The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-10 00:00:00

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No. 23,373.

Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,

CONSTANCE RIVERS.
By Lady BARRETT LENNARD.

From the Times, April 25.—" This book is full of genius,
anti contains many strikingly beautiful passages. It well
eserves to find readers. Those who begin it will certainly
feel inclined to finish-it. 'Constan,:e Rivers' is written in a
smart. style. anii personages of the higher class are hit
off faithfully and skilfully."
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great ISt trlborough-street.

NOTICE.—THE FLYING- SCUD, a New
sporting Novel, by the Author of " Charlie Thornhill,"
&a., IS NOW HEADY at all Libraries, in 2 vols. "oat Svo.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

Now published at 3d., per post 4d.,

PAINLESS TOOTH EXTRACTION ; or,
Anmsthesla Locally Applied. By A. ESKELL,
Surzeoa-Dentist, Author of "Dental Surgery," " Pure
Dentistry," dm
Slmpkin, Marshall, and Co.; all booksellers ; or of the
author, at his residence, 8, Grosvenor-street, Bond-street.

A ESKELL, SURGEON-DEN'FIST, author of
" Dental Surgery," " Pure Dentistry." " Dental
Anzsthesta," dm, may be CONSUL FED DAILY as hitherto
from 10 to 4 o'clock, at his ONLY re,idence, 8, Grosvenor-
street, Bond-street.

OSBORNE'S STILTON

Is THE Cheese !

DUNVILLE'S V.R. OLD IRISH WHISKY,
BBL FAST,

Is regularly supplied to the House of Lords.

"V.R." IRISH WHISKY.

DUNVILLE and CO.'S " V R." OLD IRISH
.
IVFIISKY, BELFAST.

London Offices and Stores,
4, BE AUFO RT-BUILDINGI3, STRAND, W.C.
Established 1808. Quotations on application.

FAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork.—" The purest spirit and safest drink in the
world."—London Offices, 7, Printing-house-square, E.C.,
next the " Times."

TAMES DALY and CO., Distillers, John-street,
Cork, beg to announce that they r.re able to supply the
trade with their celebrated whiskies. in casks or cases, and
to take orders in bond and for exportation, at their offices, 7,
Printing-house-square, London, KC.. the only house in the
square not occupied by the "Times." J. D. and Co.'s whiskies
bring the highest prices in the Australian and other Colonial
markets, as may be observed by reference to the " Journal of
Commerce of Victoria," by which it will be seen that their
whiskies fetch Bd. per gallon and Is. per case over the next
best, and Is. 6d per gallon and Cs. 6d. a case over the lowest
quotation. Always on hand a large supply of ve y old
mellow whisky in the finest condition, matured in sherry
casks, unsurpassable in quality and flavour, supplied on the
most reasonable terms.

GEOLOG Y.—ELEMENTARY COLLEC-
TIONS, to illustrate the New Edition of "Lyell's
Elements of Geology" and facilitate the important study of
Mineralogy and Geology, can be bad at 2,5, 10, 20, 50 to 500
guineas ; also single Specimens of Minerals, Rooks, Fossils,
and Reaent Shells, Geological Slaps. Hammers, all the recent
Pub,ications, fig, of J. TENNANT. Mineralogist to Her
Majesty, 149. Strand, London.
Private Instruction is given in Mineralogy and Geology by
Mr. TENNANT. F.G.S., 149, Strand, W.C.

TEA IS CHEAPER THAN EVER.
is. 6L, 28., 28.8 d. per lb. are the prices at which
' PHILLIPS and CO.,
Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City, London, Ex..
are selling good and line
BLACK TEA.
A. price current post free. 40s worth carriage free to any
Railway Station or Market Town in the United Kingdom.
All goods carriage free to all parts of London.
Observe—PHILLIPS and Co. have no Agents.
Sugars are supplied at market prices.

IIYAM'S GENTLEMEN'S DEPARTMENT
• is replete with every novelty for the Season,
including West of England Cloths, Fancy Coatings,
Trouserings, &c. Fashion, fit, and taste in combina-
tion with reduced prices.

DEAFNESS.—The ORGANIC VIBRATOR.-
It fits into the ear, not perceptible, removes singing
noises in the bead, and enables deaf persons to hear at public
assemblies. Every other kind of bearing instrument. Nume-
rous testimonials for inspection. -S. and D. SOLOKONS, 39,
Albemarle-street, Piccadilly.

HYAM'S LIGHT OVERCOATS FOR
• the Present Season embrace every novelty in de-
sign and material, no Garment can be made to fit better.
They are tasteful and elegant, and very moderate in price,
varying from 165., 18s., 215., 285., to 355.

PHOTOGRAPHER TO THE QUEEN,
BY SPECIAL APPOINTMENT.

LHYAM'S STOCK OF SURTO UT COATS
• for the Season is not to be surpassed for beauty,
quality, and fit, well-made, and handsomely trimmed, 305.,
365., 425., 505., 555., to 635.

DISDERI, Photographic Artist to H.I. Majesty
the Emperor Napoleon 111. and the Imperial Family ;
to ILI. Majesty the Emperor of all the Rossias ; also to H.I.
Majesty the Queen of Spain and the Royal Family; to hia
Majesty the King of Italy; to his Majesty the King of Hol-
land ; to his Majesty the King of Portugal ; to the Imperial
Academy of Music; Photographer of the Patace of the Uni-
versal Exhibition or 1855, &c. The excellent situation of Mr.
Disderi's studio enables him to operate regardless of the
weather.

LHYAM'S STOCK OF BUSINESS AND
. Walking Coats for the season is specially designed
in every Fashionable Style and Shape from the choicest
materials. Prices for Business Coats, 12s. 6d., 15s. 6d.,
18s. 6d., to 21s. Walking Coats, 215., 285., 355., 425., to
50s.

