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Concert at 7. Fireworks quarter before 10.—Madam two nights, To-morrow, Sept. 2, and Thursday, Sept. 4. Night every Friday. Military Fete in a few days. ROYAL GARDENS, CREMORNE.-j• ls. Children half price —Engagement and first 4 of the Southern Troupe of SaNe Harmonist , , including tit Sam Slick—Last few weeks of the Royal Cirque Oriental lented company of equestrians ; 31'Cullum, the Words —Each afternoon selec ions by the Cremona Military Fresco amusements—Vocal and Instrumental Concert— Ballet—The Dancing will commence each evening at it and continue, with only a slight intermission (for the ptu Pyrotechnic display), until the close of the gardens—At h Scene) in the Circle—At half-past 10 Brilliant Firework thityof entertainments throughout the day and evening,' Americ,n Bowls. Chinese Games, Rifle Gallery, Ccsmora* Lipsey Grotto, Hermit's Cave. &e., 't Sunday. spen nade. Table d'Hote at 6, !s. Bd. each; haunch of venison. J. L. O'BEIRNE, Secretary. To THE FAVOITRITA LANCASHIRE WATERING PLACES, LYTHAM, BLACKPOOL, FLEETWOOD, OE SOUTFIPORT THE ENGLISH LAKES.,-,T4e . HOLLINS . and LOWTLIErt GRASMERE.--This beautiful and favourite resort of Tourists and Visitors to tha Laitc,District Is now Open for the accommodation of the public. The above house and Establishment.. will be found worthy of rotice, being conducted on economical principles, and in the centre Cl the Lake District ; the views from which cannot be equalled. The Mountains behind the house may be ascended through the Plantations belonging to the Proprietor, in about twenty minutes front whence may also be sear Nine different Lakes and tarns, as also most of the notable Mounta us in tilt locality, with Morecombe Day in the distance, which most of the guide books have emitted to Mention. WIDOW LADY, possessing a thorough knowledge of Domestic Management, is most desirous of an engagement as Companion to a Lady, or to superintend the Family of a Widower or Elderly Gentleman.—Address C. G., 4, Trinity street, Blackheath-hill, Blackheath, Kent. MONT BLANC HAS CLOSED. ARGYLL ROOMS.-LAVRENTS CASIN( Great Windmill-street, Hal market.—The above clegan Rooms are now open every evening for the winter selsor. The Proprietor begs to ififcrm the public V at th s f el len.l e pacer f resort ha been redecorated under the sole directions of Vr. Pull; of Great Queen-street, T, ncoln's•inn-tle'ds. The doors open at half past eight, commence at nine. Admission one TAR. KAHN'S ANATOMICAL MUSEUM, u 4, Coventry-street, Leicester•Anare.—Open (for Gentlemen only) from 10 till 10, containing upw wils of one thous Mid models and preparations, illusf - zating every part of • the human frame in health and disease, the race or men, &e. Lectures delivered at 12, 2, and half-past 7; by Dr. G. SEzro‘r, F.R.G.S. ; and a new and highly-interesting series' of Lectures Is 'now in course of delivery by Dr. K aim, at 4 p.m. precisely. Admission, One LIEN'S 0.1 Concert r. Palmer) rm, n Pro by Atmllea, fa.gnificent Southby's &Anion, t Alboni for Madrigal Daily, Ippearance le original and its tit er, nightly Band—Al New Fairy ialf-past rpose of a ialf-past 9 r a- Including ilc Views, )r -proem- CANTERBURY HALL, Westminster-ioad. —OPEN' EVERY EVENING.—The celebrated HUNGA 'HAY BAND, under the direction of Herr KALOZDY, will perform every E vening at 9 and II o'clock, in addition to the usual Vocal Entertainment The folowing company of talented Vocalists are Permanently engaged for the performance of Selections from all the Popular Operas, Ma Irdrals, Choruses, Duets, &c., viz. :—Mrs. Caulfield, Miss Brunel, Miss Sommers, and 4 iss Pearse ; Sam Cowell, Mr. J. Caulfield, Herr F. Jonghmans S. Jones, T. Farrant, W. Melling, Barker, Russell Grover. and P. Corrie ; Masters E. Con nell, Austin, and Bennett , and Mr. T. Mackney. Pianoforte, Mr. J. llarroway, R.A. harmonium, J. Caulfield, jun. ; director, Mr. J. Caulfield. Commence at seven o'clock precisely. Suppers, Ste., until twelve o'clock. G ENTRAL SCREW STEAM-SHIPPING COMPANY. The shareholders are hereby informed that the relict upon the resolution, " That this Company be dissolved," will be open DAILY until further notice, from 12 to 4 o'clock, at the Offices of the Corn- May, 27, Cannon-street. By order. 28th August, 1856 LONDON and NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. TOURISTS' TICKETS, ISSUED UNTIE THE 15TH OCTODEA. NORTH WALES. Tickets, available for THREE WEE [CS, enabling, the holder to Stop at Rhyl, Conway, Bangor, Caerna:von, and Holyhead, either going or returning, are issued at the following fares by the through trains. The First-class Tickets are avalable by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-class carriages attached. Ist Class. 2d Class. London to Holyhead and back £3 10 0 .... £2 10 0 Oxford Ito ditto and back.. 210 0 .... 115 0 Peterborough Birmingham to ditto and back 2 0 0 .... 110 0 Wolverhampton to ditto and back.. • • 115 0.. •• 1 7 0 To Tim L titES OF WE ;T VORKL tNI3 .&ND CEMBERL &KO Tickets, available for THREE WEEKS, to the above Lakes, are issued at the following Fires by the through Trains. The First- Wass Tickets are available by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-class carriages attached let Class. 22 Class. London to Windermere and back.... £3 10 0 .... £2 10 0 POxford eterboroighl to ditto and back.... 215 0 .... 2 0 0 Birmingham to ditto and back ...... 2 5 0 .... 115 0 Wolverhampton ....... ........... 2 0 0 .... 112 0 Tickets, available for THREE: WEEK 3, are issued by the ordinary trains of the Company. The First-Class are available by any train, and the Second by such as have second-class carriages attached. Ist Class. 2d Class. From London ..•• •• £3 0 0 .. • • £2 5 0 ~ Oxford 2 5 0 .... 115 0 Peterborough I Birmingham 1 8 0 Wolverhampton j .. •• • • ..• 1 15 0 .... From Fleetwood Royal Mail Steamer sails every evening (Snndav excepted) for Belfae, and Weekly Excursion Tickets are issued at the Steam Paeket Office for Belfast, Armagh, the Giant's Causeway, and back. EXCURSIONS TO THE SEA SIDE. Tickets, available tor •I‘WENTY-EIMIT DAY', are issued by the ordinary trains of the Company. The First-Class arc available by any train, and the Second by such trains as have second-class car riages attached, to Ilarrowgate, Scarborough, Whitby, Flley, or Bridlington. HARR° WGATE and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 435. ; Second Class, 325. 6(1. SC A.RIIOIIOUGff and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Second Class, 355. wtIITBY and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Se cond Class, 355. FILEY and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 51s. ; Second Class, 355. BRIDLINGTON and Back, for each Passenger—First Class, 515.; Second Class, Ms. These Tickets are not transferable, nor will they be available for the Return Journey unless they have been endorsed at the Booking office of the Station on the day of returning. Passengers to all the above places, except Harrovagate, are at liberty to break the journey by remaining one night at York, either going or returning. IRISH TOURIST TICKETS, • Available for ONE MONTH, will be issued at the following prices :- Ist Class. 2d Class. From London .... ••••.... • • • • • • . . I'6 10 0 .... £5 6 0 ,• Oxford .. . . • ... •• . . ~ Birmingham, Leamington, and Coventry.. ...... . . And from the other principal stations at proportionate fares. These tickets (which in no case are transferable) will be available for One Month from the date of issue. They will enable the Holders to proceed to Chester, thence to Bangor, ilolyhead, and Dublin, from Dublin to Cork, situate on the picturesque River Lee, and Within ten miles of the celebrated Harbour, Dockyard, and Naval Station of Queenstown (Cove) ; from Cork back to Mallow, and thence by the Killarney Junction Railway to the far-famed LAKES OF KILLARNEY. The Tourist can remain as long as convenient to himself at Chester, nangor (for the inspection of the Britannia Tubular Bridge), Holy head, Dublin, Cork, and Killarney ; the only condition being, that his return to the Station at which he took his ticket must be not later than One Month from the date of his departure therefrom. 15upplemental Tickets for CONNEMARA, GLENGARIFFE, the GIANT'S CAUSEWAY, and other places of interest, are issued at Reduced Fares to Visitors holding " Irish Tourist Tickets." General Manager's Office, Euston Station, June, 1856. Air R. HOWARD, Surgeon-Dentist, 52, Fleet -Lv a street, has introduced an entirely new description of ARTI FICIAL TEETH ,flxed without springs, wires, or ligatures. They so Perfectly resemble the natural teeth as not to be distinguished from the original by the closest observer; they will never change colour or decay, and will be found very superior to any teeth ever before used. This method does not require the extraction of roots, or any painful operation, and will support and preserve teeth that arc loose, and is guaranteed to restore articulation and mastication. Decayed teeth rendered sound and useful in mastication.-52, Fleet-street. At Lome from ten till Aye. ESTABLISHED 1837. B RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM PANY. Empowered bySpecial Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap. 9. BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION, Empowered by fler Majesty's Royal Letters Patent. MAJOR-GENERAL ALEXANDER, Blackheath-park, Chairman. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted, with or without Participation in Profits. E. It. FOSTER, Resident Director. ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. 