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OS /..,e i t...... _... , , Rom • Now, as the o IV4 .l". :r •ol " °' ‘ increase, c inly, yhich could only rest markable acelksion of new policies, as has tioned in the report. (Hear, hear.) able fact is the increase which has taken p, of the life funds. (Hear, hear.) In 1. balance was £191,312; for the year 1562, There was, therefore, an increase of funds pared with 1861 of £611,580. (Hear.) premiums for the year are only £105,703, the result shows an increase of funds, arising from the year's traasactions, equivalent to 62 per cent, of the premiums received in the same time. (Hear, hear.) Then, gentlemen, as to the general nature of this increase in the revenue, it is satisfactory to remark that it is not confined to one place, or one country, which would indicate, probably, too great a concentration of risk, but is spread over the four ; Continents, and the Auslralian Colonies, in something like a corresponding ratio to the former buainess of each. This is verymuch bet ter than a sudden, perhaps temporary athrence, in one place, to be followed by a period of distress and col lapse. (Hear, hear.) Where an increase is spread in this way, over a great number of countries, it is much mare I LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COMPANY, Estedished IS3I. Subsctfird Capit ,l —.£l.s'o,oX, in 30,000 shares of £5O each. Pa'd-up Capital—£o'o.oo7. Reserve Fund—Lo3,ooo. DIRECTORS. Thomas Tyrinl•liam Bernard, John Fleming, Esq. Esq., 3f.P. Frederick Harrison, Esq. Philip Patton Blyth, Esq. i Edward Huggins, Esq. John Wm. Burmest,2r,E.q. Wm. Champion Jolfts, Esq. Coles Chid, Esq. James Laming, EFq. Hugh C. _E. Childers, Esq., William Lee, Esq., M.P. M.P. William Nicol, Esq., M.P. GENERAL NIANAGFL.. M`liewan, Esq. CHIEF INsrEcTro,n.".4mr I ASSIST. GENERAL MANAGER W. J. Norfolk, Esq. - Will , am HO - Nard, Esq. CHIEF ACCOUNTANT. James Gr , y, Esq. INSPECTORS OF BRANCHES. IT. J. Lem,n, Esq., and C. Sherring*, Esq. Head Office—No. 21, Lombard street. sr TUBE S UN , LONDON, SAT. RDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1863. No. 22,188. STAXPED ....sd. 4: 2 -I MRS. MACKENZIE DANIELS' NEW icoYSe.l.. AF TER LONG YEA RS. "Mrs. Daniels has touched cords 'Mat will vibrate in every heart ; and her book is so :-9'"acefully written, and so interesting, that it must gain f i r her increased fame." Advertiser. New Novel by the tifhor of ":Reea Garland," SKATING ON THIN ICE. "It is full of int,eresting situations."—Observer. T. C. Newby, publisher, 3), Welbeck-street, Cavendish square. REMEMBER, WE SUP AT EVANS' EVERY EVENING NEXT WEEK after Alfred Mellon's Promenade Concerts. taken possession of a portion of them. The engineer's re port shows that the whole of the expenditure in the loco motive and carriage and waggon department is represented by a rate of 10.17 d. per train per mile, and that of the June half-year of 1862 by 9 97d. Three engines and tenders have been completed and placed upon the line, and three more will be finished in about a month or six weeks. The amount expended upon the construction of new engines has been £11,070; and the stock of carriages and waggons is in a good and effective estate. for the preceding six months, and £4,237 4s lld for the corresponding period of the past yeti% The amount required for the payment of the dividend at the rate of 5 per cent. upon the first and second preference shares was £3,576 9s 9(1, leaving a balance of £660 lls lid available for division amongst the shareholders of ordinary stock for the purposes of a dividend, on which, at the rate of 4 per cent., it would be necessary to draw the sum of £721 Os ld from the reserve fund, which would then be ro duced to £5,467 19s. The directors had hesitated to under- THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. SEA. First. class APPRENTICES required in an East Indiaman.—For premium, name of ship, &c.. apply to Messrs. Laing and Co., 27, Coleman-street, Bank. No control over or interference in the outfitting exercised. At the half-e •rly Meetity , of the Proprietors, held on Thursd • thYoth August, 1563, at the London Tavern, .. ,t stmpsg - ate-street, the followinr , ttepert for the halt year eriginf . the :Oth June, 188 - z, was read by the Secretary. WILLIAM UII A MPION JONES, Esq., in the Chair. 16 The Directors, in submittinP O T g to the Proprietors the Ac counts of the Bank for the halt year ending the 30th .Tune last, have the pleasure to report that the net profit, after de ,dn't int: - all charges, amounts to £53, , 38 19s. ed., which, added To £1,453 2s. 3d. brought forward from the last account, re sults in a total of Out et this sum the Directors have declared a dividend of 6 per cent. for th • half year, free of Inoome Tax, absorbing . £'s ' o7B 188 . 4 d. ; they recommend that £15,00 0 be added to the Reserve Fund, and that the balance £11,343 3s. Sd„ be carried forward to Profit and Loss New Account The dividend will be payable at the Bead OM In e s instant. BALANCE at any Of the Branch es, on an d alter Monday, the 17 th BA LANCE SHEE T Of the London and County Thinking Company, 30th June, 1863. DR. TO Capital paid up...... . . ................. £500,000 0 0 ,000 0 0 ]reserve Fund ........................ 75 Amount due by the Bank for customers' balances, £7,765,126 2 10 Aze. Liabilities on acceptances and endorsements by the Bank, circular notes, and letters of credit - 8,551,492 14 7 Profit and loss balance brought from last ac count 1,483 2 3 Gross profit for the half year, after making pro vision for bad and doubtful debts 18(1,86919 7 £x,416,36214 2 By Cash on hand at head (Mice and branches .....C1,320,025 13 2 Cash placed at call and at notice 1,043,438 2 0 ££2,36 4 3 2 Investments, viz. : G overnment and Guaran teed Stocks 555,629 4 3 Other Stocks k Securities 104,775 5 5 660,404 9 8 Discounted bills and advances to custom ers in town and country Freehold premi , es in Lombard-street and Nicholas-lane, freehold and leases hold property at the branches, with with fixtures and fittings 106,623 9 11 Interest paid to customers .... • 37,355 0 10 Salaries and all other expenses at head office and branches, incluiing income tax on profits and salaries . . 67,027 6 1 £9,416,36214 2 PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT. DR. To interest paid to customers Expenses a% above Rebate on bills not due, carried to new account 17,165 10 8 Reserve fund 15,001 0 0 Dividend of 6 per cent. for the half-year 35,978 18 4 Balance carried forward £37,355 0 10 67,027 6 1 £186,869 19 7 CR. .By Balance brought, forward from last account £1,483 2 3 Gross profit or the half-year, after making provision for bad and doubtful debts .. 185,386 17 4 £186,869 19 7 We, the ttudyrsigned, have examined the foregoing, balance sheet, and have found the same to be correct. (Signed) HENRY OVERTON, R. TI. SWAINE, Auditors. London and County Bank,JOHN July 30, 18(3.WRIGHT, The fore zoing Report having been read by the Secretary. the following Resolutions were proposed and unanimously ad opted :- 1. That the Report be received and adopted, and printed for the use of the Shareholders. 2. That .C 15,000 of the profit for the h a lf-y ear en di ng 30th June, 1853, be added to the Reserve Fund. 3. That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Board of Directors for the able manner in which they have conducted the affairs of the Company. (Signed) W. CHAMPION JONES, Chairman. The Chairman having quitted the chair, it was resolved, and Carried unanimously 4. That the cordial thanks of this Meeting be presented to William Champion Jones, Esq., for his able and suurteous conduct in the chair. (Signed) W. NICOL, Deputy-Chairman, Extracted from tiv d Minutes. (Signed) F, CLAPPISON, Manager. LONDON AN.;) COUNTY BANKING COMPANY. NOTICE IS T 1 ItEBY GIVEN , Tbat a DIVIDEND on the Capital to.ek of the Company of 6 per cent., for the half year ending : ) ,`tith June, 1863, will be PAI 0 to the Proprietors, either at the, dead ( office, 21, Lombard-street, or at any of the Company's Branch Banks, en and after MONDAY, the 17th inst. By order of the Board. W. M`KEWAN, General Manager. 21, Lombard-street, August 6, 1863. NEUSTADT O C I H A A N R Y C (L O . A i L ted) IRON WORKS Capital £230,000,C inn 11,500 Shares of £2O each. Deposit on application 10s. per Share, and £1 10s. on Allotment. The calls not to exceed £5 per share during- the first three months, and no further calls to be made payable at shorter intervals than Three _Months. In the event of no Allotment being made, all Deposits to be returned in full. The Company will be formed under the English law of Limited Liability. The Articles of Association will secure to the English Shareholders the right to elect two-thirds of the Directors of the Company durin , z, the first seven years. The amount expended in these works exceeds £340,000. The purchase-money, to be paid by instalments, is £160,030 ; and this amount, with £40,000 for gradual extension of the works ana working capital, will, it is estimated, be sufficient to carry on the undertaking profitably. Total present Capital required • 000 Of which a Mort gage may remain at 5 per cent. 0f,. £200 50, , 000 Leaving T 4 tet Capital to be raised £151!,000 Upwards ot 4,000 Shares have already b een t a k en, amounting to 80,000 Leaving, 3,500 Shares now to be taken, amounting to £70,000 DIRECTORS. harles Buck, Esq. (R. Buck and Co.), 1, Crosby-square, Theodore Erich, Esq., (F. Steigerwald), 77, Newgate-street, London, and Munich. William Fowler, Esq., Sheepbridge Iron Works, near Ches terfield. John Hedley, Esq., her Majesty's Inspector of Works, Derby. Adolph Knapp, E sq. (L oeder, Knapp, and Co.), 1, New Broad street. dwai d Nehse, Esq., Neustadt Charles Phelps, Esq., 3, Rood-lane. James Taylor, Esq. (James Taylor and Co.), 13, Penchurch buildings. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Hargrove, Power, and Blunt, 3, Victoria-street, Westminster. BANKERS. The Consolidated Bank, 4, Lombard-street, London, and Manchester. AUDITORS. Messrs. Chadwick, Walfot d, and Adamson, 27, Great George street, Westminster, and 75, King-street, Manchester. Temporary Offices-27, Birchin-lane. This Company is established for purcha sing and on the dtworking t he celebrated Iron Works, s it uate at . i Hanover and Bremen ItAilwaY• • Prod Thuc of es tion e impo Charcoal Ir on, were esta blished Getnrmlassny6-fsBor, at a the oost exreeding £340,000. According to a report by John Hedley, Esq., of H.M.'s Inspectors of Nines (which report m seeno a f y D b e e rb o at the Office), the works consist of two blast furnaces— a . fo cr u b n o d o ry t. Of f s cupola and arrangements for a large cast ing o _ _ s_ mess —tt forge---bar and plate mills with eight pairs of nll a shears—lathes, &c., capable, with slight additions, of _turning out annually 5,000 tons of boiler plates, and 3 , 000 the whole of the machinery worked by steam power- 7 tons of bars, together witleample storehouses, workshops, and offices, and cottages for tweoty-five families. The buildings , ire of a more substantial kind than is usual tor such purposes in England, and the machinery, which is fo r with all recent improvements, is in excellent condition, having been used for a short time only. The deposit of Iron ore belong to the works is practi cally inexhaustible; it is of very pure quality, of the s ime composition as the clay band of the coal meassand con tains from forty-two to forty-four per cent. of iro n ' abcording to the analysis of Dr. Percy, of the Government School of Mines in London. As this mass of ore lies open to the day it is worked without the expense of sinking shafts, pump ing, ism • The fuel employed being half wood charcoal and half peat, entirely free from sulphur and phosphorus, plates and all other descriptions of the finest quality are manufactured. The extensive forests in the neighbourhood, and an inex- haustible deposit of peat from 20 to 30 feet in thickness-- Which is prepared at the works—supply the requisite fuel at a cheap rate. Coke is supplied by neighbouring collieries, of a quality equal to the best North of England coke, with which superior Iron for casting Purposes can be made, and for which there is an extens ve demand throughout Germany, at a price which Theave a large profit. tune Iron made at these works is adapted for the manufat rehett if first-olass plates , bars, tyres, and steel ; and from the ri c ous and ductile character of some of the mixtures, supe tr them. Plates fore hips can be manufactured. property tennimeyeance of fuel . nd products of the works the besides tw eud eight miles of railway, three feet gauge, o and three quartermiles of main line, branch and siding, enunecting t_he w arts of the Hanover and Bremen line, and thus witn li parts of Germany. The works are earnecitdon abeut fittV a cres - (65 of freehold land, e i of 172 MOrgen (about 130 ' aor h ere is also a copyhold apsliworked under concession, coin es) on which the iron I Horken% stead for the tenant. Prising also a farm house and home- Six hundred and fittv tons of Puddle Iron and about twenty mill'on piece s , f a the and will be included in .hr:ed peatremain upon In consequence oft he t p u rchase. made the Com pany who established the work property, ve outlay Period , together wi th the mercan tile depression at that difficulties brought them to a stand. The tehole is . price of Z 1130,00 --being ten than hall the original cost. ,financial no o ffe re d at a very low The Company, now pureh at a ng . the Werke, may a t once commence business, avoiding the delays necessarily attendant on the first erection of works o f Such magnitude, and there fore with a prospect of an early dividend. An experienced resident Slanager will be sent from Eng land. ' Upon this total capital of £23 0 , e 0 0, With the extensions proposed, Mr. Hedley, alter carefully estimating the cost of produltion, and on the osuppottitionf that the present high protective duties of the Z llvereinoonooreir iron are repealed (which is not expected for years cleartth:fimrset)ishmowsta7s ofit of upwards of 20 per cent. Wi , representing a capital of £ 150,000 the works e ca o n be starte dsare Produce 1,200 tons of bars, and 4 , 500 tons of plates annually and after paying interest at the rate of 5 . per cent on the ; Land of £50,000, a dividend of 11 per cent. may be realised. There is also a considerable item of profit in re -rolling rails of the German and Austrian railways, which at present are sent to the Westphalian Iron Works, with a carriage of 300 miles beyond Neustadt. The additional furnaces for manufacturing coke iron, re commended by Mr. Hedley, and for which the unissued shares will be called, wilt be postponed for the present. The PreoPeztive reduction in the cost of ore to ss. per ton, when tile line from Ringlebeim to Hildesheim is constructed, and the mixture of coke iron, will add about £6,000 annually to the profits. l're3Pectuses and forms of application may be had at the • T esiPcrarY Offices and of the Brokers, Solicitors, and Bankers of the Company. ' CHEAP TRIP to LONDON. —All visitors to the metropolis should see LONDON at the COLOSSEUM, liegent's-park. This is without exception the most beautiful and stupendous work of art ever exhibited in this or any other country. One Shilling to the whole Institution. Acting blana,er, Mr. A. NIMSIO. LISBON. —To TOURISTS.--The Tarsus is one of the grandest rivers in Europe. Sec it and the CITY of LISBON before and after the Earthquake of 1755 at the COLOSSEUM. The most extraordinary exhibition of a scenic nature ever brought before a metropoli tan audience."—Observer. "The most thrilling effect we ever experienced."—Court Journal. Admission, One Shilling. TO EXCURSIONISTS.- All who intend visiting France should first see PARIS at the COLOSSEUM, Regent's -park. "One of the most extra ordinary pictures ever exhibited." —Times. "The Panorama is magnificent, and equally delights and surprises the be holder."—Morning Post. "The Colosseum, with all its wonderful attractions, is decidedly the most charming resort in the metropolis."—Dispatch. Morning, 12 to 5; Evening, 7 to 10. T" OXFO B, D, e, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry rt. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Elbson, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, bc., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean. &c. Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any other man "), Eugene, W. Randall, E. Righton, and A. Lloyd. Also, a Pei tormance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his wondertift instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. --- The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilaled, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, Is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. NOTICE.—The GHOST! GHOST !! GHOST!!! AT CANTERBURY HALL. Two representations of Professor Pepper's startling Illusion will be given on Mondays. Wednesdays, and Saturdays, at Nine and a quarter past Eleven o'clock ; other Evenings at Eleven only ; and produced with all the newest improve ments by Mr. A. Silvester, which can be seen only at this establishment. Dramatic Readinzs by Mr. Graham, in addition to Grand Operatic Selections, Cantatas, Glees, Songs, Comic and Sentimental, and UNSWORTH, the Stump Orator. Open every Evening at half past Seven. Admission, Sixpence. OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The FAIRY FOUNTAIN EVERY EVENING, at Nine and Eleven o'clock. R OYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE.—Signor and Signori FRANCESCO in a Grand Divertissement and Pas Deux-- Operatic Selections from " Ernani " and "Lucia de Lammermoor." Miss M`Gregor, Mr. Laurence Albert, Signor Georgini, Mr. Vernon Rigby, .tc. &c. Band and Chorus of Sixty Performers. Conductor, M. Sthallehn. CHEAPEST PASSAGES to all the Colonies. PASSAGES fruaranteel at CHEAPEST RATES to AMERICA, CANADA. BRITISH COLUMBIA, AUSTRA LIA, NEW ZEALAND, PORT NATAL, the CAPE, Ate,, &e., by Mail "iteam and Clipper Sailing Ships weekly from LONDON, LIVERPOOL, and other ports. Steamers for AMERICA and PAN ADA, every few days, from £4 10s. to £5 55., sailing packets £3. Passengers met at all the Stations and conducted to the Docks, thereby avoiding much imposition, trouble, and annoyance. Free Grants of Land obtained and Outfits pro vided. Through Tickets issued to all the chiet Ports in Aus tralia and New Zealand, and the Towns and Cities of the United States and Canada, also to Halifax and St. Johns, Full particulars, free of charge, upon application to PEARCE and CO., First Floor, 100, Leadenhall-street, City, London, or 43, Union-street, Liverpool. Pareels and packages collected, shipped, and invoiced. ESTABLISHED 1833. BOWDEN'S JERATED GINGER BEER, i n glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, rotass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Waters.