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Elf l.' At at i'71,1 111.1 ATEVANFz' d 'IV MIT EVENING THIS WEEK aft.r Alfred Xenon's Promnade coilezTt9. NOTICE IS C-',TVEN, Thrat en EXTRA ORDT NARY ORM: UAL ITEE TING of the LONDON QUITAIILE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANc F. SOCIETY 'WM be held at Radlev's 'Hotel, New Bridge-street, bloc - friars, London. on WF.DNEsD.A.V, the 2:1(1 inst., at One O'clock precisely, to ratify an agreement, to be r, ad at such Tneetinc, , , for a. transfer to and an amal? - amation of the busi ness of the Society with another approved A ssu -ante dation, and, if deemed advisable, to dissolve the So3it.ty. J. L. PILKTNGTON, M .nager. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. The business of t':e Company exeeeds £70,000,000. ,Yi V e duty paid to G o vernment for the year 1562 was ' , 62, and the amount insured on farming stock , £10,c56 , 33 2. - • A bonus of three-fifths of the profi s periodically made to Parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received "raa amount 4v.; - in the agirregate to .£440,000 ; and the Society lloNv holds a large Res 'rye appli able to a future I:cnus. rile rates of premium are in no case higher than those c narVed by the other prirripal offices mAing no returns to their insurers. For prozpectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey street, Norwich ; and 0, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black friars, RC. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. TIEAD OFFICES, 29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance buildings. Liverpool. Total Annual Revenue exceeds ........ Z 500,0 Accu m ulated Funds in hand o ver 1 OOO,OOO. Chairman in Liverpool : CHARLES TURN.ER, Esq., 31. P. Chairman in London : WILLIA3I IVAINWRIGHT, Esq. EXTRAc ps FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1862. The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the Meeting of its Shareh olders. FIRE BRANCH. The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the close 0; the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000. The high comparative position held by the Royal in the Government Returns of Duty is ag , in fully maintained. The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably the amount realised in the preced,ng year, and in fact sur passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, sine , the commencement of thi- Office, the balance tet the credit on account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s. tel., and of the North American business, which is kept sepa • lately, £11,097165. 10d. LIFE BRANCA. The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to state the sum assured on n w policies for the year 1862 exceeds even that of the yesr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of £701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last hayears it is believed that such a sum ar.sured as that which Just been announced as the result of one year's business Was all but unheard of. This portion of the Company's business has been carefully Watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the tut' re to the participating life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the number re j ected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum Proposed for assuran mounts to £ 43,28'. Various degrees of ineligibility have led to the.e lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance t ompanies of the day Tetord their accepted lives annually at a sum not much. if at all, ex cee di ng those which the Royal ha s declared as inadmis- B uie in a single year from deterioration of some kind or If, to complete their review, the Dictors now advert lirietly to the U n it e d Kingdom, they have to o d that in Fire Business ins progress has been undoubtedly more rarid than that of any other C om p ine established either in London or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken P l ace. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other CV dence needless. The Directors conclude their present Report with the expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal Insurance Com any we re never brig - liter, and of a consequent hope, p nded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may un fold for it a sphere o f still greater macni tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the Office with a le gthened career of usefulness and protection to the gable. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. ,TORN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. pROviDE'NT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIF: AS6OCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring Esq., I Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Ilankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. Mutual Lif Assurance for all classes. This Associai ion has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a total suns of £1,500,000. The Annual Income is • • .. X 51,000 The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 2 0, , 00 It has paid in Claims .. .. 112,000 The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among the Members Three divisions have already been made' when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the policies • Dec. 31, 1847 .. .. • • , 1852 .. • • ,', 1857 .. .. • • „ 1862 .. • . making the total bonus additions, £96,600. Bonuses may be received in wish or applied to the reduc tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an addit jun to the j of cy. Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid up policies introduced by this relinquishment which the s4crifice so often submitted to on the of pc icy is wholly avoided. The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all whether assurers or otherwise. Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre Rented districts X 5,400 11,500 23 200 56,500 WM. 'THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Henry- Bainbridge, Esq. Wiimot Holland, Esq. IZobert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. T chn Garratt Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Aiark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrineton Smith, Esq. Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. t!obt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.* William Wallace, Esq. Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be e ff ected with this `:'orporation on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged iwarly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital Stpck. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security , ()i an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. Th e corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve in the Mi;itia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. _ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE DISU fAi CE COMPANY. Established 1809. Incorporated by ,:oval Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. ACCUMULATED AND INVESTED FUNDS, .£2,122,828. ANNUAL RE VENUE, £422,401. LONDON BOARD. John White Cater, Esq., IP. du Pre Grenfell, Esq. Chairman. A. Kloekmann. Esq. Charle Morrison, Esq., De- John %toilet t, Faq. puty hairman. J nius S. Morv,an, Esq. A. De rtrrovave, Esq. G. Garden Nicol, Esq Edward Cohen, Esq I John IT. Wm. Schroder Esq. James du Buisson, Esq. George Young, Esq. EX-DIRECTORS. A. 11. Campbell, Esq. 1 Robert Smith, Esq. E P. C. Cavan, sq. Frederic Somes, Esq. P. P. Bath, Esq. Manager of Fire Department—Georg, , H. Whyting. Manager of Life Department—W. F. Birkmyre. Superintendent of Foreign Department—G. 11. Burnett. Secretary—F. W. Lance. General Manager—David Smith. FIRE DE PARTMENI. The Company grants Insurances against Fire in the United Kingdom, and all foreign countries. Mercantile Risks in the Port of London accepted at re duced rates. Losses pr' ptly and liberally settled. Foreign Risks.—The Director=, having a practical know ledge of foreign countries, are prepared to issue Policies on the most favoura',le terms. In all cases a discount will be allowed to Merchants and others effecting such Insurances. LIFE DEPARTMENT The following St a t emen t exhibits the improvement effected during the las - few years : No. of Policies Issued. Premiums. ISSI 465 £377,425 ...... £12,5p 18 1 6 1859.