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INOPICE IS GIVEN, Th a t an EXTRAORDI NARY MEETING of the LNON :IITITABLE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE S O CIETY Yl l l be held at Radlev's Hotel, New Bridge-street, Black- Lcindon, on WEDNESDAY, the 23d inst., at One ° ln el° elc precisely, to ratdy an agreement, to be read at such no- for for a transfer to and an amalgamation of the busi t,lies!! 'of the• Society with another approved Assurance Asso - on, and, if deemed advisable, to dissolve the So:dety. J. L. PILKINGTON, Manager. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1863. PRICE..... ~..4d. STAMPED ....sd. No. 22,214. NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE Th e . SOCIETY. xBsThoe6, b d u u s t l y ness of the Company exceeds £70,000, 000 . paid to Government for the year . 1802 was xi0 ,e8 6: 13.. ?nd the amount insured on farming stock, P2Abonus of three-fifth s o f th e prof i ts per i o di ca lly made . to rti es insuring, w h o h ave t h us, from t i me to ti me , received "118 ar riount:ng in the aggregate t o £440,000 ; and the Society 'uti - holds a large Reserve applioable to a future Bonus. Mahe rates of premium are in no case higher than those ei • r g e cl by the other principal offices making no returns to r -Usu rers. Por pro , pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, SarreY street, - f=t, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black a rirs, E.C. MANILLA AND JAPAN. Now ready, Bvo., with Illustrations, 148., THE POLISH INSURRECTION. liberty in Poland and in other countries, regard Victor Emmanuel as an unprincipled invader doing the same work in the south of Eu rope that the Empress Catherine, Frederick of Prussia, and Maria Theresa did in the North. Men of this way of thinking look upon Garibaldi either with horror as a sort of Antichrist, or with affected pity as a simple-minded republican, engaged on ac count of his notorious virtue to give dignity and re spectability to the democratic movement in Europe, and uron the express condition that, in order to keep up his character, he should retire from time to time to an island and plant cabbages. One Polish officer who (under a nom de guerre) nas rendered important services and performed brlliant exploints in conduct ing expeditions and detachments of expeditions from Galicia to the kingdom, fought heroically on the wrong side at Castelfidardo ; but 1 am convinced tad the great majority of the fighting men engaged in the Polish movement, though not of the diplo matizers, are full of sympathy for the Italians. Were it otherwise, we should not find so many Italians of the Garibaldian party in the ranks of the and constructed to carry 7 tons each. The last engine was one which had taken three prizes, and to this was attached a large steam-thrashing ma chine, and some other agricultural machinery. The three engines with their loads started away over Rochester-bridge, and through the narrow streets of the town towards the dockyard, the speed vary ing from two to four miles an hour. The ascent of Star-hill, which has an incline of 1 in 12, was made by all three engines, with their respective loads, without the least apparent difficulty, and without any stoppage, the rate toting two miles and a half per hour. In the passage through the crowded roads at Chatham to the dockyard no in convenience whatever was experienced, the engines adapting themselves to every variety of road, and travelling with an uniform rate of speed. Attached to one of the engines is an appliance for loading and unloading heavy weights, and on the train of trucks being stopped, the engine was detached and brought round to the trucks conveying the girders, when, by means of the lifting 'apparatus, the latter were lifted from the lorries and deposited in the spot selected for them. Each of the engines tried yesterday started from the factory with a stock of 10 cwt. of coals, which is sufficient for eight hours consumption. The trials were pronounced in all respects satisfactory. The following appointments and promotions were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Capt. Henry Boys to •the Pelorus ; Capt. F. H. Stirling to the Cumberland, for service in the Tamar; Dr. Walter Reid, John P. Way, John A. Macdonald, Dr. John Craw, and Dr. John Walsh, acting assist.-surgeons, to the Victory, as additional for service at Hasler Hospital ; John T. Comerford, Isaac Waugh, Dr. Robert Hay, and Dr. Wm. M'Mahon, acting assist.- surgeons, to the Royal Adelaide, for service at Ply mouth hospital ; Geo. Park, chief engineer, to the Indus, for the London ; Edwd. Barrett and Josh. Brand, assist.-engineers, to the Cumberland, as supernumeraries; John M'Laren in the Cumber land, E. Carling in the Indus, M. M'lntyre in the Adventurer, A. R. M'Luckie in the Victoria and Albert, T. Pringle in the Wye, W. Gentles, of the Cumberland, for the Wildfire, D. M'Vean of the Fiaguard, for the Bann, and T. Spence in the Sup ply, are promoted to be first-class assist: engineers ; J. Bannatyne in the Centaur, 1). Storrar in the Cygnet, D. M'lntyre in the Argus, and R. Findlay in the Cormorant, are promoted to the rank of acting first-class assist-engineers. The Moors and Forests in Scotland. A LADY'S VISIT TO MANILLA AND JAPAN. I y ANNA D'A. (From the Special Correspondent of the Times.) NEAR CRACOW, Aug. 31. The facts of the Polish insurrection, as seen from Galicia, have recently been so much of the same character that a formula might serve to describe them all. Expeditions go into the kingdom, fight a first battle, with or without success, and in either (From the Inverness Courier.) The moors have not generally yielded well during the present week, owing to unfavourable weather. Previous to the 31st ult. Mr. W. Webb, at Fodderty, bagged to his own gun, in two days and three afternoons, 326 brace grouse ; and on the 31st Mr. Garth shot 28 brace gruuse, 1 woodcock, 1 snipe, 16 hares, and 1 rabbit at Achnacleroch. lip to the same date Lord Scarsdale and party, at Carr Bridge, had killed 400 brace of birds. On the 25th ult. Mr. Bentinck, M.M., bagged 30 brace grouse on the Cromdale Hill moors, Capt. Hut ton bagged 211 brace grouse and 2 hares in a few hours the following day, on the Blairnamai row best, and on Friday upwards of 20 brace grouse. On the Ballindalloch moors, on the 25th, Thos, Cambell, Esq., Edinburgh, and Mr. Lawson, M.P., shooting over the same dogs, bagged 20 brace grouse, 1 snipe, and 3 hares. On the same day Mr, Lawson and 11. Pocklington,Esq., bagged 231 brace grouse, 1 snipe, 2 hares, On the Cromdale moors Mr. Saltmarshe, on the 22d, killed 1 8 brace g rouse after 12 o'clock. On the 24th he and Mr. Bathurst had 34 brace grouse and 3 hares; and on the 25th Mr. Bathurst and Mr. Blackburn, M.P. killed 37 brace of grouse and 2 hares. On the 28th Mr. S a ltmarshe and Mr. Bathurst killed 34 brace grouse and 7 hares. The grouse are plentiful, strong, and wild ; the covies are very good on the high ground. On the 21st ult. Simon Keir, Esq., went to the Lestnurdie moors about an hour and a half, and killed 7i brace grouse and 4 hares. F. V. Nugent, Esq., and Capt. Nugent shot on the Farr moors, - Strathnairn, from -August - i2 to 22, 131 brace grouse, 5 blackgame, and 20 hares. On Monday, 31st ult., Mr. Tew Capt. Munro, of Poyntzfield, and Mr. Fenton went to the Swordale moors to try for blackgame, and shot 7± brace. They finished with 261 brace grouse and 5 hares. Hurst and Blaekett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough street. NEW NOVEL BY MRS. THOMSON. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., E X T D 0 0 R. By Mrs. THOMSON, w by ,u- Author of "Constance," &c. Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street. case get overpowered later or sooner by superior numbers. The Galician frontier is so guarded by a BA's GO. ual HE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY. READ OFFICES, 20 , Lombard-street, London, and Royal Iniurance buildings. Liverpool. Total Annual Revenue exceeds L 500, 0 ,0. Accutuulated Funds in hand over 1,030,000. FGYPTIAN HALL.-MR. J. K. LORD, F.Z.S., Nig"Aly in his popular Entertainment, entitled " AT HOME IA THE WIL L.ERNESS." double line of troops that for a small force to cross it and penetrate into the interior, unobserved, impossible. The task of crossing is equally difficult A.dm,ssion-55., 35., 25., is. or a comparatively large force which cannot be large rr E oxFoR s, OXFORD STREET, W. THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's MUSKETEERS (first time in England). Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison. Messrs. Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus. enough to hold its ground for any length of time against the host of Russians who are sure to be poured on it from all sides as soon as its position becomes known. Nevertheless, detachments do pass Chairman in Liverpool : CHARLES TURNER, Esq., nr. Chairman in London : WILLI—A3I WAINWRIGHT, Esq. ,he border from time to time, and take their chance —which, unhappily, is less a chance than a cer ainty of being driven back or destroyed. If the r KTRACIS FROM THE . REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1862. Conductor, Mr. F. Jonginans. Flute Solos by Drew Dean, &c. Comic, by UNSWORTH ("or any other man "), Eugene, W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson. Also, a Pekformance by Herr S, HAL KENBACH on his wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain ing a full baid of 40 instruments. ors, and The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are Itow called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report, at the Meeting of its Shareholders. de►achment is strong, the first line of Russians usually tails back and only accepts battle when the second line is near enough to act as a support. Or else, if the attack is sharp and sudden, messengers FIRE BRANCH. The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexpe , .cedly, at the Close o the year, to announce, for the first time, thatthe Fire ?remiums have not only reached, but exceera £300,000. The high comparative position held , y the Royal in the Government Returns of Duty is again fully maintained. The profit of this business of the year exceeds considerably the amount realed in the precee4lng year, and in fact sur- Passes that of any year, with ly:ft two exceptions, sine- the c ommencement of thi. Office, the balance tl the credit on OCount of British and Foreivn Insurances being £45,107 10s. and of the North AmeriCan business, which is kept sepa rately, £11,097 16s. 10d. 1 he HALL hqs just been newly Decorated and Ventilated, and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis. Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls andbalcony, ls. ; private boxes, 10s. 6d. ler- are sent to the second line, who are then driven for ward in peasants' carts kept always in readiness. , CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds, Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro fessor Pc pper end Henry Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral Illusion, "T' GHOST," from the Picture Gallery to the Concert Hall, where a new and eltgant stage is erected, affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal cony, and b)dy of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr. A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im provements and effects), REPREShNTATIONS EACH EVEN' G, at Ten o'clock. When the attacking force of Poles is known to be weak it is sometimes allowed to pass the first line. Its fate is then terrible. It is enclosed between the two lines, and in this manner several small and of 9 of 'oth His Grace the Duke of Richmond and party continue to get excellent sport. On the 24th, the Duke and Prince Ed ward killed 22 brace and 2 hares, and Lord March a stag. Mr. Cox and Mr. Vivian. had 14} brace, 4 hares, and 4 snipes. On the 21st, Lord March brought down two deer, and the Duke of Richmond and Mr. Cox had 26 brace grouse and 2 hares. Prince Edward had 2 brace grouse. On the Dun phail moors, Major Cumming Bruce and Henry Gordon Cumming, Esq., bagged 20i brace grouse and 3 hares on the 20th. On the 27st, Major Cumming and Mr. Henry Gordon Cumming bagged 19} brace grouse and 13 hares. Mr. Smith and party, on the 19th bagged 15 brace, 1 duck, and 1 hare; and, on the 24th, Mr. A. Smith and party bagged 22 brace grouse and 6 hares. The Earl of Fife was out on Thursday and Friday on the Baynack moors, and bagged 36 brace of grouse on the former and 28 on the latter day. gallant companies have been cut to pieces. In the interior of the kingdom the Poles are in a better position. In many districts they are esta blished in great force, and if the Galician expeditions All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual, including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Ihsworth (the modern Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c. do no other good they, at least, keep an immense number of troops occupied on the frontier, and thus facilitate the operations of the bands formed in the ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The (-mosT ! The GHOST ! ! The ONLY COMIC GHOST !! ! -The beautiful FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—A Grand Divertissement by Signora Rachele and Mariannina and Signor Guiseppe Francesco, assisted by a corps of Twenty young Ladies—Selections from favourite Operas : Principals, Miss M'Gregor, Mr. Albert, Si gnor G eorgin i , and Mr. Vernon Rigby. heart of the country. In Volhynia and Podolia nothing is being done ust now. In Lithuania so many families, once well-to•do and even wealthy, have been reduced to NICOSIA, the Great Violinist. will make his Second Appearance in England THIS EVENING and Every Evening, at - the ALHAMBRA. Doors open at 7—commence at half-past 7. destitution by confiscation, devastation, and the stop put to all paynaen`, of rent, that the pro vince abounds in men who, as a mere matter of prudence, had now better fight the Russians than ndi ates, 475. )ate, t 38s ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly. Th , se elPzant Rooms, entirely and costly redecorated, are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season. The musical departro.'ent is under the directorship of Mons. Jullien, conductor WI the band. This celebrated band will be called for the future "The London Band." MaAager of the Rooms—M. GRENET. Sole Lessee, R. IL BIGNELL. Admission, ls. Doors open at 8 o'clock. starve quietly. Hitherto, Lithuania had suffered more than any other portion of ancient Poland, and the manner in which all classes in the Catholic districts, from the principal proprietors to the peasants, have joined in the national war eaves no doubt as to the thoroughly Polish senti- FE BRANC FT. state h e t ve e rygratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to um assured on n , w policies for fhe year 1e62 exceeds even that the yesr 1861 by £lBO , OOO, and has arrived I l Lthe almost r, nexam pl e d amount for a single year of ', 701 ,427 on 1 which new policies issued. Until within the last tew years it a believed that such a sum a , •sured as that I..",.iust bee id announced as the result of one year's business wa.,s all but, u n h ear d o f . his nc-rtion of the Company's business has been carefully "` e ue& and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the sh f „Pl'oliolde r , as we ll as no sma ll encouragement for the to the participating life assurer. lorded of continued care in the selection of lives is amply !worded by a statement of the number rejected. These have nounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum o l Posed for as suran ^ e e mounts to £ • 43,281. Various degrees No have led to these lives being declined. INO small number of the Assurance Companies of the day record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis "Le in a single year from deterioration of some kind or another. brie.to complete their review, the Directors now advert th the United Kingdom, they have to announce that r ":-rlre Business its progress has been undoubtedly more 41 than that of any other Company established either in Lo ndon or elsewhere, except when amalgamation's have taken P l ace- The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the amount of New Policies already reported make all other evidence needless. The Directors conclude t/;eir present Report with the e xpression of an opinion '..hat the prospects of the Royal ' l nsu rance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent ,PPe, folnded on a gre„eful remembrance of the past, that It . future may unfolt!. for it a sphere of still greater manni -o,e, combining distinguished commercial success to -the yrnce with a let gt l aened n career of usefulness and protection To the public. I :F.RCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary. JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London. PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION. Established 1840. TRUSTEES. T Thomson ho . .nas Barinli, Esq., M.P. Win. Geo. Prescott, Esq. li l ankey, Esq., M.P. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P. Mutual Life Assurance for all classes. This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a total sum of £1,500,000. The Annual Income is .. £51,000 The Accumulated Fund exceeds .. 