The Sun. — London, England, 1861-10-23 00:00:00

Y ("' LONDON and LANCASHIRE FIRE INSURANCE - COMPANY. Incorporated pursuant to the Joint-stork Cornponies Act, 7th and Bth Viet., cap.llo, and to be conducted orl the prin- ciple of Limited Liability. Capital, One Million, with power to increase, In 40,000 E , liares of £25 each, of which it is proposed to call up £200,000. Depos't, Li per Share, and ,E 1 los. on allotment, and a fur ther sum of £2 lOs., of which not less than three months' notice shall be given. DIRECTORS. Francis Braun, E:q, (Me;;;;:BTessig, Braun, and Co.), Liverpool. . . C. P. Colchester, Esq., (Messrs. Colchester and Woolner), London. W. J. R. Cotton, Esq. (Messrs. Culverwell, Brooks, and Co.), London. J. H. R. De Castro, Esq. (Messrs. Carruthers, De Castro, and Co.), Manch F ster and London. Mr. Alderman Dakin ( Messrs. Dakin Brothers). London. D. N. Giannacopulo, Esq. (Messrs. GiannaeoPulo and Cochi lani), Liverpool. Stephen Barker Guion, Esq. (Messrs. Guion and Co.), Liver pool. air. Alderman Hale (Messrs. Warren S. Hale and Sons), London. Charles Joyce, Esq. (Messrs. Charles Joyce and Co.), London. George Kendall, Esq, (Messrs. Kendall Brothers), Liverpool. John Edward Naylor, Esq., merchant, Liverpool. R W. Russell, Esq., M.P., Cannon-street, Chairman of the National Discount Company, London. Lightly Simpson, Esq., Chairman of the East Anglian Rail- Tho ay W Coan, London. mas Ste mp nho y use, Esq., merchant, Liverpool. (With power to add to their number.) STOCKBROKERS. George Burnand, Esq., 69, Lombard-street, London. Messrs. Froom Brothers, Change-alley, London. Messrs. Thomas Tinley and Sons, Liverpool. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Paine and Layton, London. Messrs. Flgeher and Hull, Liverpool. BANKERS. The Bank of London. The Union Bank, Liverpool. TEMPORARY OFFICES. 79, Lombard-street, London. 21, Water-street, Liverpool. PROSPECTUS. The London and Lancashire Insurance Company is estab lished for the purpose of extending to Liverpool, as well as to London and elsewhere, that addition to the facilities for fire in surances which was recently, demanded for the metropolis,and which the extraordinary increase in the commerce of Liver pool constitutes an urgent necessity. In so doing the Direc tors propose to take advantage of the experience of existing institutions, to introduce new principles of practical utility, and, in addition, so to construct the institution as to afford the greatest possible benefits to the shareholders, insurers, and to the public generally, consistent with the well-being of all concerned. The Directors do not profess to transact business at lower rates than those ascertained by experience to be remunerative ; but having thus provided for the security and profitableness of the business transactions of the office, they extend the mutual principle to fire Insurance, and make the holders of fire policies participators in the profits, after appropriating a sufficient sum for a reserve fund. When we consider the certainty and extent of success that has attended every well-managed fire office, it would appear that the pre sent is a period when new institutions, based on the experi ence of time and observation, should be promoted for and Supported by the public generally, for the purpose of pre venting monopoly on the one hand, and for the development and progressh n of principle on the other. in 1841 the total sum in Great Britain insured against fire was seven hundred and thirty-eight millions sterling; in 1851 it had increased to eight hundred and fifty-eight millions eight hundred thousand ; and in 1861 it is estimated to have advanced to twelve hundred millions, or to one-third more than the amount of the National Debt. In the course of 20 years, therefore, the field occupied by Fire Insurance widened at the rate of £23,000,000 per annum. As an illustration of this increase it may be mentioned that, in London alone, the inhabited houses which in 1851 numberen 3e5,933, had in 1861 increased to 362,890, showing an addition in ten years of no less than 56,957 houses, or an average increase of 5,695 houses per annum. But, although the value of property protected is of vast amount, the value remaining unprotected far exceeds it ; and the difference between insured and uninsured is constantly augmenting. The enormous business of Fire Insurance in the United Kingdom is contined to so few as fifty-two offices, of, which two are in Ireland, six in Scotland. twenty-one in English country towns, and twenty-three in London. The relative smallness of this number and the vast amount of insurance committed to each, on the average not less in value than £22,000,000, has led in some cases to excessive or capricious charges, want of confidence, and to a general les sening of the practice of insurance. Considerations of this description, in connection with the promised support of a very large number of the most influen tial merchants in London and Liverpool, have led to the for- Illation of the " London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company." _ FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES AS INVESTMENTS. The following facts may not be uninteresting to those who, being desirous of meeting with good investments, are unac quainted with the true nature and value of shares in fire Offices. The following table exhibits the names of twelve offices, the dates they were founded, original cost, and present value of the shares in each ; a perusal of which will enable the reader to form some estimite of the security attaching to fire insurance as a business. O Name of Office. Original Increased When Cost rresent Value Founded. . Value of Shares. per Cent. £ s. d. £ a. d. Yrs. Alliance .... ..... 1824 11 0 0 15 10 0 40 in 37 Atlas lBOB 510 0 17 5 0 214 „ 53 County lBO6 10 0 0 86 0 0 760 „ 55 Imperial lBO3 50 0 0 165 0 0 630 „ 58 Law Fire 1845 210 0 415 0 90 „ 16 Liverpool & London 1836 210 0 11 10 0 360 „ 25 Phoenix I7E2 100 0 0 180 0 0 80 „ 79 Royal Exchlme 1720 100 0 0 274 0 0 174 „ 141 Royal (1.1verpool) 1845 2 0 0 6 0 0 200 „ 16 London 1720 12 10 0 40 0 0 220„ 141 Sun l7lO 10 0 01 250 0 0,2100 „ 151 Union 1714 , 20 0 0 300 0 011400 „ 147 Application for shares in the form annexed, may be made to A. H. Gunn, Esq., 79, Lombard-street, London, and 21,Water- Street, Liverpool ; to the Secretary ; or to the Brokers, George nurnand, Esq., 69, Lombard-street, Messrs. Froom Brothers, Change -alley, Cornhill, London, and Messrs. Thos. Tinley and Sons, Orange-court, Liverpool ; but no application will be taken into consideration unless a deposit of £1 per share he paid into the Company's bankers, to be allowed in pay ment of the first call, or returned in the event of shares hot being allotted. LONDON AND LANCASHIRE FIRE INSURANCE COMPAN Y.l InCorporated pursuant to Act of Parliament, 7 and Bth Vict., ...„ . - cap. 110. Capital One Dlillion, with Power to Increase. Temporary Offices 1';7: Lombard-street, London. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. N 0...... ... To the Directors of " The London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company. Gentlemen, —Having paid into your bankers the sum of I hereby request that you will allot to me shares of £25 each in the above Company; and in considera tion of such allotment, or any less number you may appro priate to me, I hereby undertake to pay any call thereon, and I further undertake to execute the Deed of Settlement when required. Dated thic....day of 18.. Names in full Residence Profession or trade Place of Business BANKERS' RECEIPT. Received the day of 18.., on account of the Directors of the London and Lancashire Firelnsurance Company, from , the sum of . '''' ''''''''' ''''' being the deposit on shares ul ... ' For the Bank of London. X M z- RS. DOCTOR GOSS attends and corresponds with ladies in all Female Complaints and functional ir regularities, and in pregnancy, midwifery, and the disap- Pointments of marriage. References to ladies of the highest distinction. See Dr. Goss's illustrated Medical Work, " Man and Woman," price 2s. Gd., post free 31 stamps.-55, Great Queen -street, Lincoln's-inn, London. TRULY EFFICACIOUS ANT=Tvi. Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr. Scott, will be found invaluable to all who suffer from bilious and 'iver complaints, indigestion, wind, spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual costiveness, as a fa mily aperient medicine, and as a purifier of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their operation and grateful to the stomach, they create appetite, promote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system. Sold by W. Lambert, 20, Jermyn-street, find by most druggists,"in boxes, is. lid. and three times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr. Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. • The genuine are a square green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the stamp. DR. LA'MERT ON SELF-PRESERVATION. Price ls. ; post-free, 13, or sealed ends, 20 stamps, with En gravinzs and Cases. May be had of Mann and Co., 3?, Cornhill, London, or direct from the Author. SELF - PRESERVATION.—A popular Essay on Nervous and Physical Debility, resulting from injurious habits contracted in youth, or excesses in maturity, which, by prematurely exhausting the functions of Manhood, de stroy the happiness of Married Life or prevent the fulfil ment of engagements which' constitute the most cherished objects of existence. By Dr. LAWERT, 37, Bedford-square, London. Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh ; Member of the Royal College of Surge ons of England, &c. The above work contains most useful and interesting information on the physiological changes which occur in the Reproductive System during the periods of youth, Puberty, and manhood ; and on the due attainment of that degree' of functional vigour upon which the hopes of posterity depend. It also points out how all the attributes of Man /mod can be preserved to an advanced period of life, how they are lost, and how they can be recovered. 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CURTIS' MEDICAL WORK, MANHOOD : A MED (CAL ESSAY ON SPERMATORRIVE A, NERVOUS AND GENERATIVE DEBILITY, &c. Just Published, the 150th thousand, with numerous plates, in a sealed envelope, price Is., Sold by all Booksellers, and sent post paid, by the Author, for 12 stamps , AI ANHOOD: the CAUSE and CURE of - PRE MATURE DECLINE IN MAN, with Plain Directions 'or Perfect Restoration to Health and Vigour. By Dr. J. L. C (MT'S, 15, Albermarle-street, Piccadilly, London. CONTENTS: Structure INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER Functions n li f A th P e T ß E e ß prn o d n unti t v h Physiological ee Organs.rhys CHAPTER IL—Causes of Spermatorrhcca and Impotence; Early Vicious Indulgences; Dangers of Neglect. CHAPTER Review of the various Disqualif i ca tions ` 3l " M arrtaize ; whether resulting from Youthful Abuse, the Follies of Maturity the Effects of Climate, or Infeotion. C HAPTERS IV. , and V. on the modern Treatment of Gonorrhma and Syphilis. The Book concludes with numerous varied and interesting ages, to which is added the Author's recipe of a preventive Lotion. "Curtis on MREVIEWS Ol' THE WORK. anhoodThis is a valuable work, es, d an should twin th e h ands of young and old. truly "—"Sunday Tim 23d March, 1856. "The autho r h as conferred a great boon by publishing this little work, in whi c h i s described the source of those diseases which produce decli ne i n youth or more frequently premature old age."—" Daily Telegraph," M arch 27, 1856. " This work, which for twenty years has stood the test of professional criticism and empirical hostility, treats in a plain an d sympathising manner on the various disqualifications cud impediments arising from nervous excitement and de bilityand to invalids sufferi ng from youthful errors and it will be found valuabl e and useful. " —Rccord. 20, Warwicic Lane, Pater noster-row; Mann, 29, C orn bill . ? o ce n ;e n s : Published by J. Allen, joi,ro Vt cvanttAti9A-10 t 9 3 i4Dci G to 5; anuclays, 19 tigl 2 N°. 21,626 TELEGRAPH TO INDIA COMPANY (Limited). Capital, £lOO,OOO, in 50,000 Shares of £2 each, with power to increase to £250,000. Deposit 105. per Share on application and 10s. on allotment. Registered under the Joint Stock Company's Act. CHAIRMAN—Sir MACDONALD STEPHENSON. DIRECTORS. Philip Patton Blyth, Esq., late of the Mauritius. Sir George Bonham, Bart., K.C.8., late Governor of Hong Kong. The Ilon. James Byng, Chairman of the South Eastern Rail way Company. William Dent, Esq., late of the lion. E. I. Co.'s Civil Service, Bengal. Frederick Gaussen, Esq., 27, Chester-square. Capt. W. H. Hall, R.N., C. 8., Director of the Peninsular and oriental Company. John Farley Leith, Esq., late of Calcutta, Chairman of the Eastern Bengal Railway Company. Alexander Wilson, Esq., V.R.S., late of the Hon. E. I. Co.'s Civil Service, Madras. (With power to add to their number.) OFFICIAL AUDITOR—J. A. Franklyn, Esq. SOLicrmus—Messrs. Freshfields and Newman. BROKURS—Messrs. Knight and Coleman, 1, Royal Exchange- buildings. ENGINEERS—Sir Charles Bright and Latimer Clark, Esq. BANKERS—The London and County Bank. SECRETARY—C. L. Peel, Esq. officts-62, Moorgate-street, E.C. - - A very brief explanation is alone required of the objects of this Company. 1. The Red Sea and India Telegraph Company, upon the guarantee of her Majesty's Government of 44 per cent. per an num for fifty years, have expended £BOO,OOO in laying a cable between Suez and Kurrachee. 2. Every section of this line worked satisfactorily for a period of several months, and the whole line carried through messages between Kurrachee and Suez for several days. Faults subsequently occurred in several of the sections, which have never been repaired. 3. The Government have agreed to transfer the line, sta tions, and property of the Company to a new Company, to be formed for the purpose, on very liberal terms. These are in substance -Ist. That the cables, land-lines, instruments, stations, concessions, &c., belonging to the old company shall be made cr to the new Company, free from charge. 2d. That the new Company shall use their best endea vours to repair the line and to work it when completed, beginning with the line between Aden and Kurrachee ; and are to have possession so soon as two-thirds of the capital is subscribed, and one-third paid up, and asuit- • able vessel despatched with not less than 200 miles of new cable on board 3d. That the new Company shall be entitled to a clear dividend out of the profits to 25 per cent. per annum on the money paid up. And the Government is to have the power to repurchase the line on repaying the capital expended, at the expiration of 30 years. 