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THE " SINGER" SEWING MACHINES. THE "NEW FAMILY" SEW THE LOCK-STITCH AND THE NEW EMBROIDERY- STI'C Work by Rand and Treadle, and in a Portable Case for Travelling. THE " SINGER " SEWING MACHINES ARE WORLD-RENOWNED AS THE BEST SYSTEM AND THE MOST COMPLETE, WITH NEW IMPROVEMENTS FOR EVERY CLASS OF SEWING. The p simplicity of thesca Machines enables any one to inquire their perfect use in a few hours. Illustrated Price Lists post free. VIE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY C.312iel Office in the United Kingdom:, 147, CILEAPSLDE. F OR TOURISTS AND EXCURSIONISTS. E. MOSES and SON have made preparations, on an unusually large scale, in every depart ment of their business. For trades and ad dresses, see following advertisement. A RARE COMBINATION. The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be found in every grticle sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, or made to measure, for all ages, and all glasses. Commodious apartments for measuring ind fitting in the spacious and elegant Show Booms, which contain a very large and diver sified stock of materials. For the convenience of Ladies accompany ing their Sons there is a distinct department for Young Gentlemen's Clothing. Orders by Post are attended to with care and punctuality, and the easy and accurate system of self-measure introduced by E. MOSES and SON enables them to guaruntee a faultless fit. Orders from persons who are not known to the firm should I.e accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be theerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the noney will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats md Caps. and Boots and Shoes, is un equalled for magnitude, variety, and cheap ness. Complete Outfits for all Climates, with every requisite for the voyage. Lists of Prices, with Rules for Self-mea sure, Patterns, and Fashion-sheet, gratis and post-free. E. MOSES and SON'S Establishmouts are closed every Friday evening at sunset till Saturday evening at sunset, when business is resumed until eleven o'clock. E. MOSES and SON, Ready-made and Be spoke Tailors, Habitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES .nd SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINOIIIES 156, MINORIES 157, mmourEs 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85. ALDGATE 86, ALDGATI 87, ALDGATE 88, ALDGATE 99, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET DRINCIT. 06, NEW OXFORD-STREET CO7, NEW OXFORD-STREET sOB, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 127, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TOTTMTHAAI-COURT-ROAD 283, EUSTON-ROAD. _ _ Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Head Offices, 429, Strand, London. The distinguishing features of this Association are Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. 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. fhe income of the year, it will to seen, amounts t f 540,499 18s., and the total charze to £445,077 10s. 9d The difference, £95,422 7s. 3d., added to the balance of the surplus fund at the commencement of the financial year, raised that item to £1,002,974 15s. 9d., its present amount. SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, Ju 30, 1869. INCOME OF THE YEAR. £ s. d. Drc. Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 907,552 8 6 Premiums on new assur- £ e. d ances Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 371,518 12 1 Interest from investments 120,959 12 10 492,508 4 11 Profit and loss, balance of account 47,991 13 1 Total incomo 550,499 18 0 .£1,44,052 Examined and approvod. THOMAS A LLEN,I Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CHARGE OF TM: TEAR X s. d. CR. Dividend to proprietors Claims on decease of lives az;sured Additions to those under participating policies 24,304 6 6 Policies surrendered Re-assurances —new Ditto old 51,009 4 1 X 8,880 4 0 405,561. 12 1 ,-, . , orntrnssion Medical fees Income tax 3,017 15 8 Expenses of management 16,238 910 436,187 6 9 •total charge Balance of account, June 30, 1869, as per balance -sheet ,I 1,002,974 15 9 £1,448,052 6 6 The total of premiums received is £371,548 12s. Id., of which sum £13,560 ss. id. 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 the 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 company 's securities into the 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, Ju 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors r:laims on decease of lives assured, and Addditions thereto unpaid 108,940 6 7 Sundry accounts Liabih.. -.ler sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors fund Surplus fund 1,002,974 15 9 £6,75717 0 £7,675,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CR ASSETS. imount invested in fixed mortgages £1,661,699 9 2 Ditto ditto decreasing ditto 167,770 15 2 Ditto ditto Reversions 278,557 16 6 Ditto ditto Funded securities 491,303 4 2 Ditto ditto Temporary secu- rities .. -- 198,207 17 0 ,;urrent interest on the above inv es t men t s 30,934 4 6 Cash and bills 12,256 15 10 Advanced on security of the company's policies 165,387 1 8 Agents' balances Sundry accounts Value of premiums (1867) ..... 4,506,167 18 0 Value of re-assurances 85,706 14 5 £7,675,813 0 10 The balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the sum of £95,422 is. 3d. already mentioned, as is shown by the 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 Roddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. Charles Chatfield, Esq. , Georg° Passel], Esq. SirJ.BullerEast, Lt., D.C.L, 'I limnas Godfrey Sambrook° Win. :I`.!y,ustus Guy, M.D.. Esq. Admiral CAnrio.iTlans.llol eorn beEsq. flight lion. Sir John Young Joshua Lockwo,d, Esq. Bart., K.C.B. LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN, RAILWAY. -. AUTUMN EXCURSIONS, AND LAST 0: TNT SEASON. On SATURDAY, Oct. 2d, a CHEAP EXCURSION will leave EUSTON STATION at 9.50 a.m. and Camden 9.55 a.m.. for LANCASTER, Blackpool, Preston, Bolton, Wigan, Birkenhead, North Wales, Chester, Northwich, Crewe, Nantwich, Aberystwith, Machynlleth, Llanidloes, Montgomery, Newtown, Hereford, Leominster, Ludlow, Craven Arms, Oswestry, Shrewsbury, Wellington, New port, and Stafford ; returning to London on THURSDAY, October ith. _ _ _ From Eustop Station at 12.20 noon, and Camden 12.25 for LIVERPOOL, Manchester, Warrington, Stockport, the Yorkshire District, Buxton, Leicester, Trent Valley, Stour Valley, and South Stafford Stations, Birmingham, Rugby, Leamington, Kenilworth, Coventry, and Wolver hampton ; Returning on October 7th. Trains in connecon with the above will be:run from Victoria (L. B. and S.V side), Clapham Junction, Batter sea, Chelsea, West Brompton, and Kensington ; also from Broad-street (City). Dalston, and Higbbury. For fares and full particulars see bills, to be obtained at any of the Company's Stations ; the various Parcels Re-, ceiving Offices; and at Gaza's Tourist Office, 163, Strand. W. CAWKWELL, General Manager. Easton Station, Sept., 1869. cLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. Established 1824. The AxxuAL INCOME, steadily increasing, exceeds £227,000 The ASSUILANCE FUND, safely invested, is over £1,649,000 Forms of Proposal, and every information, can be ob tained of GEORGE CUTOLIFFE, Actuary and Secretary, 13, St. James's-square, London, S.W. COMPENSATION IN CASE OF INJURY, AND A FIXED SUM IN CASE OF DEATH Caused by ACCIDENT OF ANY KIND, may be secured by Policy of the RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY. An Annual Payment of £3 to £6 ss. insures £l,OOO at Death, and an Allowance at the rate of £6 per week for Injury. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS ALONE may be provided against by Insurance Tickets for Single or Double Journies. For particulars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to the Local Agents, or at the Offices, 54, COaNIULL and 10, REGENT STREET, LONDON. WILLIAM J. VIAN Secretary. TO the POLICYHOLDRS and R_SHARE HOLDERS of the EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. You have seen, from the newspapers, that a Petition has been presented to the Court of Chancery for the Wind ing up of this Society, which is to be heard on Saturday, the 2d of October. This petition bore the names of Mr. Thomas Carlyle Hayward, a former Director of this Society, and Mr. Robert Crawford, one of its present Directors. Mr. Crawford attended a meeting of the Directors on Monday last, and took part in their deliberations, and the very next day, without the slightest intimation to his colleagues of his intention, he presented this petition. It is but fair to Mr. Hayward to say that, as soon as he became aware that he had been improperly induced to join in the petition, he withdrew at once. The allegations of Mr. Crawford have been responded . . to in the following affidavit, although the first intimation of his petition was about four o'clock on Tuesday, when notice to appear before Vice-Chancellor James, at two o'clock the next day, Wednesday, was served: " The statement in the said petition that the said Society is altogether insolvent and unable to pay its debts is untrue. The moneys available for payment of current claims are sufficient for the purpose, and the assets and subscribed capital are and will be sufficient to provide for evety liability as the same may arise. The said society does in fact pay its debts, and there is not a single undisputed and duo policy claim remaining unpaid or which the board is not prepared to pay, and no debt of which payment has been asked of the said Society remains at the present moment unpaid, or which the board is not prepared to "The books of the Society show that the petitioner, Robert Crawford, appears a debtor to the Society for sums amounting to £1,200 or thereabouts, including tte un paid call on his shares, and loans unaccounted for, be lieved to have been received by him as an agent of the Society." _ _ _ _ _ The Directors have also issued the following advertise ment to the daily papers : "European Assurance Society.—The Directors of the European Assurance Society reque,t the policyholders and shareholders not to be alarmed at any of the reports which may appear at the present moment, as they are advisedly, and in full assurance of its sound position, determined to oppose to the utmost the unwarrantable attempts to ruin the Society." Nothing could be more improper than the course pur sued. by the petitioner. Had he one grain of the sympathy he professes for the great interests concerned, his course would have been to secure the policyholders, first, and not to rush into Chancery and hand these important in terests over to a set of wreckers, whose sole object is to fill their own pockets at the expense of the Society. It is now well known that a gang of designing persons has been occupied for weeks, if not months, in compassing the destruction of this and other Insurance Companies, and it is suggested that the policyholders and shareholders throughout the country should combine with the manage ment at the chief office to overthrow these unprincipled attempts at injury. With this view, the time for convening meetings being so short, sheets with headings have been prepared, which can be signed by either policyholders or shareholders, and have been distributed to the district managers and agents in the country, where they can be signed, or at the chief offices of the Society, 17, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. By order of tho Board. HENRY LAKE, General Manager. ()I IN GOSNF.LL and CO.'S CHERRY TOOTII PASTE is groatly superior to any toots: powder; rives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects a, enamel from (octy, and impart, it pl,3Htint frAf.fraTiee tr tho t reath. Pl - 1,0 Wharf. 93, Upper Ti.annes-street, London. tiOTIIING IMPOSSIBLE. Glirt ANIARELLA restores the Human Hair to its pristine hue, no matter at what age. Jai O. GOSNELL and CO. have at length, with the aid of one of the most eminent Chemists, succeeded in perfect in this woncJrful liquid. It is now offered to the public a. a more concentrated form, and at a lower price. Sold in bottles, 3s. each ; also 55., 7s. 6d., and 15s. each. including brush. _ _ Red Ilan Wharf, Angel passsage, 93, Upper Thames street London. E.C. THEATRE ROYAL, I)RURY-LANE. Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, at ', BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. At 8, FORMOSA, new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault : %lessrs. Barrett, 11. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright. John Rouse; Mra Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with the farce of BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Will Open for the Winter Season on SATURDAY, October 2, with (never acted) LOST AT SEA: a London Story. Ey Dion Boucicault and IlenryJ. Byron. Box-office open on Wednesday, Sept. 29, and every other day, 'rotn 10 till 5. No fees for booking. Places can be secured a 'ortnight in advance. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, at 7, BREACH OF PROMISE. A t 8.15, Mr. T. W. 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Mrs. Swanboronch Tins EVENING. at 7.30, AIIOWI THE BREAKERS: Mr Clarke. THE TOODLES. And THE PILGRIM OF LOVE Mesrs. E. Telly, Bruce, &c; Mesdames Richardson, Newton, Foghrooke, &c. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. THREE BALLETS Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. is. Box-office o pen from 11 to 4. CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8 Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 3 and 8 all the year round. ZOOLOGICAL G.I.RDENS, Regent's-park, OPEN daily (ex cept Sundays). Admission, ls.; on Mondays, 6d. Children under twelve, 6d. 1 17 '4l LONDON, MONDAY, SEPT. 27, 1869. The newspaper, after all, turns out to be the most effectual assistant to the detective. Hitherto the cant has been that the premature reports published in the journals of the day interfere with the judicious action of the police authorities. A wonderful in cident which has just now taken place has proved, on the contrary, that the very reports erroneously described as premature are the surest and the swiftest aids to the officers of justice by putting the more in telligent amongst their number on the alert throughout the length and breadth of a great country like France. But for the particulars published in the news papers no information as to what has recently oc curred at the very gates of that gay capital, the metropolis of European civilization, would have reached the very man whose ingenuity, promptitude, and resolution have led in the very hick of time to the capture of the portentous villain who appears to have had the chief part to do in the perpetra- tion of the Pantin murders. gendarme of the name of FERRAND, was going his rounds at Havre at about ten o'clock on Thursday evening, bent simply upon his nightly task of driving dilatory seamen on board a ship, when, to this end, he turns into a sailor's drinking shop kept by a man named MANGENEAU, at No. 57 in the Rue Royale. Glancing about him among the drinkers and smokers there presented to his view, on his crossing the threshold, the gendarme FERRAND notes, with an instant suspicion, the features A maritime and figure of the young ruffian who has just now been captured by him at Havre, and who turns out to be the person recently going by the name of JEAN KINGS at the Hotel du Chemin de For du Nord, and whose real name appears to be JEAN BAPTISTE IRAUPHANN. The gendarme asks that person what his business may be at Havre, to which the latter replies, that he is there on the look out for work. Asking the man for his paper; the gendarme finds that he has none, not even a passport, whereupon he tells him that he must require him to accompany him to the police office for the purpose of establishing his identity. As they arc passing together through the streets on their , vi - ty to the police-oaice, FE I;l:Asp's suspicions arc fur• thcr cuoused by Ins con - T.llmi' s pale On the gendarme threatening to conduct him before the Procureur Imperial. The suspected man having !et out, inadvertently, in answer to FERRAND'S in fiuh ies, that he is a mechanic, that he is of Roubaix, that he is from Paris—" Then, it's my belief," ex claims the gendarme, "that you left Paris by way of Pantiu !" Whereat—appalled—the supected man rushes across the road, springs over the parapet of the Pont do Lombardie, and plunges into the dock basin. Another intelligent, prompt, and daring man of Havre, this time not a gendarme, but a dock porter, instantaneously comes to the fore at FERRAND'S cry for assistance—HANGEL, the dock porter in Tics' iou, plunging in, on the spur of the moment, after the pursued murderer. A desperate encounter in the water, in which the captor is himself almost fatally captured, TRAIJPMANN endeavouring to add HANGEL to the list of his victims, rather than himself be taken out of the dock alive, ends in their being both dragged into a boat in a state of pro found exhaustion. Subsequently the appalling, but, in another sense, one is almost tempted to say, con solatory statement comes out, that the two missing KiNcics, Pere et fits, JEAN:and GUSTAVE, instead of being the murderers,are themselves among the number of the murdered. The impression now afloat is that they, no less than the poor mother and the five younger children, were assassinated by this " friend of the family," this mysterious mechanic of Roubaix, recently captured at Havre, this seeming monster of cruelty, JEAN TRAUP3IAYS. As yet the ease is full of mystery. It continues up to this mo ment to be altogether inexplicable. The story, as it is at present told, wants coherence. The unravelling of the tangled thread of it, cannot but be watched with painful solicitude. TUE almost simultaneous announcement of the suicide of one judge and the appointment of another suggests reflections of a varied character. There is not only the trite reflection which always occurs when the grave and gay events of life are brought into juxtaposition ; there is a special reflection in the present instance prompted by the characters of the two men. There could not be a greater contrast than that between the late Lord Justice Clerk and the future Lord Justice of Appeal. Mr. PATTON was eminently a universal favourite. He was perhaps the most popular Lord Advocate ever known in Scotland, and when he was raised to the Bench he met with the heartiest congratulations from all sides. He was, moreover, a thoroughly high-minded man, and no one would have ever connected his name with anything that was dishonourable. On the other hand, Lord WESTBURY is one of the best-hated of all our public men. His manner is insufferable. " GOD Almighty speak to a black-beetle " is nothing to Lord WEST BURY'S demeanour to suitors and the Bar. It would be well if this were all that has to be said against him. But " WESTBURY" and "scandals" are two words that have been too recently united for us to forget that this contemner of his fellow-men has fallen very low in their estimation. Were his offences merely private and of the flesh, were he merely a sensualist, the world would perhaps refrain from censuring the appointment of so able a lawyer to the Bench. But his sins have been public and official, and they ought for ever to disqualify him for any public post, especially one involving the administration of justice and equity. Nevertheless, it is the high-minded judge who has died by the most shameful of all deaths except execution ; it is the judge whom Parliament drove from his seat that is now offered new dignity and emoluments. The very mode of Mr. PATTON'S death sheaved how sensitive he was. He had the misfortune to be connected for a few months with the most corrupt constituency in the king dom. His party bribed for him, possibly without his knowledge, almost certainly without his co-operation. But the thought that he, a judge, wearing the ermine, which ought to be ever kept spotless, had allowed it to become sullied, was madness to him. We do not know if Lord WEsimunY ever bribed at Aylesbury or Wolverhampton. We are quite cer tain that if he did the remembrance of his transac tions has not cost him a moment's uneasiness. Even men much more scrupulous than he would treat this offence lightly, and no more think it intolerably shameful than they would a white lie. To Mr. PATTON the shame of exposure was too great to be encountered. He would quit life rather than endure it. Perhaps some of us will be inclined to think that after all the green bay-tree flourishing in its strength is not always the type of health. Perhaps some of us will affirm that the despairing suicide is more enviable than the bold ex-Chancellor and Lord Justice elect. There are two other considerations arising out of this joint event. The first is that we trust Mr. PATTON'S tragical end may at last force the Govern ment to ' take more active steps than it has taken hitherto to put down bribery. The second is, that the Government which has offered promotion to Lord WESTBURY ought to be severely censured. It has been said lately by one of our Liberal contemporaries that the election disclosures have shown that Mr. DISRAELI'S Bribery Act is a failure, as all other Acts of the kind have been. But it need not - be a failure. If only it be