2'o,' 00 It has paid in Claims 112,000 The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among the Members. Three divisions have already been made' when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the policies - Dec. 31, 1847 .. £5,400 „ 1852 11,500 „ 1857 .. 23 200 „ 1862 .. .. 56,500 making the total bonus additions, £95,600. lionuses may be received in cash or applierl to the rPduc Lion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an addi , ion to the of cy. Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid up policies introduced by this Association, by which the sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquis,hment of po icy is wholly avoided. The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all, whether assurers or otherwise. Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre sented districts. • W3l. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-streeA, RC., Aug 1, 1863. A.D, 1720. ROYA L EXCITIANGE ASSURANCE C f .IRPORATION (Established by Chester of his Majesty George the First) FOR SEA, ?'IRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES. Off. ees, Royal Exchange, London. Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall. CEOR OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor. PEARRES BAncLAv, Esq., Sub-Governor. S i r . :JOIIN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor. DIRECTORS. Be nainbridze, Esq. 'Wiimot Holland, an Esq. -' , 01, n ;ert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven d Melville. 911 n. Carratt Cattlev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq. G• illiam Currie Close Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. Davidson', Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy. ▪ homas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. .„klexaner Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq. s',redk. Jos. Edlmann. Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq. ?tiversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq. ~9bt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseh Somes, Esq., M.P. Tn. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. "as. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq. Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S. ~,PIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with thi s , -orporation on advantageous terms. In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par "ciPation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such participation. The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured. Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums Payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus. The divisions of Profit take placo every Five years. Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured OR one Life. This Corporation affords to the Assured— . Liberal participation in Profits—with e'lemption from the liabilities of partnership. A rate of Bonus equal to the averace returns of Mutual Societies—with the guarantee of a :Lime invested Capital Stock. The advantages of modern r ,ractice,—with the security of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex perience of nearly a CENTrJI AND A HALF. The Corporation have alw,ays allowed the Assured to serve in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the United Kingdom, free of charge. ROYAIt EXCHANGE, LONDON. ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary. N ORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. Established 1809. Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of Parliament. ACCUMULATED AND INVESTED FUNDS, £2,122,828. ANNUAL REVENUE, £122,401. LONDON BOARD. John White Cater, Esq., I P. du Pre Grenfell, Esq. Chairman. A. Klockmann. Esq. Charle Morrison, Esq., De- John Mollet t, Esq. puty hairman. I J ,, nins S. Morgan, Esq. A. De ‘rroyave. Esq. IG. Garden Nicol, Esq. Edward Cohen, Esq. John H. Win. Schroder, Esq. James du Buisson, Esq. George Young, Esq. Ex-DinEcrons. A. H. Campbell, Esq. 11, :ibert Smith, Esq. I I'. C. Cavan, Esq. Frederic Somes, Esq. P. P. Ralli, Esq. Manager of Fire DepP..rtment —George H. Whyting. Manager of Life bepartm.nt—W. F. Birkmyre. Superintendent of - Foreign Department—G. H. Burnett : - .-ecretary--F. W. Lance. Gr,neral Manager—David Smith. FIRE DE PARTMEN The Company gr .nts Insurances against Fire in the United Kingdom, and all foreLn countries. Mercantile Risks .n the Port of London accepted at re duced rates. Losp ores " Prernptly i liberally settled. Risks.—The Director , , having a p ractical know ]edgethe of foreign countries, are prepared to issue Policies on most favoura'le terms. In all cases a discount will be 4,1 0 wed to Merchants and others effecting such Insurances, LIFE DEPARTMENT The following Statement exhibits the during' the las few years : No. of Policies Premiums. improvement effected Issued. Sums. IRSR ....... 455 .... X 377 . 425 Sl2 565 18 8 18;9 ........ 6'5 ....... 449,913 ...... +l7 7 18 0 ........ 741 ........ . 4 - 5.649 ...... 14,07 2 9 1851 ........ 785 .......... 5276 '6 ..... ' 1 e'ssl 0 0 1862 ....... 1,137 .......... 768:334 ...... 23,611 ...... — 14:^70 1 6 Thus in five years the assuring the l arge sum of 2m 2,928 1 nuber 9 of Policie3 issued was 3 , 623, 7. The leading features of the 0 ce are:— 1 . Entire Se-urity Assurers.offi 2. The large Bonus additions already declared, and the tion. prospect of a further Bonus at the next investiga -unr 3. The advant estrages afforded by var i e d T a bl e s o f p rem iums liberality in dealing • "8 d ng with the A ssure . r oed e ,, nditio of Policies—and general orms of Propoal and every information will be furnished on application at the EIEA.D OFFICES : .... LONDON. 58, Threadneedle-street. 4, New Bank Buildings. _.-_______________ EDINBURGH... 64, Princes-street. ORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY. WEST-END OFFICE : 8 , WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL. ecretary—ALEX. J. RUSSELL. ----- _________ h TERCENTENARY of Cri.:P.BRATiON, n x f h t ,i - y!E A RE, at stratfzr ir d ilgemr _ t Av on l itTII of SIl r c ts is Chairmani arebe itt sulfailton, Bart., alsopaidow reeeiv -14. . g , Tercentenary_ . C:o . mmittee (of which n Stourbridge to the aneoullt C RTPTION and they may and xi d e ,' the Tercentenary mmittee. at the ton Banks, Stratiorrrrninster or Warwick and Learnin ith and Greenway, Greenwa;nit n - Avon • Messrs. Smith, 6a,,,,' ,varwick ;' or their ' , Tl 3. ° 8 and Co., or Mes • Gl Yn and - "C e • and Co , Messrs lianbury Co e b, _ tion list to treel'ar3'. Th, rr, re , • tike'fs, London. _ 1 ndon agen S ts m , Messrs b lting the subs7lP rest their claim' Committee, -instsltyl submitting appeal t ‘ o the admirers of Shakspeart, i ll ation, most earne . , only the bin , ~_ holace sor their aid and assis ofusrikathee grouun,on to b 'ti that centre of att i ra w e a i s his ittee !Ili. aumirer A Of fh, P tate l Stratford he is C not om t m . "*"' a great a Po e et's works. and th 4 -% c i . 13:gae, the tolvh he Lvtd, and where he lived and di 3st. ; rley, 6s t) a for 3plets o 45s o 37s o 28i ; our ates er 36 ting, oats, tone. 47s 38s; Peas, rate, 24s 0 42d 0 -S , 333 IS. 12. ,5. ;. 1 8 . 12. 10. 18. 12. 10. 4. 10. . 4. b. 11. t. 11, t. 4. t. 10. t. 14. f a trial much and hus. sue ifying lation of 111 0 .event ready Lsiest iittes t pci apP to th e ternaL •••••.° ........-.....' Lady iyde' Toot - [ O use, Lu das , Lc late ericsi [ T a rr,' ileop~ Isloll' storl e rber t ,qo Of 31 0 ri ;q. , o _ --- 'O. 112' ESTABLISHED 1831 BOWDEN'S /E RATED GINGER BEER, in _lli glass or stone bottles, warranted td keep good twelve months. Lemonade, Soda-water, l'otass, Seltzer, and every description of Mineral Waters.—Manut aotory, No. 3, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, W.C. RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TRUSS (PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT ximirrioris OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to tie the most effective nvention in the curative treatment of if ERN I A. The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its effects, , s here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the ody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the Hoc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease nd closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn uring sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the 'rues, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir iumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being .ent to the manufacturer, Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly. A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and 31s. 6d. Postage, le. . Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. 6d. Postage, is Bd. ‘n Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. Bd. Postage, ls. 10d. i'ost-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post office, Piccadilly. NEW PATENT ILASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all cases of - V,:akness and Swelling of he Legs, Sprains, Ric. They are :)orous, light in texture, And inexpensive, and are drawn on ean ordinary stocking. i'rice 4s. id., 7s. tkl., 10s., to Ms. eiwh. Postage id. JOHN WHITE, Manufacturer. 528. Piccadilly. PAGE'S BRICK, TILE, AN]) PIPE MACHINE', for hand, horse, or steam rower, are the most simple and efficient extant.—Ful: particulars and prices obtained of the makers, E. Page and Co , Laurence Pountney place, Laurence Pountney-hill, Ca ninon-street, E.C., where they may be seen in operation daily. EATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY ING POWDER, for which a Prize Medal was awarded to the Producer at the International Exhibition, 1862, This Powder is quite harmless to animal life, but is un rivalled in destroying Fleas. Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches, Beetles, Gnats, Mosquitos, Moths in furs, and every other species of Insect Spot tsmen will find this an invaluable remedy for destroy ing Fleas in their Dogs, as also Ladies for their Pet Dogs. Being the original importer of this now invaluable article, which has found so great a sale that it has tempted others to vend a so-called article, the public are therefore cautioned to observe that the packets of the Genuine Powder bear the autogragh of THOMAS KEATING- Sold in packets, ls., 2s. 6d., and 4s. 6d. each, or post free for 1+ or 36 postage stamps, by Thomas Keating, chemist, 79, St. P , s-churchyar I, London, E.C• ARMY CONTRACTS. Commissariat Office, Aldershot, 2d September , 1863. TEND - mg will be received at this office, until , r noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863, I .om persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for the supply of FORAGE, in such quantities as may be required, from Ist November, 1863, to 3 ist October, 1861, for the use of Her Majesty's Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com mand. Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob tained on application at this office, by letter or in person, between the hours of ten and four o'clock. The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the outside " Tender for Forage"), and no Tender will be noticed unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered by the hour appointed. HENRY B. MORSE, Deputy Commissary-General. OYAL 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 Alasterman, Esq. _ _ This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free and instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom pcnied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the funds in order to have 500 beds available for the reception of these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover, it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more, on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week. The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support, to enable them to sdmit and relieve the distressing cases that daily present themselves. Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mas erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. C ou tt s and Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Berries and Co. ; Ransom and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison and Co. ; W Mares, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and CJ. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool and at the Hospital. STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary. R C:OIAL NATIONAL LIF E-BOAT INSTITUTION (Incorporated by Royal Charter). PATRONESS—Tier Most Gracious Majesty the Queen. I'RESIDENT —Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland, K.G., F.R. S. C'lr AIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., V.l'. DEP UTY-CDAIRMAN—Thornas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P. APPEAL. The Committee of Branagement have to state that, since he beginning of the year 1880, the Royal National Lifeboat Institution has expended £32,00 on various Lifeboat Estab lishments bn the Coasts of Eng and, Scotland, and Ireland. The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the society. nd other means, since its formation , is 12,800 ; o r which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and 08,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu ,ion nas also expended £67,,,0t) on Life-boats, Life-boat T ra nsporting-cart cages, and Boat-houses. The Committee desire to express their gratefo! dense of the generous support which they have received from the British public during the past few years, a support which has enab ed them to establish their present magnificent fleet o, 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom D ee ply sensib e, however, of the great responsibility that ma's on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient state, and its Crews practised in the management of their boats, whi .h can only be effected by a large and pe manent annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so court gr eat and truly Th e Committee gra acknowledge the following con tributions : nation te a f l u a h work. Ti er Majesty the Queen £ s. d .. annual 50 0 0 ~ . Campbell, the Hai. Mrs. G. .. .. .. annual 50 0 Clerk, Colonel, R. A. .. k . • .. .. annual 1 1 0 Coutts and Co., M ess rs., Bankers .. .. annu a l 10 0 0 1 1+ ,, : a r n 1 e s , h l a ,, , ) , r e d , Currie, wm. Esq., • • ......4th don.lo 0 0 .. ..._•_._ _ .• don. 10 10 0 Sir A., ii.U.B. .. 2d don 25 0 n a Lifeboatand r • - Fran- Fenwiek, (=. J., Esq., cost of sporting Carriage • • • . .. .. .. 250 0 0 Harvey, Rev. G. G. and Mrs. .. ~ don. 3 0 0 ( I; h ice iet -Alm ti gl . 7th don. 10 o 0 Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. • • • • Thom Moore, Rev. G. B. .. .• • • .. don, 15 15 0 Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich . • • • • • 30 0 Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. .. annual 20 0 ,s, Lady, Ladyship •• •• •• .. .• 16 16 0 collectedby her W es t on - su p e r-Mare, Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .. • • • • annual 50 0 Donations and Annual SlV,scriptions will be thankfully re eiyed by the Rankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis, Percival. and Co. 76, Lombard-street; illessrs. Coutts and Co., 59, Strand; N'tessrs. Berries, F a rquhar. and Co., 16, St. ,?amei's-street, L on d on ; b y a 1 the Collectors of Customs and Bankers in the Unitedki ng do m; and by the Secretary Niehard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Institution, )1, John street, Adeloht London, W.C. . ment which animates the Lithuanians. If it were permissible in such cases to cite names, I could men tion several Lithuanian families, well known throughout Europe in connection with recent tragic events, so completely ruined that their relations say openly that, if left to their own resources, th e y would be without bread. It has formed part of the plan of the Russian Government to starve the Lithuanians into submission, and by its system of confiscations and forced contributions it certainly has enfeebled the Lithuanian insurrection. But, on the other hand, it has created a class of desperate men who, whatever be the general prospects of the war against Russia, will go on fighting from pa triotism, from a spirit of vengeance, and also because there is nothing else left for them to do. From day to day, to judge by the Polish news papers, the opinion in Poland varies as to the chances of an intervention. One morning all is despondency. Europe is accused of looking on calmly and even complacently at the struggles of Poland to save her life from Russia; and the Western ❑ations are compared to fatigued Rimans at a circus, viewing with shameful interest " the contest of a Christian gladiator against a wild beast." Then the Poles are assured that, do what they may, the Western nations cannot avoid coming to blows with Russia before long; that they may hope to escape, but can only postpone the war which next spring will for a variety of reasons be inevitable. It is difficult to say who is to blame, but it is quite certain that the Poles have been led to believe that sooner or later they would be assisted from abroad, and that the great object of diplomatists now seems to be to avoid giving them assistance. The Poles complain that they have been deceived, and that too much has been said on their behalf if speech was not to be followed by action. But, on the