The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-05 00:00:00

V.R.-TOWER.

QALE OF STORES.—By order of the Secretary
of State for War.—Mr. GEORGE SPILLMAN will Sell by
Public Auction in the Tower, on TUESDAY, 12th of January,
1869, at Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon precisely, the following
Stores:

Bedding. Haversacks. Brass.
Tin Sheets. I Musquet Stocks. Iron.
Accoutrements. Engine Hose. Tools.

May be Viewed at the Tower from 10 to
Days previous to the Day of Sale, and Catal
the War-office, Pall-mall ; the Tower; and :
with.

o 4 o'clock the Three
Llogues may be had at
Royal Arsenal, Wool-

INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE.

India Office, let December, 1868.
INTOTICE is Hereby Given, that an examination
of Candidates for '2O appointments as Assistant-Surgeons
in her Majesty's Indian Medical Service will be hold at
Chelsea Hospital on the Bth February, 1869.
Copies of the regulations for the examination of Candi-
dates, together with information regarding the pay and
retiring allowances of Indian Medical Officers, may be ob-
tained on applicati n at the Military Department, India
Office, Westminster, S.W.

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

DOG LICENSES.—CAUTION.
THE COMMISSIONERS of INLAND RE-
JL VENUE GIVE NOTICE that all DOG LICENSES
granted in the year 1868 expired on the 31st December
last, and every person keeping a dog in the current year is
required forthwith to take out a new License.
The duty payable for each dog kept is Five Shillings.
The penalty for keeping a dog withuut License is Five
Pounds.

A License is not transferable from one person to
another.

A License may be obtained by the owner giving his
name and address, and the name of the place where the
dog is kept, on application at
The Office of the Collector of Inland' In the neigh-
Revenue,
bourhood of the
The Office of the Distributor of Stamps
Or applicant's j
re-
A Money Order Post Office. sidence.
Licenses will also be granted by the several Supervisors
of Inland Revenue.

Persons residing at a distance from any of the above
offices, by transmitting with their application Inland
Revenue (Receipt) or Postago Stamps for the proper
amount of duty, to the Collector of Inland Revenue for
the District, will receive a license in return by post.
WM. COBBETT, Secretary.
Inland Revenue, Somerset House, London,
Ist January, 1869.
p ()LICE

NOTICE.

STREET CROSSING SIGNALS.
BRIDGE-STREET, NEW PALACE-YARD.

CAUTION• STOP.
The Semaphore Arms The Semaphore Arms
lowered, and by Night with extended, and by Night
with a Green Light. with a Red Light.

By the Signal "CAUTION," all persons in charge of
Vehicles and Horses are warned to pass over the Crossing
with care, and due regard to the safety of Foot Passen-
gers.

The Signal "STOP," will only be displayed when it is
necessary that Vehicles and Horses shall be actually
stopped on each side of the Crossing, to allow the passage
of Persons on Foot; notice being thus given to all Per-
sons in charge of Vehicles and Horses to stop clear of the
Crossing.

RICHARD MAYNE,
Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis.
Metropolitan Police Office,
December 10, 1868.

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

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

RITISIi ORPHAN ASYLUM,
Mackenzie-park, Slough (formerly at Clapham-rise).
Instituted 1827.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
For the gratuitous board, clothing, and education of
destitute orphans from all parts of the British dominions,
and of all denominations, whose parents were once in
prosperous circumstances. _

Olio 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.
The last Report can be obtained on application to the
Secretary.

THOS. TILSON, Chairman.
CITAS. LEE, M.A.
AUBREY C. PRICE, M.A.,} Hon. Secs.
ALFRED AIACKENZIE, Secretary.
Offices, 73, Cheapside, London, 8.0.
Bankers--Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-
lane ; and Meters. Heywood, Brothers, Manchester.

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.

HOIIIELESS 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]
370 children.

£l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank
214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, E.C.; and by
WILLIAM WILLIAMS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.

