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//z \SPPER 11" E PERTUSOLA LEAD MINING AND SMELTING COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under the Companie3 .Act, 1662, with Limited 0'" • . ••••••Nti • • 41,9„ 7 .v • „ tail irzdr — i * Az'AA• 77, - - \4 1 ./.4f , , t ae., • - -t , • a. '..DROrre , Liability. Capital £250,000, In 25,000 Shares of £lO each Deposit on application, .£1 per share, and on allotment a further payment of £2 per share. Calls not to exceed Per share, at intervals of three mouths. DIRECTORS. Charles Bell, Esq. (Messrs. J. Thomson, T. Bonar, and Co.) James 11. Enthoven, Esq. (Messrs. 11. Enthoven and Sons) John P. Judd, Esq. (Messrs. Nathaniel Johnston and Sons). John Orred, Esq., Ashwicko Ball, Gloucestershire. Edmund A. Pont!fex, Esq (Messrs. Pontitex and Wood). John ; avlor, Richard ~nr,orEsq. ) , EFq. .....essrs. John Taylor and Sons. l, PRICE.- .. -..4d. STAMPED ....15d. N°. 22,130. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1863. BANKERS. Messrs. Barnett, hoares, and Co., London. Messrs. J. Barned and Co , Liverpool. Somcprons—Messrs. John and William Gal.worthy,l2, Old Jewry-chambers. MR. FLEMING'S TRAVELS IN TARTARY. Now ready, in royal Svo., with Map and 50 Illustrations, uniform with Mr. Atkinson's "Siberia," TRAVELS ON HORSEBACK IN MANTCHU TA RTARY ; being- A Summer's Ride beyond TIIE GREAT WALL GP CIIINA. By GEORGE FLEMING. Burst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlboroug-h-street. LAW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE, FLEET-STREET, LONDON. IST JUNE, 1563. METROPOLITAN RAILWAY-ADDITIONAL TRAINS.—The Trains' in each direction ARE NOW CONSIDERABLY INCRE4SED, for the particulars of which see the Time Tables. any escape of steam before the accident happened, but when the carriage gave that awful rock I guessed what had happened 'We were all in high spirits at the moment, as we were the two corps, one of each battalion, who had been proved to be the best shots in the brigade." No day has yet been fixed for the funeral of the Guards who were killed. It appears that the parti cular part of the line where the accident occurred has a considerable curve. The traffic yesterday went on as usual. Major-Gen. Craufurd, in command of the Brigade of Guard, , , has been constant in his at tendance at the hospital, and has manifested the kindest sympathy for the sufferers. NOTVE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a GENERAL MEETING of the PRorrarrons of the LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SO' lETY will be held at the Society's Office, Flect-street, London, on WEDNESDAY, the ,4th day of June instant, at Twelve o'clock at Noon precisely, to elect six Directors and two Auditors, and for general purposes. The Directors and Auditors who go out of office by rotation will be proposed for re-election. By order of the Directors, WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary. Season Tickets are now issued, the terms for which may be had on application to the Superintendent, Bishop's•road. BnottEus—Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son, Angel court, Throginortou street. MANAGERS —Messrs. John Taylor and Sons, GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT IN ITA_tv—Mr. Gco. Healey. VOLUNTEERS' BI L L.—Petitions for Signature against the 'Objectionable Clauses of this Bill lie for signature at Mr. Metchim's, 20, Parliament-street. Mr. Sainsbury, 176, Straid. Mr. Jacobs, 146, St , an Mr. Reynoldg, 263, Fleet -street. And at the Wnittim_;tork Club. SAMUEL PRICE, lion. Sees. HENRY NEW, Ist June, 1563. WESTERN MANCHESTER and LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY SOCIETY. Established 1842. Chief Offices-3, Parliament-street, London, and 77, King-street, ➢ianchester. .ACTUARY—Arthur Scratchley, Esq., M.A. SECRETARY-Mr. W. G. Williams. - Offices-6, Queen-street-place, London. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS, This Company has been duly register,d with limited lia bility. Its object is the purchase of a large interest in the cele brated lead mines of Monteponi, in the Llind of Sardinia, together with the extensive lead smelting. establish ~e nt of Perinsola and the Satzanello Coal Mine in the Guilt of Spezz. The purchase-money for these prop rties (including eleven twelfths of the Monteponi Minel, plant, engines, ,f7c , £1.50,e00 and it is estimated that .C 50,100 will be required AS floating capital, so that in fixing the nominal capi al at £)50,000, a margin of £0.00". is lett to enable the Company to take advantarre of such opportunities as may present them selves of extending, their interest in Italian mines. This undertaking differs essentially in its nature from ordi nafy mining enterprises. Its canital being invested in the purchase of mines and works, which are in full operation, and yielding very large returns. Full prospectuses with forms of application for shares may be had at the offices of the Company, No. 6, Queen-street place. London, or of the Brokers of the Company, Messrs. Joshua Hutchinson and Son. No application will be con sidered unless a deposit of £1 for each share applied for shall have been previously made with the Bankers of the Com pany. This sum will be returned in full in the event of no allotment being made. THE PERTUSOLA LEAD MINING and SMELTING COMPANY (Limited). NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That NO APPLICATION for MIA RES in this Company will be received after SATUR DAY, the Clth day of June next. W. G. WILL TAMS, Sec. THE ENGLISH AND RUSSIAN BANK (Limited). To be established under the Companies Act, 1862, for awry ing on business in.Ruesia-by vir , *:.§. - efon-earslnsfve Canoes= sion granted 153 , the _lmperial Russian Government. Capit“ 0 ,2,500 uOO, in 25,000 Shares of £lOO each, With power to increase. £5 per Share to be paid on Allotment. BANKERS. Messrs. Robarls, Lubbock, and Co., 15, Lombard-street, E.C. BROKERS. Messrs,. Ricardo, 11, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, E.C. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Ashurst, Morris, and Knight, 6, Old Jewry, E.C. This Bank will be established under an exclusive conces sion from the Imperial Russian Government (limiting the liability of the shareholders), with permission to open estab lishments in such cities and towns throughout the Russian Empire as the Court of Directors may deem proper. This Bank will ne the first established in th e R uss i an Em pire on Eng-JBh principles of b an ki ng. In fact, in the interior of Russia, with the exception of Moscovv, the e is virtually no banking accom modation whatever; although, in order to keep pace with the rapidly increasing production and com mercial development of the Russian Empire, banking facility has become an absolute necessity. The exports of Russia dur ng the last thirty-five years have trebled in amount, and the average exports to England alone, in the years IWO, 1861, and 1862, amounted to nearly £ 1 4,000,000 sterling per annum. The rate charged by the State Bank at the present moment 1 8 5i per sent., and in the open market the best mercantile paper cannot be discounted under 7 per cent. When the high standing of the firms engsg;ed in the Russian trade is borne in in ml. it is evident that the St. Petersburgh trade alone will yield a large profit to a well-regulated Bank; and when it is remembered that in the interior interest rules (according to districts) at ti om 8 to 15 per cent., it may fairly be assumed that the prospects of this Bank are even better than tho'e of the London Joint-Stock Banks, of which the four principal have, as is well known., paid Dividends of from 15 to 24 per cent, per annum on their paid-up Capital. The Court of Directors will be formed from the most in fluential of the