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P=VIENNM. EN! ENT BER, WE SUP AT EVANS' EVE Pt EVENING THIS WEEK aft , :r Alfred Dte' llon s Promenade Concerts. NORTH UsI,TrUcE'gpu,2I' EkCANTILE Established 1809.:7 Incorporated by Royal Charter ancrSpecial Acts of Parliament. Accutrinkted and Invested Funds Annual Revenue 422,401 FIRE DEPARTMENT. Insuran-es frranteri 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 Insu rers on the participating principle. The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows Policies. Amrnnt In=ured. Premiums. 1,037 £703,334 £33,641 0 0 Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished on application at the DON Orricrs : LON 58, Threadneedle -street. 4, New Bank Buildings. Lot bury. West-end Office 8. Waterloo-pace, Pall-mall. THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. HEA.I} OFFICER, 29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance buildings, Liverpool. Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,010. Accumulated Funds in hand over 1000,000. --- Chairman in Liverpool : CHARLES TURNER, Esq., MX. Chairman in London : WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq. EXTRACTS FROM THE 1862 REPORT FOR THE YEAR The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the Meeting of its Shareholders. FIRE BRANCH. Th e 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 exceed £300,000. The high comparative position held by the Royal in the Government Returns of Duty is again fully nmintained. The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the commencement of 11114 Office, the balance to the credit on account of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 10s. 5d., and of the North American business, whichis kept sepa rately, £11,097165. 10d. LIFE BRANCH. The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to state the sum assured on n.?Nv policies for fhe year 1862 exceeds even that of the year 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of £701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last 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. This portion of the Company's business sari be carefully , watched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the shareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the future to the participating life assurer. Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply afforded by a statement of the number rej ected. These have amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum proposed for as suran t.e amounts to £143,281. Various degrees of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined. No small number of the Assurance Companies of the day record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much. if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis able in a single year from deterioration of some kind or another. If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert briefly y to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that in Fire Business 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. The Directors conclude their present Report with the expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal Insurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater magni tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection to the public. PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London; pIi.OVIDENT ASSOCI CLERKS' N MUTUAL LIFE ATIO. Established 1540. TRUSTEES. Thomas Baring., Egg.. M. . I P Wm. Lode Prescott, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Baron 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 £51,000 The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 2c0,000 It has paid in Claims . • • • • • 112,000 The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among the Members. Three divisions have already been made' when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the Policies Dec. 31, 1847 19 3852 •• „ 1857 .. . • 1862 .• • • making the total bonus additions, £96,600. Bonuses may be received in wish or applied to the redue tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an addition to the policy. Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid up 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 sented districts. £5,400 11,500 . 23:200 .. 56,500 WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863. A.D. 1720. ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE CORPORATION (Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Offices, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. GEORGE PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor. Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. r Wilmot Holland, Esq. Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville. ;John Garratt Cattlev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. Mark Currie Close, Esq. , Henry Nelson, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. Robt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P. Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.: William Wallace, Esq. Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. 7 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 Banns 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 preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take place every Five years. Any sum not exceeding X 15,000 may be insured on one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured—' Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital 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 UALF. The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of char ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, 24 September, 1863. TENDERS will be 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, 1863, to 3!st October, 1861, for the use of Her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on apnlication 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 Fora,ge"), and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commissary-G eneral. No. 22,224. Immediately, in One Vol., post Svo., Y IMPRISONMENT. AND THE FIRST YEAR OF ABOLUSIONISM IN WASHINGTON. By ROSE O'NEALE GREENHOW. Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty. T HE SECOND GRAND EVENING CONCERT of THE ST. CECILIA'S CHORAL SOCIETY Will take place in ST. JOSEPH'S HALL, Tottenham-road, Kingsland, On TUESDAY, Sept. 22, 1883, at 7.30 p.m. Conductor—Mons. LE MAN. The services of 8) eminent executants have been secured. Special Tickets on application to Mons. Leman, as above. Front Seats, 28. ; Body of the Hall, ls. T 0 X F OR D 6, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, veil 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 UNSWORTH (" or any oiler man"), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, . _ . • • Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain ing a full baud of 40 instruments. The HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ed. ; stalls and balcony, is. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d, 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 Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal cony, and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im provements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH EVENING, at Ten o'clock. All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Unsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c. ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. These elegant Rooms are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. They have been entirely redecorated. Musical Director, Mons. Jullien, of moister concerts cele brity. The band Is selected from the Crystal Palace, the Italian Operas, and the Household Troops of her Majesty. Doors open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ls. Manager—M. GRENET. ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The GHOST ! The Polish Giantess, Countess Demoloth, will be introduced in the Ghost Illusion this Week—The beautiful FAIRY FOUNTAIN—Grand Divertissement by Twenty young Ladies—Operatic Selections, by M is s M`Gregor, Mr. Albert, Vernon Rigby, and Signor Georgini—Band and Chorus of 60 Performers. First appearance of RAPHAEL DE SOLLAq, the Infant Tenor, and LANGLOIS VELOCIMAN, the Great Indian Juggler, THIS DAY (MONDAY). ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. Great Musical Attraction —lmmense success of SIGNOR iN+ ICOSIA, the eminent Violinist, who will appear Every Evening. THE LAUNDRESSES to her late Majesty Queen Adelaide say, that '° BRIGGS! AUSTRALIAN S "'ARCH needs but to be tried to be approved." Sole Wholesale Agent, Harper Twelvetrees, Bromley-by_Bow, London, E. TEA. —MOORS BROTHERS respectfully inti mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced to 3s. 2d. ; Souohong, reduced to 3s. 6d. ; mixed Assam, re duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d. to 3s. 11d. per lb. RIIPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT FXHIBITION s or 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to be the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of HERNI A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, :5 here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the body, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Moc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease and closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn during sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the truss, 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. M. Postage, Is. Doublo Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. An Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piooadilly. NEW PATENT ELAST IC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of Weakness and Swelling of the Legs, Sprains, dm They are corous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on 11Ye an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. 6d., 10s., to 16s. eadh. Postage 6d. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer, 228, Piccadilly. CELEBRATION of the TERCENTENARY of the BIRTH of SHAKSPEARE, 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 London 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 Shaltspeare, 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. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-r o ad ' in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President —The Duke of BuccLEtrcri, K.G. Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom pcnied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a.weels.. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued suppett, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Masterman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Herries 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 dliams, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital STANFORD S. SMITH Secretor ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONE Ss—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. The French Note to Russia The Moniteur publishes the despatch addressed by M. Drouyn de Lhuys to the:Duke of Montebello, the French Ambassador at St. Petersburg. It is as follows: M. le Duc,— When the Government of the Emperor re solved, in accord with the Cabinets of London and Vienna, to address its communications of 10th of April and 17th of June to the Court of Russia, it was guided by considerations of general interest and of humanity, which we put forward with entire frankness. Its object was to induce that Power to seek the means of re-establishing tranquillity on durable foundations, and to prevent a return of pErturbation which has never broken out without troubling the public mind throughout Europe and endangering peace. Tho Russian Government at first appeared to acknowledge the justifiable • ness of our observations. It had in some measure invited u s to offer our views, and we were bound to believe it disposed 'to accept the deliberations we might consider it expedient to enter into. This state of things being common to us with the Courts of Austria and England, we decided in concert upon the basis to serve as a starting point for the negotiations ; and the programme upon which we came to an understanding, in conformity with the most elementary principles of equity offers a striking testimony of moderation. It was to us, therefore, a source of as much surprise as regret to see the St. Petersburg Cabinet modify its first at titude, formally decline our overtures, and substitute inad missible propositions. the object of the Cabinets is to restore peace to Poland, either by determining the proper application of the stipula tions of Vienna or by suggesting the modifications of which they are susceptible, in order to better meet the necessities of the future. The Powers who signed the Acts of Con gress are, therefore, competent to deliberate, in concert with Russia, on the questions of public right and general inte rest which the Polish insurrection places in some sort on the order of the day. The Austrian Court which the Russian Government in vital to become a party to this separate negotiation, from which we, together with her Britannic Majesty's Govern ment, Spain, Portugal, and Sweden, were to be excluded was the first to acknowledge that this proposition could not be entertained, and rejected it without hesitation, as con trary to her dignity. The Government of the Emperor, M. le Due, could neither subscribe to the combination presented by the St. Petersburg Cabinet nor to the considerations put forward for support in Prince Gortschakoff's despatch. We are convinced that in pursuing the course upon which it has entered the Court of Russia departs equally from the councils of a wise poliCy and from the stipulations of the treaties. But, not having succeeded in making it share the conviction by which we are impressed, we can now only state the inutility of our efforts. It will not have de pended on the Powers that the solution of the Polish ques tion, so closely bound up with the peace of Europe, has not from the present time been discussed with the necessary re flection and maturity. Divested of all views of private am bition, without passion as without preconceived ideas, they o w a e t r i o e n a c o t f u p a r t o e s d e n b y t t the b s 1 0 0 l d t o e s a i e d t R o u c s o s n i a t r b i y b u a t e p r t o o f o t he d p a o e x i fi a mination of the state of Poland, and to remove the cause of the constantly reviving complications. We should suppose that tge Russian Government, ani mated by tendencies in conformity with those of the Powers, would not refuse to associate itself with their idea. After having given this hope, it has chosen to repel their over tures and to dispute their competency. In claiming the absolute independence of its resolutions and the full exercise of its sovereignty, the St. Petersburg Cabinet leaves to us the entire liberty of our judgment and of our conduct, and we cannot do less than avail ourselves of it. At the same time, there still remains an imperious duty for the Government of the Emperor to fulfil. It is to call Prince Gortchakoffs most serious attention to the gravity of the situation, and the responsibility which is thrown upon Russia. France, Austria, and Great Britain have pointed out the urgency of putting an end to a deplorable state of affairs full of danger to Europe. They have besides indicated the means which it appeared to them ought to be employed to arrive at this end, and have offered their concurrence to attain it more surely. If Russia does not do everything in her power to realise the moderate and conciliatory inten tions of the three Powers, if she does not follow the path pointed out to her by amicable counsels, she is responsible for the serious consequences to which the prolongation of the troubles in Poland may lead. You will be good enough, M. le Due, to read this de spatch to Prince Gortschakoff, and leave with him a copy of the same. DROUYN DE LHUYS. What, in fact, is its language in the communications re plying to the simultaneous steps taken by the three Powers? According to Prince Gortschakoff, the present state of Poland is only the consequence of incitement from abroad, without which the agitation would have died out under the action of the laws, in face of the indifference and repulsion of the masses. It is solely this revolutionary character which imparts an European interest to the question, and deter mines the object of the exchange of ideas in which Russia consented to participate. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg declares that the six points indicated as the germ of the resolutions proper to pacify Poland, contain nothing contrary to the intentions of his Majesty the Emperor Alexander towards the Poles ; but it insists that before taking them into consideration material order and respect for authority shall be re-established. A suspension of hostilities is said to be impracticable. The only transaction compatible with the dignity of the Court of Russia, as with the sentiment of the nation and the army, is the previous submission of the Poles. The Russian Go vernment does not dispute the right of the Powers who signed the Treaty of Vienna to interpret the terms thereof according to their own convictions, but everything has been said relative to those clauses without leading to a practical result, and the assembling of a conference would greatly exceed the limits of the right of interpretation. The course to be adopted is indicated by that pursued in the negotiations of Vienna. General principles interesting Europe have alone been inserted in the General Act of Congress. It is not at present a question of those principles; but the administra tive details and the interior arrangementswould usefully fur , . nish matter for preliminary negotiations between the three Courts which concluded the separate treaties of the 3d of May, 1815. The argument that I have just summarised, as exactly as possible, M. le Due, is in complete disagreement :with the most certain facts, and wanders no less from the letter than the spirit of the treaties. The Polish question, accord. ing to Prince Gortschakoff, is only European by its origin and its revolutionary tendencies, and the present events are solely the work of a cosmopolitan demagogy. In our time societies have been seen to be agitated by too many various ' movements for us to confound under one and the same appellation the desperate efforts of a people defending its nationality and the disordered aspirations of evil minds attacking the very bases of s3cial order. The disturbances in Poland spring from causes having no factitious or accidental character. They are the result of a state of things dating back for nearly a century, and which has contributed more than any other conjuncture to give rise to and maintain revolution in Europe. The rising which we now witness was announced by evi dent symptoms, and provoked by a measure which in the state of men's minds at the time could not fail to be at tended with the most serious consequences. Poland replied to it by making appeal, not to revolutionary passions but to that which is highest in the hearts of men—to their ideas of justice, of country, and of religion. Is it not a fact of in • congestible notoriety that the entire Polish nation, each and every class, according to its means, actively or passively, according to place and circumstance, has identified itself soul and body with the insurrection ? What are, before such a manifestation, the agitations of a few emigrant committee ? The Cabinets have not, therefore, been mistaken in the true character of the insurrection. They pointed out its import to the Russian Court. In the French Chambers, in the English Parliament, in the Aus trian Reichsrath, the opinion of the three countries has made itself heard through its most accredited organs, in order to encourage the Governments to persevere in the path on which they had entered. Throughout Europe, wherever there exists deliberative bodies, the same accents have re sounded. Besides the Constitutional Powers, free and spon taneousdeliberations have everywhere testified to thevivacity of the public impressions, the unanimity of which is daily confirmed by the press. Bound by the consciousness of their responsibility to observe greater reserve and circum spection, nearly all the Cabinets, from the Court of Rome to the Ottoman Porte, from Stockholm to Lisbon, have re corded in despatches, with the tenour of which the Russian Government is acquainted, the expression of opinions agreeable to those of which the three Courts have more particularly made themselves the interpreters. The Governments, far from outstripping public opinion, have followed, and at the same time moderated it. This is what has been done,`as far as it is concerned, by the Em peror's Government ; and this duty accomplished, it does not hesitate to affirm that it would be obstinately clinging to a fatal illusion to continue to explain the formidable con vulsions which stain Poland with blood by reasons so little in harmony with the testimony of history and contempo raneous facts. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg is disposed, it informs us, to take into consideration the six points which have been recommended to it on the basis for deliberations, but it puts forward as a condition that the revolt must be previ ously suppressed. We believe, on the contrary, M. le Duc, that the surest means of appeasing the public mind would be the application and immediate development of a corn prehensive system of concessions really proper to give satis faction to the national sentiment. The perpetuation of daily conflicts in which so much blood has already flowed can ownalyy to r conciliation. Profoundly more implacable, and close every Profoundly moved by this spectacle, the three Courts flattered themselves that in the suspension of arms, ar rangements acceptable to both parties might be concluded, and that the provisional suspension of hostilities would only precede a definitive pacification. The Cabinet of St. Petersburg sets this suggestion aside in the name of the Russian nation and army ; but is the dignity, then, of a great empire interested in the counten ance of an unequal struggle, neither did we think that the idea of an armistice destined to facilitate the work of nego tion would be impracticable. The most irreconcileable adversaries of Russia would not have dared to refuse or violate this truce, In the contrary case the responsibility would rest on them. Such a trial was worth making, and even if it bad failed there would have been, in our ideas, honour and profit for the party attempting it. We could not expect the same result from an amnesty which would be made subordinate to the political conve nience of the Russian Government, and of which his Ex cellency Prince Gortschakoff makes prospective after the entire submission of the insurgents. We are in a position to judge by the last amnesty of the influence which a simple promise of clemency would have on the arrangements of the Poles. In fact, th e C a bi ne t o f S t . P e t ers b ur g substitutes for the acquiescence which it appeared to have g iven in its preced ing declaration s t o th e assem bli ng o f a conference of the Powers signing the Acts of Vienna, the proposition of pre liminary negotiations between Russia, Austria, and Prussia, on the questions of interior administration raised by the state of things in Poland. nothing useful to m a fryes understanding h discussion of beingti The Powers wo u ld on l y have besides a r i gh t o f interpre tation which could no t bi nd Russia, and there wou ld be p u l a tf onsso often rguexepde without an ar rived at. I do not propose, M. l e D ue , to enter now into a pro f oun d examination of the doctrin e profe sse d by the Cabinet of St. Petersburg relative to th e negot i ations of which Po li s h affairs were the object in 1815, an d on the clauses o f t h e treaty of the 9th of June of th e same year, where b y th e stipula tions Congress believed it had settled the destiny of the Polish nation. I append to this despatch a memorandum, which recapitu lates the facts and defines the idea of the Plenipotentiaries. I refer you to this and limit myself to state the essential data which appear to me to issue therefrom.: THE SUN AS A DWELLING-PLACE. (Flom the Spectator.) Sir Wm. Armstrong suggested, in his inaugural address last week to the British. Association, that that curiously mottled appearance of the sun's bright atmosphere when seen through a telescope, which has given rise to Mr. Na smyth's expression about the solar " willow-leaves," might be due to " organised" forms of matter; and that the con stant supply of heat which warms the whole solar system may, as previous astronomers have suggested, be due to the constant concussion of falling bodies rushing into the centre of our system, and heating it just as his own cannon balls or shells heat the great targets at Shoeburyness. Both these suggestions are, of course, mere guesses, though the latter, at least, is as probable as any other mere conjecture concerning the source of the solar heat; but both of them suggest so many marvels and inconveniences which would attend its possible inhabitants , if it could be the habitation of beings that eing if s in anyway resembling th e i n h a bit an t s o f this earth,astronomers were to acquiese in them, or, at least, in the latter of them, the sun would probably be given up as rapidly as the moon to that desolating