9th. That any surplus profits shall be applied to reim bui se the Government for the interest they have paid and will have to pay annually upon the original capital expended; after which any further profits whdch may accrue will be applied to the creation of a reserve fund. sth. The accounts of the Company will be audited at the Treasury half-yearly. After the restoration of the line any outlay of capital to be subject to the approval of Government ; and the Government is to have the right (subject to arbitration) of disallowing working expen diture which they may consider excessive. Cth. In the event of the failure of the Company to restore or maintain the line in working order the Government are to have the power of taking' it into their hands again on repaying the capital actually expended by the new Company. Should the Government not exercise this right the Company are to be at liberty to dispose of the property to reimburse their outlay, the balance, after defraying the actual expenditure, to be handed over to the Government. Failure is to be defined to be the non-working of the line from end to end alter reason able allowance of time for restoration. 7th. All differences between the Government and the Company to be decided by arbitration. Sth. This arrangement' presupposes the eoncu trove of the Shareholders of the old Company in the terms pro • posed to them by her Majesty's Government; any Par liamentary powers necessary to give effect to these arrangements are to be obtained by her Majesty's Go vernment. -...-.,—. 4. Of the vast importance, in a national point of view, of telegraphic communication with the British dominions in India, there can be but one opinion ; and now that the com munication is complete from London to Suez. and through out all India by Kurrachee, it is impossible that the matter can be left in its present condition, and the wanting link unsupplied. 5. The grounds which commend the subject as a specula tion are these :—XBOO,OOO has been expended in laying a line which for a time was perfectly successful. This line will be anded over to the Company, free of all charge or liability. No attempt has as yet been made to restore the commu nication between Aden and Kurrachee. On the other hand, the Company's suoerintendent, Mr. Brunton, has expressed a confident opinion that the faults are many of them very trifling, and all capable of repair. This view is confirmed by the opinions of Sir Charles Bright and Mr. Latimer Clark, who have been consulted on the subject. In one of the sections, of nearly 500 miles, there has never been any fault, and those which do exist in the other sections are believed to be in shallow water. An estimate has been made by Messrs. Bright and Clark of the cost of repairing, the line between Aden and Kurrachee, which they consider can be effected for a sum not exceeding £50,000. The venture is small, while the returns will be on the scale of an original expenditure of .CBOO,OOO. 6. It is proposed to limit the first operations to the repair of the line between Aden and Kurrachee. When this is effected the period of a message to all parts of India will be abridged to five days. This will be not only a vast public object, but there is no doubt, from the experience of the line, when partially open, that the number of messages will be very great.... . . . 7: iirhen this Eastern division has been completed there will remain only that between Suez and Aden, which can un doubtedly be made good by restoration of the existing cable, in whole or in part. If it should be decided to make any part of it a land line, it can be done at comparatively small op, t. 8. The intention is, as soon as the capital, or a sufficient amount has been subscribed, to dispatch a steamer with 200 miles of new cable, so as to complete the communication up to Aden early in 1862. Forms of application for shares and information may be obtained at the Offices, or from the Company's Brokers, Messrs. Knight and Coleman, No. 1, Royal Exchange-build ings. TELEGRAPH TO INDIA COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That in order to give time for the receipt of applications for Shares from the Country. the List will remain Open till SATURDAY next, the 26th instant, at Two o'clock ; after which time no appli cation will be received. By order of the Board. C. L. PEEL, secretary. 62, Moorgate-street, Oct. 22, 1861. BANK OF DEPOSIT. (Established A.D. 1844.) 'No. 3, PALL MALL EAST, LONDON. Prospectuses and Forms for Opening Accounts sent free on application. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. By post, Is., THE MEDICAL CONFIDANT on Midwifery, Pregnancy, the Disappointments in Marriage, and other ailments peculiar to Ladies. Female Obstruction Pills, is. a box, post free. Address, Dr. Scott, 17, Adam street, Strand, London (since 1836). Consultations, 10 till 5. 8, GROSVENOR-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE.- ALL CONSULTATIONS FREE. ARTIFICIAL TEETH on a NEW and IM PROVED PRINCIPLE, at TEN SHILLINGS EACH TOOTH (including all charges.) 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Jozeau has succeeded in rendering these valu able therapeutic agents perfectly innocuous by increasing in his Copahine all the curative properties. This preparation has been adopted by the Paris Academy of Medicine, after more than a thousand trials in Paris and the different Lon don hospitals, viz., St. Thomas's, Guy's, and St. Bartholo mew's, under the care of Messrs. Lloyd, Poland, and Legros Clark.—" Lancet," Nov. 6 and Dec. 10, 1857. The Copahine, which is in form of a pretty pink sugar plum, effects a cure in about six days, either in recent or chronic diseases. 100 capsules, 4s. 6d. ; post free, 55. 2d. Post-office order required ; at J. JoznAu's, French Chemist, 42, Haymarket, London ; 22, Rue St. Quentin, Paris ; and all the most important Chemists. THE VIGOUR OF YOUTH RESTORED IN -I- FOUR WEEKS by Dr. RICORD'S ESSENCE OF LIFE. This wonderful agent will restore manhood to the most shattered constitution, whether arising from self-pollution, excesses, nocturnal emissions, the effects of climate, or natu ral causes. The time required to cure the most inveterate case is four weeks ; and, if used according to the printed in structions (which are very simple), failure is impossible. This life-restoring remedy should be taken by all about to marry, as its effects are permanent. It is acknowledged by the medical, press to be the greatest discovery ever made. Success in every case is as certain as that water quenches thirst. Dr. Riwrd's Essence of Life is sold in cases, with full in structions for use, at lis., or four quantities in one for 335., and may be sent to any part of the world, carefully packed, on receipt of remittance stamps. Sole Agents in London—Prout and Co., Patent Medicine Warehouse, 229, Strand (near Temple-bar). 