-- -• • frs 18 0 449,913 ...... 1,1140 1811 741 ........ 4 . 5,649 ...... 14,071 17 7 785 ...... .. 527.6 ...... 16 ' 5" 2 0 1862 Thus in five years the • n • • • l ' ( 37 ''' • 7 334 21 . 611 0 0 assuring the large sum of umber of , the Office are:— The leading features 42,928 947. 1. E ntireSenurity of 68 ' , P . olii • e .: issued was 3,623, 2. The large Bonus to Assurers. additions already declared, and the _ ._ _tion. further Bonus at the next investiga- 3. Thead van tazes afforded by v aried Tables of premium s , —unrestr eted c o f Policies—and genera l liberality in dealing with the A ssured. Forms oT Propo;al and every i n f or mation wili be furnished on application at the HEAD OFFICES : .... LONDON. SS, Threadneedle-street. 4, New Bank Buildiugs. EDINBURGH ...64, Princes-street. NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. WEST-END OFFICE : 8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL. Secretary—ALEX. J. RUSSELL. CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of Z . - ) the BIRTH of SHILK RE, at Stratford-upon 113:Zn. The Tercentenary Co mmittee S .. l (of which Sir Robert in g . ~Raftilton, Bart, 1i.C.8 is Chairman) are now receiv acenWu,RSCRIPTIONS, d they may also be paid to the ar n i il t tpi the TercentenaaryniCocincimanitdteei aeatmithnegStotonurraindkgse, trati c : u lerminster or Wil.; rB. Me. oktnrertii;F;u, p v r-Av on : Greenway, Smith, and Glyn a Yne • and Co Messrs Hanbury k or their 1 ondo g n an s d g c e o n . t , s o , r Messrs. Gl yn Th e a V e° :bankers,' London, tion list rest ther e tat. ee4 . ll ,tenary Commis tee , al to the admirers °I Shaks n sue nation, most earnestlYappe in submitting the subscrip all a the b irth r pt e al e bl o s r lpon the g . T011.1 to their aid and assistaL,ce , The Committee „ , 3hakspeare. but the centre of attraction th a t stsat ord is not only admirers atand that it was hie bonze, tile he great Poet's works, 0 loved, and where he lived and died. No. 22.214 MANILLA AND JAPAN. Now ready, Bvo., with Illustrations, 145., LADY'S VISIT TO MANILLA AND JAPAN.. t'y ANNA D'A. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough str,•et. NEW NOVELS . BY MRS. THOMSON. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., E X 'r D 0 0 • It. By Mrs. THOMSON, Author of "Constance." &c. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. EGYPTIAN HALL-MR. J. K. LORD, F.Z.S., Nightly in his popular Entertainment, entitled " AT HOME IN TIIE WIL bERNESS." Admission-55., 35., 25., ls. T HE 0 XFO R D, R, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ell!son, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, _Finish, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean, itc. Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any other man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson. Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. 1 he HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ed. ; stalls and balcony, is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CIANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order j to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pepper and Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, " THE GHOST," from the ricture Gallery to the Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more amnle i te l lv oht e hLlllus l ion from Stalls, Bal c.:..nKilavnesdtebrpt ogiri the ve (with all thatsasarra gentleman'slg arranged for ir im provements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at Ten o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The GHOST ! The GI - 10-T ! ! The ONLY COMIC GHOST I ! !—The beautiful FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—A Grand Divertissement by Signora Rachele and Mariannina and Signor Guiseppe Francesco, assisted by a corps of Twenty young Ladies—Selections from favourite Operas : Principals, Miss M'Gregor, Mr. Albert, Signor Georgtni, and Mr. Vernon Rigby. NIC 0 SIA, the Great Violinist, will make his Second Appearance in England THIS EVENI G and Every Evening, at:the ALHAMBRA. Doors or,en at 7—commence at hall-past 7. A RGYLL ROOMS. Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Th se el cant dooms, entirely and costly redecorated, are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. The musical department is under the directorship of Mons. Jullien, conductor of the band. This celebrated band will be called for the future "The London Band." Manager of the Rooms—M. GRENET. sole Lessee, R. R. BIGNELL. Admission, ls. Doors open at 8 o'clock. ESTABLISHED 1833. BOWDEN'S }ERATED GINGER BEER, in glass or stone botti's, warranted to keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, I-otass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Waters.—Manufactory, No. 3, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXIIIBFFED IN TILE GREAT - XII HUTTON S OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two II undred Medical Gentlemen to ne the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of II EItN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, a here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the ,ody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease .nd closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn luring sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir y, two inches below th e hi ps, b eing aumference of the bod rent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. . Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. Nn Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Poet office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of 'Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &c. They are ,orous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on ;l ean ordinary stocking. Price 45. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16s. each. Postage (id. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. PAGE'S BRICK, TILE, AND PIPE ➢IACHINE'', for hand, horse, or steam power, are the most simple and efficient extant.—Full particulars and prices obtained of the makers, E. Page and Co., Laurence Pountney place, Laurence Pountney-hill, Cannon-street, E.C., where tkey may Pe seen in operation daily. KEATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY ING POWDER, for which a Prize Medal was awarded to the Producer at the International Exhibition, 1862 ' This Powder is quite harmless to animal life, but is un rivalled in destroying Fleas, Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches, Beetles, Gnats, Mosquitos, moths in furs, and every other species of Insect. Sportsmen will find this an invaluable remedy for destroy ing Fleas in their Dogs, as also Ladies for their Pet Dogs. Being the original importer of this now invaluable article, which has found so great a sale that it has tempted other, to vend a so-called article, the public are therefore cautioned to observe that the packets of the Genuine Powder bear the autogragh of THOMAS KEATING- Sold in packets, is., 2s. 6d., and 4s. 6d. each, or post free for 14 or 36 postage stamps, by Thomas Keating, chemist, 79, St. P- ul's-churchyar 1, London, E.C. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, 2d September, 1863. TENDERS will be received et 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 Ist November, 1863, to 3 st October, 186! for the use of Her Majes t y 's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on api 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 signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside "Tenser for Forage"), a n d no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commissary-General. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rai/. way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.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 man - nitude 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 Mas erman, Esq.' Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. C ou tt s an d Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries and Co. ; Ransom and CO. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Giyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; w lliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary. R 0 AL NATION AL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATuoNESS--Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PREerDENT —Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. tfiAihmAx—Thos. Raring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.p. DErumy-CnAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. he beginning APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since of the year 1860, the Royai National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments ,n the Coasts of Eng!and, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, und other means, since its formation, is 12,800; tor which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67,,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-cari iages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the British public during the past few years, a support which has ertab i ed them to establish their present Magnificent fleet of 123 lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom. Dee ply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that res' s on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient earnestly y d in the management of their e h o w a n y s l y be effected by a large and permanent I appeal to all classes of their w n i hm s s can n r t countrymen to aid the in upholding and perpetuating so annual t no a na t tu e s . a. nd trui nationa & work. great a tee gratefilllY lialMowledge the following con tributions X s, d tier Mai.esty the Queen • . •4 - annual 60 C 0 Campbell, the lion. Mrs. G. •• .. .• annual 6 0 0 Clerk, Colonel, B.A. • • • • .. annual 1 1 0 Coutts and Co. Messrs., Bankers •• .. annual 10 0 0 C:irrie, Wni, l': , scl. , • , P • • • .. 4th don.lo 0 0 Erie, I, ord Chief Justice .• , . .. don. 10 10 0 Fenwick, Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., 11.C.8. .. 2d don, 25 0 0 G. .1., _Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Traw. sporting Carriage •• .. .. . 250 0 0 .. don. 3 0 0 Ld . krs. .. .. .. _ . Harvey, Rev. G. G. 8 .1 1- 7th don. 10 0 0 Martin, Sir Hoary', D art. „ .. don. 15 15 0 Smith, Mrs. George, GrAenr, ll Moore, Rev. G. B. r• • • Stirling, Cot Sir Anthony, • • • • • • 30 0 ,L)B. .. .. annual 20 0 Peetedby her ThomlB, Lady, Weston-super-Xare• Pt° rn Lady s hi p .. .. • . • r 1 6 16 0 Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. • • • • aOual 50 0 Percival, and Co., 76, Lombards t' Donations and Annual ::•' nbscr i p tions will be thankfully re and Messrs. Coutts '' e ived by the Bankers of the Instit d tissr 'Willi s Co., 59, Strand; Messrs. Berries, and Bankers in the UnitedKLugdora; Parnhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-atreet London ; by a 1 the ' llecto cr rs Of Quatoma Richard Lewis. E aq ,at the O ffi ce of the Institution , 11 , a nd by the Secretary Ohntstrect Adelnhi . London, ri.‘%. ; .... ,4, ... • .... - , ...,.1;- .. t . • 20 __:;'-- ::: 7 1:A .77 0k , i ) // „0.. - i i . ' it - ' . ..,.- • ~.„_,. , Cyrus Redding_ as Man of Let e44 ;' , :7 ....`:T til . g e:'- ' 1 '•;- -1 :f ~., ~,„.1 1 31 . ... ;4) , t., ,,,, # ,,, ... 4 , :: 0 ::: : 1 4 ;:i . ; .1,, ' §l4 0,. ;wt ., , i 1 i ,,..... . N „,,,,, ~, .... Journalist. 0- • t t,gr4 .z.;-., ••••. r7.,L..- L Z L .:. I._ 4 , 4 • 2 ,-,,,~ -4 ...... , , vc, ikl-1. , 4.2*A 5 . ~ 4."" ' ' '' 4 "%i . i‘.—_ . v.,- -41.- . ':.. ii * ":l±.R E._ -- ' • Co, -a -- .._, 4 - Nl / 4v i - . - -..- H- , R Hi, ~Yt '',* 1 . ~ r `.104 ' '4,,e, ' 1 • , ~ ',:: ii, ~,•' . - , 1130,,,,,,, , ..' 4 , ' '' . 't 4'o c4,W./ 1:2- 6 ,4 1 ) 4 ''''-:Azi . r.. ::: , .:0" '"''.-4 - i.,,,5t According to Lis own account of his ALC"*. i y a s t, .fi . , . ..... 70,, .g, :.1. ', r • - - ~ • • - ~ • ---0-. , , ..UWi'-'°` , , dIF Y•f I "-• -- - ''' ~ - - N- 16 , 0 - 4,:t r iy , ,, ~,„0 rr. .4 4 2 ivv - , ' , ~, A , , --:. .., , career in his recently published Autobiographic °- collections, called Yesterday and go day: My -`) -4''' .4 4 . 1 ' • ' 4 1 . 4, gt , -dr,- -alOge: , DI.E a it' 4l, , , , ~,,- ~.. first lucubration in type was in .s with, in 18u1, iu :In -.-., , epitaph on Sir Ralph Abereromby, who had just fallen in Egypt. Some translations from Orid,, and similar pieces between 1801 and 1804. The PRICE STAMPED ....sd. The Moors and Forests in Scotland, ear 1806 found me in the A. l They, at the ionetal -- P - !itt, afloat on the wide world, awl soon atterw,AAls became fatherless. Fox wits in power, and during (From the Inverness Courier.) short administration I commenced my lab:ilium, The moors have not generally yielded well during; the present week, owing to unfavourable weather- Previous to the 31st ult. Mr. W. Webb, at Fodderty, bagged to his own gun, in two days and three afternoons, 326 brace grouse • and on the 31st Mr. Garth shot 2S brace grouse, 1 woodcock, 1 snipe, 16 hares, ana 1 rabbit at Aehnaclerorh. Up to the same date Lord Scarsdale and party, at Carr Bridge, had killed 400 brace of birds, On the 25th ult. Mr. Bentinck, M.M., bagged 30 brace grouse on the Cromdale Hill moors, Capt. Hutton bagged 211 brace grouse and 2 hares in a few hours the following day, on the Blairnamarrow beat, and on Friday upwards of 20 brace grouse. On the Ballindalloch moors, on the 25th, Thos. Cambell, Eq., Edinburgh, and Mr. Lawson, M.P., shooting over the same dogs, bagged 20 brace grouse, 1 snipe, and 3 hares. On the same day Mr, Lawson and R. Pocklington,Esq., bagged 232 brace grouse, 1 snipe, 2 hares, On the Cromdalo moors Mr. Saltmarshe, on the 22d, killed 18 brace grouse after 12 o'clock. On the 24th he and Mr. Bathurst had 34 brace grouse and 3 hares ; and on the 25th Mr. Bathurst and Mr. Blackburn, M.P. killed 37 brace of grouse and 2 hares. On the 28th Mr. Saltmarshe and Mr. Bathurst killed 34 brace grouse and 7 hares. The grouse are plentiful, strong, and wild; the covies are very good on the high ground. On the 21st ult. Simon Keir, Esq., went to the Lesmurdie moors about an hour and a half, and killed 72 brace grouse and 4 hares. F. V. Nugent, Esq., and Capt. Nugent shot on the Farr moors, Strathnairn, from August 12 to 22, 131 brace grouse, 5 blackgame, and 20 hares. On Monday, 31st ult., Mr. Tew Capt. Munro, of Poyntzfield, and Mr. Fenton went to the Swordale moors to try for blackgame, and shot 71 brace. They finished with 261 brace grouse and 5 hares. His Grace the Duke of Richmond and party continue to get excellent sport. On the 24th, the Duke and Prince Ed ward killed 22 brace and 2 hares, and Lord March a stag. Mr. Cox and Mr. Vivian had 141 brace, 4 hares, and 4 snipes. On the 21st, Lord March brought down two deer, and the Duke of Ricbmond and Mr. Cox had 26 brace grouse and 2 hares. Prince Edward had 2 brace grouse. On the Dun phail moors, Major Cumming Bruce and Henry Gordon Cumming, Esq., bagged 202 brace grouse and 3 hares on the 20th. On the 27st, Major Cumming, and Mr. Henry Gordon Cumming bagged 191 brace grouse and 13 hares. Mr. Smith and party, on the 19th bagged 15 brace, 1 duck, and 1 hare ; and, on the 24th, Mr. A. Smith and party bagged 22 brace grouse and 6 hares. The Earl of Fife was out on Thursday and Friday on the Baynack moors, and bagged 36 brace of grouse on the former and 28 on the latter day. and for a year after its close I laboured on the Pilot newspaper. I adopted Liberal principles, Fna h,vr , nevur faltered, working for them, too often wit:hout Or reward. I have stated before how it fell to soldulr pet oh l se i s f eepssed, my lot t o p rocee d to Pl ymout h , where a, •nevspapE-r came wholly i nto my hm:ds. Thol7 paper was neutral as f ar as regarded Whig or Tory principle. No Lib era l s or Radicals were then known; Whig or Tory di v id ed the politicians. A strong desire in fact m ade me a political mar ty;aper at a great loss, I may say of to do right i n d uced me to support Catholic emanci and more i nd i gnant than re pentant, en whi c h question the Cabinet, was divided. I have stated how I was served by Mr. Pcrceval tor that heinous offen ce . I t struck a severe blow on after five or six years o f li fe wasted, I re turned to London with a little m oney i n my pocket. While at Plymouth I wrote for th e N ava l Chronicle in London, and published two letters toLordliolland, on the libel law. The year 18 14 found me in L ondon working