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;1 ;9 g 8 13 :13 a ig IS 18 PS Ig .5 IS 8 8 d It 1. 3 0 6 6 9 3 9 9 9 9 0 3 0 9. 3. 19. 9. I. I. ). D. 1. th ES ng gY ut de en id ua rd 'll uy ID, of th nv lb. n; in -•• dy ey ~s 0 S :ig t h ►i 7 0 THE LONDON COCOA. - NUT FIBRE . COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under th ,, crmnanifs Act, 18`,2, Nvh.7reby the Liability of every Shareholder is limited to the amount of his shares. Capital £20,000, in 20,00 Shares of £1 each. Deposit 55. on application, and ss. on allotment. Calls not to exceed ss. per share. No call to be made within three months from the Incorporation of the Company, and sub sequent Calls at intervals of not lees than three months. DIRECTORS. r • 11 • Hayward, Esq., 32, (it orge-street, Hanover •square. Mayor B.mtord, Stith e r Ir, nd- street, Belgrave - square . Frederick Ang,eraeln, Esq., 133, Sioane-street, and Carlton Club. Frank Cole, Esq., 76, Gower-street, Bedford -square. T. Littl€wood, Esq , Broom Hall, Sheffield. J. Stevens, Esq.. 68, Cornhill. With power to add to their number. TUNKERS. The English and Irish Bank (Limited), 25, Poultry, E, C. SOLICITOR. Charles Parke, Esq , 37, Mcorgate-street, E.C. AUDITOR. Mr. S. T. Cooper, Public Accountant, 10, flasinghall street, E.C. SECRETARY—Mr. C. ii. Baker. MANAGER or WORKS—Mr. James Lane. Temporary Works—Arthur-terrve, Holloway. Offices —No. 1, Sun-court, Cornhill. ABRIDGED PROSPECTUS. _ This Comr,my is formed for the purpo se of manufacturing, Uoa)a-Nut F.bre Mats and Matting. under Letters Patent granted to George Davies. dated the 24th April. 1862. The principal feature of Davies's Invention consists in the improved pile of the mat, and, owing to the mode of weaving, great durability is given to the fabric at a reduced cost of manufacture. The superiority of articles manufactured by this process over the present method will be well understond in the trade When it is stated that matting of all descriptions, and car riage and door mats, ac. , hav e a thick fibrous pile upon the surface hitherto unattained. if no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned in full. Specimens of the new and improved manufacture may be seen at the offices of the Company, where applic along for prospectuses and shares may be made. THE LIFE ASSOCIATION OF ENGLAND (Limited). (Incorporated under " the Companies Act, 1862.") 40, Gracechurch-street, London. Capital, Half-a-Million Sterling, in shares of £5 each. First issue, 25,000 shares. Deposit, is. per share on application, ss. on allotment, and probably lee. not less than three months after, beyond which no further Call is contemplated. DIILECTORS. General Boileau, F.R.S., F.B.A.S. (late Bengal Engineers). George Buchanan, Esq. (G. Buchanan and Co., 25, Bucklers bu, George ry) Chambers, Esq. (Director, London and Hamburg Exchange Bank). Major Frederick Ditmas (late H.M. Madras Engineers), Croydon. Edward F. Elliot, Esq. (late Chief Magistrate of Madras), The Mount, Harrow-on-the-Hill. Patrick P. Gordon, Esq. (Chairman Eastern Bengal Tea Co.). E. Bassett Keeling, Esq., M.R.I. Gray's-inn, W.C. Francis Lascelles, Esq. (late Civil and Sessions Judge in Nagherry House, St. John's-wood Park. Lewis Munro, Esq. (late lI.M. Bengal Army), Cavendish Club, W. George Peacock, Esq. (Australian Merchant), 1, Lime-street square. London, E.C. Charles G. Prowett, Esq. (Barrister at Law), 5, King's Bench walk, Temple. CONSULTING REFEREE. William Farr, Esq , M.D., D.C.L., F.R.S., General Register Office, S'omerset'llouse.' BANKERS. England—The London and County Bank, Head Office and Branches. Scotland—The National Bank of Scotland, Head Office and Branches. Ireland The Provincial Bank of Ireland, Head Office and Branches. India—The Agra and United Service Bank. • SOLICITORS. Messrs. Wilkinson, Stevens, and Wilkinson, Nicholas lane, Lombard-street. MANAGER AND ACTUARY—W. J. Fred. Norfolk, Esq. SECRETARY—M. J. Mac Cormack, Esq. The Directors of the Life Association of England having secured the influence of very valuableconnections throughout the United Kingdom. in most of the Colonies of the British. Empire, and several Continental countries, and having re ceived promises of subscriptions fora large number of shares, will enter upon the business of Life Assurance on the 15th July next, on which day a compete prospectus, detailing the plan of the Company's operations, and containing tables of rates, will be issued to the public. Arrangements also have already been absolutely made by 'which a large business will be acquired by the Company at once and further negotiations to the same end are far ad vanced. The Directors will further carry out an entire reconstruc tion of the system of Life Assurance. on a plan devised by their Consulting Referee, by which the Association's business transactions will be rendered perfectly equitable in opera tion, and afford the best security, whilst the Association will be placed in the best condition to fulfil its future engage ments. The plan in question will be well adapted to the wants of the people, affording all the advantages of present Life Offices, and some of those of a Bank. It will also ope rate at less risk, less expense, and lower premiums than offices ordinarily constituted. The Directors, therefore, confidently anticipate a very handsome dividend from the first year of business opera tions. The value of Insurance Shares as an Investment, evidenced by the large premiums to which most of them have gradually risen, and the handsome and increasing dividends and bonuses which have been paid upon them, is a fact so well ascertained and acknowledged as to need no comment. Interest will be paid upon the capital at 5 per cent. per annum, until a dividend of larger amount shall have accrued. The liability of the shareholders is limitel to the amount unpaid on their shares. Local Boards in the principal Cities and Towns of the 'United Kingdom will be selected from the most influential Shareholders. Prospectuses and all other information may be obtained from, and applications for the remaining shares, and for Agencies, may be made to, the Secretary, at the Office of the Company. or the Bankers, Solicitors, and Brokers before mentioned. T HE LONDON and AFRICAN TRADING COMPANY (Limited). Capital £500,000, in 20,000 shares of £25 each. First Issue, 4,00 shares. Deposit on Application, £1 per Share. Payment on Allot ment, £1 per Share. No Call to exceed £s,.and an interval of not less than three months between each Call. Should less than two-thirds of the Shares be applied for, the Deposit money will be immediately returned in full. The Liability of the Shareholders is limited to the amount of their Shares, the Company being registered under the " Companies Act, 18f2,' with Limited Liability. BOARD Or DIRECTORR. VICTOR F. WEBER, Esq.. of Messrs Weber and Biddrilph, IS, Philpot-lane, London, Chairman. Do 4 vid hinery, Esq., African merchant, 155, Fenchnrch-street, London. William Vaughan Morgan, Esq, Messrs. Morgan Brothers, Bow-lane, London. J. Irving Pascoe, Esq., Beresford House, Hig,hbnry New Park, London. H. Seligmann, Esq., of Messrs. Seiigmann and Haarbleicher, Manche ter. C. Sevin, Esq., of Messrs. Sevin, Chinery, and Co., 155, Fen church-street, London, and Sfax (Tunis), and Badagry and Lagos, West Africa. Benjamin S. smith, Fsq., Messrs. Smith Brothers and Co., 6, Crosby-square, London. H. Southwood Smith, Esq., Little Stanhope-street, Mayfair, London. With power to add to their number. BANKERs.—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths. SOLlClTons.—Messrs. Howard, Dollman, and Lowther,l4 Fenehurch-street. _ Sirocitintoxzns.,-London lliessra.Yenn and Crosthwaite, 3, Royal Exchange-buildings. Temporary Offices—Colonial House, Fenchurch-street, City. This Company is formed to carry on a trade with the na tives on the West Coast of Africa, by bartering Manchester, Glasgow, Birminghitm, and other manufactured goods, for Palm Oil, Cotton, Ivcry, Ground Nuts, and the various pro ducts of that great contintnt ; to throw open to the public the benefit of that which has hitherto been a close and pro fitable trade to a few, and, by extending its operations into the interior, to spread at the same time the beneficial influ ence of commerce and civilisation amongst its-dense and active population. It is well known that the African trade, particularly on the great rivers, has hitherto been exclusive, and that la Ire fortunes have been realised, wherever the required capital was at command, by the simple system of Darter carried on With the natives. ' • •• • ~.... Date ........................ At present Palm Oil forms the most important article of trade with the whole coast of Africa. The production Is un limited, so much so, that wherever the civilised trader has not penetrated, the nuts of vast regions of palm trees are left to rot in the forest. The constant demand for Palm Oil in all European markets is such that any quantity can be sold on. its arrival in England. The export of Palm Oil from the Bight. of Biafrahas proved to be on the average about 40,000 tons a year, representing a /able of about £1,600,1)00, and this large amount has been col lected by the natives within the small part of coast line from Cape Formosa to the Cameroons, not more than aoout 300 miles: This trade is almost exc naively in the hands of a few English merchants, and is susceptible of very consider able increase. The Bight of Benin is next in importance in the export of I'alm Oil.; according to an ofßisial report of the trade in 1857, no less than 21,172 tons of Palm Oil, of near £850,000 value, were exported from the factories of Palma, Benin, Lagos, iiadaery, Porto Novo, and Whydah. Cotton is generally known to be indigenous to every part of the West Coast of Africa, but particularly so in the coun tries bordering the Bights of Benin and Biafra. In Yoruba Cotton forms already one of the staple productions of the country, and great quantities are brought regularly to mar ket ; it properly organised a larger supply than hitherto ob tained could be secured for exportation ; it is computed that In this pro#ince alone. 8,000,0001 b. of Cotton are made up an nually into native cloths for home consumption. The import of Cotton from Africa is steadily increasing. Amongst the numerous products of Africa one article de serves special notice, which has lately been exported in ra pidly increasing quantities ,• this is the Palm Nut Kernel, most of which h as hitherto been thrown away by the natives "Ater tie Palm Oil has been extracted from the fibrous pel licle that surrounds the nuts. The value of this kernel is "ely considerable ; it yields about 30 per cent. oil, equal in I r a i l et u eto ocoa-Nut Oil ; and although the natives in the dis rii.dor Lagos and Badagry now manufacture the Nut Oil in e waY and with great loss, the exports of this article are YerY limited. In order to sec ure at once an immediate profitable trade, the co I . aan . e ° Many has succeed e d i n e ff ec ti ng an a d v antageous fir _ „ _merit with a firm w hi c h h as f or some y ear s past carried Illetr lu crative and in creas i ng trade w ith A f r i ca, b y purc h as i ng business, including their factories, now in full operation have undert mi the gen ra te s ,* and engaging their agents, supercargoes, and ployed by them. The principals of this firm of the buss • en to assist in the direction and management Th e ness of the Company. armettran!Pany. therefore, is enabled to commence business no to t consequent cry point, and free from the usual risk and loss Particularead tend as f ar a: ex P e rlmental trials ; it has, in fact, only to ex rationhic is al, he whole western coast of Africa a. APl:dilations for in a Y established, and in successful °pe al, and very important locality. to the Dit eitors at tneaZB to the Bankers or Broker°:' must be made in the form annexed, pany, at the Temporary Offices, or £1 per share. and accompanied by a deposit of FORM OF APPLIZZ-- OR SUARES. Lim i To the Directors of the Londo T A Ion; p (t i t ) A trican Trading Company G e ntlemen, —I hereby request that Shares of L 25 each in the London and ou will allot me Com pany (Limited), and I hereby agree t.,)African Trading yll number that may be allotted tPt such Shares, or rise you to place my name upon the it ezis ° me. and I autho for the Shares so allotted. ter of Shareholders I am, Gentlemen. Name in full ........... Residence P ro f e ssion or 8u5ine55 ..... ..... ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Libra and Dining-room, consisting of a new and ciemmt wort'r ment ot VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks big stands, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, & c., i n ' e au - Alabas'er, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Soar I n, imported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, in n :: ralogist to her MaJesty, 149, Stand, W.C., Lonoon. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of SHELLS, MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS , which will greatly facilitate he interesting study of MINERALOGY, CON. CHOLOGY, and GEOLOGY, at 2, 5,10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and min. Riudoey is given by Mr. TEMITANT, st 1.49, Maud, W.O. PR1CE.....—..4d. STAMPED ....sd. surrender of 'Pekin. He was twice mentioned 1, despatches, was made a C. 8., and received the medal and two clasps. N". 22,160 CHEAPEST PASSAGES to all the Colonies. PASSAGES guaranteed at CHEAPEST RATES to AMERICA, CANADA. BRITISH COL UMBIA, AUS A LIA, NEW ZEALAND, PORT NATAL, the CAPE, ttc., &c., by ,team and Sailing Ships weekly fiorn LONDON, LIVERPOOL, and other ports. Steamers for AMERICA and CANADA, every few days, from .£4 10s., sailing packets £3 2s. ed. Passengers met at all the Stations and conducted to the Dirks, thereby avoiding much imposition, trouble, and annoyance. Free Grants of Land obtained and Outfits pro vided. Through Tickets to the cet orts in Aus tralia and New Zealand,issu and ed theall hi Towns and P Cities of the United States and Canada, also to Halifax and St. Johns. to F u ll particulars, free of char,ge, upon application PEARCE and CO., First Floor, 100, Leadenhall-street, City, London, or 43, Union-street, Liverpool. Forging by Photography. qE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL IL SOCIETY ;Limited) are Prepared in Receive he Hudson' Subscrlp. s tions for the issue at par of C a p ital Stock, in t Bay i_ompany. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1670. The Stock will be issued in certificates of £2O each, and the instalments will be payable as follows : £1 being 5 per cent. on applicat n ion to be returned in the event ofallotment bein,g made). 4 „ 20 „ on allotment. 5 „ 25 „ on let September, 1563. 5 „ 25 „ on 2d November, 1863. 5 „ 25 „ on lst January, 1864. £2O With an option of prepayment in full on allotment, or on either of the days fixed for payment of the instalments, under discount, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. The Capital of the Hudson's Bay Company has been duly fixed at £2,000,000, of which amount the International Finan cial Society (Limited) have obtained and are prepared to offer to the public £1,030,000. The subscribers will be entitled to an interest, correspond ing to the amount of their subscription, in— 1. The Assets (exclusive of Nos. 2 and 3) of the Hudson's Bay Company, recently and specially valued by competent valuers ai £f,023,r 2. The Landed Territory of the Company, held under their Charter, and which extends over an estimated area of more than 1,401,000 square miles, or upwards of 1.06,000,000. 