The Sun.
London, England, 1866-10-26 00:00:00

WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured
in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO.
Thi preparation gradually dissolves the Corn in a few hours,
removing the very root. Price 4s ; sent by post for 80 stamps.
—248, High Holborn, London, and all Chemists.

RAM-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID owls
Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold
at 38 Bd, 5s 6d, and 10s 6d ; sent free for 54, Si, and 144 stamps.
—Rai of all Chemists.

Gi"r HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.—
ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour
immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na-
tural in effect. Price 3s 6d, 5s 6d. and les 6d; sent by post
for 54, 84, and 144 stamps ; and all Chemists.

HAIR DESTROYER.-248, High Holborn,
London.—AL EX. ROSS'S DEPILATORY removes
superfluous hair from the face, neck, and arms, without effect
to the s Price 3s and 144 sVailm. 06(11,4518e6hde,mainsdts.108 6d; sent for 54, 81,

DIMPLE REMOVER.—AII diseases of the
skin are improved by one dose of ALEX. ROSS'S
VE 3ETABLE SKIN PILLS. They remove redness, sal-
lowneFs. Om. 26 Sd and 7s ed ; or post for 4!) and 100 stamps.
—ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London, and all Cue-
mists.

HAIR COLOUR WASH.—By washing the
head with this beautifully-perfumer! Wash, in seven
or ten days the hair assumeH its original colour, and remains
so by an occasional usintr. 1056 d ; sent for stamps.—ALEX.
ROSS, 24A, High Holborn, London, said all Chemists.

Just published, 2d ; sent by the, author for 1 stamps,
UGLINESS and BEAUIT ; being a Pamphlet
descriptive of articles and means used for improving
the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, high Holborn,
London.

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DR. SCOTT'S LIVER AND BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING REXEDY.—Pre-
Jar.d without any mercurial ingrsdient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent. will be found invaluable to all who
•uffer from bilious and liver nomplaints, in3i etitn, wirift
'puma, giddiness, dizzh:er4 of the eyes, Am. For habitual
ostivences, as a family aperient medicine, and as a &miller
1 the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grAtetul to the stomach, they create appe'ite, pro-
'note dizestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
iold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lad., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. Vd. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square
green package. with " William Lambert." engraved on the
stamp.

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THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to tho 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
ban 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected
have
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,057,
been sent away In five years.
The new home the Committee wish to form woald be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions will be received gratefully bar the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen -street, Cheeps! e; or by Messrs
Barclay and Co., Lombard-street.

OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON. —The
Committee are most anxious to provide for 400 boys.
One hundred and fifty are now In the Refuge. The annual
expenditure for supporting the 400 boys is estimated at
£B,OOO, being £l5 a year for each boy. Several kind friends
have promised to pay for one boy each year.
Subscriptions thankfully received by the London and West-
minster Bank, 41, Lothburv. and 214, High Holborn; Messrs.
Ransom and Co., 1, Pall-Mall East; and by
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FOR
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, aro given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts aro admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. The Manager &c.,
mecives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, and have
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least 431,000 more will be required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is pror.,)sed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry On and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, andr,will be
gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT, D.D.,
Ziasbury-cirrus,

L'EXTINCTEUR PATENT PORTABLE
SELF-ACTING FIRE-ENGINE.

Sole Licensee—EDWAßD CASPER, 33, Poultry, E.C.
HEIRLOOMS, ART 'TREASURES, ARTICLES Prized
BEYOND MONEY VALUE may at any moment be DE-
STROYED BY FIRE. Even though danger be averted it
is by violent exertions and floods of water, at the expense of
UPPER DESTRUC HON to DELICATE FABRICS, of
IRRETRIEVABLE DAMAGE to PRICELESS PRO-
DUCTIONS.

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L'EXTINCTEUR is a very small and very elegant orna-
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THAN HALF A TON OF WATER in a cmipound,
y, but which the first comer
ilsnlatiresLuEpSSwitth a life
turning a tap projects
an infinitely small je, with immense force on the beat of
flame and instantly extinguishes it.
The Licensee will be happy to forward (post paid) details
of severe tests to which this admirable invention has been
ee, or
npdrboypea merelyrt
submitted, and of its approval and adoption by gentlemen
distinguished in science, social position, and commerce.

