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After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP,
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After Queen's Theatre . EVANS' to SUP.
LONDON SINGING AND SUPPER CLUB.
At EVANS' COVENT-GARDEN VOCAL ENTERTAIN-
MENT, at Eight o'Clock.

JIIANSI PRIZE MONEY.
INDIA OFFICE, 4th Dec.„ 1867. I
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that PRIZE
ROLLS for the undermentioned Corps of her
Majesty's late Indian Forces, on account of the FIRST
DISTRIBUTION of the .JIIANSI, formerly called the
"Central India," PRIZE MONEY for services in the field
between the Ist April and 10th June, 1858, containing the
names of those offieers and men whose shares have not
been paid in India, have been received, and that distribu-
tion of such shares will commence at the Military De-
partment of this Office on the 2d January next, and will
be continued daily (Saturday excepted) between the hours
of Eleven and Two o'clock. _

NEW NOVEL BY ARNOLD HEATH.

February, of moving that the circumstances of Ireland be
taken into consideration.

711 E NA7IO-N.4 L C URI?E NCY

Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
ED IT 'S MARRIAGE.
By ARNOLD HEATH.
lli r t and Blackitt, 13, Great Slarlborougb-street.

HACKNEY CARRIAGE ACT.

(&cm the Nation.)

Alderman LAWRENCE gave notice that immediately
after the recess he should move that the taxation on
hackney carriages be taken into consideration with a view
to their revision, reduction, and equalisation.
Lord ELCIIO gave notice of his intention after the re-
cess to move for a select committee to inquire into the
question of cab conveyance.

The approaching session of Congress is likely to
become memorable for the number of financial
measures submitted to its discussion. The ques-
tions of currency contraction, of payment of the
national debt, of further greenback issues, and of
the substitution of greenbacks for the notes of
national banks, will all be brought up for
.decision
at an early day ; but, unlike the many financial
measures passed during the last six years, those now
to be brought forward are being discussed in ad-
vance of Congress, and there is a fair chance that
we shall thus be saved from further legislative cru-
dities such_ as now afflict us. The National Bank
Act is one of the many specimens of the blundering
legislation
osfcoutinipleai
dttiitAtnyee, es
aeinxndtarnayc
partyt eildo nforzuoermaalb.
ICeounn
lngedrneesrsh
at bhvyee
isnoecndes,national banks in all parts of the country,
aopignrrugodoavhave invested in them time, money, character,
and ability. The investment has generally proved
a very profitable one, mainly owing to the privi-
lege given to these banks to issue paper money,
the now well-known national bank currency.
This currency was at first very popular every-
where, but latterly public opinion has some-
what changed, and it has come to be generally
understood that this currency, while very profit-
able to the banks is also very expensive to the
people ; hence the proposition recently made, and
certain to be urged upon Congress, to substitute
greenbacks for the national bank currency, seems
LO be received with almost universal favour. It would
seem natural that the owners of national banks
should feel aggrieved at an attempt to deprive them
of valuable privileges conferred upon them by law,
and should use every legitimate means to defeat it ;
but the only open attempt so far made to defend
their position, the letter of their great leader, Mr.
Jay Cooke, is so thoroughly specious, laboured, and
unsound that it has had no effect upon the public
beyond convincing it that the position of the banks
admits of no defence. The question is, however,
far from beim-, as simple as the public generally
seems disposed to consider it.
Stripped of all its technicalities, the case stands
precisely as follows :'When the greenbacks or United
States currency were first issued, it was generally
understood that they were a temporary expedient
only, that they were, in the phraseology of the
times, emphatically a " war measure," and that with
the end of the war the existence of the greenbacks
was to come to an end likewise. An irredeemable
paper currency was entirely antagonistic to the
general feeling and judgment of the country; and
although, in the total absence of all currency at the
time the Act was passed, the legal tenders or green-,
backs were received as an inestimable blessing, yet
there has been no time since when the sober
thought of the people has not looked upon them as
intruders to be expelled as soon as possible, and has
not reverted with natural longing to the promised
return to specie payments and a currency redeem-
able in coin. This desirable result, amor, others,
it was thought could and would be obtained througl
the national banks. They were to be allowed to
issue bank-notes or currency to the amount of three,
hundred millions (the amount of currency which it
was supposed would be required in times of peace),
and these notes they were bound to redeem on de-
mand in " legal-tender" currency. As long as
there were greenbacks in circulation, the national
banks could redeem their notes in that kind of
" legal-tender." But the supply of greenbacks
was to be, and is now being, rapidly reduced by
contraction. A time will soon come when there will
be no longer any greenbacks out, and then the na-
tional banks will be compelled to redeem their notes
in the only kind of " legal-tender" left, viz., gold
and silver coin and thus specie payments were to
be restored. In order to have ample security that
the banks would, according to agreement, redeem
the notes so issued when called upon, they were
required to purchase and deposit in the Treasury at
'Washington an amount of United States bonds equal
to or a little larger than the amount of currency they
were allowed to issue. These bonds of course belong to
the banks, although temporarily pledged to the United
States Treasury, and the interest accruing ou them
is regularly paid to the banks as it would be to any
other owner. There seems at first sight nothing
objectionable in this, but there is nevertheless
much.

