The Express. — London, England, 1863-05-14 00:00:00

N WSPA PER 773 k 4 \ • • rit%% sszseraxß WI / ,e t 0 • /. , :_l" c1.:.';',.-•,.-/-,P. •'-://"-- i;_,- No. 5,229.) CUTTA, calling at the Cape of Good Hop! iIC tad 31(asirms—STILAM COVIIHNICATION between LON kiN sad INDIA by the mormlflcent Fleet of Steamers belongg- UR the East lean and London Shipping Company 'Limited . !be wall-known clipper portlier, steam-ship LADY JOCSL TN, 5441 term 300-borse power, ROBILRT W. KKR, Commander, 'ow loading in the Victoria (London) Docks will leave on nb June, embarking puniness at and bsaving Gravesend on the 'sk June, for Calcutta, calang at the Cape of Good Hope and Wren. This mssinificeet ship, built erpresaly for the India trade, ne been thoroughly refitted, has first-rate accommodation for *mermen, and will carry an ezponeneed surgeon, also a r b s swage passage of tale company's steamers last came was 70 days to Madras ; the Calcutta having performed the voyage In 69 days, being the shortest on record. The Um will be coot). ocd on the 10th of each succeeding owith, with the strictest pun. tuality, by one of the company's rmnlScent fleet of auxiliary screw steamships. For freight or Damage apply to GRINDLAY sad Co., la, Pars nment-stnset, S.W.. the brokers. ALFRED Me' mad Co., Loadenball.afaeet. &C.: or at the Ofecos of the Company, 1, Yinclag-lane, Leedom, &C.: where also applies:lona for ippolistments as saldshipMea In this service should be made. RICHARD MUM, Secretary. East India and London Shipping Company (Limited), 9, Mincing-Lane, &C. CALCUTTA Direct—NOTlCE to SHIPPERS. The 1111t1711A, A I 13 yeara will receive incestweroent ;foci' only to the East India Docks all day Saturday. the 16th Istaanh nt. —Apply to GELLATLY, RANKLY, and SEWKLL, 97, ulell-atteet 19. C. ti • PORT PHILLIP Direct (to sail punottr am o: the th of May, bat shipping day Md , the :iondee built dipper ship BINOLL, Al, 846 tune regidier, H. 9. SRI:YELL. Commander ; loading la the East /odla Duels Has inlendlit table ameamoodatioa, and from her fine lines ts eb meted to Mho a very gala tub eat.—For freight or ally to DEVII7 sad MOORS, 9, Bllltterutreet .or 1 1= LATLY, ussiusr. end SEW ELL, 27, lasdeaNall•steeet. P e OR BOMBAY Direct (under engagement with Y. Council for India!, the 1•041310WO Liverpool iron Wilt drip SARAH BANIeI., 1,160 tons, Al 13 years, In the Liver pool iron ship book, JOHN OILLIE3, Commeader, ownedby Mr. threat Ostia of Liverpool : lying in the London Hooke—For 6eia33 dab to 'AYDIN sad RKID, 12, Ling Willisze•etreet erogee, re nLATLY, HANKY Y, and BeWffi.L, t 7, Leadeihsll- KG QHANGHA.I Direct, with immediate despatch, the splendid etiopar.buitt slip RAMON, A 1 10 yams, 618 OM register, THOMAS DAVIES, Commander . lading to the Lest India Docks. This Initial ling and well-known ants • • mod tareatrable oppatunity to shippess.— to GELLATLY, HANLEY, and BEWICLI., No. 27, street, Z.C. POR MELBOURNE and GEELONG, with .1: quick despatch, the favourite feat.ialllng regular trader CALLIANCK, ail tons, Captain R. T. BROWN, lying In last *la Deck. Has excellent sucommodatlon for chief cabin sad other pasaengers.—For freight or passage apply to ORKIN; ROBINSON, ted Co„ Se, leachurchtttreet. CES. MONEY WIGRAM and SONS' o 3S t Blackwall.yard. London) LINE of PACKET SHIPS to LUSTIG LIA.—For MELBOURNE, Pmt Phillip, Meat, to loam the Doeks on Saturday. Jane 20, Galling atlipaoath, did new clipper ship SUFFOLK, 1,10.1 tons, J. B. KAKTLII, Commander • lying In the East India Docks. Her accommo dation& for alt classes of paatengeirs are annwpafted, sod she to M carry an experienced surgeoa.—For freight or passagonV ILL OD , ALLPORT, and - MORGAN, with Emma Mo WIDELY and SONS, 7. Loadentiallatreet. Pawn.= by this line of packets are conveyed from Paddington to Mum* bet class for second-class fares, and second clam for abird.class fares. aSEAT EASTERN for NEW YORK.—The I,JI GREAT EASTERN, WALTER PATON, Commuter, be despatsßed trouLIVERPOOL for NEW YORE u ender: hum — • Farm: First Cobb.e ISO to US, according to accommodation, all having the same privileges in the saloon ; Second Cabin, £l4. Morn tickets will be lamed at a fare and a ball Intereledlate Plunge, 110 10a. : Steerags, IT Ts. Freight on moderate terms. For farther particulars apply to MUCIZI, OFFOR, and Co., 115, Icadenhalletreet, er to the Great Ship Company ILhnited,, 90, Calmonatreet; ; London, B.C. : and SS, The Albany, Old Hall.strvet, Liverpool—For tatermedhge and steerage str pas sages apply also to Yearn. SABEL and SEARLE, 19, Watt r- LiverpooL GREAT EASTERN for NEW YORE, NATITADAT, May 1& NOTICZ TO CABIN PANSZNOIBA. A STEAM TINDLit will leave the Princes Landingadage at 510 peeciaely on the morning of the above day, conveying cabin only and their " tames to the Chip. Ps of cab& passengers desirous of embarking the previous evening, a Mama Tender will leave the Princes LAnWilgatsaft at 7 p.m. on Friday, the 15th. Farrah will be received at this Nice up to p.m. on Friday, the 15th that J. EL YATES, secretary. Offices, Oreat 8/np Company !Limited), 28. Albany. Urrapook May 11. 1158. SPECIAL 2rOTICIL unatrocn, rnw fpiii7:46:l4 liklaand Pasemsgen are Waft Ily informed that en Compais e ls w eicarnera, hitherto on Saturday for New York, and at Queenstown for passengers on Monday, will in future ail from Liverpool on Fridays , and will continue a regular man ever. alternate Friday from Liverpool, cable at Queenstown on the following day for passengers and des patches as nose. Steerage passage by steamers webs Oil and t7th May, and Ird June,olliDeaa (dd Be.; STEAM COMMUNICATION to NEW YORK Direct.—The LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK, and PHILA DELPHIA STRILMAHIP COMPANY intend despatching their tall-powered Clydaballjp.t Ironsonegen Screw Stem despatches.-Ships, calling at 1 0 14•401/111 to eabsrk n as FROM LIVERPOOL FOR NEW YORK. follows: KANGAROO Friday, May 15. EDINBURGH, Wednesday, May 7 0. CITY OP MANCHESTER, Wednesday, May 17. CITY OF LIMERICK, Friday, May Be. And every sweeeeding Wednesday and every alternate Friday. Cabin puede lb, 17, and tl guineas, according to the accom modation. Forward passage 8 guineas. including all provisions cooked. Passengers for Canada. the United States, and British Columbia, booked through on vey advantageous terms.—For farther particulars apply to WILLIAM INILILN 21, Water street, Liverpool : or to FIVES and ILICItY, Kin William /Meet, City. INNS of COURT HOTEL COMPANY . _ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, thit the CERTIFICATE :I for the Share. 