The Sun.
London, England, 1867-09-03 00:00:00

THE ALABAMA CLAIMS.

The Foreign-office has issued a series of papers
on the question between this country and America
arising out of the late war. The correspondence
commences with a long despatch from Mr. Seward
to Mr. Adams, containing a summary of the
numerous claims occasioned by the captures made
by the Sumter, Alabama, Florida, Shenandoah,
and " other ships of war which were built, manned,
armed, equipped, and fitted out in British ports,
and despatched therefrom by or through the agency
of British subjects, and which were harboured,
sheltered, provided, and furnished as occasion re-
quired, during their devastating career, in ports of
the realm, or in ports of British colonies in nearly
all parts of the globe." This despatch is followed
by a reply from Lord Stanley, disputing the broad
assertion respecting the nationality of the above-
named vessels, and contesting the stataments of Mr.
Seward as to the responsibility of the British Go-
vernment. In a letter of Mr. Seward to Mr. Adams,
dated the 12th of January last, the American
Minister replies :
" It is, indeed, true, as Lord Stanley has observed,
that the Alabama, when she left England, was
wholly unarmed, and not fully equipped as a war
vessel. It is also true that she received an arma-
ment, a further equipment, a commander, and a
crew in Angra-bay, Azores—a possession of the
Crown of Portugal—where the British Government
had no jurisdiction, and could exercise no lawful
control, even if they had an opportunity. But, on
the other hand, it is to be remembered that, not only
was the vessel built at Liverpool, but the armament
and the supplemental equipment were built and
provided there also, simultaneously and by the same
British hands, and also that the commander and crew
were gathered and organised at the same time
and the same place; the whole vessel, arma-
ment, equipment, commander, and crew were
adapted, each part to the other ; and all were pre-
pared for one complete expedition. The parts were
fraudulently separated in Liverpool to be put to-
gether elsewhere, and they were fraudulently con-
veyed thence to Angra-bay, and there put fraudu-
lently together by her Majesty's subjects, not less
in violation of British than of Portuguese obliga-
tions to the United States. The offenders were
never brought to justice by her Majesty's Govern-
ment, nor complained of by the Government to the
Queen of Portugal. The Alabama, from the laying
of her timbers in Liverpool until her destruction by
the Kearsaie off Cherbourg, never once entered
any port or waters of the United States. Whatever
pretended commission she ever had as a ship of war
must have been acquired either in Great Britain or
some other foreign country at peace with the United
States or on the high SC3S. Nevertheless, the
Alabama was received, protected, entertained, and
supplied in her devastating career in the British
ports of Capetown and Singapore, in the East, and
when she was finally sunk in the British Channel,
her commander and crew were, with fraudulent '
connivance, rescued by British subjects and osten-
tatiously entertained and caressed as meritorious but
unfortunate heroes at Southampton."
Ile then denies our right to treat the Southerners
as belligerents at all :
" Lord Stanley defends the Queen's proclamation
by quoting against me certain utterances of the
Supreme Court of the United States, and of the
district of Columbia, of which he says her Majesty's
Government has seen no refutation. Certainly it
is not my purpose to refute these utterances. They
were made by learned and loyal tribunals. More-
over, Lord Stanley understands them correctly as
showing that at the time they were pronounced it
was the opinion of those Courts that a civil war
was actually existing at the time when the causes of
action arose in the cases which the Courts were
adjudicating. I may admit, further, that the
Courts - referred to the President's blockade
proclamation, which preceded the Queen' neu-
trality proclamation, as one among the facts which
proved that the controversy here was not a mere
local insurrection, but had all the gravity, charac-
ter, and consequences of a civil war. But I must
insist, on the other hand—first, that neither of the
judicial utterances referred to asserts or admits
that the President's blockade proclamation ex-
pressly and in form declared or recognised the ex-
istence of civil war ; and, in the second place, that
both of these judicial utterances unmistakably im-
ply the contrary. The District Court of Columbia
pronounced its opinion on the 17th of Juue, 1861.
The Supreme Court of the United States withheld
, its opinion until the 10th of March, 1863. The
capture which constituted the cause of action in the
District Court occurred on the 21st of May, 1861;
the captures concerning which the Supreme Court
of the United States adjudicated occurred on the
17th of May, 1861, the 20th of May, 1861, the
23d of June, 1861, and the 10th of July, 1861.
The Queen's proclamation of neutrality had ap-
peared before either Court pronounced its opinion,
and before either cause of action arose. British
subjects were claimants in some, and other foreign-
ers were claimants in others of these litigations.
Among the facts of which the Supreme Court took
notice, and which they set forth as the grounds of
their opinion, is the following As soon as the
news of the attack on Fort Sumter and the organ-
isation of a Government of the seceding States
assuming to act as belligerents could become known
in Europe, to wit, on the 13th of May, 1861, the
Queen of England issued her proclamation of neu-
trality, recognising hostilities as existing between
the Government of the United States of America
and certain States styling themselves the Confede-
rate States of America. This was immediately fol-
lowed by similar declarations or silent acquiescence
by other nations.' "
After dwelling on this subject at great length,
Mr. Seward concludes with a reference to the Fe-
thaw :

