on plea-
sure or busimrs. It embraces a double set of vowels, with liquid
consonants grafted on the other lotters ; together with a DIAGRAM
OF DOTS, and a combination of words in mast familiar use, into
ready sentences The whole forming A SYSTFH OF READABLE
SHORT- H AND, Shoitened. By /iIIJIIDO YOUNG.
London: Edward Stanford, 6 and 7, Charing-cross, S.W.
Price 2s. 6d.

tar Mr. P. Corri's (the Musical Director) Benefit will take
place on Wednesday, April 21, on which occasion Mr. F. Trot-
man will take the chair. Great Night of the Season.

'MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION._
Arrays Beautiful. Always Attractive. Redecorated.
New and Beautiful Costumes.—Portrait Model of MADAME
RACHEL, and numerous Additims. Admission, Is.; Cbildren
under ten, 6d.; extra rooms, 6d. Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.

ARGYLL R 0 OM S.-OPEN EVERY
EVENING for Instrumental Music and Dancing. —The
Rooms have been magnificently re-decorated by Messrs. Rubardt
and Co. The celebrated Band will perform during the week
an attractive Programme of Operatic Selections and popular
Dance Music.

Doors open at half-pact Eight o'clock.
Admission, is ; Balcony, 2s.
WINDMILL STREET, PICCADILLY
Musical Director and Conductor--Signor LUIGI CURTI

" PATE AU DIABLE."
THE above Paste is a most agreeable relish for
Luncheon, Breakfast, &e. It will be found most useful
for deviling Legs of Turkey, Fowl, Biscuits, &c. Also their
ORIGINAL AND SUPERIOR ESSENCE ANCHOVY AND

PURE PICKLES
(Ilanfleld's Patent),
To be obtained Wholesale and Retail:of
JOHN BURGESS AND SON,I
107, STRAND
(Corner of Savoy Steps),
London, W.C.

AS II LEY AND CO. FOR WINES.
PER DOZEN.

Very Fine Pale, Dry, or Golden Sherry
Old Crushed Port (Dow's, Taylor's, and Cockburn's
Shipping), Vintage Wines
Sparkling Champagne. Imperial. Dry TiTossemc, Sil-
lery, Qualitd Superieure (Perrier's Shipping) 36s. to 545.
Sample cases of the above, containing two bottles Port, two
bottles Sherry, two Champagne, forwarded free for 21s.
GARRICK-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN.

..... 345.

B. HALL. of Printing House-square, E.C.,
• next the "Times," London.--Wholesale Agent and
Consignee for NICHOLS and STONES' (the Burton Brewery)
celebrated PALE and other ALES ; Keatinge and Co.'s famous
Bordeaux Wines and Charente Brandies; and Irish and Scotch
Whiskies, from several of the best distilleries. Samples can
also be seen at the Times' Shades. BONA FIDE BITSINESSES.—A.
number of Hotels, Public Houses, &c., for disposal. Particulars
of others wanted in town and country.

SOU:NMI CI A NI) ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.
iIItNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
N-1 and Dining-room, consisting of a new and elegant as-
sortment, of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obe-
lisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper Weights,
&c., in Italian, Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derby-
shire Spar. &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES
TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand,
W. 0., London.

Mr. Tennant arratees elementary collections of ROCKS,
MINERALS, and FOSSILS to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology ; they will greatly facili-
tate the interesting study of MINERALOGY and
GEOLOGY, and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500
guineas each.

PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and
MINERALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, F.G.S., at
149, Strand.

11HE LIVERPOOL AND LONDON and
GLOBE INSURANCE COSIPA.NY.
Offices-1, Dale-street, Liverpool; 7, Comhill ; and

Charing-cross, London.
The Invested Funds now amount to £3,401,055, the
Fire Revenue to £836,816, and that of the Life to £259,039.
The moderate rates of premium, with a guaranteed fixed
Bonus for the Life Facies 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.

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 BLYTII, Secretary.

SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL, DREADNOUGHT,
off Greenwich, for Sick and Diseased Seamen of All
Nations, who are received without any recommendation.
The receipts from all sources during the past year were
£879 less than the expenditure.
SUBSCRIPTIONS thankfully received by Messrs.
Williams, Deacon, and Co., bankers, Birchin-lane ; and by
the Secretary, at, the Society's offico, 86, King William-
street, London, E.C.
Qualification for a Governor, 21s. annually ;;Life
Governor, £lolos.

STATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
NI Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861.
Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, E.G.,
whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of
the kingdom.
The objet of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng-
lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house,
and laundry, to tit them for domestic service; and, if not other
wise provided for when they attain 15 years of age, to obtain
suitable situations for them.
The Committee egmestly appeal for support. The Charity is
entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions.
HENRY KINGSCOTE, Treasurer
W WARvaOK Secretary.
Office, 121, Pall-mall, W

BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM,
-LB 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 th British dominions,
and of all denominations, whoso parents wore 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
Institution, and judge as to the nature of the Charity and
Its peculiar claims.
Tho last Report can be obtained on application to the
Secretary.

THOS. TILSON, Chairman.
CHAS. LEE, M.A.
AUBREY 0. PRICE, M.A., Hon. Secs.
ALFC
Offices, 73, Cheapside, LoRED ndon,MA E.O KENZIE, Secretary..
Bankers—Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-
lane ; and Messrs. Haywood Brothers, Manchester.

HEALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE.
DU BARRY'S delicious health-restoring Invalids'
and Infants' Food.

