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' but 61° - 2re a 61166° ,d. s' -0 to 6 1 0 to 1? 0 60 to 26 0 ) 6 to 11 - L ‘ 0 to ` 2° 0 to '2B iss Oct. Oct. u ,;s. Sept. I.Sep. t . .Sept. . Sept. I S . . Sept. .Sept. '2l; • Sept. 2;',; ~Septyv ' . Oct. 0 .;, Se pt. io• • S e pt. 2 0 . :Oct. 1. :Sept, 24, t. Sept. 1 8, ~Oct. 10 , • Sept. 2 4 ' . Sept. A S ' } Sept. 28' -. , Mrs, T• wiclohire, In. Y 9 thew K en t, tb° E. Bin cr3° am-street, , solicitor, loomsbiir,r DNf Iladdivr ex. Revd def tileS3l3 op' 0100 1 " .1rowar(11 • PliillipOt ll' ChaS• Established 1840. TRUSTEES. F:J V No. 112 i CoUPtY ° NORT H BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1809. I ncorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. Accumulated and Invested Funds Annual Revenue 922,401 FIRE DEPARTMENT. Insuran-es firantei both at Home and in Foreign Countries on the most liberal terms. • LIFE DEPARTMENT. Every facility offered to Insurers. Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers " the participating, principle. The new Life business Iransacted in 1802 as follows : Policies. Am , rint In=ured. Premiums. 1,037 £763,334 £23.641 0 0 P °*Tric of Proposal and every information will be furnished 01 application at the loyD oN OFFICES : 58, Threadneedle-stree t . 4, New Bank Buildings. Lothhury. 'West-end Office B, Waterloo-Place, NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY. The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000. o The duty paid to Government for the year 1502 was ' °62 , and the amount insured on farming stock, X10 ,C56,32. A bonus of three-fifths of the profi , s periodically made to Parties Insuring, who have thus. from time to time, received s ums amounting in the aggregate to £440,000 ; and the Society now holds a large Reserve applimble to a future Bonus. ,The rates of premium are in no c ase hi gher than those , i _ l arZed by the other principal offices making no return s t o their Insurers. For pro , pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black friars, E.C. T HE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEAD OFFICES, 29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance buildinzs, Liverpool. Total Annual Revenue exceeds , 500,0 - o. Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,0'30,000. Chairman in Liverpool : CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P. Chairman in London : WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE TEAR 1812. The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now called upon . to make their accustomed periodical Report at the Meeting of its Shareholders. The FlRDirectorsE BRANCH. aa pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the close of the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire r T ln e nMS have not on ly reac h e d but exceed £30 0 , 000 . G o n hih comparative position held by the Royal in the „y.ernmgent Rerns of Duty is again fully msintained. 4 , 111 e profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably s .e s amount realised in the preceding year, and in tact sur r "es that of any year, with but two exceptions, sine.• the commencement of thi4 Office, the balance to the credit on scount of Briti s h an d F ore i gn I ns urances being £ 45,107 108 . r. el : , and of th e N orth American b us i nes s, whichis kept sepa• 4L eIY, £11,007 16s. 10d. Th e LIFE BRANCH. very gratifying duty now falls upon the Dir ectors to I' . l .. at e e the sum assured on ne w policies for the year 1662 even o that of the y esr 1861 by £ lBO,OOO, and has arrived x ..Yle almost unexampled amount for a sin g le y ear of n 4.7 1,408 new policies issued. Until within the last years it i s b el i eve d t h at suc h a sum acsured as that whichT, Just been announced as the result of one year's business Aar all but unheard of. W atched, Portion of the Company's business has been carefully and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the aeholder, as well as no small encouragement for the lute re to the participatitr , life assurer. afforded of continued care in the selection of lives is amply Ziorded by a statement of the number rejected. These have proposed to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum L"r:Posed for assuran^e mounts to £`44,281. Various degrees I .;,Pellgibility have led to these lives being declined. Bmall number of the Assurance ( ompanies of the day record_, their accepted lives annually at a sum not much. it at exceedino , those which the Royal has declared as inadmis ah a le in a single year from dete rioration of some kind or a nother. If, to complete their review , th e Directors now advert br iefly to the United Kingdom, they h ave to announce that Fire Business be progress has been undoubtedly more 11 Did than th a t o f any other Company e stablished either in Lo ndon or else w here, except when ama l g amations have taken place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evidence needless. The Directors conclude their present Report with the r c Pression of an opinion that t h e p ros p ects of the Royal I nsurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent to pe ' sounded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that future may untold for it a sphere of st il l greater magni tude,e, combining distinguished commercial su cc e ss to tile office with a ler gthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. P ROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASOCIATION. Thomas Barinz, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. Mutual Life Assurance for all classes. This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a total sum of £1,500,000. The Annual income is The Accumulated Fund exceeds It has paid in Claims .. £51,000 2'0, , 00 .. 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 £5,400 .. 11,500 .. 23 200 .. 56,500 Dec. 31, 1847 .. „ 1852 .. „ 1857 .. raakinz th „ 1862 e total bonus additions, £96,606. Bonuses ma; be received in cash or applied to the reduc tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an addition to the t obey. Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid -119 Policies introduced by this Association, by which the sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of Po 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. W3l. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1861 --___ 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. Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. „ Jo hn Garrett Cattlev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. ``ark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson , Esq. W illiam Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. A lexander Druce, Esq. Samnel Leo Schuster, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Ri versdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. itobt. 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 effected with this Corporation 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 nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums payable by persons who preferrl that form of Bonus. The divisions of P ro fi t take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding £l5 ,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured— Liberal participation in Proflts—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 Stock. The advantages of modern practice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF. The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve In the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Offire, Aldershot, 2d September, 1863. TENDERS will he received at 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, 1883, to 3 st October, 1804, for the use of ITer Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on apt,lication at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for Forage"), and no Tender win be noticed Unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commis wary-General. ARMY CONTRACTS. TENDERS will be received at this Office until 12 o'clock noon on the tel of October, from persons who may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW, in such quantities as may be required, for the use of Her Majesty's Land Force s stationed in the following places, from Ist Noycmber, 1863, to 31st October, 1861 : FORAGE. 