The Sun.
London, England, 1868-08-20 00:00:00

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.

AGIJA AMARELLA restores the Human. Hair
to its pristine huo, no matter at what age.
JNO. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid
of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect-
ing this wonderful liquid. It is now offered to the public
in a more concentrated form, and at a lower price.
Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 16s. each.
including brush.
Red Bull Wharf, Angel-passage, 93, Upper Thames-
street. Loudon. E.C.

MR. HOWARD, SURGEON-DENTIST, 52,
Fleet-street, has introduced an entirely new de-
scription of ARTIFICIAL TEETH, fixed without
springs, wires, or ligatures. They so perfectly resemble
the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the ori-
ginals by the closest observer ; they will never change
colour or decay, and will be found superior to any teeth
ever before used. This method does not require the
extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will
support and preserve teeth that are loose, and is gua-
ranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed
teeth stopped and rendered sound and useful in masti-
cation.

52, Fleet-street. At homo from 10 till 5.
..._

RIIPTErRES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WlirrE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
Perfected and Exhibited in te Gxhibitions
of 1851 and 1862) is allowed by upwards ofreat FivEe Hundred
Medical men to be the most effective invention in
the curative treatment of HERNIA. The use of a steel
spring, so often hurtful in its effects, is here avoided—a
soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requi-
site resisting power is supplied by the Moc-Main Pad and
Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that
it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A
descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which can-
xot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the circumference of
the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the
manufacturer,
Mr. JO [IN WHITE, 228, Piccadilly, London.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage,
Is. A. Double Truss, 31s. d., 425., and 525. ed. Postage,
ls. Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 625. 13d. Postage,
Is. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White,
Post-office, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT
VLAS TIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases
of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They
are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are
drawn on like an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d.,
108., and 16s. each. Postage, 6d.
JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly.

IRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
_ FEMALE PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITITTION.

President —Rev. CANON DALE.
CONTRIBUTIONS for the support of tho Homes in 1868 are ear.
neatly solicited, which may be sent to bankers, Messrs. Blon.
quet, Salt, and Co., 73, Lombard-street, E.O. ; Francis Nicholls,
Esq. (of the Committee), 14, Old Jewry Chambers, E.O.
E. W. THOMAS Sec., 200, Euston-road, N.W.

GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL,
Caledonian-road, Islington, N.
Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
This Hospital has relieved 481,954 patients since it was
establisbeaat King's-cross in 1856. Patients are admitted
free.

Bankers—Messrs. Barnet, Lloyds, and Co. GO, Lombard.
street, Messrs. Ransom and Bonverto, 1, Pall-math—lron,
Sec., Y. Smith. Esa. GEo. REID, Sec.

ROY AL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern
Railway Terminus, King's Cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious MAJESTY the QUEEN.
Vice-Patron—
His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G.
President—His Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to
establish the principle of free admission to the sick poor,
without the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders, is
wholly dependent for support on voluntary contributions
and legacies.
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 be-
tween 3,000 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 their bankers, Messrs.
Blown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co.; Glyn. and Co„.
berries and Co.; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co.;Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Bornors-str4t • snd at
the Hospital, trove 10 till b. •

The French Government has promised its support and
assistance to the undertaking, and an honorary committee
of the highest position has been formed in Paris.
It has been generally acknowledged that, both for poli-
tical and commercial reasons, the laying of a direct and
independent cable from the Continent of Europe to the
United States was only a question of time, and consider-
ing the extraordinary increase of telegraphic messages
wherever new facilities are afforded, it is to be expected
that the new undertaking will create fresh traffic, inde-
pendent of that of the old companies, sufficient to insure
earnings of equal if not greater amount.
It will be the object of the new Company to fix such
rates for messages as will secure the largest possible traffic.
The price to be charged is intended to be £2 for a mes-
sage of 10 words, and it seems not too sanguine an expec-
tation that at this rate the line will find constant em-
ployment.
The power of transmission of the now cable is estimated,
according to the report of the engineers and electricians,
at a minimum of twelve words per minute, which, allow-
ing 14 hours a-day for waste time, and consequently only
ten hours a-day for actual work, and taking 300 working
days in the year, gives, at the rate of £2 per message, an
annual income of £432,000. Practically, the proportion of
days and hours lost would in all probability be less than
is assumed in this estimate. The working expenses of the
new line may be calculated to amount at the utmost to
£30,000 per annum.
The proposed cable will be laid in two sections—the first
from Brest, in France, to the French island of St. Pierre,
off Newfoundland ; the second from St. Pierre either to
New York direct or to a point between Boston and New
York, with a special line to the last-named city.
The length of the cable is as follows:-
Ist section, from .Brest to St. Pierre 2,325 miles.
2nd section, from St. Pierre to the United
States, about 722 „