UTURRICANE IN 1
11 MANSION-HOUSE
the SUFFERERS.

COMM'
Right Hon. the LORI
Baron Lionel de Rothschild, I

'IIE WEST INDIES.—
FUND for the RELIEF of

[TTEP.
) MAYOR, Chairman.
71r. James Allan, Director of

M.P.
Right Hon. Russell Gurney,
31. P.

the Peninsular and Orien-
talteam Navigation Com-
pany.
Mr. George 'Moffatt, M.P. Mr. Alderman Finnis.
Sir Wm. Anderson Bose. Mr. Alderman Causton.
Mr. Charles Oppenheim. Mr. Alderman Bosley.
Mr. B. H. Hartley. Mr. Alderman Carter.
Captain Engledue. Mr. Alderman and Sheriff
Mr. Arthur Anderson, Chair- Stone.
man of the Peninsular and Alderman Colonel Wilson.
Oriental Steam Navigation Mr. Alderman Salomons,
Company. M.P.
The above committee has been formed for the purpose
of Relieving the deplorable distress consequent upon the
recent -disastrous Hurricane in the West Indies, by which
dreadful calamity it is known that over 600 persons lost
their lives, and an immense amount of property belonging
to all classes has been destroyed.
It is computed that 1,000 persons at the Port of South-
ampton and other places in Great Britain (including the
widows and orphans of sailors) have been deprived of their
means of support.
The Committee therefore appeal to a generous public for
assistance.

Officers on the Staff of the Commander-in-Chief in
India.

SUBSCRIPTIONS will be received at the Mansion-
House Daily between the hours of Ten and Four; and
by the following Bankers :
Messrs. Williams, Deacon, and Co., Birchin-lano.
„ Coutts and Co., Strand.
„ Smith, Payne, and Co., 1, Lombard-street.
„ Barclay, Bevan, and Co., 54, Lombard-street.
„ Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
„ Barnetts, lioares and Co., 60, Lombard-street.
„ Robarts, Lubbock, and Co., 15, Lombard-street.
„ Child and Co., Temple-bar.
„ Herries, Farquhar, and Co., St. James's-street.
The Colonial Bank, 13, Bishopsgate-street Within.
London and Westminster Bank, Lothbury.
London Joint-Stock Bank, Princes-street.
Union Bank of London, Princes-street.
London and County Bank, 21, Lombard-street.
The Alliance Bank, Bartholomew-lane.
The Imperial Bank, Lothbury.
The National Bank, Old Broad-street.
The City Bank, Threadneedle-street.
The Consolidated Bank, Threadneedle-street.
The East London Bank, 52, Cornhill.
London and South-Western Bank, 29, Lombard-street.
Metropolitan and Provincial Bank, 75, Cornhill.
'National and Provincial Bank of England, 112, Bishops-
gate-street Within.

Officers, Ist Company, Artillery, Hyderabad, Contingent.
2d 77
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„ 4th „
71
77 Ist Regiment, Cavalry
„ 3d 7, 17
77 4th 77
„ 3d „ Infantry
Divisional Staff.
Ist Brigade Staff.
2d „
Commissariat Department.
Engineer 71
Ordnance
Ist Troop, Bombay Horse Artillery.
3d „ 71
77 71
2d Company Reserve Artillery, and No. 18 Light Field
Battery.
4th Company, 2d Battalion, Artillery.
Ist Regiment, Bombay Light Cavalry.
3d „ 77
77
3d Bombay European Regiment.
10th Regiment Bombay Native Infantry.
24th
77 77 77 77
25th 77 17
2d Company, Bombay Sappers and Miners.
sth
Applications from soldiers who belonged to those force s
(men now serving in her Majesty's British regiments ex-
cepted) must be addressed to the Military Secretary, India
Office, and must contain full particulars of corps, regi-
mental numb r,
Applications from men formerly belonging to her Ma-
jesty's Indian forces who have te-enlisted into regiments
of her Majesty's British service can only be received
through the officer commanding the corps in which such
men are now serving.
Pensioners must apply through the Staff Officer of Pen-
sioners of their district.
T. T. PEARS, Major General, Military Secretary.