other hand, what indignation would they not have expressed, and with reason, if Europe had preserved a strict silence on the subject of their misfortunes, en the injustice with which Russia has always treated them, and the horrible cruelties inflicted upon them systematically since the very beginning of the pre sent insurrection ! As far as I have been able to observe, the people who have talked least and done most for the Poles hitherto have been the Hungarians. Daring the insurrection of 1830 several Hungarian comitats asked permission to send troops to the aid of the Pales, and a willingness and readiness to assist them were also expressed by the Hungarian Diet. I have met Hungarian ladies who are almost as enthusias tic as the ladies of Poland on behalf of the Polish insurrection. If it be said that this social enthu siasm bears no great fruits, it must be remembered that in Poland itself the number of insurgents is very small as compared with the entire population, and small as compared with the educated portion alone, for the plan of the Polish insurrection has hitherto been to make the war of independence not short, strong, and decisive, but long, tedious, and exhausting for the colossal clay-footed enemy. Volunteers are actually kept back, so that when there is really a want of fresh victims there is always a supply forthcoming in superabundance. However, of the few foreigners who have gone to the help of the Poles, the Hungarians have cer tainly formed the majority. They have not sent many well qualified to act as officers, but a great many who cannot have failed to prove themselves good soldiers. It was thought at one time the Han garians would come in large numbers to Poland. This notion was, no doubt, based on the ancient political sympathy and social connection which existed so long between the two nations, and also on the well-known fact that the Polish legions of aid H o w to e v t e h r e , H n u o n g p a o r j e t:: H d u e r n i g n Dembinski an d Wy soc ki ren d ere d mos t important ns agr ithe i r l e w g a i o r formed, and , n o f h a l s 8 4 b B e . e 9 n . as a rule, the only Hungarians not belonging to th e "emigration" who have placed themselves at the • service of the Polish Government have been students from the gy mnasiums of Kas mark, Leutschau, and F eri all -p es— towns inUp per Hungary, borde • ring upon Poland. I suppose no people in Europe know and understand the Poles nearly ao well as the Hungarians. The Poles and Hungarians had, for centuries, insci• tutions almost identical, an d quite identical in principle ; and whatever abuses may have crept into the Constitutio ns of Pol and and also of Hun gary, the political life in both countries kept up and developed a genuine love of liberty which dis tinguishes them in the present day from Catholic countries. The suff • erings of Poland have been so infinitely greater than those of Hungary, that an exaggerated and morbid religious feeling has been generated in the former country, which is not to be found in the latte • and thus se veral devout and warlike Poles were found at ",,,Castel Fidardo fighting in the - spirit of ancient crusaders, and mistaking General de Lamoriciere for Godefroi de Bouillon, while all the Hungarians who took part in the Italian war seem to have regarded it entirely from a political point o f view, and, therefore, fought naturally on the side of Italian independence, as the Polish volunteers, it they could separate religious from political ques tions, must also, without exception, have done. of course there were very many Poles who fought on behalf of Italian unity, but these were persons not to be spoken of in polite society except with a shudder. The men of the moderate and s)-called aristocratic party, whose names are generally con nected in England and France with the cause of insurgents. But more Hungarians than Italians have joined the Polish insurrection, and they have been, for the must part, men who cannot be suspected of being revolutionists for the sake of r evolution. The en thusiastic interest taken by the Hungarians in the alien movement—a movement, be it remembered, wLicn, as it has hitherto been conducted, can in no way help Hungary—is a valuable testimony to the generally noble qualities of the Polish nation ; for the Hungarians are really the only people who have an intimate and traditional knowledge of the solid virtues of the Poles, and also of their national defects—such as their want of fore sight, their extreme but perfectly intelligible and excusable sensibility under oppression next to in suivortable, but which, ne vert heless, they ought for a time and for their own sake to have supported, and their political imprudence, as manifested in a variety of ways during the last two centuries of their history. However, most of the H un g ari an volunteers en gaged in unsuccessful expeditions from Galicia to the kingdom of Poland have, after falling into the hands of the Austrians, been sent back to their homes under bail ; and it does not appear likely now that Hungarians or any other foreigners will offer, in large numbers, to go to the help of the Poles un less an armed intervention should be resolved upon by some foreign government or governments. In that case, neither Hungarians, nor perhaps, even thJse Poles themselves who have hitherto abstained from joining the insurrection iu the field, and who may also be accustomed to the use of arms, would be wanted. Nevertheless, it must not be supposed for a moment, that there are any men in Poland, one of the most warlike c ountries in all Europe, who want foreigners to com e an d fight their bat tles for them throughout. It is against the pos sibility of such a thing happening, that the Poles of the extreme party, who quite reject th e id ea o f their country being restored through foreign aid, desire to guard. Wild as these brave, desperate Lase:.‘ may be—and certainly are—they have never theless reflected enough on the modern history of their own country, especially on the Napoleonic period, from 1807 until 1812, to understand that it is habitually made use of to weaken and frighten the Russians, and abandoned when there seems to be a good chance of bringing Russia to terms. " Every one has made use of Poland, no one has realy assisted her," says M. Guizot in his me moirs ; and the opinion of that experienced Minis ter and calm, philosoßbical writer is shared by many despondent patriots who now seem on the Point of becoming re volutionists, and who have arrived at what some will think a judicious, others merely a cynical conviction that no one will ever help Poland from admiration of the Poles, or from indignation at the unexampled manner in whim). the Polish nation is being tortured and murdered. Naval and Military Intelligence. THE NAVY. The Recruit, 6,160. horse power, Commander A ". F. Cottam, iron paddlewheel steamer, was put out of commission yesterday in Chatham harbour, and ber Officers and crew turned over to the Speed. well, 5 , 80 -horse power. The pa ddl e wheel steamer Medusa 4, 312-horse power, Master Commander J. Lome, steamed into the harbour at an early hour yesterday morning and received on board the officers and crew of the Recruit for conveyance to the Speedwell at Woolwich. Commander Cottam hauled down his Upwards pennant yesterday afternoon. of £12,000 have been spent in repairing the R ecruit and ffttin g her for sea. She goes into the first-class steam reserve until final orders respecting her have been received from the Admiralty. Her internal fittings, bulkheads, &e , are undisturbed. The Paddlewheel steamer Salamis, 4, 250-horse power, fitting at Chatham, has a considerable num ber of hands employed on board, in order that no time may be lost in completing her for sea, though up t 3 the p r esent time no d e fi n it e instructions have been received at the dockyari as to the particular services for Which she is intended. Her internal fittings and deco rat i ons are on a sca l e o f grea t splendour. The Bloodhound, 3, iron paddle vessel, Lieu Commander John E . Stokes, which has just returned to England from the West Coast of Africa, will shortly be paid off at Woolwich. This vessel was commissioned at the latter port by Lieut. F. W. Bennett, June 25, 1860, with a complement of 65 officers and men, and left for Greenhithe on the 14th of the following month to adjust compasses. Sue arrived at Plymouth July 20, was at the river Niger in Nov., and at Lagos on the 10th of December. The Enterprise and Favourite screw steamvessels, now building at Deptford Dockyard, on the plan of Mr. Reed, Chief Constructor of the Navy, are now in a forward state, and have commenced receiving their 41 inch armour Plates, manufactured by Messrs. Brown, of Sheffield. The Enterprise has been fitted with her machinery and her cupola, which will be armed with four heavy guns. The Dwarf and Fidget gunboats, built by con tract for the Government during the Crimean war, but which were never brought into service, having nail their boilers and machinery removed, have been bfoxen up at Deptford Dockyard, and the timber appears to be in sound condition. The Adventure, screw troopship, Commander T. B. Lethbridge, is ordered to embark detachments of troops at Portsmouth for conveyance to Canada. Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., one of the Lords of the Ad miralty, visited Portsmouth Dockyard yesterday, and went on board the iron frigate Hector, and other vessels in progress at the port. Yesterday a public trial was made at Chatham dockyard of a new description of traction engine invented by Messrs. Aveling and Port er , o f Roches• t•r, which has been brought into use at the dock yard for conveying the machinery and other heavy materials used in the improvements now in progress at the establishment to and from the dockyard works. The experiments were carried out under the inspection of Professor 0. Beylich, of Kaiser lantern, and a party of f orei gners , who have been specially deputed to visit this country to re port upon the invention previous to its introduction into Bavaria. Shortly before two o'clock three of the engines, each having a heavy load attached, started from Messrs Aveling and Porter's works, on the Strood side of the Ro chester-bridge. The first engine weighed 12 tons, and was one of several on the eve of being shipped to be employ e d on th e sugar to Kingston, Jamaica, growing estate of Messrs. Salomon and Co. At tached to the engine were two lorries, each con , teining three cast iron girders, to be used in the works now in progress at the dockyard. The uni ted weight of the girders was 18 tons, and of the two trucks 5 tons. To the second engine were at tubed five empty lorries, each weighing 21 tons, The undernamedgentlemen were yesterday no minated to naval cadetships :—Cyrill W. Newall, Charles G. Prater, Edward H. Geen, Charles M. Luckraft, Ernest James Seymour, Arthur Target, and George T. Hall. THE ARMY. A review of the troops in garrison at Portsmouth will take place on Southsea-common on Thursday next at 3 p.m. Major-Gen. Lord W. Panlet, C. 8., will command the force. _ By direction of the War Department a new kit chen-range, &c., has been provided for the sergeants at the Sbornciiffe Camp to avoid the inconvenience of cooking in the general mess-room. The non commissioned officers of the sth Fusileers have pre sented a valuable testimonial to Sergt. Borkes, on his retirement after 21 years' service. Two detach ments of Royal Horse Artillery are ordered to encamp on the Warren at New Romney for gun practice. THE VOLUNTEERS. The Margate Cinque Ports and county of Kent Rifle con test, under the patronage of the Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, commenced on Monday morning at North Down, near Margate, a well-selected spot on the cliffs about mid way between Margate and Broadstairs. This contest, from the circumstance of receiving the patronage of the noble Premier, and the support of the Marquis of Conyngham, Sir Brook W. Bridges, M.P., Sir E. C. Dering, M.P., Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, M.P., Mr. Frederick North, M.P., Mr. H. B. Shtridan, M.P., the Mayor of Margate, and a large number of gentlemen of local influence, is not only popular thri ughcut the district, but being in nearly every competition open to all comers, with the shooting portion o f the volunteer forces generally, thus attracted cracks from all parts of the kingdom, and even from remote parts of Scotland. The competition consisted of the Premier Stakes of £1.50, and the general distribution amounted in the aggre gate to £220, divided into 47 separate prizes. In the Pre mier Stakes the first prize consists of the Palmerston Cup, of the wine of £52 10s. ; second prize (money), £2O ; four prizes of the value of £lO each ; one of £7, four of £5 each, and the other of £3 and £2 each. Among the other com petitions was one for an elegant tea service, open to all ser vices the arm of the corps. A competition open to all corners, first prize £26 55., and a second a Steward's Lord Bury telescope; a competition for a gold watch value £lO 108., and various other competitions of considerable value, amounting to 17 in the aggregate. The charge for entries to the Premier Stakes was 15s. if paid by Sept. 4, but on the ground ls., and the others varied in accordance with the value of the stakes competed for. The competition in the Premier Stakes is to continue throughout the meeting, and will not close till a given hour on "Wednesday, to be shot for at 200 and 500 yards, seven rounds at each range, En field rifles and Government ammunition. The arrangements were entrusted to Capt. Cox, of the 7th Cinque Port (Mar gate) Rifles, and the targets were erected on the North Down, near the Waterloo Gardens. Marquees for refresh ment, &c., had been erected, and a plentiful display of flags gave the spot an exceedingly gay and pleasant appearance It was arranged that the competition should commence at 9 a.m., but " as there is many a slip between the cup and the lip," so it may be in respect to rifle shooting. The targets had been duly prepared, but unfortunately the distemper colours distinguishing black from white had been prepared without sufficient size or other combining mate • rial, and when Mr. J. H. Keble and Mr. Smith arrived on the ground they found the targets entirely obliterated by the pelting rain which had prevailed through out the night and morning. This circumstance caused a de lay of nearly two hours before the proceedings were com menced. The weather was most unpropitious for shooting, at 9 o'clock blowing at least half a gale of wind from south west by west, right across the range. It subsequently sub sided, but not to any great extent. Among the notabilities in the shooting volunteer world were Sergeant Thornberry, of the Victories, Lieut. Marriner, of the West Middlesex, Ensign Chambers and Messrs. Dynes and Chattock, of the London Irish, Capt. M'Gregor, of the London Scottish, Lieut. Morris, &c. It was understood that nearly 150 entries had been made for the Premier Stakes, and over 200 for the other competitions. The principal scores made for the Pre mier Stakes throughout the day were—Sergeant Hall (South Middlesex, 39 ; Private W. Dalton, 22d Kent, 36 ; Private Macrone, S uth Middlesex, 38; Private Saniers, 29th Kent, 36; Sergeant Spencer, 35; Sergeant Harris, 33. In the third oompetition, for the tea service and other prizes, Sergeant Thornberry, of the Viatorias, won the first with 15 marks. For the second prize Lieutenant Marriner, of the West Middlesex, and Private Thomas, of the Kent Battalion, tied, and in shooting off Lieutenant Marriner won. There were ties for the third prize, not shot off. For the Sweep stakes, Private Dalton, of the 22d Kent, won the first. Lord Palmerston is expected to present the prizes on Wed - neslay, but in his absence the duty will devolve on Lord Harris. The Mayor of Margate has advised that Wednes day should be kept as a holiday. The third annual meeting of the County of Lancaster Bat a Association commenced on Monday at Altair. Th o ugh the prizes were more numerous than last year, there was a considerable falling off in the number of competitors, owing, perhaps, to the fact that the meeting had not been more widely announced. The shooting continued through out the week, but in consequence of the heavy rain which fell on Saturday, the last day of the meeting, the firing for the volley prizes was neces-arily postponed nexttill.. n year. Shortly after 4 o'clock on Saturday, all hope of aa setendle, immediate return of fine weather having been aban res prizes were distributed by Lieut.