The Sun.
London, England, 1866-07-05 00:00:00

Messrs. ESKELL and SONS

attend daily at their only Establishment. 13, Tichborne-
street, top of the Haymarket. (Note the Address).

RTJPTIIRES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.

WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT
EXHIBITIONS of 1851 and 1862), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Afe.tioel Gentlemen to be the most effective
invention in the curati,'e treatment of HERNIA. The use
of a .tool bpring, so o.ted hurtful in its effects, is here
avoided--a sott bands? e eing worn round the body, while
the requisite resisting pow r is supplied by the Moc-Main
Pad and Va. ent Levrr fitting with so rues., ease and close-
ness that it cannot be detected, end iney Je worn during
sleep. A descriptive circular way be had, nd the truss,
which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circum-
ference of th, body, two inches below the hips, being sent to
the manufactu er,
Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
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A Single Truss, 165., 215., 26s 6d., and 318.6 d. Postage, Is.
A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. Bd.
An UmbiFoal Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, Is. lod.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
office, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT
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porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
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each. Postage, 6d.

JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piocadilly.

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
an I Dining-room, soneisting of a new and elegant assort-
ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, oeautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &c., in Italian,
Alabaster, Paean, Marble, .Bronse, Derbyshire Spar, dm
Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine-
ralogist to her Majesty, 149, Strand, W.C.. London.
Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS,
MINERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology; they will greatly facilitate
the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY,
and can be had at 2. 5, 10, 20, 60, to 500 guineas each.

PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GICOLOGY and MINZ-
RALOGY is given by Mr.TRNNANT,F.G.S.. at 149. Strand.

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and
most useful invention of the day, AGUA A MAR ELL 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 the human hair to its pristine hue—no
matter at what age. The Agua Amarella 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. 61. Testimonials from artistes
of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted re-
spectability, may be seen on application: Messrs. John
Gomel and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal
Highness the Prinoess of Wales.

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 borne the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 18, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.
Contributions wilt be received gratefully by the Secretary,
fir. Daniel Cooper, 85, Queen •st:reet, Cheapside; ur by Xessrs
Barclay and Co., Lombard-street.

ItOYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Tilts Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of free admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is wholly de-
pendent for support on voluntary contributions and t•zacio es .
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 considerable period averaged between
11,000 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 C.ommittee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are reoeived by the Treasurer, hdivard bias •
terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond um! Co. ; Wirs and Co. ; 11a.rries d Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.;
Barclay and Co, ; Williams, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Beruers-street L Barned and
Cu.. Liverpool 3 and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.

BTANYOILD 81111TH, Secretary.

OMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-CON'
k TRIBUTIONS are earnestly solicited for establishing
he COUNTRY HOME. 41,000 required.
WM. WILLItiDdS, Secretary.
Boys' Refuge, 8, Great Queen•street. W.C.

HOMELESS 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
£6,000, 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, Lothbury, and 214, High Holborn; Messrs.
Ransom and Go., 1, Pall-Mall East; and by
WM. WILLIAMS, Secretary.
Refuge, 8, Great Queen-street, W.C.

SUBSCRIPTION TESTIMONIAL
TO
GEORGE CRITIKSHANK.
PRESIDENT.
JOHN RUSKIN, Esq., M.A.
VICE-PRESIDENT.
Sir W. C. TEEVELYAN, Bart.
TREASURER.
Louis Huth, Esq,
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street, E. 3.

"Before the century was actually in its teens we believe
that George Cruikshank 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.

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.
3, York-villas, Brixton, S.

pROVIDENCE ROW
ox NIGHT REFUGE,
FO
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 arphos.
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, refusedadmitance, 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. GILBBRT p.p., No. 22,
Finsbury-drow, E.C.