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
ITHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
( PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT
Exnin ,ONS of 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of
fwo Htl idred Meth's' Gentlemen to be the most effective
invention in :he curative treatment of HERNIA. •The use
of a ste.d spring, so o:ten hurtful in its effects, is here
avoided—a soft b 'adage ► ein4 worn round the body, while
the requisite resisting polder 14 supplied by the Moo-Main
Pad and Patent Levrr, fitting* with so much ease and clo3e-
ness that it cannot be detected, and may be V: orn during
sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and tha trues,
which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circum-
ference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to
the manufacturer,

Mr. WHITE. i2B, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, Vs., 218., 268 6d., and 31s. ad Postage, Is.
A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 625. ad. Postage, is. Bd.
An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. ad. Pcstage, is. rd.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
office, Piccadilly.
NEW PATENT

ELASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE.CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of
sprains, &c. They are
inexpensive, and are drawn on
dtheLegs,
like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 78. 6d., 10s., and 168.
porous,Weakn Weakness
sght and
in Swelling of
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each. Postage, 6d.

JOHN *SITE, Musufaaturer, 228, TiooadiEM

The report, an abstract of which has appeared in
The Sun, was taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, said that the net profits arising to the com-
pany, under the agreement, were still considerably
below the amount requisite to pay the total obliga-
tions of the company, still the net receipts showed
considerable progress, and there appeared to be a
balance on the half-year beyond the amount pay-
able for interest on debentures, which was so far
satisfactory. He was afraid the holders of prefer-
' ence shares would suffer considerable disappoint-
ment from not receiving anything for their outlay.
They had, however, for the first time, arrived-at a
point that any further progress must leave some-
thing for the preference shares, and afford them some
return. In reference to the payment of interest on
the several classes of bonds for the past half-year,
there was a small surplus which might, if available,
be applied towards arrears on the preference shares,
but for the year ending the 30th June last it would
be found the average profits fell short of the amount
required to pay the interest on the bonds ; they were
£37,000, while the amount required to pay the in-
terest of those bonds was about £39,000, so that,
taking the year, there was no surplus to deal with,
but a small debit to provide for after paying the in-
terest on the several mortgages an coupon bonds.
'The fixed burdens of the company before anything
could go to the ordinary shareholders amounted to
£68,400 a year, or £34,200 for the half-year. The
first, second, and third bonds would require £40,000
per annum, in addition to which the capitalised cou-
pons for two years' arrears of interest would require
£4,250 per annum. The interest on the first pref erence
shares would amount to £10,500, and on the second
preference shares to £13,650, making £68,400 per
annum in round numbers, but to that sum the interest
on the arrears (£80,000) due on preference shares
which the directors proposed to capitalise would add
£4,200, making the full amount of interest and pre-
ference charges £72,600 per annum, or £36,300 per
half-year, before the ordinary shares could get any-
thing. The present net income of the company
averaged about £50,000 a year, and looking to the
progress they had already made, he thought they
might look forward to a time when they should be
able to meet the whole of those preference charges,
and have a surplus. The traffic on the Grand Trunk
of Canada had increased year after year, and as the
Buffalo Company participated in a certain percent-
age of the net-receipts of the joint concern, there
would be something for the ordinary stock of the
company sooner or later. The abrogation of the
Reciprocity Treaty with the United States had dis-
turbed the course of trade in Canada ; they had
been shut out of certain American markets, and they
would have to find new outlets for their traffic to
compensate them for the loss of the American .
mar-
kets. It was believed that an intercolonial traffic
would arise, and that the confederation of the British
provinces would be accelerated by the cessation of
that treaty. Owing to the continuance of wet wea-
ther in July and during the harvest time in Canada,
the crops were in such a condition that the railway
traffic might suffer to some extent, but it was sup-
posed that the loss of traffic in some places would
be fully compensated by new trafficiiu other places.
The long negotiation with the Grand Trunk of
Canada Company
for the settlement and apportion-
ment of certain charges was nearly concluded, so
that in future the accountants would be enabled to

