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Sold in Bottles, 3s. Bd., at the Retail Houses in London ; by the Agents in the principal towns in England; or wholesale at 8, GREAT WINDMILL-STREET, LONDON, W. Observe the Red Seal. Pink Label, and Cork branded ~Kinahan's LL Whisky.", CITY OFFICES COMPANY (LimiTED),-- NOT ICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the DIREC TORS of the CITY OFFICES COMPANY (Limited) have this day made a Carl of £2 10s. per Share on the Shares of the Company, payable at The Atzra and Masterman's Bank (liinitel), Nicholas-lane, on or before THURSDAY, the 24th of November next; and Interest, at !he rate of 10 per cent., Will be charged on all Calls not then paid. By order of the Board, C. W. BEN WELL, Secretary. ^;th October, 1864, N.B.—No Transfer of Shares, upon which the Call has not been paid, will be registered. ESTABLISHED 1837. , RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE CO 1I PANY. Empowered by special Act of Parliament 4 Viet., cap. 9. 1, Princes-street, Bank, London. Every description of Life Assurance business transacted at the lowest rates of l're ium consistent with security. The various Tables, some of widen are peculiar to this Com pany, have been studiously adapted to the requirements of every class of Assurers, ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary. THE QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY. Queen Insurance Buildings, Gracechurch-street, London, E.C. At the ANNUAL MEETING of the Proprietors, held at Liverpool, on the 27th October, 1864, BERNARD HALL, Peg., Chairman of the Company, in the chair, the Directors' Report for the year stated : That the Fire Premiums for the year amounted to £101,085 Being an increase over the preceding year of 30,785 That 352 Life Policies R ere issued f0r.... Being an increase over the preceding year of 57.508 That the New Life Premiums were 6,371 Being an increast over the preceding year 0f.... 2,421 That the Life Income was And that upwards of 60 per cent. of the entire Net Premiums was added to the Life Fund. That the Subscribed Capital was increased to 1,876,720 That the Paid-up Capital was increased to . 187,67: That after providing for all outstanding Claims, the Fire Reserve would stand at 114,312 Making the Funds in hand, alter providing for the Dividend 343,413 A Dividend was declared of 2s. per Share, being 10 per Ccnt.:on the paid up Capital. J. MONC R I EFF WILSON, C. eneral Manager. JOHN E. LEYLAND, Secretary. THE SOLDIER'S LEGACY.—Mr. ORTI"!AN REED' New Ora Camera T-NIG at Eht entitled THE SOLDIE pe di R'S LEGACY, O composed HT, ig by G. A. Macfarren, Esq., and written by John Oxenford. Esq., in which Miss R. flenderson, Mr. Whiffin, Mr. P. A. Shaw. and Mis s Poole (by the kind permission of the New Opera Com pany), will appear. Concluding with TOO MANY COOKS, sustained by Mips D'Este Finlayson, Mr. J. A. Shaw, and Mr. Whiffin.—ROYAL GALLERY of ILLUSTRATION, 14, Regent-street. Unreserved seats, ls., 2s. ; stalls, 3s. stall chairs, 50. ; may be secured in advance without fee. T H 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury hall Company (limited). THIS EVENING be Produed (dxth country), ORPHEE AUX will ENFERS,c by Offenbach.time in this MASANIELLO, MARTHA LA TROVATORE, and TITS FAVORITE, ,by the following. Artistes, vis., Misses Russell, Fitz-Henry,Wahnsley, Tyrrell, &c. With augmented Band and Chorus, conducted by Mr. F. Jonghmans. Mr. JACKSON HANES, the Champion 'Skater, in his per formanc-, on the Drawing Room Skates, of Quadrilles. Varsoviennes, UNSWO RT II (or any other man), EUGENE, W. Randall, 11. Nash, Herr Hermann, and Wile. Cava:ho. LE PETIT lILONDIN. Admission—Area, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, la. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. ANTERBURY HALL. Triumphant Success of PRINCE PERFUME AND PRINCESS BOUQUET. Under the title of Prince Perfume and Princess Bouquet is nightly to be seen at the Canterbury ii all a Magic Bpcctacle far transcending in poetry of concepton, b auty and in genuity of arrangement, scenic effect, and brilliancy of light and colour any former apt.lication (even at this Hall) of the principle kitown as the OPTICAL ILLUSION. ;II this last collective display of scenic art and of brilliant choreographic and statuesque grouping will be found pictures surpassing some of the greatest achievements of the Modern Extra vaganza—Sre " THE SLIIPWRECK," " TII it: PHANTOM COMBA l'," and " TIIE CURTAIN OF FIRE." The "Illusive Sketch," which is the centre of these corns eat on ft, is by Mr. W. P. Vandervell ; the overture and inci dental music , by Willem V an d ervell. Prince Perfume, Mrs. 'William Randall. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). QTRAND MUSICK HALL. PROMENADE CONCERTS EVERY EVENING. With a full Band of Forty Performers. Conductor, Mr. 14' Kingsbury. Vocalists :—Madll,s. Wilks, Molidofr, and Mayer. Instrumentalists: —Violin, Signor Giovatni Adelmann ; Cornet, M. Duhem ; Pianoforte, M. Mattel, Pianist to his Majesty the King of Italy. Admission, Is. ; Private boxes, 10s. 6d. ; stalls, 2s. once at Eight. STRAND MUS ICK HALL. 31USICK AT EIGHT O'CLOCK. COMICK AT TEN O'CLOCK. EVERY EVENING, TIIE GREAT VANCE AT II ALP-PAST TEN. MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL GALLERY: e3tablished 28 years at the Bazaar, Baker -street. NEW ADDITION. A fall Icri;?•th portrait model o f DR. GOUTY DE LA POMMERA IS, the Poisoner, taken from the original photograph, by Mons. Tiinquart, of Paris, from lite, is now added to the Chamber of Physiognomy. Admittance, Is.; Napoleon Rooms and Chamber of Ilorrors, 6d. extra. Open from 11 till 5, and from 7 till 10, A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Sole Proprietor, R. R. BIGNELL. Durinz the week. and till further notice, in addition to the Dance Music, Selections from Verdi's popular Operas, 11 Trovatore, Traviata, Ri2•oletto, ; Meyerbeer's Etoile du Nord, Huguenoti, &c. ; Melodies of the Forest, Valse, Guy Mannering, Polka, &e. Conductor—L. CURTI. Doors open at half-past B.—Admission, One Shilling. Manager—M. GRENET. BUSINESSES.-Mr. ANDREW HIND'S NOVEMBER. LIST, Containing 500 Businesses, Premises, Partnerships, &c., Gratis. Letters, enclos e s t amp .—Particulars entered free. OFFICES —CORNER OF LITTLE CARTER-LANE, ST. PAUL'S, CAPITAL INVESTMENT. nParly Equal to P !MEMO L —llr. ANDREW HIND has for disposal a PUBLIC- HOUSE, with House and Shop adjoining, near Southampton, produing £75 per annum ; t nants paying all cr ta es; value of p ro p erty in the neighbourhood rapidly in sing; hid for a term of 993 years at a ground-rent of view, a 0; at t lowest price £Boo.—Purther particular s an d cards to he Este Agency Offices, corn er of Littl e Carter lane, St. Paul's. PIGS ! PIGS! PIGS!—INDIAN PIG MEAL, without husks, supplied to the Royal farms, Windsor, and in every county in England, IGs 6d per cwt. ; one cwt. equal to cwt. barley or any meal. Delivered free in Lon don. Established MS.