HOME for the HELPLESS.—ST. JAMES'S
DIOCESAN HOME for FEMALE PENITENTS
(Hammersmith), under tho immediate direction of the
Bishop of London. Tho 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
Rev. P. G. Bloomfield
Hon. and Rev. F. Byng
Rev. R. G. Baker
Rev. S. Brooke
The Lord Clinton
Rev. W. Cadman
E. Charrington, Esq.
Rev. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain
Rev. E. Capel Cure
Rev. J. E. Cox
Octavius Coope, Esq.
Arthur Currie, Esq.
Rev. J. Connell
Rev. G. W. Purse

Major-Gen. Rt. Hon. Percy
Herbert, M.P.
RO7. J. E. Kempe
Rev. W. F. Erskine Kiollys
Rev. S. W. Lloyd
Rev. A. Martineau
Rev. W. D. Maclagan
Rev. Daniel Moore
Rev. J. Moorhouse
J. D. Morton, Esq.
Rev. Canon Nepean
Rev. E. Parry
John Pearson, Esq., Q.C.
Rev. G. F. rrescott
Rev. F. Pigou

C. J. Freake. Esq.
J. S. Gilliat, Esq.
Rev. Dr. F Hessey
H G Heald
,Esq.
R. Hook, Esq., Treasurer

R. T. Pigtitt, Esq.
R. R. Pym, Esq.
Rugh 11. Seymour, Esq.
R. Wade, Esq.
Loftus Wigram, Esq.

Subscriptions will be recei
Messrs. Harries, Farquhar,
Secretary, Rev. S. W. Lloyd
man-square, to whom commt

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Lved by any of the above ; by
and Co; and by the Hon.
I, 14, Seymour-street, Port-
un ications may be addressed.

ROYAL 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 are urgently
NEEDED to liquidate the expenses incurred.
There are 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely
dependent upon voluntary subscriptions.
Nearly 300 approved applicants are 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, L.C., September, 1868. j

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THE PACIFIC RAILROAD.

(From (lie Anglo American Times.)
The Pacific Railway has at last attracted the
notice of the 2 ones, which alludes to it as likely to
furnish the materials to be cultivated into the
Panic due in 1876. Panics are the result of vision-
' ary, not sound, substantial enterprises, and although
a great success is usually the base around which the
speculators and blackguards gather, the mines
opened by the line, independent of the changed
current of travel from East to West, will furnish ma-
terials for many a grand fortune before these vision-
aries and schemers can work up the edifice for the
smash. tVe hear that the Rotbschilds have taken a
considerable interest in some mining properties in
Nevada, an indication as certain as that given by
swallows of spring. The new highway will shorten
the time to Yokohama and Shanghai by at least 15
days. From London to New York the time is
ten days ; thence to San Francisco it will be six
days ; on to Yokohama about 19 days. From Yoko-
hama the steamers branch, one going to Naga-
saki and Shanghai, and the other to Hongkong,
Shanghai being reached in five days or less, and
Hongkong in six, accomplishing the extreme voyage
in about 40 days. The New Monthly Magazine, for
this month, has an article on " The Great High-
way for Nations." The Pacifirc Railway is calls
the Central Pacific, ignorant of the fact that that
term is applied to the portion only running east from
Sacramento till it meets the Union Pacific running
west from Omaha. While the writer does not know
the name of the railway he advances bold opinions and
abuses those Englishmen, "haters of their country,"
who are not prepared to construct a rival line
through the wilds and snows of the Hudson Bay
territory to checkmate the grasping Yankee and
keep Eastern trade still in hands. Mr.
ALFRED WADDINGTON'S publication furnishes the
Monthly with its material, and the writer proceeds
to show the people at home that it is their duty to
run the line over British soil, from the head waters
of Lake Superior to the Pacific. He takes it for
granted that the Americans of the United States must
he always hostile and in rivalry with Englishmen,
and that the Americans to the north of the United
States boundary must be always allies and friends
of Britain, a ridiculous supposition, though generally
entertained in England. Grounding his observa-
tions on this farce he shows that England should
strive to retain to herself the traffic of Eastern Asia ;
but the idea does suggest itself to his mind—" What
if this hostile nation over the border should seize
country, railway, and all !" He is refreshed, how-
ever, with the conviction that the Canadians will

fight to the death, and that they have always
hitherto defeated the Yankee schemes of annexa-
tion and invasion, and he can see no reason why
they should not continue so to defeat them. This is
the way in which the new highway is often discussed
in England, and then the English are surprised
and disgusted when they see a somewhat similar
spirit reflected in Congress and in the American
Press. Can they not recognize the Northern con-
tinent of America as in the hands cf their kinsfolk,
speaking thcir own language, without these lines
of demarcation than which nothing can be more
illusory—a mere air-line, which has no more sub-
stance than it shows on the ground it is supposed
to mark. But while this is nothing, race is some-
thing, and in fostering the baneful errors to whiCh
the New Monthly gives expression the substance is
sacrificed for the shadow. There is no difference in
race between the Canadians and the Americans ; and
why should England endeavour to create artificially
that which nature has not done ? It can lead to no
good, but may produce much harm, aad gives rise
to more ill-feeling than any other cause across the
Atlantic. If the United States work the Union

