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BONUS YEAR, 1861 N ORWICH UNION FIRE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The Society now holds large funas applicable for division among its insurers, and in which all insurances effected on or before Sept. 28 next will participate. Business of the Company exceeds... £56,000,000 Duty paid to Government, 1858 .. Farming stock insured free of duty For proposals apply to the Society's Office, 3, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, E.C., or Surrey-street, Nor wich. THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 142, Strand, London, Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE SURVIVORSHIPS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c. DIRECTORS. EDMOND SHEPPARD SY3IES, M.D., Chairman. John Elliotson, M.D.,Cantab., I John 'Moss, Esq. F.R.S. John Symes, Esq. - Henry J. Hodgson,,Esq. Joseph Thompseth..X.K. SECRETARY TO THL BOARD. Alexander Richardson, Esq. CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. Augustus Blondel, Esq. AUDITORS. Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford. Young. MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL. J. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street. ACTUARY. W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., &o. ASSISTANT ACTUARY. Barker Woolhouse, Esq. BANKERS. Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Roweliffe, Bedford The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared in May, 1860. Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 : Just published, price 25., - free by post, 2e. 4d., ON SPERMATORRHCEA. By P. B. COURTENAY, And formerly Surgeon to the Metropolitan Infirmary for the Cure of Strictures of the Urethra. " The aim of the author is to present a common-sense view of the Causes, Nature, Consequences, and Treatment of this Disease, as also to free these questions from the Professional Fallacies, the Popular Delusions, and the exaggerations of Qrackery by which they have hitherto been surrounded, to the destruction of the health and happiness of thousands. These objects are discussed in a common-sense and highly practical manner."—Medical Circular. London : H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street: Policy Sum Bonus in Bonus in Permanent taken Age. i Assured. addition Cash. Reduction out in to Sum Assured. of Annual 1 Premiums. £ £s. d. £s. d. 1 £s. d. 1838 1841 1845 1848 1851 , s. d. s. d. 55 3,000 1867 17 7 428 1 4 , 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 59 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 60 2,000 154 28 j i 103 16 8 55 2,800 120 17 0 42 14 6 X s. d. 56 3 8 32 0 4 16 6 0 10 15 2 6 7 7 The following are amongst the advantages offered by the International Life Assurance Society:— The Society was established in 1838. Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured every five years. For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the Chairman, 142, Strand. _ EDMOND S. SYKES, Chairman. 142, Strand, London, W.C. G UARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C. Established 1821. DIRECTORS. HENRY HULSE BERENS, Esq., Chairman. HENRY VIGNE, Esq., Deputy Chairman. Charles Wm. Curtis, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq. Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. John Martin, Esq. Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Bart., Rowland Mitchell, Esq. M.P. James Morris, Esq. Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., 31. P. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq. John Harvey, Esq. Sir Godfrey J. Thomas, Bart. John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. John Thornton, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. John Loch, Esq. AUDITORS. Lewis Loyd, Esq. Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. I John Henry Smith, Esq. Cornelius Payne, jun., Esq. Thomas Tallemach, Esq., Secretary.—Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary. LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS or AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In surers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of Profits. Since the establishment of the Company in IS2I, the Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in cash value £6450,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary Bonuses of £1,058,000. After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life Assurances in force, 101 th •u--ou aninuu tea TO upwat us 01 the Income from the Life Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund exceeded £1,618,000. LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No Extra Premium is required for service therein. INVALID LIVES assured at corresponding Extra Pre miums. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of heir values, if such value be not less than £5O. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re ceived and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge for Policy Stamps. Notice is hereby given, That Fire Policies which expire at Midsummer must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall- Mall ; or with the Company's Agents throughout the King dom, otherwise they become void. Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by thin Company. PRESENTS.- ORNAMENTAL and SCIEN TIFIC.—ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library, and Dining-room, consisting of anew and elegant assortment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Inkstands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &c,, in Italian,Alabas ter, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, &c. Imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149, Stand, W.C., London. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, and FOSSILS, which will greatly facilitate the interesting study of MINERALOGY, CONCFIOLOGY, and GEOLOGY, at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. 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It has now 103 lifeboats, some of which saved last year 227 persons from shipwreck. THOMAS BARING, Chairman. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Deputy-Chairman. 14, John-street, Adelphi, W.C., June, 1800. Bankers—Messrs. Willis and Co. ; Coutts and Co. ; Herries nd Co. ROYAL FR EE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road. This Hospital is entirely devoted to destitution in its most pitiable fbrm, viz., that which is accompanied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with ade quate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis ; moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 2,000 out patients a week. Contributions received by the Treasurer, Eslwd. Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane ; also 'by Mears. Coutts and Co. ; Drum mond and Co. ; Heriies and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith. 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LARIBALDI FU N D.- Having been appointed by General Gariblldi to receive and forward Subscriptions for " I millioni fucili" (the million muskets), I beg to state that I am ready to receive and duly remit any sums of money that may be subscribed for the above object. Sums already received. From Gla MOW, first F. N. Fordham £l 1 0 instalment . £2oo 0 0 Harry Browne.- 2 2 0 P. A. Taylor lO9 0 0 T. Z. Wilson 1 1 0 W. H. A shurst .... 10 0 6 Wm. Hammond.... 1 1 0 Wm. Pare S. 11. Braysher .... 1 1 01 W. C. Vivian 2 0 0 Map in (IL Co..- 5 0 0 J. V. Porter G. Hyde .... ... 3 3 0 1 A Friend of Italian loonr Protestant 1 Liberty 5 0 0 Englishmen .... 6 6 0 !Professor F. W I. 11. Dillon ...... 5 0 0 1 Newman 2O 0 0 W. Jackson. ...... 5 0 0 T wo Si s t ers lO 0 0 Charles Buxton, Frank Dillon 5O 0 M.P l6O 0 0 Subscribed in a S. Statham .. Ifawlinson Gustav Arder...... 010 0' W. Shaen 5 0 0 C. M'Culloch ...... 1 0 0 P. M. Hart andfour A. M. F. C. 'fey. J. P. I. 1 0 0 1 tants L. T. ..... S. T. 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Upon the site of the old Vauxhall Gardens there will rise in the course of the present year a hand some building, in the style of the 13th century, designed for the improvement in art of the work ing men with whom this district abounds. The school is already in existence, although the mate rial building has yet to be raised. In the autumn of 1854 evening classes in drawing and modelling were opened in the National School-rooms, in Princes-road, Lambeth, the district of St. Mary the-Less, of which the Rev. Robert Gregory, M.A., of Christ Church, Oxford, is the incumbent, with the assistance of the Science and Art Department at Marlborough House. These classes have been attended by a yearly increasing number of pupils, most of them being connected with the building, engineering, and pottery trades, which are exten sively carried on in that part of Lambeth. At present there are upwards of 120 pupils connected with the schools. The cost of the building will be £4,200, of which more than £5OO remains to be raised. His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, having been solicited to lay the first stone, at once kindly consented. Due preparations were made by the incumbent and his friends to gi're his royal highness a worthy reception, and in this they were eminently successful, having collected together a large assemblage. Precisely at four o'clock the arrival of his royal highness was announced, and the archbishop, bishops, nobility, clergy, and others went immedi- ately to the outer gates, and having formed into procession, conducted the prince to the small raised platform on which he was to perform the ceremony of the day. The Rev. R. Gregory, approaching the prince, who was accompanied by Major-General Bruce, Sir C. Phipps, and Lieutenant-Colonel Kep pel, delivered the following address : "May it please your Royal Highness—The committee for erecting a School of Art for the benefit of this nefgh bourhood beg to tender to your royal highness their hearty and sincere thanks for your great condescension and kind ness in this day coming among them to inaugurate the work which they are anxious to promote. Their great ob ject in projecting a school of this character, in the first instance, and in now seeking to extend its useful ness, is the moral and intellectual elevation of the poorer classes, mere especially of the gifted amongst them, by enabling them to cultivate those special talents with which Almighty God has endowed them. Experience has shown that secondary education will be appreciated only so far as it is adapted to the particular tastes, rather than wants, of the persons for whom it is intended; so that whilst other provision is made for the altogether uneducated, the com mittee have been anxious to labour for the benefit of suchas have been blessed with ability not universally imparted, and the possession of which raises them in power of cul tivation above the usual level. They have been further incited to this course by the conviction that special talents are often accompanied by special temp tations. For providing, therefore, for the development of the faculty of tracing out the beauties of form and blend , ing the glories of colour, which is only less generally given than that of appreciating musical harmony, the committee feel that they are furnishing a moral safeguard to those who ought to be especial objects of care, as such persons may be traders in vice if they are not in virtue, inasmuch as they are elevated by nature above their equals in social position. " Besides this the committee have had regard to the peculiar wants of the neighbourhood in which they reside. The special avocations of multitudes in this part of the metropolis render a knowledge of design of great importance for the efficient discharge of their callings in life. Engineers, potters, joiners, and other mechanics, by learning to draw, achieve a success in their several employments which would otherwise be denied them, and thus their zeal for the cul tivation of their natural talent is artistically increased by a conscious accession of power, and by a sensible addition to those material comforts which they win for themselves. And thus self-interest has urged them to study, whilst the self discipline thus acquired, it may fairly be hoped, adds stabi lity to their general character, and so becomes a valuable element in their moral education. "The success which has attended the efforts of the com mittee furnish evidence of the truth of the principles upon which they have acted. Each year that their school has existed it has grown in numbers and efficiency. Commenc ing with a few pupils, who found ample accommodation in a corner of a room lent for their use, they now find them selves unable suitably to provide for all to enjoy the advan tages they offer; whilst they have refrained from publish ing more widely the existence of their school, lest more stu dents presented themselves than could be received. They now muster 120 pupils in their classes, and the fees paid by these students, with the usual help afforded by the Department of Science and Art, suffice for the maintenance of the school, so that no subscrip tions have been received during the last tw o years for defraying its current expenses; nor have the results been less marked and satisfactory in other respects. Students of great natural ability have been found who, but for the assistance afforded by this school, would never have had the opportunity of cultivating the special talent