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HOME for the ITELPLESS.—ST. JAMES'S
DIOCESAN HOME for FEMALE PENITENTS
(Hammersmith), 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,

Major-Gen. Rt. Hon. Percy
Herbert. M.P.
RO7. J. E. tempo
Rev. W. F. Erskine Knollys
Rev. S. W. Lloyd
Rev. A. Martineau
Rev. W. D. Maclagan
Rev. Daniel Moore
Rev. J. Moorhouse
J. D. Morton, Esq.
Rev. CantA Nepean
Rev. E. Parry
John Pearson, Esq., Q.C•
Rev. G. F. Prescott
Rev. F. Pigou
R. T. Pigott, Esq.
R. R. Pym, Esq.
Hugh H. Seymour, Esq.
R. Wade, Esq.
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ived by any of the above ; by
and Co; and by the Hen.
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Irications may be addressed,

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Rev. F. G. Bloomfield
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Rev. S. Brooke
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E. Charrington, Eeq.
Rev. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain
Rev. E. Capel Cure
Rev. J. E. Cox
Octavius Coope, Esq.
Arthur Currie, Esq.
Rev. J. Connell
Rev. C. W. Furse
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R. Hook, Esq., Treasurer
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ROYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES,
West-hill, Putney-henth.
Established 31st July, 1854.
This Institution exists for the comfort and relief of per-
sons (being above the pauper class) atilicted:ownritttirhoibrilun. ctiuorns-
able bodily disease.
Belief 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 lust 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 are awaiting election.
For the maintenance
Ins sog,lui
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Lifeoeux s-,
tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe-
cially
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guinea and upwards, with votes in
eaforairmation will be supplied, with the greatest pleasure,
upon application to the Secretary, by who:2r°
will bo thankfully received.FEDE
R
RIC ANDREW, Secretary.
No. 10_ Poultry? London, E.C. September, 1868.

We are invited to lay before our readers a chance
in a curious lottery, the Galleon Treasure Venture,
as given in our advertising columns. In the reign
of
_Queen Anne during the war between England
and Holland on the one side, and Fiance and
Spain on the other, Admiral Rooke and the Duke
of Ormond with a fleet and an army which bad
failed in an attack of Cadiz, were on their way
home when the English Minister at Lisbon induced
them to make a dash at Vigo, where a rich convoy
of plate ships from the New World had taken re-
fuge. They arrived on the 22d October, 1702,
and after a vigorous resistance captured and de-
stroyed the fleet. Six galleons, containing seven
million pieces of Eight in plate and merchandise,
were taken, the remaining eleven or twAve with
the computed value of six millions of bullion being
burnt or sunk. This was the fate of the richest
flotilla that ever reached a European port, and was
duly trumpeted over England and Holland as a
splendid victory. About the facts there is no ques-
tion, and the proof is ample that a large portion of
the treasure went to the bottom in the vessels.- In
1859 an English engineer obtained from the Spanish
Government authority to seek for and recover the
treasure. After much labour and expense he dis-
covered and marked by buoys the position of nine
of these ships, all of which were in a fair state of
preservation, though so surrounded by mud as to
have assumed the appearance of mounds. Not
having the necessary capital to raise these vessels,
he communicated with Colonel Gowen, well
known for his success in recovering the men-of-
war and other vessels sunk in the roadstead of
Sevastopol. The Colonel proceeded to Vigo during
the early part of the present month, which he saw
as a land-locked harbour was admirably adapted
for the proposed work, presenting an agreeable
contrast to that of Sevastopol. On examining the
nine vessels he found that the deepest lay under
81 fathoms of water, ranging up to 54. Four of
them had not been burnt, and the hulls of the
others were almost perfect. On board one the
anchor was at her bows, a mortar and gun-wheel
were on her deck. He cleared the mud, generally
two feet, from the deck of another, and beneath
were bricks, which, on being removed, exposed the
deck planks six inches wide by five thick, shewing
that he had hit on the floor of her cook-
house. The richest of the ships was taken by the
Admiral, but in going through the North Channel,
towards which he was driven the Monmouth prize
struck on a sunken rock and immediately foun-
dered, but as many frigates were near all the men
were saved except two. Col. Gowen supposes this
rock to be the same on which her Majesty's ship
America struck in 1812 in front of the South
Channel. The bottom is rocky, but he thinks
there is a reasonable chance of finding the
lost treasure by the aid of divers. The only
attempt made to recover the treasure was 20
years ago by the diving bell, which does not ad-
mit of any practical result, the divers being unable
to descend into the holds or bottoms of vessels ; and
he adds, " now with the modern invention of sub-
marine armour, the divers can examine the hold
and every portion of a submerged vessel, and carry
on their work with almost equal facility as on land.
My inspection, therefore, completely sat'sfies me
as to the practicability of recovering the treasure,
and that at an outlay which your capital fully
provides for." The scheme is, however, brought
before the public as a venture, being of an entirely
speculative character, though it is thought that
the recovery of the treasure from one ship would
be sufficient to satisfy the most s Inguine ex-
pectations. By the terms of the concession 25
per cent. of. what is recovered goes to the
Spanish Government and by agreement 7} per
cent. to the concessionaire, who is also to get
£5,000 for the expenses already incurred, including
the plant and materials in hand. This is a strange
venture, which so caricatures history that the Eng-