shareholders in accordance with the terms of the preliminary concession already obtaned. No payment Will be required nor liability incurred until the shares have been duly allotted. In the meantime applications in the annexed form will be received by the Brokers, Messrs. Ricard 11, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street. E.C. ; and at the Temporary Offices of the Company, 69, Lombard-street, E.C., at both of which places the forms may be obtained. GEORGE WARD CHALLIS, Secretary, ad int. FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES. To the Directors of the English and Russian Bank (Limited). Gentlemen,--I request you to allot me shares in the English and Russian Bank (Limited), and I hereby agree to accept such shares, or any less number that may be allotted to me, and I request you to place my name on the Register of Shareholders in respect of the shares allotted me. on the understanding that I come under no liability, fur preliminary expenses or otherwise, until the Court of Directors has been formed and the shares duly allotted. I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, Name in full Address in full Reference Date T HE LONDON AND LISBON CORK WOOI COMPANY (LIMITED). CAPITAL. £iCO,OO9, IN 20,000 SHARES OF £5 EACH. Deposit on Application 10s. per Share, and £2 on Allotment. No further call except at Three Months' Notice. Incorporated under the Companies' Act, 1862, by which the liability of each Shareholder is limited to the amount or his Shares. SIR HENRY J. LEEKE,D IRECTO K.C.B.,RS . K.H., M.P., Chairman, London. George Braginton, Esq., Director of the London and Pro vincial Marine Insurance Company, London Thomas Cotterell, Esq., Director of the Bank of Hindostan, China, and Japan, London. William Loeder, Esq., Messrs. Loeder, Knapp, k Co., Mer chants, New Broad-street, London. Michael Rimington. Esq., Banker, Torrington, London. Count de Penich e , P eer o f P ortugal, K.C, ~ Jul, Member of the Portuguese Legislature, Lisbon. Viscount de Montforte, Peer of. Portugal, K.C.C., Member of the Portue nese Legislaure, Lisbon Viscount da. Praya, Peer of t Portugal, K.C.C., Member of the Portuguese Legislature, Lisbon. Sent. M.M. Couto. D'Alberga. Freyre, Counsellor to H.M. the King of Portugal, ex-Member of the Cortes, K.C.C., K.T S., Managing Director in Portugal, Lisbon. (With power to add to their Number.) BANKERS. Messrs. Barnett, Hoare& and Co., 62, Lombard-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Lumley and Lumley, 2, SECRETARY. Moorgate-street Bank. Samuel Oldfleld, Esq. J oseph Sebag, Es q., IBROKER. 2, Throgmorton-street, Bank. AUDITORS. Messr& Johnstone, Cooper, Wintle and Co., 5, LothbllrY• 12, OFFICES. This Cora St. Benet's-place, Gracechurch-street. pany is f tugal, to carry on th ° e Coe tinder the highest auspices in Pot- Vantages that hitherto Trade on a large scale, with ad- The Directors hay have never been combined. terms of years, on hive a large monopoly in supply for most renowned Cork a p se r s od e i endin g over the largest and grant the sole right to take &erlnti district& These Leases lug as many as 15,000 to 30,0 0 Co rk Trees, forests, some contain rees, in the districts of Montemor, Evora, Arraiollos, Es re z. Portel, Vianna, and Fronteira, in the province of Aleni-r Jo. The title and extent of these Leases have been ver fled by an independent agent at Lisbon deputdd by the Solicitors of a London Bank. The South-Eastern Railway of Portugal will place this large district of Cork-producing country in immediate com munication with the Port of Lisbon. The Rkilwav is open to Vendas Nevas, and is about to be opened to St. Jago, and in the present year the Branch Lines to Evora and Beja will also be completed. The Directors have s df r 96yea rs ample land ad' • Lug the It ii 'Cllre o JOin a way Juncti necessary or the erection of vvarehooses d 'the Cork T rad e aother Buildings. strumentallt yoffi l e s at present carried • n through the in igraveos, persons who, travelling fr, in forest to forest,purchAa at great labour and exer the ground parcels of Cork,which, places, where it is prepParedeiotheY carry to Lisbon and ..ther export The money for these purchases is usually borrow dr e y them at high rates of in terest, frequently at 20 to 30 pe increasing the cost of the Cork 4 etehnits.,ithereby considerably The waste attending the preparationarelem of expense. e the . Cork for the market is about one-half. The Company having large dis tricts of Cork Forest, with a central depot at • the Railway Junction at St. Jago, and the establishments in the heart of this Cora-producing country, already in full work, at Azarnj a, Igrejinha, Alcacovas, and Portel, will be enabled to effect a large saving in the waste and transport alone, as t he cost of carrying Cork to th e c hi e f preparing and shipping ports, in a rough state, add s very considerably to the first Cork in the F ores t s, and the cos of the present large waste in prepar ing the Cork w i ll b e very greatly reduced in the amount. The For eats sewed by this Company now produce with the inadeiluate and imperfict means hitherto employed, the eestimated annual value of £12,500, in marketable Cork, as stablished by the average shipments of the produce during four years, and which it is calcuated will be in creased by the superior available means of I the Company to at l east double th e amount formerly obtained. The demand and consumption of Cr rk in England has increasedsince the year 1848 three hundred pe beycmcl the actual in ans pe r cent., and is still increasing far supply, thus o ff ering a certain basis for the pretitab e le ern Ol rent of capital. The Directors have sel7 estimated at 1,100 tonsure d,which" i t s y ear's j crop of Raw Cork, therefore enabled to commence busnePsrepaatration, and are sales of Cork which have already been ( fresctedfilloente' i ll i n e d c five pany's Stock, consisting of about 170 tons have realised about £4,390 net, in addition to which a cargo Do i tone, ex steamer Mavrocordatus, arrived at the Londoncks on the 15th of May. for the whole of the Leases, togetoion h The Purchase Money al, and the last y ear ' s with the Plant in Portugal, will not exce e d X36,00-o ang market, f Cork, now prep aring for Of this £B,lOO only being less than the estimated va l ue er Cork in hand , will be paid f or i n cash, the remainder is to b the Co rupany'S Plant and eak en in Shares of the Company half-paid up, with the same liability for calls as all °thee Shares. following statement for the The Directors will submit the the result. fir st year, with the greatest confid ence ence in Months The pi esent Crop will produce in London, within Six At l east 500 ton s o f C or k , o f an ave rage value of £3O p er t on Gross £15,000 0 0 At a cost o f —For Labour in Portugal,£3,ooo 0 0 ~ Part Rent 4OO 0 0 ~ Freight and L an di n g 2,000 0 0 ~ Rent, Salaries, &c l,lOO 0 0 --- 6,500 0 0 Estimated Commissio n on £8,500 0 0 Consienments expected by the call E e Company, sa £1,500. called uualp to 10i per cont. upon t h e entire Capital about to be The advantages posses-ed by this Company are 1. T of Country.he exclusiv e right o f taking Cork over a vast extent 2. 'I he co-operation of th e L anded Proprietors, Members of the Foreign Direction. 