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Presence this port of 'the iese must - of - war th regard hich also the state and Ger mough to the seas- is done-- - It are not ,d ports? :at trade, fall to remaia .erica rillanotts ten m e' hat this lie terms ore me' to Clog orn ont whose [ ers de' i him, e repub a moro A dowiy snaple Jongres iis sub' Pointed )uld ied with left ,st great action of :et, that did not uy more for the get be o of the lost illy om the e who 'ed the there, I, deter mmerco, Tinainal he was h, then, the, f a real tee g ave corrupt 'ecreant )t stab' ?—Ne' If JulYt 1 in► the Ve ttre for the ,nd Pre- 3crated td to be Church ce htive and I shop of I. Hig- 'rancis- VilliaM a:r . leorge )f HY• •Jatter, ............. le of -• at LONDON, FRIDAY, (I.IZYSTAL PALACE.- THIS DAY.- SHIL ki LING DAY.— Gardens and Park refreshed by rain— Never more beautiful. Excursions Daily. Palace open for ad- 10 till 7.30 Pianoforte recital, Mr, R. 2.15 Beringer .. .. 2.30 Orchestral Band .. 3.30 .. 3.30 Festival Organ and I Promenade till .. 8.0 No extra charge. Admission is. ;or by Guinea Season Tickets. Present issue dating to 31st July, 1871, at all entrances and agents This Day. Children half price. • Views of Ruins of Pompeii and Restorations, by new photo- Aculpture process, 6d. The Court of War Material (receiving additions daily) contains Chassepots, Needle thins, and Rifles of all kinds, Models of Moncreiff and other guns, Maps of the Seat of War, Photo graphs of Bridges, Fortresses, and of principal Commanders and Statesmen, portion of Armour Plate of Prussian ironclad " Konig Wilhelm,"&c. Admission free. Note.—The date of the next grand display of Fireworks will be shortly announced. mission from .. Terrace Fountains .. Tycoon's Japanese Troupe .. CRYSTAL PALACE. - TO-MORROW.- OPERA and AFTERNOON PROMENADE. Mr. ARTHUR SULLIVAN'S COMIC OPERETTA " Cox and Box." John James Box, Mr. J. Rouse. j James John Cox, Mr. J. Shaw. Serjeant Bouncer, Mr. Aynsley Cooke. Full Orchestral Band—Conductor Mr. MANNS. Admission (no extra charge to Theatre), half-a-crown or by guinea season tickets. Stalls, 2s. 6d. and Reserved seats. is., now ready. Transferable numbered stalls for this and seventeen other performances, £l. ls. CREMORNE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. JOHN BAUM GRAND BALLET, at 10, LA FEE AUX ROSES, Mdlle. Clavelle, assisted by 200 Corps de Ballet. Splendid Fireworks. Daring Trapeze Performances. Operetta, and numerous other popular amusements. Open daily at 3. ADMISSION ONE SHILLING. AMUSEMENTS FREE. Open on Sunday by Refreshment Card, 6d. Table d'Hote at half-past Six, 2s. 6d. ALHAMBRA. - MR. FREDK. STR GE, Managing Director.—OPEN TO-NIGHT, at Eight o'clock. Everything New. Three Grand Ballets, " LES FLEURS DU JAR DIN ;" " BROWN, JONES, and ROBIN SON," New Comic Ballet, by H. 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The celebrated Orchestra, under the direction of its highly efficient chef, Signor Luigi Curti, performs the choicest and latest com positions of all distinguished composers—the solos in which are assigned to the eminent euphonionist, Signor L. Moses; Messrs. W. Graves, L. Silberberg, and other able artistes. Manager, Mr. Thomas Pitts. Professor Halliman, M.C. _ Admission, ls.; Reserved Seats, 2s. R. R. IsteNELL, Proprietor. N.B.—The GRAND EXTRA NIGHT and Last of the Season Will take place on MONDAY, Ist August. MADAME TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION, Baker-street. row added Portrait Models of JOHN JONES, alias JOHN OWEN, and WAL CAR MILLAR, to the CHAMBER OF HORRORS. Admission, ls. ; Chamber of Horrors, 6d. extra. Open from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m. THE MUSICAL ART UNlON.—Under. the sanction and Control of her Majesty's Privy Council. The PRIZES at the approaching Distribution will consist of valuable PIANOFORTES and other Musical Instruments, BOOKS, &c. 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Subscribed Capital £2,500,000, in 60,000 shares of £5O each. Paid-up Capital £l,ooo,ooo—Reserve Fund, £500,000. DIRECTORS. Nathaniel Alexander, Esq. Frederick Harrison, Esq. T. Tyringham Bernard, Esq. Lord Alfred Hervey. Philip Patton Blyth, Esq. William Champion Jones, Esq. John William Burmester, Esq. E. Harbord Lushington, Esq, Thomas Stock Cowie, Esq. James Morley, Esq. I Frederick Francis, Esq. William Nicol, Esq. General Manager. ___.... William mcKewan, Esq. Chief Inspector. W. J. Norfolk, Esq. Inspectors of Branches. 