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EAGLE INSURANCE COMPANY, LONDON. REPORT OF TFIE 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 them in 1868. fhe income of the year, it will 1 e seen, amounts t £540,499 18s., and the total eharire t0...£.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, wised that item to £1,002,974 15s. 9d., its present amount. SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, JUNE 30, 1869. X 8. d 436,187 6 9 T" "SUN" NEWSPAPER-G. R. GLENIE, Sporting Library, 4, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware •road, delivers the LATE EDITION of "THE SUN " at the earliest possible moment after leaving the press. He is able to deliver Copies it Town, the Suburbs, and in many parts of the country at a comparatively early hour the same evening, say 40 miles by 0 .45 o'clock Orders by post punctually attended to FOR 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 acivertisement. A RARE COMBINATION. The RARE COMBINATION of EXCEL LENCE with CHEAPNESS will be found in every article sold by E. MOSES and SON. Every description of Clothing ready made, sr made to measure, for all ages, and all 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 guarantee a faultless fit. Orders troni persons who are not known to the firm should accompanied by a remit tance, or a London reference. Any article not worn or injured will be •heerfully exchanged, or, if desired, the toney will be returned. All Goods are marked in Plain Figures, from which no abatement can be made. The Stock of Hosiery and Drapery, Hats and Cap.. 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 end SON'S Establishmonts 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, Hebitmakers, Woollendrapers, Hatters, - Hosiers, Boot and Shoe Manufac turers, and General Outfitters for all Classes. The following are the only addresses of E. MOSES and SON:— LONDON. CITY ESTABLISHMENT. 155, MINORIES 158, MINORIES 157, MINORIES 83, ALDGATE 84, ALDGATE 85. ALDGATE 86, ALDGATk 57, ALDGAT E 88, ALDGAT SO, ALDGATE OXFORD-STREET BRANCH. 06, NEW OXFORD-STREET ¶O7, NEW OXFORD-STREET , OS, NEW OXFORD-STREET 1, HART-STREET 2, HART-STREET 3, HART-STREET TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD BRANCH. 137, TOTTENHAM-COURT-ROAD 138, TO rrENHAX-COURT-ROAD 233, EUSTON-ROAD. Country Branch: 19, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. 20, BRIDGE-STREET, BRADFORD, YORKS. B RITANNIA FIRE ASSOCIATION Head Offices, 429, Strand t London. The distinguishing features of this Association aro Equitable Rates, Undoubted Security. Prompt settlement of claims. JOHN MESSENT, Manager. INCOME OF THE YEAR. s. d. Dn. Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 Premiums on new assur ances Ditto on old ditto 357,988 7 0 907,Z52 8 6 371,548 12 1 Interest from investments 120,959 12 10 492,508 4 11 Profit and loss, balance of account 47,991 13 1 Total income £1,448,052 6 6 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN,} Auditors. HENRY ROSE. CHARGE OF THE YEAR. £ s. d. CR. Dividend to proprietors. Claims on decease of lives assured Additions to those under participating policies 24,304 6 6 Policies surrendered Re-assurances new Ditto • old X . A. d. 8,880 4 0 405,561 12 1 Commission Medical fees .. 760 18 0 Incometax.. 3,01713 8 Expenses of management 16,238 9 10 Total 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 ss. 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 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 £48,009. 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 oo 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 1800 than they were last year. They would have been materially less but for the unavoidable cost of transferring the compan3'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. JUNE 30, 1869. DR. LIABILITIES. Interest due to proprietors ~ 11aims on decease of lives assured, and Addditions thereto unpaid 108,940 G 7 Sundry accounts Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,336,626 8 2 Proprietors' fund Surplus fund £6,757 17 0 £7,675,813 0 10 Examined and approved. THOMAS ALLEN, Auditors. HENRY ROSE, CR ASSETS. lmount 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 Ditto ditto Temporary seen rities 198,207 17 0 jiirrent interest on the above investments 80934 4 6 Cash and bills 1 2 ,256 15 10 advanced on security of the co mpany ' 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 £7,675,813 010 The ,balance-sheet does not appear to call for any re mark. The assets are, of course, increased by the arm of £95,422 7s. 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, Esn.,Chairman. ,ROBERT ALEXANDER GRAY, ESQ., Deputy-Chairman Charles Bischoff, Esa. James Murray, Esq. Thomas Tioddington, Esq. Philip Rose, Esq. 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Trebelli-Bettini, Signor Bettini, Signor Foli, and solo pianoforte, Mr. J. M. Wehli. Tickets are now on sale. After the Concert (from 3 till 5), magnificent dis play of fireworks and illumination of fountains, making this one of the great combined fete days of the season. Tickets, one shilling and sixpence, now on sale at all agents, at Palace, and at Exeter Hall. Note.—The great display of fireworks and illumination of fountains, which resulted in such expressions of satis faction on Monday, will be repeated ou Saturday, at the early hour of 7 o'clock. The grand set piece, the Arc de Triomphe, and the now shells, were unusually grand last Monday. CRYSTAL PAL A C RYSTAL COMBINED FETE, 3 ; Mlle. Nilsson and other Tickets, ls. Gd., at the followi Baker-street —Moutrie, 55 Brixton —Pearce, 2, Brixton place Camberwell— Griffith, The —GREAT SATURDAY text Saturday.—Concert at artistes. 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At 8, FORMOSA, new four-act Drama, by Dion Boucicault: Messrs. Barrett, IT. Irving, David Fisher, Brittain Wright, lolm Rouse; Mrs Billington, Misses M. Brennan, Macdonald, and Katharine Rodgers. To conclude with tho farce of BORROWED PLUMES. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. Sole Proprietor and Manager, Mr. B. WEBSTER. Will Open for the Winter Season on WEDNESDAY, Sept. 29, with (never acted) LOST AT SEA : a London Story. By Dion Boncicault and HenryJ. Byron. The new scenery by Messrs. Hawes Craven, Mangham, and assistants. GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL. Proprietor, Mr. Sefton Parry. THIS EVENING, at 7, BREACH OF PROMISE. At 8.15, Mr. 'C. W. Robertson's new Comedy, in three acts, entitled PROGRESS: Messrs. Billington, H. Neville, J. Clarke, Parselle, Westland, E. Marshall ; Mesdames Lydia Foote, Hughes, Berend, and Mrs. Stephens. HOLBORN THEATRE-ROYAL. Solo Lessee and Manager, BARRY SULLIVAN. First Night of the Winter Season. SATURDAY next, Sept. 