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TN FUN, This W 'eek, One Penny , Our P ri z e Essays—Name of the Wimicr ; Sir Matthew White ; The Frai ikfort Diet—all Smoke, &c., &c. R OYAL PICINCESS'S THEATRE 'Lessee, r. George Vining. Under the Managemer Lt of Mr. Walter Montgomery. THIS EVENING, 110 MEG AND JULIET. Romeo, Mr. Frederic Robinson ; 31.ercutio, Mr. Walter Montgomery; Juliet, Miss Clara Na.h. To be followed by A ROUGH DIAMOND. Commence at 7. NEW , THEATME-R0 YAL, ADEL7M.- Sole F tonri.:tor and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. THIS EVE. WING (2d week), at 7, a new comic drama, THE TIEN AND CHICKENS - or, A Sign of Affection. 3fessrs. Billi n gton, R. Phillips, Stephenson ; Mrs. Stirling and Miss IL Simms. After which, at a quar"er-past 8, the new drama of THE HAUNTED MAN; olt, T..E GHOSI."S iiARG-A.lN,in Which will he exhibited Professor Peprier's adaptation of ••-he Great Spectral Illusion. Messrs. J. L. Toole, R. - ef foil C. J. Smith; Mrs. Alfred Mellon and Miss Ft. Simms. 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Wind—S.- Westerly; moderate, and fine. f f,r,g,,7 • • - 'LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 1, 1863. It was, from every point of V iew, the noblest incident in the last French Revolution, the Revo lution of February, 184 S, when M. DE LAMAR TINE, in front of the Hotel de Ville, proclaimed the abolition of the punishment of death for political offences. The repudiation by that same poet-orator of the red flag of the Ultra-Democrats was, it is true, a magnificent improvisation ! That red flag which, as the Revolutionary Leader then exclaimed in a sudden and ever-memorable burst of elo quence, and at the imminent hazard of his life while uttering the words, that red flag which had made merely the tour of the Champ de Mars trailed in the blood of the pee ple, while the tricolour bad been making on the contrary, the tour of all Europe with the glory and the liberties of France : meaning by the latter, not Imperialism (of that we may be certain), but instead of Imperialism, the pick of the doctrines of 1789, the noblest and sublimest of the political principles set forth by the Great French Revolution. Another resplendent incident redeeming much that was culpable in the outbreak of February, was the Lynch-law applied, through an instinct of recti tude, by the populace of Paris to those who would fain have desecrated the national movement by the despicable meanness of theft. But incom parably beyond all other incidents of the time, even those the most signally evidencing the valour of individual Leaders like LAMARTINE, or the magniminity of that general multitude he was leading by the beck of his finger or the tone of his voice—was the incident already parti cularised—the proclamation by that Poet Statesman of the abolition, thenceforth and forever in France, of the Punishment of Death for Political Offences. If it but might be, in any way, possible that, from the utterance of kindred accents, only the other day at 'Malines, by:the lips of CHARLES, the Count DE MoNTALEmBERT,:there might cease the passions of fanaticism, of bigotry, of that cruel and dreadful ,zeal which has before now, at intervals, so often during the past centuries, desecrated the hely name of Reigion, by outraging the divine and beneficent doctrines of the Founder of Christianity Nobler accents than those we are about to quote as having been so very recently uttered by the Count DE MONTALEMBERT, in the:magcificent oration deli vered by him to his assembled co-religionists at Malines, nobler, gentler, bolder, loftier accents than these have hardly been uttered in our time. " Can one at the present day," asked MONTALEM BERT, " demand liberty for truth—that is to say, for one's self (since every one, if he be sincere, be lieves himself a follower of the truth), and refuse it to error—that is to say, to those who do not think as we do ?" And, his own question, he an swered at once and unhesitatingly. "I dis tinctly reply, 'No I'" Pausing immediately, how ever, upon his utterance of that monosyllable, he added,in the spirit of FENELON, " Here, I well know, incedo per ignes, and I hasten once more to declare that I have no pretens;on beyond that of expressing an individual opinion ; I bow before all the texts, all the canons that may be cited to me, and not one of them will I contest or discuss." So that it is a Churchman amongst Churchman,a believer amongst believers, an ultramontane even amongst ultramon hues, who is speaking what we are about to quote a s having fallen but the other day (in the presence of the e ternities, we might say but the other instant) fr o m the lips of the Count DE MONTALEMBERT ! And what were those words—with these humble P r estratioes, beforehand, before the canons what were those words he uttered, in the hearing of f our thousand eouls at Malines, words afterwards to be echoed through the whispering galleries of the Press throughout all Christendom ?—e I cannot," he said, " to -day repress the conviction which reigns in my conscience and in my heart. I cannot refrain from expressing it after having read during the last twelve years the attempts to rehabilitate men and things which nobody in my youth, nobody amon g the Catholics, dreamt of defending." Mark well, now, what follows :—" I declare, then, that I feel an invin cible horror for all tortures and violence inflicted upon humanity under the pretext of serving 0, de fending religion. The faggots lighted by a Catholic hand inspire me with as much horror as the scsffolds on which the Protestants immolated so many martyrs. (Sensation and applause:.) Tho gag forced into the mouth of whomsoever lifts up bis voice with a pure heart to preach his faith—that gag I feel be tween my own lips, and I shudder with pain. (Sell' eation.) When 1 evoke in imagination the gloricus martyrs of the liberty of Catholic consciences ; when I think of TIIorvIAS Mona and the other victims of the founder of the Anglican Church ; of all those pious Jesuits who, with a heroism so modest and undaunted, bathed cruel England with their blood; the Franciscan s of Gorcum ; of the innumerable priests who ascended the steps of the guillotine or rotted in the pontoons of Rochefort ; of La Vendee butchered, of Ireland starved, of Poland agonising, I will not endure that the blessed privilege, the holy joy, of admiring and invoking such martyrs should ever be troubled or tarnished by the neces sity of approving or excusing other cruelties and other crimes, buried though these may be in the en. sanguined obscurity of the past. The Spanish quisitor saying to the heretic, The truth or death,' is as odious to me as the French terrorist saying to my grandfather, _Liberty, fraternity, or death.' (Acclamations.) The human conscience has the right to insist that those hideous alternatives shall never again be presented to it. (Fresh applause.)'' And whose heart is there amongst us here in England, that is not moved to its innermost depths by these penetrating and most persuasive accents, that will not thrill as with the reverberation of the plaudits extorted by the utterance of those words, extorted by the genius of the great