The Sun. — London, England, 1863-09-09 00:00:00

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AY NEXT, the 10th inst., at Twelv - 0 01- - cisel v • L oon both t part et to. wing ister, 863. Re the F John a m to h e cir 3,,,priot 1g • her -I am, CON. York pletely i vons gassing i D ar - ies for t right r train. Theca 0, and it per buffers Dower - close of the )f oils to s engCr I gell" con ,, l l° cried but r jour° Ives Of in line iperin ts stag which blame This mines, in the o ning, ay tor'o nam ed n• Gale bow nshiug y from ossing. rriving g iitfui► aggons e cu" le la" o'cl4aLlk eive .rely, to co ns id er of a Dividend. This will man be on ere e of the Qu ar t erly General Courts appointed by the Charter. HAMMOND CHUBB, Ass.'istant Secretary. "we of tded to )out 4d d pea s quiet. stone. to 3 ‘ ,, 35 per 4' QEA.—V A C ANCIES for .t,..7 APPRENTICES in a fire.-elass London shipping firm. - VIIDST-lIPMEN end -rremiuto moderate. Aloo `..toprentices without premium.— APply to SIMMONDS ar,d Co.. 38, St. Mary-at-hill, East cheap, EC Third Qtr ..d and Stewards wanted. NORTH lIRITISH AND AIERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1809. I ncorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parl4rnent. AAccumulated and Invested Funds nnual Revenue.... ......... 422,401 FII;E DEPARTMENT. lasuran, es eranted both at Home and in Foreign Countries on Luc most liberal terms. LIFE DEPARTMENT. Eve 1 7 facility offered to Insurers. o t i" ti a qY per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers the participating, principle. The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows: Policies. Amount Turured. Premiums. 1,037 £763,334 £23,041 0 0 Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished 134 application at the OFFICES : LONDON 58, Threadneedle-street. 4, New Bank Buildings. Lothbury. West-end Office B, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000. The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was 05,062, and the amount insured on farming stock, £10,086,332. A bonus of three-fifths of the profits periotcally made to rutrties insuring, who have thus, from time 'co time, received bums amounting in the aggregate to £440,0'd0 ; and the Society now holds a large Reserve applimble to. a future Bonus. The rates of premium are in no case higher than those charged by the other principal ofkees making no returns to their insurers. For pro'pectuses apply at The Society's Offices, Surrey street, Norwich ; and 6, CreFltent, New Bridge-street, Black friars, E.C. T HE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. MEAD OFFICES, 29, L ombard - street, London, and Royal Inenrance buildings, LiverpoeL Total Almnal Revenue exceeds £500, 0 10. Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000. Chairman in Liverpool : CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman in London : WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. txry, RAcrs FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR enlitna 1862. ca led ihe Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now bleetin g upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the of its Shareholders. BRANCH. T he Directors have, as FIRE pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the cl ose 0' the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire Pre miums have not only reached, but exceed £3 00 , 000 . The hioi comparative position held by the Royal in the Government Returns of Duty is again fully maintained. 'n4,:fhe profit of the business of the year exceds considerably p ,e a mount realised in the precedaig year, e and in fact sur passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the comm encement of thi. Office, the balance to the credit on t ace -ount of Briti s h an d F ore i gn I nsuran ce s being £45,107 10s. d a " of the North American business, which is kept sepa rately, £11,097 16s. 10d. 17s 0 os 63 r 18s Od r 20s Od • 17 8 n 6, i 3 5 6 s 3 2 8‘, 01 3780 a No. 22,215. MRS. GREY'S NEW NOVEL. Just ready, in 3 vols., G o 0 D S ocIET Y. Ey MRS. GREY, _ Author of " The Gambler's Wife," .tc. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. NEW NOVEL by the Author of "COUSIN GEOFFREY." Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 volt., LEFT TO THEMSELVES. By the Author of "Cousin Geoffrey," " A very touchirm story. It is one of the most clever boons of the season."—United Service Mag. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborottgli-street. ZADKIEL'S ALMANAC for 1864. Price 6(1. Fiftieth Thousand. Contains a full Report of the Action for Libel and Verdict gained by the Editor. Stinging reply to the Critics of the Press. Letters from the late Prince Consort to Zadkiel ! London : G. Berger, Holywell-street, Strand, London. FGYPTIAN HALL.-NR. J. K. LORD, F.Z. S.. Nightly in his popular Entertainment entitled " AT HOME IN THE WIL D ERNESS." , I'HE SUN ? LONDON, WEDAESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 9, 1863. Admission-55., 35., 25., is. T"E 0 x.FORD, e, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, wiil be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean dm. Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any oilier man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson. Also, a Performance by Herr SCIIALKENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ed. ; stalls and balcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In ord er to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pepper and Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, " THE GHOST," from the Picture Gallery to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affordinc , a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal cony, and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im provements at Ten EACH LIFE BRANCH. The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to state the sum assured on n-w policies for fhe year 1P62 exceeds even that of the yesr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived 4 ,,t , the a l most unexamp l e d amoun t f or a sing l e y ear o f ' 701 427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last fe w Years it is believed that such a sum Immured as that which hasas just been announced as the result of one year's business W all but unheard of. This portion of the Company's business has been carefully Watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the Shareholder as well as no small encouragement for the f uture to the participating, life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum proposed for assurance A mounts to £ t 43,281. Various degrees of Ineligibility have led to these lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis sible in a single year from deterioration of some kind or another. HEALTH OF LONDON. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The GHOST ! The GHOST ! ! The ONLY COMIC GHOST !! ! —The beautiful FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—A Grand Divertissement by Signora Rachele and Mariannina and Signor Guiseppe Francesco, assisted by a corps of Twenty young Ladies—Selections from favourite Operas : Principals, Miss M.