JOSEPII GIBBS, Secretary
Mansion-llonso, Dec. 5, 1867.

TIIOMAS & CO.'S PATENT SEWING
MACHINES.

The celebrated No. 2 Machine unequalled for general
work £lO. The new Domestic Machines complete (Lock
Stitch), £5 55., £6 65., and £B. Catalogues free.
W. F. Thomas and Co., 1 and 2, Cheapside, and Regent-
circus, Oxford-street, London.

THE "SINGER" NEW FAMILY
MACHINE

is fitted with a new
PATENT TUCK MARKER,

which GAUGES and MARKS each succeeding TUCK
while sowing, a MOST VALUABLE ACCESSORY, not
to be had with any other Machine.
T" "SINGER" NEW FAMILY SEWING
bIACHINES are the most complete, with all acces-
sories for the family, seamstress, manufacturers of shirt
collars, shirts, cloaks, mantles, children's clothing, caps,
corsets, linen and silk goods, umbrellas, parasols, &c.
Catalogues and Samples of Work post free.
THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
147, CHEAPSIDE, LONDON.

TO ADMIRERS OF LIGHT CARRIAGES.
II A R
79, NEW BOND-STREET,

has iutroducel one of the lightest four-whee:ed Carriages
in London. The style is the T cart or Stanhope phaeton,
on an improved principle.

The peculiarity of this carriage is, it has sufficient room
for four persons, if required, and is 3 cwt. less than the
usual ones ; it has no
,perch, and can lock round in any
narrow lane. The wheels aro hickory, with steel tyres,
springs only one inch wide, and has Lone's patent steel-
coated iron axles, which have received so many testimo-
nials.

S. 11. wishes to remind the public it has been proved
many valuable horses are ruined by being overloaded with
a heavy carriage. It is a well-known fact that the intro-
duction of light carriages is only now in its infancy. One
is on viaw, and several to be seen building to order.
An inspection is solicited.

yARMOUTH BLOATERS, 25 for 4s. ; 50,
6s. ; 100, 10s. ; 500, 40s. Fresh Fish in ice, three
kinds, for 10s. Delivered free to all parts of London and
country upon receipt of remittance, by FRED. BARNEY
and CO., Fish Purveyors, Great Yarmouth.

TRANSPARENT CANDLES.—If you only
want something pretty to look at, without minding
a little smoke and smell, and a little bending and running
over if the room should happen to be rather warmer than
usual, buy any of the very transparent low quality Para-
fine Candles now sold freely everywhere at ono shilling
per pound; but if, along with beauty of appearance, you
require steady brilliancy of light, and freedom from risk of
these little occasional mishaps, tell your dealer to supply
you with
—'

"PRICE'S GOLD MEDAL PALMITINE CANDLES,"
which, though charged at a higher price per pound, aro
really cheaper when the difference of quality is taken into
account. They are believed to be the very best substitute
yet produced for real Wax and Spermaceti, now at such
an extravagant price, and are being introduced in place of
them in the West-end Clubs and elsewhere where ex-
cellence of quality is studied as well as economy.

QTOOPING HABITS, ROUND SHOULDERS,
PIGEON CHESTS, and other Detormitie4, are pre-
vented and cured by wearing CHANDLER'S IMPROVE)
lIYGI EN IC CHEST EXPANDING BRACE, for both sexes
of all ages. It strengthens the voice and lungs, relieves in-
digestion, pains in the chest and back, and is especially re-
commended to children for assisting the growth, promoting
health and symmetry of figure, superseding the use of
braces and stays. Price from 10s. 6d. each.-66, 13erners-
street, Oxford-street, W. Illustrated circulars forwarded.

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THELO N D 0 N,
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c,- Served from 4 till 8 o'clock: 0
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ing Vegetables, Bread, Cheese, ls. 9d. ; Joint, with Soup
or Fish, 2s. 6d.; Fish Diuuer, ls. 6d.; attendance, 3d.
extra.

