The Sun. — London, England, 1863-03-23 00:00:00

AIONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. There appears to be no diminution in the gene -I'4l demand for discount, the enquiries on commer cial account being very steadily maintained. Toe ile w loans and frequent calls on the shares of the L uraerous joint stock companies introduced to the P il blie within the last few months also produce an til 'et, but there is still an abundance of money, and Il e difficulty is experienced among the mercantile °lllmunity in obtaining all the assistance they re quire. The Damascus, from New York, has brought 480,000, the Africa £263,0u0, and the Peru, from 41 exandria, £32,590 in specie. Tha accounts from the manufacturing eistricts for t he past week have not been of quite so satisfactory a character. Business at Manchester has been dull to huth cloths and yarns, and in the woollen districts, ' 2 .10f Leeds; Bradford, Tialifaxosnd Huddersfield, the operations have been principally in spring goods inamediate home requirements. The hosiery and 'ace departments at Leicester and Nottingham have lie e moderately active, while at Birmingham, Shef s.ld,and Wolverhampton there has been no material alteration. The traffic receipts of the Great Western Rail- IclY of Canada for the week ending 6th inst. were 414 ,323 against £10,106 last year. Two o'CLocK. At Paris, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's telegram, the 3 per Cent, French Rentes were e9 f. 45e. Very firm. At the ordinary annual meeting to-day of the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, Mr. J. C hapman in the chair, an adjournment was agreed 11 Pon till the Ist of June next, to enable the direc tors to settle the details of their contract with the G overnment. It was stated that the latter had grtinted the usual subsidy. and that the arguments 14 ed against it in the House of Commons on Friday bight last had completely failed to establish a case. Alt: ough the dealings in the English Stock Market to .day have been very limited, purchases have been promoted by the intelligence from Poland sbd other influences. The supplies of stock bought h ave not been large ; but the result has been fa vourable, Consols having improved to 921 1 for t ransfer, and 920 for the Bth proximo. Th. New 3 Per Cents. and the R,,duced have improved .0 9 "4.91; Exelicqu , r Bills are fl at SA. to 2s. dis.; 5 par Cent. Loan is steady at 1081 1 Lair amount of business has bLen negoriatect In the Foreign Department, and prices have shown buoyancy. Greek Bonds have improved to 211 22; ditto Coupons, to 9?,-; Portuguese New Loan, 461 47 1; Russian ditto, 911 95; Spanish Passive are 'fit ; Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858, are 681; ditto, 1 862, 691 and the Consolides, 41 45; the New Itiklian Loan has risen to e a prem., and the Con federate is about 4 prem. Business in the Railway Share Market exhibited rather more animation, and in some instances prices were a shade firmer. Great Easterns, Midlands, 4 nd North British advanced 55.; and Great - Westerns, and South-Elsterns, 10s. In the Foreign and Colonial undertakings the oPer,Ltions were limited, and no material alteration took place in values. Joint-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares con tinued in fair request, and in some instances realised slightly enhanced prices. Bank of Australian ad l'anced to 831 841 ; London and County to 421 ; Union of England and France to 41; Electric Tele- Rraph realised, 101 ; Royal Mail Steam, 61; and Joint-Stock Discount, 2-14. BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. 3 , Per Cent. Reduced Annuities Q ,Per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 92* i Aew 3 per Cent. Annuities India Stock Ditto 5 per Cent . ......... Ditto Enfaced Paper, 4 per Cen t .... D•tto 5 per Cent losi Ditto 61 per Cent, 15 I) hoods t:1.1)0tt Consols for Account, April 8 Exchequer Bills, £lOOO, 21 per Cent 2 Ditto £5OO Ditto Small FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian 5 per Cent .... Ditto 41 per Cent., 1852-58-60 Danish 4 per Cent., 1863 — Ditto Scrip, £l5 paid par cs''Yptian 7 pet Cent U6I k °reek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coup ins 21% 1 2 11 Ditto Coupons I' akbin 5 per Cent. (Maremmana Railway) 72 I \lexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account P3w Granada l4 ' , 1 ,,,, n 41 per Cent. Ditto 4% per Cent ~ 1862 .. .. Ditto Account Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853 Ditto 1862 Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 5 per Cent., 1862 SPanish 3 per Cent i_iitto Passive Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854 Ditto 6 per Cent. 1858 aittq Account Ditto 6 per Cent. 18 , 2 I; ii -to Account . enezuela, 3 per Cent - ~! t t! Account 231 Ditto 6 per Cent., 1862 Dividends on the above payable in London. Italian, 5 p erD Cent., 1861, Ex. 25 francs — . Onto Acc0unt........ TWO O'CLOCK. C ., nsols, Money Ditto Account _ 921 1 Liverpool Cotton Market—This Day. (RETJTER'S TELEGRAM.) LIVERPOOL, March 23. Strong. &Alec, fully 5,000 bales; imports, 7,135; treviously, 15,947. The following letter has been received by Mr Nelson Lee, jan.:—" Buckingham Palace, March 21, 1863.—Sir,—I am commanded by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to thank you for your " Ode," and for the kind sentiments it expresses —1 have the honour to be, a ir, your obedient servant, HERBERT FISHER, Private Secretary." M id, me Lind Goldschmidt, it is said, intends to give a series of concerts in London during the season, in the course of which she will revive Handel's famous can tata, "L'Allegro ed it Penseroso! , THE DOG SHOW AT ASHBURNHAM HOUSE.—The private view took place to-day. We are compelled by pressure of matter to p stpone our notice till to-morrow. Mr. Bright has promised to take the chair next Thursday evening, at a meeting of Trades Unionists at St. James's Hall, London, "in favour of the Northern States of America and negro emancipation," GOTER.SMENT EMIGRATION. Her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners have given notice of their intention to receive tenders to-day (Monday) for a ship to proceed to Canterbury, New Zealand, to be ready for the reception of passengers on such day as the Commis sioners may appoint between the 23d and 30th of A p ril. The ship must, subject to the usual conditions, be furnished with Dr. Normandy's or Winchester and Graaeley's fresh Water distilling apparatus, and with a competent person to manage it. THE LATE MURDER AT ALDERSHOT.—A reward of £lOO has been off-red by Government for such information as may lead to the conviction of the murderer t'r murderers of Mr. Henry Houlton, of Bagt-hot, whose body was found in the Basingstoke Canal on the 19th of February. It is also intimated that the Home Secretary Will advise her Majesty's free pardon to any accomplice not being the person who actually committed the murder, Who will give such information as wig lead to the same result. • The Pays says thq it is impossible es yet to lorm an exact idea of the c:msequencos that may ensue from the detest of Lengiewicz. For a'ale time Past the insurrection luts cot been confietd o the P.,1 , - tinates of Cracow and Sandomir. Numerous de tachments have formed in various places under other chiefs. But will not the news of the defeat of the Dictator be a CtlllBo of discouragement to them Wsitles, can ttey resist better than Langiewicz against the fore , s that the Russians prepare to send ag:iirist them in greater numbers even than in the past ? We are far from hoping for any set tlement that may stop the waste of life, and at the Same time give satisfaction to the feelings that have made of this outbreak a national movement. The Russians will wish to pursue their victory, and the Poles will push their resistance to the last ex tra SHARE BIARKETS—This Day. ORDINAIA ShAjt,* AND STOtA'S. Railways. Bir.. and Str. Val Blythe and Tyne. Host., Sleat.,and Bristol and. Exeter Caledonian Cors and Bandon Corn w.ll Do A ' 'i. nets no dig till 6p c.p an.has Do. B been paid to B. Dublin & Belfast June. Dun.,Perth,&Ab. June. Edinburgh & Glasgow., Glasg. and S. Western. Great Eastern, Ord. stk 8 8 7 8 86 88 115 116 6I 7* 40 42 13 14 86 88 1(1 109 99 60 47 49 24! 