The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-12 00:00:00

BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.

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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 irom
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in five years. Here are brief details of a few
of the most recent cases:
F. W., aged 16 fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A. 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents.
M. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, fatten, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
M. A. W., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead.
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,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen .street. Cheapside; or by Messrs
Barclay and Co., Lombard-street

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Hall-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.

Vice-Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, KG

President—llis Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCII. K.G.

This Hospital, founde 1 in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick peter, without
the delay, and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions andl .4aeies
It affords relief to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
destitute sick has for a con.iderable period averaged between
1,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
containing several hundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the reasurer, Edward bias
erman,. Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ;
Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; harries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay, and Co. ; W Warns, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Ca. Berners-street ; I. Barned and
Co., Liverpool; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.
STANFORD SMITH, Secretary.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION,
Baker-street. _

-NEW ADDITIONS.—In the Chamber of Horrors are
lull-length Portrait Models, taken from Life, of CHAR-
LOTTE WINSOR and STEPHEN FORWOOD, alias
ERNEST SOUTHEY.

Open from 11 a.m. till dusk, and from 7 61110 p.m.
Admittance, One Shilling; Children under 10, half-price ;
Extra Rooms, Sixpence.

ARGYLL ROOMS, WINDMILL-STREET,
Piccadilly.
Musical Director and Conductor, M. LUIGI CURTL
Principal Cornet-a-Piston, AL. M'Eleney. Euphonion, the
celebrated Signor Luigi Mosca.
Programme this Evening and during the Week—Grand
Selections, IL TROVATORE and IL LUCIA. Solo vio-
loncello, M. Woman, jun. L'AFRICAIN VALSE and
ECLIPSE GALOP.
Doors open at half-past 8 o'clock. Admission, is.
Manager, M. GRENET.

SPANISH FLY is the acting ingredient in
ALEX. ROSS'S CANTHARIDES OIL, which speedily
produces whiskers and thickens hair. 3s. 6d, ss. 6d„ and (Os.
6d..; sent free for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.—ALEX. ROSS, 248,
High Holborn, London.

WONDERFUL DISCOVERY.—Corns cured
in one day by using ALEX. ROSS'S CHIROPO.
rhis preparation gradually dissolves the corn in a few hours,
removing the very root. Price 4s , sent by post for 60 stamps
-248, High Holborn, London.

'STAIR-CURLING FLUID, 248, High Holborn,
London.—ALEX. ROSS'S CURLING FLUID ones
Ladies' or Gentlemen's hair immediately it is applied. Sold
It 3s. 6d., ss. 5d., and 10s. 6d. ; sent free for 51, 84, and 144
tamps. Ross's Toilet Magazine, la. 6d., or 20 stamps.

ri IDLY HAIR.-248, High Holborn, London.—
31 ALEX. ROSS'S HAIR DYE produces a perfect colour
immediately it is used. It is permanent, and perfectly na-
tural in efre I. Price 3s. ed. 58. Si., and 10s. 6d. ; sent by
post for 54, 84, and 144 stamps.

ALEX. ROSS'S ENAMEL (as used by Mdme.
imperfections of the skin are hidden
by its use, and a transcndant beauty uroduced to the face.
Price lOs Si ; sent for stamps. 248, High Holborn, London.

HAIR COLOUR WASIL--By Washing the
Head with this beautiful pert umed Wash in seven or
ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and remains so
by an occasional using'. lOs Gd ; sent for starups.—By ALEX.
ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London.

Just published, 2d., Rf nt by the Author for three stamps,
UGLINESS and BEAUTY. A closely-printed
Pamphlet, descriptive of articles and meaus used for
improvinz the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 243, High
Holborn, London.

VVINSLOW HALL, Winslow, Bucks, having
been recently opened and fitted with requisites for
the care and comfort of the INSANE, the proprietor, Dr.
BOISRAGON, announces that he has transferred his Estab-
lishment from Birmingham to the above desirable residence,
easily accessible, and distant from London about an hour
and a-half by the London and North-Western line, and fifty
minutes from Oxford. Attached to the mansion, situated on
a sandy soil, and commanding an extensive and pleasing
prospect, are garden, meidow. plantation, and recreation
grounds. For terms and forms of admission address the
proprietor.