THE BEVLENTA A
saves fifty times its cost in other remedies,RAßlOA and restores
perfect digestion strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver,
refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the
most disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily and
effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con-
sumption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric de-
rangements, hcemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency,
nervousness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria,
catarrhs, colds, influenza, noises in the bead and ears,
rheumatism, gout, impuritioes, eruptions, hysteria, neu-
ralgia, irritability, sleeepilissness, acidity, palpitation,
heartburnt headache, d b_nl ty, draopsoy, cramps, spasms,
nausea and sickness event_i _ Prelims
oi f
theoroahtessr, sinking
lel )ec14.a.,: intlatbll :t
fits, bronchitis, scrof,enightn
the pit of the stomach
nourishing d betweonnf
allth the shoulders
the most digestible and .
complaints.
IMPORTANT many unsavoury
without antho-
for invalids and infants inuaollweL.2lol
IMPORTANT CAUTION.— .
most audaciously attached.
is
and more than slopy imitations to which,
rity, Baron Liebig's name
13e invalids'rties of
ring Reva
HenceforthDußarry,s
henaolnthe-wiresltlodoubt the
iveaultneabAlree
bpi:
and Infants' Food, since to the thousands of
position
sadit
has already received from invalids whose
been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holi-
ness the Pope, whose
health has been perfectly restored
by it after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment.
We quote from the Gazette du Midi,Jul 25th (Cure No.
18,418):—"Rome July 21st, 1866.—The health of the
Holy Father is excellent, especially since,abandoning all
other remedies, he has confined himselfentirely to Du_
Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he
consumes a
plateful at every meal. Tt has produced a surprisingly
unot
bsneficial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot
praise this excellent food too highly."
Cure
debility,
No. 68,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan of seven
ous_
years' liver complaint, wasting away, "ry
bad
°Tag, irritability with a nervous palpitation all over.
digestion, constant slee lessness, and the most intolerable
nervous agitation. p
Cure No. 78, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord
foStuart dlDecies, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Water-
rd " have derived much benefit from your excellent
fod.—SrtiAßT
Waterford' % DE CIEs, Dromana, Cure No 49 832
from dyspepsia,'nervonsness indescribable agony
Cappoquin, County
N.
' --of fifty years' .
flatulency, spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly,
of Lynn, Norfolk. -, asthma, cough, constipion,
Cure No. 47,121.
nervou Miss Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme
your fancies. sness indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner-
years d
Cure
iarrh No. 66,814.--Mr. Samuel Lawton, Leicester, of two
ea.
The Food is sold in Canisters, at ls. lid. ; llb., 2s. 9d.,
21b., 4s. 6d.; 121 b., 225. ; 241 b, 40s. Tho 121 b. and 241 h
o misters, carriage froe on receipt of P. O. Order. Also Dn
B trry s Rovalenta Arabica Chocolate Powder is packed in
tia canisters : For 12 cups at 2s, for 24 cups at 3s. 6d., for 48
freeacups at 65., for 283 cups at 305., for 576 caps at 558. Being
bt cue penny per cup. The 30s. and 555. tins are sent
hatiftYof carriage in England on receipt of Post Office Order.
also . DU BAIIRY and Co., 77, Regeut-screet, London ;
at vortnum and Mason's; also at 4, Cheapside, 61,
Gracechutch-street ; 63 and 150, Oxford-street ; and 121
New Nertiv-raitd, London and all Grocers and Chemists

Just published, price ls. Gd., by post Is. Bd., the Second Edition,
with Addenda. containing additional Facts and Cases, in illus-
tration of the nefarious proceedings of the Advertising Quacks,
REVELATIONS OF QUACKS AND
QUACKERY. By DETECTOR. Reprinted from the
"Medical Circular."
London: H. Bafflers, 219, Regent-street.
The numerous reviews of this startling work by the Saturday
Review, Punch, Weekly Dispatch. Public Opinion, iLnd o ther
journalt, recommending its universal perusal, are reprinted with
this edition.

ANGLO - AMERICAN TIMES,
AN INTERNATIONAL NEWSPAPER,
Devoted to American Intelligence, ENLARGED to 24
PAGES. Reports of Con/Tess, Parsooal, Financial, Mining,
Railroad, &c. Members of Parliament, Co:nmercial Men,
and those having an interest in the United States, will find
this newspaper of use.

Published every SATURDAY MORNING, price 4d.
15. Catherine-streel. Strand.

NICOLL. HAIRCUTTER to H.R.H. Prince
of Wales, 40, Glasshouse-street, Regent-street.

TRICHANOPHRON.
Invented by Nicoll. The best preparation in the world for the
Hair. No lady or gentleman should be without it.
• Sold in Bottles, 2s. 6d.
Hair Restored and Baldness Prevented by

WROUGHT-IRON FIREBRANDS, Sheep
and Sack Marks, Stencil Plates of every kind, Timber
Hammers, Steel Stamps, and all kinds of Cutting and Orna-
mental Punches made to order on the lowest terms, and delivered
carriage paid for sets —H. MARRISON, Manufacturer, Orford.
street, Norwich. Established 1815.

InR. kSKELL, SURGEON DENTIST, of 8, Grogve-
nor-street, W., the Author of "MO ERN DENTISTRY:
its Principles and Practice," "PAINLESS TOOTH EXTRAC-
TION. or Ancesthesia Locally Applied," &c., at home for
CONS ULTATIO N' DAILY, at his ONLY Residence, 8, GROSVE-
NOR-STREET (a few doors from Bond-street).

KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES.-
Important remedy in cases of INCIPIENT CON SUMP-

flO Y.

17
EATING'S COUGH LOZENGES.
A. certain remedy for relieving the IRRITATION of the
BRONCHIAL TUBES. Sold retail by all Druggists.

DR. KING'S DANDELION and QUININE
LIVER PILLS (Without Mercury).
The very best remedy for •
BILE, WIND, INDIGESTION, ACIDITY, HEADACHE,
EARTBU RN, &c.,
And acknowledged by many eminent surgeons to be the safest
and mildest pills for every constitution.
In boxes at ls. nd., 2s. 9d., and 4s. 6d., at all chemists.