To this length an amply 5u,047 miles.
fficient amount of Bslack will
be added.
A contract has been entered into with the Telegraph
Construction and Maintenance Company to manufacture
and lay the cable for the sum of £020,000, of which
£BlO,OOO is payable in cash by agreed instalments during
the manufacture and shipment of the cable. The remain-
ing £llO,OOO will be payable in the following manner, viz.,
£BO,OOO in fully paid up Shares, after the section from
Brest to St. Pierre shall have been laid and tested satis-
factorily for thirty successive days ; £lO,OOO in cash after
the section from St. Pierre to the United States shall have
been laid and tested for thirty days, and the final payment
of £20,000 in fully paid-up Shares after the entire cable
shall have been six months in satisfactory operation.
Allowing £lOO,OOO for the construction of the land lines,
engineers' charges, supervision, and all expenses up to the
opening of the line, and deducting the consideration here-
after stated to be given for the concession upon success,
there will remain a balance, by way of reserve, of £BO,OOO.
Tho Great Eastern will be employed in laying the deep
sea portion. Sir Samuel Canning with a competent staff
will ha ie charge of the submersion of the cable. Sir James
Anderson will act on behalf of, and watch over, the in-
terests of the Company.
The cable is contracted to be shipped in June next, and
the line is expected to be open for traffic in the course of
next year.

The cable will be of the best construction, and generally
of the same description as those manufactured by the Tele-
graph Construction Company for the Atlantic and Anglo-
American Telegraph Companies. The cable will be pro-
tected by tar like the 1865 cable, and advantage has been
taken of all the experience since gained. In accordance
with the unanimous recommendation of the engineers and
electricians, the weight of copper in the conductor has
been increased from 300Ib. to 4001 b. per knot. By this
means greater rapidity of transmission is obtained.
In tracing the route a detour has been made to avoid the
risk of icebergs and anchorage on the banks of Newfound-
land. It is on these banks that all accidents to the exist-
ing cables have occurred.
Sir James Anderson has recorded his opinion that the
object thus sought for will be fully attained.
The Concessionaires, by an agreement dated 3d August,
1868, and scheduled to the Articles of Association, have
agreed to transfer to the Company their concession from
the Imperial Government of France, together with all
their rights under the concession from the State of New
York, and the benefit of the undermentioned agreements,
and to defray all expenses up to the registration of the
Company in consideration of 5,000 fully paid Shares, to
be allotted to them whenever the Cable shall have been
successfully laid, and shall have continued to work satis-
factorily for 30 days. They will also be entitled to receive
one-fifth part of the surplus net profits in each year, after
setting aside a reserve fund, equal to 5 per cent. of the net
profits, and after payment of a dividend of 10 per cent. to
the Shareholders. These contingent profits will, for con-
venience, be attached to a portion of the fully paid shares.
It will be seen from this that the Concessionaires look only _
to the success of the undertaking for their remuneration,
and for the repayment of the expenses they have already
incurred.
Copies of the Agreements and of the Memorandum and
Articles of Association, and of the Concessions, lie for in-
spection at the Offices of the Solicitors of the Company,
Messrs. Bischoff, Coxo, and Bompaq, 19, Colotuan-street.
Prospectuses and Forms of Application for Shares may
be obtained at the Offices of the Company, Bartholomew
House, and at the Union Bank of London, Princes-street,
and their various branches,

COPIES OF REPORTS OF SIR JAMES ANDERSON
SIR WILLIAM THOMSON, MESSRS. VARLEV
CLARKE, FORDE, AND JENKIN. ,
London, 3d August, 1868.
Baron Emile d'Erlanger, Julius Router, Esq.
Dear Sirs,—With reference to the route projected for
the cable between Brest and America, I have recommended
it for the following reasons :
By keeping in the 500 fathom line upon Milne bank and
around the southern edge of the Grand bank there is no
possibility of ice, or of any other agency that GREI be sug-
gested, injuring the cable. The northern edge of the
Grand bank was avoided, because it is uncertain at what
depth the icebergs ground. They are said, upon good
authority, to ground at times in 90 fathoms.
It is not certain at what depth the vessels employed in
the seal trade may sometimes choose to drop an anchor
for the purpose of keeping their station in the track of ice
floes.

