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EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS, For the Year ending 30th June, 1869, read at the Annual General Meeting of Proprietors, 13th August, 1869, WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Deputy- Chairman of the Company, in the Chair. The Report which the directors have now to submit to the proprietor differs in its tenor but little save in one or two particular from that laid before then, in 1868. The income of the year, it will to seen, amounts t £540,499 18s., and the total charger £445,077 10s. 9d The difference, £95,422 7s. 3d., added to the balance of the surplus fund at the eomnwneement of the licancial year, raised that item to .£1,002,974 15s. 9(1., its present amount. SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, JUNE 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE YEAR. s. d. DR. Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 eremiums on new assur ances Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 £ s. d 907,:;52 8 6 371,548 12 1 Interest from investments 120,939 12 10 Profit and loss, balance of account ... 492,508 4 11 ~... 47,991 13 1 rotal income £1,448,052 6 6 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CHARGE OF THE YEAR. x B. d. CR. Dividend to proprietors Claims on decease of lives assured Additions to those under _ _ participating policies 24,304 6 Policies surrendered Re-assurances—new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 405,561 12 1 Commission Medical foes Income tax 3,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16,238 9 10 X s. d. 8,880 4 0 436,187 6 9 rota! charge Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per balance-sheet £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. id., of which sum £13,560 59. ld. is for new assurances effected in the year. The interest from investments is £120,959 12s. 10d., or £4 2s. per cent. on the net amount of tho company's realised assets existing in June, 1868 ; and in connection with this important feature of the company's affairs the directors have the satisfaction of reporting that the profit and loss account again exhibits a considerable profit, amounting this year within a trifle to the sum of £48,000. It may be remembered that a profit of nearly equal amount was announced in last year's report. Turning to the items constituting the charge of the year, it will be noticed that the sum payable in satisfac tion of claims on decease of lives assured is larger than usual. This circumstance, however, is not very material; as was observed on a previous occasion, the proper quin quennial average is generally pretty sure to obtain, and the fact that the average for the past two years barely ex ceeds £309,000 tends to confirm that statement. The expenses of management are greater by nearly £BOO than they were last year. They would have been materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring the compan3 's securities into tho names of additional trus tees. Taken as they are, however, these expenses must be regarded as very moderate. It will be observed that they are:only three per cent. of the total income. BALANCE-SHEET. JUNE 30, 1869. Dn. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors £6,757 17 0 );laims on decease of lives assured, and A ddditions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts 2 - lier sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors' Lund Surplus fund 1,002,974 15 9 , Examined and approved. £7,675813 010 7TIONIAS ALLEN, ) Auditors. HENRY ROSE, Cu. ASSETS. trueunt invested in fixed mortgages £1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 162,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 litto ditto Temporary secu rities 198,207 17 0 iurrent interest on the above investments 30,934 4 6 sash and bills 12,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the compa n y 's policies 165,357 1 8 Agents' balances Sundry accounts Value of pr ont i tuns (1867) 85,706 14 5 Value of re-assurances £7,675,813 0 10 The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re- Mnrk. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £95,422 7e. 3d. already mentioned, ns is shown by th e augmentation to that extent in the balance of the surplus fund. The Direction of the Company is now constituted as follows: WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE, ESQ., Chairman. ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esq. James Murray, Esq. Thomas Boddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. George Russell, Esq. SirJ. 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In ad dition to other special entertainments, Bloadin will ex hibit some of his most astonishing feats ; Ethardo, the Spiral Ascensionist, has also been engaged ; and there will be a magnificent display of Fireworks and Grand Illumination of Fountains, including various devices ap propriate to the occasion, by Messrs. C. T. Brock, at half past six, ending at seven o'clock. Excursions from the Midland, Brighton, Great Western, Chatham and Dover, South-Eastern, London and North- Western, and South-Western, Great Northern, Great Eastern. _ No advance on the usual admission, viz., one shilling children half-price. ORYSTAL PALACE.— MONDAY NEXT. — v SPECIAL FIREWORKS. New Devices, the new Combination Shells, Cascade of Fire, &c., at 6.30. CONITAGNIE GENERALE TRANSAT LANTIC/TIE. _ _ _ . 4, Rue de la Pais, Paris. FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS. NEW YORK. Leave every 14 days, from Havre and Brest, for Newyork. RATES OF PASSAGE. From lIAVItE or BREST to NEW YORK. First Class 7OO fr. Second Class 425 fr. 