Pacific Railroad well, giving quick, cheap, and safe
trains across the continent, and carry passengers
with speed, security, and comfort from San Fran-

cisco to Japan and China, they will do what the

world requires. In doing this the nation may benefit
itself more than mankind generally ; but surely no
other nation ought to object to the greater benefit

goirg to those who have done the work, made the
outlay, and stood the risk. A discussion embodying
the ideas of the New Monthly can in no way influ-

encc the resu' t, for the writer himself, if he had to visit

Japan, and could get there quicker, cheaper, and
by a more pleasant route over the Union Pacific
Railway, would put his patriotism in his pocket and

ake his. passage fur New York ; anol we may add, were

people to talk and write as they act, while adhering
to practice the world would get rid of heaps of theo-

retical rubbish. We would ask ALFRED WADDINGTON

if there is any snow along the route he recommends,
if the climate is so genial that it only freezes in the
early morning; for the Pacific Railroad, more than
10 degrees to the south, has just been blocked for
two or three days by snow, and even in that compa-

ratively southern latitude it has yet to be ascertained

what will be the checks in winter. No American

objects to a line, if practicable, through the Hudson
Bay Territory ; on the contrary, all will rejoice to

see British enterprise take such a direction. But
what we object to, and will always combat, are the

narrow-minded theories, tending to foster hostility,

advanced to commend the project. The continent
north of the Mexican boundary is essentially one,

and in the hands of one race, and Americans in-
vite Englishmen to aid and share in the benefit of

its development, and as many as please to make it

heir home. The best answer to the invitation is

not in the endeavour to split off one section of that

continent into hostility to the other, nor to betray
in such writings the paltry jealousy from which

such arguments spring.

Admiral George Elliott has taken advantage of
,he alarm caused by the loss of the Hibernia, and a similar

.njury to the Columbia as that which proved fatal to the other,
;o urge the introduction on board such steamers of the hy-
draulic engine, which he asserts acts as an enormous
pump, discharging from the hold of a vessel of 200 no-
minal horse-power 400. tons of water a minute, that is,
two tons for each horse power. So large a discharge pipe
and such a volume of water cannot be choked, and Mr.
Ruthven's hydraulic engine, the Admiral asserts with the
utmost confidence, to bo a perfect security to life and pro-
perty from the effects of any leak at sea from heavy strain-
ing; while the propeller cannot be injured by any action
of the sea, such an accident as that by which the Hiber-
nia was lost being impossible. The Admiral says that he
has laboured for years in vain to introduce an improve-
ment so replete with advantages to the cause of humanity
and the interests of commerce, while five millions were
expended to release a few Abyssinian captives. The Ad-
' miral is not very happy in his illustration, for the Abys-
sinian war was undertaken for prestige, but his plan requires
no illustration to recommend it, if his enthusiasm does not
exaggerate what it can do. The Admiral could not have a
better instance than the last case, that of the Starry Banner.
She was bound from Alexandria to New York, and had on
board 164 persons. Ou the 18th December a terrific sea
cleared the decks; the next day the captain was washed
overboard and perished, the lifeboats also being lost. Ten
feet of water was in the hold, and the pumps at work day
and night; signals wore made, rockets fired, but no ship
came in sight. On the 20th the chief officer, Mr L. Van
Buren, told the passengers he could do no more. At eight
o'clock a tremendous sea struck the saloon, sweeping the
passengers in it overboard. Major Henry J oy, of the United
States Army, a native of London, saved 22 by his heroic
exertions, but 60 of those swept into the sea were lost. On
the 21st the rafts which had been constructed were
launched, and time only was given to place all on them
when the steamer went down, as the Hibernia, stern fore-
most. For three nights and two days they remained on
the rafts without food or water, and many, preferring a
speedy death to this torture and suspense, jumped into the
sea after leaving the wreck and were drowned. At last
they were rescued by a French bark and lauded at Bou-
logne, to the number of 42, which gives a loss of 122. This
story which went the rounds is wholly devoid of truth,
and we only retain it here as an instance of the sort of
hoax in which some persons can find pleasure. Those
who accepted it as genuine on discovering its real charac-
ter wondered how they could have been deceived by so
poor a awl, as every incident bore imposture on its face
as originally told.
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