orator who uttered them to the four thousand fellow mortals assembled together to hear them only a few days since in the old Belgium city of Malines? Such as they are, those elequent words, those pene trating accents, those beautilul and beneficent utterances, we commend them to the attention of all alike, to matter what their creed or country, their prejudices or their predilections. We are happy to see that the effort made by Mr. LAIRD, last session, to introduce a bill to render it compulsory on shipowners to supply their vessels with proved cables and anchors has not been with out fruit. It is true that from the factious opposi tion of wealthy and interested individuals the bill was so mutilated that Mr. LAIRD very properly withdrew it, expressing, at the same time, his inten tion of introducing a similar one next session, but the ventilation given to the subject by the! debate in question has aroused the dormant energies of the committee of LLOYD'S. They have at length done what we have pressed on them, time after time, and taken the matter into their own hands. Life and Fire Insurance Companies require certain stipulated rules to be observed, otherwise the policies are null and void. When a steam engine is on the premises in sured, if flooring, or rather combustible material be erected in too close proximity to the furnace, the office is not held responsible for the loss sustained in case of fire. Why should not Marine Insurance Companies act on the same principle with regard to anchors and cables ? The first step in the right direction has now been taken. Heretofore, while the Government, the India Board, and the Emigra tion Commissioners refused to charter any vessel unless a certificate were produced showing that the anchors and cables had been tested up to the Admi ralty proof; merchant vessels have been allowed to proceed to sea, fully insured, with defective and worn-out cables, a fact of which owners, crew, and captain were alike cognisant. The owners had nothing to fear, as in many cases a loss might prove a gain. The captain and crew had no voice in the matter, they had only the alternative of sailing in the ship as she was, or of giving place to others, less particular, who were willing to run the risk. The result of all this has been the loss 'of hundreds of lives and millions worth of property. As a matter of economy it is obvious that the underwriters of LLOYD'S should do something, and we are glad to learn that their eyes are at length opened to the fact that their own interests as well as those of humanity are involved in the question whether ships shall in future go to sea efficiently equipped or no. Last Thursday a number of scien tific gentlemen, at the Proving-house of LLOYD'S committee, in the New-road, Poplar, met for the purpose of witnessing the mode designed by Mr. T. M. GLADSTONE, C.E., of testing the merits of chain cables and anchors. This Proving-house was erected last year, under the direction of this gen tlemen, the engineer to the Committee of LLOYD'S; its ostensible object being to enable the owners or vessels who require certificates of the efficiency of their anchors and cables to obtain them readily. They have, therefore, made arrangements for prov ing all chains and anchors brought to the Proving house, and arrangements are now being made with a view to the construction of similar houses at the principal seaports. The establishment at Poplar is about 500 feet in length, and a chain cable of 75 fathoms can be proved in one operation, whereas formerly it was necessary to test it in sections of 12 to 15 fathoms, a tedious and less satisfactory process. Mr. GLADSTONE deserves great credit for his ingenuity, and for hhe thorough and scientific manner in which all the details of the work are carried out. By the use of a travelling crane of peculiar construction, styled the " Dromedary," all the work is performed iu a few minutes, but little manual labour being required. Thus far the work has progressed satisfactorily. It yet remains for commercial enterprise and sagacity to enact and enforce laws for the protection of life and property, which hitherto the House of Commons has been too indolent or too indifferent to enter on the statute- book. Let it be once clearly enunciated by in- swarm ) companies that the production of a test certificate is a sane qua non before a claim for in demnity can be entertained, and let this rule be strictly enforced, and the employes at the Proving houses will soon have plenty of work on their hands, and the strength of Mr. GLADSTONE'S dromedaries will be tested more severely than ever were those of their namesakes on the sands of Egypt. Life and property will be more secure in our coasters, and the wives and sweethearts of our small traders and sailors will not run so great a risk of bidding them a long farewell when they leave port on a few days' voyage. inventions, especially All great discoverie s and those from which large p ro fi ts may be derived, are for a long period retarded in their development, both by factious opposition and by the ob s ti nacy o f interested parties, whose profits may ho e n d angered by the adoption of the new invention, or whose in terest may be best served by the application o f only a certain portion of it. It is not to b e sup . posed that the electric telegraph has es caped this trial any more than other great discoveries. A s regards the lines of communication which traverse all parts of the civilised globe, the competition of so many electricians, extended as it hes been over so vast a field, has resulted in the great improvement and simplification of electric telegraphs. We wish we could say the same regarding the submarine telegraphs. Money has not been wanting to carry out these undertakings on a large scale. Fortune seemed to favour such enterprises; for just when doubts were being raised as to what substance would serve as an insulator, and yet resist the strain and wear and tear to which a marine cable would be subjected, Nature solved the difficulty, and gutty pereha became at once an article„of commerce, and was generally adopted for marine telegraphs. Yet since the first attempt of the kind, undertaken I within a comparatively recent period, to lay down which, alth oug h a fai a convecti ng li nk between England and France, lure in the first instance, was shortly afterwards successfully accomplished, but ping eliffittelaeeyproofgerleescstrbiacscubrereen made in devel o the nts,under advantageous ar to transmit i n t e lli gence along the bed of rangmentE , the ccean. Great difficulties h ave no doubt been pur suing thisriencc complex by electricians an d engineers in owp i e x and novel subject, but we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that progress hasbeen greatly retarded by petty jealousies and sordid moti ves. In too many cases private interest has carried th e day, to the detriment of the general public. Wh ere many projects and plans are started, all cannot b e right, aed some NI ill do doubt be found wanting. We therefore think that, in justice to proprietors (to say nothing of the public), vogiatvria aLd direct- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, ISM