The Sun.
London, England, 1866-05-05 00:00:00

N°. 23,053.

LADY EMILY PONSONBY'S NEW NOVEL.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
SIR OWEN F AIRFAX.
By the LADY EMILY PONSONBY.

Author of "The Discipline of Life," &c.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlb3rough-street.

MR. STRETTON'S NEW WORK.
New ready, in.l vol., with Illustrations, 155.,
SPU R T AND SPORTSMEN.
By CHARLES STRETTON, Esq.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

MR. SAUNDERS' NEW NOVEL.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
BOUND TO THE WHEEL.
By JOHN SAUNDERS.

Author of "Abel Drake's Wife," &e.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

New Fdition, now ready, price Is.,
HOW TO GET FAN ; or, Leanness, its Causes
and Cure.
By JOHN HARVEY, M.D., F.A.S., L.S.A.,
By the slime Author, price 2s. 6d. ; Cheap Edition. Is.
THE RENEWING OF LIFE. A Practical Guide for Self-
Preservation. embracing- the Treatment of .‘ ervousness.
Indigestion, and various Affections of the Nervous System.
London : Dean and Son, 65, Ludgate-hill, E.C.

ROBERT COCKS and CO.'s NEW MUSIC.—
PENNY READINGS.—GOD BLESS THE PRINCE
OF WALES, for four male voices ; ditto for soprano, alto,
tenor, and bass, 2d. each. The Song, 3s. W. Hill's Vond
Trios for equal voices, 25 books, 2d. each; 101 rounds, canons,
&c., 18 books, 2d. each.

EVER THINE. This, the most lovely song of the day,
is sung with unbounded enthusiasm throughout Germany ;
and in this country it always excites a furore in co sequence
of Madame Rudersdorff s glorious singing. Music by FRANZ
AnT. Price 2s. 6d., free for 9 stamps.

MISS S. J. REILLY.—NEW SONGS.—"Torfrida's Mes-
sage," 2e. 61; "Ililda's Answer," 2s. 6d ; " The Lost
Token," 3s. ; " The Return in spring," 3s. ' • " Spirit of
Dreams," "Chile my Lady Sleepeth," 2s. 6d. Free by post
for half price, with an extra stamp each.
London : Robert Cocks and Co.. New Burlington-street, W.

BURGLARS DEFIED.—JOHN TANN begs
to invite the public to inspect his new PATENT FIRE
and WEDGE-RESISTING SAFES and IRON DOORS.
which can be seen at his Patent Lock and Safe Warehouse,
30, wathrook, London.

THE SUN, LONDON SAIURDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1806.

FRENCH GALLERY, 120, PALL-MALL.-
The fHIRTEKNTH ANNUAL EXHIBITION et
PICTURES, the Contributions cf Artists of the French and
Flrna'sh Schools, will OPEN on ➢iONDAY next.

Admission, le. Catalogue, 6d.

INTERNATIONAL HORTICULTURAL
EXHIBITION, May 22, Tickets LI is ; May 23, 10s. ;
ay 24, 2s. 6d.; May 25, Is. Tickets may be obtained of the
princ'pal 1 ondon Nurserymen, and of the usual London
Agents.

HELIO-SCENE.—This very Handsome SUN-
BLIND is more effectual in keeping out the sun than
any other. for the otvious reason that the hoods overlap each
other, so as to place a double layer of cloth between the sun
and window glass ; also the wide, open space between each
hood insures copious ventilation and the great advantage of
a clear view.—R. LOWTHER and CO., 31, Regent-street,
near Piccadilly. All kinds of blinds made and repaired.

POPULAR DWELLINGS in POPULOUS
and SUBURBAN IiISTRICTS.

31-: R. W. S. WOODIN'S BADEN-BADEN
_IL and UP Iv TEM AIR, an entirely New Entert dn-
ment. EVERY EVENING, at Eight (except Saturday);
Saturday Mornings at Three. POLYGRAPHIC HALL,
king William-street, Charing-cross
Luxurious sofa rails, Es ; balcony stalls, 35.; area, 25.;
amphitheatre, 18.—A plan of stalls may be seen and seats
secured at the Hall from Eleven to Five.

CHRISTY MINSTRELS,
ST. JAMES'S HALL.

EVERT EV ENING at Eight. WEDNESDAYS and
SATURDAYS, at Three and Eight,—The original and veri-
tably legimate CHRIsTY MINSTRELS. First Season in
London these five years. The only company in existence
which possesses a legal claim to the title, from the fact of its
being- the only one which retains all the marked specialities
and -distinguished favourites who originally gained the re-
putation of the company first in the United States, and sub-
sequently in this country, in 1857: No other company as-
suming the title of Christy Minstrels possesses a single in-
dividual member of the least distinction who belonged to the-
original troupe. The Christys (after an absence of five years)
return to London with their band strengthened and im-
proved in every respect. their entertainment being unani-
mously pronounced b,r the metropolitan press to be the most
sparkling in London.
Prices of Admission—Yew and luxurious fauteuils, 55.;
stalls, 3a. • area. 25.; gallery, ls. ; juveniles, under twelve,
half price 'to stalls and arel only. Fauteuils and stalls may
be secured at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-
street; or at Mr. Austin's, 28, Piccadilly. —Manager, Mr.
Frederick Burgess.