TIROVIDENCE ROTOR
R NIGHT REFUGE,
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lIOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,

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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, refusedadmittance, andhave
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, E.C.
DONORS AND SUBSCRIBERS TO THE REFUGE.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS TILE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G.
His Royal Highness the Duke D'Aumalo.
His Excellency the Count D'Apponyi.
His Excellency the Count Lavradio.
The Earl of Abergavenny. Messrs. Dimsdale, Drewett,
The Earl of Desart. Fowler, and Barnard.
The Earl of Denbigh. Messrs.Hanbury and Lloyds.
The Earl Grey, K.G. Messrs. Prescott, Grote, Cave
The Earl of Harewood. and Co.
The Earl of Eglinton. London Assurance Corpora-
The Earl of Kenmare. tion.
The Earl of Durham. Royal Exchange Insurance
The Countess of Albemarle. Company.
The Lady Ellen Browne. Sun Fire Office.
The Lady Camilla E. For- R. W. Barclay, Esq.
teseue. J. Bethel], Esq.
The Viscount Gage. Mrs. Barnewall.
Field-Marshal Lord Gough, Miss Burton.
K.P. Mrs. Curling.
The Lord Dormer. J. Henry Challis, Esq.
The Lord Petre. Dr. Carvalho.
The Lord Leigh. R. Crawford, Esq., 312.
The Lord Chelmsford. H. Cazenne, Esq.
The Lord Cranworth. Mrs. Chesterton.
Baron de Rothschild, M.P. A. H. Campbell, Esq.
The Hon. C. Langdale. Miss Douglas.
The Hon. W. Browne. Messrs. Durant & Co.
The Hon. H. G. Campbell. Messrs. Dawson & Sons.
Sir Charles Price, Bart. Miss Dobson
Sir Robert Gerard, Bart. Cursetjec Furdonjee, Esq.
Sir Pyers Mostyn, Bart. Miss Franklin
Hon. Rustomjee Jamsetjee Dr. Gull.
J eejeebhoy. C. Gould, Esq.
The Governors of the Bank H. E. Gurney, Esq.
of England. Messrs. Hills & Underwood.
Tho Worshipful Company of Capt. Hogg.
Armaurers and Braziers. Miss Kaye.
Tho Worshipful Company of J. Kynaston, Esq.
Tallow Chandlers. J. Knight, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of L. Lloyd, Esq.
Drapers. J. Lewis Mieville, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of Miss M'Mahon.
Grocers. C. Manning, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of Miss Martin
Saddlers. Breton Martinez, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of Messrs. Ponsford and Sou-
Salters. thall.
Tho Worshipful Company of F. X. Pereira, Esq,
Merchant Tailors. Mrs. 'Palmer.
The Directors of the Bank of H. W. Prescott, Esq.
Australia. F. Philips, Esq.
The Directors of the Bank of N. H. E. Prowett, Esq.
Australasia. M. It. Do Quadros, Esq.
The Directors of the Colo- G. A. Shee Esq.
nial Bank. H. Riddell,
The Directors of the National T. Riddell Esq.
Bank of Ireland. Messrs. Ralli Bros.
The Directors of the Provin- Messrs. De la Rue and Co.
vial Bank of Ireland. Miss Rombold.
The Directors of the Char- Mrs. Simpson.
tered Mercantile Bank of Mrs. Scott.
India, London, and China. Mrs. Southby.
The Directors of the Impe- Messrs. Tucker and New.
rial Ottoman Bank. F. Ward, Esq.
The Directors of the London G. Basil Wood, Esq.
and County Bank. Miss Young.
The Directors of the Union J.Voung, Esq.
Bank. Messrs. Zulueta and Co.
Mosso. Cotts ttud &c. &C, &c.

TEETH. AND PAINLESS DENTISTRY.
Messrs. LEWIN and SIMEON MOSELY and
SONS, Dentists,
80, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and 448, Strand.
Opposite Charing-cross Railway Station.

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Their painless artificial teeth are unequalled for economy,
durability, comfort, and all purposes of articulation and mas-
tication. Operations of every kind being unnecessary, the
most nervous patient can be supplied without fear of pain or
inconvenience.
Consultation free. Teeth from ss, Sets from 5 to 25 gs.,
warranted.
For the efficacy, utility, and success of their system, 'vide
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Daily attendant: at 30, Berners-street, Oxford-street, and
448, Strand, London ; 15, Whltefriargate, Hull ; 10, Norfolk-
street, Sheffield ;4, East-parade, Leeds ; and 14, St. Nicholas-
street, Scarbro'.
Observe—Established 1830. No connection with any of the
same name.

AIYIERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.
QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 11.

The Royal Mail steamer Asia, which sailed from Boston
on the 31st ult. and from Halifax on the 2d inst., has
arrived off the harbour. She brings 137 passengers, and
has $2,500 (£360 sterling) on freight. Having transferred
four passengers, 126 sacks mails, and the latest telegrams,
she proceeded for Liverpool, all well.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (Evening).

General Weitzel and General ejia's correspondence
relative to the capture of Bagdad has been published. The
former states he sent 300 men to Bagdad, at the request
of General Escobedo, purely as an act of humanity—not
to perform any service for either party. General Mejia
asserted briefly that he had notified his Government of all
that had occurred at Bagdad. The French naval com-
mander, before leaving for Vera Cruz, protested against
the invasion of Mexico by American soldiers.
General Sheridan has refused to permit emigrants to
leave New Orleans for Mexico. Hs acts under instructions
from Washington.
The Revenue Commission has submitted to Congress a
report proposing a tax of 5 cents per lb. on cotton, and a
reduction of the tax on distilled spirits to $1 per gallon.
The report relating to the reciprocity treaty, prepared at
the request of the Secretary of the Treasury, has been laid
on the desks of members of Congress. It includes a bill
proposing to continue the present treaty one year, from
March next, provided Canada repeals the duties and taxes
on certain enumerated articles, raises the internal tax on
certain other articles, and discountenances the free ports
on Lakes Huron and Superior, with some other advantages
to be secured to the United States.

Official adviccs from El Pasa of the 30th December say
that Juarez is still there.

Intercepted letters from General Escobedo have been
published, stating that he is indebted to the Americans on
the Texas side of the river for valuable military stores.
Gen. Cortinas had obtained some shells from Brownsville.
Guaymas advices of the 16th Dec.,
,ria San Francisco,
state that the Republicans had captured Alamosan (?).

President Johnson has communicated to the Senate Mr.
Stanton's opinion, endorsed by himself, that it is inconsis-
tent with the public interest to furnish Congress with the
letters of General Sheridan and other Federal officers, re-
garding the present condition of affairs on the southern
frontier, especially in relation to any violation of neutrality
by the armies occupying the right bank of the Rio Grande.

The House of Representatives re-committed the consti-
tutional amendment relative to representation, with all
pending propositions, to the Re-construction:Committee,
with instructions.

The House of Representatives has refused to grant the
privilege of the floor to members from Arkansas, which
privilege has been granted to the Tennessee members.

Senator Raymond has made a long speech opposing the
constitutional amendment, and supporting President John-
son's re-construction policy.
President Johnson, at an interview with the leading
Senators, expressed his disapprobation of any further con-
stitutional amendments ; but, if there must bo any amend-
ment, which at present he deemed unnecessary, he knew
of none better than to make the entire number of voters
the representative basis, and the total value of property the
basis of direct taxation. He regarded the agitation of
negro franchise in the district of Columbia at present as
ill-timed, and calculated to stir up hatred between the two
races, resulting in injury to both.

There are rumours in Richmond that the President pro-
posed to place Virginia under a provisional governorship,
in consequence of the hostile attitude of theLegislature,and
the persistency of the people to elect disloyal candidates.
General Sickles has 'issued an order. in Charleston re-
minding the South Carolinians that they are still under
martial law, arranging the relations between whites and
blacks, and announcing their equality before the law.
Mr. Seward has returned to Washington. The authori-
ties and people of St. Thomas and Cuba received him with
marked courtesy and respect. At St. Thomas he had an
interview with Gen. Santa Anna that the United States
would never permit the permanent establishment of the
empire of Mexico.

The New York World's correspondent said that Mr.
Seward had an interview at Havana with the aide-de-camp
of the Emperor Maximilian.

Gen. Sheridan has forbidden emigrants to leave New
Orleans for Mexico.

It is reported that several Chilian privateers are cruising
round the island of Cuba.