with which they had been endowed. A potter, for example, who had no instruction in drawing till he entered the school last year gained a national medallion for designing and executing a most beautiful piece of pot tery ware, and by general competition this year the school has obtained 12 medals and 29 prizes, strong evidence that its success is not confined t 3 the number of students it col lects within its walls, whilst the unvarying good conduct of those we instruct is convincingly proved by our never having been called upon to exercise any severe censure during the five years that the school has existed. "For these reasons the committee hope they were justi fied in praying your royal highness graciously to counte nance the undertaking on which they have embarked, and for these reasons they hope they are borne out in appealing to the liberality of those who share with them in desiring to further:the cultivation of art, also to supply the deficiency which still exists in their building fund. " I concluding, the committee wish to state how highly honoured they feel in their school being the first which will have received its foundation-stone from your royal hands. And standing as we do on ground which tradition asserts to have formed part of the chase or the gardens of one of the most illustrious and best beloved of your royal high ness's predecessors—whilst we welcome the adveat of our duke on this ancient manor of his house, we pray that he may emulate in peace the fame and glories which that great prince first won in war; and that whilst he resembles him by being our pride and our boast as prince, we hope that he may come at a 'distant day to that high dignity to which he is born, a worthy successor to our most gracious Queen.'" His ROYAL HIGHNESS having received the al- dress, made the following reply :—" Gentlemen, I thank you very sincerely for your address, and for the gratifying terms in which you allude to my presence here to-day. Although I have hitherto refrained from taking part in ceremonies of this nature, it has afforded me much pleasure to accede to your request, and thus to associate myself with an undertaking the objects of which you have so well described, and with which I most heartily sympathise. Permit me, then, to tender to you my warm congratulations upon the success which has already attended your zealous and judicious exer tions in behalf of those who could not otherwise have obtained the advantages which this institution is intended to confer, and to express my earnest hope that the results, both as regards the indivi duals immediately benefited and the public at large, may exceed your most sanguine expectations." The Prince's gracious reply, which was pro nounced with admirable effect, was received with loud cheers. A special form of prayer, which had been pre pared for the occasion, was then commenced by the Rev. George Wm. Herbert, M.A., of Exeter College, Oxford ; immediately after which the choir and people sang the 148th Psalm--" Laudate Do minum." The Bishop of Winchester, who, as diocesan, was vested in his episcopal habits, read three prayers from the Book of Common Prayer and the follow ing special collect : " 0 Almighty God, who shadowest forth Thine untreated beauty in 'risible forms, and drawest the minds of Thy ser vants to the things unseen by the contemplation of thosethat are seen : Vouchsafe Thy blessing, we beseech Thee, upon this effort to advance Thy glory, and grant that they who within these walls shall study the works of Thy hands, and trace the forms of Thy good creatures hole below, may raise their hearts to Thee, their Maker and Fashioner, and be filled with the plenteousness of Thy blessing, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen." His Royal Highness, having received the trowel from Mr. Pearson, the architect, proceeded to place the stone, saying—" In the faith of Jesus Christ we place this foundation stone, in the name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Amen." The Bishop of WINCHESTER then said—" Here let true faith, the fear of God, and brotherly love ever remain. This place is set apart for learning and instruction in art and science to the praise of the most holy name of the same our Lord Jesus Christ, who ever liveth, with the Father, and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end. Amen." His lordship then pronounced the benediction, and the National Anthem was sung by the choir of Mr. Gregory's church and the visitors. his royal highness left the ground amidst the hearty cheers of all by whom he was surrounded. The ground was well kept by the 19th Surrey Volunteers, under the command of Mr. Roupell, M.P., Captain Truman, Lieut. Sznithers, and Ensign Pruett. Mr. Pearson is the architect, and Mr. Coils (oi Camberwell), the builder of the new schools: The police arrangements, under the direction a Mr. It. Beckerson, were all that could be desired. IRELAND. DUBLIN, JUNE 27. ACCIDENT TO THE CONNAUGHT STEAMER. Accounts reached Dublin this morning, announc ing that, owing to an explosion on board the Con naught, one of the new steamers destined to ply be tween Galway and America, she was unable to proceed on her first voyage yesterday. This has been:a severe disappointment to all parties inte. rested. The mails, however, will be despatched by the Parana, which fortunately was in the harbour, coaled, and ready for sea. The injury suatained by the Connaught is believed to be of a trifling charac ter. The Morning News gives the following ver sion of the disaster : " On Board the Parana, Galway Bay, Five o'clock. An extraordinary change has taken place, owing to an unfortunate though slight accident, which occurred to the Connaught immediately after getting under weigh. The circumstances of the case are singular enough, as the accident took place before the vessel had gone 100 yards from her berth, and though of so slight a nature as not to prevent her proceeding on her voyage, still, as it would tend to lessen her speed, it seems most for tunate that another first-class ocean steamer was at hand to take the place of the Connaught, so as to carry out the postal contract. According to the explanation I have received of the nature of the aceident, it appears to me one which could readily be repaired at any place where the means of repair ing machinery were at hand ; but at this port even a trivial derangement to machinery becomes seri ous, as there are no means of making any repairs. It is stated that the top of one of the cylinders came off, owing to some defect in the priming, and this is attributed to the error of taking in water for the engines at a time when the tide had fallen and the water wad consequently muddy. As soon as the mail bags had been put on