`Gregor, Mr. Albert, Signor Georgini, and Mr. Vernon Rigby. (Prom the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) In the week that ended last Saturday (Sept. 5), the deaths in London exhibited a considerable decrease; they fell to 1,232, which is a lower number than any that has been re• turned since the first week of July. The chief decrease in the mortality arose from diarrhoea which fell from 181 to 120 ; whilst the deaths from small pox, scarlatina, diphtheria, whooping-cough, and typhus were about the same as the previous week. More than one half of the mortality during the week occurred to the younger portion of the population, viz., to 704, who were under 20 years of age ; 326 were between 20 and 60, and 201 at 60 years and upwards. A gardener is recorded as having died at the advanced age of 97 years. Last week the births of 925 boys and 933 girls, in all 1863 children, were registered in London. In the ten correspond ing weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number (cor rected was 1,830. METROPOLITAN WATERS IN AUGUST, 1863 The domestic waters of London, according to the analyses of Dr. Robert Dundas Thompson, F.R.S., contain rather more organic and total impurity than in the preceding month, the most striking examples being illustrated by the Kent and Lambeth companies. The Thames water at London-bridge at high water has been highly charged with impurities and sea water, three experiments having yielded a mean of 232.67 deg. of total, and 2638 deg. per gallon of organic impurity, while the amount of ammonia from the sewage was •748 grains per gallon. One of the wells in St. Maiylebone contained as much as 2.72 grains ammonia per gallon, an evidence of the large admixture of sewage with which it is contaminated . NICOSI A, the Great Violinist, will make his Third Appearance in England THIS EVENING and Every Evening, at the ALHAMBEA. Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7, Total impurity Organicim per gallon. purity. gni. or deg• grs. or deg. Distilled Water 0•0 0.0 Loch Katrine water, new supply to Glasgow 2.35 . 605 Manchester water supply Upper Marylebone-street Well 106•40 7 . 60 Thames at London-bridge.. 23 2 .67 26.38 THAMES COMPANIES. Chelsea Southwark West Middlesex l6/2 1 . 36 Grand Junction 1 6 .64 1 . 60 Lambeth OTHER COMPANIES. East London New River Kent The table is read thus—Loch Katrine water contains in the gallon 2'35 degrees or grains of foreign matter in solution, of which '605 degrees or grains are of vegetable or animal origin. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.700 in. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 57'8 deg., W hi c h is 0.9 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The highest day temperature occurred on Sunday, and was 72.1 deg. The lowest night complete temperature was 45 . 2 deg. on Tuesday. The range o f tem perature in the week was therefore 26.9 deg. The mean daily range was 17.1 deg. The difference between th e mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 714 deg. saturationTh e mean be degree ing represented by o 1 f the oo. ai The r was wind76l;as chiefly from the south-west, and rain fell heavily on Friday and Saturday. -...„ ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Th , se elrgant Rooms, entirely and costly redecorated, are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. The musical department is under the directorship of Mons. Jullien, conductor of the band. This celebrated band will be called for the future "The London Band." Manager of the Rooms—M. GRENET. Sole Lessee, R. It. BIGNELL. Admission, ls. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Naval and Military Intelligence. ---..,.—_- THE NAVY. The Speedwell gunboat, 428 tons and 80 horse power, now fitting for service in the inner basin at Woolwich, was yesterday commissioned by Mr. G. Metter for Commander George Cottam, late of the Recruit, the officers and crew of the latter vessel having been transferred to the Speedwell. The crews are berthed for the present on board the re ceiving ship Salsette, as the Speedwell is not ex pected to be ready for sea before the end of October. Her armament will consist of 0133 68-pounder, 95cwt. pivot gun, two 24-pounder howitzers, and two 20-pounder Armstrong guns. Commander Cottam has borne the brunt of much hard and dan gerous service. His appointment to the gunboat Speedwell is therefore a matter of surprise, and is accounted for on the supposition that the Speed well is the only vessel of that class now to be com missioned, and that the gallant Commander's ser vices will be requited shortly by his removal to a more honourable command. ESTABLISHED 1833. 111 OWDEN'S IERATED GINGER BEER, in , lass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, Potass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Wate rs. — Manufactory, No. 3, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.c. If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more rapid than that of any other Company established either in Lond3n or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken place. The returns 01 duty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evidence needless. The Directors conclude their present Report with the expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal Insurancu Company were never brighter, and of a consequent hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the Office with a let.gthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. \R" HARPER TWELVETREES' GLYCERINE SOAP POWDER makes its own Soap, and saves one-half of time, two •third 4 of Soap, and Viree-fourths of labour! Patentee : Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley .by-Bow, London. Sold by Grocers, Druggists, and Oilmen. TEA.-MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced to 3s. 2d. ; S'ouelionc, reduced to 3s. ed. ; m i xe d A ssam, re duced to Sd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 9s. 4d. to 3s. lid, per lb. MOORE BROTHERS, 33, London-bridge, City, E.C. Adventure, for the undermentioned colonial sta tions :—Two non-commissioned officers and 70 gun ners for Canada ; 10 men for Nova Scotia ; and one sergeant and 30 men for Bermuda. A party of 13 non-commissioned officers and sappers of the Royal Engineers will proceed from Chatham garrison with the detachment of the Royal Artillery, which will be under the command of Capt. T. A. de Mo leyns and Lieut. J. Alleyne. Yesterday Lieut. E. Johnson, Lieut. M. H. Haye©, Lieut. E. F. Cam bier, Lieut. H. Roberts, and Lieut. F. B. Knox, of the first division of the D3pot Brigade, left head quarters and proceeded to Woolwich, where they embark with draughts of Royal Artillery, under orders to proceed to India for service in the Madras Presidency. Some important trials were made at Chatham yesterday with • a pair of the new description of military pontoons which have been introduced into this country from Austria, the object being to test their buoyant powers under every variety of circum stances. For this purpose the two pontoons tested were floated up the Medway to the Ordnance-wharf, where the trials were made by a numerous party of officers and men of the Royal Engineers, acting under the instructions of Lieut.-Col. Louell, C. 8., one of the heads of departments at the Royal Engineer esta blishment. The peculiarity of the Austrian pontoons tried yesterday is that their shape is altogether dif ferent from that of the ordinary Blanshard pontoon in general use in the British army, which re sembles a huge cylinder, and being formed of zinc, or some other equally light metal, and made perfectly watertight, is possessed of extreme buoy ancy. The shape of the Austrian pontoons is ex actly that of the flat-bottomed river barges, and the material of which they are composed is, thin plate iron firmly riNetted together. The length of each is 26ft, and width sft 6in, with a depth of about 3ft. The weight of the pontoons used in the trials yes terday was not stated, but it was believed to be be tween one and two tons each. When brought up to the wharf to receive the ordinary planking they were found to be exceedingly buoyant, but at the same time rather unsteady. Eight or ten Royal Engineers, all of whom were first weighed, were ordered to enter each pontoon, when scarcely any difference could be observed in their draught of water. Preparations were next made for form ing a raft, and a number of old 42-pounder solid shot, weighing, in the aggregate, nearly three tons, were placed on the planking in a solid pile, in addition to which about a ton weight of the cast-iron skidding used in transporting the heavy guns was also shipped. The total weight placed on the pontoons, inclusive of that of the officers