at a Dramatic Review, publishing a rt i c l es in the Morning Chronicle and Examiner, and learn anlelra.mr l y y l a fu ll t learn ing German. All this was given up fora projected work on Ireland, in consequence of Wakefield's volumes not being satisfactory. It was to have been on a large scale. I had letters from persons of con sequence, to individuals in the island. After wait ing several months, the whole was abandoned, be cause no one could be got on moderate terms to manage the plates and engravings, which were a. necessary. After the battle of Waterloo I went to France and resided four months at Rouen ; then at Gisors, collecting notes on Normandy, or travelling in the country south, and making observations on the vine and its product. I also correspondrAt with the Examiner. I next proceeded to 1 ! aria, and there edited Galignani's Messenger.. I returned after three years' absence, and, goincr, into Warwick shire, edited a paper for a short time at Warwick, as a holding of place for 'another. I also, while there, wrote two letters. Ir a the Game Laws, to Dr. Parr. In 1820 I c onar_oenced writing in the New Monthly Magazine 'at the sam e ti me as t h e l ate Judge brerl ef il, w o a u s rd , .but in two month s a ft erwar d s C engaged as the editor. I h ave ex plained P.lwhere the part I had in that work, i n which every third volume, part original and Campbell Pari compilation, was mine. Besides this I found time to correct the proofs of all the work, and write one hundred and seventy-seven articles besides. Campbell's articles were not more than one-third of mine even in the original part; all bear his name. The whole weight of it soon fell on myself, The form of that wonderfully successful work was different then from what it has been since. Here I have to lament I wasted ten years, the best years of my life, doing nearly the whole work, and writing all the political matter. But Campbell and myself were intimate friends. The Metropolitan followed the abandonment of the New Monthly. In 1833 I went into Sussex and put together my work on wine, which has made me extensively known in England and America. The history of that work is curious; to myself it was of less advantage than any other I had undertaken considering its labour. The MS. in material lay untouched for thirteen years ! None of the " trade" would look at it or hear of it. I had proposed it to Colburn in vain. "It would not answer." " So few drank wine," and so on ; which meant that there was no work in the market like it, that had made a noise, by which it could be judged. My notes on wine, like those on Normandy, had not, like them, become useless from being super seded by others. When I left the Metropolitan, therefore, I put the work in order. The late Mr. Whittaker, who was a particular friend, at last said he would publish it on the principle of half profits. It was most beautifully printed by Hilbert and Rivington in one volume. The woodcuts were then five times the price they are at present, and the ex pense of the work was thus greatly enhanced. It went through a second edition, but I never received more profit from it than paid my sojourn on the coast for two or three months while I put it together. I abandoned it in disgust, as labour and toil en tirely wasted ..... It is continually ex pected that literary men should serve public purposes gratuitously, while the public cares not a rush how they fare, or live, or die i n harness, never,giving its services without an equi valent. I was glad to serve the public, I confess, but more because it was a pleasure in my case than a duty, though ruinous as a waste of time, for I could look nowhere for remuneration. But it has been the same in politics. I have served liberal and reform and free-trade principles devotedly for above half a century without more pecuniary profit than very common labour returned, and can ask myself the question cui Bono? except that the public bene fited. Still it is a very serious question, at above three-score years and ten, to a literary man, too whose time is his estate. In active politics, it is true, I worked con amore for my party ; I paid my yaslieltfheirtm o x d p e e r n a s t e e s s , a a l n a d r neversalary paid m e received ali Besides the weight of a paper to meet this salary, th a ro s u h g il h lin m g ; e c m ar c e e e p r t . o th w e n m e working at the same time for London periodicals, which nothing but a happy constitution of body Plymouth, though I am the enabled me to bear. Of the same politics, from the time of Mr. Fox I have seen l. a fi ln d os tu t lite rary men I knew pass away, I the same state. In political works while throughhave be perilousn i times, often from the having quitted the writing-table even for a meal, age no better off in worldly circumstances than pressure of circumstances, not when, in 1814, oldest continued literary workman in England, and over the largest scope of action. for thirty-six ho l ur l s eft toget . But to conclude, besides between forty and fifty volumes of my own , I have edited a b ove a hundred, begin ning i n 1806. I have established four newspapers, a nd edited six, one in France, and written for four others. There are few d perio icals which have not had something of mine, and I have published, artioleslLknow not how many in Encyclopaedias and, similar works. Some of the Perthshire moors appears to be well stocked with game. On Thursday his Royal Highness the Maha rajah Dbuleep Singh bagged to his own gun. on the Loch Kennard range, Grandtully, 50 brace of grouse, and a few hares and snipe. Sir H. H. Campbell, Bart., shot on the hill of Monzie, in the afternoon, 7 brace of grouse. The numerous sportsmen who are residing at Drummond Castle have secured some excellent bags. The sport of Glenartney, Longside, Lochernaide, &c., has been good. Grouse are plentiful, and not the least symptom of disease has been wen among them. Good sport is obtained in the forests. Down to the 28th tilt. Mr. Holmes had shot at Monar no fewer than 13 stags, all carrying capital heads, and one weighing 17i stone. From DeeD ee r were the c n o I n e v m e r e n s c e e e m n e n int of f finer the csoena season t n i o nt o i t h n e t h a ss last day district. of - ...... _ August, Mr. Thistlethwayte brought down 14 stags in Lochluichart forest, shooting on that day a fine animal with beautiful large antlers of the following dimensions, viz.:— Span, 23i inches ; length, 33 inches ; thickness, 5 inches ; length of front tines 10 inches. The head was a royal, with palmated tops, of 6i inches in breadth. Lord Lovat and party succeeded in killing 23 stags during last week, ten of the number being shot on Thursday, and all in Glonstrath farar forest. On the 21st the Rev. W. Basset shot a fine stag at Kinclochewe ; and on the 26th J. F. Basset, Esq., shot a beautiful animal with a royal head in the same forest. Lord Stamford shot in his forest of Rothiemurchus, on Wednesday and Thursday, 4 excellent stags, and about 70 brace wild ducks, and on Friday 5 stags. The lion, G. S. Duff has had capital sport in Mar Forest, and up to Thurs day last bad killed 14 stags, all of them splendid animals, the lightest weighing 15 stone, and the heaviest 18 stone. On the 24th Mr. Bentinck, M.P., killed two fine stags in Glenavon, weighing respectively 14 stone and 14 stone 101bs ; and on Wednesday he killed one weighing 15 stone. In spite of bad weather, Mr. Snowie has during the week received a number of stags heads for preservation. J. G. Leigh, Esq., has forwarded six, three of them being royals; Lord Galway, one of ten times ; Christopher Turner, Esq., Glenfeshie, a good specimen of a royal ; and F. Bassett, Esq., Kinlochewe, also an excellent royal. Horatio Ross, Esq., has also sent a very fine specimen of a royal head. The antlers measure in length, 32f inches; in span, within bow of the antlers, 314 inches ; and between the outside tops, 37 inches. The stag was shot in Glendibidale on the 28th of August ; it weighed 18 stone 31b , , and makes the twenty•eighth stag shot by Mr Ross and his sons since the commencement of the season. On the same day a young gentleman staying at Glendibidale went out with a common carbine, and shot a stag of nearly 18 stone weight, with antlers of 33 inches span. Two very fine heads, from J. G. Leigh, Esq., Strathconon, have been received this morn ing. Span of one, 27 inches ; brow antlers, 10 inches in length; length of horns, 34 inches ; thickness, 5} inches ; weight of deer, 17 stone. The other head is almost a caberslach. LADvEirristlarENT.l—A Share in a lucrative manufac turing business for disposal. From X 1,500 to £4,000 required according to the p roportion of share purchased ; if desired, half the amount of purchase money may remain on security of the share, to be paid off from profits. Apply to the Post office, 132, Jermyn-street THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.