board the Parana, visitors proceeded to this vPssel, which had got up her steam and was under ways to accompany the Parana down the bay. As the Parana went on her course to wards Black Head, some surprise, and afterwards a good deal of anxiety was felt at seeing theConv aught, though with steam and anchors up, remain appa rently motionless, and the anxiety was a good deal increased when the Vesper was seen coming out in the bay and signaling the Parana to return. It then became evident that some accident had occurred, and as Captain Patey, the Government inspector, had come out in the Parana to witness her trial trip, and had taken the opportunity to inspect the vessel and her crew, a consultation was at once held between the officials of the Government and the company as to what was best to be done under the circumstances. Captain Patey had already declared the Parana to be quite fitted to fulfil the Govern ment contract, and as she was coaled and ready to go to sea it was resolved at once to transfer to her the mails and passengers of the Connaught, and to proceed to sea with as little delay as possible. A telegram was at once sent off to London, stating the facts and asking for instructions, and unless an ad verse answer shall be received, the Parana will leave to-morrow at noon for Now York. She is a very fine vessel, with ample accommodation for double the number of passengers going out, and is in excel lent condition for the voyage and in every way fit for her mission. She has been long and successfully trading to the West Indies. She is able to do on an average 12 knots an hour, and when on her passage from Southampton to Galway with 1,000 tons of coal on board she exceeded that rate of speed. Capt. Heenan commands her; Mr. Sewell is the first officer, Mr. Hastings second, and Mr. Jenkins third. She has been lately lengthened at Blackwall by Messrs. Pritchard and Co. Her nominal horse power is 764, but her effective power is far beyond that. She is 330 feet long and her beam is 45 feet in breadth. In every respect the Parana is well suited for the trade in which she is now placed, and we think that the passengers who will go by her to America will give a favourable report of her quali fications and the ability of her officers." GALWAY, WEDNESDAY, Two O'CLOCK. This morning as the Parana was about to sail with the mails transferred from the Connaught a countermand was received from the Post•office, directing the mails to be forwarded to Londonderry for shipment in the Palestine, which will sail to morrow evening. However, a telegram has now been received authorising the mails to be put in charge of Lieutenant Cashman, R.N., and they thus have more than a full day's start of the Palestine. THE KING OF NAPLES. If every man is not the absolute master of his destiny, he has far more control over it than is gene rally admitted. Who is there so prosperous that he cannot look back to a period in his life when a single false step would Save marred all his pro sperity ? Who is there so unhappy that he can look back upon a life which afforded no opening to brighter or better fortune ? We are the creatures of opportunity. As we use it or as we neglect it we rise into happiness or sink into misery. What better instance can we have than the short and calamitous reign of the present King of Naples ? He had the advantage of succeeding to a father whose every act wa3 a warning, and who, by the detestation which he himself incurred, laid open to his son the readiest and easiest course to popularity. He had but to study what his father was, and to make every act of his own life the exact contrary of the acts of his predecessor. His father withheld every constitu tional concession till his people rose in armed rebel lion to demand it—a pregnant hint against deferring favours till their grace is destroyed by the manifest pressure of compulsion. His father trusted much to spies and Jesuits, and little to the attachment of his people. He laid the most flourishing cities of his kingdom in ruins, and tortured the noblest and bravest of his subjects with unrelenting hatred and ferocity; therefore he lived detested, and died amid the execrations of a people whom he had cheated by false oaths and deluded by sham constitutions, but whose confidence he never strove to acquire, and whose affections he never wished to conciliate. To succeed to such a father was in itself no slight piece of good fortune. Faults that might have been fatal under any other circumstances would have been easily forgiven when compared with the enormities of his predecessor. The nega tive merit of a cessation from tyranny and cruelty would have appeared as positive virtue to a people ground down by a despotism which more resembled the Italian tyrannies of the middle ages than the monarchies of the present century. A little, a very little, intermission of cruelty and oppression would have broaght to the feet of the son a people to whom even tyranny would seem tolerable after the perfidies and tortures of the father. But this great opportunity the young King recklessly flung away. He is the Rehoboam of modern history. Whether his counsellors were young or old they counselled him to his destruction, and he followed their advice with a literal exactness which leaves the historical parallel quite complete. He did all that was in his power to make his little finger as heavy as his father's loins. He might have inau guarated a new reign with the proclamation of an amnesty to men whose only fault was that they had suffered themselves to be deceived by his father's oaths and protestations. He might have given back to his people that constitution out of which they had by most unkingly and unmanly arts been de frauded ; he might have called to his side those able counsellors to whom his father was ever willing to have recourse in the moment of danger, but who were cast aside and disgraced in the moment of imaginary security. Had he been able to prevail over his narrow and cruel nature thus to sacrifice the semblance for the reality of power, and to seek in the confidence and affection of his people that support which he could never expect from their reluctant and terrified obedience, how brilliant was the career which opened itself to his young ambi tion ! He might have been the Victor Emmanuel of the South, with fewer dangers to overcome, fewer obstacles to surmount, fewer discordant elements to conciliate. The Romagna would have fallen into his hands far more easily and far more naturally than into the hands of the King of Piedmont. He might have been the second founder of his race, the focus of a new developm en t o f E uropean civilisa tion, the ido l of a peopl e w hi c h k nows little medium in its affections