THE ONLY COFFEE MACHINE to Pro-
duce the Real and Best French CAFE NOIR.
Coffee Machines from 3s. 9d. to 12s. 6d. in tin.
" 7s. to 245. in bronze.
GI " £2 to £4 in electro-plate and gilt.
French Coffee Roasters, tho Cheapest and Best, from 3s. to Ss. 6d.
French Coffee Mills from as. to ss.
Eggboilers and Rechauds from 3s. 9d. to fiff. dd.
C. MAY elt & SON, Patentees, 40 and 41, Fleet-street, E.C.

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. •

NICOLL'S ELECTRIC -ffiik

13, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, LONDON, S.W.

FOR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
In Bottles, 2s. Gd.
NICOLL'S GOLDEN TINCTURE FOR LADIES.
For giving a Brilliant Golden Shade to Hair of any colour, in

CHAIRMAN.
Right lion. John Robert Mowbray, M.P.

Bottles, 3s. Gd. each.
NICOLL'S CELEBRATED DEPILATORY.

DEPUTY- CHA I itrii)r.
William Bowman, Esq., F.R.S.
Sir Charles Locock, Burt, D.C.L., F.R.S.

For removing superflons Hair, Sent free to any part of the
three kingdoms on receipt of 20 postage stamps. P. 0.0. payable
at Vigo-street, Regent-street.

LADIES' CHIGNON FRIZETTES, in every Shade, Colour,
and Size, from Is. to 2s. Gd.
SHAMPOOING, BRUSHING by MACHINERY, charge Gd.

Extracts from the Repnrt of the Directors, presented at
the Amami General Meeting held on the 27th November,
1868 :

1. The sum of £412,345 was proposed for Assurance, of
which £307,395 was completed at Premiums -pro-
ducing £10,067 per Annum.
2. The amount paid under Claims by death was £100,883,
being the smallest since 1860, whilst the expenses of
management and all other outgoingS were even less
than for many years past. •
3. On the other hand, the Income was raised to £219,769,
notwithstanding that its increase was retarded by
abatements of premium which did not take effect in
the previous year, and by the cessation of interest on
he largo sum paid as Bonus in 1867.
4. The Surplus income was very considerable. It
amounted to £93,152, a sum exceeding by more than
£B,OOO any previous Surplus during the forty-four
years of the Society's existence.
5. The Accumulated Fund was thereby increased to
£1,598,906.

SAUCE.—LEA and PE TITUNS.--SAUCE.
THE "WORCESTERSHIRE,"

pronounced by Connoisseurs
"THE ONLY GOOD SAUCE."
Its use improves appetite and digestion.
UNRIVALLED FOR PIQUANCY AND FLAVOUR.
BEWARE OF IMITATIONS,
To avoid which, see the names,
LEA and PERRINS, on all bottles and labels,
ASK for " LEA and PERRINS' " SAUOI&
Agents—Crosse and Blackwell, London, and sold by all
•Dealers in Sauces throughout the World.

I) SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER
PILLS.—A NE VElt-FA.ILING REMEDY.--Pre-
pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe
of Dr. Scott, Bromley, Kent, 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-erns,,
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 a
square green package, with " William Lambert" engraved
on the stamp.

The following are among the distinctive features of the

Society :
CREDIT SYSTEM—On any Policy for the w' ole of
Life, where the age does net exceed 60, one-half of the
Annual Premiums during the past five years may remain
on credit.

ENDOWMENT ASSURANCES may be effected,
without Profits, by which the Sum Assured becomes .pay-
able on the attainment of a specified age, or at death,
Whichever event shall first happen.
INVALID LIVES may be assured at rates proportioned
to the increased risk.

PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS.—Claims paid
thirty days after proof of death.
Tables of Rates and Forms of Proposal can be obtained
of any of the Society's Agents, or of
GEORGE CUTOLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary.
13, St. James's-square, London. S.W.

THE LOMBARD EXCHANGE AND
NEWS- HOONL
Lombard-street, London.
MANAGER—Mr J. IL YOUNGHUSBAND, late Treasurer
and Secretary of the Liverpool Exchange.
Subscription, £3 3s. per annuin, or I.os. monthly, payable

in Advance. - -
The Room is supplied with Newspapers, both home
and foreign .; Reuter's Telegrams, giving commercial,
political, and general telegraphic information ; Shipping
Lists, Directories, Time Tables, and other Books of Re-
ference.

There is also an excellent Refreshment-room attached,
as well as a Reading and Writing Room, comfortably fur-
nished.

The attention of country bankers, solicitors, manufac-
turers, and others is invited to this Institution, which will
be found very convenient 'to gentlemen whose business
engagements oblige them frequently to visit the metro-
polis.

For further particulars apply to the Manager of the
Boom; or to' Mr. a W. &nivel), Secretary of the city
Offices Company, Palmerston-buildings, London.
• - -

N.8.--For Acivertiserrient Spues applyto Messrs. Letts, Son
and go., 8, Royal Exchange, E.C. , • or at the Office in the Lom-
bard Exchange.

