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The Sun.
London, England, 1869-02-04

P. C. A.

" Nothing succeeds like success," and as year by
year we record the progress of the institution, whose
well known initials we again place at the head of this
article, we seem but to be repeating the praises and
congratulations w hich have now for more than twenty
years formed the staple of our comments on its
annual reports and balance-sheets.
Still, the members of the Provident Clerks' As-
sociation, whose assurers number more than ten
thousand persons, and who include in their ranks
every class of English society, from the peer to the
peasant, doubtless prefer the smooth monotony of
their prosperous course to those more exciting and
startling shocks whose disturbing influence has been
felt in every circle, not even excepting the lofty
regions of finance known as the " Life Assurance
world." Our readers will probably learn with great
surprise that though since the year 1844 no less than
355 assurance offices have been actually founded, yet
so numerous have been the amalgamations, wind-
ings up, &c., that during the same period 328 have
ceased to exist.

Among the very best of those which remain the
" Provident Clerks' Association" has a just title to
b 3 ranked. One of its members whose whole life,
as he expressed it at the meeting, is passed
in the preparation and analysis of ac-
counts, declared that he had never had before
him a balance-sheet more thoroughly simple and
honest in its statement or more
completely intelli-
gible in its form ; and when the results of the past
five year's working are considered, a clear cash
profit of more than fifty thousand pounds divisible
among its assurers, while ample reserves are made
for all possible contingencies, we
join heartily with
the unanimous voice of the members in expressing
our sense of the skill, ability,
and high principle
with which the affairs of the association have
been administered. There is no need for us to re-
capitulate here the details brought last night before
the meeting. The report tells its own story, and
tells it well, for its every word is based upon and
corroborated by the figures exhibited in the balance
sheet. In a very
division, we may count upon seeing in the reports
of this thriving
f ew
society
aa beforeincome their o
f nexta t bonusleas
t
£lOO,OOO per annum, and a reserve considerably
exceeding half a million sterling.

SOCTIt K ENSPZGTON MU SE I:31. —Visitors during
the week ending 30th January, 1869—0 n Monday, Tues-
day, and Saturday, free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Museum,
15,791; Meyrick and other galleries, 3,352; on Wednes-
day, Thursday, and Friday, admission 6d-, from 10 a.m.
till 4 p.m., Museum, 2,050 ; Moyrick and other galleries,
324 ; total, 21,517. Average of corresponding week in
former years, 10,181; total from the opening of the
Museum, 8,116,885.
London, England, 1869-02-04

CITY OF LONDON MIDDLE-CLASS SCHOOL.

schools---proprietary or otherwise—are now
Coming into existence all over the land. Some particulars
of the Middle-Class School founded some time since in
the City of London, may therefore be interesting, as
showing how these matters are dealt with in the metropo-
lis, where the best *its are supposed to live. The Daily
News supplies some facts. If the educated reader, says
our contemporary, subtracts the years he spent in acquir-
ing Latin and Greek from his course of youthful study,
he will readily understand how 'Mich practical instruction
can be imparted in a school in which those two subjects
are tabooed. It is upon this principle that the Middle-
class School contrives to include such a vast
variety of subjects in its course, and to turn
out its pupils so thoroughly prepared for the active busi- '
ness of life. None of them remain there after 15 years of
age. There is no rule to this effect, but City clerkships,
with salaries of £3O a year to start with, are easily obtain-
able then, and the money is too valuable to be refused.
Accordingly the lads have to be educated, not merely
up to read-winning point, but thoroughly, in
a far shorter time than has bitheito been deemed
practicable in our English systems of study. The
practical character of the instruction is seen even
during the most cursory inspection of the school,
and it is impossible to visit it without being struck
with the influence it is evidently destined to exercise
upon the scholastic institutions of the country. It is now
three years since a meeting was held at the Mansion House
to discuss and devise a scheme for the establishment of a
system of middle-class education in the me'ropolis.
Through the energy and liberality of the merchants and
bankers of the City more than £40,000 was subscribed--
chiefly in donations of £l,OOO each. It was then decided
that a schbol should be opened with as little delay as possible
in the centre of London; that the education should be such
as should prepare the scholars for the industrial and
commercial work of life, and that the charge for such
education should not exceed £4 4s. per annum. Tempo-
rary premises in Bath-street, Finsbury, were accordingly

opened at Michaelmas 1866, and the results from that
London, England, 1869-02-04

THE WAR IN PARAGUAY.