or its hatred. This he might have been ; he had but t o w ill i t, and it was done. So plain was the path b e f ore hi m that i t seemed a hundred times easier to go right than wrong. But the young King of Naples has made his election. He clung to the traditions of his race, and the vengeance which had long been accumulating seems likely to fall with full weight upon h is head. Si c il y i s l ost with a rap i d i ty w hi ch outstri▪ ps the imagination, and every account that we receive shows us more and more c l ear l y h ow precari▪ ous is the situation of affairs at Naples. The army, to whose support everything is intrusted, seems to be bett er su i ted for plundering than for fighting. The officers are deeply inoculated with the prevalent disorder of Liberalism, and the readi ness to desert does much to excuse the Neapolitan Generals for the capitulation into which they have entered, since that capitulation will at least have the effect of removing the troops from the over powering presence of Garibaldi and the contagious influence of his followers. Naples, which but a little while ago would listen to no counsels, and rep u di ated them with an inso lence which the consciousness of impunity allows to the weak, has wearied e very C ourt i n E uro p e with its supplications, and b een repe ll e d f rom ever y Court in Europe with the same contemptuous re fusal; and now at last, when the duration of his monarchy may probably be com p ute d by days, or at any rate by weeks, Ki ng F rancis procla i ms sud denly to his people the gift of a new constitution, with representative institutio ns on na ti ona l It a li a n principles, the tricoloured flag, and analogous in stitutions for Sicily under the government of a Viceroy. The best comment we can offer on this proceeding would be the word s o f the Roman Em peror to the Centurion who strove with his cloak to stanch the blood which was flowing from his throat, —4 , It is too late is this fidelity." Months, perhaps weeks ago, such a step might have averted the fall of the Bourbon dynasty; now it is too late. The whole proceeding is a poor plagiarism, which will li deceive no one. Euro pe has not f orgotten—an d least of all is Naples li▪ kely to fo rge t— that on l y 1 2 years ago the father of this very King put the Italian colours in his hat, and solem n l y swore to just such a co nstitution as th is; nay, more, that he carried his hypocrisy to the extent of sending Neapolitan troops into Lombardy for the ostensible purpose of making war against Austria, to which he was then, and remained to the day of his death, the most devoted of slaves. Wh en we see the son thus closely copying the father w e may we ll as k with the Roman, "Is this fidelity, i s thi s re en will - t a nce, real ? How longit last ? By what will it be followed ?" The King of Naples seeks, like his father, to engage honourable and up r i g ht men to undertake the office of his Ministers. Does he suppose that they have forgotten the fate which awaited those who accepted a similar o ffi ce in 1848 ? The ri▪ sing of the La zzaroni, the sham trials, the cruel imprisonments, and th e l ong sus pension of law and just ice, which even yet has not passed away ? It is indeed too lat e . I t is possible that some devi▪ ce mi▪ ght have been hit upon by which Naples could be once more c h ea t e d o f h er liberties, but that device can hardly b e th e same threadbare expedient which succeeded 12 years ago. There is a poverty of con cep ti on a b out it which marks out this notable manoeuvre for certain failure. Priestly casuistry will be at hand to support Royalperfidy, and any number of mira cles can be commanded to sanction a per j ury ex torted by fear and ;justified by necessity. In the meanwhile Garibaldi seems to be acting, so far as we can judge, with prudence and mod era ti on. H e refuses the immediate annexatien. of Sicily to Pied mont, feeling, very justly, that the moment he places the island under the co ntrol of a regular Government, accessible to the influences of Euro pean diplomacy, his own power and the fierce energy of the revolution it wields would come to an end together, and feeling also, we cannot question, that his work is but half done, and that is not in Paler mo, but in Naples itself, that ,t . he ultimate destiny of Sicily must be decided.--Tvnes. EUROPE IN THE 18Th CLeNTURY. As one views Europe through contemporary books of travel in the early part of the last century the landscape is awful,—wretched wastes, beggarly and plundered; half-burnt cottages and trembling peasants gathering piteous harvests ; gangs of such tramping along with bayonets behind them, and corporals with canes and cats-of-nine-tails to flog them to barracks. By these passes my lord's gilt carriage floundering through the ruts, as he swears at the postillions, and toils on to the Residenz. Hard by, but away from the noise and brawling of the citizens and buyers, is Wilhemslust or Lud wigsruhe, or Monbijou, or Versailles—it scarcely matters which,—rear to the city, shut out by woods from the beggared country, the enormous, hideous, gilded, monstrous marble Palace, where the Prince is, and the Court, and the trim gardens, a n d h uge fountains, and thel forest where the ragged pea sants are beating the game in (it is d ea tl to them to touch a feather) ; and the jolly hunt sweeps by with its uniform of crimson and gold ; and the Prince gallops ahead puffing 11'.. Royal horn ; and his lords and mistresses ride after him ; and the stag is pulled down ; and the grand huntsman gives the knife in the midst of a chorus of bugles ; and 'tis time the Court go home to di nner; and our noble traveller, it may be the Baron of Pollnitz, or the Count de £onigsmarck, or the excellent Che valier de Seingalt, sees the procession gleaming through the trim avenues of the wood, and hastens to the inn, and sends his noble name to the marshal of the Court. Then our nobleman arrays himself in green and gold or pink and silver, in the richest Paris mode, and is introduced by the chamberlain, and makes his bow to the jolly- Prince, and the gracious Princess ; and is pre sented to the chief lords and ladies, and then comes supper and a bank at Faro, where he loses or wins a thousand pieces by daylight. If it is a German Court, you may add not a little drun kenness to this picture of high life; but German, or French, or Spanish, if you can see out of your Palace windows beyond the trim-cut forest vistas, misery is lying outside : hunger is stalking about the bare villages, listlessly following precarious husbandry; ploughing stony fields with starved cattle, or fearfully taking in scanty harvests. Au• glistus is fat and jolly on his throne ; he can knock down an ox, and eat