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No. 23,609.

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, FE I3HI.jAU Y I_l, 1868.

ON and After the Opening of the Queen'sTheatre,
Long-Acre, EVANS' to SUP.
After Queen's Theatre EVANS' to SUP.
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LONDON SLNUING AND SUPPER CLUB.
AT EVANS' COVENT GARDEN VOCAL ENTERTAINMENT

AC TON AND BRENTFORD RAILWAY
COMPANY.
NOTICE IS-HEREBY GIVEN, that the next ORDI-
NARY HALF YEARLY MEETING of this Company
will beheld at the, Offices, No. 5, Westminster Chambers,
Victoria-street, in the city of Westminster, on THURS-
DAY, the 27th day of February instant, at One o'clock
p.m. precisely, for the purpose of the ordinary business of
the Company, and the election of Directors and an Auditor
in place of those retiring at this meeting.
CHARLES ELEY, Secretary.
Offices, No. 5, Westminster Chambers,
Victoria-street, Westminster, S.W.
Feb. 10, 18G8.

have been previously sanctioned by resolution of the
shareholders.

" 6. If the quctions in regard to the accounts for
bygone half years be disposed of, the reconstructed
Board will be able to give their undivkled attention
to the further development of the triffic, its econo-
mical working, and to the carrying out of the im-
portant agreement which has been entered into with
the North British Railway Company.

At Eight o'Clock.

" 7. Your directors have further to state that the
names appearing in the report of the committee as
the gentlemen who are to form the Board as recon-
stituted have not been selected by the existing Cale-
donian Board, who had previously come to an un-
derstanding to the effect that the six gentlemen
who should retire from the direction should be
determined by ballot among themselves, which
course the directors still consider to be the most
expedient.

"8: The Board, as presently constituted, consists
of two members from England, six from Glasgow
and neighbourhood, one from Edinburgh, one from
Dundee, and four from other parts of the country.
The Board, as proposed by the committee to be re-
constituted, will consist of one member from Eng-
land, nine from Glasgow•and neighbourhood, two
from Edinburgh and neighbourhood, one from
Dundee, and one from the remainder of the Cale-
donian system.
"9. Your directors are of opinion that the inte-
rests of the shareholders generally might have been
better represented had the selection been made more
general, and had it embraced shareholders resident
in other parts of this company's extended under-
taking, together with a fair representation of the
large section of shareholders resident in England.
" 10. I❑ order that shareholders who may find it
inconvenient to be present at the meeting on the
13th inst. may have an opportunity of expressing
their opinion on the important questions now under
consideration, the directors have resolved to issue
proxies, whiCh will be used in support of the views
hereinbefore expressed, unless shareholders, in re-
turning them, give instructions to the contrary."

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burgh ;. and_ the testiinoniaN which, as a matter of
form, he sent in as a candidate, form a remarkable
collection. Among the names of those who Eel) t
him such letters are those of Sir John F. W.
Herschel, Dr. Briuckley, Bishop of Cloyne ; Dr.
Lloyd, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin ; Dr.
Whewell, G. B. Airy; Sir W. R. Hamilton, Lord
Brougham, Lord Napier (President of the Astrono-
mical Society), Sir G.Mackenzie, Jeffrey, John Dal-
ton (:Manchester), the Duke of Gordon, the Marquis
of Tweeddale, Sir T.' Brisbane (President of the
Edinburgh Royal Society), Sir James South, and
many others of note. In 1838 the Crown appointed
him Principal of the United Colleges of St. Salvator
and St. Leonard, St. Andrews. In the year 1849, on
the decease of the great Berzelius, the Imperial In-
stitute of France elected Sir David to fill the vacant
place in the list of their foreign associates. The late
King of Prussia also sent him the Order of Merit
founded by-Frederick-the Great; and in 1855Nupo-
leon 111. appointed him an officer of the Legion of
Honour. In 1859 be was unanimously elected Princi-
pal of the University of Edinburgh, and after having
been secretary of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
and vice-president for many years; he was elected
its president in 1864. Sir David Brewster leaves
behind him a monument in his published writings,
which would fill a small library. His " Optics,"
published in the " Cabinet Cyclopdia," is an ad-
mirable popularised treatise on. a difficult subject.
His "Natural Magic" was a companion volume to
Sir W. Scott's " Demonology and Witchcraft," and
despite Sir David's skill, by no means explains the
legends.recountod in Sir Walter's book. It is to be
regretted thAt when Ife-Tad-tlie-cipp-sr-
nity, should have refused to investigate phenomena
the first sight of which greatly astonished him, and
concerning which he unfortunately was led to make
contradictory statements. Besides his direct con-
tributions to scientific knowledge, the biography of
Sir Isaac Newton and the " Martyrs of Science"
may be set down as in the domain of history. In
1854 he wrote, in reply to Whewell's odd specula-
tion, entitled " The Plurality of Worlds," a short
treatise under the name, " More Worlds than One,
the Creed of the Philosopher and the Hope of the
Christian," the latter phrase touching on an issue
which the philosopher of Cambridge had in no way
raised. Be his faults, however, what they may, he
has left behind him a name which England, and
especially Scotland, who boasts him as her proper
sen, will delight to honour.