The details of the recent great battles. in Paraguay
shew that the Allies have gained a substantial, if not a
very glorious success. They have defeated a greatly en-
feebled adversary, and the cause of Lopez seems utterly
lost. After-the two battles of the tith and 11th of Dec.,
the allied army was obliged to rest awhile, in order
to receive supplies, but on the 21st it moved forward to
assail the Paraguayan position on the hills called Lomas
Valentinas, about nine miles from Villeta.. Here Lopez
was posted with a sma.ll,but still respectable army, clearly
proving that the capture of Villeta had not been followed
by the flight of the Dictator with a few hundred cavalry,
as was at first asserted. The Allies had suffered so
severely in the two battles before Villeta that their
number was reduced to under 18,000 men, but the Para-
guayans bad only 7,000. These forces were engaged on the
heights of Lomas Valentinas, and little by little the Para.
guayans lost ground. By six o'clock on the night of the 21st
the Brazilians had carried the first line of defence,
but the fighting went on all night, the Paraguayans
making repeattd efforts to recover the position.
They were unsuccessful, but held their remain.
ing lines until the 27th, the fighting being
incessant. On this last day all the allied troops
advanced against the works on Lomas Valentinas, ground
was gained on all sides, the chief redoubt in the rear was
carried; and by night Lopez had retreated into his last
defences. Here the intelligence ends, but up to the evening
of the 27th Au2;ustura still held out. The war, say the
Brazilian papers, will be carried on until Lopez be
captured or driven out of Paraguay. He deserves a
better fate. Whatever may be his private character, it has
been grossly calumniated, whilst the skill and the courage
with which lie has defended his country against a greatly
superior enemy have never been surpassed.
London, England, 1869-02-04

B C PATENT DESPATCH BOX.—JEN-
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A B 0 and 1,2, 3, De,pateh Boxes, "for general conve-
nience, for ready access to papers and methodical
arrangement, have received the highest commenda-
tion."' Price 10s. Gd. and upwards. "This is a valuable
contrivance."—Punch, Nov. 14. " Cannot tail to be useful
in the library and office."—Record. " Will meet espe-
cially the requirements of literary, legal and official per-
sons." Star. "A boon to all lovers of order."—lllus-
trated London News. "There can be DO question as to
the value of this invention."—Alarninm —Jenne:- and
Knewstun, Inventors of the Elgin Writing Case, 33, St.
James's-street, sod CG, Jermyn-street.
London, England, 1869-02-04

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

NEW NOVEL BY THE COUNTESS PISANI.
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
ON L Y A N E A R L,
By the COUNTESS PISANI.
Hurst and Blaekett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

NEW NOVEL BY THE COUNTESS PISANI.
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London, England, 1869-02-04

SPAIN.

MADRID, Feb. 3.

The Impartial of to-day states that, according
to letters received from Barcelona, the two Tristani
(Carlist chiefs) had entered Catalonia by the
valley of Andovra. Troops had been despatched
to oppose their further advance.

QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 4.

The Guion steamship Nevada, from Liverpool,
arrived here to-day, and having embarked mails
and passengers, she proceeded for New York at 10
a.m. All well.
London, England, 1869-02-04

GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL.

THIS EVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S
SUCCESS. 9.40, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs.
Marsh all,Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, ITurlstone. J. Clarke;
Mesdames Henmde, C. Thorns, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, .A r-
sold, and Stephens.
London, England, 1869-02-04

THE MONTH.

The meteorologists have been rubbing their hands
with joy again during the month passed. Never
before—meteorology being a young science—have
such astounding records been made. But the joy
his had with it a certain amount of perplexity.
Witness Mr. Allnatt's letter to the Times, asking
mysteriously whether the crust of the earth had been
" attenuated." He seems to have come to himself
again since, however, for he offers no such solution of
the problem in his monthly epistle to the great
Thunderer. The month he has written about is
certainly a remarkable one—sultry to-day, frosty
to-morrow. It opened with considerable frost, the
mean of the day being 2.8 deg. below the average of
fifty years. From a temperature of 28 deg. on the
night of the lst (a wind arising) the ther-
mometer suddenly ascended to 40 deg. Then we
had several days of intermittent gales varying in
force. From the 15th to the 17th the thermometer
was again above the average from 71 to 91 deg.
On the 19th there was a minimum. On the 24th
the temperature was 10.4 deg. below the average
of 50 years, and on the 28th 6.2 deg. above. Surely
never before did the clerk of the weather look
after his work so badly.
London, England, 1869-02-04

A.T:sTr,rA.

The Bohemians and the Poles are alike struggling for
an independent existence similar to that of Hungary, but
whilst the Czechs have been playing the game of their
adversaries by violence against the Government and
division amongst themselves, the Poles seek their object
by legal means. They have carried a motion by which the
question of Polish autonomy is to be submitted to the con-
sideration of the Reichsrath. The Minister of the Interior
did not discuss the question, but he did not oppose the
motion. The cause of the Austrian Poles looks hopeful.
London, England, 1869-02-04

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
.C 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 13s. 9d.
London, England, 1869-02-04

INDEMNITY MUTUAL MARINE
ASSIM xNCE COMPANY,

36, Great Wineheßter:street, London

NOTICE Is HEREBY GivEN That tha Annual Dividend, due to
the Shareholders on their Capital in this Company to the 31st
December last, will be Paid on Monday, the Ist day of February
next, by 'Warrants, which will he forwarded to each Proprietor
on that day; also, that the Books of the Company for the transfer
of Shares will be Closed from Tue Slay, the 19th January, until
Thursday, the 4th" February.
FRANCIS STEPH ENS, Secretary.
13th January, 1869.
London, England, 1869-02-04

TURKEY AND CREECE.