--The road. at Gettysburg was lined with Yankee dead, and as they had been killed on the Ist the poor fellows had already begun to be very offensive. We then returned to the hill I was on yesterday, but finding that to see the actual fighting it was absolutely necessary to go into the thick of the thing, I determined to make my way to General Longstreet. It was then about 2 30. After passing General Lee and his staff I rode on through the woods in the direction in which I had left Longstreet. I soon began to meet many wounded men returning from the front; many of them asked in, piteous tones the way to a doctor or an ambulance. The further I got the greater became the number of the wounded. At last I oame to a perfect stream of them flocking through the woods in numbers as great as would crowd Oxford-street in the middle of the day. Same were walking alone on crutches composed of two rifles, others were supported by men less badly wounded than themselves, and others were carried on, stretchers by the ambulance corps ; but in no case did I see *clued man helping the wounded to the rear, I unless he carried the red badge of the ambulance corps. 1 They were still under a heavy fire ; the shell was continu ally bringing down great limbs of trees, and carrying fur ther destruction among this melancholy procession. I saw all this in much less time than it takes to write it, and al s th aw oulh e aosftohniisshreeaditmo mee t entad such van vast Advancing through nu m m ug be h rs o f wounded I had not seen enough to give me any idea of the real extent of the mischief.. When I g o t c l ose up t o G e n. Longstreet, die woodsett ack in , good order ; s o , t hi nking I was just in time to see th (I remarked io tb• J general that . 4 I worildn't have missed this for anything.° Longstreet wits sea ted at the top of a snake fen ce a t th e e d ge o f the wood, and lo oking perfectly calm and unperturbed. He replied, lau g hin g, " The d evil you wouldn't I I would like to have we've attacked, and been rep ulsed—look there l"—./31ack wood's Magazine for September. missed it very m uc h ; a THE suN LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTE"BER 8, 1863 THE POLISH INSURRECTION. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) NEAR CRACOW, Aug. 31. The facts of the Polish insurrection, as seen from Galicia, have recently been so much of the same character that a formula might serve to describe them all. Expeditions go into the kingdom. fight a first battle, with or without success, and in either case get overpowered later or sooner by superior numbers. The Galician frontier is so guarded by a double line of troops that for a small force to cross it and penetrate into the interior, unobserved, is impossible. The task of crossing is equally difficult, for a comparatively large force which cannot be large enough to hold its ground fur any length of time against the host of Russians who are sure to be poured on it from all sides as soon as its position becomes known. Nevertheless, detachments do pass the border from time to time, and take their chance —which, unhappily, is less a chance than a cer tainty of being driven back or destroyed. If the detachment is strong, the first line of Russians usually falls back and only accepts battle when the second line is near enough to act as a support. Or else, if the attack is sharp and sudden, messengers are sent to the second line, who are then driven for ward in peasants' carts kept always in readiness. When the attacking force of Poles is known to be weak it is sometimes allowed to pass the first line. Its fate is then terrible. It is enclosed between the two lines, and in this manner several small and gallant companies have been cut to pieces. In the interior of the kingdom the Poles are in a better position. In many districts they are esta blished in great force, and if the Galician expeditions do no other good they, at least, keep an immense number of troops occupied on the frontier, and thus facilitate the operations of the bands formed in the heart of the country. In Volhynia and Podolia nothing is being done just now. In Lithuania so many families, once well-to. do and even wealthy, have been reduced to destitution by confiscation, devastation, and the stop put to all payment of rent, that the pro vince abounds in men who, as a mere matter of prudence, had now better fight the proprietors ßussians than starve quietly. Hitherto, Lithuania had suffered more than any other portion of ancient Poland, and the manner in which all classes in the Catholic districts, from the p rin cipal to the peasants, have joined in the national war leaves no doubt as to the thoroughly Polish senti ment which animates the Lithuanians. If it were permissible in such cases to cite names, I could men tion several Lithuanian families, well known throughout Europe in connection with recent tragic events, so completely ruined that their relations say openly that, if left to their own resources, th e y would be without bread. It has formed part of the plan of the Russian Government to starve the Lithuanians into submission, and by its system of confiscations and forced contributions it certainly has enfeebled the Lithuanian insurrection. But, on the other hand, it has created a class of desperate men who, whatever be the general prospects of the war against Russia, will go on fighting from pa triotism, from a spirit of vengeance, and also because there is nothing else left for them to do. From day to day, to judge by the Polish news papers, the opinion in Poland varies as to the chances of an intervention. One morning all is despondency. Europe is accused of looking on calmly and even complacently at the struggles of Poland to save her life from Russia; and the Western nations are compared to fatigued Romans at a circus, viewing with shameful interest " the contest of a Christian gladiator against a wild beast." Then the Poles are assured that, do what they may, the Western nations cannot avoid coming to blows with Russia before long; that they may hope to escape, but can only postpone the war which next spring will for a variety of reasons be inevitable. It is difficult to say who is to blame, but it is quite certain that the Poles have been led to believe that sooner or later they would be assisted from abroad, and that the great object of diplomatists now seems to be to avoid giving them assistance. The Poles complain that they have been deceived, and that too much has been said on their behalf if speech was not to be followed by action. But, on the other hand, what indignation would they not have expressed, and with reason, if Europe had preserved a strict silence on the subject of their misfortunes, on the injustice with which Russia has always treated them, and the horrible cruelties inflicted upon them systematically since the very beginning of the pre sent insurrection ! As far as I have been able to observe, the people who have talked least and done most for the Poles hitherto have been the Hungarians. Daring the insurrection of 1830 several Hungarian comitats asked permission to send troops to the aid of the P les, and a willingness and readiness to assist them were also expressed by the Hungarian Diet. I have met Hungarian ladies who are almost as enthusias tic as the ladies of Poland on behalf of the Polish insurrection. If it be said that this social enthu siasm bears no great fruits, it must be remembered that in Poland itself the number of insurgents is very small as compared with the entire population, and small as compared with the educated portion alone, for the plan