3. A Cash Balance of £370,000. The present net income, available for dividend amongst Stockholders of the Company, secures a minimum. interest exceeding 4 per cent. on the above £2,000,030 Stock. The Directors of the Hudson's Bay Company are as under : The Right Honourable Sir Edmund Head, Bart., K.C.B (late Governor-Genera of Canada), Governor. Curtis Miranda Lampson, Esq. (C. M. Lampson and Co.), Deputy Governor. Eden' olville. Esq., Hudson's Bay House, Fenchurch-street. George 1,3701, Esq., M.P„ Headley Park, Surrey. Daniel Meinertzhagen, Esq. (F. Huth and Co.). James Stewart Hodgson, Esq. (Finlay. Hodgson, and Co.). John Henry William Schroder, Esq. (J. A. Schriider and Co.). Richard Potter, Esq , Standish House, Gloucestershire. The Hudson's Bay Company were incorporated under a Royal Charter granted by King Charles 11. in 1670 by the name of "The Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay," and, by the Charter, a vast tract of territory was vested in the Company. togethe r with the sole right of trade and commerce, and all " mines royal," as well then discovered as not discovered, within the said territory. The operations of the Company, which, with slight excep tions, have been hitherto exclusively of a trading character, have been prosecuted from the date of the charter to the pre sent day. It has become evident that the time has arrived when those operations must be extended, and the immense resources of the Company's territory, lying as it does between Canada and British Columbia, should be developed in accordance with the industrial spirit of the age, and the rapid advance ment which colonisation has made in the countries adjacent to the Hudson Bay territories. The average net annual profits of the Company (after set ting aside 40 per cent. of them as remuneration to the factors and se , vents at the Company's posts and stations) for the 10 years ending the 31st May, 1862, amount to £Bl,OOO, or up wards of 4 per cent on the present nominal capital of £2,000,000. A portion only of this income has been distributed as dividend, while the remainder is represented in the assets and balanc - s. The assets of the Company, in which the Subscribers will be entitled to an interest corresponding to the amount of their subscriptions, will consist of goods in the interior, on shipboard, and other stock in trade, includ ing shipping business, premises, and other buildings neces sary for carrying on the fur trade, in addition to which there will be funds immediately available for the proposed ex tended operations of the Company, derived partly from the cash balance of the Hudson's Bay Company, and partly from the new issue of Stock, and amounting in the whole to a sum not less than £70,000. The Company's territory embraces an estimated area of more than 1,400,000 square miles. or 806,000,000 of acres, of which a large area, on the southern frontier, is well adapted for European colonisation. The soil of this portion of the territory is fertile, producing in abundance wheat and other cereal crops, and is capable of sustaining a numerous po pulation. It contains 1,400 miles of navigable lakes and rivers, running for the greater part east and west, which constitute an important feature in plans for establishing the means of communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, across the continent of British North America,as well as for immediate settlement in the intervening country. The territory is, moreover, rich in mineral wealth, One' uding coal, lead, and iron. In addition to its chartered territory, the Company possess the following valuable landed property. Several plots of land in British Columbia, occupying most favourable sites at the mouths of rivers, the titles to which have been confirmed by her Majesty's Government; farms. building sites in Van couver's Island ; and in Canada, ten square miles at Lacloche, on Lake Huron, and tracts of land at fourteen other places. The trading operations of the Company are chiefly carried on in the fur bearing and northern portion of the territory, where the climate is too severe for European colonisation. These trading operations will be actively continued and, as far as pessible, extended, whilst the management will be judiciously economised. Consistently with these objects, the outlying estates and valuable larms will be realised where the land is not required for the use of the Company—the southern district will be opened to European colonisation, under a liberal and syste matic scheme of land settlement. Possessing a staff of factors and officers who are distributed in small centres of civilisation over the territory, the Company can, without creating new and costly establishments, inaugurate the new policy of colo nisation, and at the same time dispose of mining grants. With the view of providing the means of te'egraphic and postal communication between Canada and British Columbia, across the Company's territory, and thereby of connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by an exclusively British route, negotiations have been rending for some time past be tween certain parties and her Majesty's Government and the representatives of the Government of Canada, and prelimi nary arrangements for the accomplishment of these objects have been made through her Majesty's Government (subject to the final sanction of the Colonies), based upon a five per cent. guarantee from the Government of Canada, British Columbia, and Vancouver Island. In further aid of these Im perial objects, her Majety's Government have signified their intention to make grants of land to the extent of about 1,000,00) acres, in portions of the Crown territory traversed by the proposed telegraphic line. One of the first objects of the Company will be to examine the facilities and consider the best means for carrying out this most important work, and there can be little doubt that it will be successfully executed either by the Hudson's Bay Company itself, or with their aid and sanction. For this, as well as for the other proposed objects. Mr. Ed ward Watkin, who is now in Canada, will be commissioned, with other gentlemen specially qualified for the duty, to visit the Red River and southern districts, to consult the Officers of the Company there, and to report as to the best and safest means of giving effect to the contemplated opera tions. Applications for allotments of Certificates of Stock of £2O each, to be made to the International Financial Society (Limited), at their Offices, 54, Old Broad-street, E.C. A preference in allotment w:11 be given to parties hitherto holders of Stock in the Hudson's Bay Company, and to the Shareholders of the International Financial Society (Limited) No application will be received after Wednesday, Bth July, at twelve o'clock. CARD PLATES ENGRAVE D. Any Pattern 2s. 50 BEST CARDS, Printed from Plate REAL MOROCCO CARO CASES .. • ed 35. umm• • ..• ls. 1,000 BUSINESS ENVELOPES , g NEWSPAPER ENVELOPES, 4 doz Bd. F. ARNOLD, Manufacturing Stationer, 86, Fleet-street, E.C. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail• way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. GIPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented L, Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra ordinary rellef to weak, dim, and defective vision.—S. and B SOLOMON S, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom pr.nied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. • LUXURIANT WHISKERS , Moustaches, and Eyebrows produced in a few weeks by the use of ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOT lON, the stimulative properties of which are unfailing in their operation. Thomas Elliott invites a trial from the most scept ical, that they ma be y con vinced of its infallible power. Price 3s. 64.. ss. 6d., 105. 64., and 21s. Forwarded on receipt of postage stani,pB.—Thomas Elliott, hairgrower (first floor), 51, Fenchurch-sffeet. T. E. 's wigs. £1 10s. The Weekly Board feel It their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued auppoFt, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing oases that daily present themselves. PICTURE FRAME MOULDINGS. W holesale and for Exportation. Country dealers and the trade sup plied on advantageous terms. Superior Washable, Eft. lengths —1 inch bead, flat hollow, Ss. ; inch, 7s. ; 1 inch bead, 7s. 6d.; bead, ss. 6d. ; 4 inch bead, 58. ; 1 inch double hollow, 7s. 6d.; inch, 58: - 6d. ; 2 inch slip hol!ow, 55.: inch, Ss 6d per dozen. Discount off the above by the gross. Fancy Wood Mouldings, in 12ft. lengths—li inch, 2s. per length, 11s. per half dozen ; 11 inch, 2s. 6d., 13s. 611. ; 2 inch, 38., 16s. 6d. ; 21 inch, Zs. 6d., 198 ; 2 inch, 45., 225. Best Gold Mouldings. For list of std ea prices, see trade price list, forwarded on receipt of stamp.—G..Polley, Wholesale Warehouse, 19, Wych-street, Strand, W.C. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Contts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W Mims, Deacon, and Co. ; ()wren& Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. R OYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATnorizes—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Tice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DErunt-CuArammi—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the 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 12,800; for which services 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-can iages, 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 boats, which cau only be effected by a large and permanent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a work. The Committee gratefuliy acknowledge the following con tributions:— Her Majesty the Queen .. .. Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. U. .. .. Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. • • Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankera ~ Currie, Wm., Ma.. X s. 6 .. annual 50 0 0 .. annual 5 0 0 .. annual 1 1 0 .. annual 10 0 0 .. 4thdon.lo 0 0 • Erle, tord Chief Justice . don. 10 10 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A.,K:C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 Fenwick, G. J. Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran sporting Carriage • • • • • • .. .. 250 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. •• .. don. 30 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. • • • • .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. R • • • • •• • don. 15 15 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich 3 0 0 Stirling, CoL Sir Anthony, K.C.B. annual 2 0 0 Thomas, Lady, Weston-super - Marc , collected by her Ladyship .. • • • • • • • • .. 16 16 0 Willoughby d'Erosby, Lord.. .. .. annual 5 0 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions willbe thankfully re eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Wins Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59. Strand; Messrs. Herries, Farquhar. and C0.,16, St. James's-street, London ; by ail the Collectors of Customs and Bankers in the Unitedkingdoxa; and by the Secretary Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14, JOhll-stweet, Adelphi, LOnclOns ......"-”.•-••••••••............ . „,.,....,,,,, , . „ , - . .... i ) '''' - 3i:;_- ,.- - I , M : C:"''.4. , ... .--4‘ , .,.. n; ...' • ,-,,..,,,:?: e.._, ..::41., ~.,.. ,F ;r ,4, , „.„,,,, l ..,...,-.., • _ 19 : , ----,:,,,,,,...,:.. ----:.--77- He had -2 recived. the order of St. Fernando, f:plii i .V .L. : i % I : . 1 \::' , ' 4 :- , \ 'Ot i " He was nominated to the 3d class of the 1 40111/ 51 '..,,: , ,.L --- 4 ? „c71 :: -.. ' " N ~,‘.., 24 1 oal ,-,.. , - \ 4 kttt ''''"!, '''- r --- >ott. ,\ ,..,..:, , „tp:: - ....., ... ~.,.., ta --- ..“,, -._ for services as a Brigadier-General withth:e4eS l46' .4ii i ;1 / 4 -,„- 4 ,1.- . 1 -.'" ':tr% f 4 '''''' .4)-... 5,-- # „ , ---, ''t(.. 1 , .. 4 4 , : , --./ .. , , ..« . '- : ':` *". ' I . *OO O-,! '"'-''- .. :4, '.: 7 / " 111111C DIE ' i.al.i;llA44lllltttizijt::" , 7 10,.. 44 7kr o ,f 0 ^$ ,..„ "11111.-4 "Zc .. iFj . 4, ..- jj r" - 0 ,7 * " . 2.• 7; 41: ' 2 4 fs - . 41-7 -'-- -24:e . 2 A "Ct m th a e ni 1860 in China, and was present at the actiond R ic o a y v a a i lry A . rt A ii s ie ß ry rig t a n d r i o e u r g -G ho e u ne t r t a h lh e e c c a o m m pa ; gn oi xa, mi S t i r , s ,§ fi r ' . - - . 4 1 --- "0 - -,-N , Simho, taking of Tangku, capture of the Taku _ Forts, actions of Tangchow on Sept. 18 and 21, and - - ... _ _ _ ..._ ''-‘ned in At the Mansion House Police-court, yesterday, Peter Rinaldi, a foreigner, underwent a final examination before the Lord Mayor on a charge of being concerned in a forgery on the Imperial Bank of Vienna —Mr. Sleigh was counsel for the prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Gleed, an attorney.—John M'Quire, a photographer, at 4, Aldgate, said the prisoner, who was a stranger to him, called upon him about 7 o'clock on the r vening of Thursday, the 18th of June, and asked to see some I-Fein - lens of pho tography. Witnes,, who was then in a back room on the fir6t floor, showed hi m severa l s p ec i mens , an d a fter inspect ing them the prisoner said he would not have his portrait taken then, but would call the following day. He left, and next day, about 12 o'clock, he called and had his portrait taken. That done, he asked if witness could copy works of art. " Oh, yes, anything," was the reply. He said he had been making inquiries for soma time about witness's abili ties as a photographer, and would call an d s p ea k to him next day, adding that he was staying at an hotel about a mile distant in the eas t part of the town. Mrs. M'Quire, witness's wife, was present during part of the interview. The prisoner, producing a one-gulden pertrai Austrian note, offered it to her in payment for e had d he asked if he had no silver, and on his replying that he re turned him the note. Ho then gave h er a half N n a et pol , she een in payment, and, on receiving the change, went away, The next day (Saturday) he called again about noon, yT . here were some customers present, and he said he would wait until they had gone. On their leaving the prisoner said ho wanted to speak privately to witness, who replied, " All right ; I'm ready." He told witness to fasten the door, which he did. The prisoner then took from a pocket-book a one gulden note, and asked him if he would copy it. Mrs. M'Quire being in the room, the prisoner asked if she was his wife, and was answered in the affirmative. On witness telling him that he could copy the note, the prisoner said he would give him an order fo r 1,000 copies, and that if he liked the manner in which it was done he would bring him two notes of greater value to be copied. He then asked witness if the paper could be procured in London, and, on being told that it could, the prisoner said that, in that event, they could make their fortunes ; but, if it could not, he should get it from abroad. He charged witness not to allow any living being to see the note, except his wife, who had seen it. Witness told him that he should see an impression of the note on Monday morning. The prisoner then left, and witness went to the Seething-lane police station, and made a communication on the subject to the inspector on duty. In accordance with the prisoner's instructions he made the photograph now produced of the note upon glass, and from which impressions could be taken by a certain process. On Monday afternoon he saw from his shop the prisoner walking about on the opposite side of the street a long time. The prisoner did not come;in, but, about nine o'clock in the evening witness was standing at his shop door, after he had left off work, when the prisoner came up and shook hands with him. Witness asked him if he would go and take a glass of ale ; upon which the prisoner pulled him on one side and said, "We must not let them hear," alluding to some people in the shop. Witness and he went towards Jewry-street, and on the way the prisoner asked him if he had copied the note. Witness said he had; upon which the prisoner inquired if the impression was a good one. On being assured that it was, he said he had got some more notes of greater value for him to do. " Very good," was the answer ; and having taken a glass of ale together at a tavern witness asked him to go to his house with him and look at the impression, which he did. He compared the copy closely with the note and approved it very much. He then asked witness's wife to shut the door, saying he did not wish anybody to see them. Remarking that it was a "dry job," he gave witness half a crown, and asked him to go and get a bottle of gin with it. Witness left for that purpose, but was detained some time. The prisoner met him in the street and said he had left six gold Napoleons and a half with his wife, together with a five gulden and a ten-gulden note. Of those notes he asked witness to make photographic impressions, and then get the impressions engraved on copper, and also that of the note which witness had already copied. He then talked about their travelling together and making their fortunes in six months. He charged witness to be careful not to let the police know, or they should both be ruined. Witness said, "0, no, I'll take care of that," and they parted. On going home his wife showed him the two notes and the six and a half Napoleons. About 9 o'clock next night the prisoner called on him again. Witness was sitting with his wife in a back room on the first floor. The prisoner fastened the door when he came in. Mrs. M'Quire remarked that they thought they had lost him. The prisoner said he had been lying in bed all day, for he had heard something, and was afraid the police had become acquainted with the affair. He asked if witness had said anything about it. Witness re plied that was not likely. The prisoner then asked if he had taken the other two impressions. His wife said he had been too busy. The prisoner began talking about their travelling with him on the continent, and after they had made their fortunes, going to America or Australia, where they would be safe from discovery. Just at that moment a knock was heard at the door, and detective Scott put his head inside. Witness turned round to see who it was, and then followed the officer down stairs and made a communication to him. Scott, accompanied by Monger, another detective officer, then returned into the room with him and took the pri soner into custody. The impression on glass was then on a table in the room, as were also the notes in an envelope. On being cross-examined, witness said the impression on glass was not what was called a negative, but he could turn it into a negative and take copies from it.