theory of Dr. Whewell's, which refuses to give rational animals a foothold anywhere in the universe except upon our little planet. Certainly, one would not choose for a dwelling place a sphere, however majestic, eternally bombarded from all parts of the celestial spaces—a world into which minute planets, that had been travelling from infinite distances with a constantly accelerating speed, should be constantly crashing home, where the annexation of a comet would be an every-day event. Sebastopol or Vicksburg under siege would be a sort of heaven to such a life as that, besides that, they at least had the satisfaction of returning the fire,which would be impossible for the sun, seeing that the force which would keep up the bombardment would be of no alien origin, but inseparable from its own existence. The big sala manders, 100,000 miles in area, which Sir W. Armstrong pictured as floating in the solar atmosphere, and this heavy celestial artillery, are alike matters of conjecture ; but of the sun as a dwelling-place for embodied creatures we can form a few notions based on more trustworthy facts. In deed, the elder Herschel, who was one of the earliest theo rists about the sun's spots, always held that the sun might be inhabited—and its solid nucleus, that is, need not be so hot as to prevent the existence of beings organised more or less as we are. It is, at least, worth while to consider what sorts and degrees of difference such a life, if it be possible, would imply, even without an atmosphere of gigantic sala manders, and a converging fire of innumerable meteors and planetoids, or a lashing by cemetery tails a few millions of miles in length. In the first place, there is no doubt room enough for a very considerable immigration there, as the surface of the sun would accommodate in mere extent the population of 12,000 earths. In other words, if the earth had been fully peopled during 12,000 generations, and all its population transferred to the sun, the sun would only then become fully peopled, supposing its surface to be in the same proportion suscep tible to cultivation. Unfortunately, however the muscular power, needed for walking on the sun would have to be 28 times as great, for a man of the same size, as the muscular power needed for walking on the earth. The sun is very much less dense than the earth—not much, indeed above the density of water—but its enormous size increases the gravitation there to twenty-eight times its power on earth. Every man, therefore, suddenly transferred to the surface of the sun —if he could live there at all—would light up p i t o f a sis fluid whaere at least as li g ht as this) would b e f ar for all weights being multiplied by b ; ap pear to himself to ha ve an accu mulation . of twenty seven other men upon his back—a weight under which it i s needless to observe that no human muscles could e s r iv ( i a m nd ai t in h g e ü b p ui o k n o s f ue t h he a s s u un rfa a c p e p , e i a n rs an t y o fies a btaellas o ig iniduegtraaedsrthe.However, 28, the difference between the weight of the water displaced and of the human body—which measures the sup porting force—would also be multipled by 23; and just in proportion therefore as the difficulty of walking is increased there, that of swimming (in such a fluid as our water) would be diminished. But these differences are trifling compared with the diffe rences arising from the central position of the sun. To in habitants of that globe there would be no such phenomena as day and night, but a perpetual and uniform blaze, like the light with which the roofs of the Houses of Parliament are nightly lighted up, though infinitely intense, would be always blazing above that semi-transparent cloudy screen which Sir W. Herschel thought might temper the light and heat of the solar world. It is natural to suppose that the light and heat of the sun are derived from the same source, and that since we have at times glimpses into the recesses of a darker sphere, that darker sphere would also be a cooler sphere than we usually connect with our visible sun. In deed, if inhabitable at all, it would need to be. The tem perature of the sun's heated surface is calculated to be seven times as hot as the hottest known blast furnace. "It would require the combustion of more than 130,0001b5., or nearly sixty tons of coal per hour, on each square foot of the sun's surface, to produce a heat equal to that radiated from the solar orb." The probability of some deep cloudy stratum of atmosphere, there, enveloping a cooler world , seems considerable. PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. CnAmmAx—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 cite beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the Society, and other means, since its formation, is 12,800 ; tor' which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and £16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu tion has also expended £67,1110 on Life-boats, Life-bogt Transporting-carriages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of he generous support which they have received from the Brjtish public during the past few years, a support which has oab'ed them to establish their present magnificent fleet of 12 3 JAteboats on the s h ores of the Un i te d Ki ng d om . Deeply se zisible, however, of the great responsibility that re sts on themto maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and I' ;Crews practised in the management of their whi , l7 can only be effected by a large 'and permanent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their to aid them in u • countrymen upholding and perpetuating so Pat and truly national a work. g,i--- committee gratefully acknowledge the following con- TO tributias : h oats , £ s. d .. annual SO 0 0 Mrs. G. ~ Campbell, the Hon. • • • • annual 50 0 Clerk, Colonel, R.A. •,_ 4. !!___ ••• • • annual 11 0 the. Messrs., Ban:Nrs .. .. annual 10 0 0 Queen ••• .. .. • • • • .. 4th don.lo 0 0 Currie, Wm., Esq. , . • • Erle, Lord Chief Justice .. K.C.B. don. 10 10 0 Vice-Admiral Sir A., KCB .. 2d don. 25 0 0 Fanshawe, Coutts iTerilr a a j n es d tY Co. , ii'. cost of a Lifeboat and Tran- Fenwick,•G• J., —sq* , .. • • • • .. 250 0 0 and Mrs. •• •• don. 30 o Harvey, Rev. G. G. . .. • • .. 7th don. 10 0 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. .. .. do . n . 153 0 0 Tran sporting Carriage .. .. •• • • •15 0 Mrs. George, er G e . o ß rg . annual . 2 0 0 Stirling, Col. Sir AnthonY, KCB. Mare, collectedby her Moore,S m ith Thomas, Lady, Weston -sup er • • • • 16 16 0 Ladyship .. • • .• • • .. annual 5 0 0 Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord . • • • e, Greenwich .. .. übscriptions will b ethankfully re- Donations and Annual S , Messrs. ceived by the Bankers of the institution Messrs. Coutt Wi s llis, and Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard - s treet; Co., 59. Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar , and Co., 16, St. ' llectors of Customs James's-street, London • by all the Co and by the Secretary ' - dora • and Bankers in the United King • Richard Lewis. Esq. at the Office 01 the Instituticni) 11, John-street, Adelplal:Loclo, W.Q.: But even if this be so, the vast difference between the phy sical situation of the Sunites and that of our race would scarcely be much diminished. With a sufficiently thick sea of cloud between them and the intolerabl e light and heat they might manage to exist, like the fabled mermen, who, living on the ocean floor, saw sunlight only through the un fathomable depths of the sea. But then, though living in the centre of our system, they could never k now t h a t there was a system at all beyond this centre. They could not even know that their own sun revolves in about 25 of our days on its own axis. For no celestial phenomena at all could be accessible to them. The constant and uniform light would shut them in far more effectually than any darkness; and the cloud which would be essential to soften that con stant and uniform light would be a second screen. We could never know that our own earth revolved on its axis if a blaze stronger than the strongest noon always shut out the night. The solar inhabitants certainly would be far more effectually cut off from astronomy, both by their light and by the internal screen which would interrupt the light, than by any darkness. The planet Neptune would have a better chance of good astronomers than the sun. The ab sence of anything like night and dew, and of all the conse quent periodic changes in the vegetable and animal world, would certainly revolutionise the whole character of the agriculture, and natural history. Sleep might perhaps exist without night, but both plants and animals must have a cliikrelat §trlivture imyrcicr W acoirC it, t9vt4en could The signature of the general Act of Vienna was preceded, it is true, by the conclusion of special treaties between the three frontier Powers of Poland ; but these treaties were prepared by long and laborious negotiation, the truly Euro pean character of which it is impossible not to recognise. Besides, the Congress did not establish so absolute a dis tinction as the Cabinet of St - Petersburg supposes between the general stipulations and the particular arrangements. If the former are introduced textually in the final Act the latter are expressly annexed to it. Neither is it the task of the Powers to revise the details of the administrative regulations, and put them in harmony with the progress of the age. 119 geRVIRI PrigeiPle4 thewoolyo are eh their trial, ag4 ** `!"