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A great deal of unnecessary anxiety, as we conceive, is now being expressed in regard to the sincerity of the intentions of the French EMPEROR in respect to the constitutional reorganisation of the Imperial Govern ment. Rome, as the trite old proverb has it, was not built in a day. But there is another saying, equally hackneyed, which is just as applicable, and, as it ap pears to us, far more full of consolation and encou ragement to the foes of the Despotic and the frientis of the Parliamentary system—Alea jacta est. There TETE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 23, 1569. is no room now for retrogression. NAPOLEON if he is no CINCINNATUS, has, in another sense, put his hand to the plough, and will not turn back. At great e merge n cies like that of the ever-memorable coup d'itat, he can act with the most startling suddenness—his will manifesting itself like the crash of a thunderbolt. But at other periods, and under other circumstances, his guiding principle is rather to " hasten slowly." Time was, within our own recollection, when the utmost solicitude was expressed, by one now long sin3e deceased, who had elicited from the EMPEROR his MAJESTY'S promise that he would release the Emir ABD-EL-SADER from the Chateau of Amboise, in which that heroic wearer of the green turban was so infamously imprisoned, contrary to all the rules of war and of chivalry by King Louis PHILIPPE'S Go vernment. One of the dauntless soldiers of Eng land, a personal friend of the EMPEROR, and a gener ous sympathiser with the great Arab Chieftain, had besought the former to release the latter from con finement, as a signal act of clemency on the part of the then Prince-President of the French Republic. His Imperial Highness had responded to the appeal by at once yielding his assurance that the Emir should be released. Time went on, the promise remained unfulfilled, but, at length, the day arrived when the Prince, removing from the Elysee to the Tuileries, appeared there on one of the conspicuous balconies of the old palace, in which on the 20th of April, 1808, he had been born, and to which he returned (literally going home again) on the day we have just now referred to, a now historical day in the Decem ber of 1852—NAPOLEON 111. by the Grace of GOD, and by the will of the People, Emperor of the FRENCH, appeared there on the balcony of the old Bourbon Palace, having by his side, arrayed in the white bur nous and the green turban of the descendant of the "Prophet," the liberated EMIR AB-DEL 'WAR. The long cherished doubts were scat tered and forgotten. The Imperial promise was fulfilled. Precisely -in the same way will it be, we are firmly convinced, in regard to the completion of the constitutional changes upon which NAPOLEON HI., has, in the seventeenth year of his reign, ad ventured. His recent illness has of itself been a sufficient reason for a delay in the development of his plans. The EMPEROR'S health has now, how ever, been happily restored. The Legislative Body will in due time be brought once more together. 10 doubt, in regard to that, would be simply an absurdity. There is every conceivable inducement before the reign ing EMPEROR to complete the great work he has so recently and so conspicuously commenced. By com pleting it alone can he hope to consolidate his Dy nasty. The fulfilment of his fair promises to France in this matter will alone insure the succession to the Imperial Throne of his only child, his son and heir, the young Prince Imperial, under the name, style, and title of the Emperor NAPOLEON IV. Nobody in Europe realises this more fully than the present So vereign of France. The crowning of the edifice is assured, for it has been commenced. THE long letters which Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN has written to the Pall Mall Gazette upon the Devonshire labourer do not contain much that is new to our readers, for he does little more than reiterate the arguments which we have used repeatedly in these columns. Nevertheless we are very glad to have so influential a witness to confirm what we have said. Sir CHARLES points out that there is no good reaaon why the Devonshire agricultural labourer should be so badly off. His fellow labourer at the other extremity of England gets about double the wages for the same kind of work, and experience has shewn that the extra sum is more than repaid to the farmer by the extra work which is performed. Mr. BAILEY DENTON has told how, having some extensive drainage works in Dor setshire, he foimd it better and cheaper to import Northumbrians at a minimum of 18s. per week than to employ local labour at the rate of wages current in the district, although it ranged as low as from 7s. to Os. The result of this experiment was satisfactory in every way. The dull Dorsetshire peasant, seeing skilful and rapid work and the large earnings of the Northern man, was, for the first time in his life, fired with emulation and energy. At first the Dorsetshire man took more beer in the belief that this would give him more strength. Of course he found the op posite result. He then inquired into the diet of his competitor, and found that instead of bad tobacco and worse beer, the Northumbrian lived on butchers, meat. We need not go to the two extremities of Eng land for a contrast. -It is to be found in the same district. Tho Devonian is physically weak, mentally torpid, and without enterprise. The Cornishman is strong self-reliant and active. The first takes what wages are offered, and when he is old goes on the parish. The second, if he cannot get enough to enable him to put by, will go elsewhere, even to the uttermost ends of the earth in order to get more. Here, again, the contrast is marked. The Devonian takes his three or four pints of cider daily, the Cornishman, as a rule, takes no intoxicating beverage at all. The abominable truck system com pels the first, whether he will or not, to expend from one-sixth of his wages on that which does not supply the smallest nourishment, and which at the best is a luxury, and is often actually noxious. The second is free to spend the whole of his earnings to the best advantage, and in such a way that his wife and chil dren can benefit. The first becomes demoralised and selfish against his will ; the second is allowed to develope those qualities of self-restraint and self-denial which so largely strengthen the char acter and make a man manly. At the same time the second profits physically by spending his money upon strengthening food, and is thus enabled to do more work. In this way he gets a double ad vantage. Ile is not only able to earn more wages, but he is able to turn those wages to more profitable account. The