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NING THIS WEEK rata Alfred IVItTli BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1860. I ncorporated by Royal Chrrter and Special Acts of Parliament. cc amulated and I nves t e d F un d s £2,122,828 'nolal Revenue 422,401 FIRE DEPARTMENT. r Is „ • Ai ran'es o - rante , =, both at Home and in Foreign Countries "n the Most liberal terms. LIFE DEPARTMENT. e very facility offered to Insurers. ''tY per (lent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers rs CD the particip-,ting principle. . o ew Life business . ran , :alted in 1862 as follows : Policies. Aranint In ured. Premiums. 1,037 £703,334 £23.611 0 0 "Pn 'Tog of Proposal and every inforx, a tion will be furnis hed ..... a Pplication at the I "bON Orricrs: 5S Threadnveale - st r c et. 4, New Bank Building.s. Icthbury, _ " West-end Office.. 8, Waterloo-Place, Pall-mall. N ORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. The business of t':e Company exceeds 470,000,000. , R ; h e duty paid to Government for the year 1562 was 4 10 ' °62 , and the amount insured ,on farming stock, ' 0 56,322. A bonus of three-fifths of the profi's periodically made to parties insuring,, who have thus. from time to time, received '„ ll 'rts amounting in the aggr ega te to £440, 000 ; and the Society "ew holds a large lies rve appli:able to a tuture The rates of premium are in no case higher than those iVarged by the other principal offices making no returns to Surrey aeir insurers. Vor prozpectuses apply at the Society's Offic es , s treet, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street Black_ friars, E•C' y r E ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES, 20, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Inturance buildings. Liverpool. Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500, 0 ,0. Accumulated Funds in hand over 1 0:;0,000. Chairman in Liverpool: CHARLES TURNER, FN., ALP' Chairman in London : WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. ATTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR • „„ 1862. rif Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now v ,9led up; to make th e i r accus t ome d per i o di c al Report at the Sleeting (.1 its Shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. ectors have. as p'easinglv The D' • li )r ose o the year, to announc e , f or the first time, that the Fir e a s unexpectedly. at the have not only reached, but exceed £300,000. The hi; h comparative position held by the Royal in the `inverno-;( , nt Returns of Duty is • fully mantanied. pThe pre fit o f th e b usiness of the year exceeds considerably anaou nt realis e d i n th e p re cedsig• year, and In fazt sur r°"es th at o f any year, with b u t two exceptions, sine - the ra 4•lnienc ement of Office, the balance t o the eredlitlosti t' telan Surit ct of B he rit North and si Foreima Insurances bein V 5,10 0 . American buness, which is kept sepa Y, 4 11,097 16s. 10d. Th e , LIFE BRANCH'. state t ' u er Y gratifying, duty now falls upon the Directors tO, sum assured on n w policies for The year y - e 7d_ even that of the yesr 1861 by £ lBO,OOO, and has arrived t7 o VA,..almost unexampled amount for . a si . ngle year of few 011 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last ha m ',„ e al 'S it is believed that such a sum trsured as that which Iva s 'Z l T l3, en announced as the Jesuit of one year's business Ti ,_ but unheard of. w ate r, Portion of the Company's business has been carefully sha re ,`, l , , and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the fut r wlider, as well as no small encouragement for the E 4 to the participating life assurer. affo r d: 7lce of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afneu by statement of the number rejected. These have p re „) fed to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate s"m ei 4 L 'ied for assuran"e • mounts to .£ , 41.28 1 . Various degrees x e e ligibility have led to these lives being declined. au ti their ree er "all number of the Assurance t_ ompanies of theelay accepted lives annually at a sum not much. if at t i e eeeding those which the Royal has declared as in a.drins e a single year from deterioration of some kind or oth q . I t t bri ett 0 complete their review, the Directors now advert to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that ra,,: ir e Business s progress has been undoubtedly more thatt that of an other Company established either in Al ae d y "a or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken at e The returns of duty have prove this. In Lie, the unt a New Policies already repor d ted make all other r r ltence needless. ex "'e Directors conclude their present Report with the i n k'? ession of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal 11 - ,, Ur aaca Company were never brighter, and of a consequent thr - ' '° oll ded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that future may untold for it a sphere of still greater rnaeni -6,g, combining distinguished commercial success to the te t i tl„c with a le,g,thened career of usefulness and protection Lae public. PF.TICY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. pROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Barincr, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Sankey, hsq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. Mutual Lif- Assurance for all classes. This Association has now in existence 15,000 policies, for a total sum of £1,500,000. The Annual Income is .. The Accumulated Fund exceeds It has paid in Claims .. £5 1 ,000 .. 2 o,' 00 .. 112,000 The whole of the profit. are divided quinquennially among the Members Three divisions have already been made' when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the Policies - .. X 1,400 .. 11,500 23 200 .. 53,500 Dee. 31, 1847 .. „ )852 „ 1857 .. , 18 2 tn akincr the total bonus additions, £90,600. ti Pommes may be received in cash or applied to the ?edits ionaddi remiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an to the ol.cy. Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid- Dolicies introduced by this Association, by which the I ,,, 4er , i nce so often submitted to on the relinquishment of v-zy is wholly avoided. 'Pe balance-sheets of the Association are open to all, 'whether assurers or otherwise Activo and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre• '' e nted districts. W3I. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary Chi Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1,1853. A.D. 1720. 'ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Eltablishe,a by Charter of his Majesty George the First) F OR , SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. r'EORGE PEARICES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir Jomi HENRY PELLE, Bart., Deputy-Governor. liTe rt DIRECTORS. Pot, l e 7 Bainbridge, Esq. Wilmot Holland, Esq. 1 0 - 11, r ,, t t aro ay Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. Ikt - "rarratt - dattlev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Ir a o Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. TI- 1 ,,, 1a rn Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Al e Dent, Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. F re 's, b _ancler Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. RW4,I, aos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. ,4` sdale G renf William Soltau, Esq. Amadeus Heath Esq Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. J as. n'Petlow Hibbert, Esq. William Wallace,q. ° tewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Esq. y r , tiedical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. Co and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with thi s Ott on advantageous terms. ti o i ri ,; 4 r Life Department, assurances are granted with par- Partc °,l in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such T h ei Pation. rea r i e v ßeversionary Minis on British sumoPlicies has averaged Eqii i !P,er cent. per annum on the assured. ravata n 't.ent reductions