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Two new members
will have to take their seats in the House of Commons on
its reassembling this week—viz., Mr. Lowther, returned
for Westmoreland, in the room of the lion. Col. Lowther,
deceased ; and Mr. W. H. Maxwell, returned for Kirkcud-
brightshire, in the room of Mr. J. Mackie, deceased. Tho
total number of new members returned to the House since
the dissolution in July, 1865, has thus been increased
to 62. The names of these new members are :—Lord J.
Hay, Mr. J. Candlish, Mr. R. Arkwright, t'ie Hon. G.
Denman, Mr. M. Wyvill, Mr. H. Herbert, Mr. H. Whit-
more (who obtained his seat on petition), Sir E. Lechmere,
Mr. N. Eckersley, Mr. J. Goldsmid, Mr. J. E. Gorst, Mr.
C. Capper, Sir J. Hay, the Hon. E. W. Lascelles, Mr. H.
Eykyn, Mr. C. Edwards, Mr. B. Osborne, Lord Amberloy,
Mr. D. Fordyce, Lord Eliot, Mr. M. Chambers, Mr. T. B. T.
Hildyard, Mr. Lowther, Mr. W. H. Maxwell, Mr. W. B. Brett
(who obtained his seat on petition), Mr. J. A. Smith, Mr.
R. Nicholson, the 'Hon. J. M. Henniker-Major, Mr. F. S.
Corrance, Mr. P. Vac:derby], Viscount Barrington; Captain
D. Pennant, Mr. Rowel Gwyn, Captain White, Mr. Jorvois
Smith, Mr. R. Garth, Mr. J. Bowen, Sir C. Lanyon, Mr.
E. De la Peer, Mr. A. M. Kavanagh, Mr. J. Vance, Sir J.
B. Karslake, Mr. E. K. Karslake, Mr. E. G. Stopford, Mr.
Smith Barry, the Hon. 0. Duncombe, Mr. G. Morris, Mr.
H. Labouchere, Lord Ronald Leveson Gower, Mr. H.
Edwards, Mr. Ti. M. Jackson, Mr. G. Dixon, Colonel E. A.
Somerset, Mr. W. Keown, Mr. H. S. P. Wiuterbotham,
Lord Hubert Canning Burke, Mr. R. R. Warren, Mr. G.
H. Finch, Mr. E. S. Gordon, Mr. M. W. Thompson, Mr. 'l'.
T. Paget, and Mr. Jacob Bright. Several elections are
now pending—viz., Argyllshire, by the retirement of Mr.
A. S. Finlay ; Cambridge University, by the elevation of
Sir C. J. Selwyn to the judicial bench ; Helston, by the
appointment of Mr. W. B. Brett as Solicitor-General ; and
Bristol, by the anticipated resignation of Sir M. Peto.
PICKING HOLES IN COATES. —Belgravia, which
really scarcely does justice to the quarter whence it takes
its name, has opened its chaste columns to a most mali-
cious attack on the character of poor Romeo Coates. The
most disgraceful imputations were freely made by the
ignorant and reckless writer on Mr. Robert Coates' private
character. These have been most perfectly refuted by
those who were intimate friends of the late gentleman.
This nuisance is a growing one; certain scribblers, whose
utter ignorance of their subject is only exceeded by their
presumption, haunt, like literary ghosts, the graves of deal
men, more or less celebrated in their lifetime, aed dig up
the corpse for the purpose of defacing it. We are not sur-
prised at Belgravia finding a place in its columns for one
of these pieces of calumnious twaddle. We shall be sur-
prised if they find a place for an apology. Why not, out
of compliment to the author of " Circe," change the name
of this notorious magazine to Whitechapel?—The Toma-
hawk.