of the Polish insurrection has hitherto been to make the war of independence not short, strong, and decisive, but long, tedious, and exhausting for the colossal clay-footed enemy. Volunteers are actually kept back, so that when there is really a want of fresh victims there is always a supply forthcoming in superabundance. However, of the few foreigners who have gone to the help of the Poles, the Hungarians have cer tainly formed the majority. They have not sent many well qualified to act as officers, but a great many who cannot have failed to prove themselves good soldiers. It was thought at one time the Hun garians would come in large numbers to Poland. This notion was, no doubt, based on the ancient political sympathy and social connection which existed so long between the two nations, and also on the well-known fact that the Polish legions of Dabidelmotnobgi theni u e g k i H a u n n d g W a r i y a s n o e c k d i n r r i e n n o d e t red r m w o n s r t themselves to n t the service However, f no Polish-Hungarian legion has bee n o important . ormed, and, as a rule, the only Hungarians not se " r e v m ic i e g o r f at t i h o e n'; o w li h eh o G ha o v v e er p n l m ac e e n d t have been students from the gymnasiums of Kas mark, Leutschau, and Eperies—all towns in Up per Hungary, peopleH arung i y n , E bo u r r d wn e pe r le i l ng as upon Poland. I suppose F.principlen lPolese Poles a nearly ndso ; tutions almost identical, and Hungarians whatever eaand understand the the Hungarians. The l' and quite identical in f h p a d o 1 , a n f d o r a c n e d n t a u l s r o i e s, of i H n s u ( n i -- into the Constit u ti ons o gary, the political life in a b b o u t h s e s maycountries p c t r e u p p t and developed a genuine love of liberty which dis tinguishes them in the present day from all other Catholic countries. The sufferings of Poland have been so infinitely greater than those of Hungary, that an exaggerated and morbid religious feeling has been generated in the former country, which is not to be found in the latter; and thus o i se aeral devout and warlike Pol es were f ound ancient Castel u F s i a d d a e r r d e o, and fighting mistaking General d e in the spirit Lamoriciere for Godefr 3 i de Bouillon, while all the Hungarians who took part in the Italian war seem to have regarded i t entirel y from a political point of v iew, and, therefore , fou g ht naturall y on the side of th they n inaepeadence, as the Polish volunteers, it separate religious from political ques tions, must also, without exception, have done. Of course there were very many Poles who fought on behalf of Italian unit y , but these were personnot to be spoken of in polite society shudder. The men of the moderate except with a and en-called aristocratic party, whose names are generally con nected in England and France With the cause of .daerty in Poland and in other countries, regard Victor Emmanuel as an unprincipled invader doing the same work in the south of Eu rope that the Empress Catherine, Frederick of Prussia, and Maria Theresa did in the North. Men of this way of thinking look upon Garibaldi either h horror as a sort of Antichrist, or with affected pity as a simple-minded republican, engaged on ac count of his notorious virtue to give dignity and re spectability to the democratic movement in Europe, and uron the express condition that, in order to keep up his character, he should retire from time to time to an island and plant cabbages. One Polish officer who (under a nom de guerre)has rendered important services and performed brilliant exploints in conduct ing expeditions and detachments of expeditions from Galicia to the kingdom, fought heroically on the wrong side at Castelfidardo ; but 1 am convinced tacit the great majority of the fighting men engaged in the Polish movement, though not of the diplo , matizers, are full of sympathy for the Italians. Were it otherwise, we should not find so many Italians of the Garibaldian party in the ranks of the insurgents. But more Hungarians than Italians have joined the Polish insurrection, and they have been, for the most part, men who cannot be suspected of being revolutionists for the sake of revolution. The en th'asiastic interest taken by the Hungarians in the Pelian movement—a movement, be it remembered, which, as it has hitherto beftn conducted, can in no way help Hungary—is a Valuable testimony to the generally noble qualities of the Polish nation; for thct Hungarians are really the only people who have an intimate and traditional knowledge of the solid virtues of the Poles, and also of their national defects—such as their want of fore sight, their extreme but perfectly intelligible and excusable sensibility under oppression next to in sn?portable, but which , neverthel ess, they ought for a time and for their ow n sake to have supported, er tl t ie is ir toof political imripog the lastasrudence,two centuries of manifested in a :::136T4 11 however, most of the Hungarian volunteers en gaged in unsuccessful expeditions from Galicia to the kingdom of Poland have, after falling into the hands of the Austrians, been sent back to their homes under bail; and it does not appear likely now that Hungarians or any other foreigners will offer, in large numbers, to go to the help of the Poles un less an armed intervention should be resolved upon by some foreign government or governments. In that case, neither Hungarians, nor perhaps, even these Poles themselves who have hitherto abstained from joining the insurrection in the field, and who may also be accustomed to the use of arms, would be wanted. Nevertheless , it m ust not be supposed in all Europe, o fo r r e a of m t o h m e mom ent, tthwatartlhike there countries eany men in Poland, of such a who want foreigners to co me and fight their bat tles for them thre t u h g in h o app ou h t.l e t ni i n s against the pos sibilityg, that the Poles of the extreme party, who quite reject the idea of their country being restored through foreign aid, desire to guard. Wild as these brave, desperate e may be—and certainly are --they have never theless reflected enough on the modern history of their own country, especially on the Napoleonic period, from 1807 until 1812, to understand that it is habitually made use of to weaken and frighten the Russians, and abandoned when there seems to be a good chance of bringing Russia to terms. " Every one has made use of Poland, no one has really assisted her," says M. Guizot in his me moirs ; and the opinion of that experienced Minis ter and calm, philosophical writer is shared by many despondent patriots who noW seem on the point of becoming revolutionists, and who have arrived at what some will think a judicious, others merely a cynical conviction that no one will ever h elp Poland from admiration of the Poles, or from udignation at the unexampled manner in which .he Polish nation is being tortured and murdered. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. and 'Lie Recruit, 6, 160-horse power, Comma n der Loans, ,-, APO. F. Cottam, iron paddlewheel steamer , was putc °. out commission yesterday in Chatham harbour, Speed well, 6, 8 0-horse power. The pa ddl e wheel steamer her offic ers and crew turned over to the Speed - Medu sa , 4, 312-horse power, M aster -Commander J. steamed into the harbour at an earl y hour Y es terday morning and received on board t he officers and crew o f t h e R ecru i t f or co nveyance to the Speedwell at W oo l w i c h. C omman der Cottem hauled do clin his p ennant yes t er d ay a ft er noon. Upwards of g 12,000 have been spent in repairing t he Recruit and fitting h er f or sea. Sh e goes i n to the first-olass steam reserv e until final orders respecting her have been received from the Admiralty. Her internal fittings) bulkheads, &c., are undisturbed. The Paddlewheel steamer Salamis, 4, 250-horse power, fittin g at Chatham, has a considerable num ber of hands employed on board, in order that no time may be lost in completing her for sea, though up t 3 the present time no definite instructions have been teceived at the dockyard as to the particular services for which she is intended. Her internal fittings and decorations are on a scale of great splendour. 'ri t e Bloodhound, 3 , iron paddle Stokes, which vessel, Lieut.