1. Hyde-park, Kensington, Regent's-park, and Guards. 2. Houn s l ow an d Kneller Hall. Horse 3. Hampton Court. 4. Windsor. 5. lirtubton. 6. Sandhurst. 7. Enfield. 1. Brornpton HouPale,lHMjyjdWaErkS,TanßdAßWen• sington. 2. Iteg ß en a t rr 's a la s r . k, St. John's - wood, and Bt. Chelsea. Barr ac k s. and Portman-street 4 3 . Wellington S. New Barracks, an 5. The Tower. 6. Hounslow and Kneller Hall. 7. Hampton Court. 3. Windsor. O. Brighton, with Coast Forts from N ham. etvhwell to Shore -10. Croydon. Separate Tenders must be made for Forage a n d for pail_ lasso Straw for each ot the above-mentioned Stations 0r - el.": Bar racks as group i and numbered. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may b tamed on application at this office, b y le tter or in e ob. between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. perso n, Tenders on the priutel forms must be properly " fi ), lled before and simied, and no Tender will be noticed unless deliver ed ti at the under-mentioned I 'Mee, under closed envelope (marked It a t he outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies ' o'clock noon on the 3d October next. (signed) W. T. POWER, Comm esary-General. bePu, Commissary-General's...s.%.„ Office, 1.04 -^-strept pgardens, don' ' o' , S,w, loth pept,, 186; ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail• 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 aid instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have MO 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 a❑able them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Alas terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Harries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W ]Hams, Deacon, and Co. ; reverend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretar R OYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONEsS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, li. G., P.R.S. CHAIRMAN--Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., v.p. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., P.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since • lie beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat I .nstitution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of Eng'and, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Lite-boats of the Society, iind other means, since its formation, is 12,800 ; for whi c h services 82 Go ld 6l e d a ls, 718 Silver Medals, and £11,480 . in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion nas al so expen d e d . E67,' 00 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-carria g es e, an d Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of the generous British public during the past few years, a support which support which they have received from the has enabled the m 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 i' t Crews practised in the management of their boats, whiq, can only be effected by a large and permanent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a work. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributions : Her Majesty the Queen X s. zi :: .. annual "nual 50 5 0 0 • annual 1 1 0 Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. Clerk, Colonel, KA. • • .. K..e.8. .•: 2d don. 25 0 0 Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers •..: annual 10 0 0 Currie, IVM., I'~sq• , • • • • -• .. 4 tlt don.lo 0 0 rmtliereal 10 10 0 1, 14:, a r l n e s , h L a o ,, r , e d , C v h i c i e e f . ~ 1 ..1 Fenwick, G. T., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran sporting' Carriage . f _ • • • • .. _ .. 250 0 0 apt. Harvi Rev. G. G. and Mrs. • • don. 3 0 0 •, - Martin, ey Sir Henry, Bart. • • • • 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore. Rev. G. H. • • • • • • • • don. 15 15 0 Smith, Mrs. George , Greenwich • • • • 3 0 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. • • annual 2 0 0 Thou.. Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her Ladyship • • • • • • • •• • • 16 16 0 Willoughby d'Erosby, Lord ......annual 5 0 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfblly r - eived by the Bankers of the Intitution, Messrs. 'Mut e s Percival. and Co., 76, Lombard -street ; Messrs. Coutts anci 1 0 - , 59 , Strand; q essrs . Berries, Faxouhar , and Co., 16, St. _ a tnei's-strect, London ; by a 1 the Collectors of Customs Mc_i,Bankers in the Unitedßiogdom; and by the Secretary I",Vitard Lewis. Esu at the Office Of the Institution, 14, 72t reeto AaelpWLondon, (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The deaths in London in the week that ended last Sa turday were I,'h's7. The average uuwber of deaths in the 37th week of each of the 10 years, 1853-62, becomes 1,158, when deaths from cholera in 1854 are excluded from the cal culation, and a correction made for increase of population. Tho deaths in. last week were about 100 in excess of the estimated number. The mortality from smallpox is now greatly reduced, the deaths from it in the last three weeks having been 31, 29, and 28 reqectively. The deaths from diarrhoea, which reached 233 in the third week of July, have fallen to 93, as shown in the present return. Scarlatina is at the present time the most formidable of the epidemic diseases ; it was fatal in 124 cases in the week, while measles was returned in only 7 cases. There were 4 deaths from scarlatina in Kensington-town sub-district, 4 in Kentish-town,7 in Islington, 9 in Bethnal green district, 9 in 'SVhitechapel, 4 in Poplar, and 11 in Newington. Last week the births of 938 boys and 985 girl©, in all 1,923 children, were registered in London. In the 10 correspond ing weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number (cor rected) was 1,802. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 801 in. The mean daily reading was above 30 in. on Friday and Saturday. The barometrical pressure fell to 29'40 in. on Monday; and it rose to 33.10 in. on Saturday, The mean temperature of the air in the week was 54 . 5 deg., which is 3.1 deg. below the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was below the average throughout the week. The highest day tempera ture was 66.6 deg. on Monday. The lowest night tempe rature was 42.3 deg. on Friday. The range of the thermo meter in the week was therefore 2.1'3 Oeg. The mean daily range was 17.6 deg. The difference between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 71 deg. The mean degree of humdity of the air was 76,complete saturation being represented by 100. The wind was in the south-west on five days. Nearly an inch of rain fell on four days, and of that amount 4-10ths on Thursday. A thunder• storm occurred after 10 p.m. on Wednesday. The mean of the highest temperature of the water of the Thames was 63.8 deg. ; that of the lowest was 61.6 deg. THE ANNAMITE AMBASSADORS IN PARIS.