" The Fenian movement neither begins nor ends
in the United States ; the movers in those pro-
ceedings are not native citizens of the United
States, but they are natives of Great Britain,
though some of them have assumed naturalisation
in the United States. Their quarrel with Great
Britain is not an American, but a British one, as
old (I sincerely hope it may not be as lasting) as
the union of the United Kingdom. Their aim is
not American but British revolution. In seeking
to make the territory of the United States a base for
the organisation of a republic in Ireland, and of
military and naval operations for its establishment
there, they allege that they have followed as an
example proceedings of British subjects in regard
to our civil war allowed by her Majesty's Govern-
ment. The policy and proceedings of the two Go-
vernments in regard to those parallel movements
have not assimilated. The United States' Govern-
ment has not recognised the Irish republic as a
belligerent, and has disarmed its force when
.found
within our territories and waters. With regard to
the manner in which this protracted controversy
shall be brought to an end, we agree entirely with
the sentiments expressed by Lord Stanley. We
should even think it better that it be brought to an
end which might perhaps in some degree disappoint
the parties, than that it should continue to alienate
the two nations, each of which is powerful enough
to injA.i.re he other deeply, while the maintenance
of confifatthg principlem in regard to intervention

would be a calamity to all nations. The U sited
States think it not only easier but more desi.mble
that Great Britain should acknowledge and sa.tisfy
the claims for indemnity which we have subrrit-tpd,
than it would he to find an equal and wise arhitnt.-
tor who \you'd consent to adjudicate them. 1f„
however, her nijesty's Government, for reasons
satisfactory to them, should prefer the remedy of
arbitration, the United States would not olject.
The United States, in that case, would expect to
refer the whole controversy just as it is found in
the correspondence which has taken place between
the two Governments, with such further evidence
and arguments as either party may desire,
without imposing restrictions, conditions, or limi-
tations upon the umpire, and without waiving
any principle or argument on either side. They can-
not consent to waive any question on the considera-
tion that it involves a point of national honour
and, on the other hand, they will not require that'
any question of national pride or honour shall be
expressly ruled and determined as such. If her
Majesty's Government shall concur in these views,
the President will be ready to treat concerning the
choice of an umpire."
In his reply to this despatch, dated March 9,
1867, Lord Stanley declines to go over the whole
ground traversed by Mr. Seward, but says
In my despatch of the 30th of 'November I ex-
plained to you the grounds on which her Majesty's
Government could not consent to refer to a foreign
Power to determine whether the policy of recognis-
' ing the Confederate States as a belligerent Power
was or was not suitable to the circumstances of the
time when that recognition was made, but I at the
same time expressed the willingness of her Majesty's
Government to entertain in a friendly spirit any
proposal which might be made to them by the Go-
vernment of the United States, to refer to arbitra-
tion other questions which might be at issue between
the two Governments in reference to the late war,
and I desired you to invite Mr. Seward to state
what were the precise points which, in his opinion,
might be and ought to be so dealt with, Mr. Seward,
in his despatch of the 12th of January, while sug-
gesting that it would not only be easier but more
desirable that Great Britain should acknowledge and
satisfy the claims for indemnity which we have sub-
mitted, than it would be to find an equal and wise
arbitrator who would consent to adjudicate them,'
goes on to say that if her Majesty's Government
should prefer the remedy of arbitration, the United
States would not object, but in that case' would ex-
pect to refer the whole controversy just as it is found
in the correspondence which has taken place between
the two Governments, with such furtherevidence and
arguments as either party may desire, without im-
posing restrictions, conditions, or limitations upon
the umpire, and without waiving any principle or
argument on either side.' To such an extensive
and unlimited reference her Majesty's Govern-
ment cannot consent; for this reason, among others,
that it would admit of, and indeed compel, the sub-
mission to the arbiter of the very question which I
have already said they cannot agree to submit. The
real matter at issue between the two Governments,
when kept apart from collateral considerations, is,
whether in the matters connected with the vessels