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The Directors are now prepared to enter into arrange ments for converting the Debentures of the Company into equivalent amounts of Perpetual Four per Cent. Deben ture Stock, and also to receive applications for allotments of the same Stock, at par, to be applied in the repayment of Debentures falling due. Any amount of Stock, not being a fraction of a pound, can be subscribed for and transferred. A commission of + (one-half) per cent. is allowed to ap plicants, and the Stock will be inscribed in the Company's books free of all expense. The interest will be paid half-yearly on the 15th Jan uary and 15th July, by warrant. The Stock thus raised will be entitled to the same priority against the property and income of the Company as the Debenture Bond Debt, ranking before the Com pany's entire Stock and Share Capital of Thirty Millions (£30,000,000), and will be the first charge on a net income now amounting to upwards of Three Millions (Z - 1,000,000) annually. 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It is now offered to the public it a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. Gd., and 15s. each. including brush. Red Bull Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames itreet Loudon. E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, I)RURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at ", BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At S, FORMOSA, new four-90,t, Drama, by Dion Boueieault: Messrs. Barrett, IT. Irving, David Fisher, Britntin Wright, John Pnitse: Mrs Billington, Misses 31. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. ri`IIEATRE ROYAL, AI)ELPIII. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. THIS EVENING, at 7, TOO MCCII OP A GOOD THING: Messrs Ash:cy, C. H. Stephenson, and Misses Maria and Nelly Harris. At 15 to 8, LOST AT SEA: a London Story. Messrs A. Stir ling, G. Belmore, E. Atkins, J. D Beveridge, C. H. Stephenson, C. J. Smith. R. 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Barrett, II Irving, David Fisher, Brittain, Wright, John Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brannan, Mac donald. and Katharine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED PLUM ES THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPIII. THIS EVXHING, at 7, TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING Mr A shley, Mr, Stephenson, and the Misses Harris. Followed by LOST AT SEA: Mr A. Stirling, Mr G. Belmore, Mr E. Atkins, Mr Beveridge. Mr Stephenson, Mr Smith, Mr Romer; Miss Rose Leelereq, Miss Eliza Johnstone, Miss Lennox Grey, Mrs Leigh Murray And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Ur G. Belmoro and Mrs L. Murray. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Tins EVENING, at 7, BREACH OF PROMISE. At 8.15, the new Comedy, PROGRES': Messrs. Billington, H. Neville, J Clarke, Parselle, Westland, E. Marshall; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. THEATRE-ROYAL, HOLBORN. This EVENING, at 7, WAIT FOR AN ANSWER. After which, PLAIN ENGLISH: Mr. Barry Sullivan, Mrs. Hermann Yezin, &e. And THE WATERMAN. PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Vining. Ting EvENrNo, at 7, A QUIET FAMILY. After which, E.O APED FROM PORTLAND: Mr Charles Mathews, Mr Vining. Mrs Chas. Mathews, &c. T o conclude with NOTHING To NURSE. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborongh. Tins EVENING, at 7.30, AMONG THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. With TIIE TOODLES. And THE FIELD OF THE CLOTH OF GOLD. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G &RDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve. ad ROYAL AL HAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-office open from II to 4. .••\ A jz xkf aieSitin • LONDON, SATURDAY, OCT. 9, 1869. Elsewhere we give two very important documents extracted from the initial number of Mr. MURRAY'S newly-established literary publication, Tice Academy —documents directly affecting, one of them, indeed, throwing a sudden and vivid glance of light upon the controversy awakened by Mrs. STOWE'S scurrilous and most unjustifiable attack upon Lord BYRON'S me mory. Additional testimony may possibly be adduced by the same high and unimpeachable authority through the medium of the fourth article, entitled " The BYRON Mystery," in the forthcoming number (254) of the Quarterly Review. But the two brief papers already referred to, as given to the world this day in the pages of The Academy, and which will be found reproduced in another part of our impres- sion of this evening, are already perfectly suffi cient in themselves. They give the lie, no less directly, because inferentially, to the atrocious charge of incest, cast by a woman's hand, by the hands of two women, against the memories of Lord BYRON and his half-sister, the Hon. AUGUSTA LEIGH, long after both those two have crumbled away into dust, and when, consequently, they were both utterly powerless to meet the cruel and detestable imputation directed against them posthumously, and therefore with a sort of demoniacal malignity by the unwomanly accuser or accusers. Upon the authority of the distinguished publisher of Albemarle-street, we now know that thero is actually in his possession a document drawn up by Lord BYRON himself, written by his own hand, and authenticated with his autograph signature, under date August 9, 1817, in which the noble poet declares in the clearest, plainest, and strongest terms that lips could articulate or pen indite—that, to the moment at which he was writing those words at La Mira, near Venice, on the 9th of August, 1817—never once had Lady BYRON afforded him the faintest clue as to what was the nature of her accusations against him : that he had entreated her in vain to do so : that he was ready even then, that he would be " happy, most happy" to cancel the deed of separation which he had been reluctantly induced to sign, and go before any tribunal, which might discuss the business in the most public manner!" After that—talk of Mrs. STO WE'S monstrous story as True ! After that—talk of the " hour of revelation " having come in the honeymoon itself or immediately afterwards. Why, these lies are worthy of their parentage--‘ , gross as a mountain, open, palpable." Put into the opposing scale in the balance of judgment this brief but all-sufficient document written by Lord BYRON in the August of 1817, and now in possession of Mr. MURRAY of Albemarle-street—and see how it will outweigh the foul and frothy slander spat forth by Mrs. STOWE from her muddled recollection of the morbid