tors, et hoc genus onme, should, when placed in responsible positions, act impartially to all. They should, without favour or affection, do justice to their employers, instead, as is too often the case, lending their influence to aid some project in which they have either a pecuniary interest or which they may have adopted as a hobby. These remarks do not apply to electricians, engineers, or any others in particular. We are sorry to say that are e ere to a b re lame man i y a in every every profess ion respect ; b tw w o that there is again a prospect of t he com munication between the old and new w orlds n now being opened, it behoves all to endeavour to p r omote so great an undertaking to the best of their power. We have before us a little pamphlet, by Mr. PIGGOTT, the electrician, in which he complains that his project to simplify and economise the working of marine telegraphs has met with a determined opposition from electricians and others, Notwithstanding his inventions have proved successful un :er many tests, he has been so opposed that he sees no other way of ventilating it than by giving it publicity, as a last resource, through the press. We do not care to enter noon the controversy, either to vindicate his claim or to question it—that matter rests with those who islayninog doubtdown have undertaken the management and direc- Btiount of fhetrheea r b i n u e t a cables. part th o a f t if of his theory be correct, which experiments have substantiated as far as they have been tested, a great change must take place in our oceanic telegraphs before long. So long as contending powers are brought into play, the one as it were to work against the other, although the object sought may for a time be obtained, sooner or later the cable is destroyed, and it stands to reason that the longer the cable the greater the resistance, therefore the greater the power required, and con• sequently the quicker the destruction of the cable. Mr. PIGGOTT states that he obviates these difficul ties by a cable as simple as it is efficient. It is constructed with a core of galvanised iron consist- icg of several strands twiste.l and covered, along which arc laid two copper covered wires attached to each side of the recording instrument. The copper wire is again covered, to form it into a rope, and the whole is overlaid with a preserva tive composition. The cable thus becomes a Leyden ar within itself, generating its own charge of elec trinity without the aid of any battery power. The iron wire being electrically minus and the copper plus, the water penetrating the cable is the means of developing those conditions. It is obviously impossible that in a system like this there should be any retardation or induction, because there is no local battery nor other conditions to produce them. His cable being always charged, and consequently always in a statie electric condition from end to end,;the slightest disturbance at one end, on making contact with the opposite metal, is instantaneously felt at the other; for the elements which, until the very moment of contact, was in all parts passive, becomes by such contact in all parts active. We lay these facts before the public not in any way to promote the interests of Mr. PIGGOTT. We hope that his project may be successful, for if so, it will greatly promote international intercourse, and as he relies upon natural causes rather than on chemical assistance, the economy of such a process must be obvious. Our object is to draw the atten tion of those who have embarked their money in speculations, the practical working of which is as yet uncertain, to the necessity of taking advantage of every improvement which may from time to time be suggested. We are never too old to learn. What were impossibilities to our ancestors are axioms to the present generation. We admire the genius and talent of the:ancient Greeks and Nor mans, yet while contemplating their greatness we are apt to overlook that their scient'fic knowledge was not high enough to enable them to discover that water will rise to its own level by the laws of nature, and that many of their costly aqteducts were unnecessary, and that the tedious and expen sive processes then adopted to supply their cities with water would be hushed at by modern engi neers. May not a future generation think the same of our submarine telegraph ? A HISTORY of Great Britain, written in modern Greek by G. Latnpese, has been recently published. MR. W. CROOK ES, F.R.S., has reprinted for private distribution his recent communication to the Philo sophical lilagazine. The statements and evidence given are said to be decisive in proving him the discoverer of the metal thallium I MEETING OF THE EMPERORS.—It is said, though the authori!y is somewhat doubtful, that the Emperor of Austria is to have an interview with the Emperor Napoleon. The rumour, whether true or otherwise, is certainly gain ing ground. A MEMORIAL TO THE LATE MR. MULREADY ! The members of the Royal Academy are about to raise a statue to the veteran painter in the National Gallery. WHERE is M. TRIERS DRIVING ?—M. Thiers's coachman has committed suicide by hanging himself. This is the second that has chosen this method for quitting his service. THE PHOTOGRAPHER REJLANDER has all the genius for seizing on thorough artistic incidents ; he groups his figures and poises them with admirable skill, raises somehow in his subjects the very look, action, and point required, and catches the happy moment with the quickness of the lightning flash. Who can look at his " Participle-catching" and his " Participle -caught," and not enjoy it as much as one of Hunt's quaint water-colours ? You see the boy's hand stealing gradually towards the fly, then you can almost hear the insect buzzing in it. THE NOTORIOUS CONSPIRATOR, Mazzini, is reported to be now lying dangerously ill at Lucerne. THE CHOLERA AND THE SEVENTY-SEVENTH.-- We regret to hear that some fatal cases of cholera have oc curred in the 77th Regiment, stationed at Allahabad. SIGNIFICANT BEARDS,—Dr. Heinrich Hoffman, known as the Frankfurt " Struwelpeter," has, in a little book of his, given the following passage descriptive of the party-significance of beards in the parliamentary days : 1. No beard : Philister , spicier, Bourgeots. If the man is very elegantly dressed, and goes so far as to wear glacd gloves, he belongs to the diplomatic reactionary party; but he may be r•oughly handled. 2. Small moustache, carefully duecaution, li eve', and smoot h chin : an aristocratic reactionnairc, Given occa sionally to pi s t o l- s h oot i ng, and must, therefore, be treated with c aut i on. 3. Moustache, with small imperial : may belong t o unless, the policy, c indeed,e, a one n d has must likewise many good d treated friends one's side. 4. Strang, heavy moustache , without whiskers : belongs to th e centre left. is of no decided • political hue. A little shaNing will make him reactionary. Must be won over if possible, but not too implicitly trusted. 