BRITON MEDICAL AND GENERAL
LIFE, ASSOCIATION.
Chief Offices-429, Strand, London.
TRUSTEE?.
Lieut.-General Sir J. E. R. partridge, Esq., F.R.S.
I
Dupuis, K.C.B. Francis Wobb, Esq.
Sir James Duke, [tart. W. Tyler Smith, M.D.
Sir W. Fergusson; Bart., Millis,Coventry,
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD —FR AIN: GIS WEBB, Esq.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN - W. TYLER SMITH, Esq.
EXTRACTS from the FIFTEENTH ANNUAL RE-
PORT, read at the Annual General Meeting held at the
Society's House on Thursday, 18th March, FRANCIS
WEBB, Esq., in the chair.
Tho 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 anima'
premiums the sum of £25,227 80
The following tabulated retu
ness transactions during the thr

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RUPTURE6.-131r ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUES
(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 invention in
the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel
spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided— a
soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi-
site resisting power is supplied by the Moc-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-
tot fail to fit, forwArdei by post, on the circumference of
the body, two inches below the hips, being seat to the
manufacturer,
Mr. JOHN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 26g. 6d. and and 31s. 6d. Postage,
Is. A Double Truss, R .
s. 6d., 42s ;and 525. 6(1. Postage,
Is. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 4`2x. and 525. 6d. Postage,
Is. 10d.

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

NEW PATENT
vLASTIC STOCKINGS,
1124 KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases
of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They
are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are
drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d.,
10s., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d.
JOHN WHITE, Manufactiirer, 228, Piccadilly.

jUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
Chairman-- General Sir FREDEUIC SMITH, K.H., F.R.S.
Policies payable during Life—lndisputable—Not liable to
Forfeiture.
Annual Income exceeds Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Pounds.
The Annuity Tables, offering special advantages to Annuitants,
and fall particulars of the popular Principles of this Society, will
be found in the Now Prospectus, which will be forwarded to
applicants post free.

316, Regent-street, and IARM LAKE Manager.
7, WNlaterloo•place, Pall mall, London.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
Royal Insurance BuildiHnE AD OFFICES:
gs ...... Lombard-street, London.
Royal Insurance Buildings ... North John-street, Liverpool.
CAPITAL, TWO MILLIONS STERLING.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £Boo,loo
Accumulated Funds in hand £1,500,000
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Life and Annuity Funds..... ............. £1,031,329
SPECIAL ADVANTAGIA—
Exemption of Assured from Liability of Partnership.
BONUSES among the largest ever declared by any Company.
Profits divided every five years.
All new Life Insurances now effected will become entitled
to an Increased Share of the Profits.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Premiums in 1867 £463,553.
REDUCTION OF DUTY.—Since this first took place the increase
of business of the ROYAL has exceeded that of any other Office,
as shown by Government Returns.
Prompt and liberal settlement of Losses.
JOHN H. MCLARBN, Manager.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

ESTABLISHMENT 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 Harley-street. •
This establishment, which was opened in 1850, is patro-
nised by her Majesty. The Bishop of London is Visitor, and it is managed b the Marchioness of Ormonde, the
Lady Laura Palmer?' Mrs, Edward Romilly, the Lady
Caroline Russell, Mrs. Cecil Russell, and other ladies.
Treasurer,
linformafrion respecting it may be obtained on writ-
tenorpersopal application to the Lady Superintendent.
ions received at the Institution, and by the
at Messrs. Coutts and Co.'s, 59, Strand.
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IFEBOA'r SERVICES.—During the Storms
1.4 of the year 1868, the National Lifeboat Institution
contributed to the saving of 862 lives from various ship-
wrecks and 25 vessels from destruction. The institution
also expended £20,433 in the same period on its Lifeboat
Establishments, in addition to granting £2.431 for re-
wards.
The Committee of the institution earnestly appeal to the
public for assistanceto enable them to meet the continued
heavy demands on their 198 Lifeboat Establishments.
Contributions will be thankfully received by the London
and country bankers, and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis,
Esq., at the `tastitution, 14, John-street, Adelphi, London.

ABSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN-
FORFEITABLE, UNCONDITIONAL, and UN-
CIIALLENGEABLM, issued by th© PRUDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-hill, Loudon,
B.C. Established 1848. . _

The Directors of this Company, in deference to an ob-
jection not unfrequently urged by persons invited to as-
sure, that the ordinary mode of Life Assurance is in their
opinion defective or uncertain, by reason of the operation
of the customary conditions, have resolved to iomulgr.te
the present Tables, and to issue Assurances under them
which shall be absolutely Unforfeitable, Unconditional,
and Unchallengeable.
114,r tho roason rofarred to, many pereone-h.,sitate or
decline to assure on the ground.that, in the event of in-
ability or unwillingness to continue payment of their pre-
miums, the Assurance will become forfeited. To this
class of the public the system now introduced will espe-
cially commend itself, being entirely free from all condi-
tions of forfeiture on account of non-payment of premium,
or from any other cause whatever; while at the Fame
time it absolutely guarantees at decease, when even a de-
fault
ieoisinpl
met cost
at
hoctfeueatvloleytraylp
aapimtdeonnualinauyttn
ha
eshear paid,
assured
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whole
letnenusame
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ogr eri
wally contracted to be paid.
Besides this important advantage, every policy will ex-
pressly state what sum can at any time be withdrawn on
the discontinuance of the assurance.
The assured will thus always have the option of retain-
ing either an ascertained fixed sum payable at decease,
or, in case of need, of withdrawing a certain amount, ac-
cording t the duration of the Policy, such amounts being
set forth on every Policy, and rendering unnecessary any
future reference to the Oompany on these points, as is the
case with ordinary assurances.
Creditors assuring the lives of debtors will appreciate
this feature as one greatly protective of their interests, and
it will likewise commend itself to bankers, capitalists, and
otheri who are in the habit of making advances collaterally
secured by Life Policies, as they can at any time learn, by
mere inspection, the exact value, either immediate or re-
versionary, of a Policy of this description.
Every Policy issued on this plan will be without any
conditions sto voyaeing, foreign residence, or other usual
limitations. By this freedom from restrictions of all kinds
the objections before referred to will be entirely removed,
and the Policies will become at once positively valuable as
actual securities.
In addition to the foregoing statement of advantages,
the number of premiums is strictly defined. The longest
term provided for is twenty-five years, and the shortest
five years, as shown by the Tables. Thus, bankers, credi-
tors, and others holding policies of this class as security,
may always know the utmost amount they may be called
upon to advance so as to maintain the full benefit of the
Assurances—a matter of great importance where policies
are held as collateral security.
It is only necessary to add that, as a consequence of the
policies under these tables being unforfeitable and uncon-
ditional, they will also be unchallengeable on any ground
whatever. They may therefore be aptly termed Absolute
Security Policies.
The PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY pos-
sesses an income of £215,000 a year. Its position is un.
questionable, and it obtains the largest amount of now
business of any office in the Kingdom. SPECIAL
AGENTS WAITED.
HENRY HARBEN, Secretary.