—The Annamite Ambassadors, whose arrival we yester- day announced, are the objects of great curiosity to the Parisians. Their appearance cannot be said to be prepos sessing, and eleanliness they seem to look upon as a crime. Like the Chinese and Japanese they dispense with pocket handkerchiefs, but the square pieces of paper which the for mer use as a substitute, either have not found their way to the kingdom of Annam, or are considered there as one of the supet fluities of exaggerated civilisation. The cones - - quences are not pleasant to witness, the change of climate having affected some of the distinguished visitors with coryz3. It has also been seen with surprise that the chief dignitaries among them alone wear shoes—rank with the Annamites being outwardly marked by the covering for the feet. They are great smokers,and are hardly ever to be seen without a cigar or cigarette in their mouth, and they are said to show a lively appreciation of FL each cuisine; they are fond of champagne, and truffles in particular meet with their approbation ; they are even said to prefer this savoury tuber to their favourite dish at home—pickled caterpillars. Like other countries, the empire at Annam possesses several orders of chivalry—the Order of the "Elephant's Tusk," and that of the " Horn of the Rhinoceros" being the prin cipal. These honorary marks of distinction are not, it is stated, greatly coveted, as the insignia weighs, according to the various classes, from 15 to 100 pounds, so that a grand cross is exposed literally to sink beneath the weight of his sovereign's favour, The ambassadors have commenced their rounds of official visits, and are said to be well versed in the laws of etiquette. The first ambassador—described as re markable for his intelligence, and for that reason looked upon with suspicion at the Court of Hue--is accompanied by two great dignitaries, who under the pretence of assisting him are specially charged to keep a watch over him. He is re ported to be aware of this, and takes his precautions in con sequence. The account which has been given of their mis sion appears to be true. The Emperor of Annam wishes to recover the three provinces of Lower Cochin-China cccupied by the French. The motive for this desire is not so much to recover a few hundred leagues of territory as to plunder and hang the faithless subjects who have submitted to the French. At the same time he would not be sorry to dupo the foreign barbarians, to whom be offers, it is said, 40,000,000f.without having the remotest intention of giving them a sou, The ambassadors will consequently have to broach a very difficult question, and the more so as it is with people already aware of their manner of interpreting treaties they have to deal with. Accustomed as they are to conceal their thoughts and never telling the truth, they be lieve that every one else acts in the same manner. Thus, when the first ambassador was informed of the arrival of Commander Aubaret, who is charged to escort them while in France, he perfectly understood he was about to have to do with a man who knew how to manage them, and could not help exclaiming " Bon l nous allons 6changer autant de mensonges que de paroles." The ambassadors will not be presented at Court until the Emperor's arrival at Compii:gne in the course of next month.—Galignani. DARING BURGLARY AND CLEVER CAPTURE. —On Monday evening, the premises of Mr. James Clark, umbrella manufacturer and warehouseman, Candleriggs street, Glasgow, were broken into, and a cash box and £44 stolen. The premises were locked up at the usual time, a little past 7 o'clock, when it was believed everything was secure. Shortly before eight, however, a girl on the back stairs ob served three boys making their exit from one of Mr. Clark's back windows, and accordingly informed Mr. Morrison, stay manufacturer, of what she had seen. Mr. Morrison promptly informed the police of the matter, and at once steps were taken to discover the robbers. As it was pos• Bible that some of the party might still be inside, the pre mises were surrounded by constable s , and a messenger sent. to Mr. Clark to bring the keys of his establishment. This being done, on entering the premises ne one was found, but it was apparent that facilities for the entrance of the robbers must have been given from within. It was also discovered that a desk in the counting-house up stairs and one in the shop on the street flat had been forced open, and the money they contained, amounting to £44, carried off. A pair of boy's boots had been left behind, and these were carefully preserved by the police. Suspicion was at once attached to John Maitland, a lad of thirteen years old, who was in the habit of closing the back windows. Hence Detectives Stewart and Harley were sent to Whitevale to apprehend him. To apprehend the other boys, who must have taken part in t he robber y , was no w the duty set down for the detective p olice. With a rath er imperfect description of them, they sallied forth to scour the city. About midnight a little light was thrown upon their pathway, by the inquiries of a woman named Ramsay and a man named Moffat, at the Central Police -office for boys belonging to them who had not come home as usual that evening. Sub-inspector Audley Thomson, w h o took a note of the description and names of the missing boys, shrewdly guessed that the youths might hs,vo had some thing to do with the burglary, and therefore produced the boots which had been found in Mr. Clark's warehouse, in quiring whether either person knew them. Mrs. Ramsay at once identified them as belonging to her son. When Maitland was brought to the station-house he confessed it was he and two other boys who had committed the depredation—the other boys being Ramsay, aged 13, living in Wesleyan street, and James Moffatt, aged 16, residing in Nelson -street. What had become of them he could not say, as they had been disturbed on coming out with their booty, and had taken a different way and had left him, but he had heard them speak of going to Liverpool or London. No further trace of the boys could be found until yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, when a telegram was being despatched from Glasgow to the Liverpool police, one was received from the chief constable of Liverpool informing the Glasgow chief constable that two boys named Ramsay and Moffatt had been apprehended that morning there, with £42 in their pos session. The boys :rust have left with the 9.10 p.m. train for Liverpool, b ut w h at cause d t h e Li ver pool police to ap prehend them is yet unknown. An officer has b een sent to Liverpool with a warrant to b r i ng t h em hither. Ramsay and Moffitt were both employed as message boys in a shop in Candleriggs, and hitherto all three prisoners had borne a good character,—North British Daily Mail. AnvErcrisEmENT.]—Avoid medicines: they always aggra vate chronic complaints, but Du Barry's Delicious Health Restoring Revalenta Arabica Food, which saves fifty times its cost in other remedies, invariably cures them, restoring perfect digestion, strong nerves, sound lungs, healthy liver, pure blood, refreshing sleep, functional regularity, and energy t, the most disordered or enfeebled. We extract a few out of 60,000 Cures :—Cure No. 58,216 or the Marchioness de Brehan, Paris, of a liver complaint, wasting away for seven years, debility, with a nervous palpitation all over, bad digestion, constant sleep] essn ess, the moat intolerable nervous agitation, and dreadfully low epirited.—Cure No. 1,771. Lord Stuart de Decies, Lord Lieut. of Waterford, of many years' dyspe p s ia. —No. 49,832. "Fifty years' indescribable aeony f r om dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipation, ny fia years' 2 spasms, sickness, and vomiting.—M ar i a Jolly. " —Cureor. James Roberts, of Primley, S urrey, o f thirty diseased lungs, spitting of blood, liver derange iso, . ment, and partial deafness.—Cure No. 47,121. Mies Elizabeth Jacobs, of extreme nervousness, indigestion, gatherings, low spirits, and nervous fancies.—Cure No. 54,516. The Rev. Jas T. Campbell, Fakenham, Norfolk, "of indigestion and torpi dity of the liver, which had restate all medical treatment.' In tins, 1 lb., 2s. Od. ; 21b., 4s. 6d ; 51b., its. ; 121 b., 225.: .41b 40s.—Barry Du Barry and Co., No. 77, Regent-street, London; also Fortnum and Mason ; and all Grocers and Chemists In . every town of the United litigqom. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Kehay as, Greek Minister of Finance, has forwarded to this committee the following letter in connection with his report on the state of the Greek Exchequer. This letter explains in a very satisfactory way the present position of Greek finance, and refers also to the important question of the bonds of 1824-5, which have now so much interest for the English public.