The Sun. — London, England, 1863-07-07 00:00:00

.~ _ -_ _,-^ ~`~ . _~`~ Ar ,, V • • 1 , 4 779 4 ?", a T" LONDON COCOA - NUT FIBRE COMPANY (Limited). Incorporated under the Ccmoanics Act, 18r2, whereby the Liability of every Shareholder is limited to the amount of his shares. ed !es Capital £20,000, in 20,00 Shares of £1 each. Deposit ss. on application, and ss. on a ll o tment. Calls not to exceed ss. per share. No call to be made within three months from the Incornoration of the Company, and sub sequent Calls at intervals of not less than three months. DIRECTORS. F. M. Hayward, Esq., 32, (3(orge-street, Hanover-square. Major Bamford, 6, Sutherland-street, Belgrave-square. Frederick Ang,erstein, Esq., 133, B,oone-street, and Carlton Club. Frank Cole, Esq., 76, Gower-street, Bedford-square. T. Littlewood, Esq , Broom Hall, Bheffield. J. Stevens, Esq.. Ar, Cornhill. With power to add to their number. TUNNEIIB. The English and Irish Bank (Limited, 25, Poultry, E C. SOLICITOR. Charles Parke, Esq., 37, ➢tcorgate-stte^t, E.C. AUDITOR. Mr. S. T. Cooper, Public Accountant, 10, Basingliall street, E.C. SECRETARY—Mr. C. 11. Baker. .„ MANAGER or WORKS—Mr. James Lane. Temporary "Works—Arthur -terra - e, Holloway. Offices —No. 1, Sun-court, CornhilL AIIIIIDGF D,YROSPECTUS. This Company is tormed h for th• purpose of manufacturing Co s-'ant F bre Mats and Matting. under Letters latent granted to George Davies, dated the 2Oh April, 1862. The principal feature of Davies's Invention consi f sts in th improved pile of the mat, am :Lowing to the mode o weaving,e great durability is given to the fabric at a reduced cost of manufacture. The superiority of articlei manufactured by' this process over the present method will be well understo• d in the trade when it is stated that matting of all descripiions, and car- the riage and door mats, Am, have a thick fibrous pile upon surface hitherto unattained. If no allotment be made, the deposit will be returned in proved manufacture may be Specimens of the new and im seen at the offices of the Comp where a any.applications for prospectuses aid shares may be made. TH E LIFE ASSOCIATION OF ENGLAND EE (Limited). (Incorporated under " the Companies Act, 1862.") 40, Gracechurch-street, London. Capital, Half-a-Million Sterling, in shares of £5 each. First issue, 25,000 shares. Deposit, ss. per share on applPation, ss. on aPotment, and probably les. not less than three months after, beyond which no further Call is contemplated. DIRECTORS. General Boileau, F.R.S., F.R.A.S. (late Bengal Engineers). George Buchanan, Esq. (G. Buchanan and Co., 25, Bucklers bu. " Georg - Chamb'sa. Escf....4l3lreeto4-lAoleit — entl , AHamburg Exchange Bank). Major Frederick Ditrnas (late H. 31, Madras Engineers), Croydon. Edward F. Elliot, Esq. (late Chid Magistrate of Madras), The Mount, Harrow-on-the-Hill. Patrick P. Gordon, Esq. (Chairman Eastern Bengal Tea Co.). E. Bassett Keeling, Esq., M.R.I. R.A., Gray's-inn, W.C. Francis Lascelles, Esq. (late Civil and Sessions Judge in Neilgherry House, St. John's-wood Park. Lewis Munro, Esq. (late I.M. Bengal Army), Cavendish Club, W. George Peacock, Esq. (Australian Merchant), 1, Lime-street square. London, B.C. Charles G. Prowett, Esq. (Barrister at Law), 5, King's Bench walk, Temple. CONSULTING REFEREE. William Farr, Esq:, - iii5:;i526.17, - F — .1.1., General Register office, Somerset'llouse. BANKERS. England—The London and County Bank, Head Office and Branches. Scotland—The National Bank of Scotland, Head Office and Branches. Ireland —The Provincial Bank of Ireland, Head Office and Branches. India—The Agra and United Service Bank. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Wilkinson, Stevens, •and Wilkinson, Nicholas. lane, Lombird-street. MANAGER AND ACTUARY—W. J. Fred. Norfolk, Esq, SECRETARY—M. J. Mac Cormack, Esq. The Dir(ctors of the Life Association of England having secured the influence of very valuable connections throughout the United Kingdom, in most of the Colonies of the British. Empire, and several Continental countries, and having re ceived promises of subscriptions fora large number of shares, will enter upon the business of Life Assurance on the 15th July next, on which day a complete prospectus, detailing the plan of the Company's operations, and containing tables of rates, will be issued to the public. Arrangements also have already been absolutely made by which a large business will be acquired by the Company at once: and further negotiations to the same end are far ad •auced. The Directors will further carry out an entire reconstruc tion of the system ( f Life Assurance, on a plan devised by their Consulting Referee, by which the Association's business transactions will be rendered perfectly equitable in opera tion, and afford the best security, whilst the Association will be placed in the be•t condition to fulfil its future engage ments. The plan in question will be well adapted td' the wants of the people, aflording, all the alvantages of present Life Offices, and some of those of a Bank. It will also ope rate at less risk, less expense, and lower premiums than offices ordinarily constituted. The Directors, therefore, confidently anticipate a very handsome dividend from the first year of business opera tong. The value of Insurance Shares as an Investment, eviden l eed by the large premiums to which most of them have gradually risen, and the handsome and increasing dividends and bonuses which have been paid upon them, is a fact so well ascertained and acknowledged as to need no comment. Interest will be paid upon the capital at 5 per cent. per annum. until a dividend of larger amount shall have accrued. The liabilty of the shareholders is limited to the amount unpaid on their shares. Local Boards in the principal Cities and Towns of the United Kingdom will be selected from the most influential shareholders. Prospectuses and all other information may be obtained from, and applications for the remaining shares, and for Agencies, may be made to, the Secretary, at the Office of the Company, or the Bankers, Solicitors, and Brokers before mentioned. T HE LONDON and AFRICAN TRADING COMPANY (Limited). Capital £500,000, in 20,000 shares of £25 each. First Issue, 4,000 shares. Peposit on Application, .£1 per Share. Payment on Allot ment, .£1 per Share. No Call to exceed £s,•and an interval of not less than three months between each Call. Should less than two-thirds of the Shares be applied for, the Deposit money will be immediately returned in full. The Liability of the Shareholders is limited to the amount of their Shares, the Company being registered under the " Companies Act, 1862,' with Limited Liability. BOARD OF DIRECTORR. VICTOR. F. WEBER, Esq.. of Messrs Weber and Biddulph, 18, Philpot-lane, London, Chairman. DR vid • hinery, Esq., African merchant, 155, Fenchurch-street, London. William Vaughan Morgan, Esq, Messrs. Morgan Brothers, Bow-lane, London. J. Irving Pascoe, Esq., Beresford house, Highbury New Park, London. H. Seligmann, Esq., of Messrs. Seiigmann and Iharbleicher, Manchester. C. Sevin, Esq., of Messrs. Sevin, Chinery. and Co., 155, Fen church-street, London, and Sfax (Tunis), and Badagry and Lagos, West Africa. Benjamin S. Smith, Fsq., Messrs. Smith Brothers and Co., 6, Crosby-square, London. IT. Southwood Smith, Esq., Little Stanhope-street, Mayfair, London. With power to add to their number. BANKEns.—Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths. SoLlerroas.-31esers. Howard, Dollman, and Lowther, 14 Fenehurch-street. STOCKBROKERS.