25 Ditto A stock Ditto East Anglian st GreatNorthof Scotland Great Northern Do A stock Do B do Gt. S. an . W. of Ireland Great Western ...... Do Str Val gua. stock Lancashire & Yorkshire London and tilackwal Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast, Lon., Chat., and Dover Lon. & North Western , Lon. & South Western Man., Shef., & Lincoln. Marypert and Carlisle. Dot shares • Metropolitan Midland Do New Do Birming. & Derby Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland 121 V 22 118 120 134 136 101 103 6Si (6 104 IcB/ 731 74 114 115 39i 401 97} 971 10., 101 45 46 14 VI 122 i t 23 I 14p 92 94 Do.. shares Mid Kent Do Cray Line North British Edin., Perth, & Dundee Nth. Eastern—Berwic , . Do, G.N.E. purchase Do Leeds Do York Do Carlisle... North London Do New North Staffordshire iN. and S. W. Junction ! Scottish Central Scot N. E., Aber. stock Do Scot. Mid, stock ,Shrews. and Weichpool Shropshire Union ... South Devon 'South Eastern South Wales IS. York. and River Dun Staines, Wok.,an d Wok. Stockton & Darlington 50 52 24 25 98 986 55i 56 68 87 Do Do New, 1860 Taff Vale. Do B Do C Ulster Do Do Vale of Neath Victoria ata. and Pim Waterford & Kilkenny West Cornwall . Hartlepool H ar. & R (West Midland Oxford Do Newpor Do Hereford 41 42 35 37 98 100 49f 50 1181 I 661 6 1 971 1 101 1001 50& a 1 981 i 8 91 I 671 enid : Closing fiusuiess Price. done. 131 12s} 3 I BEA Lisa P -~,.. ~.. 7 n, t 1,31 A T 1 ,lii.,Barodatt.Ceut du. 5 per ecnt.. 1)0. 11ecs Do. E. Shares.. .. 411,1 Late ti ur• Do. Preierunee .. •• • ;utlalo,llrant,&(lodriel p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 1- - v Do. do. July 1, 1, , 7: O. 11111 1 I i ]flSto. 1 . 'ApeTOINTI 1100 k. sla,on. Bengal go. h v.- , Ik:ast Ind:an. gu. 5 p. )o. do. (4 Do. do. H do. .. Grand Trunk of Canad 1 0. Ist P , • - . Bonds Do. moo. deferred.- 2d Pro. Bon .8.. do d fer ed...... uo. 3d P ef. stock Do. do. d left* d.... Do. 4th Pref. 8 o k... Do. au deferred.- Gt.lnchaPeum.gus.sp.c Do. New via. 5 DO: Januiry, 1g62 Gt. South.of India(Lim uaranteed 5 per cent. Gt. W. of Canada Sharer. Do. New Do. 6 p.c. '73 witiet opt. Do. 5i p. c. do. '77-8.. [ndian Branch Limited Siadras guar.. 5 p. o. .. D 0.4 p. c. Extension Dc. - 10..... Do. Fifth Extension. stvlb.o on, P. c. Meth. & Hobson's Bay. T077p.c. - 11ortg. Newßrunivnok t Cana'. Class A sn 1 B. N.ll.l.C'da6 po lst pl bds Soinde Do. Delhi Do. do •• • g • Do. Punjaub t Do. Do. .. PA. Do. lindus.St. Flo.) 115 117 1 1i 16 16} 11* 14 120 122 41 43 10 (0' 101 103 48 32 34 901 01 67 0 100 102 - 7 8 87 38 9 10 v 74 8 p 149 151 4 5 21 31 p 79 81 150 160 28 N S )6661:)Z,H. 4 : , osio Price. f 2 t 4 lulf I , 51 6 I P I I 11 70 8 1(3 ) (5 sun 7 1064 ( , 7 I IP *P . $l)4 'l4 66 68 50 53 56 58 41 • 6 40 44 31 38 2 , 28 22 24 1054 064 111 1l 103 104 121 21 8 7i 100 102 93 1 lon iut 97 98 5 48 50 3 5 81 E 3 1( 6 iu7 104 105 I(3j 1044 08 100 , 'OLONIAL (OVER:' ..n.(Tov. 9 p.e.Ja. &J ui 1877-Si Do. 9 p. c. Feb. & Do. d p. c. Mar. & Sept - , De. p. c. Jan.&July. Do. S Inscribed stoc; , Cape G.llope, 9p c. 187 1 Do.Ap Oct.& 188( ' Do. 189 ;Do. Jan. & July, 1891.. Ceylon, N0v.1891, 8 p Blstr thus per cent .. - Nata , Guv. 6 per cont.. /S.Gov. o p.c. J -- u o. Sp. c.Ap. & Oc,. N. S.W. Gov. 5 p c., 18 Do. S p. c.,1871 to 1 Do. d0.,1888 &upwd , New Zealand 6 p .:ent. Nova Scotia Gov. (Z p. - I sterlinv, 1875 Queensland Gov. 6p. C - ,!I.Aus Giip.c.lB7li,& up Vic. Gov. Hp.o. Ja.&Jul) DO. 4 , . A clEflnt. RRTTISII NIT? 2 cambrian Cousol. Gold 1 4 id I: lio.l d Amalgamated - 20 22 - 4.troti G. Con.. Javist 1 530 640 - . - 851 Bassett 8 88 1 lE ( Gold Ltd., 55. i d 11) - : 4 :90 Caradon ..... j 04 41} 414 - r.ast Carn . 9 'i Russel (Tavia( . 7.19.0 44 5 an.etSt.AubymOwel, 14 18 - great South Tolgua 54 (4 5 1 - Wheal Vor(Helstou 40 6 7 - firenville erotPs- Foot ~.. 46 18 ingaton Downs 4. 7.0 if 24 - Lady Bertha 11;1rgaret (tJny Lelans ,4 4 33 33 arke Valley.. 4 ‘lyndy Iron Ore (Lim 2l 4 d - New Seton l9l 130 140 orth Downs2l 34 - ..ICl,'t iiassot (11h., ,a» 1.17. , 4 41 - , urth Wheal Crotty .. 4 5 -ar Consols(st. Blxzey 14 44 64 10 'rovidence(Uny Lelni. 10.11.. 1 13 - !South Caradon(St.Cleet 1i 415 425 - Cs.rn Brea (Illogan).. 5.15. f 21 44 - i l ea' Fran. (11104;ao 13 . 1 .V 90 95 - Stray Park 5 ',Cailiar SUVA Lead Min 44 1 1.0 Tin Crott 2 14 22 - West Can: Badon ( sset (IlLiloskgan)eard 5 l6 32 3412} 134 - W - West Seto' ...... 47A 2e5 275 - Wheal Basset (Mogan 5} 75 80 - V•leal Bulleratedrutli; :) 624 871 - e e fty y ,Avn ( U ne . n L y( e m( 2.0.6 - 4 WhealLud ott 154 10 - Wheal Seton -- Wheal Union 5:84 240 17 25 18 0 250 e 3.17 5 54 PREFERENCE Sri A RES. PREFERENCE SH A RES. Great northern, 41 per cent., red. at 10 per cent.pm.,lo3 Ditto, 5 per cent. red. at 5 per cent., 107} Great Western, 4 per cent. irred., 90 North Eastern, Cons. pref., 4 per cent., 93 PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. London, Chatham, cto., 3letrop. Ext., B, 8 per cent., 11} Ditto, 6 per cent. C, 81 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (him.) gus. 7 per cent., ki Great Luxembourg, itt Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 11i • FOREIGN HINES. Port Philip, 11 St. John dcl Rey (lira.), .58 ;United Mexican (11. o.), 6i I JOIN T-STOCK BANKS. Anglo Portuguese (lim.), 3 Australasia, 841 31 vs. British North American, 50 Chartered Bank ot India, Australia, and Chins, 221 3 EEnne,isshcoan.dalnr(.lls Australian h (litn. Chartered. 281 Hindustan, ( lima, and Japan (llm.) 12, 1 Lonnon and Colonial (limo, London and County, 121 Idetrop. and Prov. Bank (lim.), 121 National Provincial of England, 120 Ditto, new, 211 Ottoman Bank, 381 Ditto, new, 101 Scinde, Punjaub. and Delhi (lim.), 2/ Union:of England and France (Um.), fi DOCKS. London, 5 1 MISCELLANEOUS. Crystal Paine, 33} Ditto, pref., iO9/ Crystal Palace. 6 per cent. perpetl. deb., 1121 Electric l'e-legrapli, 10 Joint sto,lc Discount, 21 Al ad Nis Irr gation and Canal, 21 Natal Land - and Colonisation Co. (lini.)s Qucbrada Land, Rail, ana Mining( Dm.), A LUCID GOVERNMFNT.—GeneraI Butler, when superseded, pno . cd to W.'6l l !lrpton to know The reason of his removal. He asked the President , Mr. Lin. coin " didn't know." He ask, d the Secretary of War ; Mr. Stanton "didn't know." He asked the General-in-Chief; General Halleck " didn't know." He asked the Secretary of State; Mr. Seward " didn't know." And General But• ler doesn't know to this moment. Mtetings, for the expression of sympathy with Poland, were beld at Sunderland and Gateshead on Thursday evening. Resolutions in harmony with this object, including petitions to Parliament, were adopted, aid in both cases the proceedings were of an enthusiastic char acter. Similar meetings are being arranged for in the neighbourhood. GREAT NORTHERN HOSPITAL, KING'S-CROSS.— Number of patients for week ending March 21, 1,103, of which 445 were Aew wee. 100 'lOO 2 it) 100 on 1 Se:CUIU•FI i - 1061 1071 5 It 7 116 111 1471 t<f i 96 8 199 111 113 115 114 116 'll2 114 111 1',2 ,11 112 1.061 i')7i 101 102 1001 1011 100 101 110 112 Left 1077 1 1 113 , 11 113 fJB 110 111 ll2 1071 97, 8 THE SUN, LONDO POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This Day. WESTMINSTER. • _ CAUTION TO LAUNDRESSES.—SamueI Edward Tyler was charged with robbing a laundress' cart. A policeman saw the prisoner and another man with a large basket of linen in their possession. He suspected it had been stolen from a laundress's cart, which proved to be correct. The laun dress said the property had bees stolen from her cart while standing in Eaton. square, and was valued at £5O. Remanded. THAMES. THE PAWNBROKERS' ACT.