one almost; his mistress, Aurora von Konigsmark, is the loveliest, the wittiest creature ; his diamonds are the biggest and most brilliant in the world, and his feasts as splendid as those of Versailles. As for Louis the Great, he is more than mortal. Lift up your glances respect fully, and mark him eyeing Madame de Fontanges or Madame de Montespan from under his sublime perriwig, as he passes through the great gallery where Viilars and Vendome, and Berwick, and Bossuet, and Massillon are waiting. Can Court be more splendid ; nobles and knight more gallant and superb ; ladies more lovely ? A grander monarch, or a more miserable starved wretch than the pea sant his subject, you cannot look on. Let us bear both these types in mind, if we wish to estimate the old society properly. Remember the glory end the chivalry ? Yes ! Remember the grace and beauty, the splendour and lofty politeness; the gallant courtesy of Fontenoy, where the French line bids the gentlemen of the English Guard to fire first ; the noble constancy of the old King and Villars, his General, who fits out the last army with the last crownpiece from the Treasury, and goes to meet the enemy and die or conquer for France at Denain. But round all that Royal splendour lies a nation enslaved and ruined ; there are people robbed of their rights, communities laid waste, faith, justice, commerce trampled upon and well-nigh destroyed,—nay, in the very centre of Royalty itself, what horrible stains and meanness, crime and shame ! It is but to a silly harlot that some of the noblest gentlemen and some of the proudest women in the world are bowing down ; it is the price of a miserable province that the King ties in diamonds round his mistress's white neck. In the first half of the last century, I say, this is going on all Eu rope over. Saxony is a waste as well as Picardy or Artois; and Versailles is only larger and not Magazine, worse than Herrenhausen.—Cornhill THE SUNDAY BANDS.—On Sunday the band per formed in the Regent's-park for the first time this season, at the same spot where it was located the previous year, and, as on the former occasion, upon a r a i se d p l a tf orm. Th e greatest order was maintained, and the only officers on duty to preserve regularity wer e the park-keepers. PRICE 4 D . STAMPED, SD. THE INSURRECTION IN SICILY. The Cen tral Revolutionary Committee at Naples has issued the following appeal to the inhabitants of Naples. It is dated the 15th of June:— " Inhabitants of the City of Naples.—Too long already have your silent tears watered the land of Samnium, too long have Italian brows been bent before crime and infamy. " Incessantly menaced in your persons, in your property, in your honour, for 40 years you have been the playthings of the ambition and of the tyranny of a handful of men. With us you have deplored the ruin of the national finances ; you have seen taxes levied to provide for the pleasures of an imbecile Bourbon, and become the booty of a few nobles who ostentatiously displayed their luxury before you as if it were a patent of nobility. " You behold daily your fathers, mothers, wives, sisters, subject to cynical tortures and immolated by a barbarous police. Blood asks for blood, and that of your relations and defenders of your rights cries aloud for vengeance. " Slaves bought by money in South America did not tolerate such odious treatment, and we, Neapolitans, born free men to live where our fathers lived as rulers, how could we have sub mitted to such exactions, have endured such san guinary outrages ? "But let us bid a truce to timid regrets; let us leave lamentations to the tyrant; the future does not rest in bis complaints. Hitherto knocked down by the cowardice and villany of example, taken by the contagion, our brains were confounded like those of slaves. " At the sight of victorious Sicily, at the magna nimous example of Piedmont, at the powerful voico of Garibaldi, let our hearts throw off a shameful torpor, let us seize weapons to conquer, chastise, and liberate. Let Vesuvius respond to Etna, and the Appennines be the conducting wire of deliver ance to our brothers of the North. " For a long time, Neapolitans, we have tolerated that which could not be avenged without shedaing the blood of our fellow-citizens. For a long time we hesitated to commence an impious struggle with our brethren led astray by pretorian uniforms. " But by the side of the duties of the citizen are also those of the father ; the hour has come to cast aside as unjust sensibility, to escape from the curse which weighs upon bad fathers and slaves ! " Let the mask be dropped ! Let every man select his course ; between honour and infamy traitors only can hesitate, and cowards only remain unde cided. Let everything within our reach become a terrible weapon, from the deadly rifle to the shar pened lava of Vesuvius ; let us rather be crushed under the ruins of Parthenope than tolerate the tyranny of the Bourbon, and, if he needs must reign, let him reign in a churchyard. " Brothers, await the orders of your committee ; distrust bad news, and especially silly manifesta tions only suited to encourage the oppressor, to in timidate the weak, and to delay the day of redemp tion. " Sons of the Samnites, invoke the courage of your ancestors ; sharpen your swords and prepare silently, for, we swear it unto you, the struggle is near at hand. " Neapolitans, you are sons of Italy. Italy ex tends from Mont Cenis to the blood-stained waters of Sicily. Rise in the name of Italy and of liberty ! " Those who shed their blood for your sakes come courageously to you and you fight against them ! " God said to Cain,—' Unhappy man, what have you done with your brother ? ' Italy will say to you,—' Cursed brothers, what have you done with your brothers ?' " Each drop of blood shed in Sicily is a maledic tion on your heads, on the heads of your children, and of your children's children. " Neapolitans ! Italy forgives you ; but you must rise like the flames of your volcanoes against those who do not wish to allow Italy to exist !" R.4ILIVAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT NORTHERN. A special general meeting of this company was held on Tuesday at the station, King's-cross ; Mr. E. Denison in the chair. Mr. LEECH, the solicitor, read the heads of a bill for enabling the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company to extend their railway commu nications to the metropolis, and for other purposes connected with their undertaking. The clauses from 88 to 96 in the bill authorised traffic and other arrangements with the Great Northern Rail way Company. The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution ap proving the bill, and it was carried unanimously. The SOLICITOR read