LHYAM'S STOCK OF GENTLEMEN'S
• Trousers for the Season, comprehends all the
novelties. Such a rare display is not to be seen elsewhere.
12s. 6d., 13s. 6d., 14s. 6d., 165., 17s. to 21s.

nISDERI.—Ifer Most Gracious MAJESTY the
QUEEN, their Royal -Highnesses the DUKE of EDIN-
BURGH, Prince Leopold, Prince's Louise, and Princess
Beatrice have condescended to sit for their Portraits to Mr.
DISDERI. By the gracious permission of her Majesty the
Queen, the Portraits of her Majesty and their Royal High-
nesses are on sale at Mr. DisderPs Photographic Establish-
ments in London, at 70. 71, and 74 Brook-street, Hanover-
square ; in Paris, 8, Boulevard des Italiens ; and at all the
principal booksellers of Europe. Price—Carte de Visite, Is. :
coloured,2s. Drawing-room Portraits, 2i. Bd.; coloured, ss.

lIYAAI'S STOCK OF WAISTCOATS
• for the Season contains the most beautiful patterns
and materials. ss. 6d., 6s. 6d., 7s. Gd., 9s. 6d., 10s. 6d., to
12s. 6d.

HYAM'S BESPOKE DEPARTMENT
L•maintains its renown for talented cutters, accu-
rate fit, and durability of Workmanship. The Materials
are new in design and style, and the assortment is the
largest in the Kingdom. Prices are framed upon the
most economical basis. •

DISDER 1.--Their Royal Highnesses the
PRINCE and PRINCESS of WALES have honoured
with a visit the studio of DISDKRI, and have authorised
him the sale of all the Portraits taken by him of their Royal
Highnesses, as well as those of Prince Viotoi and Prince
George. Pi ice—Carte de Visite, plain or enamel, Is.; coloured,
2s. cabinet Portraits, 2s. 6d. Splendid Portrait of H.R. H ,
mounted on fine tinted large cardboard, 2i by 191 inches,
price one guinea.

HYANI'S YOUTHS' AND BOYS' ATTIRE
• for tho Season stands pre-eminent for taste, excel-
lence and cheapness. L. HYAM still maintains his fore-
most position in this Department.

CONTRACT FOR SOUTH WALES COALS FOR
GIBRALTAR.

CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY, SOMERSET
HOUSE, May 8, 1867.
THE COMWSSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFft of 40RD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM 61 GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND, Do hereby give Notice, that on TUESDAY, the
28th inst., at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat with
such Persons as may be willing to CONTRACT for sup-
plying and delivering into Store at her Majesty's Naval
Yard, at Gibraltar,
1,300 Tons of Smokeless South Wales COALS,
fit for the service of her Majesty's steamships and vessels.
A Form of the Tender and Conditions of the Contrast
may' be seen in the Lobby of the Storekeeper-General's
Department, Admiralty, Somerset House. No Tender will
be received after Two o'clock on the day of treaty, nor will
any be noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for
him duly authorised in writing. •
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words
"Tender for Coals for Gibraltar," and must also be de-
livered at the Department of the Storekeeper-General,
Admiralty, Somerset Rouse, accompanied by a letter
signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become
bound with the person tendeeng in the sum of £25 per
coat. on the value for to due performance of the Contract.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Qontracts and Public Securities.

EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
CHAIRMAN—Gen. Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K. H., F.R.S .
Policies payable during • life, indisputable, not liable to
forfeiture.

The ROYAL NAVAL, MILITARY, and EAST
INDIA Life Department, affording peculiar advantages to
Officers and others in the Navy and Army, is under the
especial patronage of
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
Annual Premium Revenue, upwards of £310,000.
New Premium Income in 1865 exceeded £62,000.
Life, Fire, Guarantee, and Annuities at advantageous
rates.

-The European is the only Society authorised by the im-
perial Parliament to Guarantee the Fidelity of Govern-
ment Officials.

Full particulars of the popular principles of this Society
will be found in the New Prospectus, which will bo for-
warded to applicants, post free.
Offices 316, Bogen t-street ; 17, Waterloo-place, Pall-
mall; and 69, King William-street, City.
HENRY LAKE, Manager.

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

BONUS MEETING, 1867.

The Report presented at a Meeting held on the 3d
January last, for the declaration of the EIGHTH BoNus,
showed,

1. As TO THE PROGRESS OF THE SOCIETY,
that, during the quinquennial period which terminated on
the 30th June, 1866,
NEW ASSURANCES for a total sum of £1,518,181,
and yielding £50,497 in Annual Premiums, had been
effected, of which sums the former exceeded by £31,811,
and the latter by £2,392, the corresponding items of any
previous period; that
THE INCOME had increased from £195,400 to £215,327
per annum; and that
THE ASSURANCE FUND, after payment of £85,303
on account of Bonus at the last Division, had risen from
£1,422,191 to £1,619,539.
2. As TO THE FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE SOCIETY.
That the Assets on June 30, 1860, were £1,619,539 14 8
And the Liabilities on the same date 1,343,708 19 2

HYAM'S BOYS' SUITS FOR SCHOOL
A-4. and every day wear are especially adapted fur
the Season, and will be found to be exceedingly strong
and durable, 18s., 215., 255. to 30s.

