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That the cordial thanks of this Meeting are tendered to W. P. Andrew, Esq., for his able z.nd courteous conduct in the chair this day. _ . W. P. ANDREW, Chairman. S. H. R. PARRY, Acting Secretary. Gresham House, Old Broad-street, London, June 29, 1870. CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY, enrolled 'as the Conservative Benefit Building Society.—Notice is herelq Given, that the SEVENTY-FIRST QUARTERLX GENERAL SLEETING of the Conservative Land Society will beheld at the Offices, No. 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, W.C., ou Tuesday, the sth of day of July, 1870, at Two of the clock precisely, Viscount Ranelagh in the chair, to receive the Report of the Executive Committee, and for general purposes. By Order of the Board, CHARLES LEWIS GRI/NEISEN, Secretary. June 14, 1870. Prospectuses of the Share and Deposit Investing Departments sent free of charge. Present rate of interest Five per Cent. per annum on Shares of Four per Cent. per annum on Deposit Accounts payable half yearly. 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These words will be transmitted free of charge. Messages are also received at the Company's Station, No. 74, OLD BROAD-STREET, and sent direct by wire to their destina tion. By order, JOHN T. BURT, Secretary. London, June 14, 1870. CRYSTAL PALACE.—THIS DAY.—Palace and Grounds in great summer beauty. SHILLING OPERA. Palace open for admission .. .. , 10.0 till 7.0 Display of Terrace Fountains.. .. .. .. 2.15 Comic Operetta, " The Rival Beauties" .. • .. 3. 0 Festival Organ and Promenade till .. .. .. 8. 0 Fine Arts and Industrial Courts, Picture Gallery, Statuary, Portrait Busts, Flowers, Birds Singing, Fountains Playing, &c. Velocipedes, rowing boats; canoes, cricket, quoits, croquet, and innumerable out-door amusements. RYSTAL PALACE, THIS DAY (fo r th e C ''last time), at 3 o'clock, Randegger's Comic Operetta, " THE RIVAL BEAUTIES." Sir Percy Ringwood . .. Mr. W. H. Cummings. Stephen Lynn, a miller . .. Mr. Maybrick. Tom Delorame . • • Mr. Marler. Lady Edith Carleton .. .. Miss Elena Angele. Alice Lynn . .. Miss Edith Wynne. Full Orchestral Band. The operetta conducted by the com poser. No extra charge. Admission to Palace and Theatre as usual, one shilling, or by guinea season tickets. Stalls, 2s. 6d., and reserved seats, ls., at the ticket stands. CRYSTAL PALACE. - SATURDAY NEXT._ GRAND SUMMER CONCERT and FASHIONABLE PRO MENADE. Vocalists :—Mlle. Christine Nilsson, Mlle. P au li ne Lewitzky, Mlle. Cari ; Signor B ettini, Si g nor Ver g er, Signor Foil, Crystal Palace Choir. Solo violin, Mlle. Terese Liebe (first appear ance). Conductor, Mr. MANNS. These delightful Concerts take place in the Centre Transept— the most agreeable locale imaginable for concerts in hot summer weather. The enjoyment of music is considerably enhanced by such surroundings as are found here ; groups of statuary and banks of flowers meet the eye at every turn. The ear and the eye are equally delighted, and the airiness and general comfort of this vast concert hall, beyond comparison with the heated atmosphere and closeness experienced in theatres and concert rooms. Half-a-crown admission tickets and guinea season tickets at all agents. These and 2s. 6d. stall tickets also, at the Palace and 2, Exeter Hall. Stalls should forthwith be secured. CRYSTAL PALACE.-NEXT MONDAY.- GREAT JUVENILE FETE. Innumerable amusements for children, to all of which they will be free on payment of the admission sixpence :—Punch and Judy, Marionettes, Donkey Races, Duke of York's School Band, Shadow Pantomime, &c. Admission, children under 12, or schools of 10 or more, irre spective of age, sixpence, or by hall-guinea season tickets ; adults is., or by guinea season tickets. CRYSTAL PALACE.--SHILLING OPERAS v A SERIES of OPERAS, comprising all those produced at the Palace by 111 r. George Perren, will be given on Tuesdays and Th u r s d a ys throughout July. At the request of many season ticket holders and other subscribers, transferable numbered stalls will be issued for the eight operas, at the low rate of half a guinea. They will be issued at the ticket office, Crystal Palace, on Saturday next, 'July 2. Early application is abso lutely essential. To afford every possible opportunity for young persons and schools to witness these performances at the most moderate rate, a still further reduction will be made for these several stalls. The list of operas will include Il Trovatore, Maritana, Bohemian Girl, Larline, Rose of Castille, Lily of Kil larney, Lucia di Lammermoor, Le Sonnambula. CRYS TAL PALACE.—POMPEII.