—THOMAS PEARCE, manager, 66, Lant-street, Southwark. rip EET H. -IMP ROVED MECHANICAL _A DENTISTRY.— Prof essional abilities and great artistic skill have been most successfully combined in the production of ARTIFICIAL T KET H. upon a new principle. The real value of the perfection of the art of Dentistry will be experi enced by all is to avail th emselves of professional assistance by consulting' Mr. AL BERT, 34, Great Russell street, Bloomsbury, whose experience has enabled him to effect such admirable, convenient contrivances by artificial means, and which are so pelf cotly efficient TE E T ESKELL'S PATENT ,—The exclusive right to this Patent was secured to Mr. Eskell, of Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor -square, by bar Ma jesty's Royal Feal (July 17, 1860), and can only be procured at his residence, whe - e specimens maybe seen, and every Infor mation can be obtained. Under this Patent, A rtificial Teeth, to last a lifetime, are made, and fitted in a few hours without pain or extractions. They support loose teeth, and protect tender gums ; their resemblance to nature is perfect and un detectable, and they are guaranteed for mastication and articulation. Treatise on the subject sent for seven stamps. Consultations free. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. "Mr. Eskell, dental-surgeon, has succeeded in pr luting artificial teeth, and so constructing them that they las• their purpose a lifetime. . • . The process has been"patented, and promises to be most valuable." —Court Journal, August 4, 1860. "A surpr , sing novelty in the adapt a ti on of artificial teeth to the gum b y a patented principle, which secures the most perfect aid, combined with the greatest ease and agreeable appearance."—Morning Advertiser, August 9, 1860. Decayed teeth stopp e d , & o. T erms strictly 8, Grosven or - s t reet, Bond-street. moderate. THE BENEFACTOR OF THE SKIN.. perfumed Toilet Sulphur Soap and Cream, highly patronised by the faculty, nobility, and gentry. Nothing equals the properties and qualities of the cases 1 for ordinary toilet purposes and of Nos. 2 to 5 in all of cutaneous affections or rheumatism. hair. Perfu med toilet c ream, cold cream, and pomatum for the llarege cream for sulphur baths, Without any disagreeable odour. All these preparations may be had at the central depot, 221 A, ltegent-strpet, London, W. ; and at Messrs. Newbery and Sons, Barely sod bons, Edwards, Keating, Sanger and Son, Jozeaunett , and all chemists. Pamphlets and test.- mon'als tree on a plication. Agent for dnbargh—Mr. John lirliay, chemist, 119, G corge- street. ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity o t the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, K ing's-eross. Patron—Her Most Gracious 3lajesty the QUEEN. Vice-Patron—Ills Royal Highness the Prince of WA LE3,-K.G. President —Hi surer—Edws Grace the Duke M of BUCCLEUCH, li.G. President- His asterman, R eq. poor for ad- The numerous and urgent appeals of the the mission compel the Committee to entreat the bounty of th. affluent and humane, as the medical of fi cers are daily o hm, e a t) treat as out-patients many distressing cases xvhich , wi t h more adequate funds, they would gladly admit into the wards. The premises of the Hospital are capable of containing 500 beds. The Hospital is not endowed, but is wholly dependent on voluntary contributions and legacies, which are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas rerman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Pa.; hansom and Co.; l'rescott, Grote, and C o.; S m i th, : il and Co. ; G:yn and Co. ; Jones Loyd an d C o. ; B arclay -';u a re n a' Denison and Co.; W iliams, Deacon, and Co.; israste_rm, Gurney and Co. ; Nisbet and Co Berners-street ~ an and Co.' thO .40oPital from 10 till 5. , STANFORD S. SMITII SKr:o4l73'. No. 22,577. 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A distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis Tucker and Co., on the subject of WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS, says : " I have found them fully equal to the recommendation which you gave them, and can sincerely, in my turn, I com mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar." Finest quality, with latted Wicks, patented.. is. 2d. per lb. Ordinary quality .. .. • • .. is. Od. per lb, VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax. Best quality .. .. • • .. is. sd. per lb. Second quality • • .. is. 3d. per lb. Third quality .. .. • • .. Is. id. per lb. Carriage paid in London on Orders of Five Pounds in value. FRANCIS TUCKER AND CO., 8, South Molton-street, Grosvenor-square. Manufactory— Kensington (Established 1730). The largest Establishment in England for the Manufacture of Wax Candles for the use of the Altar. NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and most useful invention of the day, AGUA AMARELL A. Messrs. 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But though neither one view or the other is perfectly true, when they camo to the kind of practical truth with which they had to deal, then he said the favour able view of society and of :nan's nature was the view which helped them most in practice, and it, and not the other, had truth on its side, Depend upon it, they were able if they would to draw out much that was good from those around them, much that was good in their own minds, and there was nothing so sure to crush, and dwarf, and wither them, as the belief that nothing good would come, and that they could achieve nothing gcod for themselves and see nothing good springing up around them. It was from the opposite spirit that institutions like this arose, H-1 took it that the duty of every one of them was to consider his own mind, to regard it as a great trust given him by God. There was no greater mistake for a man to make than to say, "My education is finished." It was never finished. They were being taught by every day, by every book they read, even though they did not agree with it; taught by every social influence brought to bear upon them, and by every opportunity of good when they made use of it. Their education never ended, and therefore when an institute like that prepared for its members a large amount of intellectual food and recreation it did well. It was pointing out to its members the duty of cultivating themselves to the highest, It provided the proper means of cultivation, and thereby kept reminding them to make a practical use of those powers which God had given theyk,. They might depend on it that whatever was done by the school was carried on by the book and the library, and both by the healthy food supplied and the noxious poison it kept out, they were doing good to the body politic and to the members of the Church of Christ. (Loud applause.) of the gun's crew, and a fouling in the wedge grooves. Changing the man's number at the gun and washing out the grooves at once remedied the defect, and caused the gun to work with its former freedom. Tho firing results with the GS-pounder smooth. bore and the three rifled guns yesterday was as 'o ll ows : Eight-inch (65 cwt.) smooth-bore gun, indepen► dent firing, 1,800 yards range, 101 b charge of powder, hollow shot ; number of rounds fired, 20; time occu pied in firing, 14 min. 4 sec. Quick firing—Number of rounds fired, 20; time occupied in firing. 