The Greeks are much irritated at the declaration of the
Conference. They had little hope that it would be in
their favour, especially after the refusal of their Ambas-
sador to take part in the deliberations at Paris ; but they
are, nevertheless, greatly disappointed that a Conference
at which Russia was represented should have pro-
nounced so decisively in favour of their adversary.
The people are said to Remand the rejection of the proto-
col, and there is no doubt that the Ministry is disposed to
take that course, but the chances are in favour of peace.
The King, it is authoritatively asserted, will acquiesce in
the decision of the Conference, and a Ministerial change is
probable. Turkey has managed matters well, and has
gained all that was to be had—though that was not much.
This difficulty is merely one incident in a chronic state of
hostility between the two nations. The most substantial
advantage acquired by the Porte is undoubtedly the
victory in Crete.
London, England, 1869-02-04

SPAIN.

MADRID, Feb. 8.

The Impartial of to-day states that, according
to letters received from Barcelona, the two Tristani
(Carlist chiefs) had entered Catalonia by the
valley of Andovra. Troops had been despatched
to oppose their further advance.

QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 4.

The Guion steamship Nevada, from Liverpool,
arrived here to-day, and having embarked mails
and passengers, she proceeded for New York at 10
a.m. All well.
London, England, 1869-02-04

101 MOSES and SON.
114 .

EXCELLE NC E WITH CHEAPNESS.

EVERY ARTICLE of CLOTHING,

READY-MADE or MADE to MEASURE,

FOR ALL CLASSES.

PRIcEs BASED ON READY-MONEY
SYSTEM

A N UNEQUALLED STOCK
CA- In EVERY DEPARTMENT.

A SPECIAL DEPARTMENT for BOY'S
CLOTHING.

OVERCOATS IN EVERY STYLE AND
31ITICRIAL.

OVEItCOATS from 19s. to £5.

BOOTS and SHOES.

HOSIERY and DaA PERY.

AND HATS and CAPS,

IN GREAT VARIETY.
London, England, 1869-02-04

LORD NAPIER OF IIAGDALA.

Some of the Calcutta papers mention a rumour to
the effect that Lord Napier of Magdala will shortly
return to England and take an important post which
will enable him to assist the reforms at the War
Office. Lord Napier left England just before the
present Ministry came into office ; so that his recall
home almost immediately after leaving England may
not be as improbable as it appears at first sight.
London, England, 1869-02-04

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Feb. 3.
The British squadron has arrived here from a
cruise. All well.

INDIA.

BOMBAY, Jan. 16 (via Brindisi).

It is stated that the subsidy given by the Indian
Government to Ameer Shere Ali Khan consists of

£120,000.

The order for the commencement of the irriga-
ion works at Behar has been issued.

The Bank of Bombay has declared a dividend at
the rate of 5 per cent. ; and the Bank of Madras
dividend is at the rate of 7i per cent. per annum.
CALCUTTA, Jan. 15 (via Brindisi).
An outbreak of the Coolie tribes on the frontiers
of Sylhet and Cachan is reported.

It is stated that the Lieutenant-Governor of the
Punjaub will shortly come to Calcutta, for the
purpose of arranging the terms of the alliance with
the Ameer of Affghanistan.

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.

According to Mr. Adam Moffatt's report the re-
ceipts of cotton at American ports during the last
four days were 37,000 bales against 43,000 last week.
The shipments during the same period are to England
10,000 bales against the same amount last week ; to
the Continent, 3,000 against the same amount last
week. The receipts for the week will
amount to 80,000. Market very active and ad-
pvaenr csitnegam. probably
cost and freight
steamer.
upland, 14,
London, England, 1869-02-04

Ll MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Bespoke
ju• Tailors, Habit Makers, Woollen Drapers, Hatters,
Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufacturers, and General Outlltters
for all Classes.

The following are the London addresses of E. MOSES and
SON:—

CITY ESTABLISHMENT.

155, MINORIES
156, MINORIES
157, MINORIES
83, ALDGATE
84, ALDOATE
85, ALDOATE
86, ALDGATE
87, ALDOATE
88, ALDGATE
89, ALDGATE

OXFORD-STREET BRANCH.
916, NEW OXFORD-STREET
%07, NEW OXFORD-STREET
'soB, NEW OXFORD-STREET•
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2, HART-STREET
3, HART-STREET

TOTTENH A COURT- ROAD BRANCH.
137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD
138, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD
283, EUSTON-ROAD.

Country Branch:
19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS.
20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS.

SPECIAL IvOIICE.—In consequence of frequent misrepre-
sentations. E. MOSES and SON find it necessary to state that
they do not employ any travellers or agents, and that their
nlv F.stahlishments are the above-mentioned.
London, England, 1869-02-04

NE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTEIORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the
ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate
of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed.
CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary.
0 lice, 54, Cheapaide, London,
.e.O
London, England, 1869-02-04

THE "SUN" NE WSPAPER.-G.. R. GLENIE,
Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road,
lelivers the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN" at the earliest
possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver
Jopies in Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the country
at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles by
9.45 o'clock
London, England, 1869-02-04

THE MONTH.