—A most interesting EXHIBITION of VIEWS OF POMPEII, in ruins and restored, will ope n in a few da y s. The views, by aid of photo-sculpture, will appear of natural size. Further par ticulars will be shortly given. THE FETE OF THE SEASON ! Great Wes tern Railway FIFTEENTH ANNUAL RURAL FETE, in aid of the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter Railways Pro vident Society Widow and Orphan Fund, will be held in Beckett Park, near Shrivenham, on Tuesday, July sth, 1870. SPECIAL TRAINS will run from Paddington, Windsor, Hun gerford, Basingstoke, Reading, Gloucester, Cheltenham, Swin don, Bristol, Bath, Chippenham, Witney, Oxford, Abingdon, &c., to Shrivenham Station on the above day. The Best Artistes in London willbe engaged. The Amusements will be as varied and on the same scale that have always charac terised these Annual Fetes. The 36th Paddington Rifle, 11th Wilts Rifle, 3rd Gloucester Artillery Volunteers, and Matthews's Celebrated Quadrille Bands will be in attendance. A Grand Match at Cricket will be playe d . FES. Return Tickets to all Stations from Ist Class 2nd Class Paddington to Windsor, inc1u5ive.......... 5 0 4 0 Twyford, Henley, Reading to Wallingford, inclusive, Hungerford and Basingstoke Branch Stations. 4 0 3 0 Oxford to Culham inclusive, and Witney Branch Stations.... Didcot to Farringdon,.inclusive ............ 3 0 2 0 Bristol to Chippenham, inclusive ... ..... 4 0 3 0 Cheltenham to Brimscombe, inclusive • . . 4 0 3 0 Cirencester to Purton, inclusive ............ 3 0 2 0 Swindon 26 l 6 The Fete Ticket will act as a Pass to and . • from Shrivenham , and admit to the Park. The barometer has fallen slightly along the East coast of England, in the west however a gradual rise is reported. Temperature, which this morning was as high as 59 degs. in London, is but little changed. The direc tion of the wind is northerly is in England, and north easterly in Norway. The sky still cloudy. THE TRAINING SHIP WARSPITE.-011 Tuesday the Earl of Romney presided at the annual inspection of the Marine Society's boys on board the training-ship Warspite, off Woolwich. Up to the close of last year the number of lads who had been . provided for through the agency of this organisation was 56,276. The angry controversialists whose eager disputes about the , theories of education are so seriously interfering with its practice, are admirably satirised in this week's Punch under the head of " obstructives." A. group of clerical gentlemen stand wrangling in the school house doorway, while Mr. Punch, with a boy and girl on either side, remonstrates with Bull A 1 :—" Yes, it's all very well to say 'go to school ! ' How are they to go to school with those people quarrelling i n th e d oorwa y? Why don't you make 'em move on The memorial stone of a new infirmary was laid on Tuesday at Kidderminster, by the Countess of Dudley. The day was observed as a holiday in the town, all the factories and mills being stopped, and all the shops shut, at least from eleven o'clock in the forenoon. The plans of the building are by Mr. Bland, of Birmingham, and the total cost will be about £9,000. A vast concourse of people attended the proceedings, and addresses were delivered by the Earl of Dudley, Lord Lyttelton, the Bishop of Worcester, Mr. Thomas Lea, M.P., and the leading public men in the borough. About 400 clerical and lay delegates assembled on Tuesday at a Church conference at Birmingham. The reading of a paper by the Dean of Lichfield on " Heresies in the Church," led to some remarks upon the reception given to Baboo Keshub Chunder Sen by leaders among the evangelical Nonconformists. His warm reception was criticised, and some of the doctrines propounded by Chunder Sen were denounced as parts of a system " which takes away entirely the glory from the Gospel." The proposed revision of the Bible was defended by the Rev. F. W. Wilkinson, and opposed by the Rev. J. C. Ryle because it was not asked for by the public, and be cause he feared it would "upset the belief and trouble the minds." of millions of Christians. He argued that if anything wanted revision it was the Prayer Book. During the discussion of this question, the evangelical brethren became so disorderly that it was suggrsted that prayer should be offered for the purpose of restoring harmony. EDITION. THE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. SHAREHOLDER'S PETITION FOR WINDING UP. In the Court of Vice-Chancellor James, yesterday, a petition was presented by Mr. Crowe, a shareholder in the European Assurance Society, for the compulsory winding-up of the society, under the provisions of the Companies' Act of 1862. Mr. E. E. Kay, Q.C., and Mr. Napier Higgins appeared for the petitioner; Mr. Fry, Q.C., and Mr. F. C. J. Millar for the society ; and Mr. Roupell for 664 shareholders, representing £172,600, and 3,213 policy holders, representing policies to the amount of £928,711, to oppose the application. Mr. Kay opened the case by remarking that the peti tion was for the compulsory winding-up of a company which was the subject of two similar petitions before the court in October last. Before adverting to the merits of the case, he desired to call attention to an attempt which had already been made to prejudice the mind of the court against the petition, and point out the considerable disadvantage under which both he, as counsel, end the petitioner were labouring in prosecuting the inquiry. Immediately after the presentation of the peti tion steps were taken to secure evidence, which, in cases o 4 that description, was that only which could be regarded ”c; valuable or reliable—the evidence of witnesses who knew most about the affairs of the company,. but