1, Princes-street, Bank. London.. APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops, mid all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game. Soup, Curries, and Salad, and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables the stomach to perfectly digest the food. The daily useof this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe guard to health. Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 19, Fenchurch-street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs. Barclay and Sons, Messrs_ Crosse and Blackwell, and other oilmen and mer chants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in sauce. N.8.--To guard against imitations, see that the names of "LEA Isnd PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle rrOURISTS and TRAVELLERS exposed to L the scorching rays of the sun, and heated particles of dust hill find ROWLANDS' KALYDOR a most refreshing preparation for the Complexion, dispelling the cloud of languor and relaxation, allaying all heat and irritability, and immediately affording the pleasing sensation attending restored ehtsiteity and healthful state of the skin. Freckles, Tan, Spots, Pimples, Flushes, and Discoloration fly efore Its application, and give place to delicate clearness with the glow of beauty an I of bloom. In cases of sunburn or stings of insects its virtues have long been acknowledged. Price 4s. Gd. and tts. Gd. per bottle. ROWLANDS' MACASAAR OIL. A delightfully fragrant and transparent preparation, and, as an invigorator and wider, beyond all precedent. The Prices are 3s. 6,1., is., family bottles (equal to four small), 10s. 6d., and double that size, 21s. • ROWLANDS' ODONTO, or Pearl Dentifrice, compounded of the rarest and most fragrant exotics. It bestows on the Teeth a pearl-like whiteness, frees them from tartar, and imparts to the gums a healthy firmness, and to the breath a grateful sweetness and• purity. Price 2s. 9d. per box. Sold by A. Rowland and Sons, 20, Hatton -garden, London, and by Chemists and Perfumers. A NEW AND IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE. Patent Office •:eal of flreall3;it;inTDiplome d'Ecole de Pharmacia Pharmacien de l'aris. Imp,rial College of Medicine, Vienna. TRIE•IE MAR No. 1,2, and 3, prepared in the form of a lozenge devoid of taste or smell, and can be carried in the waistcoat pocket sold in tin caves, divided into separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lal!emend, Roux, Ricord, &c., &c. TRIESEMAR No. 1 is a Remedy for RE LAXATION, SPERMATORRIICEA, and all tke distressing consequences arising from early abuse, Indiscriminate excesses, or too long residence in hot climates. It has restored bodily and sexual strength and vigour to thousands of debilitated Individuals who arc now In the enjoyment of health and the Functions of Manhood ; and whatever may be the cause for DISQUALIFICATIONS for MAR MAGE, they are effectually subdued by this Wonderful Discovery. T RIESE MAR No. 11., . . . effectually, in the short space of three days, completely and entirely eradicates all traces of Conorrlicea, both in its mild and aggravated forms (fleets, Strictures, Irritation of the Bladder, Non-retention of trine, Pains of the Loins and Kidneys, and those disorders which Copaivi and Cubebs have £0 long been thought an antidote for, to the tutu of the health of a vast portion of the population. TRIESEMAR No. 111., is the great Continental Remedy for Syphilis and Secondary Symp nms. It also constitutes a certain cure for Scurvy, Scrofula, and all Cutaneous Eruptions, removing and expelling in its course all corrup tions and impurities from the vital stream, as altogether to eradicate the virus of disease, and expel' it with the insensible Perspiration through the medium of the peres of the skin and urine, and is a never-failing remedy for that class of disorders which unfortunately the English Physician treats with Mercury, tothe inevitable dcstruc lion of the patient's constitution, and which all the sarsaparilla in the world cannot restore. Prico 1 I s., or four cases in one for 335„ which saves 11s., and in 51. cases, whereby there is a saving of IL 12s. To be had wh , lesale and retail in London, of Johnson, 68, Cornhill ; Hannay and Co., 63, Ox ford-street ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-atreet ; It. H. Ingham, druggist, 4G, Market-street, Manchester ; H. Bradbury, bookseller, Deansgate, Bolton ; J. Priestly, chemist, 51, Lord-street, Liverpool ; Powell, bookseller, 15, Westmoreland-street, Dublin; Winnall, bookseller, i Birralvgbam. Equivalent reductions have keen made in the Premiums payable by those persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The future division of Profit will take place every Five years. Any arm not exceeding 15,000/. may be insured cn one life. This Corporation affords to the Assured Liberal Participation in Praits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Sock ties—with tie guarantee of a large inv sted Capital Stock. The advam ages of modern practice —ss ith the security of ar Office whose reso trees have been teeted by the experience of nearly a Cents ry And a-ha'f. ROYAL EXcELAME, LONDON. QaN A. lIIGHAM Actuary and Botany: ;1 ; (No. 20,031.) PUBLICATIONS. To be had or all booli sellers, CHEAP EDITION of MISS STRICKLAND'S LIVES of the QUEENS of ENGLA N 11, With all the late Improvetnents, and Portraits of every Queen, complete in 8 vols., price 7s. Gd. each, bound, any of which may to had separately. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. Just published, pr'ee Nine 5h11'1,44 I'art V., OLD TESTAMENT SERIES of SCRIPTURE PRINTS, from the Frescoes of Ranhael in the Vatican. Edited by JAMES R. HOPE SCOTT, D.C.L. Containing Fall of Jericho Samuel Anointing David Joshua Commanding the Sun and Mooa to Stand still Day d Slaying Goliath Division of the Laud by Lot Judonent of Solomon. • Parts I. to IV., at the same price, may be had, each containing Six Royal Plates. London: liilonlstnn and Ston - •man, Paternost2r-row ; N. Gregg, 183, Recent-street ; and J. W. Parker, Oxford. The Third Edition. Just Published, price 55., by post, free, ss. 6d. ON TRUE it FA LSE SPERMATORRIMEA with the View of distinguishing the Imaginary from the Real SUfferers under this disease, and Correcting of wide-spread Errors in relation to their Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. "Dr. Pickford is known to English readers oy his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first Urns, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-modi sal reader. We trust this may not be the last, If he shall detect an „Aber equally flagrant evil which it may be in his p weir to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers,' and 'Medical Yrimids,' are tricreilessly exposed; and if this book :guild find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of whith it treats, we aro satisfied that many hundreds would .a saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of :ass Importance, though it is Mat which the quacks most prize— much m0ney...... This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system•of treating Spermatorrhaaa, and to place the treat. ment upon a more rationalandphy-lologieal basis. It is, therefore, ikelyAo'do mach London ,y. Regent4treet. - GREAT WESTERN RAILW AY.- NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that on MONDAY, the Ist of September, the WILTS and SOMER-4:T BR ANCH of the Great Western Railway will be opened to Yeovil for the conveyance of Pas sengers, Parcels, Carriages, and Horses. For particulars of trains see the Company's Time 11111, to be ob tained at the Paddington station and at the booking offices. Paddington, Aug. 28, 1 856. • SCHVVEPP'S MALVERN SELTZER WATER.—Having leased the Holy Well Spring at Malvern, renowned for its purity, J. S. and Co. can now produce a SELTZER WATER with all the Chemical and Medicinal Properties which have rendered the Nassau Spring so celebrated. They continue manufac turing SODA, MAGNESIA, an•l POTASA WATERS and LEMON ADE, at London, Liverpool, Bristol, and Derby. Every Bottle is protected by a Red Label bearing their signatures. 21 2° MILNERS' HOLDFAST and FIRE RESISTING S IFES (non-conducting and vapour:sing) with all the improvements, under their Quadruple Patents of 1840-51-54 and 1855, including their Gunpowder Proof Solid Lock and Door (without which no Safe is secure). THE STRONGEST, BEST, AND CHEAPEST SAFEGUARD EXTANT. MILNERS' PH ENIX (212 a) SAFE WORKS, LIVERPOOL, the most complete and extensive in the world. Show-rooms, 6 and 8, Lord-street, Liverpool. LONDON DEPOT, 47A, 1110ORGATE STREET, City. Circulars tree by post. IF you are Bald, or your Hair is Thin, pray use ALEX. ROSS'S C ANTII ARIDES OIL, which causes the Hair to grow on bald places, produces luxuriant Whiskers and Mous tachios; it has been approved of by tie highest authority, and is most beneficial in all cases of thin hair. Sold from 3s. Gd. ; forwarded for stamps, sent free, twelve extra. ALEX. ROSS'S CHARGES for Dyeing the Hair permanently a light brown, dark brown, or black— whiskers from Is., ,gentlemen's hair tram 55., ladies' from 74.6,1. The dye being a clear liquid it is simply necessary to damp the hair with a comb or brush, when a perfect colour is produced without injury to the skin. Sold from 3s. Gd. ; sent free for 51 stamps. HAIR DESTI , OYER, a depilatory for removng effectually Superfluous Hair from the Face, Neck, Arms, and Hands, without injuring the skin. A. R. will warrant t not to injure the skin in the smallest degree, and the hair to be entirely destroyed.