—Manufactory, No. 3, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C. TTOWELL, JAMES, and CO., respectfully ," announce that, in accordance with their custom at this season oi tbe year, tey will OFFER THIS Dear, and durinz the month, their STOCK of FANCY SILKS, LIGHT DRESS FABRICS, LACES, RIBBONS, LINGERIE, EMBROIPERY, &c., at a VERY LARGE REDUCTION IN PRICE. - --- H., J., and CO., will offer, at the same time, a quantity of RICH FRENCH SILKS, principally MOIRE ANTIQUES, and a variety of beautiful ORGANDI MUSLINS, which they have recently purchased at about one-half the value. TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced to 3s. 2d. ; Souchoni, reduced to 3s. Cd. ; mixed Assam, re duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d. to 3s. lid. per lb. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.C. cIPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra ordinary re tief to weak, dim, and detective vision.—S. and B SOLOMON S, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. CARD PLATES ENGRAVED , Any Pattern 2s. 50 BEST CARDS, Printed from Plate ls. REAL MOROCCO CARD CASES 1,000 BUSINESS ENVELOPES, g;ummed 3B. NEWSPAPER ENVELOPES, 4 doz Gd. F. ARNOLD, Manufacturing Stationer,B6, Fleet-street, E.C, ALEXANDER WILLIAMS. deceased.—Par scant to an Act of Parliament of the 22d and 23d Victoria, chapter 35, intituled "An Act to further Amend the Law of Property and to Relieve Trustees." -.- NOTIC•E IS HEREBY GIVEN, That all creditors and other persons having any claims or demands upon or against the estate of Akxander Williams, late of Kew Brentford, in the county of Middlesex, Gentleman, who died on the 22d day of August, 182, ..nd whose will was proved in the prin cipal Registry of her Majesty's Court of Probate on the 11th day of September, 1862, by Wiliam Roger Williams. of 1, Westgate street, in the city of Gloucester, draper, and Ben jamin Williams, of Cowbridge, in the county 01 Glamorgan, draper, the Executors thereof, are hereby required to send the particulars of such claims or demands to the said Execu tors, or to me, the undersigned, as their solicitor, on or bs f ore the 4th day of December next, at the expiration of which time the said Executors will proceed to distribute the assets of the said deceased among the parties entitled thereto, having regard only to the claims of which the Executors shall then have had notice. Dated 6th August, 1863. 19, Great Carter-lane, London. J. CHAPPLE THE LAUNDRESSES to her late Majcst.v Queen Adelaide say, that" BRIGGS' AUSTRALIAN srmum needs but to be tried to be approved." Sole Wholesale Agent, Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley-by:Bow, London, E. THE FARMER'S BAROMETER, 508., a new Instrument, by Negretti and Zambra, will cor rectly indicate whether the Barometer falls for Rain or for Wind. Particulars by enclosing stamp.-1, Hatton-garden ; 57, Cornhill ; and 122, Regent-street. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Yesterday a special general meeting of shareholders was held at the Paddington Station, in pursuance of the 52d clause of the Amalgamation Act of 1863, to elect 17 pro prietors, exclusive of Sir W. W. Wynn, who by a clause in the original act is a permanent director, to represent the board of the three companies ((treat Western, South Wales, and West Midland) ; the Hon. F. Ponsonby in the chair. The following is a list of the names proposed by the di rectors :—The Hon, Spencer Walpole, Mr. Anthony K. Baker, Captain Bulkeley, Mr. Edward Hamilton, Mr. Ed ward Learning, Mr. Richard Mitchell, Mr, Micklewaite, Mr. J. W. Miles, Mr; David Ogilvy, the Hon. Frederick Ponsonby, Mr, Richard Potter, Mr. Alex. Wood, Mr. Row land Venables, Mr. Edward Wanklyn, Mr. Chas. Whetham, Mr. John Williams, and Mr. Thos. Williams. The following list was circulated as the " Shareholders' List :" " Sir Watkin mr, Wynn, Bart , Wynnatay. "Members of the Board—Edward Leeming, Esq., Rich mond, Surrey ; J. W. Miles, Esq„ Bristol ; Thomas Wil liams, Esq., London; D. Ogilvie, Esq., Sydenham ; John Williams, Esq., Chester. " Nominated by the Shareholders' Committee—Ed ward Wanklyn, Fulmenplace, Slough; Richard Mitchell, Esq., 2, Ladbroke-square ; Charles Whetham, Esq., 53, Gordon square ; Edward Hamilton, Esq., 32, 'Upper Brook -street; Richard Potter, Esq., Stonehouse, Gloucestershire; Charles Alexander Wood, Esq., 25, Chesham-placo. " Proposed for Election under the Act—Benjamin Smith, Esq., Bron Sieont, Carnarvon ; Richard W. Johnson, Esq., Bricklehanipton, Worcestershire; Charles Jack, Esq., Beech-hill Park, Barnet; Colonel James R. Weston, 12, Albany ; Richard Fort, Esq., Read Ilall, Lancashire; Thomas Adams, Esq., 19, Bread-street, and Lewisham, Kent ; or any other proprietor more eligible. "Reconstruction, not Disorganisation." The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business, said that Mr. Walpole, who should have presided at the meeting, was summoned to Ireland to give evidence on a trial in that country, and he was thereby prevented from being present that day. As this was the last meeting to be held under a board representing exclusively Great Western interests, he felt it to be his duty to explain t, them that it was held ex clusively for the purpose stated in the notice. There were 17 vacancies to be filled up, and 22 candidates. The chairman then explained how he would put the question to the meeting. Mr. MALINS asked how the proxies on each side stood ? The CHAIRMAN said he believed there were 29,000 votes, representing £4,500,000, in favour of the reconstruction of the board as proposed by the directors, and 10,000 votes, representing £1,500,000, in favour of Mr. Adams, who re presented the committee of shareholders. (Cheers.) lie then proposed that Mr. Walpole be elected a member of the board. kMr. BROWN, a member of the committee of shareholders, seconded the nomination, on the ground that there was now no difference in the policy pursued by the board and that proposed by the committee. Mr. ADAMS urged the necessity of not re-electing the Hon. Mr. Walpole, the Hon. Frederick Ponsonby, and the majority of the other names proposed by the directors. The manner in which the Metropolitan line had been worked showed that the board was not deserving of the confidence of the shareholders, The Metropolitan line, if worked at 50 per cent. of the working expenses, would entail a loss of £28,000 a year. He contended that by repudiating their agreement the directors had cut themselves off from the communication with the City, and had admitted the Great Northern into a most useful and advantageous station. The CHAIRMAN said that the meeting was not competent to enter into the question of the arrangements with the Metropolitan, and it would be very improper to do so; but he would simply say that the meeting must not take Mr. Adams's statement as correct. (Cheers.) Mr. ADAMS concluded by proposing the election of Mr. Benjamin Smith, Mr. Richard W. Johnson, Mr, Chas. Jack, and Col. Jas. B. Western, as directors of the new board. Captain BRIGGS seconded the resolution of Mr. Adams. The nomination of Mr. Adams was also proposed and seconded. After considerable discussion, the names of the gentlemen proposed as directors by the Great Western board were put seriatim, and for each of them a unanimous majority by show of hands was declared. At the announcement of the' result in each case Mr. Adams, amid most derisive cheers and laughter, demanded a poll. Several shareholders ap pealed to this gentleman not to put the company to the an noyance and expense of a poll for a useless purpose, as the directors held more than three to one of the proxies of the shareholders. Mr. Adams, however, would not yield,, whereupon several shareholders present said they had come to the meeting prepared to support Mr. Adams, but after what they had heard and seen, they would certainly give! their support to the directors. ou refer. a discreditable Mr. WILRINSON said — T hen y p defeat to a graceful retreat. (A laugh.) It was finally announced that the poll would be taken at the close of the meeting, and would be continued on Satur day and Monday until 12 o'clock, and the meeting was ad journed to three o'clock on Monday for the purpose of re ceiving the report of the scrutineers. A vote of thanks to the chairman brought the protracted meeting to a close. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. The report of the directors of this company, to be pre sented to the shareholders at the half-yearly meeting on the 13th inst., shows the net revenue for the six menthe, after deducting interest on loans and all other preferential eharges to be £164,905 17s ld, which, together with a surplus of £3,039 5s from Dec., 1862, leaves £167,945 2s ld available for a dividend, which is recommended at the rate of 4f per cent. per annum on £7,425,564 13 s 4 d of paid - up capital, amounting to £167,075 4s ld ; and leaving £869 18s to be carried over to the current half-year. The gross revenue for the half-year exceeds that of the corresponding period of 1862 by £67,017, which may be partly attri buted to the traffic of the North Devon and Bideford Lines being brought into account. As, however, the re ceipts of the spring of 1862 were favourably affected by the Exhibition traffic in May and June, the increase is very satisfactory. From a tabular comparison of the two half years it appears that the mileage has been increased by the addition of 50t miles of railway, and that 247,506 more miles have been , t ra , verse d d ur i ng th e period of 1863 than in 1862. The Passengers number 43,789 more, the working, expenses are £32,956 greater than during the corresponding half year of 1862. The total receipts are £625,645, as against £558,628, and the net revenue £301,691 as com pared with £268,210. The miles run in 1863 were 2,472,247, and in 1862, 2,224,741; the passengers conveyed in 1863, 433,070; in 1862, 389,281; the taxation in 1863, £29,712; and in 1862, £29,132. The goods department also shows an increase of £24,155, the figures being-1863, £177,593 ; 1862, 153,438. The permanent way continues in good working order. The company had during the past session introduced bills for the extension of the North Devon line from Barnstaple to Ilfracombe, and the Epsom and Leather head railway to Guildford ; but both of them had been thrown out. They purpose renewing them, however, at an early opportunity. They had also opposed ten other schemes for new railways, six of which had been withdrawn, two more were rejected on standing orders, and the remaining two were defeated in committees of the House of Lords. In order to provide for the increasing requirements of the Channel Island traffic, the directors have entered into a con tract for the construction of a fast paddlewheel steamer, combining all modern improvements. She has been launched and will be ieady to be placed on the station this month.: Amongst other works in hand the Petersfield Railway is proceeding satisfactorily, and will probably be completed for traffic at latest in the ensuing spring. The doubling: of the Southampton and Dorchester line has been com pleted, and is open for traffic, but equal progress has not been made on the Salisbury and Yeovil Railway, the, execution of which lies with that company. The build ings for the new workshops and engine and carriage sheds are nearly completed, and the company's establishment has, KE I A N T G i r N o G svp 'S E P R7f o r S 2to the P ro d ucer at t h e I nterna ti ona l E x hibition, 186 h A i N ch a IN Et S iz E e C IE T ed D aI EwaSsla‘wilaOrdYed rivTahlliesdPoinwdderesitsroqyuinitge hlalremasle, ssßtuogssm,liaelsl,ifedoebkutroiacs huens-. Beetles, Goats, 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 others 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. PAuPs-churchyari, London, E.C. • RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT PNIIIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two II undred Medical Gentlemen to oe 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, is here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the , ody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the floc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting . with so much ease Ind closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn 'luring sleep. A descriptive circular may he had, and the 'ruse, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir cumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being sent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A. Double Truss, 31s. ed., 425., and 525. ed. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss,,42s. and 528. ed. Postage, Is. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, , Post office, Pi illy. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, dec., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &a They are porous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on tire an ordinary stocking. Price 45. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 165. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 22.6„ Piccadilly. 11OYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queeh. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., Rita CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since exp he ended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life - b oats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,8 00 ; 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,f , 00 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-can iages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous support which they have received from the British public during the past few years, a support which has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom. Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and its Crews practised in the management of their e s te t] y u g e p i e d a t l eg to an a d l 1 perpetuating boats, which cat, only be effect e d b y a large and permanen t annual income, to aid h they earnestly great and truly national a work. cl asses The Committee gratefully acknowledge of t o r their co owledge the following con tributions:— • • .. annual 50 0 0 . . 2dnannual don. don.al .11001 .... .. annual 5 0 0 Her Majesty the Queen • • £s. d ; • Baniers • • • • .. 4th don 10 0 0 Campbell, the lion. Mrs. G. .. cColeurtkt,sCaonldonceol., Rees.srs. Currie, Wm. Esq., •• •• .. .. Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. • • Renwick, Erie, Lord Chief Justice • • .. 10 01 0 0 0 G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran sporting 25 5 ° sporting Carriage • • • • • • • • • • 250 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. • • • • don. 30 o Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. • • • • .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore, Rev. G. B. • • • • •• • • don. 15 15 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Gree nwich . • • • .. 3 0 0 Stirling, Col. Sir AntnOily, K.C.B. . • .. annual 20 0 Thomas, Lady, Weston super-Mare, collected by her Ladyship .. . • • • • • • • • • 16 16 o Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord • • • • annual 5, D 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfu_yll re eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard -street; Messrs. Cott and co., 59, Strand; Diessrs. Berries, Farauhar, and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London; by a 1 the Collectors of Customs 1 and Bankers in the United Kingdom ; and by the Secretary ' Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the institution, 14, John-street, Adolph', London, W.C. GREAT EASTERN. The second half-yearly meeting of the analgamated com pany will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgatt-street, on the 13th instant, at one o'clock. The revenue account exhibits the following :—lteceipts, £720,24916s 8d; expen diture, £352,772 13s 8d , total, £367,477 3s. Less—Pay - mencs to Northern and Eastern and other companies, and interest on guaranteed and preference stocks, mortgages, &c., £323,165 Is lld ; balance, £44,312 is ld. The above balance of £14,312 is ld, together with the sum of £15,190 19s sd, the surplus after the payment of the dividend for the half year ending December 31 last, make a total of £59,503 Os 6d; this amount, less the deductions set forth in the general revenue account, will adult of a dividend for the half. year at the rate of £lss per cent. per annum being paid on the ordinary stock of the company. This will require £52,246 15s 3d, leaving £3,256 5s 3d to be carried forward. The expenditure on the capital account for the past half year has been chiefly incurred for the purchase of land for the new lines, and in payment for works executed under the contract for their construction. In addition to which a sum of £34,132 has been expended for rolling stock required to meet the exigencies of the service, and for the working of the extra mileage since the Amalga mation Act. The working expenses for the half-year are £4B, 19s 7d per cent. The rolling stack continues . .to maintained in a state of efficiency. The revenue of the amalgamated lines for the past half-year exhibits an in crease of £28,289 over the some period of 1862. As regards the permanent way, the engines and bridges, the directors see no reason for departing from the principle explained to proprietors at their last meeting, but they now propose, for the first time, to lay aside a large annual sum as a provision for keeping up the rolling and other working stock, thus affording to the proprietors a correct basis whereby to judge of the prospects of the undertaking; and it is the opinion of your directors that the results of the past half-year, tak ing all the circumstances into consideration, are of a satis factory character. When the last report was made the amount of the claims of the Eastern Union and East Suffolk Railway Companies, which had been referred fur settlement to Capt. Galton, had