out of whose depredations the claims of American
citizens have arisen the course pursued by the British
Government, and by those who acted under its
authority was such as would involve a moral respon-
sibility on the part of the British Government to
make good, either in whole or in part, the losses of
American citizens. This is a plain and simple ques-
tion, easily to be considered by an arbiter, and ad-
mitting of solution without raising other and wider
issues ; and on this question her Majesty's Govern-
ment are fully prepared to go to arbitration, with
the further provision that if the decision of the
arbiter is unfavourable to the British view, the exa-
mination of the several claims of citizens of the United
States shall be referred to a mixed commission, with
a view to the settlement of the sums to be paid on
them. But as they consider it of great importance
for the maintenance of good understanding between
the two countries, that the adjudication of this
question in favour of one or other of the parties
should not leave other questions of claims in which
their respective subjects or citizens may be interested,
to be matter of further disagreement between the
two countries. Her Majesty's Government, with a
view to the common interest of both, think it neces-
sary, as you have already apprised Mr. Seward in
your letter of the 7th of January, ' in the event of
an understanding being come to between the two
Governments, as to the manner in which the special
American claims' (which have formed the subject
of the Correspondence of which my present despatch
is the sequel) should be dealt with, that, under a
convention to be separately, but simultaneously con-
cluded, the general claims of the subjects and
citizens of the two countries arising out of the
events of the late war should be submitted to a
mixed Commission, with a view to their eventual
payment by the Government that may be judged
responsible for them.' Such, then, is the proposal
which her Majesty's Government desire to submit to
the Government of the United States—limited re-
ference to arbitration in regard to the so-called Ala-
bama claims, and adjudication by means of a mixed
Commission of general claims. You will read this
despatch to Mr. Seward and furnish him with a copy
of it, as the deliberate reply of her Majesty's Go-
vernment to his despatch of the 12th of January,
and in doing so you will express to him the earnest
hope of her Blajesty's Government that their present
proposal will be accepted by the Cabinet of Wash-
ington in the spirit in which it is made."

The two following despatches of Lord Stanley
complete the correspondence :
" Foreign-office, May 2, 1867.
" Sir,—Mr. Adams has this day communicated to
me the substance of a despatch which he had re-
ceived from Mr. Seward in reply to the proposal
which you were instructed by my despatch of the
9th of March to make on the subject of the claims
arising out of the civil war in the United States. In
this despatch Mr. Seward states that the Govern-
ment of the United States adhere to the view which
they formerly expressed as to the best way of deal-
ing with these claims. They cannot, consequently,
consent to a special and peculiar limitation of
arbitrament in regard to the Alabama claims such
as her Majesty's Government suggest. They cannot
give any preference to the Alabama claims over
others in regard to the form of arbitrament sug-
gested ; and while they agrne that all mutual claims
which arose during the civil war between citizens
and subjects of the two countries ought to be
amicably and speedily adjusted, they must insist
that they be adjusted by one and the same form of
tribunal, with like and the same forms, and on prin-
ciples common to all. The President of the United
States, therefore, respectfully declines the proposals
of her Majesty's Government ; but reciprocating
the feelings of goodwill which have been expressed
on the part of Great Britain, the United States'
Government will cheerfully receive any further sug-
gestions that her Majesty's Government may have
to offer.—l am, &C., " STANLEY."
" Foreign-office, May 24, 1867.
" Sir,—l abstain in my despatch of the 2d inst.
from making any observations on the communi-
cation from Mr. Adams to which that despatch
referred, in the expectation that I might receive
from you some further explanation, as given to
you by Mr. Seward of the views of the American
Government on the subject. Not having heard from
you, I must conclude that Mr. Seward has not made
you acquainted with the nature of his reply sent
through Mr. Adams to your communciation to him
of my despatch of the 9th March. I have nothing,
therefore, beyond the brief statement made to me
by Mr. Adams to guide me in dealing with Mr.
Seward's reply. In that reply Mr. Seward says
clearly enough that the Government of the United
States cannot consent to a special and peculiar
limitation of arbitration in regard to the Alabama