have been made in the Premiums "Y Persons who preferred that form of Bonus. Any - ' 6 v isions of Profit take place every F ive y ears. Life. ata not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one ✓hl --" Corporation affords to the Assured— , t , lberal participation in Profits—with exe m p tion from he liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual s o t o n e c e k t . ies—with the guarantee of a large invested Cap i t al The advantages of modern practice ,— wit h the securit y of a.n Offic e whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. the• Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve e Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ROYA.I. EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, 24 September, 1863. TENDERS will be received nt this office, until noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for the supply of FORAGE, in such quantities as may be required, from I st November, I , zG3, to 3 st October, IR6I, for the use of Fier Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on apt lication at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and sizn e d, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the Outside " Tender for Forage"), and no Tender will be noticed unb.ss made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commissary-General. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will he received at this Office until 12 o'clock noon on the 3d of October, from persons who relay be willing to enter into Contracts to supply FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW, ill such quantities as may he required f o r the use of Her l' : lsjesty' s Land Forces stationed in the following 'laces, from Ist November, 1863, to 31st October, 1861 : FORAGE. 1. Hyde-park, Kensington, Regent's-park, and Guards. 2. TronnslYw and Kneßer Hall. 3. Hampton Court. Horse 4. Windsor. 5. Brighton. A. Sandhurst. 7. Enfield. H T . LyjdAlS. Hyde -park , a E r k STRAW. and Kensington. 7. Brompton Hou P st i John a-wood, and Portman-street 2. lir gent's-park, St. - Barracks 2. New Barracks, Chelsea. 4. Wellington and St. George's Barracks 5. The Tower. • 6. Hounslow and Keller 11201. 7. flampton Court. 8. ligs,.;r. 9. ton, with Coast Forts from N ewhaven to Shore_ am. tO. C raye.ou. , erar e T e nders must be made for Forage and for. Pal • t g 14403t0w for each of the above - mentianca Stattow, 0 1-I‘lllol 1 ‘ 11101 Itii groupe I and numbered. r B ar _ Varmii of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob n,. ed on application at this o ffice, b y letter or in person u'i , t /iten the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. ebendera on the printed forms must be properly , filled Up, 811ned,and r ro 'l' , nder will be noti ced unless del , vered 84 t t'ellnder ien tioned , Thee, underclosed envelope (m ar k ed um ' til "atcl de" "T n for Commissariat Supplies "), before k 12 o'clo ck ' 1 e e- ' -- :loon on the 3d Odd` ier next. (Signed) W. T. POWER , Depot Comm ssary-General. . i .t.l4,,,, u _nl i lalssary Pat. ? e „ , -General's Office, 4-onido b '„ t, t4pring-gardene , • —I 'D.W., 10th Sept., 1853. OYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Grav's-inn-road AI ) in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail. way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Puke of BUCCLEUCIT, N.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masrerman, Esq. ' Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Ilerries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W Maras, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Darned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretar 110YAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INST ITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K. G., F. R. S. CIIAIR MAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DtruTv-CnAtumAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since 'he beginning of the year 1860, the Royas National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of Eng'and, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800 ; for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67.' 00 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-ear l ages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of he gen emu, support which they have received from the British public du r i ng t h e past few y ea rs, a support which has enah'ed them to es t a bli s h t h e i r p res ent magnificent fleet ot 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom Deeply sensible, however, ot the great responsibility that resrs on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and i' iCrews practised in the manarrement of their boats, whi 'I. can only be effected by a large and pe. manent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a work. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributions : Tier Majesty the Queen .. .. .. £ s. d .. annual 50 e 0 .. .. 4 a eta tnnohn: don o a a n . 1 1 1 7 00 1 0 100 0 000 :• tz a d iin d n on al . 1 2 0 5 0 0 0 0 Campbell, Clerk,c ol Colonel, ,HltonA.. Mrs . .. G....... . ....... Currie, Wm., Esq. , oBtice Coutts and Co., Messrs., Ba nke rs • . Erie, Lord Chief J . if:v/1(17,1ml Sir . n. lal D. • . FFaennani,liacZe•GV. , cost o f a Lifeboat and Tran sporting Carriage . • • • • • • .. 250 0 0 G• and . Mrs narvey, Rev. G. •-•• ' • • .. don. 30 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart .. .. .. 7th don.lo 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. 8... .• .• Greenwich.... ...• .... doti 1 1 5 6 1 1 5 6 0 0 Smith, Mrs. George, , • • • • • • 30 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, ii.C.u. .., .. annual 2 0 0 Th om •B. Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collet her Willoughby d'Ere:,by, Lord • • • • .. annual 50 0 Donations and Annual 1:4 e s criptions will be thankfully re p,,ind by the Co.,nkers of the inttitution, Messrs. Willis, 41 ,_ : , ..: 8 a t l r , o t e in t, d 4ci o d 76, Lorabard•t•treet ; Messrs. Coutts and . 1.• — • °Q. Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar. and Co., 16, St. I . " -tne •os-street London ; by a 1 the Collectors of Customs and Richard in the United aingdom ; and by the Secretary --a rd Lewil, ltsq., at the Office of th 6 hiStitutdon, 11, phi, London, W.ii. . n r THE sliTh, LONDON, fl-PIESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 17, 1863. .. —..4d. STAMPED ....bd. No. 22,222 Naval and Military Intelligence. T X F 0 It 1.) e, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. f ishop's TUE SLAVE and Halevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes—Miss Russell. Miss ElPson, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, lluish, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. P. Jonc.(limans. Faite Solos by Drew Dean &c. Comic, by UNSWOR'iIi ("or any other man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson. Als,, a Performance by Herr SAIALKENBACH on his wonderful Met, tnent, the PIANO ORCH.ETR., contain ing a full ba:id of 40 instruments. '1 he HALL has ju•t been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful iu the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ed.; stalls and balcony, is. ; private boxes, lOs. ed. THE NAVY. The Cumberland, 74, Capt. W. K. Hall, C.B. guaedship of the Chatham steam reserve, is bein stripped of her rigging, in order to be fitted with a pair of mating shear:, for masting small weasels on the plan proposed to the Admiralty by Capt. Hall, by which it will no longer be ne2essary to send the vesaels either to Sheerness or Chatham to be masted. The paddlewheel steamer salamander, 6,818 tone, 220 horse power, fitting for the Chatham steam re serve in the Medway, has been almost entirely rebuilt, having undergone a very extensive repair, besides being fitted with new boilers, in addition to which her machinery has undergone a thorough overhaul. Her standing and upper rigging has been fixed, and she will shortly be ready to take her place in the first division cf the steam reserve. PANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order 'kJ to gratify the curiosity cf nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pi pper snd Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, "THE GHOST." from the Picture Gallery to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion froin Stalls, Bal cony, and Indy of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. .ilyester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im provements and effects), REPREShNTATIONS EACH EVENING, at Ten o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including- Operatic Selections, ; Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, The screw frigate Tamar, 3, 2,812 tons, 500 horse power, Capt. F. IL Stirling, fitting at the Nore for immediate service at sea, is receiving on board nearly 1,000 tons of coals in the great basin, where two colliers are alongside discharging. The coals are all hoisted on board by means of the steam cranes, by which a great saving of time is effected. Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., the Civil Lord of the Ad miralty, is now on a visit to Portsmouth dockyard, accompanied by Mr. Walker, Inspector and Auditor of Dockyard Accounts, engaged in investigating the principles and data upon which future annual Parliamentary returns of dockyard expenses are to be made out. -MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL GAL LERY—Established 27 years at the Bazaar, Baker street—AMEßlCAN WAR —A Model of • GENERAL M'CLELLAN, in military uni orm, Lite Commander-in- Chief of the Federal Army, is now added.—CONTINUA TION of ANCIENT ENGLISH KINGS. Henry V , in the costume of the period. Open from li till 10 at night. Ad mittauce, Is ; extra rooms, id. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill•straet, Th. se elFE.Yant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. They have been entirely redecorated. Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of moister concerts cele brity. The band .s selected from the Cry•tal Palace, the Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, Is. Manager—M. GRENET. /10YAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The GHOST ! The Polish Giantess, Countess Demolnth, will be introduced in the Ghost Illusion this Week—The beautiful FAIRY FOUNTAIN—Grand Divertissement by Twenty young Ladies—Operatic Selections, by M iss M 'Gregor, Mr. A►bert, Vernon Rigby, and Signor Georgini—Band and L horns of 60 Performers. First appearance of RAPHAEL DE SOLLA: 4 . the Infant Tenor, and LANGLOIS VELGCISIAN, the Great Indian Juggler, THIS DAY (MONDAY). The Speedy, screw gun-vessel, Master Comman der Burney, in commission for service at the Chan nel Islands, having undergone repairs to hull and machinery ßsanyg a : t u s P m and o ee r rt realiseds th o e u s t u b p , e a ar n v d mi s r ieeoacnne of f e p d new the heed officers c o e i r l ser eightos f, s e n am factory and reserve of Portsmouth yard. was yesterday tested at the measured mile in and under high pressure she rather exceeded rate. The machinery worked satisfactorily. onMastere heavy Comman der repairs t S kct hh t no o eano k ttsd e ste w i g h h i t c l h y , has p a da l so - t u e n n d d e e r r g , at Portsmouth , and received new boilers, w as tested at Spithead in the wo r k in g of her mac h i nery on The h A e l e S ti p , Tuesday, and was tried at the measured mile. The Pioneer, 6, screw despatch-vessel, Comman der Robinson, recently returned to England from service on the Australian station, hauled alongside the shear j etty of Portsmouth yard yes terday, and was dismasted under the shears. She is cleared out and her stores are returned, and will be paid out of commission after the conclusion of a court martial, expected to be held on one of her subordinate officers, which will probably take place to-day. The Lyra, 9, screw, Wasp, 17, screw, and Falcon, 17, screw, wooden corvettes, are being brought forward for commission as rapidly as possible by the seamen riggers and reserve in the steam basin of Portsmouth yard. The Hector, iron frigate, still remains in the large dock at Portsmouth, and from the slow progress being made with her outfit, will in all probability remain there until driven out by the wants of the Channel fleet on their arrival at Spithead at the conclusion of their present cruise. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Andrew Farmer, master, to the Zebra ; Robert Brown, master, additional, to the Fisgard ; John A. H. Marcus, assist.-engineer, to the Asia as supernumerary ; James R. Gow, master's assistant, supernumerary, to the Euryalus ; Edward M. Ommanney, clerk, to the Alert; and Charles IL Baker, clerk, to the Royal Adelaide, as supernumerary. 'ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great Musical Attraction Immense success of SIGNOR 'NICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. THE ARMY. On Friday, the 25th inst., the 21 battalion of Coldstream Guards, now stationed at the Sheet street Barracks for garrison duty at Windsor, will leave for the new barracks, Pimlico. This battalion will be relieved by the 3d battalion of Grenads.ers, from St. George's Barracks, Charing-cross. The change of the troops being earlier than usual is in consequence of the lease of the Portman-street Bar racks having expired, and the building being about to be pulled down. The undermentioned draughts are ordered to be held in readiness to embark for New Zealand, to complete the strength of the service companies of their respective corps—viz., 2 officers and 119 men of all ranks, 70th Foot, 27 men of the Royal Horse Artillery, and 15 men of the Royal Engineers, with one Medical Staff surgeon. They are to embark at Gravesend. The following draughts embark at Cork :-1 officer and 141 men of all ranks, 2d bat talion 18th Foot, from Battivant ; 2 officers and 30 rank and file, 40th Regiment; 5 officers and 36 all ranks, 65th Foot, from Birr ; and 2 officers and 41 m en, 57th, from the 20th depot battalion at Cork— making a total of 13 officers and 412 non-commis• sioned officers and privates. Lieut. C. S. Beauchamp, with 1,43ut. G. W. Gi ford and three other officers of the Royal Engineers, arrived at Gravesend yesterday in charge of 75 non commissioned officers and privates, to go through the annual course of ball firing at the rifle ranges below Gravesend, under the instructor of musketry, Capt. C. R. Lempriere, Royal Engineers. During the present week the whole of the officers and men belonging to t he first division Depot Bri gade Royal Artillery (Lieut,-Col. R. r R Talbot com manding) have und er g one their usual half-yearly inspection at he ad q uarters, Sheerness, by Col. W. place and staff. At the conclusion of the inspection g Itth.eNtreodobpasm 8.A., com mandin g the g arrison a t that received the warmest praise of the gal lant c olonel for their martial appearance and gene ral efficient state. Preparations are now being made by the contrac tors for commencing the construction of the large s emi-circular casemated fort at the entrance of the Medway, which is intended to guard the p assage to Chatham harbour, the foundations ha vin g been completed 501110 time since and a s ufficient period allowed to elapse to allow for the ir consolidation. Thebar p t o h s e iti p o a n ss o a f g t e he of for a t ny will ships enablea attempting to oting effectuallyt ap proach either Sheerness or Chatham dock y ards. It is intended, on th e completion of this and to the Medway , to arm them with the most the other forts which command the approaches powerful description of guns, throwing the heaviest projectiles, recent events at Charleston proving that forts are only superior to ships in exact pro portion to the description of armament used. The position which the work occupies in relation to the adjacent defences which command the main chan nel of approach will enable its armament to be worked with decisive effect against shipping at a comparatively short range, white its formation will allow of a concentration of fire at any given point. The passage of the rivers Thames and Medway will also be guarded by the extensive fortifications, now rapidly approaching completion, erected on the Isle of Grain, the guns mounted upon which will have entire control of the mid-channels of both streams. Both sides of the estuary of the Medway will, on the completion of the works now in progress, possess a line of powerful batteries. A BODY FOUND IN A GLACIER.