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w ithout being either subject to the restrictions, or en titled toil* privileges bf the Aet. Cases of this sort have occurred. The Act contemplates another case, in which ,the Justices may think it inexpedient to give the privileges to a new 'society. They. are required to satisfy them selves, 4, That the formation of such society will be useful and beneficial, regard being had to the existence of any other society alteady formed tinier wholes'me toles, within the same district for the like purposes.!' Your Committee are not aware whether any attett tion has been paid to this most useful enactment. It is clear that a very small society cannot be secure; among a very few individual;, the law of average will not operate. What number of persons ought to com bine, in order to form an average, it is not easy to state; and there is a - difference of opinion as to the lowest number that will be secure. Your Committee think it desirable that no society should consist . of fewer than '2OO members. Where a proposition is made for establishing a new club, in a town, village or district, in which one already exists, and which appears to be incapable, f om its population, of supporting two clubs sufficiently numerous, the Magistrates are perfectly justified in refusing, if they shall so think fit, to give to a second the special privileges of the Act. It is a question for con,ideration, how far the pre ference of larger s Kieties ought to be carried ; and whether Magistrates ought to act upon it, where there is no ground of objection to the small ore which it is proposed to establish. Of late )CATS, institutions have been formed, intendel to embrace all the inhabitants of a county, or large district. Such societies un doubtedly possess 'many advantages ; the security is much greater, by reason not only of the number of members, but of the superior responsibility of the trustees and officers, and the greater intelligence and accuracy with which the business is likely to be con ducted. There is no possibility of using the society for purposes of unlawful or dangerous combination. The medical attendance also will probably be more libe rally rewarded; and if the concern is of sufficient mag nitude to allow of an agent in every part .of the dis trict, there is perhaps no greater danger of imposition than when the society consists entirely of neighbours, acquainted with each other. Nevertheless it is certain that the people themselves are disinclined to substitute a sobscription to these general institutions for their con tribution to clubs managed by themselves; they do not like to see the management in other hands than their own ; and they have an undefined apprehension of an inva.ion of their funds by the Government. It would doubtless be very desirable to remove these idle jea lousies, and to encourage the people to accomplish their object in the more secure and • certain method pointed out to them ; but it may be doubted whether it would be sillier prudent or just to carry this attempt so far as Withhold the privileges ci the law, from any smaller assnci.ition , , which appear to be constituted upon sound and safe principles, solely because there is a county in stitution, to which the contributors may resort. It is always to be apprehended, that the effect would be, not to extend the larger institution, but to prevent the estab lishment of the smaller, or to occasion its being formed, without the protection of the law. A more specific provision will be necessary, with respect to the form of enrolment, and the authentica tion of the copies ; points upon which thete is some discrepancy in the Acts, and in the practice of the Counties. And your Committee recommend the ex ample of the County of Kent, where the Act appears to haee been executed with propriety and judgment. The employment of Counsel is quite unnecessary. There ought to be a s:mcific fee for the Clerk of the Peace, whose duties ought to be defined. The . Act requires the same process, where an altera tion in the Rules is desired, as it prescribes for thcir or final establishment. The provision to which your Committee have next to advert, is a peculiarity in the Act of 1819, upon a sufficient attention to which, the stability not less of the larger than the smaller Societies essentially depends. " Such Justices shall not confirm and allow any tables of payments or benefits, or any rules dependent upon or connected with the calculation thereof, until it shall have been made Appear to such Justices, that the said tables and tulles are such as have been approved by two persons at the least, known 'to be professional ac tuaries or persons skilled in calcutation, as fit and pro per, according to the most correct calculation of which the nature of the case , will admit." This provision is, in principle, of the highest utility, and it has already, your Committee have reason to be lieve, been productive of much good ; but its effect has been. impeded by some defects in the provision itself, and by some errors in practice. Who are professional actuaries or persons skilled in calculation? And in what way are the Justices to satisfy themselves that the. persons by whom the tables