The Sun.
London, England, 1868-02-28 00:00:00

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Advice upon the Toilet. Fee, 2s. 6d.

RAIR COLOUR WASH.—By damping the
head with this beautifully-perfumed Wash, in
seven or ten days the hair assumes its original colour, and
remains so by an occasional using. 10s. 6d. ; sent for
stamps. —ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Holborn, London,
arid all Chemists.

UJust published, 2d. ; sent by the author for 3 stamps,
GLINESS and BEAUTY ; being a Pamphlet
descrip
,tive of articles and means used for improv-
ag the appearance. By ALEX. ROSS, 248, High Hol-
London. Had of all booksellers.

IVIR. 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-
pals 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 home from 10 till 5.

REALTE RESTORED WITHOUT MEDICINE OR EXPENSE.
ly BARRY'S delicate health-restoring Invalids'
and Infants' Food.

THE REVALENTA ARABICA
B"'es fifty times its cost in other remedies, and restores
Perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver,
refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy to the
binst disordered or enfeebled—removing speedily and
effectually indigestion (dyspepsia), cough, asthma, con-
etnnption, habitual constipation, diarrhoea, all gastric de-
,,rangernents, haemorrhoids, liver complaints, flatulency,
Ze._rvonsness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, diphtheria,
irrrlie, colds, influenza, noises in the hoad and ears,
rmatism gout, impurities, eruptions, hysteria, neu-
giai irritability, sleeplessness, acidity, palpitation,
taarthurn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramp., spasms,
theand sickness even in pregnancy or at sea, sinking
ths: bronchitis, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at
the
Pit ef the stomach and between the shoulders. It is
f:,41013t digestible and nourishing of all foods, and suitable
rinivalids and infants in all complaints.
and more
CAITTION.—Boware of the many unsavoury
tnnre than slopy imitations to which, without autho-
rity, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached.
b"-9neeforth none will doubt the valuable properties of
atid rrY's health-restoring Revalenta .Arabica Invalid!3'
h., infants' Food, since to the thousands of blessings it
Cs already received from invalids whose position bad
been deemed hopeless, we may now add that of his Roll-
li-vßsisitir Pope, whose health has been perfectly restored
IV: after thirty years of unsuccessful medical treatment.
68 `,fie
from the Gazette du Midi, July 25th (Cure No.
II0)3,1„. me, July 21st, 1866.—The health of the
of ether ls excellent, especially since,,abandoning all
13 ger remedies, he has confined himself entirely to Du
biaertrY's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a
b blab at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly
bet!? esacial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot
e this excellent food too highly."
yea 'lre No. 58,216 of the Marchioness de Brehan, of seven
rleste liver complaint, wasting away, debility, nervous-
diaTritability, with a nervous palpitation all over. bad
nerv- °llBni constant sleeplessness, and the most intolerable
gt o,,agitation.
0. 78, of dyspepsia, from the Right Hon. the Lord
foti"' Decies, Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Water-•
feed have, derived much benefit from your excellent
Witt's''''TrAnT DE DECIDS, Dromana, Cappoquin, County
erford”
s-ure
froe, dNo. 49,832.-- Of fifty years' indescribable agony
flatttlepepsla, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation,
Of'lCY+ spasms, sickness, and vomiting. Maria Jolly,
Lynn No
N
1,4 g No.
47,121.—Mi5s Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme
voile fancies,"e indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and ner-
,
Year. 0- 4,814.—Mr. Samuel Laxton, Leicester, of two
'nerrl. •
The .F
21b., 4 eed is sold in Canisters, at Is. lid. ; 11b., 2s. 9d.
,c4ni,,,,,ra e* d•; 121 b , 225. ; 241 b., 40s. The 121 b. and 241 b
ca.,..,rriepe. free on receipt of Post-office Order, by
also at t.,-"u BARRY and Co., 77, Regent-s treet, London ;
grocers' ertnuna and Mason's, and sold,.by all respectable

TILSCOVERY OF GUNPOWDER (TEA,)__
_RJ, Large quantities of the very finest descriptions have
been discovered in Great St. Helen's, at the Warehouses of the
"LAST INDIA TEA CO3IPANY,"

and are going off rapidly at importers' prices. Also the most deli-
cious Kaisows and Monings ever shipped from China, from 2s. Gd.
upwards. Family Tea, 25.; in half-chests, ls. 10d. Tea fot the
million, is. id Price Lists post free on application at 9, Great
St. Helen's Church-yard, Bishopsgate-street.