-Col. Bruce, who and a regret to find that the entries of competitors bad P d n e n s x , ot been so numerous on the present as on anneraossasociation would hope that next year the meeting of Cup resented him be more successful. The Assoc iation E. Ross, who was loudly cheered whencthe p u was won by Capt. Liverpool Rifle B Kershaw rigade, Cat. of self to receive it. Among the 6thother succ essful competitors were Ensign Sprott, of the who won the Associat ion Purse o f ; p , the Leigh Challenge Cup ; and the winner of the the Bth L.R.V., who won 47th L.R.V., Mr. W. Lythgoe , of the 47th I Association Gran d Challenge up. agn adm et iL s ofw e its thequestion, maal: eeticoebe brushes, effects, s h h a e t s is tca a n 3 .et i know m Dr. Hassall uity of those who apply its power to beneficial uses, only y an any one answer the riirpgeoinratssta"illeregnaerrdritnhem as the most perfect brushes hitherto made, as respects their mechanical construction and their magnetical action." They are the remedy for grey hair, neuralgia, rheumatism, &c. N. li . — Counterfeits are being, made. Offices, 32, Basinghall-street, London. Some of the Perthshire moors appears to be well stocked with game. On Thursday his Royal Highness the Maha rajah Dbuleep Singh bagged to his own gun, on the Loch Kennard range, Grandtully, 50 brace of grouse, and a few hares and snipe. Sir H. H. Campbell, Bart., shot on the hill of Monzie, in the afternoon, 7 brace of grouse. The numerous sportsmen who are residing at Drummond Castle have secured some excellent bags. The sport of Glenarte ey, Longside, Locherneide, &c., has been good. Grouse are plentiful, and not the least symptom of disease has been seen among them. Good sport is obtained in the forests. Down to the 28th ult. Mr. Holmes had shot at Monar no fewer than 13 stags, all carrying capital heads, and one weighing 17f stone. Deer were never seen in finer condition in this district. From the commencement of the season to the last day of August, Mr. Thistlethwayte brought down 14 stags in Lochluichart forest, shooting on that day a fine animal with beautiful large antlers of the following dimensions, viz. : Span, 231 inches ; length, 33 inches ; thickness, 5 inches ; length of front tines 10 inches. The head was a royal, with palmated tops, of 6f inches in breadth. Lord Lovat and party succeeded in killing 23 stags during last week, ten of the number being shot on Thursday, and all in Glenstrath farar forest. On the 21st the Rev. W. Basset shot a fine stag at Kinclochewe ; and on the 26th J. F. Basset, Esq, shot a beautiful animal with a royal head in the same forest. Lord Stamford shot in his forest of Rothiemurchus, on Wednesday and Thursday, 4 excellent stags, and about 70 brace wild ducks, and on Friday 5 stags. The Hon, G. S. Duff has had capital sport in Mar Forest, and up to Thurs day last bad killed 14 stags, all of them splendid animals, the lightest weighing 15 stone, and the heaviest 18 stone. On the 24th Mr. Bentinck, M.P., killed two fine stags in Glenavon, weighing respectively 14 stone and 14 stone Nibs; and on Wednesday he killed one weighing 15 stone. In spite of bad weather, Mr. Snowie has during the week received a number of stags' heads for preservation. J. G. Leigh, Esq., has forwarded six, three of them being royals; Lord Galway, one of ten times ; Christopher Turner, Esq., Glenfeshie, a good specimen of a royal ; and F. Bassett, Kinlochewe, also an excellent royal. Horatio Ross, Esq , has also sent a very fine specimen of a royal head. The antlers measure in length, 32 inches; in span. within bow of the antlers, 31/ inches ; and between the outside tops, 37 inches. The stag was shot in Glendibidale or the 28th of August ; it weighed 18 stone 31b , and makes the twenty • eighth stag shot by Mr Ross and his sons since the commencement of the season. On the same day a young gentleman staying at Glendibidalo went out with a common carbine, and shot a stag of nearly 18 stone weight, with antlers of 33 inches span. Two very fine heads, from J. G. Leigh, Esq„ Strathconen, have been received this morn ing. Span of one, 27 inches; brow antlers, 10 inches in length ; length of horns, 34 inches ; thickness, 5} inches ; weight of deer, 17 stone. The other head is almost a caberslach. The Wolverhampton and Dudley Mysteries. Yesterday a further attempt was made to throw some light upon the deaths of two persons, which occurred under extraordinary circumstances at Wolverhampton and Dudley respectively. It will be remembered that the woman who was found a worm-eaten cot pse in an empty house at Dudley, and who was supposed to be the woman who lived with the deceased man Cheenery as his wife, and who was the last person seen in the house where his murdered body was found, was, after the coroner's inquest, buried without any post-mortem examination having been made of her body. Capt. Segrave, the chief constable of Wolverhampton, and Mr. T. M. Phillips, the coroner for that borough, both de sired that she might be exhumed, and they applied to Mr. Robinson, the coroner for Dudley, to issue his order for the exhumation. That gentleman, however, having completed the inquest, could not comply with the request. At the inquest on the body of Cheenery, which was further adjourned last week, the evidence still left a doubt on Mr. Phillips's mind that the woman found at Dudley was the woman Steadman, who must undoubtedly have had a hand in the murder of her paramour. That gentleman therefore made an application to the Secretary of State for the Home Department for h;s order to exhume the body and to submit it to a post-mortem examination. That order was received yesterday, and witnesses were sent over to Dudley from Wolverhampton, including the mother of Cheenery, to endeavour to speak to the body being that of Steadman or not; and surgeons also went over to make the post-mortem examination. When the ckffin was opened identification from the features was utterly impossible, but the height and build of the corpse were quite those which characterised Steadman. The identification of the clothes, was however, complete, most of the garments which were upon the woman when she was found, and in which she W as interred, being sworn to as those which Steadman had bee ... 11 accustomed to wear. The surgeons, who were Ma w :: Nesbit and Mr. Keogh, the latter the senior bowie enlarr of the South Staffordshire Hospital at Wolverhampton, then commenced their examination. This in o qu i r y wee in the charnel-house of the Dudley Cemeterh au_ being proceeded with when our corresPond d ent left Dudley. Sept of the Season. The Drought and a b ee n so hot a summer on the Continent as that iv For many years there has h n as just ended ; and both there which has has been very great. It almost looks and in this country t he error had been committed in th e Aldershot if a der°hot as a site for a barrack town ; for, the drought has s election of x•, 30 great this summer as to compel th e troo p s to gut.. t batha:place altogether from want of wat er . I n Pais and its vicinity no such drought and heat have been suffered for many years as during the past summer. In deed, a s regards heat. during the last 158 years it has pro bably on ly once been warmer than it lately was o n certain days . The thermometer last month reached 39 degrees (102 degrees Fahrenheit) in the shade, which impli es something like the scorching heat of 65 degrees in the sunl In Paris it is very rare for the thermometer to rise above 36 degrees in the shade. The river Seine fell to the level of the great drought of 1719, which forms the zero line of the metrical ladder on the Pont Royal for measuring the depth of the river. This is only the second time of such an occur rence for nearly 150 years, and the first since the year before the comet of 1811. The waters of the Loire, too, have never been known to be so low as in the season just past. This great river, which has so often ravaged the country for leagues by its excesses, was lately crossed, where it meets the Nievre and Cher, both on foot and in carriages without either difficulty or danger. The drought and heat in Aus tria have been extreme ; as also in Italy, especially at Ro me. In Germany, too, water became both scarce and dear. t 15 n drought at Aix la Chapelle was such that water sold there groschen, or ls. 6d. a barrel. Some few years a g o was a considerable drought for successive seasos ► but not to so great an extent, it would seem, as in the pr esen t wereseroaurs. At that time, it may be remembered, there were Sincei fears that the rainfall was permanently . , then, however, there have been very :rinliet seasons which have tended greatly to restore th e average and doubtless sooner or later we may look out for a recurrence of the like compensatory process.