—Chevalier Igna -1 tins de Schaffer, chancellor and director of the Austrian consulate general in London, said ho was conversant with the currency of the Austrian empire. The.papteorweiiurarnednceyf consisted of gulden notes of different deno t tesaunaproduced were ten-guldenEnglish specimens. The value of a guide , which T money. The three notes referred tol 88Byuantehksettowctihytnineesonstnel‘es1 ' ire were genuine notes of the Natiotnoa The was the only bank autherisedoed i was a representation photograph on g l a ss produ whealwen oporeineteridmwe arningonnithae u . g — th G e eo p . ri S e c e o n t e t r , one-gulden note. There gulden notes, that to forgo t that on taking detective police officer, deposedt a table b e was sitting of the e with Ml Quire and bac k roomfirst floor of the house. i h n i t s o w c i u fe s custody a He Was afterwar ds searched at the police-station, and 42 gold a nd other money found upon him. i Napoleons in corroborated his —The wife of hi Quire . evidence, and deposed some other fresh .th the circu im m y st r a ess e ion on tocircumstances. On comparing the glass the prisoner genuine note akwi pies, and would bring other gen said said who would otulde oath take en 5,000 aigbt w h en her husband was out getting or tleinell 6 0 00 the more. gin the On n the pri soner offered to advance her £5O. She declined to take it, say i n g a pound or two would be ample, upon which he left t h e gold Napoleons with her, n h th im at t o:c g as e i t o e n p h e e ti s s a , id en h a e bad just bad a telegram requiring that probably h er husband would make the copies before he returned, wh ere h o ea' they could communicate with not him in the ev en t o f his I returning. 'Witness, on being asked in cross-examination communicated,why setook twihethmotnheey police,w-hen , B she knew he r h us b and had said that wa s h er business, Besides, it was usual in such cases to hav e a deposit. She might have had £5O, but only took £5 or £4.—Mr. Joseph Gatti, a chocolate manufac turer in Aldgate, sp c t u e a t l o the prisoner, whom he had pre viously known as a casual on the evening of Thursday, the coming to his house indignation 18th June, and staying there a day or two, and to the . he felt on the prisoner calling him aside and asking him if he knew any . one in London, who could copy three . Austrian . note . s which he produced. He ordered eelpereiksonner next morning, quit his house,. and the prisoner left at five o' he was going to Boulogne.—On this e e x vid m en o e rn e i A n i g ; saying applied to have the prisoner committed for trial, which was done accordingly. MORMON CONVERTS.—Within the last two weeks nearly 1,500 Mormon emigrants have landed at New York en route for Utah. One company of 800 was made up of seven different nations, another of 600 was principally from Scandinavia, with all the indications of the honest thrift of the labourers of Northern Europe—American Paper. CRIME OF 1862.—The indictable crimes com mitted in England in the year ending Michaelmas, 1262, so far as known to the police, were 53,225 in number —an increase of 41 per cent over the previous year. Tho catalogue includes 124 murders, 63 attempts to murder, and 698 instances of injuries done with intent to do serious harm ; all these are considerably larger numbers than in the previous year. In Lancashire the increase was 8 per teat. By an inconvenient arrangement these police returns are for the year ending at Michaelmas, but the return of crimi nal proceedings is for the year proper, ending with Decem ber, This latter return shows that in 1862 20,000 persons were committed for trial in England—an increase of 9.1 per cent, following an increase of 121 per cent in 1861. Bat in each of the years 1858, 1859, and 1860 there bad been a decrease, and the numbers for 1862 are still a little belowon those of 1857, notwithstanding an increase ofh The commitments in 1862 were 1 to 1,018 of er the e s was 14.50 ed population. In Lancashire the increas e in Yorkshire 15.4, in Middlesex 21.8, there was a decrease in the extreme north, in the south west,in o E v ssex 13 per cent ; against the person there was . i and in several of the midlan d counties. p l e n r offences without violence 7.9 per cent, in. o ff ences aga inst property with violence 171 per ci - mt, in property (arson, &c.), 51'7 per s°lneffaneitni,ccie:r f or ahgee4-:ficneognmteemPeri°temPeerniteYtset bur glary and housebreaking increased 33 par cent in Lancashire, 48'5 per cent in MiddlS , ma' THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1863 NOTICE. THE LADY EMILY FONSONBY'S NEW WORK, "MARY LYNDqAY, in 3 vols., mill be ready at all the Ll3raries on Friday, July 10. 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The work cannot fail to amuse and interest all who read it."— Sun. _ Hurst and Blackett„ 13, Great Marlborough-street. A CRITIQUE on the NEWSPAPER PRESS, in the LITERARY TIMES, Every Week, id. MR. CHURCH'S New Picture, the ICEBERGS, painted from studies made in the Northern Seas in the summer of 1859.—German Gallery, 168, Ne Ar Bond-street, W. Admission, ls. ARI S.-GRAND HOTEL DU LOUVRE. 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OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE: The _llO RISARELIS, in an entirely new Performance of their own invention, EVERY EVENING during the Week. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The FAIRY FOUNTAIN EVERY EVENING, at Half past Ten o'clock. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—The WARRlORS.—Unprecedented Attraction— The Maori Chiefs, who arrived from Australia on board the Dover Castle on the 22(1 June, will give a REPRESENTA TION of VARIOUS SCENES of NATIVE LIFE EVERY EVENING. The Maori War Dance—The Maori Game —Launching.; the War Canoe—Maori Wrestling—The Maori Double War Dance, &c., &c. Commencing at Half-past Nine o'clock JOURNALS. already well known to Europe, upon a subject of inte rest both to England and to France. Upon this simple incident is bssed the statement made by Mr. Roe buck, a stateseent in which the Emperor saw with amazement himself represented as having sent a message to the British House of Commove, and es having selected Mr. John Arthur Roebuck. to be e bearer. - We did not need the announcement in the Moniteur to comprehend the exact truth. Before that announcement appeared mostpersons who knew anything of the character of the French Emperor and of Mr. Roebuck had made up t2leir minds that the statement of the latter originated in that morbi d vanity which is of all human passions the metst likely to give rise to grotesque delusioes. Some \cords of good-natured complaisance were sufficient : 0 melte the person to whom they were ad dressed imagine himself an accredited agent of an Ernpeter ; and the came vtnity which sug gested the delusion of necessity prompted the an nouncement to the astonished House of Commons. Another member has however rushed into print to claim his share in the Imerial confidence, and his participation in the mission from Napoleon 111. to the British House of Commons, and Mr. Roebuck and Mr. William Shaw Lindsay are the illustrious Ambassadors through whom, if we are to believe themselves, the Emperor of the French conveys his wishes and sentiments to that assembly. This is something more than silly impertinence. It is a grave offence against the constitution and the law. It is a violation of the first duty which sub jects owe to their Sovereign, and Englishmen to their country. Great lawyers have held that any public communication, on matters of State, between a British subject and a foreign Sovereign is a high misdemeanour. liut unquestionably it is so for any British subject to thwart and oppose by such communication the councils of his Queen. Unquestionably it is so to bring to the people of this country a message from a