9 min. 5 secs. Whitworth rifled 70-pounder gun, rear-vent, in.. dependent firing, 2,600 yards range, 101 b charge of powder ; number of rounds fired, 12; time occupied in firing, 8 min. Wedge Armstrong rifle gun, independent firing, 2,600 yards range, 91b charge of powder; number of rounds fired, 12 ; time occupied in firing, 6 min. 45 sec. Armstrong shunt rifled gun, independent firing, 2,600 yards range, 101 b charge of powder ; number of rounds fired, 12 ; time in firing, 9 min. 56 sec. The shunt and wedge Armstrong guns the men of the Excellent have been for some time aeons , . toured to. Mr Whitworth's gun with its rear vent was a perfect stranger to them, and the first three or four rounds were fired in consequence more slowly than they would have been had the men fired previously from the gun, however short the number of rounds might have been, and as a proof of this there was a very marked decrease in the time between each gun during the last six rounds of the 12 fired. The Archbishop of York on Works of Fiction, The annual soiree of the Huddersfield Church Institute took place on Monday—the Bishop of Ripon in the chair. The Archbishop of YORK was one of the speakers, and he addressed himself to the following sentiment:—" That Church institutes exercise more or less directly an educa tional influence on their members, by giving them access to well-chosen books and periodicals." Ho said that when he looked at that sentiment he was somewhat troubled by the over-goodness of his case. He did net know how to state it in a way which should not still leave it a perfectly self-evi dent truth, and he almost desired that the practice of an cient disputation should be revived, and that some good member of council of the institute would stand up and sup port the opposite tenet, in order to give him a chance of saying something. (Laughter.) However, he supposed there lay in this simply the statement that good and useful reading, whether for youths or adults, is always a means of education, and he should take it so—that our educa tion goes on by means of our reading after the original fountains from which we derive it cease for us to flow. What did they mean by useful reading ? In a church insti tute they did not mean by useful reading that which would help them in their trade or profession, that was legitimate reading, but it was not the highest use to which reading could tend. He took it that useful study was that which enlarged their sympathy for their fellow-creatures over the whole world, and which enlarged their knowledge of the world as it was governed by God. The kind of rough defini tion would include, of course, all history, from the great works which have become classical in our libraries and on our shelves down to the newspaper of the current day ; it would include all scientific inquiry, and it would not exclude well-chosen works of fiction ; and, glancing over the list of periodicals which that institution patronised, he saw that they took a large and liberal view of the purposes of instruc tion, and that there were something like 50 periodicals de voted to different branches, including ail the subjects he had mentioned. He thought this was right. He did not think that a great institution like that, set up in one of the great centres of industry, should take too confined and restricted a view of what reading might safely be put into the hands of its members, and if for no other reason, for this above all, that there was at the present day such a spirit of inquiry and improvement that if an institution like this attempted to shut out from any of its legitimate channels that spirit of inquiry, then the institution would cease to cover all the ground, and beside it some secular institution would be sure to grow up. (Hear, hear.) In order better to understand what useful reading was, he thought he might venture to look at what was useless reading; and he supposed if in stitutions of this kind were not to guide and supply the want that working men would be likely to fall in, no doubt, wilh the newspaper for one thing, and also for another with those stimulating narratives which went now by the somewhat barbarous term of "sensational stories." These sensational stories were tales which aimed at this effect simply—ot exciting in the mind some deep feeling of overwrought interest by the means of some terrible passion or crime. They went to persuade people that in almost every ene of the well-ordered houses of their neigh bours there was a skeleton shut up in some cupboard ; that their comfortable and easy-looking neighbour had in his breast a secret story which he was always going about trying to conceal; that there was something about a real will re gistered in Dectors' , commo , s, and a false will that at aortae proper moment would tumble out of some broken bureau, and bring about the denouement which the author wished to achieve. (Laughter.) This was the sort of food supplied in every kind of publication, from the penny story up to much larger and more important For those who had no particular object in what they read no doubt these had a great attraction. He would show them what was one cause of that attraction. In the first place, they professed to give a deeper insight into cur social sy..tem—of course, it was much deeper than anybody by his own observation could possibly discover. (Laugh+er.) They taught them not to trust to appearances—that there was behind a great world of crime, wickedness, and misery to which they alone pos sessed the key. Now, it was this claim to superior truth that gave them their first attraction ; they satisfied a certain kind of spirit of inquiry. He would show them presently that in point of truth they entirely failed; because, sup posing that these histories of great crimes had some founda tion, they would be at least a very one-sided view of human nature. There was a much larger chapter of homely sym pathies—of pious mothers training little children, of secret prayers offered up to God in the silence of night for those children, of hints and helps to duty strewn ire the paths of these children continually—all this was altogether lost sight of and left out of the account, because it was not sufficiently stimulating in its nature, and they were left to believe that the world—bad, no doubt, it was—was a mere welter of crime, misery, and confusion, and that the historian