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Most of the members of the two Chambers were in uni- 'orm, as were, of course, all the numerous diplo- matists and a large portion of the spectators ; and the profusion of bright colours, stars and chains and crosses, and gold and silver lace and embroidery formed, as you may suppose, a very brilliant ensem ble. All this, however, was but the setting of the jewel—the frame of the picture. At about half-past 10 music and cheers in the quadrangle announced that the King and Queen were leaving the Royal apartments. A band of picked musicians from various regiments, whieh was stationed in an eleT vated orchestra contrived outside the windows of he Muscovite-hall, played a march which Meyer- beer had composed, by the King's command, expressly for the coronation. v Before this moment, the clergy, who mustered in consider able force, had left the church to receive and wel come their Majesties. The procession entered by a door close to the south-east corner of the building, of more than one-third of which it therefore had to make the circuit before reaching the space reserved for its members. Two magnificent blue heralds, with strange devices . on their embroidered tabards, with a profusion of plumes in their hats, and with gold crowns upon their velvet-covered batons, led the way, and were closely followed by a score of pages, dapper youths, with pert smooth faces, attired in scarlet coats, embroi dered cravats, knee-breeches, and silk stockings. Then came, two and two, a long string of courtiers, chamberlains with key on hip, masters of the ceremonies, and other palace functionaries in gilt garments, whose appearance did the utmost credit to their tailors, but on whom it would be of little interest to dwell in dettil. In a former letter I gave you a general sketch of the order of the procession _ - and as a mere list of names of the persons compos. ing it would be tediou3 to English readers, while a minute account of their costumes is altogether be- yond my competency, I shall confine myself to those members and points of the pageant by which my at tention was chiefly attracted. The Ministers were followed by the bearers of the regalia. The Prus sian Crown is a very handsome one. Its form is simple, and, so far as I could discorn, it does not contain so great a variety of jewels as some that I have seen, but the general effect is very good. From the circlet, or jewelled band that clasps the brow, eight narrower bands curve over the crim son-velvet cap, converging to a central point where there is an ornament of which one of the principal features seemed to me to be a remarkably fine sapphire. The Queen's crown is of a similar model, but of lighter make, and the central jewel at the apex is an emerald of great beauty. The Chief Marshal, with his staff of office, entered the church immediately behind the King's crown, which was carried by Prince Radziwill, and then came William 1., his general's uniform covered with the mantle of the Order of the Black Eagle, his plumed helm in his hand. His Majesty looked well, and he walked with his usual firm military step and air of becoming dignity ; hut to those who are accustomed to see him, his countenance betrayed that he was labouring under strong emotion. Behind him came Count Redern and Baron Schleinitz, and a number of Generals and Aides-de-Camp ; and then the State banner, borne by General Wrangel. The Crown Prince followed, also in the mantle of a Knight of the Black Eagle. His very agreeable countenance, which by this time must be pretty familiar to people in England, wore an expression of gravity, but I did not detect upon it any of the emotion manifest on that of his father. More courtiers and officers trooped by, and there was a break in the procession, which lasted, however, but a very short time, after which a fresh detachment of red jerkined pages appeared, chamberlains, the Queen's mantle, crown, and sceptre borne on cushions, and then the Queen herself, in a white silk dress trimmed with ermine, the Countesses of Branden burg, Schwerin, Brubl, and Kospoth bearing her train, and then other ladies of her household walk ing beside it. Her Majesty, as lately mentioned, is not looking her best just now, and to-day, partly perhaps from agitation, and partly from the cold encountered in crossing the bleak quadrangle, she was extremely pale, and almost haggard. I suppose coronations, like weddings, are festivals on which ladies (and sometimes gentlemen too) are invariably agitated as well as pleased. Princess Victoria, who came after her mother-in-law, was rather pale also, and very serious indeed, although last night, at the ball given by the city of Konigsberg, she looked as cheerful as sunshine, and not at all attristee by the impending horrors of the coronation. The other Princesses of the blood came after her, with their ladies bearing their trains, and this was decidedly the most pleasing part of the procession to look at. I do not mean to say that all the links of the chain of ladies headed by the Queen, and terminating with the train-bearers of the junior Princess, were equally or perfectly beautiful; but I certainly shall not specify those which were not, and I can positively affirm that the effect of the whole group was very charming. As for the dresses and diamonds, would that some more capable chronicler were here to tell of their elegance and lustre ! I can only say that the trains were of the most beautiful colours, the headdresses magnificent ; such artificial flowers ! a deal better than real ones ; the jewels of blinding brillancy. The Princess Royal was in white, the train of a golden colour ; she wore a diadem of brilliants, eight cruciform fleurons springing from the circlet. When all were in their places, the picture presented was certainly well worth a view. The King and Queen stood at the foot of the two pillars in front of their thrones, under the two canopies already described, facing the altar and were naturally by far the most prominent figures in the tableau. The other figures that struck the eye as standing out from the surrounding throng were, on the King's right hand, rather behind him and one step lower, the Crown Prince. Rather more to the front, also on the King's right, but further from him, and standing on the floor of the church, were the High Chamberlain, Count Redern, and the Mi nister of the Royal Household, Baron Schleinitz. On his Majesty's left, also on the floor, was General Wrangel, in charge of the State banner ; and further to the loft, on a line of stools, were placed the cushions of silver and gold cloth on which lay the regalia. Behind these stood the Princes of the blood. On the Queen's right stood the Crown Princess, and on her right the other Princesses. The whole space a d e y e o i futhei in c h f r u o r n c t h , o w f with the t a exception o t N f y o a li te reading d desks stood, and room was left for the necessary robing and ceremonies that were to ensue—was now full, and the effect was far superior to any idea that can be given of it by such inadequate materials as pen and ink. In the centre was the tall, command ing figure of the King, which seemed yet taller and, more stately by reason of the ample mantle that trailed upon the ground behind him. He appeared to stand in a golden circle, represented by the glit tering embroideries and richly-laced coats of the Ministers and others around him. Several