PARTNERSIIIPS.—Mr. B. C. JONES, of 3,
Westminster-chambers, Victoria-str.et, has clients
000 £3,060 , £2OO •
who have well-established Businesses, and are willing to
take Partners with the following sums respectively :—Pub-
lishers, 41,f,00, £l,OOO, and £100; Shipbroker, X.: OW ; Coal
£6
Merchant, 41,800
.5 ; Cattle Food, £5 0 to £1,(,00; Brewers,
Business, £3,000, neeprofits le
£l,Boo;irst-cla Wire Working, ng
£lOO or
Whosale F ss Manufacturing
£5O ' ; Auctioneer, £7OO ; rhotographers, £1,5 0 and £5OO ;
,
Paper Manufacturer, £5OO to £1,050; Hop Merchant. £l,OOO
to £2,000; Carriage Builder, £1,503; Gas Fitters, £5 0 and
£,OO ; Plate Glass Silverer, £l,OOO ; Underwriter at Lloyd's,
£3,000; Sharebroker £2,00'); Accountants, W
£l,( 00 and £1,50 ;
Furniture Manufacturer, .
£2,000 to .£3,C00 ; iue M..rchants,
£1,(00, £3,0.0, and £5,000; Practical Engineer. £2,000 to
£3,000 ; Hosiery Manufacturing, £3,000 to £4,000 ; Cloth
Manufacturing, £l,OOO to £6,000;
Goods, £2,000 to £3,000. A Brewery for Sale about £lO,OOO ;
Sheffield and Birmingham
do. do., .43,000. A Goldsmith's Business in a fashionable
watering place, old established, profits £6l , to £BOO per
annum, purcha-e £2,100 to £3,000. A client has £lO,OOO cash,
and wants a gentleman to join him with a like sum in a first-
class undertaking under favourable cinumstancei, profits of
which will be £20,013 to 430,000 per annum, no risk—the
gentleman ha' no objection to advance more mo ,ey if the
party joining him will do the same. Mr. JUNES has also
clients with the followings sums ready for businesses that
Will bear investigation :—£10.0( 0 and £15,000 for Breweries,
£:?000 for Iron Foundry or similar business, £l,OOO for Flour
31111, £3,000 for Mechanical Engineering. £1,103 and £2,000 for
Surveying and Architecture, £l.OOO for Retail Drapery, and
sams.froln £5OO to 416,010 for other matters worth looklng
into. Mr JONES sees clients personally Tuesdays, Wednes-
day s, and Fridays. Parties requiring sums of money on free-
hold or leasehold property can have ,any amount through
Mr. Jones' agency, at from 4i to 6 per cent., from a first-class
Life Office without delay; and loans are gran ed upon per-
sonal security at 5 per cent. from £5OO to .£2OOO, in which
cases sureties and We policies will be required.
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TEETH AND PAINLESS. DENTISTRY._
The fear of pain and dread of operation inherent to all
deter very many to whom ARTIFICIAL TEETH are of
vital importance from availing themselves of the services of
a dentist. Ina practice founded In 1830, 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 bystem of dentistry perfect in its absolute
freedom from pain, a specialite pertaining only to our prac-
tice, and for which her Majesty has granted her royal letters
patent. This system embraces the non-interference with all
stumps, however decayed, the supporting instead of extrac-
tion of loose teeth until they become firm and useful in mas-
tication, and the utter absence of all and every operation, so
that the most nervous person can be supplied without fear of
pain or inconvenience. These teeth are cheaper, more dur-
able, natural, and comtortable than any yet produced.
warrant d.
Consultation free. Teeth from 58, Sets from 6 to 25 gs.,
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 Is, Whitefriargate, Hull; 10, Norfolk-
street, Sheffield; 4, East-parade, Leeds St. Nicholas-
street,; 14
Scarbro' ; and 33, Coney-street, York. ,
Established 1830. No connection with any one of the same
name.

THE MACCLESFIELD SILK TRADE.--The dispute.
between the masters and weavers, on the wages
question, has assumed a more threatening aspect. It was
expected that the unanimous decision of the masters to
resist the advance; would have deterred the workmen
from persisting in their demand; but this. does not seem
likely to be the case. An aggregate meeting of delegates
was held at the weavers' committee-room, on Monday
night, at which the speakers denied the allegations made
at the meeting of master; and passed a resolution to
abide by the original demand. They spoke in favour of
a lock out rather than of a strike, but how they can sup-
port either alternatir
is not very plain, as they are in a
very distressed
in hand. They argue that some of the masters will be
only too glad
to
owing to having a number of
contracts, which are subject to a penalty for non-fulfil-
ment,
condition,gife in and, as a body, have no funds
within the specified time. Wednesday being the
day when many firms " take in" their work, the men re-
solved that the first master who refused the advance
should be struck against. The dispute awaits this issue.
and their families have left the town
in the hope of obtaining employment in
Mwiatnhyin wtheeavpersast few month; and now many more are
Some time ago (before the French Treaty),
LpraenpeaLihngiret.o gsoo,
there were between 4,1)00 and 5,000 weavers in the town;
there aro now not more than 2,000. There are more than
1,000 empty houses in, the borough, and cottage property
has been depreciated 50 per cent. Yesterday the weavers
in three firms struck work upon the masters (Messrs.
Critchley, Brinsley, and Co., Mr. Birchonougb, and Mr.
David Reddish) refusing to pay the advanced prices. At
night the masters met to decide upon what course of
action they should adopt. They agreed that, if the
weavers would withdraw their proposed list, the masters
would meet them again, and try whether, by some mutual
concessions, they could, not settle the existing dispute.