—London : Messrs. Fenn and Crosthwalte, 3, Royal Exchange-building's. Temporary Offices—Colonial House, Fenchurch-street, City. - . This Company is formed to carry on a trade with the na tives on the West Coast et Africa, by bartering Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, and other manufactured goods, for Palm Oil Cotton, Ivory, Ground Nuts, and the various pro ducts of that great continent ; to throw open to the public the benefit of that which has hitherto been a close and pro fitable trade to a few, and, by extending its operations into the interior, to spread at the same time the beneficial influ ence of commerce and civilisation amongst its dense and active population. • It is well known .that the African trade, particularly on the great rivers, has hitherto been exclusive, and that large fortunes have been realised, wherever the required capital was at command, by the simple system of Darter carried on with the natives. At present Palm Oil foams the most important article of trade with the whole coast of Africa. The production is un limited, so much so, that wherever the civilised trader has not penetrated, the nuts of vast regions of palm trees are left to rot in the forest. The constant demand for Palm Oil in all European markets is such that any quantity can be sold on its arrival in England. The export of Palm Oil from the Bight of Biafrahas proved to be on the average about 40,000 tons a year, representing a vaine of about £1,1300,000, and this large amount has been col lected by the natives within the small part of coast line from Cape Formosa to the Cameroons, not more than about 300 miles. This trade is almost exc usiv,ly in the hands of a few- English merchants, and is susceptible of very consider able increase. The Bight of Benin is next in importance in the exnort of Palm Oil ; according to an official report of the trade in 1857, no less than 21,172 tons of Palm Oil, of near £850,000 value, were exported from the factories of Palma, Benin, Lagos, Baga2ry, Porto Novo, and Whydah. Cotton is generally known to be indigenous to every part of the West Coast of Africa, but particularly so in the coun tries bordering the Bights of Benin and Thal ra. In Yorubt Cotton forms already one of the staple productions or the country, and great quantit , es are brought regularly to mar ket ; i properly organised a larger supply than hitherto ob tained could be secured for exportation ; it is computed that in this province alone. 8,060,0001 b. of Cotton are made up an nually Into native cloths for home consumption. The import of Cotton from Africa is steadily increasing. Amongst the numerous products of Africa one article de tterves.special notice, which has lately been exported in ra pidly increasing quantities ; this is the Palm Nut Kernel, most of which has hitherto been thrown away by the natives after the Palm Oil has been extracten from the fibrous pel licle that surrounds the nuts. The value of this kernel is very considerable ; it yields about 30 per cent. oil, equal in value to t;ocoa-Nut Oil ; and although the natives in the dis trict of Lagos and Badagry now manufacture the Nut Oil in a rude way and with great loss, the exports of this article are very limited. In order to secure at once an immediate profitable trade. the company has succeeded in effecting an advantageous ar rangement with a firm which has for some years past carried on a lucr a ti ve and increasing trade wilh Africa, b y purchasing 1 their business, including their factories, now in full operation on the coast , and engaging their agents, supercargoes, and general s taff' employed by them. The principals of this firm 1 0 1 2 , y!? undertAen to assist in the direction and management f the business of he Company. ar ra ", c d mPallY. therefore, is enabled to commence business on every point, and free from the usual risk and loss t " eh uo c ieliu7nt on experimental trials ; it has, in fact, only to ex ar as Possible to the whole western coast of Africa a ration iuwallich is already established, and in successful ope t o the A,Djaatiparticular and very important locality. to the Bank, ph ec o t n: for shares must be made in the form annexed, £1 per share. n r i s_ot the Company, at the Temporary Offices, or or Brokers, and accompanied by a deposit of FORM OF APPLICATION To the Directors of the FOR SHARES. London and African Trading Company Shares each in hof ,--I h eret ty:(Limited). nest that you will allot me 125 Tadon and African Trading Com- PanY (Limited), and I here].) to accept such Shares, or any smaller number that ma Y .n e ree the to me, and I autho rise you to place my name upo n for the Shares so allotted. tile Register of Shareholders I am, Gentlemen, Name in full .. Residence 4 ................... ......... . Profession or littai ............ Date .......... . ..... ...... .. _ _ Ag . ant assort ( O RNAMENTS for the Drawing.. roo ,„ N- , and Dining-room, consisting of a new and e ` •' • Library, in v ent ct VASES, Figlites, GrOUpS, CgUtClleatiOkti atimds, beautiful inlaid Tables, Paper weight s , i t ruska,lnk- Alabas'cr, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derby s hi re . 1 laian, imported and manufactured by JAMES Tgzrs Aikr lar s ,.._ , am. ralogist to her Majesty, 149, stand, W.C., Lonuon. ' fie. Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of 811ELL8 MINERALS, ROCKS, and FOSSILS, whi ch will greatl4 facilitate 'he interestng study of MINERALOGY, cog_ CHOLOGY, and GEOLOGY, at 2, 5,10 , 20, 50, to 100 erni.elm each. .... PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and ydraE. ILALOGY is given by Mr. TENNANT, at 149, strand, W.O. 1 PRICE..... —..4d. STAMPED ....sd. N°:,%2,2,160 CHEAPEST PASSAGES to all the Colonies. PASSAGES guaranteed at CHEAPEST RATES to AMERICA, CANADA, BRITISH COLUMBI, AUSTRA LIA, NEW ZEALAND, PORT NATAL, the CAPE, &c., &c., by Steam and Sailing Ships weekly fiom LONDON, LIVERPOOL, and other ports. Steamers for AMERICA and PANADA, every f e w days, from .E 4 10s., sailing packets .£3 25. fid. Passengers met at all the Stations and conducted to the Docks, thereby avoiding much imposition, trouble, and annoyance. Free Grants of Land obtained and Outfits pro vided. Tgh Tickets ssued to all the chiet Ports in Aus- tralia and hrou New Zealand,i and the Towns and Cities of the United States and Canada, also to Halifax and St. Johns. to F u ll particulars, tree of charge, upon application PEARCE and CO„ First Floor, 100, Leadenhall-street, City, London, or 43, Union-street, Liverpool. ------ E INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SOCIETY mited) are Prepared io Receive Subscrip tions for the issue at par of Capital Stuck, in the Hudson's Bay l ompany. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1670. The Stock will be issued in certificates of £2O each, and the i n stalments will be payable as follows : £1 being 5 per cent. on application (to be returned in the event of no allotment being made). 4 „ 20 „„ on allotment. 5 „ 25 on Ist September, 1g63. 5 „ 25 „ on 2d November, 1863. 5 „ 25 „ on Ist January, 1861. £2O With an option of prepayment in full on allotment, or on either of the days fixed for payment of the instalments, under discount, at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. The Capital of the Hudson's Bay Company has been duly fixed at £2,000,000, of which amount the International Finan cial Society (Limited) have obtained and are prepared to offer to the public £1,930,000. The subscribers will be entitled to an interest, correspond ing to the amount of their subscription, in 1. The Assets (exclusive of Nos. 2 and 3) of the Hudson's Bay Company, recently and specially valued by competent valuers at £1,023,F 69. 2. The Landed Territory of the Company, held under their Charter, and which extends over an estimated area of more than 1,40D,000 square miles, or upwards of r 86,000,000. 