-0 RICE'S NEW PATENT NIGHT
LIGHTS," for burning in the wide glasses are the very
best Night Lights made. "PRIC E'S CHIL DS' NIGH T
L IGHT S," are excellent, and burn without a glass. Order of
any dealer.

WTTS'S CAPSULE PATENTS.—To prevent
infringements, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
that BETTS'S name is on every Capsule he makes for the
principal merchants of England and France, thus enabling
vendor, purchaser, and consumer not only to identify the
genuineness of the capsule, but likewise the contents of
the vessel to which it is applied. The Lord Chancellor,
in his judgment on the Bth inst., said— _ _

"That the Capsules are not used merely for the purpose
of ornament, but that they are servicable in protecting the
Beer from injury and insuring its genuineness."
Feb. 20, 1868.
Manufactories, 1, Wharf-road, City-road, London ; and
Bordeaux, France.

IRE. SCOTT'S LIVER and BILIOUS
PILLS.—A NEVER-FAILING REMEDY.—Pre-
pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe
of Dr. Scott, Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to
all who suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indiges-
tion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, er..c.
For habitual costiveness, as s family aperient medicine,
and as a purifier of the blood, thy are truly excellent ;
mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they
create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the
whole nervous system.—Prepared only and sold by W.
Lambert, chemist, 6, King William-street, Charing-cross,
London, and by most druggists, in boxes, is. lid., and
three times the quantity iu one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for
Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a
square green package, with "William Lambert" engraved
on the stamp.

PARTRIDGE AND COOPER'
WHOLESALE MANUFAuTURING STATIONERS, 192.
FLBET-STREET VOLICRNER
SUPPLIED OF CHANCERYATW-LANE), LONDON, Ho.
THE P BHOLESALE
PRICES.
CARRIAGE PAID TO THE COUNTRT ON ORDERS
OVER 20s.

Per ream.
e. cL

Fine Cream Laid Note: a cheap paper 8 0
Superfine Cream Laid Note: much approved 4 0
Superfine Thick Cream Laid Note; especially recom-
- 5 6
mended
Extra Superfine Double Thick Cream Laid Note 7 0
Straw Paper, " Patent ;" adapted for rapid writing
Large Commercial Note Papers 38., 45., 55., and 6 0
Foolscap Papers, blue or cream ........10s. 61, 12s. 6d., and 14 0
Outsides Foolscap, thick hand-made
Letter Paper for scribbling
Tinted Lined Note
pfilavin,e
q4uirs.;esrullse.d6ddi:,totor 45 Co
per 1,000
Superfine Cream or Blue Envelopes 4s. 61, ss. 6d.,
and 6 6
Extra Thick ditto, "Registered Secure" 9 0
Large Blue Wove Commercial Envelopes 4 6
Cheap Buff Colour, for circulars, &c.
COLOUR STAMPING (Relief) reduced to ls. per 100. Polished
steel dies sunk by the best artists in the trade at about half the
prices charged by the retail houses.
An ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE, containing full descrip-
tion, with prices of Account Books, Copying. Presses, Inkstands,
Stationery Cabinets, Postage Scales, Despatch Boxes, Travelling
Writing Cases, Desks, Bags, &c., post free.

ONE HUNDRED & SEVENTY DESTITUTE
ORPHAN CHILDREN are being maintained in the
ROYAL ALBERT ORPHAN ASYLUM, at the moderate rate
of £25 per annum each. Funds greatly needed.
CHARLES A. WALKER, Secretary.
Office, 98, Cheapside, London, E.O

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing'

370 children.
£l5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank,
214, High Holborn, and 41, Lothbury, E.C. • and by
WILLIAM WII:LIAMS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.