hallu cinations whispered into her ears thirteen years pre viously by that coldblood, saintlike, unforgiving, paragon of perfection, Lady BYRON ! Take Lord BYRON'S solemn declaration as it is now given to us through the pages of The Aca demy—take that solemn declaration, and read it sentence by sentence. " It has been intimated to me," writes Lord BYRON, " that the persons u nder stood to be the legal advisers of Lady BYRON have declared their lips to be sealed up' on the cause of the separation between her and myself." To which he says at once " if their lips are sealed up they are not sealed up by me, and the greatest favour they can confer upon me will be to open them." Ho then adds, " From the first hour in which I was apprised of the intentions of the NOEL family to the last communi cation between Lady BYRON and myself in the character of wife and husband (a` period of some months), I called repeatedly and in vain for a statement of their or her charges, and it was chiefly in consequence of Lady BYRON'S claiming (in a letter still existing) a promise on my part to consent to a separation if such was really her wish, that I consented at all ; this claim and the exasperating and inexpiable manner in which their object was pursued, which rendered it next to an impossibility that two persons so divided could ever be re-united, induced me, reluctantly then, and re pentantly still, to sign the deed, which I shall be happy, most happy, to cancel, and go before any tribunal which may discuss the business in the most public manner." Now, in the name of common sense, we ask at once, is it within the bounds of possibility that there could be one iota of truth in the shameful story, as it has recently been told by Mrs. STOWE, when Lord BYRON was intreating and imploring to be told what it was, if anything, that he was accused of— when he offered thus eagerly to cancel the deed of separation for the express purpose of enabling him to go before any tribunal which might discuss the business, and discuss it, too, in the most public manner? Lord BYRON adds—" Mr. HoniloUSE made this pro position on my part, viz., to abrogate all prior inten tions, and go into court the very day before the separation was signed, and it was declined by the other party, as also the publication of the correspondence during the previous discussion." He adds—" Thee' propositions i beg here to repeat, and to call upon her and hers to say their worst, pledging myself to meet their allegations—whatever they may be—and only too happy to bo informed at last of their real nature." This is written by the noble poet and signed by bim BYRON." It was written at La Mira, near Venice, and was dated Aug. 9, 1817. And as if unsatisfied even then with what he had thus written, there was added by the illustrious writer this postscript, also signed BYRON :"—" I have been, and am now [August, 1817], utterly ignorant of what description her allegations, charges, or what ever name they may have assumed, are ; and am as little aware for what purpose they have been kept back, unless it was to sanction the most in famous calumnies by silence." More than half a century elapses after those agonized, and now most affecting, words were written—when that silence which Lord BYRON was deploring in the August of 1817 was at length broken, in the August of 1869, when— -in the name of that (during Lord BYRON'S life, and for that matter, it may be said, during her own) cruelly inscrutable, and icely implacable wife of the great poet—a Yankee magazine -writer endeavours for so many pounds, shillings, and pence, but quite ineffectually to blast Lord BYRON'S brilliant, and (so long as the English language shall last) inde structible reputation. Remembering what Mrs. STOWE has, with almost unwomanly hand, attempted to do, we are almost fain to quote against her some of those appalling lines in Lord BYRON'S " Sketch," applied by bim to the delineation of the nature and character of Mrs. CHAFLEMONT. As usual it is difficult to come to any conclusion as to the tendency of the crisis in Spain. It is certain that the Republicans have got up a very formidable iucurrnofinn ftgalmt , Lko Goviarmnont which overthrew ISABELLA ; but no very adequate idea can be formed of the insurgents' progress or prospects, for the civil war has been inaugurated by the usual onslaught upon the telegraph wires. This part of a Spanish conflict is always well done. Both parties often display no great anxiety to fight ; but their style of defeating the electric current, triumphing over railway lines, and cutting off all sources of in formation, is perfect. After these exhausting move ments, the warlike Iberian ardour frequently sub sides. The combatants content themseves with the profitable business of " watching," and the outside world patiently awaits the end, drawingits conclusions by the safe rule that the more sparse the information, the more dangerous the movement for the powers that be. But though the news of this last outbreak is as usual exceedingly dark, the nature of the rising and the causes that have led to it are in nowise doubtful. The revolutionary leaders have failed to redeem the promises they so liberally made a year ago. They began exceedingly well. The revolution was accomplished with much skill ; there was afterwards no wrangling over the spoil ; and a tolerably harmonious Government intro duced some salutary reforms. It was no small benefit to put an end to the reign of the late sovereign, and this much PRIM and his colleagues did achieve. But more was needed. The men of the revolution could neither find a monarch, nor could they make up their minds to do without one. Hence they incurred the manifold disadvan tages of administering a form of government which was professedly unsettled and temporary. The work of reform was left half done. The Ministry seemed to lack the courage to make those decisive changes which were necessary to give Spain a chance of regaining her place in Europe. One evil, which has ruined Governments without end, has been only aggravated during the past year : the finances were in frightful disorder, there was