—S,'d from 3s. Gd. ; forwarded for stamps, free by post, eight extra. Alex. Ross, No 1, Little Queen-street, High Holborn. METROP 0 LIT AN COUNTIES and GENT RIL LIFE A'•SURANCE SOCIETY, 27, Regent street, Waterloo-place, London. Capital, 100,0001. , . TRIISTEES. Rt.Hn.SpenePr H. Walpole,M.P. I Richard Spooner, Esq.,M P. Henry Peter Fuller, Esq. E. Vansittart Neale, Esq. Life Assurance business trans acted in all its branches. N.B. The bonus declared 5t the last divirioa of profit.; averaged 33 per cent on all the premiums paid. F. FERGIISON CAMROUX, Manager. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, LONDON. Policies effected with this Society now will PARTICIPATE TN FOUlt-FIFTIIS, or 80 per cent., of the Net Profits of the Society, according to the conditions contained in the S >ciety's Prospectus. The Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives are lower than in many other 014-established offices, and Insurers are fully protected from all risk by an ample guarantee fund, in addition to the accutonlated funds derived from the investments of Premiums. Policy stampspald by the Office. Prospectuses may be obtained at the Office in Threadneedle-street, Loudon, or of any of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. NEW SYSTEM OF LIFE ASSURANCE. THE DIRECTORS of the NATIONAL ASSURANCE and INYES TMEN C AS.SOC lA. 110 N invite attention to the New System of Life Assurance exclusively adopted by this Association, viz., that of allowing Interest on all Premiums paid, instead of the remote and uncertain system of Bonuses usually adopted. By this plan the Policyholder will secure to himself a constantly Increasing annual income during life, as well as the payment of the sum assured to his representatives at his death. Tables of Rates specially adapted to this system of Assurance may be obtained at the Office of the Company, 3, Pa 1-mall East, or for warded freo on application. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. GUARDIAN FI ASSURANCE No. 11, Lombard- DIREC' FRANCIS HART DYKE, HENRY HULSE BEREN John Dixon, Esq. Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Bard Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Brt.i Thomson liankey, Esq., M.P John Harvey, Esq. Jelin G. Hubbard, Esq. George Johnstone, Esq. John Labouchere, Esq. John Loch, Esq. f' ,l o tt a ,),s s vci . RE AND LIFE COMPANY, street, London. E Stewarts g nrey C s Chairman. m rarri j a : n i e . u tie t ty y o, - : C oe r n szqs a .q ll, • E ib s a g n . ks, Esq. lds, John Martin, Esq., M.P. Henry Norman, Esq. James John Thornton, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq. Henry Vigne, E sq . _ LTORS. A. W. Roberts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq. Lewis Lloyd, jun., Esq . John henry Smith, Esq. George Keys, Esq., Secretary. S am uel Brown, Esq., Actuary. LIFE DEPARTMENT. —Under the provisions of an Act of Par lament, this Company now offers to future insurers Four-fifths of he Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium Without participation of Profits. The next division of Profits will be declared in June, 1860, when all participating Policies which shall have subsisted at least one year t Christmas, 1859, will be allowed to share in the Profits. At the five divisions of Profits made by this Company, the total reversionary Bonuses added to the Policies have exceeded 913,000 At Christmas, 1854, the Assurances in force amounted to upwards of 4,240,0001.; the Income from the Life Branch in 1854 was more than 200,000/. ; and the Life Assurance Fund (independent of the Guarantee Capital) exceeded 1,700,000 1 . FOREIGN RISKS.—The Extra Premiums required for the East and West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the United States of America, have been materially reduced. IN VALID LIVES.--Persons who are not in such sound health as would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums, may have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums. LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro vided such Policies shall have been ellected a sufficient time to have attained in each case a value not under 501. ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, feeeived and registered. MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge will be made for Policy Stamps. FIRE DE PART NI EN r. - Insurances effected upon every descrip tion of property, at moderate rates. Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are adtnlited by this Company. ♦cni. A.I). 1720. fIOYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE I_IL . CORPORATION, (Established by Charter of his Sfajesty George the First), For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES. OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. BRANCH OFFICE-2 , PALL-MALL. Octavitie Wivram, Esq., Governor. George•Pearkes ltarclay, Esq., %illi-Governor. Sir John William Lubbock, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DtmEcToßs. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq. john Garrett Cattley, Esq. Charles John Manning, Esq. Hon. John T. Leslie Melville. Henry Nelson, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq. Sir John Henry Telly, Bart. Alexander P. Prevost, Esq. Abraham George Roberts, Esq Charles Robinson, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq. muel Solly, Esq., F.R.S. allowed for payment of Fire Pre• will expire on the 9th July. :8 may be effected with this Cor- Alexander Colvin, Esq. Edward Maxwell Daniel, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq. Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq. Nilliam Tetlow Hibtert, Esq. James Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Lancelot Holland, Esq. MEDICAL lEFEREE--Sal Notice.—The usual fifteen days miums falling due at Midsummer FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCE poration on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurat n profits, or, at lower Premiums, nets are grai , without sn, arge 110 NU; Participatin MI. each. gal with participation eh participation. it - i 4 de :tared up to the Policies of fourteen The following table shows thel 31st December, 1855, on 13ritiqh years' standing, for the sum of 1,1 Age Addition Further Per Cent. when made in Addition Total 1)r annum . ; Assured. 1848. In Addition an the sun, 1855. 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I had not been an hour in Moscow before I was , on the top of the famous bell-tower in the Kremlin. Such a spectacle as unrols itself from that spot exists nowhere else in the world. As I was return ing I met Lord Granville driving towards the Kremlin. _ _ Yesterday (Wednesday) the great crown of the Russian Empire was borne is state from the rail way station, through the heart of Moscow, to the Kremlin. A mob of some twenty or thirty persons had assembled to witness its arrival. Detachments of the Chevalierklarde, of which corps her Ma jeity the reigning Empress is colonel, escorted the carriages. In myletter of to-morrow I . will try to place before your readers the many Strange aspects which this place presents. AUGUST 19. Yesterday morning, at - 11 a.m., Earl Granville and the British Embassy left St. Petersburg by the sole - tr.1,1 Jut h;i2,11 runs direct to Moscow. Both the minus ` i telt it gt. Peteisburg and that at Moscow are very large, commodious, and showy buildings, with every requirement. There was what appeared to me (for I came by the same train) as large a crowd as an excursion-day would have collected at the most frequented station in London ; but I was assured that the passengers were fewer than on almost any day for the last twenty. AS this is Russia's only long railway, and as (their rolling stock being new) they had actually on one occasion not been able to put on carriages enough for the number of travellers who presented theme selves in the course of the morning, I went more than an hour before the train started to make sure of my place. I found many before me ; and pre sently the crush became frightful, and the apparent confusion hopeless. It was aggravated by the mul titude of foreigners, who could not explain them selves in Russ, and some of whom went about swearing in a great variety of languages. No pub lic establishment in Russia is wanting in polyglot officials, and certainly these poor interpreters were severely worked while I was present. The rest of the functionaries who speak only Russ are active in unceasingly and patiently unravelling the tangle of such crowds. They listen, for instance, to Smith, who harangues them in what he considers French, until Smith has pronounced some leading word, like " baggage," which happens to resemble its Russian equivalent. They then know Smith's dif ficulty, and hurry him forthwith to the luggage counter, where by dint of pantomime—in *hich Smith enacts his share with furious energy, and the officials with persistent clearness of signs—the number of parcels constituting the travellers effects is ascertained. Tickets are then given to Smith, and he is impressively urged by an imitative gesture to put them in safety ; nay, they are some times thrust into his pocket. Before these tickets are consigned to him, he is made to understand by a holding up of fingers, and a reiteration of the word " rouble," that he must pay as many units of this coin as he has parcels, that is 3s. 2d. for each parcel. He has five. He has paid his five roubles, and he is wild with distraction, for now his luggage has suddenly and utterly vanished. He becomes black in the face with his exertions as a linguist ; and it being impossible to pacify him by any words in the whole Russian language, he is at last bodily dragged, with every look of politeness, across the crowded booking-office to a counter where four clerks are writing, and one is looking over the counter. Smith was there before ;it was there he paid the 16 roubles for his passage ticket to Moscow. All languages are the same to the clerk who is not writing, and who, gently ignoring