who, from their intimate connection with the society, were most reluctant to make any material disclosures. Until the petition was presented no steps could be taken to procure evidence of that kind, and then the most expeditious mode of procedure was to apply for the appointment of a special examiner. That plan was adopted in this instance, and the most valuable evidence which he possessed in support of the petitioner had been secured in that way. The examination, however, was not completed in sufficient time, and it was a fact that at the moment he was without a brief of the most important portion of the testimony, and that the petitioner had been unable to make the cross examinations he had intended to make by way of answer to certain allegations which had been made. The Vice-Chancellor : The petitioner ought to he prepared with evidence before taking proceedings. The petition was presented on the 6th June, and it is now the 29th, and under the circumstances ample time has elapsed for conducting a special examination. Mr. Kay urged that he was labouring under the greatest possible disadvantage, and that the greatest expedition has been used with the view of completing special exami nation. Enormous interests were involved, and it was im portant that every inquiry should be instituted in order to ascertain whether it was just and equitable that the society should be allowed to waste the assets of the share holders or be placed immediately in liquidation. The Vice-Chancellor : I am sorry to be of personal in convenience to counsel, but must decide the hearing must now M go on. r. Kay then stated that the company, as was the Albert Life Assurance Company, was composed of a con glomeration of other companies, having no less than thirty-three original organisations amalgamated with it. There were 312,340 shares of £2los. each, and the society had recently been registered under the Companies' Act of 1862. In the year 1868 the policies of the society amounted to £8,700,000, besides which the society was liable upon annuities amounting to between £16,000 and £17,000 per annum, which liability was estimated to be no less than £140,000, and was to be added to the possible liability upon policies. At the present time the shareholders altogether numbered 1,655, and it was esti mated thad the company had received from one source and another since the commencement about £3,500,000. The assets now existing and represented as being valuable —how far they were valuable he would afterwards shew —were £371,000. When the matter was before the court on a former occasion the nature of the balance sheet pub lished for the year 1868 created some discussion. Since that time the balance sheet of 1869 had been issued, and that disclosed the state of affairs down to the termination of the year. The Vice-Chancellor, interrupting Mr. Kay, inquired whether any attempt had been made to obtain the deci sion of the general body of the shareholders in the matter. Mr. Kay replied in the negative. Mr. Fry said that one-half of the shareholders, in fact, were desirous of proceeding with the business of the company. Mr. Kay observed that that must be the case, although the society was alleged to be in a state of hopeless in solvency. But he would shew that the existing assets were not by any means sufficient to meet the existing lia bilities, and it was not only just and equitable, but ex tremely desirable, that the society should be wound up. The Vice-Chancellor : But I would prefer to ascertain what the opinion of the general body of shareholders is on the question, unless it could be proved that the opinion is withheld by some fraudulent or unfair means. Mr. Kay continued to say that the last-mentioned balance-sheet was framed on a different principle to the former. Since the presentation of the last petition the directors had taken some steps to diminish the current expenses of working the society. The constitution of the board had also been altered, by calling upon a number of directors to resign, and appointing others ; and in the balance-sheet certain items which were objected to on a former occasion, and held to be improperly included as forming the assets of the company, had been omitted. They were indebted on sundryitems £79,250185. 9d., whilst the life claims which were admitted and were payable during•the next three months amounted to £51,900. At the moment the balance sheet was made out the actual liabilities were £98,574. The policies were payable within three months —therefore if that amount were multiplied by four the probable claims for the year would be ascertained. On the other side of the account the assets were indicated, and the first sum was £33,000 in consols, which he would satisfy the court was specifically appropriated to meet Government and other guarantees, and being so, must be devoted to that object before it was available to meet any other liability. The same remark applied in the case of the items of Indian Government debentures, and the Melbourne Government debentures, the latter being specially hypothecated to meet claims in Australia. The remaining assets consisted of mort gages, life