'Boated will be ready to be eichaaged teethe Bankers receipts on and after the 47th in ♦pplications for the remaining smalletted Shares mat be made to the Secretary on or before the 17th feel— By order, IL T. Is BEWLEY, Sosentary. el, Lincoln ishin-fiekla, W.C., May I, net INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SOCIETY tUmltedl. To be incorporated under "The Companies Act, Milk" by whiel the liability of each Shareholder la limited to the automat of his !Shares. Capital £3,000,000, in 150,000 sharp of £4O each. Payment on allotment 10e per share. Further calls will he made as required. The capital his bees stibanibed, with the exception of 40,000 shares, which have been reserved for allotment to the public. DIANTOIB. Robert Benson. FAq. Pleura Robert Benson and Co.) Bonamy Dobree. Jun.. Esq. I Mews. Samuel Dobree and Sons) John Frederick Flernialch, Frq. ',Mars. Frederick Huth and CO.) Robert A. Heath, Zoo. (Werra Heath and Co.) J. S. Morgan, Req. (Masers. (hone Peabody and Co.) W. R. quentell, Lg. (Menem Frtilaling and Oterben) Berman Stern, Req. (Mews. Meru Brothers) 1343ma—Mesin. Olyn, Mills, and Co. eoucrroaa. Nauru Bircham, Dab7mpts,Drake, sod Ward, td, Parliament street. Minn. Crowder, Maynard, Bas, aad Lawford, 57, ColernanatreeL Temporary Olkas-1, Cogthall-chambera, Angel-court. Tho I object of this Society la to midst and take pert In Flom cial and ndustrial undertakings, eaPectell7 Foreign Loma sad enterprises powering. Oovernment guarantees. with the vow of securing a wide field for the operations of the Society, sad in order to its acquiring an International cha racter. an understanding heel been come to, and mutual relations established with the under mentioned foreign companies bankers, and capitalists, with reference to Important financial under takings and operations entered upon in this country and abroad. Scala Generale de Credit MobiMer, Parte. I F‘Ptgliol. „ fleelfte Oen ' r;rais de C . O . OPEISTOO sad d'lndustale, I Amsterdam. lL Y. Mottinguer and Ca. Pada Fould and Co., Perla fillet, Wall, and Co., Park Mallet, Mires and On. Park. „ Marcnard, Andre, sad Ca, ?aria „ A. I. Stern and Co., Park. M. De Aherne y Urrlberran. M. F. A. Seilliere. M. Le Duc De °Milers, Park. Y. IL Si. E. and J. Pervert Paris Le on Renouard de Bassierre !Directeur de la Monuale), Paris. M. Envie. Mesta !Directenr do Comptotr d' Emompte", Pads. The financial and Industrial relations of this country. not only with the Continent of Europe but with all parts of the world, bare Increased en largely during the last few yeses, that Cone spoadlag financial facilities have become indimpeniable. There is scarcely any undertaking of foreign origin that does not seek the English market. Governments requiring loans, contractors of public worts guaranteed by the State, concessionaires &Ming to Mee effect so the privileges they have obtained. all WI,. directly or indirectly, to Encland for Manurial support sod in all these cases the operations of the Society can be advan "COlYexercised. operation of the Society will not include ordinary banking or mercantile business Sometimes and Forms of Appltesiloa for Shares may be obtained on application to the Interim Secretary, at the Tem porary Mose of the Sosiety. No application will be received after this day 'Thursday', May le, 1! nom. INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, Wanstesd. tnrytc* or nastovtL "a; In consequence of the y immediate extenelon of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway ovum Ludgate-hill, the Committee have been compelled to REMOVE their OFFICE/3 to 100, FLEET STREET, where, from this date, ail communications are to be addressed. - By order of the Committee, May 6, UM HENRY W. GREEN, Secretary. ROYAL LYOBUM THEATRE. HUNDREDTH NIGHT of THE DUXES MOTTO.— THIS EVENING k Thurodayi, Ify 14.—Mr. PECHTER EVERY EVENING. MR. CHARLES DICKENS'S READINGS. The LAST READING BUT rotrP.—Hanoverequare Booms—TO-MORROW EVENTNO, Ray at 8, Mr. CHARLES DICKENS te rn READ his Entry of LITTLE DOM REY tax the last time Inn season) sad the TRIAL from PICKWICK Stalls, ; centre MAO, ; back sal, In Tickets at Messrs. Chap man and mar k publishers, PM, Piccadilly Pottle end Ban'a 14 and la Royal Exchange at Itustlu's aka, St. Janies'ehall , and at Payne's caw, Hanover-equate Roma THOS HEADLAND, Sec. RAPHAEL.-REMARKABLE DISCOVERY (done of the great HAPHAILIII of Charles the lint, all re cord of which had been lost since the time of James the Second. The Picture bears evidence of having been In the Ire at White hall in the reign of the latter monarch. It I the moat impor tant Mien &Jure ever publicly exhibited. ON VIKW daily, at 191, Piccadifig, from 10 to 7. Admlmlon la. STEVENS & SON.—Wine and Spirit Menchanta. BEITL9II and COLONIAL SPIRIT/L-84pm' and gon'e = l rmo Gls les I* been pre.erainene tor WO gualLtp, ; hay anoliellseL ZaO sh gin, • ed., Ws Pd. ead 11A. lila ed. per fr a itani, old WLhk ia=ra e superior, 126.16111,114 ioa ' l,.! n very ak choirs, 17 tej i gloz. Shrub il leA sd e . d. littl eli Bteva ma b st erly, itt iim pezilloat dem Holland; 17e. eptlleo, and SY. per loam atm Goods de livered free %raids give AWOL Terme, emit-78, Blahopagate eirese-wlnda. ALLSOPPS ALE and GUINNESS'S STOUT. JOHN Y. BIGOB and Co, sole contractors for Bottled Bear to the International F.xlilbition, Agents for Samuel allsopp and Son's India Pais and Burton Ale. and Outtuiess, Son, and Co.'s Ears ateat, Importers of Wines and Elpirita--Ofdees and Stores, the Royal &unarms, trade supplied on liberal taus for euh. WATEERSTON and BROGDZIPB GOLD CHAIRS sy tam weight, at relatable masa and the warlmmashlp at wholesale numutaeturers' prices. Me gold In tha chains guaranteed, and re-porchased at the price charged Here's the Rote, How much your chain weighs, to the utmost carat The fineness of the geld, and charge for Mahlon." —Bgs.asrauta Manufactory, No. 16, Ilsortetta-street, Covenaprdes, W.C. London. Assays made of claim sal jewellery lor Is. yeah. N.H. llala atablishassat la dosed at 6 In the maga& and an Isisrasys at 1 cialock. OVERCOATS for the RACES.— MOULTON NM [DITTOS all especial attention to the es. nektons ha OVIIIOOATB. adapted for the races and coming oseeco. to be had d_ . . No. 10i, STRAND, appeals Uster-ba. rtAIITION.—WARREN, BURRELL and Co., ‘.../ late at Ilk Wand, Blackleg. Ink. and Dye Itaeutacturem C.AUTIOS the PUBLIC against persona trading ander similar and predate's( be be arasected with thank or their lab i taMlined ea de. Weed, their mil manufactory Ming moan , MOIL!, ItIOLNS-STREirr, VINCIINT-3QUANZ, QPROTACLES, improved by HARRIS and 1.7 90X, will most o.lalnly preserve the sight, Better cannot M nude. Steel, with crystals or pebbles, lia.; steel. with Li7Pa to 10s. Gold sad Silver Spa:fades and lye-Glasses rett varlet), at equally low HarrLis Prospect Olsen l ed . post tree. THOS. HA&BIB and SON. Opticians to the Pandly, opposite the British Mussonem Oates, Ihtsbn ßoni ahed 1799 Cannata—No traveller; 'ployed. Louden. AFINIS HEAD of HAIR, the Beard, WhiskerN and Iltutachice are realised by the use ofROWLANDS 11ACASHAlt OIL Thin elegant, fragrant, and pellucid oil is universally In bleb repute for Its unprecedented success duds( the last 0 years in promoting the grewth, restoring, and beauti fying the human haw. prevents hair from Palling off or turn ing grey, it weak hair, cleanses it from scurf and dandriff, and it beautifully soft, pliable, and glouy. For children It Is especially recommended, as forming the bads of a beautiful bead of hair. In all climates it alike displays Its *amicable results, and has long bees an established favourite in India. Price as. gd., 75., lie. ed., equal to four small, and Ilu per bottle. Sold at 10, Hatton-garden, sod by chemists and par funters.—Ask for Rowlands* klasmar Oil. rilsx INVIGORKTPIE NERVINE ESSENCE. Ths snag seisetifloally prepared snd most powerful nutri tive medial ever introduced : restores to their normal condition all Um sseredoes, op the hitegrity of which perfect health do cilitc.. ls a specific for debility of all kinds, and from its wo men. other ingredient" melee and phosphate of soda, will prove highly beneficial to the nervous sad dyspeptic.