These dangers are avoided by the track chosen for the
proposed cable, and I am justified by my own experience
in saying that the track from the southern edge of the
Grand bank to St. Pierre, and thence to the place of land-
ing in America, is entirely free from any danger from ice,
and does not cross any anchorage resorted to by the fleet
of fishing vessels.
The cable upon the Milne bank and from the Grand
bank to St. Pierre, and thence to America (upwards of
1,200 miles), will be laid in water of such easy depth that
repairs will be a matter of certainty ; and we are justified,
from the soundings which already plot, in affizatipg that

SCHOOL OF NAVAL ARCHITECTURE,
ADMIRALTY, Bth August, 1868.
THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS of the AD-
MIRALTY HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that the
arrangements for the ADMISSION of persons, not already
in the Government service, to the Royal School of Naval
Architecture and Marine Engineering as ADMIRALTY
PUPILS, will, for the present year, be as follows :
Candidates must not be less than 18 or more than 21
years of age, and must have served at least two years in
private shipbuilding or engineering establishments, or
must give satisfactory proof that they have in some way
been so connected with shipbuilding or engineering opera-
tions as to become well-grounded in the elementary prin-
ciples and practice thereof.
The pupils will be selected by competitive examination,
the subjects for which, and aumbers of marks assigned for
each, are as follows :

Marks.
Pure mathematics, including arithmetic, mensura-
tion, geometry (plain and descriptive), plane tri-
gonometry, and the elements of the differential
and integral calculus 2,500
Applied mathematics,
•including mechanics and
hydrostatics m 1,000
Practical shipbuilding, including laying-off (for
shipwright's candidates only) ... 2,500
Practical marine engineering (for engineer candi-
dates only) ...
..„ ... 2500
French ,
500
Elements of physic and chymistry ••• ••• .........750
"
English grammar and composition ... ••• • .7„
Geography and History m ••• ••• "• ' ,7`n"
No candidate will be admitted who does not obtain at
least two-thirds of the full number of marks in the two
first-named subjects, and three-fifths of the full number,
either for practical shipbuilding or marine engineering.
The last four subjects, although counting in the compe-
tition, will not be considered obligatory.
The candidates who may be selected will be treated,
while attached to the School, in all respects as the Admi-
ralty pupils; they will receive wages the same as dock-
yard apprentices, commencing at ls. 6d. per day for six
days per week for first year, and increasing yearly 3d. per
day till it reaches 2s. per day ; and in addition a subsist-
ence allowance of 3s. per day for seven days per week
while away from their homes, either at the S..thool or in
the dockyards.

Seven months of each year—viz., from October till May
—will be devoted to study at the School, and the tomaining
five months to actual work and the acquirement of practi-
cal knowledge in the dockyards.
It is to be understood that the Admiralty make no en-
gagements to employ these pupils after the completion of
their course of study; and they must rely on their own
worth as educated naval architects for obtaining employ-
ment in theirsubsequent career. The number of such pupils
to be selected this year is one shipwright and one engineer.
Persons desirous of competing must forward their names,
with a certificate of birth, and of the grounds on which
they consider themselves practically qualified, enclosing
proper certificates to that effect, to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, not later than the Ist September.
The candidates should also state whether they wish to
be examined as engineers or shipwrights.
The examination will take place on the 28th Saptember
and three following days.
By command of their Lordships,
HENRY GORDON LENNOX.

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HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
196 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
160 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street,
94 girls in the Befuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing
aTO children.

£l5 will keep a boy or girl for ono year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank
214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, KC. • and by
WILLIAM WILII 4MS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoltes-inn-fields.

NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
Richmond, Surrey Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861.
Under thepatronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, E.G.,
whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
-Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of
tile kingdom.
The object of the Charity is to give orphan girls a plain Eng-
lish education, and practical instruction in the kitchen, house,
and laundry, to fit them for domestic service; and, if not other
wise provided for when they attain 18 years of age, to obtain
suitable situations for them.

The Col/mittso earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is
entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions.
HENRY KINGSOOTE, Treasurer,
W S. WARWICK Secretary.

Office, 121, Pall-mall, S W

IHE RESCUE E.
sre as fol:
For Faller

30CIETY'S HOMES
lows :
a Women.

28, Church-row, Iramp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48 Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland street. with.
For Young Girls in Danger.
27, Church-row, Hampstead.
9, Henstridge-villas, St. John s-wood.
St. Mary's Lodge, Buckhurst-hill.
Country Home—St. James's-street, Dover.
Temporary Home-85, Queen-street, Cheapside.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which aro admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. Tho committee ate deeply anxious to
open another house for this pitiable class.
The Society admitted to its homes last year 687 young
women and girls. It was compelled to refuse 524 appli-
cants, whose histories aro recorded in the applicant's book.
The Society's Report (of which a contributor writes, "I
never read a report of any charitable institution which so
entirely commended itself to my mind and awoke my
sympathy") may be had on application.
The Society is under the presidency of the Earl of
Shaftesbury. Its bankers are Messrs. Barclay and Co.
The Committee very earnestly commend its work to the
benevolent. DANL. COnEB, Sec,
_.135 Queen-West, Clzoopeide. •