The Carte for to-day includes Pheasants, Partridges,
Grouse, Woodcocks, Teal, Golden Plovers, Chickens, and
every other kind of Poultry and Game in season.
The Bill of Fare of the "London Dinner" is published
in THE SUN every evening.
FREDERICK SAWYER, Sole Proprietor.

DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REREDY.—Pre-
pared without any mercurial ingradient, from the reoipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found Invaluable to all who
suffer from bilious and liver
,omplaints, inligesticn, wind,
spasms, giddiness, dizziness., of the eyes, &o, For habitual
costiveness, as a faintly aperient medicine, 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 said by W. Lambert, Chemist, 8, King
William-street, Charing-cross. London, and by most drug-
gists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three times the quantity in one,
zs. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilioas and Liver Pills:
The genuine are a square green pant:age, with William
Lambert." enceraved on the stamp.

PRIN T ING. —TO PROPRIETORS OF
NEWSPAPERS, PERIODICALS, &c.—The Print
ing and Machining of Newbpwers, &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.C.

H&ALTH RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR
EXPENSE.

DU BARRY'S delicate health-restoring Inva-
lids and Infante' Food,

WALKER'S CRYSTAL CASE WATCHES
are superseding all others Prize medals, London,
1862, Park, 1867. Gold from .£l5 155., silver from £6 65.-
68, Cornhill, and 230, Regent-street.

FURNISHED HOUSES, from £2 2s. to £2O
per Week.—D. S. HUMPHRIES hus at all times a
number of Firs ..class TLESIDr.INCES to be LET. furnished
or unfurnished. or sold, more particularly in the neWthour-
hoods of Sydenham, Upper Norwood, Forest-hill. and yid-
nity.—Particulars may be had at the Office, Printing House-
square.

HOUSES and APAR r NIEN f WANTED, and to be LET

or SOLD, BUSINTESS ES for DISPOSAL, &c.
PROPERTY, FREEHOLD or LEASEHOLD.
D. T. HUH MIMES has continual applications for
all descriptions of PROPERTY which will pay good interest
for outlay. Houses out of repair not objected to. T. D.
Humphries can at all times find customers tor all descrip-
tions of businesses. Hotels, public hous s, dr,c , sold and
transferred. Apply, D. T. Humphries, Estate Agent, Print-
ing House-square.

pAitTRIDGE AND COOPER,
WHOLESALE MANUFACTURING STATIONERS,
192, FLEET STREET (CORNER OF CHANCERY-LANE), LON-
DON (E.C.)
THE PUBLIC SUPPLIED AT WHOLESALE

PRICES.

THE REVAL BNTA AR /IBICA
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freshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy, to the
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habitual constipation, diarrhcea, all gastric derangements,
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complaints.
IMPORTANT CAUTION,—Beware of the many unsavoury
and more than sloppy imitations to which, without autho-
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Henceforli no one will doubt the valuible properties of
Du Barry's health-restoring Revalenta Arabica Invalids'
and Infants' Food, since t•a the thousands of blessings it has
already received from invalids whose position had been
deemed hope ess, we may now add that of his Holiness the
Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored by it after
thirty 1 ears of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote
f om the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Curs No. 68,413):
"Rome, July 21st, 13,1:1.—The health or the Holy Father is
excellent, especially since, abandoning all other remedies,
helias confined himself entirely to Du Barry's Revalenta
Arabica Food, of which he consumes a p ateful at every meal.
It has produced a surprisingly beneficial effect on his health,
and His Holiness cann t praise this excellent food too
highly."
Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness de Brehan, of ,even
years' Ever complaint, wasting away, debility, nervousness,
irritability, with a nervous palpitatiox all over, bad diges-
tion constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable nervous
agitation
Cure No. 71, of dyspepsia. from the Rlght Hon. the Lord
Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieutenant of the County of Water-
ford :—" [ have derived much benefit from your excellent
Food.—STUART DE DECIES, Dromana, Cappoquin, County
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Norfolk.