--A police constable applied to Mr. Woolrych for a summons to compel Mr. Harper, a pawnbroker, to show cause why he refused to give up a silk dress on principal and interest being tendered. There had been a previous summons, which had been disobeyed. Mr. Woolrych directed that a summons should issue direct ing him to attend and show by what right he retained the property. The French Press on Prince Napoleon's Speech. The Paris journals make no allusion to the final decision in the Senate on the Polish question, their comments not having as yet gone beyond the second day's debate. The Marquis de la Rochejaquelin stands in the unenviable posi tion of nut finding a single organ of public opinion to de fend him, and in general of being very strongly disapproved of for his language. The Steclo:after remarking that the speech of Prince Na poleon is fully equal in talent to that which he delivered on the Italian question, says :—" We could not help being most painfully affected at seeing, to use the words of Count Walewski, the historical, political, and diplomatic heresies accumulated by the Marquis de La Rochejaquelin. Wo should think that his ancestors must have shuddered in their graves when ho thus treated suffering Poland. La Vendee, whose bands they led in defence of the programme of God and the King ' was in arms against the country, against the central Government, and against the will of the vast majority of the French nation. Ilas not Poland this immense advantage, in fighting also for its faith, of never having fellow-citizens for enemies, and of only struggling to throw off a foreign yoke ? The indigna tion naturally excited by the Icng and cruel oppression un der which Poland groans, the curse which rests on the treaties of partition, were vigorously expressed by Prince Napoleon. Will his elcquent appeal to the principal re presentatives of the clergy, of the army, of the law, be heard with favour ? At the moment we write we may still hope so. As Prince Napoleon demonstrated, the Polish ques• tion cannot be made one of party. All classes of French society, all shades of society, are unanimous respecting that country. You, fervent Catholics, you demand the free exercise of their religion for a nation whose churches are threatened and Catholic schools suppressed; you, men devoted to the principles of 1789, you claim liberty and independence for a nation deprived of all its rights; you, the zealous advocates of order and conserva tism, you invoke respect for treaties and diplomatic stipu lations. All France is agreed ; what i , more, in London as in Paris, in Stockholm as in Naples and Turin, cordial ac clamations encourage the glorious defenders of Polish na tionality. And yet there are persons who would not have the Senate echo all these voices! The Union makes the following observations :—" In truth, if anything in the world could be fa al to the great and noble cause of Poland, it would certainly be support so dangerous as Prince Napoleon's speech. The breath of the resolution has passed into it toto corpore, and excites every seditious passion. There are singular aptitudes, and resources of unbridled talent and unlimited audacity at each instant there bursts fo th the ardent invective which respects nothing ; there is aggression, which is as perfidiou when it discloses as when it holds back. The speech is the ap peal of passion to passion; and for what object! To end in im potence, or rather in a factitious agitation, which is worse than impctence itself. The Prince knows nothing, but is afraid of nothing. He wished not to speak; at the com mencement of his speech he asks Must we go to war ? Must we abstain from going to war P Have we any allies. What is our situation abroad? He would be very clever who could say what it is. As for himself, he knows nothing ; he has not before his eyes the portfolio of Prince de Metternich ; that portfolio which is on its way, and which no doubt contains peace or the .urning upside down of Europe. Every element of discussion is wanting; we are in ignorance; the Government alone knows what to look forward to, says he. Be it so ; and here the Prince is in the right. The Government alone it is that has the se cret ; the Government alone has the power, and the Go vernment alone has the responsibility. The votes of the Senate ' can have no direct influence upon the vast pro jects of the Emperor reap , cting European solutions. But to cast words of fire to the four quarters of the horison, is an act which cannot be without influence upon public opinion. That the signal should start from the Luxembourg is a fortune to which the Prince cannot be indifferent. Ho will therefore speak, he will ru-h through the darkness of ignorance. Ho will display deceiving hopes before credulous eyes; he will have it understood that he believes himself shackled, and that at bottom he supports with impatience the greatness which binds him to the shore. The Debats has the subjoined remarks :—"As the dis cussion of Poland goes on, it not only proves the unan•mity of the feelings of the country in France, but betrays the difficulty which we feel in acting, and reveals the delicate situation imposed upon France and her Government, in the circumstances in which Eurcipe is now placed by the Polish movement. Prince Napoleon, who cannot, however, be ac cused of sinning by too much taste for oratorical precau tions, and who is accustomed to speak less as a Prince enslaved by politic,d forms than as a party-speaker, anxi • ous to express with sincere energy what he thinks and what he feels, commenced his speech by declaring that he would dissimulate none of the perils and n)re of the obstacles of the Polish question. ' I have great sympathy for the Poles,' said he, ' but 1 am entirely wanting in the necessary information upon the practical means of execu tion for changing those sympathies into political sets.' And his conc:usions did not differ much from his exordium. ' I arrive at the great question. To us, it is said—You wish for war. To that I reply plainly--No. But I will not have peace either.' We see by the official report that those words excited exel ,, matians of surprise. They respond, howev, r, very well to the state of public opinion, wh ch hesitates b.tween peace ane war, or to speak more correctly, which would do everything for Poland, and does not know how to proceed to do anything. Since such is the state of the public mind in our country, the referring the petitions to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs would be, on the part of the Senate, the resolution which would the best respond to general expectation. After all, what else would the senate do, in voting the reference to the Ministry, but change into a solomn act the eloquent protest which full even from the mouth of a minister—Count Walewaki —formerly a soldier of the Polish war of independence, who again found ace nts worthy of the young volunteer of 1831 ? The pure and simple order of the day would be like declara tion of indifference. The referring of the petition will give to the feelings of France the only sanction which cannot be mistaken by the Powers which signed at the Congress of Vienna. All that part of Prince Napoleon's speech devoted to demonstrating the necessity for the referring of the peti tions is conceived in terms as sincere as they are oonclusive. There are perhaps persons who will regret that Prince Na poleon should hQ.ve mingled the expression of the legiti mate and generous anger which the Russian administration inspires, with rather severe personal criticisms upon the Emperor Alexander 11., which, by offending the St. Petersburg Cabinet, risk adding to the difficulty of the nego , iations commenced, and which gave M. Billault an opportunity of alluding to ' the inconveniences and perils of the discussion going on in the Senate.' But if in the period in which we live the Princes seated upon the steps of the throne do not think fit to respect the inviolability attributed to their rank by the tradition of na tions, and to profess a superstitious adoration for the per sons of kings, it is not for simple private individuals like ourselves to complain." Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. &iii , ..ralia and Mauritius, via Southampton. Mar. 21. via Marseilles .. Apr. 12. brazil and Cape Verds, by British packet. Apr. 6 Cape of Good Elope, Ascension, and Sr. Helena.. Apr. 1. China, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Mar. 21. via Marseilles ... Mar. 29. Falkland Islands Apr. 6 Gibraltar, via Southampton India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Mar. 21 via Marseilles Mar. 29. India (Bombay), via Southampton ....‘ Mar. 28 via Marseilles Mar. 22. Portugal.... Apr. 6. staita, Egypt, and Aden, via Southarapto , . Mar. 21. via Marseilles Mar. 22. Newfoundland .. Apr. 1. Oporto and Vigo U. S. and British N. America, ty Brit. p p a a c c k k eett.,.. .... Mar. 26. by U.S. by Canadian packet. Mar. 27. W.C. of A ;"ica, Madeira, and Tenon& .. Apr. 10. Bahamas, via New York Apr. 9. Mexico All parts of West. Indies, including Chili, Peru, 1 Mar. 31 California. end firitiph Columbia. •••• --- THE BALLYMENA ALLEGED POISONING CASE.