5. Not shaved at all—beard from ear to e ar : A . S ystematically trimmed with scissors, the hair stiff and brush-like : a de cided friend of the people, but more useful in practice than in theory. B. Natural growth, an untrimmed forest of hair, which no sharp instrument ever approached, flowing down, and generally of mixed colours noble friend of the people, communistic dreamer, radical reformer, without any historical basis, but sometimes with practical self determination. A WOMAN SHOT BY A VOLUNTEER OFFICER.— A very painful affair took place at ;Newcastle-on- Tyne on Saturday evening, a female named Isabella Welsh having Leen shot by a volunteer in the Newcastle named Ensign James ITCree. The injured woman is the wife of the sexton of St. Andrew's Church. Mr. INl‘Cree is a partner in the extensive firm of M'Cree and Thompson, timber merchants in that town. At a late hour on Satur night, some persons were standing near his timber-yard i n Gallowgate, and were ordered away by him. They did not go, and he left the sp o t, but shortly afterwards re turned with a gun, and again asked them if they would leave. On seeing the gun they at once moved off, but had . not gone far, whe n h o di sc h arge d th e gu n, the contents of which entered the leg below the knee of Mrs. Welsh, who was passing. She was carried to her own home, and was attended by Dr. Scott, who expressed his opinion that the gun had been loaded with ball. The poor woman was taken to the infirmary. Mr. M'Cree was at once sought after by the polic e , b ut could not be found until the next morning, when.he was app re h en d e d . The unfortunate event has caused a very painful sensation, owing to the respectable poeitio4 of the prisoner, LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE POLISR QUESTION, THORN, SEPT. 1. it is reported that the Grand Duke Constantine will not return to Warsaw. The Grand Duchess is said to be already preparing for departure. General Mieroslawski is stated to have been persuaded to enter the service of the National Government as organiser of volunteer bands with out the Polish frontier. BERLIN, SEPT. 1. Letters from Si-. Petersburg, to the 30th ult., announce that en imperial ukase has been issued, ordering the incorporation of 48 regiments of the reserve with the active army. The Grand Duke Constantine has attended a Council of Ministers held at Tzorakoe-Zelo, under the presidency of the Emperor, at which the ques tion of replying to the notes of the three Powers was discussed. The Grand Duke has been received in the most friendly manner by the Emperor since his return from Warsaw. VIENNA, AUG, 31 (Evening Rumours are current that a number of Hungarian notables will shortly assemble at Pestb, under the presidency of the Emperor, to discuss measures tending to bring about a solution of the Hungarian question. ........... •••••• SPAIN, MADRID, AUG. 31 (Evening A letter from Marshal Espartero has been pub lished, recommending th© electors to abstain from voting. General Prim had a long conference with the Queen yesterday at La Granja, after which he re turned to Madrid, and had an interview with Senor Olezaga. The leading members of the progressista party will meet this week in Madrid. Should they decide upon abstaining from voting, they will pub lish their motives for this course. The Ministry persist in excluding non-electors from the prepara tory electoral meetings. a Diet sitting at Warsaw and an autonomous in ternal existence, and moreover, it would send De puties to the Chamber of Representatives. The same plan would be adopted as regards Finland and the other great provinces of the empire. This project is opposed by the Court party, which, should it be adopted, would see its importance diminished, and, moreover, it meets with competition from the city of Moscow, which is desirous of becoming the seat of the Constitutional Russian Empire, leav ing the Court to reside at St. Petersburg. These difficulties are not insurmountable, and it is pro bable that the Emperor will carry out the liberal intentions by which he is animated." Dramatic, Equestrian, and Musical Sick Fund, Yesterday the eighth annual meeting of the elec tion of officers and passing of accounts of this society Was held in the saloon of the Theatre Royal Drury-lane, Mr. B. Webster in the chair. Among those present were Mrs. Reddich, Mrs. Ruddell, Miss Julia Weston, Miss Thorne, Miss Lund, Miss Clide, Mrs. Manders, Miss J. Sims, Miss J. Smith, Miss Ettersall, Miss Pitt, Miss Pattison, Miss Maria Conway, Miss Maria Mills, Mrs. and Miss Turtle; Messrs. B. Webster, Anson, Reddich, Nelson Lee, F. Stuart, Conway, Plumpton, Deere Baldie, R. Phillips, W. H. Eburne, J. Plumpton, Lewis Ball, S. May, C. Sloman, S. May, san., Norman Mon tague, Aldridge, J. H. Churchill, Captain Dimpier, Mr. Dawson, Mr. Paul Herring, Mr. Middlemist, Messrs. J. Johnson, Regan, J. R. .Tullian, W. Junin, Wolton, Reynolds, Dalton Russell, Morri son, Moon, C. Ryce, E. Ryley, Malcom Dunbar, Rayner, J. V. Johnstone, and Thomas. The following is the annual report : "Your committee with confidence announce to you the firm yet steady progress of this most useful institution. During the past year no amount of labour has been spared to carry out the good work so well begun. Situations for 116 members have been obtained, 50 families have teen assisted to enable them to get to their engagements, 41 cases of distress have been relieved, and 576 days of sickness have been administered to. The families of five members have received the allowance for interment, and many cash ad vances have been made to distressed but respectable breth ren. The summary of the eight years may be announced as follows :--4,054 days of sickness relieved ; 360 loans for journeys granted; 133 cases of distress relieved, many of these having no claim. " Your committee, in compliment to their numerous sub scribers and donors, Leg to call attent;on to the fact that but two only of the numerous benefits before recited are paid for by members, and those at a rate far below the scale of any other benevolent society. It is by the profits of the annual dinner and donations that they are enabled to produce so good a result. " Your committee beg to express deep regret at the de mise of five members during the past year, and also to name that this association has been deprived of two of its most firm supporters by death--namely, H. V. Swarborough, Esq., and John Gray, Esq., two gentlemen by whose advo cacy and liberality this and many other institutions of our piofession have greatly benefitted. " In conclusion, your committee, thanking you for past favours, respectfully entreat your support and sympathy for the future ; and to the ladies of the profession generally they offer their heartfelt thanks for the strenuous efforts they have made to assist in alleviating sorrow, sickness, and distress." Mr. WEBSTER said, as their president, he was proud to see the members of this association present year after year, and always under favourable cir cumstances. It was always very delightful to find that an institution of this kind, with regard to their profession, was most liberally patronised by the public, and it only wanted the members of the pro fession to join hand in hand, and heart in heart, to carry this institution forward through its career till it arrived at the highest summit of its prosperity. This institution had its peculiarities; it