interests, and reversions, and some of those were due from companies which were actually in course of liquidation, and from which, therefore, very little indeed would be realised. One of the companies was that of the Albert Life Assurance, and the evidence was that not much was to be expected from that source. Another asset was in the shape of re-assurances, but the larger part of those re-assurances were from the unfortu tunate Albert Office, and although they were inserted for the full amount, it was obvious that scarcely anything would be obtained, and on the whole he was justified in saying that there was really nothing in the shape of available assets upon which the directors could put their hands to meet claims. The Vice-Chancellor : Have any accruing claims not been met ? Mr. Millar : Not a single one. Mr. Kay said he had contrary evidence as to that. The testimony went to shew that the claims had been mitigated to an extent which had occasioned a great deal of scandal among the officers of the society themselves. The claims had been mitigated because of the difficulty to procure funds, and a large amount of uncalled capital had been called upon, because even with the current in come, which ought to be sufficient, there was not enough to meet the claims. A great number of the items were purely fictitions, and ought not to be included in the assets at all. The result of all this was that during the last year and-a-half large calls had been made upon the society to provide capital to meet their necessities. By no means the whole of the amount which was called upon had been paid, and the directors were so aware of the con sequences that would accrue from an attempt to enforce payment, and of the utter hopelessness of it if any such attempt were made, that no endeavours had been put for ward to compel payment. The Vice-Chancellor: Is the petitioner one of those who have not paid ? Mr. Millar : There are two calls due from the peti tioner. The Vice-Chancellor : Then I won't proceed with the petition until he has paid his calls. Mr. Fry : By postponing the petition, the court would, I think, be inflicting great harm upon the society. The Vice Chancellor : If the society wish it,l will go on with the petition, but I object entirely to a man who does not himself perform his duty, coming here seeking to compel others to do their duty. It is a most monstrous thing, and I never will give a winding-up order under such circumstances. Mr. Kay said the fact was that the petitioner sold his shares before any call was made, but the company refused to let him off. 'Under that state of things he had not paid the calls ; and, moreover, as there was an enormous arrear of calls allowed to be outstanding, he did not see any reason why he should be made a scapegoat by the directors who had neglected their duty. Mr. Fry : Unless the court is prepared to dismiss the petition, the society would prefer that it was not allowed to stand over. The Vice-Chancellor : It being admitted tha d, dismiss petition with costs. It was intimated that an appeal from his Honour's de cision would be made immediately to the House of Lords. The flags over the public buildings at Liverpool were lowered half-mast on Friday, in token of respect to the memory of the late Foreign Secretary. A Vienna telegram of the Eastern Budget says that the majority of the candidates who have been elected for the Diets are strongly in favour of the maintenance of the constitutional system, and inclined to adopt a conci liatory policy towards the nationalities. The necessity for a new system of education was strikingly illustrated in the course of a case heard in the Salford Police Court the other day. It was found that two girls, 13 and 14 years of age, who had been grossly assaulted, could not be allowed to give evidence for the prosecution, because they were utterly ignorant of the meaning of right or wrong, did not know what lying was, and did not know what would happen to them if they did not speak the truth. Owing to this lamentable state of things the -prisoner had to be discharged, as there was not sufficient collateral evidence to warrant a convic tion. JUNE 30, 1870 CHARLES DICKENS. Mr. Blanchard Jerrold contributes an article on the late Charles Dickens to the new number of the Gentle men's Magazine. The following are extracts : Slow to adopt a cause, Charles Dickens was the first in the battle for it when he had espoused it. He had the qualities of the perfect trooper as well as the far-seeing captain. I have a letter of his about Italy, dated 1844, in which, amid hearty gossip, he turns to a cause that was dear to him at the time. " Come and see me in Italy," he says to my father. " Let us smoke a pipe among the vines. I have taken a little house surrounded by them and no man in the world should be more welcome to it than you." Writing from the South, when he was about to travel to London with the MS. of " The Christmas Carol," (more than a quarter of a century ago) to read it to a few friends in Mr. John Forster's chambers in Lincoln's Inn Fields, he observed of the book, "I have tried to strike a blow on that part of the brass countenance of