could find nothing else to record. This style of reading was tho roughly false and dangerous for another reason—on account of what he would call its fatalism. Always they would observe in this kind of fiction some great passion was supposed to take possession of a man; it was love, or jealousy, or what not, and it was enough to state that the man was stricken by this passion to be sure that his destruction was settled be forehand by the writer of the fiction, and that there was no possibility of escape. If he was not greatly mistaken, this tone had greatly reacted upon society itself, and in some of the great crimes perpetrated ho seemed to see the in fluence of this kind of feeling. There sprung up in the mind of an ill-regulated young man some great trial from one of these great passions, and he had been told, or had learnt in those his models, that he could not possibly be escaped from, and so he gave himself up to it, and ended his career by a crime which in reality was more terrible than the writer of the fiction had ventured to conceive, And it was also false because of its associating crime with a certain grand strength. It was some great and strong or beautiful person who was the hero or hereoine of one of those tales of horror. Something had passed which in itself was horrible, but which they were expected not to abhor, because it was associated with qualities they were apt to admire. Could they suppose anything more dangerous to the young and to the weak and half-fallen than the con etmeimui entirelyss e p i ro l a a ub t i ol o eff n amol o ns a f een! ohffoi Some ho k amo i s n mee d oot o sfr tfat tragedies ete r rdm e oi a ce t his i o o aiu n nds r o e f a d t h e t h w a writer y ? the l t c w o n a s_ the mu convictionmurder. B ut ot there, e a r e, most he thoughtht eacdto nhadh thead laidrf a e bl l w e of n a o sr upon i u d e theme g d tuh a i le t m ,wa o e n r a a kd l n , en f or s r t ha i enn and the h e t c e hoencdo firstn placet place hi d be e l ye folly and misery of such a crime as that of which they had read the history. It would be found invariably, he might say, that crime was the offspring of a broken nature, not of a nature in its strength. (Hear.) He had conversed himself with persons who had had the opportunity of ob serving the criminal classes, and their testimony was that nothing so destroyed physical and mental power as a course of crime, A man lived a life of dissipation—he lived the life of a hunted beast, and the consequence was that before four or five years were over—he was speaking what he had been told by some of those who had actually observed it— he sank under it and disappeared—that was to say, he died. He (the Archbishop) had now shown, and he had taken some pains to ground himself in the facts, what was the ex citing literature which was thrust into the hands of the humbler members of the social body. Depend upon it, it did the utmost amount of harm. But there was to be ga thered from this what was the better mode of study men might practice. He would venture on a small touch of phi losophy. Bishop Butler told him that the sympathies upon which the wrier of fiction worked were given by the Al mighty Creator for practical ends and objects. "The first time," he said, " we witness a calamity or hear of one we are strongly moved, and tho proper result of that strong emo tion is that we should do something to succour and help the suffering that moves on. It is in the nature of things that the next repetition of that kind of spectacle will move us less, and the next less still, until at last the mere emotion will almost disappear ; but if we have used it rightly, as the emotion disappears the habit of doing the thing that the emotion was to prompt will have grown up in its stead." So, the emotions were given us for a practical end, and, apart from any other bad result whatever, he was sure that the working constantly upon people's emotions, without giving them the opportunity to put in practice what the emotion suggested, was itself a great evil, because it wore the man out in the finer part of him, and he was, so to speak, jaded and palled, and unfit to do the thing which he was intended by his Maker to do. (Applause.) And so he took it the object of all education was really practical, and he believed that in order to be practical they must take not a gloomy view of human nature, but rather a hopeful view. A perfectly philanthropical view—an optimist view of human society—would no doubt be false, It pessimist view Artillery Experiments at Portsmouth. The great cause of " Whitworth v, Armstrong" entered upon a new phase on Monday in the corn. mencement of the trial of the three 70-pounder rifled guns at Portsmouth, which have been con structed on the plans of Sir William Armstrong and Mr Whit worth for competitive trial as naval ser vice guns. Two of these weapons have been fur nished by Sir William Armstrong, one being on the wedge breech-loading, and the other on the shunt muzzle-loading principle. The third gun is Mr Whitworth's, on his ordinary muzzle-loading prin. ciple, but it is fired from a rear vent leading to the centre of the cartridge through a paper tube. The members of the Commission appointed to superintend and report upon the trials, which it is, perhaps, necessary to state here are merely a con tinuation of those which have already occupied their attention at Shoeburyness, arrived at Portsb mouth by the early train from London yesterday morning, and immediately embarked on board the gunnery ship Excellent, Captain Astley, C. Key, C. 8., on the port battery of which ship the three guns were mounted, and whence the trials were to commence. The members of the committee comprised Major. General Lumley, Inspector General of Infantry, President ; Major-General Taylor, Inspector-Gene ral of Artillery; Colonel Ormsby, R.A.; Captain Wilson, Royal Navy; Colonel Simmonds, R.E,; Captain Singer, Royal Navy ; Major Young, R.A.; Professor Pole, F.R.S. ; and Major Dyer, Secre. tart'. Mr Whitworth and Viscount Torrington were present as representing the Whitworth Ordnance Company, and Captain Noble and Mr Rendall re presented the Etswick Ordnance Company. .