DISDERL—ON SALE.—Splendid ALBUMS
of WINDSOR and OSBORNE, photographed by Mr.
'Nader', under the immediate patronage and the gracious
permission of her Majesty the Queen. Historical text by
Doyne C. Bell, Esq. These Albums—bize, hall-sheet colom-
bh, printed in new type, on extra thick plate paper—include
thirty-five photogr •phs of interiors and exteriors, mounted
on extra flue tinted cardboard, and most elegantly bound in
morocco. Price—Royal editi in of Windsor and Osborne, in
natural photography, 20 guinets each ; coloured, 40 guineas.
Apply to Mr. Disderi, 70, 71, and 72, Brook-street, Hanover-
square; and at Paris, 8, Boulevard des Italiens.

HYAM'S BOYS' SUITS FOR. BEST
JL• Wear, choicest material, finest qualities, beau-
tifully trimmed, and will ensure the approbation of
Parents and Guardians. 30s. to 355.

DisDERL—ON SALE.— TWENTY-FOUR
sTEREOSCOPIC VIEWS of the INTERIORS and
EXTERIORS of WINDSOR and Twe city-four ot OS BORNE.
The collection complete, plain, 1 guinea; Coloured, 2 guineas
each set
Souvenir of Windsor or Osborne, Sixteen P 1 ttes, photo-
graphed by fur. Diqderi, mounted on cloth, and fo..mi ~g a
ha ,dsome book, small Bvo . including the portraits of her
Majesty the Qucen and H.R. H. the Prince Consort. Price,
plain, 15s. ; coloured, 30s.
Panoramic Views at 55.; group of the Orleans Family,
10s. 6d.

DISDERL—NOTICE.—By a new process of
Dir. DISDERI'S the CARTE DE VISITE POR-
TRAITS are ENLARGED on canvas to any size. The
public can this obtain a photographic drawing by means of
which skilful artists attached to the house can, on simple in-
dications —such as the colour ot the complexion, the eyes and
the hair—obtain a splendld and truthful oil painting. Mr.
Disderrs new process is valuable in this respect, that it
avoids the tediousness of long sittings, and also adds to the
charms of oil paintinz the great advantages of the truthful-
ness and accuracy of photography. Saloons and studios, 70,
71. and 72, Brook-street, Hanover-square ; a'd for Equestrian
Portraits, at Hereford Lodge, Gloucester-road, Old Bromp-
fads, 8, Boulevard des Italians; Madrid, and
tToonu-
lroonad ;
Toulon.

HYAM'S BOYS' SUITS MOST
• strongly recommended as combining all the excel-
lencies of Material, Fit, and Workmanship. They present
a gentlemanly and elegant appearance. 355. to 455.

HYAM'S BOYS' SUITS ARE MADE IN
A-4 • every Style and Shape, including the Knicker-
bocker, Eton, Rugby, and Harrow Suits ; they are plain
or braided, and adapted to a variety of tastes. Tho
greatest care is taken moth in the goodness of material
and soundness of workfda.nship—thus ensuring that dura-
bility so essential in Boys' Clothing.

liAnt COLOUR WASH.—By washing the
or heal with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in seven
'en days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains
1180,11,,Y an occasional usincr. 10s ; sent for stamps.--AL EX.
'°S, UR, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists.

YOUTHS' SUITS OF A PIECE ADAPTED
for Youths from the Age of 14 to .18 years can be
had in great variety of material, most tasteful in design,
at a small advance on the above prices.

L.HYAM'S MODE OF BUSINESS IS
to buy all the most Fashionable Fabrics direct
from the best Manufacturers, thus avoiding all interme-
diate profits; to have all Garments made under his own
supervision, in order to insure good Style and durable
Workmanship and Make. Every article is marked in
plain figures, at the lowest possible price, thereby in-
suring the purchaser economical prices, combined with
equitable dealing. No Garment need be kept after pur-
chasing if not approved.

L. HYAM, 36, GRACECHURCH-STREET,
CITY.
L. lIYAM, 189 & 190, TOTTENHAM-
COURT-ROAD, WEST.

BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM, Mackenzie
Park, Slough, Bucks (formerly at Clapham-rise). In-
stituted 1827.
114TRol'i—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
sn'AD t 3 this Institution will be ladly received by the
'eretarY, at the Offices. No. 73, Cheapgside, B.C.
HENRY SYKES THORNTON, Treasurer.
TROITAS 'FILSON, J.P. Chairman of the Board.
STEDUEN RENO CATTLEY, ALA., Hon. Sec.
ALFRED MACKENZIE, Secretary.

Leaving a surplus of £275,830 15 6

and that, after setting aside £50,000 as a special Reserve
Fund,
THE AVAILABLE PROFIT wag £225,830 15s. 6d.,
of which sum £225,000 was recommended for division.

THE Fathers of 'St. Peter's Italian Church have
kindly given the use of the ROOM, Back-hill,
Hatton-garden, in which the meetings of St. Peter's Ca-
tholic Total Abstinence Society are held, for the purpose
of a READING by Mr. SOMERVILLE on the Evening
of May 17—Subject: Mr. Charles Dickens' "PICKWICK
PAPERS "—in AID of a FUND for the WIDOW and
FAMILY of the late T. E. BRADLEY, Founder of " The
Lamp,"

THE •
BOARD of MANAGEMENT of the
LONDON HOIVEOPATHIC HOSPITAL wish to
tall the attention of their friends to its position—daring the
r,,,t year the beds have been almost constantly filled, and
e drain on the resources of the Hospital has consequently
den Mat. They trust, therefore, that all the friends of
ornreath both in to and country, will rally round them
op
and thus prevent then ecessity of curtailing the use-
alnes. of the Hospital by the admission of fewer patients.
RSO UPI' 10 N S earnestly needed. Bankers —Messrs
.;reseott and Co., Threadneedle-street; and Union Bank,
4trgYll-phiee, Regent-street.
JOHN R. WARREN, Clerk.
11°' 52, Great Ormond-street, W.C.