Knights of the Black Eagle, grouped not far to his right, formed a patch of the most vivid blood-red, the colour of their cloaks: The Princes, Ambassadors, and others in the Royal gallery were all standing, showing the utmost variety of colour and costume and broad ribands of all the Orders in Europe. The Duke of Saxe-Weimar (younger brother of the Queen of Prussia), Princes of the blood from Aus , tria l Russia, Holland, Bavaria , Belgium, Tortuga', T.R.4LI.AN ATAILS. l ,nroy Er e Garter; ery scam, Legion of .Iy, Baron Sina fr om G reece, and a host o f ot h er Ministers, from great or li tt l e countries, were t h ere mus t er ed. wiTthh.e usual After t s h e e r t e u r o g f y t a h e sermon Church was was p r p e a r c o h c e e e d d b e y d Li General-Superintend ent Dr. Moll chief , clergyman of the Palace church, who insisted rather too much upon the Right Divine for his discourse to be arzree able to all present. The ordinary service at an end, the special one for the coronation commenced. While the " Domino, salvum fac Reg-urn," was singing, the bearers of the crown, sceptre, and globe approached the altar and laid those regalia upon it, on their respective cushions, and then returned to their places. The bearers of the S word of State and of the Great Seal stationed themselves on the left of the altar. The psalm over, the King rose from his throne, an while trumpets and kettledrums were sounding and beating without, he approached the altar, ushered towards it by the High Dlarshal, and. followed by the Crown Prince, by the State banner, and by several officers of the household. The music was hushed, his Majesty knelt on the steps of the altar and offered up a silent prayer. On rising again to his feet the Crown Prince approached him and took off his Black Eagle mantle and collar, and then the officers of the Court placed upon the King's shoulders the coronation mantle, an enormous ex panse of ermine-lined velvet. Handing his military helm to his aide-de-camp the King approached the altar, took up the crown in both hands, and placed it on his head, pressing it down a little, as though 'adjusting and fixing it firmly. He then took up the sceptre and globe, and turning towards the specta tors held the latter out at arm's length and waved it twice or thrice. Laying down the globe, and passing the sceptre from the right hand to the left, he grasped the Sword of State, and stood for a few moments thus armed in front of the altar. While all this pantomime went on the clergy prayed. The King returned the sword to the Ober Burggrave of the kingdom of Prussia, M. von Brunneck, and still holding the sceptre, waited near the altar, the high officers of the Court taking up the train of his mantle. The Queen then arose, descended from her throne, and in her turn knelt down and prayed. Her coronation mantle was put on, and then Count von der Groben pre sented, on a cushion, her crown to the King, who placed it on her Majesty's head. As there was no hold for it there—it being placed, as usual, on the flat part of the head—the ladies of the Queen's suite were at once busy in securing it, which they did very effectually, as it seemed, although the means employed were not visible on the gallery. Their Majesties then knelt together on the altar, and one of the officiating clergymen uttered a bene diction upon them, calling upon all present to join him in saying " Amen," which they accordingly did. The Crown Prince and Princess and the other Princesses in turn approached their Majesties when they went back to their thrones, made their obeisance, and kissed their hands, whereupon the King and Queen embraced and kissed them. There was a considerable attrendissement on the part of some of the members of the family—the King did not conceal his emotion, and the Princess Royal's eyes were very red when she came out of church. The ceremony was now at an end as far as the church went, and those who had witnessed it hur ried out by the side entrances to seek places in the galleries in the court, for which all who had cards of admission to the church were also provided with ickets. In memory of yesterday a new order is founded that of the Crown. The first class of it has been bestowed upon the Minister of War, Von Roon, upon Baron Schleinitz, and_ upon the Chancellor, Dr. Von Zander. A dinner was given yesterday by the King to 800 guests in the great Muscovite Saloon. The King and Queen were loudly cheered. Before the guests left, chamberlains went round and presented every one with a large silver medal commemorative of the coronation. To the guests at the Royal table gold ones had been distributed. A grand concert is to be given to-night in the Muscovite Saloon, at which it is said that 5,000 persons will be present. Last night there was a subscription ball " for the benefit of the German fleet." To-night there is a masked ball. The Konigsbergers are :determined to make the most of the occasion. THE CHINA, CALCUTTA, AND A US- SOUTHAMPTON, OCT. 22. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Indus, Captaiti Woodgates, with the heavy portion of the Calcutta, China and Australian mails arrived this afternoon. She brings 63 passengers, 48 packages specie, value £182,799 ; precious stones, value 3,914 rupees ; and 1,296 packages general cargo. The Indus sailed from Alexandria on the 9th, Malta 12th, and Gibraltar the 17th inst. On the 10th she exchanged signals with the company's steamer Ellora, standing S. and E., also the Valetta, steering the same course ; 13th, passed the com pany's steamer Pera, steering S. and E. ; 18th, exchanged signals with the steamer Chester, and on the 20th with the company's steamer Alhambra, standing S.W. _ _ The French transport steamers El Dorado, Ulloa, and Mayene, a Turkish gun-boat, and the Egyptian fleet were lying in the harbour of Alexandria ; at Malta, her Majesty's ship Hannibal; at Gibraltar her Majesty's ships Orion, Trident, Scourge, and gun-boats Procris, Cockatrice, and Assurance. Tho Madrid papers state that Prince Muley- Abbas and his suite continue to be objects of general attention in Madrid. The members of the diplo matic body and the leading persons had called upon the prince. Up to the 10th the Spanish Govern ment had received no information as to the propo sitions which :!Tuley-Abbas was to submit on the part of the Sultan, and could not tell whether the evacuation of Tetuan would form the subject of the conference between the Prince and Senor Calderon Collantes. The rivers Ana and Galligam had inundated the lower part of the city of Gerona; the water in some places had reached the first story of the houses, and the destruction of property had been immense. It was feared that the inundation had been general throughout the province. General Pardee arrived at Cadiz on the 7th inst. from Madrid, to assume the military command of the city and garrison. General wasßebag t li h a e to to authori ties of l ea ve Cadiz on the 10 t h for the C anary Islands. M ul e t y h - e y A c b i t ha s o f hasvalgeinvea foreins, ooofr. to charitable establish ments. 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NEUROSTHENIC ESSENCE.