— Pelee Oa per bottle, or friar opesatities in sae for 22a. &de masts Mama Baumgarten and Co., HI, Oxford-street, Y.C., as/ 1111, Leadenludletreet, LC., Leedom. A NEVER FAILING REMEDY. Li. Dr. SCOTS BILIOUS and LIVIllt PILLS, prepared with out say Merescrial Ingredient. from the redw of Dr. Scott, will be foand Invaluable to all who suffer from babas and liver com plaints, indigestion. wind, 'pawns, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &a los habitual costiveness, ea a family aperient medicine, and as &purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild In tbr ai rzwallon and grateful s to theea stomach they create appetite, &ad trameth the whole nervous system_ boxes, Is. 8, King Wilid. lliam sad st., 2a. 9d. we Cbaring.cros, sad by most in Be to aak for Dr Both's eve and Livia ?Bk. The gamine me o square green pacts's. with " W Wlam lambert" engraved on the stamp. DBICORD'S ESSENCE of LIFT A./ reatorm manhood to the most chattered constitutions In bar yeah. Tana» is Impoadble. Its adecta are permanent No 4.zeisallatka .—dold came, with tall Inatructtono ar toar grantl for 23a, Mai anywhere, carefully Noted on rowalptot recalttame sr statapa—Sole agents, FLOUT sad Co.. 2N. Wand. near Tamale-hat. PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, Paintings, Photographs, Mit J. C. STEVENS a will SELL by AUCTION, a* lb Gnat imam, 111, Ilagminet, Covent-garden. W.C.. TO-MORROW, May 15, at hall.pag 12 pratisely, a variety of PHOTOGRAPHIC APPARATUS, album portraits, carved oak frames, achromatic microscopes, eeR machines atereoactopte slides. lathe, paintings. engravings, jewellery. and a variety of miscellaneous itema—On view and catalogues had. This day, In 1 vol. awn octavo . le. ed., A FIRST FRIENDSHIP. Reprinted from ”Trasa's London : Parker, eon, =rm ." West Strand. Ebb day, fooiseap aro, fin, TOWN and COUNTRY SERMONS. By the NOV. Cuanza KTMOSIXT, Backe. of 'trembly, and Chap la Ordinary to the Queen. By the same Author, NATIONAL SENNONII. S vols. Second Edition. 10e. THE 0000 NEWS d GOD. Third Edition. en SERMONS for the TIMES. Third Edition. Se. ed. VILLAGE SERMONS. Sixth Edition. tn 61. Landes : Parker, Son, and Boom, West Strand. VIM Edition, am 10s. 6d., BACON'S ESSAYS, with Annotations. By &WARD WHATILLY, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. London: Parker, Bon, and Honra, West Strand. 'hl a day, Third Edition. It." and OTHER POEMS. By tais iW ite. 111 ED KrNoatir, Regius Protemor of liolet . History le University or Cambridge, and Chaplain in Ordt. nary to the Queen. By the same Author, THE MOTH TItAIIEDY. Third Edition. Is. Inscsualars. Second Edition. Two vole. YEAvT: a Problem. Fourth Edition. Se. Lyndon Parker, Son, and Bourn, West Strand. Monngn Fieruing.—An auction ofj u i lto c ,4 turea, Including a oolleotire formed by Mr. Joseph of , Much-Wooltos, lemeabire, took place yesterday, at emu. Foster in Pallinall. The pictures were principally marl cabinet works, and fetched high prices, u will be seen by the eubjoised extract from the sale catalogue :—J. Phillip— (17), • Spnaish Belle, 130 guineas ; C. Baxter (19), TIN Colleen Burs, 51 guineas ; P. Levin (20), Life in the Hop Garden, 80 'Mow ; B. W. Cooke (21), lupine of Venice, 132 guineas ; A. Solomon (22), the Artist abroad, 100 guineas ; W. Lionell (23), Cattle-driving, 255 guise's ; J. C. Book, the Valley on the Moor, 192 guineas W. P. Frith (25), The Farewell, 131 guineas ;T. S. Coo p er (44 Cattle in a Stable, 100 guinea@ ; P. Nanny th (46). Land etehe, ekes 16 inches by 11, 210 anemia ; T. Cress wick (72), Afternoon In Autumn, 132 guineas ; P. Naemyth (82), a Lake Scene, sine 15 inches by 12, 156 guineas; J. Linnell (85), View near Hampstead, she 12 inches by 8, 100 guineas. Other small works by many of the popular masters, although painted some years since, sold at prices varying from 40 to 9(lgoineas, and the lad lot, Poet Homan, North Wales, by Muller, who wee paid 120/. for it, sold for 440 primes. The sa le realised over 4,8001. Mr. C. F. Hancock, of Bruton-street, was t intr_lsy the suceemful competitor for the making of the I=to be worm by the gentlemen of the committee at 1 te be gives on the Bth Jane, at Guildhall, in honour of the Prince and Primus of Wales, and received antra:- time immediately to prepare fifty in number. The design of the bedge is es follows :—The centre is of pithe blue enamel hominid's meensmat of the Prince and Prkmem of Wales ; this is socareled by a border of red enamel, with Guildhall, Jane 8, 1863. in mimed lettere upon it the outer border is formed of glittering ran and the loop from which the kedge IN to be suspended Toned the neck with ribbon is a Prince of Wales'. plume. LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 14, 1863. AOYAL LITEILABY FUND. The seventy-fourth anniversary festival of the friends and promoters of this inetitution was *de bated yesterday at Willis's Rooms, King-street, St. James's, the Earl STANHOPE, president of the corporation, in the chair. The guests numbered in all about 120 gen tlemen, and the room was very appropriately adorned by the presence of a large concourse of ladies, who were seated around the dinner tables, in obedience to an arrangement which might well be imitated under similar circumstances at other festive gatherings. - . Amon the more distinguished persons present were his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Holstein, his Grace the i Arokbiahop of Armagh, Wight Hoe. Lord Claude Hamilton, 1 M.P., Imatemm-General the Hon. Sir Edward Clot, J tea rb. 1L.C.8., Lord Mayor , M. Y., Lord Crowe, the H. P. i Edward pa, and the Hon. William AddiugtOn, M.P. i The In touts having been duly honoured, I Lord 'me I:l•Rwrote proposed " The Church and the 1 Amid:debited Armagh." i His Oahe; having briefly acknowledged the can- i plat, _. The bolds CH•11111•N gave "Prosperity to the Royal 1 Literary Papa." In doing this he observed that he could not : propose theta's' without in the first pleas most earnestly 1 imitatinglee all must lamest—the lons that Mediation I :l it had in the demo° of its late prea&at, the_ Mar- I quis own°. At a very early age Lord Lansdowne glad ah" cabinet o ffi ce, and took a conspicuous part in 1 What in his later peers if might be odd of i t Ai eat ha fi ad even • higher place than died of leader . e4ilideal pfirgice, sinus he came to be regarded as a : j sod an umpire between them. As a patrol : ot Rename and the fine arts, Lord Lansdowne pememed an exquisite taste, a highly cultivated mind, and a generous temper, and in his case the impulse' of a 1 kind heart were well nupported by the resumes of an ample fortune. It had pleased the institution to call him to fill the place thus made vacant, and he ventured to address the present company, not merely as the chairman of the day, but u president of the association. He would par over as rapidly as possible all recollections of the noble Pa whose ration he had now the honour to fill ; butlt= not, in justice to Ina feelings, omit to Male in one sentence how much he appreciated the honour of becoming the sue- outdoor of such • man and the chief of such • society. And it would be his anxious desire during his tenure of sake— i be it long or short—to take care that it should not suffer . detriment at his bestir, bat that it might be handed over unimpaired to his successors. Although the arguments in favour of this