and sappers, was probably between five and six tons, but as the pontoons are stated to be capable of sustaining a dead weight of 5601 b. to the foot, this had little effect in bringing them down to the depth anticpaced. With the planking stores, &c., on board, the unsteady motion previously ob served altogether ceased, and the raft was almost motionless in the water. The trials yesterday left no doubt as to the exceeding buoyancy of these pon toons, but the grave objection to their use will be their unwieldly shape and character, and the diffi culty which must exist in transporting them as part of the materiel of an army. This could be in part obviated by forming each section of the pontoon into a kind of waggon, placed on'wheels, easily removable when the pontoon is required for aquo.iic operations. Their great depth would render them well adapted for the stowage of stores. The steam storeship Industry, Master Comman der Yonel, has returned to Woolwich from her trial trip after repairs, and is under orders to sail this morning in charge of Mr. Barns,Admiralty pil o t, at 5 o'clock, on her voyage forAhe West Coast of The only Africa. On going down to Woolw ich from the Vic tualling-yard at Deptford, she wa s struck by a in jurybrig , thewhich Industrywa s seriously u da ma ged.unstained was the destructio n o f her lifebuoy, which was rep lace d at Woolwich. The sailing s hip Rosabund, Captain A r th ur Symmers, yesterday made fast inside the T pier at Woolwich Arsenal, and commenced shipping 16 12- pounder Armstrong guns , wa ggons , and complete nance at Montrealsforthe4t7th, and 10th 4th, and Queb e c . battery brigad ppeuaßuuyratie Artillery The Pelorus, 21, screw co r v e tte, 1 ,464 tons, and The 400-horse power, ordered by the Board of Admi ralty to be commissioned immediately, at Devon port, tf o r 2 D t 6 , eo b v y oo fan Copt.puoerrt s i a H au Boys,edlnBmrsy67,anTdwas first comm i ss i one d h Pelor us was l aunched will have a co m pl emen t at that port by Capt. F. B . P. Seymour in July, 1 1 0 8 w 5 i 7 u , and g, au d sailed w a s emp l oyed from u England uth e East India, China, i n September fol and Australian stations until paid off in December, 1862. In March last she was placed in the north basin at Keyham, to have her machinery taken o u t, preparatory tt of dock oherd in Juneetectsbein g made good. She was and was masted on the 13th of Jaly, and returned to Keyham to be rigged, stored, and armed for the Ist class reserve. She made a trial of her machinery on the 28th of August, and returned into harbour. Capt. Boys served in the Edinburgh, 72, as midshipman, and was much applauded during the operations on the coast of Syria, and was wounded at the bombard ment of St. Jean d'Acre. After further serving on particular service at the Cape of Good Hope, on the coast of Africa, and on the south-east coast of America, on the 14th of May, 1853, he was pro meted to the command of the Express, 6, on the last-named station, and paid her off in September, 1856. He obtained post rank on the 17th of October, 1857. CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS. Shipbuilding for the Confederates. PRICE..... -.. 4 th STAMPED ....sd. THREE FEDERAL CHIEFS. (From the new number of "All the Year Round," just published.) SECRETARY WILLIAM SEWARD. his hair, Mr. Seward may be forty-eight or fifty ; a little in disorder, is light mingled with grey ; his eyes, deep sunk beneath his eyebrows, are small, but very sharp; his aquiline nose presents a very decided curve ; his whole countenance reveals clever ness and intellect. Ho is an excellent companion, very merry, very lively, and familiar from the first shake of the hand. His manners are so free and cast', that they almost excite suspicion at the outset. One is apt to believe that craft cannot help lying hid behind so frank an exterior. But such is not at all the case. Mr. Seward is a capital fellow, very open, and a bit of a joker. Everybody knows, too, that although Mr. Lincoln is at the head of the Government, the real man of importance, the verit able chief of the Republican party, is Mr. Seward. Rich, independent, gifted to a high degree with the impassioned, aggressive, boastful, facetious elo quence which pleases Anglo-Saxon meetings, he early acquired great popularity, When the Republican party had to choose a candidate for the presidency, Mr. Seward's supporters were sufficiently numerous to cause alarm. By a clever decision he avoided the risk of a check. He offered his support to Mr. Lin coln. The move succeeded, and he took for himself the next post after the presidency—the secretary ship of foreign affairs. He speaks no language besides English, and knows little about Europe; although he has the habit of saying with an em phasis which is some what comic, that he spent se veral years at the principal European Courts to acquire the art of governing men. PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN. A few minutes after Mr. Seward's entrance, Mr. Lincoln made his appearance. His stature is so much above the average that he might be styled a giant, were not the word—the expression of strength and power in the biblical and mythologi cal senses—now confined to the vocabulary of tum blers and showmen. His countenance bears no marked character, but approaches to the Celtic type of Auvergne, with a long head and a sharp nose. His hair is very black, as is also his beard, coming to a point after the American fashion. If this physiognomy expresses benevolence and frank ness, his attitude and manners are those of a modest, nay, a timid person. Perhaps his embarrassed ad dress—which communicates itself to those with whom he converses—is nothing more than the diffi culty experienced by men of his height in conceal ing it a little, and maintaining their equilibrium. GENERAL M'CLELLAN. wheat, stone; 38 st. ; qr. for 9cl and s. d. 0 ;01 30 026 6 0 14 0 o 20 0 0230 P t• 1 8. pt. 1 2 ' 3t. pt. 2 S' Pt. 18 ; pt. 1" )t. 1 0 0 . pt. 18 pt. 14 " pt. 1 ° pt. 2° ,' t. 5 , • ,t. I °' P. 1? ' pt. 11. pt. 1 11 .: pt. , 2!" J)EAFNESS.—The SOUND MAGNIFIER. INVISIBLE VOICE CONDUCTOR, a newly In vented instrument for severe cases of deafness. It fits into the ear, not perceptib:e, removes singing noises in the head, and enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies.—S. and B. SOLOMONS, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. MONEY PROMPTLY ADVANCED by a Private Gentleman upon FURNITURF (without removal\ Leasehold and Freehold Property, or Reversions, &a, in sums from £2O to £soo.—Mr. Howard, 18, Queen street, Cheapside. TO Persons in WANT of MONEY (in Town or Countr.—A GENTLEMAN is willin t MAKE ADVANCES of CASH without delay, to respectable persons (male or female), on their own security. The utmost secrecy can be relied on.—Apply (if by letter enclose four stamps) to W., at Mr. Robertson s, Accountant, 40. King' William-street, London-bridge, E.C.—Money advanced on Dock Warrants. KEATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY ING POWDER, for which a Prize Medal was awarded to the Producer at the International Exhibition, 1862, This Powder is quite harmless to an mal life, but is un rivalled in destroying Fleas, Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches, Beetles, Gnats, Mosquitos, Moths in furs, and every other species of Insect. Sportsmen will find this an invaluable remedy for destroy ing Fleas in their Dogs, as also Ladies for their Pet Dogs. Being the original importer of this now invaluable article, which has found so great a sale that it has tempted other* to vend a so-called article, the public are therefore cautioned to observe that the packets of the Genuine Powder bear the autogragh of THOMAS KEATING. Sold in packets, ls., 2s. ed., and 4s. 6d. each, or post free for 14 or 36 po s t age stamps, by Thomas Keating,' chemist, 79, St. Paul's-churchyard, London, E.C. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, 2d September, 1803. T ENDERS will be received at this office, until noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1803, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for the supply of FORAGE, in such quantities as may be required, from Ist November, 1863, to 3 1 st October, 1861, for the use of Her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for Forage"), and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commissary-General. CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of the BIRTH of SHAKSPE ARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C.8., is Chairman) are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Greenway, Warwick ; or their London agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne, and co ,11reaars lianburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co., bankers, London. The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the birthplace of Shakspeare, but the centre of attraction to all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died. ROYAL NATIONAL LIF E-B OAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Ber Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. l'nEsirtENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPU TY - CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since he beginning* of the year 1860, the Royal. National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 1 2,8 00 ; for which service s 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-cari cages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the British public during the past few years, a support which has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and its Crews practised in the management of their b oa ts, which can only be effected by a large and permanent ann ual income, they earnestlyor. to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so appeal t o a ll classes of t h e i r acknowledge the following cony countrymen greTheat t and s 4 _ll ' l l Committee a g fi r o a n t e a f l u a l LI; £ s. d Her Majesty the Queen G, ••• • • • • annual 50 C 0 Campbell, the Hon..rs. • • • .. annual 50 0 Clerk, Colonel, R. A• • Bankers • • • .. annual 1 1 0 Currie, Ceutt annual 10 0 0 • • • • .. 4th don.lo 0 0 a vir il d m C . O li . , Erie, Lord Chiefl Justice • • ••• • • don. 10 10 0 T i l fe C b . o l3 a . t :crsrs.,.. • .. • • Fenwick, G . J ., Esq , co, Panshawe, Vice-AdmiralatSiorfAa.,L sporting Carriag,e • • • • • • • • .. 250 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .• • •• don. 30 0 * ail d 'II, Tran sporting 25 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. . • • . • .. 7th d on. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. .. .. don, 15 15 0 .• • • Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich • • • • • • 30 0 Sti rling, Col. Sir Anthony, 1c...C.1 3 . • • • - annual 20 0 Thom.s, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her Ladyship .• •• • • 16 16 0 Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. • • • • annual 5 0 0 Donations and Annual SOscriptions will be thankfully re •eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; 'Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Herries, Farouhar, and Co., 16, St. ,iames's-street, London ; by at the collectors of Customs and Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis, E sq., at the Office of the Institution, /I, Johu-atreet, Adelphi. London, W.C. Yesterday this Commission held a meeting at Guildhall, after a recess of six weeks—Mr. De Jersey, the chairman, presiding. A design of the proposed railway viaduct across Ludgate-hill was submitted for their approval by Messrs. Freshfield and Newman, the solicitors to the London, Dover, and Chatham Railway Company, who had engaged to make the structure after a plan to be sanctioned by the Commissioners. The company propose to widen Ludgate hill to the extent of 16 feet, by setting back the houses that far on the south side of the hill, from about the Old Bailey to Bridge-street. The present width of the hill is 44 feet. It will thenceforwar d be 60ft., with a carria ge way 30 ft. broad. The proposed viaduct will allow a clear headway of surface foo ornamenta tion passengers of about ft t 18ft. for the carriage traffic, and have sides Bft. hi g h. It w i ll be an iron structu re, with a s p an of 60ft., and wit h orna mental brackets at each end , placed against the sides of the abutm groathe ad dealway forof tion on the sides , w hich will g ive it the a pp eara nce at first s i g ht of an open, perforated b rid g e, b u t it will in fact hive 9 en . a, Thereand leaving willbe a a an interior lining to prevent the fall of burning cinders from passing trains. Tho design, as represented on paper, elicited some expressions of admiration from the Commissioners, but their engineer, Mr. Heywood, took occasion to warn them that the thing itself, when put up, would probably tall short of the expectations which the drawing was calculated to pro duce. They eventually passed a resolution to the effect that they saw no objection to the adoption of the design. A conversation took place on a memorial from inhabitants of the Ward of Cheap urging the widening of the thorough fare at the east end of the Poultry, in anticipation of the projected new street from Blackfriars to the Mansion-house. The old banking premises of Sir John Lubbock and Co., at the north-east corner of the Poultry, have recently been pulled down, to make way for a more commodious structure for the purposes of the bank, and it is urged upon the Commissioners that the opportunity should not be lost of setting back the new building some 25 or 30 feet, and buying so much of the ground from the banking firm, with a view to the eventual widening of the Poultry at the point of junction with the new street. The ground there, as in other of the central parts of the city, has a value which some people would regard as fabulous, the little patch which it is proposed to rescue in this case for purposes of public improvement being yesterday estimated by the surveyor to the Commission as probably worth tens of thousands of pounds ; and the Commissioners, convinced of the necessity for the suggested improvement, have invited the Metropolitan Board of Works to join them in bearing the cost. The matter is still under negotiation. Dr. Letheby, the Medical Officer of Health, reported on the state of 722 houses that had been inspected since the last meeting of the Court in July, and he submitted a list of 90 1 places for sanitary improvement. He also submitted a list of places that required further proceedings on account of orders already issued but not yet complied with. He re ported that the markets and slaughterhouses had been duly inspected, and that the officers had condemned in the course of the last six weeks 43,5231 b, or rather more than 19 tons of meat, as unfit for human food. It consisted of 166 sheep, 34 calves, 53 pigs, 193 quarters of beef, and 804 joints of meat-29,5161b, or more than half of the whole quantity was putrid, the putridity having been caused by the unusu ally warm weather in the early part of last month ; but 9,8661 b were diseased, and 3,2111 b were from animals that had died from accident or disease. In two cases proceed ings were taken against the persons who sent the meat to market, and in one instance the penalty was £5 and costs, and in the other a month's imprisonment with hard labour. The mortality returns were above the average for the sea son. During the last six weeks there had been 317 deaths in the city, whereas the average number for the correspond ing period of the last seven years was but 286 ; 129 of the deaths were among children of less than five years of age, and .55 among persons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes of death were as follow :—Phthisis and other tubercular diseases, 48—pneumonia and bronchitis, 24—continued fever, 11—scarlet fever, 28—smallpox, 7 croup, 7 whooping cough, 7—diphtheria, 4—measles, 6—erysipelas, 2—infantile diarrhoea, 23—and the diarrhoea, of adults, 5. The number of births in the city during the six weeks was 340—namely, 163 boys and 177 girls. Touching the qua lity of gas supplied to the city, Dr. Letheby sub mitted the weekly returns of the testing of the gas sup piled by the three gas companies, from which it appeared that during the last seven weeks the average illuminating power of the Great Central Gas was 14'09 standard sperm candles, of the chartered 12 . 