claims such as her Majesty's Government stip..f,rest ;
but from his next observation it might be inferred
that the offer as regards arbitration made by her
Majesty's Government in my despatch of the
March was understood to have applied only to the
claims arising out of the proceedings of the Alabama,
to the exclusion of thosearssiug out of the like pro-
ceedings of the Florida, Shenandoah,
and Georgir.
It is important to dear up this point, and you will
' therefore state to Mr. Seward that the offer to go
to arbitration was not restricted to the claims arising
out of the proceedings of the Alabama, but applied
Nually to those arising out of the like proceedings
of the other vessels that I have named. In the words
of my despatch of 9th March the matter at issue
between the two Governments on which Great Bri-
tain was ready to go to arbitration was, whether
in the matters connected with the vessels out of
whose depredations the claims of American citizens
have arisen the course pursued by the British Go-
vernment and by those who acted upon its autho-
rity was such as would involve a moral responsibi-
lity on the part of the British Government to make
good, either in whole or in part, the losses of
American citizens.' It is most desirable that there
should be no misunderstanding on this point ; but
inasmuch as Mr. Seward says that the Government
of the United States cannot give any preference to
the Alabama claims over others in regard to the form
of arbitrament suggested, you may inform Mr. Seward
that there was no intention on the part of her Ma-
jesty's Government to give any 5w...12 preference to
the Alabama claims over claims in the like cate-
gory. That some misapprehension exists on the
part of Mr. Seward may indeed be further deduced
from his statement that, while the Government of
the United States agree that all mutual claims
which arose during the civil war between citizens
and subjects of the two countries ought to be milk-
' ably and speedily adjusted, they must insist that
they be adjusted by one and the same tribunal, with
like and the same forms, and on principles common
to all. Now, the question of disposing of general
claims in contradistinction to the specific claims
arising out of the proceedings of the Alabama and
vessels of that class has not hitherto been matter of
controversy between the two Governments, but has
been mooted in its present shape by her Majesty's
Government alone; and there is no such similarity
between the two classes of claims as would admit of
their being dealt with by the same process. It
may be, however, and her Majesty's Government
would gladly learn that it was the case, that the
Government of the United States agree to waive
the question of the alleged premature recognition
of belligerent rights, and are satisfied to go to
arbitration on the first or Alabama class of claims ;
provided that all claims whatever, on either side,
arising out of the events of the war, are equally
submitted to arbitration, so that they may be
adjusted by one and the same form of tribunal,
with like and the same forms, and on principles
common to all.' This, however, from the nature of
things, is impracticable ; the one class, or the
specific claims, such as those arising out of the pro-
ceedings of the Alabama and such vessels, depend
for their settlement on the solution of what may be
called an abstract question—namely, whether in
the matters connected with the vessels out of whose
depredations the claims of American citizens have
arisen the course pursued by the British Govern-
ment, and those who acted under its authority,
was such as would involve a moral respon-
sibility on the part of the British Government
to make good, either in whole or in part, the
losses of American citiz ins ; the other, or general
class of claims, admits of no such narrow restric-
tion. The number of claims in this class on
either side may be great, the circumstances of each
more or less different, and the points involved in
them complicated in their nature and bearings ; and
on these grounds alone it is obvious that they can-
not, like those of the Alabama class, be comprised
within a single proposition applicable in principle
to all, and bringing all within the compass of a
single decision of an arbiter. The reply which Mr.
Seward will return to your communication of this
despatch will, it may be hoped, clear up the ob-
scurity which rests upon the answer received
through Mr. Adams to my despatch of the 9th of
March. Her Majesty's Government, you will say,
abide by their proposals as set forth in that despatch.
'Within the limits set forth in that despatch they
are prepared to go to arbitration in regard to the
Alabama and such like claims, on the condition that
simultaneously with the reference of those claims to
arbitration an agreement is catered into between the
two Governments for the adjudication of general
claims by a mixed Commission.—l am, &c.,
" STANLEY."