11. J. Lemon, Esq., and C. Sherring, Esq, Chief Accountant. James Gray, Esq. Secretary. F. Clappison, Esq. HEAD OFFICE, 21, LOMBARD STREET, Manager. Whitbread Tomson, Esq. Assistant Manager. William Howard, Esq. At the Half-Yearly General Meeting of the Proprietors, hold on Thursday, the 4th . August, 1870, at the City Terminus Hotel, Canon Street Station, The following Report for the Half-Year ending the 30th June, 1870, was read by the Secretary. Willimii Champion JOnes, Esq., in the Chair. The Directors, in presenting to 'the proprietors the balance sheet of the bank for the half-year ending the 3Cth Tune last, have the satisfaction to report that, after paying interest to the customers and all charges, allowing for Rebate, and making provision for bad and doubtful debts, the net profits amount to £83,285 6s. 11d. This sum added to £8,195 ]7s. sd. brought for ward from the last account, produces a total of £92,181 4s. 4d. They have declared the usual dividend of 6 per cent., with a bonus of 2} per cent. for the half-year, free of income tax (being at the rate of 17 per cent, per annum), which will absorb £85,000, and leave £7,181 4s. 4d. to be carried forward to Profit and Loss New Account. Mr. John William Burmester, after 15 years' service, has re quested, on account of his advanced age, to he relieved from office as one of the trustees of the bank, and Mr. Frederick Harrison, a director, has been elected in his stead. The dividend and bonus (together £1 74871;I share) will be payable at the Head Office or at any of the branches, on and after Monday, the 15th instant. BALANCE SHEET Of the London and County Banking Company 30th June, 1870. Z s d To Capital paid up Reserve Fund.. Amount due by the Bank for Customers' Balances, &c. Liabilities on Acceptances, covered by Securities .. 1,880,716 4 0 15,252,510 8 11 £ a d 1,000,000 0 0 500,000 0 0 13,871,794 4 6 Profit and Loss Balance brought from last Account 8,895 17 5 Gross Profit for the Half- Year, after making provision for 13ad and Doubtful Debts, viz 253,259 18 1 262,155 15 6 ONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COM -1-4 PANY.—Notice is hereby given that a Dividend on the Capital of the Company, at the rate of 6 per cent., for the half year ending 80th June, 1870, with a bonus of 21 per cent., will be Paid to the Proprietors, either at the head office, 21, Lombard Street, or at any of the Company's branch banks, on and after MONDAY, the 15th instant. By order ox the Board. W. M`KEWAN, Secretary. 21, Lombard-street, August sth, 1870. HELP FOR THE SICK AND WOUNDED IN WAR. A public meeting was held at Willis's Rooms by the Society for the Aid of the Sick and Wounded in War. Thy; Duke of Manchester took the chair, the Prince of Wales being unavoidably absent. The Duke said they wished to establish a national committee in connection with the Geneva Society, which had been recognised by most of the Governments of Europe. Col. Lloyd Lindsay read a letter addressed to the Swiss Govern ment by our Foreign-office, stating that the French and North German governments had agreed to accept the addi tional articles to the convention of Geneva. Lord Shaftes bury moved the formation of a national society in conformity with the Geneva regulations; and other resolutions having been moved by Field-Marshal Sir J. Burgoyne and others, and adopted, a committee was appointed to carry out the objects of the meeting. The authorities of Stettin, according to the North German Correspondent, were surprised the other day by the appearance of a strange sort of volunteer, who insisted on being permitted to enter the ranks and fight against the French. This was a young country girl, tall and strong, and furnished with an excellent character from the burgomaster of her village. It was no easy matter to put her off, and when made at length unwillingly to comprehend that her sex debarred her from being a soldier, she went away declaring she would try another regiment, with which she hoped to be more for tunate. METROPOLITAN GOSSIP. THURSDAY. It would be interesting to know what Mr. Lowe thinks of the supplementary estimate which was laid upon the table of the House of Commons on Monday afternoon, amid the stentorian cheers of a densely thronged assembly. The idea of the representatives of the people applauding with might and main this addition to their burdens must have struck him. as rather funny. To him individually this having to increase the estimates for the two services by almost exactly the same amount as that which he struck off at the beginning of the session, must be particularly unpleasant, as it will effectually pre ve'nt him from effecting any more striking tours de force for some time ,to come. Happy must he think himself if this two millions should prove the full amount of the war burden which, thanks to the Continental con spiracy, we have to bear. That is not at all likely to be the case. On the contrary, the country is in such a mood now that it will insist upon having the defences placed upon, if not a war-footing, yet next door to it. By this time Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues have learnt that the nation has fully made up its mind not to suffer any attack upon the neutrality of Belgium, and to be prepared to resist any such attempt