was more broad in its objects than any other institution they had, seeing that it made provision for the sick, and advanced money to take persons to their engage ments, thus enabling them to carry out honestly the practice of the profession which they adopted. He then called on Mr. Phillips to read the financial statement. Mr. R. G. PHILLIPS then read the statement of accounts, which showed an expenditure of £3Bl Os 10d for the year; and receipts by profit of dinner, £124 18s 5d ; sick-fund payments, £lB2 18s 11d; contingency-fund payments, £24 2s id; interest on capital, £3O 12s 4d ; agency department, £lB3 8s 9d ; making a total of 1546 Os 6d ; leaving a profit of £16419s Bd. The cash in the bank at last audit was £1,245 is 7d. Profit of the year (less arrears), £77 2s Bd. Actual cash in bank, £1,322 4s 3d. The summary for the year showed the following rtsults :—Days of sickness administered tc, 576 ; funeral allowances, 5 ; cases of distress relieved, 41; loans on journeys, 50. He (Mr. Phillips) then stated that these acc3unts showed that the institu tion was actually doing a large amount of good, and invited those members of the profession still un connected with the society to join it. The CHAIRMAN then moved the adoption of the accounts, and the motion was unanimously agreed to. Captain DAMPIER moved the re-election of the present officers, and that the name of Mr. H. G. Nevill be added to the committee. Mr. MAY seconded the motion, and it was pu and carried. Mr. LEWIS BALL moved that a vote of thanks be returned to Benjamin Webster, Esq., the honorary consulting counsel; T. J. Jerwood, Esq., honorary solicitor; Peter Berrell, Esq., and R. P. Middle mist, Esq., honorary surgeons ; T. Roberts, hono rary dentist, and the other honorary officers of the society. The motion having been seconded by Mr. NEL, SON LEE, was unanimously agreed to. Dr. MIDDLEMIST briefly acknowledged the corn pliment. Mr. REDDICII moved a cordial vote of thanks to he President, Mr. Webster. Mr. CHURCHILL seconded the motion. Mr. WEBSTER, briefly acknowledging the com pliment that had been paid to him, expressed the great satisfaction he felt at the progress the insti tution had made, and moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Anson, who, he said, was not only the secre tary, but the founder of the institution. The motion was carried by acclamation. Mr. ANSON, in replying, thanked those present for the cordial manner in which they had carried this motion, and asked them, if he had ever appeared over-zealous, that they would attribute it to his anxiety fur the institution. The society had un doubtedly done much good ; it had relieved the theatres from begging petitions, which tended more than anything to degrade the profession. He was sure there would be no coolness in supporting the institution if they all knew the undercurrent of poverty running through the profession. Only a few days ago four most distressing cases were pre- seated to him for relief, and others were frequently . . arising. He concluded by moving a vote of thanks to the subscribers, which was carried by acclama- on the motion of Mr. MAY, seconded by Mr. JuLLIAN, a vote of thanks was returned to the committee of management and the auditors. Mr. PHILLIPS, having on behalf of the committee of management returned thanks, Messrs. Conway and Johnson were elected auditors for the ensuing year. Mr. ROCHEZ said this institution was for eques trians as well as for others, and he regretted that he saw so few equestrians present. For twenty seven years he had practised that profession with out any accident and without coming on the funds of any society, but on the 27th of June twelve months he went to bed well and awoke to find him. self paralysed. He had a wife and daughter who could jump 28 balloons, and she did it the other night, and she only got 10s. a week, so that he was very thankful for the assistance he got from the society; without it he would have wanted food. None of them knew how suddenly they might be taken ill, and he recommended them to keep up their subscriptions, although he hoped ho might long see those around him as well as they at that moment appeared to be. Mr. FLUMPTON moved, and Mr. CHURCHILL seconded, a vote of thanks to the press, and it was carried. Mr. F. STUART then moved, and Mr. NELSON LEE seconded, a vote of thanks to Mr. Edmund Falconer for the use of the saloon in which the meeting was held, and a vote of thanks was awarded to the trustees. Mr. NELSON LEE responded, assur ing those pre sent that the undercurrent of distress which had been spoken of did really exist in the profession, and cited cases which bad come under his own ob• servation, proving that such was the case. R e concluded by an earnest appeal to the profession to join this institution, which fittingly concluded the business of the meeting• THE GHOSTS of David Garrick and Edmund Kean are especially called upon to note the following an nouncement :—" Another French Shakspearean actor is expected in London ere long—a M. 'faillade; he has won great favour by his representation of Macbeth in French, and will essay the same character iu 14)gliAa." THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS , SOUTHAMPTON, SEPT. 1. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Poonah, with the heavy portion of the above mails, has arrived here. She brings 54 passengers, pearls and precious stones value 76,000 rupees, and a general cargo, in cluding 2,675 bales of raw silk, value £26,000 sterling. In the Mediterranean the Poonah experienced fine weather, but in the Bay of Biscay strong westerly winds and a heavy swell. O❑ the 26th ult. she spoke the Pera with the outward mails of the 20th. Gibraltar, Aug. 2 7.—Exchange on London 90 days, 49i to 50. Pads, 528. Madrid, par. Freights unaltered. DENMARK AND GERMANY. The following is the declaration made by the Danish Envoy at the sitting of the Diet, Aug. 27, in reply to the resolution of the Diet of July 9:— "When, during the negotiations of 1851-52, his Majesty's Government declared it to be their intention to unite in an equal manner all parts of the Danish monarchy, so as to form one collective constitutional State, this was done on the necessary, and on both sides expressly admitted, suppo sition that the relation of the duchies of Holstein and Lauen burg to the Germanic Confederation would not be incompa tible with the independent position of a Danish collective monarchy in the European system of States, and that the participation of those duchies in a common constitutional representation with the other parts of the State would be in harmony with the sights and laws of the Confederation, and this was moreover confirmed by a formal decree of the Diet. " His Majesty's Government do net intend to go into a detailed expression of all the measures that were undertaken for the purpose of carrying out the intentions of his Ma jesty, or of all the difficulties encountered. All these cir cumstances are well known to the Confederation, and have too often already been the source of a difference of opinion. His Majesty's Government do not wish to renew a discussion in this respect. There cannot, however, be any difference