The meteorologists have been rubbing their hands
with joy again during the month passed. Never
before—meteorology being a young science—have
such aztounding, records been made. But the joy
has had with it a certain amount of perploaity.
Witness Mr. Allnatt's letter to the Times, aslciug
mysteriously whether the crust of the earth had been
"attenuated." He seems to have come to himself
again since, howevet, for he offers no such solution of
the problem in his monthly epistle to the great
Thunderer. The month he has written about is
certainly a remarkable one—sultry to-day, frosty
to-morrow. It opened with considerable frost, the
mean of the day being 2.8 deg. below the average of
fifty years. From a temperature of 28 deg. on the
night of the Ist (a wind arising) the ther-
mometer suddenly ascended to 40 deg. Then we
had several days of intermittent gales varying in
force. From the 15th to the 17th the thermometer
was again above the average from 71 to 01 deg.
On the 10th there was a minimum. On the 24th
the temperature was 10.4 deg. below the average
of 50 years, and on the 28th C• 2 deg. above. Surely
never before did the clerk of the weather look
after his work so badly.
London, England, 1869-02-04

GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL.

Tars EVENING, at 7. A HAPPY FAMILY. 7.30, CYRIL'S
SUCCESS. 9.40, BROWN AND THE BRAHMINS: Messrs.
Marshall,Warner, David Fisher, Andrews, Hurlstone, J. Clarke;
Mesdames Henrade, C. Thorn's, Brennen, Berend, Hughes, Ar-
nold, and Stephens.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE AND CIRCUS, HOLBORN.
Tuts EVENING, The Great Carre Troupe and magnificent Stud
of 50 Horses; also Alfred Bradbury, M. Clifton, and THE
MARVELS OF ELECTRICITY.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborough.
Turs EVENING, at 7.30, THE WIDOW HUNT. Messrs. Bel-
ford, Clarke; Miss Bufton. THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH
OF GOLD : Messrs. Thorne, James, Fenton; Mesdames Maria
ongmore, B. Goodall, Lydia Maitland, Claire, and Hughes. To
Aonciuda with HUE AND DYE

QUEEN'S THEATRE, LONG-ACRE.
Manager, Mr. W. H. Liston.
THIS EVENING, DOT. Messrs. J. L. Toole, S. Emery, W. H
Stephens, C. Wyndham. and L. Brough; Mesdames Montague,
Rignold, Mace, and Everard. And THE GNOME KING
Toole. With A RACE FOR A DINNER
London, England, 1869-02-04

ELECTION PETITIONS.

The judges are still hard at work, both in England and
Ireland, worming out cases of bribery and intimidation'
Three towns, all of their names beginning with " W," are
now in process of visitation by the learned judges. First
comes Wallingford, where Mr. Justice Blackburn is t"-
ua
"judge and jury," and Mr. Stanley Vickers, WI
the gentleman whose practices are being inquire
into. Amongst the facts proved were that At ,-
-
public-house called the White Hart two labourers were
supplied with beer and spirits free, and they were told
1
that it was Mr. Vickers's. Careful inquiry was first made
as to whether they were voters. There was also a story ,
dinners, and beer given indiscriminately to women 1%,,1/1.1
men. Suppers, too, were given to such as choose to parts
A man was paid over £1 and supplied with drink for ring'
ing the bells. At other public-houses, too, beer Wlle
given away, and it seemed to be understood that those
who attended meetings should get something with which
to " wet their whistle."
At Warrington Mr. Baron Martin has only just
opened an inquiry. The petition set forth that, according
to the declaration of the poll, 1,984 votes were recorded f°,f
Mr. Peter Rylands, and 1,957 for Mr. Gilbert Greenall,
and that Mr. Rylands was returned; that that return
was undue and improper ; and that Mr. Rylands, by
°.6
agents and others, was guilty of bribery, of treating, and
using undue influence; and it then set forth peculiar alleP;
tions. They were that several votes were duly tendered, °t
intended to be so, in favour of Mr. Greenall, but the/
were not in any way included or taken into accotin'
According to the opening statement and some evidence
given, it would appear that a man had been engaged*:
poll•clerk who knew nothing about polling, and who
down and omitted votes as he thought proper. The II
himself was not able to give evidence, in consequence °
labouring under intense mental excitement. at
Intimidation by masters and others is the grievance
Westbury. Two labourers gave evidence of their masters'
influence being brought to bear upon them to vote fore;
Phipps. In one case, however, it was a case of "
but in the other the master uttered a vague threat
knowing what to do when the short days came 00. A
man who had borrowed money gave in a letter, which 11';
written in consequence of .his refusal to vote for rho);
asking for immediate payment of the money. Other casc
of the same kind were proved.
London, England, 1869-02-04

CRIMINAL COUR2—(This day).

THE GREAT DENDY WILL CA9E.
The trial of Mr John Hedges Harris for perjury in con-
nection with tho above extraordinary case was resumed
this morning, and was not concluded when we went to
press.

POLICE 11VTELL1GENCE— Vas Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Swallow-street, pie_
Walter Langdon, who gave his address at Duffield,
Yorkshire, was charged before Mr. Knox with stealing a
watch and chain of the value of £6, the property of Henry
Cross, a seaman, staying at No. 9,
cadilly.
The prisoner was committed for six months with hard
labour.
London, England, 1869-02-04

VOLUNTF.T.It STATISTICS.