a large deficit, and through repudiation the national credit had been brought to zero ; but the financier has not been found, nor have the measures been forthcoming, to restore the balance. Lastly, the Cuban revolt commenced almost simultaneously with the revolu tion, and. has continued ever since. In the case of all these troubles, except the last, the Government adopted that policy of masterly inactivity to which the Spaniard is so prone. Whenever a difficulty arises, it is customary for Spanish statesmen to quietly do nothing, and wait the development of events. In this instance the development has taken the form of increased debt, anarchy, and rebellion. Awkward troubles at Malaga and Cadiz were followed by the Carlist rising, and now this Republican insurrection promises to turn out a far tougher problem than any of the pre ceding disturbances. The rise of the Republican party in Spain is very remarkable. Just after the revolution of last autumn Marshal PRIM replied to the suggestion of a Republic by the then just assertion that in Spain there were no Republicans. Democracy, however, was so ener getically taught and so readily learned, that in a very brief space the party was able to send three score nominees to the Cortes. Some of these were men of great ability. Since then the leaders have unceasingly worked to extend their influence ; organisations h av e been set up in every village; and converts have accumulated with a rapidity truly wonderful in a nation which has so long been deprived of political interest and power. The leaders have spared no pains in haranguing and organising. The number of Republican clubs is now fixed at 2,300. A power so increasingly formidable naturally excited the alarm of the Government, which unwisely betrayed its fears by divers oppres sive measures, at variance with those liberal principles which were so loudly asserted at first. The free press doctrine was infringed. Certain informal judicial procedures have been practised. The Government attempted to weed the Republicans from the volunteer corps which were formed after ISABE LLA rece i ve d h e r coupe, Finally, the disarming of certain volun teers at Barcelona the centre of Spanish democracy—was ordered. This step brought about the present catastrophe. The Republicans of the north-east at once took arms, their example has been followed in many parts of the country, and the new political creed seems at length to have made a deci sive throw for power. The chances in such a conflict are always on the side of the established regime. But a Republican outbreak must of necessity be far more serious than a Carlist movement. Indeed, the Government behaves in a panic-stricken sort of way. On the opening of hostilities it has hurried before the Madrid Parliament a measure for suspending those guaran tees of personal rights and liberties which formed one of the early glories of the revolution. It is well ascertained that the Democrats can bring a respectable force into the field, and they are openly countenanced and assisted by the Republican mem bers of Parliament. A. moveme nt so long prepared and so well supported, may we ll g ive rise to appre hension, and should it happen that any portion of the army, or any of th e Ca bi ne t, side with the insurgents, it is not impossible that this outbreak may be the beginni ng o f a grea t c hange. It seems strange that the pre sen t Mi n i stry s hould not h av e tried the experiment of a republic. Most of the revo lutionary leaders, it is true, are Monarchists ; but a sovereign worth having is not to be had, and a republic is, at all events, better than nothing. A. CONTEMPORARY rem ar k s that the working men's meeting at Liverpool has redeemed the Church Congress from the charge of inutility. The utility of the admirable discussions which have taken place this week would have been great without the working men's meeting ; but there can be no hesitation in saying that the latter was a pleasant and instruc tive gathering. Much is to be hoped from such reunions. Probably if the working men of Liver pool were oftener specially addressed by the higher dignitaries of the Church, they would learn a little more toleration and cour t es y, a nd would refrain from hissing and grudging a hearing to such men as the Bishop of OXFORD because his views happened to disagree with theirs. Probably before addressing the disrespectful title of " Sabbath breaker " to Archdeacon DENISON because he is dis posed to advocate cricket between services on Sun day, they would, if such gatherings had been more familiar, have waited to hear what he had to say on behalf of that practice. And such meetings are desirable, not merely because they may teach work ing men good behaviour—in which respect those of Liverpool seemed somewhat deficient—but likewise because the poor are boUnd by the most intimate ties to the Church. It is often said—it was said at this meeting—that the Churc has comparatively little hold upon the worli ing classes. If by this is meant that th average attendance at the churches of the Esta blishment includes a smaller percentage of the labouring class than is to be found in other places of worship, the assertion is to some extent true. But if the work of the Church be regarded as a whole, the fallacy of the complaint becomes evident. Nothing can be of greater moment to working men— spiritually and temporally—than the education of themselves and their children ; and, as the Archbishop of YORK pointed out, seven-tenths of the work of instruction depends upon the clergy. It would be better in every respect if the labour were more evenly distributed. But hitherto this all-im portant duty has fallen upon the poorer ministers of the Establishment, simply because no one else could be found to do it. In hundreds of British parishes the clergyman has had to choose between no school and a school chiefly maintained out of his own narrow sti pend. The education question has in fact mainly arisen from the inability of the clergy to bear this burden. Whilst they do so much to perform a duty which in country parishes would be done by none other, it is