enforced, it will not be a failure. Other Acts have proved a failure because they were not enforced. It is for the Government to give effect to the present measure by prosecuting the worst offenders, whether they be bricklayers or baronets. The real cause of the bribery at the last election was not the inefficiency of Mr. DISRAELI'S Act, but the neglect of Mr. DISRAELI'S Government to bring the perjurers of Totnes and the guilty brewers of Yarmouth to justice. Because these went free, the sinners of Bridgwater and Beverley, thought that they might disregard the law also, and did disregard it. So it will be again if Mr. GLADSTONE'S Government does not prosecute the bribers and the bribees whose sins are now being made known to all the world. We wish we could see greater activity in this matter than there now seems likely to be. In a very few weeks the time will be gone by during which a prosecution c 3.11 be commenced. Never theless the ATTORNEY-GENERAL has made no sign. Coming to the last point, we cannot but express extreme regret as well as surprise that a Government like the present should have offered a post to Lord WESTBURY. We are astonished that a journal of the high standing of the Daily News should approve of the appointment. We are quite sure that if Lord WESTBURY had been a Conservative, and Mr. DISRAELI were the Premier who had promoted him, our contemporary would have given utterance to virtuous and perfectly justifiable indignation. We cannot withhold condemnation because it is a Liberal lawyer who is promoted, and a Liberal Minister who has promoted him. We cannot thus wrest the moral standard to suit political exigencies. The temptation may have been great. Lord WESTBURY'S opposition to the Irish Church Bill last session may have been so formidable that the Government, knowing how hard a task it has before it, may have been tempted to buy off his opposition to the Land Bill next session. But temptations were made to be resisted, and of all men Mr. GLADSTONE was the Minister whom we should have expected to resist them. Remembering, too, what injury a some what similar appointment of Lord PALMERSTON'S did to his Government, we should have thought that even prudence would have prevented this present appointment. It seems to us both a moral and a political blunder, and we anticipate that it will bring its punishment with it. LATEST INTELL CGENCE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Amin Lie c.a.,L,.) NEW YORK, Sept. 25. The Gold Board adjourned this morning until Monday to give time for settlements. General Sickles has telegraphed to the State de partment that Spain respectfully declines the me diation proffered by the United States with refer ence to Cuba. M. Catacasy, the new Russian Minister, was officially received by the President y es t er d a y. The Department of Agric u lt ur e es ti ma t es th e present cotton crop at 2,750,000 bales. The National Steamship Company's steamer Pennsylvania arrived out yesterday. The North German Lloyd's steamship Union ar out to-day at 3 p.m. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. The Government sold to-day $2,500,000 in gold at about 133. There were no public sales. The Government bought Bonds to the value of $3,000,000 at yesterday's prices. Illinois l37i. Erie 34g. Cotton—Mid. upland 29c. THE RUMOURED ABDICATION OP TIM EMPEROR NA POLEON. The London correspondent of the Elgin Courant, fatr referring to our statement that the Emperor Napoleon intended to abdicate in favour of his son, says :—"I learn there is no question but that prior to the return of the Empress he was quite fixed in his intention to abdicate forthwith in favour of his son, retaining him self the substantial direction of affairs. Since her arrival the programme, if it may be called so, has undergone a modification. If anything is done at all, it will take the form of associating the Prince Imperial with his father in a conjunct Emperorship. There is much to bo said in preference of this project over the other. It, would accomplish quietly the gradual transition of the son into the position he is meant to occupy, the father gradually retiring more and more from active participation in the affairs of state till at length, when the end came, the passage from one reign to another would be almost if not altogether imperceptible. By the Emperor retaining his conjunct place upon the throne, would be avoided all the unplea sant complications which inevitably would occur behind the throne if he were to doff the purple and sink into a President of the Council. In such a position, to say nothing of anything else, ho could not secure permanence, and it would be a strange sight to see an ex-Emperor struggling for office under his own son. The Empress, it is said, has been wise enough to resist the project of abdication outright, although were it carried, she, as Regent, would receive a largo increase of substantial power and consideration in the state. But the Empress as Regent would be at once the worst thing that could befall France and the dynasty of the Napoleons' Petroleum—Standard White.. Flour, extra state, $5.95e. to $6.55e. Corn, old mixed, sl.loe. 32c. BALTIMORE, Sept. 25. The North German Lloyd's steamship Ohio ar rived here at 11 this morning. ITALY. VENICE, Sept. 27. The Empress of the French is expected here on the 2d of October. SICILY. CATALONIA, Sept. 26. An eruption of Mount Etna took place to-day. On the eastern aide of the mountains the torrents of lava are flowing into the Valle del Bue. GREECE. ATHENS, Sept. 24 (Evening.) The Chambers were re-opened to-day. SPAIN. MADRID, Sept. 26, Evening. No further disturbances have occurred at Barce lona. The railway lines, which had been torn up by the fugitive Republicans, are again in working order. FRANCE. PARIS, Sept. 27. The Official Journal of this morning publishes an Imperial decree approving the report of General Lebceufe, Minister of War, proposing the dissolution of the gendarmerie of the Imperial Guard. The Constitutionnel of to-day coufirms the state ment that the dead body of Gustave Kinek has been discovered. BOURSE, Sept. 25.—Three o'clock—The market closed as follows : 41 per Cent. End of month— -- 3 per Cent End of mouth 7O 35 Credit Alobilior 215 Transatlantic 262 5G Credit Foncier _l7OO Paris Gas 1600 iIAILNYA. Bank Shares 2840 Ital'an gives 52 60 Austrian rives Ottoman Loan Do. Debt 42 Spanish Threes 26 50 Home Debt 2l 25 Deferred ...... Cash Orleans ... 960 Western Northern Strasburg Lyons and Mediterranean Southern..... 6l2f Sardinian Austrian 7sl} Lombard 495 North of Spain 49 Saragossa Roman tp . 