3. A Cash Balance of £370,00 0 . The present net income, available for dividend amongst Stockholders of the Company, secures a minimum, interest exceeding 4 per cent. on the above £2,000,010 Stock. The Directors of the Hudson's Bay Company are as under The Right Honourable Sir Edmund Head, Bart., K.C.B (late Governor-Genera' of Canada), Governor. Curtis Miranda Lampson, Esq. (C. M. Lampson and Co.), Deputy Governor. Eden Colville. Esq , Hudson's Bay House, Fenchurch-street. George Lyall, Esq., M.P. Headley Park, Surrey. Daniel Meinertzhagen, Esq. (F. Huth and Co.). James Stewart Hodgson, Esq. (Finlay. Hodgson, and Co.). John Henry William Schroder, Esq. (J. A. Schrizider and Co.). Richard Potter, Esq., Standish House, Gloucestershire. The Hudson's Bay Company were incorporated under a Royal Ch irter granted by - King Charles 11. in 1670 by the name of " The Governor and Companof Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay," and, by the Charter, a vast tract of territory was vested in the Company, together with the sole right of trade and commerce, and all " mines royal," as well then discovered as not discovered, within the said territory. The operations of the Company, which, with slight excep tions, have been hitherto exclusively of a trading character, have been prosecuted from the date of the charter to the pre sent day. It has become evident that thetime has arrived when those operations must be extended, and the immense resources of the Company's territory, lying as it does between Canada and uritish Columbia, should be developed in accordance with the industrial spirit of the age, and the rapid advance ment which colonisation has made in the countries adjacent to the Hudson Bay territories. The average net annual profits of the Company (after set ting aside 40 per cent. of them as remuneration to the factors and servants at the Company's posts and stations) for the 10 years ending the 31st May. 1852, amount to £Bl,OOO, or up wards of 4 per cent. on the p re sent nominal capital of £2,000,000. A portion only of this income has been distributed as dividend, while the remainder is represented in the assets and balances. The assets of the Company, in which the Subscribers will be entitled to an interest corresponding to the amount of their subscriptions, will consist of goods in the interior, on shipboard, and other stock in trade, includ ing shipning business, premises, and other buildings neces sary for carrying on the fur trade, in addition to which there will be funds immediately available for the proposed ex tended operations of the Company, derived partly from the cash balance of the Hudson's Bay Company, and partly from the new issue of Stock, and amounting in the whole to a sum not less than £70,000. The Company's territory embraces an estimated area of more than 1,400,000 square miles, or 896,000,100 of acres, of which a large area, on the southern frontier, is well adapted for European colonisation. The soil of this portion of the territory is fertile, producing in abundance wheat and other cereal crops. and is capable of sustaining a numerous po pulation. It contains 1,400 miles of n •vigable lakes and rivers, running for the greater part east and west, which constitute an important feature in plans for establishing the means of communication between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, across the continent of British North America,as well as for immediate settlement in the intervening country. The territory is, moreover, rich in mineral wealth, including coal, lead, and iron. In addition to its chartered territory, the Company possess the following valuable landed property. Several plots of land in British Columbia, occupying most favourable sites at the mouths of rivers, the titles to which have been confirmed by her Majesty's Government; farm., building sites in Van couver's Island; and in Canada, ten square miles at Lacloche, on Lake Huron, and tracts of land at fourteen other places. The trading operations of the Company are chiefly carried on in the fur bearing and northern portion of the territory, where the climate is too severe for European colonisation. These trading operations will be actively continued and, as far as possible, extended, whilst the management will be judiciously economised. Consistently with these objects, the outlying estates and valuable !Arms will be realised where the land is not required for the use of the Company—the southern district will be opened to European colonisation, under a liberal and syste matic scheme of land settlement. Possessing a staff of factors and officers who are distributed in small centres of civilisation over the territory, the Company can, without creating new and costly establishments, inaugurate the new policy of colo nisation, and at the same time dispose of milling grants. With the view of providing the means of telegraphic and postal communication between Canada and British Columbia, across the Company's territory, and thereby of connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by an exclusively British route. negotiations have been Pending* for some time past be tween certain parties and her Majesty's Government and the representatives of the Government of Canada, and prelimi nary arrangements for the accomplishment of these objects have been made through her Majesty's Government (subject to the final sanction of the Colonies), based upon a five per cent. guarantee from the Government of Canada, British Columbia, and Vancouver Island. In further aid of these Im perial objects, her Majesty's Government have signified their Intention to make grants of land to the extent of about 1,000,001 acres, in portions of the Crown territory traversed by the proposed telegraphic line. One of the first objects of the Company will be to examine the facilities and consider the best means for carrying out this most important work, and there can be little doubt that it will be successfully executed either by the Hudson's Bay Company itself, or with their aid and sanction. For this, as well as for the other proposed objects, Mr. Ed ward Watkin, who is now in Canada, will be commissioned, with other gentlemen speoially qualified for the duty, to visit the Red River and southern districts, to consult the Officers of the Company there. and to report as to the bes and safest means of giving effect to the con templated opera tions. Applications for allotments of Certificates of Stock of £2O each, to be made to the International Financial Society (Limited), at their Offices, 54, Old Broad-street, E.C. A preference in allotment w,ll be given to parties hitherto holders of Stock in the Hudson's Bay Company, and to the Shareholders of the International Financial Society (Limited) No application will be received after Wednesday, Bth July, at twelve o'clock. TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced to 38. 2d. ; Souchong, reduced to 3s. ed. ; mixed Assam, re duced to 38. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from Is. 4d. to 3s. lid. per lb. MOORE BROTHERS, 33, London -bridge, City, E.C. CARD PLATES EN GRAVED. Any Pattern 2s. 50 BEST CARDS. Print e d from Plate ls. REAL MOROCCO CARD CASES Is. 1,000 BUSINESS ENVELOPES, gummed 3s. NEWSPAPER ENVELOPES, 4 doz 6d. F. ARNOLD, Manufacturing Stationer,B6, Fleet-street, E.C. • - ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road, in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail way Terminus, at King's-cross. Patron—The QUEEN. President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G. • Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq. This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of i the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Bias terman, Esq. ' Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutta and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; lierrb.s Rnd 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 Maras, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gurney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barnes and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH, Secretary. cIPECTACLES.—The Patent Newly-invented Tinted Spectacles are patronised by the majority of the Nobility, including Viscount Palmerston. They afford extra ordinary relief to weak, dim, and defective vision.—S. and B SOLOMONS, Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly. LUXURIANT WHISKERS, Moustaches, and Eyebrows produced in a few 'Weeks by the use of ELLIOTT'S TONIC LOTION, the stimulative properties of which are unfailing in their operation. Thomas Eliot lio invites a trial from the most sc e p tical, that they may be con vinced of its infallible power. Price 3s. ed.. 6s. ed.. Tbomas 10s. ed., and 21s. Forwarded on receipt of p o stage stargps. — Elliott, hairgrower (first floor), 51, Fenchurch-strect. T. E.'s wigs. £1 108. —...