— Th. it.quiry Into the ethit.e of death of the lisle Amelia S. E. Carey was resumed in the Ballymena Court house on Thursday morning, when Mr. Shaw (who is an apothecary at Mercer',. Hospital, Dublin, who saw the de ceased in her illness) was examined, and gave it as his opinion, founded on his own observation and on the evi dence given by Dr. Black, tbat deceased died from the effects of an irritant poison. Some ether witnesses having been examined, Mr. O'Rorko (who is conducting the pro secution on the part of the Crown) reviewed the evidence in a lengthened speech, and submitted that he had estab lished a prima facie case, which would justify the magis trates in returning Dr. Courtenay for trial, either for having administered medicine of a poisonous nature to deceased, or on a charge of malpractice as a medical man. It being then five o'clock in the evening, the court adjourned till eleven o'clock nest morning. , iqon er. s don 1051 1 1061 i loot 1111 , MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 23, 1863. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. CITY BETTING—YESTERDAY. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 9to 2 agst Knutsford (taken) sto 1 agst Grimstone (taken) 12 to 1 agst Man-at-Arms (taken) 16 to 1 agst Carisbrook (taken) 20 to 1 agat Oldminster (taken) 20 to I agst Voluptas (taken) 20 to 1 agst Gorse (taken) 20 to 1 agat Freeholder (taken) 20 to 1 agat Dunsinane (taken) 20 to 1 agst Equinox (taken) 20 to 1 agst Chaff (taken) 25 to 1 agat Canzonetto (taken) 25 to 1 agst Ernest (taken) 26 to 1 agst Springbok (taken) 25 to 1 agat Zeloo (taken) 33 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn colt (taken) EARL SPENCER'S PLATE. 7to 1 agst Biondella (taken) 10 to 1 agst Little Lady (taken) 14 to 1 agat Argonaut (taken) 16 to 1 agst Queen of Trumps (taken) 16 to 1 agst F , ying Fish (taken) 16 to 1 agat Rest (taken) 16 to 1 agst Miss Livingstone (taken) 20 to 1 agst Bertha (taken) 20 to 2 agst Humphrey (taken) DEATH OF SIR TATTON SYKES. The death of this venerable baronet occurred on Saturday mornin:e at Sledmere Castle, near Melton. Sir Tatton had reached the ripe age of 91, and though for some months he had been in failing health, he had not been confined to bed until very recently, when he suffered from Bronchitis, from the effects of which he never fully rallied. • For some days he was insensible—indeed, his medical attendants could scarcely tell whether he was alive or not. As a perfect example of the " old English gentleman". Sir Tatton was known and esteemed throughout the country. Sir Tatton was born in 1772, and married in 1822 the second daughter of Sir William Foulis, and in the following year succeeded to the title and estates on the death of his brother, Sir Mark Sykes. Sir Tatton was the fourth baronet, and is succeeded by his eldest son, Tatton (now in Egypt), born in 1824. The deceased baronet from childhood took the greatest delight in the rearing of sheep and horses, and to the last enjoyed the highest celebrity for his flock and stud. His breeding stud was supposed to be the largest in England, numbering upwards of 200 horses and mares of all ages. As an owner of race horses he dates back to 1803, when he won with Telemachus at Middleham ; and up to the age of 60 he continued to keep horses in training for the sole pleasure of riding them himself, Melton being his favourite place for displaying his well-known colours —orange and purple. His lest time of tiding a winner, his own property, was for the Welham Cup, on Longton Wold, in 1822, on "All hearts and no_Peel," a name most applicable to the owner as well as the horse. His feats on horseback were almost fabulous ; he invariably rode from Sledmere to London, and back, whenever he had occasion to visit the metropolis, his rule fiend, and d w started hen a hom e again being to ride to London and re t urn as far as Barnet the same anffigthot. ride l a It is race a t f e o d r o a t f n h ri im h immedi ately after weighing,the distance being very nearly 400 miles. Sir rat= aas never so proud in his life as when he led Sir Tatton Sykes, with Bill Scott ou his back, back to the ring after the St. Leger victory of 1816 ; this scene was the sub ject of Herring's picture, painted for the Messrs. Baily. Sir Tatton rode from Sledmere to Hampton-court to look at the stud of King William IV., and there was so pleased with an Arabian mare, that on the day of the sale he repeated the ride and bought the mare. As a master of foxhounds, Sir Tatton vied in popularity with any gentleman in Eng land, He kept hounds solely at his own expense, until he had passed his 70th year, and only resigned the pack, into the hands of Lord Middleton on the determination of his son not to accept it. Sir l'atton still mounted in " pink" till about two years ago. Sir Tatton, his man Snarry, and his horse ware all characters ; the servant has been there 52 years, and Sir Tatton used to delight in saying that himself and his horse were 115 years old. Sir Tatton was ever an early riser, often mounting before the sun had risen. He never omitted attending the cattle fairs, and was the first man there at the Mallon October of last year. It was not an unusual thing, when there was no huntingor other engage ments to call him away, to find Sir Tatton relieving a la bourer at a stone heap or slashing afence, while the labourer was sent to the castle to enjoy a flagon of ale. As a land lord, a master, and a friend, Sir Tatton was much beloved, and to him may justly be applied those words of commen dation, " He never lost a friend nor made an enemy." THE REM 2 COURT SCANDAL. Considerable scandal has been occasioned by a recent incident at Court. The facts are as follows : —The Dske of Wellington presented to the Prince of Wales, as the representative of her Majesty, at the late levee, a man who had been convicted of felony some ten years since, and who had obtaieed a ticket of leave. A variety of rumours are afloai as to how this occurrence came to pass, but we have reason to believe that the following is the true rela tion of the circumstances :—Some ten years since the person in question committed the mistake of altering a cheque for £6 to £6OO, for which he was taken before a local magistrate, committed for trial, and subsequently sentenced by Baron Pollock to penal servitude, the sentence being accompanied with remarks anything but emplimentarytO - the delinquent. He underw en t a portion of his sen tence, and then becanio one of Sir Joshua Jebb's pet iambs. A little while ago, at ore of the most aris tocratic of the West-end Clubs, the magistrateVho had committed this man for trial, found him in the hall of the club, making inquiries of one of the ser vants. The magistrate thereupon returned to the sitting-room of the club, an d me ntioned the circum stance. The late Marquis of Lansdowne, who was then present, considered that it was the duty of the members to make inquiries as to what brought this man to their club ; and the porter, on being inter rogated, stated that the man had called to see a nobleman remarkable for his philanthropy. Some short time afterwards that noble lord made his ap pearance, and was greeted with the somewhat duba ous question, " Wno is your friend." His answer was simple and characteristic, " Oh, he is a poor clergyman, out at elbows, who called upon me two or three days ago, and I gave him £10." His as tonishment, therefore, when he was told who his friend really was may be imagined. The person in question was next heard of in one of the principal firms in the City of London, where he represented a bankrupt's estate. His manner WAS very pleasing, and his ability such as to strike every one who came in contact with him. He was, how ever, again identified as the former convict, and the firm closed their transactions with him as BOOD as possible. On another occasion, at a meeting, at which Lord Brougham was to preside, who should accompany his lordship but this objectionable per son. His next appearance in