are signed. really answer the description of skilful calcu lators ? Your Committee have called for a Return from each County, of the names of all persons upon whose opinion any tables have been sanctioned ; and by an in spection of the names, coupled with h cal information obtained from members of the Committee, your Com mittee are informed, that in many Counties, the Bench have been sati.fied with the signature of petty school masters and accountants, whose opinion upon the pro bability of sickness, and the duration of life, is. not to be depended upon. Your Committee will presently ad vert to several suggestions which have occurred to them, for making more effectual the enactment in question ; but they desire now to call the attention of the House to the inquiries which they have pursued, with a view to the formation of accurate tables for the usz of Friendly Societies. They are apprehensive, that on an inspection of the evidence which they have collected, it may be thought tbat.they have gone in some degree beyond their assigned functions ; but they hope, that when the House considers how naturally the several questions which depend upon human life and death How one from the other, they may be pardoned for not having stopped the witnesses who-were before them, at the, very point at uh:ch their evidence ceased to have an immediate • and apparent bearing upon the subject of Friendly .Societies. They feel assured that they have collected a mass of valuable information, upon subjects connected with the birth, health, life, and death of mankind; and there is indeed hardly any poiot, illustrated by this information, which may not become the object of a society formed under the present law, seeing that the Act describes as the ohjects of thitse ocieties “4,lse maintenance or as **ince of the cootribtliors thereto, their wives or chd alteajo sickness, iotarscy, advanced age, widowhood, de any other natural .wate or contingency whereof the Ix cur tonceiasasceptible of calculation by way of average." tribM. m o w— • CA LCUTTA, MARCH is. We have letters from Manahan to the 13th ultimo. They state that the Siamese are up in arms, and in great force in the immediate neighbourhood of our: forces. Colonel Smith, C.B. commanding the Light Brigade, is to reside at Martaban, for the purpose of communicating, on the part of Sir A. Campbell, with the Siamese Government. We are told that they ap pear to have the greatest anxiety to get possession of Martaban ; and it is added, that.they would not scruple much about the means. It is understood that all these offers of assistance are made by the Sirdars alone, the King of Siam not having yet publicly declared his views; apparently he is restrained by the usual cau tious and timid eastern policy ; but no doubt his Of ficers are now acting under his secret instructions, reserving to himself, however, a loop-hole, through which to escape from the resentment of the Burmese, in case of our failuie, which he probably thinks at pre sent not altogether impossible. It is, however, expezteel that he will now very so )n come forward in al open and undisguised manner, and we hope that we shall be able to make such terms eventually with him as will secure a future regular commercial correspondence with the whole of the Siamese dominions. MARCH 25.—1 t is not easy to conjecture where the enemy mean to make their stand ; if, indeed, they mean at all to dispute our much to Ummerapoora. Prome is situated at the entrance into the hills, and is described as naturally strong, and as the key to Alfa Proper ; yet there appears to be no disposition on the part of the Burmese to try their strength with us at this Thermo pyle of their country. Mama 19.—We have perused letters from Rung pore, Auam, of the 9th instant. They contain no news of any great importance; but merely state that we are now in full possession of that country; and the cam paign, so far as military operations are concerned, is nearly closed. APRIL I.—The P.sscoa, it appears, has dispatches on board from the King of Siam to the Right Hon. the Governor-General. We have no: heard a susmrise as to their contents, except that his Siamese Majesty ex presses his readiness to send 50,000 men against the Burmese. Letters from Cawnpore mention that the 62d Regi-‘ ment N. I. received orders on the 21st ult. to proceed front Barra to Muthoora. His Majesty's 59th are also under orders to hold themselves in seediness at a mi nute's notice. Field batteries were likewise to proceed on the 24th towards Mutboora. We heir that troops 'are concentrating there from all directions. It is gene rally understood that this sudden activity has arisen out of the events at Bhurtpore, which we noticed yesterday. Since writing the above, the following extract of a letter from Agra, dated March 18, reached us : '1 You will be astonished to bear of some transactions at Bhurtpore. The Raja, Balder Singh, son of Runjeet Singh, died suddenly at Goberdhun, the 28th of last month, leaving his heir, a child of seven years old (who had only been recognised as successor a few days before by Sir D. Ocbterlony), under a Regency. It appears that the old Ranee wanted to have the sole manage ment of the country; the consequence was, an