• _ The programme of the committee provided in the first instance for 120 rounds to be fired from each gun, from on board the Excellent, 60 rounds to be independent firing, at 2,600 yards range, each gun to do its best at the target; and 66 rounds to be quick firing, as though firing point blank at an engaged enemy, time to be taken in both instahces. In the quick firing the gun not to be laid on any target, but a sufficient amount of elevation to be given to prevent the chance of an awkward ricochet, and training enough to keep the flight of the shot in as straight a line with the target as necessary to keep it clear of other objects. The wedge gun to be fired with a 91b charge of powder, the shunt gun and Mr Whitworth's muzzle-loader to be fired with each a 101 b charge. The non-arrival of the cart• ridges for Mr Whitworth's gun from Woolwich effectually debarred it from all share in the da3'a firing, which was thus confined to Sir William Armstrong's two guns. These latter indeed only fired 80 out of their 120 rounds each, owing to the state of the tide, and they will therefore recom. mence the firing of their allotted quota this morn ing in company with Mr Whitworth's gun, the ammunition for which it is presumed will have reached her Majesty's ship Excellent in tine fur second day's trial, if it could not got three in time for the first day. It only remains to give a plain record of the firing yesterday with the two Arm strong guns, any comparison between them andMr Whitworth's guns being necessarily deferred until the first course of firing has been completed by all three guns. These results yesterday were as fol lows : INDEPENDENT WRING. Description Number of Time, of Gun. Rounds, m. s. Shunt 2O Wedge Wedge .... Shunt .......... .. 20 QUICK FIRING. Description Number of Time. of Gun. Rounds. m. s. Wedge .......... 29 Shunt ........ .... 20 .. l6 48 Wedge .......... 20 5hunt............ 20 There are three circumstances remarkable;in these re turns. One is the remar k a bly short time in which the wedge gun fired its second 20 rounds at its cou rse of independ en t fi r i ng (10 min. 23 sec.), the practices at quickrtm firing short ti beingtime, n (9 proportion, exceedingly accurate; the equally h with which its first course min. 20 sec.) was made ; and the om to po tiv lengthened period (13 min. 15 sec.) it complete it s secon d c ourse of 20 roun d s at quick firing- The cause of this difference ap peared to lie in the working of the wedges at the b r eech, partly owing a k ra to ely to the want of tact in the c seaman whose number at the gun gave him the duty of hauling the wedge into position in closing the breech to receive the key-bolt. It might, at the same time, be owing to a slight disarrangement of the key-bolt, or fouling of the wedge face or the end of the tube upon which it closes. An intended after-examination would, however, , discover the cause of the delay, which, alight in nature as it must have been, yet sufficiently delayed the work ing of thegun as to give the great difference in the time noted in firing of 20 rounds. Firing was resumed on board her Majesty's ship Excellent, at Portsmouth, yesterday, with the 70 pounder Armstrong and Whitworth rifled naval service gun 3, under the superintendence of the special committee, Captain Astley C. Key, C. 8., conducting the firing as on the previous day. The committee's programme Was somewhat departed from, owing to the non-arrival of the Whitworth ammunition from Woolwich, and the firing, which was intended to have Commenced at 10 a.m., did not open until 1 30 p.m., with 40 rounds of shot from the ordinary smoothbore eight inch gun (65 cwt.), to afford the committee a means of comparing the time occupied in landing the ordinary smooth-bore gun of the navy against the improved rifled guns under trial. Prior to the firing from the %pounders being concluded 12 cartridges had been forwarded to the Excellent for the Whitworth gun from the Priddy's-hard magazines, where they had been spe cially prepared for the purpose, in the absence of the expected supply from Woolwich, and it was de cided to fire 12 rounds of independent firing from each of the rifled guns, and recommence on the morrow, if the Whitworth cartridges should by that time have come to hand. It is necessary to state here that any fault attaching to the non-supply of these cartridges rests entirely with the authorities at Woolwich, and not with Mr Whitworth. The difficulty experienced in closing the breach of the wedge gun in the first day's firing (Monday) was owing, as was anticipated at the time the firing was going on, to a want of tact on the part of one The Swiss Poisoning Case. The Court of Assizes of Berne was occupied dnr. ing the remainder of the sitting of the 25th with the continuation of the interrogatory of the prisoner Demme, relative to the events preceding Trumpy's death. He stated that the patient, being in great pain on Sunday night, requested him to administer chloro form, which he did with favourable results. At six on Monday morning he took leave of Trumpy, who thanked him fervently for his attentions during the night. He returned in the evening, and found Trumpy in a high fever and almost delirious. He gave him some quinine in wine and water. Trumpy remarked that it was very bitter, but that he had already taken a powder still more bitter, At the patient's urgent entreaty he again consented to stop all night. On first entering the room he saw a bottle on the table by the bed-side, and in reply to his in quiry, Trumpy said it contained bad sherry. About 3 o'clock he left the sick room for a few moments, and on his return Trumpy remarked, in tones which particularly struck him, " Now, I shall get some sleep, Demme." He perceived that Trumpy had drunk the pretended sherry. He blamed him se verely for drinking it, but Trumpy replied that he only wished for death, and that he felt it was near at hand; and so it proved, for soon after he ex pired. Though he did not think so at the time, it was now his (prisoner's) conviction that Trumpy had realised his long-meditated project of suicide by poison. Soon after his death three members of the Trumpy family arrived at Wabren, and he (pri. soner) proposed a post-mortem examination that he might be able to give a proper certificate as to the cause of death for the satisfaction of the assurance companies in which Trumpy had insured his life. This proposal was accepted, and, after making the examination, he gave a certificate attributing Trumpy's death to apoplexy. The President here read a letter addressed to the Prefect of Berne by Maw. Trumpy when the judicial investigation was commenced, in which she spoke of the family ar• rangements that were to follow the prisoner's mar riage with Mdlle. Flora Trumpy, and which the prosecution considered to have been writte❑ in concert with Demme for the purpose of frustrating the ends of ju3tice. The prisoner denied that he had dictated the letter, but admitted that he had made a few corrections in it. At the commencement of the sitting of the 26Lb, the President interrogated the prisoner on several points of his statements made the day before, espe• cially with regard to his projected marriage with Mdlle. Trumpy. He asked how it came to pass that the proposed marriage was a secret to every body, although, according to Madame Trumpy's letter, it had been entertained for nearly a year. The prisoner replied that he could not account for that fact. The President then asked him to ex plain the cause of the difference between his first and second statements as to the cause of Trumpy's death. The prisoner said that