3. The present Crop of 500 tons, which is coming forward ha ve 1 rr,m already arrived in London and elsewhere) ; and at the first Public Sale of a part thereof; by Mr. T. SIDNEY SMITE, of N o. 42, Lombard -street, it realised considerably mere than the Price s rectors in the abov e St atement. fated by the Di- The- chief management of the affairs of this Company will be vested in the Directors in London, and subject to the fu ture control of the 'Shareholders. The Foreign Directors have stipulated that not less than 10 000 of the Shares (but includ i n g those Laid on purchase ac coUnt)s hall be offered for allotment to Subscribers in Portugal. If no allotment be made the deposits will be returned in full. Applications for Shares must bemade in the Form anneXed and accompanied by a Banker's Draft or to the Prospectus, cheque upon a Banker, for a deposit of 10s. per share. of Applica ti o n for Shar es maybe Prospectuses and Fornis ~._ obtained at the offices of the Company, a lso o f the Solicitors and Brokers of the Company, Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 v ols., T HIRD EDITION co "LOST AND SAVED." By the Hon. MRS. NORTON. Lost and Saved' will be read with ewier interest by these who love a touching story. It is a vi g orous novel. , " ' Lost and Saved' is a work of such rare excellence that it would create a stir among novel readers, even if it had not Mrs. Norton's name on the title page. It surpasses • Stuart of Dunleath ' in strength, delicacy , and finish."—Athenmum. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough' steeet. NOTICE.- MRS. HALLIBURTON'S TROUBLES.—A Cheap Edition of this popular Work, by the Author of " East Lynne," price 65., with Two Illu6trattons, IS NOW READY. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. This day is published, A NEW VOLUME OF CHRONICLES OF CARLINGFORD. Containing— THE RECTOR ; and THE DOC TOR'S FAMILY. Originally published in "Blackwood's Magazine." In Post Octavo. W. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London. MR. THOMAS ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE'S NEW NOVEL. In Three Vols., post Bvo., GIULIO MALATESTA. A N OVEL . By THOMAS ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE. [This Day. Chapmaaa. and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. NEW SPORTING NOVEL. In Three Vols., post Bvo., CHARLIE THORNHILL ; or, the Dunce of the Family. A Novel. By CHARLES CLARRE. [This Day. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. In post Bvo., 7s. (d., STRANGE THINGS AMONG US. By H. SPICER. [This Day. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. BERNAL OSBORNE. In Two Vols., post Svo., FALSE POSITIONS. By Mrs. OSBORNE. [Next Week. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. Three Vols., post Bvo., DEEP WATERS. A NOVEL. By Miss ANNA DRURY, [Now Ready. Author of "Misrepresentation " "Friends and Fortune," dc. " The story begins well. * * * If once taken up the book will be read through. * * * Some of the scenes are very forcible, and each character is nicely discriminated." Athenwum. Chapman and llall, 103, Piccadilly. Price Four Shillings, cloth, F 0 II E V E Or the Final State of the Redeemed Considered. " From first to last it is an awakening performance."— British Standard. "Written with much calmness and ability . . well de serves a perusal."—Baptist Magazine. "Many very good things to be found in it."—The Free man. "This earnest little work . . is deserving of the truest respect for its thoughtfulness, and for the fulness and re verentness of its inquiry into the scriptural teaching on its subject."—The Nonconformist. • -- "This very beautiful and consolatory volume." 7 -The Sun. "We commend this work."—Western Morning News. " The language is clear and forcible . . original ideas on the subjects which have perplexed many thoughtful per sons."—West Briton. "A work of much practical vaiue."—The Christian World. London : John F. Shaw and Co., 48, Paternoster-roW, and 27, Southampton-row. SAWYER'S FAMOUS LONDON DINNER FOR THIS DAY. At 2s. Bd. each Person. SOUPS. Asparagus. Vermicelli. FISH. Stewed Eels. Fried Soles. ENTREES. Rolarde of Beef ala Indinienne. Vol au Vols ala Toulouse. JOINTS. Roast Beef. Roast Mutton. SWEETS. S'ouffie au Riz. Cream Tartlets. Cheese and Salad. An extensive and carefully selected stock of FRENCH, RHENISH, MOSELLE, and other WINES, imported ex pressly for the London Dinner. THE LONDON, 191, FLEET-STREET. MADAME TUSSAUD'S.—A very fine Group, viz., Edward 111., Queen Philippa, and Edward the Black Prince—has been added to the Historical Collection in this Gallery, modelled from existing effigies, busts, and drawings. rr H 0 X F ORD, c,OXFORD STREET. Every Evening will be performed Selections from the following Operas : Verdi's LA FORZA. DEL DESTINO ; and Flotow's MARTHA. Supported by Miss Russell, Miss Townley, Arc.; Messrs. Albert, Green, Bernardi, Huish, Kimberley, and W. Evans, with full band and chorus. Conducted by Mr. Jonghmans. Drew Dean's Flute Solos IINSWORTH, the modern Demosthenes. Eugene, W. Randall, J. Hutehenson, and the mai venous ARTHUR BERTRAND. " These two Parisian clowns have carried the art of tumbling to apparently the highest pitch of perfection, and it is impossible even for the most staid of visitors to avoid being amused by their original gambols. They elicit shouts of laughter and applause."—Times, April 7, 1863. CANTERBURY HALL AND FINE ARTS GALLERY. NOTICE.— ENTIRE CHANGE OF ENTERTAINMENT. This Evening the Marvellous ARTHUR and BERTRAND, the Two Fren , It Clowns. ARTHUR LLOYD'S burlesque Drama, arranged expressly for him. A. B. HOLLINGSWORTH with his new Comicalities, &c• SAM COLLINS with his Songs. UNSWORTIT, the celebrated Stump Orator. EUGENE, DULEY, and G. HUTCHINSON. GRAND SELECTIONS CANTATAS.from OPERAS, GLEES, and Principal Artistes—Miss Signor Russell, Miss Townley ; Mr. Green, and Tivoli. Conductor, Mr. Jonglnans. Admission —Ball, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The RISARELIS. in addition to their other Rerformances, will give during the week a NEW ENTERTAIN kIENT, entitIeABELLOS A PERCHA SELLAS. . _ SPECIMENS OF BONUS ALLOTTED. —E. G. has paid £lB3 11,s. 3d. in Premiums towards his Policy for £1,500 ; £lO6 12s. id. Bonus has already (1860) been allotted to him. It. S. has paid £7 Os. in Premiums towards his Policy for £5O ; £6 2s. Ild. Bonus has already (1860) been allotted to him. ANNUITIES AND ENDOWMENTS GRANTED. Full Prospectuses, Proposals, and every information may be obtained from the Actuary in London, the Local Secretary in Manchester, or any of the Society's Agents. AGENCY DEPARTMENT. This Society, always desirous of extending its operations and connections, offers to influential residents in the towns and villages of the United Kingdom liberal allowances on business which they may be able to introduce. The services of Soli citors, Medical Men, Surveyors, Auctioneers, or Tradesmen of good local standing, are invited in the capacity of Pri vate or Public Agents. All applications to the Offices are treated as confidential. Prospectuses, Forms of Proposal, Almanacks, &a, forwarded post free. THE ONLY OFFICE WHOSE BONDS AND POLICIES OF GUA RANTEE ARE ACCEPTED BY THE TREASURY, CUSTOMS, INLAND REVENUE, GENERAL POST-OFFICE, VAR, AMU. RALTY, HOME, COLONIAL, INDIA, AND OTHER GOVERN MENT DEPARTMENTS. THE EUROPEAN ASSURANCE SOCIETY. `DIRECTORS IN LoNpor.T. HENRY WICKHAM WICKHAM, Esq., M.P., Chairman, John Cheetham, Esq., Stalybridge. John Field, Esq., Warnford Court, City. Charles Forster, Esq., M.P. for Walsall. Richard Francis George, Esq , Bath. Henry H. Harrison, Esq., Hamilton-place, St. John's-wood. Thomas C. Hayward, Esq., Minories and Ilighbury. John Hedging, Esq., Cavendish Club. James Edward M'Connell, Esq., Wolverton. C, W. Reynolds, Esq., Eaton-place, Belgravia. Richard Spooner, Esq., late her Majesty's Commissioner of Customs, Bomb , ,y. 11. Wickham Wickham, Esq., M.P. for Bradford. _ _ iihoYnLWriikfflOrth, ESq., tiresham Club, and Canonbury. J. P. Brown-Westhead, Esq., M.P. for York. Security is provided in approved cases for Officers of Bank intr and Commercial Establishments, Public Companies, Municipal Corporations, and for other places of trust. Life Assurance may be combined with Guarantee on ad vantageous terms. Prospectuses, Forms of Proposal, and every information may be obtained from the Chief Offices, 2, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London; and 39, George-street, Edinburgh. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. • Established 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. Accumulated and Invested Funds Annual Revenue. '422,101 FIRE DEPARTMENT. Insurances granted both at Home and in Foreign Countries on the most liberal terms. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Every facility offered to Insurers. Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers on the participating principle. The new Life business transacted in 1662 as follows : Policies. Amount Insured. Premiums. 1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0 Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished on application at the OFFICES : LoNooN 58, Threadneedle-street. 4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury. „ West-end Office 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Bating, Esq., M.P. I Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. Mutual LifP Assurance for all classes. This Association has tww in existence 6,000 policies, for a total sum of £1,500,000. Th e Annual income is .. £51 , 000 The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 210,t00 It has paid in Claims .. .• .. 112,000 The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among the Members. Three divisions have already been made' when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the policies Dec. 31, 1847 .• •• •• •• 1852 .. • • • • • • „ 1857 .. • • .. • • „ 1862 .. • • • • .. making the total bonus additions, £06,600. Bonuses may be received in cash or applied to the reduc tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an addition to the policy. Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid up policies introduced by this Association, by which the sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of a po icy is wholly avoided. The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all, whether assurers or otherwise. Active and influential akents will be appointed in unrepre sented districts. .. £5,400 .. 11,500 .. 23.200 .. 56,500 WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., May 1, 1863. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. — The a rea:: Spanish Gymnasts, RISARELIS and BALAGER, in Three separate Entertainments. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—The grace ful Madame ADAMS and the amusing CONE DE Clowns. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—Varied MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT, by Messrs. Parkin son, Vernon, Rieby, Bartleman ; Misses M`Gregor, Mrs. Brian ; Me s srs. Brian and Conley, Weiland, dm ARGYLL ROOM S.--JULLIEN'S PROMENADE CONCERTS. NOTICE. —During the Week the Selections will be—" II Trovatore "—" La Huguenots "—" La FOrza del Destino," &c., at Eleven o'clock. Jullien's Grand Descriptive Galop, THE DERBY, To be dedicated to the Owner of the Winning Horse. LEVY, the great wonder on the Cornet-a-Piston, plays from half-past Nine to Twelve. Admission, ls. AN Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of the Wonders contained in the LONDON ANATOMICAL MUSEUM sent post free fo r two stamps. Address the Necretary, 29, George •street, Hanover-square. N . EI D 0 OST E 0 GABRIEL'S Self - adhesive Patent Indest ru ctible without palates, RAL TE E Self-adhesive and FLEXIBLE GUMS, - Patent, March 1, 1862, No. One set lasts a bprings, or wires, and Without operation. °n TION and htetitne, end -WARRANTED FOR MASTIC , ma teriaIsARTICULATION, even when all others fail, Pares., only, at hall the usual cost. 56°. MINE- Messrs. GABRIEL. the old-established Delutiste, 27, lIARLEY-STREET, CAVENDISII-SQUARE; 34, LUDGAT E- RILL, LONDON ; 65, NEW -STREET, BIR MINGHAM; and 134, DUKE_ T, LIVE RPOOL. Complete Sets, 4 to 7 and 10 to 15 guineas. One Practical T re atise only required from cou ntry patient s . G a b r i el ' s grataulta tions free. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LE'iT}, %VHITE'S MOC-MAIN LE VER, T P ATENT. (PERFECTED AND EXIIIBITED IN TRUSS ExnrarrfoNs OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed b CIREAr Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to the most uPwards of nvention in the curative treatment of if >•: i.friveufive The use of a steel sprinit,, so often hurtful in its A. • s here avoided—a soft bandage being w orn ruri llts, body, while the requisite resilsting power is supplied by tir Hoc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease ind closeness that it cannot. be detected, and may be Worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 21e., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A. Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., end 520. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. 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Particulars by enclosing. stamp.-1, Ilatton-garden ; 57, Cornhill ; and 122, Regent-street. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. Sir F. Nicolson, commodore at Woolwich, yester day struck his flag, and left the dockyard on leave of absence. The duties of commodore will be per formed temporarily by Commander Lysaght, senior officer in succession. . One hundred petty officers and seamen were yes terday ordered to be held in readiness on board the flagship Fisgard, at Woolwich, to join the 20-gun corvette Cossack, at Sheerness. Lieut. G. Wilkinson, from her Majesty's survey ing ship Medina, Capt. Spratt, C. 8., ordered to be broken up at Malta, yesterday.reported himself at Woolwich, in fulfilment of orders to superintend the fitting out of the Hydra, about to take the place of the Medina in surveying service on the Mediter- ranean. The internal fitment and armour-plating of the Caledonia, at Woolwich, continue to progress most favourably. Yesterday the process of bending the stern-prates, which require a red heat, was carried out successfully by means of a new apparatus erected on trial. The " conning towers" erected on the quarter-deck, suggested by Mr. Turner, the rpose the slanting roof the attack of a ma st e r-shipwright of the yard, are completed. They are intended rtdpeadty. to be us t e h dtooppose pu consists of movable flaps, through which parties of riflemen could defend any part of the ship. The towers are built of 18-inch teak, and are covered with 41-inch timber painted black, to represent the armour-plating with which they are to be secured after her first voyage at sea. The burden of the ves sel will be 4,045 tons. Her 'tween decks will be 61-ft. in height, and her ventilation superior to that of any vessel now afloat. The hooks to support the hammocks are fixed on an improved principle, adopted by Mr. Turner, and applied only in the Caledonia, viz., made hot and shrunk to the iron beams, and are conse quently immovable, thereby remedying the inconve nience usually felt in the constant shifting of the hammocks at night. Her Majesty's screw steam gun vessel Colum bine, 4 guns, 669 tons, recently commissioned by Commander T. Le H. Ward for service in the Chan nel fleet, was taken for the final trial of her engines at the measured mile off Maplin Sands on Thurs day last. The vessel was in charge of Capt. Hall, C. 8., of the Cumberland, guardship of the Sheer ness steam reserve. Messrs. W. Rumble, inspec tor of machinery afloat, and G. Blaxland, chief engineer of her Majesty's dockyard at Sheer ness, were in attendance to watch the results. The vessel made six runs at full speed on the mea sured mile. The following were the results : Average speed 9.504 knots per hour, revolutions of engines maximum 107, mean 1035, pressure of steam 231 b., vacuum 23. Four runs were made at