—This invalu able preparation, after a test of many years in a very extensive private practice, is now for the first time offered to the public, confident that one trial will prove its superiority over an) , other remedy for disease of the nervous system, or relaxation produced by residence in a warm climate ; suitable for either sex. Prepared by Dr. ROBERTS, Doctor in Medi cine, from one of the best British Universities, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Sze., who has devoted his study entirely to the nature and treatment of these affections, and may be consulted, by letter or personally, at 20, Leicester square, London, W.C., from 11 till 2 and 6 till 8, where the Essence may be obtained in bottles, at 6s. 6d. each, or five for 21s. Sent to any part of the world. MR. E. CHADWICK ON THE EDUCATION Q UES2 lON. A meeting of the Metropolitan Church School masters',Association was held yesterday evening,:at the Whittington Club, under the presidency of Mr. R. Chadwick. There was a numerous attendance of the members of the association. Mr. CHRISTIE, of Trinity School, Marylebone, read a paper on the present position of elementary edu cation. He vindicated the teachers against the stric tures of the Royal Commissioners on Education, and severely condemned the provisions of the edu cational code recently promulgated. He denied that the teachers were afraid of having their work tested, maintained that the evidence on which their failure had been assumed had been contradictory, and argued that, if the revised code was put in force the cause of education would greatly suffer. The CHAIRMAN—The improvement of elementary education, which is now under consideration as being in issue, involves the future moral, social, and economical condition of the population—not solely of the general civic population, but the continuance of large bodies of persons as habitual mendicants, paupers, and delinquents. I might cite the evi dence collected by my lamented correspondent, the late Rev. John Clay, the chaplain of the county prison at Preston, to show that the fearful outbursts of passion and brutality, witch even military dis cipline does not repress in the adult stages, of which Preston lately furnished one of those tragic examples daily presentedby the public papers, that these are no longer chargeable to the deficiency of the educational power of the trained school-teacher, but are depen dent on the maintenance and extension of that power by an improved administration of educa tional funds ; and the responsibility for their con tinuance in the rising generation is now, or shortly will be, at the door of the legislator. My own in vestigations showed that formerly, under malad ministration and under ill-conditioned teachers, orphan and destitute children added largely to the population of the prisons, but now that an improved elementary education, under trained teachers, tends most effectually to depopulate those places. Under bad primary teaching the moral failures were as high as 60 per cent. Now under good teachers and improved conditions, I must say of bodily with mental training, the failures I have proved are reduced, and are generally reducible, to within 2 per cent. I have only time to advert to some current fallacies, as they appear to me, which jeopardise this promise of improvement, by tending to lower the position and competency of the school master, and thence the moral influence to be brought to bear upon children. One of the notions propagated is that the tendency of improved pupil teaching:and training is to put the school teacher above his position, and that if the topics of ele mentary instruction be confined to reading, writing, arithmetic, as commonly taught, the teacher's know- ledge and attainments may be restricted to the old primers, and that for mental instruction, which is alone contemplated, a lower degree of skill and a gradation of service will be needed. The expres sion is, " That the managers will have the advan tage of obtaining when it may be wished a teacher of lower qualifications, and therefore it may be pre sumed on more reasonable terms." Those who have studied the subject of elementary education will concur with the evidence, to the effect that in pro portion as we restrict the topics, as I apprehend must be done with lower-class education, to meet the imperative demands for domestic and industrial service, and with other classes to meet the demands for physical training to ward off • - physical injury, as also the requirements of psychology to meet a nd adjust the amount of teaching to the capacity of attention i or the receivin g p ow er at different ages, n proportion as y ou reduce the quantity of element a r y instruction , you must, if you do your duty , carefully improve the quality of every portion of that instruction. If it be narrowed, it must be deepened for permanent and salutary impression. You must evoke the perceptive and the reasoning faculties if you would control brute ignorance and blind passions. Let any one who has the notion that reading may be taught passably well by almost anybody hear reading les sons given by a trained teacher in improved methods, and hear children exercised in parsing, in distin guishing subject and predicate, that is to say in logic, and he will form a better notion of the skill which is r equired to teach reading, and of the new m ental exercise given in teaching, and ho may ap preciate Ole pOitical ?, not extravagant taken by Dr. Simon Laurie, the secretivy of the committee of Church schools in Scotlaw, who declares that " through no one subject cant much mental disci pline—using this expression h a large sense—be conveyed as through reading.' Meaning, of course, by well-trained teachers, "Ve do not hesitate to say that no child can be taugh to read accurately intelligently, and expressively without acquiring in the course of that training an ahount of mental cul tivation which exceeds in imprtance the cultiva tion from all other subjects unted." Let an inquir ing person also see the improved teaching of arith metic, which has been termed, from its mental exercise, the geometry of the loot'. Let him read the instructions to teachers frtmed, after years of trial and study, by the late M. Horace Giant, for teaching the elements of arithbetic to infants, and the conception of the candid iiquirer may be ele vated to this, whether for the most improved teach ing it were not desirable, if )racticable, to have special inspectors and separab masters for each branch as for specialities. The general result of such an examination will be that not low, or lower, but positivelyhigher qualifications aid service are needed for the lowest classes receiving elementary instruc tion, and most of all for those important schools, the Infant schools, for which good teachers are extreme- ly rare. Indeed it is the practice in the best train ing colleges, as I am informed, to direct the labours of the beat popit-teaahers as to the lowest classes in the .school, The current ianuerieceives support from the fact, as it is reported to be, and is likely to be, that the best teaching is not always by the highest certificated masters, of which I myself have seen examples. But this is due, according to my ,nformation, to misplaced payments for results, the highest certificates and emoluments have been given originally (though less so at present and by