5O THE PEABODY STATUE. Mr. Peabody has addressed the following letter to th committee charged with the erection of this statue : "I have the honour to acknowledge your communication► of the 28th of July, announcing the inauguration of Mr. Story's statue of myself near the Royal Exchange by the Prince of Wales, and I have to express to you individually and collectively my warmest and kindest thanks for the deep interest you have manifested in the undertaking from its very inception, and my gratification at learning that the assiduous attention which you have devoted to it has been so perfectly crowned with success. The international cha racter which was given to the ceremonies has been espo. daily gratifying to me, as everything has over been which ccu'd tend to connect more closely the two great nations of England and the United States, both of them very dear to me, and never more so than at the present time. I feel under the deepest obligations to the Prince of Wales for the cordiality with which he accepted your invitation, and for the graceful manner and kind expressions with which he accompanied the ceremonies of unveiling the statue; and it has given me great pleasure to learn that on that occasion my friend Mr. Motley, the American Minister, addressed, B 3 I believe for the first time in public, an English audience. And it has been a source of great satisfaction to me that an eminent American sculptor should 'have so well performed the task you gave him. and that your choice has been sustained by the verdict of the London public who have manifested so kind an interest and approval in the result. I notice with much gratification among the list of sub scribers that a large number of the working-men of London aided the undertaking by their subscriptions. I can but hope that the course of my life, now drawing towards its close, may justify, when finished, all the honours which have been so freely bestowed on me, of which this is one of the greatest ; and I cannot more strongly express my feelings than to say that I do not believe there could be found in the whole kingdom a man of any rank, however high, who would not feel honoured by such a noble testi monial as you have just dedicated to a humble American citizen. With great respect, your friend and humble servant, " GEORGE PEABODY. " Baltimore, Aug. 31." The Austrian Government has directed experi ments to be made with a view to the adoption of the Mon crieff gun carriage in the Austrian artillery. A Newhaven oyster fisher brought up in his dredgo the other day, an old sabre, supposed to be of Frew li manufacture. The sabre is slightly curved at the point, and has a brass hilt. It is now in the possession of Mr, George Demnster, Newhaven. SUGGESTIVE NOTES.—The following notes are taken from the medical records of a sailor now on board the Dreadnought hospital-ship :—" Paid off on the sth ult ; received ns and spent all but a few shillings in a fortnight. Darin; that time daily allowance of liquor ernisisted of about forty glasses of ruin, two gallons of beer, three or four glasses of gin, and a glass of brandy, with milk in the morning." To ANGLERS.—French ingenuity has invented a new amusement for persons waiting for the appearance 0. tuose on whom tutu val. A lady in Earls has had placed in her drawing-room an immense marble shell, in whi li are to be seen a great number of fishes of various specie?. A gentleman called upon her for the first time the oil )1 day. "Madame is at her toilette," said the servant, "but if, while waiting for her, rnmsiour would like to pass his time in fishing, he will find here hooks, lines, and bait. As for fish, the shell is full of them."—Thiladelvkia Paper. SUDDEN DEATH OF A MERCHANT. —A sad in cident is reported to have happened on Saturday in a train from London to Hastings. Mr. Robert Kenward, a gentle man residing at Icklesham, near Rye, was a passenger, and left London Bridge in good health. He kept up a conver sation with a fellow-passenger until the arrival of the train at Croydon, when he suddenly dropped the conversa tion, and died. The deceased was a first-class season ticket holder from London to Hastings, and holding a very respectable position in the county of Sussex as a hop mer chant, having offices in the Borough, Southwark. DISCONTINI7ANCE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES'S FIAMIIKRS.-IL is announced that it is the intention of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to give up his splendid pack of harriers. The announcement has been made within the past few days, in a circular from Viscount Bridport, the master of the hounds, to the principal farmers of the neighbourhood of Windsor, over whose farms the hounds have hunted. His lord ship says :—" It being the intention of the Prince of Wales to discontinue keeping his pack of hounds, I cannot allow you to hear it from any other source than from myself, and I am particularly desired by his Royal Highness to warmly thank you for the courtesy you have always shewn him, as well as for the liberal feeling you have evinced fcr so long a period, by permitting the hounds to hunt over your land." _ _ A YOUNG LADY IN A TRANCE.—A most singu lar case of protracted somnolency has taken place at Hartle pool. A young lady, about 28 years of age, named Clarke, who is on a visit at the house of Mr. Drake, supervisor, of Hartlepool, fine° Tuesday, the 14th inst., has been in a condition of o verpowering sleep. She has been attcn led by Dr. Inglis, who frt,7l time to time has administered douches of cold water, by which means she has been for a few seconds occasionally restored tO a slight degree of con sciousness, and at these intervals food in a fluid state his been administered, but these semi-waken]. intervals have been so rare that for the most part sustenance could only be secured by the administration of injections more than once. Slight paralytic symptoms have been visible—hence the only ground for fearing for the ultimate issue of the case, which, it is needless to add, excites great interest among the medical profession, and not a little among the public generally. We learn that the young lady, up to this time, has enjoyed excellent health, and that her vital power is fully of the average standard enjoyed by persons of her age and sex.—Northern Daily Express. PROPOSED ABDUCTION OF PRINCE ARTHUR BY TILE FENIANS.—The Fenian Brotherhood held two meet ings yest'rday at the Fourth-street head-quarters. The Circles of f::e Manhattan districts met to transact ordi nary business, an the executive committee assembled by special call. Genera; O'Neil, R. M‘Cloud, P. J. Meehan, James Gibbons, an d E. L. Cipxy and others, were present. Although the press were exclm.:,"d, it was ascertained that the chief business transacted was the .7eception and inspec tion of the rolls and reports of the branch of the organisation, which as a member of the committee .7Premied it, " was in a most perfect state of discipline, ready to take the field." The chief leaders of the com mittee were in favour, it is said, of an immediate move on Canada, as in their opinion at the present moment the material aid and sympathy of the United State) would be with them. The result of the deliberations was not given to the reporter; but in another room a number of the men were seen inspecting their firearms. From authentic sources it was ascertained that the committee had under consideration no less important a matter than the abduc- tion of Prince Arthur, either in Canada, or in this country, should he pay us a visit. Indeed, it is said that the matter received the endorsement of every member of the com mittee, who deem the Prince a very fair hostage for the Fenians now in prison in Ireland, as well as for those who have been incarcerated in Canada. 