DR.• SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REMEDY —Pre-
pared without any mercurial Ingredient, from the recipe. of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, tent. will be found invaluable to all who
suffer from bilious and liver nomplaints, inligeation, wind,
spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, dm For habitual
costiveness, as a family aperient me nine, and as a purifier
of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Prepared only and slid by W. Lambert, Chemist, 8, ging
William-street, Charing-oroes. London, and by most drug-
gists, in boxes,l3. lid., and three times the quantity in one,
zs. 9d. Be mire to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills.
The genuine are a square green package. with " William
Lambert." engraved uti the stamp.

TiCkets, Fourpence each, to be had of Mr. W. D. Scott,
at the Presbytery, Our Lady and St. Joseph's, 170, Culford-
road, Kingsland, and of Mr. James Duffy, publisher, 22,
Paternoster-row. Also of Mr. Charles M'Carthy and other
members of St. Peter's Catholic Total Abstinence Society.
Doors opened at half-past 8, to commence at a quarter
before 9 precisely. Entrance in Back-hill.

it'll SHIPWRECKED SEAMEN and their
BEREA.VED WIDOWS and 0 RPHANS. pwards
N.hroo British vessels are annually wrecked, about 2,000 of
~„Pi are on the British Isles
Itrre is no part of the coast where the SHIPWRECKED
A,,,,,,u'INERS' SOCIETY is not represented by an Hon.
tocitl:, who clo'hes (when naked) and sends to their homes
charity persons of all nations. and is the channel of its
to the bereaved widows and orphans of the drowned.
t. The Committee earnestly APPEAL for HELP. The dis-
11.°8s is always instant. The `society relieved 11,221 persons
- Year, viz , shipwrecked men, widows, and orphans.
Donations and subscriptions thankfully received by Messrs.
rvilliams, Deacon, and Co.; and by the undersigned.
FRANCIS LEAN, Secretary
iliberhia-chamberb, London-bridge S.E.

PRINTING.-TO PROPRIETORS OF
NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.—The Print-
ing and Machining of Newspapers, &c., done ou exceed-
ingly favourable terms. Use of Editorial and Publishing
Offices, if required. Estimates forwarded on receipt of
particulars, with stamped directed envelope for reply.
Address—The Manager "Sun" Printing Offices, 3, Church-
row, Savoy, Strand, W.O

'nE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
th,,„ ,01ne to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
meant '5,.S Deer. friendless, young' females were rejected from
°1 FUNDS and-room, making a total of 3,087, who have
~., sent away 111 tire years.
Ile new borne the Committee wish to form would be for
CallnQ' girls, almost children, from the two of 8 to 13, who
2,7 e hPen led astray from the path of virtue.
M;jo,ntributionn will be received gratefully by the SeoretarY.
ilk I 'lntel Cooper 85. Queen •street Cheapside: or by Messrs
rciav and Co.. Lombard-street.

THE EAST INDIA IRRIGATION AND
CANAL COMPANY.

3. As. TO THE RESULTS or THE DIVISION.
That the portion of this sum of £225,000—viz., five-sixths,
or £lB7,soo—which fell to the Assured, would yield a

REVERSIONARY ADDITION TO THE POLICIES
of £272,682, averaging 45 per Cent., or varying, with the
different ages, from 32 to 85 per Cent. on the premiums
paid since the last division; and that the
CASH BONUS, which is the exact equivalent of such
Reversionary Bonus, would average 26 per Cent. of the
like premiums.
The Report explained at length the nature of the In-
vestments and the bases of the Calculations, the results of
which, as above shown, are eminently favourable.

-ItOYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
waY Terminus, King's-oross•
.„ Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
wles-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WA LE SfIEG.
Xresident—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLICUCH.
te Hospital, foundel in the year 1820, the first estab-
LC' the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
„ e delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de-
e!dent for support on voluntary eontributions and s ',Tali ea .
▪ 34:4,4frords relief to a large number of in-pa rots, and, In
.4"ion to this, the averane number of attendance of the
atitute sick has for a considerable period averaged between
.7 and 4,000 weekly.
br 11° Committee ear esti), solicit the tiSSTSTANCE of the
e6,l7lvolent. as the pr sloes of this Huspiti.. are capable of
the raPlitla severat na,ndred more beds had the Committee
co -grusitt funds to maintain them.
441butions are received by their bankers, Messrs. Brown,
e▪ ftoll..Bon, and Co., Abchuroh-lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and
il
.Co.;ltr; Drummond and Co. • Glyn and Co. Ferries and Co. ;
and 'drasud Co.; Prescott, Grote. and Co.; Smith, Payne,
itud Co', Barolay and Co. ; Williams, Deacon, end Co.; Nisbet
Berners-atreet : and at the fleapits!. from 10 till Pi.
STANTOBD 1011TII, ON:tarry.

EXHIBITORS at the PARIS EXHIBITION,
who ADVERTISE in "THE SUN," can have the
SERVICES of A SPEOIAL AGENT in PARIS, whose
address can be obtained at " The Sun" Office. He has a
perfect knowledge of French, is also acquainted with busi-
ness, and has good connections. On application to " The
Sun" Agent in Paris, either personally or by letter, he will
obtain every possible facility for Exhibitors, or persons
who may have other business in Paris, or who may go
there for pleasure only.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the TWELFTH
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Share-
holders of the East India Irrigation and Canal Company
will be hold at the Company'soffices, Nos. 8 and 9 Queen-
street Place, Southwark-bridge, in the City of London, on
THURSDAY, the 80th day of May instant, at 1 o'clock
precisely, for the purpose of transacting the general bmi-
ness of the Company, as prescribed by the Act, and also
for the purpose of authorising the borrowing on mortgage
or bond froze the Government of India any sum or sums
of money not exceeding the sum prescribed by the East
India Irrigation and Canal Act, 1866, according to the
arrangement of which notice has been already given to
each Shareholder.