T FIE RESCUE SOCIETY'S HOMES
are as follows :
For Fallen Women.
28, Church-row, Hamp- 150, New Kent-road.
stead. 48, Church-street, Stoke
13, Camden-street, Camden- Newington.
town. Maize-hill Cottage, Green-
-205, Great Portland-street. I 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,
The home at Great Portland-street is for young fallen
girls from 10 to 16. The 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 are recorded in the applicant's book.
In addition to the above-named homes, the Committee
have under their charge three homes for servants of good
character, in which are admitted about 1,000 friendless
servants annually.
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. COOPER, Sec.
85, Queen-street Cheapside.

ROYAL 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.
Vieo-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
destiatte sick has for a considerable period averaged be-
tween 8,000 and 4,000 weekly.
The Committee earnestly solicit the assistance of the
benevolent, as the premises of this hospitil are capable of
containing several hundred more beds had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.

Contributions are received by their bankers, Messrs.
Brown, Hansom, and Co., Abchurch-lane ; also by Messrs.
Coutts and Co.; .Drummond and Co. ; Glyn and Co, ;
Herries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and
Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co.; Barclay and Co. ; Williams,
Deacon, and Co.; Nisbet and Co., Berners-street ; and at
the Hospital, from 10 till 5.

BUN HILL FIELDS BURIAL GROUND.
THE COMMITTEE OF TfIE CORPORATION
OF LONDON, charged with the execution of the Act 30
and 31 Vie., cap. 38, intituled "An Act, for the Preseria-
tion of Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, in the County of
Middlesex, as an open space, and for other purposes relating
thereto ;" hereby gives Notice to the relatives and friends
of those who have been interred in the said Burial Ground
that they are about to proceed, at an early date, with so
much of the said act as directs that the sail ground shall
be laid out with ornamental and other walks in order to
its being used and enjoyed as an open space, accessible to
the public.
The CoMmittee, before proceeding to lay out the walks,
invite all parties who may bo interested, to visit the
Burial Ground for the purpose of recognising. and iden-
tifying the Graves, Tombs, and Vaults in which their re-
latives or friends may be inter. ed.
Persons desirous to visit the ground will be permitted
to do so, free of charge, upon application to the Keeper
between the hours of 9 a.m. and 6 o'clock p.m.
• .

Any communications on the subject should be
addressed to the Bunbill Fields Committee, at the Town
Clerk's Office, Guildhall.

WOODTHORPE.

CONTRACTS FOR COCOA, TOBACCO, AND WINE
CONTRACT DEPARTMENT, ADMIRALTY,
Somerset House, 17th,February. 18 iB.
THE COMMISSIONERS for EXECUTING
the OFFICE of LORD HIGH ADMIRAL of the
UNITED KINGDOM of GREAT BRITAIN and IRE-
LAND do hereby Give Notice, that on MONDAY, the 2d
March next, at Twelve o'clock at noon, they will be ready
to treat with such persons as may be willing to CON-
TRACT for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's
Victualling Stores, at Deptford, the undermentioned
articles, viz.:—

To be ten-
Quantities. dered for at
Rates.
COCOA 400,000 lb.
TOBACCO
WHITE WINE 2,000 Gals. per Gallon.
When to be Delivered.—One half of each quantity in three
weeks from date of Contract, and the remainder thereof
in three weeks afterwards, or earlier if preferred by the
party tendering.
Tenders may be made for the whole or any portion of
the articles.

Separate Tenders aro to be made for each article.

Their Lordships reserve to themselves the power, when
the Tenders are opened, of contracting either for the
whole, or for such part thereof only as they may deem fit,
or for a greater quantity, or of not contracting for any, and
also an unlimited power of selection in accepting the
Tenders.