unjust to tax them with estrangement from the poor of the nation. Doubtless, the English Church might do something to bring herself into more immediate connection with the working class. There is really no sngm, reason To appre hend that " the clergy are drawing themselves away from social questions, and rather shutting themselves up in the theological circle." As the Archbishop of Yonx candidly admitted on Thurs day evening, the movement in favour of temperance ought to be the very province of every minister of CHRIST, and yet the Church of England in great measure stands aloof from it. Whilst the Church is second to no religious body in her exertions for the relief of suffering generally, here is the cause of the worst of human sufferings passed by almost unnoticed. This ought not to be. The duty of the Church towards the poor is not to regain her hold upon the working classes—for that has not been lost—but to strengthen the influence she already possesses by practically aiding in those great social questions which are so intimately allied with religion. LITERATURE. The /car of Bullhampton. No. 4. By Anthony Trollope.—We have a suspicion as to the plot of this new serial story by one of the most popular of our novelists. Our conjecture is that the seducer of Carry Brattle will turn out to be no other than —Captain Marrable. There is Lope consequently for Squire Gilmore directly this damning fact shall have been demonstrated. All may then come right as to Harry Gilmore's love, and the heroine of the book, before the tale is told, may become in fullness of time the Mistress of the Privets. Already the narrative is full of interest. The Vicar himself is almost, we think, the most manly and the most loveable of all the clerics created by Mr. Anthony Trollope. Archdeacon Grantley is still the king amongst them all, but the Vicar of Bullhampton is to our mind, as we have said, the most manly and the most loveable. The old miller, Brattle, again, is admirably delineated. Hilary St. Ives. By llarrison Ainsworth. (New Monthly for October.)—Mrs. Sutton's mys terious history is told by herself in this instalment. The reader has already had glimmerings of what it is, scattered here and there incidentally through the narrative. Sho is the mother of Hilary St. Ives. She is the wife of Colonel Delamere. She has been sinned against, but she has also, on her own show ing, very grievously sinned. Suspected of having destroyed her mother, she is now proved to have destroyed her father, though inadvertently. The story is told with ease and vivacity. It is essentially English in the character of its dranzatis persona, and in the " setting" of the whole group in the midst of a thoroughly English landscape. llarrison Ainsworth, instead of having in any way run him self out, has still his old mastery over the atten tion of his reader. Put I ourself in his Place. By Charles Reade. (Cornhill for October).—The instalment for the present month of this powerful and impassioned fiction is one of the most remarkable that has yet appeared. Little is captured in his Church-smithy, after a desperate encounter with the infamous emissaries or myrmidons of the trade--being just snatched from otherwise inevitable death by the Christmas mummers from the old Hall, led by the Squire himself, Little's Uncle. Uncle and nephew are thereby brought to each other's knowledge, and before the number closes are happily reconciled. The charming and thoroughly-womanly heroine is in a breathless plight of bewilderment, having just refused him immediately before the reconciliation and the eclaircissement that leads to it. That ele gant scoundrel, Mr. Coventry, is, we rejoice to know, however, in a still sorrier plight by far, and one from which there is manifestly no chance for him of extrication. * * *Saveral contributions, more or less remarkable, to the Byron Controversy, have recently made their appearance. 1. There is Mr. Hotten's volumette of 189 pages, recounting "The True Story of Lord and Lady Byron," a little more veraciously than Mrs. Stowe did in the September number of Macmillan—the joint narrators, here, being Lord Macaulay,Thomas Moore, Leigh Hunt, Thos. Campbell, the Countess of Blessington, and the noble poet himself, through his own poems, and through Captain Medwin's record of their conversations together, especially in regard to his marriage. As a frontispiece, we have a grotesque copy from an original drawing by Freeman, of Lady Byron, as she appeared in 1833 of itself a perfect justification of any estrangement there might have been from her on the part of Lord Byron. As an eccentric flyleaf, too, we have a facsimile of a woodcut set forth recently in a little catch-penny publication sold in the streets the other day as the likeness of Lord Byron's Half Sister, Augusta—the said /mod cut, however, being identified with one that has already been issued in its time as the vera effigies of the notorious Lola Montes, and of Madeline Smith, the sensational murderess. 2. There is a little unbound booklet of 128 pages, published by Thos. Cooper and Co., of Fleet street, and entitled " The Stowe-Byron Contro versy," compiled by the Editor of Once a Week, purporting to contain what it certainly does not (as our columns would testify very abundantly), " a complete (7) resume of Public Opinion," [mean ing, of course, in the matter of that con troversy] together with "an impartial re view of the merits of the case"—a review so impartial that it actually closes with that shameful acceptance by the limes (according to general belief, by the lion. Mrs. Norton in the Times) of the whole of Mrs. Stowe's disgraceful slander, an article which, four days after its appear ance in the leading journal on the Monday, th e limes, in a leader of the Friday following, t oo k especial care distinctly to repudiate. On that very Monday, the 30th of August, we ourselves indig nantly scouted the whole narrative as a monstrous libel on the part of Mrs. Stowe, through the pages of Macmillan's :Magazine for September, follow ing up our demonstration of the fact in the lead ing columns of The Sun upon seven or eight subse quent occasions. Yet—though the first in the field, and one of the most persistent afterwards—our arguments are in no way referred to in this complete résumé of Public Opinion in regard to the so-called Stowe-Byron Controversy. 