when he gave his first opinion he had not sufficient ground for stating that Trumpy had taken strychnine, and he therefore attributed his death to natural causes. The President next interrogated the pri soner on many minor points of his explanations@ and the court was occupied to the close of the sitting of the 26th with the continuation of the interroga- tory. The President's questions chiefly related to a number of anonymous letters which the prosecu• tion supposed to have emanated from the prisoner or his friends, and to have been intended to mislead the officials charged with the investigation. The prisoner denied all knowledge of the letters, and his cpunsel protested against the manner in which the President conducted the interrogatory. The Presi dent handed the letters to the jury, who seemed to think them of no importance, and declined to put any questions to the prisoner respecting them. At the commencement of the sitting of the 27th the female prisoner Trumpy was introduced, and in reply to the President's questions made a state ment of which the following is the substance : She was aware of the crime laid to her charge, and was confident her innocence would be established. Her marriage with M. Trumpy, who was two years her senior, took place in 1846. They had one child, Flora Trumpy. The first years of their wedded life were tolerably happy, and she assisted her husband in his business for some time, but subsequently ceased to do so, owing to his having become ill. tempered and violent under the vexation caused by unsuccessful speculations. At one time her husband was extremely jealous, and treated her in the most brutal manner, but for some years preceding 1862 they had lived on better terms. She first knew Dr. Demme in 1861, when he attended her daring an illness, but their intimate acquaintance did not commence till 1862, after her husband, in conse quence of t quarrel about a servant, had thrown a decanter (not a lamp, as stated in the indictment) at her head while at table, and knocked out one of her eyes. In the beginning of the present year her husband was suffering from a painful disease, the nature of which she did not know, and was attended by a person connected with a military hospital. She advised him to consult a duly qualified physician, and he, of his own accord, called in Dr Demme. This was about a fortnight before her husband's death. He took to his bed on Saturday, Feb.l3. 1)r. Demme never told her what was her husband's disease. On the night before his death she saw the doctor give her husband medicine in a glass, and heard him say," Take this, it will do you good." At the moment her husband expired she was reclining on a sofa in his bedroom. She confessed that her intimate relations with Dr. Demme were continued after her husband's decease. The prisoner was next interrogated as to what occurred during their jour ney in the Levant, and related a scene which took place at Corfu whe❑ she refused to drink a glass of some mixture offered to her by her husband. In reply to the president's question relative to this scene at Corfu, the prisoner stated that she could not affirm her husband wished to poison her, but that she refused to drink the mixture he offered be cause she thought it looked suspicions. She was not aware that her husband had bought poison at Constantinople, but such a thing was possible, as he often went out accompanied only by a dragoman. PRICE ..4d: STAMPED.....Sd. The president then proceeded again to interrogate the prisoner at great length relative to the events which immediately preceded and followed her hus band's death, especially with regard to a letter written by her, in which she said—" I am a wicked woman, an adultress, and the assassin of my hus band." She replied that the above words were written in a moment of despair; they did not mean that she was her husband's actual murderer, but that the grief and trouble her conduct had caused him contributed to shorten his life. The reading of the letter containing the above phrase produced a painful impression in court, and seemed to over whelm the male prisoner with astonishment. The court then adjourned, At the opening of the sitting next morning (28th) several witnesses gave evidence as to the mental state of the female prisoner, from which it appeared that she was very excitable and subject to halluci nations, and that she often fancied voices from uns seen persons were addressing her. A report from Dr, Schaerer, physician of the Berne Lunatic Asy lum, was read, in which he expressed an opinion that she ought to be carefully watched, as she might attempt suicide. At this stage of the pro• ceedings Madame Trumpy looked wildly up and exclaimed, " I still hear voices telling me to com mit suicide ; they say that they will only be silent when I shall have returned to my room to kill my self." Dr. Schaeder, another physician of the Berne Lunatic Asylum, gave evidence to the same effect as Dr. Schaerer's, and added that when he conversed with the prisoner she had often stopped short to reply to these imaginary voices. Other testimony having been given, the case was adjourned. HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Registrar• General's Report.) The Registrar-General's return shows that the deaths in London, which were less than 1,400 weekly in the seven weeks subsequent to the last week in August, rose to 1,409 in that which ended last Saturn day. The average number of deaths in the forty third week of ten years, 1854.63 is, with a correct tion for increase of population, 1,19 g. In the present return there is therefore an excess of 210 deaths above the estimated number. The deaths occurring under 20 years of age, which had been below 700 in the previous weeks, rose to 771 last week. The deaths frem atrophy and debility rose from 48 to '77 in the last two weeks. Those from pneumonia increased from 119 to 138. Bronchitis, which was fatal in . 105 cases in the previous week, was returned in 150 last week—and the cases that occurred under 20 years of age were respectively 49 and 85. The deaths from phthisis rose from 139 to 155. The mortality from scarlatina has increased lately—it amounted in the week to 95 deaths, of which 7 occurred in Westminster, 8 in Pancras, 5 in the South Hackney sub-district, 8 in Shoreditch, 4 in the sub.district of St. George, Camberwell, 11 in the Greenwich district, which comprises Dept ford, Greenwich, and Woolwich. Of 79 deaths from typhus, there were as many as 18 returned in the Greenwich district, and 4in Plumstead, The two oldest persons registered as having died in the week were a man aged 91 years, and a woman aged 102. The centenarian was the widow of a farmer, and died on the 18th October, at 9, Nottingham-court, St. Giles. Last week the births of 1,044 boys and 987 girls, in a 10,031 children, were registered in London. The ten corresponding weeks of the years 1851-63 1 the average number (corrected) was 1,926. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29'253 in, The reading was 28..)0 in on Sunday, and rose to 29'65 in on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 50.6 deg, which is 3.1 deg above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr Glaisher), The lowest night temperature was 37 - 9 deg on 'Tuesday. The highest day temperature was 60 2 deg on Friday. The range of tem. perature in the week was therefore 22.3 deg. The mean daily range was 12 deg. The daily range, which was 20.6 deg on Monday, was only 5.5 on Thursday, The diurnal range was small on four days. The difference between the mean dewpoint temperature and air temperature was 3.6 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was SS, com plete saturation being represented by 100. The daily humi dity varied from 79 to 95. The wind blew from S.P. and N.B. The rain in the week was 0 . 45 in, most of which fell on Thursday morning. The mean of the highest tem peratures of the water of the Thames was 52•3 deg ; that of the lowest was 50.7 deg. During the week ending Oct, 29, 115 births (those of 60 boys and 55 girls) and 123 deaths (those of 52 males and 71 females) were -. - egistered within the municipal boundaries of Dublin. Its population in 1861 was 254,808, and ex tended over 3,808 statute acres. The deaths in Vienna, as returned by Dr Glatter, were 313 in the week ending Oct. 22, when the mean temperature was 481 deg, that at Greenwich haiing been 53.1 deg. Wescminster, St. Margaret—At the workhouse, on Oct. 18, a jobbing man, aged 58, very destitute, general dropsy. Islington, East—At 140, Essex street, on Oct. 22, the daughter of a pastrycook, aged 11 years, inpaction of a plumstone in the appendix vermiformis. Post modem. Inquest. Sc. Giles, South—At 9, Nottingham court, on Oct. 18, the widow of a farmer, aged 102 years, decay from age. Informant states that 102 years was the correct age of the deceased, and that she retained possession of all her faculties, and amused herself principally with needlework. She was 30 years since unable to see without spectacles, but latterly could not see with them. The Yarmouth Beaehmen and the Lifeboat. The following is the report of the Yarmouth branch of the National Lifeboat Institution of the meetings of the local committee held at Yarmouth on the 24th and 31st ult., to consider the conduct of the Yarmouth beaohmen, in re fusing to man the lifeboat of the National Institution on the 19th ult. It will be seen from the report that the beach men allowed the ill feeling which unfortunately exists amongst them towards the steamtugs to interfere with their duty in manning the lifeboat, whose special and noblest vo cation is to save life. "On Sunday, the 16th inst., about 9 o'clock in the morning, the steamship Ontario, of 2,880 tons burthen register, Brookling master, on a voyage from New castle to Alexandria with coals, grounded on Ilasborough Sand. Six steamtugs belonging to this port were sent to the assistance of the vessel, and agreements were made under which the steamtnes wore to receive £2,400 in case they succeeded in getting the ship off the sand. The steamtugs were employed for this purpose on the 17th, 18th, and 19th October,but without success. On the latter day the weather, which had previously been moderate, assumed a threatening appearance, and in the afternoon all the steamtugs except one left the vessel on Ilasborough Sand, and returned to the harbour. The superintendent agent for Lloyd's having ascertained that the crew of the vessel were left on board her (and also the labourers employed) became alarmed for their safety, and he and myself went down to the beach about 10 p.m., and saw the boatmen who had undertaken to work the lifeboat, and told them the danger iu which it was believed the men on board the steam ship were in, and requested them to launch the lifeboat and proceed to their assistance. They positively refused to do so, stating that the steam tugs had all the cream of employment, and they were only asked to do the rough work. Endeavours were then made to obtain a volunteer crew, but without success, and consequently the lifeboat did not go off, there being only three or four men willing to go. The crew of the Gorleston private lifeboat were then sent for, and on their arrival they refused to go off unless they were paid £4OO for two boats, but ultimately they agreed to go off for £lOO, which sum it was agreed should be paid them if they remained by the vessel and saved the crew. The Gorleston boat was then launched and proceeded to Ilasborough Sand, but did not like the look of it, and returned to harbour without effecting anything. It appears that the labourers on board the steam sbip were taken off by the Caistor lifeboat at between 4 and 5 o'clock p.m. of the 19th inst., but the efficers and crew preferred to remain on board all night, and that the next morning the crow left the steam ship at about 8 o'clock in one of the ship's lifeboats, and got on board the steamtugs, the captain and officers still refusing to leave her, but ulti mately they did so in another of the ship's boats. The steamer has since became a complete wreck. A meeting of the Yarmou93. Lifeboat Committee took place on the 24th inst., at which the men in charge of the lifeboat here w ere requested to attend but did not do so, and the committee ad journed for a week. Another meeting took place this day, at which a letter which I had sent to each company of boatmen, asking them if they were disposed to work the lifeboat perma ntly without changing as heretofore,was read. None of the boatmen attended the meeting, but informed the committee that the men had told me that they would have nothing more to do with the large lifeboat, but that two of thecom panies were willing to work the surf or small lifeboat. — MATTHEW BUTCHER, HON., Secretary, Yarmouth and Caistor Branch, Oct. 31. To the Secretary of the Royal National Lifeboat Inatitution,l Galt:gnani's _ ,s the .ollowing narrative of the movements of the Empe rors subsequent to Friday last : " The Emperor Napoleon on Friday., after the review, went to Villefranche, to visit the Russiin frigates and the Aigle. The former fired a salute, and their bands played the air of Queen Hortense. His Majesty at the dinner at the Villa Peiilion wcs seated between the Emperor and Empress of Ru::•si u. The Emperors in the evening went to the theatre, where a grand representation was given. Their Majesties were in plain clothes ; Alexander 11. wearing the grand cordon of the Legion of Honour, and Napoleon 111. the order of St. Andrew. The Emperor of the French entered the box a little is advance, the orchestra playing the air of Ciaeca Hortense. When the Emperor Alexander appared the National Hymn of Russia was given. The state of the railway between Nice and Toulon, owing to the waters, was such as to make it