64, and of the City Company 14.21. The total number of observations was 381, or 127 for each ree:la company. The gas of the Great Central had not nce under the standard, that o f the Chartered had be enlB times under it, and that of the City Company only twice. The illuminating power of the gas, therefore, had been generally very• a sas .trfaetory. As regarded the amount of sulphur in th e 27 in the 100 cubic feet t had ranged from 13 grains to nearly i , n the gas suppli e d by the Great Central Company from of the City Company, l d i 3 7to nearly 31' gra i ns i n the gas an from 14.4 to 25 in that of the Chartered. In each case 35 observation s these 13 were in excess of the Parliamentary were made, and ofrliamentary the case of the G rea t C entral, 29 a standard in in Company, and 17 i n that of the c ase o f th e City the Chartered. the three cases was as follows The mean in :-19.09 • in 100 cubic feet of Great Centralgrains of sulphur City gas, and 20.29 of the Chartered. gas,The 23•8 grains of the of the gas in the supply pipe had been average pressure one inch of water. in each ease above Mr. Daw, clerk to the Commissioners, called their atten tion to an act passed in the last Session ofP arliament in reference to the scale of diseased meat, an d a single magistrate to impose a penalty of giving ng the power to of each piece of meat exposed for sale and unfit for owner food, or, without the infliction of a fine, to ord er hi r human imprisoned in a common gaol for a term not exceeding to be th r e e months, with hard labour. It amends in these re spects the Nuisances Removal Act of 1853. He also aa verted to a Statute passed last Session and containing very st r i nge nt enactments for regulating the trade of baking. At his suggestion, the Co mmi s sio ners authorised Mr. D aw -. to prepare an abstrct of the provisions of the Act and cir culate it widely among persons engaged in the trade withi n the city, with the view to give effect to the intentions of the Legislature. After the transaction of some routine business, the Commissioners adjourned. Full benefit of reduced duty obtained by pur chasing Horniman's pure Tea; very choice at 3s. 4d. and 4 s. " High Standard "at 4s. 4d. (formerly 41. Bd.), is the strongest and most delicious imported. Agents in every town supply it in packets. _. _ ry yF~,r. IffiakisaM The Tamar, 3, iron screw troopship, 2,812 tons and 500-horse power, which was recently launched at Millwall, is being brought forward for commis sion at Sheerness with all possible despatch. Capt. Fred. Henry Stirling and Mr. Edwin Wise, master, have been appointed by the Board of Admiralty to the Cumberland, 24, guardship of the steam re serve at Sheerness, for service in this ship. She has been surveyed by Capt. Mends, C. 8., Director of Transports, assisted by Capt. Wise, the Capt.- Superintendent of Sheerness dockyard, together with other officials, and the result was pronounced very satisfactory. Capt. Stirling obtained the rank of Lieutenant in May, 1848, and served in the St. Vincent from November following until April, 1840, when he removed int.) the Caster, 36, and served at the Cape of Good Hope until the close of 1851. Ho served in the Penelope, 16, on the West Coast of Africa, from February, 1852, until promoted to Commander, March, 25, 1854 ; com manded the Wasp. 13, on the South-East Coast of America station from July, 1856, until paid off at the close of 1858 ; and was commander of the Hero, 91, attar' ed to the Channel Squadron, and on par ticular service from March, 1859, until promoted to 0 yesterday morning. She left at Sierra p ost rank, November 19, 1860. The sc rew steam s l oop W rang l er , 4, Commander H. H. Beami s b , w hi c h l e f t Si erra L eo ne, August 1 ; St. Vi ncent, 13th; and Fayal, 30th, arr i ve d i n Ply mouth Sand Leone th e screw steam troopship Megeera, 6, Com mander S amuel IL Henderson, and the screw s t eam gun vessel Cochrane. T he paddlewheel steam fr i ga t e Odin, 16,Sparrow, 5, Commander the Hon. Ernest Commodore Lord John Hay, left for England on the 21st of July. Th e Hi ma l a ya was off St. Vincent or, the 9th of August with troops, out- ward bound. The American steam-sloop Kearsage was at Fay a l, The Wrangler has brought home four naval invalids from the squadron, and five sea men Cameron, belonging to the ship Cariboo, of Liverpool, Capt. belo ng i ng to S amue l Lawrence and Co., which took fi re 360 miles west of St. Vi ncent, on the 20th of July. The Cariboo was from Liver pool bound to Bombay, with coals and machinery. The mate was in the hold with a lantern, and fell over a coil of rope. The lantern dropped from his hand, and set some turpentine on fire. The crew, 26 in all, were picked up by a Scotch bark 100 miles west of St. V • incent. The Wrangler expe rienced fine weather until Saturday, when enter ing the Channel, since which strong northerly and westerly winds have Prevailed. Several cases of fever have occured on the passage, but none have proved fatal, and the crew are now quite healthy. The Wrangler was co mmissioned on the 4th of April, 1860, and has been constantly engaged on the coast of Africa. The following appointments and promotions were made yesterday at the Admiralt Cat James C. Prevost, to the G ibra ltar; Li eu t. St r atford Tuke, Lieut. the Hon. Francis G. C rofton, Lieut. Sebas tian Grasiot, and Lieut. Cecil P. W. J o h nson , to the Pelorus ; Lieut Henry S. R —an dys, to the Speedwell; Staff Commander Benjamin R enaud, to the Gib raltar ; Christopher Albert, master, to the Pelorus; R. M. Curry, master, to the Speedwell ;John Jones, master, to the Scylla ""; Jame s lob . Anderson, surg. , to the Pelorus; William Edney, surg., to the Scylla; Charles M'Shane, s urg., to th e Gib ra ltar ; Dr. Robert Hay, acting assi s t.. surg., to t h e ; Albert alter T. Reid , u acting assist.-surg.,. Roberts, to the p master, Pelorus ; William Carleton, act i ng assist.-surg., to the Scylla; to the Pelorus; M . Warburton,aymaster, to the Scylla ; T p aymaster, to H. C. ay Gray, pay ma ster. to the Gibraltar. ; Alfred Cl ements, assist.-pay ib Gibraltar ; Dr.tar W assist.-pay master, to the Scylla; Fred er i ck E. Perkis and Alfed G. Montagu, assist.-paymasters, to the Gib raltar; James E. Ray, assist. - paymaster, to the Pelorus ; E. S. M. 1‘...1 Power, assist.-paym a ster, in charge, to the Speedw ell ; James B. Rawlings, assist., Paymaster, to the Excellent; John W. Sec. combe, clerk, to the Pelorus ; Charles G. Ancell, clerk to the Scylla; C. E. Gra n t an d Ri c hard Harris, clerks, to the G ibraltar; Charles J. Bolt, assist..clerk, to the Speedwell ; John B. Creagh, assist.-clerk, to the Pelorus; Henry W. Hunt,assist , clerk to the Scylla; Abraham Turner and John D. Taylor,•assist.