of opinion as to the essential change having since taken place in the views entertained of the position and object of the Germanic Confederation, and consequently also of its rights over the Fecteral territories belonging to the Danish Monarchy. His Majesty's Government believe, therefore, that they state only a fact when they declare that the sup positions entertained in 1851-52 have not been realised, and that his Majesty's Government have consequently been gradually placed before the alternative of giving up either the independence of the entire Danish monarchy, or the closer union of the federal territories with the other parts of the monarchy —an alternative which left no choice. " What the Duchy of Lauenburg has possessed in an un interrupted and undisturbed manner ever since it came under the Crown of Denmark Holstein obtained by the Constitutional Law of 1854—viz., a constitutional guaran tee for its independence as to all its own affairs, in the widest sense of the term. His Majesty's Government have besides declared themselves ready to give this special Con stitution a more free development in unison with the libe ral principles of the Danish political system. " On the other hand, the position which has assigned the federal territories in the monarchy in respect to the common affairs of the whole country would in nowise have hindered his Majesty in the conscientious accomplishment of all the federal obligations assumed by him, nor would the participa tion of the duchies in a common Constitution have im perilled their own individual development of their financial interests. " When, under these circumstances, his Majesty's Government have conceded a political individuality and a constitutional independence, in respect to the common affairs of the State to a territory, which before only possessed a provincial existence and only the right to be treated as a pi, vince of the monarchy, his Majesty's Government have made this sacrifice only for the sake of satisfying, on the one side, the wishes of the people of Holstein, whose representatives have these many years and under every form opposed a common con , stitutional representation embracing Holstein, and of com. plying, on the other side, with the requisitions of the Ger manic Confederation, which,in order to protect the indepen dence and equal rights of Holstein and Lauenburg, de manded by the decrees of March 8, 1860, and Feb. 7, 1861, `that no law in common affairs, especially in matters of finance, should be enacted for the duchies which had not been sanctioned by the estates.' "It is this which, almost in the same words, has been established by the proclamation of March 30. " The principle which has been carried out in this arrangement cannot well be disputed by the Germanic Con federation, for it is a principle which it has itself advanced. The independence and equality of rights claimed for the Federal territories could certainly not be more fully conceded or secured than by the course now taken by his Majesty's Government, and all doubts as to whether the union of Holstein with the Danish monarch would interfere with the accomplishment of the Federal obligations of his Ma jesty must completely disappear with the concession of a general independence to the Federal territories. His Majesty the King has already declared his readiness to make his subjects in Holstein partakers of whatever free development the future may held in reserve for Germany and the Ger manic Confederation. As the realization of this intention would require such a position of Holstein as that assigned it by the proclamation of March SO, there would also in this respect be cause for his Majesty's Confederates, and espe cially in view of the recent events in Germany, to give to this bearing of the arrangement a due consideration. His Majesty's Government are animated by the sincere desire of removing every cause of dispute which has already for too long a period disturbed the peaceful relations of closely-connected neighbouring lands. His Majesty's Go vernment being, for the reasons before stated, unable to re peal the proclamation of March 30, they have instructed His Majesty's Envoy to furnish the Confederation with such explanations as it may desire as to particular points. His Majesty's Government venture to hope that such a discussion would induce the Confederation to change its opinion. They moreover, do not hesitate to declare that not only would any propositions concerning the duchies of Holstein and Lauen burg be taken into the most serious consideration, but also all decrees of the Confederation be executed, in the said duchies, provided only they respected the inalienable sove reignty of his Majesty over his federal dominions, and did not thwart a free exercise of the legislative power in those other parts of the monarchy which do not belong to the Confederation. " When, finally, the resolution of the Diet points to the possibility of a federal e xecution being near at hand hi s Majesty's Government can on l y refer to their declaration. of the oth ult. Whatever be th e manner in which the Diet judges of the extent of its competency under the acts of federation, there can be no doubt that after his Majesty's Government have recognised the political independence of the federal duchies, and declared themselves ready, if re quired, to negotiate concerning the realisation of that inde pendence, such an eventuality could only be judged of f rom an international point of view." MARKETS—This Day. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. Old Meadow hay, £3 10 s t o £ 4 lfis • n ew do., £ 3 to £4 ; old clover, £4 lOs to £6 O s ; new do. ' £4 Os to £5 Os; and straw, £1 Bs to £1 16s per load. Trade firm, CUMBERLAND.—OId Meadow hay, £3 lOs to £4 10a • new do., £3 Os to £4 ; old clover, £4103 to £6 ; new do" £4 Os to .£5 Os; and straw, £1 8$ to £1 16 s per load. A. steady demand. WHITECHAPEL —Old Meadow hay, £3 108 to £4 10s, new do , Os to £4 Os; old clover, £4 lOs to £6 Os; new do ,£4Osto ib Os; and straw, 83 to £1 ]6s per load. 'trade steady. COLONIAL. TEA.—There has been very little business transacted, as operations have been deferred until the public sales, which commence to-day. SUGAR —A fair amount of business has been entered into in West India, chiefly for home consumption, and prices aro well sustained. In the refined market also there has been more animation, and full prices are current for dried goods. COFFEE.—The dealings have been to a fair extent, and good and fino qualities of colonial fully support previous quotations. RICE.—No operations of importance have been recorded, and there is little alteration of importance to record in prices. TALLOW.--The market has continued vary quiet, and prices have 'generally shown a downward movement. P.Y.C, on the spot is quoted 4283 d ; and last three months' delivery, 445 per cwt. ST. CLEMENT DANES REGATTA.