wicked Cant where such compliment is sorely needed at this time. And I trust that the result of my training is at least the exhibition of a strong desire to make it a stag gerer. If you should think at the end of the four rounds (there are no more) that the said Cant, in the language of Bell's Life, ' comes up piping,' I shall be very much the better for it." Dickens abhorred a sham with his whole soul. When he published his " Child's History of Eng land," the mass took it for granted that the chapters which trete appearing in the columns of " Honselsold Words " were so much copy, and that the writing of it for his own children was only a common, and to the world, warrantable artistic fiction. Such fiction was not possible to the greatest fiction writer of our century. I have his words before me, on this history ; and the ink is yellowing fast. " I am writing a little history of England for my boy, which I will send you when it is printed for him, though your boys are too old to profit by it. It is curious that I have tried to impress upon upon him (writing, I dare say, at the same moment , with you) the exact spirit of yovr paper" (" The Preacher Parrot.") There is a manuscript the word knows nothing about this day; and yet which has been for many years in existence, and in circulation among those who were native to the author's hearth. The Life of our Saviour was written by Charles Dickens to guide the - hearts of his children ; and if ever a labour of love was done by that miitst affectionate nature, this was preeminently it. By the eloquent pages that now will shortly be put within the reach of every English and American household, the children of Charles Dickens were taught their first lessons of Christian love and Christian chivalry. There was that boy-element in Charles Dickens which has been so often remarked in men of genius, as to appear as almost inseparable from the highest gifts of nature. " Why, we played a game of knock'em down only a week or two ago, " a friend has remarked to me with brim ming eyes. "And he shewed all the old, astonishing energy and delight, in taking aim at Aunt Sally. My own earliest recollections of Charles Dickens are of his gayest moods ; when the boy in him was exuberant, and leap-frog or rounders were not sports too young for the player who had written .` Pickwick " twenty years before. To watch him through an afternoon, by turns light and grave ; gracious, and loving and familiar to the young ; apt and vigorous in council with the old ; ready for a frolic upon the lawn, as ready for a committee meeting in the library, and then to catch his cheery good-night, and feel the hand that spoke so truly from the heart—was to see Charles Dickens the man, the friend, the companion and the counsellor all at once, and to get at something like a just estimate of that which was beautiful in the brilliant and noble Englishman we have lost. The sweet and holy lessons which he presented to humanity out of the humble places in the world, could not have been evolved out of a nature less true and sympathetic than his was. Dickens had come to regard all men and women so thoroughly and exclusively on account of their moral, intellectual, and spiritual worth ; that he was at home with all kinds of society, in the highest and in the humblest walks. So that it is easy to picture him standing in a drawing-room at Windsor Castle, one arm just resting upon the sofa, and talking in his quiet, earnest manner Co the first lady in the land. There would not be the least shadow of nervousness in him ; so great was the command which his trained brain and heart had given him, in the presence of humanity of every degree, under every con ceivable circumstance, by the throne, or facing thousands of his countrymen who loved him, one and all, so well. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him, was a sufferer; A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit ; The first true gentleman that ever breathed. I had met him about the middle of May, at Charing cross, and had remarked that he had aged very much in appearance. The thought-lines of his face had deepened, and the hair had whiten ed. Indeed, as he approached me I thought for a moment I was mistaken, and that it could not be Dickens ; for that was not the vigorous, rapid walk, with the stick lightly held in the alert hand, which had always belonged to him. It was he, however but with a certain solemnity of ex p ression in the face, and a deeper earnestness in the dark eyes. However, when he saw me and shook my hand, the delightful brightness and sunshine swept over the gloom and sadness ; and he spoke cheerily, in the old kind way—not in the least about himself—but about my doings, a bout Dor6, about London as a subject (and who kne w it half so well as he, in all its highways and byeways?), about all that could interest me that occurred to him at the moment. This month's Belgravia contains a short article by Mr. William Sawyer,' on "The Pickwick Papers." The follow ing extract will be read with general interest : " Only by slow degrees did it ooze out and become known to the world at large that Boz' was Charles Dickens. His