—The body of a man, a native of Passy, near Chamonnix, who had been missing for the last 19 years, has just been discovered in the crevice of a glacier de Bruet, near Mont Blanc. He 'left his home on 14th Sept., Sept. 1844, on a pilgrimage to the Great St. Bernard, and had not been since heard of until a few days back, when a pedestrian, exploring the glacier, came upon the body, which wra in a perfect state of preservation. After being identified, the body was strapped to a plank, and conveyed on the back of a commis sionaire over the mountains to Passy, where he was buried —after “lgying in otati' for 24 hours,—Galignani. PLR , - /G 7- .( --r- ' s ' -- 41',Nv S PA.. - X-z -)- --.' , ......., . _a.: ~ "..../...-2, _ . • e s s ?I M, DE PERSIGNY'S 1 1 ' : ,," .A ! - r : ' - bs • y A'y , . ----4:1 ..,:=. , Z ~.."4....6* ,Nk....-,r4 . • 1 ~ . ... . • 1 01, ‘) ‘ & ',1 ),*))4 111; ` 8;0 rt r ,l,, ;Ili'. ' - ---"". .1! t l' . ll '2' '' , • c ,„.. ' „ "t 2 '• ' , ' '3O. _........._, ..... .., .:).•,. "! • w- - -,--,- ETIPPPNI, •," :;; I :, , ''. ‘",,.* '''''& , V41:63; ky 1 I ic r ; . .: •; s' . *: i3mait---7%* "10y,14,,,,.,--9.=..,,b111111111'i,........4.,,,-„Rorr.-7-‘ ; :4 e : . .4 I& . .. - .... . • .:, ;.. : t r A, , i , , -, ~.. , 4, "S' ~--4 " t ,t: , The decree conferring a "Duk. ordlo precise, the title of duke on M. de _ ereigny, in spires the following reflections to M. Forcade in the Revue des Deux Mondes, the new number of which appears to-day :—" How nervous speculators must have felt after the panic of Saturday when they tore open the Moniteur on Sunday morning ! How relieved they must have felt when they found that the official sheet contained nothing but the decree making M. de Persigny a duke. It is undeniable that the anxieties of the readers of the Moniteur could not be more happily dispelled. It is a real piece of good fortune for the ex-Minister of the Interior that the publicity given to his exaltation should have occurred just is time to dissipate such intense alarm. We have then another civilian for a duke. We have already stated our opinion on the subject of the institution of civilian dukes, and there is no need to repeat it. It would not have been understood at a time when nobility was a reality, and when titles were a social distinction, nor can we now make up our minds to duke those who have not won their coronets on the field of battle. As M. de Persigny follows close on the heels of M. de Alertly, there is reason to believe that the collection of civilian dukes will be enriched in course of time with fresh specimens, and that we shall be provided with a fresh institution. Persons among us who still cultivate the science of heraldry are likely to make some remarks on the subject. It is to be noted that both under the second as well as under the first Empire no marquises are created. A count takes a sudden leap upwards and be comes a duke. The marquises have no reason to complain of this system, which will make their ie t n i f t (h FA e ro t aini e e cre o e. b object of a e nA c dn Another e. s m ro Simon)u remarkc hridicule is, ha an a ta t the h inr el lac recherche making dukes the second Empire does not follow the mistakes of Napoleon I. There were civilians who were made dukes under the first Empire, but names of towns or provinces were tagged on to 1 their titles, and effectually swamped a lawyer or financier under a cloud of feudalism and aristocracy. Such is no longer the case. Spain has a custom which seems appropriated to the creation of a civi lian nobility. The Spaniards couple the title with some word expressing a moral idea. Thus they have Dukes of Victory or Fidelity, and Pr;nces of Peace. Had M. de Persigny become a duke in Spain, he might, in the most natural way in the world, have received the title of Duke of Devotedness, or Duke of the Elections, but no one will regret that in our newfangled mania for titles we should have refrained from imitating Spanish usageb. Neither do we feel inclined to question the eai h tn is s o m f e M rit . s d . e no P r e a r p si p g l n a y ud to bestowed . the honour mayhavuepeoenuheeidmu. us lh'haevepoelietvicearl pre ventedan i n td n o o u g y . i a he n sincerely e s ne hl le he fla k es thenita° tenure w e a n : o e ur b a or egemr of rt g n i ood nffiu of fe e , f uoh uezealapplied withd himself s proved by his report to the Emperor on the subject. M. de Persigny, moreover, has long shown himself deeply learned en the subject of nobility, and the title of duke could not possibly be conferred on a man more capable of appreciating or enjoying it. Surely if such honours can give pleasure to any one we have no hesitation to admit that they cannot do anybody any harm. They no longer even excite the jealousy and envy which the creation of a new title used to cause in former days. Oa the con• trary, the new comer is well received by his prede cessors, and his bran new title makes theirs which date from yesterday appear more respectable be cause more ancient, for even our new nobles must have heard that nobility, like wine, improves as it grows older." HEALTH OP LONDON. (From the Registrar-General's Weekly ll,ettern) The deaths in London in the week that ended last Sa turcly were 1,`457. The average uumber of deaths in the 37th week of each of the 10 years, 1853.62, becomes 1,158, when deaths from cholera in 1851 are excluded from the cal culation, and a correction made for increase of population. The deaths in last week were about 100 in excess of the estimated number. The mortality from smallpox is now greatly reduced, the deaths from it in the last three weeks having been 31, 29, and 23 re , pectively. The deaths from diarrhoea, which reached 233 in the third week of July, have fallen to 93, as shown in the present r eturn. Scarlatina is at the present time the most formid able of the e p idemic diseases ; it was fatal in 124 cases in the week, while measles was returned in only 7 cases. There were 4 deaths from scarlatina in Kensington-town sub-district, 4 in Kentish-town,? in Islington, 9 in Bethnal green district, 9 in Whitecliapel, 4 in Poplar, and 11 in Newington. Last week the births of 938 boys and 985 girls, in all 1,923 children, were registered in London. In the 10 correspond ing weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number (cor rected) was 1,802. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 801 in. The mean daily reading was above 30 in. on Friday and Saturday. The barometrical pressure fell to 29 , 10 in. on Monday ; and it rose to 33.10 in. on Saturday, The mean temperature of the air in the week was 54.5 deg., which is 3.1 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher),,,The mean daily temperature was below the average throughout the week. The highest day tempera ture was 66.6 deg. on Monday. The lowest night tempe rature was 42.3 deg. ou Friday. The range of the thermo meter in the week was therefore 24.3 deg, The mean daily range was 17.0 deg. The difference between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 7.7 deg. The mean degree of humdity of the air was 76,complete saturation being represented by 100. The wind was in the south-West on five days. Nearly an inch of rain fell on four days, and of that amount 4-10ths on Thursday. A thunder•storm occurred after 10 p.m. on Wednesday. The mean of the highest temperature of the water of the Thames was 63.8 deg.; that of the lowest was 61.6 deg. THE ANNAMITE AMBASSADORS IN PARIS.