AcEwspApEß
and file filfeouanrrdiavteidonaltotsthneeofa b
Windsor,ua
harries fha
Tower.
the Royal Engineer Department 'AS-a. gyi.
for the use of the troops in garrison at Port, out,
was laid yesterday by Major-Gen. Sir Geo. Buller,
K.C.8., the Lieut.-Governor of Portsmouth, and
general officer commanding the troops in the south-
west military district. The General, accompanied
by Lady Buller, and the oflicers comprising his per-
sonal staff, arrived at the enclosed space where the
building is to stint] about. 3 p.:0., awl was rece'ved
by Colonel 11. E., commandin!.; the Royal
Engineer fotve in the south-west di=.:rict, and the
contractors for the work, Messrs. Siunnn and Martin.
Admiral Sir T. S. Pasley, Port-Admiral and Naval
Connancler-in- Chief, accompanied by Lady Pasl ey,
and attendtd by Flag L iota,. Boger, was also pr,,sent,
as were the commanding officers and others of Royal
Artillery an l regiments in the garrison. The
gymnasium will be 125 f. long by sOft. wide, and
281 t. from floor to ceiling. It will contain the usual
officers', instructors', and dressing rooms, with also
a gallery for spectators. The piece of ground on
which it is being built is part of the glacis of the
fortifications (now about to be razed) between the
towns of Portsmouth and Portsea ; it therefore holds
a central position in relation to the large barracks of
both towns.
Yesterday morning the Lords of the Admiralty
resumed their duty at Devonport. Mr. Corry, Ad-
niiral Milne, Admiral Seymour, Capt. Brandreth,
and others, landed from the steam yacht Enchan-
tress at 10.45 a.m., at Keyham steam yard, where
they were received by Admiral Superintendent
Drummond, Capt. Willis, of the Indus; Captain
Foley, of the Cambridge ; and the officers of the
establishment. Here, on the western wharf, there
were drawn up in two lines about 1,000 men be-
longing to the Steam Reserve in Harnoaze, and 100
officers of all rams. Their Lordships, attended by.
Capt. Willis, went down the front, and held com-
munication with some of the men. After the in-
spection they passed through the shifting shed and
the joiners' shop to the main entrance, whence they
walked to the Sailors' Home, in Duke-street, Devon-
port, and were received there by Capt. J. G. Napier,
of the Canopus. About noon the members of the
board proceeded to the dockyard, where, at half-
past 2 o'clock, the First Lord held his levee. The
Channel squadron left Portland at half past 4
yesterday morning for Plymouth, for the purpose of
escorting the Enchantress, with their Lordships, to
Bantry Bay to-morrow morning.
The War Department steam store vessel Earl de
Grey and Ripon, Commander Moore, with a heavy
cargo of returned stores from Priddy's Hard, Ports-
mouth ; Bull Point, Devonport ; and Lublin,
yesterday commenced discharging at the Gun-wharf
Woolwich. The cargo consisted of 2,345 quarter
barrels and 650 half barrels of ammunition, 242
chests of small arms for conversion, 125 bales of
shirting, 40 vats of harness, 15 guns to be re-sighted,
5,350 Snider gun cases, :300 shot, and 46 articles of
officers' baggage.
Her Majesty's iron screw troopship llesper, 2,
Staff-Com. J. G. Thain, from the China station, ar-
rived at Woolwich yesterday, last from Plymouth,
and was inspected by Commodore Edmonstone,
C. 8., and Paymaster Francis J. Lory, secretary.
The hands were mustered and congratulated on
their cleanly appearance. After discharging her war
stores she is under orders to go up to the dockyard.
The Royal Sovereign, 5, screw turret ship,
steamed out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday for a
day's practice off the east end of the Isle of Wight,
with a 12i-ton gun from ono of her turrets, to test
the working and stability of an iron gun carriage
which has at length been supplied to her.
The Scorpion, 4, screw turret ship, steamed out of
Portsmouth harbour yesterday, and made a prelimi-
nary trial of her machinery after repairs and refit.
The Duncan, coastguardship, Capt. G. Hancock,
was unlocked at Portsmouth yesterday, iu process
of repairs and refit, preparatory to resuming her
station.
The Tamar, screw troopship, Capt. Sullivan, C. 8.,
is ordered to have her defects made goo.l at Ports-
mouth yard, and to be ready for proceeding to China
and Japan by the 10th of October next.
The following appointments were male yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. G. G. Randolph, of her
Majesty's ship Britannia, to be senior officer and
commodore of the second class at the Cape of Good
Hope, vice Capt. Caldwell, invalided ; Commander
W. D. Donaldson Selby, to the Cumberland, addi-
tional, for service at the Naval Barracks, Sheerness;
Lieut. Edward A. Bolitho, to the Fisgard, additional,
for transport service ; Lieut. the Hon. Walter 11.
Jolliffe, to the Liffey; John Durnford, midshipman
to the Liffey ; W. Edney, surgeon to the Donegal ;
W. S. Crealock, paymaster, to the Tamar ; Thomas
Scott (c.) and Henry Johnson, engineers, to the
Caledonia; James Hird, John C. Weeks, and W.
Bryan, engineers, to the Jaseur ; W. J. Grant,
first-class assistant engineer, to the Caledonia; and
yichard G. Callaway, acting second class assistant
engineer, to the Caledonia.