This morning the quarterly meeting of the Man-
' &ester Chamber of Commerce took place here, when
- an interesting conversation took place relative to a
proposed alteration in the terms of payment for cot-
' ton, with a view to remedying' certain evils which
had crept into the trade as conducted for some time
past.
Mr. M. Ross, the President, said that an inter-
view had taken place between sub-committees of
the American Chamber of Commerce at Liverpool,
- the East India and China Association of Liverpool,
the Cottonspinners' Association at Manchester, and
of this Chamber, in reference to an alteration of the
terms of payment for cotton. The usual course in
buying cotton at Liverpool was for cash in ten
days, or a banker's bill at three months. These
bankers' bills had been sent to Liverpool when the
rates of interest had advanced above 5 per cent.,
though they were only chargeable by the practice of
trade at 5 per cent. During the recent panic parties
selling cotton refused to receive these bills except at
the current price, and thus in the same market on the
same day prices varied as much as id. to id. per lb.,
those having cash being able to buy so much cheaper.
It was felt that some arrangement should be made
by which prices would not fluctuate with the rate
of discount. A meeting of the representatives of the
different bodies he had named accordingly took place
on the 18th inst., when the matter was discussed in
all its bearings. The Liverpool people wished teem! -
vert all payments into cash payments. They said
cotton was the only colonial produce, imported that
was not paid for in cash, and they wished to place
cotton on the same footing as coffee, tea, sugar, and
other things. It was,however, represented that that
would be a direct interference with the customary
mode of dealing in the cotton trade, and, after a
long conversation, the following terms were agreed
to :—" That a discount of 1 per cent. be deducted
for cash, in ten days, buyers having the option of
paying in approved bankers' bills not exceeding three
months, such bills tobe received at theßank of Eng-
land rate of the date tender." He had since received
communications from the American Chamber of
Commerce and the East India and China Associa-
tion at Liverpool ratifying on their part the agree-
ment which their representatives had made. (Hear.)
Mr. FERGUSSON suggested that the terms of pay-
ment for yarn in the Manchester market should
also be considered. The practice in Manchester had
been consequent upon the practice which had ob-
tained in Liverpool, to accept these bankers' bills
taking the rate of interest at i per cent., although
it might have been absolutely as high as 10 per cent.
If the arrangement described by the President was
to be carried out, it was onlyfair the spinner should
receive payment on similar terms. (Hear.)
Mr. W. TURNER, Mayor of Salford, endorsed the
sentiments of Mr. Fergusson. Under the new ar-
rangement the cotton broker and the manufacturer
would be safe,, and nearly all the risk would fall
upon the spinner. If they could shorten the pre-
sent terms of payment, which was cash in a month,
to cash in 15 days, it would be some advantage.
The PRESIDENT observed that in the home trade
those bills were not recognised at all. They were
only used in the foreign trade. He thought the
moment was not opportune to reduce the present
term until it could be ascertained whether the whole
trade, including buyers and sellers, would be unani-
mous in agreeing to the .change.
Mr. DORRINGTON (of Fraser and Co., merchants)
agreed with Mr. Fergusson that a similar alteration
should take place in the yarn trade. He thought
they had come to a valuable conclusion between
spinners and sellers of cotton in placing cash and
bills on a fair relative footing, because it would tend
to destroy that spirit of speculation which had been
so very injurious to the interests of Manchester.
He believed that a great manybills had been
had
not for legitimate purposes, but thatdivltag by
made use of their credit to their aht, rutieerseated
however,
making those payments.
it would be premature to discussHetitreagquestion of an
alteration in the terms at
hadbeen discussed at
present existing in the
yarn trade, until the miattec
harnber, at which the
a special meeting of the
whole body of buyers and
sellers of yarn could be
present. He suggested that a special meeting should
be called for that purpose.
Mr.
cotton spinner, thought the first
step haidinuoG:l‘bleAes: Ni
taken to remedy a grievance which
rested Upon the cotton spinners and sellers of
-twist
and cloths.
The spinner and manufacturer had
been comparatively indifferent about receiving pay-
ment in cash for bills, because it had been the rule
to receive bankers billsin payment for cotton at Liver-
pool, and therefore the spinner had been enabled to
take a bill he had received at Manchester to Liverpool
next day and pay for his cotton with it, so that he
had not suffered, whatever might be the rate of dis-
count. But under the new arrangement if he took
a bill to Liverpool which he had received in Man-
chester, at 5 per cent. when the Bank rate was at
10 per cent., he would suffer a loss of 5 per cent
No spinner henceforward, however, would be so
foolish as to do anything of the kind. He thought
spinners would be very much to blame for the griev-
ance under which their trade suffered in this respect
if it were not remedied. They had been divided by
petty jealousies, while the Liverpool merchants had ,