-clerks, to the Gibraltar; and F. E. Thompson, master's-assist.. to the Speedwell. The following appointments have been made in the Royal Naval Reserve ; To be Lieutdants— ' Henry Welchman Clog and William Stewart. THE ARMY. The following detachments, selected from the first division of the Depot Brigade, R o y a l Artillery, stationed in the Chatham district, hove been placed under orders to proceed from head-9urters on Fri day next, the 11th inst., to Portsmo uth, where theY Will embark on board the Govern Intuit troopship The following memorial from the Union and Emancipation Society, on the subject of British shipbuilding for the Southern Confederacy, has been forwarded to the Foreign-office by the presi dent, Mr. Thomas B. Potter, of Manchester : " To THE RIGHT HON. EARL RUSSELL, HER MAJESTY'S PRINCIPAL SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. " The memorial of the executive committee of the Union and Emancipation Society lumbl3- showeth,— " That, in the month of March last, your memo rialists brought the subject of suipbuilding for the so-called Confederate States of America under the notice of your lordship. " That your memorialists feel called upon, as loyal British subjects, having regard to the honour and best interests of their country, again to implore your lordship's earnest attention to a matter of the most grave and pressing importance—the building of vessels of war in British dockyards intended to prey upon the peaceful commerce of a friendly nation, with whose citizens and Government we desire to remain on terms of amity and good will. "That your memorialists hailed with hopeful satisfaction the steps taken by her Majesty's Minis ters, in the case of the Alexandra, to put a atop to these dangerous proceedings, believing that such action would deter the offending parties and others from their reckless course, at least whilst the case was pending final decision. "That your memorialists have been informed that on Saturday last, the 29th of August, a powerful ironclad steam Ram' was launched from the building yard of Messrs. Laird, at Birken head—that a companion war vessel of similar construction was launched by the same firm a few weeks since, and that both vessels are now fitting out in the graving docks, and are nearly ready for sea. That the circumstances under which these vessels have been built and launched, together with the open declaration of Mr. Laird on the subject of shipbuilding for the so-called Con federate States of America, have created a strong conviction in the public mind that such vessels are intended for the use of the said Confederacy. Ano ther iron-plated war-vessel, your memorialists are informed, is being completed in the Clyde, destined for the same illegal service and purpose. " In view of the proceedings already taken by her Majesty's Government to vindicate our national good faith and the power of British law to suppress these illegal and dangerous practices, your memo rialists cannot doubt but that your lordship will take immediately the necessary steps to detain these iron-clad steamvessels, until full investigations have been made respecting their destination. " Your memorialists venture to say, that should these iron-clad warships be allowed to go to sea, and should they eventually be employed either to break the Federal blockade or prey upon American com merce, the peace now happily existing between this country and the United States will be seriously jeopardised. Your memorialists are also convinced that if the course which the builders of these ships are pur suing can be continued with impunity, a most dan gerous precedent will be established, which may be hereafter used against the commerce of this country should we ever be .involved in a foreign war. "May it therefore please your lordship to order a prompt investigation into the matters referred to, and bring the law to bear with vigour to prevent all such hostile acts against a friendly power: " And your memorialists will ever Pray. on behalf and by order of the Execut ive. President." " THOMAS BAYLEY POTT ER, signed , A POACHER DROWNED. —On. Sunday morning last a man was drowned in the river Derwent, while endeavouring to escape from the river watchers. It appears that about one o'cl ock in the morning, three men, namely, Harrison Walker, Daniel B an ks, and David Camp bell ; ell coal miners at Great Clifton, were engaged i n poaching fish in the river. Being surprised by the watchers, they endeavoured to make their escape by crossin g th e river, which was much swollen at the time by recent rains. Two of them succeeded in doing so, but the third, Harrison Walker, was taken down by the current and drowned. {ADVERTISEMENT.] --A Share in a lucrative manufac turing business for disposal. From £1,500 to £4 000 required, acco rding to the proportion of share pu r remainc ha t d if h a lf the amount of purc hase money may desired,tt on security of the share, to he p aid off from p rofits . Apply to thsePuorsty oftce, 132, Jermyn-street. Each of the great European armies offers a well characterised type of officer, beneath which type individual peculiarities of manner, language, and even constitution, in some sort disappear. An English officer does not resemble an Austrian officer ; a French officer differs from a Russian officer. 11I‘Clellan reminds you of the type of the French Artillery officer. The reason is, that he was edu cated at West Point school, which is a mixture of the French Military and Polytechnic schools. The student of West Point speaks foreign languages, principally French. In respect to literature, science, and military art, he has been nursed in the worship of the great European models. Consequently he is a stranger to that narrow patriotism, that national exclusiveness, which concentrates all the ideas, studies, and admiration of tile Americans upon America. The study of pure scienca and mathema tics has inspired him with a taste for theoretical speculations which is shared by few of his country men. He is polite, discreet, reserved. He has ac quired the art of appearing modest, and of obtaining respect by unpretending manners. He is able to I conform to the habits and customs of the strangers with whom he comes in contact, and he practises every rule of the most scrupulous urbanity with a certain dash of republican pride which is wanting neither in charm nor in dignity. This class of men, so different from the Yankees, does not seem to have hitherto obtained, in the direction of public affairs, a share proportionate to the merit, the knowledge, and the conscientious integrity which distinguish the majority of its members. ("z -- —WSPAPER LW/pow-% The Wolverhampton and Dudh.: , • , 1Z Yesterday the inquest was resue hampton on the body of William Ch . 16 Ann Corbett, of Dudley, deposed the :‘ day, a month ago, a woman came to herNiat air S house in Tower-street, Dudley, and asked her to be allowed to see a house which she (witness) lia.r:Z to let. She went away, saying she would go anel tell her husband. This was in the dusk. She af terwards returned, and told her her husband's name was William Smith, and that the house would suit him. Witness gave her the key, and did not see her again. The house remained locked, and a few days afterwards witness's husband went to the gas works and found that no one worked there of the given name. At length William Johnson got into the house by an upstairs' window, and came down day forced open the front door. On the following :i t Y u el s . ( e r 'l r u ' ic n ' i u d n r i s e n ( n 3 7ex ). e A d l o r n S i l t i , a e w nd an s d om h e 'ls a mad woman lyingof fa t i h n e i ' l l y r e th h o il k dr t e h n e , upstairs, came back. craing, " There's went up into the upstairs , " herself attic, end i Laving seen ' the foot and leg of a woman: gave an alarm. Th e - byes down and police then took possession of . za Field, the w if e of ab . railway guard, the ia r h y o . u E se li said that on the Saturday night, aortnight before the woman Steadman was .found, she f quarter past 12 at the door of the ho use w smv-lhic h she at a afterwards took. She was dressed in a dairkekiiri(; and a lilac body. The skirt was drawn over he r head, which was with out a bonnet. Witness die' not see her again. Y e ste rda y (Monday) she sa w the body exhumed. By the clothes she could re cognise that the body was that of the same woman she had been speaking of. Elizabeth Farnell, mother of the man Chenery, was recalled. She averred she was the wife of the man with whom she was now living. She saw the body that had been taken out of the grave. It was in the tool-house of the cemetery, and the witness was satisfied in her own mind that the body was that of Rosannah. A letter was here produced by Mr. Nesbitt, sur geon, of Wolverhampton, which was found in the pocket of the woman exhumed. The envelope was addressed to "Mrs. Welleham, Post-office, Willen hall" (Mrs. Farnellsometimes called herself by that name). The letter inside was as follows 31, 1863. My dear Mother.