by force of arms, Of course there is great rejoicing in the Conservative camp at this sudden change of affairs. The Conservative party have an inborn and invincible repugnance to eco nomy, and it was a real pain and grief to them to see the army and navy estimates cut down as they have been since December 1868. The recalling of discharged soldiers, marines, and dockyardsmen seems in Conservative eyes to justify all that the Opposition has said for the past eighteen months against the " cheeseparing" policy of the Government. The fact that Europe has passed suddenly from a state of seem ingly profound peace, to one of war on a gigantic scale counts for nothing with them. Each re-engaged artizan, each re-enlisted soldier is, according to them, an incontro vertible witness to the folly and the danger of economy. But though this sort of criticism is eminently unfair, there cannot be a doubt, I think, that the Admiralty has carried its reductions too far. The fact that several of our iron dads have been delayed for some days in port after hav ing received urgent orders to weigh anchor immediately, and that this delay has arisen from the deficiency of shell in one case, of bread and water tanks in another, and of victuals in a third ; the fact that one of our great ports is actually without sufficient rope to supply the wants of a single troop-ship, these circumstances shew that efficiency has been sacrificed to economy. They are comparatively small matters it may be said. But nothing is a small matter which keeps our ships in port when they ought to be at sea. Moreover, it would be satisfactory to know that these are the only deficiencies. The statement which has appeared to the effect that Captain Harvey vainly offered his torpedoes to the Admiralty, and that they, and the secret of the invention, have been bought by the Russian Government is a most serious and alarming statement. Unfortunately, it is only too likely to be true. It would be only too much in accordance with the policy which our Government has . always displayed towards inventors, the policy which made Mr. Reed resign his post, the policy, which at the present moment keeps Captain Scott out of his just reward for his gun carriages. Fortunately for the nation, though unfortunately for the last named officer, his invention has been accepted by our Govern ment, and thanks to him we are able to make up in great measure for the deficiency of men in our navy by me chanical means, which enable us to work the largest gun with a minimum crew- He did not take his invention to Russia : England enjoys the benefit of it, and England has hitherto refused to pay him for it. I learn from private sources that Government has for some time past been strengthening our position at Gib raltar. This great fortress is more carefully guarded than ever. It would, of course play an important part in the event of a war between this country and France, lying as it does midway between the French western and southern ports of Cherbourg and Toulon. Sir Wilfrid Lawson seriously damaged a high Parlia mentary reputation by the course which he took on Tuesday night in dividing against the supplementary esti mate. That Mr. Henry Richard, secretary of the Peace Society, should have so voted, will not surprise any one, for he is one of those who think that even the most strictly defensive war is sinful, and he would let the French march from Dover to Holyhead without offering any resistance. That Mr. T. B. Potter, who assumes to be the chief inheritor of the fame and policy of Mr. Cobden, should do so likewise need not excite much asto nishment, though Mr. Cobden would certainly not have added the present alarfn to his ` ` Three Panics." As for Mr. Rylands, he believes that soldiers are the greatest anachronism in the world, always except ing diplomatists, whom (teste Mr. Disraeli), the hon. member for Warrington would, in his "juvenile fervour," abolish. Mr. Charles Reed, the Congregationalist, M.P. for Hackney, Mr. Ilingworth, the Wesleyan M.P. for Knaresborough, and Mr. Anderson, of Glas gow, are men of so little weight that one does not heed how they vote. But that a man of Sir Wilfrid Lawson's calibre and stand should have moved the rejection of the estimate is really a misfortune both for himself and for those social reformers who are so greatly indebted to him. It is worthy of note that the minority of seven did not include a single Quaker, and I have no doubt that even Mr. Bright, were he at his post, would approve the measures now being taken by his colleagues. The time is at hand when all opportunity for blunders of the kind just mentioned will be at an end. By the close of next week the session will in all probability have terminated, a session more than usually remarkable for the measures that have been passed, and the events that have occurred. Two of the best acts which will re ceive the