The House of Representatives adopted, by a vote of 120
to 46, the resolution reported from the Construction Com-
mittee for a constitutional amendment apportioning repre-
sentatives according to the population, excluding those de-
prived of the suffrage on account of colour. The provision
for apportioning direct taxes has been stricken out. Dur-
ing the debate Mr. Stevens strongly animadverted on tho
President making known his views on the constitutional
amendment, through the press, at a time when the house
was legislating on the subject.
The New York 7ribune says thtit M. do Montholon has
communicated to Mr. Seward the reply of the French Go-
vernment to Mr. Seward's note concerning the Mexican

empire.
The New York Herald says that at a banquet given by
the Captain-General of Havana, Mr. Seward made a speech
offering the sentiment that Spain was the only European
power that had any right to location in America, since
Spain had always been eminently American. Mr. Seward,
whilst in Havana, refused to receive Baron Magnus, the
Prussian minister to the Emperor Maximilian, who was en
route to Mexico.
The Committee of Ways and Means has reported to Con-
gress a bill authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to
sell bonds at home or abroad for funding the currency, but
not authorising any increase of the public debt. The in-
terest on the bonds sold abroad must not exceed five per
cent. The principal must be made payable in coin or cur-
rency of the country where made payable.
Toronto despatches have caused renewed Fenian alarm
along the frontier. The military has been very much
strengthened, owing to information that General Sweeney
had forces for a "raid" on the pi incipal towns.:
The Africa has arrived at Halifax.
The New York has arrived out.
Senator Wade, of Ohio, was assaulted by a drun-
ken or crazy man in his room at Washington lately, but
easily got rid of his assailant.
Senator Sumner has had a negro's finger sent to
him in a box, with an insulting message, from some op-
poser of equal suffrage in the District.

Judge Field, of California, now in Washington,
has had an attempt made on his life by a torpedo box,
which he luckily found the nature of in season to prevent
any injury.

Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvania, who has been

in Cuba some weeks, recruiting his health, has returned
better, but not fully recovered.
General Sweeney, the Federal official lately dis-
missed from the United States army, has been summoned
to Washington, and it is reported that he is to be rein-
stated. It ought not to be true.'
Raphael Semmes, the famous captain of the
Alabama, is held in close confinement at the Marine Bar-
racks, Washington, awaiting the action of the Government.
Colonel Commandant Jacob Zeilin, United States Marine
Corps, is intrusted with his safe keeping. Semmes is in
good health and spirits, and confident of being able to
justify his conduct during the Rebellion.
William H. Morgan, late Brigadier-General, has
made Memphis, Tenn., his home, and proposes hereafter
to practise law, collect claims against the Government,
and act as general commissioner of deeds. •

Mrs. Douglas, widow of the late Senator Douglas,
was recently married to Brevet Brigadier General Wil-
liams, A.A.G.U.S.A., who is now on duty at the War De-
partment.

General Joe Johnson is reported to have said re-
-cently that under the President's liberal, humane, and
truly:Democratic policy of reconstruction, the South would
soon get over the visible effects of the war, and that in four
years' time the United States would be the most prosper-
ous and powerful of all nations and of all Governments.
_ _ _

General Thomas has accepted the gold medal
ordered by the State of Tennessee in commemoration of
his achievements as a soldier, and particularly the defence
of Nashville against General Hood.

General W. F. (Baldy) Smith has been granted
a six months' leave of absence on account of ill health.

The Memphis Appeal of the sth January comes
to us in mourning, on account of the death of Benjamin F.
Dill, its proprietor and editor.

W. F. Samford, Esq., of Alabama, has engaged
to write the life of the Hon. Wm. L. Yancey.
The rebel General Bushrod R. Johnson has settled
down in Nashville as a real estate agent.

Gen. M'Dowell has been sued for $lOO,OOO for
arbitrary arrests in California.

Ex-Governor Lowe, of Maryland, has not been
pardoned by the President. The Baltimore American, says
Governor Bradford' refuses to.sign the petition.

Robert Toombs is at Havana, where his wife
joined him recently. They have abundant means, having
exported and sold considerable cotton belonging to the
General.

Horatio Stone, a New York sculptor, has just
completed a bust of Dr. Bellows in plaster, preparatory to
its execution in marble.

John Brougham is playing in Brooklyn, with an
extemporised company gathered from the various New
York Theatres.