amended regulations) for learning, for acquirements, instead of on evidence of results achieved by the exercise of a widely different power, 'and :ono which is really more rare and valuable—namely, the power of im- parting knowledge, and that to children. Vastly learned men are often most deficient in this power, which requires a knowledge of the minds of chil dren, and a sympathy with them to lead them will ingly and pleasantly and profitably. I now beg leave to advert to the presumed state of official in formation on which the minutes bearing upon the elementary education has been framed.lna paper which I could only submit as a letter to Mr. Senior, one of the commissioners, towards the close of the labours of the education commission, 1 felt it a duty to represent and offer proof that the office of the Committee of Privy Council on Education, from being conducted on an erroneous administrative principle, was itself, and must be, dangerously ill informed as to its own subject-matter of duty. I know what it is to be in a central position, where you are subject to snowstorms of papers of a sort which do not enlighten, but which if you do not take great care blind you. From my own expe rience I know that this must be the position of an office having a direct correspondence from at least 7,000 such places, and such persons unskilled in official business as the common school managers. I appeal to the professional knowledge of the meeting, whether the revised code for the regulation of na- tional elementary education will not have afforded a complete subsequent verification of my position as to the want of proper knowledge for framing it, to every school teacher throughout the country. To take one example, that of the provision for the classification of children according to ages. If the codifier had ever been into national schools he would often have seen large, lumping lads towering amidst classes of little boys, lads of twelve with little fellows of seven. If he were asked why this was he might be told that this was to the schoolmaster a disagreeable necessity ; that the little ones were drafts from the infant school, that the large one had never been in a school before, and that to place him withboys of his own age, though in some respects convenient, would be a waste of time, and confusion to him and annoyance to the class. Take another example—the measure of payments for re sults. lam myself a promoter of the principle of payment for results, and being so I am annoyed at the damage it will probably receive from its misap plication by the code. I proposed it as a payment, not in substitution, still less in reduction, but in aug mentation of existing low salaries, to be applied under conditions of equality, and freed from all shackles of conaition and restraint, such shackles as the revised code imposes as to times and ages. In illustration of the violent inequality of conditions which the code imposes I may mention that I have shown that a trained teacher on a larger scale in a populous town school, with a subdivision of educa tional labour, will get boys through the three R's, as they are called, and obtain results well in three years from the time of leaving an infant school, or by the tenth year. Whilst the same teacher placed in a small country school, though with a pupil teacher, and the same proportion of teaching power, will not, as shown by the evidence of Mr. Allen, the teacher of the school under Earl Russell's auspices at Petersham, and by Mr. T. Crampton, at Brent ford, be able to get children, even imperfectly, in less than six years, or by the 13th year of age. But large proportions of parents will have children out of school, or in some sort of productive service, be tween their 10th and 11th year, that is to say, by the time they are half taught those primary ele ments which the teacher is only to be paid for teach ing completely. Further, the teacher in the small school will often have more labour in teaching a class of 10 than a teacher in a large town school, with large and good classes, will have in teach ing a class of 50 ; yet, according to the mode of paying fox results by the Privy Council, the man who has really had the harder sacrifice will r#ceive only one-fifth the rate of remuneration given to the other teacher for serious work. A fair equality of conditions requisite for the efficient ap plication of the principle is only to be obtained by administrative combinations of which the framers of the code cannot have any conception. Allow me to present another example of the state of the officicial information which directs the application of the funds for the promotion of national educa tion. About the time when, with Lord Elcho, we directed public attention to the expediency of the introduction of military drill into schools, Mr. Wil liam Ewart took upon himself to ask, in Parlia ment, the Secretary of the Education Committee of Privy Council whether it could not take some steps for the introduction of the drill into the national schools; whereupon Mr. Lowe, as reported in the Times, answered curtly, that the business of the department was to. educate. How smart ! yet in the opinion, I may now say, of the medical profes sion, who are aware of the extensive disease to be eradicated by physical training, how deplorably superficial the answer ! As if teaching, not by word alone, but by outward and visible acts and deeds— - so teaching all that is termed discipline—promp t obedience to command, patience, self-reutrai nt, order—could, according to the conception of the changing political party chief, form no part of the elementary system of national education. As if giving by physical training aptitudes to physical labour had no moral effects. As if conditions of physical inaptitude to labour were not with some classes equivalent to trained aptitudes to idleness and vice. As if tb.e drill were net a potent means to book instruction in large schools, by giving order and promptitude to class move ments, and saving time and freshening uy the scholars. The like answer was given nt the office fory F t o a ratrnhaen servicetab application e. oAft at foraha that drill-sergeantv ervery t sanction ir t e a,tl to o :asl a'theri gn p es ) tviprecede n te y d ec m , t u i eschool, nb n n gy t - as if it were a thing unknown g e e r a c n e t :who d w ere inspected the vvh o servicesw were r o v of ai a drill from s they h r appointed under the autholity a o la f a Privy Council inspector ; and I ni w a a t s es the Privy Council, taking who w the evidence of certificated, teachers, and others, on the I experiem for yeaN of the admirable working of the system, of which the changing party chief and the heads of that same office evidently knew abso lutely nothing themselves, and could not have con sulted those who are in such an office, if well con ducted, its responsible eyes and ears—namely, the inspectors. To give another instance. You may see that Mr. Lingen, in his evidence to the commis sioners, conveys the impression that the experience of the department was unfavourable to the forma tion of district school unions or the combination of local educational means ; that there was no instance of anything being done that favoured the view of the practicability of such