The following appears in a contemporary :—lt
is not easy for the ordinary English sightseer in
Paris to satisfy his curiosity by a descent into the
famous catacombs—diffieilis descensus. Formerly
one of the regular sights of Paris, they have now
been long closed to the general public, and but very
few Parisians of the younger generation have ex-
plored those dismal vaults. Four times a year the
metropolitan surveyors officially inspect the great
ossuary, to report on the condition of the pillars
and piers which have been built to prop the exca-
vated galleries, and a select few, whose applications
to the Prefect of the Seine have been backed by
influential recommendations, are allowed on these
occasions to accompany them. Notice that the ex-
pedition is about to proceed is often received many
months after the application has been sent to the
Hotel de Ville, and a prolonged residence in Paris
seems to be an indispensable condition for obtain.
ing a sight of the catacombs.
I was fortunate enough, says the correspondent of
a contemporary, a few days ago to accompany one of
these periodical visits of inspection. The appointed
place of meeting was in the courtyard, at the back
of the office for collecting the octroi at the former
Barriere d'Enfer. M. Nadar, in the bulky Paris
guide which was printed for the use of visitors to
the Exhibition last year, describes midnight as the
hour usually appointed for these excursions, but this
is probably merely a literary artifice destined to
throw additional gloom over his narrative. We met
at noon in considerable numbers, chatting in every
language of Europe, and all provided with candles,
railway lamps, and matches. On the arrival of the
metropolitan surveyors the door of a low building,
which occupies one side of the courtyard, was un-
locked, and displayed a steep flight of narrow steps
leading underground. The inspectors mustered the
company, the candles were lit, and one by one we
descended. The hubbub of conversation was at
once hushed. We were about to visit the silent
abodes of the dead. Perhaps some of us involunta-
rily remembered ghastly tales of men who had lost
their way in this subterranean labyrinth and had
never returned to their friends and the bright sun-
shine above.
Ninety steps led us to the level ground, and we
walked during twenty minutes or half an hour
through a narrow, damp, low passage cut in the
calcareous rock. By raising my hand I could easily
touch the vault above. Right and left we passed
by innumerable openings leading away into mys-
terious gloom and silence. They were each closed
with a wooden barrier, so that we could not, had
we been tempted, turn from the right path. Sur-
veyors opened and closed the march. We were in
the ancient quarries from which the stone Paris is
built of has been extracted from the Roman period
down to the reign of Louis XIV. The subter-
r& nean galleries extend under the suburhs of St
Germain, St. Jaques, and St. Marcel. The neigh
bourhood of the Luxemburg Palace and Gardene„
and of the Pantheon, are undermined by their.
But probably they have not the vast extent or depth
which popular legend ascribes to them. Towards the
end of last century great alarm was felt throughout
Paris by the sudden sinking of several houses near the
Barrire d'Enfer. Even at present purchasers are
shy of investing the building plots that have been
recently created by the ruthless destruction of part
of the Luxemburg Gardens, in consequence of the
doubtful reputation for stability of the ground.
Since the occurrence of the accidents above men-

tioned, subterranean Paris has been carefully sur-
veyed by order of the municipal authorities. Large
sums have been spent on props and pillars, on piers
and buttresses, and a curious map of the catacombs
has been published by M. de Fourcy, C.E. The
cellars of M. Dutnenil's great brewery occupy gal-
leries of these old quarries, and persons who are
curious to form an idea of the catacombs of Paris
can do so easily by applying at No. 15, Rue du
Marche aux Chevaux, the counting house of the
brewery. The entrances to the quarries, of which
there were more than sixty, it is said, have been for
the most part closed.
We reached the gate of the necropolis. It is
painted black, flanked with columns, and bears the
inscription—

RAB , ULTRA . METAB . REQUIESCUNT BEATAM . SPENI

SPECTANTES.
The vast ossuary into which we now entered was
formed in the following manner :—ln 1784 intra-
mural interments were discontinued in Paris by an
order in council, and the old churchyard of the
innocents was first cl.eared ; other burial-places
followed, and were closed and cleared in their
turn. Respect for the dead is one of the most
deeply rooted of the religious feelings of the French
people, as every one who has visited the cemetery
of Pclra la Chaise knows, and as recent debates in
the Senate, on the proposed removal of part of the
cemetery of Montmartre, prove. A Frenchman
who neglects to visit the tomb of his parents, and
at least once a year to decorate it with wreaths, is
very ill thought of ; and the utilitarians in France
have not been successful in demonstrating to
their countrymen that old churchyards are
but quarries of phosphate of lime. The bones
were carefully removed at the end of last century
from the closed Parisian churchyards at night, I