-----------. ICTURE FRAME MOULDINGS, Wholesale land for Exportation. Country dealers and the trade sup plied on advantageous terms. Superior Washable, 61t. lengths —1 inch bead, fiat hollow, Bs. ; I inch, 7s. ; 1 inch bead, 7s. 6d.; bead, ss. 6d. ; .4 inch bead, is. ; 1 inch double hollow, 7s. 6d.; f inch, ss. 6d. ; 4 inch slip bon:w, 55.: it inch. 8s 6d per dozen. Discount off the above by the gross. Fancy Wood Mouldings, in 12ft. lengths-14 inch, 2s. per length, 11$. per halt dozen; 11 inch, 25. 6d., 13s. 6d. ; 2 inch. Is.. i6s. 6d. ; 21 inch, list. 19s ;24 inch, 45., 225. Best Gold Moulding - s. For of reducen prices, see trade price list, forwarded on receipt of stamp.—G. Polley, Wholesale Warehouse, 10, Wych-street, Strand, W.C. , OYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRoxEss—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. FRE SIDENT —Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R.S. CHAIRMAN Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P. DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Management have to state that, since the 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 nas also expended £67,00 0 on Life-boats, Life-boat Transporting-can iages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their grateful servec of the generous support which they have received from the British public during the past few years, a support which has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom. Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility that rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and its Crews practised in the management of their boats, which can only be effected by a large and permanent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so great and truly national a work. The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con tributions £ s. d Her Majesty the Queen .. .. annual 50 0 0 Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. . • • . .. annual 50 0 Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. • • .. .. annual 11 0 Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers .. annual 10 0 0 Currie, Wm. Esq., .. 4th don.lo 0 0 Erie, Lord Chief Justice . .. don. 10 10 0 Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0 Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran sporting Carriage .. .• •• •• •• 250 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. don. 30 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. 7th don. 10 0 0 Moore. Rev. G. B. • • • • .. .. don. 15 15 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich „ „ „ 30 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. ~ annual 2 0 0 Thomas, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her Ladyship •• •• •• •• .• 16 16 0 Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. annual 5 0 0 Donations and Annual Subscriptions vrill be thanlcfulli re , eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., 59. Strand; Messrs. Berries, Farquhar. and Co., 16, St. James's-street, London ; by all the Collectors of Customs and Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretal7 Richard Lewis. 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P; --- ~,,i - __,..,,--_-- ,-..e , • „. 4 , C. 2, , „ TT, -,- -4 _,' ~.: -,-- the Royal Artillery throughout the camp i :;:, w- . , DrE ~ t . 4 41, 4 . ,;,,,,,,-,. .14 , -,, , tr.. , -intorr.w. , 3,,, 11 — PN , ' , _, - .e , A . . W • 1860 in China, and was present at the ac liL: ...-.--a ,t, -,::--- la - Simho, taking of Tangku, capture of the Forts, actions of Tangchow on Sept.lB and 21, an a ----, ,d in surrender of Pekin. He was twice mentione_ despatches, was made a C. 8., and received the medal and two clasps. Forging by Photography. At the Mansion House Police-court, yesterday, Peter Rineldi, a foreigner, underwent a final examination before the Lord Mayor on a charge of being concerned in a forgery on the Imperial Bank of Vienna —Mr. Sleigh was counsel for the prosecution, and the prisoner was defended by Mr. Gleed, an attorney.—John M'Quire, a photographer, at 4, Aldgate, said the prisoner, who was a stranger to him, called upon him about. 7 o'clock on the evening of Thursday, the 18. h of June, and asked to see some sin cirnens of pho tography. Witness, who was then in a back room on the first floor, showed him several specimens, and after inspect ing them th e p r i soner sa id L e wou ld no t h a ve Lis portrait taken then, but would call the following day. He left, and next day, about 12 o'clock, he called and had his portrait taken.rt,, () That done, he ask e d if w it ness cou ld copy works of a been makhin yes, anything," was the reply. He said he had photographer, inquiries for some time about witness's abili ties as a and would call and speak to him next day, ad mg that he was staying at an hotel about a mile distant in the east part of the town. Mrs. M'Quire, witness's wife, wa s The prisoner, produpeaiynmgenat for present during part of the interview. one-gulden Austrian note, offered it to her in g portrait. She asked that he had not, she the aggaoahi again change, about r us v a t o h n e half a f Napoleon way. T he if he had no silver, and on his returned him the note. He th r e e n plhyil in payment, and, on r h ec e ei c v a in lied g w on o . uld There next day (Saturday) were some customers present, and he said h n e o wait until they had gone. Oa, their leaving the prisoner said ho wanted to speak privately to witness, who replied, "All right; I'm ready." He told witness to fasten the door, which he did. The prisoner then took from a pocket-book a one gulden note, and asked him if he would copy it. Mrs. M'Quire being in the room, the prisoner asked if she was his wife, artd was• answered in the affirmattre: On witness telling him that he could copy the note, the prisoner said he would give him an order for 1,000 copies, and that if ho liked the manner in which it was done he would bring him two notes of greater value to be copied. He then asked witness if the paper could be procured in London, and, on being told that it could, the prisoner said that, in that event, they could make their fortunes; but, if it could not, he should get it from abroad. He charged 'witness not to allow any living being to see the note, except his wife, who had seen it. Witness told him that he should see an impression of the note on Monday morning. The prisoner then left, and witness went to the Seething-lane police-station, and made a communication on the subject to the inspector on duty. In accordance with the prisoner's instructions he made the photograph now produced of the note upon glass, and from which impressions could be taken by a certain process. On Monday afternoon he saw from his shop the prisoner walking about on the opposite side of the street a long time. The prisoner did not come; n, but, about nine o'clock in the evening witness was standing at his shop door, after he had left off work, when the prisoner came up and shook hands with him. Witness asked him if he would go and take a glass of ale; upon which the prisoner pulled him on one side and said, "We must not let them hear," alluding to some people in the shop. Witness and he went towards Jewry-street, and on the way the prisoner asked him if he had copied the note. Witness said he had; upon which the prisoner inquired if the impression was a good one. On being assured that it was, he said he had got some more notes of greater value for him to do. " Very good," was the answer; and having taken a glass of ale together at a tavern witness asked him to go to his house with him and look at the impression, which he did. He compared the copy closely with the note and approved it very much. He then asked witness's wife to shut the door, saying he did not wish anybody to see them. Remarking