Judge 0. A. Lochrane, of Macon, Ga., a native
Irishman, has written a long letter urging his country-
men in the South to have nothing to do with the Fenian
movement. _

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General G. T. Anderson, late C. S. A., is spoken
of in connection with the office of Chief Marshal of
Atlanta.

George Francis Train ' has bought 434 acres of
forest land in Omaha, Nebraska, for $75,000, for his
Cottage Company and for a Central Park. George says
Omaha is destined to be one of the great cities of the con-
tinent.

General John B. Gordon is about to locate at
Brunswick, Georgia, where he will engage in the lumber
business. It is his purpose to erect two large mills on the
Brunswick Railroad, and will carry on an extensive busi-
ness in connection with other gentlemen.

The gas monopolists of Chicago are about coming
to grief, as a new gas, made from crude petroleum, is
being introduced there. The Chicago Post says that
the light of the petroleum gas is fully four times
greater than the light of the coal gas, and that it can be
made at a very much less cost.

The Atlanta (Georgia) lntelligencer, of the 6th
ultimo, closes an article headed "New England scheming
again," by telling the Fenians that "in New England they
have an enemy more to be feared in the future than Old
England—an enemy with all the world—a ruthless, forni-
cating enemy, whom no law, human or divine, ever yet
restrained in her greed after gain and in her intolerance
and fanaticism."

The New York, News has " private information"
which warrants it in saying that Stephens, the Irish
Fenian, will not visit the United States for some time to
come.

Governor Worth says, in his address to the people
of North Carolina, "Wo did not go voluntarily into the
lato calamitous rebellion. The action of coterminous
States forced us to tako sides in the strife. We elected
to go with our section ; and having taken our position we
acted with good faith to our associations, and bore our-
selves gallantly in the fight. Being vanquished we sub-
mit as becomes a brave people. The President, as com-
mander-in-chief of the military powers of the nation, mag-
nanimously trusts us. Ido not believe there is a citizen
of the State who is unworthy of this confidence."

Mr. Mercer's enterprise to transport several
hundreds of young ladies of the "anxious and aimless"
class from New England to Washington Territory has met
with many obstacles, and has proved to a considerable de-
gree a failure. His steamer, the Continental, sailed from
New York on Wednesday with 75 women and 50 men.
So that company will only reduce the painful pre-
ponderance of male population in the distant territory
by 25.

A company, with a capital of $lOO,OOO, has been
formed in Mifflin county, Ohio, for the cultivation of
grapes.

A company has been formed, with a capital of
$300,000 ($llO,OOO paid in), for mining at the Vermillion
Lake Gold Mines in Northern Minnesota.

Utah Territory now contains 90,000 inhabitants.
Great Salt Lake City has 17,000 inhabitant; and there
are several towns with from four to six thousand people.

The custom of selling coloured people in Dela-
ware for a term of years, as a punishment for crime, is still
kept up, though now it does not amount to much. Four
persons wore sold a few days since, end brought from
twelve to fifteen cents each, and their purchasers imme-
diately let them go.
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The Columbus (Georgia) Sun understands that
a company of prominent gentlemen of that city will leave
for Mexico at an early day. Among them is Judge W.
G. Swan, formerly of Knoxville, and an ex-member of the
rebel Congress, who for some time past has been following
his profession at Columbus. The Sun says the number of
colonists will be increased at New Orleans to some 26
persons.

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Regalias are to be admitted into the United
States free of duty. So says the Secretary of the Trea-
sury.

The Saturday Press says the Fenians, lately
spoiling for a fight, are now fighting for the spoils.
North Carolina has now extensive iron works in
Chatham county, in tho Deep river region. Coal and iron
ore abound, and there is every chance for development.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1 (Evening),

Money easy ; Gold 1401. Exchange on London, 151}
Pcris, 3 711. Stocks depressed ; New York Central, 87k ;
Illinois, 1601; Erle, 78k; Five Twenty United States
Bonds, 103. Cotton steady ; Middling Upland, 49c. Flour
quiet.. Wheat and Indian corn dull Provisions steady,
Sugar dull. Coffee and molasses steady. Petroleum dull ;
crude, 32c.; refined, 51c.