REC' AND LOSS Or Ltd;:.--The schooner Jane,
of Portrush. struck on Cans Rock, near the Skerties,
yesteraav evening, and sank in deep water. Four of
her crew were drowned.

MUNIFICEN•M—The Bolton Guardian says that Mr.
Seddon, of Westhoughton, has signified his intention
to erect. at an expense of £5,000, a new church in
the place of the present old chapel of ease of. St.
Bartholomew. in that township.
COURT MARTIAL ON A SUSPECTED FENIAN. —The
court-martial re-assembled in Dublin on Saturday for
the trial of James Rourke, private 86th regiment, on
a charge of going in the procession on the Bth December
last. Witnesses were examined in support of the
charge. The prisoner in his defence denied any con-
nection with Fenianism, and his mother and sister
were examined, and deposed that the prisoner was in
the house of the former in Winetavern-street at the
time the procession passed. The Deputy Judge
Advocate having summed up, the court adjourned.
SCENE AT A FIRE. —A disastrous fire, and one that
almost terminated fatally to more than one inmate,
occurred this morning on the premises of Mr. Sward,
tobacconist, 16, Oxford-street. The proprietor and
his wife were absent from home The fire broke out
in the basement, and speedily shot through the
upper part of the premises, rendering the escape
of those in the bouse, comprising the servant-maid
and three or four children, almost impossible
An immense crowd collected on the alarm being
raised, and the firemen being soon on the spot, praise-
worthy efforts were made to rescue the persons named.
The cheering of the crowd was most enthusiastic, as
the children were one by one rescued from the back
and front windows of the dwelling. The servant was
saved by one of the firemen literally dragging her
from the burning building by the hair of her head.
The cause of the fire is unknown. The premises
were insured in the Imperial Fire Office.
FORGING SCOTTISH BANK NOTE.S. —On Saturday,
at the Birmingham Police-court, two men, described
as Charles King, retired licensed victualler, and
William Breckenridge, agent, both living in Birming-
ham, were charge.4.l with obtaining plates for the .pur-
pose of forging bank notes on the British L. inen 0
pany—a Scotch bank. Mr. Motterain, in applying
for a remand, said that, by the exertions of the police,
as infamous a fraud as could be conceived had been
detected. There was no doubt, as the evidence would
show, that it was the intentionb of the Frisoners,
wading
k, to transfer it, s
obtained a note of the
forge bank notes, for the purpose of passing amongst
the Highland cattle dealers in Scotland, persons who
had a great preference for a bank note of the Linen
Company. Other persons, no doubt, were concerned
with the prisoners, but as far as was at present known
the prisoners were the most guilty. The Mayor re•
manded the prisoners until Friday.
[ADvsnrismixsa--Henceforth no one will doubt the valuable
properties of' Du Barry's. health-restoring Revalenta Arabica
Invalids' and Infants Food, since to the thousands of blessings
alr lay received from Invalids whose position had been
now add that of his Holiness the Pope.
iciehemaged hopeless, we may
whose health has been perfectly restored by it after thirty years
of unsuccessful medical treatment. We quote from the "Gazette
du Midi," July 25th :—"Roms, July 21, 1866.—" The health of
the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, abandoning all
other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du Barry's
Revalenta Arabic& Food, of Val& he consumes a plateful
at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly beneficial
effect on his heaM, and his Holiness cannot praise this
excellent food too highly." We extract a few out of
more than 68,000 cues:—Cure No. 58,216, of the Marchioness
de Brehan, of seven years' liver eanKilaint, wasting away,
debility, nervousness, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad
digestion, constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable ner-
vous agitation. Cure No. 1,771: Lord Stuart de Bodies, Lord
Lieutenant of Waterford, of many years' dyspepsia. No. 49,532 :
" Fifty years' indescribable agony from dyspepsia, nervousness,
asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency, spasms, sickness, and
vomiting.—Maria Joly." Cure No. 46,270: Mr. James Roberts,
of Frimley, Surrey, of 30 years' diseased lungs, spitting of blood,
liver derangement, and partial deafness Important Caution.—
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