--The Annamite Ambassadors, whose arrival we yester day announced, are the objects of great curiosity to the Parisians. Their appearance cannot be said to be prepos sessing, and cleanliness they seem to look upon as a crime. Like a e Chinese and Japanese they dispense with pocket handkerchiefs, but the square pieces of paper which the for mer use as a substitute, either have not found their way to the kingdom of Annam, or are considered there as one of the supet fluities of exaggerated civilisation. The muse , quences are not pleasant to witness, the change of climate having affected same of the distinguished visitors with coryza. It has also been seen with surprise that the chief dignitaries among them alone wear shoes—rank with the Annamites being outwardly marked by the covering for the feet. They are great smokers,and are hardly ever to be seen without a cigar or cigarette in their mouth, and they are said to show a lively appreciation of F. ench cuisine; they are fond of champagne, and truffles in particular meet with their approbation; they are even said to prefer this savoury tuber to their favourite dish at home—pickled caterpillars. Like other countries, the empire at Annam possesses several orders of chivalry—the Order of the " Elephant's Tusk," and that of the " Horn of the Rhinoceros" being the prin cipal. These honorary marks of disiinction are not, it is stated, greatly coveted, as the insignia weighs, according to the various classes, from 15 to 100 pounds, so that a grand cross is exposed literally to sink beneath the weight of his sovereign's favour, The ambassadors have commenced their rounds of official visits, and are said to be well versed in the laws of etiquette. The first ambassador —described as re markable for his intelligence, and for that reason looked upon with suspicion at the Court of Hue---is accompanied by two great dignitaries, who under the pretence of assisting him are specially charged to keep a watch over him. He is re ported to be aware of this, and takes his precautions in con sequence. The account which has been given of their mis sion appears to be true. The Emperor of Annam wishes to recover the three provinces of Lower Cochin-China cccupied by the French. The motive for this desire is nut so much to recover a few hundred leagues of territory as to plunder and hang subjects s e he would not be sorry who have submitted to the French.the faithless b m samesu to dupe the foreig n barbarians, t o whum he offers, it is said, 40,000,000f.without having the remotest intention of giving them a sou. The ambassadors will consequently have to broach it very difficult question, and the more so as it is with people already aware of their manner of interpreting treaties they have to deal with. Accustomed as they are to conceal their thoughts and never telling the truth, they be lieve that every one else acts in the same manner. Thus, when the first ambassador was informed of the arrival of Commander Aubaret, who is charged to escort them while in France, he perfectly understood he was about to have to do with a man who knew how to manage them, and could not help exclaiming " Bon ! nous allons echanger autant de mensonges que de paroles." The ambassadors will not be presented at Court until the Emperor's arrival at Compiiigne in the course of next mouth.—Galignani. DARING BURGLARY AND CLEVER CAPTURE.- - Oa Monday evening, the premises of Mr. James Clark, umbrella manufacturer and warehouseman, Candleriggs street, Glasgow, were broken into, and a cash box and £44 stolen. The premises were locked up at the usual time, a little pes t 7 o'clock, when it was believed everything was secure. Shortly before eight, however, a girl on the back stairs ob served three boys making their exit from one of Mr. Clark's back windows, and accordingly informed Mr. Morrison, stay manufacturer, of what she had seen. Mr. Morrison promptly informed the police of the matter, and at once steps were taken to discover the robbers. As it was pos sible that some of the party might still be inside, the pre mises were surrounded by constables, and a messenger sent to Mr. Clark to bring the keys of his establishment. This being done, on entering the premises no one was found, but it was apparent that facilities for the entrance of the robbers must have been given from within. Tt was also discovered that a desk in the countinghouse up stairs and one in the shop on the street fiat had been forced open, and the money they contained, amounting to £44, carried off. A pair of boy's boots had been left behind, and these were carefully preserved by the police. Suspicion was at once attached to John Maitland, a lad of thirteen years old, who was in the habit of closing the back windows. Hence Detectives Stewart and Harley were sent to Whitevale to apprehend him. To apprehend the other boys, who must have taken part in the robbery, was now the duty set down for the detective police. With a rather imperfect description of them, they sallied forth to scour the city. About midnight a little light was thrown upon their pathway, by the inquiries of a woman named Ramsey and a man named Moffat, at the Central Police-office for boys belonging to them who had not come home as usual that evening. Sub-inspector Audley Thomson, wh o took a note of the description and names of the missing b oys, shrewdly guessed that the youths might have had some thing to do with the burglary, and therefore produced the boots which had been found in Mr. Clark's warehouse, in quiring whether either person knew them. Mrs. Ramsay at once identified them as belonging to her son. When Maitland was brought to the station-house he confessed it was he and two other boys who had committed the depredation—the other boys being Ramsay, aged 13, living in Wesleyan street, and James Moffatt, aged 16, residing in Nelson- street. What had become of them he could not say, as they had been disturbed on coming out with their booty, and had taken a different way and had left him, but he had heard them speak of going to Liverpool or London. No further trace of the boys could be found until yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, when a telegram was being despatched from Glasgow to the Liverpool police, one was received from the chief constable of Liverpool informing the Glasgow chief constable that two boys named Ramsay and Moffatt had been apprehended that morning there, with £l2 in their pos session. The boys must have left with the 910 p.m. trai for Liverpool, but what caused the Liverpool police to ap prehend them is yet unknown. An officer has been sent to Liverpool with a warrant to bring them hither. Ramsey and Moffett were both employed as message boys in a shop in Candlerig gs, and hitherto all three prisoners had borne a good character.—North. Britts4 Daily Mail. 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Hamilton, Bart., K.C.11.. is Chairman, are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTION, and they may also be paid to the Recount of the Tercentenary Committee, at the stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Greenway, Warwick ; or their 1 ondon agents, Messrs. Smith, l'ayne, and Co , Messrs Hanburys and Co., or 2rltsers. Glyn and Co.. bankers, London. The Tervntenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakepeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the birthplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his home, the town he lived, and where be lived and died. STATE OF GREECE, TO TIIE EDITOR OF TIIE SUN. Sir,—M. KehayaF, Greek Minister of Finance, has forwarded to this committee the following letter in connection with his report on the state of the Greek Exchequer. This letter explains in a very satisfactory way the present position of Greek finance, and refers also to the important question of the bonds of 1824-5, which have now so much interest for the English public.