—First heat : Sidney Murray, 1 ; William King, 2; won by three lengths. Second heat : Henry King, 1; Henry Dyer, 2; won by four lengths. Final heat : Sidney Murray, 1; William King, 2; this was a very finely contested race, won by two or three lengths. The race was among appren tices, for a coat and badge and various prizes, the second being zet 4s. and the freedom of the Thames, presented by the gentlemen of the Admiralty at Somerset-house, FRANCE. PARIS, SEPT. 1. An Imperial decree, published to-day, fixes the octroi duty in Paris on bread and corn at Ic. per kilogramme ; on ibur, Ic. 3 dieciemes per killo gramme—the proceeds to go to the Caisse de Bou langerie, The decree further orders that whenever the price of bread may exceed 59 centimes, the Caisse de Boulangerie is t o b ear the surplus. The -Prance Central e , published at Blois, has been suspended for two months. The motive for th e suspension is stated, as the paper having announced that the Ambassador of France at St. Peter s b urg had deman d e d an audience of Prince Gortachakdf, but had not obtained a wor d of answer. This statement is declared to be false, calculated :o disquiet the public, and excite hatred against the Government. BOURSE, Aug. 31. —Th e market has been firm, and the business d one up to the presen t ti me s h ows an improvement on S aturday ' s quotations. The Railway Share M ar k et rather qu i e t, b u t fi rm . The market acquired much buoyancy towards the close, and left cfif as follows :-- 41 per Cents 97 It a lian Loan 73 50 Do. end month... Do. end month 73 75 3 per Cents ...... 68 10 N e w ditto Do. end mo n th .... 68 15 Do. en d mont h 73 25 Credit Mobilier.... 1140 Russian Do. end m 0nt h ....1148 75 Austr i an .. — Bank Shares ...... 3390 Spanish Threes 53 Credit louder ....1280 Home Debt RAILWAYS. Cash. Account. Orleans lO3O .. 1028 75 Northern New, ditto — .. —: Lyons and Mediterranean 1035 .. 103 a Geneva .. 492 50 .. 493 75 Southern Western Eastern Sardinian 415 .. 41.5 Austrian Lowbard . 562 00 .. 560 North of Spain Saragossa 678 75 _ .. 680 Ditto to Barcelona . • ALEXANDRIA, SEPT. 1. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Peluse, with ,he India and China mails, left here to-day. She ,akes 59 passengers, and 842 bales of silk. RUSSIA. La Patric publishes the following article in very prominent type : " We have received private correspondenc e f rom St. Petersburg which leads us to believe that ev en t s of much higher importance than what has been announced by telegraph are under preparation in governmental regions, and which are of a nature to perhaps, the completely, and in a most unex peete modify,d manner, position caused by the affairs of Poland. " The report had already been spread, at the date of our correspondence, of the proximate arrival of the Grand Duke Constantine at the summer resi dence of the Emperor, and simultaneously with that report another, that a Russian envoy was to be sent to Paris with fresh instructions with a view to pre pare the French Government for the ulterior rm. lutions of the St. Petersburg Cabinet. "It will be remembered that despatches have al luded to an extraordinary Council, which was to be held under the presidency of the Emperor, in which were to be discussed the draught of a reply to the notes of the three Powers, and also the draught of a new Constitution for the Russian Empire and for t h e P o li s h provinces. According to the correspon dence which we have r ece i ve d , a spec i a l p l an w i ll con cern the kingdom of Poland, which will be placed under exceptional conditions, going far beyond the expostulations (reclamations) made by the three in tervening Powers. We may add, that the presence of Prince Hohen :o a p r eintegrestiburg. Without affi r ming that at the camp of Chalons is no he is charged with a m i ss i on f rom h i s sovere i gn to a the Emperor Napole on 111 ., th i s step of the ex - ec l l r e e r t t S i s g t m . Minister of Prussia is regarded in political circles as an indication at an attempt of a rapprochement be tween Paris and St. Petersburg made by King William I.; and a very great influence is attributed to the Court of Berlin on the decisions of the Em peror Alexander. " It is not without reserve (continues La Pairie) that we publish the above news from St. Peters burg, but we might find a confirmation of it in the visit of Prince Hohenzollern to Paris, in the recent audiences granted to id. de Bud berg, and, finally, in the delay of insertica iu the Moniteur of the text of the last French note and of the memorandum which accompanied it.' La Prance publishes the following:—" We have received from M oscow, under date o f 221 A ugus t, moatinteresting information respecting the project of a constitution whi c h i s a b out to b e discussed in the Council of the ]Emperor, and which is said to emanate from th a t monarch. A ccor di ng to th is project th e G overnment of the Emperor wou ld be come a constituti onal one, and woul d comprise two Chambers—on e o f which, the Senate, wou ld cons i st of 300 membe rs appointed for life, an d t h e other of 450 members e l ected under specified conditions. Independently of the central representation (parlia ment) special constitutions would be granted to the provinces —thus the Kingdom of Poland would have (-TA, Ciuurt , tirmirar HER MAJESTY. The Queen in Germany. The Coburg Zeitung of Saturday last says:— " We do not feel called upon to chronicle the many proofs of benevolence and of exalted disposi tion which have come to light in the neighbourhood of Rosenau respecting her Majesty Queen Victoria, who is residing near us at that place. But one in stance during the last few days may be here men tioned. Oa the 26th instant, the birthday of the Prince Consort, the Queen sent for many of the officials of the adjacent Districts, and handed to each of them a sum of money to be distributed among the poor of the districts. How much unhoped-for joy will thus be infused into many poor families we need not mention." The Vienna Abendpost of Friday writes as fol lows respecting the intended visit of the Emperor of Austria to her Majesty at Coburg : " The meeting which will take place within a few days between his Majesty the Emperor and her Majesty Queen Victoria is totally unconnected with politics. It serves as a proof of the sincere friend.. ship which exists between both exalted Sovereigns, and also between the Government of the powerful insular State and of the invigorated imperial realm." Prince Arthur. His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, accompanied by Major Elphinstone, arrived at Woolwich at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, and immediately pro ceeded to the Royal Arsenal, where arrangements had been made to carry oat a series of interesting experiments with Francis's corrugated iron military waggons, which will also serve the purposes of boats for the transport of troops or stores across a lake or river. His royal highness was received at the main gate by Colonel J. C. Kennedy, C. 8., Lieut.