institution could not be imbued ;with any novelty, yet the claims upon it were of themselves ever new. These claims extended in proportion as literature and science extended. At no period had science extended over 1 a wider field, or had literature been more upheld than at the present time. In illustration of this theory, the noble chairman Waned to the astronomical discoveries which had been made in our day as compared with ancient times, and to the proceedings of the Geographical Society, so worthily presided over by Sir Roderick Murchison. They might expect, in the course of this month— perhaps in the course of this week tidings that the greatest geographical problem that yet remained had been in a great measure successfully solved through that society. He alluded, of course, to the discovery of the source of the Nile, a telegram relating to which had already arrived. A. regarded geoloe and paheuntology, he need only point to the result of the re searches of such men as Sir Charles Lyell ; and passing from science to literature, be found abundant ground for congratulation. He had been reading that day in the Revue des Deux Moncks an article on the present condition of literature in France, which was very discouraging, for it cootaioed this sentence—" Les Meson de la poesie eon tempraine soot trio mamma -" and he could not help thinking how different was theicase in England, where the ancient farm of poetry was upheld by such names as those of the Poet Laureate, the Dean of West minster, and Mr. Manatee Milner. He might also my, in regard to works of &tics, that the greatest eminence had been attained in the present age. He would not allude to those old established works, which had for so many yearn held • n of their smiles, and sometimes of their teers—sa as "Pelham," "Piokwick," and "Vanity Fair." But he would ask them to consider the rising school of novelist., represented by such men as Wilkie Collins and Anthony Trollops. Looking, then, at the pro gress of science and literature in this country, they had good ground for gratification ; but they must remember not only those who succeeded, but those who failed. They ought to be mindful not only of those who had climbed the rough and rugged steep to fame, but those whose strength had given way, and whose steps had failed them en the giddy - ascent. In sank mass% was the business of a society lite this to extend its aid and benefit. With regard to the various branches of literature and science in this country there was one matter of regret, and that was, that there appeared to be an unwillingness to meet on common ground, and associate together for the advancement of a common good. There was a spirit of isolation between various branches of science and literature, whereas there ought to be a general spirit of combination, as was the case in Frans, under the guiding auspices of the Institute of France, which might be said to extend its ramifications over the w hole of that great nation, and indeed over the whole of Europe. Why was there not such an institution in this country? It was not for want of the men, because he saw them around him in that room. No, it was the spirit of combination which was wanting. This was the great de ficiency in England at the present time, and he ventured to submit this opinion to their consideration. The noble chairman concluded with an earnest appeal on behalf of the institution, which, he observed, extended its benefits to all, without distinction of country, party, or creed. He trusted that this society might long continue to afford assistance to those who stood in need of it; and feeling as he did that the presence of the company around him was a proof of their sympathy in the efforts that were made with this believe lest object, he called upon them to fill their glasses and drink ' Prosperity to the Royal Literary Fund." The toast was received with great enthusiasm. Mr. GIORGIS GODwill, a member of the general esint mittee, then reed the report and eubeot,tions, w'n4h . amounted to about 900 f. ..._. _ .. ... _. . 111tnTriineitiiroposed "The Health of the Chair. man," which was duly responded to, and wu followed Ly various other touts, including " The Writers on Science and Sir Chutes " The Writers on Art and Mr. Bereeford Hops," &c. The company separated shoat 11 o'clock. TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE. (marines =sawn.) PRUSSIA. ADDRESS OF THE FORTI3OHRITT PARTY. BERLIN, MAT 13... The draft of the address of Herr Virohow, which has been adopted by the Fortschrittparty, gives an outline of the political position of Prussia abroad. The address further begs the King to set aside per sons and a policy threatening to bring ruin upon the throne and country. It also states that the Lower House will use every constitutional means to ward off a war, at least while the government pur sues its present policy, and concludes by expressing a hope that the Kiag will restore to the nation its constitutional rights and again unfurl the banner of n►tional strength and Garman unity. ITALY AND THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT. TURIN, MAT 13. To-day, in the Chamber of Deputies, Signor Molinari alleged the assertion of Lord Lennox, who defied tbot be had visited the prisons of Naples wall an Italian deputy, to be unfounded. The, Stamps of today says :—" The news pub liahed by the Vienna Press, relative to certain nego tiations between Vienna and Turin for the dissolu tion of the Hungorbui .Legion, is destitute of foun dation." Ia to-day's sitting of the Senate, Signor Ddfo recta gave notice that he should question the ministry relative to certain assertions made by some members of the English parliament concern ing Italian affairs. The debate on this subject has been fixed for Friday next. The Opinions of to-day, in reply to the accusa tions against the Italian Government made by the Opposition members of the British Parliament, mentions the efforts of the Administration to arm the population of the Southern provinces. It says :—" The government has recently sent 70,000 muskets to a single province. This proves that it relies upon the support of the people in re sisting any attacks proceeding from the exterior." The same paper says the statement of Lord Len nox, that the Perseseranza had been seized, was unfounded, and adds :—" That liberty of the press exists in Italy is fully proved by the number of cle rical and republican papers that are printed in the principal towns of Italy." THE POLISH INSURRECTION. LEMBERG, MAY 13. Insurgents from Czechowskra and Jezioranski'm corps are coming over the frontier here in detach ments of from twenty to thirty. The greater part of them are unarmed. The Austrian patrols have found 200 abandoned weapons and 30 horses. The Russian troops stationed at the frontier do not interfere with the Austrian soldiers. BMW.% MAT 13. Travellers coming from Ostrow', state that a very sanguinary engagement took place yesterday near Kalisch, in which the Russians were said to have been victorious, although they suffered very great loss. Several carts filled with wounded had entered Kaliech. THE HERZEGOVINA. PARIS, ALLY 13. The Paris papers publish telegrams from Ragusa, dated this day, announcing that fresh disturb ances have broken out in Trebigne. The wives of the Turkish inhabitants in the environs of the town assembled in arms, demanding the release of the rioters who were arrested when the Greek school was destroyed, and who are now confined at Mostar. The assembly was dispersed by the re gular troops• INDIA. (By Telegraph from Baer.) BOMBAY, Arm 2& The Bhore Ghia incline of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway has been successfully opened. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Grey shirting' and mule twist firm ; cotton dull. Mehra opium, 1,630 is. Exchange on London, 6 months, first class credits, stia Ofd. Government securities : Four per Cents., 100 ; Five per Cents., 1081 ; Five - and-a - Half per Cents., 114. Freights quiet. CALCUT2A, APRIL 27. Shirting and mule twist dull. Exchange on London, first class credits, 2e. op. Government securities : Four per Cents., 101 ; Five per Cents., 109 to 109 i ; Five-and•a-Half per Cents., 1191 to 114. The following telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : THE BOMBAY MAIL. ALEXANDRIA, MAT 13. The Valetta and Carnatic, with the above mail, left Alexandria at 5 p.m. yesterday (the 12th). The former vessel may be expected at Marseilles about the 18th, and the latter at Southampton on the 25th instant. The Salsette brought the mail to Suez, arriving there on the 11th instant (one day early). OUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRA- LIAN MAIL. The Mooltan, with the mail of the 20th to the 27th April, left Suez on the 9th instant. THE EARTHQUAIE AT RHODES. —o— A oorrespondent of the Temps gives the following porniculare of thin sad calamity, under date Rhodes, April 28 On the 22nd inert. we felt the shock of an earth quake, such as bad never been felt here before. Not a ries!e building in Rhodes or in the villages has escaped uniojured. The great tower of St. Michael gave way, and the little that islets threatens every minute to fall into the port and block up the entrance. The lighthouse tower I. ruined, am well as the Pekoe of the Grand Masters, .recently converted into • prison ; the walls of the town are more or lees damaged, besides all the churches. At Trianda only • dozen houses are left standing. Twelve other ail. lages have been completely destroyed. There have been in all 300 persona killed, and an immense number wounded. Of all the villages Mainari bee antlered most. Out of 46 families only 35 prom have been eared, and they are more or less injured. I was at Maestri the second day after the catastrophe ; 126 dead bodies bad already been interred. Several families were dal missing, but the positions their houses had occupied could no looser be re cognised. Five dead bodies were taken out of the ruins while I was there. It warn dreadful. The sight recalled to my memory the sad scenes of the explosioli of 1856. Linda bat suffered but little. We continually feel the shocks, but they are steadily decreasing. We hope that tran• quillity will soon be restored. By • providential mercy all our (needs and acquaintances have been saved. Only 13 persona were killed in the town and in our suburb. The vice-consul of Frame and family , wham house is uninhabitable, took refuge with us, for our dwelling has suffered but little. To complete our winery, three days after the earthquake • deluge of rain came down,so that some pro visions which the peasantry hoped to save have been utterly lost. It is very cold for the season, and the unfortunate people have neither shelter nor food. They have lost all : m a gi c's , Mande, houses, clothes, settle, silkworms. Our misery is deplorable : may God earns to our maistance !" The petition to the Rouse of Lards against the Ludpto Stations sod Junction Itsilirsys Bill has now at tached to it more titan 1,000 of the Ant City war. ROYAL MEDICAL BENEVOLENT COLLEGE. The tenth annual meeting of the members of this college was held yesterday at the college rooms, Soho square, under the presidency of Lord CHELMSFORD, sod was numerously attended. Mr. Freeman, the secretary, read the report, which was sae of some length. It con gratulated the members on the continua success attending the institution in all its departments, with enlarged income and diminished expenses. During the year 1862 no less a sum then 6,1301. 8.. 6d. was received from bequest. to the college, and the annual subscriptions were more than 2001. in excess of the previous year, while the expense, had been materially lemeoed, the liabilities reduced by 8001., and the amount of stock belonging to the endow ment fund bad increased from 3,7001. in 1861, to 10,2371. at the end of 1862. There bad also been a large increase in the sum received from exhibitioners and day scholars, the addition to the school buildings having per. mated the admisaion of a large number of boarders. At the present time 183 boys were sleeping within the walls, and five more were about being admitted. There were ten day scholars in attendance. The report then pressed. to notice the great improvement& lately made in the schools, and the satisfactory progress making by the pupils, twenty-two of whom had lately passed as examination before the College of Surgeons, and others gained high honours at the universities. The number of pensioners now in the college at Epsom is twenty, and five more will be elected in on the 21st instant. At the same time five boys will be elected on the foundation. The appeal lately made by the council for funds to erect a new wing to the college, to be dedicated to the late Prince Consort, has been so liberally responded to, that they have been enabled to eater into a contract for the building, the first stone of which was laid on the 30th of October last. The building will coat 1,9761., and will be ready for occupa tion by the elected pensioners early in the ensuing summer. The total income for the peat year had been 16.4221. 4s. 4d., and the expenditure 15,7471. lla 9d., leaving a balance of 674/.125. Id. on the year. The total receipts on the building food had been 12,0701. 17s. 84., and the balance sow in hand was 1.8151. Us. 3d. The total of the liabilities amounted to 9,6101. 13s. 10d. Mr. Churchill moved, and Mr. bust *wooded the adoption of the report, which, after some opposition from Dr. Taylor in reference to the dismissal of a boy from the school, was agreed to. The retiring members of the causal went than raeleoted, and the Rev. F. D. Maurice, ILA., was elected to fill a Yummy. ECLIPBI o► raw Sow.—The sun will be partially eclipsed ea the afternoon of Sunday next, the 17th iset. As viewed sear the metropolis, the moon will enter upon hie disc at sh. 42m. 245. p.m., Greenwich time, at a point 881 degrees from OW vertex towards the west, or 'early at the right hand extremity of the sun's horizontal diameter. The eclipse will be at its maximum at 6h. 26m. 30a. p.m. when very nearly as third of the solar diameter will be coveted by the moon, and will end at 711. 12w. Os. p.m., about half an hour before sunset, the Wt cootect occurring • little to the left of the appereet upper Faust of the died. Neither of the two solar eclipses of 1864 will be visible to this country, and in the eclipses of October 19, 1866, and October 8, 1866, the son will set in London a few minutes before the greatest phase. The phenomenon of next Son• day is the only one of the kind that will be wholly visible hers until March 6, 1867. The mileage paid to the Royal Mail Company at the present tine is 13. 