public was at the opening of the International Exhibition, when he took his place on the raised dais amidst the very pink of the aristocracy, and apparently in intimate conversation with Royalty. He is last heard of at the Levee. No one for a single instant believed that the Master of the Horse and the husband of the Mistress of the Robes to her Majesty, could inten tionally have been a party to one of the greatest outrages that could have been of f ered to the Queen and to the Prince of Wales. The duke was deceived, as other persons have been, by this audacious indi vidual. The person in question was introducsd to his grace as one of the principal guarantors to the commissioners for the International Exhibition, and seeing his name down for bo large a s t .m, he rashly jumped to the conclusion that be w as a respecta bl e man, and that there could be no possible harm in presenting him at Court. The way in which the delinsuent was discovered was cur i ous enoug h. Every one knows that the first levee this season was a tremendaus rush : dukes, earls, barons, and bishops fought almost for their lives, in their eagerness to get into the presentation-room; am ong those who pressed thus forward was the id entical ticket-of leave man, and, as Fate would h ave i t, who shou ld he jostle against and nearly upset but Chief Baron Pollock, who had sentenced him to penal servitude. The judge recognised him in an instant, although several years had elapsed, and he wrote to the Lord Chamberlain on the suhieet. Inqui r i es were .hen instituted, and the presentati on was immed i ate l y cancelled. —Observer. The other evening, a widow who keeps a tobacco shop on the Boulevard de Courcelles, Paris, was standing at her shop doer talking with a neighbour, when a man approached her unperceived, and stabbed her three times in the breast. She immediately exclaimed, , t It is that wretch F—," and fainted away, her wounds, though deep. were not dangerous. When she r ecovere d the use of her faculties, she stated that the assassin, w h o was a porter of a public market, had lately made her off e rs of marriage, which she had rejected. Immediate search was made for the man, and ho was found lying dead in the ditch of the fortifications, near the gate leading to Asnieres, and by his side lay a pistol, with which he had bl own ou t hi s brans. LITERA TITRE: Eveltne. By the author of Forest Keep." 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This is a most romantic story that is sure to charm all lovers of the exciting class cf fiction. The adventures of Eveline Warburton are most extra= ordinary, and they are related with great skill, so that, improbable as some of the occurrences may appear when critically scanned over by a captious observer, the reader goes on through the stirring scenes without questioning their vraisemblance. The longing desire of Eveline to go to Italy was one of those natural instincts that often reveal themselves to the surprise of those who do not know all the attendant circumstances of the case. The child of the South yearned to be under her native skies, and though she had been taken away at a very early age, still some dim and uncertain memories seemed to float around her. Louis Harley is a fine character, and worthy to be the hero of a romance. His bold defence of Eveline when she was accused of murder at the beginning claims our notice and wins for him our regard ; and as we proceed and watch his onward course we are more and more impressed with his spirit, his kind ness, and his superior abilities. The adventures of Miss Warburton are romantic in the extreme, but she gets mixed up with a set who are in themselves surrounded by extraordi nary circumstances. Miss Elton's life was a very strange one, and her secret marriage quite one of the old days of deep mystery in romance and thrilling tales of love and stratagem. Espina is the villain of the piece, and he is sketched with great adroitness. The cunning and craftiness of this men would have rendered him a fit emissary of the secret tribunal in the days of its dark Inquisition. Bad as he is, we feel more contempt, however, for the Duke of Valdoli, who sat in his cabinet plotting and planning evil to all who came in his way, and then summoned his envoys and despatched them hither and thither with strict charge to stop at nothing, and to respect no life that stood in the way of their executing his desires. It is satisfactory to find that such a wretch was at last foiled in many of his attempts, and it was only retributive justice that caused his death by the hand of him whom he had trained in villany, Giulo Espina. At last a brighter day seemed to dawn on the much perse cuted friends, and we leave them at the conclusion of the narrative apparently safe from persecution and secure from danger. To all who appreciate a romantic novel this one will occasion great pleasure, and it can unhesitatingly be recommended to their perusal. In depth of sentiment and exciting inte rest it possesses advantages that few tales of the present day offer. This is not a sensation story, but a romantic one of a superior class, and as such it is sure to be welcomed in many circles. Even where its chronicles may be called too visionary or dreamy in their tone, its ability must be recognised, and Espina and the Back-veiled One are enough in themselves to testify to the merit of the author who has placed them in his stirring pages. 7rue as Steel. By Walter Thornbury. 3 vole. Hurst and Blackett. Mr. Thornbury is a versatile and indefatigable writer. He has tried in turn biography, art, essays, ballads, and historical novels, and has in each undertaking been more or less successful. His least fortunate efforts have been made in verse; in prose he is always animated and vigorous. The merits of his style are a little marred by a slight tinge of affectation and self-complacency, but these errors may, let us hope, wear out with time. Mr. Thornbury is, as his readers are well aware, familiar not only with the events and characters of the middle ages, which are common to most readers, but with the inner life, the thoughts, words, and ways of the men of those bygone days. He is never at a loss in the labyrinth which might puzzle many writers less complete and accurate in their informa tion. In the work before us he has stepped aside from the fashion in which the sensation element so largely predominates, and has set before us once again the story of a true German hero in the time of Charles V., who is already known to many through the medium of his own autobiography, written, like many a more celebrated work, to he guile the tedious hours of captivity. Sir Goetz de Berchlingen, the Knight of the Iron Hand, has formed the hero of Goethe's celebrated tragedy, which bears his 14 me, and which, together with the autobiography referred to, has largely as sisted Mr. Thornbury. His work is some what diffuse and occasionally tedious in its descriptions, especially at the commencement. Afterwayds, when the reader gets more into the bookspirit of the and becomes interested in the charact l ers, ,he can better forgive the digressions. The old knight himself, chief among the Free Knights of Geimany, is introduced to us returning frOm one of those warlike forays in which he and his companions were constantly engaged in the asser tion of their traditional rights. He is worshipped by his retainers, and appears as the fitting head of castle, estate, and family. Soon, however, this happy home is broken up by the treachery of flat Bishop of Bamberg, one of the knight's most insi (lions and deadly foes. His eldest and favourite son Robert, a young and stalwart knight, is drawn into the toils of the beautiful murderess Olympia Orsini. niece of the bishop. For her he forsakes father, home, and friends, to be repaid at last by degrada tion and ruin. Meanwhile the old knight's career sees many startling changes. He goes to the young Emperor to plead the cause of himself and his com panions, and is favourably received, but again the treacherous bishop outwits him, and he is dis missed from his second audience in disgrace. He subsequently was induced to join the peasants in their wild outbreaks by the plea that they wanted a vigorous leader to restrain the