Tho Transfer Books of the Company will be Closed from
the 20th to the 30th instant, both days inclusive.

JOHN WESTWOOD, Secretary to the Company.
8 and 9 Queen-stroet Place, Southwark-bridge,
London, E.C., May 1, 1867.

The next DIVISION OF PROFITS will take place in
January, 187'2, and Persons who effect NEW POLICIES
BEFORE TILE END OF JUNE NEXT will be entitled
at that Division to one year's additional share of Profits
over later Assurers.

Prospectuses, Forms of Proposal, the Report above men-
tioned, and a detailed account of the proceedings of the
Bonus Meeting, can be obtained from any of the Society's
Agents; or of
GEORGE OUTCLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary,
13, St. James's-square, London, S. W.

PRICE. 4d.
STAMPED sd.

" My lord, that was my opinion and determina-
tion !" This vehement declaration excited general
laughter. A formal verdict of acquittal was handed
down, and the prisoner was at once discharged.
The Lord Chief Justice announced that the Court
of Criminal Appeal would sit on Monday next to
consider the points reserved in the case of M'Cafferty.
There is the greatest difficulty in obtaining juries
for these trials. Over 100 jurors have failed to
ans,ver to their names, and have incurred fines of
£2O each. In consequence of this difficulty the
Crown and the prisoner's counsel agreed that the
jury in the box should try the next case, which is
to come on this morning. The Court then ad-
journed about half-past 4 o'clock.

Two influential Roman Catholic clergymen, the
Very Rev. Dr. Spratt and Canon Pope, are exert-
ing themselves to save the lives of the convicted
Fenians. Through their exertions a requisition is
being signed requesting the Lord Mayor to convene
a public meeting to adopt a memorial to the Queen,
praying that mercy may be extended to the persons
found guilty of high treason. A similar meeting is
to be convened by the Mayor of Cork. Two con-
siderations will, no doubt, influence the Govern-
ment in this matter. First, would the punishment
of death on the gallows deter the American filibus-
ters from making future attempts to disturb the
peace of this country ; and, second, what would be
the effect on the portion of the population at home
who sympathise with such movements and desire
the overthrow of the British Government, and
without whose sympathy all such foreign efforts
must be abortive ? My own impression is that
while the first object would be gained until the
American Government could be induced to inter-
fere, the hatred of the Government at home, on
which the American Fenians count, would be made
more bitter and intense. Mercy would tend most
to conciliation, and after the displays of British
power and Irish loyalty which the crisis has
called forth, no one could say with any semblance
of truth that the Government could be intimi-
dated. It is evident to all the world that the
great effort of the authorities has been to restrain
their overwhelming force, so as to inflict as little
injury as possible on the miserable insurgents, while
in every case where the latter attempted fighting,
their action was characterised by the most con-
temptible feebleness and faint-heartedness. In the
prosecution of the prisoners, the authorities, far
from being vindictive, have shown the utmost in-
dulgence compatible with the proper discharge of
their duties. It would be a happy thing if the re-
sult of the Commissioners would be to heal old
national wounds, instead of inflicting new ones—to
inspire gratitude rather than inspire terror.
Noonan, the Killarney Centre, who left the
country after the rising, has been arrested in
London.

The Division of Last Night.

(From the Times.)

The Compound Householder has once more had
his day, or rather his night, and will, we trust,
henceforth be satisfied. A majority of 66 in favour
of the Government in a large House is decisive.
Yesterday saw, indeed, the culminating debate
of the Session on the Reform Bill. The fate of
the Government scheme, the future of Reform,
hung in the balance. On the one side lay a
plan for amending our electoral constitution, of
which it may at least be said that by this time its
future operation, if adopted, is fairly understood.
The Ministerial proposals have been turned over
and over, and scrutinized under every possible
aspect, and we know what they are. They are not
faultless, but faultlessness is rare. They are open
to criticism and to commendation. They offer the
franchise to a very large number of persons who
are now excluded from voting, and yet the offer
is made under conditions to which no single per-
son can object, though they will prove effectual
in keeping out the improvident, the careless, and
the nomadic householder. On the other hand, what
had the Opposition, or the energetic few who stimu-
lated the mass of members on the Liberal benches
into opposition, to submit for consideration ? Far
from having a clear scheme of their own, they
had nothing " but clouds instead and perdur-
able dark." The passionate energy with which
Mr. Gladstone supported Mr. Hibbert's Amend-
ment—a temper altogether dissimilar to that
shown by Mr. Hibbert himself—disdained to con-
sider the alternative involved in the rejection of
the Government proposals and another failure of
Reform. Mr. Gladstone was defeated, and if any
hoped that he might succeed we congratulate him
on his disappointment. Had the extravagant li
dreams nourished by some of the Opposition been
realised, the dreamers would have awakened to a
sense of their own imprudence. They would have
found themselves carried away by their own success
—borne along by the spirit they had evoked, forced
by the exigencies of their situation to pursue ob-
jects from which they recollect with dread even
while pursuing them. The house of Commons ,
wisely declined to send Reform adrift in deference
to a contention too impalpable for common appre-
hension. Satisfied that the last propositions of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer were at once just and
practicable, they accepted the Ministerial plan of
emancipating compound householders, and infe-
rentially rejected Mr. Hibbert's alternative scheme,
by a majority of 66 in a committee of 578 members.
It is pleasant to know that, apart from the sound
conclusion at which the House of Commons last
night arrived, the long night's debate was not
wholly thrown away. Many great orators spoke,
and with great power, and yet the result of their ,
oratory was small. We have to thank Mr. Hibbert
for pointing out, in the very fair argument with
which he advocated his amendment, that the
Compound Householder, with whom every one is
now familiar, is misnamed, and that he ought to be
called the Tenant of a Compounding Landlord.
There is a fine sense of the nicety of language in
this sound distinction, and the house received it with
just approval, although it is to be feared that the
new description of the occupier who has been the
innocent cause of so much discussion is too long to
come into familiar use. The Compound House-
holder will remain the Compound Householder as
long as he figures in our municipal system ; but we
may be pardoned if we make the most of Mr. Hib-
bert's observation, because, setting it aside, the long
hours the House of Commons spent over the Tenant
of a Compounding Landlord disclosed absolutely
nothing new. Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright re-
peated a familiar tale. We may, perhaps, make an
exception in favour of Mr. Mill's apprehension that
too many Compound Householders would be brought
on the Parliamentary Register by the machihery
others have denounced as too cumbrous for use.
Mr. Gladstone first assumed the burden of proving
the impolicy of accepting the Ministerial plan, and
his speech was excusably voluminous, as it travelled
anew over all the now familiar grounds of objection
to it. He receded a little from his former position,
that the Compound Householder paid, as it is,
the
full rates incident ou his occupation, now declaring
that he pretty nearly did so ; but this trifling
qualification was the single point of variation from
what we have heard before. Ile did not even
take the trouble to refer to the reasoning by which
many of his arguments have been m.et and, as we
conceive, refuted. He urged, for in;tance, with
much elaboration, the question submitted by our
correspondent " II." in our columns yesterday, why
there should be any difference in the facility of
access to the register
dent upon whether an
occupier paid his ratesddeipreenctly tot he overseer or in
weekly driblets to his landlord. he very slightest
acquaintance with the habits of the class of weekly
tenants is sufficient to answer the question. A
landlord is clothed by the law with such powers for
exacting his dues that the most shiftless of occu-
Payment of rent is a
piers cannot escape him.