four previous Chambers find themselves excluded
from those that have superseded them, for out of
the 177 members of the second Chamber already
returned, 92 were members of the old Diet, of
whom 36 sat for town, and 56 for rural consti-
tuencies, while the agricultural interest will con-
tinue to be well represented, as it is estimated that
nearly two-thirds of the members of the Lower
House will be more or less connected with the
country, and not more than one-third with the
cities and towns throughout the kingdom ; and as
an opinion is very prevalent that agriculture is ono
of the main stays of Swedish prosperity, that, it is
thought, will be the better promoted the more
largely that interest is represented in the national
Legislature. It should, however, be remarked that
although the country gentlemen and peasants
reckon on having a pre.dominating influence in the
new Parliament, there are many members whose
information on various subjects will be most useful,
among whom may be reckoned six clergymen,
twelve professors and teachers, one physician, one
apothecary, seven soldiers, and five, at least, who
have already acquired a name and fame in the
walks of literature and science.
The season is so far advanced that visitors from
more southern climes think it is time to turn their
steps homewards. The stay of the Prince and
Princess Frederick of the Netherlands,. with the;r
daughter the Queen of Sweden, has therefore al-
ready been brought to a close. Their royalbyher
K high-
nesses were accompanied on their departure
Cstawde, went
swhitihs
Majesty as far as Laxa, but the
them to the port of embarkation
at
same time a few
Majesty intended to enjoy at the
days sport at Charlottenluud the property of
Count Arvid Posse,
where there is abundance of
game ; and it may
that, Provisional Governmentar strange that, even for
such an absence as
that no delay may at any time
of the many and important
has to be appointed,
present or absent, the
functions
thhoe dischargeefthreorytahl
tey ing
Government are not idle, for they do not know in
the present circumstances of the continent of
Europe, where "might alone seems to give right,"
bow 50011 they may be required to feel assured that
the country is in a proper state of defenceoanrmals;l
sides. For this purpose they are taking means to
ascertain that there is not only sufficiency of
but that all are of the most approved and efficient
description. The military authorities have also been
instructed to take care that there are not only
proper weapons, but that no pains are spared to .
have them placed in right hands, and that, without
imposing any extraordinary hardships on the people,
the Bavarung and Landstarm are so well drilled
and informed as to their duties that every man
should know his post, and the best means to be
taken to defend it. One would indeed scarcely sup-
pose that the present are peaceful times in this coun-
try, so general is the display of military organisa-
tion ; but the King and the Government alike act
on the sound and well-known principle that there
is no way so effectual in preserving peace as in
being prepared far war.
Now that the great Scandinavian exhibition has
been closed;* the universal desire here is that it
should be kept in remembrance by some suitable and
useful memorial, for which purpose there is a general
wish that the fountain of Malin, which was one of its
greatest ornaments, should be permanently erected
on the site. A subscription has accordingly been set
on foot to provide the requisite funds, and it issatis-
factory to know that it bids fair to realise the
amount wanted ; but other means are likewise re-
sorted to, among which is a monster concert in the
exhibition building, at which there is to be a choir
of 1,000 voices, includingthe studentsfrom Upsala,
who have volunteered their services on the occasion,
and, as no pains have been spared to render it suc-
cessful, little doubt is entertained as to the result.