atrocities com mitted by the fanatics. Disgusted with their savage and barbarous conduct the brave old knight soon left them in disgust, and afterwards fell into the hands of one of his bitterest enemies. He lan guished six years in prison, tended by his faithful wife, who obtained leave to share and lighten the captivity which pressed so heavily on one who had been half his life in the saddle. At length the Emperor, who had long been favourably in clined to him, agreed to listen to the represents. tions of his friends, and granted him freedom. But when a joyful band brought the glad tidings to the prisoner the captive was already free. Death had anticipated the clemency of the Emperor, and the heart of the brave old warrior was as cold as his iron hand. Though the story of its hero fills the chief part of the talo there are many minor points of interest. It can scarcely be called a love story, yet the fatal love of the unfortunate Robert, and the story of the bold young herald George, and his pretty cousin, are skilful4 interwoven. Very touching too, ie the scene when the disgraced knight Robert von Berchlingen, deprived of the tokens of knighthood by the treacherous bishop, his golden spurs hacked from his heels by the meanest of his serving men, suddenly meets the father so deeply offended and forsaken in a situation even more perilous than his own. The old knight who would not hear the name of his faithless son when in the hour of prosperity and triumph, now joyfully wel comes the fallen penitent. Their reunion is but brief, for they are surrounded by enemies, and Robert falls in the endeavour to save his father. Dame Catherine and her household are a pleasing contrast to the darker scenes of war and blood shed among which the story leads ns. M. Thombury has given us a life-like and stirring picture of times whose daily events are well nigh forgotten, or only remembered by the , tudents of musty folios. His work will probably find less favour with the mere novel reader than a sentimental fiction, but its undercurrent of truth will give it a far greater attraction in the eyes of those who love to study our weak and fallible nature in its highest forms. Mr. Thornbury has selected a motto which happily pourtrays the character of his hero, who in those stormy times suffered neither prince nor peasant to bend his notions of right — love the man whom dart nor stone ; Nor rabble's mud could scare, Who feared not, though he seemed alone, Knowing that Gucl was there, In vain from rolling multitudes the angry murmurs broke, For they were of the bulrush tribe, and he was of the oak." Such a character is but too rare at any time, rarer perhaps in these days than in the rough free spoken days of the Knight of the Iron Hand. There is too much clipping down of the right —too much palliation for the wrong among us, a confusion of good and evil which loses sight of the broad mark between. The career of one whose tongue was ss honest as his sword was true, whose integrity was as unshaken as his courage, is no unfitting lesson for our timid vacillating age, with its half convic tions and its fear of calling virtue and vice by their right names. The English public are indebted to Mr. Thornbury for evoking this valiant shade of the old soldier to whom he justly applies the words of Carlyle, as one " whose birthright it was to be the servant of virtue, goodness, and God, and in such service to be without fee or reward." Tales of all Countries. Second series. By Anthony Trollop°. Chapman and Hall. These short stories have been republished from various periodicals. They form an amusing little work on the whole, and are well calculated to in terest the reader who wishes to be entertained without entering on a volume of more extended scope. They are written throughout in tl - at spark .. ling style for which their author is fattens. Some of the sketches are most ludicrous, as for instance , that of " The Man who kept his Money in a Box. This is one of those incidents that sometimes occur in real life, and seem really to take place in order to confound the wisdom of the wise. The various impressions that arose in consequence of the un lucky mistake are well detailed, and take the reader by surprise at the last. " The Parson's Daughter of Oxney Calne," is a peculiar narrative of quite a different class. Patience Woolsworthy was a sensible and spirited girl, and it would be well for many if they followed her example and drew back in time from engagements that did not promise well for their future happiness. There is, altogether, much to engage attention in this book, and it is sure to prove satisfactory to those in search of light reading for leisure hours. Economic Life Assurance Society. The annual general court of policy holders was held on Saturday, at the society's offices, 6, Bridge-street, Black friars; Mr. R. Biddulph in the chair. The SECRETARY (Mr. A. Macdonald) having read the advertisement convening the meeting, the following state ment of account was presented : " General Account for the Year 1862—Received : Assu rance Premiums (less - commission), £192,410 193 9d ; inte rest on investments (less income tax), £83,669 17s 11d—total, £276,080 17s Bd. Paid—Assurance claims, £131,986; an nuity claims, £1,433; purchase of policies, £4,971 3s 6d ; reassurance premiums, £268 16s 5d ; office expenses, £7,552 16s 3d ; medical fees, £3uB 2s ; general law charges, £330 6s 7d ; balance carried to investments, £126,230 12s 11d— total, £276,080 17s Bd. "Assurance Fund—Dr.: To balance let January, 1862, consisting of funded property, £663,621 158 8d ; loans on policies, £78,328 3s ; mortgages, £1,194,185 9s Id ; life in terests, £57,734 17s 9d ; reversions, £27,994 8s 9d ; cash on hand, £8,627 Ils 8d; total balance Jan. 1, 1862, £2,630,492 5s Ild ; balance from general account, £126,230 12s 11d-- total, £2,156,722 18s 10d. Cr. : By terminable annuities, &c., £795 9s ; by balance, Dec. 3 I, 1862, consisting of funded property, £618,931 17s 2d; loans on policies, £82,324 3s; mortgages, £1,351,980 lOs 7d ; life interests, £57,734 17s 9d; reversions, £28,006; cash on hand and on deposit, £16,950 Is 4cl; balance Dec. 31, 1862, £2,155,927 Os 10d—total, £2,156,722 18s 10J." The CHAIRMAN announced that since the last meeting, Mr. Downes, who had most ably filled the office of actuary to the society for 30 years, had found himself compelled, by the infirmities of an advanced period of life, to resign, and that Mr. Olinthus Gregory Downes, his son, had been elected in his stead. The board had marked their high ap preciation of Mr. Downes', sen., very valuable services by granting him a retiring pension of ;€750 a-year for life. The following is the resolution of the board, and Mr. Downes's reply : " The board of directors of the Economic Life Assurance Society cannot allow Mr. Downes, their actuary, to retire from an office he has held so long and so worthily without recording their sense of his services, and their regret at the severance of the ties which have so long united him with the board. The directors regret that increasing years should render such a step necessary ; and they feel that in their in tention to promote his son to fill the vacant office of actuary, they have done the best for the interests of the society, and, at the same time, that they have gratified the wishes of the father. The board of directors, however, cannot allow the long services of Mr. Downes to pass without expressing their opinion of the z?.alons ability which he has invariably shown in his intercourse with the public and with the board during the 30 years he has been connected with the Econo mic Life Assurance Society. The board of directors are fully aware how much of an assurance office is dependent for its success upon the accuracy and skill of its actuary ; it roust not be forgotten that when Mr. Downes first joined the ECJ• Comic, the office had done little to establish the high cha racter upon which it stands, and it is the confident opinion of the directors that the accuracy of Mr. Dowaes's calculation, tested as they have been by the highly satisfactory result of succeeding quinquennial valuations. has mainly tended to place the office in the position it naw holds in the estimation of the public." "Gentlemen,—ln