uncle of ' the little boy determined on investing himself as sole Regent ; and for this purpose he very deliberately gained three battalions over to his cause, placed sentir nels and piquet; throughout the town, attacked the fort, blew the gates open, entered, and seated himself on the throne, after murdering one of his relations, who was cot down at the very toot of it, and some of his fol. lowers, and gave out that he had acted on solely disin terested motives ; that he had no intention of usurping the sovereignty, but merely intended to act as a guar dian to the child, under whose name business should be carried on. The Ministers of the late Government are confined; but everything is quiet at present; a Vakeel was dispatched to Sit D. Ochterlony immediately, but we have not heard the result. The business of attacking the fort was a regular fight ; we heard guns firing from two to seven o'clock in the mot fling, a few days since." APRIL 4.—Letters from Rangoon, arrived per the Charles Forbes, which left the Pilot on the 18th, giving some additional interesting intelligence of the progress of the Army. Sir Archibald Campbell was still at Sarrawaddy, on the 11th, eight days' march from Prome ; he had advanced thus far without firing a shot, and was feeling the want of supplies, which, however, were daily expected from Rangoon. Brigadier-General Cotten, after the capture of Yang-yon-chu, proceeded to Donebew, and on the 7th attacked that place with 200 men of the 89th (what other troops were engaged, we do not know), and took the first stockade. He then attacked the second, but was unsuccessful, and obliged to retire (evacuating the stockade he had before taken), and to embark his meta in the boats. He dropped down four miles below, and forwarded a dispatch to Brigadier M'Creagh, stating that he must wait for the reinforcements under him. Our loss was great ; ,Captaius Rose and Cannon, of - the 89th, killed ; and three wounded; 11() men killed and wounded. The Bundoolah is said to have 14,000 men in the wotks, and :3,000 in war-boats. Mijor Sale had taken Bassein, the Burme.e having burnt the town to the ground; but it is feared he cannot get on so rapidly as he expected, for want of means. The 45th (King's) from Ceylon was entering the river as the Charles Forbes came out ; and Brigadier M'Creagh was ex pected to move from Rangoon immediately, to rein force Brigadier-General Cotton, the bullocks and car riages, for which he was waiting impatiently, having arrived. He takes with him the Royals and two na tive Regiments. The High Priest of theDagun Pagoda had come into Rangoon on the 13th, with all his fol• lowers, and the town is now as thickly inhabited as ever, the people still crowding in from the country with supplies. APIIII. s.—We understand that Sir David Ochter-1 1 lony, has issued a proclamation, explaining the reason for the assembling of the force in Bhurtpore. This measure, it is hoped, will have the effect of rendering hostilities unnecessary. The whole of the Meerut force, troops from Cawnpote, and a very large battering train, are concentrating. Sir David Ochterlony was to be at Muttra on the 23d of March, and at Agra on the fol lowing, or next day. We were incorrect, we find, in stating yesterday, that Sir A. Campbell , had not reached Sarrawaddy until the 11th ultimo. He was there on the Ch ult. and he ex pected to be in Pro= in eight or ten days. The dis comfiture at Donabew will probably delay him, as he may retiograde a little to chastise the Bundoolab.— Brigadier M'creagh's reinforcement was to follow, and join Sir Archibald': column, not Brigadier-General .Cotton s, and.was to march by land. . . . • We have received letters from Bauskunde, Cachar r 26th March. The rains had fairly set in at Munnipote; LONDON. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1825. STOCK EXCOANGE, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Consols opened at Bx 3 I for the Account, sometimes buyers and sometimes sellers. The holiday of the Hebrews finishes this evening, and few attend the &ock Exchange, consequently little is doing. Consols for mac' , 883 I. In the Foreign Market scarcely anything is doing. Current Prices: Old Spanish 213 3, Russian 931 3, Mexican .721 73, Colombian New 763, Austrian 973, Peruvian Bonds 67 4, Austrian Scrip 93 9 dis. Colombian Scrip 63 6 disc. Mexican Scrip 10 93 disc. Guatimala 23 discount. PRICE OF STOCKS AT TWO O'CLOCK. - - Bank Stock Shut. • . 3 per Cent. 