- Cet u manderJohn E.• treturned has to England from the West Coast of Africa, will shortly be paid off at Woolwich. This vessel was commissioned at the latter port by Lieut. F. W. Bennett, Juue 25, 18 60, with a complement of 55 officers and men, and left for Greenhithe on the 14th of the followi'g month to adjust compasses. She arrived at Plymouth 7, 1 1 3 , 20, was at the river Niger in Nov., and at Lagos on the 10th of December. The Enterprise and Favourite screw steamvessels , naw building at Deptford Dockyard, on the plan of Mr. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy, are now in a forward state, and hav e co mm enced receiving their 41, -inch armour plates, manufactured by Messrs. Brown, of Sheffield, The Enterprise has been fitted with her machinery and her cupola, which will be armed with four heavy guns. The Dwarf and Fidget gunboats, built by con tract for the Government during the Crimean war, but which were never brough t • into service, having had their boilers and machinery removed, have been btoicen up at Deptford Dockyard, and the timber appears to be in sound condition, The Adventure, screw troopship Commander T. B, Lethbridge, is ordered to embark detachments of troops at Portsmouth for conveyance to Canada. ir. Stansfeld, M.P., one of the Lords of the Ad miralty, visited Portsmouth Dockyard yesterday, and went on board the iron frigate Elector, and other vessels in progress at the port. 7 esterday a public trial was made at Chatham dockyard of a new description of traction engine invented by Messrs. Aveling and Porter, of Roches vq, which has been brought into use at the dock yard for conveying the machinery y and other heavy materials used in the improvements now in progress at the establishment to and from the dockyard works. The experiments were carried out under the inspection of Professor 0. Beylich, of Kaiser lantern, and a party of foreigners, who have been specially deputed to visit this country to re port upon the invention previous to its introduction into Bavaria. Shortly before two o'clock three of the i ene - nee, each having a heavy load attached, started from Messrs Aveling and Porter's works, on the Strood side of the Ro chester-bridge. The first en g i ne weighed 12 tons, and was one of several on the eve of being shipped to Kingston, Jamaica, to be employed on the sugar growing estate of Messrs. Salomon and Co, At tached to the engine were two lorries, each con taining three cast iron girders, to be used in the works now in progress at the dockyard. The uni ted weight of the girders was -1-,.i Q tons, and of the two trucks 6 tons. To the eepond engine were at t ladled flee empty lorries? each Weipin6 24- too, and constructed to carry 7 tons each. The last engine was one which had taken three prizr.s, and to this was attached a large steam-thrashing ma chine, and some other agricultural machinery, The three engines with their loads started away over Rochester-bridge, and through the narrow streets of the town towards the dockyard, the speed vary. ing from two to four miles an hour. The ascent of Star-hill, which has an incline of I in 12, was made by all three engines, with their respective loads, without the least apparent difficulty, and without any stoppage, the rate being two miles and a half per hour. In the passage through the crowded roads at Chatham to the dockyard no in convenience whatever was experienced, the engines adapting themselves to every variety of road, and travelling with an uniform rate of speed. Attached to one of the engines is an appliance for loading and unloading heavy weights, and on the train of trucks being stopped, the engine was detached and brought round to the trucks conveying the girders, when, by means of the lifting apparatus, the latter were lifted from the lorries and deposited in the spot selected for them. Each of the engines tried yesterday started from the factory with a stock of 10 cwt. of coals, which is sufficient for eight hours consumption. The trials were pronounced in all respects satisfactory. The following appointments and promotions were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Capt. Henry Boys to the Pelorus ; Capt. F. H. Stirling to the Cumberland, for service in the Tamar; Dr. Walter Reid, John P. Way, John A. Macdonald, Dr. John Craw, and Dr. John Walsh, acting assist.- surgeons, to the Victory, as additional for service at Haslar Hospital ; John T. Comerford, Isaac Waugh, Dr. Robert Hay, and Dr. Wm. M'Mahon, acting assist.- surgeons, to the Royal Adelaide, for service at Ply mouth hospital ; Geo. Park, chief engineer, to the Indus, for the London ; Edwd. Barrett and Josh. Brand, assist-engineers, to the Cumberland, as supernumeraries; John M`Laren in the Camber land. E. Carling in the Indus, M. M'lntyre in the Adventurer, A. B. M'Luckie in the Victoria and Albert, T. Pringle in the Wye, W. Gentles, of the Cumberland, for the Wildfire, D. M'Vean of the Fisguard, for the Bann, and T. Spence in the Sup ply, are promoted to be first-class assist.. engineers ; J. Bannatyne in the Centaur, D. Storrar in the Cygnet, D. M'lntyre in the Argus, and It. Findlay in the Cormorant, are promoted to the rank of acting first-class assist.-engineers. The undernamed gentlemen were yesterday no minated to naval cadetships :—Cyrill W. Newall, Charles G. Prater, Edward H. Geen, Charles M. Luckraft, Ernest James Seymour, Arthur Target, and George T. Hall. The Wolverhampton and Dudley Mysteries. Yesterday a further attempt was made to throw some light upon the deaths of two persons, which occurred under extraordinary circumstances at Wolverhampton and'Dudley respectively. It will be remembered that the woman who was found a worm-eaten corpse in an empty house at Dudley, and who was supposed to be the woman who lived with the deceased man Cheenery as his wife, and who was the last person seen in the house where his murdered body was found, was, after the coroner's inquest, buried without any post-mortem examination having been made of her body. Capt. Segrave, the chief constable of Wolverhampton, and Mr. T. M. Phillips, the coroner for that borough, both de sired that she might be exhumed, and they applied to Mr. Robinson, the coroner for Dudley, to issue his order for the exhumation. That gentleman, however, having completed the inquest, could not comply with the request. At the inquest on the body of Cheenery, which was further adjourned last week, the evidence still left a doubt on Mr. Phillips's mind that the woman found at Dudley was the woman Steadman, who must undoubtedly have had a hand in the murder of her paramour. That gentleman therefore made an application to the Secretary of State for the Home Department for his order to exhume the body and to submit it to a post-mortem examination. That order was received yesterday, and witnesses were sent over to Dudley from Wolverhampton, including the mother of Cheenery, to endeavour to speak to the body being that of Steadman or not; and surgeons also went over to make the post-mortem examination. When the Van was opened identification from the features was utterly impossible, but the height and build of the corpse were quite those which characterised Steadman. The identification of the clothes, was however, complete, most of the garments which were upon the woman when she was found, and in which she was interred, being sworn to as those which Steadman had been accustomed to wear. The surgeons, who were Moor' Nesbit and Mr. Keogh, the latter the senior house slug!: of the South St a ff or d s hi re H osp i tal at Wo l ver hser tht f ) then commenced their examin a ti o n. This was dene. was charnel-house of th e D u dl e y C eme t er y, a nd theinil Dudley. being proceeded with when our correspondent left The Drought and Heat of the Season. so hot a'summer on the For many years there has:nasot been inst ended ; and both there Continent as that which di : Ti ght has been very great. It and in this country L be ti a error had been committed in the almost looks as if a "': a site for a barrack town ; for, the selection of Aldersho t oo. r eat this summer as to compel the drought has been a• „ th pl ß ace altogether from want of water. In troops to qu it e i i iity no such drought and