half-boiler, with an average speed of 7.541 knots per hour, the revolutions of engines being maximum 88, mean 80.5, vacuum 25, pressure of steam 20. The Columbine is fitted with direct action horizon tal engines of 150 nominal and 600 indicated horse power. She has a Griffith's screw, the pitch of which is 13ft., and the diameter 10ft., supplied by the Greenock Foundry Company. During the trial the machinery worked in a most satisfactory man ner, there being no priming or hot bearings. The vessel is also fitted with Lumley's patent rudder, to test the advantages of which a series of competitive trials were conducted some time ago, reports of hick appeared in The Sun, and which resulted in an advantage in favour of Lumley's over the old rudder by upwards of 50 per cent. On Friday the Columbine was again tested on the circle at full and half speed. At full speel, with helm to starboard 211 degrees, the time of turning the circle was 4min. 12 sec., the diameter of the circle being 23& yards ; with helm to port 22, 1 - degrees the time taken was 4 min. 29 sec., the diamet er being 318 yards. At half speed the helm to starboard 25 degrees, the time was 4 min. 27 sec., the diameter 212 yards ; helm to port 211 degrees, the time was 4 min. 59 sec., the diameter being 318 yards. The trial was considered most satisfactory. The name of the paymaster of the Sanspareil, who died during her passage home from China, is Mr. George Penfold, who was appointed to her on the 7th of June, 1862. The plans submitted to the Admiralty for the conversion of the 50-gun frigate Belvidera, now en the stocks at Chatham dockyard, to an iron-clad frigate of the Royal Oak class, from the designs of Mr. Lang, the master - shipbu ilder at that establish ment, having received the s anction of their lord ships, orders have been g i ve n for the converting of the Belvidera to be commen ced as speedily as pos sible. The alterations will necessitate the removal of the frame of the frigate from No. 4 slip on which she is at present standing, and her re•erection on No. 7 slip, which latter alone presents facilities for car rying on the construction of an armour-plated vessel. The following appointments were made yes terday at the Admiralty : W. B. Hutchison, paymaster, to the Eclipse, W. Hardie, engineer sup., to the Asia. Joseph Gray, Ist cla ss assistant en g ineer sup. , to the Fisgard. John West, to the Colu mbine. EWC. Victory; Smith, a e r s b e e c r o t n d i:,.w g alker, do., do.; John F. Barns, do., do.; W. C. S p ain, do., do. master, supernumerary to the THE ARMY. Highness the Field-M ars hal Com manding-in-Chief glna- Roya l ief will hold a Levee at 1 o'clock on Tuesday, tha 9th inst. On Friday his Royal Highness the Commander in-Chief paid a long visit to Aldershot, and reviewed al Highness arrived o'clock, accompanied at a largeparn bodyborFarnbo r ough troops. stat i 0 a li b i His R o o y by Lieut.-Col. Hon. R. Charteris, Aide-de-Camp, and Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Yorke Scarlett, K.C.8., A.G., and having proceeded to Cove-common, the manoeuvres commenced. The brigades, having marched past in open columns of grand divisions, formed up near Cove-wood,and the Royals advanced to the westward in skirmishing order, the remainder of the Ist Brigade forming the supports. The 2d Brigade, under General Bates, formed line and advanced, the 3d Brigade, under General Russell, composing the reserve. The troops advanced in this order for some distance, when they changed position to the left, and the 3d and 2d Brigades advanced in line, the former being covered by the 64th Regiment and the latter by the 60th Rifles, in skirmishing order. They then changed position half right, and marched to the bank of the Basingstoke Canal. The Royal Engineer train then advanced to the front and threw a bridge over the canal, performing their pontooning operations with commendations from the Commander-in-Chief. The as to elicit very hig h s p u o c n h t pontoons rapidi t y w r w e re r n e d m e o ffi v ®moved e f n r c o y m the waggons and for the passage of the troops in 13 minutes. Gen. fixed Russell's brigade, consisting of the Ist battalion 3d Buffs, the Ist battalion 24th Regiment, the 64th Regiment, and the Ist battalion 6th Regiment, passed over the pontoon in 20 minutes. After some further movements, the troops filed off to their respective quarters, and his Royal Highness pro ceeded to lunch with Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. L. Penne father, returning to London by the 120 train. The half-yearly inspections last week at Aldershott have comprised the following :—On Tuesday last Major- Gen. Russell inspected the Ist battalion 6th Regi ment (Royal Ist Warwickshire). The battalion, having marched past in slow and quick time, was put through the bayonet exercise. light infan try drill, and other mov emen t s , w hi c h were exe cuted in so satisfactory a manner that the Brigadier expressed his high approbation to the commanding officer, Col. Lowe, C.B. The Ist (Royal) Dragoons were inspected on Tuesday and Wednesday by Major-Gen. Hodge, C. 8., who expressed himself to Col. Wardlaw as much pleased with the soldierly bearing and general appearance of the regiment. In the previous week the Commissariat Staff Corps were inspected by Brigadier-Gen. Bates, who was much gratified with the efficiency displayed. De puty Acting Commissary-Gen, Marston put the detachment through the manual and platoon exer cise, after which it was put through several batta lion movements by Acting Commissary-General Fagan, and the company drill by Deputy Acting Commissary-Gen. Elkington. The school-hut at the top of the lines, South Camp, Aldershott, has been converted into a nursery, similar to that which has been established for some time, and with so much success, at Chatham. It is intended only for the children of soldiers married with leave, and is under the especial patronage of Lady Pennefather, assisted by the following committee of ladies : The Hon. Mrs. H. H. Clifford, Mrs. Gen. Hodge. Mrs. Col. Simmons, Mrs. Hugh Huleatt, Mrs. Col. Wilbraham Lennox, Mrs. Smith, and Mrs. Philip Twynam. The East Indiaman Copenhagen, 876 tons, Com mander J. R. Homab, belonging to Messrs. Allan Brothers, of London, arrived in the western Spit head channel yesterday morning with military invalids on board, from Calcutta. She sailed from Calcutta on the 7th of February, rounded the Cape of Good Hope on March 27, arrived at St. Helena on April 10, and sailed again on the follow ing day. She crossed the line on April 20. On board were Capt. V. Tonnochy, 81st Regiment (in military command), Mrs. Tonnochy, and three chil dren ; Lieut. Noyes, Royal Artillery ; Lieut. Betty, 2d Dragoon Guards ; Lieut. Loveridge, 54th Regt. ; Staff-Surgeon W. Sinclair, in medical charge ; Mrs. Sinclair and infant; 151 men, 5 women, and 8 chil dren. Four deaths occurred during the voyage. The troops were ordered to betransferred yesterday by Government tender to Netley Military Hospi tal, and on this being effected the Copenhagen would immediately resume her voyage to London. She has brought home a valuable cargo of indigo, rice, silk, logwood, and saltpetre. .The Orontes, screw iron troopship, Captain Hire, went into Ports mouth harbour yesterday, berthed alongside the dockyard, before being placed in dock to clean and afterwards coat her bottom with some protective composition. She possesses great carrying powers for her tonnage (2,812), and is said to be a Govern ment copy of the Himalaya, with the exception of being 641 tons less burden and 40 feet or so shorter. The deaths of the following officers have been officially reported at the War-office since the Ist of May :—Lieut.-Gen. S. M. Belsher ; Cola. G. V. Mundy, C. 8., 19th Regiment, and E. T. Tronson, 13th Light Infantry; Lieut.