-1 have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient servant, STEFANOS XENOS, Hon. Secretary. Philhellenic Committee-rooms, 12, Charing cross, S.W., Sept., 16. Ministry of Finance, Athens, Sept. 5, 1863. My dear Sir, —M. Routfos, the President of the Council of Ministers, has communicated to me the translations you forwarded to him of the letters of "A Philhellene," the article of the Times, and also your answers. I must con gratulate you on the lucidity of your replies, which so easily correct the erroneous opinions of "A Philhellene" regarding the state of our finances. I take advantage of this oppor tunity to forward you en explanation of the reasons that induced me to draw up my financial report, and to point out to you at the same time, more in detail, borne of the incorrect statements published on the subject. When I asked from the National Assembly a credit for the month of July (the entire Budget of 1863 could not yet be voted), I took occasion to make a brief exposé of the state of the National Exchequer and the consequent necessity of contracting a loan. Having been asked at the same time by one of the foreign ambassadors for a state ment of the monetary wants of the country, I hastened to publish, in the shape of a memorandum, the report I had presented to the National Assembly. It wag this report which M. Rouff3s forwarded to your committee. It is easy to perceive that I did not intend it as an expose of the Budget of the current year, or a picture of our future finan cial prospects, but simply as an answer to questions ad dressed to me, and a statement of the amount of loan required. (rile necessity for the loan is absolute.) That this is the real character of the report is proved by the fact that I only speak of our estimated possible revenues, and mention, en peasant, our trifling actual taxation as compared with other countries. It is strange that "A Philhellene" should have mistaken the report for the budget of the current year, making thereby some grievous errors. In the first place, he supposes that 12,000,000 drachmas am a deficit of the present year; and secondly, that 22,000,000 drachmas, which represent the constant yearly revenue of the country during some years past, should now be returned on the balance-sheet minus 6,000,000 drachmas. which "A Philhellene" regards as a visionary property, though these 6,000,000 are the proceeds of former arrears and revenue arising from the national pro perty. How incorrectly am I interpreted, and what strange burdens are thrown on this unfortunate budget of 18631 As you yourself correctly observed in your letter, this de ficit of 12,000,000 drachmas will be better described as an inheritance derived from the bad financial management of the Governments of the fallen dynasty, which was hidden by provisional loans, and by the refusal to meet acknowledged engagements, particularly with foreign creditors. It is true that a part of this amount represents monetary wants of the present year, but this is not a deficit between expenditure and revenue, but at rears of acknowledged and secured debts, the collection of which is postponed by the anomalous state of the country. It surprises me to find that after baying mentioned this in my report, the deficit of 12,000,000 drachmas, arising from explained causes, should still be characterised as a deficit attachable exclusively to the year 1863. And what appears still more extraordinary is the attempt to saddle even the future with tb.o same constantly recurring burdens. I ask you whether, when a European State transfers ancient loans, originating either in extraordinary expenses or other causes, from a dette flottante into Consaidis, it is assumed that the capital of such loans is to form a regular item in every future budget, or whether the interest only is to appear there ? What else do we purpose doing than to transfer into Consolide's all the debts contracted before the revolution of last year, and, at the same time, to cover by a loan the extra wants which this revolution has created ? I now come to the second erroneous argument of " A Philhellene," which, I have no doubt, arises more from mis take than a deliberate wish to misrepresent. In concluding my report, I wished, by contrasting the taxation in Greece of 10s. a head with that of other counties, to show how comparatively light our burdens are, and bow, without be coming onerous, they may be still increased, For this reason I divided the sources of revenue into two classes—firstly, the revenues arising from the real taxes (16,000,000 drachmas) —and secondly, the revenues arising from the income of the national property, and the arrears of taxes remaining from former years, amounting to 6,000,000 drachmas. "A Philhellene" mistook their classification for a;modification, and, regarding the 6,000,000 drachmas arising from the second source of revenue as visionary, adopted 16,000,000 drachmas as the real yearly revenue of the country. I consider it scarcely necessary to add that the yearly reveLue of 6,000,000 drachmas which I placed in the second class is much more likely to increase than to diminish, for, as I stated in the report, the national property, valued at more than 50,000,000 drachmas, and the arrears of debt to the nation, amounting to 60,000,000 drachmas, guarantee to the national treasury a yearly revenue of 6,000,000 drachmas. By a judicious arrangement, and with good management of the national property, this sort of revenue is capable of being vastly augmented. From this you will perceive how exaggerated are the sal • culations of " A Philhellene,' who raises our expenditure to £ 1 ,500,000, and lowers our revenue to VOO,OOO. When the contemplated loan is negotiated, I am positive that every thingwill be satisfactorily arranged, both as regards the deficit of 12,000,000 drachmas, and also every expense connected with the reception of our new King. The fears of a deficit in the next three months are wholly groundless —in the first place, because these three months fall at the end of the year, a period when most of the taxes become due ; and secondly, because the arrival of the King will re establish order, which will enable the outstanding taxes to be collected. I must inform you at the satno time that the loan taken from our National Bank of 3,600,000 drachmas, which we intend to settle out of the proceeds of the new foreign is not p aya bl e immediately—and oven, in case ofanu loan, nexpected public difficulty, its payment may be post poned. . . I must not pass over in silence the blame which "A Philhellene" throws on the National Assembly for having reduced the land -tax. This reduction was dictated by a spirit of justice towards all the tax-paying classes, and this reduction is compensated for by a proportionate impost on articles hitherto untaxed. What most surprises me is the effort made unsuccessfully it is true, but still made—by " A Philhellene," to mix up with my report the question of the old loans. My report had no other object than to show the unavoidable necessity of a loan in order to cover the present monetary difficulties of the country, and was wholly unconne cted with the sub ject of those bonds. My fervent desire was, and now more than ever is, to see the just demands of all the credit ors of the Greek Treasu r y sati sfied as soon as possible. This de sirety a h e s e c n o sun of justice as well as by the con i a mode of proc ee di n g would tend to the y. I know very well that the kingdom c annot be deve l o p e d, un l ess th at rvr eeicastol u i ow s rnec d let i l hs c b t ae a oti t nf e sgt d uhoce b hf which distinguishes civilised nations be established, namely, public credit—a fact which I - must confess was unfortu nately the different Governments of the fallen dyne lost y. sight of by But this subject cou ld no t b e made an item in my report, as noth in g was yet definitely decided regard ing it by the legislati ve bodie s , and, such being the ca se, I t think "A Philhellene" ought to have been satisfied with what I said regarding the ancient creditors of our country. In conclusion, I have reason to hope that the information which I have forwarded to you in this letter, though brief, will suffice for the present to enlighten public opinion in England regarding the state of our finances. Accept, my dear Sir, the assurance of my sincere friend ship. E. J. KEHAYAS. M. Stofanos Xenos, Hon. Sec. Philhellenic Committee, London. SUPERSTITION IN SOMERSETSHIRE.