The Sun.
London, England, 1867-05-28 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 1867.

ETROPOLITAN and GREAT WESTERN
LUL BAILWAYS.
HORSE SHOW, AGRICULTURAL HALL,
ISLINGTON,
May 25th, 27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, and 31st.
KING'S-CROSS is the NEAREST STATION. Fre-
quent TRAINS between the CITY, PADDINGTON,
NOTTING-HILL, HAMMERSMITH, KENSINGTON,
and all intermediate Stations.

URENCH GALLERY, 120, PALL-MALL.
The roeu,rmr:NTll L EXiIIItITION of
PIC ruitms, the rout ributions of Artists of the french and
Flemish Schools, 13 AO4" OPEN.
Admission, Is. Catalogue, rd.

JOHN GOENELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOO I'll PAS'TE to greatly sape:lor to any tooth
powder; gires the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decay. and imparts a oleasmit iragrance to
the breath. Price la. 64.—Red Ball Wharf. 93, Upper
Thames-street. London.

DEAFNESS. The ORGANIC VIBRATOR.—
It fits into the ear, not perceptible, removes singing
noises in the head, and enable,* deaf persons to hear at public
assembles. Every other kind of hearing instrument. Nume-
rous testimon'als for inspection -S. and B. 80L03IONS, 39,
Albemarle-street. Piccadilly.

AVALUABLE PACKAGE OF TEA.
A CHINESE CADDY.
containing l6lbs. of really rood Black Tea, sent carriage free
to any Railway Station or Market Town in England, Ireland,
Scotland, or Wales, on receipt of 405., by

PHILLIPS and CO,
Tea Merchants, 8, King William-street, City. E.C.

L. HYAM, 36, GRACECHURCH-STKEET,

CITY.
L. IIYAM, le9 and 190, 'TOTTENHAM-
COURT-ROAD, WEST.

lIYAM'S ATTIRE FOR MEN, BOYS,
-Lie awl Youths for Immediate Wear,for the Season of
1867, is upon the most extended scale, and at greatly re-
duced prices. •

LHYAM'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 combinb.-
tion with reduced prices.

LHYAM'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.

HYAM'S STOCK OF SURTOUT COATS
-1-14) 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.

LHYAMS 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., 420., to
50s.

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

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

HYAM'S BESPOKE DEPARTMENT
1--)• 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.

HYAM'S YOUTHS' AND BOYS' ATTIRE
• for the Season stands pre-eminent for taste, excel-
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most position in this Department.

HYAM'S BOYS' SUITS FOR SCHOOL
and every day wear are especially adapted fur
the Season, and will be found to be exceedingly strong
and durable, 18s., 215., 255. to 303.

IJ •
HYAM'S BOYS' SUITS FOR BEST
• Wear, choicest material, finest qualities, beau-
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lIYAM'S .BOYS' SUITS MOST
1-1 • strongly recommended a 3 combining all the excel-
'encies of Material, Fit, and Workmanship. They present
a gentlemanly and elegant appearance. 355. to 455.

lIYAM'S BOYS' SUITS ARE MADE IN
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every Style and Shape, including the Knicker-
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or braided, and adapted to -a variety of tastes. The
greatest care is taken , both in the goodness of material
and soundness of workmanship—thus ensuring that dura-
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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.

lIYA.M'S MODE OF BUSINESS IS
L• 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-
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equitable dealing. No Garment need be kept after pur-
chasing if not approved.

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

RUPTUREB.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER Muss
(PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN TIIE GREAT
Eximmoss of 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of
two Hundred Me iioal 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 twit bandage being worn round the body, while
the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe• Main
Pad and Patent Lev.r, fitting with so much ease and close-
ness that it cannot be detected, and may be norm during
sleep. A descriptive circular may be ha I, and th 3 truss,
which cannot tail to fit, forwarded by post. on the circum-
ference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to
the manufacturer,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piocadllly.

A Sinzle Truss, 168., 218., 26s 6d., and als. 64 Postage, Is
A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 625. Bd. Postap.-e, 18. 8d
An Umbilical Truss, 428. and 625. 6d. Postage, Is. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post.
office, Piccadilly.