- Colonel O'Brien, and Major Shervington, of the Military 'l'raiu Corps, and the party then proceeded to the canal, near the Government practice range, when one of the waggons, having been divested of its shafts and wheels, was thrown into the water, and his royal highness and the officers named hav ing entered the amphibious conveyanee, it was easily navigated by two men with oars. A second waggon was then tested, and having embarked 16 men of the Military Train Corps, with its own wheels, and an additional weight of about seven cwt., was pro pelled with ease for a considerable distance, clearly proving the importance of the invention for military purposes, especially as a means of transport during a period of active warfare in an enemy's country. His royal highness, who appeared delighted with the experiments, returned to his residence at Green wich-park at five o'clock, accompanied by Major Elphinstone. The Duk - a and Duchess of Northumberland are at ALnwick Castle, Northumberland. The noble duke is in much improved health. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster and Lady Theodora Grosvenor arrived at Grosvenor House yesterday, from Eaton Hall, Cheshire. The noble marquis and marchioness will leave town either to-day or to-morrow for Motcomb House, the seat of the family in Dorset. Viscount Palmerston left London yesterday for Wales. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston went yes terday to a private view of Sir Edwin Landseer's studio in Onslow-square. The Duke of 'Wellington, Lord de Tabley, Lord and Lady Edward Thynne, Mrs. Lane Fox, &c., were also present in the course of the afternoon, to view the lions upon which Sir Edwin is at work. Lord and Lady Aveland and the Hon. Misses Heatheote have arrived for the season at their family seat, Normanton-park, Rutlandshire. Lord Frederick Paulet and Colonel Augustus Meyrick (of the Guards) have arrived in town. The Hon. Frederick and Lady Elizabeth Villiers have arrived at Ostesley Park, near Southall, on a visit to the Countess (Dowager) of Jersey, from passing a few weeks in Switzerland, The Hon. Mrs. Abbott has arrived in town from visiting her sister, the Marchioness Townehend, at the LAG of Wight. The Hon, Adelaide Cavendish, the second daugh ter of the late Lord Waterpark, is engaged to be married to Mr. Clowes, a wealthy widower, who resides near Man chester. Miss Cavendish was recently appointed Maid of Honour to her Majesty. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart., has returned to his seat in Northumberland, from visiting the Hon. George Waldegrave Leslie and the Countess of Rothes, at their seat in Scotland. THE patriotism of Cardinal Wiseman, as die- played at the Malines Congress, astonished all pre sent. He spoke out thorough British, both admiringly and affectionately of En;land, and had good w or d s even f or her Government and Parliament.—Court Journal. Lieut.-General Sir Gaspard Le Marehant has recently returned to Malta to resume the Government of ,hat island. THE COLONELCY OF THE COLDSTItEAM GUARDS, vacant by the death of Lord Clyde, rumour assigns to Sir John Guise or Sir William Gomm, as the two oldest Guards' Generals, LORD CLYDE is said to have left the greater part of his fortune to a son of General Eyre. Mr. E. G. Papworth is now engaged upon a bust of Lord Palmerston. THE MOORS, CRlEFF.—Thursday and Friday being very wet, few sportsmen ventured oat. Early on Saturday morning a severe thunder-storm burst over the north-western district in Perthshire, which was fol- lowed by torrents of rain that lasted for several hours, The Turret, and ether streams, were flooded to a great extent, and the small hill burns were much swollen. On Thurs day, his Royal Highness the Maharajah Dhuleep Singh bagged to his own gun, on the Loch Kennard range, Grandtully, 50 brace of grouse and a few hares and snipe. Sir Hugh Hume Campbell, Bart., shot on the hill of Mon zie, in the afternoon, seven brace of grouse. The numerous sportsmen who are residing at Drummond Castle have se cured excellent bags of grouse during the last 10 days. The sport at Glenartney, Longside, Lochearnside, e., has been good. Grouse are plentiful, and not the least symptoms of disease has been among the birds. The Hon. J. C. pandas and son left Corriemuckloch on Saturday for the season.— Scotsman, MARGARET, PEARL OR DAISY ?—" No name has has been the occasion of more pretty fancies," says Miss Yonge," than Manapertis (a pearl), itself taken from the Persian term for the jewel, Mervazid (child of light), in accordance with the beauteous notion that the oysters rising to the surface of the water at night and open ing their shells in adoration, received into their mouths drops of dew congealed by the moonbeams into the pure and exquisite gem, resembling in its pure pale lustre nothing so much as the mcon herself', la gran Margherita,' as Dante calls her. Th e th oug ht o f th e pear l o f grea t price, and of the pearl gates o f th e ce l est i a l c i ty , d ou bt inspired the Christian choice of Margarita for that child of light of the city of Antioch in Pisidia, whose name as virgin m ar t yr standing in the Litany w ith o ut any authentic history became, n b i e n fe e re in t n h o e c s en th t ana century, faith overcoming th e acipi e to f the e e dallegoryragon, oefvfeenmai tae St. George embodied the victory of the Christian warrior. Greek though the legend were, as well as the name, neither flourished in the Eastern Church. The Italians reverence for Margherita, or Margherita, as they called her, was in creased by the penitence of Margherita of Cortona, whose repentance became so famed that she was canonised; and for the sake of her humility the daisy became her especial symbol, and took its French title of marguellite, which still survives in England as rnagweed, the local name of the crusanthemum leucanthemuni, or ox-eye daisy. The flower of the virgin martyr is the poppy, in allusion to the dragon's blood, and the Margarets of the days of emblems were divided between pearls and daisies. St. Louis is said to have had for his device a ring of fleur-de-lys and daisies, with the motto, Can we find love beyond this ring ?' If true, this would prove that the daisy was Marguerite before the time of the penitent of Cortona, and that the distinc tion was a late one. Margaret of Anjou assumed the daisy, with which the book given to her by stout Earl Talbot is plentifully besprinkled. Margu6rite de Valois, the brave and clever sister of Francis the First, was called la Marguerite des 41larguerites, but the pearl was her device.' , DEATH OF A CELEBIUTY.—Vie learn the death at Monza of the naval architect Borgni, who under th e first Napoleon had (in 1806) charge of the arsenal at Venice, and built for him on those stocks a crack Italian frigate, the Bellerofonte, which had hardly been launched when it was captured by the cruisers from Malta, and under the name of Bellerophon, did duty as passenger ship for St. Helena. ,USSIAN TORTURES.—The Czas of Cracow an- nounces the establishment of the torture in the citadel of Warsaw ; an iron ring, which can bo reduced in size by a screw, is placed on /he prisoner's head and tightened until the victim confesses. Rigorous measures are being taken in case a revolt should break out in the capital of the Itingnom. An order has been given to mas sacre the prisoners, in ease an attempt be made to de iver them. flit{ nit' / i 3 p, Ne' 2sTe, 5 pi An: ID Ba t C on Ind Zz e .t) I) Zra D 13ue Chit Dan Equ Egy Gre I tali 1%1 ex Di Moo New Di Pert Di Di Port Turk pit :Da bit Vf ne Dit Dit Selo uutofi I) il - 71 rem' IJit St r Previ ac It en pt Co qu lit