J. AND D. NICOLL,
• Tailors to the Queen, Royal Family, and the
Courts of Europe, 114, 116, 118, 120, REGENT-STREET,
and 22, CORNHILL, LONDON; 50, BOLD-STREET,
LIVERPOOL; and 10, MOSLEY-STREET, MAN-
CHESTER.

SPRING FASHIONS, for Gentlemen's Overcoats,
Morning Coats, Trousers, and Vests.

Mr. JAMES MORTIMER invites attention to his patented
Plans for Improved Separate Dwellings for all classes, Which
embrace an increase of street paving for each storey, public
staircases, promenades, gardens, schools, reading, lecture,
dining, and warcrooms, baths, &c. ; also workshops, with or
without steam pow( r, and perfect separation of tenants, to
realise upwards of 12 per cent.—Further information of Mr.
J. Mortimer, s', Queen's-road, Daiston, N.E. ; or of Mr. J.
Dunbar, 4, Westminster-chambers, Victoria-street, West-
minster, S.W.

ATADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
iT BAKER-STREET, EASTER HOLIDAYS.

NEW ADDITIONS.-:-Several life:size Portrait Models
of the most distinguished Personages of the day (including
those of tine late LORD PALMERSTON and GUS-
TAVUS V. BROOKE) have been added since the last
Holidays; and in the Chamber of Horrors are Effigies,
taken from life. of SOUTHEY alias FORWOOD, and the
notorious CHARLOTTE WINS OR.

Open from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m.
Admittance, 18. ; children, under ten, half price ; Extra
Booms, 6d.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Great_ Windmill-street,
Piccadilly.
Selections from ail the favourite Operas will be performed
by the celebrated ARGYLL BAND every Evening.
Chef d'Orchestra, Signor L. CURTI.
M. LEVY, the Great Cornet Player, at Nine, Ten, and
Eleven o'clock.
Dooks cpen at half-past Eight o'clock.
Admission, Is.

CHOCOLATE.-MENIER'S FRENCH.

STARCH MANI7FACTIMERS
TO H. R. H. THE PRINCESS OP WALES.
GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH,
Used In the Royal Laundry,

AND AWARDED THE PRIZE MEDAL. 1882.
Bold by all Grocers, Chandlers, &c. &c.

PHILLIPS AND COMPANY'S TEAS ARE
BEST AND CHEAPEST.
STRONG to FINE BLACK TEA, Is. 6d., 25., 2s. 6d., 35.,
35. 4d.
Most Delicious Black Tea is Pow only 3s. 6d. re* pound.
Pure, Rich. Rare, ,:hoice Coffee, is. 4d., Is. 6d, ls. Bd.
PHILLIPS and CO. TEA ItERCRANTB,
8, King William-fitreet, City, London, E.C.
A price current tree. Sugars at market prices.
PHILLIPS and CO. send all goods Carriage Free within
eight miles of o. 8, King William-street, 40s. worth Car-
riage Free .o rny taiiway Station or Market Town in Eng-
land. Phlll:ps and Co. have no Agents, nor auy connection
with any house in Worcester or Swansea.

TAE BEST REMEDY FOE INDIGE3TION.
NORTON'S CAMOMILE PILLS are confi-
dently recommender; as a simple but certain Remedy
for Indigestion, which i • the cause of nearly all the diseases
to which we are subject, being a rr edicine so uniformly grate-
ful and beneficial, that it is w.th justice called the "Natural
Strengthener of the human Stomach." "Norton's Pills"
act as a powerful tonic and gentle aperient; are mild in thel-
Operation, safe under t.ny circumstances, and thousands of
persons can now bear testimony to the benefits to be derived
from their use, as they have been a never-failing Family
Friend for upwards of 20 years.
Sold in bottles at le. lid., 2s. 9d., and lie. each, in every
town in the kingdom.
CAUTION.

Be sure and ask for "NORTON'S PILLS," and do not be
persuaded to purchase any of the various imitations which
have sprung up in consequence of the success of NORTON'S
CAMOMILE PILLS.

CHOCOLAT-MENIER, for Breakfast,

CTIOCOLAT-MENIER is pure, wholesome, and
delicious.

MENIER'S FRENCH CHOCOLATE,
Warehouse, 23, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden.
Sold everywhere.

QEASIDE, Tourists', or Rifle TELESCOPE,
/0 equal to the " Lord Bury," will show a flag-staff 2)
mi!es, a church clock 10 miles, or hits on a target over a toile,
in clear weather. With sling, £2 1, LAWLhY, ;8,
Far, inedm-street, E.C.

BOYS' NEGLIGE, and other suits, HIGHLAND
DRESS, KNICKERBOCKERS, &e.