..7 • °JR 4 -A*0.44-0111-r4SlWllaglik ,• , • , • ,„ .N(4- ~ 4.. % - qf • 0..a-1111%)., • - 411 - P " Orr - • - • 404 4* 4 t r): LRorr• DIE e , Utt 4 • 8 , • ' K 'B,` • • THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1863. be no change in the seasons, and even mountains instead of rising into a colder zone would probably rise into a hotter. In a word, the Sunites must in all probability pay for their central position by being quite ignorant of it, and of thousands of other phenomena to which the alternation cf night and day, summer and winter, are absolutely essential. A glorious privacy of light is theirs, if glorious it be. Illu minated by a mighty spherical chandelier, rather than a sun, which they can never turn down, which roof's in their universe and roofs out the infinitude of worlds, they might, if they had any suspicion of the truth, say, with the poet— " Oh I who could tell such darkness lay concealed Beneath thy beams, oh Sun ? Or who could find, \Vhen fly, and leaf, and insect lay revealed, That to such countless orbs thou mad'st us blind ?" —nay, to more than countless worlds outside them,—for to the varieties of torrid and frigid zone, of spring-time and harvest, of morning and evening—probably even of work and rest—and to a large proportion of that which makes countless worlds of thought and reflection within, the same dreadful uniformity of splendour would equally blind them. Then, too, shadow would be as rare there as it is frequent here,—for the light always flowing equally from north, south, east, and west, it would be only at a door, window, or a cavern's mouth, where the other quarters were pro tected from the light, that shadow would be seen. Imagine all the intellectual fraits of such varieties struck out of our literature and history, and what would the human mind be? The sun may be a dwelling-place for beings whose inner world has begun to develop itself regularly without the stimulus of outward variety and change, but scarcely for any nature less advanced. That which knows "no vari ableness nor shadow of turning" must either be God or nothing,—the highest life or the most absolute nonentity. If we did live there, we should soon, perhaps, prefer being bombarded by fragments of planet rushing sunwards, even at the risk of annihilation, to the hot changeless uniformity of such an orb. We almost wonder no one has suggested the sun as the physical locality of the place of tor ture. That it would make evil the root and centre of our system, would only be an additional recommendation to a very popular form of modern theology. Naval and Military Intelligence. P R1CK.......4d. STAMPED ....bd. THE EAST. We take the following from the Levant Herald : "MOSTAR, Sept. 1. " Yesterday the recently appointed President of the Local Military Council, Osman Pasha, left here for Constan - tinople. This.is perhaps to be regretted, as his honest energy of character might have improved the condition of the army, which is now left virtually uncared for. The new ferik, Omer Pasha will have an unpleasant task, being an entire stranger to the country; it is therefore probable that the administration will fall on the shoulders of Mahmoud Pash,, who is the only general officer capable of discharg ing it with any degree of efficiency. Djevded Effendi, the Imperial Commissioner, has since his arrival displayed an amount of activity locally quite unparalleled. 04 his first entry into Mostar in his costume as a member of the Ulema, the Bosnians almost imagined that the Prophet himself had arrived; but they soon found out their mis take, and now rather regard his Excellency as the incarnate Antithesis in a priestly dress. Ho certainly works well, and occupies himself attentively with the very important quation of property, regulating the differences and misun derstandings between the Bey proprietors and the Christian cultivators with a vigorous despatch worthy of all praise. If his duty were only to organise the interior affairs of the province proper on a sounel footing, without doubt success would crown his efforts; unfortunately he has taken in hand the troublesome affairs of the lately insurgent dis tricts as well. Though these are not now in armed revolt, they still manifest a very ugly passive opposition. Louka and a half score of the chiefs of the country form the nucleus of what may be called a fourth political party, the other three being the Russian, the Montenegrin, and th Austrian, which last seems to make most headway of any You are already aware that Osman Pasha was entrusted with a sword of honour for presentation to the Prince Nicholas. A Turkish officer was consequently sent to Cet tigne to invite his Highness to a rendezvous on the frontier for the purpose of receiving the gift. The Prince, however, declined the invitation, pretending that his health would not permit him, and begged the Pasha to come himself to the mountain capital. Up to the present, therefore, no inter view has taken place. On the other hand, negotiations have been entered upon with Louka, who promised to use all his influence to induce a deputation of Christian chiefs to crave the clemency of the Sultan. With this object in view a meeting of the notables was accordingly held, and it was then decided that a deputation should proceed to Constantinople, Louka himself agreeing to accompany it; but just at this moment the Montenegrin envoys arrived and upset the ar rangements—the end of the whole being that no deputation has gone, nor is any at present likely to go. Such has always been, and always will be, the case in negotiations with these gentry, till some strong measures have been taken by the authorities and the mischief -makers who foment discord and revolt sent out of the country. With a population like this half measures do more harm than good ; they only tend, in fact, to bring about fresh com plications." SMYRKA, Sept. 5. " A strike' among the fig-packers is almost the only item of news the week has produced. This novelty in our local industry happened on Monday last, and has hardly yet altogether subsided ; but inasmuch as the circumstances permit of no sympathy whatever with the complainants, it has merely been a matter for the police, and these, I am glad to say, have dealt with it at once with the firmness and the moderation the case required. The affair is not unsimi lar to the strikes of workmen and labourers in the capital at and after the final withdrawal of the ectimds, when those parties held out for payment in metallic at the old exorbi tant paper-money rates. So here again; it was, as you know, only last season that we got rid of our three or four circulating standards, and have gradually attained to some thing like a uniform medium, These people were last year paid in base chilrouk currency what was about equivalent to from 13p. to 19p. a-day in the present good money; yet, though they are now receiving from 16p. to 20p, in the good currency, they complain and demand the same number of piastres now that they formerly got in chdrouk. Of course this could not be listened to, and accordingly the grumblers struck work in a body on Monday, and for some hours created considerable disturbance throughout the town. At length they proceeded en masse to the knoak ; to invoke the support of ihe Pasha. Here, however, they caught a Tar tar. Achmet tried first to convince them of the unreason ableness of their demands, and did his best to persuade them to resume work ; but this moderation only encouraged them, and seeing that, the Governor-General had recourse to the more effective logic of arresting and imprisoning the ringleaders of the movement, This brought the majority of the others to their senses, and next day most of them quietly went back to their work. There is still, however, considerable ferment in what may bo called the " trade ;" but it will, I doubt not, subside in another day or two, and all will go on as before. It is true that the price of living has increased here greatly for all classes; but so too have wages in proportion, as may be inferred from the rates I have mentioned for this one class of the working popula tion. Their case, therefore, excites no sympathy whatever, and is consequently all the more easily dealt with by the authorities." ARMY CONTRACTS, TENDERS will be received at this Office until 12 o'clock noon on the 3d of October, from persons who may be willinc; to enter into Contracts to supply FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW, In such quantities ,s may be required, for the use of Her Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places, from Ist November, 1863, to 31st October, 1861 : FORAGE, 1. Hyde-park, Kensington, Regent's-park, and Horse Guards. 