—A sad in stance of moral depravity, and a proof that the once popular belief in witchcraft has not entirely died out in our country villages, came before the magistrates of the Bridge water Divisional Petty Sessions last Week. The facts came out in a charge of assault preferred by two women—a mother and daughter—of Auntspill, against another woman of the same place, and from the evidence it app de fendant (Ann H ogg ) h a d for a long tit tle cons id ere d herself "hag ridden "—that is, she had ex eared that the sensa tions, non-orthod ox ma l a dies, &C. Sh e h a d f or som e time with the complainants before had occasion to " fall out " experienced queer (Charlotte and Ca ro li ne ), a nd in consDqueace her ignorance had led her to put down these feelings a n d illnesses to the c redit of a power possessed by the complainants. With this idea uppermost in her mind she had resources to the specific counter-charrn of "drawing blood from the bewileher, w hich operation was described by th e e lder of the com plainants thus :—" Between eight and n i ne o ' c lo c k on the evening of the 28th ult. I met the defendant the Hunt spill-road, and she came behind me end ran something in When she m y WhenssNbeliotthoe.r of us spoke. t. witch. It appears shoulder. prickedo u lm l det took she o t affe w c a mu s sye s de dressmm e t h o i fnt beinghg e s r h e a sharp, °r•zee" failed," but the belief that she was be witched, the daughter on thatfltvahiielt failure ahr t ree h md i d s :wd : ntr i h n os f tha a ilenl needle, o b eta l he e de : e leapten and nxeadtdaydedearyft drew wh r s te ;flood from her also.— , Irestern Daily Press, THE " MONITEUIt'S" TRIBUTE TO HIM, AND THE COMPLIMENTARY OPINIONS OF OTHER FRENCH PAPERS. In the customary theatrical review given every Monday all the principal Paris papers of yester day's date (said the Paris correspondent of the Mites in his communication of Tuesday even ing) make honourable mention of Charles Mathews's performance at the Varie es. The ifoniteur leads the van, and nearly the whole of Theophile Gautier's feuilleton is devoted to " The Timid Englishman." In him he finds a sign of the times, a new tendency, and one peculiar to our epoch :—" When English actors came to France for the first time, towards the close of the Restoration, their presence caused tumults which almost became riots. The national amour propre repulsed them with a violence such as to•day one can hardly ima gine. One might really have thought perfidious Albion was seriously attempting to dispossess us of our territory. Intercourse was then rare between the two nations, and there was little goodwill be tween them. The study of Shakapere, Byron, and Walter Scott had not then initiated us into the English imagination, and the grotesque caricatures due to the rancours of 1815 passed for striking por traits. On the other hand, the British had not a very correct idea of the French. They pictured them always as hairdressers and dancing-masters, feeding Exclusively on frogs. That was the sum total of their information concerning us, and Ho garth's old caricatures still appeared to them true to nature. Things have now changed. Thanks to steam, we breakfast in Paris and dine in London. People seldom hate one another except from want of sufficient acquaintance, and aversions generally spring from misapprehensions. Paris gave an en thusiastic reception to Macready and Helen Faucit, and London applauded Fechter playing in English as it had applauded him when that charming actor belonged to the French company at the St. James's Theatre. And now Mr. Charles Matthews pays us the compliment of coming to the VariC'es to perform in a piece of his own in cur language. Mr. Mathews is a first-class comedian, very cele brated in England, a distinguished author, and a pevfect gentleman. His success in Paris has been complete, especially since the piece has been relieved from certain developments rather too lengthy for Parisian impatience, which understands everything when only half-spoken, and listens no longer when once it has understood. Mr. Mathews has in his acting a something of Perlet, something of Henri Monnier, and something of Arnal, and, moreover, a special Britannic savour, which to our mind gives a great deal of originality to his play. His accent, exceedingly slight, destroys no illusion, since he is playing the part of an Englishman who is speaking French. Is it not strange that, at the moment when one of the most esteemed English comedians is acting in our language, Taillade is preparing to perform Macbeth in English at the Vaudeville Theatre ? Is it not a sign of that intellectual reconciliation we spoke of at the beginning of our article, and which has been brought about, after such long antipathies, by the progress of a civilisation which tends to blend all nations in one common humanity ?" Jules Janin in the Debats, the Temps, the France, the Presse—all, in short, speak in equally hand some and friendly terms. The Steele finds that Mathews's style of acting has something of Lafont and something of Levassor. The Temps declares that Levassor or Brasseur would envy him his carica ture of an Englishman, and urged him to select, in the French repertory, some of the pieces Levassor is wont to play; the Opinion Nationale [whose tri bute to Mr. Mathews has been already given in The Sun] wishing him to take Arnal's part of the "Homme Blase" which he has played habitually in the English version, and predicts a great success. As it is, in the " Anglais Timide," the papers all declare his success complete, and the best proof of it is that the Varietes, which was doing very badly with a stupid piece called " La Chanson de la Marguerite" before he came, now cannot find room for all who fain would have places. SUICIDE IN THE STREET.—Last night Mr. S. F Lang ham, deputy coroner for Westminster, held an inquiry at King's College Hospital, touching the death of John Hunter, aged 41, a tailor, lately residing at 41, Lower Whitecross-street, who committed suicide on Monday last. Caroline Hunter, wife of the deceased, said her husband had been in bad health for the last six months, and had threatened to commit suicide before he left home on Mon day morning. He also threatened witness, and said they had better go out of the world together. She did not see him after he left home on Monday morning until she saw him dead at the hospital. He was not in want, but had been so reduced by illness, she believed, as to affect his mind. Thomas Grant, carman, in the employ of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, deposed to finding the deceased on Monday morning, about 8 o'clock, inside the gateway of the George and Blue Boar •yard, Holborn, with his throat cut. No one was near him at the time. A shoemaker's knife was lying by his side. There was a great quantity of blood lying at his feet, as if he had fallen backwards. With assistance he put deceased in his van, and brought him to the hospital. He was not dead then. Witness had previously sent for Mr:Williams, surgeon. Police-constable Sutton said he was called by the last witness to the George and Blue Boar on Monday morning, lie found deceased as described by the last witness. lie asked deceased why he had done it, and ho said because he had a bad wife. He tried to seize the knife, and wanted witness to finish him at once. He also expressed the same wish to the surgeon. Mr. Williams, surgeon, Gray's. inn -road, proved being called to the de ceased. He attended to the wounds in his throat, and advised that he should be removed to the hospital. There were also some stabs in the stomach. Chas. Antonini, house surgeon at King's College Hospital, said deceased when admitted had a large gash in his throat about seven inches long, and was very much blanched from loss of blood. He was put to bed, but he died the same day. Death, no doubt, resulted from the wound in the throat. After further evidence the jury returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity." CELIBACY AND MARRIAGB.