inferiority of education in Devonshire is no doubt another reason why Devonians are so much behind Northumbrians and Cornishmen. Agriculture as it has been conducted for the most part in Devon shire, has no influence in developing the faculties. It is true that machinery is being gradually introduced, but only on a very small scale, in consequence of the excessive subdivision of the land into small enclosures. In Cornwall and Northumberland which are burrowed with mines the peasant lives in the midst of machinery, and that in itself is an education. So long as agriculture is carried on in the old way, so long is the instinct of old-fashioned farmers and landlords which makes them jealous of education well-founded, for education makes the labourer unwilling to be a mere beast of burden, and makes him restless until he can find a higher occupa tion for the use of those faculties wherewith his Creator has endowed him. But directly agriculture becomes a skilled employment all parties will combine to recognise the importance and advantage of educa tion. It is then no longer the stupid hind who is wanted but the intelligent artisan. It must be clearly understood, however, that when once raised to that position the farm labourer will not be content with anything like his present wages. His education will tell him, among other things, that if the labour market is depressed in one place it is more active in another. Ile has been taught to read, and his news paper will inform him where he can better himself either in this country or in another. He has been taught to write and • he will be able to inquire for other parts where he may get wages that will enable him to save against old age, and so keep off the parish. The aboli tion of the wretched old law of settlement, has removed one great obstacle to the free circulation of labour. Education whether given directly by the school, or indirectly by the use of machinery, will remove another. There is no reason, however, for the farmers to be alarmed, They hay now abundant, and repeated, and irrefutable testimony that high paid is cheaper than low-paid labour, that in fact there is nothing so dear as cheap labour. Let them only believe this and act upon it. Let them -begin at once by liberating their labourers from the degrading system of the cider truck. Let them pro mote school education by every means in their power; let them introduce machinery to economise human labour, and they will at once increase the work done, and improve and elevate the labourer. Thus they will augment their own profits at the same time that they enjoy the reward of a good conscience. THE annual report of the Directors of Convict Prisons, just issued, revives the subject of criminal treatment. Next in importance to discovering the best means of preventing crime is to find out how the perpetrator of it may be effectually reformed. This will never be done if our prisons are regarded only as places of detention, places where the outlaws of society are caged, with more or less discomfort to themselves, for a given period for the security of the community, but from which they will presently be allowed to escape not one whit better than when they entered. The Prison Act of 1865 was a useful mea sure as far as it extended to the system of separation, a system which may, of course, be abused, but one which must be admitted to be important for preventing contamination. The Act of 1865, however, requires to be modified, and chiefly in - the direction of pro moting useless unreforming occupations in convict prisons instead of encouraging remunerative and re formatory labour. Setting aside the higher influences brought to bear upon the minds of prisoners through the medium of religious instruction received at the hands of the chaplains, there is certainly nothing which is so likely to produce the best effects in the way of reformation as training the inmates of prisons in remunerative occupations which will sup port them honestly after the term of their sentence has expired. The objections to the system, though not urged with the vigour which once characterised them—for the simple reason that their validity has been disproved—are still rife in certain quarters. To say, as is said ad nauseam, that to teach convicted prisoners trades of which before they were ignorant, and thus inaugurate them in a way of life at once respectable and profitable, is to run the risk of disheartening honesty, and giving a stimulus to crime, is so utterly futile that the argument, specious as it is, hardly demands an answer. Who, in his senses, would think it a good specu lation to attain a self-supporting position by a process so painful as a long imprison ment ? The criminal population are self-indulgent to a degree, and detest anything like order and regu larity. of toil. The report to which we have alluded is full of statistics, which serve to shew that the idea of employing prisoners in remunera tive labour is being worked out with the best results. There are, it must be borne in mind, two classes of results, the one moral, the other material. The former, though of course of infinitely more importance than the latter, are far less easily seen. While the system for which we contend has a strong, in our opinion the strongest, tendency to reclaim the prisoner, it has also the advantage of lessening the heavy burden which criminals impose upon the honest tax-paying portion of the community. It is undoubtedly hard that those who find it a matter of the utmost difficulty to provide for their own wants, and to meet the daily claims that are made upon them, should have to pay so heavily in the way of providing for the criminal, while he is doing nothing, or next to nothing, towards his own support, and is not even being initiated into a mode of life which in the future may keep him from the commis sion of other offences against society. To put it shortly, prisoners ought to be made to support them selves. The Governor of Massachusetts State Prison informs us that last year the labour of 558 convicts produced £25,230, which after paying all prison expenses and salaries, left a clear net profit of £5,529. The average earnings of each prisoner were about £46, and the net profits of the prison, over all expenses were in two years £lO,OOO, which amount was added as a revenue to the State. In contrast to the above statement may be placed that which tells us that the prisoners in Exeter Gaol for years past have only earned about one farthing per day, or about ss. per annum. This, we believe, to be not a solitary instance. In France, on an average, pri soners cost about half what they do in England, and earn nearly double. To all visitors to our gaols from abroad it is a matter of great astonishment how little they yield towards their own support. For every reason, then, for the good of the criminal himself, that for the future he may be lifted out of that category and be able to obtain an honest livelihood, and for the advantage of the community, already heavily taxed enough, it is to be urged upon all who have anything to do with criminal jurisprudence to see to it that the employment of the men or women under sentence of imprisonment shall be at once useful to the individual and remunerative to the State. LATEST INVELL MENGE (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) AMERICA. (Per French Atlantic Cable.) NEW YORK, Sept. 22. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CLOSING PRICES. Gold closed at 1411 ; the highest quotation dur ing the day was 142 ; the lowest, 1371. Sterling Exchange on London lO7. 5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 l2ll. it 6 i 1885 1201. 66 gi 1867 llBl. 10-40 66 Illinois l3Bk. Erie 3* Cotton—Mid. upland 2Bic. Petroleum—Standard White Flour, extra state, $6.200. to $6.80c. Corn, old mixed, sl.loc. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 22. It is rumoured that General Sickles has been instructed to demand a reply by Spain to a Not• about Cuba. Great excitement prevails in the Stock Market. Gold premium advanced 4 per cent., to 141. GIBRALTAR, Sept. 22. The Marseilles Company's steamer Poiton has arrived here from the Brazils. Exchange at Rio Janeiro on London on the 29th August was 19k for commercial bills. The Liverpool, Brazil, and River Plate Com pany's steamer Donati arrived at Rio from Liver. pool, via Bahia, on the 29th August ; and the out ward bound mail steamer Pascal arrived at Monte video on the 22d. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-7his Day. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. GEETLEMEN CHARGED WITH ASSAULTING THE POLICE.— Mr. Charles Demposter Love, of Arundel-street, gentle man, and Mr. James Alexander, of No. 13, Westbury street, Westbourne-square, accountant, were charged be fore Mr. Knox with being drunk and disorderly and as saulting Police-constable Arthur Rose, No. 179 C. The constable said he was on duty in Jermyn-street that morning about half-past one when he heard a female call out " Police," and on going up the female complained that one of the prisoners had struck her, but not seeing any mark, and as they were causing a disturbance, he told them all to go away. The female went away, but the prisoners refused, and on taking hold of Alexander to remove him Love pulled him down, and they rolled over one another, and in the scuffle his eye was blackened. In answer to Mr. Knox, the witness said both prisoners were drunk, but that Love knew what he was about. Love said the injury to the constable's eye was acci dental. Rose Spencer, a smartly-attired young woman, said that sho had known Lovo three years, that ho bad frequently annoyed her, and last night smacked her on the nose. She complained to the constable, and tho constable told them all to go away ; and as soon as the constable took hold of Alexander tho other prisoner struck the constable, and she then pullod Love off the constable, and went for assistance, thinking he was being badly used. She had no doubt that Love did it all for a lark, but she did not treat it as one. Love said he once took up tho witness in his arms, and she fell, and ho was sorry she was hurt. In the scuffle with the constable they both fell, and the constable was hurt, but he might have been hurt too. He was sorry the constable was hurt. Mr. Knox said ho believed tho constable was hurt in the struggle, and as there was a difference between the presen t case and those of brutal assaults which some time came before him, he should deal with it accordingly. The pri soners would each have to pay a fine of £5 or a month. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Sept. 23. M. de Laguerronniere, the French Minister, gave a grand dinner last night to the Ministers, the chief• officers of the army, and the Garde Civique, and to the staff officers of the French National Guard. M. de Laguerronniere proposed the health of the King or the Belgian; and M. Vanderslachlen the health of the Emperor of the French. A large crowd assembled before the French Legation, and shouted " Vivo la France." The National Guards responding by crying " Vive la Belgique." The French National Guards then took their de parture at 11 eclock, when they received a com plete ovation. THAMES. STRANGE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.--Jane Houghton, a well-dressed woman, about 30 years of age, was brought beforo Mr. Benson, charged with attempting to commit suicide. Police-constable Croft, 463 K, was on duty at half-past two this morning, near the New Globe public-house, Mile-end-road, and heard a groan. He looked over the parapet of the bridge of the Regent's Canal, and saw the prisoner partially undressed, and about to divest herself of her chemise. Her drawers were banging about her legs. He asked her what she going to do with herself, to which the replied that she was about to put an end to her existence. He went down to the bank of the canal, asked her where she lived, and compelled her to dress herself. She said she lived at 25, Regent-street, Mile-end. She appeared to be tipsy. The prisoner de nied that she was drunk. She war, excited and subject to fits. She had had a quarrel with the man she was living with just before she was going to bed. Her paramour said she was a nuisance. He had been drink ing with some friends. Mr. Benson said the prisoner seemed rather off her head at present, and had adopted a most extraordinary course to go out at half-cast two in the morning and un dress herself on the banks of a canal. He remanded her for a week. Some time after a man got into the witness box and said he was a furrier and the husband of the pri soner, but was not married to her. He asked the magis trate to accept of bail for her. She was subject to exces sive excitement and fits when she drank heavily. Mr. Benson—No. I certainly will not take bail for her. I remand her for a week to the Clerkenwell House of De tention, and the chaplain will attend upon her. I've no doubt the quietude will do her good. WESTMINSTER. CHILD STEALING.