Royal assent are the offspring of the war. The Foreign Enlistment Act, and the Act enabling Ministers to call Parliament together at six days' notice. The latter measure is only too likely to be put in operation during the present recess. We may indeed think ourselves fortunate if Ministers are able to postpone till next February any further appli cation for money. At present it is thought probable that there will be an October session. The House of Commons have during this session lost few men of any note. Mr. Henry Berkeley was the best known of those who have died. Sir John Simeon was noticeable chiefly as the only Roman Catholic mem ber for an English constituency. Mr. Denison, M.P. for Newark is a real loss, for though he was too young to have acquired a Parliamentary reputation, there is no doubt that a man of his heroic character and great abili ties would have made his mark. The only eminent poli tician who has died during the session is Lord Clarendon, and it is not a little remarkable that, just as the death of Lord Palmerston was the signal for the breaking up of the old Whig Liberal party in England, so the death of his colleague, (almost the only representative of that party in the pre sent Cabinet) was the signal for the letting loose of waters for that great flood of war which is now devastating the Continent. It may not be generally known that the war has had the remarkable effect of restoring a dead man to life. It is stated in a contemporary of yours that should we be unfortunately engaged in hostilities the command of the British army will be conferred upon Sir De Lacy Evans. I should have thought that a veteran of 83 was scarcely the most suitable man for so arduous a post, especially if he had happened to be bed-ridden before attaining that age, and to have died since. But then when dead men rise from their graves we know not what they may not be able to do. It seems probable that we shall have some more con tested elections very shortly. Lord Midleton's life is despaired of, and his death would lead to the accession of his son, the member for Mid-Surrey, to the peerage. Mr. William Brodrick, the gentleman in question, is a strong Conservative, and in that respect differs from his brother as much as darkness differs from light. Mr. George Brodrick is one of the young Oxford party who at the general election were, with very few exceptions, beaten by Conservatives. Mr. George Brodrick could hardly have hoped for any other fate, for he went and bearded the Duke of Marlborough in his own borough of Wood stock. Both brothers are able men, and did well at Ile university. The other impending vacancy will occur in the) same county. Mr. Briscoe, who sat in the House of Commons before the Reform Bill of 1832, is moribund. He represents West Surrey. There will then remain only one vacant seat to fill, that for Dublin, where both the Liberal and the Conservative candidates have declared for a national legislature. A serious fact this, shewing how rapidly the current of feeling is setting towards a repeal of the Union. When the Dublin vacancy is filled the number of M.P.s will be 652, six short of the proper number. The deficiency arises through the disfranchisement of Bridgwater, Beverley, Cashel, and Sligo. This is a smaller number even than the House contained during the nine years that elapsed between the disfranchisement of Sudbury and St. Albans, and the allotment of those seats to Birkenhead, South Lancashire, and the West Riding. The present vacant seats will not be allotted until after the census of 1871, in other words I presume, not until the session of 1872. Next to the post of Commander-in-Chief the most arduous is that of newspaper correspondent. The arrests of the various gentlemen who are doing the war for the London papers have agreeably (so far as their readers are concerned) diversified the dull time of waiting before hos tilities commenced. The French authorities appear to have been rigidly impartial in their treatment. The correspondent of the Napoleonist Standard has fared no better than the correspondent of the Bismarckian Times. In fact, the first has fared rather worse, since he has been arrested twice, while Mr. Charles Austin has undergone the pro cess only once. Mr. Blanchard Jerrold is writing in the Daily News letters describing the state of Paris, and there is one of his in to-day's paper. Mr. Woods is gone to the seat of war for the Scotsman, and not as I mentioned last week, by a slip of the pen, for the Times. A new weekly penny paper, called War News, is announced, and will no doubt soon vie with the Police News in the sensationally horrible character of its illus trations. The war is not.one of those ill.winds which blow nobody any good. Not only have the newspaper proprietors and the map-sellers been making a fine thing out of it, but, what is called the " South Kensington clique," has