2. Hounslow and Timelier Hall. 3. Hampton Court. 4. Windsor. 5. Brighton. - 6. Sandhurst. 7. Enfield. PAILLASSE STRAW. Brompton House, Hyde-park, and Kensing,ton. 2. itcgent's-park, St. John's-wood, and l'ortman - Stree Barracks. 3. New Barracks, Chelsea. 4. Wellington and St. George's Barracks. 5. The Tower. 6. HoutisG , Tand Kneller HaIL 7. Hampton Court. 8. Windsor. 9. Brighton, with Coast Forts frox Newhaven to Shore ham. 10. Croydon. Separate Tenders must be made for range and for Pail lasse Straw for e , ...ch of the above-mentioned Stations or Bar racks as gronr ed and numbered. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained or_ appl'cation at this office, by letter or in person, betwe(' the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. Tenders on the printed forms must be properly filled up and signed, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered at the under-mentioned Cflice, under closed envelope (marked on the outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies 12 o'clock noon on the 3d O c t o b er next. (Signed) W. T. POWER, before Comm'ssary-General. Deputy Commissary-General's Offlee, 5. New-street, Spring-gardens, London, S.W., 10th Sept., 1863. KEATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY ING PO WDER. for which a Prize Medal wa s awarded to the Producer at the International Exhibition, 1862, r. rrhi p ow d er is quite harmless_ to anlmal life, but is un- Fleas, Bugs, Plies, Cockroaches, _ivalled in destroying, -Beetl's, Gnats, Mosquitos, Moths in furs, and every other apemen of Insect BPottamen 11 fi d this an invaluable remedy for destroy ootßa:rvnie:astifanttrielir Dohs, as also Ladies fortheir Pet Dogs: whiecih-i;,L7. wiEdnal importer ' of this now as invaluabletempi others article, lf c; autor,rnF,l of vend tt .o.eaVid so great a sale that it n Genuine Powder bear the t e h d e article, the public are therefore cautioned to Trio ackets of the Sold I. z BEATING .-• Pack et AS .1-EATING s 14 or 36 postams . 8 ;. 18 ., 2s. 6d., and 4s. fid. each, or post free for rikii rfi•ChlircliV "" tr4 PS, by Thornas Keatillgi chetniot, 79, St. ' 4 ") I .9wargi, C. _.;.,, aactive cle ats id per tian bein?a ian corn in fered freely ►y, but the 1 2s per qr ley, unless ra , favour. r 36 stone. 305 per qr. 3 to -- 0 Per Gd to 4s 3d 9d to 3s Od er sack. s,id to 6,14 7d to .61d t 07,1. rourable to 01 kindle of very wl per barrel d. e• d i ; _ 0 to 0 to 13 0 0 to 26 6 0 to 14 0 0 to 20 1 0 to 23 0 the large to hold off. at, at 1t r quali dee irket. s. i" MI. a 18 u .. .. . 66 .... 17 6 18 .** 17 17 6 •• •• 6 1i •• • • e 0 17 ° 01...13 0 ES. eceiptic• 3. 062. 15 2 ,t o ' 33 2,43' 7, 50 7, 376 53 17. 262 19 2 !1 30 2 ' - 10 221 r 6 463 1,44 3 13 381 18 1,455 14 1. 8°9 )7 I ' l ;0 2,4 78 302 8,3 1 0 1 35 , 12 2,7 86 ; 3 B, n! 14 3 1,0 ', 33,1 55 it 2. 150 5 4 98 8,48 6 138. 128 .3 1,2, , 7 36.667 9 145 5 112 776 6 10 0 , 568 0 1,94 6 4 26.324 S 24,560 0 6. 3 ° 9 5 6 ,?, ;7 2, 58 3 14.0' 2 10/ 9 1,263 44.76 0 g 5,096 4 1. 624 8 2,612 6 13.08 3 1 55,071 2 3,113 9 8.486 7 1,188 5 863 5 2,3 84 0 8, 02 q 0 5 . 56) 5 438 7 4,625 ,, 5,04* 1,89/ 201 I 2,16 0 , 4tv 1. 553 832 2 43 5 8 3 1 037 1 661 1,5 77 41,318516 812 1, 3 t 3 4, 05 E 4,9 96 61,2 54 9,9 31 12,Y% 4,7 7 ! 4,75' 4 348 9,524 18, 41 2,135 143,$ e,5,611 78 8 1,355 4 56,9 84 30,7 7 ' 4 4, 843 1,281 52,6 P >ept. 18 ' )et. 13. )ct. 5, ept. 2 c ;ept. ;ept. ept. 18• Sept. is. ept. 27• ept. 25. ept. 2 0 • let. 5. ept. 18* ept. 20. ►ct. 1. ept. 24, ept. 18. let. 10. apt. 24. apt. sB. ept. 28. r pur 4d. and • is the L every riunter Sforrist of Mo- wife Of DM lave's, , third Mari- abigh - Oaks, iter of int 3 of Irline, !rracet ley, at -road/ rancis L, Sir iodge, EWE', 0 . iV, n ty Ot 4 1 __, , MI”11•1,111WWM;M ESTABLISHED 1833. BOWDEN'S AERATED GINGER BEER, in glass or stone bottles, warranted to keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, votass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Waters.—Manufactory, No. 3, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C. MOORE BROTHERS, 35, London-bridge, City, E.C. GIPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented kJ Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra ordinary relief to weak, dim, and detective vision.—S. and B SOLOAIONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. THE NAVY. VALETTA, Sept. 14.—Her Majesty's iron screw troopship Orontes, 2, Capt. Hire, arrived last night from England and Gibraltar, having on board from the latter place the 2d battalion 7th Regiment, con sisting of 25 officers, 832 men, 73 women, 6 ladies, and 97 children, under the command of Major R. Hibbert. She also had on board Assist.-Adjt.-Gen. Maude. Capt. Clarke, R.A., Dr. Clarke, R.A., Capt. Darn ford, R.E., and 15 naval officers supernumeraries for the fleet. The regiment will disembark to-day and relieve the 4th battalion Rifle Brigade, which is to embark in the Orontes on Tuesday or Wed nesday for Gibraltar. Her Majesty's iron paddle wheel sloop Trident, 3, Commander C. S. Balfour, arrived to-day from Gibraltar to be employed in victualling the fleet. Her Majesty's screw corvette Cossack, 20, W. R. Rolland, arrived at the Piroaus, from Malta, on the 26th ult., and was to leave on the Ist inst. for Beyrout, to relieve the Chanticleer, 17, Commander C. Stirling. Her Majesty's ship Marlborough, 121 (bearing the flag of Vice-Admiral R. Smart, K.H.), Capt. the Hon. F. Egerton ; the Trafalgar, 70, Capt. T. Mason ; the Meeanee, 60, Capt. G. Wodehouse ; and the Icarus, 11, Comman der N. Salmon, V.C., which last arrived on the 29th ult., were anchored in Phalerum Bay. The Cossack remained in Phalerum Bay till the 29th, when she went into the Piraeus, and took up her berth along side the Orlando, 46, Capt. G, G. Randolph, the only other English ship there. The French ship Magicienne, and two other French war vessels, one Turk, one Greek, and one Italian, were also lying in the Pirseas. The Austrian frigate Novara and another Austrian vessel left early in the morning of the Ist inst., soon after the arrival of the mail. The English frigate Magicienne, 16, Capt. W. Army tage, called in at Phalerum Bay on the 28th ult., to communicate with the Admiral, and the Surprise, 4, Commander C. M. Seymour, left for Patras the same day. A court-martial was held on board the Cossack on the Ist, to try a private of Marines for striking a sergeant. The prisoner was found guilty, and sentenced to penal servitude for five years. Her Majesty's ship Queen, 74, Capt. C. F. Hillyar, leaves after the arrival of the mail from Marseilles, due to-night, for Athens, with stores and provisions, and £20,000 in specie, for the use of the fleet. Her Majesty's screw steam corvette Scylla, 21 guns, 400-horse power, recently commissioned by Capt. S. G. Cresswell, was this day removed from Sheerness dockyard, where she has completed her fitments, to moorings in the harbour, for the pur pose of being swung for the adjustment of her com passes, preparatory to being taken on trial of her machinery at the measured mile off Maplin Sands. The Medusa, paddlewheel, tender to her Ma jesty's steamship Cumberland, 70, guardship of the Sheerness steam reserve, Master-Commanding J. H. Allard, was yesterday taken into the dockyard at Sheerness to be examined and cleaned, and