-Col. B. Groves, 12th Regiment ; Major A. M. Earle, 57th Regiment ; Captains R. N. Pedder, Bth Hussars ; F. E. Smal page, Royal Artillery ; A. D. M. Fleming, 44th Regiment ; J. Barton, 65th Regiment ; F. H. Elliot, 94th Regiment ; C. F. Holt, Gold Coast Artillery Corps ; D. Caulfield, 7th Royal Fusileers ; E. Paton (quartermaster), 42d Royal Highlanders. Lieu tenants H. T. Snooke, 10th Regiment; A. T. Edge, 2d West India Regiment; E. H. Hill, Royal Ma rine Artillery; R. Norris, 20th Dragoons; J. Mililinnon, 104th Bengal Fusileers ; and C. Brumby- Cornet M. Farrington, sth Lancers. Ensigns J. Cameron, 3d Provisional Battalion, and F. Dorn dorf, Bth Line Battalion. Surgeon E. W. C. King dom, M.D. Assistant-Surgeons J. Elliott, and E. Hallier, 37th Regiment. Purveyor W. Anderson. The Accident on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway. Up to a late hour last night no announcement had been made from the Military Hospital, St. Thomas's, or Streatham, of any death from the late accident in addition to those already reported: The most critical case is that of Tribe, the fireman, who still lies in a dangerous and almost hopeless condi tion, a large splinter of wood having been forced into the side of his head, and which with great difficulty was successfully extracted yesterday. Its removal gave him great relief. He suffers, however, from the infliction of severe blows on the forehead and burns and scalds over his body. The inquest on the engine -driver, Salmon, was formally opened before Mr. Carter yesterday, but the pro ceedings are adjourned to give time for the requisite investigation and evidence. The preliminary steps for this purpose were taken yesterday by Colonel Yolland, the Government Inspector, who, with Mr. Banister, the resident engineer of the company, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Francis, and other officers, minutely inspected the spot where the accident happened, with the view of reporting on it to the Board of Trade and the railway company. The directors also had a special board meeting at the London-bridge Termi nus, with a view to further the inquiry and obtain all possible information as to the probable cause of it. The company, in compliance with the Act of Parliament, have already sent in a report of the accident to the Board of Trade, upon which the board take action. Upon inquiry at the Grenaiier Hospital last night our reporter was informed that, with the exception of two of the sufferers, C. Lewis and J. Chapman, the unfortunate men were progressing favourably. The condition of the two men above-mentioned is, however, not so satisfactory. Lewis is suffering from a broken arm and severe injuries to his hand. Chap man has also an arm broken in two places. Both are exceedingly weak, and will require much care. John Gettins, one of eight men who were in the fourth carriage at the time of the catastrophe, being a married man, was permitted to leave the hospital yesterday. He has received several severe flesh wounds, but is now comparatively well. The fol lowing is his account of the accident : " When we left Eastbourne we proceeded very slowly till we reached Lewes, where the train started as an express, with about 30 carriages. As soon as we left the station our speed was increased to, I am sure, fully 50 miles an hour. We continued at this rate till we neared I think it is called Norwood station, where we stopped for a few minutes. During the journey to the station the carriage I was in rocked very much, and I remarked to one of my_ comrades " Th is is rough travelling.' The d train, itwas 1 believe, was due at 20 minutes past exactly that time when, we arrived at 6Noarnwood sta tion. We again started at the same speed and con tinued for about three miles, when the c arriage . 1 was in—namely, the fourth from the engine—gave three tremendous rocks, and at that moment the train pitched over to the left. A minute afterwards I found myse lf on my back, hemmed in by broken I got up a s best I could, and worked my wa y carr iages. saw the bodies of those wh o h a d been out. I then killed. The engine wus turned over, and the five succeeding carriages seemed to have sprung over it. The rails, too, were torn up and twisted like pieces of wire. Strange to say, n o t en person in the first carriage was hurt, while those in the second, third, and fourth were more or lass injured. The two poor fellows who were killed were riding in the fifth carriage from th e engi ne, I do not remember seeing SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—On Friday evening there happened one of those events which excite alarm and commisera tion even in these dap, when loss of life by accident is so frequent and on so large a scale. Tne express train from Brighton, proceeding at an immoderate speed, ran completely off the rails down an embank ment between Balham and Streatham, causing the death of four persons on the spot and inflicting wounds on 30 others, some of whom are still in danger. An accident of this kind, though it does not destroy life so largely as the wreck of an emi grant ship or an explosion in a northern colliery, has a deeper interest for the community at large. We do not all rush in swift steamers among the fogs and icebergs of Newfoundland; only a limited class tempt the mine, or the fishery, or the powder mill ; but railway travelling is part of the life of almost the entire nation. Every year a larger and larger number of persons are carried by train, for the most part over short but rather dangerous distances, from the hearts of great towns to spots in their suburbs. Thousands live a few miles from their husiness, and use the railway as their regular means of convey ance. To all of those the late accident must come home forcibly, for they hear of a train, without any fault in the engine or the rails, without any mis taken signal or unremoved obstruction, being dragged down an embankment, and the carriages shivered to pieces, with 30 wounded victims lying among the fragments. They learn that the cause of this excessive effort was the fact that the train, which had left Brighton at 5 o'clock, was actually 20 minutes late at Croydon, having arrived at that place at 20 minutes after 6 o'clock instead of at 6 o'clock; in other words, that an express train was 20 minutes late on a journey of a single hour. As to the precise details of the accident we must await the investigations that are being made. All that is known has already been stated in the newspapers. The accounts vary as to the number of carriages, but it appears that the train was a large one, as no less than 16 passenger carriages formed part of it. There were about 200 men of the Grenadier Guards, who were returning from a course of rifle practice at Eastbourne. As soon as the train left Croy don it went at excessive speed, and one of the wounded soldiers states that the jolting was such as to be noticed by all the men in his carriage. It passed the Balham station in safety, but just after wards the engine left the rails, taking with it the whole train. The boiler of the locomotive exploded, and the whole train, both locomotive and carriages was mixed in one mass. The unfortunate Guards suffered most. Two were killed, and there are 28 of them in the Grenadier Hospital. Col. Burnaby, who was in command, showed much coolness and resource. He formed all his effective men, as soon as he could get them out of the carriages, in two lines, and employed them, in good order and without panic, in extricating the sufferers. One lady was killed, and several of the passengers, including the Rev. Canon Cureton and his family, were seriously hurt. No wonder that such an occurrence as this should receive some notice in Parliament. Lord Brougham