4,802'
13,244
17,466

Amount
Proposed.

d
1,023,140 0.0
2,779,666 0 0
4,861,303 6 9

Total

35,r,12

8,664,109 5 9

3,313
9,746
13,699

-ns exhibit tl
;0 quinquenni

Amount
Assured.

£
s. d,
054,140 0 0
2,037,383 0 0
3,752,967 4 8

26,763

6,414,490 4 8

The net premium income has increased to
the sum of .............. ..................... £2
The interest on investments and other items
of receipt yield .................................

ho now busi
ial periods :

Annual
Premiums.

s. d.
21,347 16 5
63,507 19 10
122,237 17 6

207,113 13 0

6,701 1 7

1,276 18 1

Making a total income (2f ........... .X 237.980 19 8
The claims were 333, amounting to the sum of £127,886
12s. id. .

The balance of the year's income was £68,026 9s. 4d.
The assets of the association at the close of the year
amounted to £667,493 Bs. sd.
The directors draw special attention to the fact that the
next bonus valuation will take place at, the end of the year
1872, and that all polices
entitled
tpl
erdo fittosc:tlesp participatel.io r
effected
to the 31st December,lB69,
in the same,
The directors also draw attemion to the successful esta-
blishment during the past year of the Britannia Fire
Association, under the auspices of the Briton. The direc-
tors believe that the establishment of a Fire Company, to
work in active co-operation with the Life, will tend much
to the advantage and profit of both institutions. it is
scarcely necessary to remark that the capital feuds and
constitution of each office are quite separate and distinct.
By order of the Board,
JOHN.MESSENT, Actuary and Secretary.
London, March 18, 1869.

EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY,
LONDON.

Report of the Directors for the year ending the 30th
June, 1868, read at the Annual General Meeting of
Proprietors, August 14, 1868—Colonel CHARLES
WETHERALL, K.C.T., Chairman of the Company, in
the Chair.

The proprietors will no doubt remember that at the last
annual general meeting a report was made to them for the
quinquennial period then terminating, and that a bonus
was declared in respect of it amounting to the sum of
£208,774. The surplus fund account, as under, commences
with the balance of June, 1867, after deduction of this
bonus—that is to say, with the debit of £772,740.135. 9d.

STltirrt 'FUND ACCOUNT, 313 Tit J1171'..E;1868:
Dn. INcomn OF TILE
Balance of account, 30th
June, 1867, £981,514 13 9
Less amount distributed
as bonus 208,774 0 0
£772,740 13 9
Premiums on new assur-

antes
_ _

Ditto on old ditto --- 7 3


Interest from invest-
£3Bo'Bll 8 3

me nts 117,584 7 3

£498,395 15 11
Profit and loss, balance
6
of account
Total income 46,070 13 3 544,46 9 2

£1,317,207 2 11
Cu. CHARGE OP THE YEAR' , 0
Dividend to proprietors
.................... £8 877 5
010-ns on decease of lives
assured £265,523 13 5
Additions to those under
participating policies 22,816 4
Policies surrendered 28,642 11 3
Re-assurances, new 3,270 15 4
Ditto, old 50,365 0 8

£370,618 5 3,,
Commission
Medical fees
15,489 8 5
400,777 9 5
751 16 7
Income tax ... 2,215 4
Expenses of manage-
ment

Total charge
......... ......... £409,654 14 5
Balance of account, 30th Juno.. 1868 ...... 901,552 8 6

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approval
THOMAS ALLEN} Auditors
HENRY ROSE,
The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £544,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,654 14s. 5(1. ; the diffe-
rence, or the sum laid by—viz., £134,811 14s. 9d.—raises
the fund again to £907,552 Bs. 6d.
The interest received during the year is £117,584 7s.
3d., arising from the productive portion of the realised
assets of £2,897,157, mentioned in the last year's report.
The whole assets, productive and unproductive, may there-
fore be considered as having improved at the rate of rather
more than 4 per cent. ; or, if the profit shown of £46,070
13s. 3d., derived from various extraneous sources, be in-
cluded, at upwards of £sl2s. per cent.
The premiums on new assurances are £14,596 is. 9d.,
and of this sum £3,270 15s. 4d. has been expended in re-
assurances.
The claims on decease of lives assured are nearly iden-
tical in amount with those of 1866. They are less than
those of last year by nearly 410,000.
A considerable reduction, too, appears in the amount
of premiums paid for re-assurance, many of the risks
re-assured having terminated by death and other causes.
The expenses of management are less than those of last
year by upwards of £1,400. But they still include charges
incurred in the final closing of the two officeslast absorbed
by the company. The whole expenditure, however, in-
cluding income tax, is at the rate of 'little more than 5i
per cent. on the total income.
The balance-sheet is as follows :

DR. LIABILITIES.
Interest due to proprietors .................. £6,977 13 3
Claims on decease of lives assured, and
additions thereto unpaid .................. 61,530 4 5
Sundry accounts .............................. 45,875 13 6
Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,369,469 11 7
, .................. 173,792 10 0
Surplus fund as before ........................ 907,552 8 6
Proprietors' fund