that it was a "dry job," he gave witness half a crown, and asked him to go and get a bottle of gin with it. Witness left for that purpose, but was detained some time. The prisoner met him in the street and said he had left six gold Napoleons and a half with his wife, together with a five gulden and a ten-gulden note. Of these notes he asked witness to make photographic impressions, and then get the impressions engraved on copper, and also that of the note which witness had already copied. He then talked about their travelling together and making their fortunes in six months. He charged witness to be careful not to let the police know, or they should both be ruined. Witness said, "0, no, I'll take care of that," and they parted. On going home his wife showed him the two notes and the six and a half Napoleons. About 9 o'clock next night the prisoner called on him again. Witness was sitting with his wife in a back room on the first floor. The prisoner fastened the door when ho came in. Mrs. M'Quire remarked that they thought they had lost him. The prisoner said he had been lying in bed all day, for he had heard something, and was afraid the police had become acquainted with the affair. lie asked if witness had said anything about it. Witness re plied that was not likely. The prisoner then asked if he had taken the other two impressions. His wife said he had been too busy. The prisoner began talking about their travelling with him on the continent, and after they had made their fortunes, going to America or Australia, where they would be safe from discovery. Just at that moment a knock was heard at the door, and detective Scott put his head inside. Witness turned round to see who it was, and then followed the officer down stairs and made a communication to him. Scott, accompanied by Monger, another detective officer, then returned into the room with him and took the pri soner into custody. The impression on glass was then on a table in the room, as were also the notes in an envelope. On being cross-examined, witness said the impression on glass was not what was called a negative, but he could turn it into a negative and taxe copies from in—Chevalier Igna tius de Schaffer, chancellor and director of the Austrian consulate general in London, said he was conversant with t h e c urrency of the Austri a n em p ire, The paper currency was sitting of a the first floor M'Quire and consisted of gulden notes of different denominations,and Of which the five-gulden and ten-gulden notes produced were The value of a gulden was about English k of Vienna were genuine notes of the National Ban such enna, which smpeoncienlye.llTs.he three notes referred to byathreenwrietsnenensotstaeMts.o:nQuoTifrheea, was the only bank authorised to e.—Geo. Scott, a Printed - warning on the rthwaastoancr photograph on las T s h p er r e odu vi c as . one-gulden note.g into custody a back room a table oillicoso.rstoaftiothne, and 42 taking the prisoner detective police officer, de he gulden notes, that to forge the his wife in ° evidence, and deposed Napoleons in upon him—The oborat d ' wHiefewoof Naft,eQ.ruwgiarreolddscaonsrreda.orethhoerderonetnhetiyhs other fresh circumstances. 0 to some n comparing the genuine said be would take 1,000 copies, and would bring other gen tlemen who would each take 5,000 or 6 000 more. On the I • h t when her husband was out night getting the gin the pri soner offered to advance her £5O. She declined to take it, say i ng a pound or two would be ample, upon which he left the gold Napoleons with her. On that occasion he said ho q bad just bad a tele gram re In • ring him to g o to Paris, and that probably h er husband would make the copies before he returned, where he said they could communicate with him in the event of his not returning. Witness, on being asked in cross-examination, she knew he r husband had why she took the money when said that communicated with the police, was her business. Besides, it was usual in such cases to hav e a deposit She might have had £5O, but only took £5 or £4.—Mr. ph Gatti, a chocolate manufac turer in Ald ga t e , know n as a casual spoke ose to the prisoner, whom he had pre viouslyustomer, coming to his house on the evening of Thursday, the 18th June, and staying d a y or two, and to the indignation .. he felt on the prisoner calling him • aside and asking him if he knew any one in London, who could copy three Austrian notes which he produced. 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TEUES.-114ny have been the Chinese debates in the British PA.Helmut, and many more may we fore see in the years that aro to come, each resembling that which has gone before it in the scope of its arguments. " Justice," " humanity," economy," one party will exclaim, as they urge a rigid abstinence from all political intermeddling ; " necessity," the other will answer, ae they proceed to show that with out arms in our hands and the will to use them we can rkither trade, nor travel, nor even, live within the borders of the Chinese Empire. When the evil time shall pass away none can dare to predict, but at present it seems as if weakness and anarchy and the call for European interference were not likely soon to cease out of the land. The hour of doom has sounded for the old fabric of Chinese govern ment and society. The cloud which in the early days of this generation began to form has become blacker, until now it covers with a thick darkness . . . . that ancient civilization. Weakness begets violence, violence promotes the enmity of foreigners, whose chastisements in turn tend to raise up rebels and Pretenders against the humiliated Government. The blows struck by England twenty years ago, by breaking the spell of Imperial invincibility, had not a little to do with the rise of the Taepings, who since 1850 have been constantly busy at their work of de struction in the empire. The natural insolence and cruelty of the Chinese nature, increased by civil wars, has broken out again and again within the last few years, leading to fresh hostilities with the Christian nations, and further weakening the influ ence of a Government already beset by gigantic rebel lion. While thus the Chinese political system seems approaching its end, the European element is plainly acquiring increased importance. Things have gone so far that the House of Commons is now appealed to, and asked to discountenance the for mation of permanent military bodies for service within the Empire. At Shanghai a force is en rolled for the defence of the place and the surround ing districts ; and Captain Sherard Osborn will soon be in Chinese waters ready to carry on active hos tilities against the rebels, and support the authority of Prince Kung throughout such parts of his Re gency as a British seaman can reach. It is this swerving from the paths of peaceful commerce that Lord Naas last night desired to condemn. With great elaboration he laboured to show that it was neither our duty nor our policy to interfere in be half of the regular Government. To the usual arguments in favour of neutrality Lord Naas added others less commonplace, though hardly more con vincing. A man of pace will treat the question as one which general and abstract principles are sufficient to decide. Like Mr. Cobden, he will con tent himself with saying that the Chinese have governed themselves for several thousand years, and need no interference from us now. He will consider that whether there be peace or war within their borders we have nothing to do with the mat ter, our business being confined to buying tea and silk from whomsoever will bring it down to us, whether he be Imperialist or Taeping. We may regret war and destruction, as we regret the flood, the drought, or the blight, but we should no more think of increasing our commerce by the in vasion of a neighbour's soil to compel political tranquillity than to enforce the sunshine or the rain. Lord Naas, however, is not content with this course of argument. He suggests that the rebellion is not an abnormal