taking my leave on Friday last I was too much embarrassed to express in suitable terms the sense of gratitude I felt for the kind sentiments conveyed to me by the chairman on behalf of the board and of myself. I ern happy to find during my official career I have won your re spect and esteem, and that at the close I carry with me the goodwill and regard of every member of the board, towards whom, on my part, I entertain corresponding feelings. The allowance you have been pleased to award me for my "long and faithful services," and for which I beg to thank you, will enable ma to spend the remainder of my days in comfort. In regard to this act of kindness on your part, as a recognition of the constant and honest devotion of my humble talents through the best portion of my long lite to the service of your society, to which exertions I feel sure that, as you have kindly stated, a very considerable portion of its success is attributable—it is most gratifying to my feelings to learn that yon consider my son, Olinthus Gre• gory, fit, and worthy to succeed me in the office of actuary to the society; a position which his talents, and scientific attain ments eminently qualify him to occupy. I know no one so competent and worthy to discharge the duties of so im portant a post in a seciety which ranks among the first of life assurance associations. Upon quitting the service of the society, I would wish to express warmly my thanks to the official staff for their cordial and efficient co-operation with me in the conduct of its affairs. Although no longer art officer of the Economic Life Assurance Society, I shall always feel the deepest interest in its success ; and should, as I do not contemplate, eny occasion arise when my ser vices may be considered of value, it will afford me great gratification to render them.—l have, &c , " JAMES JOHN DOWNES." Mr. harp thought it would be gratifying to the proprie tors to have an opportunity to add their acknowledgments of Mr. Downes' long and able services, and he moved a re solution to that effect, which, having been seconded, was carried by acclamation. Mr. DOWNES, sen., briefly returned thanks for the com pliment. The CHAlRMAN—Gentlemen, the directors have great pleasure in laying before you so satisfactory an account of our proceedings. During the year 1862, we rec ived 574 proposals for new policies, of which 67 were declined, and 34 were not oompleted atter being accepted, leaving the number of new policies issued 483, which is a larger num ber than in the preceding year, when we issued 443 new policies. The amount of premiums received upon the new policies, 13,041, is also larger, and consequently also the amount of the insurances £395,000. Of these 483 new policies, there are 19 for £5,000 each, 5 of from £4,060 to £5,000, 4 of from £3,000 to £4,000, 28 of from £2,000 to £3,000, 84 of from £l,OOO to £2,000, 149 of from £SC.O to £l,OOO, and 194 of from £lOO to £5OO. You will observe that there is a large proportion of £6,000 policies amongst these, and I may add that these are generally the most profitable, as insuring a higher class of lives. Ow premium income now amounts to £204,250 a year, and our income from investments to £89,617, making a total of £293,867. In the course of the past year 161 policies, in suring 132 lives, have become claims. These policies in sured together £133,971; and 131 of them, insuring £94,703, carried with them bonus additions, amoun'ing together to £20,871. The others carried no bonuses. In addition to that we have purchased 42 policies dur ing the year; 64 have lapsed, and seven have fallen in by the expiration of time, so that we have lost 274 policies against 483 new policies issued, being a gain of 209. The policies which we have lost include three of £5,000 ; one between £4,000 and £5,000 ; three between £3,000 and £4,000 ; six between £2,000 and £3,000 ; 23 between £l,OOO and £2,000; 45 of from £5OO to £1,000; and 80 of from £lOO to a5OO. Amongst the lives upon which these claims have arisen eight were between 80 and 90 years, 42 be tween 70 and 80, and 43 between 60 and 70. I stated last year that the average ago at death, according to the actual experience of our office then, was 681 years; now, I am happy to say, it has increased to nearly 61 years, such in crease being of course a great advantage to us. As I have stated, the policies that have become claims during the year amount to £143,971; whereas, according to our tables, we might have expected claims to the amount of £167,724, and I am happy to say that for several years past we have been able to report that the claims have been considerably less than the tables led us to calculate upon, (Hear.) At the same time it must be borne in mind that all the policies will in the course of time become claims, though every year the parties whose lives are assured under them live the greater the profit to the office and the greater the profit likewise to the policy haters in the bonuses added to their policies. On previous occasions I have called attention to the facilities we offer fcr effecting loans upon the deposit of policies, and perhaps my observations have tended to make people come to us to borrow money in that way; for I find that in the past year we have lent £16,460 upon the security of policies effected in our office, while, upon the other hand, £12,000 of previous loans has been repaid, making a difference of £4,000. I ought to mention another circumstance as showing the favourable character of the year we have passed through. We have seldom had so small a number of policies not completed after the /Ives have been accepted as in the last year. The average is 46 a year, hitt last year they were only 31, while • iu 1860 they were 60. The number of policies which have been allowed to lapse is also below the average of forma years. The position in which we now stand is this :--The number of policies in fetes at the end of the yeas was 8,826, assuting £7 ; 018,681, and carrying bonuses to tha amount of 4 "462,023, the total liabilities being £7,580,704, to meet which we have an annual income, as I have stated, of £293,867, and an accumulated capital of £2,155,927, This capital is a positive accumulation, for we have no share capital, and represents the amount that has been saved during the 39 years we have been in existence. (Hear, bear.) Besides which it will be remembered that several years ago wo not only paid off the loan capital, but gave a bonus to the shareholders on quitting the society. I cannot conclude without referring to the position we stand in as regards last year's proceedings. During that year we increased our liabilities by £192,358, while our assets were increased by £125,433, .being more than 60 per cent. of the liabilities. (Hear, hear.) I will now move that the statements and re port which have been placed in your bawls be rcuived, adopted, and entered upon the minutes. Mr. ROETH (deputy chairman) seconded tb.o motion. A PROPRIETOR suggested that as the accounts shon•cd net earnings to the ex'Gnt of £130,000 a - car, while only £20,000 was appropriated:as bonuses, and seeing also that against the £7,000,000 of liabilities they had a reserve fund of more than £2,000,000, something more might be added in the way of bonus upon expiring policies. The CHAIRMAN replied that this was not a bonus yens, but at the end of the quinquennial period everything in re gard to the assets and liabilities would ba taken into Co sideration, and the bonus be declared accordingly,: The PROPRIETOR remarked that it was clear the old tables Were not is accordance with present experience of the average duration of life, so that they had every reason to look forward to improved receipts, and consequently a higher rate of bonus. The CHAIRMAN—When the time comes for declaring the bonus the policy holders will have the benefit of any such improvement. Mr, DoWDEN considered the proportion of proposals de clined—averaging as it did 10 per cent.