Cure No. 47,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme
nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and
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Cure No. 58,414.—Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two
years' diarrhoea,

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ters, carriage-free o.i receipt of Post-Office Order, by
BARRY DU BNRRY and Co., 77,
Regent-street, London ;
also at Fortnum and Nlasonis,,and sold by all respectable
Grocers and Chemists

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s. d.
Fine Cream Laid Note : a cheap paper 3 0
Superfine Crea Laid Note; much approved 4 0
Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note ; especially recom-
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Straw Paper, "Patent ;" adapted for rapid writing .. 2 6
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,nish settlements of St. Thomas anetilt. J.kai S
lave been ceded to the United States. The harbour of
`St. Thomas, as the Times points out, has one of the worst
-reputations in the world. It is a nest of fever. All that
is said of the convenience of its position, the security of
the port, and the excellence of the accommodation may
be true enough, but, for all that, the pert itself is as deadly
as any river's mouth on the coast of Africa. One would
have thought that the recent hurricanes must have swept
any place clear of infection, at least for a time ; but the
Tamar,_ which left St. Thomas a fortnight after the
tempest, and which arrived on Tuesday evening, had
twenty-four cases of fever and seven deaths on her
voyage home. That she brought this fever from St.
Thomas is beyond question, but she reports, singu-
larly enough, that there was no fever in the island.
It is not in the island, nor even, apparently, in the town
itself, that the pestilence is generated, but merely in the
harbour. If there is yellow fever anywhere— and this
year it has been terribly epidemic—the plague is sure to
be found among the shipping at St. Thomas. Unfortu-
'3:lately, the place is a port of call for our mail steamers,
and the waste of life is cruel in the extreme. The mail
ships go into the harbour to coal, and when they leave the
coal wharf they carry away the fever. The regular, or,
at least, the periodical mortality arising from this cause
amounts to a tax levied on life. So afflicting are the
results that it has recently been proposed to change the
coaling station, and to substitute a port which, if some-
what less convenient, may at any rate be less fatal to health.
That this suggestion was justifiable we do not deny, but
now, before the natural advantages of St. Thomas are
surrendered, it would be advisable to wait and see what
may be done under the new administration of the port
and island. The Americans are more energetic, more
enterprising, and more restless than the Danes ; in fact,
they resemble no people so much as the Danes of a thou-
sand years ago. We may probably trust these modern
northmen to make St. Thomas healthy as well as conve-
nient, if healthy it can be made. Its conveniences are so
obvious that we cannot afford to sacrifice them unnecessa-
rily. It was not made the port of call arbitrarily or by acci-
dent, but entirely through its natural attractions. If these
advantages are to be inevitably neutralised by the fatality
of the place, the question of profit and loss may bo
judiciously entertained, but it appears to us that there is
no necessity in the conclusion, and that the Americans
are exceedingly likely to demonstrate the facts. They
will be gratified with their new acquisition, they will be
on their mettle in turning it to the best account, they have
inexhaustible means, and great experience. General
Butler, whatever else he may have done, did keep New
Orleans free from fever for a whole season, and we hope to
find that somebody no less active will do much or more
for St. Thomas.