—Builder. . • 9 ~zot,.;-...4i.] r 4 51' 4 7 According to his own ac count of is--iv career in his recently published Autobiogra, RA S collections, called Yesterday and 70-day: —My first lucubration in type was in youth, in 1801, in an epitaph en Sir Ralph Abercromby, who bad just fallen in Egypt. Some translations from Ovid, and similar pieces between 1801 and 1804. The year 1806 found me in the Abbey, at the funeral of Pitt, afloat on the wide world, and soon afterwards I became fatherless. Fox was in power, and during his short administration I commenced my labours, and for a year after its close I laboured on the Pilot newspaper. I adopted Liberal principles, and have never faltered, wo r king for them, too often without fee or rew ar d. I h ave state d b e f ore h ow it tell to my lot to proceed to Plymouth, where a newspaper came wholly into my hands. That paper wua neutral as far as regarded Whig or Tory principle. No Liberals or Radicals were then known; Whig or Tory clirld , 'd ihe politicians. A Itron desirJ ro do right induced me to support C a ,:h o l;: em . nc i. pation, on which questi on t h e Cabine t was - divided . I have stated how I was serv e d b y Mr . Perceval for that heinous offence. It struck a severe blow on all my future life ; in fact made me a political mar tyr. I sold the paper at a great loss,l nearly all I possessed , and more indignant than s-of m n i y aY pocket. I k v e t. re pentant, after five or six years of life wasted, re turned to London with a little money in While at Plymouth I wrote for the Naval Chronicle in London, and published two letters to Lord Holland, on the libel law. The year 1814 found me in London working at a Dramatic Review, publishing articles in the Morning Chronicle and Examiner, and learn ing German. All this wastgiven up for a projected work on Ireland, in consequence of Wakefield's volumes not being satisfactory. It was to have been on a large scale. I had letters from persons of con sequence, to individuals in the island. After wait ing several months, the whole was abandoned, be cause no one Could be got on moderate terms to manage the plates and engravings, which were a necessary. After the battle of Waterloo I went to France and resided faur months at Rouen ; then at Gisors, collecting notes on Normandy, or travelling in the country south, and making observations on the vine and its product. I also corresponded with the Examiner. I next proceeded to Paris, and there edited Galignani's Messenger. I returned after three years' absence, and, going into Warwick shire, edited a paper for a short time at Warwick, as a holding of place for another. I also, while there, wrote two letters on the Game Laws, to Dr. Parr. In 1820 I commenced writing in the New Monthly Magazine, at the same time as the late Judge Talfourd, but in two months afterwards Campbell was engaged as the editor. I have ex plained elsewhere the part I had in that work, in which every third volume, part original and part compilation, was mine. Besides this I found time to correct the proofs of all the work, and write one hundred And seventy-seven articles besides. Campbell's articles were not more than one-third of mine even in the original part; all bear his name. The whole weight of it soon fell on myself. The form of that wonderfully successful work was different then from what it has been since. Here I have to lament I wasted ten years, the best years of my life, doing nearly the whole work, and writing all the political matter. But Campbell and myself were intimate friends. The Metropolitan followed the abandonment of the New Monthly. Iv 1833 I went into Sussex and put together my work on wine, which has made me extensively known in England and America. The history of that work incurious; to myself it was of less advantage than any other 1 had undertaken considering its labour. The MS. in material lay untouched for thirteen years ! None of the " trade" would look at it or hear of it. 1 had proposed it to Colburn in vain. "It would not answer." " So few drank wine," and so on ; which meant that there was no work in the market like it, that had made a noise, by which it could be judged. Nly notes on wine, like those on Normandy, had not, like them, become useless from being super seded by others. When I left the Metropolitan, therefore, I put the work in order. The late Mr. Whittaker, who was a particular friend, at last said he would publish it on the principle of half profits. It was most beautifully printed by Gilbert and Rivington in one volume. The woodcuts were then five times the price they are at present, and the ex pense of the work was thus greatly enhanced. It went through a second edition, but I never received more profit from it than paid my sojourn on the coast for two or three months while I put it together. I abandoned it in disgust, as labour and toil en tirely wasted. . . , . It is continually ex pected that literary men should serve public purposes gratuitously, while the public cares not a rush how they fare, or live, or die in harness, never giving its services without an equi valent. I was glad to serve the pane, I confess, bat more because it was a pleasure in iny case than a duty, though ruinous as a waste of time, for I could look nowhere for remuneration. But it has been the same in politics. I have served liberal and reform and free-trade principles devotedly for above 1 half a century without more pecuniary profit than very common labour returned, and can ask myself the question cui bone? except that the public bene fited. Still it is a very serious question, at above three-score years and ten, to a literary man, too whose time is his estate. In active politics, it is true, I worked con amore for my party ; I paid my own expenses, and never received a shilling, except the moderate salary paid me, all through my career. Besides the weight of a paper to meet this salary, working at the same time for London periodicals, which nothing but a happy constitution enabled me to bear. Of the same polities, f rom. the time of Mr. Fox I have seen almost all the Me et' b ody rary men I knew pass away, works through perilous the same state. In political . while I have been in t b i a m v e i s n , g of q te a n it f t r e o d m o th e e n ea o l t , myselfi n t than writing-tablepress r ofc ir e c v u e m n s t f a e n r e a e ein , f a o g r e th n i o rty b : t i te x worldly bettel left Plymouth, though I am the r offoursintogethiedrl.y I circumstances find But to owldheesnt'cionnitiBnlutd literary workman in England, and over the largest scope of action. conclude, besides beeweesnbflo irsthyed a and fife; volumes have edited ta e above four hundred,news newspapers, r il e: and edited noifuingyinwlBo6. n'l I have six, one in France, and written for four others. There are few periodicals which have not had something of mine, and I have published, artiolesl,know not how many in Encyclopaedias and similar works. [AsvERTISEIIiENT.I—A Share in a lucrative manufac turing business f or disposal. From £1,500 to £ 4 , 000 required according to th e proportion o f share purc has e d ; if desired, half the amount of purchase money may remain on security of the share, to be paid off from profits. Apply to the Post office, 13e, Jermyn-street. THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.—The road at Gettysburg was lined with Yankee dead, and RS they had been killed on the Ist the poor fellows had already begun to be very offensive. We then returned to the bill I was on yesterday, but finding that to see the actual fighting it was absolutely necessary to go into the thick of the thing, I determined to make my way to General Longstreet. It was then about 2 30. After passing General Lee and his staff I rode on through the woods in the direction in which I had left Longstreet. I soon began to meet many wounded men returning from the front; many of them asked in piteous tones the way to a doctor or an ambulance. The further I got the greater became the number of the wounded. At last I came to a perfect stream of them flocking through the woods in numbers as great as would crewel Oxford-street in the middle of the day. Some were walking alone on crutches composed of two rifles, others were supported by men less badly wounded than themselves, and others were carried on stretchers by the ambulance corps ; but in no case did I see a:sound man helping the wounded to the rear, unless ho carried the red badge of the ambulance corps. They were still under a heavy fire ; the shell wad continu ally bringing down great limbs of trees, and carrying fur ther destruction among this melancholy procession. I saw all this in much less time than it takes to write it, and although astonished to meet such vast numbers of wounded I had not seen enough to give me any idea of theme' extent of the mischief. When I got close up to Gen. Longstreet, saw one of his regiments advancing through the woods in good order ; so, thinking I was just in time to see the attack, I remarked to the general that "I wouldn't have missed this for anything." Longstreet was s eated at the top of a snake fence at the edge of the wood, and looking perfectly calm and unperturbed. Ile replied, laughing, " The devil you wouldn't I I would like to have missed it very much ; we've attacked, and been repulsed—look there l"—Black- Wood s Jragaziine for September. •