not been ascertained. The directors were, however, enabled at the subsequent meeting to report the amount of stock which had been awarded to the East Suffolk Company; and subsequently they were enabled to pay to the shareholders the dividend then declared, Capt. Gallon having determined the amount of fixed charges attaching to the Eastern Union Company, which exceeded by £4,178 per annum the amount at which they had been taken in arranging the terms of the amalgamation, and one moiety of that sum was therefore deducted from the dividend upon the amount of stock allocated to them. An applica tion was afterwards made on the part of the representatives of the Eastern Union Company to set aside Capt. Galton's award. This application was dismissed by Vice-Chancel lor Wood ; but upon an appeal to the Lords Justices, which came on for hearing on the 24th day of July last, their lord shipsof the dividend to were pleased to grant th e a pp lica tion for setting aside the award. It will consequen tl y beco me necessary that the umnattitle his issho awardu bies again obtained investigated the payment the shareholders of the Grea t Eastern Railway Company must be postponed. Four of t he director s , viz., Samuel An • derson, Esq., Geo. Josselyn , Es q ., Ric h , Paterson, Esq., by Capt. Galion, and and Wm. 11. Shaw, E s q., retire by rotation at this meeting ; the two farmer, being eligible, offer themselves to this meet ing for re-election. The vacancy caused by the retirement of Richard Paterson, Esq., is, in accordance with the Act, to be filled up by the board of directors of the Northern and Eastern Railway Company ; and the vacancy caused by the retirement of William H. Shaw, Esq., is, in accordance with the Act, to be filled up by the East Anglian proprietors. One of the auditors, Henry Soper, Esq., retires at this meeting, and offers himself for re-election. At the conclu sion of the half-yearly general meeting, special meetings will be held for the purpose of obtaining the sanction of the proprietors to the measures which are set forth in the ad vertisement. EDGWARE, HIGHGATE, AND LONDON. The half-yearly meeting of t his com p an y was hel d at the offices of the corporation, Dake-street, Westminster, Mr. Harper, the chairman, presidi n g . The SECRETARY cf the company having read th e repor t for the half-year, an abstract of which has already been published. The CHAIRMAN said, as the statement of accounts had been in the hands of the shareholders, it was not necessary to lengthen the proceedings by any further statement. The shareholders would be glad to learn that, since the report was printed and circulated, some progress had been made in obtaining the necessary land before commencing the works. The difficulties always incidental to such an un dertaking had been removed, and the contractors would in a few days be in possessior of sufficient land for their plant, and before the end of next week would be in possession of that portion of the land where the most extensive and heaviest works had to be commenced. The neighbour hood of Highgate was the portion of the line where the work was the heaviest, and it was judged to be the best economy to proceed with this part of the line first. The piece of land beyond Highgate to the Great Northern would be in the hands of the contractors before six months. The works beyond Fincbley were very light, and would be proceeded with last, and there was no reason to doubt th a t th e li ne wou ld b e com pleted up to Edgware by the end o f 1864 . I t was also thought right to ask b t ey e on capital ap it a l what shouldwas requisite qu have isite boon t o the shar e h o ld ers f or authority t o exercise the bor rowing pow ers w hi c h t h ey would b e in a position to do when half h paid up. It was needless to s a y th a t suc h b orrowing po wers would not be exercised carry out the un dertaking. Mr. DRAKE suggested that the calls should be firs paid up. authorising th e company to borrow £73, 300, Resolutions a d opt i ng and confirm i ng the report, and were put and carried unanim ous l y. The Cu/um/LAN said that the proposa l was anticipatory of proceeding with th e works, but that if the proprietors desired to pay their calls beforehand, the) would be re ceived, and five per cent allowed. The usual vote of thanks to the chairman and directors concluded the proceedings. SALISBURY AND YEOVIL. The report of the directors of this company, to be pre sented to the shareholders at the half-yearly meeting on the 14th inst., states that the income of the line has been steadily progressive. Notwithstanding the absence of traffic created by the Exhibition of last year, there has been a gross increase of £3,108 148 6d, the amounts or the two half-years being relatively-1863 £24,208 8 s 6 d ; 1862 , £21,099 14s. The traffic for the year ending June 30th, 1863, is equal to £26 per mile per week, amounting to £54,042 4s 4d; and in 1862 to £22 is Id, amounting to £45,874 3s ld, showing an increase of £3 188 lld per mile per week. After deducting working expenses and all other charges, the accounts now present a balance of £8,261 5s 6d, which, with a balanc e of £2,194 17s 9cl from last year, leaves £10,456 3s 3d available for dividend. After the payment of a 5 per cent. dividend to the preference shareholders, amounting to £2,716 96 6d, the directors re commend the declaration of a 41 per cent, dividend upon the ordinary shares, which, amounting to £6,855 14s 4d, will leave £BB3 19s 5d to be carried to the credit of the cur -1 rent year's account. OS WESTRY AND NEWTON. A special general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held yesterday, at their offices, 9A, Bridge street, Westminster ; Mr. G. 11. Whalley, M.P., in the chair. The object of the meeting was to increase the borrowing powers of the company. The CHAIRMAN said he had entered so fully into ex planations as to the importance of thei r b orrowing powers on a former occasion, that it would bo unnecessary for him to go over the same ground again. He must, however, state that all the requirements of the Act of 1863 had been complied with. With respect to the general state of the lino and prospects of the com p an y , he would defer any re marks upon that point until the approaching half-yearly meeting. lie would now move '"That the directors be empowered under the powers of the Act of 1863 to borrow on maztgage any sum not exceeding £66,660, at such rate of interest as to them may appear desirable." Captain JOHNS seconded the motion, and it was agreed to unanimously. The proceedings closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman. LLYNVI VALLEY. The ordinary half-yearly meeting of this company took place at the Great Western Hotel yesterday. Alexander Macgregor, Esq., presided. Mr. G. F. SAUNDERS, the secretary, read te report, rom which it appeared that the gross revenue for the I,z:it- f year ending June 30, 1863, amounted to £9,374 7s 11d, against £9,426 19s 9d for the preceding six months, and £9,401 3s 6d for the corresponding period of the past year. The working expenses amounted to £3,130 19s 4d, against £3,012 5s 3d for the preceding six months, and £3,155 13s 7d for the corresponding period of the past year. The net income, after deducting the working expenses, with the interest on debentures and on land purchases unpaid, amounted to £4,232 13s lid, against £4,2317s 3d take the conveyance of passengers, but the time had arrived when they thought that the experiment might be tried with success. With respect to threatened opposition, the Ely Valley Railway had expunged those portions of the powers they had sought to the detriment of this company. The Ognaote Valley Railway's objectionable matter was modi fied, and finally brought into such a form as afforded pro mise of great additional traffic when the line was constructed and the country opened. The report concluded by stating that the directors had succeeded in making arrangements by which all litigation had been terminated with the prin cipal traders on the line. The chairman announced that the dividends would be payable on August 21, and after some remarks on the prosperity of the undertaking, the meeting concluded with the usual compliments. TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK. Miles Opened. Receipts. Railways. 1863. 1862. 1863. 1862. £ £ Belfast and N, Counties 136 136 2,378 2,357 Belfast and County Down 49 49 792 681 Blyth and Tyne . 28 28 1,895 1,895 Bristol and Exeter l2ll 1211 7,969 8,292 Caledonian 230 230 18,045 17,237 Cockermouth & Working - ton Bl 81 301 289 Cork and Bandon , 30 20 427 143 Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 61 257 249 Cork and Youghal. -. 321. -32* 545 401 - . Cornwall Mt 531 1,639 1,702 Deeside l7 17 351 422 Dublin & Bell as t Junction . Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,866 1,851 Dublin and Meath - 187 - Dub. & Wicklow and Wextd 5l/ 481 3,174 2,783 Dundee, Perth, & Aber. Jun 3l 31 - - Edinburgh and Glasgow 1691 1691 9,183 8.537 Forth & Clyde Junction 3O 30 - - Furness, &c 5O 59 3,133 2,432 Glasgow & South-Western Gt.Eastern,Nrfk.,&E.l.Tnion 653 614 32,626 32,347 Great Northern 351 351 33,340 33,327 Great North of Scotland 5B 58 2,032 1,950 (il. Northn. & Westn. (IreL) 7ll 561 362 336 qt.Southn. & Westn.