The Morning Post sides with " Hippophylax?" and
doubts if the Government would act wisely in in-
creasing the capitation grant to volunteers. Our
contemporary gives the following statistics :—G The
total estimated cost of the ohmtecrs for the current
year was £385,000. Out of this sum the adjutants
were to receive k 04,400, and the sergeant-
instructors .-058,000. Miscellaneous charges reckoned
for ;t4,700. The Capitation Grant for the Volunteers
themselves amounted to £228,000. Thus we have one
hundred and seventy thousand efficient men, each cost-
ing the State £2 55., against £32 for the ordinary and
£4O for the re-engaged regular soldier. The money
expended on the volunteers would procure about
,000 regular troops." Surely the figures here are
too high and too low ; the stated cost of the volunteer
is excessive and of the regular soldier beneath the
mark. We have heard the cost of a soldier put at
£lOO a year, while the Pot puts it at only £4O.
Everything depends upon the mode. of reckoning the
cost. Our contemporary seems to have included all
:he expenses so far es the volunteer is concerned—
ranges, headquarters, rifles, staff, and the like ; and
to have reckoned only the bare pay so far as the
soldier is concerned.

FUREIUN NOTES.

SPAN.

The Provisional Government has at last confessed its
inability to find a suitable candidate for the throne, and
has decided to recommend that the supreme executive
power be conferred upon a triumvirate, or directory
of three. The Liberte says that the situation
demanded some expedient of the kind. Not only
is the uncertainty dangerous, but some members
of the Government are utterly weary of their
task. Prim and Serrano enjoy most of the luxury of
power, whilst the hard labour, care, and peril which the
subordinate Ministers have undergone since the fall of
Isabella is not compensated by any hope to the ambitious.
The Libera and all the French Liberal papers rejoice
at this decision, which they believe to be a decided
gain to Republicanism. So it will be if it do not result in
the other extreme. History is not reassuring on the
subject of triumvirates or directories. As to the Pro-
visional Government, it will dissolve in honour, and
with the respect of Europe. Its faults have not
been few. But it has given the nation compa•
rative quiet during a time of great cligiculty. It has esta
blished universal suffrage, and worked it without riot, cut
down the army to 50,000 men, reduced the nary, suppressed
the colonial budget, saved millions in ecclesiastical ex-
pense 3, and has done something to diminish the deluge of
distress and pauperism.

The Government, says the Times' correspondent, has
acted very unjustly and unwisely in bringing the persons
arrested at Burgos before a court-martial. A deep sense
of horror and disgust has been awakened by this resoln.
tion. It is, indeed, true that a state of siege has beth
proclaimed at. Burgos, but by the law of Spain courts•
maltial cannot judge any offence committed previous to
the proclamation.
London, England, 1869-02-04

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A comfortable SMOKING ROOM, and the best BILLIARD
ROOM in London:

INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY,' U.K
LECTURES and LAW CLASSES, 1868-G9.

LECTURES.
Three Courses of Lectures on Common and Mercantile
Law, Ccnveyancing, and the Law of Real Property and
Equity, will be delivered in the Hall of the Society in the
months of February, March, April, May, and Juno
next.
London, England, 1869-02-04

FATAL BOILEIt EXPLOSION.

On Tuesday morning a disastrous explosion oc-
curred at the Unswortli Colliery, the property of Mr.
George Elliot, M.P., by which one man was killed
and three persons seriously injured. The man who
was killed was blown a distance of sixty yards. The
boiler which exploded was situated among seven
others in the pit-heap near the colliery. The origin
of the accident is not stated.
London, England, 1869-02-04

MUTUAL LOAN FUND ASSOCIATION
(Incorporated by Act of Parliament, 18.59),
14, IIIaSSELL-STREET, COVENT-GARDEN. LONDON,
ADVANCES MONEY
3s, QUEEN'S-ROAD, BRIGHTON
VANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale, Free
able
or Leasehold Property, for one, two, or three years, repay-
Formela IY, monthly, or quarterly. Bills promptly discounted.
free on receipt of stamped envelope.
EDWARD HARPER, Secretary._

'4;A DAM E TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.
PORTR IT MODELS of MARSHAL SERRANO and
'''IPRAL PRIM are nnw added.—Admittance, ls.; children
under ten
ti fl
Bears of age, ed.; extra rooms, Gd. Open from eleven
II p m., and from seven to ten p.m.

'ROYAL MUSIC HALL, HOLBORN.
Proprietor, Mr. J. S. Sweasey (late Weston).
Everybody in London should nay a visit to this Establishment
d see the MONSTRE ENTERTAINMENT.—ViIe the Public
Press. Mr. A. G. Vance, Mr. J. G. Fordo, E. D. Ds.vis, Mr. A.
,
feeYd, Miss Lonie Sherrington, Miss Kate Bella, Miss Etty Gray,
lee Brothers Voltaire, and a host of other talented artistes. Prices
fts usual.

Mr. P. Corti, Musical Director.
r'
yEar Notice.—Mr. Pat Corri's Orieinal Irish Minstrels on
the
Chy.
istyPeb. 8: W. G. BOSS, and Mr. JOE BROWN (from
s M'
rels, St. James's Hall), will shortly appear.