the heads of a bill for making an improved communication between the Great Northern Railway and the Metropolitan Rail way, near the King's•cross railway station, and for authorising certain arrangements between the Great Northern and Metropolitan Railway Companies with reference thereto. The object of the bill was to empower the Great Northern Company to con struct a short junction line between their railway and the main line of the Metropolitan Railway at King's-cross. The bill authorised the company to raise any sum not exceeding £30,000, and by mort• gage or debenture any sum not exceeding £lO,OOO. The CHAIRMAN, in moving a formal resolution approving the bill, stated that in the promotion of the measure some doubt had arisen as to the pro priety of proceeding with the bill; but, having been fortunate enough to make an agreement with some one who had opposod it, they were now induced to go on with it in Parliament. - The motion approving the bill was then carried unanimously, and the meeting separated. CHARING-CROSS. A special general meeting of this company was held on Tuesday at the London-bridge Station of the South-Eastern Railway Company—the Hon. J. Byng in the chair. The SOLICITOR read the agreement between the Charing-cross-bridge Company and the Hunger ford-market Company, on the one part, and the Charing-cross Railway Company on the other part, for the purchase by the latter company of the Charing- cross-bridge and Hungerford-market pro perty, tolls, &c. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, a formal reso lution, confirming the agreement for the purchase of the bridge and market, and authorising the directors to carry the same into effect, was carried unanimously. The SOLICITOR then read the heads of a bill autho rising the Charing-cross Railway Company to pur chase the whole of the rights of the Charing-cross bridge Company, and also those of the Hungerford market Company, and for that purpose to use the the funds of the company or to raise additional capital to the extent of £150,000, and to borrow £40,000. The bill authorised the company to grant a rent-charge in lieu of paying the purchase-money, if agreed upon by the parties to the agreement. The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution ap proving the bill, and it was carried unanimously. The meeting then separated. VICTORIA STATION AND PIMLICO. A special meeting of this company was heldyes terday at Fendall's Hotel, Westminster, Mr. W. Lee, M.P., in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said the meeting was convened in compliance with the standing orders of the House of Lords to consider a bill promoted by the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company for making extension to the metropolis, and involving certain alterations of an existing act affecting the company. Owing to some delay in advertising the notice it would be necessary to adjourn the meeting to the next day, in order to make it legal. Mr. FLADGATE, the solicitor, read the heads-of the bill, so f ar as it affected the interests of the company. In the arrangement between the Vic toria Station and Pimlico Railway Company and the London, Chatham, and Dover Company respect ing station accommodation for the latter company, and for which they were to pay a certain sum, it was only the long traffic that was consid ere d . But since then the circumst ances had changed, and th ere was a probability of a very large suburban traffic. Of course, charging the same rates for long and short traffic would not do, as that which would be a proper and moderate charge for long traffic would exclude the short traffic; consequently certain mo difications were now proposed in the arrangement which it 'ryas belie Ted would be for the advantage . --- • ~,,,,;,,.-„,„ . -fi el-xVC z. - \ri tr of both companies. The powers were perhttiiitii — . scv ~,e and would require the approval of th rc eidths - ' d ., the shareholders, represented at meetings - (1T ea Qii company, specially convened for the purpose, as well as the sanction of the Board of Trade. lie believed the proposed arraugemeA would 1 6 highly advantageous to the company, and the bill containing those powers would be submitted for their approval. In reply to a question it was stated that traffic arrangements were being made with the Great ~. ~, e.,,,..a, ....._ ' ondon, Chatham, and Dover Railway Companies, which it was expected would. be very beneficial to the company, and the particu lars of which wuuld be stated at the next halt yearly meeting. The meeting was then adjourned to the next (this) day, at the offices, Parliament-street. RAREY AT THE ALHAMBRA. Yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock Mr. Rarey gave what was termed in the announcements " a grand fashionable morning demonstration of his system " at the Alhambra Palace, Leicester-square, and ac cordingly at the hour named the building was densely crowded by an assemblage of spectators of the most fashionable and aristocratic character. Lucky were those who came first, or who had places reserved for them, or were in private boxes ; un lucky were those, and among these were some of the most fashionable spectators, who, having no glccted to take time by the forelock, were forced to descend into the space beneath the seats, which is only separated from the arena in which the exhibi tion takes place by a low rim or coping of stone. However, at a few minutes past 2, Mr. Rarey made his appearance with a laudable punctuality which might well be imitated by many of his patrons of either sex, who would thus escape the mutually painful process of trampling over the feet of those who have already taken their places. After ex plaining the general principles of his system, Mr. Rarey introduced the first object of his dexterous manipulation in the shape of a Try handsome light chestnut horse, whose good breeding and good temperrendered him a great object of commiseration, especially with the fairer part of the spectators. This docile example having been disposed of, the real business of the day began with a less well-bred animal, and one certainly of much less amiable temper. This was a dark chestnut mare whom no man had yet groomed, and whose furious kicking had battered h er hi n d l egs to pieces. Between this vicious boast and Mr. Rarey a most determined struggle now began. After plunging and kickinc, in every possible po s iti on , t h e an i mal gradually gave way to Mr. Rarey's inimitable skill and courage, and lay on her side in the straw of the arena. After demonstrating her tameness in the usual way, not, it must be owned, without much misgiving on the pact of those who could not conceive how Xantippe (for such we call the mare) could be subdued so