6d. According to the new contract the mileage will be lls. 6d. [Stamped, Id. Additiomalo ENGLAND AND AMERICA. --•-- A public meeting, under the auspices of the Emancipation Society, was held yesterday evening at Hanover-square Rooms, the Rev. W. Lauhrta fa the chair, to protest against the efforts of members of t to dreg this country into • war with the United gtit i er Pu and to demand the enforcement of the law against the builders of pirate thin." The CHAIRMAN said, however much they might differ on other questions, including the cause of the American war, they were,i he was sure, perfectly unanimous in deprecating war between this country and the United States. He disliked inflammatory @peahen—whether made by Mr. Roebuck on this side of the Atlantic, or by General Butler on the other ; but they had • good guarantee against war in the strong feeling of this scan in favour of pars, and in the fact th a t, except in the case of the Trent, in which it rather yielded to popular' clamour, the Ame rican government had done nothing of which Eng land could justly complain. -He did not be lieve that the English government desired war any more than the English nation. No government which numbered among its members such men as Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone could pamibly with for war between England and America. Even Lord Palmerston, although be sometimes, like some of their American friends, indulged in a little bunkum, a little more bluster than became the Prime Minister of Eog land, would shrink from actual hostilities. Of all wan, • war with the United States would undoubtedly be the most unpopular with th eme people of ; they would Auer 41110 9 0 4 but so the * o j tV i r moan race, r sH knew that it would be the death-blow of freedom in all parte of the world. If war should be entered upon it would be with grim sadness, and in to the depth of that sadness would be the indignation against those who had stirred up strife. Hear, hear.) Let Mr. Roebuck and others who took the same aide know that if by anything which they did or said they caused the sword to be unsheathed, their names would stink in the nostrils of their countrymen—(ahem)—their memories would be execrated as those of men who, from selfish ambition of from the love of gain, caused millions to mourn. It was the duty of that society to do what it could to avert the war feeling. They might net be able to do much, but they could at all events lift up their voices against such inflammatory speeches as had beep recently made in parliament ; they could tell the government that there must be nu more Alabaman let loose to prey o u the commerce of • friendly power—end they could show the people of the United Stogie that nob speeches as those tow - hich he had just referred no more re resented public feeling in Englund than those of General Butler re presented public opinion in Americo. He rejoiced to see an article in the nat.! of Friday last which showed that even that jeansl was beginning to alter It. comae, and might be expected at no distant period to range itself on the side of the North. _ . . Fear. moved the following resolntiou:—" That this meeting, believing slavery to be unchristian and opposed to every principle of justice and humanity, omdially approves ' of the emancipation policy now being carried out by the government of the United States, and often to the people of loyal states the anurance of its heart-felt sympathy in the present struggle against the despotism sought to be prpe- Waled and extended by the akiveholdera' confederaz edin Mr. J. W. Paorinv seconded the resolution. In to the came of the Peterhof[, he contended that the American government were justified in the amuse which they had pursued, and eulogised Earl Russell for the calmness and dignity which he displayed in his despatches on the subject. Cheers.) They had all heard of "the almighty dollar," bat, using what had been does already foe the sake of pie this oountiy should take care that the love of gold did not lead it into a disgraceful position. (Hear, hear.) He strongly condemned the language of Mr. Roe buck and Mr. Homan in reference to the United Staten Mr. CONWAY, from Eastern Virginia, who was announced by the Chairman as an American who bad ematicipstsd • hunched of his own slaves, said it was absurd to mimosa that the United States could &mire war with England, as it would compel her to give up the Southern States. He was brought up to hate England, but the moment his mind was turned against slavery his feelings towards England underwent a change, sad be learned to love this country. As regarded the irritation between America and England, he remarked that it arose from the °lmams of their rela tionship. His country bad put an unusual check on itself with respect to neutral vessels, as an examination of the history of the law oo the subject would clearly show. The rssolutios was speed to, and another for petitioning the Hones of Commons was antsequently adopted. [TWOPENCE UNIVERSITY OP LONDON. Yesterday Earl GRANVILLE, as the Chancellor of the University of London, presided at • fail meeting of the senate and oonvocation of that body, and conferred the several degrees hereinafter enumerated upon those who had attained to those respective beware dur i ng the past aca demical year. The oeremooy—a most interesting one—took place in the presence of a large and fashionable audience. Among the general company were—The Earl of Albemarle, Mr. E. Baines, M.P., Mr. P. Heywood, Sir James Duke, M.P., Lady Duke, &c. The Rsourrasa of the University having read the report of the senate, which gave in detail the number of students who bad presented themselves for each of the degrees of the university, distinguishing those who had succeeded from those who had failed in that intellectual coctest, the pre sentations took place, the various gentlemen receiving from the bands of the noble chairman the degrees and honours to which they bad severally entitled themselves. This ceremony concluded, The noble CHANCELLOR addressed the assembly, con cluding his address with some congratul►tory observations addressed to those who had obtained the degrees nod honours, and of encouragement to those who had failed in doing so, exhorting them to strengthen their minds by persevering in such intellectual OXOtriSOO. Tho pramedinp thca SO/Dratted. ROYAL MASONIC SCHOOL FOR FEMALE CHM- , SESS.