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each. Postage, 6d.
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PAINLESS SYSTEM OF DENTISTRY.
Just published, price 3d. Post free four stamps.
TOTAL ABOLITION OF PAIN
IN DENTISTRY.
By Messrs. GA.BRIICL, the old established DENTISTS,
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THE REV. DR. LEE.—We regret to learn that
this rev. gentleman, the minister of Old Greyfriars, Edin-
burgh, and Professor of Biblical Criticism in the Univer-
sity there, has been seized with an illness which is likely
to prevent his being able to de:end his "innovations in
worship" before the General Assembly of the Scottish
Church, to which ho had appealed. Riding home on Wed-
nesday afternoon, after a visit to Lord Dunfermline, at
Colinton-house, about four miles distant, the rev. doctor,
whilo near the west end of Princes-street, fell off his horse
in a fit of paralysis, and was lifted up in an unconscious
state, though unhurt by the fall, which the groom attend-
ing him endeavoured to break. He was taken home in a
cab, and he rallied considerably in the course of the oven-
ng, but great anxiety is felt as to his condition.
Slavery has reached its high-water mark in Brazil.
On the Bth of April the Emperor sigued a decree abolish-
ing slavery after twenty years from date, and giving ab-
solute freedom to slave-born children from this time on.
Two millions is the number of those whose emancipation
is thus deferred ; but it is safe to predict that other causes
than death will have greatly diminished this figure by
1887. The institution was moribund in Brazil from the
mcment the slave-trade was annihilated (1850-51), and,
besides the fact that manumissions are common, and liberty
attainable by those willing to make the effort, colour is no
bar to civil and social advancement when grace the person
has become a freeman. Manumissions, therefore, will con-
tinue, liberty will still be bought, and with all the more
eagerness that the parent and the child may enjoy the
same status ; while the progress of liberal ideas without
and within the empire, even if no political revolution en-
sue, will tend to shorten the term of emancipation both in
public opinion and on the statute-book. The news will
inspire the World's Anti-Slavery Conference that meets
shortly at Paris, for except in the Spanish provinces its
attention need scarcely be directed to the Western hemi-
sphere ; and nowhere in America is slavery making head.
A LARGE TOPAZ.—The largest topaz known was
last week deposited at the Bank of France. It is of Bra-
zilian origin, and measures 71 inches in length by 42- inches
in width, and about the ;same in thickness. It weighs
more than 31b. However 'valuable this stone may be from
its brilliancy and size, it is still more so from its artistic
merit, as on one face is engraved a half-length Christ
breaking broad at the Last Supper. This composition was
executed with the burin and diamond dust by the owner
of the gem, Andre Cariello., formerly director of the Naples
Mint.

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.

Yesterday afternoon the anniversary meeting of

this society was held at Burlington 110 ise ; Sir
Roderick Murchison, Bart., the president, in the

chair.

The report of the council gave a very favourable
account of tlw financial state of the society and its

general progr,..ss during the past year. As many
as 147 fellows have been elected, and the receipts
amounted to £5,085, being au increase of £lBO on

the preceding year. The expenditure amounted to
£4,052, which was £255 less than in 1865. The '
report also mentioned considerable additions to the '
library and to the map department ; the number of
sheets of maps added being 2,426, of atlases 8, and
of diagrams and views 37.
The President then presented the medals which
had been awarded by the council. The Founder's
medal had been awarded to Admiral Alexis Buta-
koff, for being the first to launch and navigate ships
in the sea of Aral, an achievement which led to the
establishment of steam navigation on that sea and
hp the river Jaxartes into the heart of Turkistan ;
also for his subsequent successful survey of the chief
mouths of the Oxus in the Khanat of Khiva. A
brother Russian officer received the medal on behalf
of Admiral Butakoff, and expressed the gratification
he felt at being so commissioned. Ihe Patron's
medal had been to Dr. Isaac J. Hayes, au
American, for his expedition in 1800-61 towards the
open Polar sea, where he attained a more northern
point of laud, in Smith's Sound (81 deg. 35min.),
than had been realhed by any previous navigator.
Mr. Adams, the American Minister, attended to re-
ceive the medal in the absence of Dr. Hayes, and
in presenting it to him the President made some
complimentary remarks on the value of the services
for white the medal had been granted.
Mr. ADAMS expressed great satisfaction that a
citizen of the United States should have received
such an honour from the Geographical Society, in
the proceedings of which society, lie said, great in-
terest was taken in America. Though oo practical
results had yet been obtained by explorations in the
Polar seas, they should not be discouraged, but
navigators should pursue their researches in the ex-
pectation that some important advantages would
ultimately be derived from every new discovery.
He adduced the case of Columbus, who set out on
his expedition in the expectation of arriving at China,
and the object he did not expect to find had proved
of far greater importance than the realisation of his
expectations could have been. So it might, to some
extent, be with modern navigators. That which
they did not expect to find might prove of greater
importance than what they had anticipated, and it
was impossible to limit the importance of any dis-
covery that tended to enlarge the knowledge of

mankind.
The PRESIDENT then delivered the annual ad-
dress, which occupied nearly one hour and a half.
He commenced with an obituary notice of the
fellows of the society who have died during
the past year, dwelling particularly on Col.
Everest, and the great services he had rendered in
the furtherance of geographical knowledge by his
trigonometrical surveys in Northern India. The
late Professor Rogers was also spoken of at some
length, but the other fellows who had died, of whom
there were 43, were for the most part only briefly
mentioned. The greater portion of the address re-