(lrlnd.) 3511 329 8,498 7,993 Great Western 10561 10041 67,297 70,939 Inverness & Aberdeen Juno.- 864 861 1,488 1,301 Irish North-Western 145 145 1,586 1,921 Lancashire & Yorkshire 3951 395 38,090 33,963 Limerick and Ennis.. 2l 2 183 17 0 Limerick and Foynes 2 26 91 116 Llanelly 46 4 826 721 Louden & North-Western London and Blackwall 5l 51 2,183 2,210 London & South-Western Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast 2501 2411 29,569 30,550 London, Chatham, & Dover 724 721 6,642 6,663 Do. Metropolitan Extension 101 - 1,480 - Lond., Tilbury, & Southend 6lan.,Sheffteld, &Lincolnsh - 239* 239* 16,496 15,160 Manch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 9l 91 ,1,548 1,377 Haryport and Carlisle 2B 28 1,425 1,080 Metropolitan 3l - 1,979 - Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6141 45,503 44,677 Midland Gt.Westn. of hind. - 2591 1921 4,190 4,005 Monkland 7ll 711 1,460 1,585 Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,519 2,236 North British, Edin., Perth and Dundee N-Eastern and Stock. & Danl 10791 North London 9 North Staffordshire 254 Oswestry and Newton 5O Rhymney .. -- .. 191 St. Helen's Canal & Railway.. 52 Scottish Central Scottish North-Eastern l3B Somerset and Dorset 391 South Devon ..- . ... South-Ea5tern..........., 306 Taff Vale .... ..... - ..... Ulster Vale of C1wyd....... . 10 Vale of Neath 251 Waterford and Kilkenny 3l Waterford and Limerick 77 West Cornwall 271 W.HartlepoolHarbr.&Rail 39 W'haven,Cleator,&Egrmnt 7 Whitehaven Junction l2 Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 Austrian Belgian Eastern Junction 261 Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1851 Buffalo and Lake Huron l6ll Detroit and Milwaukie lB5 Dutch Rhenish lOBl Eastern of France. . .. East Indian Grand Trunk of Canada lO9O Great Indian Peninsula 5381 Great Luxembourc , 134 Great Southern of ndia Great Western of Canada 345 Madrid, Saragossa etAlibant 439 Northern of Canada Northern of France 697 Norwegian Trunk Ottoman Paris, Lyons, & Mediterrn.... 1491 Paris and Orleans 1340 Pernambuco 771 Royal Danish 69 Sambre and Meuse 6B South Austrian Southern of France Victorian 126 Welland. West Flanders W. and N.W. of France 758 410 f 1061 f 9 252 15,029 13,948 57,347 54,734 3,454 3,469 8,751 8,233 1,267 1,030 923 797 2,043 2,057 4,623 4,016 6,200 5,F33 138 394 754 306 392 374 4,375 4,360 30,197 32,134 5,673 6,064 1,904 1.906 - 279 - 217 2,571 1,913 , 394 380 1,025 1,630 - 727 760 5,215 4,099 622 484 837 630 806 724 1,361 1,424 2 185 k 161 k 185 lost 1060 6381 1090 4371 134 1,921 1,748 2,688 3,212 6,426 6,402 51,718 51,913 16,072 14,093 10,658 6,997 4,357 4,321 557 V9O 8,126 8,299 19,142 16,912 1,793 2,365 1,000 1,074 13.51 1201 128,350 127,667 57,000 66,703 5'7 900 897 1,421 1, 4 86 49,333 58,715 28,509 28,523 8,943 5,103 4N3 422 1,171 1,019 46,874 42,759 1315 777 151 THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, The Medical 7 imes publishes an interesting letter on this subject, from its special correspondent with the Federal army. The following is an extract : The Gettysburg wounded were left to the care of the country, and nobly did the country respond to the call ; but it took time for the wants of the wounded to be known, and for them to be supplied. The immediate neighbourhood o f the scene of con flict was unable to do anything, however charitably inclined, since the contending armies previous to and immediately after the fight, had used up everything eatable for miles around. A large force of volun teer and contract surgeons was the first asaistence that arrived, and, having had certain of the wounded placed under t heir charge, were soon made useful; but the lint, bandages, chloroform, left with us began to fail. NV hat was to be done ? We looked at each other in dismay, when, lo! r relief was at hand. The supplies of all the different associations in the country poured in en masse, and in a trice we found ourselves elevated from a state of destitution to one of luxury. Everything we could wish for the wounded was now at our dis posal. We now had a sufficiency of dressing ; we had blankets, shirts, drawers, socks, soft pillars for stumps to rest upon, fans to keep theflies away from those who had strength enough to use them, and mosquito-bars for those incapable of doing so. Food we now had fit for sick and wounded men, and brandy, wines, and fruits. Nor was even tobacco forgotten by these kindly associa tions. A number of ladies connected with them enliven our camps, and do more good as nurses, each of them, than a dozen men detailed for that purpose. The wounded, the government, the coun try can never sufficiently thank the Sanitary Com mission, the Christian Commission, Adams' Express Hospital Corps, and the many other associations which transformed the scene of misery here to one of homelike comfort. The rebel wounded in our charge have fared, so far as comforts and attention went, as our own men fared. Before our supplies came up they made no complaints, after their arrival they declared they had not had such a gay time since the Confederacy commenced to exist. The surgeons, in bringing their cases to the table never examined previously if a man wore blue pants or grey, but looked simply at the nature of the wound. Had they been within their own lines they could not have been so well attended to. I have seen now Confederate wounded in the hands of the Federals, and Federal wounded in the hands of the rebels, and I cannot but say that in acting the good Samaritan the North bears off the palm. At Chancellorsville battle the rebels re moved their wounded to be cared for at Richmond, leaving the 1,200 Northern wounded to lie upon the ground. The rebel soldiers near them gave them what help they could, but the rebel government did nothing but confiscate the captured surgeons' cases and hospital knapsacks, looking on them as govern ment property. On the misery being represented to those in authority, sugar, flour, bacon, and Tars bread were plentifully issued to the wounded. was all, they said, they could give, because it was all they had. Still, they could have done more ; they could have removed these 1,200 men to Rich mond along with their own wounded, to fare as they far ed ; they could have sent a detail of surgeons from their army at Fredericksburg to attend to theal ; away by rail—straw a t least might have been sent and from Richmond —onl y a couple of hours for them to lie upon. What would have been said had the Unionists acted similarly at Gettysburg-- bad they removed their own wounded by rail and left 10,000 rebels to lie up on the field with sim ply hard bread, bacon, sug ar, and flour to sustain them, and with no su r g ical assista nce, save the dozenmenwhombeeLene done,sent over Gea h t o take care o f them Had this e p t the Yank ees we should never have heard the end of it. • h A e N a n N n U u a A t ANNUAL e n M: a E l T m l o N o t G i 12 ' g 0 0 1; P th ßO p P rto ß p l r E ie T to O rs k o S f . this company was held yesterday forenoon, a offices, North John-st reet , Liverpool,—Charles thr , company's 'Turner, E sq,, M.P., the chairman o f th e board of directors, idm presid ing. Among the gentlemen prese n t we notee man Samuel Holme,Deputy May or , Messrs 'Ralph B r. Alder roe.,_le • bank, Thomas Bench, George Booker, Richard Boughton, Francis Maxwell, John Torr, Michael Bousfield, Michael Belcher, T. D. Hornby, J. Younghusband, Win. I ither ington, Maxwell Hyslop, &c., &c. Mr. VERCY M. DOVE, the actuary, read the notice‘con vening the meeting, the statement cf accounts, and the report of the directors, of which the following is an ab stract Having arrived at the eighteenth anniversary of the existence of the company, it seems appropriate, as a pre liminary introduction to the subject, on this occasion to divide the era of its experience into two equal parts, and to contrast its position at its ninth with that which it has attained at its eighteenth year of duration. Thus it presents the following features :—Then—at its ninth year—its fire premiums were about £112,000. Now—at its eighteenth year—they amount nearer to three times than double tha sum. Again, the life premiums were then £22,000. Now, they are very nearly five-fold that amount. So with the annuity branches—it is found that the amount paid for purchase of annuities now is eight times the sum received for the same purpose in the year selected for comparison. FIRE BRANCH. It is to be observed that, in the commencing months of the past year, the pressure of well-remembered political,. commercial, and other causes appeared;lsFtEe first time in the history of this company, to have a depressing influence ; and the continued impetus with which the company had been uniformly favoured seemed to be, for a short period, languishing, if not entirely suspended. Happily it was but for a limited time, and it is satisfactory to add that a vigorous application of the same moving causes, which have been successful heretofore, have again already given an accelerated motion to the progress of the company,—so that the directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the close of the year, to announce, for the first