doubtful whether the journey could be effected by land, but a number of men having worked all night the way was ren dered passable, and the Emperor of the French left Nice at eight on Saturday morning, and arrived at halfapast twelve at the Toulon Station, when; he was received by the Minister of Marine, with whom he proceeded immediately to the arsenal. Tne crowd assembled in all the streets through which his Ma jesty passed received him with the loudest acclama tions. The Emperor was met at the dockyard by Vice Admiral Viscount de Chabannes, the Maritime Prefect, and Vice Admiral Count Bouet-Willaumex, commander in chief of the experimental squadron. His Majesty, after passing along the front of the line of Marines drawn up on either side, visited succeesively the ironclad frigate La Provence, now being completed in one of the docks, the saw mills, the building yard of Mourillon, and the Belliqueuse and Taurean steam rams, the plans and models of which were presented to the Emperor by M. du Puy de Lome, direc4 tor of naval . constructions. From the port his Majesty embarked and went on board the admiral's ship, the Solferino, where the officers of the other vessels had assembled to be presented. As soon as they had returned on board their respective ships a signal was made for the squadron to get under weigh. The Solferino, on reaching the offing, dis charged her guns while under full steam, and after all the other vessels had gone through a similar mar ceatre the squadron returned to its anchorage. At five o'clock the Emperor left the Solferino, and landing at the arsenal, returned to the Maritime Prefecture. In the evening there was a grand ban quet, at which the principal civil and military authorities were present. His Majesty left yester• day morning by railway for Marseilles, where he arrived at half-past eleven. After proceeding, without any escort and in the midst of an immense crowd, to the docks, the port, the new prefecture, and other public establishments, his Majesty sent to visit King Leopold of Belgium, who was to leave this morning for Nice to visit the Empress of Rosa sia. The Emperor afterwards visited in succession the Boulevard Dugommier, the new Rae de Noalles, the Rue Imperiale, the cathedral, and the Hotel Dieu. Such were the crowds that followed the Emperor's carriage that his Majesty was at one moment obliged to halt and acknowledge the enthua siastic cheering of the people. When the Emperor, much moved by this cordial reception, stood upright in his carriage to salute the crowd, the cheering became deafening. The Emperor listened with great attention to a petition presented to him by the body of porters (porte-faix), and shook hands at the end with their syndic. His Majesty left at half-past one by the ordinary train, the Imperial railway c=ar riages being left for the Emperor of Russia. On leaving Marseilles his Majesty was accompa nied as far as Arles by M. de Maupas and Ge•c neral d'Aurelle de Paladines. The Emperor reached Lyons at half-past eight, and was welcomed with the same enthusiasm as at Marseilles. His Mojesty was received at the station by Marshal Canrobert, and proceeded through the densely crowded streets to!the Hotel deVille; where M. Chevrean, prefect of the Rhone, was awaiting his arrival. In the even• lug all the principal authorities of the city—eeele siastical, civil, and military—dined with his Majesty, The Emperor was to review the troops this morning at ten, as already mentioned, and to leave for Paris at noon. "The Emperor of Russia yesterday received the prefect authorities of Nice. His Mejesty was to leave in the evening for St Petersburg via Germany." Preston Rifle Corps. The annual contest of the Preston Volunteer Rifle Corps was commenced on Saturday, and con cluded on Monday evening at the new range near Longridge. Captain Stephens officiated as umpire, and Lieutenant Asoroft had charge of the shooting parties. The weather was favourable. The contest was opened with shooting for the officers' prizes. There were 60 entries. The ranges were at 200, 300, and 400 yards. Each competitor had, as during the subsequent contests, five shots at each range. Those who did not get eight points for the officers' prizes in the first round were disquali fied. The first prize, £3, was won by Colour Sere geant Bell, who scored 40 in the aggregate—the second, £2, by Corporal Whittle, who scored 31— the third and fourth, £2 55., were divided between Private Holden and Sergeant Singleton, who tied at 30 each—Private Sefton won the fifth prize, 165., by scoring 29—the sixth, 125., was won with 27 by Private Chippendall—the seventh and eighth prizes, 155., were divided between Sergeant Loy and Sergeant Major Sowrey, who scored 27 each — Corporal Mason won the ninth 55., with 26 points— Sergeant Hindle the 10th, 2s. 6d., with 26—aud Private Brooks the 11th, 2s. Gd., with 25—and Corporal Naylor the 12th,'2s. Gd., with 24. Major Goodair gave the next prize, £5, which was con tested for. There were 60 entries, and the ranges being 200 and 400 yards. The first prize £2, was won by Sergeant Loy, who scored 32—the second, £l, by Sergeant Hindle, who got 27—the third, 10s, by Private Fletcher, who scored 25 Private Holden and Colour Sergeant Bell divided. the fourth and fifth prizes, 14s each, scoring 24 the sixth, 4s, was won by Private Chippendall, who scored 24—Sergeant Sharple, with a score of 24, got the seventh prize, 3s—Private Worthington the eighth, 2s 6d, with 22—Corporal Mason and Prim, vete Fox divided the ninth and tenth, ss, each score ing 21—the 11th prize was won by Corporal Nay lor with a score of 21. This concluded Saturday's shooting. The proceedings commenced on Monday with shooting for a silver challenge cup, given by Sir T. G. Hesketh. M.P.—£2 10s was added to the prize. There were 33 entries. Ranges, 200, 400, and 600 yards. The cup and £2 10s were won by Sergeant Loy, who scored 43. The second prize, an Enfield rifle, was won by Corporal Naylor, who scored 34—the third prize,£l, was won with ascore of 32 by Sergt. Bell—Private W. Crook won the fourth, 10s, scoring 32. A silver cup given by Lieut. Clarke was the next head priza ; the second. being a cup given by Mr Johnson, gold and silver smith—the third, 8s 6d—fourth andfifth, ss. Range 400 yards. There were 16 competitors. Tha prizes were given to those who could put in most points, any position, in three minutes. The prizes were won in the following order--First, Sergt. Single ton, 16 points—second, Private W. Crook, 15-- third, Sergt. Smith, 14—fourth, SergteMajor Sow• rey, 13—fifth, Corporal Wright, 10. A ladies' purse WAS afterwards shot for at 250 and 5 - )0 yards range. There were 24 entries. Sergt. Singleton won the priza by scoring 27. A couple of sweepstakes wt re next shot for at ranges of 400 and 650 yards red spectively. The first was won by Sergt. 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