—Another volume of the " Population Tables," compiled from the English census returns of 1861, has been issued. Among the subjects with which it deals is that of the civil condition of the people of England and Wales. In April, 1861, there were found to be in England and Wales 12,032,157 persons—men, women, and children—who had never been married, 6,917,395 per sons married, and 1,116,672 persons widowed—in all 20,066,224. The females were 10,289,965 in number, being 513,706 more than the males ; but against this excess must be set about 162,000 for persons belonging to England in the army and navy, and merchant seamen abroad at the time of taking the census, and consisting mostly of adult males. With regard to the condition of women, we learn that while the increase of the entire population of England and Wales in the ten years 1851-61 was below 12 per cent, and the increase in the total numb er of f e m ales was be low 13 per cent, the increase in the number of wives was above 15 per cent. In 1851 t her e were 3 , 015 ,634 mar ried women in England and Wales ; in 18 61 there were 3,488,952. The proportion o f children to a marriage and the increase a w er e which marriage under o lg f a2rsr i33,e aetakeso rs populationof a agree greatly affected by th e age place.w h the census was taken in The number of wives in 1851 was 290,034 ; but in 1861 the number had risen to 350,919, an increase of more than a fifth. Marriages in creased in the ton years, and celibacy declined. The census of 1851 found in England and Wales 62'5 per cent of its male population an.' 59 . 8 per cent of its female population unmarried ; at the census of 1861 the proportions had fallen to 61.2 per cent among the males and 581 per cent among the females. But this is calculating on the whole popula tion, children as well as adults; the adult bachelors, men of 20 and upwards, fell from being 30.28 per cent of all the adult males in 1851 t o b e on ly 27.67 per cent in 1851, and the adult spinsters from 28.32 per cent of all the adult females in 1851 to 2612 per cent in 1561. Of the women of the age of 20 and upwards, therefore, 28 in every 100 were without husbands in 1851, not 27 in 100 in 1861. Or, taking none but persons in the prime of life, 20 and under 40 years of age, 45 in 100 of the men of this age were bachelors i n 1851, but only 42 in 1861; and of the women 41 in 100 were spiesters in 1851, but only 39 in 1861. These figures indi cate a time of prosperity and comfort, It is true that the census of 1861 still found in England and Wales 1,201,576 of the men between 20 and 40 years of age bachelors, and 1,229,051 of the women between 20 and 40 left i n celibacy; but it must be remembered that the celibacy of some makes it prudent for the rest to marry. The census again shows that though a large number of men. and women n ever marr y the population in England can . increase moderat e ly, an d th e I work of colonial)* and subduing the earth still go Q 44 THE NAVY. The Cumberland, 74, Capt. w. K. Hall, C.B. guardship of the Chatham steam reserve, is bein stripped of her rigging, in order to be fitted with a pair of masting shears, for meeting small vessels on the plan proposed to the Admiralty by Capt. Hall, by which it will no lenger be necessary to send the vessels either to Sheerness or Chatham to be masted. The paddlewheel steamer Salamander, 6,818 tons, 220 horse power, fitting for the Chatham steam re serve in the Medway, has been almost entirely rebuilt, having undergone a very extensive repair, besides being fitted with new boilers, in addition to which her machinery has undergone a thorough overhaul. Her standing and upper rigging has been fixed, and she will shortly be ready to take her place in the first division cf the steam reserve. The screw frigate Tamar, 3, 2,812 tons, 500 horse power, Capt. F. H. Stirling, fitting at the Yore for immediate service at sea, is receiving on board nearly 1,000 tons of coals in the great basin, where two colliers are alongside discharging. The coals are all heisted on board by means of the steam cranes, by which a great saving of time is effected. Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., the Civil Lord of the Ad miralty, is now on a visit to Portsmouth dockyard, accompanied by Mr. Walker, Inspector and Auditor of Dockyard Accounts, engaged in investigating the principles and data upon which future annual Parliamentary returns of dockyard expenses are to be made out. The Speedy, screw gun-vessel, Master Comman der Burney, in commission for service at the Chan nel Islands, having undergone repairs to hull and machinery at Portsmouth, and received new boilers, t , e which r d a hs yehemt has the realisedeasc tested machinery also r dn supervisione ayt undergone the awn domer rkegeaomdnen of f as speedut ir the satisfactorily. fda heavyco toofficers repairs mile eri s o g in ti wtStokesheaarstCondensing, yesterday l t e e ß e s n ay underthe steam factory and reser ve of Portsmouth yard. knots, and under high pre ssure s h e ra th er exceeded The Sprightly, paddle-tender, M as t er Comman der at Portsmouth, and received new boilers, was tested at Spithead in the working of her machinery on Tuesday, and was tried at the measured mile. The Pioneer, 6, screw despatch-vessel, Comman• der Robinson, recently returned to England from service on the Australian station, hauled alongside the shear jetty of Portsmouth yard yes terday, and was dismasted under the shears. She is cleared out and her stores are returned, and will be paid out of commission after the conclusion of a court martial, expected to be held on one of her subordinate officers, which will probably take place to-day. The Lyra, 9, screw, Wasp, 17, screw, and Falcon, 17, screw, wooden corvettes, are being brought forward for commission as rapidly as possible by the r seamen riggers s d and reserve in the steam basin of The Hector, iron frigate, still remains in the large dock at Portsmouth, and from the slow progress being made with her outfit, will in all probability remain there until driven out by the wants of the Channel fleet on their arrival at Spithead at the conclusion of their present cruise. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty :—Andrew Farmer, master, to the Zebra; Robert Brown, master, additional, to the Fisgard ; John A. H. Marcus, assist.-engineer, to the Asia as supernumerary ; James It. Gow, master's assistant, supernumerary, to the Euryalus ; Edward M. Ommanney, clerk, to the Alert; and Charles H. Baker, clerk, to the Royal Adelaide, as supernumerary. 0 X F 0 It D 1 1 " 6, 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 Ellison, Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean &c. Comic. by lINSWORTH ("or any oiher man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson. Als a Pet fortnance by Herr S HAL KENBACH on his wonderful inst. ument, the PIANO ORCHE6TRE, contain ing a full batid of 40 instruments. Ihe HALL h-is 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, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order 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 Picture Gallery to the Concert Ball, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal coiT and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. k'ilvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im provements and effects), REPRESkNTATIONS EACH EVENING, at Ten o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; ULsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c. 