time, that the fire premiums have not only reached, but exceeded £300,000. The profit of the business of the year exceeds consider ably the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact surpasses that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the commencement of this office. The balance to the credit on account of British and Foreign Insurances being Z 45,107 10 5 and of the North American business,which is kept separately LIFE BRANCH. It will not be forgotten that the report for the year 1861 contained a most satisfactory announcement of the progress of the Company's Life Branch. It was then stated that the sum assured on new policies for the year for the first time exceeded £500,000, equal to the average amount effected annually by the very first among the many excellent com panies of this country, and that this sum exceeded by up wards of £70,000 the amount assured in the year imme diately preceding. The very gratifying duty now falls upon the directors to state that the sum assured on new policies for the year 1862 exceeds even that of the year 1861, which was the subject of the congratulatory phrase just quoted by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of £701,427 on 1498 new policies issued. Until within the last few years it is believed that such a sum assured as that which has just been announced as the result of one year's business was all but unheard of. Such an incident as this may well be adduced in proof of the general expansion of life assurance. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum proposed for assurance amounts to £143,281. Various degrees of ineligibility, from disease and other causes, have led to these lives being declined. The atten tion of persons accustomed to look into the reports of insurance companies will no doubt be immediately arrested by the fact, that no small number of the assurance com panies of the day record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at all, exceeding thoce which the Royal has declared as inadmissible in a single year, from deterio ration of some kind or another. FOREIGN AND BRITISH BRANCHES AND AGENCIES. In the United States, the board of management in New York, consisting of merchants of the highest standing in the commercial world, and the agents in the leading cities of the Northern States, continue their valuable and highly ap preciated services. In Canada, where the Royal Insurance buildings are now reported as nearly completed, and likely to prove a good investment, much esteemed agents in the Upper and Lower Provinces are increasing the business rapidly to one of very large magnitude. Australia, again, is another field of the Company's operations from which evidence of a future large success may be gathered from the results and advances of the past. In India and China and the West Indies equal activity is displayed, by which the Company has derived largo success from a rapidly growing business; and, without entering into further detail, it may be stated that in other places in Europe, South America, and elsewhere, the business of the Company progresses so favourably that few offices are so well known, or are more confided in abroad than the Royal. In fact, no insuranc e company has ever held a higher position in the various countries it has entered, and none could possibly obtain greater encouragement from influen tial quarters to continue its exertions among them, If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert briefly to the Unit ed Kingdom, they have to announce that in fire bus i ness its progress has been undoubtedly more rapid than that of any other Company established either in London or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken place. The returns of duty have proved this. In life, the amount of new policies already reported make all other evidence needless and superfluous. It would almost be in vidious to single out any individual agent, or any isolated p l ace , where all have used their heartiest exertions, and every place almost without exception has witnessed the expansion *of the Royal, either in its fire or life business, if not in both. It may, however, be observed, generally, that the com pany has attained a very high position in Scotland and in d. It takes its place amon g their own national insti tutions in each of these kingdoms, and has its full share with them in the favour of their respective inhabitants. The old branches of the business established in England, with out exception, continue mast satisfactorily to expand and prosper, and new ones recently formed will hereafter, from their present promising condition, call for special notice. The branches at Bristol, Birmingham, and Southampton, upheld by the respected and influential members of their respective local boards of management, give promise of taking the highest standing among their contemporaries in their various districts. The directors look back at the hopeful anticipations with respect to the future contained in their reports to the share holders throughout the various important crises which have taken place in this country during the last 18 years, and are unable to recal one which has not been far more th n realised by the concurrent event which it attempted to shadow forth. They, therefore, with much stronger confidence, nowo,l- elude their present report with the expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal Insurance CorapannsYs went never more encouraging or brighter, and of a cone, ;Jere that hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the the future may unfold for it a sphere of still ess to the greater magni tude, combining distinguished commercialo _ . n ea re an , a pro office with a lengthened career of great at 3 tection to the public. m DIVID END AND nor e e a a dof The directors beg now to rec.° inmn d th to t gether 7s divide . n free 3s. per share, and a b onus of 48 per share, , of income-tax, be declared. The Directors have the pleasure The CHAIRMAN said ell : whiitghhalyreport of the state of your of meeting you, gentlenmeide,r satisfactory ; and they affairs, which th e y.. w will b e so deemed by you. (Hear, hear.) do not doubt that it will eighteen years in existence; and its The " Royal" s i tua tion now, compared with what it was nine y ears ago, when we had reached a s c ni hed h a lf our present age, is so rearkbble that, although t i s alluded to in the report, I hope I may excusedbe i for again calling your attention to the fact that, whereas the firo premiums of the Royal, in its ninth year, were a b ou t £112,000, they are now, in its eighteenth y ear, a bove £300,000, or nearly three times the former amount ; and I believe I may state, without fear of contradiction, that a yearly income of £300,000, derived from fire business a l on e, by a single office, after an existence of eighteen years, is wholly unexampled. (Hear.) Then, gentlemen, taking the same period for comparison, the life premiums have in creased five-fold; and the amount paid to the "Royal," for the purchase of annuities, is eight times larger now than it was at the end of the former period. (Hear.) As further evidence of the rapid growth of your business, I may mention that, whereas nine years ago, the sum fissured on accepted lives amounted only to £182,423, the amount proposed to be insured on declined lives, during the year 1862, was £143,281. (Hear, hear.) We have thus before us the striking fact that the lives declined now are nearly equal to the numbers which, nine years ago, were aeeepted. ear, hear.) I may also remark, as beating upon this subject, that whereas the premiums received in the life branch, in the year 1861, were only £86,751, they amounted, in the year 1862, to £105,7C3. There was, therefore, an in crease of £18,952 ; and I think you will agree with me, gen tlemen, that this is an enormous increase in life business, especially when you take into account the constant waste going on, by policies cancelled by death, or purchase, or lapsing from other Qo ntiagencies. (Hear, hear.) i t Is an kely to continue than if it took placf in one or two countries only. Well, gentlemen, the profit of the year shows an in creasing average ; and, although we cannot 6ommand sue- CCSF, I trust you will think that it is evidence, to some extent, o watchfulness and care on the part of the Board of Diecc tore, and of the excellent; einiler:3 of the Compaay. (Hear, hear.) The profit on the North American business 2-tmouute ,o £11,(:57, which your directors propcm=e, as inentioued in consequence s r e e q p u c e r n t , c t c :oetatrhr the effect e t fr o e t c q e u d i i r r e e m c teonrtss recommend of t e law, and a d7v have been made in that country, hi. in conformitywith the profit on the other branches of o ce dw t ut i . u cd n e_cd t h Of o the investments which mh o ilfl y inw o l u s r ici F h,e i r re sh b a u r s e in , business deplorable warfar e Whicilthiars e n unhappily,dn have otfh ebt stillhEe xenceghosishillingsnnggExchanges nb. depreciated yap, thehie nre amounts g itnts share, and a bonus of four for the past year, to the sum requirements 45,107. Out of this fund to gether seven shillings per share, will absorb £34,000, sum and leave a balance