Total .................................... 47,565,198 1 3
Ca. ASSETS.
Amount invested in fixed mortgages £1
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto ...... 183,979 17 10
... ,460,772 2 7
Ditto ditto reversions ............... 347,136 5 5
Ditto ditto funded securities .... 479932 13 3
Ditto ditto temporary securities . 142,424 011
Current interest on the above invest-
ments ........................................... 36,243 7 6
Cash and bills .................................... 22,604 2 9
Advanced on security of the company's
policies.... ..................................... 159,503 14 9
Agents' balinces ............. ................ 27,112 9 6
Sundry accounts .............................. 112,460 15 0
Value of premiums (1867) • • ••• 4,506,167 18 0
Value of re-assurances ........................ 86,860 13 9

THOMAS A LLENI
Total .................................... £7,565,198 1 3
Examined and approved.
HENRY ROSE, , .
Auditors.
The present di.Tositionof the Company's funds is shown
by this account. On ccmpaying It with that of 1867, it
will be observed that further investments have been made
on mortgage and in the Government funds, and that about
£ll,OOO more has been advanced on security of the com-
pany's policies. Exclusive of the sum indicating the value
of the future premiums, the assets amount to £3,059,030
as. 3d.

The direction of the company is now constituted as
follows :
The Right Hon. Sir JOHN YOUNG, Bart., K.C.B. Chair-

man.
WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE Esq., Deputy-
Chairman.
Charles Bischoff, Esq. Chas. Thos. Ilolcombe, Esq.
Thomas Boddington, Esq. Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
Charles Chatfield, Esq. James Murray, Esq.
Sir J. Buller East, Bart., Philip Rose, Esq.
D.C.L. George Russell, Esq.
Robert A. Grayl Esq. Thos. Godfrey Sambrook°,
Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D., Esq.
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8001113, with the progressive and recent improvements effected
after half a century's experience. effectually guard against Aire
and Burglars.—Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Leeds, Hull,
and 47A, 11l oorgate-street, City, London.

PARTRIDGE AND COOPER.
MANUFACTURING STATIONERS,
192, FLEET-STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LINE), LONDON (E.C.)

THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE PRICES.
CARRIAGE PAID to tho COUNTRY ON ORDERS OVER 20s.

. s.
Fine Cream Laid Note; a cheap paper per ream
3. d 0
Superfine Cream Laid Note; much approved 4 0
Supet fine Thick Cream Laid Note ; especially recommended 5 6
Extra Suporfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note 7 0
Straw Paper, " Patent;" adapted for rapid writing 2 6
Large Commercial Note Papers Is., 45., 55., and 6 0
Foolscap Papers, blue or cream.., .....10s. 10s. 6d , 123. 61, and 14 6
Outsides Foolscap 6 C
Letter Paper for scribbling plain, 4s. • ruled ditto, 4 6
Tinted Lined Note five quires for ls. Gd., or 5 a
Tile New Vellum Wove "Club House" Note, five quires for
25. 6d.
Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes, 4s Gd, 5s Cl. & Cs 6d
Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes, 4s 61 per 1,000
Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c., 3s
COLOUR STA I,IPING (Relief) reduced to is. per 100. Polished
steel dies sunk by the bust artists in the trade at about half the
prices charged by the retail houses.
Au ILLU •TR tTED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip-
tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying Presses, Inkstands,
Stationery, Cabinets, Postage Qcsles, Despatch Boxes. Travelling
Writing Cases, Desks, Bce , post free Established 1811

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 Servicq, and of
Her Majesty's Indian Military Forces, have from time to
time been received from the Governments of the respec-
tive Presidencies in India.
Packages containing articles eservod.from the follow-
ing estates remain unclaimed, viz.:-
8. 8011, 11., Lieutenant, 2d Madras Native Infantry.
10. Bouthflovver, W. IL, Surgeon, Madras Medical
Department.
13. Buchan, C., Sub-Conductor, Madras Establishment.
22. Cheyne, A., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical
Departin en t.
24. Cockburn, A. K., Lieutenant, 50th Madras Native
Infantry.
25. Carlo v, W. A., Assistant Surgeon, Madras MediCal
Department.
53. Fiend E., Lieutenant, 32d Madras Native In-
fantry.
59. Grant, Lieutenant, sth Madras Light Cavalry.
60. Gunthorpo, W. M., Major, 6th Madras Native in-
fantry.
76. Jervis, S. W., Lieutenant, 3Gth Madras Native In-
fantry.
78. James, E., Assistant Surgeon, Madras Medical De-
partment.
94. Maingsy, 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. Porting, J. W. C., Lieutenant, 35th Madras Native
Infantry.
124. Pinchard. J., Lieutenant, Madras Horse Artillery.
126 n. Preston, Richard 8., Lieutenant, Madras Infantry.
133. Robertson, A., Ensign, Ist Madras Native Infantry.
140. Stewart, M., Lieutenant, Madras Artillery.
145. Stoddart, J. A., Captain, sth Madras Native In-
fantry.
150 A. Stewart, G., Ensign, 3Gth Madras Native Infantry.
155. Watson, G. H., Lieutenant, 19th Madras Native
Infantry.
156. Ward, A.. Captain, Ist Madras Fusiliers.
158. Wynter, W., Lieutenant, 52d Madras Native In-
fantry.
163. 'Weymouth, Captain, 42f1 Madras Native Infantry.
Applications 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 iu question remain-
ing unclaimed for the further period of six months from
this date, they will be opened, the contents he disposed of
by sale, and the amount realized be credited to the estate
of the deceased.