ENTRANTS IN 1867 PARTICIPATE IN FIFTH DIVISION OF
PROFITS.
MUTUAL ASSURANCE WITHOUT MUTUAL LIABILITY.
PROFITS APPLIED SO AS TO MAKE POLICIES PAYABLE IN
LIFETIME.
AND SO AS TO RAISE SECOND CLASS LIVES, AFTER A
DEFINED PERIOD, TO FIRST CLASS RATES. -
BRITISH EQUITABLE ASSURANCE
COM PAN Y,
4, Queen-street-place, Southwark-bridge, London, E.C.
DIRECTORS.
George Thomas Dale, Esq., Bayswater.
Edmund Dunn, Esq., Croydon.
William Gover, Esq., Blackheath.
William Sutton Gover, Esq., 4, Queen-street-place.
John Middleton Hare, Esq., Forest Hill.
Fountain John Hartley, Esq., Dalkon.
John Smither, Esq., Wellclose-square.
Joseph Warmington, Esq.; Lee-grove, Blackheath.
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND ACTUARY.
"William Sutton Gover, Esq., F.S.S., F.I.A.
AUDITORS.
Charles Brown, Esq.,
Mr. Deputy Obbard, Blackheath.
Wadden.
William George Lemon, Esq., Blackheath.
BANKERS.
The London and Westminster Bank.
PHYSICIAN.
William Munk, Esq., M.D., F.S.A. (Fellow of the Royal
College of Physicians of London), 40, Finsbury-square.
SURGEON.
Thomas Carr Jackson, Esq. (Fellow of the Royal College
of Surgeons, Surgeon_ to the Great Northern Hospital,
King's-cross), 3, Weymouth-street, Portland-place.

EXTRACTS FROM REPORT.
In the past throe years the New Policies effected were—
Reported 1,650, amounting to £270,786; 1866,
2 51867, 2,845, £5C1,175. Total Number,
73
x3si3n,
701086;
6,568, amounting to £1,125,611.
The New Annuill Premiums of past year, £15,318.
In the Four Triennial Periods the New Policies issued
were—First Three Years, 3,196, for £507,060 ; Second
Three Years, 2,926, for £494,066 ; Third Three Years,
3,941, for £629,547; Fourth Three Years, 6,568, for
£1,125,611. Total, 16,631, for £2,756,284.
So that the New Business of the last Three Years has
been greater than that of the preceding Six Years.
The Policies in force this day are 11,637 in Number,
amounting to £1,980,258.
The Death Claims and Bonuses paid in the year under
67 polices amounted to £14,199.
The amount paid for Death Claims, and Bonuses paid
since the establishment of the Company, under 399 Policies,
is £64,447.
The ACCUMULATED FUND has been increased
during the Year by no less than Twenty-eight Thousand
Nine Hundred and Nine Pounds, making the amount laid
by in the last three years, Sixty-five Thousand Nine
Hundred and Seventy-Eight Pounds, and now amounts to
One Hundred and Twenty-seven Thousand Nine Hundred
and Seventy-eight Pounds Sterling. The Accumulated
Fund has thus been nearly doubled at the end of each
triennial period.
A Reversionary Bonus of 1i per Cent. per annum on
Sums Assured under Participating Policies was declared.

RUPTIMICS,—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED fir THE GREAT
EXHIBITIONS of 1851 and 1802), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Helical Gentlemen 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 requisite resisting power is supplied by the sioc•34ain
and may be worn during
Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with So much ease and close-
be had, and the truss,
snleesesp. thatA itde
scear
tn
pn
top,
ofib
t,ec
irdocerutwleacartredde,
may
by r
which cannot fail to on the circum-
ference of the body, two inches below t o hips, being sent to
the manufacturer,

ONE HUNDRED and SIXTY-SEVEN
DESTITUTE ORPHANS are being maintained in
the ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM., Collingwood Court,
Bagehot, Surrey. FUNDS greatly needed for their support.
CHARLES A. WALKER, see.
Offices, 96, Cheapside, E.C.