phase of Chinese history. Resistance to misused authority has always been a doctrine of the philosophical Whigs of that empire. The right of rebellion had always been recognised by the great Chinese writers, and the people had been consistent in reducing the doctrine to practice. Years had often passed in such rebellions, and the country after their success ful close recovered and went on as prosperously as ever. Why, then, may not the Taepings be now working out a great and salutary change in Chinese politics ? There are the usual elements. One or more Pretenders a long and bloodthirsty warfare of many years, desolating whole regions, and bring ing what in other countries would be thought irremediable evils on the Empire; a weak Govern ment, unable to rescue some of its largest cities from the grasp of its enemies ; these are what have been found in China for ages past, and they are now seen once more. True, the Taepings are unable to overthrow the Government they have risen against. They are strong enough to overrun and to hold permanently certain regions, but they are not strong enough to change the dynasty. Yet, if we do not misapprehend Lord Naas's argument, their rebellion is nothing so extraordinary in the annals of China as to call for any action on our part. Whether the Government was victorious or van quished, or whether, as is more likely, the rebellion smouldered on for years, it would be merely a healthy and natural process that was going on, and we should impede recovery by attempting to stop the progress of an inevitable malady. Our own opinion is that these arguments, whether philosophical, or economical, or political, in favour of doing nothing and of seeing a vast wealth-pro ducing region: ruined by marauding savages, are founded in error. As to Captain Sherard Osborn and his companions, we are not under the neces sity of" defending them, It has always been held that foreigners may enter the service of a legitimate Government, and, leaving aside the question whether periodical Chinese revolutions are necessary, there is no service more praiseworthy than that of pro tecting the most flourishing cities of Eastern Asia and the banks of the greatest rivers from the attacks of insurgent armies which destroy wherever they come. The British Government, however, is quite independent of these officers, and not responsible for their acts, although it has authorised them to enter the service of a friendly State. All that this country is doing is to carry out honourably and cordially the principles on which the last reconciliation with China was effected. We have been placed by the Chinese Government—thanks to the courage of our soldiers and sailors—in the same position that Russia so long occupied alone. We have a Minister at Pekin, we have the opportunity of representing our viewe and wishes, and it is stated that the Chinese ruler is ready to attend to our advice. It may be that it is impossible to prevent the decay of Chinese society, bat it is possible and for the benefit of both native and European that peace and ord er s hould prevail, and that the ind us t r y of the people should resume its wonted course. The Government of Pekin asks our assistance in effecting this; and those who know the country thi n k that much may be done by the supp or t o f a Power like England, and the use of a small naval force. Considering the magnitude of the British interests involved, it is impossible, as it seems to us, for the government to hesitate. Unbounded resources, untold wealth, exist in a region traversed by bands of robbers, to whom the brigands of Naples are saintly and gentle. To those regions we are freely admitted by treaty, and only the state of the country pre vents our reaping the full advantages of former exertions. We are now called upon to guide the destinies of that mighty population, and in con junction with other European nations to take care that the collapse of its ancient systems may do as little harm as possible to them and to us. POST.—Upon Monday next, it will be seen by our Parliamentary report, the House of Commons will in all probability resume the debate upon Mr. Roe buck's motion for the recognition of the Southern States. We cannot help thinking that whenever that debate is resumed, there is a point connected with it which must receive a more solemn and seri ous attention than has been yet devoted to it. Proceedings have taken place in the course of that debate which challenge a decision on the question whether the House of Commons can permit any of its members to profess to be the bearers of communications from a foreign Sovereign to Parliament in opposition to the Minis ters of the Queen. In opening the motion Mr. Roe buck took upon himself to say that he was autho rised by the Emperor to make certain statements to the House of Commons. In the best days of the House of Commons the uttering such words would have been instantly followed by a motion to take them down. The statements of which Mr. Roebuck thus professed himself the bearer related to matters which were the subject of State communication be tween the French Emperor and the Queen. Nay, more, they involved a complaint of the manner in which the Queen had treated the diplomatic commu nications of the French Sovereign. Mr. Roebuck had the presumption to say that he had been desired by the French Emperor to make a complaint in his name to the House of Commons of the conduct of the Foreign-office, and also to tell the House of Com mons the Emperor's sentiments upon the question which had been the subject of official correspondence with the Government of the Queen. The official organ of the French Government has formally dis avowed the part which Mr. Roebuck in his ofe mar vellous statement attributed to the Emperor _t.re French. So far as his Majesty is concerned', TAO explanation is very simple and complete.o members of the British Parliament sought a view with him, which the M on it eu r rather...W ther u cantly observes he had no reason to refuse;7 an other he would so easily be induced to grant th" 0 w the !te the Moniteur does not say. In that in terview were Emperor freely expressed his opinions, alv" already well known te Europe, upon a subject of inte rest both to England and to France. Upon this simple incident is based the statement made by Mr. Roe buck, a statement in which the Emperor saw with amazement himself represented as having sent a message to the British House of Commons, and es having selected Mr. John Arthur Roebuck to be the bearer. We did not need the announcement in the Moniteur to comprehend the erect truth. Before that announcement appeared most persons Ni b° knew anything of the character of the French Emperor and of Mr. Roebuck had made up their minds that the statement of the latter originated in that morbid vanity which is of all human passions the most likely to give rise to grotesque delusions. Some words of good-natured complaisance were sufficient to make the person to whom they were ad' dressed imagine himself an accredited agent of an Emperor ; and the same vi nity which sug gested the delusion of necessity prompted the an nouncement to the astonished House of Commons. Another member has however rushed into print to claim his share in the Imerial confidence, and his participation in the mission from Napoleon 111. to the British House of Commons, and Mr. Roebuck and Mr. William Shaw Lindsay are the illustrious Ambassadors through whom, if we are to believe themselves, the Emperor of the French conveys his wishes and sentiments to that assembly. This is something more than silly impertinence. It is a grave offence against the constitution and the law. It is a violation of the first duty which sub jects owe to their Sovereign, and Englishmen to their country. Great lawyers have held that any public communication, on matters of State, between a British subject and a foreign Sovereign is a high misdemeanour. 