—A working man named Edward William., living at 13, Sufton-street, Westminster, ap plied to Mr. Selfe, the magistrate, for his assistance and advice under the following circumstances : Applicant said that on last Monday fortnight, at about eight in the evening, his little boy, 21 years old, Edward Williams, went out to play, and was missed; he had given information to the police, the hospitals, infirmaries, work houses, and homes had been searched, and no trace of the child could be found, so that there was every reason to believe the child had been decoyei away. As the police had been unable to restore the boy to him, he had come to the magistrate for his assistance. The boy had light hair, dark eyes, a speck or mole on the chin, was dressed in a black frock, lace-up boots, and white socks. Ho hoped the press would take notice of the matter, as the child may have been taken away for the purpose of adoption by some person so in clined, and by that means trusted that the child would be returned. Mr. Selfe said ho deeply sympathised with the poor man on his loss, but could not help him ; the reporter might, however, take notice of the matter which was in volved in so much mystery. THE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE COMPANY. An assurance collapse, which has been appre hended for some weeks, and it is feared may prove more disastrous than that of the Albert, has been announced. The two petitions to be heard before Vice-Chancellor James for the winding up of the European Assurance Society, stand over until Saturday week. The outstanding policies of the society are stated to be for an amount of between nine and ten millions sterling, in addition to which they are under contract for the payment of annuities amounting, according to a recent state ment, to £16,000 per annum, but which are believed not to be considerably beyond that sum. The society also had a very large guarantee business under a special Act, and of an annual premium income of £338,298, about £40,000 is understood to have been from that source. The subscribed capital is £.780,660, in shares of £2 10s. each, on which 16s. 6d. per share is paid up, this 16s. 6d. having been composed of 10s. originally paid, Is. 6d. cre dited to the shareholders some time ago as a profit bonus, and ss. from a call made about two months back. The assets applicable to the Life Assurance were stated on the 31st of December last at only £490,729, and these included an item, described as " mortgages, life interests, reversions, and ba lance of purchases of business &c.," for £348,830, without any specification as to how much of that total is represented by the worthless goodwill of the businesses acquired. The remaining liability of the shareholders is £520,000, but probably the solvent proportion will be found very small. The prospects of liquidation must, therefore, be re garded as most discouraging. The office was established in 1854, under the title of the " People's Assurance Society." In 1859 it changed its name to the " European Assurance Society," and since that time it has absorbed 33 other companies, the great majority of which were doubtless got up by the usual adepts for the purposes of sale. It has establishments in India and Australia, and for some time it had a branch at Montreal, but about a year ago the Canadian Government required that each office in the Dominion should de posit $lOO,OOO in colonial securities, and perhaps from the inconvenience of this demand the agency was closed. But the most remarkable fact remains. The office obtained a special Act of Parliament, about nine or ten years ago, en abling them to undertake to guarantee the fidelity of Government employes and others, and this Act, it is understood, provided for the creation of a re serve fund in Government securities specially ap plicable to such guarantees, and also that the Go vernment should have power to appoint inspectors to examine the affairs of the society. Those who are desirous of Government interference in com mercial undertakings may find in this instance another illustration of its results. The fact that " the European Society is specially authorised by the Imperial Parliament to guarantee the fidelity of Government officials" has been paraded for years, together with the notification that " the Royal Naval, Military, and East India Life Departments affords peculiar advantages to officers and others in the navy, army, and mercantile marine," and these announcements have doubt fess far outweighed the effect of the warnings re peatedly given by men of experience in the city. So far back as 1865 pamphlets were published to awaken the vigilance of all, persons interested, and yet at the general meeting of the shareholders in March last there was perfect unanimity in denounc ing the statements and motives of every one who had questioned the position of the society, and votes of thanks to all concerned were passed " with acclamation." It is not the least lamentable part of the affair that the Board of Direction comprises the names of men of whose individual honour and intentions there can be no doubt, and who, par tially ignorant of practical business, must have been grossly misled by more adroit persons. EXCLUSIVE, VERY IMPORTANT, RARE, AND VALUABLE are the properties of Ls.niplougu's Pyretic Saline, curing the Worst headaches, sickness, skin, or biliary affections. Pleasant, palatable, and bayigoratizi Oolcl by all Ghemiata.—[AdTt•], MURDER IN PARIS OF 211 PERSONS. A terrible crime has been committed at a place called Pantin, which is close to Paris. On Monday evening two country carts were seen passing along the Rue do Rivoli, going towards the Morgue—blood dripping from one of them. The carts wero surrounded by soldiers, and preceded by a commissioner of police wearing his scarf. It soon spread through the crowd which followed the cort6ge that the vehicle contained the remains of a woman and five children which had been discovered buried close to the Pantin station. The murders could have only bir o !' place n few hours before tho bodies were found ; the victims had been fearfully gashed about with a triangular instrument, and were bleeding when disin terred. People are at a loss to imagine how six indi viduals could have been murdered in open ground, and a hundred yards from a station. The eldest boy seems to be about seventeen years old, and the youngest child a girl of three. All that is known as yet is that the murdered family came from the country. Two arrests are said to have been made. The Morgue and its vicinity has been crowded the whole day by persons anxious to get a glimpse, of the victims. A DESPERATE BURGLAR. At the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, before the Common Serjeant, William Bentley, a respectably dressed man, was indicted for burglariously entering a dwelling house at Peckham. lie was found Guilty. A retired officer of the police said he had known the prisoner for five-and-twenty years as a desperate thief, and had proved convictions which sentenced him to two years' hard labour and ten years' transportation. P.C. Ranger stated that he had long known the prisoner as ono of the most dangerous Allie thieves, and that he had