ARGYLL Rooms.—OPEN EVERY
0_ EVENING for Instrtnnental Music and Dancing. —The
—"nu have been magnificently re-decorated by Messrs. Itubardt
and co
• The celebrated Band will perform during the week
Dance Mus raetivice Programme of Operatic Selections and popular

Doors open at half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission, Is.; Balcony, 2s.
STREET,. PICCADILLY
Musical Director and Conductor—Signor LUIGI

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

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

A. SII LEY AND CO. FOR WINES,
PER DOZEN,

Very•
pine Pale, Dry, or Golden Sherry
Old
cuerushed Port (Dow's, Taylor's, and Cockburn's
She shed
Vintage Wines
saParkling Champagne, Imperial, Dry Mosseux, Sil-
Lel?, Qualite Superieure (Perrier's Shipping) Ms. to .545.
ample cases of the above, containing two bottles Port, two
'
bottles Sherry, two Champagne, forwarded free for 21s.
London, England, 1869-02-04

THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHI.

Tms EVENING, at 7, DID YOU EVER SEND YOUR WIFE
TO CA MB ..RW ELL. Mr. G. Belmore, Mrs. L. Murray. At 7.45
MOM E CR I STO . Messrs. Fechter, B. Webster, G. Belmore, A.
Stirling, R. Phillips, Stuart, Ashley, Stephenson, C. J. Smith, W
H. burne, R. Romer; Mrs. Alfred Mellon, Miss C. Leclereq,
and Mrs. Leigh Murray.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Mansger, Mr. Vining.
THIS EVENING, at 7, to commence with THE SECRET. At 8,
&NI:ER DARK, a Tale of London Life: Mr Vining, Mr. W.
Lacy, Mr. Dominick Murray; Messrs. C. Harcourt, J. G. Shore,
6laclean, Holston; Miss Emma Barnet and Miss Rose Leclercq
Concluding with MASTER JONES'S BIRTHDAY.
London, England, 1869-02-04

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, Feb. 3.
The British squadron has arrived here from a
cruise. All well.

INDIA.

BOMBAY, Jan. 16 (via Brindisi).

It is stated that the subsidy given by the Indian
Government to Ameer Shere Ali Khan consists of
£120,000.
The order for the commencement of the irriga-
tion works at Behar has been issued.

The Bank of Bombay has declared a dividend at
the rate of 5 per cent. ; and the Bank of Madras
dividend is at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum.
CALCUTTA, Jan. 15 (via Brindisi).
An outbreak of the Coolie tribes on the frontiers
of Sylhet and Cachan is reported.
It is stated that the Lieutenant-Governor of the
Punjaub will shortly come to Calcutta, for the
purpose of arranging the terms of the alliance with
the Ameer of Affghanistan.

AMERICA.

NEW YORK, Feb. 4.

According to Mr. Adam Aloffatt's report the re-
ceipts of cotton at American ports during the last
four days were 37,000 bales against 43,000 last week.
The shipments during thesame period are to England
10,000 bales against the same amount last week ; to
the Continent, 3,000 against the same amount last
eeweek will probably
amount to The
0
Market very active and wk.
8000. receipts for the
ad-
vancing. Middling upland, 14, cost and freight
per steamer.
London, England, 1869-02-03

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.
£l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminsterßank
214, Eligh Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, KC. • and by
WILLIAM Wlll4lO, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.
London, England, 1869-02-03

~ PATE AU DIABLE."

THE above Paste is a most agreeable relish for
Luncheon, Breakfast, &c. It will be found most useful
for deviling Legs of Turkey, Fowl, Biscuits, &c. Also their
ORIGINAL AND SUPERIOR ESSENCE ANCHOVY AND
PURE PICKLES
(Manfleld's Patent),
To be obtained Wholesale and Retail of
JOHN BURGESS AND SON,
107, STRAND
(Corner of Savoy Steps),
London, W.C.
London, England, 1869-02-03

Deaths.

ARMSTRONG—On the let inst., at 32, Duke-street, St
James's, George Ilillas Armstrong, M.R.C.S. and 1-4-S•1"
aged 66.
BEVILLE—On the Ist inst., at Richmond-hill, Surrey,
0. Bovine, late Secretary to the Union Bank of Loud°°'
aged 34.

NEALE—On the Ist inst., at Sutton Veny, Wilts, StePile°
Neale, Esq., aged 69.
STOKES—On'the Ist inst., at 27, Avenue-road, Regel3tig-
park, Francis Stokes, Esq., late of Windsor.
SYME—On the Ist inst., at Millbank House Edinburgh,
°' Edinhurgbi
Jemima 13urn, wife of James Syme, Esq., P
Clinical Surgery.

f,ondon : Printed and Piblished by WILLIAMANDAF'wsg
of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at THE SUN Officl, 14°,0,, of
Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the 003'1
Middiesez..-IVednesday, February 3, 180.
London, England, 1869-02-03

CRIMINAL COURT—(This day).

THE GREAT CITY FORGERIES.
Two Germans, named Sigismund Streimer, 44, de-
scribed as an agent, and George Koenaoke, 35, described
as a clerk, were charged with feloniously forging and
uttering a bill of exchange for £l5O, with intent to
defraud.

The case was fully reported in The Sun during the pre-
liminary examinations at the Mansion House.

The trial will occupy a considerable time.