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LADIES' RIDING HABITS, JACKETS, OVER-
COATS, CLOAKS, &c.

H. J. and D. NICOLL'S QUINEA WATERPROOF
TWEED COATS for Gentlemen, and CLOAKS for
Ladies, are patronised by Travellers all over the world.

H. J. and D. NICOLL,.II4, 116, 118, 120, Regent-
street; 22, Cornhill, London ; 10, Mosley-street, Man-
chester ; and 50, -Bold-street, Liverpool.

JOHN GOSH ELL and CO.'S CHERRY
TOO 111 PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness. protects the
enamel from decay. and imparts a pleasant fragrance to
the breath. Price Is. 6d.—Red Bull Wharf, 93, Upper
Thames-street. London.

QECOND-HAND THEODOLITES (by
Troughton and Simms), Levels, Staffs, Sextants, Illathe-
mateal Cases, Pentagraphs, &e.—W. LA WLEY. 78, Far-
rtegoon street. Illustrated Catalogue, nearly 100 pages,
three s' amps.

JDEFRIES and SONS beg to call the special
• attention of Merchants and the Trade to their
NEW PATENT ASTRA BURNER,
With Circular Wick,
which for simplicity of construction, great brilliancy of light,
perfect combustion. and its entire freedom from heat, sur-
passes everything that has yet been introduced.

SECOND-HAND MICROSCOPES, Object
Glasses, Objects, by Ross, Smith and Beck, Ship and
Pocket Chronometers, Watches, —W. LAWL r..Y. 7s, Far-
ringdon-street. Illustrated Catalogue, nearly 100 paves,
three stamps.

SECOND-HAND OPERA and RACE
GLASSES by Voigtlander, Stereoscopes, Hydrometers.
Electrical Apparatus, Magnesium Lamps, &c.— W. LAW-
LEV, 78, Farrim:don-street. Illustrated Catalogue, nearly
1(0 pages, three stamps.

ASTRA LAMPS can be obtained from the
METROPOLITAN LIGHT COMPANY, 417, Strand,
and from all Ironmongers and Lamp Warehouses in Town
and Country , and the Patentee, 16 and 17, Commercial-
street, WhitechapeL

ASTRA, PETROLEUM, and KEROSINE
LAMPS on SHOW. (New Designs.)

HE INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAM
COMPANY.
OFFICES-2, TELEGRAPH-STREET,
Moorgate-streot, City.

ASTRA (Patent) LAMP, for MINERAL
OIL.

AS TR A LAM P.—Five Hundred NEW
PATTERNS for the Season now on show.

TABLE GLASS, ENGRAVED AND CUT.
T DEFRIES and SONS,
ti• 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

vIITHAT DO THE WILD WAVES SAY
YY NOW?—That the FIERY CROSS has arrived.
bringing some magnificent KA ISOW CONGOUS of delicious
flavour, and which may now be had, at a mere commission on
the import price, of the EAST INDIA TEA CO Al PAN Y,
No. 5, Great St. Helea's Churchyard, Bishopsgate-street.

TAVERN AND HOTEL GLASS.
Newest Patterns, Correct Measure.
DEFR.IES and SON S,
• 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

ALEXANDRA DINNER SERVICES,
For 12 Persons, Xi 18s. 6d.
BREARF &ST and TEA SERVICES
in great variety, £1 ls.
DEFRIES and SONS,
• 16 and 17. COMMERCIAL-bTREET.

GUILDHALL BANQUET OF THE INTER-
. NATIONAL HORTICULTUAL EXHIBITION,
The Committee have to announce that Messrs. RING and
BRYMER, having made plans of the Hall, find they will
only be able to place,, in comfort, 580 guests. The Com-
mittee had been led to hope that 650 would have been ac-
commodated, and they think it, therefore, only proper to
give notice that the subscription list must close on the
above number being reached. Above 450 seats are already
required.
SUBSCRIBERS OF TEN GUINEAS to the Interna-
tional Horticultural Meeting receive One Banquet Ticket;
One Personal Ticket, admitting all Four Days of the
Show; Seven Guinea Tickets, admitting First Day; and
Two Cards, admitting Three each to the Conversazione.

CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS,
New designs, for the Drawing-room, either !or Gas or Candle.
T DEFRIES and SONS,
t., • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

CRYSTAL CHANDELIERS,
In the Grecian and Venetian Designs.
JDEFRIES and SONS,
• 16 and 17, CO AIMERCIAL-STREET.

PHEASANT REARING for 1866.— JAMES
CHAMBERLIN'S (opposite Corn Exchange, Nor-
wich) is the only depot in the world for proper FOOD for
PHEASANT FEEDING. Between 200 and 300 testimonials
of last year's success. Treatise on Hatchim, and Rearing,
with other valuable hin s, posted free on application. Land-
owners, pheasant i care) s. and gamekeepers can raise any
number of birds by using his food. The aristocracy of the
kingdom constantly use L. Gentlemen requiring game-
keepers, or gamekeepPes requiring situations, are requested
to apply to Mr. Jame, Chamberlin, wine merchant and phea-
sant food dealer, opposite Corn Exchange, Norwich.