foreign Soverei g n in op p os ition to the policy of the Quee n . The ueen is the only representative of the nation to foreign States. With the Queen alone rests the right of holding intercourse, in the name of the nation, with the authorities of those States. The right of send ing and receiving ambassadors is one of the highest prerogatives of the Crown. That prerogative is infringed when any one of the Queen's subjects presumes to make himself the medium of communi cation on matters of State policy between a foreign Sovereign and any portion of the people of this realm. The House of Commons must judge what is due to their own dignity and to their respect for the constitution and the prerogative of the Queen. If they think fit to permit Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Lindsay to play out on the boards of St. Stephen's the.little farce of " The Twin Envoys; or, The Im perial Ambassadors," the best that can be said of it is that everybody will perfectly understand that it is a farce. It may have one advantage. It may teach persons in high station the dangers of con versing too freely with the Roebucks and the Lind says who may find their way into their presence. We have a very strong suspicion that there is no one more heartily sick of the names of his illustrious visitors than the Imperial personage whom they assumed to represent. The moral of the whole matter may perhaps be nothing higher than this — that frankness and politeness are very good things in sovereigns as well as common people, but are not the only qualities requisite in an interview with a gentleman who cannot resist the temptation of publishing to the world that he has actually had a conversation with a real live Emperor upon affairs of State. HERALD.—The accident of London life which allows as to live without any knowledge of our next-door neighbour, has had a curious exemplifi cation in the state of things which has just been discovered in the interior of a respectable trades man's shop. Who would have thought that in a genteel part of Hackney the worthy inhabitants have been having through months an undertaker in their midst who has been systematically turning his house into a burial-ground, and evading the dues of sexton and parson by taking charge of the corpses of his neighbours as permanent members of his household ? The skeleton was not in his cup board, but under his work-bench. The memento mori never took a more palpable form even with the skull and open grave of the Trappist Brothers. Death was here, and death there, arid death every where. Three children lay about him in as many eoffins in various stages of decay. One had been so long with him that it had shrunk to the skeleton. Another was so far decayed that the head fell off as the body was touched ; and all three bore traces of attempts to subdue the effects of decomposition by the corrosive action of lime. There were two other large coffins enjoying a like family distinction, but were void of their adult tenants. As we ran through the catalogue of the inmates of his house and home, and recal the months through which they were allowed to sojourn with him, one is tempted to ask with Hamlet, " Has this fellow no feeling of his business that he sings at grave-making ?" and to inquire how it happens that houses under the ken of the police, and subject to visits from all sorts of legal authorities, can have been allowed to have remained under such ghastly tenantry. " The custom that made it a property of easiness" to the Danish grave-digger, no doubt had a like effect on the English undertaker; but the public have in terests that hardly allow of so free an indulgence of taste ; and it would be charitable to hope that there was no worse motive in action. He had the coffin in the cases of the adults, the skeletons in the case of the children, and he saved possibly some paltry fee in reference to the burial ; but, except for these trivial considerations, the only repayment which this respectable trades man, enjoying the full confidence of the parochial authorities, received for the proximity of the most offensive and revolting of nuisances, was that "feel ing of the business" that had at last given it a "property of easiness." The long use of the most repulsive calling will end in giving an artistic re lisp for some of its traits and characteristics. The associations growing up of time are like the lichens covering the rock, they give a new surface to ideas nakedly not prepossessing. The daintiness that at first repelled is succeeded after long use by another that appreciates, and the enthusiasm of the laun dress, in "Dickens," over the corpse of the dead husband, is, perhape, quite as natural as the refined appreciation of a Correggio or a Canova by a higher class of connoisseurs. But, beyond the study of a phase of character that we may well wish to be unique, there are some important public considera tions involved in this strange neglect of all the de cencies a healthy state of society associates with the treatment of the dead. There is no better law than the old Roman one—lntra muros mortuos ne sepelito —but it asks some vigilance as the price of its full utility. The passing of the Burial Act, which in hibits the use of cemeteries not situate at some dis tance from towns, has made interments at once mere expensive and troublesome, and the ternpta• tion to offences like those of the Hackney under taker must be too strong to be resisted by many poor persons who are not aided in their duty by the fact that their professional calling obliges them to visit cemeteries and bury the dead. We have re peatedly been hearing complaints of the length of time poor Irish families are accustomed to keep shut up with them, in narrow rooms, the todies of children or deceased relatives; and accordingly, as occupation may prove pressing, money wanting, or the people themselves indolent, it is easy to see that the cae of the undertaker may be that of hundreds through the different parts of the metropolis every month. For a week or mor e the corpse is retai in an every day increasing state of offensiveness ; but when the decomposition is past tolerance, the first expedient may be expected to be adopted which offers itself as a means of relieving them; selves of a nuisance, whose existence they mus suspect to be a legal offence, and which they know to be a serious danger. " is as well not to know that a contingency which 1: r tht likely to be growing less is provided fo r the provisions of the statutes which e ttr o P r " i i medical inspectors for districts and instil:o s o lice, nuisances ; and the public, but especially t interposition whenever a case . may call f dertaker, should not be slow in bringing intoop.eorratttio.pn The be made to cover is one which, if permitted, might . o f the dead is licence, too, assumed by this Hackney un that of the living, and the still more uncertain than m i g ht be made death a great deal of crime. Ihe identitY certificate that applie.d CO onof another. There were to facilitate the covering theu inspector of health for two coffins discovered by found, and whatever the ' which no tenants.. earaue e we leno nethi m anner of their cil s r a g in - k i n g that it be which prohibi.ta "reaching such a place less tended to sub] ;egad forms I € 5 S ho the public nest ly. The encouragement anent to infanticide y h o g e t en astihjectof spring.. painful public certain that ther h e not bo an increasingly active use of in order that wo have,''andalwreeeere n n,,l u ay . have some a public Pen the value of life r v e e n c to the i b r :t a t i n e ou r t up sgr}:sunaprpanots e e e d in to re h fe a been still rtive burial of innovation which tends to cheapen Every iii any of its stages is we have all the most important calamity in which public authority cannot be of stakes, and the too ; interposed to • v.,gila.ntly or energe ticallyloteCt P soci e t y . from the mia- chief. Mr. Humphreys, the coroner, gave as his reason for holding an inquest on one of the infants found festering in a respectable trademan's house, that " great numbers of children were found in parcels in various parts of the metropolis, and that no one knew where they came from." The state ments made by Dr. Lankester are equally sugges tive of a painful alarm on the most delicate of all social subjects. In our state of civilisation and morals there is everything to fear from the remotest approximation to the habits of thought or system of life of the Chinese; and we hardly know any betterguard against an increasing popular demo ralisationcondition with every secu rit y that may wake its t as much a part of ou r p ublic mo rals as it is than the fencing round life in its infantil e respec certainly of our public policy. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The officers of the steam reserve at Devonport entertained their chief, Capt. A. Cooper Key, C. 8., on board the Indus in Hamoaze last week, on the o ccasion of the conclusion of his command at that port. The Russian sloop of war Poseadnick and the two gunboats Neysdwick and Rasboiwick, from China, which have been for some time in Plymouth Sound, left on Saturday for Cronstadt. The paddlewheel steam sloop Sphynx, 6, Com mander J. W. Jones, from Portsmouth, recently returned from the China station, arrived on Satur day morning at Plymouth, where her crew will be paid off. She will be placed in the 3d division of the steam reserve in Hamoaze. The paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Com mander Mark R. Pechell, from Kingston, with supernumeraries for the receiving ship, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday afternoon. Leteers received at Plymouth from the paddle wheel steam frigate Leopard, 18, Capt. Charles Leckie, dated Hongkong, May 10, state that the only other ship of war there was the Princess Charlotte, 12, Capt. Matthew S. Nolloth. The screw steam sloop Perseus, 17, Commander Augustus J. King ston, left on the 16th May for the fleet at Japan, and the Leopard was expected to follow immediately after the arrival of the next mail from England. Her master's assistant, Mr. Meesom, was drowned on the 29th April. The Renard, 4, screw steam gunvessel, 680 tons 200 horse-power, Commander Charles J. Rowley, was paid off at Sheerness dockyard yesterday under the superintendence of Capt. Charles Wise, A.D.C., superintendent of the yard. Commander Rowley was complimented by the Capt.-Superintendent on the very creditable manner in which the paying off had been accomplished through the good conduct of the men, the time occupied being less than a quarter of an hour. The Renard will be placed in the third division of the Sheerness steam reserve. Mr. E. J. Reed paid a hurried visit to Portsmouth Dockyard and H,M.S. Warrior yesterday from the Admiralty. Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., the Naval Commander-in. Chief at Portsmouth, has placed the Pigmy steam tender at the disposal of the officers of the United . States frigate Macedonian dur ing the stay of that vessel at Spithead. Yesterday the officers and cadets landed from the vessel, and accom panied by the American Vice-Consul at Portsmouth, Mr. James Garrett, visited the dockyard, and dis played great interest in the inspection of the ropery, the turret ship Royal Sovereign, the iron frigate Hector, the ironcased ship Royal Alfred, the Hector, nearly ready for commission, and the Sovereign and Alfred, converting. To-day the Warrior iron fri gate, St. Vincent training ship, Victory flag ship, and the Royal Clarence Victualling yard will be visited. To-morrow or Thursday, as may best suit Captain Luce and his officers, Vice-Admiral Sir M . Seymour will give an entertainment in their honour at the Admiralty House. The Hector, 32, iron frigate, has been placed in the Warrior dock at Portsmouth, to have her bilge pieces or keels bolted on, and to be otherwise pre pared for her official trial prior to being finally re ceived by the Admiralty from the hands of the con tractors, Messrs. Napier and Sons, Glasgow. An important code of regulations for the guid ance of the officials and others engaged in bending and preparing the slabs of iron used in armour-plat ing the iron frigate Achilles, st, and the other ves sels under construction at Chatham dockyard, bas been promulgated by order of the Lords of the Ad miralty, and is to be strictly adhered to. The regu lations are drawn up from thereportof the Armour plate Committee appointed by the Admiralty, of which Capt. Sir John C. D. Hay was the chairman. The committee included a number of scientific offi cers belonging to both branches of the service. The committee, in their report to the Admiralty, state that they have examined the various processes adopted in bending the iron plates, and are of opi nion that the plates need not suffer deterioration in quality from any reasonable degree of bending, pro vided the process is properly performed. It is the nature of wrought iron to admit of such changes of shape without injury. The most essential prepara tion for the process of bending is that the plate should be sufficiently heated, for it is only under this condition that it will acquire the ductility and soft ness and freedom from elasticity necessary to admit freely the change of shape. The committee consider that a good red heat is probably the minimum that will suffice ; " blood red" or " cherry red" is hardly sufficient. The committee, however, deem it neces sary that certain precautions should be taken in the process of heating the plates-Ist. That the heat be not carried to such an extent as to injure the iron o 2d. That the h eatin g be done gradually, so as t h ea t the large mass uni forml y throughout i sub heat s t a nce ; and 3d. T heating furnace currents so arranged as to pre vent fierce fire or damage arrieses of the plate, by which from impinging on the edges 4 red to would be done. Probably f ro m goos. provided brightest red are the safest limits; au is reason to the proper precautions be taken, ther e will be rather believe that the quality of the plate . ... the improved otherwise, t as i sharp improved by the heating ill beequiva s iron happens to be hard the prd r ocest theiv Port metal softer. lent to annea lin g , and will red e adopd aPortsmouth in Th e process of hea tin g a ppears to comply the presence of the committeeand the committee be. with the required conditions, the plates sobent to be well re lieve the quality of bending the heated tained. The mode of plates is the committee conceiv e a matter which . e may be mec hanical advisers of safely left to the the Adriii. d g e and tap proces s , a _ ralty. The we N adopted at Portsmouth, has the ladvantage of simplicity ; but the committee think iff t would be bett er if t h e ch 2E o f s hape could be e eeed . 1., & -y dead - an a - pressure—hy -1 Rel i c , for example—instead of by blows. committee consider it highly inexpedient 'The to bend thick plates cold, or only slightly h ea t e d, as t h ere are very few kinds of iron b en d cold, even in small bars, sufficiently ductile to without s t r ucture of the m e t a l , and injury to the i tempt must be n large masses this injurious,at for if th sur face should escape injury the e external process will inevitably produce undue intern the internal strains, very detrimental to powers of resistance under the blows of shot. 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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, TIMES.-7111nyhave been the Chinese debates in the British Parliament, and many more may we fore see in the years that are to come, each resembling that which has gone before it in the scope of its arguments. " Justice," " humanity," economy," one party will eeclaim, as they urge a rigid abstinence from all political intermeddling ; " necessity," the other will answer, as they proceed to show that with out arms in our hands and the will to use them we can neither trade, nor travel, nor even live within the borders of the Chinese Empire. When the evil time shall pass away none can darn to predict, but at present it seems as if weakness and anarchy and the call for European interference were not likely soon to cease out of the land. The hour of doom has sounded for the old fabric of Chinese govern ment and society. The cloud which in the early days of this generation began to form has become blacker, until now it covers with a thick darkness that ancient civilization. Weakness begets violence, violence promotes the enmity of foreigners, whose chastisements in turn tend to raise up rebels and Pretenders against the humiliated Government. The blows struck by England twenty years ago, by breaking the spell of Imperial invincibility, had not a little to do with the rise of the Taepings, who since 1850 have been constantly busy at their work of de struction in the empire. The natural