heat have been Paris and its vl° s uffered for m any years as during th e p as t summer, In deed, as reg ards heat. during the last 158 years it has pro bably only once been warmer than it lat e ly was on certain days . The thermometer last month r eac h e d 3 9 degrees i 62 degrees Fahrenheit) in the shade, which implies something like the scorching heat of 65 degrees in the sunl In Paris it is very rare for the thermometer to rise above I 36 degrees in the shade. The river Seine fell to the level of the great drought of 1719, which forms the zero line of the metrical ladder on the Pont Royal for measuring the depth of the river. This is only the second time of such an occur rence for nearly 150 years, and the first since the year before the ()rand of 1811. The waters of the. Loire, too, have never been known to be so low as in the season just past. This great river, which has so often ravaged the country for leagues by its excesses, was lately crossed * where it meets the Nievre and Cher, both on foot and in carriages without either difficulty or danger. The drought and heat in Aus tria have been extrer4se ; as also in Italy, especially at Rome. In Germany, too, water became both scarce and dear. The drought at Aix la Chapelle was such that water sold at 15 groschen, or ls. 6d. a barrel. Some few p ears ago there t was a considerable drought for sucin ss i ve seasons, n but to so great it an extent, it wow' the p fears th ~ay be remembered, th ere _ resent yea r. At that —u seem, as in were serious ...ab the rainfall was permanen tly _, diminish then, however, there have been very wet seasons which have tended greatly to restcre the average r ecurrence of the like verage ; and doubtless sooner or later we may look outfor com p ens atory process.—Bur. THE ARMY. A review of the troops in garrison at Portsmouth will take place on Soutbsea-common on Thursday next at 3 p.m. Major-Gen. Lord W. Paulet, C. 8., will command the force. By direction of the War Department a new kit chen-range, &c., has been provided for the sergeants at the Shorncliffe Camp to avoid the inconvenience of cooking in the general mess-room. The non commissioned officers of the sth Fusileers have pre sented a valuable testimonial to Sergt. Borkes, on his retirement after 21 years' service. Two detach ments of Royal Horse Artillery are ordered to encamp on the Warren at New Romney for gun practice. THE VOLUNTEERS. The Margate Cinque Ports and county of Kent Rifle con. test, under the patronage of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Posts, commenced on Monday morning at North Down, near Margate, a well-selected, spot on the cliffs about mid way between Margate and Broadstairs. This contest, from the circumstance of receiving the patronage of the noble Premier, and the support of the Marquis of Conyngham, Sir Brook W. Bridges, M.P., Sir E. C. Dering, M.P., Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P., Mr. Frederick North, M.P., Mr. H. B. Sheridan, M.P., the Mayor of Margate, and a large number of gentlemen of local influence, is not only popular throughout the district, but being in nearly every competition open to all comers, with the shooting portion o f the volunteer forces generally, thus attracted cracks from all parts of the kingdom, and even from remote parts of Scotland, The competition consisted of the Premier Stakes of £l5O, and the general distribution amounted in the aggre gate to £220, divided into 47 separate prizes. In the Pre mier Stakes the first prize consists of the Palmerston Cup, of the value of £52 10s. ; second prize (money), £2O ; four prizes of the value of £lO each; one of £7, four of £5 each, and the other of £3 and £2 each. Among the other com petitions was one for an elegant tea service, open to all ser vices the arm of the corps. A competition open to all corners, first prize £26 55., and a second a Steward's Lord Bury telescope; a competition for a gold watch value £lO 10s., and various other competitions of considerable value, amounting to 17 in the aggregate. The charge for entries to the Premier Stakes was 15s, if paid by Sept. 4, but on the ground £1 Is., and the others varied in accordance with the value of the stakes competed for. The competition in the Premier Stakes is to continue throughout the meeting, and will not close till a given hour on Wednesday, to be shot for at 200 and 500 yards, seven rounds at each range, En field rifles and Government ammunition. The arrangements were entrusted to Capt. Cox, of the 7th Cinque Port (Mar gate) Rifles, and the targets were erected on the North Down, near the Waterloo Gardens. Marquees for refresh ment, &c., had been erected, and a plentiful display of flags gave the spot an exceedingly gay and pleasant appearance. It was arranged that the competition should commence at 9 a.m., but " as there is many a slip between the cup and the lip," so it may be in respect to rifle shooting. The targets had been duly prepared, but unfortunately the distemper colours distinguishing black from white had been prepared without sufficient size or other combining mate • rial, and when Mr. J. H. Keble and Mr. Smith arrived on the ground they found the targets entirely obliterated by the pelting rain which had prevailed through out the night and morning. This circumstance caused a de lay of nearly two hours before the proceedings were com menced. The weather was most unpropitious for shooting, at 9 o'clock blowing at least half a gale of wind from south west by west, right across the range. It subsequently sub sided, but not to any great extent. Among the notabilities in the shooting volunteer world were Sergeant Thornberry, of the Victorian, Lieut. Marriner, of the West Middlesex, Ensign Chambers and Messrs. Dynes and Chattock, of the London Irish, Capt. M'Gregor, of the London Scottish, Lieut. Morris, &c. It was understood that nearly 150 entries had been made for the Premier Stakes, and over 200 for the other competitions, The principal scores made for the Pre mier Stakes throughout the day were--Sergeant Hall (South Middlesex, 39 ; Private W. Dalton, 22d Kest, 33 ; Private Macrone, South Middlesex, 38; Private Sanders, 29th Kent, 36; Sergeant Spence:, 35; Sergeant Harris, 33. In the third competition, for the tea service and other prizes, Sergeant Thornberry, of the Victoria's, won the first with 15 marks, For the second prize Lieutenant Marriner, of the West Middlesex, and Private Thomas, of the Kent Battalion, tied, and in shooting off Lieutenant Marriner won. There were ties for the third prize, not shot off. For the Sweep stakes, Private Dalton, of the 22d Kent, won the first. Lord Palmerston is expected to present the prizes on Wed nesday, but in his absence the duty will devolve on Lord Harris. The Mayor of Margate has advised that Wednes day should be kept as a holiday. numerousinthe o lon u The third annual meeting of the County of Lancaster mthb Monday aenrolafs et o a ym t e pa A . re I l i ttco therear r s ~ eod prizesce i r a tt t b i t en werfallinge commenced mo orffe ow ing, perhaps, to the fact that the meeting had not been more widely announced. The shooting continued through out the week, but in consequence of the heavy rain which fell on Saturday, the last day of the meeting, the firing for the volley prizes was necesharily postponed till next year. Shortly after 4 o'clock on Saturday, ail hope theof Rifle w Though asac o t 3 s h s i immediate return of fine weather having been aban doned, resse prizes were distributed by Lieut.-Col. Bruce, whoenxoPt been regret to find that the entries of competitors had . and a so numerous on the present as on former occasio ns, sociaton i would hope that next year the meeting of the se as _ on by Capt. be more successful. The Association Cup w as w presented E. Ross, who was loudly cheered whe u n ecessful competitors him self to receive it. Among the othe.ry s erpool Rifle Brigade, were Ensign Sprott, of the sth f L; SO . ersha Capt. liw, of the who won the Association Purse o , l .nge Cup . , L e igh Mal e and the Bth L.R.V., who won h L.R. V the winner of th e Mr. W. Lythgoe, of the 47t ./ Association (hand Challenge Cup. brushes, &c Dr. admireathe answer the question, What is a Magnet ? 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