-1 have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, STEFANOS XENOS, Hon. Secretary. Philhellenic Committee-rooms, 12, Charing cross, S.W., Sept., 16. Ministry of Finance, Athens, Eept. 5, 1863. My dear Sir,—M. Rouffos, the President of the Council of Ministers, has communicated to me the translations you forwarded to him of the letters of " A Philhellene," the article of the limes, and also your answers. I must con gratulate you on the lucidity of your replies, which so easily correct the erroneous opinions of "A Philhellene" regarding the state of oar finances, I take advantage of this oppor tunity to forward you an explanation of the reasons that induced me to draw up my financial report, and to point out to you at the same time, more in detail, some of the incorrect statements published on the subject. When I asked from the National Assembly a credit for the month of July (the entire Budget of 1863 could not yet be voted), I took occasion to make a brief expose' of the state of the National Exchequer and the consequent necessity of contracting a loan. Having been asked at the same time by one of the foreign ambassadors for a state ment of the monetary wants of the country, I hastened tc publish, in the shape of a memorandum, the report I had presented to the National Assembly. It was this report which M. Rouffos forwarded to your committee. It is easy to perceive that I did not intend it as an expose of the Budget of the current year, or a picture of our future finan cial prospects, but simply as en answer to questions ad dressed to me, and a statement of the amount of loan required. ( the necessity for the loan is absolute.) That this is the real character of the report is proved by the fact that I only speak of our estimated possible revenues, and mention, en passant, our trifling actual taxation as compared with other countries. It is strange that "A Philhellene" should have mistaken the report for the budget of the current year, making thereby some grievous errors. In the first place, he supposes that 12,000,000 drachmas are a deficit of the present year; and secondly, that 22,000,000 drachmas, which represent the constant yearly revenue of the country during some years past, should now be returned on the balance-sheet minus 6,000,000 drachmas. which "A Philhellene" regards as a visionary property, though these 6,000,000 are the proceeds of former arrears and revenue arising from the national pro perty. How incorrectly am I interpreted, and what strange burdens are thrown on this unfortunate budget of 18631 As you yourself correctly observed in your letter, this de ficit of 12,000,000 drachmas will be better des3ribed as an inheritance derived from the bad financial management of the Governments of the fallen dynasty, which was hidden by provisional loans, and by the refusal to meet acknowledged engagements, particularly with foreign creditors. It is true that a part of this amount represents monetary wants of the present year, but this is not a deficit between expenditure and revenue, but at rears of acknowledged and secured debts, the collection of which is postponed by the anomalous state of the country. It surprises me to find that after having mentioned this in my report, the deficit of 12,000,0 00 drachmas, arising from explained causes, should still be characterised as a deficit attachable exclusively to the year 1863. And what appears still more extraordinary is the attempt to saddle even the future with the same constantly recurring burdens. I ask you whether, when a European State transfers ancient loans, originating either in extraordinary expenses or other causes, from a dette floUante into Consdidis, it is as&umed that the capital of such loans is to form a regular item in every future budget, or whether the interest only is to appear there ? What else do we purpose doing than to transter into Consolide's all the debts contracted before the revolution of last year, and, at the same time, to cover by a loan the extra wants which this revolution has created ? I now come to the second erroneous argument of " A Philhellene," which, I have no doubt, arises more from mis take than a deliberate wish to misrepresent. In concluding my report, I wished, by contrasting the taxation in Greece of 10s. a head with that of other countries, to show how comparatively light our burdens are, and how, without be coming onerous, they may be still increased. For this reason I divided the sources of revenue in .o two classes—firstly, the revenues arising from the real taxes (16,000,000 drachmas) —and secondly, the revenues arising from the income of the national property, and the arrears of taxes remaining from former years, amounting to 6,000,000 drachmas. "A Philhellene" mistook their classification for almodification, and, regarding the 6,000,000 crachmas arising from the second source of revenue as vieionary, adopted 16,000,000 drachmas as the real yearly revenue of the country. I consider it scarcely necessary to add that the yearly revenue of 6,000,000 drachmas which I placed in the second class is much more likely to increase than to diminish, for, as I stated in the report, the national property, valued at more than 50,000,000 drachmas, and the arrears of debt to the nation, amounting to 60,000,000 drachmas, guarantee to the national treasury a yearly revenue of 6,000,000 drachmas, By a judicious arrangement, and with good management of the national property, this sort of revenue is capable of being vastly augmented. Froin this you will perceive how exaggerated are the cal culations of "A Philhellene,' who rais's our expenditure to £1,500,000, and lowers our revenue to £500,000. When the contemplated loan is negotiated, I am positive that everythingwill be satisfactorily arranged, both aaregards the deficit of 12,000,000 drachmas, and also every expense connected with the reception of our new Icing. The fears of a deficit in the next three months are wholly groundless —in the first place, because these three months fall at the end of the year, a period when most of the taxes become due ; and secondly, because the arrival of the Ring will re establish order, which will enable the outstanding taxes to be collected. I must inform you at the same time that the loan taken from our National Bank of 3,500,000 drachmas, w hich we intend to se ttle out of the proceeds of the new o fo f r a e n ig u n n l e o m an pe , c i t s e n d o p t u p b a l y ic a d b iffi le immediately—and ediitas payment may be tely—and even, in case post poned. I must not pass over in silence the blame which "A Philhellene" throws on the National Assembly for having reduced the land-tax. This reduction was dictated by a spirit of justice towards all the tax-paying classes, and this reduction is compensated for by a proportionate impost on articles hitherto untaxed, What most surprises me is the effort made unsuccessfully it is true, but still made --by "A Philhellene," to mix up with my report the question of the old loans. My report had no other object than to show the unavoidable necessity of a loan in order to cover the present monetary difficulties of the country , and was wholl y unconnec ted with the sub ject of those bo nds. M y ferve nt desire was, and now more than ever is, to see the j ust demands of a ll the creditors of ilsed b e established, namely, the Greek Treasu r y satisfied a s soon as p ossible. This de sire is dictated by a sense of justice as w ell as b y the con viction that such a mode of proceeding w ould tend to the real w h i ch wellbeing atsti n u iof hs the civilised v country, I know very well that the resources of the king dom ca nnot be developed , u nless that public credit—a fac t which I must confess w as unfortu nately lost sight of by the di fferent Governmen ts of the fallen d 3 nasty. But this sub j ec t could not be ma de an item in my report, as nothing was y e t definitely decided regard ing it by the legislative bodies, and, such being the case, I think "A Philhellene" o u g ht to have been satisfie d with gs e nations what I said regarding the ancient creditors of our country. In conclusion, I have reason to hope that the information which I have forwarded to you in this letter, though brief, will suffice for the present to enlighten public opinion in England regarding the state of our finances. Accept, my dear Sir, the assurance of my sincere friend ship. E. J. KEHA.YAS, M. Stofanos Xeno3, Hon. Sec. Philhellenic Committee, London. In SUPERSTITION PS SOMERSETSIIIRE.