• BRONZED AND ORMOLU CHANDELIERS,
New designs, for the Dining-room.
JDEFRIES and SONS,
. 18 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

CRYSTAL LAMPS AND WALL LIGHTS
(Registered) for India.
T DEFRIES and SONS,
tl • 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

CLUB, MESS, AND FURNISHING ORDERS
for the above Goods promptly executed.
Works -LONDON and BIRMINGHAM.
T DEFRIES and SONS,
• 16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET.

DEFRIES and SONS
J• Supply Merchants with Pattern Boots Free.

TEETH.--:11r. DAY (for many years principal
assistant to Mr. Eskell, surgeon-dentist, of 8, Gros-
venor-street, w nn:.}- be consulted on all cases of Dental de-
fect or deficiency. Ile har made srrangements for ;he use of
Mr. Eskell's Patents, by •Anch sai.ans exquisitely enamelled.
ARTIFICIAL TELT 11 oi she utmost durabili•y ere con-
structed (in a few hou 's when necessary), and are wo n upon
tender sums or roots of teeth o; ;-by nervous persons or any
length of time, without pain vn,,leasantness, o eiscomtot t.
The invention applied to t, e;h of ordinary of inferior con-
struction. Painful teeth or diseased stumps extracted with-
out pain. No chloroform and perfectly safe. 0 'rEo-
PLASTIC ENAMEL, the exact colour of the natural teeth,
used in all cases of stopping. Discolou •ed :eeth restored,
loose teeth fastened and all operations on the most approved
principles. Terms strictly moderate. Consultations free.
291, REGENT-STREET (3 doors from the Polytechnic).

xTOTHING IMP 0 SSIBLE.—The greatest and
mostusefulinvention of the day, AQUA AMA RE LL A .
Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO.' Red Bull Wharf, 93,
Upper Thames-street, Perfumers to her Majesty, respect-
fully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid, which
gradually restores too human hair to its pristine hue—no
matter at what age. The Agua Atnarella has none of the
properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
system, and when the hair is once restored one application
per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per
bottle, or in half bottles. 10s. 63. Testimonials from artistes
of the highest order, and from Individuals of undoubted re-
spectability, may be seen on application. Messrs. John
Gosnell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal
Highness the Princes.' of Wales.

SUBSCRIPTION TESTIMONIAL
TO
GEORGE CRIIIKSIIANK.
PRESIDENT.
JOHN RUSKIN, Esq., M,A.
VICE-PRESIDENT.
Sir W. C. TREVELYAN, Bart.
TREASURER.
Louis Huth, Esq,
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, E.C.

" Before the century was actually in Its teens, we believe
that George Cruiashank was amusing the public. Is there
no way in which the country could acknowledge the long
services and brave career of such a friend and benefactor ?"
THACKERAY.

j DEFRIES and SONS'
J TEMPORARY SHOW ROOMS.
16 and 17, COMMERCIAL-STREET, WHITEC [LAPEL,
Five Minutes' walk from the Late Establishment,
147. HOUNDSDITCH.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to the 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
than 455 poor, friendless, young females were rejected from
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in five years.
The new home the Committee wish to form would 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 by the Secretary,
51r. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen •street. Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Cr., Lombard-street.

The public in general is invited to co-operate in this move-
ment. Subscriptions receivable as above, or by the under-
signed as honorary secretary,
CHARLES A. HOWELL.

THE CREDIT FONCIER and MOBTTJER
of ENGLAND (Limited).
Capital Subscribed, Four Millions, in 00,000 Shares of
£2O each.
Capital paid up, One Million.
General Reserve Fund, £500,000.
Dividend Reserve Fund, £150,000.

Number of Shareholders, 4,363.

CTORS.
;s Stuart Wortley, Governor,
(StDeputy-Governors.
ories E. Newbon, Esq.
Henry Pownall, Esq., J.P.
Joseph Mackrill Smith, Esq.
Edward Warner, Esq., M.P
James White, Esq., M.P.

DIRE(
The Right Honourable Jame.
James Levick, Esq.
James Nugent Daniell, Es
James Childs, Esq.
Alexander Dunbar, Esq.
Charles Ellis, Esq,
Adolphe Hakim, Esq.
Wm. Harrison, Esq.
Richard Stuart Lane, Esq.
Albert Grant, Esq., M. ~ Managing Director.
BANKERS.
• The Agra and Masterman's Bank (Limited).
The National Bank.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths.
The National Bank of Scotland.
SECRETARY.
Alfred Lowe, Esq.
Offices-17 and 18, Cornhill, B.C.

DEPOSITS.
DEPOSIT CERTIFICATES,
With Quarterly Interest Warrants attached,
Issued by

THE CREDIT FONCIER and MOBILTER
of ENGLAND (Limited),

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That on and after Ist
May next, until further notice, Money will be received on
Deposit, for which Deposit Certificates with Interest
Warrants attached, payable quarterly, will be issued for
the following periods, at the following fixed rates for such
periods, viz.:—
For 1 year 7_ per cent.