—was very high, aid suggested that the medical examination was too strict, particularly as regarded cases in which a near rolativa of the applicant had died of consumption. He congratulated the members of the society on the great increase in the number of policies issued during the past three years, as compared with the previous throe years. The CHAIRMAN thought Mr. Dowden's remarks tended to show that the directors were properly careful in the selec tion of the lives they insured. (Hear, hear.) They had no wish to turn away business, but where there was a taint upon the life, or the medical (Beer suspected there was, they were right in refusing to insure it. Many proposals were made to them upon lives which it would be most im prudent to accept. Consumption where it existed generallly ran in the family, and the medical officer was quite right in reporting against proposals from members of such families. In reply to other questions the CHAIRMAN added, the apportionment of the bonus depended upon the profits and position of the society, and also upon the time when the policy was likely to fall in as a liability. The increasein the number of policies issued in 1860 as compared with 1861 was accounted for by the fact that 1860 was the year immedi ately succeeding the bonus year, when it was always ft and that the number of new proposals made was greatly in ex cess of o:dinary years. The resolution was then put and carried. One hundred and sixty pounds were voted as remunera tion to the auditors for the past year, and Messrs. Stilwell, Howell, Taylor, and Roberts were re-elected to that office. The meeting then resolved itself into an extraordinary general court, to consider a proposed amendment of the article 82 of the deed of settlement, with the view of em powering the directors to grant assurances to the extent of ZlO,OOO. The CHAIRMAN, in moving a resolution for carrying out the proposed alteration, explained that at present by the article referred to the directors were not allowed to issue any policy exceeding £5,000 in the whole upon any one life, and the consequence was that they occasionally lost profit able business. Owing to the amalgamation of lifooffiee s and other circumstances, there were not the same facilities for insuring large sums as formerly. They frequently re ceived proposals for policies exceeding £5,000, which they were unable to accept because of the limit imposed by the deed of settlement, and the board considered it would be desirable if that restriction were removed. At the same time they did not ask for unlimited power as to the amount for which they might issue policies, but that the limit should be increased to £lO,OOO, so as to bring them more upon the footing of other life offiCON The Scottish Widows' granted policies to any amount ; the Exchange, to £15,000; the London Corporation, to £15,0 , 20;* the Law, to £lO,OOO ; the Rock, to £lO,OOO ; the Equitable. to £10,000; the Legal and General, to £10,000; the Impe rial, to £10,000; the Eagle, to £10,000; the Pelican, to £10,000; the Clerical and Medical, to £10,000; and the Guardian, to £lO,OOO. Generally speaking those large assurances were upon the best class of lives —I-eerie of rank-and -station, whose habits mad tuodo of living 'were pretty well known or easily ascertained, and who wished to insure for family purposes. Seeing that if there was a profit upon a £lOO policy there muF.t be ono hundred times that pr,fit upon a £10,600 policy, he thought the proprietors would hardly hesitate In giving to the board the power they asked. The motion having been seconded, A PROPRIETOR asked how many £5,000 policies fi 11 last year, and what had been the general ruttits of these high insurances? The CHAIRMAN—We got rid of three, and issued 11 fresh ones. Since 1846 we have had 200 £5,000 policies, that is £1,0‘)0,000 in 17 years, and we have paid during the same period 52 £5,000 policies, or in round numbers one fourth. I may add that since we have sent the notice out of the intention to propose the alteration several policy holders have intimated that if it is carried they will double their insurances. Mr. G. BOWLEY considered the advantages of the pro. position self-evident, and that however right it might have been in the earlier period of the society's existence to im pose the £5,000 limit, it was altogether inapplicable to existing circumstances. Mr. DOWDEN doubted the - wisdom of making any change, and asked for information as to the proportionate profits de lived from the £5,000 policies which had fallen in. Mr. SpicEß thought the fact that of 200 such policies 52 had become claims in 17 years, was all the information on that point that could be required. The CHAIRMA.N said he ought to have explained that al though they had taken two hun irsd £5,000 insurances during the 17 years, and had lost 52, many of the 52 were insurances of an earlier date. (Hear, hear.) In reply to a suggestion from Mr. DOWDEN as to the facilities afforded for re-assuring in other offices when they were applied to for policies beyond the limit, The CHAIRMAN explained that in some cases parties came to them with proposals for large insurances that must be accepted or rejected before there was time to go round to the other offices to ascertain whether they would re-insure' and these, as the deed of settlement now stood, were ne cessarily lost. The resolution was then put and carried with one dis sentient. Mr• BOWLEY moved a vote of thanks to the chairman which was carried by acclamation; and in acknowledging it The CHAIRMAN stated that the resolution for altering the deed would require confirmation, for which purpose another meeting would be bald that day week, and he requested the attendance of proprietors to form a quorum, in the absence of which the confirmation could not take place. A new tenor, M. Villaret, is about to be Lied af the Grand Opera of Paris. TIM CITY CF LONDON is almost wholly deserted at night; the railwey companies and the omnibuses every evening disperse the vast crowd to suburban houses, and return it in the morning. This attraction and repul sion from the central heart is going on year by year with redoubled force, and the end of it will be that railways, in stead of condensing and compressing human beings toge ther by reason of the room 'they take up, will spread the population over an area twentyfold the size they at pre sent occupy. The time will come, no doubt, when London proper will consist of a series of vast suburbs connected by railroads with a central business district. AIR. KINGLAKE'S INTRODUCTION TO LORD RAGLAN.—I must tell you a little anecdote of Lord Raglan and a certain author who is well known in the lite rary world. This morning, when Lord Raglan was wait ing, surrounded by his staff, for the troops to get into their places, a gentleman joined us on a handsome little gray pony. This pony began neighing and screaming in the most wonderful manner, and so continuously that one could hardly hear what was said. At last it attracted Lord Rag lan's attention, and he said, "I never heard a pony make such a row; does any one know who the gentleman is ?" Some one of the staff said, " I think he is one of the news paper reporters, my Lord ; shall I tell him to go away Lord Raglan laughed, and said, " If you do he will show you up, you may depend upon it." It so happened that I had made this gentleman's acquaintance on the beach, a few days before. So I told Lord Raglan that it was Mr. Kinglake, the author of " Eothen." " Oh I" said ray Lord, "a most charming man I" and was going to speak to him, when. Marshal St. Arnaud came up; so for the time he could not do so. About 11 o'clock, as we were nearing the R ussian position—indeed, when within sight of them—Lord Raglan and his staff were riding in advance; presently a pony dashed past us at a furious pace, and who should it be but Mr. Kinglake I On he went right through our skirmishers, with his horse's head between his legs ; but, fortunately for his rider, the saddle got forward, and after a time went over the horse's ears; of course the author of "Eothen" went with the saddle. It was rather an absurd thing just before the battle; we all laughed except Lord Raglan, who rode up to him and inquired most kindly after him ; offered him, I think, one of his own ponies to ride, and told his orderly to put the saddle to rights. Mr. Ring lake was all thanks. That night, after the battle, Lord Raglan met him wandering about, hot knowing where to go, so he staked him to dinner. 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