to have some small defects in her machinery remedied. The Wrangler, 4, screw steam gun-vessel, 80- horse power, Commander Henry H. Beamisb, re cently returned from the West Coast of Africa, will be paid off at Sheerness dockyard on Monday next, and will be placed inlthe third division of the steam reserve at that place. The following appointments and promotions were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lient. Richard M. Blomfield to the Cumberland ; Arthur Heath cote, nominated to a naval cadetship ; John Weir, engineer, to the Wasp; Alexander Stewart, of the Asia, promoted to first-class assistant engineer ; and George M'Lean, in the Ringdove, promoted to acting first class assistant engineer. THE ARMY. In consequence of the great demand made on the War-office for properly qualified instructors for those corps of Volunteer Engineers recently formed, as well as those in course of formation, the number of non-commissioned officers of Royal Engineers specially qualified to fill those positions has been coneiderably exceeded. Orders have accordingly been received at the headquarters of the Royal En gineer establishment, Chatham, directing a return to be made of the names and service of those non commissioned officers of Royal Engineers who are 1 desirous of becoming candidates for instructors of corps of Volunteer Engineers, in order that a selec tion of those found most fitting to fill that post may be made by the authorities at the War Department. The non-commissioned officers so nominated will be released from ordinary duty at headquarters, and go through a complete course of sapping, mining, and the various branches of field fortification, includ ing the customary drills, in order th a t t h ey may become thoroughly proficient in the several duties which, as instructors, they will be call e d upon to perform. Col. W. R. Nedham, commanding the Royal Artillery in the Chatham district, completed the half-yearly inspection of the Ist division of the Depot Brigade yesterday, in whi c h h e h a d been occupied some days. The inspection, which was of a very searching character, was brought to a close yesterday by a parade of the entire Ist division of the Depot Brigade, when the guns on the fortifica tions and the other descriptions of artillery used for instructional purposes were manned,and the officers and troops tested in their knowledge of the use and ~ ygorking of the heavy Armstrong and other guns, as well as the numerous appliances for the transport of heavy ordnance of modern and ancient invention. An experimental 6-pounder rifled gun, on a new breech -loading principle, the invention of Mr, par sons, C.E., of Blackheath, which had previously undergone the Government test, was yesterday fired at the Royal Arsenal butt, Woolwich, in the presence of the full committee of the Arsenal. The gun fired 20 rounds in rapid succession, the trial f-lecuPYing only Bmin. 35sec., including the inter vals between each discharge. It is understood that - a favourable result will be reported to the Secretary of State for War, under whose direction the gun was ordered for trial. MR. HOWARD GLOVER has nearly completed his new comic opera—libretto as well as music—to be entitled " Giralda, the Unmarried Wife." The work is to be pro duced by the Pyne and Harrison company during the ap- PM94IPg OcAPtilof gpali§A QPer4 At Cti*lt GtArfleut The Hughes' Printing Telegraph, The Hughes' Printing Telegraph requires but one electrical wave for each letter which has to be trans mitted, whereas Morse's printer, Wheatstone's needle, Bain's chemical, and the dial, or step-by step letter-printing telegraphic instrument, depend either upon the number and duration of different signals to produce the letter intended, or upon a certain number of signals, each requiring an electric wave to produce only one letter. For the Morse an average of four waves is required for each letter, and the dial requires seven. The chief mechanical feature of this machine is the causing the almost mathematically synchronous and continuous revolu tion of two type-wheels, one at the transmitti ng the other at the distant receiving or recording sta tion, and causing any little difference that may acci dentally occur to be corrected by the machine itself ; first, at the commencement of work ; secondly, on the printing of each letter as a message proceeds ; so that when any given letter --for instance, A—is lowermost at one station, it is also lowermost at the other. By simple mechanical arrangements a cur rent can be transmitted when any required letter at the sending station is in this position. This current instantly, by detaching an armature, allows a ham mer to strike a slip of paper against the correspond ing letter of the type wheel at the receiving station, and so prints the letter without stopping the type wheel. It will be observed that exact synchronism between the two type-wheels is a bsolutely neces sary. Approximate synchronism is obtained by the adjustment of two vibrating springs in unison ; and perfect synchronism is obtained by a small correc tion, produced, as each letter is printed, by the very act of printing. The type-wheel is then either hastened or retarded a litt le, as may be requi re d , to bring the letter truly opposite the printing pad. The test of this is, simply repeating the same signal (suppose that of the repeat) several times at equal intervals. Th e means by which th e mach i ne cor - 1 recta itself at each letter, or at the commencement of work, is by means of a cor rec ti ng cam — a s olid wedge, pushed down into a simil ar h o ll ow wedge— one on the driving part, the other on the arbour of the wheel. The paper to be printed on is coiled on a reel, and is drawn forward by the machine, and pressed up against the letter to be printed by the electric wave that brings the required letter or num ber to its place at the under side of the revolving wheel. The mechanical motions are produced by the force of a weight . as it descends acting upon a train of wheels; a small bell rings when this weight is nearly run down, and the assistant winds it np by simply pressing his foot on a treadle. There are 28 keys, like the keys of a piano, each correspond ing to a letter or mark, as, say, a full stop, or to a number, at pleasure. These admit of 56 variations, so that the possibility of varying signals is nearly unlimited. When one of the keys corresponding to a letter is depressed, this brings a detent in contact with a pin corresponding to that letter on the cir cumference of the uniformly revolving type-wheel, stops it, and at the same time sends an electric wave to the distant station, which, by an electro-magnet detaching a similar detent, stops the same letter for the instant, and by a revolving cam brought up presses the paper against the type, the impression of which is thus taken at the distant station ; the rising of the detent by the key rising to its place ; simultaneously stops the electric current, and each wheel again starts into motion at the same letter, as they had each been stopped exactly at the same letter, and so letter after letter is printed nearly as fast as the keys of a pianoforte can be moved. It was also pointed out that the instrument might 1 be used as a chromoscope ; and tables showing its application to the measurement of retardation in submarine cables were contained in the report. '"~'~.~ ~ ~ ~~~ ~~-~/j2i~~ Several specimens of the printing were executed before the section, and handed to the members, the machine being worked for the week in the exhibition-room at the Central Exchange. The instrument is now employed between rations large towns by the United Kingdom Telegraph Company. ', 1111111111 Mr. - , WriCtiTai...4l4o,opettgai...if!•! . .iMbi, ••••. ,-- -e •••••,wcay.......•••0:r . g . - -- - .7 . ,•••,,, ~ _ \AI • , . ___ 0111 W. ,L, - iapoo, ""•', ' '':: f, ' - i . • , _____,, ~ • i '-'•• ki :_.