For 2 years
For 3 years
The distinctiye features of these Deposit Certificates are-
1. The perfect security afforded to Depositors by the
large Subscribed and Paid-up Capital.
2. The large Reserve Funds.
3. The convenience of the Quarterly Interest Warrants,
which can be detached and paid in through any
Banker.
Forms of Application can be obtained of the Secretary,
to whom all communications must be addressed.

By order of the Court,
ALFRED LOWE, Secretary.
17 and 18, Cornhill, London,
27th April, 1866.

SECOND-HAND FIRE-PROOF SAFES and
IRON DOORS.
Call and inspect the Largest Assortment in the World, by
Miner, Starr, Leadbeater, Mordan, Thos. Perry and Son, and
Geo. Price, at half the cost of new. Sketches and prices free.
GRIFFITHS, Cannon-street, West.

DO you wish to SING, or have a beautiful and
powerful VOICE? If so, the " REGISTERED
EUPHONIC NOTES " are truly wonderful in their action,
and are unanimously pronounced the "Marvel of Science."
They are invaluatle to all and are guaranteed as a protective
agent in all weathers. No Singer or Speak r should be
without them. (See opinion of the press and testimonials.)
The Euphonic Note, post free 14 stamps, in boxes 26 stamps,
direct from the sole inventor, SEAGRAVI4.I ALGEN, 1,
Dorcas-terrace, Hammersmith-road, London, W.

TEETII AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.-
The fear of pain and dread of ope-ation inherent to all
deb r very many to whom ARTIFICIAL TELTII are of
vital importance from availing themselves of the services of
a dentist. In a practice founded in 1630, and now ex ending
over greater part of the kingdom an experience unequalled
has been obtained, enabling us to offer even the most sensi-
tive sufferer a system of dentistry perfect in its absolute
freedom from pain. N specialitd re. taining, only to our prac-
tice, and for which her Majesty has granted he, royal litters
patent. This system embraces the non-interference with all
stumps, however decayed, the support.ng instead et extrac-
tion or loose teeth until tiley become firm and useful in mas-
tication, and the utter absence of all and every operation, so
that the most .tervous person can be supplied without fear of
pain or inconvenience. These teeth are cheaper, more dur-
able, natural, and comfortable than any yet produced.
Consultation free. Teeth from 55. Sets from 5 to 25 gs.,
warranted.
For the efficacy, utility, and success of this system, vide
" Lancet."
Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and SONS,
30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand,
Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station.
Daily attendance at 15, Whitefriargate, Hull; 10, Norfolk-
street, Sheffield; 4, East-parade, Leeds ; 14, St. Nicholas-
street, Scarbro' ; and 33, Coney-street, York.
Established 1830. No connection with any one of the same
name.

1858 that he attained his flag rank, and in the fol-
lowing year Lord Palmerston appointed him to the
office which he has filled so well and which he has
just resigned—the Secretaryship of the Admiralty.
The tastes and proclivities of a true sailor may
have had a good deal to do with the resignation of
office by one so well qualified to fill it with equal
credit to himself and benefit to the country. Not-
withstanding the active exercise of a man's best
energies called forth in the debates in the House of
Commons—in which Lord Clarence was one of the
best because most practical and intelligible speakers
—a man bred on the quarter-deck, and in the
prime of life, may often, in the harassing details of
business, sigh for the open sea and the active duties
of his profession. The command in the Mediter-
ranean will, with a man of Lord Clarence's cast of
mind, afford at once an invigorating relaxation—if
the two words may be combined—from the seden-
tary and monotonous details of official business, and
also a further training and preparation for the
public service in Parliament at a future time. Since
Lord Clarence was in the Baltic a great revolution
has been carried out in naval architecture and in
naval ordnance—a revolution in which he has him-
self bad to play the part of an active agent. From
time immemorial until after the period when he
served in the Crimean war the age of wood had
continued. All our great sea fights, from the time
of the Armada to Navarino and the Crimea, had
been fought with wooden ships, armed with guns of
whiCh the " old" 68-pounder—at the time Lord
Clarence last saw active service considered a new
invention—was the heaviest. We have now sub-
stituted vessels covered with iron half a foot thick—
in the case of the turrets a foot thick—for those
irreverently
designate first-rates" which we should now _
designate as " tubs ;" while rifled 1101
service,
0 ters
are looked upon as far too light for efficientbdsides
and nothing short of 300-pounders for broadsides
and 600-pounders for turrets will meet our ideas
as to the requirements of naval artillery. It

3, York-villas, Brixton, S.