'But unquestionably it is so for any British subject to thwart and oppose by such communication the councils of his Queen. Unquestionably it is so to bring to the people of this country a message from a foreign Sovereign in opposition to the policy of t he Queen. The een is the only representative of the nation to foreign States. With the Queen alone rests the right of holding intercourse, in the name of the nation, with the authorities of those States. The right of send ing and receiving ambassadors is one of the highest prerogatives of the Crown. That prerogative is infringed when any one of the Queen's subjects presumes to make himself the medium of communi cation on matters of State policy between a foreign Sovereign and any portion of the people of this realm. The House of Commons must judge what is due to their own digaity and to their respect for the constitution and the prerogative of the Queen. If they think fit to permit Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Lindsay to play out en the boards of St. Stephen's the little farce of " The Twin Envoys; or, The Im perial Ambassadors," the best that can be said of it is that everybody will perfectly understand that it is a farce. It may have one advantage. It may teach persons in high station the dangers of con versing too freely with the Roebucks and the Lind says who may find their way into their presence. We have a very strong suspicion that there is no one more heartily sick of the names of his illustrious visitors than the Imperial personage whom they assumed to represent. The moral of the whole matter may perhaps be nothing higher than this— that frankness and politeness are very good things in sovereigns as well as common people, but are not the only qualities requisite in an interview with a gentleman who cannot resist the temptation of publishing to the world that he has actually had a conversation with a real live Emperor upon affairs of State. HERALD.—The accident of London life which allows as to live without any knowledge of our next-door neighbour, has had a curious exemplifi cation in the state of things which has just been discovered in the interior of a respectable trades man's shop. Who would have thought that in a genteel part of Hackney the worthy inhabitants have been having through months an undertaker in their midst who has been systematically turning his house into a burial-ground, and evading the dues of sexton and pars on b y taking charge of the corpses of his neighbours as permanent members of his household ? The skeleton was not in his cup board, but under his work-bench. ,The memento mori never took a more palpable form even with the skull and open grave of the Trappist Brothers. Death was here, and death there, and death every where. Three children lay about him in as many coffins in various stages of decay. One had been so long with him that it had shrunk to the skeleton. Another was so far decayed that the head fell off as the body was touched; and all three bore traces of attempts to subdue the effects of decomposition by the corrosive action of lime. There were two other large coffins enjoying a like family distinction, but were void of their adult tenants. As we run through the catalogue of the inmates of his house and home, and recal the months through which they were allowed to sojourn with him, one is tempted to ask with Hamlet, " Has this fellow no feeling of his business that he sings at grave-making d to inquire how it happens that houses under the ken of the police, and subject to visits from all sorts of legal authorities, can have been allowed to have remained under such ghastly tenantry. " The custom that made it a property of easiness" to the Danish grave-digger, no doubt had a like effect on the English undertaker; but the public have in terests that hardly allow of so free an indulgence of taste; and it would be charitable to hope that there was no worse motive in action. He had the coffin in the cases of the adults, the skeletons in, the case of the children, and he saved possibly some paltry fee in reference to the burial ; but, except for these trivial considerations, the only repayment which this respectable trades man, enjoying the full confidence of the parochial authorities, received for the proximity of the most offensive and revolting of nuisances, was that "feel ing of the business" that had at last given it a "property of easiness." The long use of the most repulsive calling will end in giving an artistic re• lish for some of its traits and characteristics. The associations growing up of time are like the lichens covering the rock, they give a new surface to ideas nakedly not prepossessing. The daintiness that at first repelled is succeeded after long use by another that appreciates, and the enthusiasm of the laun dress, in " Dickens," over the corpse of the dead husband, is, perhaps, quite as natural as the refined appreciation of a Correggio or a Canova by a higher class of connoisseurs. But, beyond the study of a phase of character that we may well wish to be unique, there are some important public considera tions involved in this strange neglect of all the de cencies a healthy state of society associates with the treatment of the dead. There is no better law than the old Roman one—lntra muros mortuos ne sepelito —but it asks some vigilance as the price of its full utility. The passing of the Berial Act, which in hibits the use of cemeteries not situate at some dis tance from towns, has made interments at once more expensive and troublesome, and the tempta tion to offences like those of the Hackney under taker must be too strong to be resisted by many poor persons who are not aided in their duty by the fact that their professional calling obliges them to visit cemeteries and bury the dead. We have re peatedly been hearing complaints of the length of time poor Irish families are accustomed to keep shut up with them, in narrow rooms, the kodies of children or deceased relatives; and accordingly, as occupation may prove pressing, money wanting, or the people themselves indolent, it is easy to see that the cae of the undertaker may be that of hundreds through the different parts of the metropolis every month. For a week or more the corpse is retained in an every day increasing state of offensiveness ; but when the decomposition is past tolerance, the first expedient may be expected to be adopted which offers itself as a means of relieving them selves of a nuisance, whose existence they must suspect to be a legal offence, and which they v ing, whatever and tthhoeer know to be a serious danger. It is as well to know that a contingency which is n_ likely to be growing less :s provided for 0. 7 the provisions of the statutes which sr _1 ofl medical inspectors for districts and insp h e e c ors operation nuisances ; and the public, but especially t should not be slow in bringing into The may call for it. interposition whenever a case undertaker, licence, too, assumed by this Hackney a ds to cover is one which, if permitted, might . be be made he The identity. of t a great deal of crime. dead po lice, t bies estiller certificate fimcoartee nn thatce rt appa in l than o h toneat of deathanand might o ther. There were to facilitate the covering to inspectorydi of health f disappea.cring subject of pain.fu n l o p th u i b n l g ic ft°ii et u n en c o we know two wbi e c h o ffi n o n s t discovered en ants that it mi , got be . j e such a manner of their ex tended to subjects reach' Paco less ho to infanticide which prohibits our w e t h be i spring fleetly.g up has already beeng er n a e g n s t ub. rumour, and we are not certain that there should not be an increasingly active use of whatever legal fo rms Y we have, in or der that the public may better gu arantee in reference to th e f have some u infants supp osed to h ave been • furtive buri a l o f still-bor n , innova tion which tends to cheapen th e E very in any of its stages i s a e ' aPen the value of life we ha e all the most imppublicortantcannot be of sta k es, and the not be t oo . tically interposed t o vigilantly or energe _ protect society from the mis- r e g uard against an chief. Mr. Humphreys, the coroner, gave as his reason for holding an inquest on one of the infants found festering in a respectable trademan's house, that " great num b ers o f c hild ren were found in parcels in vari ous p ar t s o f th e me t ro p o li s , an d that no one knew wh ere th ey came f rom ." Th e state ments made by Dr. L an k es t er are equa ll y sugges tive of a painful alarm o n th e mos t d e li ca t e o f a ll social subjects. In our st a t e o f c i v ili sat i on an d morals there is everything t o f ear f rom t h e remotest approximation to the habits of thought or s y stem of life of the Chioese ; and w e h ar dl y k now any bettersp ct increasing popular demo ralisation than the fencing round life in its i n f an til e c ondition with every security that may make its e as much a part of our public moral s as i t i s certainly of our public policy. Naval and Military Intelligence. _-- 4- THE NAVY. The officers of the steam reserve at Devonport entertained their chief, Capt. A. Cooper Key, C. 8., on board the Indus in liamoaze last week, on the occasion of the conclusion of his command at that port. The Russian sloop of war Possadnick and the two gunboats Naysdwick and Rasboiwick, from China, which have been for some time in Plymouth Sound, left on Saturday for Cronstadt. The paddlewheel steam sloop Sphynx, 6, Com mander J. W. Jones, from Portsmouth, recently returned from the China station, arrived on Satur day morning at Plymouth, where her crew will be paid off. She will be placed in the 3d division of the steam reserve in Hamoaze. The paddlewheel steam sloop Geyser, 6, Com mander Mark R. Pechell, from Kingston, with supernumeraries for the receiving ship, arrived at Plymouth on Saturday afternoon. Leteers received at Plymouth from the paddle wheel steam frigate Leopard, 18, Capt. Charles Leckie, dated Hongkong, May 10, state that the only other ship of war there was the Princess Charlotte, 12, Capt. Matthew S. Nolloth. The screw steam sloop Perseus, 17, Commander Augustus J. King ston, left on the 16th May for the fleet at Japan, and the Leopard was expected to follow immediately after the arrival of the next mail from England. Her master's assistant, Mr. Meesom, was drowned on the 29th April. The Renard, 4, screw steam gunvessel, 680 tons 200 horse-power, Commander Charles J. Rowley, w as paid off at Sheerness dockyard yesterday under the superintendence of Capt. Charles Wise, A.D.C., superintendent of the yard. Commander Rowley was complimented by the Capt.-Superintendent on the very creditable - manner in which the paying off had been accomplished through the good conduct of the men, the time occupied being less than a quarter of an hour. The Renard will be placed in the third division of the Sheerness steam reserve. Mr. E. J. Reed paid a hurried visit to Portsmouth Dockyard and 11,M.5. Warrior yesterday from the Admiralty. Vice-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour, G.C.8., the Naval Commander-in -Chief at Portsmouth, has placed the Pigmy steam tender at the disposal of the officers of the Tinited.States frigate Macedonian dur ing the stay of that vessel at Spithead. Yesterday the officers and cadets landed from the vessel, and accom panied by the American Vice-Consul at Portsmouth, Mr. James Garrett, visited the dockyard, and dis played great interest in the inspection of the ropery, the turret ship Royal Sovereign, the iron frigate Hector, the ironcased ship Royal Alfred, the Hector, nearly ready for commission, and the Sovereign and Alfred, converting. To-day the Warrior iron fri gate, St. Vincent training ship, Victory flag ship, and the Royal Clarence Victualling-yard will be visited. To-morrow or Thursday, as may best suit Captain Luce and his officers, Vice-Admiral Sir M. Seymour will give an entertainment in their honour at the Admiralty House. The Hector, 32, iron frigate, has been placed in the Warrior dock at Portsmouth, to have her bilge pieces or keels bolted on, and to be otherwise pre pared for her official trial prior to being finally re ceived by the Admiralty from the hands of the con tractors, Messrs. Napier and Sons, Glasgow. An important code of regulations for the guid ance of the officials and others engaged in bending and preparing the slabs of iron used in armour-plat ing the iron frigate Achilles, 50, and the other ves sels under construction at Chatham dockyard, has been promulgated by order of the Lords of the Ad miralty, and is to be strictly sort adhred to. The regu lations are drawn up from therep f the Armour plate Committee appointed by the Admiralty, of which Capt. Sir John C. D. Hay was the chairman. The committee included a number of scientific offi cers belonging to both branches of the service. The committee, in their report to the Admiralty, state that they have examined the various processes adopted in bending the iron plates, and are of opi nion that the plates need not suffer deterioration in quality from any reasonable degree of bending, pro vided the process is properly performed. It is the nature of wrought iron to admit of such changes of shape without injury. The most essential prepara tion for the process of bending is that the plate should be sufficiently heated, for it is only under this condition that it will acquire the ductility and soft ness and freedom from elasticity necessary to admit freely the change of shape. The committee consider that a good red heat is probably the minimum that will suffice ; " blood red" or " cherry red" is hardly sufficient. The committee, however, deem it neces sary that certain precautions should be taken in the process of heating the plates-Ist. That the heat be not carried to such an extent as to injure the iron ; 2d. That the heating be done gradually, so as to heat the large mass uniformly throughout its sub stance ; and 31. To have the heating currents or so arranged as to prev ent fierce fire curilrarp from impinging on the edges damage arr i s ses of the plate , b y which to g ood red wo uld be done. Probably from rovided brightest red are the safest limitsh;eraesclit; reason to the proper precautions be taken, t p l a te Will be rather believe that the quality of the improved by the heating thanoocethoserwise, as if the will be equiva the metal softer. iron happens to be hard the pr d r lent to annealing, and will re d e • adopted at Portsmouth in The process of heating t appears to com p ly t h e presence of th e com and the committee o be w e ll re te be with the required conditiomutsit, ee p l a : g rim h e head plates is bent li e ve the quality of the Th e mode of be nd t a ined. t he committee co nce i ve a matter which safely left to wedge ec hanical advisers of the Admi ad The tap process, as adopte d ralty. at the advantage o f s - Portsmouth, h a s simplicity ; but committee think it would be btt • the com e er the change of could be effected h of shape -y dead pressure—hy draulic, for example—instead of b y blows. The inexpedient to bend committee consider it hi g hl y • thic k plates cold, or only slig h tly heated, as th ere are very fe w kinds of iron s bend cold, even in small bars , with out ductil e t o s tructure of the metal, and in 'la injury to the at tempt must be i n • lar ge masses this jamas for if th e external sur face should escap e injury t he produce undue internal strain, process will inevitably the pov, era of resistance very detrimental to The • under the blows of shot. following appointments were made at the Admiralty yesterday afternoon Richard Sleeman,• chief engineer, to the Indus, for the Sphinx. T. Stead, assistant engi • neer, to the Asia, as supernu• merary. J. T. Ch annon, engineer, to the Fisgard, as supernu merary. W. R. Leeson, acting engineer, to the Indus, for the Ripple. J. C. Walsh, surgeon, to the Pembroke. It. Humphry, assistant surgeon, to the Maunder. Thos. L. Bickford, assistant surgeon, to the Fisgard. THE ARMY. Col. 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