THE MADRAS IRRIGATION AND
CANAL COMPANY.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the SIXTEENTH
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the Shareholders
of the Madras Irrigation and Canal Company will be held
at the Company's Offices, Nos. 8 and 9, Queou-street-place,
Southwark-bridge, in the City of Loudon. on TUESDAY,
the 28th day of May instant, at One o'clock precisely, for
the purpose of transacting the ordinary business of such
Meeting, pursuant to the Act; and for authorising and
giving consent to the conversion of the 50,000 shares in
the present guaranteed capital of £1.000,000, and numbered
from 1 to 50,000 (both inclusive), into one general capital
stock, to be called the "Guaranteed Stock of the Madras
Irrigation and Canal Company."
The Transfer Books of the Company will be Closed
from the 23d instant to the 7th of June next, both days
inclusive.
•
JOHN WESTWOOD, Secretary to the Company.
8 and 9, Queen-street-place, Southwark-bridge,
London, E.C., May 1, 1867.

HOSPITAL
GREAT NORTHERN
Caledonian-road, Islington, N.
Supported by Volunt try Contributions.
This Hospital tuts relieved 485,954 patients since it was
established at King's-cross in 1356. Patients are admitted
free. •
BANKERS—Messrs. Barnett Lloyds, and Co., 89, Lombard-
street; Messrs. Ransom and Bouverie, 1, Pall-mall. HON.
Sm.—F. Smith, Esq. GEORGE REID, Sec.

THE LONDON FEVER HOSPITAL has
-a- URGENT NEW of FUNDS.—Donations and Sub-
scriptions will be thankfully rewired by Messrs. Dimadale
and Co., 50, Cornhill ; Messrs. Drummond and Co., Ch sring-
cross; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand; Messrs. Hoare,
Fleet-street ; and by the undersi,tned, at the Hospital,
Liverpool-road, N., CHARLES FINN, Sec.

HELP for the DESTITUTE SICK.—
METROPOLITAN FREE HOSPITAL, Devon-
shire-square, City. Instituted for the immediate gratuitous
Relief of the Sick Poor of every Nation and Creed, without
letters of recommendation. FUNDS are urgently needed to
maintain its efficiency.
BANKERS—Messrs, Barnett, "[bares. and Co., 62, Lombard-
street. JNO. GURNEY FRY, Chairman.
(CEO. WtOXTON, Secretary.

Kr, WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A Sines Truss, lss., 21e. 283 Od„ and ale. 64 Postage, Is.
A Double Trues, 31s. ed., Its., and 52a. ed. Postage, Is. Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 52e. ed. Postage, is. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
office, Piccadilly.
NEW PATENT

FLASTIC STOCKINGS,
4KNN'L"-cAps, do., for Varicose Veins and all oases of
weak"'Lss and swelling of the Legs, Sprains, 10. They are
rw—
....0w, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 78. 6d., 10s.. and 16s.
each. Postage, 6d.
JOE'S WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.,

DINNEFORD'S FLUID MAP'." —"—
The medical profession for Thirty y‘,
of this pure solution of Magnesia r
...re haves pproved
Acidity of the Stomach, Hearth* the best remedy for Indigestion; and as the be.' Headache, Gout, and
Infants.constit ..netpted for Ladies, Children, andutions, especially mild aperient for delicate
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PAINLESS SYSTEM OF DENTISTRY.
Just published, price 3d. Post free four stamps.
TOTAL
.ABOLITION OF PAIN
IN DENTISTRY.
By Messrs. Q-ABRIEL, the old established DENTISTS,

172, New lio: D and CO., Chemists,
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the Legislature to put in motion what Mr. Glad-
stone in happier hours once called, borrowing the
phrase from the students of physical science, " the
principle of natural selection." It is the personal
discharge of public burdens which can be evaded
because not easily enforced which affords a cri-
terion of the fitness of an occupier for enfran-
chisement, and not, as Mr. Gladstone and Mr.
Lowe, who followed him, would have us suppose,
the mere fact that some modicum of rates can be
screwed out of an occupier by converting his land-
lord into a parochial agent. The fine of which we
heard so much, and at one time properly heard so
much, has become " beautifully less" as the Govern-
ment method of treating the compound householder
has been modified, and is now of such vanishing
dimensions that the most vehement opponent of the
Ministry could make little of it last night. Mr.
Lowe pointed out with great accuracy that the
landlord, being relieved of a liability, would lose his
compensation for it, but he could only surmise that
an attempt might be made to extract from the
pocket of the tenant the bonus thus taken away.
Mr. J. B. Smith, from his knowledge of the corn-
petition among landlords, confidently predicted than
the attempt, if made, would prove a failure, and
that the effect of the Government scheme would be
to subject the compound householder who sought
enfranchisement to no more than his existing bur-
dens. Ile will have to meet them in a different
way, in a way indicative of his qualifications to per-
form other political duties, and this is all. The
majority of the House was of this opinion, and not
improbably agreed with Mr. Smith in the condem-
nation he pronounced on the policy of compositions
for rates; but, without entering into this general
question, the committee was content to approve the
Government plan, and inferentially to discard Mr.
Hibbert's amendment from further consideration.
The vote of the committee could be no longer
doubtful when the nature of the latest proposals of
the Government had been announced. It had already
decided by a considerable majority in favour of the
principle of making the personal payment of rates
a condition of the franchise, and nothing remaine d
but to prevent the incidence of the fine which was
involved in the machinery as first devised by the
Government. The authority given to the compound
householder to deduct from the rent accruing to hie
landlord the full amount of the rates paid by him-
self relieved the Ministerial measure of this defect,
and, unless the committee saw fit to recede from
its first decision, of which no trace was apparent,
it was inevitable that the Ministry should again re-
ceive its support. The committee has, indeed, ex-
pressed its former opinion with greater emphasis.
Mr. Bright's argument was no more than an
attempt to renew the debate which was decided
before Easter, and, consistently enough, the familiar
comparison of Birmingham and Sheffield, described
by Mr. Roebuck as mere " stump oratory," was
once more put in requisition. We are glad to know
that the struggle to reverse the decision of last
month was unsuccessful. Another obstacle to the
settlement of the Reform question has been repaired.
The animosity of their opponents has proved in-
effectual. A complete scheme has been approved
after exhaustive debating on its essential features,
and we may hope that the remainder of the work
to be accomplished may be achieved in comparative
peace and security.