The Cocoa, Tobacco, and Wino to be exempted from the
Customs' duties, and Parties tendering are to state where
they are lying.
Each Tender for Cocoa must specify the mark and land-
ing number of each cask or package, the ship in which im-
ported, and the country or place of their growth or pro-
duce, and an average sample (not less than 21b. for each
import mark) must be produced by the parties tendering,
and not an average of different marks or several imports,
and any parcel that is found not to be of the same mark or
average quality as the samples tendered and accepted, will
be rejected by the officers.
Each Tender for Tobacco must specify the several trade
marks and numbers, and the countries or places of its
growth or produce, and a fresh-drawn dock sample of
each cask or package must be produced by the parties ten-
dering ; and any cask or package that is found not be of
the same mark, number, or quality as the sample tendered
and accepted, will be rejected by the officers.
Samples of the Wine (two pints) for each import mark
must be produced by the parties tendering.
No Tenders will be received unless made in accordance
with the above denomination of quantities and rates; and
Contractors in claiming payment for articles supplied aro
to make out their invoices in accordance therewith, both
as to quantities and rates.
No Tender will be received unless made on the Printed
Form provided for the purpose, which may be obtained on
application in the Lobby of the Department of the Con-
troller of Victualling, Admiralty, Somerset House, where
the conditions of the Contracts may be seen.
No Tender will be received after Twelve o'clock at noon
on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the
party tendering or an agent on his behalf should attend
at the office on the day of Contract, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
him and to his proposed sureties in writing, when, but not
before, the rejected samples are to be removed.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the left-hand corner the words,
" Tender for ;" and must also be delivered at
the Department of the Controller of Victualling, Admiralty,
Somerset House.

By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

CONTRACTSC VEGETABLES,
nltOrßa
atCD.
eFRESHFORpart BEEF,
mT nEen
tDepartment,
Aso diMUTTON,I7AR BREAD,IN
ISomersetN
IN-
FIRMARIES AT Witoouose7l7ltChliFeA:DniaiCryrall, CHATHAM.
Contract
THE COMMISSIONERS, for executing the
Office of Lord High Admiral of the United King-
dcm of Greactritain and Ireland do hereby Give Notice
that on THURSDAY, sth March next, at Half-past One
o'clock, they will be ready, at the Office of the Director-
General of the Medical Department of the Navy, Somerset
House, in London, to treat with such persons as may be
willing. to CONTRACT for the SUPPLY of all such
quantities of all or any of the following ARTICLES as
shall from time to time be required for the use of either
one or both of the Royal Marine Infirmaries at Woolwich
and Chatham, from the first day of April next to the 81st
day of March, 1869, viz.:—
BEEF and MUTTON,
BREAD,
MILK,
Samples of the Soap, together with the Conditions of
the Contracts, may be seen at the Office of the Director-
General of the Medical Department, or by applying to the
Purveyor at the Infirmaries at Woolwich and Chatham.
No Tender will be received unless made on the printed
form provided for the purpose, and which may be obiained
on application in the Lobby of the Medical Department,
Admiralty, Somerset House, and to the Purveyors atWool-
wich and Chatham.
No Tender will be received after Half-past One o'clock
on the day of treaty, and it will not be required that the
party tendering, or an agent on his behalf, should attend
at the Office on the day of Contract, as the result of the
offer received from each person will be communicated to
him and his proposed sureties in writing.
Every Tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the
Admiralty, and bear in the loft hand corner the words
"Tender for ," and must also be delivered at the
Medical Department, Somerset House, accompanied by a
letter, signed by a responsible person, engaging to become
bound with the person tendering in the sum of £lOO for
the due performance of the Contracts for Beef and Mutton,
for Bread and for Vegetables, and in the sum of £5O for
each of the other Contracts.
By order,
ANTONIO BRADY,
Registrar of Contracts and Public Securities.

SOAP, YELLOW,
VEGETABLES.