suc ceeded in attaining the object of its ambition, the object for which it has been manoeuvring these many years. On Thursday night, in spite of very strong opposition, Govern ment succeeded in obtaining a vote for building a museum for the natural history collection (now at the British Museum) on the waste piec , e of ground which, ever since the Great Exhibition of 1862 was pulled down, has been a waste howling wilderness. It had been intended to build on the Thames Embankment, but as Parlia ment would not listen to the proposal, this is Mr. Ayrton's alternative, and no doubt the consciousness of the dissatis faction which it would excite gave zest to the pleasure which our amiable .lEdile felt in proposing it. With the end of the session close at hand, and members hurrying off to the Moors, and with other more important matters to engage us just now, it is scarcely likely that any attempt will be made to reverse this vote. The Continental war will sufficiently occupy public attention, and King Cole may build away with a merry old soul. The war is likely to give rise to a good deal of literature of a more permanent kind than the letters of Special Cor respondents. Sir Alexander Malet, whose acquaintance with German politics is very extensive, will shortly have out " A History of the overthrow of the Germanic Con federation by Prussia in 1866." Another work just an nounced is entitled " Military Resources of Prussia and France, and Recent Changes in the Art of War," and consists of articles written by Lieutenant-Colonel Chesney and Mr. Henry Reeve, editor of the Edinburgh Review, in that quarterly. The last named gentleman is the author of the article on Lord Clarendon in the new number of Fraser's Magazine. Messrs. Hachette are publishing a " History of Germany from 1866 to 1870," and " Prussia and Austria since Sadowa," by Emile de Lavaleye, the distinguished Belgian writer. By way of contrast, and the contrast is as great as it can possibly be, Mr. Rose, better known to the world under his noes de plume of Arthur Sketchley, is actually going to publish a weekly paper devoted to the doings of that most detestable of all personages " Mrs. Brown," the very mention of whose name is enough to drive sane men wild. " That way madness lies." It is scarcely possible to conceive of literature descending to a lower depth short of Holywell-street. That there should be a single man, woman, or child who can think of Mrs. Brown without a sensation of loathing is inconceivable. To have this wretched creature appearing every Monday morning is worse than famine, war, and pestilence all at once. By way of relief, let me mention for the benefit of those who can distinguish be tween real wit and utter vulgarity, that Mr. Lewis Carroll, author of that most charming book, " Alice's adventures in Wonderland," has in the press a new work about the same dear little lady, and called "Through the Looking Glass, and what Alice found there." It will have forty-two illustrations, by John Tenniel. Mr. Hubert Jerningham, who seems to be doing a good business in " over-setting " (as the Germans say), is translating Baron Hubner's Memoir of Pope Sixtus the Fifth, who ruled from 1585 to 1590. Mr. Brenchley, F.R.G.S., is publishing notes of the cruise which he made among the South Sea Islands in the Curacoa, under Commodore Sir William Wiseman. A cheap edition of Andrew Marvell's works is promised. The last number of " Edwin Drood" will appear on Sep tember Ist, and will have a portrait of Mr. Dickens from Mr. Mason's photograph. There is a good story going the round of London draw ing rooms just now. A little while ago Sir Edwin Land seer strolling by the house of a nobleman, was attracted by the throng of well dressed persons crowding in. He followed them, and found that he had walked unwittingly into a bazaar that was being held for some charitable object. He was speedily recognised, seized upon by graceful captors, and told that there was no release for him until he had paid his footing, he did so in the shape of a drawing. This sketch of an animal, dashed off in a few minutes, was quickly sold, and added £25 to the receipts of the bazaar. Concerning another member of the Upper Ten the following tale is current. Being ptessed by his creditors, and not having the coin to satisfy them, he did what landowners are accustomed to do under the circumstances—he resorted to his plantations. There was one that took the fancy of a purchaser, and as it contained no timber in the ordi nary sense of the word, but consisted chiefly of box trees, the noble vendor could not imagine what purpose the buyer had in view. That mystery was soon solved. It was intended to use the wood in making croquet mallets. " Happy thought," said the needy nobleman. "I, too, can make croquet mallets." So he erected the necessary machinery, and has realised a very handsome amount. I have