A TOOTII TO CHIP Ax EGG !---Professor Owen, in
his new work " On the Anatomy of Vertebrates,"
writes as follows :—" In snakes and lizards, a sharp tooth
is developed in the premaxillary of the embryo, towards
the close of incubation, wherewith they cut through the
tough egg-shell. The operation of this transitory and
purposive weapon has been observed by Weinland ; it
totally disappears in the adult of most ophidia. For break-
ing through the more brittle shell in cholonia, the embryo
is provided with a sort of horn or hard excrescence above
the end of the upper jaw ; this afterwards disappears. In
the crocodilia, the snout of the nearly-hatched young is
sufficiently hard to break the egg-shell ; but there is no
distinct tubercle, nor any precociously-developed pre-
maxillary tooth. Either on the hypothesis of special
adaptation of this structure to the need of breaking the
shell, says a critic in the Reader, or on the theory of its
being the remnant of an imparial dermal element attached
to the nasal segment, this fact is most interesting. But
the facts which put at our disposal by a subsequently-
published memoir of Professor Owen (Memoir on the
Marsupial Pouches, Mammary Glands, and Mammary
Foetus of the Echidna Hystrix. Trans. Roy. Soc., 1865, P.
671) add some new and striking information to the stock
of our previously-acquired knowledge. He therein states
his I elief that young monotremal mammalians are also
provided with this " internarial " tubercle whereby to
liberate themselves from the egg :—"From this analogy, I
imagine that the young monotremes may be provided with
a horny or epidermal process or spine upon the internasal
tubercle, for tho same purpose. This temporary tubercle
is obviously homologous with the hard knob on the upper
mandible of chelonians and birds, by which they break
their way through the harder calcareous covering of their
externally-hatched embryo." Figures have been given in
this memoir of the " internariar tubercle in Echidna, and
in its allied genus, Ornithorhynchus ; and we confess that
we consider the functional resemblance of the structures in
the mammalian to those in the reptile exceedingly close.

Mr. Davenport Bromley, the member for NOrth
Warwickshire, under his well-known initials of
W. D. 8., has written recently as follows :
Just extricated from the mass of struggling
humanity into which her Majesty's faithful Com-
mons resolves itself on the occasion of the delivery
of the Queen's Speech, having partially recomposed
my physical and mental organisation, and, to a cer-
tain extent, reconstructed my hat, I ask leave to
briefly detail what I have just witnessed.
I had been informed that the space at the bar of
the House of Lords being limited a certain number
only of members would be allowed to accompany the
Speaker, and that these would be selected by lot
from the names of those wishing to be present at the
ceremonial.

On my way to inscribe myself in this loyal band
I met a tall friend, to whom I confided my errand,
asking him at the same time whether he had done
likewise. He smiled sardonically, and replied that
he usually found that he could take his own part,
and that he did not find it necessary to appeal to
fortune for his opportunity on these occasions, and I
confess that his broad shoulders appeared good
vouchers for the truth of his assertion. But I began
to doubt the value of the prize I proposed to give
myself a remote chance of winning, and, instead of
waiting for the " ballot," I joined a small knot of
members who had taken up a position at the en-
trance to the Lords' corridor, where three policemen
barred further progress. After waiting there a little
while the additions to our party became very numer-
ous, and at last a vast crowd of members filled up
the space behind and forced us, the early comers,
into a front row facing the policemen, and filling up
the archway they guarded.
Retreat was now impossible otherwise, with an
instinctive knowledge of what was to follow, I think
I should have attempted it, and there I stood till the
pioneer of the " Black Rod" made a narrow lane
for his passage though our dense mass. Taking
advantage of a slight confusion which accompanied
this operation, I slipped round the pillar and seated
myself on a bench on the other or Lords' side of the
arch, and to this manoeuvre I owe the power of de-
scribing exactly the scene which ensued at that
point. After the delay of a few minutes the pro-
cession arrrived. Black Rod's pioneer first, then
the Mace, and then the Speaker. Up to that point,
I believe, all had gone well, but then came a sud-
den fierce rush, caused, I presume, by the contest
between those who had legitimately followed from
the house, and those who, like myself, had gone
forward for a start, and the procession overflowed
its banks at once, and became a disorderly and
outrageous mob, brutally struggling for precedence.
Reckless of everything except this object, they
pressed so closely on the Speaker that their feet
became entangled in his robes, bringing his dignified
progress to a sudden and most unseemly halt.
The tableau for the moment was fine, and the
scene, if it had possessed any historical or political
interest, would have made a splendid addition to
the frescoes around. It was the " ugly rush" spoken
of by the prophet Henley. The Speaker, helplessly
tethered to the ground, nevertheless bore himself as
a Speaker, and, turning on his assailants, flashed
back a glance of outraged dignity, of solemn and
Jove-like anger, which for the time was not
without its grandeur or effect, and a loud cry of
" Order" arose. Meanwhile, the dignified and
venerable figure of the Black Rod was seen feebly
defending himself with his back to the wall against
which he had been violently hustled. Lord Charles
Russell halted and turned back irresolute, apparently
debating whether his duties did not require him to
employ the mace on the heads of the misdoers, of
whom