PROVIDENCE ROWS NIGHT REFUGE,
FO
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.G.
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, are given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. The Manager, &c.,
receives 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, refused admittance, 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 £l,OOO more will be required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, 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, and will be
gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT D.D., No. 22,
Finsbury-circus

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has de-
r reckonspnro et i aat edi
the pennynlouroless,
ss handat3
000,000 ; and if the contribu-
tors were all seized with a sudden and simultaneous
wish to have their money out, we should have to
give them that immense pm over and above the
security in our hands. This consideration we
have put first, because it lies naturally in the
foreground of this question, and because it was
quite enough to direct attention to the springs-
banks deposit, anditsmanagement. It has not, how-
ever, any direct or necessary bearing on the scheme
before us, which would have quite as much to say
for itself if we had gained £3,000,000 by the savings
banks instead of suffering that loss. The only im-
portant feature in the case is that we can deal with
that deposit of £24,000,000 as we like; whereas we
cannot, by any argument or method, induce the
general body of creditors to accept terminable in
lieu of their perpetual annuities. Volumes have been
written in praise of terminable annuities, but people
will not buy them. Mr. Gladstone has tried it on
with the open money-market, and found it a failure.
At least £10,000,000 out of 80 times that sum is all
he has been able to reduce from eternity to time.
But all the obligation we are under to the trustees
of savings banks is to give them their money when
they ask for it, and interest meantime. It matters
not in what form the money exists, or whether there
is any security beyond the solvency of the State.
Every quarter of a year there accrues to the public,
as holders of this deposit, a certain amount of inte-
rest. What is not paid to the trustees has been
hitherto reinvested in the same form as the deposit,
which has thus been continually growing in a form
found to be productive of loss to the public. The
proposition is to arrest this increasing evil, and ex-
tinguish it altogether, by changing th whole capital
sum of £24,000,000 into its equivalent amount of
terminable annuities to expire in 1885. Through
the lapse of some annuities they have just run their
course the annual charge will be light at first ; but
it will increase to near two millions ; and, by
carrying the principle throughout with future in-
vestments and reinvestments, Mr. Gladstone reckons
upon paying off £49,000,000 in the course of these
19 years. The national debt would then be reduced

to £750,000,000 by that process alone, while the
existing system of reduction might be expected to
have done at least as much or more, bringing the
debt down to £700,000,000. There is no doubt that
the State ought not to be the depository of capital
which it can only invest in a form exposed
is one
It ought not to speculate. This one
point for the proposal. The next is the apparently
proved fact that England will not pay its debts ex-
cept by some process which forestalls the annual
surplus and takes it out of the reach of Parliament
—that is, the Parliament of the day and hour. The
intention will not suffice. Indeed, the body sup-
posed to possess these good intentions is itself con-
tinually changing, and is just now threatened with
a greater and more fundamental change than ever
its
elements change in the very materials out of which
elements come. It is threatened by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer himself with a larger proportion
of numbers and opinions from that very class which
on account of its poverty must be supposed the
least capable of accumulation, without even the
means necessary for learning the art of judicious
expenditure. The vice of our finance is that it has
been from hand to mouth, and that it is not the
vice to be corrected by men who usually cannot
even see a week before them. Then there obtrudes
itself a fearful misgiving as to the degree of respon-
sibility which an entirely new constituency may
feel as to the obligation incurred by that which
was tried and found wanting before it. Even
if the new constituency be ready to pay debts,
can it even be expected to do that more zealously,
at a quicker pace, and with greater self-denial,
than that which it takes the place of it? It is not
without a sense of shame that we see so vast a
heritage of evil transmitted to our successors, whom,
at the same time, we cannot hail with unreserved
confidence. It is true that the Diet is reduced
immensely in its proportion to our numbers, to
our wealth, and to our productive power. It is
true that it is now wholly removed from thein-
dustry and the food of the people ; but a debt there
still is, and it is the largest in the world. Yet we
are bequeathing it to a new steward, and one newer
to debt, because newer to wealth and power. So
let us at least set things going. Such is evidently.
Mr. Gladstone's feeling in the matter, and we can-
not deny its reasonableness, though we doubt the
success of the means he proposes.
POST.—The announcement that Vice-Admiral
Lord Clarence Paget, C. 8., accompanied by his
flag lieutenant and his secretary, has been down to
Woolwich and hoisted his flag, preparatory to his
departure to take the command in chief in the
Mediterranean, and that he is previously to be made
a Privy Councillor, reminds us that the Govern-
ment is about to lose one of its most able and
zealous administrators. But though the Govern-
ment may miss his useful assistance at home, he
will by no means be even temporarily lost to his
country, since his talents and activity will only be
transferred from one sphere of the public service to
another. Lord Clarence Paget has served his
country from a very early age ; and his varied and
vigorous powers, which have enabled him to succeed
in the functions of the statesman and administrator,
no less than in the active duties of the profession
to which he was bred, seem to mark him out for
still more important public services than any he has
yet had an opportunity of rendering. He is still
in the prime of intellectual life, and may, in the
natural course of things, look forward to a long
career of active and honourable services, whether
on the deck or at home, of the kind which the
country, whether in peace or • war, is most
likely to need. Our navy is our right arm.'
An Admiral who is thoroughly acquainted by
long practical experience with the machinery
of the Admiralty, the work of administration, the
duties and functions of a member of the Legisla-
ture, is the very man to be in command of a fleet
in active service. On the other hand, an experienced
naval commander bred in the service, and who is
possessed of first-rate business capacity, is the very
man whose presence is of the greatest use at the
Admiralty and in Parliament. Lord Clarence
Paget has, it must be admitted, enjoyed singular
opportunities for cultivating the talents which he has
shown he possesses in so high a degree—for gaining
a practical
.knowledge of his profession afloat, and
of the details of public business on shore. His
father, the late Marquis of Anglesey, was accounted
in his day
.the best cavalry officer in Europe, and
when the Field-Marshal was Master-General of the
Ordnance, Lord Clarence filled the office of Secre-
tary—a post in which, comparatively subordinate
as it was, his attention to his duties and his capacity
for mastering the details of official business were
conspicuous. He had, however, in his early youth
been sent to sea, and had acquired the habits of a
thorough sailor ; and when the war with Russia
broke out he distinguished himself by his activity
and sailor-like qualities when serving with the
Crimean fleet. Nearly 20 years ago he was elected
member of the House of Commons for Sandwich,
and he has continued to represent that place, with
the exception of a brief interval, up to his presentre-
tirement from his seal, as the preliminary to taking
the command in the Mediterranean. It was in