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Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches, Beetles, Gnats, Mosquitos, cloths 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 orig.inal 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 autograph of THOMAS KEATING Sold in packets, ls., 2s. 6d., and 4s. 6d. each, or post free for 14 or 36 postage stamps, by Thomas Keating, chemist, 79, St. Paul's-churchyard, London, EC. RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. VWHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXIIIBITED IN Tim GREAT 1-XIIIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two liundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of 11 ERN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, .s here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the floe-;Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease 'lid 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 aumlerence of the body, two inches below the hips, being 'ent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, ls. A Doublo Truss, 31s. ed., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, la Bd. In Umbilical Truss, 425. and 528. 6d. Postage, la. 10d. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, &o. They are .orous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on 1) ean ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6(1., 7s. 6d, 10s., to 16s. each. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. CELEBRATION of the TERCENTEN ARY of the BIRTH of SIIAKSPEARE, at Stratford-upon- Avon. The Tercentenary Committee (of which Sir Robert N. C. Hamilton, Bart., K.C. 8., is Chairman! are now receiv ing SUBSCRIPTIONS, and they may also be paid to the account of the Tercentenary Committee, at the Stourbridge and Kidderminster or Warwick and Leamington Banks, Stratford-upon-Avon ; Messrs. Greenway, Smith, and Greenway, Warwick ; or their 1 ondon agents, Messrs. Smith, Payne. and co , Messrs Hanburys and Co., or Messrs. Glyn and Co, bankers, London. The Tercentenary Committee, in submitting the subscrip tion list to the nation, most earnestly appeal to the admirers of Shakspeare for their aid and assistance. The Committee rest their claims upon the ground that Stratford is not only the birthplace of Shakspeare. but the centre of attraction to all admirers of the great Poet's works, and that it was his home, the town he loved, and where he lived and died. THE ARMY. On Friday, the 25th inst., the 2d battalion of Coldstream Guards, now stationed at the Sheet street Barracks for garrison duty it Windsor, will leave for the new barracks, Pimlico. This battalion will be relieved by the 3d battalion of Grenadiers, from St. George's Barracks, Charing-cross. The change of the troops being earlier than usual is in consequence of the lease of the Portman-street Bar racks having expired, and the building being about to be pulled down. The undermentioned draughts are ordered to be held in readiness to embark for New Zealand, to complete the strength of the service companies of their respective corps—viz., 2 officers and 119 men of all ranks, 70th Foot, 27 men of the Royal Horse Artillery, and 15 men of the Royal Engineers, with one Medical Staff surgeon. They are to embark at Gravesend. The following draughts embark at Cork :-1 officer and 144 me❑ of all ranks, 23 bat talion 18th Foot, from Buttivant ; 2 officers and 30 rank and file, 40th Regiment ; 5 officers and 36 all ranks, 65th Foot, from Birr ; and 2 officers and 41 men, 57th, from the 20th depot battalion at Cork— making a total of 13 officers and 412 non-commis sioned officers and privates. nd th e attempting approaches to aP Lieut. C. S. Beauchamp, with Lieut. G. W. Gif ford and three other officers of the Royal Engineers, arrived at Gravesend yesterday in charge of 75 non commissioned officers and privates, to go through the annual course of ball firing at the rifle ranges below Gravesend, under the instructor of musketry, Capt. C. R. Lempriere, Royal Engineers. During the present week the whole of the officers and men belonging to the first division Depot Bri gademending) have undergone inepection at headquarters, Sheerness, by Col. W. R. Nedham, 8.A., commanding the garrison at that Royal Artillery ,(nLeietuhte.-i(r3oul.sußal. Talbothalf-y half-yearly and staff. At the conclusion of the inspection the troops received the warmest praise of the gal lant colonel for their martial appearance and gene ral efficient state. Preparations are now being made by the contrac tors for commencing the construction of the large semi-circular casemated fort at the entrance of the Medway, which is intended to guard the passage completed b art the eps passage s m sa e g to Chatham harbour, the foundations having been allowed to elapse to allow for their consolidation. The position of the fort will enable it to effectually etiomfe any y ece and a sufficient period proach either Sheerness or Chatham dockyards. It is intended, on the completion of this and the other forts which command the heaviest to the Medway, to arm them with the moat projectiles, recent events at Charleston proving throwingin exact pro portionrapidly nt used. The position which the work occupies in relation to the adjacent defences which command the main chan powerful to description th e description o n f s , a rarmament h roach 'will enable its armament to be that t o f f or a ts p p are oulY worked with decisive effect against shipping at a comparatively short range, while its formation will allow of a concentration of fire at any given point. The passage of the rivers Thames and Medway will also be guarded by the extensive fortifications, now approaching completion, erected on the Isle of Grain, the guns mounted upon which will have entire control of the mid-channels of both streams. Both sides of the estuary of the Medway will, on the completion of the works now in progress, possess a line of powerful batteries. A BODY FOUND IN A GLACIER.—The body of a man, a native of Passy, near Chamounix, who bad been missing for the last 19 years, has just been discovered is the crevice of a glacier de Bruet, near Mont Blanc. He left his home on 14th Sept., Sept. 1544, on a pilgrimage to the Great St. Bernard, and had not been since heard of until a few days back, when a pedestrian, exploring the glacier, came upon the body, which wrs in a perfect state of preservation. After being identified, the body was strapped to a plank, and conveyed on the back of a COMEOi3-• sionaire over the mountains to Passy, where he was buried —after "layin& stato" for 24 hours,—Gallinani. spires the following retlectims to M. Fore* in de Revue des Deux Mondes, the new number of which appears to-day :—" How nervous speculators must have felt after the panic of Saturday when they tore open the Momiteur on Sunday morning ! How relieved they must have felt when they found that the official sheet contained nothing but the decree making M. de Persigny a duke. It is undeniable that the anxieties of the readers of the Moniteur could not be more happily dispelled. It is a real piece of good fortune for the ex-Minister of the Interior that the publicity given to his exaltation should have occurred just in time to dissipate such intense alarm. We have then another civilian for a duke. We have already stated our opinion on the subject of the institution of civilian dukes, and there n or c a i n s w no e n n e o e w d na to a repeat co coronetsit.ru r m i l n t r de V ost o ono u td d hue n k o efi t ha ve