—A sad in stance of moral depravity, and a proof that the once popular belief in witchcraft has not entirely died out in our country villages, came before the magistrates of tho Bridge water Divisional Petty Sessions last week. The facts came out in a charge of assault preferred by two women—a mother and daughter—of Auntspill, against another woman of the same place, and from the evidence it appeared that the de fendant (Ann Hogg) had for a long time considered herself "hag ridden "—that is, she had experienced queer sensa tions, non-orthodox maladies, &c. She had for some time before had occasion to"fall out" with the complainants (Charlotte and Caroline), and in consequence her ignorance had led her to put down these feelings and illnesses to the credit of a power possessed by the complainants. With this idea u ppt-rmost in her mind she had resources to the specific e defendant on the Hunt coutter.charm of "drawing blood" f rom th e b e witcher, whic h o peration was described by the elder of the com plainants nine o'clock on the evening of t Hunt spill-road, and she came behind me and ran * s omething in my shoulder. It was semething shar p . N e i ther of a spoke. When I took off m y dress there was blood. When she pricked me she accuse d me of being a wit c h. I t a pp ear s that this " infallible " remedy for.ozee "f a il e d , " b u t th e hLs Between nit. I nit eight the htend and failure did not in the least affect her belief that she was be witched, for she on the next day stabbed the daughter on the arm with a needle, and drew blood from her also.— Western Daily Preset CHARLES MATHEWS AT PARIS THE "MONITEUIt'S" TRIBUTE TO lIIM, AND THE COMPLIMENTARY OPINIONS OF OTHER FRENCH PAPERS. In the customary theatrical review given every Monday all the principal Paris papers of yester day's date (said the Paris correspondent of the 7 imes in his communication of Tuesday even ing) make honourable mention of Charles Mathews's performance at the Varie C. The Moniteur leads the van, and nearly the whole of Theophile Gantier's feud/don is devoted to "The Timid Englishman." In him he finds a sign of the times, a new tendency, and one peculiar to our epoch :—" When English actore came to France for the first time, towards the close of the Restoration, their presence caused tumults which almost bacame riots. The national amour propre repulsed them with a violence such as to day one can hardly ima gine. One might really have thought perfidious Albion was seriously attempting to dispossess us of our territory. Intercourse %as then rare between the two natione, and there was little goodwill be tween them. The study of Shaltspere, Byron, and Walter Scott had not then initiated us into the English imagination, and the grotesque caricatures due to the rancours of 1815 passed for striliieg por traits. On the other hand, the British had not a very correct idea of the French. They pictured them always as hairdressers and dancing-masters, feeding exclusively on frogs. That was the sum total of their information concerning us, and Ho garth's old caricatures still appeared to them true to nature. Things have now changed. Thanks to steam, we breakfast in Paris and dine in Landon. People seldom hate one another except from want of sufficient acquaintance, and aversions generally spring from misapprehension°. Paris gave an en thusiastic reception to Macready and Helen Faucit, and London applauded Fechter playing in English as it had applauded him when that charming actor belonged to the French company at the St. James's Theatre. And now Mr. Charles Matthews pays us the compliment of eoming to the Varie . es to perform in a piece of his own in our language. Mr. Mathews is a first-class comedian, very cele brated in England, a distinguished author, and a perfect gentleman. His success in Paris has been complete, especially since the piece has been relieved from certain developments rather too lengthy for Parisian impatience, which understands everything when only half-spoken, and listens no longer when once it has understood. Mr. Mathews has in his meting a something of Perlet, something of Henri :Bonnier, and something of Arnal, and, moreover, a special Britannic savour, which to our mind gives a great deal of originality to his play. His accent, exceedingly slight, destroys no illu3ion, since he is playing the part of an Englishman who is speaking French. Is it not strange that, at the moment when one of the most esteemed English comedians is acting in our language, Taillade is preparing to perform Macbeth in English at the Vaudeville Theatre ? Is it not a sign of that intellectual reconciliation we spoke of at the beginning of our article, and which has been brought about, after such long antipathies, by the progress of a civilisation which tends to blend all nations in one common humanity ?'' Jules Janin in the Debats, the 7 e»2ps, the France, the Presse —all, in short, speak in equally hand some and friendly terms. The Steele finds that Mathews's style of acting has something of Lafont and something of Levassor. The Temps declares that Levassor or Brasseur would envy him his carica ture of an Englishman, and urged him to select, in the French repertory, some of the pieces Levassor is wont to play; the Opinion Nationale [whose tri bute to Mr. Mathews has been already given in The Sun] wishing him to take Arnal's part of the "Homme Blase" which he has played habitually in the English version, and predicts a great success. As it is, in the " Anglais Timide," the papers all declare his success complete, and the best proof of it is that the Variete3, which was doing very badly with a stupid piece called " La Chanson de la Marguerite" before he came, now cannot find room for all who fain would have places. SUICIDE IN THE STREET.—Last night Mr. S. F, Langham, deputy coroner for Westminster, hold an inquiry at King's College Hospital, touching the death of John Hunter, aged 41, a tailor, lately residing at 41, Lower Whitecross-strest, who committed suicide on Monday last. Caroline Hunter, wife of the deceased, said her husband had been in bad health for the last six months, and had threatened to commit suicide before he left home on Mon day morning. He also threatened witness, and said they had better go out of the world together. She did not see him after ho left home on Monday morning until she saw him dead at the hospital. He was not in want, but had been so reduced by illness, she believed, as to affect his mind. Thomas Grant, carman, in the employ of Messrs. Chaplin and Home, deposed to finding the deceased on Monday morning, about 8 o'clock, inside the gateway of the George and Blue Boar lard, Holborn, with his throat cut. No one was near him at the time. A shoemaker's knife was lying by his side. There was a great quantity of blood lying at his feet, as if he had fallen backwards. With assistance he put deceased in his van, and brought him to the hospital. He was not dead then. Witness had previously sent for Mr. Williams, surgeon. Police-constable Sutton said he was called by the last witness to the George and Blue Boar on Monday morning. He found deceased as described by the last witness. He asked deceased why he had done it, and ho said because he had a bad wife. Ho tried to seize the knife, and wanted witness to finish him at once. He also expressed the same wish to the surgeon. Mr. Williams, surgeon, Gray's• inn -road, proved being called to the de ceased. He attended to the wounds in his throat, and advised that .he should bo removed to the hospital. There were also some stabs in the stomach. Chas. Antonini, house surgeon at King's College Hospital, said deceased when admitted had a large gash in his throat about seven inches long, and was very much blanched from loss of blood. He was put to bed, but he died the same day. Death, no doubt, resulted from the wound in the throat. After further evidence the jury returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity." CELIBACY AND MARRIAGE.