insolence and cruelty of the Chinese nature, increased by civil wars, has broken out again and again within the last few years, leading to fresh hostilities with the Christian nations, and further weakening the influ ence of a Government already beset by gigantic rebel lion. While thus the Chinese political system seems approaching its end, the European element is plainly acquiring increased importance. Things have gone so far that the House of Commons is now appealed to, and asked to discountenance the for mation of permanent military bodies for service within the Empire. At Shanghai a force is en rolled for the defence of the place and the surround ing districts ; and Captain Sherard Osborn will soon be in Chinese waters ready to carry on active hos tilities against the rebels, and support the authority of Prince Kung throughout such parts of his Re gency as a British seaman can reach. It is this swerving from the paths of peaceful commerce that Lord Naas last night desired to condemn. With great elaboration he laboured to show that it was neither our duty nor our policy to interfere in be half of the regular Government. To the usual arguments in favour of neutrality Lord Naas added others less commonplace, though hardly more con vincing. A. man of peace will treat the question as one which general and abstract principles are sufficient to decide. Like Mr. Cobden, he will con tent himself with saying that the Chinese have governed themselves for several thousand years, and need no interference from us now. He will consider that whether there be peace or war w ithin their borders we have nothing to do with the mat ter, our business being confined to buying tea and silk from whomsoever will bring it down to us, whether he be Imperialist or Taeping. We may regret war and destruction, as we regret the flood, the drought, or the blight, but we should no more think of increasing our commerce by the in vasion of a neighbour's soil to compel political tranquillity than to enforce the sunshine or the rain. Lord Naas, however, is not content with this course of argument. He suggests that the rebellion is not an abnormal phase of Chinese history. Resistance to misused authority has always been a doctrine of the philosophical Whigs of that empire. The right of rebellion had always been recognised by the great Chinese writers, and the people had been consistent in reducing the doctrine to practice. Years had often passed in such rebellions, and the country after their success ful close recovered and went on as prosperously as ever. Why, then, may not the Taepings be now working out a great and salutary change in Chinese politics? There are the usual elements. One or more Pretenders, a long and bloodthirsty warfare of many years, desolating whole regions, and bring ing what in other countries would be thought irremediable evils on the Empire; a weak Govern ment, unable to rescue some of its largest cities from the grasp of its enemies; these are what have been found in China for ages past, and they are now seen once more. True, the Taepings are unable to overthrow the Government they have risen against. They are strong enough to overrun and to hold permanently certain regions, but they are not strong enough to change the dynasty. Yet, if we do not misapprehend Lord Naas 's argument, their rebellion is nothing so extraordinary in the annals of China as to call for any nction on our part. Whether the Government was victorious or van quished, or whether, HENS more likely, the rebellion smouldered on for years, it would be merely a healthy and natural process that was going on, and we should impede recovery by attempting to stop the progress of an inevitable malady. Our own opinion is that these arguments, whether philosophical, or economical, or political, in favour of doing nothing and of seeing a vas t wealth-pro ducing region: ruined by marauding savages , are founded in error. As to Captain bherard Osborn and his companions, we are not under the neces sity of defending them, It has always been he!d that foreigners may enter the service of a legitimate Government, and, leaving aside the question whether periodical Chinese revolutions are necessary, there is no service more praiseworthy than that of pro tecting the most flourishing cities of Eastern Asia and the banks of the greatest rivers from the attacks of insurgent armies which destroy wherever they come. The British Government, however, is quite independent of these officers, and not responsible for their acts, although it has authorised them to enter the service of a friendly State. All that this country is doing is to carry out honourably and cordially the principles on which the last reconciliation with China was effected. We have been placed by the Chinese Government —thanks to the courage of our soldiers and sailors—in the same position that Russia so long occupied alone. We have a Minister at Pekin, we have the opportunity of renresenting our views and wishes, and it i s state d that the Chinese ruler is ready to attend to our advice. It may be that it is impossible to prevent the decay of Chinese society, but it is possible and for the benefit of both native and European that peace and order should prevail, and that the industry of the people should resume its wonted course. The Government of Pekin asks our assistance in effecting this; and those who know the country think that much may be done by the support of a Power like England, and the use of a small naval force. Considering the magnitude of the British interests involved, it is impossible, as it seems to us, for the Government to hesitate. Unbounded resources, untold wealth, exist in a region traversed by bands of robbers , to whom the brigands of Naples are saintly and gentle. To those regions we are freely admitted by treaty, and only the state at the country pre e-ents our reaping the full advantages of former exertions. We are now called upon to guide the destinies of that mighty population, and in con junction with other European nations to take care that the collapse of its ancient systems may do as little harm as possible to them and to us. POST.—Upon Monday next, it will be seen by our Parliamentary report, the House of Commons will in all probability resume the debate upon Mr. Roe buck's motion for the recognition of the Southern States. We cannot help thinking that whenever that debate is resumed, there is a point connected with it which must receive a more solemn and seri ous attention than lass been yet devoted to it. Proceedings have taken place in the course of that debate which challenge a decision on the question whether the House of Commons can permit any of its members to profess to be the bearers of communications from a foreign Sovereign to Parliament in opposition to the Minis ters of the Queen. In opening the motion Mr. Roe buck took upon himself to say that he was autho rised by the Emperor to make certain statements to the House of Commons. In the best days of the House of Commons the uttering such words would have been instantly followed by a motion to take them down. The statements of which Mr. Roebuck thus professed himself the bearer related to matters which were the subject of S tate communication be tween the French Emperor and the Queen. Nay, more, they involved a complaint of the manner in which the Queen had treated the diplomatic commu nications of the French Sovereign. Mr. Roebuck had the presumption to say that he had been desired by the French Emperor to make a complaint in his name to the House of Commons of the conduct of the Foreign-office, and also to tell the House of Com mons the Emperor's sentiments upon the question which had been the subject of official correspondence with the Government of the Quee n. The official organ of the French Government has formally dist.: avowed the part which Mr. Roebuck in his vellous statement attributed to the Emperor of the e French. So far as his Majesty i s co ncerned ,h t iv n o explanation is very simple and co mplete. members of the British Parliament sought anhgether i jat ni e fi r : view with him, which the Itloniteur rat her s cant ly observes be had no reason to refuse. he would so easily be induced to grant themvaiee' n the the Moniteur does not say. In that inter i c were Emperor freely expressed his opinions, wother Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and Sls.6d. 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