3. There is yet more recently published Mr. Samuel Palmer's very acceptable brochure, in 112 pages, in which the reader will find " Byron Painted by his Compeers," or, as we conceive it ought rather to have been by his Contemporaries— the constituent portions of the work being extracts from the newspapers of the time about Lord Byron's Marriage, his separation from his wife, his exile, his illness, death, and burial ; the whole form ing a most curious and interesting compilation. &aril tvi; ,A44Y, LIER MAJESTY. -.e.- __ BALMORAL CASTLE, Oct. 7. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Beatrice, walked out in the morning. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal High- Princess Louise, Princess Augustus and Princess Amelie of Saxe-Coburg, drove out in the afier- HOOD. THE BYRON CON7ROVERSY. (From the Academy) The following document is printed as a contri bution to literary history. It was drawn up by Lord Byron in August, 1817, while Mr. Hobhouse was staying with him at La Mira, near Venice, and given to Mr. Matthew Gregory Lewis for cir culation among friends in England. It was found amongst Mr. Lewis's papers after his death, and is now in the possession of Mr. Murray : " It has been intimated to me that the persons understood to be the legal advisers of Lady Byron have declared their lips to be sealed up' on the cause of the separation between her and myself. If their lips are sealed up, they are not sealed no by me, and the greatest favour they can confer upon me will be to open them. From the first hour in which I was apprised of the in tentions of the Noel family to the last commu nication between Lady Byron and myself in the character of wife and husband (a period of some months) I called repeatedly and in vain for a statement of their or her charges, and it was chiefly in consequence of Lady Byron's claiming (in a letter still existing) a promise on my part to con sent to a separation, if such was really her wish, that I consented at all ; this claim and the exaspe rating and inexpiable manner in which their object was pursued, which rendered it next to an impos sibility that two persons so divided could ever be reunited, induced me reluctantly then, and repen tantly still, to sign the deed, which I shall be happy --most happy—to cancel, and go before any tri bunal which may discuss the business in the most public manner. " Mr. liobhouse made this proposition on my part, viz., to abrogate all prior intentions—and go into court—the very day before the separation was signed, and it was declined by the other party, as also the publication of the correspondence during the previous discussion. Those propositions I beg here to repeat, and to call upon her and hers to say their worst, pledging myself to meet their allega tions—whatever they may be—and only too happy to be informed at last of their real nature. " Aug. 9, 1817. (Signed) " BYRON. _ _ " P.S.—I have been, and am now, utterly igno rant of what description her allegations, charges, or whatever name they may have assumed, are ; and am as little aware for what purpose they have been kept back, unless it was to sanction the most infamous calumnies by silence. "La Mira, near Venice." (Signed) " BYRON. DESTRUCTION OF BYRON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE " ACADEMY." Sir,—There are a few points connected with the destruction of Byron's Autobiography upon which a great deal of misconception exists, and upon which I should therefore be glad to say a few words. 1. To those who doubt the entire destruction of the MS., I may state that I was eye-witness to the burning of it and of the only copy existing of it, in the drawing-room of 50, Albemarle-street. 2. The proposal to destroy it originated, I believe, with my father, the late Mr. John Murray ; and his reason for making it (as he has stated in a letter to Mr. R. W. Horton, printed in No. 185 of the Quarterly Review), was his "regard for Lord Bryon's memory, and respect for his surviving family." . . . " since it was surmised that the publication might be injurious to the former and painful to the latter." The friends of Lord and Lady Byron " United in wishing for its destruction." The following persons were previously consulted, as a matter of courtesy, and were present at the burning : Mr. Hobhouse, as executorand friend of Lord Byron ; Colonel Doyle, as a friend of Lady Byron (who had actually offered £2,000 for the MSS., which she did not pay) ; Mr. Wilmot Horton, as friend of the Hon. Mrs. Leigh ; my father, and Mr. Moore, who alone for some time opposed the destruction. 3. The MS. was, at the time of its destruction, the absolute property of my father, having been purchased by him in November, 1821, from Mr. Moore (to whom Lord Byron had given it) for £2,000, in consideration of which sum Moore cove nanted to edit the papers, and to supply an account of the subsequent events of Lord Byron's life. On May 6, 1822, however, a second deed was exe cuted, at Mr. Moore's request, giving to him the power of redeeming the MS., " during the life of the said Lord Byron," on the repayment by either of them of the £2,000. This condition Moore did not fulfil ; consequently his interest in the MS. entirely ceased on Byron's death ; by which event the value of the MS. was greatly enhanced, probably doubled. 