lated to the probable fate of Dr. Livingstone and to
the condition of Central Asia. Sir Roderick con-
tinues to entertain great hope that Livingstone is
yet alive, and that he will return after having
solved the problem whether there is an outlet on the
north of Lake Tanganyika towards the Albert Ny-
anza, or whether that lake is the ultimate source of
the Nile. The accounts that have appeared in the
daily papers purporting to confirm the report, of
the death of Dr. Livingstone were, he said, only
repetitionS" of the statements first received from the
runaway porteis, who there was good reason to
believe were not worthy of credit. The expedition
about to be undertaken by the Government iu search
of Dr. Livingstone would be ready to start on the
9th of June, and within six or seven months at the
farthest it was expected that positive news would
be received whether Dr. Livingstone had been killed
or had passed into the interior. Sir Roderick in-
clined to support the opinion that Lake Tanganyika
flows into the more northerly lake, and that the
estimation of the level of the former, which had
been supposed to be lower than the Albert Nyanza,
was not correct. Turning from Africa to Asia, Sir
Roderick entered at great length into the considera-
tion of the question whether the Sea of Aral had
within historic time been joined to the Caspian or
been dried up.. The latter opinion had been ex-
pressed by Sir H. Rawlinson, who conceived that
the river Jaxartes as well as the river Oxus at
one period, not many hundred years distant,
flowed into the Caspian. Sir Roderick Murchison,
considering the question from a geological point
of view, arrived at a different conclusion. He con-
ceived that at some geological period far anterior to
historic record the whole of that part of Asia was
depressed and covered with water, but that the land
which now separates the Caspian Sea from the Sea
of Aral had been elevated long before historic times.
He then adverted to the papers which had been
read during the present session relating to that
portion of Asia, especially to the paper, by Captain
Sherard Osborn, on Central Tartary, and also
to the researches of the Russians in that part of
Asia. He took occasion to point out that the object
of Russia was to establish a more free communica-
tion with China, which would now be practicable by
the navigation of the river Jaxartes, and to express
the opinion that our Indian possessions would be
in no danger from the proximity of Russia,
which would be - rendering a benefit to 'mankind
by occupying a region now possessed by the most
savage tribes. The progress of geographical dis-
covery in Northern India, in South America, and
in Australia., was then briefly noticed, and it was
stated that an Anglo-Egyptian expedition had been
suggested by Sir S. Baker for the exploration of
the interior of Africa, of which Sir S. Baker was
willing to be the conductor. Sir Roderick Mur-
chison, in concluding his address, said he felt that
the society ought to choose a younger man for their
president ; if, however, he was honoured by being
re-elected for the
obj next
ects of yearthe society , , he would dbuto his
he utmost
to forward the
then positively resign.
The balloting papers for officers for the ensuing
year were then examined, and the scrutineers de-
clared that there had been no alteration in the list
proposed by the council. Sir Roderick lmpey
Murchison was elected president ; the vice-presi-
dents elected were Vice-Admiral Back, Mr. F
Galton, Sir Henry Rawlinson, and Major-General
Sir A. Scott Waugh ; and the secretaries, Mr.
Markham and Mr. Major.
The Meeting then adjourned. •
The annual dinner of the society took place in
the evetling at Willis's Rooms—Sir Roderick in the
chair. Mr. Adams, the American Minister, sat on
his right hand, and among the distinguished persons
present were Lord Boughton, Lord Strangford,
Lord Enniskillen, Sir H. Rawlinson, Sir G. Lee,
Sir Charles Wyke, Sir Charles Nicholson, Sir R.
Mayne, Sir P. G. Egerton, Sir T. Fremantle, Sir
G. Back, Captain Crown, of the Russian navy, the
Chief Justice of Mauritius, &c.
The usual loyal toasts having been drunk, the
toast of " The Army and Navy" was proposed, to
which Sir H. Rawlinson and Sir G. Back returned
thanks.
The " Health of the Medallists" was next pro-
posed, for which Captain Crown, of the Russian
navy, returned thanks on behalf of Admiral
Butakoff, and Mr. Adams on the part of Dr.
Hayes. The latter observed to it t he would not
repeat in an after-dinner speec what he had
said in the morning on receiving the medal, and in
Allusion to such speeches he said they might be ?WI-

sidered ps a national institution, which had not been
imitated by any other people.

The PRESIDENT, in proposing the toast of the
" Houses of Parliament," regretted that the " con-
founded compound householder " had prevented
many members of the House of Commons who had
proinised to be present from attending, among
whom was his friend Mr. Gladstone.

Lord HOUGIITON responded to the toast.

Captain SIIERARD OSBORN then rose to propose

the " Health of the President of the Geographical
Society," to whom he attributed the great success
which had attended their efforts. Ile alluded to
the formation of the society 20 years ago, when its
prospects were very gloomy and when it had little
more to depend upon in a financial point of view
than the annual grant of £5OO from the Govern-
ment.

Sir RODERICK MURCHISON, inreturning thanks, re-
peated his statement of the morning that he must
positively resign next year on account of his age, for
those who wanted him to remain appeared to forget
that he was born in the year 1792. He then again
remarked on the probable fate of Dr. Livingstone,
expressing his opinion that the account of the
Johanna men was not to be relied on, and con-
cluded by proposing the " Healths of Captain
Richards," the hydrographer of the Admiralty, and
of "Mr. Young," who is appointed to command
the expedition in search of Dr. Liiingstone.
Captain RICHARDS and Mr. YOUNG returned
thanks, and the latter, referring to the Johanna
men, of whom he had experience, declared that they
were great scoundrels and not to be believed ; and
he related some incidents in confirmation of that
opinion, in which the man from whom the infor-
mation of the murder of Dr. Livingstone was derived
was particularly implicated.
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