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Provincial Bank of Ireland ino 10 Scarlet Dye 50 3 /MCC PEICSIII4IIII. 26 24 10 91 101 10 14 - 17 9 31 13 71 Cl 7 i i rem -660 Se 17k 18; 12 51 16 18 4k Si 4* 11; 11 A silly story got up at Paris in the Opposition Jour nals, apparently for no other object than to afford an opportunity for vituperation against the French Ministry, has been noticedisy the Journalists of this country in such serious terms that we deem it only necessary to mention the subject in order to expose its absurdity. It is as serted that the Council of Missolonghi, on the Ist of August, when closely invested and reduced to great straits, just before the general assault which was after wards so nobly repulsed, bad opened a communication with Captain HAMILTON, of his Majesty's frigate CA M. salmi, then before the place, and formally offered to surrender all Greece to the protection of the British Government, to be held in the same manner as the Septinsular Republie, now under our dominion, is subject to the British Crown. At which offer, not doubting of its having really been made, all lessof its being readily ac cepted, the Fi ench Journals are in a furious rage, talk of the liberties of Christendom being compromised by Eng land,of the views of theEmpetor of RUSSIA on the Grecian Republic (although the said Autocrat has a pretty con siderable number of obstacles, we guess, to surmount, before be can come in contact with it,) and, finally, that the Most Christian King is, as they are pleased to say, the natural protector of the Greeks; and that his inte rests would be betrayed by such an arrangement. On this side the Channel, our contemporaries, the Times in particular, gravely calculate whether we can afford, in point of expense, to govern• the Morea on those .coudi tionsP. and conclude, that.it is, after all, a question for the States of Europe to decide, whether we can be per .mitted to accept the offer ?_ Strange, that the ten, ark, of .sapient Lord Grizzle occdrrect to notociy—: " Madam, Madam, he made the, giants first, and then he slew theme The story is so evidently of Parisian ft:b r i t:le , t h at it may as easily be known as one of the French snuff: boxes. But whether or no, it may be . remarked, Ist, That the Council at Missolonghi had no *inherit); to bargain for the liberties of Greece. 2d. That if they had agreed to make the offer, they would have found some difficulty in finding a messenger who could p e : netrate the lines of the Seraskier, and find his way od ~ • shipboard. Sdly. Captain HAMILTON is, we doubt 1134 too well instructed in his' duty to receive any such message. He is there for no other purpose than to afford protection to the trade of this country, again s t any possible violence which miy be attempted by either of the belligerent forces. With matters of State he neither could nor would have anything to do. But, supposing for a moment that the offer were made by a competent authority, and through the proper channel, it is in its own nature too absurd to be cam. mented upon. It is just the same as if Great Britain were at once to declare war against the Porte, recover the Morea by force of arms, and maintain it against all the world ; and, lastly, exonerate the Greeks from any fur ther sacrifice of men or money in their own cause, merely for the honour of having a nominal Governor among them, under the appellation of Lord High Commissioner! If, however, it consisted with the inviolable faith, with the honour and interest of Great Britain to do all this, we believe htr Councils would not wait for the permis sion of the new Amphictyonic Council, called the States of Europe, to carry into effect any measure which they may deem expedient. England has never been accus tomed to receive the law from any, or all, of the other Powers of Europe; and we refer to Mr. CANNING'S spirited declaration, that in her foreign policy she will be governed exclusively by a regard for her own honour and interests, without reference to the views or wishes of other crowned heads I By the arrival of the Albion, Captain SwaiNsw, at Liverpool, Calcutta Papers to the 15th of April, have been received. They contain various details respecting the war in the Burmese empire, whlich will be found in our preceding columns. Their interest is in some de gree superseded by later accounts, of which the Albisa is the bearer. Captain Swairesom, who left Calcutta oa the 17th of April, states, that on the day he sailed, the Hon. Mr. ADAM, who was passenger in the Albion, received a letter from the Secretary to the Govern ment, informing him that dispatches had that moment arrived from the armyin the Burmese territory. They communicated the important intelligence of Arracan having been captured, on the 31st of March, by the di vision under the command of General Monalsou. The private leiter did not contain any details otthe egpture While we participate in the pleasure which our Raiders must feel at the additional trophies which our brave countrymen have thus been enabled to erect to the honour of his MAJESTY'S arms in those remote and unknown regions, we are bound to remind the Public, that the intelligence now received is only confir matory of our opinion expressed yesterday, that the Power with whom we are at war is neither deficient in resources nor in military skill: and that we are not in reason to expect the subjugation of so vast a territory by means of a handful of men, how ever brave and practised in war, without much addi tional effort, and we fear also without a considerable prolongation of the contest- Captain SWAIISSON indeed states, that the war in the Burmese country raged with greater violence than ever, and that there appeared no prospect of its speedy termination. This forenoon we received the Al:genuine Zeitung of the 7th inst. containing intelligence from Trieste, to the 29th of August. If these accounts can be at all relied on, the cloud which so lately hung over Greece is rapidly dispelling, for