Smith's French grievances, tranquilises him in Englfish, and ex plains that all his effects are safe, and that when he reaches his destination he will receive them at once, provided he does not lese._his countermarks in the meantime. However, it is not even here that the passenger may be said to transact his first business at the station, for when he takes out his purse, and puts down his fare, he is asked for his passport. If he has imagined that any of the several previous permits which have been granted to him in St. Petersburg will serve (for each change of hotel a new one), over and above the regular visas of his origi nal passport by his ambassador or consul, and then by the police ; if he has supposed that this is suffi cient, he is quite mistaken. Hs is sent back for another day. It is the inconceivable complications of the Russian passport system, and its accessory obligations, which more than any other unpleasant nesses, make travellers who have once been in the country dread a returnto it ; and as there is nothing which the new reign is said to be more anxious to encourage than the influx of foreigners into Russia, it would really and seriously be worth the while of Government in Russia to modify the vexatious re quiremen ts now imposed upon the traveller. No other country except China has, or ever had, in force forms so numerous, so onerous, so useless, so absurd, or, in some respects, so discreditable. But, as the sub ject well deserves a little chapter to itself, and as the passport and police tribulations undergone at St. Petersburg by a traveller bound for Moscow are only the preliminaries of those he will undergo in this last place, and as these are but corollaries of the others, I reserve the whole subject till I can give you my practical experience of it in its com pleteness. This I will do ere quitting Russia. Meantime, I return to Smith. Smith has complied with every portion of the intricate regulations ; and, knowing this, he has not felt any of the anxiety which made me proceed so superfluously early (as it might seem) to the railway station. When, therefore, in return for the production of his money ho is asked for his Moscow passport, he confidently draws it forth ; but the bell is ringing, and, heavens 1 he is told that it isjgt vised. He points to the visa of his consul, to the next visa of the secret police, to Count Orloff s visa, to the visa of the ps lice of his Ilkst quartier, to that of Mie police of the quartier to which he then removed, to that of the police in the district from which he has last and only just come, and he de mands indignantly, "Do they call that not vi.sed " The English speaking clerk has, un luckily, his attention engaged elsewhere for the moment ; and it is with German that poor Smith is being pelted now. Still he has one chance. The clerk addresses a few words in Russ to the porter ; the latter jabbers vehemently to Smith, and points across the office; "Pas/mast," he cries, and beckons Smith to follow. Ah lif our tormented countryman's good. angel would only inspire him to do so. The Russian porter will not despair, and, in reply to Smith's "You be --, it is vised, I tell you ; don't you see it is vised in 50 places." In reply to this he ventures to lay a hand on Smith's collar gently to draw him through the seething and fast-thickening crowd. The spirit of a Briton is immediately roused by this last atrocity; he has not rightly read the benevo lent anxiety in ithe face of the poor Mujik ; for Smith is athletic, but not a physiognomist, any more than a linguist. Just as he has sent his in solent adversary reeling against the fat Russian merchant who is hurrying out to the platform at the sound of the second bell, the clerk, who speaks all languages, happens to be again disengaged, and calls out that the visa now required is merely that of the officer at the other side of the booking-office. Smith rushes thither, presents his passport, has it stamped, receives it back, struggles once more through the crowd, and arrives at the counter where lie should receive his passenger ticket only to find that the time is past for its delivery. Mean while his luggage is in the train, which, nearly a quarter of a mile long, is now beginning slowly to move past the tall windows and windowed doors. There will be no more trains that day, except a special one for his Imperial Highness the Prince Romanovsky and his suite. Having been more fortunate or more careful, I was safe in that train. Besides Earl and Countess Granville and their suite, and the young family of the Prince of Oldenburg, it contains the fifth or sixth and final instalment of the E m peror s "golden coaches." As I saw them afterw ards at the Moscow station—a part of their splen dour pur posely and coquettishly revealed to the admiring and wonder-stricken gaze of the loy al Muscovites —they again impressed me as sur el y the most gor geous equipages in which a So verei g n ever rode. But I described them minute l y in m y letter of the sth instant. They are marvellously hung, and ' each huge and ponderous mass, while rolling out of the terminus, trembled on its delicate springs as sensitively as the leaf of the aspen. The Russian railway carriages are immeasurably more comfortable than ours. Instead of so many partitions, eacb.l9oked flo that the pasongerfi eau lot • • / LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1856. LORD CARDIGAN AT LEEDS. LEEDS, SATURDAY. Lord Cardigan visited Leeds - ta:day, the 30th August having been appointed for the presentation to his lord ship Gf the sword which has been subscribed for by his tenantry and other inhabitants of Leeds. The banquet took place at the St .rck Exchange, the chair being filled by Edward Denison, Esq., M.P. for the West Riding. Upon the removal of the cloth the usual loyal and patriotic toasts were drunk. Mr. BEEOROI7, as chairman of the committee of the testimonial, then read an address from the subscribers to the fond for purchasing the sword, in which it was said It is to commemorate the events of your lord ship's military life in that war, and particularly that great incident which has rendered `Balaklava' a pass word in the soldier'e mouth (of which he will ever feel proud), that we now present your lordship with a sword, and invite your acceptance of it, in the name of numerous noblemen, gentlemen, merchants, tradesmen, and yeomanry connected with the county of York." The Earl of CARDIGAN, in the course of his speech returning thanks, said—Gentlemen, it is gratifying to me—and I think it will not be uninteresting to you to learn that that conduct of mine, of which you have been pleased to approve, met with the entire sanction, approval, and approbation of that great general under whom I was serving—the late Lord Raglan—under all circumstances, even at the commencement of the opera tions and up to and beyond the battle of Balaklava. (Applause.) Lord Raglan, the lamented general whose fall I so deeply deplore.--whose memory I honour and revere--and,,twhoso- approbation and hood opinion during life I valued more than those of any other man living. (Here his lordship was for a moment or two unable to proceed, from his extreme emotion. On re viving, he said) —I considered his praise as second only in value to that of that great general, that great man under whom he had so long served, and of whom he was the friend and associate. I speak of the great Duke of Wellington. (Lout cheers.) (Tne noble earl repeated the history of his celebrated reconnaisance on the Dob rudscba, with which he has several times obliged the public. Then proceeding, he said—Gentlemen, it fell to my lot, on the 25th October—the day of the battle of Balaklava—(bear)—as the officer in command of the light cavalry brigade, to attack the Russian batteries to the front. Gentlemen, I will not go into any lengthened detail of what occurred during that charge. I think that the circumstances are well known to most ; but I can not think that this opportunity, which is afforded by the honour you have conferred upon me this day, is an in opportune moment for me to make one or two allusions to some extraordinary fallacies which, if not generally prevalent, still have been entertained by some, and are known to me—l mean with regard to the duties of a general of cavalry leading the brigade into action. One would really suppose, from what has been said, that when a charge of cavalry is ordered, the general officer commanding a brigade has nothing to do but wave his sword, and gallop off, his men following him, and come into personal contact with the enemy's troops. Gentle men, no such thing is the case. The duties of a cavalry general, in leading a charge, are very important. In the first place, it is his duty to keep his regiments together ; secondly, it is his duty to lead them at such a regular pace, under any fire to which they may be exposed, that, when they come into contact with the enemy, they may attack them with a proper and full impetus. (Cheers.) Further, it is necessary that, under whatever fire they may be exposed during the advance, the general officer should keep the alignment of his regiment. I believe there is no person who was present—and there were many persons present who were spectators (for the hills on all sides were covered with our own troops and those of our allies)—but there was no one so present who will deny that the leading of the regiments of the Light Cavalry Brigade into the battery on the day of the battle of Balaklava, was not a firm, satisfac tory, and compact one—(cheers)—well and gallantly supported by three other regiments belonging ito the brigade, which came on in succession under their re spective commanding officers. Ladies and gentlemen, I will leave