—The seventy-fifth anniversary festival of this school was celebrated last evening in Freemasons' Hall, his Grace the Duke of St. Albans, Provincial Grand Master for Lin colnshire, in the chair, supported by nearly 300 members of the craft. One hundred sod sixty ladies were entertained at an elegant banquet in the glee-room, and were subse quently accommodated with places in the gallery and at the end of the hall. There are at present 86 children in the school, but accommodation for increasing that number to 100 has been provided by building an extra wing at a cost of unser& of 1,500/. Since the establishment of the schools nearly 1,000 children have been educated, clothed, nod maintained within its walls, most of whom at the expiration of the term of resi dence have returned to their parents or 'Woods, those who have no home have been provided with suitable situations, or apprenticed to respectable trades, is which they have invariably so conducted themselves as to deserve and receive the commendation of their employers and the ap probation of their benefactors. The children, in addition to the customary education which such establianeents afford, are employed by turns in all the domestic duties of the house, and great care is taken to make them expert io needlework, so that they may be useful members of society when they leave the school. The usual loyal and masonic toed" were proposed, and met most hearty reception. In peopo • the toast of the peeing, the noble chairman welt at considerable length on the great usefulness of the charity, and the services it had rendered to society in the fulfilment of the objects for which the institution was es tablished. On Saturday last be visited the school in corri rlg:=l=ttteluZretrlfteini:Partey? children After the address of his grace, the children were introduced. P The subscription list showed the amount to needy 4,0001. LAW ASSOCIATION. The forty-sixth annual meeting of this society, established for the benefit of the widows and families of professional men in the metropolis and vicinity, was held on Monday afternoon, at the Law Institution, in Chancery-lane, at which George Harding, Esq. presided, and amongst those present were Messrs. Birchen, K. Few, W. Fisher, Giraud, Kennedy, J. Miller, P. Nelson, Sidaey Smith, S. Steward, krt. The secretary, Mr. Boodle, read the financial statement and report, which were adopted. They showed that the receipts during the past year had been from annual subscriptions, 5991. I ls. ; from life subscriptions sod donations, 851. Is.. and from dividends on stook, 1.0321. 15a. W. Daring the past year I twenty-nine cases of the primary close had bees relieved by the distribution among them of 1,0954, and during that period one life member and seven annual members had died, I and five annual members had retired, and two life members I and twelve annual members had joined the association. It was also reported that during the last few months an appeal had been made to some of the members of the prof...nee, in the hope of being able to raise a large sum to be added to the present ailment of stock ; and that 5,4601. had bass already received by the liberal responee of only St solicitors; and those solicitors practising in the metro polis who have been blared with the means of doing good were confidently appealed to generously to come forward and aid in this good work, and thereby cheer the hearts and desolate hopes of the widows and orphans of their lass favoured profession.) brethren. The sum of 1501. was granted for the benefit of the widows and orphans of non members during the ensuing year. After the reelection of Lord Lyndhurst as president, and the election of vice•presl dente, treasurers, directors, and auditor', aid of Mr. Wa llace James Ferrer as • trustee, in the place of Mr. John Meadows White, deposed, the usual votes of thanks to the several officers of the amociatiou for their novices during the past year, and to the chairman of the day, the proceed lop tenniaated. OnTlfral. PALACE. .ONI SEILL‘NO ED . ernsto•e, MAY 13. - Admissions en payment, 3,352 ; ditto by seas= ticket', 1,454 ; total, 4,806. LICENSED VICTUA. MS' ASYLUM. The anniversary festival of this institution was celebrated yesterday et the Crystal Palacio, under the pre sideacy Of Sir T. F. Biarox, B ar t., su pported by Si r Y. Pets, Y.P., Mr. Ellemon. chairman of the asylum; Mr. Hen Wry, M.P., Mr. Buxton, M.P., Mr. Janneway, go vernor of the incorporated society% Mr. Gehb, chairman of the Liceosed Victuallers' Protection Society; tic.. he. The dinner was laid in the concert room in the middle trait. seat, and 'wee partaken of by nearly 1,700 persons emanected with the trade sad supporters of the ketitu tion. The orchestra aid the !aliense were filled with ladies. This, as is well known, is one of three influential Institutions supported by the licensed I victualler, for the protection of the trade and the . relief and support of ate aged members. The 'Asylum. for the augmentatico of whom fuods this peat gathering took plum, bee been in existence thirty.five pars, sad its objects to provide a home for decayed members, and the Discos of subsistence. Already the minidrama, ef the trade has ambled the managers to erect 100 Maim a the Old Kentroad, containing 207 inmates. Provision is mad* for married and single persona, the former receiving, fa additiss to a house to live in, an annuity equal to KM per week ; and single persons Is. per week each. Daring the thirty six years of the existence of the society, a sum of 112,0874 has been expended ; and, taking its present Sbersl support into account a sum—which its friends fad can seedy ha named from the licensed victuallers—of MOM. oeb was needed to place the institution beyond the reeth &every casualty. The usual loyal and patriotic tart having - , liad e m eAtgeatt4 than L1:1.4a PideaLmr and macaw to the Endowment Fwd.^ 'lto 'polio of the liberality of the members of the task in sub lambing to the support of the asylum, whist' he con sidered an index of the unoertainty and videtitimles at tending the trade, well known to those who yen ieliasstelv cooneeted with it. For years prosperity appeared to attend their efforts in business, but very ate., from airemasteecos over which they had no oantrol, reveres endienly cams otos them, and it was a consolation to them to blew that provision was made through this asylum for their lees for tunate and declinieg years. Having gives a diblied ac count of the number of inmates who bad benefited by the charity, and its income and expenditure, the Moat was drunk with enthusiastic chem. Daring dimmer the bead of the Royal Artillery Company wen, static/sad ire the we akest/a, and played various favourite and popular Mee. The geoaal mutical AMID ate were *am Mee dissetion of Allen, masted by Milne. Marie Late, Mine C. Ores varier, Miss Armytap, Miss Lime Barris, Mho Emma Bodes, Mr. R., Edwards, Mr. Walter Selwyn, Mr. J. L. Brady, Mr. George Allen, and Mr. Harry Sydow. Mr. Harker officiated as toastmaster. Subscriptions smesating to 2,7001. were announced by the chairmaii. THE NEW VOLUNTEER BILL. The act introduced in the House of Coarsens by the Under-Seaetery for War has been priote& It pro vides, in the first plans, for the acceptance by the crown of services proffered through lieutenants of comities. and for the immediate formation of corps on that basis. The permanent staff to be attached to every volunteer corps ie to consist of an adjutant commissioned by her Majesty, and of so many sergeaut-inetructors as any seem lR Offieers, except snob as are on the permanent staff, will take their commissions from the lieatenent of the I county. &nom of the volunteer force are to rank with officers of her Majesty's regular end militia favor ea the yenned of their rsetive respective ranks ; and with officers of the yeomanry force accordinf to the rank and date of their C 01111134,60120 is the respective forces. The a ef a oommissiee in the volunteer force by a member t will not reader his seat vacant. The eon reit—o: which a volunteer may, unless on actual mili tary servi ce, quit his corps, are, that be shell give four teen days ' notice in writing, that he shall deliver up all arms, clothing, and appointments issued to him, and that he shall pay all money due or becoeniag due by him, either as subscription or toe. Appeals are to be made to two deputy