of £11,107. Thisthe director s propose to place to the credit of pr o fit and loss, l which will then have the credit balance, as on the 31st o December, last of £58,042. The Reserved Fund amounted on thsa £96,262, so that these two items together make an l" day a gate y to of £154,304. One other topic -em will _l2LobablYggexrepect me to-allude- to. The directtpr'fittfe long fell the impor tance of obtaining offices in Londo n, more commensur: with the importance and magnitude of their business than those they now occupy; and they have secured, after a long delay, a plot of land in Lombard-street, which is eminently suitable to their wants, upon what are considered, by those well qualified to judge, very favourable terms. After pro viding for your own requirements, there will remain a large amount of office accommodation, which the directors of the London Board expect to be able to let, at highly remunera tive rents. (Hear.) The land has cost £45,000 ; and it is estimated that the erection of the building—with furniture, interest, and architect's commission—will involve a farther outlay of £25,000. The entire expenditure, therefore, will be £70,000, for which your directors do not doubt you will receive a good rate of interest. The building at Montreal is nearly finished ; a large portion of the offices are already let, and it promises to be an excellent investment. Nothing further occurs to me, at this moment, to remark upon; but I shall be happy to answer any question which may be put to me, and to give any additional information which any proprietor may require. I beg to move— " That the report now read be received and adopted, and printed for circulation amongst the proprietors." Mr. T. Boum seconded the resolution, which was car ried unanimously. _ _ It was then resolved --" That this meeting approves of the declaration by the directors of a dividend of 3s. per share, and a bonus of 4s. per share, out of the profits of the com pany, to the 31st Dec., 1862, —the same to be payable on or after Monday, the 17th of August instant, free of income tax." The following resolution was also carried with unani mity :—" It being stated that during the past year Francis J. Johnston, Esq., and Henry Royds. Esq., had been elected directors, and that the following directors retire by rotation at this meeting, but were eligible for re-election, viz. :—Geo. Booker, Esq., Jas. Holme, Esq., James Law rence, Esq., David Cannon, Esq., T. D. liornby, Esq., John Torr, Esq. Resolved tbat the retiring directors be re-elected directors of this company." _ _ The auditors, Messrs. Titherington and Younghusband, were also re-elected. It was then unanimously resolved :—" That the thanks of this meeting be presented to the chairman, deputy chair man, and directors of the company; to the directors and secretary of the London branch; to the members of the managing committee, and the company's agents at New York; and to the members of the respective Boards of Management in this country, for their valuable services during the past year." On the motion of the CHAIRMAN the best thanks of the shareholders were unanimously accorded to Mr. P. M. Dove, and the staff generally. Mr. PERCY M. DOVE, in returning thanks, said—The contents of the report and the speeches of the chairman and other gentlemen leave me little to add to that subject on which I would wish emelusively to dwell in acknowledg ing the kind mention of my name. Yet the growing pros -1 perity and still gathering strength of the "Royal" muy be shown in so many ways, that all have not even now been exhausted. (Hear, hear.) For instance, nothing could be more satisfying to our life policy holders, or indeed to our fire insurers, than to be told such facts as the following showing the increase of our resources— that 16 years since, our accumulated funds were something under a quarter of a million sterling —that eight years from that time they were double that sum; and now that another eight years have witnessed the latter amount doubled, or, in other words, that we have four times the available and accessible funds that we had 16 years since, (Hear, hear.) These are the points with which the insurers, either in fire or life transactions, are the most interested, and such are the ad vantages derivable from these public statements of your accounts made year by year, after undergoing severe ordeal at the hands of our auditors, such as has been described. (Hear, hear.) We have, then, not to rest our claim for con fidence solely on our prestige, which in other branches ef com mercial transactions have within the last few years, though ancient, sometimes only concealed gradual decay, and long existing decrepitude. We show you annually the statement of our accounts, and of your resources, so that you would not meet with any reasonable insurer, who would doubt the capacity of this company in common with other respectable companies to meet all its engagements, however great their magnitude. (Hear, hear.) It may therefore be safely asserted that if you select two insurers, one for fifty pounds and one for five thousand, each will have a moral certainty, and one not in the least degree more than the other, that assurance in the " Royal" indicates safety to himself. (Hear, hear.) Other methods of laying this matter prominently b e f ore you m i g h t b e use d if t i me per mitted, or if it were at all needed, (Hear, hear.) Every thing makes us in fact thankful for the past and hopeful for the future, (Hear, hear.) The progress of last year has been made under more than usual difficulties. N.Ve have had competition in this country t o struggle th, new of its kind and somewhat unwise, as will perhapslt mills ulti mately be shown in its action. Bes ides this, and a paucity of cotton telling more or less on all compa nies, tell more on the " Royal" than on many others, front its local habitation. Yet we havo thankfully to say that we have overcome both these obstacles most successfully. As respects the Fire Branch our returns of duty clearly show this. No evidence can be more conclusive than the one afforded by this test which has been used long before this company was in existence by the oldest office in the country, and since then referred to by oth ers w ith ex pressions of pride whenits revelations have been favour able t o them. (Hear, i hear.) But our p rogress thi s year, I may add, s more flattering and encou• rag i ng to the company, as it indicates a rapid increase still further of the confidence of the public. This, notwithstand ing a constant like experience for many years, has astonished the entire est a bli s h ment b y i ts results in the flow of business which has come in, and which has taxed our utmost strength to meet. (Hear, hear.) Again, the duty paid within the last six months, the teat of our home fire business, is larger than ever. The new life business, both in number and in the aggregate sum proposed for as surance, the test o f th e o th er b ranc h , f u ll y equa l s t h e ex traordinary results of last year. (Hear, hear,) We trust, therefore, that, great as has been the revenue of the Royal Insurance Company in the last year, it will be exceeded by the results of the present year ; and, if it be as successful, lam sure we need all be well satisfied. (Hear, hear.) The meeting then broke up. - - _ A MAIDEN BY MOONLIGHT.—But that the fol lowing is a fragment from Richter's "Titan," one would be disposed to call it slightly rhapsodical ;—" Young, open, still Madonna-brow, upon which no vexation and no effort had as yet cast a wave ; and the thin, tender, scarcely arched line of the eyebrows; and the face like a perfect pearl, oval and white; and the loosely-flowing ringlets lying on the May-flowers over her heart ; and the large blue eyes which, while the head sank a little, opened up ward with such inexpressible beauty, and seemed to lose themselves in dreams and in distant plains, reflecting the evening twilight's glow." A VETERAN. — CoIonei Waugh, at his late exami nation in the Bankruptcy Court, insisted much on tho posi tion that he was au "old soldier." Nobody doubted it. — Punch. CATTAIN SMALES.—The following is the official letter communicating to Captain Smales the fact of a pardon having been extended to him :—" Horse-Guards, July 2S, 1863.—5ir,--I am directed by the Field-Marshal Commanding-in -Chief to inform you that the Judge Advo cate.-General has represented to his Royal Highness that in consequence of further information having been ob t ained concerning- the manner in whi ch ) ' our trial b y court-mar tial had been conducted, th e p roceedings are in hi s opinion vitiated. His Royal Highness, therefore, felt hi mse lf ca l led upon to recommend to the Queen, in accordance with the suggestion of the Judge Advocate-General, that her Majesty would bo pleased to extend to you her most gracious pardon, to take effect from the date thereof (21st inst.), but not oper ate in any manner to rei ns t ate you as P a ymaster of th to 6 t h Dragoons, and her /M a j es t y h as b een graciously pleased recommendation, a pprove of this and to grant you her pardon accordingly. e (Si gne d) W. F. FOSTER.--. T o Thomas Smales, Esq , lat e P a ymaster, 6th Dragoons." s /1