—l have been trying to get work at Birmingham, and I cannot get any. I cannot live this un happy life any longer. You know the reason that I have never known what it was to have one day's peace since she came back. I cannot get work, or, mother, would; and I am too tired of this work altogether. It is not selling—it i 3 begging the people to buy. Tell that party if I could have got anything to do I would have done according to promise. Witness continued—There was no signature to the letter. The writing was that of her son. Wit ness also identified a purse found on the body of the exhumed woman as that which Rosannah used to have in the market. She could not tell whom her son referred to when he wrote " tell that party." She knew nothing of her eon having "no neace since she came home." When she last saw her son he said, " Mother, you look very bad, come and have a glass of port wine; I have got some money, for I have received it from that party, and I have got it here," pointing to his breast. Her son never complained to her of having been robbed by any one but the deceased woman. Mr. Francis A. Nesbitt, Mountferd-place, Wol verhampton, surgeon to the South Staffordshire General Hospital, &c., deposed that in obedience to the coroner's order he proceeded to the cemetery at Dudley on Monday, Sept. 9,1863, at 3 p.m., to be pre sent at the exhumation of the body of the deceasei woman. The body was much decomposed. The hair (of a brown colour) had all fallen from the scalp, the eyes from their sockets, the flesh from the cheeks, and several teeth from the mouth. Parts of her dress were removed for analysing. The re mains evidently bel onge d t o a full grown and well developed .hough a small woman, and bore nu marks of violence. It was ill/possible to speak to the cause of death. No bones wore traotured, and as far as could be found there was no internal injuries. Henry Gibbons sworn—l am a surgeon, residing at 28, Stamford-street, in this town. I am also medical officer to the Wolverhampton Union-house and the Fever Hospital. On Friday, Aug. 14, at about a quarter after ten o'clock in the morning, as I was preceedieg along Bilaton-street to attend to my public duty at the union, I was, when opposite No. 4 Court, accosted by several people, who ap peared to be in a very excited state. I was informed that a man had just been found dead in an upstaire room in that court As soon as a key of the house was procured, I entered the aouse and went up stairs. At that time the dilavitien was almost in ' tolerable. I did not at that time make auytherough examination. By the direction of the coroner, and in conjunction with Mr. Shadwell, surgeon ot this town, and. Mr. Keogh. senior surgeon of the South Staffordshire General Hospital, I have since 4ona so. After examining the room we then adjourned to the dead-house at the union to make the post mortem examination. "'he body was black, was very much decomposed, and after minutely describ• ing the course of the examination, the witness con tinued—l have made an analysis and microscopic examination of the stomach and its contents, and various matters found in the room. The stomach did not reveal any trace of poi sun. The mattress, the straw, and the stains on the floor revealed traces of human blood in considerable quantities. The sheet had upon it ordinary gas tar, as had also the skin of the body. From the inves gation and examination, I urn of opinion, first, that the deceased died from injuries to the head and great loss of blood (apparently several quarts) ; second, that these injuries and this violence were inflicted by some person or persons other than the deceased himself ; third, that after death the body was laid out, and the pillow placed under its head ; fourth, that after death the body was painted or brushed over with tolerably hot gas tar (this pro bably with a view of preventing detection from smell as long as possible) ; and, fifth, that the sheet and counterpane were placed on the body and tucked under the head by some person or persons other than the deceased. The Coroner then said he thought it would be better for them to adjourn the inquest to enable the police to make a further investigation of the circum stances. the identification of the woman Stead man, however, was now complete. Two or three other Wolverhampton witnesses then identified Steadman by her clothes. Mr. Gibbons afterwards remarked that there was um thing he wished to state to the jury. The Tat tress beneath the head of the deceased was stained with a large quantity of blood. Anotherlarge quantity had also been shed up on the centre of the i surface of the mattress, and both poo s of blood had met. He was therefore of opinion that not only the head had been injured but also another part of the person. do jnuoryb)e—t tlevr le v ee can a g d e j t o u la t. o n . fur- , A rh S u u c ro o r rTne l r ire ( nl3r teoatgloceeaYtnth—hl eer,Ve cannot or who find any one who ever saw the saw her on the road Policema n therp at rese a ft e r she left Wolverham pton , m A Juror remarked that much had been said out of court that ought to be said in evidence. The Coroner said that if any of the jury, all of w hom lived near the deceased's house, could bring forward any one Whose statement would tend to elucidate the matter , they ought to have it produced. The Coroner adjourned the inquiry to that day fortnight, for further evidence. Suicide on the Railway at Wandsworth. Au inquest wa s held on Monday evening at the Union Workhouse (Wandsworth and Clapham Union), Wandsworth, before W. Carter, Esq., coro ner for the eastern division of Surrey, on the body of Daniel Lane, a bricklayer's labourer, who met his death on Saturday morning under very extra ordinary circumstances. James Saunders, the driver of an engine on the Brighton and South Coast line, stated that on Sa turday last, about 10.50 a.m., he left London for Victoria with a train which was to stop at all the stations. They stopped at Baiham, and were to have stopped at New Wandsworth. Half a mile before reaching that station witness had shut off the steam with a view of stopping there, when he saw a man (deceased) standing beside the fence, n ear the Patriotic Fund School. When the train `vas within eight or ten yards of him he stepped between the metals with his back towards the approaching train, which was then proceeding at a rate of be tween 25 and 30 miles an hour. Witness whistled fur the breairs to be put on t h e carria ges , and he him self put the engine br eak on. Th e man appeared to be watching the approach of the tr a i n . H e was overtaken almost instantaneously, but th e t ra in could not be stopped until it had proceeded nearly 500 yards. Witness at once went to the front, and tuutld deceased hanging un to the lamp-iten, which had caught him at the back of the neck and e ntered the base of the skull. His toes had been dragging on the ground. The body was taken down and com mitted to the care of the plate-layers, and witness proceeded with th e tra i n . F rom hi s manner, wit ness was Sure that the deceased meant to destroy himself. Evidence was then given to sho w that the un fortunate roan had been suffering in his head. The jury returned a verdict, "That the deceased had destroyed himself while in a state of temporary insanity ;" end, in reply to the Coroner, the jury declared that the eng ine -dr yer and other raii way officials were entirely free from blame, FRENCH IMPORTS. The last official Customs returns published show a progressive improvement in