reception by the public moved the author to issue .with No. 10, in December 1836, a brief address ; and as this does not appear in any edition of the work — not being intended to be bound up with it—we offer a copy a copy as a relic or curiosity of literature : " Ten months have now e la p sed since the appearance of the first number of the " Pickwick Papers." At the close of the year, and the conclusion of half his task, their author may, perhaps, without any unwarrantable intru sion on the notice of the public, venture to say a few words of himself. " He has long been desirous to embrace the first opportunity of announcing that it is his intention to adhere to his original pledge of confining th is work to t wen ty numbers. He has every temptation to exceed the limits he first assigned to himself that brilliant success, an enormous and increasing sale, the kindest notice, and the most extensive popularity can hold out. They are all, one and all, sad temptations to an author; but he has determined to resist the m ; firstl y , because he wishes to keep -the strictest faith with his readers : and, secondly, because he is most anxious that when the " Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club " form a complete work, the book may not have to contend against the heavy disad vantage of being prolonged beyond his original plan. '• For ten months longer, then, if the author be per mitted to retain his health and spirits, the " Pickwick Papers" will be issued in their present form, and nd will then be completed. By what fresh adv tures they may be succeeded is no matter for present consideration. The author merely hints that he has strong reason to believe that a great variety of other documents still lie hidden in the repository from which these were taken, and that they may one day see the light. " With this short speech Mr. Pickwick's Stage Manager makes his most grateful bow, adding, on behalf of himself and publishers , what the late eminent Mr. John Richardson, of Horsemonger-lane, Southwark, and the yellow caravan with the brass knocker, always said in behalf of himself and company at the close of every per formance : Ladies and gentlemen, for these marks of your favour we beg to return you our sincere thanks ; and allow us to inform you that we shall keep perpetually going on beginning again, regularly, until the end of the fair.' "It would appear that about the May or June of the n ext year, 1837, the appearance of the work was interrupted. How this happened—how one so methodical in all his ar rangements could have suffered anything to interfere with the publication of such a work—Mr. Dickens's biographers will probably explain. All the explanation the author gave was comprised in the following address, which was sent out with the July number : - - - - - - " 186, Strand, June 30th, 1837. "` The author is desirous to take the opportunity afforded him by his resumption of this work to state once again, what he thought had been stated sufficiently emphatically before, namely, that its publication was interrupted by a severe domestic affliction of no ordinary kind, that this was the sole cause of the non-appearance of the present number in the usual course, and that hence forth it will continue to be published with its accustomed regularity. However superfluous this second notice may appear to many, it is rendered necessary by various idle specu lations and absurdities, which have been industriously propagated during the past month, which have reached the author's ears from 'many quarters, and have pained him exceedingly. By one set of intimate acquaintances, especially well-informed, he has been killed outright ; by another, driven mad ; by a third, imprisoned for debt ; by a fourth, sent, per steamer, to the United States ; by a fifth, rendered incapable of mental exertion for evermore; by all, in short, represented as doing any thing but seek ing in a few weeks' retirement the restoration of that cheerfulness and peace of which a sad bereavement had temporarily deprived him." "In the same number appeared a curious ' Notice to Correspondents,' which has now a singular interest : " We receive every month an immense number of communications, purporting to be `suggestions' for the Pickwick Papers.' We have no doubt that they are forwarded with the kindest intentions ; but as it is wholly out of our power to make use of of any such hints, and as we really have no time to peruse anonymous letters, we hope the writers will henceforth spare themselves a great deal of unnecessary and useless trouble.'" ILLNESS OF GARIBALDI.