not space to say much about the magazines. Politicians should read Professor Seeley's article on the Reform Bill in Macmillan. Theological readers should no less read Dean Stanley's article in the Contemporary Review on the Athanasian Creed. Lovers of art will welcome Art, a new art journal, whereof the two first numbers are now before me. Each number contains six photographic illustrations. But the literary part is stronger than the pictorial, and there are admirable articles by many well-known writers, including Mr. Jeaffreson, Mr. Blanchard Jerrold, Mr. Burton, and Mr. Yapp, of Paris. Mr. Burton, writing about the proposed decoration of St. Paul's, strongly deprecates the erection of painted win dows, as being absolutely fatal to mural decoration. He mentions that Sir Joshua Reynolds proposed to decorate the Cathedral, and that had his offer been accepted, the building would have been ruined, for Sir Joshua knew nothing of mural decoration. The Art Journal for this month has the first of a series of illustrated articles on the Merchants of the Middle Ages, by the Rev. E. L. Cutts. I have been driven nearly wild during the " octave " of St. James's by the " grotto " boys. From July 25th and something more than seven days after London gamins, each carrying an oyster-shell, stops every passer by who is likely to possess coin of higher value than copper, and asks him to " Please remember the grotto." In sheer self-defence I have been compelled to start a grotto on my own account, and whenever I see an urchin approaching me I am out with my shell, and by asking for his contributions I so completely astonish him that, bewildered and dismayed, he forgets to ask for mine. The Goldsmiths' Company have sent a donation of £5O to the " National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church." THE TRIAL OF THE MONARCH AND •THE CAPTAIN. The official reports on the trial of the Monarch- and Captain are published among the Parliamentary papers, and will be read with very great interest. The first document is from Vice-Admiral. Symonds, who personally inspected both vessels at sea. He was not able to witness firing from the • Captain's guns beyond a certain elevation, and he therefore sug gests that firing at the extreme points of training and elevation should take place outside Plymouth Breakwater. In his report on the results of the experi mental trials, he says that he should consider the Captain rather a stiff vessel under sail, a very easy and slow roller, having in this respect a slight advantage over the Monarch, On the other hand, she is not so buoyant, and pitches more. In smooth water she stays well, and wears quicker than the Monarch, her expendi ture of coal being, however, much more extravagant than that of the Mc narch. With respect to her fighting powers she can fight her guns in a double-reefed topsail breeze. With regard to her sailing qualities as a cruiser, she is cer tainly inferior to the Monarch, her screws not revolving until she goes six knots, and she is not able to set her mainsail with her funnel up. As for her general sailing qualities, the Captain is a most buoyant and easy vessel, though inclined to be a little crank. " She can fight her guns in almost any weather, when no broadside ship would dare to open a port." Both ships are capable of fighting their guns in as rough weather as an action would be fought in. They are both unfit to cruise in squadrons under sail alone, and in. respect of firing the forecastles hi both interfere with the best fire right ahead and bow fire. The poop of the. Captain interferes with the fire astern also. Such is the substance of the reports which in their detailed form extend ove a considerable space. Vice- Admiral Robinson, in his criticism on the report, complains that in condemning both ships as sea-going cruisers, Sir Thomas Symonds has not done justice to either, also that the stowage of both is hardly noticed by him. Vice Admiral Robinson is natu rally anxious to set the Monarch's ()nod qualities in the most favourable light, though he praises the great and successful ingenuity ofthe captain's arrangements. The Admiralty minute on the report and the criticism places on record the intention of the Lords of the Admiralty not to arrive at any conclusion on the respective merits of the two turret ships, or on any of the points raised in these papers until they have the results of the complete trials before them, when they will communicate their judgment to Parliament. It may be remarked, however, that - both Vice-Admirals agree in thinking the turret arrangements of the Captain superior to those of the Monarch, and they will be in a great measure adopted in the new Admiralty ships of the kind. £17,014,666 4 5 £ sd £ sci By Cash on hand at Head Office and Branches, and with Bank of England .. .. .. 