the troops who have just arrived at the bat tery for one moment, and refer to one or two other falla cies. It has been also suggested, and the idea has been entertained, that it is the duty ef a general officer com manding cavalry to fight the enemy, with and amongst private soldiers, after coming into contact with them. No such thing is the case, and I will give you the greatest authority to the contrary. The greatest authority wo have ever had in this country is that of the late noble hussar, Lord Anglesea. Under the names of Lord Ux bridge and Lord Paget, be frequently commanded ea valry, and distinguished himself in every way, and had the reputation of being the best cavalry general that ever lived in this country. He has been known to de- ; Clare that he never, during his career, raised his 1 sword, or used it against an enemy, except on one occasion in self-defence. I could not, ladies and gentle- men, quote to you a greater authority than that of Lord Anglesea, the mostgallant general of cavalry, who always led his own troops into action, whether he was in com mand of a small force or a large one. I Hill give you an instance or two. When he commanded the Hussar Bri gade in Spain, previous to Sir J. Moore's retreat, the 15th Hussars, which composed one brigade, had an opportu nity of attacking the French cavalry, and Lord Paget put himself at their head, led them to the attack, and gained a victory. Subsequently, under the title of Lord Uxbridge, when commanding the whole force of cavalry at Waterloo, 10,000 strong, he put himself at the head of the household brigade, showing himself first most gallantly, and led his troops into action. There is one more fallacy which at times has been suggested with regard to the du ties of a cavalry general. It is that of a general officer of cavalry leading his first line, after getting amongst and at tacking the enemy, is to halt and receive the second line, before bringing his brigade into action. That is not the case. general officer commanding the first line has nothing to do with anything but the regiments he immediate') corrimands. Those who follow in support are under the superior officer of each line. But, even supposing such a thing was practicable in any common charge of cavalry, of one body of cavalry against another, or even. against infantry, can anybody living imagine that it would be possible for a general officer leading the first line of cavalry in au affair like that of Balaklava, attacking iB, 19, or 20 heavy guns to the front, a battery on each flank, and the hills covered with Russian riflemen—can anybody suppose that when leading into the battery vo miting forth shells, round shot, and every missile of war, a general officer can lead his line over the battery, and af ter that, corning in contact with 5,00 Russian cavalry, which was the force stationed beyond the Russian guns, he could turn his horse round and wait for the eecend line ? I think any gentlemen must see the folly of such a supposition. (Loud cheers.) Well, ladies and gentle men, I had brought the attacking line up to that bat tery, they were there employed, some of them in cut ting down the guns—and, gentlemen, it was there that the great loss of life took place. It was then, or imme diately afterwards, that many a gallant spirit departed this life —it was there—(his lordship again had to pause hero from the intensity of his feelings)—it was there that such men as Hotham, and Goad, and Montgomery, of the 13th Light Dragoons, of Winter, and Webb, and Thompson, of the 17th Lancers—it was there that they met their death ; it was there that White and Morris and Sir W. Gordon were cut to the ground ; it was there that one of my aides-de-camp was wounded, another taken prisoner, and then, or some time late r, another met his fate like the rest. I speak of Capt. Lockwood, of the Bth Hussars, than whom there never was a more gentlemanly, a more gallant young officer. (Cheers.) This slaughter took place both amongst officers and men, for the men gallantly followed their officers wherever they went. At the same time in the supporting regi ments both Packer and Fitzgibbon, of the Bth Hussars, C- rnet Houghton, of the 11th Hussars, and others whose names lam afraid I can't recollect, were cut off. Well, tgiluen gentlemen, sl:aodni in c lineou t n h tteoof advance,ac f t e of the eo a b ll t the ar ult difficulties cetri obstruction w tgetting there were for riages, the limber carriages, an d other mgiachcihnitnhaeeraly:uonnfg.tethaharei sort offered—many did advance, and lost their lives ; and whin, in 20 minutes from the time we had moved up to the attack, passed over one mile of ground in going, and the same in retiring, I drew up that remnant of the Light Brigade, there remained but 195 out of the 670 men that went into action. The loss of life of officers, noncommissioned officers, and men—those who were put hors de combat either by death or wounds, or taken pri• loners, was 298, and there were 397 horses put hors de combat, and the whole of that occurred in the short space of 25 minutes. Gentlemen, after this had taken place, I proceeded to Lord Raglan to report the circumstances of the charge, and his lordship expressed to me his marked disapprobation of what had been done, stating that such an attack was totally contrary to the principles of warfare—that is, the attacking a battery in front with cava lry. I have only to say on the subject that there never was a more uncalled for attack, inasmuch as we had seen this Russian battery with a large body of heavy ca valry in its rear at least 20 minutes ; and when this attack was ordered they were neither advancing nor retreating. Ladies and gentlemen, I firmly believe that although the attack was useless in itself, and, in fact, was almost the destruction of the light cavalry brigade, the moral effect it had upon the Russian army was of great importance —at least, so I was informed by that groat general, Lord Raglan, who bad ascertained the fact from a num her of Russian deserters who were constantly corning in (Hear, hear.) Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, again, be tore I sit down, let me return my most heartfelt thankr for the great honour you have conferred upon me. Be lieve me, I shall preserve this sword and esteem it of tin greatest value to the last day of my life. I shall always ecall to memory the kind and generous manner it which I have been received in the West Riding of York shire and in the town of Leeds. I shall carry the swor. along with me to the day of my death, as the mos gratifying of al! things I possess —as that which value the most. (Loud cheers, during which the noble lord regained big seat.) BRITISH EMPIRE MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. The Annual Meeting of the members and shareholders of this company was held: on Friday at the offices, 47, Moorgate-street ; Mr. James Low, chairman of the com pany, presiding. The advertisement convening the meeting having been read from the London Gazette, The CHAIRMAN said that the business of the day lay quite in a nutshell. The report to be presented would supply the history of the movements of the company during the year, and show, that, although the amount of business done was not so large as could be wished, tgere had been a decided progress, and that the affairs of the company were in a healthy and eatisfacterrstrite. o)uld not but believe, however, that, bad thore bees more z.lal on the part of the members, a far larger lanai ber of policies might have been effected iAnd he ear. nestly hoped that less apathy would be manifesW in the year ensuing. It would require but'a very - little _effort, he was satisfied, on the part.of any member, to secure one more at least. Did they all feel as livtly an interest in the progress of the society as some did, thty would i.ot fail to commend it to the notice of alt with whom .hey came in Contact ; and then, instead of increasing the business by a million a -y ear there was apparently n o . reason whyitmi might not ben.extended to five, or even ten millions. (Hear.) L e t th e mutual pr i n ciple on which the society is founded only become thoroughly -known, and it must of necessity commend itself to the judgment of every one ; if for no 'other reason because it would be felt to be a pocket question. He would - litittbe mem bers consider, moreover, that a much more' extended business might be done by the machinery required to transact the present ; and consequently that being a mutual society they were deeply interested in canvassing for insurers. The eighth yaarmf the-company's .exist ence had now been. romikly4rd Poxtrit wet - plc tracethegiadual advancement effected from the first year to the present time. The amount of business clone in the first year might be stated, in round numbers, at 659,000/. ; the second year, 664,0001. ; the third, 731,0001. ; the fourth, 829,0001. ; the fifth, 940.0../. ; the sixth, 1,295,00@1.; the seventh, 1,301,000/. ; and the eighth, 1,332,000/. (Cheers.) The latter figures represented the amount insured at the office this last year ; and the steady progress made was surely a clear and pleasing indication that the mutual principle is pressing itself on the general mind of the community ; and that the expectation might be safely cherished that tie British Empire Mutual Company would attract to itself every new year a larger number of members than that which preceded it, (Hear) The report would now be read. Mr. F. CUTHBERTSON, Managing Director, accord ingly submitted the following document " The directors have again the pleasure - of reporting a steady increase in the business of the company, some what larger indeed than last year, and, according to the Governmental returns, larger than that of the great ma jority of offices ; at the same time, the directors cannot think it equal to what the mutual principle justly de served, and must again appeal to their insurers to re commend in their respective circles a company whose fundamental principle ought to command a very large business. " The policies issued during the year were 2,840, in suring property to the amount of 1 ,382,5511., which ex• ceeds the increase of last year by 19G policies (averaging in amount 4001. each). " The recciptA of the company from policies during the year amounted to 14,470/. 