The original founders of a national bank contri-
bute in greenbacks a capital of a million dollars.
With these greenbacks they buy a million of bonds;
the bonds are deposited in Washington, where they
draw 6 per cent. interest in coin, or 7 per cent.
interest on its capital, the same as any other
capitalist who invests his money in bonds ; but the
bank in addition receives from the Treasury a
million of national bank-bills, which are money in
all parts of the United States, and which the bank
can loan in Wall-street or anywhere else for another
7 per cent. per annum. It is evident that capital
invested in a national bank gets a double rate of
interest—one seven per cent. from the people who
borrow its bills, and another seven per cent. from
the United States Treasury for interest on the bonds
deposited with it. The seven per cent. paid by the
Treasury is, of course, paid by the people at large,
and it is this interest, amounting to over twenty
millions of dollars per annum, which it is proposed
to save by substituting greenbacks for the notes of
the national banks. If, instead of selling to the
national banks the three hundred millions of bonds,
against which they are authorised to issue their
currency, the Treasury had in the first instance
issued three hundred millions of its own currency—
greenbacks—it is evident that there would have
been no more currency out and no leas than there
is now, that the total of the national debt would
have been no larger than it is now, but that three
hundred millions more of that debt would have been
free of interest instead of costing, as they now do,
over twenty millions of dollars annually, which are
taken from the people by taxation to be put in the
pockets of the national bank stockholders. This
is the great error, the great wrong, of the National
Bank Act, and the all but unanimous voice of the
country demands that the error should be corrected
and the wrong redressed.
As matters now stand, a one-dollar national bank
note is nothing more than a promise to pay a one-
dollar greenback on demand. The popular argument
is, that if the greenback itself is, as it must be, pre-
ferable to any promise to furnish it, no matter how
substantial or well-secured, and the greenback, the
actual thing, can be had without cost to the people,
it is a self-evident absurdity to make the people pay a
heavy tax for somebody's promise to furnish that
greenback on demand. The argument, we take it,
is unanswerable. But the remedial measure, so
readily deduced from this argument, to substitute
greenbacks for the national notes, to let the cheap
actual thing promised take the place of the expen-
sive promise, is more open to objection.
In the first place, the practical execution of the
measure is fraught with great and serious difficulty.
The bonds deposited in the Treasury certainly be-
long to the banks. Congress may withdraw the
right to issue currency against these bonds, but it
cannot compel the banks to sell them. It is true,
if the banks are deprived of their currency they
may be forced to sell their bonds from want of
money, but they will then sell them in the open
market and get the current price, which is
far above the nominal par value of the bonds. if
the Government declares its willingness to buy the
bonds of the banks at market price, who is to fix
that price, and which market price is to be taken—
that of the day when the law is passed, or that of
the day when the bank surrenders its currency, or '
that of any other day ? And if the Government
buys these bonds at market price, paying the heavy
premium on them (what injustice to other bond-
holders!), why should the bonds of the banks alone
be redeemed ? Or if the banks are compelled or
allowed to sell their bonds in the open market, what
disastrous fluctuations would result from the sudden
or even gradual sale of such an immense additional
amount of securities, what luss would result to the
banks and to a thousand other innocent holders !
It is very easy to say the banks shall call in their
currency, but do they control it ? It is in the hands
of the people, who want it for their daily business
transactions, and who will not take the trouble to pre-
sent it for redemption, unless compelled by a threat
of depreciation. And what effect would it have
on the business of the country if the national cur-
rency were suddenly threatened with depreciation ?
Why every bank and private banker, every mer-
chant or retail dealer, every manufacturer in the
United States would be bankrupt in less than a
mouth, and thousands of people thrown out of em-
ployment and brought to the verge of starvation.
A cry of distress runs through the land at Mr.
M'Culloch's persistent contraction of four millions
a month ; but to comiel redemption of the national
currency is equal to contraction of three hundred
millions in a day. We could fill a column with the
enumeration of practical difficulties in the way of
the measure proposed, Lut practical difficulties
rarely trouble visionaries and demagogues.

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In looking at the work which has characterised the pro-
ceedings of Parliament during its brief autumn sitting,
the Post remarks that perhaps the most noticeable fact
which may be observed is the moderate and cautious tone
of Mr. Gladstone, and the support he has on more than
one occasion given to the Ministers. This was to be
remarked particularly in the discussion of the Fenian
executions. When some members were pressing on the
Government a different view of an alteration in the
power of appeal to the Crown to that which
was offered by the Home Secretary, Mr. Glad-
stone threw the weight of his opinion on the
side of the Government in a clear and decided tone,
and no doubt by this act strengthened the decis: ,n of the
House. The actual results of this unusual meeting of
Parliament have been the sanction of the two Houses to
the war in Abyssinia and the imposition of increased
taxation on the people. It has been decided that the
course adopted with reference to the captives was the only
one open, and the House of Commons has provided the
necessary supplies. But this is not the last debate we
shall have on Abyssinia ; the next will be certain to pro-
voke more discussion and greater interest, as its impor-
tance and its consequences becomes more and more