they represent Missolonghi as having so successfully resisted an assault on the Ist of August, that the SERAsKIRR was expected to raise the siege. The loss of the Turks is variously estimated at from 7to 12,000 HIM The CAPSTAN PACHA is said to have sailed from Patras, for the purpose of convey ing more troops to Navarino. In the meantime Mmu us is on the alert, and will probably give a good ac count of the Turkish Admiral. IBRAHIM PACIIA is represented as surrounded by the Greeks. This we doubt very much, although he seems inactive. A letter dated Corfu, August 19, contains tome details of the appointment of the French Colonel LUMINA to the command of a Greek Regiment of Infantry at Napoli di Romania. The Secretary General, MAUROC3RDAro, and the Minister of War, METAXAS, addressed the soldiers on their duties. Ti.e ARCHBISHOP having finished the customary prayers, Colonel PM= took the oath required by the Greek Constitution, and the soldiers swore obedience to him. The fol:owing are extracts from the Aiken:eine Zeitung : TRIESTE, AUGUST 21. Our Ossensataire Triestine gives the following news, dated Zante, August 5 : " Up to the 2d of this month thirty-eight Greek armed vessel* lad passed through our sea towards Missolongiti, and were soon followed by a division of seventeen sail, under the Hydriot Mantis. Amore the whole number there were seventeen Ere-ships. The squadron of the Captain Pacba lies off Patras, and endeavours to place itwi! in security against the Greek ships, which cruise at the distance of seventeen Italian miles. After an incessant cannonade of ems. forty days, breaches having been made in several parts of the wa!'s of Missolonghi, the Turks, fearing that if the siege were protracted the Greeks might receive relief, resolved to attempt a general and decisive assault upon the walls, which in fact were fathag down on every side. They accordingly opened trenches at eines points, from all of which they attacked the wails ost the Ist of Auguit, while their boats penetrated into the lake which *wounds the fortress of MissolonghL The fortress, the lake, and the outworks, were hidden for four hours in the thickest smoke. At seven o'clock in the morning the cannonade- ceased; the Wigged had gained A most decisive victory, repulsed the asst insts oo every side, sad killed a great number. The Turkish army assounard to thirty three thousand men. - • • • • " A noun. 7.—An English brig whkli arrived bete from Corfa yesterday evening, brings some farther particulars of the tote events. • ••! N tate o'clock; quis C( Lodge, Water. embark derable fi.,11 - • fn.Otint4 to dint Can At Con ienieno of hii their so The' Lrieist, The (In, to . Lad The shire. t ,000-,T9111.1 • 84 01 . 1111 0 : * lO4 . lobs. arta .y the Greel ePte te4 poet to t , troops • gritas 4 The folio r•f e sei fro( 66 Aft,'. seer . stars,' • • of 1 or der th Greece. rep nd land. w submitted t the der &a gee. th s a said, out -bones The Peron to o l such elcoene rr y forte diem riends cot • but as the heir Beet fear' of be itedechid. '1 morning. with 4.00 C 'fhe The canoe -coasts trot the Austri cry of joy . triumph retreating , August. Greek shi and, took i Aught, longhi: hided and 3iissoloni country. :o rejoice Soldieris himself w of what moth be will not WWII Of serve hit to Misso Contran the ',cup and ham confined lonians a • and operations there are at an end - until Novernhet.o66 Gumber Singh, the Cachar Rajah; remains at Maus kondy with his Munnipores, about 1,200 atom. Capt. 'Dudgeon's corps will occupy a position in adixace, to wards Sylhet ; and in this manner a chain of communi cation will by kept up. between Sylhet and Bauikundy. APRIL 11.—Letters from Rangoon of the 20th have reached us. They do not contain much addi tional information to what we formerly possessed. The Roya's and some artillery had marched on the 18th, to' reinforce Br;gadier-Generdl Cotton, and the King's 45th were stationed in the Great Pagoda. Sir Archibald Campbell was falling down upon the Bundoolah at Do nabew, and expected to reach it about the 19th, when the letters speak of the place being then regularly in vested. Some letters, to which, however, we can scarcely give credit, speak of the Burmese beginning to stockade themselves again in the neighbourhood of Rangoon. EAST-lADI.I HOusr, September 14, 1325. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED COMPAAY of MERCH.IA TS of E.VGLAND, trading to the ExIST-INDIES, do hereby ere Notice, That the QUARTERLY GENF.RAL COURT of the said COMPANY, appointed to be held at their House in Leaden. hall -street, on Wannescar, the 28th instant, is made further SPECIAL, for the purpose of laying before the Proprietors, for their approbation, a Resolution of the Court of Directors of this day, granting to Mr. &you° Aftauc,the.snm of ,01500, upon the grounds therein stated. The Report required by the By-Law, cap. 6. sec. 20. together with the Documents upon which the said Resolution has been formed, are open for the Inspection of the Proprietors at this House PETER AUGER, Assistant Secretary. THE EVENING STAR. Lon arrive Lori Pall-rr Mil • Lor Parma S. Park, An Fag. 1 and An Wioc on al Rant As Ban broil Lev ate Big otht Nai soul Bit den th xth Po abi In '*l C 7 It ni lii