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The New York Tribune, of April 1.14 h, sus ttilt
the present Congress has earned the lasting grati-
tude of the country in the constitution and action
of its Joint Committee on Reconstruction. The
testimony taken by it—and especially that of ex-
rebels--is most essential to an intelligent judgment
upon the problems now fitly engrossing the public
attention. Let us, then, consider thoughtfully the
salient points in the testimony of the lion. A. 11.
Stephens. Mr. Stephens, like General Robert E.
Lee, was not an original secessionist. That is,
while each held to the abstract right of a State to
secede, neither of them regarded secession as re-
quired by antecedent conditions, nor a remedy for
decided
dg
teevilss.eeerYdee,t,
they
yen
castth in
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the majority, and became conspicuo us and po-
tent champions of the disunion cause. And
this they still hold to have been. right. Let us
test this assumption by familiar examples. Mr.
Stephens was long a prominent and influential
member of Congress ; General Lee was educated at
West Point, and bad since been a favoured officer
in the army of the United States. Now, suppose
each of them, when he came to enter the service of
our country, had offered to take the prescribed oath
in this form :—" I solemnly swear that I will sup,
port the Constitution and obey the lawful authori-
ties of the United States until my State shall see
fit to secede from the Union"—does any sane man
believe that this would have been accepted as a sub-
stantial compliance with the requisition ? Would
a youth at West Point, a representative in Con-
gress, be permitted hereafter to take the oath
thus qualified ? Was there ever a time when this
would have been permitted ? Manifestly not. And
if not, how do men of character, like Messrs.
Lee and Stephens, satisfy themselves that they
,are. not foresworn? Again, Mr. Stephens tells us
that the people have attained a very decided convic-
tion that secession is impolitic. They have good
the whirligigconditions,
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wherein totallysup os
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shouldssie n
mightpresent
b e
attempted afresh, without a probab • dity of failure,
what then ? Scan Mr. Stephens's
testimony for the
answer! Once more :—lt is Mr. Steph ' ens s very
decided conviction that the people of Georgia—by
which he means the whites only—those who, he
states, were all but unanimous in sustaining the
rebellion, were entitled, from the moment their re-
bellion was put down by the strong arm, to come
1 right back, without conditions or restrictions, into
Congress, and share fully and equally with the
loyal in the Government of the country. Ile thinks
ing—wherein
it was for that the loyal were fight

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1 might, perhaps, be cited, as an illustration
toof the
strength of Lord Clarence's attachment
profession, that he prefers to take an active com-
mand in such a revolutionised navy. To the
nautical mind has generally been attributed an
almost preternatural degree of fixity ; we are
all familiar with the anecdotes illustrative of the
disgust and contempt with which the thorough old
salts of Nelson's time, however high their rank as
officers, looked upon the new-fangled innovation of
steam with its smoke and dirt. What would they
have said to the combination of steam with the
Monitor principle in a vessel like the Monadnock,
which is just reported to have gone a long sea voy-
age with her hatchways battened down, and her
hull scarce eighteen inches out of the water? But
Lord Clarence has evidently a mind free from this
kind of prejudice ; and the fact of the revolution in
our navy having been
practically wrought out under
his own auspices and supervision, may possibly have
stimulated his curiosity to see, from personal ex-
perience and observation, how the new system works.
He has been four years engaged in preparing the
navy of the future, and he is now going to take an
active part in the practical experiment which is to
test the various principles of construction. It would
be desirable, perhaps, that an admiral of his admi-
nistrative and official experience should have under
his command specimens of the various methods of
construction to which we alluded in a recent article
—the old broadside, and Captain Coles's and Mr.
Reed's new methods of the box and the turret.
Meanwhile, we have only to wish Lordif Cpolassriebnlcee,
God-speed, well assured. that when he comes back
his energies
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they do not agree with him. Nay, he gravely doubts
the legal validity of Acts of Congress passed in the

absence of representatives from the seceded
States. If that be so, it seems to us to follow that

every Act of Congress whereby the power of the
Union was brought to bear against secession was

usurping and void.; so that the seceded States are

now legally out of the Union. Finally, Mr. Ste-
phens thinks slavery is dead only because the for-
mer Slave States have abolished it (which several
of them have not done), and that, while the whites
of the South have all the power in the Union which
they deliberately and defiantly renounced by seces.