—A. Naples journal pub lishes some information respecting Garibaldi from a recent visitor to Caprera. The general was suffering from pains in his loins, and for some days had been unable to stir from his couch. His vines, planted with his own hand, had yielded him an excellent harvest, and his land under cultivation had become fertile enough to maintain about 300 head of cattle and sheep. PRICE 1 d STAMPED A GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY FRUSTRATED. An attempt was made at an early hour yesterday to break into the premises of Mr. John Bennett, jeweller, of Cheapside. One of the windows in Crown-court was broken, and several iron bars in front of it were wrenched out of their places. The burglars, however, were dis turbed, and did not succeed in carrying anything away. The window was filled with gold chains, some of them of great value. GREAT FIRE AT OXFORD. W A very extensive and most alarming fire happened at Oxford on Tuesday morning. The destruction of property has been great, but, in addition to this, the occurrence has unhappily been attended with fatal consequences. The conflagration broke out in St. Aldgate-street, and in a very short time the premises of Mr. Chaundy, Mr. Collis, and those of Messrs. Hall and Ridley were completely consumed. Amongst the ruins of Mr. Collis's premises two dead bodies have since been found. The origin of the catastrophe is un known. THE ADULT BLIND. His Serene Highness the Prince of Teck presided over a large and fashionable meeting, held yesterday afternoon, at Hanover-square Rooms, for the purpose of celebrating the seventh anniversary of the establishment of the Alexandra Institution for the Adult Blind, of which her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales is the patroness. We gather from the report that there are 30,000 blind in the United Kingdom, the majority being past the middle age; and of the twenty-five institutions established for their benefit, and which only accommodate 2,000, nearly the whole of them are devoted to the young. The Alex andra Institute provides homes for the adult blind of all England, who canna be accommodated elsewhere, gives industrial training to those who are too old to enter schools, and employs those who, after leaving school, would otherwise be thrown on the parishes or their friends. Considerable progress has been made in the good work, and the sales effected have very much increased, but funds are still urgently required to enable the promo ters to extend its sphere of usefulness.—Lord Wharncliffe said that in a social sense there could be no doubt of the desirability that those whom God had caused to suffer from the worst of all afflic tions should be assisted to contribute towards their own support instead of being obliged to submit to a life of idleness. Morally and spiritually considered, the importance of instructing the blind was also beyond ques tion. The institution aimed at the assistance of these chiefly who by illness or accident were deprived of sight, and who were therefore even greater sufferers than those who were blind from their birth. One important matter had forced itself upon him. A bill for the education of the people was now before the country, and he was not aware that any provision was contained in it which would enable the ratepayers to afford any assistance to schools for the education of the blind. Rates for the purpose of educating the people would be levied throughout the kingdom, and yet not one penny would be available for the education of the blind. Why 30,000 of our most unhappy fellow creatures who were unable to help themselves, should thus be deprived of the benefits which would be extended to those who were not so afflicted, he was at a loss to conceive. He thought it would be very desirable that they should combine and endeavour to enforce upon the Legislature the necessity of inserting a clause in the bill which should have the effect of remedy ing the omission he had pointed out. Professor Fawcett, who is blind, Mr. J. W. Pease, M.P., Mr. R. N. Fowler, M.P., Canon Nisbett, and others addressed the meeting, and resolutions commending the institution to public support were passed. A BRIGAND'S LAST LETTER. Mr. Berkeley Thompson has sent to the paper the following translation of a letter written by a brigand, lately executed in Greece, to his brother, and published in the Phos " Brother Nicolaki, I salute you. My brother, I enjoin you to give fifty drachmas to the church of St. Paraskevi, in the village of Limogarthi ; also to St. John of Palechori thirty drachmas ; give a gallon of oil to the church of Neochori, and a gallon of oil to St. Nicholas of Divri. Give a gallon of oil the Virgin of Xerio tissa, ; and when you return to our native place give to the poor all you choose for the salvation of my soul. My brother, I leave you my blessing ; but my curse if instead of returning to our own village, you remain on this spot. Write first to our mother, and tell her that I die ; but do not tell her that I die this ignominous death. Do not leave my baby in this place, but wrap him up and carry him to our mother: Take care not to give him up to anyone else ; and if my wife is determined not to marry again, take her also to our home, and treat her as your sister, because I chrish the sweet hope that she will not marry again ; but should she desire to do so, do not take away the silver ornaments that I gave her, or any thing else, but only the wedding ring which bears my name. Make a garland, write my name upon it, and with it crown the head of St. Nicholas in our church. Do not quarrel on account of the disputed cattle with Yannaki Founta, or else his curse will follow me, but take for settlement whatever