IRIENDLESS AND FALLEN.-LONDON
FEMALIA; PREVENTIVE and REFORMATORY IN
STITUTION,

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

NATIONAL ORPHAN HOME, Ham-common,
Richmond, Surrey. Founded 1849. Enlarged 1861
Under the patronage of H.R.H. the Duke of CAMBRIDGE, K.G.,
whereby a home has been afforded for 280 Destitute Orphan
Girls of all ages, classes, and denominations, from all parts of
the kingdom.
The object of the Charity is to give orphan gills 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 15 years of age, to obtain
suitable situations for them.
The Committee earnestly appeal for support. The Charity is
entirely sustained by donations and subscriptions.
HENRY KINGSCOTE, Treasurer]
W, 11. WAItIVICK, Secretary.
Office, 121, Pall mall, S.W

PAINLESS DENTISTRY.
J[ESSES. GABRIEL, DENTISTS (Established
Cavendish-square,;
1815), of
London
11
Liverpool 134, Duke-street, and 7
Brighton
654,6' L Harley-street,
au
Ludgate-hill, lgeayt-es-thr ei
lel t,l E Al _
have just published a NEW PAMPHLET explaining
their Painless System of Dentistry, and self-adhesive Artifi-
cial Teeth without springs, at MODERATE CHARGES, which
may be had free by post for four stamps.

(ADVERTISEMENT.]—Du Barry s Delicious Health Restoring
Revalenta Arabica Food, which contains throe times the
nourishment of the best meat, saves fifty times its cost in other
remedies, restores perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs,
removing
habitual
constipation, nd
healthy liver, refreshing sllicevdeeyprs,pfceuonmcptiloaninatlsr,efiguatluariletnye,ya,nndeernveorugyst
effectually
diarrhoea,et ehteu
yo most v
indigestiondmisoorrrdheor
dds or enfeebled,
p sa ),
ness, biliousness, fevers, sore throats, catarrhs, colds, influenza
noises in the head and ears, rheumatism, gout, impurities, erup-
tions, hysteria, neuralgia, irritability,
sleeplessness, acidity, pal-
pitation, heartburn, headache, debility, dropsy, cramps, spasms,
nausea, and sickness, sinking fits, coughs, asthma, bronchitis,
incipient consumption, scrofula, tightness of the chest, pains at
the pit of the stomach, between the shoulders, &c. We quote a
few out of 68,000 cures :—The
Pope's health restored by Du
Barry's Food.--Cure No. 68,413. "Rome, July 21, 1866.—The
health of the Holy Father is excellent, especially since, aban
(Zoning all other remedies, he has confined himself entirely to
Du Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food, of which he consumes a
plateful at every meal. It has produced a surprisingly benefl
cial effect on his health, and his Holiness cannot praise this
excellent food too highly."—From the "Gazette du Midi," July
25. Cure No. 49,832.—" Of fifty years' indescribable agony from
yicai:a
dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, flatulency,
spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomiting." Maria Joly,
Wortham, Ling, near Diss, Nprfolk.—Cure No. 47,121.—Mi5s
Elizabeth Jacobs, of Nazing ge, Waltham Cross, Herts,
of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits,
and nervous fancies. Important Caution.—Beware of the many
unsavoury and more than sloppy imitations to which, without
authority, Baron Liebig's name is most audaciously attached
in tins at Is. 10.; 1 lb., 2s 9d. ; 2 lbs., 45. 6d, ; 5 lbs. lls. ;
12 lbs., .225.; 24 lbs., 405.— BARRY DU BARRY and Co., No. 77,
Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason, 182, Piccadilly;
and at 61, Gracechurch-street; 4, Cheapside; 63, 150, and 298,
Oxford-street 330 Strand; and All MOM And chemists.