CAUSES OF DEATH IN MADRAS.

Dr. Smith, the secretary of the Sanitary Commis-
sion, in his report on the causes of death in the town
of Madras, states that the year 1865, as compared
with former periods, was healthy. The registration
of deaths in Madras is not compulsory, so that the
mortality returns are still somewhat imperfect.
The number of deaths registered during the year
amounted to 11,216,- being 807 in excess of the
number in the previous year, which was, however,
extraordinarily healthy. The death rate in 1865
was 26 per 1,000 of population ; the average
annual rate in the five years 1860-4 was 30 per
1,000. More than one-third of the deaths of chil-
dren under 1 year of age were caused by convul-
sions ; the proportional number of children dying
from this cause to the entire population was as 1 to
8, while in London the proportion was as 1 to 30.
This excessive mortality is chiefly attributed to the
effects of foul air, overcrowding, and filth, which,!it
would appear, destroy infant life through the opera-
tion of their poisonous influence upon the brain and
nerves. Miasmatic diseases—the chief causes of
the mortality among the adult population—are much
influenced by the variations in the climate. The prin-
cipal diseases under this head are cholera, small-pox,
fevers, diarrhoea, and dysentery. The deaths regis-
tered from this class, to 1,000 persons livingin 1865
were 11, while in London the proportional number was
only 4, showing how much yet remains to be done
in the way of removing preventible sources of dis-
ease. Dr. Smith states, however, that it must be
borne in mind that miasmatic diseases in Madras
take the place of tubercular diseases in London.
The deaths in Madras from smallpox were 399 be-
low the average—an improvement which is partly
attributed to the ext ension of vaccination. The
Hiudoos were the greatest sufferers from this dis-
ease, as they are prejudiced against vaccination
through religious scruples ; 39 of the 44 deaths by
smallpox in 1865 occurred among this class of the
community. The number of deaths from cholera
was 944, and although this disease was never absent
from the town throughout the year, except for a
period of about three weeks iu June, yet there were
none of those severe outbreaks which characterised
previous epidemics. In 1862 and 1863 respectively
the deaths from cholera were 3,635 and 1,684. It
is noticed that the large number of deaths from
dysentery in 1865—viz., 1,159, is an indication of
the bad sanitary state of the town, and is owing
to bad drainage, impure water, and a polluted
atmosphere. With the view bf showing the effects
of climate on the European, as compared with the
native population, the mortality, per 1,000 of popu-
lation, from each class of diseases is recorded as
follows :—Zymotic diseases—Europeans and East
Indians, I c -03 ; Mahocumedans, 10-22 ; n
13-70. • Constitutional diseases—Europeans a.nd
eans and East
doos, 2-41. Local diseases—Europeans East Indians, 2.62 ; Mahommedans, 8.86 ; 11m
84 ; Hindoos,
Indians, 8-18 ;
Europeans and
6.65. Developmental disea sdesns
4.38 ; Hindoos,
medan,s,2.
East Indians, 4.21 ; Mahomme a ,
Europeans and
3-13. Violent and sudden deaths—das
24 ; Hindoos,
East Indians, -85 ; Afahomme
Eauro' peans and East
-35. Total from all diseased--Europeans
25.5 ;
and Hindoos,
Indians, 27.8 ; Alohatued
it aPpears that the mots-
-26-2. From these results
was
greatest among the
tality from zytnotic diseases have suffered equally
Hindoos. All three classesnng
Hindoos and Mahona-
from cholera, and both among
is were fatal diseases, also
and pht
medans dropsy vulsions.
paralysis,and con
epilepsy,

THE NORTII-EASTERN RAILWAY.—The effect of
the strike on this line has been so far overcome that the
company on Tuesday had spare hands enough to run th©
usual excursion trains to the York races. In addition, on
Monday, most of the trains which had been discontinued
during the strike were resumed, and are now running
punctually. Every train absolutely required is now in
full working, and there are hands in plenty to meet the
requirements of the summer traffic. Many of the old
hands are, it is said, in a miserable plight.

SUNDAY SCHOLARS' OFFERING ON BEHALF OF
THE ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, AND THE HOMELESS
BOYS OF LONDON.—Great preparations are in progress for
a large gathering of Sunday school children to sing in the
Handel Orchestra of the Crystal Palate, on some day in
the month of August next. The children who will take
part in the concert will be selected from all the principal
Sunday schools in the metropolis, who with their teachers
will number about 6,000 singers. As so large a number of
Sunday schools, with the congregations to which they
belong, will be interested in this delightful movement, it
is anticipated that the attendance at the Crystal Palace
will be one of the largest of the season. The programme
will Le selected by a committee of gentlemen, on whose
judgment every reliance can be placed, and only that kind
of music will be sung which can be introduced with pro-
priety on such an interesting occasion,