- - -•!5 2 " , 0 . t. '''.:7'1 ',... THE HEIR OP FRANCE AT BIARRITZ. An interesting letter from Biarritz, published in Galignani, is devoted to a description of the amuses ments of the Prince Imperial at this fashionable watering place. The Imperial residence, it is stated, stands on an eminence,on the tourist's right as he enters the town from Bayonne. A deep hollow separates the grounds ffom the buildings of Biarritz, so that they are en tirely isolated from the bustle of the watering-place. The villa is a large oblong building, apparently containing considerable accommodation, and sur rounded with lawns laid cut in the English fashion. The lawn from t h e villa on the town side slopes down somewhat abruptly to the ofsward, be ach l, which however, at the bott om a wide piece is shut out from public acces s by a ha-ha, defended by a strong wooden railing all round, to prevent accidents. Outside is an extensive green, at present somewhat injured in colour by dust and light sand, on which the fashionable world of Biarritz congre gate each afternoon to listen to the band of the regi ment quartered close by, to show off a collection of costumes unrivalled for expensive eccentricity an d extravagance of colour, and most of all to have the satisfaction of often being very nearly in the ce nts pany of the Empress and the Prince Imperial. I n fact, the piece of sward of which I spoke above is the very spot on which the youngPrinco comes each afternoon to take healthy exercise with young com panions of his own age, or rather somewhat older, for the majority seem to be from about eight to thirteen. When I walked down yesterday after noon about five to the place where the band was playing, the ground outside was thronged with fashionables walking about or seated, whilst inside were to be seen a considerable number of children, of both sexes, amusing themselves according to their phantasy. In the midst of the boys was the young Prince, and as I remained for some time close to the scene, I was able to form a tolerably ac curate judgment of his health, strength, and general bearing. I should mention that a bridge is thrown over the water at one point, and there two guar dians were posted to admit every child without exception, provided he or she seemed by dress and appearance to belong to the more respectable classes of society. In fact, the latitude thus given is a first step toward imparting a popular character to the young Prince's education, and admirably calculated to give him self-reliance, and to accustom him to form a judgment for himself. The girls were in finitely more numerous than the boys, and, like the latter, ranged in age from eight to thirteen. The ostensible motive of the aggregation in both cases was youthful exercise, but the girls in almost every case seemed more fitly attired for a, matinee dan sante. Nothing could exceed the extravagance of their dress, and as to play—in the frank, genial, and honest meaning of that delightful word—it was utterly out of the question. And so, the young ladies —I dare not designate them children—assembled apart, a little way up the grounds, but during the whole time I was there scarcely indulged in a single rue, so afraid they appeared to spoil or tumble their fine clothes. With the boys, the case was different, although they, too, were overdressed. The ne plus ultra of a boy's habiliment I have always heard to be such an attire as permits him themost complete command of all his movements, without bearing too much the mark of any casual tumble or accident, at the same time that it sets off the youthful person in the prevailing mode. But of all the gay and joyful company there collected, no one's dress came up to the definition just given so completely as that of the youthful Prince. He wore a dark-coloured suit of light material (alpaca, it struck me), short jacket and basque trousers, something like what we call in England knickerbockers, with dark stockings, striped with violet crossways, and neat light ancle boots—a black and white straw hat with black band, the ends flying behind, completed his attire. He played with evident zest, and I never saw a child of his age have more command of his limbs. He is a particularly swift runner, and from the ease of his movements ho gave me the idea of regular discipline by dancing or gymnastics. He is a far better-looking boy than anyone would suppose from his portraits, which convey the idea of heaviness in the upper part of the face, whereas the real cha racteristic of his look is open frankness and light heartedness. He certainly appears a particularly happy child, full of life, and eager for a game. Ho has a fine blue eye and white regular teeth, gleam ing out brightly when he smiles, which was rather frequently when any incident of the play struck his fancy. The boys were engaged in some thing like prison-bars, and the young Prince took his part fairly and readily with the rest. I saw no favour from the others because of his elevated sta tion ; all passed as may be constantly seen among the children of any educational establishment. A chair was placed a little apart for the Prince, in case he might like to rest, and he repaired to it occasionally, but so likewise did other boys ; and I several times saw two of them on it together. Once the chair tumbled over as the Prince laid hold of it, and he very unconcernedly seated himself on the back part as it rested on the ground, and after wards raised his body a little in the air by strength of arm, the hands resting on the seat. There was, i n f ac t, a visible superabundance of animal spirits which tried various devices to throw itself off. The I stood ther e I saw no interference w hatever with the Prin ce — a ll was the happy and u w n hh r ao e t s lee tr v i et c rinie ted amusement of boyhood. I did not per ceive the Empress, but some lady of the Court was seated in the grounds a little way distant, near a rustic bridge, and seemed to be the point of attrac tion to the gi r l s. T here was no other grown per.. soninside the enclosure, and only one gentleman passed through across the bridge during the time I remained. My time being up, I withdrew, car rying with me the idea, when thinking of the young Prince, of a fine healthy, frank, intelligent boy, of whom any parent might be proud, whatever his rank in life. SUBTERRANEOITS RIVERS, like the one traversed by Sinbad the Sailor in the " Arabian Nights' En tertainments."—Rivers, sometimes those of considerable siz e, are often seen suddenly disappearing by plunging into the bowels of the earth, then suddenly reappearing a little further on, and filling anew their bed which they had left dry. Frequent examples of these geological peculiarities are met with in Spain, in Asiatic Turkey, in Northern Africa, and in Greece. In these countries a considerable number of rivers is found whose exterior flow exists only during the rainy season, whilst they have a subterraneous flow which is permanent. Hence that denomination of Rio Seco, or dry river so common in the hydrography of Spain, and that of Oued-Beba-El-Ma, which in Arab expresses the same idea, These dry rivers, or rivers without water, present, for the most part, the aspect of sandy paths ; but if we dig into the sand to a greater or less depth we find water which proceeds from the subterraneous lbw that never ceases. It is this permanence of the subterraneous flow which dis tinguishes these rivers from ordinary torrents. The banks of the Rica Secos, or Oueds are for the most part indicated by lines of verdure formed mainly by tamarisks and rose laurels, agreeably contrasting with the aridity, sometimes very great, of the countries which the rivers traverse. The total absorption of rivers which the earth again dashes forth after they have flowed for some time under its surface, offers sometimes an imposing spectacle. The Porte du 111°" ' i I n othern between Geneva and Lyons, is an example., stances, on the contrary, the rivers skulk out of s ight awk, Nsardly and prosaically like a timid and clownish man try.. ing to find his way through a half-opened door. The Meuso, in the upper part of its course, illustrates this. Finally, it occasionally happens that the current, like a graceful young girl playing at hide-and-seek, vanishes it ito the holl ows o f a lovely landscape, then bounds forth age in from the midst of thickets of verdure. This is what takes place with the Guadiana near the village of Villa 1 3dabia. in Andalusia, called in the locality Los Ojos de GU ledana—the Eyes of Guadiana. FRIGHTFUL DEATH.—A very shocking accident occurred at Selston, Notts, on T hursday last. It ap pears that a man named Timothy C o leman and his wife were walking down the gangway a L Selston. Some waggons were running along, and it is sup posed that he was jump ing into the last one, when he sr ,p il ed and fell down, some of the wheels passing over his I he ad, part of which was all but cut off. Both his hands ar ,d arms were frightfully muti lated, and he was taken up q' lite dead. His wife was a short distance off and did nc t. see the accident occur. lie Am left:a family o f Aye au 4ren, Mary ME