The death of Lord Wensleydale on Tuesday last,
in his 89th year, severed one of the few remaining
links between the last and the, present century.
Contemporary of Campbell, St. Leonards, Lushing-
ton, and Pollock, and but a few years junior to
Lyndhurst and Brougham, he belonged to a still
older school of legal thought, and represented a type
which now becomes extinct. Like so many of our
greatest lawyers, ho was born (on the 22d March,
1782) in the north of England, and educated in one
of those north country grammar schools from which
Cambridge has derived her very sturdiest mathe-
maticians. In October, 1799, he entered Trinity
College as a pensioner, but was elected Scholar in
the next year, and in 1803 gained the double honour,
which few have since rivalled, of the fifth place,
among the Wranglers and the Senior Chancellor's
Medal. In 1804 he became Fellow of Trinity, and
soon afterwards commenced reading for the Bar, a
profession for which his remarkable industry and
rare subtlety of intellect peculiarly fitted him. He
was not, however, called to the Bar until the year
1813, but in the meantime he had acquired a con-
siderable practice below the Bar as a pleader, and
retained to the very last that partiality for prece-
dent and form to which the interests of justice were
too often sacrificed in the good old days of " special
demurrer." Four years later he married, and after
15 years' experience on the Northern Circuit, but
without attaining the dignity of a silk gown, suc-
ceeded Mr. Justice Holroyd as a Puisne Judge in
the Court of Queen's Bench, over which Lord Ten-
terden then presided. From this period until Jan.,
1856, he was a distinguished member of the Judicial
Bench, being transferred in 1831 to the Court of
Exchequer, where be sat, as Baron Parke, for no
less than 22 years. It was often said, indeed, that
Baron Parke ruled the Exchequer, and it is certain
that its decisions were influenced, if not coloured,
by an habitual deference to his authority, always on
the side of adherence to the letter, even where it
conflicted with the spirit, of the law. We can
well imagine the disgust which the sweeping in-
novations and vernacular phraseology of the Com-
mon Law Procedure Acts, passed in 1852 and
1851, must have inspired in a mind so constituted ;
nor did he long retain his seat upon the Bench
after they had transformed the whole system of
pleading and practice. At the beginning of 1856
Lord Palmerston conferred upon him the celebrated
life peerage, which is likely to be associated with
his name when the memory of his long judicial
career and profound learning shall have faded into
obscurity.

It is but twelve years since this great constitu-
tional question was raised and discussed with great
ability, yet of those who took a leading part in
those famous debates how few are still to be found
in their places ! Lord Lyndhurst, who, though
past four-score, was the real hero of the day, passed
away from among us four years ago ; Lord Camp-
bell, who on this occasion sided with the Conserva-
tive Peers, had preceded him two years before to
the grave ; Lord Brougham survives, but with
shattered powers, after a life of activity unpt ece-
dented for its duration in modern times ; Lord
Derby, by far the youngest among the prominent
opponents of the bill, has just been compelled
by failing health to resign office. The import-
ance of the principle at stake was not unworthy of
the interest which it excited. Lord Wensleydale
had no sons, and known to be far advanced in years.
Nothing, therefore, was to be gained by limiting his
peerage by patent to the term of his natural life
but the creation of a precedent vitally affecting the
constitution of the House of Lords. The real con-
troversy was felt, and justly felt, to be, not between
the prerogative of the Crown and the privileges of
the Upper House, but rather between an official
and an hereditary peerage. This is not the place
to revive the argument upon its merits, but no one
can blame the spirit of the House of L )rds, what-
ever may be thought of their policy, in resisting a
claim which threatened ultimately to place their in-
dependence at the mercy of the House of Commons.
The result was, as is well known, that a new patent
was granted, under which Baron Parke, instead of
taking his seat as Baron Wensleydale, of Wensley-
dale, for life, took the title of Baron Wensleydale,
of Walton, in Yorkshire, with the remainder to
himself and his issue male. As he died without
such issue, the barony is now extinct.
The appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords,
which it was the professed object of his elevation to
strengthen, has since been reinforced by Lord
Westbury, Lord Cairns, and Lord Romilly. His
mature and penetrating judgment, however, will be
sensibly missed there, as well as at the Privy Coun-
cil, of which he was a member for 35 years. A
Liberal in politics, he never took a conspicuous
share in political movements, and seldom made a
speech on any but legal questions in the House of
Lords. It is, perhaps, more remarkable, in an age
when authorship is the foible of public men, that
he never wrote a book even upon a legal subject,
or edited a single volume of Law Reports. On the
other hand, the scholarship of his earlier years
ripened into a higher culture in his old age, while
the geniality of disposition which had made him a
favourite with the Bar never failed to characterise
his manner in private society. If he cannot be
numbered among the brightest luminaries of Eng-
lish law, he at least earned and maintained for half
a century the respect of his profesSion, and leaves
behind him a spotless reputation.