lish of Queen Victoria's time are invited, with the
concurrence of the Spanish Government, io recover
for their own benefit the Spanish fleet their ancestor
sunk in the time of Qteen Anne in a harbour of
Spain.

HONOURABLE DISCHARGE OF MR. B. R. KEITH.—
After a rigid examination in the Culla of Bankruptcy,
Mr. B. R. Keith, of the late firm of Belding, Keith, and
Co., was honourably acquitted, on Thursday, of any par-
ticipation in the events which so unexpectedly wrecked
that house. We were not aware that such charges had
ever been brought against hint, as we thought that the
extraordinary circumstances which destroyed the business
were known to have been caused by an aberration of mind
in the partner then remaining its London, and which even-
tually led him into suicide. The assignees opposed, on
the grounds of excessive expenditure, rash and hazardous
speculations, and contracting debts without reasonable ex-
pectation of payment, but Mr. Commissioner Bacon not
only acquitted Mr. Keith of these charges, but fully ac-
quitted the firm. He remarked on one item of expense
for entertaining customers, that it was the ordinary and
well known practice of all large mercantile houses
in London, and, ho asserted, that had it Lot been
for the sudden departure, in so unlooked-for a man-
ner, of Mr. Belding the business might have gone
on. Indeed it is now believed that the house would have
been a marked success had it not been for the unfortunate
infirmi y Mr. Belding is supposed to have inherited.
There is no use, however, in crying over spilt milk, and
we now allude to those facts only to do an act of justice we
consider to be due to Mr. Keitb, to whom our article written
on the receipt of the astounding intelligence of the failure
of this firm did injustice and gave pain. His Honour
said that Mr Keith had been unfortunate, but notculpable,
and had acquitted himself in the face of the Court and of
his creditors with credit to himself, and an order was
granted for an allowance to him out of the estate, an un-
usual circumstance, proving bow very favourable was
the impression left on the Commissioner's mind.
Now that velocipedes are the fashion the follow-
ing paragraph from the Philadelphia Post may be of inte-
rest : —" The latest vehicular invention (but still, like
great many inventions, one of the earliest known) is the
property of aMilesian of Philadelphia. Ho calls it a wheel-
ocipede.' It has the advantage of only needing one wheel,
and is not only one of the most useful of this description of
vehicles, but absolutely the safest. The operator rests his
feet on the ground, and his whole body upon his feet, and
guides the arrangement by means of a pair of bars. It is
capable of use in building operations, for the conveyance
of earth, sand, and such materials, and will doubtless su-
persede, in the end, all the bicyles and other descriptions of
velocipedes."
The lands granted according to the Report of the
Secretary of the Interior to the United States Senate, un-
der existing laws for railroads and waggon roads to States,
Territories, and corporations, up to Jan. 30, 1867, is
21,561,000 acres ; for canals nearly 4,500,000 acres;
that The
quantity certified to the following-named States sin
adcartees
;is
Californasia,
sali
ffoorllnoiNav,s :r—ailllroiandnse,so2ta,6,oofoor
arcarielrsuoiarod,
asdi,,6l/90,.500i00.60
waggon roads, 7
acres; Michigan, canals, 280,000 2,000 acres; Oregon,
total of 27,000,000 acres.
Gazette alludes to " the Rus •
The Angle-Italian acres; making -a
grand
e unication with the Government, it is
been placed in corm
sian papers as annGounnecrianlgsthheermpraens.enceT,hien
GeneralS t.P et e Petersburg,
of the American
the new president elect, Gen' The Russian
either invented this, or been deceived, for
believed that he is charged wi
Grant a mis.s, ion on behalf of
papers have et
having justmust concluded the Indian War,
St. Louis about the time they wrote.
His nestherposte
most probably be that vacated by Grant.
T
nineteen lighthouses on the Pacific
ve aee eSherman,willnown a
t
c(jo'eanste, hmaalnd it is proposed to erect sixteen others, five to be
built next summer.
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