2,038,557 13 9 Cash placed at Call and at Notice, covered by Securities 1,605,635 7 9 3,644,193 1 6 Investments, viz. : Government and Guaranteed Stocks .. .. 1,378,222 7 6 Other Stocks and Securities 72,661 4 4 1,450,81 383 11 10 Discounted Bills and Advan ces to Customers in Town and Country .. • . • . 9,637.856 11 4 Liabilities of Customers for Drafts accepted by the Bank, as per Contra .. 1,880,716 4 6 11,518,672 15 10 Freehold Premises in Lombard-street and, Nicholas-lane, Freehold and Leasehold Pro perty at the Branches, with Fixtures and Fittings .. • • • • • • Interest paid to Customers Salaries and all other Expenses at Head Office and Branches, including Income Tax on Pro fits and Salaries .. • . 249,322 19 4 43,991 14 6 107,702 1 5 £17,014,666 4 5 Profit and Loss Account, DR. To interest paid to Customers, as above 4 S. (1, 43,991 14 6 107,702 1 5 Expenses .. .. .. ' ditto Rebate on Bills not due, carried to New Account . • Dividend of 6 per cent. for hall-year Bonus of 2i- per cent .. Balance carried forward.. 18,280 16 3 60,000 0 0 26,000 0 0 7,181 4 4 £262,155 15 6 By Balance brought forward from last 8,895 17 5 Account .. • Gross Profit for the half-year, after making provision for bad and doubtful debts.. 253,259 18 1 L 262,155 15 6 We, the undersigned, have examined the aforegoing Balance Sheet, and have found the same to be correct. WM. JARDINE, WILLIAM NORMAN, Auditors. R. H. SWAINE, London and County Bank, 28th July, 1870. The foregoing report having been read by the. Secretary, the following resolutions were proposed and unanimously adopted :- 1. That the Report be received and adopted, and printed for the use of the Shareholders. 2. That the remuneration to the auditors he increased from £lOO per annum to £l5O per annum, to take effect from the Ist of January last. 3. That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Board of Directors for the able manner in which they have conducted the affairs of the Company. (Signed) W. CHAMPION JONES, Chairman. The Champan having quitted the Chair, it was resolved and carried unanimously 4. That the cordial thanks of this meeting be presented to William Champion Jones, Esq., for his able and courteous con duct in the Chair. (Signed) P. P. BLYTH, Deputy-Chairman. Extracted from the minutes. (Signed) F. CLAFP)SON, Secretary AUGUST 5, 1870. PRICE 1 d STAMPED 2d NATIONAL EDUCATION UNION. A meeting of Vice• Presidents and others in connection with the National Education Union was held yesterday at the Westminster Palace Hotel, when the follow ing resolutions were passed :- 1. That this meeting strenuously urges all friends of religious education carefully to note without delay such deficiencies in public school accommodation as may exist in their own neighbourhoods, and at once to set on foot active measures to supply what is needful; and that the Executive Committee be requested to circulate, for suggestion and general guidance, such information as may appear to them desirable. 2. That inasmuch as the principle of the Elementary Education Bill is to place voluntary schools and rate-founded schools upon an equal footing, and to encourage an honourable spirit of emulation between them—it should be our earnest de termination, and that of all who sympathise with us, that in this rivalry, voluntary schools shall not suffer from any apathy or indifference, or any want of generous en couragement and support. 3. That the (projected) Manual on the Elementary Education Act, pointing out the bearing of the various clauses (1) upon existing schools, (2) upon the provision maintenance, and management of new schools, whether (a) voluntary or (b) rate-provided, be published for general circulation, after revision and approval by the Executive Committee. 4. That the principal objects for which the National Education Union was formed having been secured in the bill which has passed both Houses of Par liament, preparations be made by the executive com mittee for bringing the proceedings of the union to a close. The secretary reported that he had received 460 letters all but one expressing sympathy with the objects of the Union.—The chairman (Mr. Cowper Temple) said this was perhaps the most interesting of all the meetings of the Union, because their previous meetings were in a war like capacity, while now they were met to congratulate themselves on the success of their efforts. He might say that the main objects of the Union had been achieved. Mr. Charles Buxton, in moving the first resolution, dwelt on the great aid the Government had been afforded by the Union. It appeared to him that the Government set aside all those party questions that had divided the country as to the manner in which education ought to be carried out. Earl Harrowby seconded the resolution. The resolution was carried unanimously. The second resolution was moved by Captain F. H. Egerton, who observed that no man who entertained a Christian spirit could disagree with it. Sir William Denison seconded it, observing that although he did not wholly approve of the Government bill it was perhaps better the denomina tions should be left to fight their own battles in reference to minor matters, and that the Union should be dissolved. —At the suggestion of the Earl of Harrowby, the words "to encourage an honourable spirit of emulation between" was struck out. Mr. Talbot having spoken to the resolution it was carried unanimously.