French imports, and a still greater one in exports. If the value of the corn and cotton imported into France be deducted from the gross amount it will be found that the imports fir the first seven months of the present year exceed those of the corresponding period of the year 1862 by 72,000,000 f. and those of 1861 by 123,000,0001. Of the 84 articles mentioned in the official returns, the importations of 38 have in creased, and those of 46 have diminished, but the sum total has increased. The most considerable increase is 6,500,000 f. on fresh and salted meats, 35,000,00 0 f. on silks, 4,000,000 f. on tallow, 8,000,000 f. on guano, 3,000,000 f. on oil seeds, 1,500,0001. on coffee, 1,000,000 f. on tobacco in leaf, 6,000,000 f. on flax, 36,000,000 f. on cotton, and 1,000,0001. on sugar. The principal diminution is on corn and flour, 69,000,000 f. ; rice, 1,000,000 f. ; dried vegetables, 1,725,000 f.; table fruit, 1,000,000 f ; olive oil, 6,000,000 f.; coal, 4,000,000 f.; iron, 10,000,000 f. ; cast metal, 1,000,0001. ; chymicals, 1,000,000 f ; woollen stuffs, 10,000,0001; cotton cloths, 7,000,000 f. On analysing these returns it appears that the importation of articles used by French manufacturers has increased, while that of foreign manufactured articles has diminished. The progressive improvement in ex ports is more remarkable. The Customs returns show, by excluding cotton and corn, an increase during the first seven months of the present year over the corresponding period of the year 1862 of 185,000,600 f., and over that of the year 1861 of 310,000,000 f. Of the 82 articles mentioned in the official returns there was an increase in the exporta tion of 59 and a diminution of 23. The most re markable increase is on wrought silk, 30,000,000 f: ; woollen stuffs, 30,000,0001.; linen and hempen cloth, 2,000,0001. ; linen and hemp ex' toted lea -5,000,0001. ; tanned hides, 6,000,00 0 f.; ther, 7,000,000 f.; clocks and watc flowers, haberdashery, 4,000,0001.; ibfiecsi,fldrooo,oool. ; paste b o ard, 2,000,0001. ; 1,000,000 f. ; paper and i,, wines, 5,500,0001.; china and pottery, 1,000,0 0 o v l i: e oil, 1,000,0001; brandies, 11,000,00 0 f. ; ic acids, 2,000,0001.; re drugs, 1,000,000 1 .; s_trorf.; native beetroot sugar, fined sugar, 25,0020,0 000,0001.; timber, 5,000,0001.; 2,500,0001 : ; In, r3B f goBo'o,ooof. ; eggs (fowl and game), native res in, 4 500,000 f.; wo ol, 100 , 000 , 000 f. ; hair of every , 3,000,0001. ; raw silk, 24,000,0001.; description , horses, 1,000,000 f. ; corn flour and dried vegetables, sundry articles, 10,000,000 f. Th e 20,000,000 f.; only articles on which the diminution of the ex port is remarkable are jewellery, 3,000,000 f.; made-up linen, 9,000,000 f.; madder, 5,000,000 f. ; chemical produce, 3,000,000 f. ; preserved vegetables, 2,000,000 f. ; cotton wool, 8,000,000 f.; sowing sad, 2,000,000 f. ; mules, 2,000,000. A FREE KIRK MINISTER AMONG THIEVES.—The Rev. Mr. Elder, of Free West Church, Rothesay, went away on a trip to the Continent a few weeks ago. Having visited Venice, he, in company with several friends, as also two or three foreigners, while proceeding in a dili gence from Venice to Chiavenna, Italy, were attacked by a party of brigands, who were all armed. The passengers were robbed of everything the brigands could lay their hands on, and about £3OO was taken from those in charge of the diligence. It is conjectured that the brigands knew of such a large sum of money being conveyed in the dili gence, and were on the outlook. We are glad to state that no personal injury was sustained by any one, and that the party arrived the same night in Chiavenna. Great .exer tions were being made by the Governm ent authorities to i searchet. capture the brigands, and the country was being in all directions by soldiers, but as yet without success. We understand that the Rev. Mr. Elder has r eached Brussels, and expects to be in England next week,—Rothesay Chronicle. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thom Thomas Barinz, Esq., M.P. I Wm. Geo. Prescott, E sq. son Haukey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. Mutual Life Assurance for all classes. This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a total sum of £1,500,000. The Annual Income is .. • • • . £51,000 The Accumulated F un d exceeds .. 2^o,f 00 It has paid i n Claims The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among the Members. Th ree di v i s i ons have already been made' When the following sums have been added as bonuses to the Policies Dec. 31, 1847 .. £5,400 3852 .. 11,500 ~ 1857 .. 23.200 1862 .. 56,500 Making the total bonus additions, £06,600. Bonuses ma; be received in c'sh or applied to the reduc lion of p rem i ums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an addition to the policy A ttention is especially invited to the system of free or paid policies introduced by this Association, by which the B scrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of po icy is wholly avoided. Whether assurers or otherwise. Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre sented districts. WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863. A.D. 1720. ItO YAL EX CHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq. Governor. GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, ESQ , ~ Sub-Governor. Sir JOHN HENRY BELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. . _ Henry Bainbridge, Esq. v Wilmot Holland, Esq. Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Predk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. na. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq. Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. - Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. PYRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Corporation on advantageous terms. „ In the Life D e p ar t ment, assurances are granted with par ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such Participation. The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured—' Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A DALY. The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve In the Militia►, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. ItOPAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. b o Patron—T—e —UEEN. P resident—The Duke of BITCCLEucH' K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Eaci• without the Tbis was the first hospital to introduce the Principle and instant admission to the destitute sick, devoted to for malitydesti- tution of governors' letters. It is entirely of free which is accom panied in its most pitiable form—viz., that of sufficient by sickness and disease, and magnitude that, with adequate support i , s it n m ° a w of capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportions but the the casual sick of this groat metropolis. It require reception of funds in order to have beds available for the Moreover, e, these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. be rendered it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to mor e, on the average, than 3,00 out -patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued sup Port, daily present th emse to enable them to zdrlvenit and relieve the distressing cases that s. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Maslerman, Esq., Ni cholas -lane ; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Ilerries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn and Co Co.';' Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and CO. ; Nisbet rned and Co., Liverpool ...anis, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and and Co. ; Messrs. J. Ba and at the RospitaL STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary, PAGE'S BRICK, TILE, AND PIPE 111 ACITINE 4 . for hand, horse, or steam power, are the °," Birnpl e and edch.nt extant—Pal:particulars andprices mined of the makers, E. 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