eetllhd eoo e who have n o t w on been . under s t oo d at a t i me when nobi;ity wee a s b r e a a t t h l i e y . , andwhen t i p t l e e r s s i w g e n r ys e pfe a oclil s mo o we c cal d on i sd a e t i t n oh c na t t i t n wh n ee , heels of M. de Moray, h o is m nto bi v ns, s M. that the collection of c i v ili an dukes will be enriched in course of time with fresh shall be provided with a fresh institution. Persons among us who still cultivate the science of heraldry are likely to make some remarks on the subject. It is to be noted that both under the second as well as under the first Empire no marquises are created. A count takes a sudden leap upwards and be comes a duke. The marquises have no reason to complain of this system, which will make their title (the object of so much ridicule at the hands of Moliere and St. Simon) rare and recherch in Francs. Another remark is, that in making dukes the second Empire does not follow the mistakes of Napoleon I. There were civilians who were made dukes under the first Empire, but names of towns or provinces were tagged on to their titles, and effectually swamped a lawyer or financier under a cloud of feudalism and aristocracy. Such is no longer the case. Spain has a custom which seems appropriated to the creation of a civi lian nobility. The Spaniards couple the title with some word expressing a moral idea. Thus they have Dukes of Victory or Fidelity, and Princes of Peace. Had M. de Persigny become a duke in Spain, he might, in the most natural way in the world, have received the title of Duke of Devotedness, or Duke of the Elections, but no one will regret that in our newfangled mania for titles we should have refrained from imitating Spanish usages. Neither do we feel inclined to question the claims of M. de Persigny to the honour bestowed upon him, The political an noyances he may have caused us have never pre vented us acknowledging his merits, nor applaud ing sincerely the sober and useful zeal with which, during his last tenure of office, he applied himself to the' beneficial promotion of country roads, as i s proved by his report to the Emperor on the subject. M. de Persigny, moreover, has long shown himself deeply learned en the subject of nobility, and the title of duke could not possibly be conferred on. a man more capable of appreciating or enjoying it. Surely if such honours can give pleasure to any one we have no hesitation to admit that they cannot do anybody any harm. They no longer even excite the jealousy and envy which the creation of a new title used to ca use i n former days. On the con trary, the new com er i s well received by his prede cessors, and his br an new t i tle makes theirs which date from yesterday app ear more respectable be cause more ancient, for even our new nobles must grows s he o a lder rdt 2 h , at nobility, like wine, imp roves as it A Carpenter evidently up to a Trick or Two. Mr. Robinson, in his new work, called " Shirley Hall Asylum, or the Memoirs of a Monomaniac,' gives an account of a passage in his early life which, if not told in the manner of Defoe, is very much in the manner of Mr. Dickens. When domiciled as a boy in the house of a stingy uncle, he used fre quently to enliven his evenings by visits to the Lyceum Theatre. A popular piece called "The Dog of Montargis, or the Forest of Bondy," struck his imagination forcibly. The dog's master hap pens to be cruelly murdered in the forest ; and in the next scene a street in Bondy is represented, with several houses in perspective, a bell-handle being plainly visible at each street door. After smell ing at the doors of several houses in sue. session, the faithful dog gives a violent pull at the right bell-handle, and announces the non arrival of his master. Young Robinson, seized with the desire of imparting the same amount of sagacity to his own dog Rover, got one of the carpenters belonging to the theatre to come home with him. The carpenter declared himself perfectly wil ling and able to instruct Rover, at the moderate price of one shil'ing for each trick to be taught. The boy was delighted and went to fetch the dog : " Rover was accordingly introduced, and the car penter examined him attentively and critically, while I stood by in a state of no little anxiety, wait ing,,T for h "That dog j udgment. dog will do capitally, air. I never saw one, aYs judging from his appea rance , w h o d learn faster. What a shame, h e con ti nue d , chh 1 l east w in an under tone, to starve a poor brute in that manner.' ---__ " I felt exceedingly annoyed at the remark, but, as it was a true one, I said nothing. Th e meanness of my uncle's housekeeping was visible in poor , , Rover' s It i s,, ribs, I s a a ll id o: ,wahniacht there r i might h i t s easily tlie shil b l e in counted. 6 After a moment's silence on both sides, the carpen. ter said, " ' Well, sir, is it a bargain P lam agreeable if you are.' first trick.' ," Which would you like to know, sir ?' " ' How the dog of Montargis was taught to ring ,he right bell.' o h w e b it cll B -. " The carpenter put the shilling into his pocket. done. '' will l now ev e getst l l y o o ff u faithfully,a bargain. All sir, h t r pulls in the street is made of wood except the 0110 at his own house, and that's a sausage.' " A what ?, I almost screamed. " A sausage. The poor brute knew his own, house by the sausage for the bell-pull ; and when he catches hold of it, he naturally rings the bell: Then I can't teach Rover to ring my bell ?'1 Oh, yes, you could sir, if you had a saneage tied to the wire ; not otherwise. But then I don't know that your servants would much like it, for they would soon have to answer the door pretty often. There is not a dog within a mile round that wouldn't soon find it out, and have a pull at your bell to tell you his master was murdered.' I was thunderstruck at the information, but there was no help for it; the money was gone." POLYGAMY IN BENGAL.—It is believed at Cal cutta that the Hon. Rajah Deo Narain Singh in tends to introduce a bill to lessen the oils of polygamy. This is a very delicate question and will be dealt with ten derly. In 1856 the leading Hindoos of Bengal petitioned. the Legislature to put down a curse which practically is as bad as infanticide and worse than suttee. The question is a moral not a religious one ; and that a Hindoo member of council from the sacred city of Kasi or Benares should deaf with it is a great advantage. The Shastura nowhere do more than tolerate polygamy, and it exists in Bengal in a hideous form unknown elsewhere. Three centuries ago, when Bengal was ruled from Gour by Adisur. a low-caste king, he found there was not a Brahmin in his dominions who could perfoim certain ceremonies, owing to the perse cution of the Buddhists in former times. Ile accordingly applied to the King of Kanoje, who sent five Sagnic Brah mins, venerated priests, who preserved till the hour of their death, for their funeral ceremonies, the sacrificial fire lighted by their parents on the day of their birth, and fed. daily by fuel and clarified butter. From these five have descended a whole crowd of Kulin or privileged families. They era simply hereditary spiritual peers, and es no father will marry his daughter, if of a certain caste, except to them, many of them live solely by such marriages. Twenty wives is a common number for a Kulin Brahmin to have—but there aro cases in which oue man has 180. The polygamist does not feed these wives, but visits the richer of them at their father's houses, and is in fact maintained by his wives. In many cases whole families, consisting of sisters, aunts, and nieces are married to one avaricious sen sualist. You may imagine the moral evils which flow from this, and understand how, as a social abuse, native opinion would like it put down penally. Information is now being collected by the Rajah to see how much further legislatio4 can go than thin:,--Letter from Ca;c!‘!!Ag.