11a. 2d., of which 6,7411. 16s. sd. was for duty to the Government, and T,7281. 14s. 9d. for premiums. "For claims on losses which have occurred during the year, the sum of 6,1181. 17s. 31. has been paid, as also an additional sum of 3,914/. 6s. ld. carried for claims in progress of settleme tat the last audit. It is gra tifying that the losses by fire this year, though large, should be so much less than those of the excep tional year 1855, which was a severe one for nearly all the offices. "The directors, in consequence of the heavy losses referred to during the last two years—though none of them are such as any care on their part could have pre vented, and though the average of a series of years will, of c curse, be very much less—have yet determined to economise expenditure in every way which will not be disadvantageous to the company itself ; and have, ac coniii,gly, reduced the interest received by themselves on their large proportion of the guarantee fund from seven to five per cent. The majority of the shareholders have also cheerfully followed their example, and it is confidently hoped that 'All will ultimately concur. "Some of the members may have been perplexed by observing in the Times' statistics on fire assurance, that large sums as capital are assigned to the old offices, but n )thing to ihe British Empire. It may be useful to re mind such persons that the large guarantee fund, at call (subscribed for shit company), is a security to the insurers, fully equal to that of the subscribed shares in any proprietary office. i ‘theattetnia of the French offices to insure English property without payment of duty and policy stamp would, it was hoped, have opened the eyes of the Go vernment to the unjust nature of the duty levied, in addition to the necessary charge for insurance on all property exposed to damage by fire ; a tax on honesty and prudence exo'usively, and a tax which the fully equal amount of incombustible t roperty in the kingdom es capes. They accordingly forwarded to the House of Commons petitions, signed by about 17,000 of their members and others ; but, though other offices joined in similar efforts, the Chancellor ,of the Exchequer would neither repeal the tax, nor reduce its exorbitant rate. It is understood, however, that the members of the House of Common., generally, are so convinced of the iniquity of the tar, that it will be "One of the first repealed when the expenses of the war have been discharged. " Messy. Cutlibertson, Gould, and Freeman are the retiring Directors ; Mr. Gould, however, was obliged, by the state of his health, to resign soon after the last public meeting. The other two Directors are eligible for re-electian. " By the election of Mr. Doxsey to the Directorate, a vacancy occurred in the Auditorship ; Mr. Moore, who announced himself a ►t Vie last Annual Meeting as a can didate for the vacancy, in case of Mr. Doxsey's election, was therefore requested to audit the accounts with the remaining Auditor, and now offers himself as a candidate for the vacancy. Mr. Pewtress retires by rotation from the Auditorship, and is eligible for re-election. Mr. Clowes having resigned the Secretaryship, in consequence of a decided opinion that the business of the Company would be best conducted by a Managing Director, the Directors, concurring with his view, re quested one of their number, Mr. Cuthbertson, to accept that office, and have every reason to be satisfied that the arrangement will be advantageous to the Company, and give confidence to the members. The Directors will only further add, that their agents throughout the country are increasingly efficient, and they h.ve no doubt of obtaining during the present year a large augmentation of business. The Cllantsf AN felt much pleasure in moving the adoption of the Report. The members would see that the Directors had endeavoured, by every means in their power, to discharge the duties devolving upon them as effectually as possible. One method adopted for bene fiting the members was, to ask the guarantee share holders to consent to the reduction of interest from 7 to 5 per cent.,—a request that had been very generally complied with. (Hear, hear.) At the same time, the Directors had resolved to give up their own attendance fees for the present. (Hear, hear.) It had become evi dent, during the last few yeare, that fire assurance is attended with a great deal of uncertainty ; the Illaim3 on some of the offices had been almost overwhelming ; and his own opinion was, that the question would have to be very carefully considered whether ad litional premiums must not be demanded. He attributed very many of the large fires that now took place to the c tre less use of lucifer matches and fusees. The British Em pire, happily, had not suffered such heavy losses as some of the other offices; and these would have been still lighter if a multitu le of small claims, amounting to only a few shillings each, hal not been made, and certainly ought not. The individuals making them derived but scanty benefit, and yet, when the- e insignificant sums were put together, they amounted to a considerable sum. If persons thought of 0111.4 they would surely be prevented from making such claims. After dwelling at a ime length on the peculiar advantages and the prosperous position of the Company, the Chairman concluded by moving the adoption of the Report. The Report was then unanimously adopted. Mr. Cuthbertson and Mr. Freeman, the two retiring Directors, were next re-elected to the Board by a unani mons vote. Mr. Pewtress, the retiring Auditor, was also re-elected scith the same unanimity ; and Mr. Moore chosen as the second Auditor in the room of Mr. Doxsey, who had been elected a Director at the last annual meeting. Mr. Mom returned thanks. He had been engaged upon the last audit, and could safely say that he believed the Company to be in a state quite as satisfactory as could be expected. Every facility had been given them to understand the real position of affairs ; and both himself and his brother Auditor were not a little pleased with the straightforward andiclear way in which the books were kept. (Hear, hear.) Before resuming his seat, he wished to have the pleasure to move the following Resolution : " That this meeting is gratified to b ear o f th e s t ea dy increase of the Company's business, and wishes to urge upon all insurers the great importance of giving tht it support to a Company founded on the principle of giving to them the entire profits of their payments; and that this meeting fully according in all that is stated in the Report and Petition respecting the injuitice and im policy of the Fire Insurance Duty, requests the Directors to watch every opening for promoting its repeal, and con siders it to be the duty of all insurers to use their best efforts for the abolition of such an uniust impost." [his being a speech in itself, no speech was needed to recommend it fur the adoption of the meeting. He would only suggest, that if the Society had not made ' so much progress as could have bean wished, it was not ;he fault of the Directors, but of the members. He had Ihimself brought in three or four policies this last year; And hoped that all those interested in the Company'i welfare would seek to do the same during the year en- icing. Mr. WATSON, the solicitor, said that evidently the in crease to which Mr. Runtz (a previous speaker) referred, was the increase upon the increase. (Hear, hear.) The premiums of the last year were 6,6821. against 7,7 281 . this year, so that the increase by premiumg was more by 1,1001. than the business of the previous 3 ear ; which was a resul , , he confessed, that appeared himself per fectly astonishing, when one considered the difficulties which such an office Lad to contend with in consequence of the reckless competition going en among the various Fire-offides of the day. If the great liis;es experienced by the several coepanies during the la 4 few years should continn—which, however, he dill :not,supposie would be the case—then they must either rai e their rates of premium, er give up bu-iuess. 0,0 institution that he could name, with an income i f 10,000/ , 'had been required to pay 24,0001. fur tie fire losses, of the year ; whereas the losses of th , s Society had not reached 75 per cent. Now, if the bu-inese could be doubled during the ensuing year there would be quite sufficient to pay all expenses and leave a profit, even sup posing the losses should continue at the eame ratio ; but, unless all previous calculations failed, 50 per cent. would certainly pay them. (Hear.) But, whatever might be the course of events, the ample"guarantee capi tal of the company would insure the prompt payment of all just claims. The Company, was in the peculiar pAition ad:ending related to three others, which made a point of systematically bringing business of the hest sort to the offide, so that there was no fear of a constant supply coming in. He had the fullest possible confidence .in the stability and progress of the society. (Cheers.) The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. GROS= moved : " That the thanks of this meeting be given to the directors for their disinterested services in the manage. ment of this company." Mr. D. PRATT seconded the resolution. - • The resolution was unanimously alopted. Mr. CUTHBRRTSON, in a few earnest - words, solmow. 