TRADE WITH JAPAN.

(From a Correspondent of the Times.)

thoGo, Jan. 2.
Yesterday the ports of Iflogo and Osaka were
formally openedto European traffic. This ceremony
ought to have taken place long ago, but on one
pretext or another the Japanese authorities have
hitherto successfully opposed it. Now, however,
all restrictions are removed, and all the advan-
tages—real or supposed—resulting therefrom are
only waiting for enterprising speculators to gather
them.

Osaka, one of the five imperial cities, is situated
in Niphon, on the banks of the river Jodogawa, at
the north-eastern extremity of the inland sea. No
vessels larger than barges can approach within two
miles of it. It is intersected by canals cut from the
river deep enough to be navigable by small boats,
which bring the goods to the merchants' doors.
Upwards of 100 wooden bridges, many extraordi-
narily beautiful, span these channels. The town is
certainly the most important commercial entrepot in
the empire. It abounds in manufactures of every
kind, and is also the resort of rich people from all
parts of the country, who are attracted by the num-
ber of theatres and other diversions which have made
some writers call Osaka the Paris' of Japan. It is
also celebrated as being the place where the best
saki is brewed. This, the only intoxicating liquor
made in Japan, is sent to all parts of the empire,
much as Burton ale is with us. It is very superior
to the sanishu of the Chinese, but latterly many of
the Princes have taken to bitter beer and cham-
pagne, so we may reasonably entertain hopes of
their ultimate civilisation.

lliogo, also a large and important city on the
sea coast, about 18 miles from Osaka, possesses the
inestimable advantage of good and secure anchorage
for ships of any size and in any number at a short
distance from the shore. It is built on a plain be-
tween the sea and the mountains, which from a
sheltering background to it, as Mourcale does to
Palermo. Yesterday there were pr,:sent the line-
of-battle ship Rodney, bearing the flag of Vice-
Admiral Sir 11. lieppel, Commander-in-Chief ;
Ocean (ironclad), Basilisk, Rinaldo, Cormorant,
Sylvia, Serpent, Salamis, Adventure, Manilla, and
Snap, four American sloops of war, and one Japa-
nese frigate. The ships Rattler, Laplace, and
Shenandoah represent English, French, and Ameri-
can interests respectively at Osaka, or rather as

near as they could get to it with safety. At eight
in the morning the Union-jack was heisted in the
plot of ground whi,;la has been assigned by the•au-
thorities for the European settlement, and the ships
were drez.ed with mast-head flags, flying the
Japineac Imperial ensign—a red ball on a white
ground—at the post of honour, the main. At noon
all the ships fired a royal salute, and this was the
whole ceremonial ; but it may well be doubted if
such a numerous war-fleet will ever again be assem-
bled in the waters of lliogo. Later in the day
steamers arrived from Nagasaki and Yokohama
with men of all nations on board, and stores, or
44 go-downs" as they are called in the far east, will
doubtless rapidly spring into being. The weather
has been generally fine, with an average tempera-
ture of 52 degrees Fahrenheit daring the day.
The nights are, of course, much colder; and to-day
the tops of the well-wooded hills for the first time
this winter are whitened with patches of snow.
There is game, but not much of it, in the imme-
diate neighbourhood of Hiogo. Nevertheless,
pheasants and woodcocks are sufficiently abundant
to attract many shooting parties from the officers
of the fleet. For the last three weeks these gen-
tle:nen have been permitted to land as they please,
and not the faintest indication of ill-feeling on the
part of the native population has ever been observed.
O❑ the contrary, the right hand of fellowship has
nowhere been more unmistakably proffered than by
the trading and lower classes of Hiogo, who seem
rejoiced to welcome the stranger. What their
rulers the daimios think is another matter. Admiral
Keppel has thought it prudent for the present not
to allow the blue-jackets to go on shore, but they
have leave to visit their friends who may be serving
in other ships.
One is half inclined to wonder that neither the
Russians nor the Dutch considered the opening of
these ports of sufficient importance to demand the
presence of a man-of-war. And yet perhaps they
were right. A London or Liverpool merchant hear-
ing of the opening up of a new country is apt at
once to suppose that he will find for his goods a new
market there. But really it is difficult for any one
who knows these Japanese to believe that any trading
of much consequence will be carried on with them,
at any rate for a long time to come. A few articles
of luxe for the very upper classes, with which, by
the way, the markets out here have been literally
deluged lately, are all we can expect to sell them.
All the things of every day use and consumption
they make cheaper and very often better than we do.
No doubt some day, when the enormous mineral
wealth of the country is developed by the employ-
ment of European skill and capital, Japan may be-
come of the very last importance to us. But that
will hardly be in this generation. At present a few
bales of silk, a few loads of timber, and certain
bronze and china curiosities are about all she is
likely to give us.