quickly, Mr. Rarey proceeded to unstrap, saddle, and mount the mare. Now the spectators breathed more freely, and thought the battle over. Nat so ; Xantippe made up her mind for another bout, snorted, plunged, and threw up her heels most furiously. Fortunate was it for an elderly gentle. man down in the space before mentioned, below the seats, that those heels fell on the rim of stone, and not on his skull. As it was the " Volscians" were considerably " fluttered" at the sharp crack, and many thought that the brains of the elderly gentle man—always supposing that a man who could lean his head on a low coping within reach of such a vicious pair of heels had any brains at all—had been scattered. While all this was passing, the work of a moment or two, Mr. Rarey had dis mounted with the greatest agility, restrapped Xan tippe's fore. leg, and begun the battle again. We need scarcely add that this second struggle was of short duration, and that the animal was led off at last perfectly tamed. But now came the animal of the day. Not so much a kicker as a plunger, and not so much a plunger as a biter. This was the well-known horse Idle Boy, from the Rawcliffe Paddocks, York, of whom the advertisement said that his " furiously savage nature" would cause Mr. Rarey's encounter to be one of "intensely exciting interest." This promise, it will be admitted by all who were pre sent, was not belied by the performance. The very appearance of the ferocious steed was suggestive rather of a wild beast than of an animal subdued or subduable by man. Of prodigious strength and girth, with large muscles and well-knit joints, double chine, fine flanks, and a tiny head, Idle Boy was run in by grooms, who had evidently great re spect for his prowess. The grooms speedily left the arena, and Mr. Rarey was alone with his anta gonist, who was muzzled, indeed, but whose plungings and pawings, accompanied by fierce screams and whinnyings and constant champing and gnashing of teeth, were really awful, and caused one or two anxious ladies to take to their heels and leave the building, But Idle Boy, though not idle in his efforts, was no match for Mr. Rarey, who by a rare combination of strength and skill succeeded in rendering this furious horse so tame that his muzzle was removed, a saddle placed on his back, and then he was forced to perform a series of evo lutions which reminded the spectators rather of the docile steeds of an equestrian circus than the inve terate biter whom no groom could bridle. During the performance we may remark that no applause is allowed in these exhibitions, as anything which may divert the attention of the horse from Mr. Rarey mars the mastery which is being ac quired over him. After the exhibition is over any ene may express his satisfaction at the wonderful performance, and we need scarcely say that every one applauded yesterday. Mr. Rarey left the arena evidently much pleased with the behaviour and er thusiasm of the company, and announced that Idle Boy would be again exhibited on Saturday next at 2 o'clock, in order that an opportunity might be afforded of observing the permanence of the im pression produced by his system on a horse hitherto considered so savage as to be utterly incurable. On the same occasion other vicious subjects will be operated on. DEFALCATIONS AND FLIGHT OF A GLASGOW BROKER. The Glasgow Bulletin states that Mr, George C. Monteath, accountant and sharebroker, absconded towards the end of l as t wee k , an d is believed to have sailed for America on Saturday, by the Eu ropa, from Liverpool. He was treasurer to a com pany of the Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers, and is said to have embezzled £2OO of their money. It also appears that he called upon a respectable pro curator in Glasgow, and by means of forged docu ments got him to believe that a Miss Marshall, who was possessed of considerable property, had in her will appointed him factor on the estate, and on the faith of these documents he got the procurator to make out a formal deed empowering him to act as factor. The lawyer had to make two visits to London in search of individuals with whom he was to negotiate about the property, but he of course failed in obtaining any trace of them. Before making one of these visits, Mr. Monteath called, with the procurator, upon the manager of one of the banks in Glasgow, and told him the same story about the property and the will, adding that he required the sum of £5OO ready cash, to enable him to make preliminary arrangements before anything was realised from the estate. The will and deed were shown to the banker, who agreed, upon the representation of both parties, to advance the necessary sum. Various other reports have been circulated regarding the proceedings of the fugitive. "We have heard (says the Bulletin) of certain funds belonging to a building society, and also to a religious society, which have disappeared, and also of an unfortunate woman whom he had in keeping, and whom he has swindled. Mr. Mon teath was in partnership with Mr. Murray , the firm being Monteath and Murray, stock and share brokers, 107 St. Vincent-street, but the partnership was dissolved, and an official notice to that effect appeared in Friday's Edinburgh Gazette. Mr. Murray was totally ignorant o f t h e frauds of his partner, and will, w e believe, suffer c ons id erable loss by Mr. Monteath's disappearance. The firm had been in existence for two years." NB. EDWIN HEJAME ISSTS AND THE RPO. - Yesterday morning about 60 or 70 of the Or pheonists now in this country rambled into the Guildhall to inspect the building and its contents, and to admire the celebrated guardian spirits Gog and Magog. The common law courts are sitting at Guildhall, and the Orpheonists evinced much interest in the proceedings. After going the round of the courts they were shown into the Court of Aldermen, where Mr. Edwin James was sitting in his robes, reading his briefs and awaiting to be called on to conduct a case in the day's list. The learned gentleman's name was no sooner mentioned than there was a simultaneous outburst from all of " L'avocat defenseur de Bernard !" and in their en thusiasm loudly cheered him in true English style. Ono of the party expressed the pleasure it gave him to make even the temporary acquaintance of a gentleman whom he knew. M. Jules Farre,_ s t . h a e great French advocate and member of the Lqi hi l m courteously by tire Assembly, felt proud in being able to call friev.d. They were received most the Houses of Mr. James, who kindly promised,oon"thu tion, to obtain for them a view ‘h il ifpast 3 o'clock on their solioita- N.rliament, and appointedcn them in Westmin slt'retallay2ls f t o h r e th t a im t P e u f r o P r 07 ° 7 g Ikkie