4-40 t 1 3 1 4Y*41 ,0 4F-bebAltfif hltaselfiencr Ur. Frieman: Mt. JOHN THOMPSON then moved, and Mr. B. W. WEBB seconded— "That the thanks of this meeting are due, and are hereby given, to the Chairman, for the able manner in which he has conducted this meeting." The resolution having been cJrdially adopted, the Chairman made his acknowledgments, and the proce7d lags terminated. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. EAST RENT. The seventh half-yearly general meeting of the share holders of this company was held on Saturday at the London Tavern—Lord Sondes in the chair. The direc tors' report has been given by us. The balance sheet of the company showed that a sum of 193,787/. had been received on the capital account of 350,0001., of which sum 158,646/. bad been expended in works, legal expenses, and other matters, the re mainder of the amount received being invested in loans and securities, and lying as balance at the company's bankers. Lord SONDES, in moving the adoption of the report, congratulated the meeting on the improved prospects of the company, and the near approach to the termina tion of the works in course of progress. Sir J. TYLDRN seconded the motioa, and called atten tion to the fact of Lord Sondes having consented to re ceive the whole value of 30 acres of his land, required for the purposes of the raii:vay. En shares of the com pany. On the part of the in .1' i 4 .ants of Dover an in creased amount of interest was felt in the progress of the undertaking, more especially sinca the partial de struction of that portion of the South-Eastern line be tween Shakapere's Cliff and the D..ver station. The directors hoped to be able to s•:cure a West-end termi nus for their line in London is the course of the next scission. In answer to a question put by 3 shareholder, The CHAIRMAN said that ab )it 140, 0001. at present remained due on arrears of eallg. Mr. ALDMIDGII thought that. I t ch ease it was bad policy for the directors to carnot); to working at both ends of the line; they ought rathat t ► economise their capital. Mr. Camovrorr, C.E., in answer to several questions put by shareholders, explained that Cie total number of miles of railway comprised in the Ka stein system, including the North Kent line, was 10, and the ave• rage traffic was about 3,2001. per mile lir annum. This average was, however, almost entirely sitt ained by the enormous amount of traffic on the North K en tline ; the traffic on these 30 miles from London-',ri lg e to Strood averaging 7,4001. per mile per annum. roe East Kent Railway, which was an extension of this li 11, c ommencing by a junction with it at Strood, and p • g through Rochester, Chatham, Sittingbourne, and Fa versham, to Canterbury, and thence to Dover, that shortening the distance to Canterbury, Ramsgate, by 1:1 miles, and that to Dover by 12 miles—it was not too much to anticipate that the traffic on the Eat; Kent line, of which it was the continuation, espeolatZ a as it received the whole of the Canterbury, Rarns4at And Margate, as well as the through traffic from L, ► , • mid Roohes , ter to Dover, and the continental tr :)esi•les being supplied with a Sheerness branch by WI independent company. Taking this estimate of 7,100/. on 46 miles from Strood to Dover, they had for the whole traffic a total of 340,0001., which, deducting 50 per cent, for working expenses, left 170,200/. for dlvidend, above 14 per cent. on the capital of 1,200,0001. If they took, however, the average traffic on the whole SlutlnEastern system, considering that the company lost about 100,0001. per annum by unproductive branches, it was certainly far below the minimum that migbt be expected on the East Kent line. lThe thanks of the meeting were voted to the noble chairman and the directors, and the proceedings termi nated. BAPSBURG vice CALCBA FT. (Front Punch.) Hanging, with which, not long ago, the public appeared to have got nearly disgusted, seems of late to have in some measure recovered its popularity, or rather its place in the affections of the educated and governing classe=. It is trfie that Celestina Somner escaped the gallows, but did not. the Home Se2retary hang Martha Brown ! and if the former's crime was one of the most cruel murders on record, was not the offence of the letter mere man slaughter committed under the extenuating circum stances of extreme provocation ! FrJm one extreme the Government will of oourse run into the other, and the executioner, in that his office is no sinecure, will differ even more widely than he now does from the Cathedral Canon. The increasing employment of filo gallows will pro bably prove a stimulus to the attainment of excellence in the executioner's department of high art : and then, as a necessary consequence, we shall have foreign ability invited to compete with British talent. Application will naturally be made to Germany ; but, we would suggest, chiefly to that particular portion of Father. land called Austria. A letter has been written to a Genoese paper by General Garibaldi, stating that poor Ciceruacchio, the popu:ar orator of the modern Romans, and his two sons boys ut.der age, together with four other persons, one of them a chaplain, have been barbarously shot, in cold blood, at Contarioa, near the mouth of the Po, by Aus trian soldiers commanded by an officer of the Iroperia family. Since, even if Ciceruaccbio had rendered him self liable to be shot, his Holiness the Pape was the only pesson legally qualified to shoot hi , r, this abomi nable act on the part of the Austrians, was an officious exercise of the office of the finisher of the Papal law. It shows them to be born with a natural turn for that officer's vocation. Besides, was not the reign of the present Emperor of Austria inaugurated by hangings? It is r( markable, in connection with this circumstance, that the officer in com mand of the Austrian soldiers who put to death Ciceruac chi.), his children, and the other persons whom they had no right to meddle with, was a member of the Imperial family. No doubt they all harg together. If, therefore, foreign professors of the halter are to be excouraged, like so many other foreign artists, to afford this country the advantage of their ingenuity in their own peculiar line, let application be made, in the first in stance, to the Austrian Government for the required assist ance. The status of the hangman will be improved by the importation of Austiian competitors ; for the office is evidently one of honour in the dominions of Francis Joseph, and any other dominions occupied by his gallant troops, who volunteer its performance, and are, doubtless, as handy with the rope as they are with the rifle. Perhaps his Majesty will send us that distinguished member of his family who commanded the gallant party, all volunteers perhaps, that executed those above-mentioned subjects of the Pope on account of his Holiness. We shall doubtless receive with all the hon ours due to his exalted rank and elevating pursuit that amateur Imperial assistant of Under-Sheriffs, and shall unanimously agree in nominating him Arch- Jack-Ketch. VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.—TheRoyaI Household :—A Chaplaincy in Ordinary to the Queen has b. come vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Cooper. Foreign Department : The Consul-Generalship of Odessa and the Consul-Gene ralship of Warsaw are vacant, as well as several Con sulships and Vice-Consulships in the Russian empire. Coast Guard :—Lieut. C. Hawkey has been appointed to command the Dingle Station. Customs :—Mr. A. M. D'Arcy, Extra Clerk, has bean appointed Clerk in the Examiners Office, London ; Mr. W. Thompson ha , - been promoted from Inspector of Gaugers to Landing Surveyor at Liverpool; Mr. F. Wilkin , on has been promoted from Second to First Class Searcher at Liver pool; Mr. C. Stower has been promoted from Third ti Second Class Searcher at Liverpool ; Mr. J. Bennet' has been promoted from Fourth to Third Class Searcher at Liverpool ; Mr. R. W. Swayne has been promoted from F►fth to Fourth Class Searcher at Liverpool ; Mr. W. Findlay, Clerk. Montrose, has been promoted to b, Second Cleric at Dundee. Ireland :—Mr. T. M. H Jones has been appointed a Cadet in the Constabulary, after a competitive exarainatiot.—Civil Service Ga zette. ~~ Ale "Ao ‘,...•-----: ,_ ~ 4, s l, .-...."-..,, •.- e. .- 4 , ... re "•'- 4. y . , p sv "`...