been sentenced to six years' penal servitude for a burglary at Bath. On being taken into custody duplicates of jewellery, the result of a burglary in Derbyshire, with various housebreaking tools, were found in his possession. The judge sentenced him to twenty years' penal servitude. On sentence being passed loud screams were heard in the court; the prisoner's wife was removed in a state of insensibility. LIFE ASSURANCE DODGES. --.0- An evening contemporary publishes a letter from a corres pondent, which it says " throws some light on the extra ordinary expedients to which some of the assurance offices are in the habit of resorting for the purpose of extending their business at all hazards and any cost." The correspon dent has furnished our contemporary with the name of the company in question, and is by no means a small or obscure one. The following is the substance of the communication :—About four months since a friend called on me, and, presenting me with a ticket, asked me if I would dine with him in the City that evening at eight o'clock. I had no objection to the dinner, but naturally asked the occasion of the festivity. He replied that lie was quite ignorant of the cause of the spread, as he termed it, or the name of the host, and that the tickets were given to him by a gentleman whom he casually met at the bar of a tavern, and with. whom he had a few minutes' conversation on general topics. We went, and found a dinner laid for about twenty, and fifteen or sixteen gentlemen sitting almost in solemn silence, for they were nearly all strangers to each other, and, like ourselves, seemed in ignorance as to why they were brought together. We all seemed to be waiting for our mysterious host, but, with the exception of an energetic young gentleman who rushed in and out, and at about half-past eight ordered dinner to be served, no one appeared whom we could honour as the founder of the feast. We dined, and a very good din ner it was. No wine ; that, I think, was a mistake, for wine opens the heart and muddles the brain, and the Company might have reaped a profit on the invest ment of a dozen of port. The cloth was cleared, a collec tion made for the waiters, grog ordered, and then the murder came out—our lively friend appeared with a lot of reports, &c., a venerable gentleman favoured us with a long discourse on the advantages of life assurance and of the Life Assurance Office in particular, and finished by calling on all of us who were not already assured to do so at once in their office, adding that in a private room upstairs gas and a medical man had been laid on for our special convenience, and a clerk from the office would assist us in making out our proposals for any sum up to £lO,OOO. We with difficulty resisted the voices of our charmers and escaped, after promising to give the Life Assurance Company the preference whenever we insured our precious lives." DISASTERS AT SEA. Intelligence has been received of the loss of the ship James Hackett, bound from Newport to Cork. The crew were compelled to abandon the vessel, as she was leaking badly, and was unseaworthy, and she subsequently went ashore at Farmby. The crew were picked up and have been safely landed at Liverpool. The Sibilla, which has just put into Dartmouth, while on a voyage from Cardiff to Sebastopol, experienced a succession of heavy gales, during one of which two of the crew were washed overboard by a heavy sea and drowned. The sails of the vessel were completely blown away, and besides being leaky, she has lost her lifeboats, bulwarks, stanchions, &c. A more complete wreck it is hardly possible to con :wive, and it is remarkable that she was enabled to reach Dartmouth in safety. A schooner, supposed to be the Mary, belonging to Wells, has been found abandoned in the North Sea by the screw steamer Hampshire, and has been towed into Gorlestone Harbour, near I'm m3uth. On the Seroby Sands, facing tho latter port, two vessels were driven on Tuesday, but were both assistad off. The weather at the time was mo derate; had it been otherwise thrir fate would have been certain. The schooner Prudence,. of Watchct, bound frcm Newport to Bridgwater with coals, in attempting tally on Tuesday morning, in a strong wind from N.W., and heavy sea, to make the port of Burnham, Somerset, too soon on the tide, took the ground on the south side of the channel, and dragged over the sands for about three miles, till she finally brought up at the back of Sturt Island. When her signal of distress was seen the lifeboat Cheltenham, of the National Lifeboat Inaitution, proceeded out to her, and on arriving alongside found the sea was making a complete breach over her, and that the crew of three men, who had taken refuge on the bowsprit, were in considerable peril. They were in a very exhausted state when they were taken int) the lifeboat, the night being cold and the men very wet. Some anxiety is felt respecting the non-arrival of the Blatoaka, a New Zealand ship - which left Port Lyttelton 130 days since. She has about fifty 1 a - ungers on board and £50,000 in specie. Fifty and sixty guineas pr.:mium are being paid to effect insurances on her. An Irishman was employed to trim some fruit trees. He went in the morning, and on returning at noon ivas asked if he had completed his work. " No," was the reply ; " I have cut them all down and am going to trim them in the afternoon." Sir Roderick Murchison has written to say that, while ho is much gratified by the proposal of the Town Council of Inverness to confer upon him the freedom of that burgh, he regrets that, owing to duties which call him southward, he cannot retrace his steps to receive the dis tinction in person. RITUALISM AT ST. ETHELBURGA'S, BISHOPSGATE. —Mr. Rodwell, the rector of this church[still disregards the judgment of the Privy Council in the case of "Martin v. Mackonochie. On Sunday morning last Mr. Rodwell elevated the bread and wine to a height of fully six inches sbove his head, and kept them there for an appreciable interval. The bread which he elevated was a largo wafer, ouch as is used for this purpose in Roman Catholic chapels. The decision against mixing water with the wino was also disobeyed. The sermon was preached by the Rev. Hodges, the curate, who in the course of his sermon lamented that the Sacrament was not yet reserved in our churches, but expressed a hope that the time would soon arrive when it would be. CAUTION TO BATHERS AT WATERING PLACES.