'This fact, no doubt, rendered Mr. Moore more than ever anxious to recover the autobiography, and he had secured the advance of £2,000 on loan from friends in the city to enable him to do this. The MS., however, by general consent, was de stroyed, Mr. Moore, though reluctantly, concur ring. Moore then paid to Mr. Murray the £2,000, for which payment Byron's friends offered to reim burse him ; but he refused. So matters rested until 1828, when the appearance of Leigh Hunt's "Byron and his Contemporaries" convinced my father that an authentic life of Byron was demanded, for which only Moore and ho were possessed of the necessary materials. He therefore arranged with Moore to prepare the " Life, Letters, and Journals of Lord Byron," published in 1830. For this Moore re ceived the sum of £1,600. But (and this is the point which, in justice to my father's memory, I am anxious to state) over and above the sum so paid, Mr. Murray discharged Moore's bond with his cre ditors, upon which he had raised the £2,000 paid by him immediately after i3yron's death ; together with the interest thereon and other charges, amounting to £1,020 more ; thus making a total sum of £4,620. (Signed) JOHN MURRAY. Oct. 6, Albemarle-street. THE NEW PRO-CATHEDRAL AT KENSINGTON.—A very fine photograph of the interior of this splendid edi fice in Nowland-terrace, having been taken by Mr. D. Rains, of Kensington, we have been favoured with a brilliant copy of the same, and, without exception, it is one of the finest specimens of this beautiful art that has yet come under our notice. The photo is a per fect picture in every particular, the rich carving and traceries of the grand cathedral come out with extra ordinary minuteness ; th e h a lf-t ones are par ti cu la r ly deli cate, and the colour of the entire production is unexcep tionable. A photograph of such exquisite beauty cannot but command grea t a d m i ra ti on , an d a most extensive sale will certainly be the artist's reward. The very extensive Distillery now being erected at Belfast, with all recent improvements for the manufacture of Irish whisky, by Messrs. DUNVILLE & Co., who have gained a world-wide celebrity for their fine old Irish whisky, is to be called "The Royal Irish Distillery." HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. MORNING. EVENING. SATURDAY, OCT. 9 20 min past 4 44 min past 4 SUNDAY 7 min past 5 25 min past 5 MONDAY 48 min past 5 10 min past 6 TUESDAY.. 38 min past 7mm oast 7 WEDNESDAY 37 min p as t 7 ...... 12 min past 8 THURSDAY 58 min past 8 ...... 40 min past 9 25 min past 10 3 min past 11 THE CARDIFF ABDUCTION CASA Tho adjourned application of Mr. Joel Emanuel for th h appointment of a guardian to Esther Lyons, the 70 08 lady whose case is better known as the Cardiff 01)(10 °1 case, was resumed before the Chief Clerk in V I ! Chancellor James's Chambers on Friday, when Mr. Pettine w attended on the part of the present custodians of 31114 Lyons to oppose the appointment. Mr. Pettingalo said he appeared for the infant he re . All and the actual pe rsons h av i ng c h arge o f h er, and alk°' permission to issue a summons for the appointment of 41 0 persons. His object in asking for leave to issue the present summonses was that they could all be heard together. Th e girl was nearly 20 years of age, and had a right to choose her own guard ians .—Mr.Emanuel said since he appeared last tial e he had had a communication with the girl's uncle, M r ' Nathan Phillips, who had consented to act as P., guardian. He, th ere f ore , now propose d th a t x`' Phillips, conjointly with Miss Lyons's eldest brother, Mr. Reube n B arne t L yons, b e appointed '„ guardian.—The Chief Clerk said this must be on one C°ll - a scheme be forthwith brought in as to her residence. Would there be any property?—Mr. Emanuel' There will be. Mr. Pettingale again contended that the feelings of the infant should be consulted bell the order was made, and he therefore asked the Ch ie ' Clerk to give the young lady an opportunity of attending before the judge to state her own views and feelings in the matter.—Mr. Emanuel : I ask, then, that her residence be stated at once.—Mr. Pettingalo said there could be no obie e ' tion to that. She was with Mrs. Keep, of 65, Finchley-uell' road.—The Chief Clerk asked how long she had b een there.—Mr. Pettingale said she went th ere a l mo st dire cti, ~,' after the action against Mr. Th omas , an d h a d b e en the' ever since. Mr. Pettingale said he had a form of sunira °l4 . , for the appointment of Mrs. Keep and Dr. Schwart z guardians. The young lady regarded the aplv ill '; merit of her aunt and brother with the gates repugnance, and when she knew th a t they W ea - proposed, she fainted, and said she could a et and would not, live with them. The young lady's relatil were Jews, and she was a converted Jewess.—Mr. Ewa ° said he asked that the matter should be adjourned, roar much as a criminal prosecution would be taken aga i l Mrs. Keep and Dr. S c h war t z .—M r . P e tti nga lo they would be quite prepared to meet I°l proceedings that might be taken in the Ina tte i ; The girl was informed by Mr. B aron Chann el., at the time of the trial that she mi g ht go to re° , ' . where she thought fit.—Mr. Emanuel : Mr. Baron Ch ar nell could never have given a girl—a minor—such rid . : lous advice.—The Chief Cl er k re p ea t e d th a t th e father 0 ; the natural guardian, and they could not appoint m 143 : 4 in his stead without his consent. He thought the girl otig r. to have an opportunity of going before the Vice-Chanco ll° Ho should therefore grant leave to Mr. Pettingale to tao ro out the summonses applied for to be heard with the °t he m on his giving an undertaking that the child should no t . a removed from her present residence.—Mr. Petting,ale F 4 1 .0 there would be no objection to give this undertaking il the understanding that the house of Mrs. Keep should a e l bo broken into.—(Mr. Emanuel : Oh, oh !)—Mrs. keep he ' been followed about so much that she was afraid 0 come to his office.—Mr. Emanuel said in the recanti°o the child was being contaminated by th e p ers ons she I v with.