sion, the blacks of those States have just such rights
as the whites thereof choose to give them—no less,

and no more. We beg leave to assure the ex-Vice-

President that, on this very important point, his

views are radically diverse to those of the great

party which carried the country triumphantly
through the war against Secession, and that, unless

those whom he calls " the South" are willing to re-
sume their places in Congress on a footing of
equality of power, man for man, between them-
seves and the Union-upholding whites of the
North and West, they will probably wait some

time for readmission. If the Southern blacks are

not to vote (as we trust they are) it must at
least be conceded that those who deny them the
right of suffrage shall not cast votes in their stead,

The Cholera on Board the Virginia Steam-

ship.

On the 18th ult. the National Steam Navigation
Company's steamship Virginia arrived at quarantine
at New York, with 14 cabin and 1,029 steerage
passengers, and with Asiatic cholera on board. The
facts were communicated to Dr. Swinburne, of the
New York Sanitary Committee, immediately on the
arrival of the ship, and the doctor and assistant
health officer Burdett lost no time in boarding the
vessel and making a thorough investigation. It
was ascertained that on the passage 35 steerage
passengers and two of the crew had died, and that
many others lay sick of unmistakable Asiatic cholera,
but not one of the cabin passengers had been
affected. Having completed his examination, Dr.
Swinburne ordered that the Virginia be sent back
to the Lower Bay ; that the hospital ship Falcon
and the steamship Empire City be sent to the in-
fected ship to take off those passengers who had not
been attacked, and that these be kept on board the
hospital ships and there treated until further orders.
There is a theory that certain conditions of the
atmosphere are conducive to cholera, and that theta
are certain zones wherein the pestilence is most
rapidly generated. It is remarked, also, that cholera
was developed on board the Virginia in the lati-
tude where it first appeared on board the steamship
England. " The facts seem to be (says the Nero
York Times) that the steerage passengers of both
vessels, huddled together as a thousand persons must
necessarily be in a vessel of less than 3,000 tons
burden, were attacked when they had been long
enough together to poison the atmosphere of the
ship, and that sothermal lines and cholera zones
had nothing to do in the case. The Virginia
cast
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reported in Liverpool. None of the thousand and
eighty passengers (chiefly German immigrants) with
whom she sailed are known to have come from any
district where cholera has prevailed, nor had any of
the number been ill during their brief tarry of less
than a week in Liverpool. The ship touched at
Queenstown, Ireland, and having there taken
aboard a number of passengers, made out to sea--a
ship of 2,876 tons with more than a thousand human
bdeeienkgss. stowed wedaway in two tiers ier
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as diarrhoea, as the
ship's surgeon supposed, everywhere in the steerage •
and even after the death ho
of head to be a violent form
of diarrhoea, died. There w been suptdhde 1h d
to declare
sudden deaths on the 12th, and others
on the 13th,
convinced the sceptic that the steer-
age e was unwilling
of the steamship was really
fearfulstrides
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a visitation of Asiatic cholera. Front the 12th
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disease
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stalked
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Virginia in perton
through
steerage, and tit hen the ship reached quarantine on
'Wednesday evening, nearly all of the passengers,
except those of the cabin, were more or less
crew had rliirt y
died,
affected. Thirty-five e2passengers
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sick had unmistakable symptoms of Asiatic cholera.
Their countenances were of a dusky colour, their
eyes were sunken, and they were suffering from the
purgings incident to the disease. Their hands and
bodies were shrunk, and they had marked symp-
toms of cholera. Dr. Swinburne ascertained that b
three persons had died while coming up the ay,
and that the bodies of these men had been thrown
overboard and attached by a line to the ship.

COPPER ORE SALE.—At the Swansea ticketing
on Tuesday the following were the averages on the whole
sale:—Average produce, 24 per cent ; price per ton of 21
cwt. dry weight, £l7 15s. 11d. ; price per unit of produce,
14s. 7d. ; standard, £B2 7s. ; standard calculated for 9 per
cent. produce, £94 19s. The ores sold Were as follows:
Cobre, GOO tons*: Moonta, 680; Berehaveii, 420 tons;
Yanganooka, 165 tons ; Gwalla, 132 tons ; Ballycuinmisk,
90 tons ; Vari 76 ; Cappagh, G 8 tons ; Newfoundland, 40
tons; Leghorn, 36 tons; Casali, 26 tons; N.T.M., 16 tons ;
and precipitate,ll twa•l'lle total sale reached £53,131174