AN OWL'S REVENGE.—The Avranchiil states that
in a commune near Avranches an owl has taken terrible
vengeance for the loss of her young, which had been killed
by a farmer's lad. For four days the owl was on the watch
for the destroyer, and on the fifth, upon the boy leaving
the farmhouse, the injured bird, which had been perched
upon a tree, pounced down upon him, and with one stroke
of its claws tore out his left eye, the sight of which is per-
manently destroyed,

Legation of the United State; Paris, June 4.
Sir,—l waited upon his Excellency the Minister of
Foreign Affairs on Saturday last, in pursuance of a pre-
vious appointmenrto confer with him upon the subject
matter of your instructions, N 0.459, marked "Confidential."
As he had already been apprised of the contents of that
despatch, through the French Minister residing at Wash-
ington, I was spared the necessity of restating them, lie
said that the Imperial Government proclaimed its intention
to retire from Mexico because it suited its convenience
and interests to retire, and for no other reason. When,
therefore, it announced formally not merely to the United
States, but to all the world, that the army would be with-
drawn from Mexico within a'specified time, he thought it
,should be deemed sufficient. The Government made its
declaration in good faith, and means to keep it. It means
to withdraw its army within the term prescribed, and it
does not intend to take one or two hundred in the first
detachment, and one or two' hundred more in the second,
leaving the great body of them to the last, though it had
not deemed it necessary to specify with minuteness details
of this kind, which depend upon hygienic and climateric
considerations, of which it was the best and the only com-
petent judge. This, his excellency said, he wished I would
say to our Government. I asked his excellency if I had ever
intimated to him whether, in writing or orally, any suspicion
existed of the Emperor's intention to withdraw his army
from Mexico in unequal portions. He replied that I had
not. I then asked him if any other person authorisod to
speak in the name of my Government had done so. He
said no. But he had read imputations of that kind in one
of our papers. 1 replied in substance that the press was a
law unto itself, and that we had better not accept it as a
law unto us ; and as he asked me to communicate tl my
Government a formal answer to what sounded like an accu-
sation of insincerity and bad faith on the part of the Em-
peror, I wanted his authority for stating that no such ac-
cusation had reached him through any official channel. He
replied that he only had read it in a newspaper. I then
went on to say that the purpose of your instruction, as I
understood it, was simply to obtain an explanation, which
was sure to be required of you, of the shipment in France
of large bodies of troops to Mexico after the purpose to
withdraw her whole army had been officially proclaimed.
To this his Excellency replied, that since seeing me had
gotten from his colleagues of the Marine and War Depart-
ments information to the purport that no:troops belonging
to the Corps Expeditionaire had been sent to Mexico this
year, unless for the sake of partly replacing soldiers miss-
ing, but at any rate without augmentation of the number
of standing troops ; that the shipment of troops referred
to in the public prints and in your despatch *as most likely
that made in the transport Rhone about the beginning of
the year; that this Rhone touched at Martinique, but not
at St. Thomas, as was stated ; that she carried 916, and not
1,200, soldiers ; that they belonged to the Foreign Legion,
and not to the Expeditionary Corps ; that they consisted of
troops which had been waiting transportation a long time
in France and in Algeria to join their regiments; that no
new troops had been enrolled for the Foreign Legion since
the Emperor proclaimed his purpose to withdraw his flag
from Mexico ; and that no more, for what he knew, were
intended to be enrolled. In regard to the shipment of
troops from Austria, he said that that' was an affairs
entirely between that Government and the Mexican, with
which France,had nothing to do ; that since I had spoken
to him on the subject he had verified his own convictions
by a reference to the Ministers of War and Marine, and
had ascertained that no engagements of any sort had been
entered into by either for the enrolment or transportation
of troops from Austria to Mexico. He went on further to
say that it was the intention of the Government to with-
draw the army entirely from Mexico within the time spe-
cified in his despatch to you at the very latest—sooner if
climate and other controlling considerations permitted;
and it was not its intention to replace them with other
troops from any'quarter. At the conclusion of a long con-
versation, of which I have given the important results, I
expressed my satisfaction with his excellency's explana-
tion, and the pleasure I should have in communicating
them to my Government. This despatch has been sub-
mitted to M. Drouyn de l!lluys, and the foregoing version
of the results of our conversation has been approved by
him.—l am, sir, with very great respect, your obedient
servant, JOHN BIGELOW.
Hon. Wm. H. Seward, Department of State,

Washington, D. C.