MARKET S-2 MS DAY.

LIVERPOOL COTTON.

February *.— r ..1•••1.13- it,onn arl,t
b"sYant, tendency downwards.

MARK LANE.

The A•vvipts of English wheat were only moderate.
Neverthelesq, the trade was heavy at Monday's decline in
the quotationa. The quality of the produce was only
middling.
With foreiga wheat the market was fairly supplied
Sales progressed slowly, at about late rates.
Floating cargoes of wheat were inactive. Maize and
other descriptions of produce afloat were quiet.
Moderate supplies of barley were on sale. The demand
was inactive for all descriptions, at previous quotations.
Malt was dull, on former terms.
Oats were neglected, at the recent decline.
TALLOW.

The market is flat. Town tallow, 45s 3d; Petersburg
Y.C. on the spot, 46s Gd ; March, 46s 9d; April to June,
46s 3d ; June, 46s 9d ; October to December, 46s 6d.

GREECE.

ATHENS, Feb. 2.
The Hellenic Ministry, not being willing to sign
the protocol of the Conference, resigned to•day.

The Price of Gold.

The quotation of gold at Paris Is about at par, and
the short exchange on London is 261.15 c. per Xi sterling.
Onoomparing these rates with the English Mint price of
E.i i%s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, it appears that
At this rate there is no profit on the importation of gold
from the United states.

The course of exchange at New York on London for bills
at 60 days' sight was on the last date about 14 91 per nevi.
gold at the above price is about 1 40111 per cent. dearer in
ra.tis than in London.

DESTRUCTION OF EDDYSTONE LIGHT-

110 USE.

A telegram has been received in the City this
morning, stating that, during a storm last night,
the Eddystone Lighthouse was totally destroyed,
and the keepers drowned.

The intelligence, it need hardly be said, has
created a sensation in " the room" at Lloyds.
London, England, 1869-02-03

SLAVERY IN CUBA.

The head of the revolutionary Government in Cuba has
published a decree emancipating the slaves of the island.
The principles laid down seem to be very moderate. All
slaves are to be declared free so soon as their owners pre-
sent themselves before the military Government for the
purpose of granting their manumission, the master in all
cases receiving indemnity for his loss. The freedmen will
be utilised in the service of the country—that is, of the
revolutionary portion of it ; but the slaves of persons
who are opposed to the Revolution will be con-
fiscated without compensation. Further, those pro-
prietors who allow their slaves to aid the Revolution
without giving them liberty at present, will for the time
being be allowed to preserve their property. It is intended
that the process of emancipation shall be gradual.
London, England, 1869-02-03

L'RIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION.

President—Hey. 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, KC.; Francis Nicholls,
len. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, 16.0.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.
London, England, 1869-02-03

THE VOLUNTEER QUESTION.

"A Lieutenant-Colonel" laughs at the notion
started by " Hippophylax," that it would be impossible
for the Volunteers to keep the field for twenty-four
hours because they have no transport corps. Where
are our railways? Where are our great carriers?
Already food is conveyed into the remotest markets
and towns of England daily without difficulty.
Starving is the last thing that the Volunteers need
do. Moreover, it is absurd to suppose that while
a Volunteer may remain one while he receives 30s.
capitation grant, he becomes a paid soldier if he re-
ceives 50s. " A Volunteer since 50 " contends that
not only do the Volunteers get enough to pay their
legitimate expenses already, but they have something
over. For instance, there is Lord Elcho's own regi-
ment, the London Scottish, which gets a grant of
£564. On the other side of the account are—rent of
headquarters, gas, fuel, &c., £120; rifle range, £120;
conveyance to reviews, £lOO ; repair of
arms, £2O; staff clothing, £2O; office stationery,
printing, and postage, £3O; incidental expenses, £5O ;
making a total of £460, and leaving a balance of
£lO4. It will be observed that no account is here
made for the cost of uniforms, which is about
Ll a man, and, as there are 429 ellicients in the corps,
would absorb £429 of the £564, and leave £135 to
meet the £460 which " A Volunteer" admits to be
legitimate. This, too, makes no allowance for the
cost of the band, which may fairly be considered a
luxury for which the Volunteers themselves should
pay.
London, England, 1869-02-03

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
ME T A'S F A I TII.
By the Author of "St. Olave's," &c.
"A very interesting and attractive story, worthy of the author
of St. Olave's.' "—Sun.
"A very charming story. Its popularity is certain."—Star.
Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street."
London, England, 1869-02-03

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
invited 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, Marley-street, W.
London, England, 1869-02-03

OCTAVIIIS WIGRAM
JAMES STEWART I[IIXISON, E
CHARLES JOHN MANNING,
DIREC

Robert Barclay, Esq.
John Garrett Cattley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. '
Edward James Daniell, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Lancelet William Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq..
Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq.
Charles Hermann Goschen,
Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell,
Esq.
Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Medical Referee, Semi

FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on
advantageous terms.
The Duty on Fire Assurances has been reduced to the
uniform rate of ls. 6d. per cent. per annum.

No charge is made by this Corporation for Fire Policy
or Stamp, however small the Assurance may be.
rMING STOCK.— No Extra Charge is made for the
use of Steam Thrashing Machines.
The Reversionary Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES
has averaged nearly 2 per cent, per annum on the sum
assured.

Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one
Life.

This Corporation affords to the Asrured
Liberal participation in Profits, with the guarantee
of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption
under Royal Charter from tho liabilities of part-
nership.
The advantages of modern practice, with the secu-
rity of an Office whose resources have been tested
by the experience of nearly a CENTURY AND A
HALF.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary.
London, England, 1869-02-03

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.
London, England, 1869-02-03

NEW ZEALAND.

Admiral Sartorius suggests that advantage may be
taken of the reductions about to be made in the
army and the marines to give useful and unobjection-
able assistance to our New Zealand countrymen.
The men to be discharged are well-disciplined soldiers,
accustomed to the new arms. The Admiral, therefore,
would anticipate theterm, andoffer all who are disposed
to take military service in the colony a free passage
and a portion of the land they conquer. Plenty of
reserved ships could be spared, and within four
months from this date any number of volunteers
might be embarked and landed. The cost would be
hardly anything, being only the value of a
few months' provisions and the fuel for the
vessels. The friendly Maori should have the
right hand of fellowship, but he should
never be allowed to believe that he commands the
first place in the battle. There can be no doubt
on which side the balance of victory must turn, and
the more quickly that victory is decided the better,
the Admiral thinks, it will be for the savage and the
settler alike.
London, England, 1869-02-03

FOREIGN NOTES.
AMERICA.

Mormonism is threatened with a very serious danger.
The Americans seem to have resolved not to sweep
Brigham Young and his followers wholly out of the way,
as they threatened at one time, but to adopt an easier and
more efficacious stratagem. A bill has been brought before
Congress for the purpose of diminishing the terri-
tory of Utah ; it is to be cut down on all sides ;
one piece to go to Colorado, another to Nevada, another
to Montana, and a fourth to Wyoming. Beyond the
Salt Lake City the domain of Brigham Young will be but
the shadow of what it is now. This, it is hoped, will strike
at the root of Mormonism. The sect will be nothing
unless it becomes a nation ; Brigham Young's am-
bition is not so much to become the head of
a Church, as to found a State. This is the
object of his hydra-headed proselytising machinery, his
missions all over the world, his district branches, confe-
rences, and other paraphernalia. The Mormons themselves,
in fact, speak of Young as their spiritual and temporal
ruler, and of their community in Utah and abroad as a
commonwealth. The Americans conceive that the only
mode of resisting this tendency is to parcel out Utah
until but a district is left. They will not inter-
fere with the settled portions ; they will not rob the
Mormons of the wilderness which they have made to
" blossom like a rose ;" but the rest is to be taken from
them for ever.

Mr. Reverdy Johnson has partly retrieved himself in
American esteem. his dining and feting is almost for-
given on -account of his diplomatic success. Con-
trary to all expectation, he has concluded three
treaties one disposing of the naturalisation problem,
another settling the San Juan dispute, and the
third providing machinery for getting rid of the Alabama
difficulty. The general opinion in the United States is
that this last treaty is a triumph. Mr. Johnson
has obtained all that he asked for, and almost all that Mr.
Seward chose to ask in addition. Several British subjects
in the States are consulting as to the possibility of their
obtaining damages for property destroyed by Sherman's
army on its march to the sea. The amount which would
be claimed under this head exceeds the value of the depre-
dations committed by the Alabama and other vessels.
It is noteworthy that a circular has made its appearance
at Washington advocating the annexation of Canada by
peaceful negotiation as a quid pro quo for the abandon-
ment of the Alabama claims. The promoters of this
movement seem to go to work in a very temperate man-
ner, but their estimate of the importance of the Alabama
claims is as excessively high as their estimate of the
value of Canada is deplorably low.
London, England, 1869-02-03

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
invited 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, 1869-02-03

GERMANY.

The Augsburg Gazette has received from an official cor-
respondent, an explanation of the sudden termination of
the newspaper war between Austria and Prussia. The
North German Gazette was brusquely pulled up by
Count Bismarck, because the latter had conceived a
plan of resuming friendly relations with Austria.
The Prussian Chancellor has sounded Count Beust,
and has submitted to him the details of a scheme
by which Austria is to have her own way in the
East, provided Prussia be allowed a similar privilege in
the West; this meaning, it is to be presumed, carte blanche
to operate in South Germany. These insidious overtures
have been rejected by Austria. Hence the Augsburg
Gazette is on the look-out for another assault upon Austrian
policy by the Berlin journals.
Wiirtemberg has just contracted a loan of over two
millions, for the purpose of completing the railway system
of the country. The railroads of Wiirtemberg are con-
structed and worked by the State, the Foreign Minister
and the Master of the King's Household sharing the
management. The work seems to be prudently carried_ on,
and hitherto considerable profits have been realised.
London, England, 1869-02-03

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London, England, 1869-02-03

MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new de-
scription of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without
springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble
the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the ori-
ginals by the closest observer ; they will never change
colour or decay, and will be found superior to any teeth
ever before used. This method dons not require the
extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will
support and preserve tooth that are loose, and is gua-
ranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed
teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in masti-
cation.
52, Fleet-street. At home from 10 till 5.