'Whatever the committee may have done or will do, the men loudly complain of the anticipated visit to the United States, and are bound to force their chiefs to action. It is vory significant, how ever, that some half-dozen of the very smartest of their men—one a well-known scout of the Union army—left this city suddenly at a late hour last night for Buffalo. The members of the committee will give no information as to the abduction of Prince ./Ohur..--New York Times, Septergbpr.l3. town. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, The Times after examining the statistics of the cotton trade asks what is the meaning of Lancashire distress ? If notwithstanding the high price of cotton, Lancashire it actually spinning as much stuff as formerly, how can the trade be bad ? The French Treaty, on which all eyes now seem to ba fastened, and almost uniformly with dissatis faction, cannot be answerable for t)re mischief. Silk weavers and lath-renders and cigar -makers may, as Mr Odger tells us, be getting rather hard measure under the effects of the Convention ; but cotton-spinners, at any rate should be little the worse. What is the explanation of the story ? If as much cotton was spun last year in Lancashire as was spun ten years ago, and if, neverthe less, 1859 was a year of full work while 1861 is a year of stagnation, it seems reasonable tr surmise that more mills must have been erected and mor hands taken into the Trade, so that the quantity of mate rial which sufficed for the consumption of Lancashire; ten years since is altogether insufficient now. But has that actually occurred during this interval of complete pros tration and incomplete revival of the Trade ? Has there been over-production, or is the rate of production which is required to keep our mills going in excess of any con sumption to be reasonably expected? We put these suggestions in the form of questions, because we really feel quite unable to arrive at any positive conclu sion from the statistics recited. What seems to us a possible explanation of the case we have already stated. If cotton is dear notwithstanding its in creased production because now cotton-spinning countries are bidding against us and each other for the raw material, then the quotations of the Liverpool markets become intelligible. If the people who thus spin cotton not only carry off the raw material from our mills, but curtail in proportion their demands for manufactures, then the condition of the trade is intelligible also. But on these suppositions it is usless to cry for more cotton or cheaper cotton, seeing that the evil arises not so much from loss of material as loss of monopoly and loss of markets, and that cheap cotton for us would only be cheap cotton for our rivals too. The Daily News declares that a correspondence has just taken place which illustrates very pleasingly the amenities of literature and the graces of Christian charity. On the day which followed the announcement of the late Bishop of Exeter's death, Sir George Bowyer contributed a personal reminiscence of that prelate to the Times. To this letter responded the Rev. W. J. Phillpotts. "Sir," writes Arch• deacon Phillpotts, "Sir George Bowyer has waited till my father was dead and could not contradict him to say what I and all who knew the Bishop of Exeter's opinions or. the Irish Church must hold to be absolutely untrue regard ing him." The answer is contained in a single sentence; the meaning it is intended to convey might be ex pressed in a single monosyllable. Sir George Bowyer says that Bishop Phillpotts was a prophet ; Archdeacon Phillpotts rejoins, in effect, that Sir George Bowyer is a liar. His answer proceeds on the assumption that a man cannot foresee anything of which ho does no• approve. As to Sir George Bowyer waiting until the Bishop of Exeter was dead, it is not customary to publish biographic anecdotes of the living. Sir George Bowyer, io his final letter, lifts the controversy above the pothouse level to which the Archdeacon had degraded it ; and while temperately repeating his statement, does so with a cour tesy to which his opponent cannot, we should think, be insensible. Archdeacon Phillpotts testifies with authority as to his father's opinions ; and he need not quarrel with Sir George Bowyer's witness to his keen political foresight in matters in which the wish certainly did not suggest the thought. The Standard thinks that the Marquis of Hartington has done a public service by the speeches he delivered at Lis more on Friday evening. They will dispel a dangerous delusion, and greatly allay, if not entirely remove, a very mischievous apptehen.sion. Lord Hartington has dashed to the ground the cup from which Irish and English socialists were taking such pleasant draughts. He declares that the Cabinet has not yet had an, opportunity of con sidering what shall be its policy upon this question. Since Parliament separated the Cabinet has not met, and what ever projects Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright may have conceived, the Government has adopted none, and its members will assemble, when the season of cabinet councils comes, to discuss this Irish question, which admittedly is to be among the first to engage their atten tion, no further pledged or committed to any particular solution than they were in the summer. The danger was that Mr. Bright and Mr. Gladstone had resolved upon a scheme of confiscation, and that the Cabinet when it did meet would tamely accept it. That danger is removed by Lord Hartington's emphatic assertion that the Government "will never consent to any inroads being made upon the rights of property legally acquired and legitimately used." Nothing, of course, is more natural than that Lord Har tington, the son of a great Irish proprietor, should enter tain such a view for himself, and we dare say that he will be denounced as actuated only by selfish motives. If Lord Hartington will hold firmly, as we believe he will, to the. views he expressed at Lizmore, he will save the Irish tenants from a severe disappointment and his colleagues and his party from a great disaster, The Herald refers to the late Lord Justice Clerk, and says that the sudden removal of such a man in such a manner is well fitted to excite the deepest sorrow in the minds of all who had the honour of his acquaintance, or who had marked the stages of his professional career. In a measure which few Scottish advocates can compass, he knew how to win the favour of juries, without for ono instant forgetting what was due to himself or to the courts in which he practised, and when addressing the bench on points arising under a cumbrous and uncouth system of jurisprudence, no ono knew better than he how to shape the requirements of modern society in the way best fitted to compel the adaptation of rules normally rigid beyond a Southern's belief to the altered circumstances of our own time. His skill and ability secured him a great practice, and ultimately made him successively