— James Beckett and William Beckett, brothers, residing in Hayfield-place, Mile-end, London, recently appeared before the Thorpe magistrates to answer a summons charging them with having violated the Act relating to public decency, on the ground that on the sth inst. they had bathed in an exposed place, and not the spot set aside for that purpose in the sea at Walton-on-the-Naze. Mr. Phil brick said that he appeared to prosecute on behalf of the 'ocal authorities, who were determined to put down a nuisance which unfortunately prevailed at almost every watering place. It appeared that the defendants belonged to a party of excursionists who in the beginning of the present month visited Walton-on-the-Naze. In the after noon of that day the defendants went out to bathe, and although there was a proper bathing place appointed they selected a spot fully exposed to the gaze of every one on the beach, and where the water was not more than 1/ft. in depth. A number of persons unavoidably saw them, and some one immediately communicated with the police constable, and he ordered them out. When they had done so they excused themselves by saying that they had clone so last year. These summonses were then taken out, Coroborative evidence having been given, the defendants said that they were too poor to pay a fine. Mr. Rcbow laid that he should not inflict tho full penalty; but in order that the charactcr• of Walton for deccnoy should. bo troieitiektii6 10i t _ito DaclAi4gtg. 13PrBIT OF VIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. "The Times, in discussing the possible division of the Bishopric of Exeter, says that Cornwall is claimed by the disciples of Whitfield and Wesley as their own, insomuch that if the plea of Wales to a separation from the English Church be allowed, they intend to follow suit. The population of that county is most of it remote from rail ways or even tolerable roads; it is very shifting; maul thousands of it 'Work underground, or even under sea, and, for one reason or other, expect stronger spiritual manifesta tions than are to be found in the respectable routine of an Established Church. What could Henry Phillpotts do with the simple folk dwelling in these wilds, incapable of knowing what his pamphlets were about ? They wanted to be moved, and stirred, and broken up, and raised to red heat, gird melted, and run into mould, like their own ores. Could any bishop do this ? Well, that is not the question. Dr. Phillpotts could not ; and if he ever thought to attempt it, controversy, the House of Lords, And, it must be added, a comfortable distance from the scene, put off the wcrk continually, till it remains to be dew. This chews, at the least, that administration is not enough ; that distance is fatal ; and that, first of all, there is wanted actual presence and, if possible, what is called a strong personality. 111 1 ° 11 the most common sense view of the case Cornwall ough t to have a bishop of its own, and a bishop qualified to cope with its peculiar exigencies. We may as well say 36 once, and to guard against prejudicial surmises, that thore is not the slightest necessity for a Bishop of Cornwal l having either a seat in the House of Lords or a residence in town, or a huge palace anywhere, or more than, hal f the existing average of episcopal incomes. A bishop can be not only comfortable, dignified, and useful , but tolerably übiquitous, on £2,500 a year. It would be simply a wilful ignorance of figures and ordinal prices to dispute that any ordinary county of En;' land—for Yorkshire might b) excepted—can be worked well by a Bishop with £2,000 a year, supposing, of course , that he is not overhoused or obliged to attend the House of Lords. Is there no cause for these suggestions? This is 2 time of comparisons, readjustments, distribution, and NW . surrenders. The rule applied is the simplest and mo st practical. We want a working Church, to do as much Work as possible, provoke as little jealousy as possible, and to place as few temptations and distractions as possible in O A path of those who have the work to do. The Standard thinks that discussion is by no ineani making the " Irish Land Question " clearer. We have co' tradictory statements from various quarters, and conflic t ' ing arguments from the same quarters ; but beyond t be , feet that Irishmen are still shooting landlords, agents, an obnoxious tenants, and are living in an agreeable state of general agitation, we cannot for our lives get hold of ali/ one thing that can dispassionately be pronounced certai n ' Take, for instance, these three assertions, each of 1 4°1 has been and is still being made with equal confidence' yet all of which, obviously, cannot be true. The fas t 15 ' that Irish tenants do not improve the land they occupy' because they cannot obtain leases. The second is, that they make improvements, and are robbed of the fruits °1 their labour avid capital by being turned out of th sir h° - , ings without compen s ati on . Th e thi r d i s , th a t landlords 'L e not grant leases, because whenever they do, the tenants, f al , from improving, crop and scourge the land under :over °' such security. Which of the three allegations is SO ° Evidently, as we say, they cannot all be so. A t 11 meeting just held at Cork a series of resolution 3 were passed practically embodying the views l 0 which, under circumstances we will state dir ectly' 0 1 we should be willing to listen, but advancing 041 ' 1, A palpably absurd. One resolution was to the ell e ; that perpetuity of tenure should be based uP°ll, of rental to be in the first instance fixed by a boa rd agriculture; the next resolution stating that " suc7l renwo, shall be estimated by the average market value of the P r duee of the several holdings for the previous twentr°o: years." But this is clearly impossible, and world boo' monstrous calculation. Whether "perpetuity of ° nil ; be in store for us, and whether, if it were, Irish te na- o d would, as a rule, improve instead of subdividieg squatting, we will not hero inquire. But we have f it high time to point out what must be done if 511° , 01 scheme is ever carried out. Not the estimated reatelisi the last twenty-one years, but that estimated r oot doubled, together with a periodical allowance for ul ti increase of value, would have to constitute the lateil'2r perpetual annuity. The Post remarks that if it were now proposed lan aside all the tests and guarantees by which the le.- iono medical professions have been surrounded, and to oat any man to practice in the courts of law and equitY, , be 0 the bedside of the sick, the immediate result woo" col feeling of general consternation. The law is fami lia l its uncertainty; and as to medical men, it is probable . a considerable number of them kill as m' i ons' they cure. But with r egard t o both nrol es '", the general desire is rather to test the ' l 'loo , cations of their members more severely thani.fo in The same feeling is evident in every d e p ar tment of 11 4 . 