"Those behind cried 'Onward,'
And those before cried ' Back !' "
and some little time elapsed before the " first com-
moner of the realm" could extricate Otis trampled
robes from their profane tread.
Then the procession was resumed, and, more
law being allowed this time to the Speaker, I took
advantage of my position and joined its foremost
ranks, and all went with comparative safety till we
reached the lobby. There another stream seemed
to come to join the already brimming river, and my
firm belief is that numbers of people not members
of the house were stationed there, and joined the
procession, us I had done before. Anyhow, though
the space was larger, the numbers seemed suddenly
to have increased, and I found myself enclosed in a
living wall and borne forward with accelerated velo-
city in the direction of the lefthand doorpost of the
entrance to the Upper House. All steerage power
was gone, and I drifted hopelessly on, and finally
dashed violently against the obstruction ; my hat,
acting as a buffer, broke the shock ; but I was.
whirled round and carried sideways into her Ma-
jesty's presence, eventually settling against the bar
with a thump which seemed to occasion both surprise
and alarm to a very pretty woman on the other side
of it. There I remained, of course, a fixture, till
the Queen retired. I bad the advantage of a front
place and could see her Majesty, but, obliged to
exercise the whole muscular power I possessed to
avoid being crushed flat by the pressure from be-
hind, I was not much the wiser for her Speech,
which, indeed, even had I been in a position of
greater physical comfort, such were the jostlings,
strugglings, exclamations, imprecations, and
laughter of those behind me I could not have
heard a word of.
I have since heard that one hon. member was
thrown down, and I believe the " House" walked
over him. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was
so maltreated that he retired from the contest and
was seen wending his solitary way back to the
Lower House, mournfully moralising on the nature
of the unruly assembly of which he is the leader.
Now, Sir, what are the causes of this disintegra-
tion of manners from which the House of Commons
appears to suffer as soon as it gets outside its own
walls ?
Is it that as representatives of the people they feel
bound to emulate the worst behaviour of a hustings
mob ?
I incline to think that if the Lords were to make
rather more considerate arrangements for our re-
ception, and we, on the other hand, were to pass a
strict rule that not more than a certain number
should accompany the Speaker on these occasions,
which rule should be enforced by an adequate body
of police
.stationed at the outer-door of our own
lobby, the scene of to-day, which was really a dis-
graceful one, would not re-occur.
Since which time another sufferer,
signing himself
"A Crushed M.P.," writes thus :—Your correspon-
dent "'W. D. B." draws no exaggerated picture of
the tumultuous way
in which her Majesty's faith-
ful Commons obeyed her summons to attend
in the Home of Lords to hear her gracious
me forciblyopeningthe
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goal in the football field at Eton when the
object of the assaulting party is to force the ball
phalanx of the defenders into
the Speaker on this tthhewcuigtalidetllioef dtehneseenemy, ,
occa-
sion representing the football.
But what is the real cause of all this hustling and
jostling into the presence of our Sovereign ? Sim-
ply that in the arrangements made by the authori-
ties no adequate accommodation is provided for the
Lower House, though it is formally summoned to
attend. About 50 only can find standing room at
the bar, and we are even ousted from the gallery
which is at other times open for our use.
Now, her Majesty's Speech is addressed as much
to us as to the Peers, and if they liave the advan-
tage of receiving her Majesty in their own Chamber
it would not be too much to expect that the whole
of the gallery as well as the bar should be left free
for the use of those members of our house as wish
to attend.
If this be not conceded for the future I would