thinks that the pro per way to prevent such accidents is to limit the speed of trains to 25 or 30 miles an hour. From this proposal we need hardly say we dissent. We hope that with the progress of science and enterprise trains will not only travel as fast as now, but increase the facility of communication by rates of speed hitherto unattained. Experience has shown that with proper care in driving, with well-constructed locomotives, and well-laid rails, there is little danger in the very highest rates of speed. The legislation which should pretend to limit the advance of science would be certainly disregarded. We do not wonder that the mer cantile men in Lord Brougham's Congrees were opposed to any such interference as his Lordship recommended. The true point was touched, by the other speakers. It is probable that the late acci dent happened because an excessive speed was put on a train in an incautious manner and at an improper place, in order to make up for a most in excusable unpunctuality. This is the matter to which attention must be directed, if there is to be legislation at all. We know the advantages we enjoy over the Continent in the superior average speed of our trains, and we have no wish to make invidious comparisons. But any traveller in France, for instance, must contrast the exact ness of French railway timing with the scanda lous unpunctuality of the English lines. It may be said of some of the lines out of London that for a train to arrive at its destination at the time promised is rather the exception than the rule. While a traveller from Paris to Calais or Lyons, or even Marseilles, may be almost certain to be put down at the terminus with the greatest exactness, no one can travel 50 miles on the lines we speak of without preparing to be 10 minutes, 15 minutes, or perhaps 20 minutes late, and correspondingly with greater distances. On ordinary occasions this is productive of simple inconvenience and disappoint ment, should any one be so simple as to think that on coming up from a town on the south coast he will be able to catch another train in London, or do some particular business before a certain time. But every now and then more serious consequences fol low. If Parliament is to interfere at all, it should be to force the companies to keep better time. There is no danger in a train going 40 or even 50 miles an hour at a proper place, but such "spurts" as a driver sometimes makes to remedy his own or somebody else's delay cannot but be full of peril. POST.—The population of the Northern States are certainly not unanimous in the desire to substi tute a military despotism for free institutions. The arbitrary arrest of Mr. Vallandigham, a citizen of the State of Cincinnati, and his trial and conviction before a military tribunal, have not been allowed to go unchallenged. In New York, the metropolis of the union, one of the most numerously attended of the many " monster" meetings which have been convened in that city since the commencement of the war has passed a series of resolutions denounc ing the conduct of the Administration in respect to Mr. Vallandigham's arrest and trial, whilst the Governor of the State of New York has written a letter in which the manifest illegality of the acts complained of, and the consequences to which they must inevitably lead if allowed to pass unques tioned, are pointed out in language which must carry conviction to the minds of all. It is one of not the least curious of the many strange phenomena to which the present war has given rise, that a nation which not only enjoyed but had secured for itself by its own prowess the institutions which distinguished the American Government could so readily have submitted to the reported outrages intliot.ehde past it by the weak Administration which, h fo e r r historian two years has conducted its affairs of the Presidentship of Abrahams,Li fienancial schemes chronicling disastrous campaign coin, when not onver o - f for conducting expensive tible paper currency, or unfolding t a h n e details in e jobbery, may fill his administrative corruptions vinafroaldwinigth tances in which Mr. pages with with the t and arrogated to them corn and his a dv in is a e ny is 'tnrampled under foot the laws they were bound to r oper) , se lves powers whose exercise belonged alone to th e Legislatur e of the Republic. It were now ne e dl ess to re iterate the various unconstitutional acts com mitted by the President and acquiesced in by the American nation. The first battle had not been foug ht between the North arid South at B u ll R un before Forts Warren and Lafayette were filled with prisoners accused of no definite crime, and who in vain demanded their trial according to the laws et their country. Later in the war the Habeas Cor pus Act was suspended by proclamation, and the entire area of th e Northern States from the waters of Lake Sup er i or to the Gulf of Mexico, declared to he subject to martial law. On the Ist of January the President, of his own mere motion end by a stroke of his pen, usurped the power which legiti mately belonged to the several State legislatures alone, arid afected to emancipate the entire slave Population of the Southern States. And still the people of the North patiently submitted. From time to time a few of the organs of the press pro tested against this assumption of power, and mass meetings passed resolutions condemnatory of the policy of the Executive. But neither leading articles nor resolutions availed to arouse from their apathy a people which seemed bent alone on collecting the Treasury notes which a profligate Government scat tered about in boundless profusion. Whether it was that a pure despotism possessed the charms of .2 7 a)-r -7:11 -7717- FM ';)• Ara; .a-a - a.:e., aa, , i a:AT- s. i l ,-4 4 novelty for a free people, or that the inhabit t i ± T ti t !Vara-aa Vaa 1, 1 . 1. ,' :1 ....4 1. j the Northern States were too busily engaged a r 1 • 1 7 iArt‘'-',4, ; 7;:p.. ~i ro ing money to.trouble themselves about the s. ;Otyisiy I._iir'r,,/,..,...;-,/ of their poll institutions, is doubtful; buQliiii47,-.11.An fact of Mr. Lincoln and his Ministers having re a-1 il s tained office during two years cannot but excite the astonishment of posterity, as it has undoubtedly surprised the present generation of observant poli ticians. It would seem now, however, either that the Federal executive has ventured a little too far, or that the popular sentiments on the subject of arbitrary government have undergone a change. The results of the elections of last autumn were to substitute a number of Democrats for Republicans, and in New York the administ ration failed to obtain the election of State officers belonging to its own political faction. At all events the Dereocrntic party are evidently determined not to allow military tri bunals and martial law to take the place of civil courts and civil jurisdiction. In the person of Mr. Vallandigham they considered the rights and liber ties of every American citizen to be assailed, and in denouncing the illegality of the treatment to which he has been subjected they protest against the erec tion of a precedent which would, if acknowledged, invest tlo Executive with absolute power. If any one who, like Mr. Vallandigham, thought proper et a public meeting to comment in strong, but what in this country would not be deemed repre hensible, language on the policy of the Adminis tration, could be arrested, tried by drum-head court-martial, and sentenced to be confined in a penal settlement for two years, there would of course be an end to all public meetings whatever in which the action of the overnment sulied the theme for discussion. T G he Northern popppula tion, however, are not prepared to abandon the right of canvassing the policy of a chief magis trate whom they have elected for a brief period, or to grant to his soldiers the right of prescrib ing the exact limits within which they may dis cuss the possible future to which they are being conducted by a man who, in any event, must in two years' time sink into obscurity. HERALD.