—Mr. Francis Powell moved the third resolution, observing that although as the Bill now stood they could not but feel some lamenta tion at the sacrifices they had made, he felt that a spirit had been shown, the beneficent effect of which would he felt for many years to come. Colonel Grey, M.P., seconded. Mr. Burleigh proposed the fourth resolution. Mr. Austen seconded. On the motion of Lord Denman, seconded by Mr. Burleigh, a vote of thanks was accorded to the chairman, which terminated the proceedings. ANOTHER PROSECUTION OF DIRECTORS, At the Mansion House yesterday, the Hon. Jas. 'robin, Mr. Andrew Clark, Mr. Josiah Robert Pearse, Mr. Philip Lincoln Carman, Mr. William Frederick Tritton, and Mr. Herbert Lloyd Thomas, directors of the Com mercial Indemnity Corporation of Great Britain (Limited), now in course of liquidation, were smrmoned before the Lord Mayor for issuing a prospectus relating to the company knowing the same to be false in divers material particulars, with intent to defraud. A warrant is out against Mr. John Braith waite, the managing director, for the same offence, but he has it was alleged, absconded. Mr. George Lewis, solicitor, conducted the prosecution ; and the defendants were represented by Mr. Omerad, Mr. F. H. Lewis, Mr. Gould, Mr. Mullens, and Mr. Maynard. In opening the case, Mr. Lewis said he appeared on behalf of a gentleman named Schleman to prosecute the defendants for issuing a false prospectus, keeping a false register, and other acts of a criminal nature, and he thought when his lordship heard the facts he would be of opinion that a fraud had been committed, more gross and.scandalous than any of those disclosed by recent inquiries in the city of London. On the 28th of September, 1868, a company bearing the same name as that of which the defendants were directors, was regis tered, and the Hon. Major Jocelyn, Mr. Taylor, Colonel Paget, and Mr. Hodges, of whom they had heard in connection with the Monarch Insurance Company, were directors of that company, which was wound up by special resolution in December 1869. The second company, of which the defendants were directors, was then registered, and business was corn menced on the Ist January, 1870, but its career was very short, for it was ordered to be wound up in June. Not a single share in the company was subscribed for by , the public, but in order to induce the public to effect insurances a small prospectus was issued, stating that the capital of the company was £250,000, of which £73,790 was subscribed, and £26,290 paid, although they knew perfectly well that such statements were false. Further than this the qualification for a Director was fifty shares, fully paid, but the defendants did not pay anything whatever on the shares standing in their names. An agreement appeared to have been entered into with the first company to pur chase their goodwill for 29,715 shares, some of those marked as fully paid up and others partially so ; and the debts of the first company were also to be paid by the second. These debts amounted to £2,860. By the articles the directors agreed to pay the large sum of £7,500 for promotion money, the promoters being them selves • so that the company started with a debt of 210,000, against which they had no capital. During its continuance the company received £l,OOO in premiums and the insurances amounted to no less than £220,000. Mr. Schleman insured for £3,000, and he had a fire ; but ' when lie made his claim he found the company was being wound up, and, under the circumstances, he thought it right to take the opinion of the Lord Mayor whether such proceedings were to be allowed in the City. Evidence wss then given in support of the case for the prosecutism.. One of the witnesses, Mr. Parry, the liquidator of the company, said that he had not received a penny towards the liquidation. The defendants appeared as the holders of fully paid-up shares, but he could find no trace of any payments by any of them, except Mr. Tritton, who had paid £5O into the bank. 9,715 shares were credited as fully paid, and 20,000 were credited with 2s, 3d. paid, leaving £1 7s. 6d. to be paid, in virtue of an agreement with Mr. Wheeler, the liquidator of the first company for the purchase of (rood will. The inquiry was then adjourned till this day week, and the Lord Mayor intimated that he would accept £l,OOO bail for each of the defendants, and their own re . cognisances in a similar amount. Hugh