Battle Between the Russians and Bokharians

The Invalide Russe published an account of the

great battle which the Russians fought in Central
Asia on the 20th of May, of which a telegraphic
report was received a few weeks ago. To under-
stand the narrative we ought to mention that be-
fore the action the Russians were encamped at
Tchinaz, on the left bank of the Syr-Daria, while
the Bokharians were at Irdjar, on the same bank,
but several miles higher up the river. The follow-
ing is the Invalide s report :
" The frequent appearance of the enemy's partisans in
greater or less number in our rear, as well as on our lines
of communication, and the presence of the principal army
of the Emir at the place named Irdjar, absolutely necessi-
tated an offensive movement on our part, so much the
more that on the 17th and 18th May positive information
was received that the Emir, having returned from a two
days' excursion to Samarcand, was disposed to attack us.
With that view he had despatched part of his troops to the
right bank of the Syr-Daria, upon our territory situated
beyond the Tchirtchik (an affluent of the Syr-Daria, which
flows past Taschkent and joins the Syr at Tchinaz). The
army of the Emir was said to be very numerous, consisting
of sarbazes, mounted riflemen, artillery, contingents of
various local governors, and of sirghiz roaming over
Bokharian territory. The number of the sarbazes and of
the artillery, all regularly armed, was 5,000. The artil-
lery numbered 21 pieces, among which were some superior
to ours. As for the Kirghiz their number was not less
than 35,000.
"On the 19th of May, at daybreak, the force at Tchinaz,
consisting of 41 companies of infantry, 5 sotnias of Cos-
sacks,with 20 pieces of artillery and rockets, quitted its po-
sition to move on Irdjar. This detachment consisted of
Lieut.-Col. Pistohlkors, with 5 sotnias of Cossacks, a rocket
detachment, and 6 pieces of artillery; Capt. Abramof, with 6
companies and 8 pieces ; and Lieut.-Col. Fovitsky, with 8
companies and 6 pieces. The detachment carried provi-
sions for 12 days, and had besides 10 days' provisions on
board the Perovsky. Simultaneously :with this detach-
ment, another from Kirioutchi, on the right bank opposite
Tchinaz, under the command of Colonel Kraievsky, set
out on its march for Irdjar, by the right bank of the Syr.
" The first day the troops accomplished a stage of more

than 20 miles with the thermometer at 40 deg. Reaumur,
the enemy's cavalry contenting themselves with skirmish-
ing. There remained only 14 miles from Monrza Rabat,
where the troops bivouacked for the first time, to the posi-
tion of the Emir at Irdjar. On the 20th of May at daybreak
stray parties of the Bokharians began to show themselves
in view of our camp. At nine o'clock our Cossacks had
their first encounter with the Bokharian cavalry, which had
some men killed; on our side one Cossack was wounded.
At midday it became indispensable to advance the artillery
and commence firing, which lasted without interruption
till the end of the battle. After a short halt the troops ad-
vanced in the following order :—The column of Captain
Abramof in advance, by the direct road leading to Irdjar;
on the right and on the same level the column of Lieut.-
Colonel Pistohlkors ; behind these two columns came, as a
general reserve, three companies of a battalion of riflemen
and a section of artillery, under the command of Major
Pistchemouka ; the baggage was covered by four com-
panies and two pieces, under the command of Lieut.-
Colonel Fovitsky.
" Hardly had our troops resumed their march when
masses of the enemy's cavalry appeared and surrounded
the detachment. The march of the baggage became espe-
cially very arduous, and could only be facilitated, thanks
to the extraordinary merit of Lieut.- Colonel Fivotsky, who
was obliged at the same time to watch the movements of
the train and repulse the incessant attacks to which it
was exposed. The following fact may give an idea of the
difficulties our troops had to surmount before reaching the
enemy. When after the battle the tent of the Emir
was seized there was found among other things a report
of the Governor of Samarcand, who commanded the ad-
vanced position of the Bokharians, in which he announced
that the Russians had been surrounded before attaining
that position, and 1 hat he would not delay making them
all prisoners.
" Towards 5 o'clock, about a mile from the enemy's posi-
tion, our troops were received by a strong cannonade from
his entrenchments, and masses of cavalry surrounded them
completely, with the exception of their left wing. The re-
serve was then directed towards the left, andall our artillery
put in position. Tho enemy having allowed us to advance
good way, redoubled his cannonade, under whmichma
ounrded p
remained nearly an hour. Our artillery,Gieut: Col. co by
Silverstian, rendered us immense service. It
was impossible to witness, without being filled with admi-
ration, our al tillerymen working with extraordinary address
and sangfroid in that heated atmosphere. Not a shot missed
its aim. Towards 6 o'clock the attacks of the cavalry grew
feebler;, on the command of General Romanovsky, Captain
Abraraof commenced the assault at the head of the infantry,