—CoI. North's motion for a royal com mission on the subject of Army Prize is postponed, we understand, until June 23. We earnestly hope it will not be deferred beyond that period, and that this important topic will then be fully discussed. It is certain that in this matter very searching inquiry and extensive reforms are imperatively demanded. The cruel delays which attend the present system of distribution, the secret manner in which claims are investigated, the variable and inconsistent princi ples which in some instances determine the decision of the authorities, have made the existing practice odious in the eyes of all military men, and have compromised to a more than usual extent the jus tice and integrity of the British Government. It is notorious that under the present system no secu rity or assurance is given to the soldiers of realising even after years of protracted solicitation, the fruits of their own conquests and achievements. Army prize is declared to be distributable not by law or precedent, not by any settled principle of justice, but simply at the discretionary, that is to say, the arbitrary will of the Government of the day. It happens accordingly that one general may be per mitted by the award of the Minister to receive the exclusive benefit of his own captures, and also to take the lion's share of the booty captured, inde pendently, and at a great distance, by another officer. Others, with stronger claims, preferred under analogous conditions, are neither permitted to share in the good fortune of their comrades nor to take much benefit from the spoil acquired by their own corps d'artnee. It may be that the Government, in such contradictory decisions, dis cerns, or fancies that it discerns, special circum stances which tend to justify its apparently in consistent course. Yet so long as the facts of the case are not made manifest by public inquiry, and established by open and unimpeachable testi mony, it is impossible that the world out of doors can appreciate the equity of the judgment, and suspicions of favouritism will inevitably be sug gested and received. It is from the absence of all judicial procedure in the distribution of mili tary prize that the army feels itself specially aggrieved; in cases of naval capture the claims of those entitled to share are speedily and equi tably determined by a legal tribunal. Hence it is that we hear of no such interminable discus sions with respect to maritime prizes as those which, on some well-known occasions, have made the con tention for army prize money so notorious. The judgment of the Court of Admiralty is given pub licly, upon evidence fairly and openly examined, and in conformity with certain fixed principles and rudiments of prize law. But the claims for military booty are not investigated openly. Infor mation is conveyed to the authorities by private and occult channels. Ex parte statements, and, in some instances, untrue data, are laid before them, and are perhaps accepted without being submitted, even for the most cursory examination, to the opposing parties. It is quite possible, under the present system, that falsified documents and other frauds may be employed to the injury of the actual captors of the booty, who, from being kept in ignorance of these devices, must be wholly powerless to counteract them. Now, if we do not go so tar as to say that some or other of the Minis terial bureaux must necessarily be willing dupes under such circumstances, yet we must say that so long as they allow themselves to decide upon pri vate testimony, they must be held responsible for the greater share of the injustice. What would be said of a court of law if it allowed one party to plead openly, and subjected its witnesses to cross examination, but received all the evidence from the other side with closed doors, and finally pro ceeded to judgment in accordance with the tenor of these secret representations ? Still more, what would the whole country say if these secret repre -1 sentations should subsequently be found in some important particular to be essentially incorrect ? Would such a tribunal exist for a week after so damaging an exposure of its incompetence or in justice? Yet we believe that prize-money justice is, under the existing system, occasionally admi nistered under some such inconveniences as we have just suggested, and any preliminary measure which promises in any way to correct such a state of things will certainly be supported by public opinion. No doubt we shall be told that this is entirely a matter of prerogative, and that military booty is altogether at the disposal of the Crown. This position it is not our present intention to contest, though the point seems open to some controversy, for we remember that in 1843 Mr, Hume denied the right of the Crown, inasmuch as it no longer paid the expenses of the war, to dispose of army prize money without the concurrence of Parliament. But, without discussing the accuracy or unsoundness of this opinion, we cannot allow that secret procedure or jadgment contrary to the evidence is a natural and necessary part of -the Royal prerogative. If the Crown declares that prize money shall be granted to those who can establish a right to share in it, this promise, it seems to us, ought to signify that the investigation shall be fair and open, that the decision shall be in accordance with precedent , and that in points of difficulty the opinion of the legal authorities shall be received wit apte e . o . ii i - s sideration. If this is not the existing pce it time that Parliament should interpose in . orderons of protect her Majesty's name from store injustice. __.-....................• to NEW CONVENT AND GIRLS' SCHOOL. —Cardinal Wiseman yesterday opened a new convent and girls' school in Albert -place, Spite Welds, adjoining the Roman Catholic Church of that locality. There was a large attendance of Roman Catholic clergymen from diffe rent parts of London. After the religious ceremonial a dejeuner took place, at which the Hon. Charles Longa - ale presided. After the usual toasts Catrhdeiuraal P i l d Viseman ad o N o vorship and e d uca ti on . increase in :t h r e e s n se u d m the ber 11(:feobtuinilgdingIsi edevo t ed ed t t Ho a cknowledged that much kindness and good feeling had been shown in many localities by liberal minded Protestants towards Catholic clergymen engaged in the effort to provide education for the poor. MAILS FROM AM ERICA DUE THIS NV EEL—. The Liverpool, N ew Y ork, and Philadelphia Steam ship Company's screw steamer City of New York, which was to sail front New York on the 23d ult. with the United States' mail, will be due at Queenstown in the course of tonight. The Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's screw steam' Bohemian, with the Canadian mail, which was to kayo Quebec on the 23d ult., is expected at Lon donderry in the course of to-night. The Cunard steam ship America, with the mails from Halifax and Boston on the 27th and 28th ult., will be due on Sunday at Queens town. ANOTHER FATAL ACCIDENT THROUGH FIRE. — Information has been forwarded to the coroner for Surrey of the death of Miss Anne Moore, lately residing at Chapel-street, Newington, which occurred under the following painful circumstances : —lt appears that the do e •ased, who was an invalid, got out of bed to sit by the fire, and while in this position it is. supposed that a spark flew out of the grate and sot fire to heheight-idress. 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