he chooses to give you. Do what you like with the cows that I have at Divri. If my wife wishes to marry, give her what you like. Do not be such a madman as to quarrel with our enemies, or you would ruin altogether our father's name. On the contrary, wherever you meet them bow to them graciously, because I forgave them, and God alone will judge them. When I was a lad I robbed from the Church the holy books of Father Veta, and he cursed me — therefore you must find a priest, and bring him to my grave to bless it, otherwise I am afraid that my body will not be changed. When you return to our village give a banquet to all my mates to celebrate my marriage, as they were not present at it ; and if it ever passes through your mind to injure any of those who tried me, I leave you my curse, that you may come to the same shameful end as myself. If you do not intend to return to our birthplace, take care of my child and treat him as your own ; and execute faithfully all that I command you here. Try if you can take possession of my body, and bury it near that of our master at Zimogarthi, but if you cannot obtain my body at least try to take my head. If you succeed in getting my body, and you bury it as I order you, place a tombstone with my name over it, and if you remain two or three years in our native place, take my bones into your house. When you meet ragged beg gars, receive them, and assist them as much as you can, otherwise God will not permit the salvation of my soul. Ask my godmother, also Miss Vasilike, and all the ser vants, to forgive me, from their hearts, and ask Father Athanasi to come personally to my grave, and pronounce a long benediction over it ; and, besides, ask all the peasants of Limogarthi to forgive me also, from the bottom of their hearts. I left my watch with Mr. Itizo- Manoli. Go to him, and give twenty-eight drachmas. Sell your own, and take mine as a keepsake. Write to the mother of Costa, and also to Athanasi Millio, whom I injured, to forgive me. I left in the house of our master two muskets. Take them, sell them, and give the proceeds to the poor, for the salvation of my soul. I salute you sweetly, and as a brother, and I remain, your dead brother, " THOMAS IOANNOII." The Bishop of London is about to sign the moth tions drawn up against certain Ritualists in the diocese of London, and that they will be issued forthwith. The Daily News remarks that there are many instances in the peerage in which families whose heads occupy antagonistic positions in politics are bound to gether by matrimonial ties. Earl Percy, the heir to the dukedom of Northumberland, is the son-in-law of the Duke of Argyll. The Duchess Dowager of Nor thumberland is a sister of the Marquis of West minster. The eldest son of Viscount Halifax is married to the only daughter of the Eal 1 of Devon. The eldest daughter of Earl Russell is married to a son of General Peel. The Duchess of Abercorn is nearly related to the Duke of Bedford. One of her Grace's daughters is married to the Earl of Lichfield., a second to the Earl of Durham, a third to the Earl of Dalkeith eldest son of the Duke of Buccleuch, a fourth to the Earl of Mount-Edgcumbe, a fifth to the Marquis of Blandford, eldest son of the Duke of Marl borough, and a sixth to the Marquis of Landsdowne. The sons-in-law of the Duke of Abercorn are, therefore, equally divided in political opinions. CAPTAIN EYRE OF THE BOMBAY.—The fruitless efforts made by Captain Eyre, of the steamship Bombay, to obtain a reversal of the sentence pronounced upon him for his conduct towards the United States corvette Oneida, at the time of the collision, have been duly recorded in a Parliamentary paper. The Peninsular and Oriental Company addressed a letter, on the 13th of May, to the Secretary of the Board of Trade empatically dissenting from the conclusions arrived at by the Board. It will be remembered that so far from accepting the explanations offered by Captain Eyre, the Board declared his sentence to be too lenient rather than too severe, and that he not only disregarded professional obligations, but the dictates of common humanity. Following this comes a lengthened statement from Captain Eyre himself, in which he regrets not having been offered an opportunity of appearing before the Board, and cites several passages from the evi dence given at Yokohama, supporting his view of the case. In conclusion he hopes the board will review the decision of the naval court, or at least withdraw the expression of its adverse opinion, giving him credit for ordinary humanity as well as for seamanship. In this hope he is disappointed. The board in a letter dated June 2, points out that any further investigation would be irregular and contrary to the usual practice, In a case of such importance, if it could have been shewn that the evidence had not been fully taken or that material facts had been subsequently brought to light, the board would have endeavoured to do substantial justice. This, how ever, is not the case. There are no new facts, and the evidence. cited by Captain Eyre has already been com mented on and considered. The Board therefore distinctly declines to re-open the case.