SPORTING INTEL LIGENCE.

WINDSOR STEEPLECHASES—TauIIsDAr.

The Military Steeplechase of 5 sovs each, with 25 added,
for horses the property of officers of the army ; winning
penalties; to be ridden by officers ; winner to be sold

for £lOO. About three miles.
Mr. Medhurst's Kingfisher, by Kingfisher (II b), aged,
list (Mr. Pritchard) 1
Colonel Knox's Stiff, aged, list 71b (Owner) 2
. _ .

The following also ;-an:—Q,nicksilver, The Vet, and
Martin.

Batting —7 to 4 on Stiff, 5 to 1 agst Kingfisher, and 6
to 1 agst any other. Won by twenty lengths.

The Borough Members' Plate of 5 sovs each, with 50 added ;

winners extra. About two miles. 17 subs.

Colonel Knox's Foxholes, by Fugleman—Ammonia. 6
yrs, lOst 121 b
Mr. Green's Violet (11. b.), aged, lOst 13th (Elphick) 2
Mr. Clifford's Viutlicator, aged, 10. st alb (Mr. Clifford, j au) 3
Horace Walpole and Little Peevish also ran.

Betting-2 to 1 agst Vin,licator, sto 2 agst Horace
Walpole, 4 to 1 (at first 6 to 4) agst Foxholes, and 6 to 1
agst Violot. Won by four length'.
The Guards' Cup of 5 sous. each, with a piece of plate
added, for hunters the property of Guards officers;
weigl.t for age. About three miles. 9 subs.
Lord C. Ker's Souple Sandy, 5 yrs, 12st (''apt. Harford) 1
Mr. Hope-Johnstone's Joe Baxter, 6 yrs, 12st, Glb (0 wner) 2
Watford and The Begum also ran.

Betting-2 to lon Souple Sandy, sto 1 agst Joe Baxter
Sto 1 agst any other. Won by three lengths.
Selling Steeplechase of 5 sovs, with 50 added ; weight
for age ; selling allowances. About two miles. 6 subs.
Mr. G. Gilks's Bandolino, aged (£80), list 101 b
(T. Ablett) 1
Mr. Godfrey's Ganymede, aged (£80), Ilst 101b(B. Land) 2
Mr. W. Bullock's Capability (late Acolyte), aged (£150)
12st 71b
StTrious Case and Love-in-a-Mist also ran.

Betting —6 to 4 agst Bandolino, 2 to 1 agst Ganymedo, 4
to 1 agst Capability, 10 to 1 agst any other. Won by a
length.

The Castle Steeplechase Plate of 5 sous each, with 50

added ; winners extra. About throe miles. 18 subs.
Mr. Ellison's The Guide, by Knight of Avenue—Allow
Me's dam, 6 yrs, lOst 121 b (Riekaby) 1
Mr. E. Dayer's Relic°, 6 yrs, 11st 31b (Potter) 2
Mr. W. Smith's Naboeklish, aged, lOst (Capt. Ilarford) 3

The following also ran:—Hopvine, A2rlescott, Vindica-
tor, and Blue Eyes.
Betting —7 to 4 agst The Guide, 5 to 2 agst Helice, 5 to
1 agst Nabocklish, 6to 1 agst Hopvine. Won by three
lengths.