Solicitor-General, Lord Advocate, and Chief Justice Clerk. On his elevation to the bench, in accordance with Scottish custom, he took title as a Scot tish peer. Had he followed his own bent he would have been called Lord Cairnies, from the name of his estate ; but dreading possible confusion from the similarity of that name to that of another eminent Conservative lawyer, he chose that of Glenalmond, which he bore when he came to his untimely end. Since the death of Lord EllenborougL no British judge has met with a fate so tragic, but never has any gone down to his grave more highly esteemed or more deeply mourned than the late Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland. The Star observes that Lord Glenalmond, which was the titular style adopted by Mr. Patton on his elevation to the bench, was, according to the testimony of those best acquainted with him, a man of highly nervous and sensi tive temperament ; and the prospect of his examination on the subject of a notoriously profuse expenditure might well have completed the disorder of a mind which had been already overwrought by family affliction and the pre mature announcement of his own death. The ordeal of an election inquiry is trying enough to a private individual, but in the case of a minister of justice in tho position of the deceased it must have been doubly distressing. There is no need for reticence in this matter, because, in imputing to his lordship a morbid sensitiveness arising from the false position in which he found himself placed, we really pay a tribute to the delicacy of character which contrasts sharply with the vulgar indifference to personal honour so noticeable in a far coarser and lower type of politicians. Even those who have been hitherto unmoved by the gross revelations which have been made during the last few weeks will now surely be induced to open their eyes to the rottenness of our electeral system. The ghastly suicide oib a high-minded judge is an occurrence which all parties must deplore; but all parties, too, should learn a salu tary lesson from it, and make up their minds to revolutionise the system which has so dangerously lowered the standard of public and of individual morality. Ele vated to the bench by an unexpected piece of good fortune, Mr. Patton, although he exhibited no brilliant qualities as a judge, yet gained the respect and confidence of the bar; and now that the grave has so sadly closed over him, few will be disposed to think harshly of his memory, or to regard his fatal weakness with any other feeling than that of compassion. The Telegraph says that though England has given up her leadership in Arctic research there are plenty of foreign labourers in the field. Mr. Gustave Lambert's French expedition hangs fire for want of funds; but there was a satisfactory report of progress the other day from th e 6,7lnans off the Greenland coast. The account given, inde,7 l • was remarkable - chiefly for the sin gular naiveté ' N ,f 4, h which it described the ordinary sights; and sounds of the North, as seen and heard by an intelligent observer for the first time ; and we imagine that the learned Teuton's bulletin would be read with considerable amusement by tough old whalers at Stornaway or Peterhead. It is not, however, for English men generally to join in the good-humoured mirth. The Germans, at any rate, are doing something, or trying to do it. It is only the countrymen of Davis and Hudson, of Parry and Franklin, who hang back ; whilst the Germans. at whose "fleet" and whose " professors " it was once sO fashionable to sneer, have, at any rate, vessels within the Arctic circle carrying out the plan of a Gotha geographer. C o ngratulating Captain Carlson, and wishing success to Captain ilieck, we have only to add that this latest evidence testifies to a singu. larly clear and open season in the Arctic reds; and that if the Germans also will but bestir themselves, they may easily got ahead of " England's farth es t," if not to the North Pole itself. The exploit would b e h um ili at i ng indeed to our national pride; but, after all, there is no use in maintaining a sham by false pretences ; and it is simply foolish and arrogant for Great Britain to call her self the chief maritime nation when she recoils from an honourable and fruitful enterprise on the very eve accomplishment, simply bec ause she shirks a little cl of its er and faudggaii L ow _th ouand pounds. 4'1. - SCOTCIIMAN'S VISIT TO LIEGE. A member of the London Scottish Rifles, who had the ,temerity to go to Liege in his kilt, writes home a comiaalli woeful account of his adventures. He was the first kilted man who adventured the streets, and as the detachmen t to which he belonged Marched through the town te L'Athenee, he received an exceptional ovation. Th e women, the sonsie Flemish dames and lasses, were especially tickled at the sight of the kilt, and fairlY roared with laughter as he passed. But this was not all. Had they but laughed and let him pass on, he would leave been comfortable enough. With one accord they pressed forward in pursuit of him; they formed an admiring throng around him, egging on boys to touch his legs, to sac whether they really were bare. They persistently set to him in uncouth dances, distending their short skirts Ndt ri their hands as they did so—in the old school-girl fashini l most will remember, apparently in the expectancy that be would do the like with his "petticoat," and strike up a j i g as a vis-a-vis. Although popular admiration is now divided by the arrival of a few more kilted men, he is still, whera el he goes, surrounded by a numerous body guard of gamin; who appear ne ver t o h ave th e i r fill o f gaz i ng a t th e nova' costume. THE GREAT TEA TRADE RACE. For the last two or three years there has neen no ove n ' In aquatics more interesting than the run between COI and England with the latest tea produce from the Celeste) Land. The arrival of the first vessel in this season's via has been looked forward to with the greatest interesi. and all doubt as to winner No. 1 was set at rest on li r ° d ' nesday morning, at two o'clock, by the arrival of the Titan it clipper ship, 879 tons register (Captain William Burgoyne). The passage of the Titania was made g , ninety-five days, which, coupled with th e f ac t that 0 ' left Shanghai, the place of exportation, a fortnight af ter her competitors, will be a point of additional interest PI nautical consideration. Captain Burgoyne is a son of thi late Mr. Burgoyne, of the Quay, Teignmouth, and .. „ . t he south coast will have good reas on t o p r id e it se lf on tw j . latest addition to the annals of its seamanship. THE ADMIRALTY AND THE LADIES' We subjoin the Admiralty circular just issued, w hic , which will be read with curious intere s t by o ffi c ers in 1/- Majesty's Navy :—" Admiralty, Sept., 1869.