—The Chief Clerk said much harm could 1 1 ' 3 ,ier dine by an adjournm en t f or a wee k, an d ma d e all °- accordingly. THE EUROPEAN POLICY-HOLDERS• On Friday afternoon a meeting of the policy-holders jo European Assurance Company, and the companies W al ly mated with it, was held at the London Tavern. Mr. 5. ,j; Low took the chair, and was Leginning to ar t y, there were cries of " Whitmore, Whitmore t chair." Some one arose and said that as Mr. Low was chair lll bo 9 of the Naval and Military policy-holders, he ought t° - in the chair. After a great deal of confusion and unnecessary vi°t°of time, Dr. Wetmore took the chair. Mr. Low, amidst some confusion, asked the Ine etil4 to guarantee him the expenses of the room. h e el Mr. COLLETTE said that if the directors bad - asked, they would have called a meeting, and Mr. Lo a ' eg responsible for the expenses of the meeting. The CHAIRMAN said they had met to consider what IAI the best for the whole body of shareholders, and net i ll : particular section. He asked the meeting to be or der ,,,i and give attention to each speaker. He came there if 4. policy-holder, and they ought to remember tha t the ; represented thousands who were not able to be present', winding-up of any company was always disastrous , an° la was doubly so when a society was compelled to do s° ' it was afterwards found that it could meet its liabilW". (Hear, hear.) Mr. S. M. Low said his only object was to protect P" 3 4) other persons interests. If the co m p an y was a ble t° f;; its present and futuro liabilities (a voice : "It is he would give them a helping hand. H e told " ,i - f directors that if they could show him that they had the value of the surrender o f p o li c i es h e wou ld mak e : c i affidavit in the Court of Chancery to the %ft that he was satisfied. There h a d been rill° bi about the stability o f th e E uro p ean . (A vo ice : " e s 'Y ~a wreckers.") He had made application to the directorol. '", they refused to purchase the surrender of policies, rh lit i ii letter dated the 20th of September. ("Quite right.") statement seemed to him tantamount to an act of bank rurc/ to (" Oh, oh," " No," and confusion.) He consulted the s olicit ° l the Naval and Military Company, a meeting was committee-appointed to wait on the directors of the ado, pean, and they saw the deed of settlement with the 1/ to , the a t ' tho pean, Mr. Low then proceeded to repeat ment made by him at a meeting °f Naval and Military policy-holders last Mond* op published in our columns on the succeeding day' hi ' ir• Low was proceeding to quote some figures when the e- 00 man said they must deal with the matter delicately. of did not think that figures before the Vice-Chancol lor th fit for discussion). Mr. Low said he meant to conclu de oot a resolution to the effect "that, in the opinion of th is f o ld held, sn ing, it is desirable that the proceedings in Chancery a " ; „, - to be suspended, to enable independent persons to inv .°9" l" et the affairs of the company, and report to o ne. meeting." shee t The CHIEF ACCOUNTANT said Mr. Low's balan ce " o f was the one that was presented before the niee ting o i shareholders—(hear, hear)—and not the one that before the Vice-Chancellor. ci ,te Mr. Low was then p rocee di ng w h en h e wa s int°l'-e with cries of "No" "Yes" and confusion. When was restored, Mr. Low said that the r e was invely%ell Consols, &c., £42,500. H e believed the Government £30,000 as the security f r om the guarantees. T x.°" f° ,,, re t: bonds there were invested £41,000 whi c h, he WO 1u1P '" 4 000 say, he believed were good and worth 1:3 ".' e it In colonial securities there were £6,650. Then tb ° ,oo - f ig item was a most important ono to consider—£ 26 d the value of the business bought. Loans on policies to" of premiums, £106,000. Then there were premiums in C 0 1/1 1t payment, £83,000. The speaker then referred t° 1-00$ figures, stating that £549,000 was put down as eal'i ° ' 11 called up; but a few months since a call of 50. per was made, which was valued at £78,000, and a onlY br° 7 o ll' in £50,000. Mr. Low said that he believed that gr•till O,O ford was willing to let the petition stand nfo r investigation was made. (Cries of "No; a Ol in tii He would, therefore, move his resolution, and sugg est the mooting bo adjourned till after the investigation. 00, Mr. O'MANNEY seconded the motion. If they w elll it out of every pound paid over the counter as a 10°1114,4 Pi would be paid out again, instead of 18s. of it being P as a reserve fund. General Garibaldi is about to appear as a 0/13 1 170 His work, which has been published by Messrs. t ie d off founded on facts, and bears largely on the WO clesiastical condition of modern Italy. ' • 0 jtvA A. NF .W ORK BY MIL. DARWIN —WO 1 11 "' - learned that Mr. Darwin is preparing a ' new work, e tesf the main conclusions arrived at in his " Origin o f S , P ro bi and accepted by most of the younger naturalists tm--„ugobl out Europe, will be applied to man. The work, t° be ,fo lished next year, will consist of three rert" -- , l q . "C" ) Descent of Man ;" 2. "On Sexual S e l ec tion," a nd o el° Exy d r e e n s c s e io w n o ill f b t e h m e a E in m l o y ti d o i n a s w .' n ' f l r n om th first of a e eonipariso t o ll ;i t h e evi Jn structure of man with that of the lower an ad and from the facts of embry o l ogy; th e more ge nerld wi ci ments from the laws o f geograp hi ca l di s tributio n - 11 0 , geographical succession being here inaP licable• difficult of question of th e gra d ua l development %)( mancharacteristicfrom lowernmoraltypaenad will ltellalecstn to ualatbtrriiebalesciolecinl si eci ler con" With respec t to t h e rac es or 9crca elusionse of man, Mr. Darwin has been led to the ta n t . that sexual selection has played an in a r ci ,, r 031 part. This principl e d epen d s, on the one h and) rivalry bet ween ma l es o f t h e same s pecies for th e ' t o the female; and, on the other, 00100,-- choicesession of by the females of the more attractive In a 00 combined in each case with the transmission te,4{. offspring o f th e c h arac t ers o f the more successfttl;llo viduals o f e ith er sex . This part of the work 113 tarp illustrated. by copious details. In the supPlein I' o o discussion on the expression of emotions bY tw ee through muscular movements of the face and lira* ow ed questions will come under nc,tice. (a). How far is wan ellci ot i o ss I with muscles solely for the purpose of expressing e ll/ d iffri (b) how far the same expressions provail among th e • 0 4 rent races of man; and (c) in what manner t he animas exLikit Sheg Motiallet-fho Aicackmv. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1869.