conspicuous.
The Herald, in reviewing the proceedings in the Lords
and Commons on Thursday night, says that the debates
were so far satisfactory that they shewed the members of
both Houses to be unanimous in their approval of the
Government in the manner in which the arrange.
ments for the Abyssinian expedition have been made.
These arrangements were criticised, indeed, by one
member in each House. The speeches of Lord Ellenbo-
rough and Mr. Osborne were made in so different a tone
that they can scarcely be compared or treated with equal
respect. The vast experience in such matters of the ma-i
who was formerly Governor-General of India gives a value
to his warnings and a weight to his opinions, invests them
with a character altogether different from that of the
frivolous objections advanced by the civilian in the Lower
House, who would feel that he was out of his element if
he were not finding fault, and who is never so happy as
when constituting a minority of one on some question
which arouses the deep sympathy of the mass of Us
fellow-countrymen.
In noticing the reception of Mr. Charles Dickens in the
United States, the Standard observes :—lt is an incident
of interest illustrating the nature of American sentiment,
after, though not in any way connected with, the late civil
war. We are informed that almost the entire press have
given him a friendly welcome, that he excites a social en.
thusiasm wherever he goes, that his readings are antici.
pated with eager curiosity, and that not an echo remains
of the denunciation which once pursued his name
on account of a book he wrote twenty-five years
ago. We are glad to hear all this. It speaks
well for the American nation, and well for their
guest. There may be, in the demonstration provided
for our popular novelist, a good deal of the lionising ele-
ment, of vulgar condescension to success, of clap-trap,
and tuft-hunting. Nevertheless, it is perfectly certain
that there was a time when, ih a country where a hundred
years ago a book by a native writer was a rarity, Mr.
Dickens would have encountered a different greeting from
Americans. And there is something worthy of note in
these changes of public feeling and personal amenities.
May we not hope, in fact, that the people of the United
States are growing out of their jealous and captious sen-
sibility to our criticisms ? Many a source of argument,
of contention, and of annoyance remains open, it is true,
between the two countries ; but a better aspect is obser.
vable in their commentaries upon one another.
The Telegraph throws off a light little leader on tne
alleged decadence of our most cherished Christmas cus-
toms. Kissing, it is said, goes by favour, but " mistletoe
is an article of commerce." At least such is the assertion
of a contemporary, who also informs us that 114 tons of
mistletoe have been sent out of Herefordshire in ono
season. Tons ! It is a sum in the rule of three— or in
this case the rule of two—how many kisses go to the ton ?
Perhaps there was a time when the mistletoe sane.
tioned kissing, but we fear that golden age is passed ; for
no matter how the pleasant-looking branches may deco.
rate London chandeliers, faint hearts are too many,
and our fair ladies far too cold, to allow the old
Druid emblem to have any power. Whoever saw a lady
permitting under the mistletoe a salute she would not
have sanctioned without it ! In Ireland the mistletoe is
unknown, and yet kissing goes on ; and probably a day
will come in England when the sacred branches shall die.
appear. But then, as Cobden said, "We are not Con.
servative, but Chinese." Look at Valentine's Day. Of
all possible ways of making love, or even of pleasing
children, sending valentines is the most expensive. Yet
it flourishes ; there are London houses that do nothing all
the year round but make valentines, consuming thousands
of pounds' worth of tinselled and perforated paper; and
every year more are sent. As to the other old custom
supposed to thrive under the mistletoe, we fear its public
use is hopelessly gone, until some bold spirit introduces
kissing by competitive examination as a reform on the
present system, remarkable as it is for gross favouritism.
and admitted though not unblushing monopoly.

THE RECENT HURRICANE IN THE WEST INDIES.•
The hydrographer to the Admiralty has issued circulars,
requesting all the information which captains of vessels
which were in the West Indian seas during the hurricane
of the 29th October can afford, in order that the charts of
the hurricane district in the West Indies which are now
being prepared may be completed with greater fullness
and accuracy. The chief points of information desired aro
the ship's position, direction and force of the wind, the
state of the sea, or swell, the registrations of the bare.
meter, and the temperature of the air and the sea.

PROPOSED TEMPERANCE HOSPITAL —A series of
conferences has just closed at the East Central Coffee-
house, Jewin-street, on the subject of erecting a Tem-
perance College Hospital, &c., where the sick may be
cured without the use of stimulants. A statement pre-
sented to the meeting last held by Mr. Richardson
averred that the project was intended to obviate the hin-
drance to the temperance cause by medical prescription
of alcoholic stimulants, and that at the present time
hundreds of the sick poor are rejected from the hospitals
simply from want of room. The proposal was to levy a
shilling from every teetotaller in the United Kingdom,
which would enable the provisional committee to take at
once a suitable house in the centre of London, and to fit
it up as a temporary hospital until a permanent one could
be erected. Dr. McLaurine, from Canada, approved the
project ; and the conference adopted the recommendations
of the provisional committee, based on the resolution
unanimously passed, viz. :—" That this conference is of
opinion that the time lies come for the friends of tempe-
rance to erect a hospital for themselves, where all diseases
common to mankind may be' cured without the aid of
alcoholic poisons." An address, asking Mr. Samuel
Morley to become the president of the hospital, was also
carried ; and Mr. J. W. Richardson has undertaken the
the duties 91_ h949r§ry secretary.