—Another volume of the "Population 'Fables," compiled from the English census returns of 1861, has been issued. Among the subjects with which it deals is that of the civil condition of the people of England and Wales. In April, 1861, there were found to be in England and Wales 12,032,157 persons—men, women, and children—who had never been married, 6,917, 395 P er " sons married, and 1,116,672 persons widowed —in all 20,066,224. The females were 10,289,965 in number, being 513,706 more than the males ; but against this excess must be set about 162,000 for persons belonging to England . in the army and navy, and merchant sea men abroad et the time of taking the census, and consistiag mostly of adult males. With regard to the condition of women, we learn that while the increase of the entire population of England and Wales in the ten years 1851-61 was below 12 per cent, and the increase in the total number of tamales was be ande be low 13 per cent, the increase in the number of wives was above 15 per cent. In 1851 there were 3,015,634 mar ried4s 9 0 5 m 2 e . n The in proportionEeglaud an d o fl'a childrenes ; in t 0 18 a 61 ther e were 3,485,952 m arriage re 3, the increase of population are greatly affected by the age at which marriage takes place. The number of wives who were under 25 years of ago when the census was taken in 1851 was 290,031 ; but in 1861 the number had risen to 350,919, an increase of more than a fifth. Marriages in creased in the ten years, and celibacy declined. The census of 1851 found in England and Wales 62.5 per cent of its m ale population ant h 9 .8 per cent of its female population unmarried ; at the census of 1861 the proportions had fallen to 61.2 per cent among the males and 58'7 per cent among the females. But this is calculating on the whole popula tion, children as well as adults; the adult bachelors, men of 20 and upwards, fell from being 30.23 per cent of all the adult males in 1851 to be only 27.67 per cent in 1831, and the adult spinsters from 28 . 32 per cent of all the adult females in 18.51 to 26.72 per cent in 1361. Of the women of the age of 20 and upwards, there fore, 28 in every 100 were without husbands in 185 1 , not 27 in 100 in 1861. Or, takin g none but persons in the prime of life, 20 and under 40 yea rs of age, 45 in 100 of the men of this age were bachelors in 1851, but only 42 in 1861; and of the women 41 in 100 were epioetere in 1851, but only :.)9 in 1361. These figures indi cate a time of prosperity and comfort, It is true that the census of 1861 still found in England and Wales 1,201,576 of the men between 20 and 40 years of age bachelors, and 1,229,051 of the women between 2 . 0 and 40 left i n ce lib acy; but it must be reme mbered that the celibacy of some makes it prudent for the rest to marry. Th 3 census again shows that though a largo number of men and wome n never marry the plantation in England can increase moderately, and the work of colohibiDg and subduing the earth pall go on, A Carpenter evidently up to a Trick or Two, Mr. Robinson, in his new work, called " Shirley Hall Asylum, or the Memoirs of a Monomaniac," gives an account of a passage in his early life which, if not told in the manner of Defoe, is very much in the manner of Mr. Dickens. When domiciled as a boy in the house of a stingy uncle, he used fre quently to enliven his evenings by visits to the Lyceum Theatre. A popular piece called "The Dog of Montargls, or the Forest of Bondy," struck his imagination forcibly. The dog's master hap pens to be cruelly murdered in the forest ; and in the nest scenea street in Bondy is represented, with several houses in perspective, a bell-handle being plainly visible at each street door. After smell ing at the doors of several houses in sue session, the faithful dog gives a violent pull at the right bell-handle, and announces the non arrival of his master. Young Robinson, seized with the desire of imparting the same amount of sagacity to his own dog Rover, got one of the coirpenters belongingto the theatre to com e h ome w ith him. The carpenter declared himself perfectly wil- ling and able to instruct Rover, at the moclere.e price of one s hil'in g for each trick to be taught. Theßover boywas delighted and went to fetch the dog •' was accordingly introduced, and the car penter examined him attentively and critically, while I stood by in a state of no little anxiety, wait ing for his judgment. 4. That dog will do capitally, air. I never saw one, leastways judging from his appearance, who could learn faster. What a shame, he continued, in an under tone, to starve a poor brute in that manner.' "I felt exceedingly annoyed at the remark, but, as it was a true one, I said nothing. The meanness of my uncle's housekeeping was visible in poor Rover's ribs, all of which might easily be counted. After a moment's silence on both sides, the carpen ter said, " Well, sir, is it a bargain P lam agreeable if you are.' It is,' I said, and there is the shilling for the first trick.' 6 " Which would you like to know, sir ?' " How the dog of Montargis was taught to ring the right bell. " The carpenter put the shilling into his pocket. "' I will now tell you faithfully-, sir, how it is done. I never gets off a bargain. All the bell pulls in the street is made of wood except the one at his own house, and that's a sausage.' " A what?' I almost screamed. A sausage. The poor brute knew his own house by the sausage for the bell-pull : and when he catches hold of it, he naturally rings the bell.' " Then I can't teach Rover to ring my bell ?' " Oh, yes, you could sir, if you had a sausage tied to the wire ; not otherwise. But then I don't know that your servants would much like it, for they would soon have to answer the door pretty often. There is not a dog within a mile round that wouldn't soon find it out, and have a pull at your bell to tell yon his master was murdered.' I was thunderstruck at the information, but there was no help for it; the money was gone." POLYGAMY IN BENGAL.--It is believed at Cal cutta that the Hon. Rajah Deo Narain Singh in tends to introduce a bill to lessen the evils of polygamy. This is a very delicate question and will be dealt with ten derly. In 1556 the leading Hindoos of Bengal petitioned the Legislature to put down a curse which practically is as bad as infanticide and worse than suttee. The question is a moral not a religious one ; and that a Hindoo member of council from the sacred city of Kasi or Benares should deal with it is a great advantage. The Shasters nowhere do more than tolerate polygamy, and it exists in Bengal in a hideous form unknown elsewhere. Three centuries ago, when Bengal was ruled from Gour by Adisur. a low-caste king, he found there was not a Brahmin in his dominions who could perfotm certain ceremonies, owing to the perse cution of the Buddhists in former times. He accordingly applied to the King of Kanoje, who sent five Sagnic Brah mins, venerated priests, who preserved till the hour of their death, for their funeral ceremonies, the sacrificial fire lighted by their parents on the day of their birth, and fed daily by fuel and clarified butter. From these five have descended a whole crowd of Kulin or privileged families. They are simply hereditary spiritual peels, and as no father will marry his dau,shter, if of a certain caste, except to them, many of them live solely by such marriages. Twenty wives is a common number for a Kuhn Brahmin to have—but there are cases in which one man has 10. The polygamist does not feed these wives, but visits the richer of them at their father's houses, and is in fact maintained by his wives. In many cases whole families, consisting of sisters, aunts, and nieces are married to one avaricious sen sualist. You may imagine the moral evils which flow from this, and understand how, as a social abuse, native opinion would like it put down penally. Information is now being collected by the Rajah to see how much furthnr can go than this,--Letter from Calcutta. ....... 40s. ravel Lem- we. .rated 1g for efore I not king Sham ith a and mm- tion, !,d for esent L, and ,vacs I take aving !eutor • girls ,wring t in a about estion 3 Ele obbed The t him• ,shiSt , what' I