combinations. Now I would direct your attention to the evidence I col lected, for example, of the Faversham School Union, which is under the Privy Council inspection, and with others to which my attention was directed by -Privy Council inspectors. The information I col lected upon that topic—and I might have collected much more of the like character—displayed the action of new elementary principles, which ought to be known within the office as being under its supervision, and which such judges in educational matters as my Lord Brougham and Mr. Sohn Stuart Mill have de clared to be complete and sufficient in itself, and such as should be made generally known for the guidance of legislation. I have no doubt that the gen tlemen to whom I advert have acted on their sincere conviction, according to the limits of their informa tion ; but I repeat here what I have felt it a duty to represent elsewhere, that entirely new adminis trative arrangements must be made to ensure better information, and responsible consultation of it, be fore the elementary education of the country can make the extension and advance which is required to be made for the welfare of the population. I believe it will be found on inquiry that the order was issued without any consultation whatever with the inspectors as a body. I think it deeply to be regretted that powers which it was so important to have augmented and strengthened for the public service in the promotion of education should have been discredited, as they undoubtedly have been, and good principles damaged, by the mode in which the new code has been framed and issued. Mr. Easton, Mr. Langton, and others afterwards addressed the meeting, and condemned the revised code. Mr. PHILLIPS, in moving a vote of thanks to Mr. Christie, said the system of classifying the pupils according to age was ridiculous. As well might it be concluded that every man who was 75 years of age was a Lord. Palmerston. (Laughter.) The motion was carried, and after a similar tri bute had been paid to the chairman, the meeting broke up. ME CORONATION AT KONIGSBERG, (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) KONIGSBERG, OCT. 18-19. The spacious quadrangle formed by the four sides of the Royal Palace at Konigsberg presented a striking spectacle when seen this morning, for the first time, completely prepared for the ceremony of the coronation. It was not ready until the last moment. I visited it yesterday afternoon, and workmen were engaged in its decoration, and pro bably they continued so until 'far on in the night. The result of their labours was highly satisfactory. The quadrangle is somewhat more than 300 feet long by about half that breadth. The surrounding buildings are irregular, but far from unpicturesque. One side and a round corner tower date, as I pro bably mentioned in a former letter, from the Teu tonic Knights ; at another corner is a church tower of more recent date ; no two of the four sides are alike, and two of them, taken as detached buildings, would probably be considered decidedly ugly and ungraceful. But, like those faces one often sees which please as a whole, but will not bear analysis, the palace, taken altogether, is interesting and attractive to look upon. It has, so to say, a sugges tive physiognomy and a savour of feudal times. It is long since it saw itself so gorgeously arrayed and tricked out as upon this eventful 18th of October. At what may be termed the upper end of the build ing, since it is there the Royal family dwell, a lofty platform had been erected, carpeted and draped, extending right and left from a large portal high up in the centre of the palace. The portal itself had rich crimson velvet curtains, with crowns and eagles embroidered upon them ; in front of it the roof of the platform rose into a lofty arch, flanked by the Prussian and Hohenzollern banners, and sur mounted in the centre by a golden eagle, crowned, standing on a globe, which, as well as a laurel wreath that hung around it, was also of gold. From the platform descended the broad flight of steps before mentioned, the frear eppe , or open-air staircase, as it here is called, which extended some 40 feet forward into the courtyard. At its foot began the covered way. This was 250 feet long in a straight line ; then it made an abrupt elbow to the left, and another short one to the right, lead ing directly to the door by which the King was to enter the church. The covered way was 12 feet broad ; its roof, of crimson velvet, with gold-embroidered festoons hanging down about a foot on either side, was supported by a gilt balustrade, the pillars of which rose in lance points above, and was lined with white muslin, quilted into divisions lengthwise by red silken cords, between which the muslin puffed out. Over the front of the balconies, and of the galleries for spectators temporarily erected, were extended white draperies with black stripes along their lower edge (the Prussian colours), and similar draperies ran along the wall below the windows on the second floor. Crimson velvet hangings, gold-bound, were laid at intervals over the draperies of the balconies. Commencing from either side of the richly deco rated platform and portico, which was one mass of velvet with gold adornments, and which may with pr opriety be called, for the convenience of a name, the coronation platform, tall flag-poles, 40 in num ber, were planted around the court. There were three on each side of the platform, 14 along each side of the quadrangle, and six at the lower end, which includes the church and Muscovite Saloon. There were the banners of the different provinces and districts of Prussia. These were of various colours and of much variety of device. There were the usual eccentric heraldic animals, unparalleled i a menageries and peculiar in attitude—red lions with brazen paws standing upon their hind legs, and pink ones with blue crowns, and the like grotesque looking monsters. One flag was a three of hearts, and another was a chess-board ; on a third a beau tiful scarlet bull squinted horribly, evidently from intense terror at something which met his view on Ithe other side of the quadrangle ; on a fourth a golden stag stood stately at bay on the summit of the green hills of Sigmaringen. In the centre of the lower side of the palace, against the wall of the church, two statues had been placed on pedestals at a considerable elevation from the ground ; they were those of Frederick I. of Prussia and of that famous Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights, Albert by name, the founder of the Konigsberg university, who, having espoused the doctrines of Luther, cast from him the vows of his order, and raised Prussia, of which he was margrave, into a temporal duchy. This, I think completes the enumeration of the adornments of the palace court, the main area of which, on either side of the covered way, was di vided by barriers into five distinct portions. As may be supposed, Konigsberg was up early this morning, and its first look was at the sky. Heavy, lowering clouds, seemingly full of water, were visible as soon as day broke; before 8 o'clock drops of rain fell, things looked very unsatis factory, and sightseers began to despond. 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