OPENING OF 7HE OAKS COLLIERY.

After a somewhat slow and tedious process an
opening has at last been made from the bottom of
the No. 1 shaft of the Oaks Colliery, and on Satur-
day a new cage was fixed, in which several men
went down. Signal wires were also attached from
the top, which worked very freely, so that the work
of ascending and descending is just as easy as before
the accident. It was stated by those who went down,
and who could get through a few inches from the
opening, that in peering into the darkness—the gas
coining out too strong for the lamps—there was no
appearance whatever of fire. For the purpose
,of
entering the workings, and going through the gas,
it has been determined to send men down attired in
a sort of diving-bell dress. On Saturday afternoon
several of the dresses were put on, with a view to
the men getting accustomed to their use. They con-
sist of a waterproof head-piece and dress descending
to the waist, with thick glass circles for the eyes.
At the breast a tube is fixed for the purpose of re-
ceiving the air, which will be forced from an air-
pump in the shaft, while an escape pipe is placed at
the top of the head. With these dresses on the
mon will be able, it is expected, to pass through the
gas, recover any bodies that may be met with, and
examine the workings to some distance. In the
event, also, of there being any smouldering fire near
to the bottom, or as far as the men can proceed,
they will be able to give material aid in extinguish-
ing it either by directing the engine-hose or by the
ordinary means. As the air apparatus was to be
tried yesterday, in the course of a day or two it is
more than probable that something of importance
with regard to the actual state of the colliery and
the recovery of the bodies will be brought to light.
Everything, however, is ready for -what may be
expected to take place, and with due regard to the
feelings of all persons interested. Very great dis-
satisfaction is being expressed throughout the district
that the Mansion-house Committee have not as yet
shown any disposition to apportion the money re-
ceived by the Lord Mayor for the sufferers by the
Oaks and Talke explosions, which so far has led the
Barnsley Committee not to increase the weekly sums
paid to the widows of volunteers, as would other-
wise have been done if the fund had been augmented
to the extent expected.

[ADVERTISEMEXT.)—Henceforth no ono will doubt the valuable
properties of Du Barry's health-restoring Revalents, Arabica
Invalids' anti Infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings
it has already received from Invalids whose position had been
deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Holinegs the Pop©,
whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years
of rinsifece,;:dul medical treatment. w quote from the "Gazette'
du Midi," July 25th :—" Rome, July 21, 1366.—" The health of
the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all
other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's
Revalenta Ambles. Food,
at every meal. It has pfoduced . a eurprisingly beneficial
effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this
of which he consumes a plateful
excellent food too highly." We extract a few out of
de Brehan, of seven years' liver complaint,. wasting away,
more than 6,3,000 cures:—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness
digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable ner-
debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad
Lieutenant
a;j ta t
i,-litations
oi of
n'
Waterford,Cur i
o. f 1 many,77 l : r ears'tl Stuart
pds i
ao
.D eNe toe. s 4,
9Lo,
83r2d:
" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness,
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, an,,t
vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James 11,01),mq,,,
of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spittinz of I,L, ,
liver derangement, and partial deafness Important Cautior.--
Beware of the many unsavoury and mire than sloppy
to which, without authority, Baron Liebig.s name is must
e.uda-
Clously attached.
In tins at Is. lid.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. 2 lbs., 4s. Gd ; 5 lbs., 11S
12 lbs., 225.; 24 lbs., 40s.—BARRY nI7 BAJIRY and Co., No. 77,:;
stegent..street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 18°, Piccadilly
and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150,- and 289,i
Wad-street ; 830 Strand; and sll grocers aia chemists.