T. T. PEARS, Major-General,
Military Secretary.

THE- INVIGORATIVE NERVINE
ESSENCE—The most powerful nutritive cordial ever
introduced; restores to their normal condition all the. secretions,
on the integrity of which perfect health depends. It is a specific
for debility of all kinds, and from its containing. among other
ingredients, pepsine and phosphate of soda. will prove highly
beneficial to the nervous and dyspeptic. Vide Dr. Ilassall's re-
port. Price Bs. per bottle, or four quantities in one for 225.
BAUMGARTEN & Co., 520, Oxford-street, W.C., London. Car-
riage free on receipt of remittance.

ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE
ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the
ROYAL ALB ERT ORPH A tNI ASYLUM, at the moderate rate
of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed.
CHARLES A. WALK %11, Secretary.
0 lice, 54, Cheapsll3, Loa lon,

SAMARIT 4 N FREE HOSPITAL for WOMEN
and Clirrnii-VN, Lower F 4 eymour-streot, Portman-
square. The only free Hospital for dis saes of women.
2,741 a patients were treated last month without letters of
recommendation. Subscriptions and donations are much
needed, and will be received by Messrs. Hatchard,
Picca-
lilly; Sir Samuel Scott. Bart.; Messrs. Barclay, Cloutts,
Glyn, Ransom; and by the Secretary.

(FILE HOSPITAL for WOMEN, Sobo-square.
—Bankers : Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co.;
Messrs. hansom, Bouveric, and Co.—The Committee
APPEAL very earrwstly for CONTRIBUTIONS. The
Hospital is now open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fri-
days to out-patients who aro treated without letters of
recommendation.

HENRY B. INGRAM, Secretary.

ASSOCIATION for the WELFARE of
1 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 aro granted to the blind
who cannot earn their own living.'
500 blind men and women are applying for help, which
cannot be given for WANT of FUNDS.
Contributions will be thankfully received by tho Secre-
tary, Rev. C. B. REID, M.A.

REAI NORTHERN HOSPITAL,
GCI alodonian-roacl, Islington, N.
Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was
establisbee at King's-cross in 1856. Patients aro admitted
free.

Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds,. and Co. 60, Lombard-
street., Messrs. Ransom and Bouvene, 1, Pall-mall—Hon.
Sec., 2 , Smith. Esa. Ozo. REID, SOC.

riIHE ROYAL HOSPITAL for DISEASES of
1 the CHEST, City-road.—The wards for in-patients
are constantly full, those for ont-patients crowded daily.
FUNDS greatly needed.
CHARLES L. KEMP, Secretary.

HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT,
Golden-square, W.
President —His Grace the Duke of GRAFTON.
The Committee of Management earnestly APPEAL for
FUNDS to help them to meet the heavy current expenses.
Upwards of 18,000 poor persons have been relieved in the
last six years.

GEORGE WOOD, Secretary.

THE ROYAL INFIRMARY for DISEASES
of CHILDREN and WOMEN, Waterloo-bridge-
road.

Upwards of 100 poor sick children are relieved daily at
this Hospital.
The Committee most earnestly solicit Contributions, to
enable them to continue the benefits of medical aid to those
numerous poor suffering children, who are rendered so
helpless by sickness and poverty.
Bankers, Messrs. Fuller, Banbury, and Co., 77, Lombard-
street; and by Messrs,Coutts and Co., Strand.

CHARLES J. F. REgTON, Secretary.
Waterloo-bridge-road, S E.

BRITISH HOME for INCURABLES, Clap-
ham-rise. instituted in 1861.
Patroness—H.R.H. the Princess of WALES.
This Institution provides a home for life, with good
nursing and skilled medical attendance, for perscns over
20 years of age and above the pauper class, who are hope-
lessly afflicted with incurable disease.
Pensions of £2O per annum are also granted
The Home was oponod in September 1863 ; 71 in-
patients and 106 annuitants have been elected. Elections
in May and November. Forms of application may bo ob-
tained from the Secretary.
ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS and DONATIONS are
earnestly solicited.
Bankers—Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-
street, E.C. ; Messrs. Drummond, Charing-cross, S.W.
ED WD. WEAVER, Sec.
Offices, 73, Cheapsido, E.C.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
Ise as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hemp- 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, Hampstead.
9, ITenstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary cl Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Ilomo-85, Queen-street, Cheapsido.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants 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 are 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 are 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.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankors are Messrs. Bairclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. CO )PER, Sec.
fif Queen-street Cheapsidu.

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FOREIGN NOTES:

rlticx..

4d.

STA 11PED ...... sd,

iNCORPORA'rED U.K.—
LECTURES and LAW CLASSES, 1868-69.
LECTURES.
Three Courses of Lectures on Common and Mercantile
Law, Conveyancing, and the Law of Real Property and
Equity, will be delivered in the Hall of the Society iu the
months of April, May, and June next.

TILE BELGIAN RAILWAY err Am.

M. Frere-Orban, the Chief Minister of Belgium, is now
in Paris, and has had several interviews with the Emperor
Napoleon and his Ministers. Of course the result of
these conferences is not yet known, but it ceems that
the negotiations are by ne means finished. The Paris
. correspondent of tho Standard deems himself enabled to
state on very good authority that the efforts of the French
Government are directed to the establishment of a Customs
Union between the two countries, by the abolition of the
customs linebetween France and Belgium, and the adoption
of French tariffs at the Belgian ports and the Belgian, Dutch,
and German frontiers. The French Government also
made it a sine gad non that the law recently pissed, wh'e't
enables the Belgian Government to take immediate pos-
session of any line of railway sold to a foreign company
without its consent having been previously obtained,
shall not be allowed to interfere with the completion of
the contract with the french Chemin do Fer de l'Est.
The writer has reason to believe that M. Frere-Orban is
not prepared to grant either of these preposterous de-
mands. This is no news. A declaration of the most
positive character was some tune ago made by the leading
Belgian journals. Belgium, they affirmed, would neither
agree to a Customs Union, nor allow its right of forbidding
the treaty with the Eastern Company to be brought into
question. But, this precise statement notwithstanding,
it is not a little significant. that Kiog Leopold's Minister
should now be negotiating as a plenipotentiary at the
French Court.

FRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
F KMAL Es PR EVEN TIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION.

The Independance Berge publishes a detailed account of
M. Frere-Orban's interviews with the Emperor and his
Ministers. The diplomatist') seem to have rivalled cir-
cumlocut'on doings in England. The first interview M.
Frkv-Orban had was with the Marquis de Lavalette. It
was devotel wholly to things in general. Germany, the
affairs of the East, anything but the railway business
were fully enlarged upon in the course of this charming
conversation. On Saturday the Belgian Minister wait
to see the Emperor. Nothing could be more satisfactory
than this interview, which lasted an hour. M. .F be-
Orban met( with a warm welcome. The two talked
together with the most perfect urbanity. The Belgian
Minister explained the sentiments, the interests, the
duties of Belgium, and assured the Emperor that
nothing separated the little country from the
big one. The Emperor heard all this with
tine attention sour aye et une bienveillance marquee. •
But the concessions which France demanded, and the
extent to which Belgium was prepared to grant them,
were two trifles left wholly out of the discussion. Then
came M. Rouher's turn. It was now high time to begn
business, and accordingly M. Itouher tried to demonstrate
that the treaties by which Belgian lines are to be leased
to French companies mightbe so surrounded byguarrntees
as to obviate all the inconveniences which the Belgian
Government dreaded. M. Rouher, the Independance Be'ge
is aesured, maintained these treaties as one of tie
principal elements of the solution which the t.-
Governments sought. This is, indeed, coming to
the point ; but here, unfortunately, the narrative stops.
Frere-Orban's an3wer has yet to be known. It is

President—Rev. CANON DALE.
CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of the Homes in 1863 aro ear-
nestly solicited, which may bo sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard street, K. C.; Francis Nicholls,
If sq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, N.C.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.

evident, however, that the progress already made bears
no pr( portion to the amount of time consumed. The

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

Belgians say that they will not have these treaties con-

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 tho management
of Mr. Baker Brown.

firmed, and the French Government is clearly deternined

The private medical attendants of the patients are
invited to visit them, and to meet in consultation before
treatment.

to raise the question. There the matter stands.

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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.

rnussr AND ROME.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.—FUNDS
areor
theearnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing f
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, attd Ealing
370 children.
£l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
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The attempts of the Prussian Government to cultivate
a good understanding with the Court of Rome are unrnis•
takeably eager. Our Rome correspondent notifies Iha
Count Bismarck is very anxious to secure a Papal nuiicia-
ture at Berlin. The Duke von Ratibor has been instructed
to hear to the Pope, on the 11th of April, the personal
congratula'ions of King William. The Duke has had an
audience of the King, and is going to Rome for this spc cial
purpose. "This marked proof of respectful deference
given by a Protestant monarch to the Head of tl-,e
Catholic Church," says the North Eastern Correslondo ce.
"is made the subject of much comment hex e."

HOME for the HELPLESS.—ST. JAMES'S
DIO@ESAN HOME for FEMALE PENITENTS
(Ilatnmersmith), under the immediate direction of the
Bishop of London. The work carried on by a Sisterhood,
"in faithful accordance with the principles of the Re-
formed Church of England." FUNDS greatly needed
COUNCIL.
The Bishop of LONDON,
Rev. J. W. Ayre Major-Gen. Rt. Hon. Percy
Rev. F. G. Bloomfield Herbert, M.P.
Hon. and Rev. F. Byng Re 7. J. E. Kempe
Rev. R. G. Baker Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys
Rev. S. Brooke Rev. S. W. Lloyd
The Lord Clinton Rev. A. Martineau
Rev, W. Cadman Rev. W. D. Maclagan
E. Charrington, Esq. Rev. Daniel Moore
Rev. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain Rev. J. Moorhens°
Rev. E. Capel Cure J. D. Morton, Esq.
Rev. J. E. Cox Rev. Canon Nepean
Octavius Coope, Esq. Rev. E. Parry
Arthur Currie, Esq. John Pearson, Esq., Q.C.
Rev. J. Connell Rev. G. F. Prescott
Rev. C. W. Furse Rev. F. Pigou
C. J. Freake. Esq. R. T. Pigott, Esq.
J. S. Gilliat, Esq. R. R. Pym, Esq.
Rev. Dr. F Hessey ilugh H. Seymour, Esq.
H G Heald, Esq. R. Wade, Esq.
R. Hook, Esq., Treasurer 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 commnzications may be addressed.

P
OYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES,
West-hill, Putney-heath.
Established 31st July, 1854.
This Institution exists for the comfort. and relief of per-
sons (being above the pauper class) afflicted with incur-
able bodily disease.
Relief is afforded-Ist. By supplying a home, with
medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for the in-
valid.
2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to patients at their
own homes.
A new wing to the Hospital has just been completed
at a cost of upwards of £lO,OOO, and FUNDS aro urgently
NEEDED to liquidate the expenses incurred.
There aro 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely
dependent upon voluntary subscriptions.
Nearly 300 approved applicants aro awaiting election. -
For the maintenance of present operations, for the ex-
tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe-
cially annual subscriptions, are earnestly solicited. Life
subscriptions, £5 ss. and upwards; annual subscriptions,
half a guinea and upwards, with votes in proportion.
Information will be supplied, with the greatest pleasure,
upon application to the Secretary, by whom contributions
will be thankfully received.
FREDERIC ANDREW, Secretary
No. 10 Poultry London, E.C. September 1868.