—Great ine°n,. venience, as well as injury to the discipline of her blajes t y' s service arising from the circumstance that the wives of 00 cers and their families in many instances live on board hey Majesty's ships, the Lords of the Admi ra lty h ave directed t hat in future no lady shall be permitt e d t o res id e o n board het Majesty's ships without the express consent of the A M3I , ralty, or, if on a foreign station, of the Commande r -1u Chief of her Majesty's ships on the station. This per n ' l3. sion, if accorded at all, will only extend to a llowing liche-, to be conveyed occasionally from one part ° I ft -- station to another, and each such case is bo speedily reported. However, s h o uld the e L l '. tain of any of her Majesty's ships deem it duty to comply with any formal requisition which he 1313 , 1 ' receive from an A m b assa d or, Mi n i s t er, c h arg é crak r il. ); Governor, or Lieutenant-Governor of the colony to eei7,, or take to sea any w o m an , h e w ill i mme di a t e l y r epot circumstance to his senior officer, and if not under th orders of any senior officer, direct to the Secretary of tb Admiralty. This prohibition will not for the Pr cscij extend to the Britannia training ship fo r naval cadets (Signed) VERNON LIISHINGTON." REPORT OF THE DARTMOOR COMMITi' The report of the Special Committee on ShraPn e l; Segment shell has just been issued. From a careful an` of the whole practice, the committee are led to mak e following recommendations : 1. The segment shell s fitt e d w ith concus sion f e ' gci alone are superior to either Shrapnel with time o r L i cussion fuses, or the segment with both fuses comb/0 The latter shell should, therefore, b e re t a i n ed as a CO sion shell. n j 2. All the present service metal fuses are defective, a" liable to premature explosions ; they should not, therefore, be retained in the service, and immediate exPe riinellti ' should be instituted with a view of int ro ducing an efficiell concussion fuse. 3. Th, adoption ° .ne committee recommend the partial alo e, Shrapnel shell to be fitted with Boxer's time-fuses the proportion being GO per cent. segment to 40 Pe r col Shrapnel. 9 0 4. They recommend a further trial of Lieutenant I` 4r °` " range-finder." f 2 5. They are strongly impre s s e d w ith the value ° ; , 30 howitzer for field service, and recommen d th e introd' i tb of a muzzle-leading piece of this nature, suitable fo r r t o angle firing, and capable of throwing common shell 1 " - large bursting charge; an d th e y recommen d the withdr° of common shell from the present equipment. rs to 6. They urge the value of more careful and 4 - I ° li r - ca t• laying in serving field guns, and the necessity of in e , ing the importance of accuracy as against rapidity of 1 - h ' er 7. They recommend that the packing of the li va i, ' o - 3 boxes should be reconsidered, and a more simple teeth introduced. TIeADE AND FINANCE. LONDON, SATURDAY E°' The great event of the week in the financial 'Ate r° :0 0 ' presentation of a petition for tho winding-up of the : I n 0 pean Assurance Company. Th e hi s t or y of this co ne- 00 i not very dissimilar to that of the Alb er t. In the conrewee its career it has swallowed up no le s s than thi rtrt tl3 B other offices. We do not intend to refer t° to of events which have at length terminated in this stg aich affairs, preferring to await the definite informad en D ot will doubtless be extracted in the law courts. It Di % be out of place, however, to in q ui re i n t o the best in c 3 e ;( .1 the s e averting, or rather of meeting, the suspicion vi.° — unfortunate events have cast upon life assurance g cn „, - 0 0 The safety of our present system of life assure ice capable of being proved with mathematical Pr 7 1 01 , No business is liable to less risk, or more easily e °11 4 ;11 :00 The offices are not exposed to the dangers to w hie 7 l6 and other commercial companies are at times liaise/he mean to sudden panics or runs—and the liabilities •01) offices are ascertainable at any moment by fixed —e „pes t ° 9 141 almost preclude the possibility of error. It Wal d therefore, that only culpable negligence ' or rag i l glties: tion could lead a life assurance company into a ~k • -ell But even should misfortune—which is most nnic as lead a concern into embarrassment, such s hould aP . ,, P ; 1 the accounts immediately, if these were stated e ll er" 7;9o, red and recognised plan. It is to the want of a propgreo of accounts that the present difficulties are Ino.l measure attributed, but we doubt much if figu re ! t he O P , recommend themselves to the public. That this ' 9 bi the is evident from the last balance-sheet published t European, where the uncalled capital is (We'll see dell as an available asset. The following charges 011 the 014 side should have at once provoked alarm, as the tell is obvious in the extreme : 9 0 18 61 0 19 '0 Proprietor's Dec.,1867. 31De!N -00.4 £182,754 Subscribed caPiw 490 , ' Sundry accounts 45 42 5 9 5:6 4 6 44 9 SutunedAryszauranccoucenter.". a Life Assurance Fun .. o.* 1 0 £757,867 I The capital called up was precisely the sain e a so olla above periods, and the la r g er amou nt includes °Leal uncalled. The great diminution of the Li fe roe e lee d Fund would apparently attract the attention o' 10; heedless, but beyond an unpleasant rumour t bat °' 0 been current amongst well-informed people, 0,1 nothing has been said on the subject. It w °111 ,,,, very little, therefore, whether the recogilis ca t e c ' till accounts were instituted or not, as there wow,' - 011 (1 0 °'' o e large majority of persons who would place little 'L e r ap o ii upon figures, preferring rather to trust to the 03 T c oo s, a the directorate, or to other similar reconarcende , of th , o is some satisfaction, however, to perceive that O v- b oia e ' leading offices have published the figures of thej A r ed tij in full—notably•the Provident, and our unclu3lilijoif to insurers is to avoid those offices which d o not $ 1 " j . to excellent example. bjee" • 0 The premium at New Y or k has been su coa ti° , c most violent fluctuation thi s week, ow i ng to the 1000eiji: of the Wall-street clique. The latest news'ooplete.:lt shews that the com bi na ti on h a s been iincen3c,i overthrown, in consequence of the ann by Mr. Boutwell of the sale of fe ' llr , of gold dollars, and of the purchase of four lore& bonds. In th e mean ti me t h e prem ium had been Tress-0::, the ridiculously high fi gure o f 162 i ; but on h I33S t ,i notice being published, an immediate reaction to ti Mich ea the result. The New York exchange on Londo . n' re tare o s one time was nominally quoted at 104, suddenlisbipeic to 108, a figure which will preclude the forth er of bullion from this side. aer -------_,-- The Duke of Cambridge b as returned fr°11%;(10, many, official duties at th e gorse Glib-tif r g b he John. Bull states that the B ishop of I :cl i il3 ,,i o sto r (Dr. Terrott) has resigned his see . The election 0 cessor must take place within five weeks. fat The Orangemen of Belfast a re pree n tha t opt "grand demonstrat i on " on the sth of November ia tbs to is not, however, to take any p r o cessional forch It or an out of-door display. ..tteet‘ It was announced officially at t P r o f 01,.- leg of the Scarborough Counc il that the i ii KM will visit that town on the let of NonSmbefi 104' /4 and 9) Itad Louclopboyougb.: -