-

. _.i_.:~

TP HE REPRESENT ATION of the PEOPLE I
ACT, 1867.
BOUNDARY COMMISSION.
Notice is hereby Given, that Major-General BAIN-
BRIGGE, Royal Engineers, and NASSAU J. SENIOR,
Esquire, Barrister-at-Law, two of the Assistant Commis-
sioners appointed by the Boundary Commissioners for
England and Wales, under the provisions of the Represen-
tation of the People Act, 1867, will attend at the Vestry-
hall, King's-road, Chelsea, on Tuesday, the 10th day of
Soptember, 1867, at Eleven o'clock, for the purpose of
INQUIRING into the BOUNDARIES of the Borough of
CHELSEA, as constituted by the Act.
The Assistant Commissioners will be prepared to hear,
at the time and place above-mentioned, those persons who
are desirous of giving information as to the Boundaries or
other local circumstances of the Borough.
Persons who may be desirous of giving such information
as aforesaid, and who have not as yet furnished written
statements to the Commissioners, are requested to forward
by post their statements to the undersigned, at the office
of the Commissioners, 6, Old Palace-yard, Westminster,
not later than Saturday next, the 7th day of September.
c, FREMANTLE.
Secretary to the Commissioners.
31st August, 1867.

---
COVENT-GARDEN CONCERTS.
COVEN T-GARDEN THEATRE.
EVERY EVENING at 8.
Under the sole Direction of Mr. JOHN RUSSELL.
Saroha, Eraclio, Mr. J. M. Wehli, Mr.
Roynolds, Mr. R. S. Pratten, Mr. Hug,hes, M. Barret, and
Master Bonnay. Band of 100 performers.
Conductor, Signor BOTTESINI.
Conductor of the Dance Music, Herr Johann Strauss.
M. Wieviawski, the celebrated violinist, will appear This
Evening (Monday), The programme varied every evening.
Thursday next a BEETHOVEN NIGHT.
Box-office open from 10 till 5. Promenade, ls.
Doors open at ball-past Seven.

ATE N ROYAL A DELPHI THEATRE,
.11 Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster.—
Mr. J. W. ANSON (Treasurer) has the honour to an-
ncunce, through the kindness of B. Webster, Esq., an
Extra Night for his Annual Benefit, which will take place
on WEDNF,SIiAI. NEXT, September 4. 1867, when will
be presented Shakspere's comedy, AS YOU LIKE IT.
The following popular and talented artists will appear :
Jacques. Mr. A. Stirling; Orlando, Mr. Hermann Vezin;
Adaie, Mr. G. P. Addison ; Touchstone,Widdi-
corn!)e ; Amiens, Mr. Wm. _Harrison, with the incidental
songs, "Blow, blow, thou Winter Winds," and " Under the
Greenwood Tree," Rosalind, Mrs. Hermann Vezin; Audi),
Miss Nellie Farren. Song, Miss Rose Hersoe, g,
Birdie, Sing." Mr. J. L. Toole, who has just returnud
from Paris, will on this- occasion make his only appear-
ance in London previons to his provincial tour, in. ICI
ON P ABLE FRANCAIS.
Boxes and Tickets can be obtained of Mr. J. W. Anson,
20, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden, or at the Box-office,
from 10 to 5 daily.

la IHEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET,
Sole Lessee and Manirztr, Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, AS YOU LIKE IT. Messrs. Howe,
Chippendale, Compton, Kendal, C ark, Weathersby, Braid,
ltog-ers, Coe. Vincent, Arc.; Mesdames Scott Siddons, Burke,
Dalton, W I ight, tim
After which, TO FARIS AND BACK FOR FIVE
POUNDS. Mr. Buckstone.
To conclude with I.q.:TE SMINK. Mr. Compton.