lieutenants or to one deputy lieutenset sod a justice of the peace for the county to which the corps belongs; and their determination, after bear ing ervklenes on oath, will be binding. Whenever may volunteers are on actual military service, or are under going inspection, or are voluntarily doing any military duty, her Majesty may put them under the command of general or field officers of the army, but so, nervertheless, that the volunteers shall be led by their own officers under such command. An annual inspection of every volunteer corps is to be held by a general or field officer of the (Nem. army. The declaration of requnities of Mil dew may from time to time be made by her Majesty is council. Tb. roles for officering administrative regiments formed by the mane of two or more volunteer corps are similar to those laid down in respect to separate turps ; and, notwithstanding the formation of such regiment, the separate corps formed into the lame will be severally deemed volunteer corps for all purposes of the act. The wood part d the bill relates to actual military service, sad it gives power to the crown to direct lieu tenant, of counties, in cue of apprehended iovasion, to cell out the volunteers. If any such officer, volunteer, or noncommissioned officer, not incapacitated by iofirmity for military service, refuse. or neglects to assemble or much he shall be deemed a deserter. An officer of the volunteer force disabled on actual military service will be entitled to balf-pay, according to his rank ; and the widow of such an officer killed on actual military service will be en titled to the like pension for life as the widow of an officer of her Majesty's army. A volunteer or noe-commissioned officer of the permanent staff, disabled on actual military service, will, according to his rank, be entitled to the like pension and other benefits, if any, as a soldier of her Majesty's may The . third portion of the act relates to matters of disci pline ; the fourth to the rules and property of corps ; the fifth to the acquisition of laud for ranges; the sixth to exemptions ; and the seventh to miscellaneous provisions. The schedule confides the form of oath to be administered to officers and volunteers, and the for oiwarranTeanq *Mikelee to be geed in earietlS ewes, The act concludes with an unnecessary eistatueut that its ter= de not extend to Ireland. FOREIGN AID BoarrY.—The annual meeting of this society was held yesterday at the Hanover-sguare rooms ; Mr. A. Kinnaird, M.P., in the chair. The nacre• tary, the Rev. Richard Burgess, read the report, which stated that at the present time there were six evangelical societies in France, who during the past year had opened 22 places of public worship in France, besides schools in which 4,000 children were educated. The Evangelical Society of Geneva were most zealous in assisting its French brethren in spreading the light of Gospel truth throughout France. Religions liberty, however, was but little understood in. France, and the societies in that country bad many dieted. ties to Goateed with. In Belgium the Evangelical Soc'et7 was protected by the government, and were making mom demble progress. In aid of the Belgian Society the Foreign Aid So cie ty had sent during the year 2301. In Italy, pro testantivm was mating great progrees since the revolution. le Naples, Leghorn, Florence, and other towns, protestant plates of worship were being built, and as the 000solidation of that country took place, so would the principles of evan gelical protestantism increase. The income of the society for the past year bed been 2,049/. ; its grants had exceeded those of last year by 58/. ; but its home expenditure bad been 891. less._ ---- CITY OF LONDON TRUSS SOCIETY.—The 55th anniversary of this excellent and useful institution was held last night, at the Albino, Alderagate.street ; Lord Feveraham in the chair. The total number of eases relieved during the year 1852 bad been 6,2 n, making • total of no leas than 225,415 since the commencement of the society in 1806. The noble chairman, in the course of the evening, s►id that one of his ancestors bad been sheriff and lord mayor ; and be consequently took • deep interest in every thing that concerned the welfare of the City. He strongly reprobated the suggested amalgamation of the City and metropolitan police corps ; and he denounced es vigorously the proposal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to tax chan ties. As regarded the particular malady which this so ciety was designed to relieve, he remarked that it was one from which at least an eighth of the working men of the country were suffering. It was one likewise to which the agricultural labourer aas peculiarly liable, espeolally during the hay harvest; and be therefore earnestly besought the aid of all claws of the community for the society. Subscriptions amounting to the liberal sum of 1,2641. were announced ; and the health' of the noble chairman, the stewards, the committee. Mr. J. A. Kingdom, the aurgeon and Mr. Thomas Eglington,the secretary, were proposed and warmly received. The musical entertainment of the even ing was furnished by Messrs. J. and W. Coward, Mr. Mon ten Smith, Mr. F. Walker, and Mr. L. Thomas. TILE Ramer Soca:rt.—The weekly meeting of thisaociety was held 00 Tuesday last. With reference to the nails election it was reported that steps bad been taken to prevent the seat vacated by Captain 0 Connell from being lost to the cause by the retain of an anti•ballot candidate. Letters were read from cioneepondents at Thetford and New Radnor containing suggegions for proceedings at future elections foe those places. An epplicatioa was made from • gentleman at Manchester foe • grant of publications in favour of the ballot, and stating that • long dircwoion on the question was taking place in that city. The application was (granted. It was reported that Mr. Berkeley, 11. P., would bring forward the question of the ballot in the Home of CIMTIIOIIs as soon as possible after the Whitsun tide holidays, and it was resolved that Mr. Berkeley be re quested to take immediate measures to have the day fixed on which the question is to acme op, in order to give the committee as much times* possible to interest their friends in the various constituencies is securing a good discussion and division. The committee hope that all will be on the alert to prevent the absence of member*, as in the case of sours important divieione that have taken place lately. OVEHCOATs FOR THE RACZ6.—Fasbionable over coata of the new materials adapted for (he ran a sad mining mann are to he had at Hamilton sad Maybe 6, Tudors, 106, Strand, of gendte Exeter Hal. --tAdvertlatment.) DG TTXRDAM and the RHINE. —TWICE a 1110 Wm.—The Netherlands Steadiest Oompsdh favourite paddlasteamar BATA VIM; Capt. W. MUTH, from the British and Resign Iltesm.oharf, Wapping. Sudsy, at 11 am., and returning from Rotterdam every Pad, Lt fa., LI 10a, sad Ile. Id return, 8.301., AS Irs a gl tY. Sd. The One siderateemer FTSNOORD esfle from off the Tower every Thursday morning end, returning from Rotterdam every Sunday morning. Fares, LI and CI 10s. Both neesele nts eonnedon with the finest and fssteat steamers on thr Ithlsa— Tor through farm refer to the printed monthly time billa to CHAPLIN'S Universal Office, W.. or to PHILLIPPS, OILL A V and PHILLIPPS, 11, Rood-lama R C. i 1