- communicate with the guards betwee IF - jt. ... they consist eaeh of inunense coin ial 1 part _ ' . GO or 100 persons may be placed. These ' ITsickk ./, i) and front to the engine, the travellers sit thigoppfil S site each other, but net so close that their knees sometimes meet, as upon some of our rail ways. Then the doors are not at the sides at all, but at the end of this long compartment, down the whole length of which there is a spacious gangway, open ing left and right into each pair of opposing seats, which, besides, have side rails or supports for the arms. Thus when a passenger enters he neither inconveniences, nor even touches, anybody as be proceeds up the longitudinal central gangway, in starch of the place that may suit him, -on either hand .If he is tired, Or wishes to change his seat, or to breathe a little fresh air on the exterior land ing, or to stretch himself; or even to take a little walk, he can of course do so with the same im munity from annoyance on the part of the rest. If he wishes to sleep, nobody will knock against him to disturb his rest. There are no sudden draughts, no banging of doors, no discomforts. Another very remarkable difference exists. People may be taken seriously ill in various ways during a long stage. On no Eni,lish railway, and on no European rail way excspt this new one from St. Petersburg to Moscow, is any provision made for such a contins geucy. Here, without being more specific, I may say that the trains contain, to a certain degree, the same resources as au hotel or a ship. Finally, such a thing as a quarrel, an assault, or misconduct on the part of one pas , enger towards another, is pos sible, and has frequently occurred. Under such circumstances it is surely an immense advantage to be able to communicate with the guard. I leave out of the question etses of general danger to the whole train, as from fire. In short, we may learn even from the Russians. Last in the field, they avoid some of our absurdities. Thus it was with their northern capital which, in its sedileship, and the sanitary plan of its streets, as well as in their regularity and commodiousness, surpasses all cities. Thus, again, it is in the structure of their railway carriages, which are, so far, as superior to ours as civili sa ti on — e xperience at other people's 'cost—and consequent forethought are to barbarism, :‘, ~ first attempt s , an d i mprov id ence . Th e comm um- !'iss . s.`„ , il4-&::; 1 L . , cation I have mentioned between passengers and guard extends all through the train—the landing of each long carriage, where the officer stands, being also the landing of the next, and so on from the rearmost tender to the engine. The stations between the two capitals are 20 in number, viz., beginning with the most northern, Kolpina, Tosuina, Luban, Pomerania Tchudor, Volkoff, Maloareetchen, Okuloff, Valdai, Bologod skoi (hero the government of St. Petersburg termi nates, and that of Moscow begins) Vechee•oslocholc, Speerovskoi, Ostashkovskoi, Tverskoi, Zaverdov skoi, Podvolnetenoi, Krukovskoi, Caimskoi, and Moskovskoi, or Moscow. None of the intermediate stations are considerable as towns. Most of them are wooden villages. Close to the railroad is a large dome-like building, where the wood is chopped, the water boiled, &c., for the service of the line. The stations themselves are very large, convenient, and fine. Most people breakfast before they come to the St. Petersburg station ; yet the train stops 20 minutes for breakfast at Pomeranie. It stops again for 15 minutes' lunch, again half-an-hour for dinner, again 15 minutes for tea, again 20 minutes for supper. The expense of each meal is according to what one takes. A cup of coffee with a rusk is eightpence (25 copecks). Dinner to a hungry person cannot be less than a rouble under the mildest circumstances (i. e., 3s. 2d.) His tea will not stand him in less. His supper will be equal in cost to his dinner ; and, in the down journey superior to it in quality. - Where no set meals were prepared, refreshments, nevertheless, could always be ob tained. Even where no regular rooms for the par pose adorned the station, rows of tables, spread with " passmeutee," and common, ancient, national Russian dainties, even at night, twinkled under their little lamps, and under a brilliant moon, at every halting-place. The halt, moreover, is sel dom for less than 10 minutes. It is these continual and prolonged stoppages, and not the rate of speed, which make the journey last 22 hours. It is considerably under 700 versts—.and there are nearly four versts to the English mile. The distance from Paris to Strasbourg is nearly as great, and the jour ney is performed in 12 hours. The distance from Paris to Bordeaux requires but 11 hours, and yet from St. Petersburg to Moscow 22 hours are con sumed, although the speed, when the train is in motion, averages 30 miles an hour. At every sta tion everybody seemed to me to eat everything, to drink everything, and to smoke everything. The train was full of Russian officers. I found them as I have always found them, and as all agree that they are, singularly intelligent and singularly polite. One of them, an aide-de-camp of the Grand Duke Michael, whenever I asked him what station this or that was, replied at first with a jocular de scription as correct as that with which he imme ' diately rectified it. "Where are we now ? Now we are at breakfast ; now we are approaching lunch —you see it yonder over the forest. Now you can sec dinner behind that lake. The green roofs in the moonlight are tea. That spire which glitters upon the banks of the river is supper. Ali ! this village with the booths ranged in a semicircle down the bank is the first meal between ; that village, looking just like the other, with booths and tables and bottles just like the other is the second meal between." Every place wore a uniform, and resembled every other along the line—not in the accidents of the scenery, or the aspects of the landscapes, which formed their backgrounds—but in the arrangements close to the railway. The same blue lamps, the same tents, booths, tables, laid out in the same mannere—bot ties and jugs in the open air, shaped in the same manner, placed in the same ord er . A n i mmense round bottle to the right of the row—a small one next it. Thirty miles further you thought you be held them again glittering in the bright starlight on the self-same table. Military discipline seemed to have got hold even of the vessels wherein vodki and quass were sold. If the little flask presumed to leave its rank, you felt sure the big one would put it under arrest. By the time we had travelled into the hours of a magnificent moonlight, almost all the Russians who did not wear uniforms were gay with wine, beer, and spirits. A young broad faced, good-humoured individual, "at supper," assured 150 people that he had the previous day divorced his wife ; and, catching some words of English which I had spoken to a friend, he addressed me in that language, which he said he had learnt in six weeks during a visit to London, and told me that he was a " Russian King." As I looked astonished, he said, " Yas, oh, yas, king—prince." People seemed to pay him considerable attention, and he proceeded to harangue them about the du ties of wives till the boll rang. The country from St. Petersburg to Moscow is a. dead level; not a single tunnel the whole way. There are two or three very fine viaducts, one over the - Volga, where it is still young and small, about 100 versts to the north of Moscow. As you proceed south, the dreary expanse of alternate forest and morass changes into noble pastures and preposterous-look ing farms of enormous extent, still girdled in the distance with the belt of low forest. The timber is small, and almost wholly some variety of the fir tree. At St. Petersburg, on the day I left (Mon day), the officers of the St. Jean d'Acre were to be presented to the Emperor at Peterhof': • • • • • , , _ "~~.~: Tug Rossucx TXSTIMONIAL.—A meeting of the above committee has been held at the Councill-ball, Sheffield. Ald. W. Fisher, jun., occupied the chair, and there were present W. Fisher, Esq., sen., Aid. Dunn, W. Smith, Esq., Dam House ; Mr. M. Beal, Mr. R. J. Gainsferd, and other gentlemen. It wail stated that the subscription to the testimonial amounted to nearly 1,4001. ; and it was resolved that a thousand, guineas be presented to Mr. Roebuck, and the remain der devoted to the purchasing a portrait of the hon. gen. tleman, if it was agreeable to him that this course should be adopted. The presentation will take place on Wednesday next, at the Music-hall, Sheffield, at seven o'clock. The portrait will be placed in one of the public buildings, INAUGURATION OE THE WELLINGTON STATUE AT MAN. CHESTER. —The statue of the late Duke of Wellington, erected in front of the Royal Infirmary, at Manchester. was inaugurated on Saturday. The area in front of the infirmary, which a few years ago was mainly occupied by a sheet of water, has now been converted into a spacious flagged promenade, with fountains rising from two basins of water, so placed as to leave a space between them for a central statue, while the statues of Peel and Wellingtoe occupy sites of about equal magnitude to therightand left of the fountains. It is intended that the central space shall some day be occupied by a statue of the Queen. The eta tue of Wellington is a full-length bronze figure, 13 feet high, designed by Mr. Noble, the sculptor, .tending upon a square granite pedestal, 19 feet high, with sub ordinate figures at each of the four angles —one repro senting Valour, and the others Wisdom, Victory, end Peace. The figure represents the noble Duke in the character of a senator, and the likeness is a very truth ful one. The ceremony of the inauguration drew to gether an immense concourse of people. The mayor and corporation walked in procession from the Town•ball to the Infirmary, accompanied by the Bishop of Manchester and the principal subscribers to the statue, which has cost about 7,000/. Lieut.-General Sir Harry Smith and his staff were also present, with troops of the 7th Dra goon Guards and 25th Infantry, to aid the police in keeping the lines. The authorities having taken their places on a platform provided for the occasion, an ad dress was delivered by Mr. Alderman Barnes, who nar rated the circumstances connected with the erection of the statue, and in the name of the subscribers handed it over to the mayor and corporation of Manchester. The mayor having, on behalf of the corporation, accepted the statue, commanded it to be unveiled, which was done amid loud cheering, the band playing the national anthem, and the fountains beginning to play simultane ously. Addresses were afterwards delivered by the Bishop of Manchester and Sir Simi% and the pro. ctediDgq teralivatocl, ~~:~. Y~ ~• ■rlli~