0( 1Y. which knowledge does not come by time, but e by iu s ci ;tl , It is enly in what may be called middle-class that no test is exacted of the efficiency of the profltils Schoolmasters who undertake to teach the children ° t he,' working classes must have obtained a certificate befor e 0 so can share in the Government grant. It may he tal ,e nd an admitted fact that the masters and tutors of r , t oi t i ,„es, o . Harrow are more or less qualified for their work. B e w hicP these extremes lie a vast number of schools in t i o e; ' middle-class children are supposed to receive an edu ce' , ol but whether the proprietor is fit for his Ple.ebeio to whether his assistants are fit for theirs, it is impe ssi e 1 1 0 ° say. Parents have nothing to guide them when th e .' gate to decide on these all-important questions. Suc h a te t p° of things is neither wise nor fair. The boy is father ei o man. But what sort of manhood is to be expecte d fi der lad who has spent the years set apart to study and out pedagogue whose chief desire has been Jo make ralioe, l of him ? In a word, as regards the test of examin.astaooo, appear to us that it ought to be applied in the first ineioe to the master, and that the principle on which t he e o colleges are based should not be limited to the chll the poor. bow ° t The Herald observes that the inquest upon the dot b. A t Arthur South, the railway guard, who met hi s verb Barnet on the 10th of August last, has ended in 3 , a pes exonerating every one but the unfortunate °Le fat?'tae effl' himself from direct responsibility for his lareen e io The jury, however, expressed their opinion that th decin a io cient lighting of the Barnet Station and the ill to ' l eo force on duty there had had a good de a t b a l with the catastrophe. It is conjectured Batio'l, t ° this occasion the guard must have failed t, 40 himself that the pointsman was at his r - ,:vc :be points held over, and the line safe, before he when '„d starting sign, for hardly was the train in m otion b ole: luggage train was upon it, the driver and s toker on enough to do to save their lives. Arthur South svail bat :4 fore, in a measure the victim of his own neg lec u pon i t il o would be unjust on that account to cast reproach lit, no memory, seeing that, though it was near roldritbe je single lamp was lighted at the station. As one ° M e , remarked, "if a lamp had been lighted the men , w . ° a o ot l ie seen that they were on the wrong line.' They islY . 0 0 and so two trains met, killing one man and serl ° 4o l juring two or three others. Really railway c ° ' - ' l Ol should remember that the virtue of ° collo - n/ 5s es h pushed too far. By keeping stations in darkn e oo , e thir i ii shunting is going on they may perhaps save boa not but we should think a year's saving under tn ls to P m , e l down the line would hardly pay for the clamag,e,,, to4 c is and material done by this " one night's w ork' 1 nothing of the lives and limbs of their serva n ev ie,h 3- 0 0 must be of some value, though they cannot, as 'o a t s ° r e actions for damages. Besides, it is quite possible 0 0001 such accident may happen to a train filled wi tIP 0 ,001; 0 1 41 Should such a calamity occur directors and kat% of lCe once more wax eloquent about the hardsniles• 0 40 Campbell's Act and the unwise liberality of t their pre" wish, however, that they would first try to 6 , e to yo houses in order, and so save their own Poc.b-e—pelle tecting the lives of those who are virtually cow travel upon their lines. <l e e The Telegraph calls attention to the f act tbas w idi ,- ho Chancellor James has heard a petition for the rabid' for of the European Society, an association.:" deal filled a considerable space in the publls iforo,ot many years. The proceedings were, it wer e 0 , 1 5 e little more than preliminary—nay, they n o 0 ' 0 01 4 ! less than preliminary in the ordinary s e . s peet tit term ; and the further hearing on Saturdsl_ t oc 4 01 modify the view now suggested ;but the circ u n 4 ;ote viu T lo : such a petition has been presented at all is tof egu lt. ba ts! to be passed over in silence, however it matedJ w ith „es! European has for some time been mention.e 0705 `'ben breath, and has done duty among the "knowl9' 0 0 ~fti.;ben topic for abundant inference and surmis e, bas;;ets. i ts or less shrewd deduction from visible erto s; a large institution whose existence d'A n a--- 10 : credit becomes in any degr yieb is, to use a homely phrase, "blown " n °1' 00 °1 ; 01 ; hope for its own interests is to submit te, 1 ! . .., or r. 3% a cal, ee discredit „eetls will either confirm the suspicions of outsiaff d. 4bert, tate its good name in the eyes of all the I "„,. s teieq . ' .o lo°s conspicuous drawback in our life-assuranF, e '. l f the n .t les!, has been a want of publicity in the detale e ° it ha s ti t done. If the calamity has done nothing en sta ble ' - ',7,01 0 , The most el ie Or e es changed that feature essentially. to p1.1 . 1 - 00 /1. eo s tions will henceforth pay so much homage l os —or, as some of them would say, to t all th e correct esie ness—that they will communicate to all "' a ' c are° of information which are indispensable to tie's , e jec eie lt mate of their position. hof the 1041 It is difficult, says the Star, to say w , - -c- i w tive o cIP: e 0 inquiries now in progress is the most lest% bears off the palm as regards the corruptio h l' oe st . 4.;;Di o ti l; that have been brought to light. 111.° hos eev:el,', rti presents its own novel features, whieli , ae incl2l;icl ncip of tha P te ri , e a3 eb b e ° : 4l l l ll, o ,6 h a°6 - ed e differing in form, are identical A s ti rather in a profligate want must also he frankly admitted live in glass houses, neither can with sat il etye e ',Ole stone. Sir Henry Edwards is a represpg:_et"o`f ° u ode electoral career is typical of certain Ph e 9 „ . ` an der B r aise- o tiis parliamentary system. But Mr. admiration of tilos.° scot! .; --ce, equally entitled to share the errp,,,, nating patriots, whose horror of c_ . "; r .0 1, 7 0 e t ,o, enough when the misdeeds of Alb.. Y Y ,,10 are in question, but who deal .veryres t . mote which so conspicuously disfign ,7 1ingbee llf o.o ° It is therefore from no vulgar pa v qY, i n lay° bespeak attention to the disclosures esxmcn• pe rienced.jfee ll P ep et tt at Beverley. by that ingenuous and__ len gr. sir 60 Mr. William Smiles Wreghitt. tea tha t boo , 0 01 examination is concluded, it is e'Pe the wi tlies s s a - ro s/ ; 0 11 Edwards will also take big place in we must do Mr. Wreghitt • the to d justice I he serveu , es n o ry not be his fault if the master wom . 0 , do his service?, warded him so handsomely for _ eel& Henry's evidence evidence will naturally excite gree te in thot.3 o r oa r valuable light on Er l i i alar l jv