The Sun. — London, England, 1863-03-27 00:00:00

LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1863. - ---~ In the House of Lords yesterday, after a shor t de bate in which the subject of London railways was considered, the second reading of the Great Eastern New Metropolitan Station and Branches Bill was negatived and the bill itself referred to a select committee. The Tobacco Duties Bill was passed through all its stages. The Lord Chancellor ex plained his plan for augmenting the valae of small ecclesiastical benefices in his gift, and added that he was aware the successful operation of the bill must depend in a great measure upon the proper framing of its complicated details; and he, there fore, proposed that if the measure were read a second time, it should be referred to a select com mittee. Lord Cran worth, Lord Chelmsford, the Bishop of London, and the Dolce of Marlborough, expressed a decided approval of the general prin ciple of the measure, which was read a first time, and the second reading appointed for to-day. In thellouse of Commons Sir R. PEEL, in answer to Lord H. Thynne, said that the Government had not received intelligence that the United States Go venment were recruiting in Ireland. In reply to Mr. Whalley, Sir R. PEEL also said that the disturbances which had taken place in some Irish towns on the 10th were only the acts of a few disaffected individuals, and entirely opposed to the feeling of the county. Mr. DoDsoN called attention to the charges for the diplomatic service, and moved that all sums re quired to defray the expenses of that service ought to be annually voted by Parliament, and that esti mates of all such sums ought to be submitted in a form that would admit of their effectual supervision and control by the house. After a brief discussion, in which the Chancellor of the Exchequer opposed Mr. liaison's views, the motion was negative d by 133 to 65 votes. The house then went into committee of supply, taking the votes in the civil service estimates. When the house resumed, The Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill was read a third time and passed. The Telegraphs Bill was then taken in c)mmittee, and passed through that stage. The Office of Secretary at War Abolition Bill wee read a second time, its object being to abolish techni cally an office which has merged into that of Sec • retnry for War. The Oaths Relief in Criminal Proceedings (Scot land) Bill, the object of which is to allow affirma tions in lieu of oaths in certain cases, was read a second time. The Local Government Act (1858) Amendment Bill, the object of which is to extend the operation of the Act of 1858 to places to which it did not at present apply, was read a second time. The adjourned debate on going into corn nittee on the Salmon Fisheries (Ireland) Bill was resumed, and the adjournment was again moved. After dis cussion, on a division the motion was lost by 39 . to 5, and the bill went into committee pro forma. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obtained leave to bring in a bill to make stock certificates transferable to bearer. The other business was disposed of, and the House adjourned. Ij Mr. BRIGHT labouring under the delusion that he is the citizen of a Republic, instead of being, like the rest of us, numbered amongst the subjects of a Sovereign ? It would really appear so. The honourable gentleman is still railing—in the tr est elcquent manner, it is true, but still railing--per• petually against the very shadows of Crown and Sceptre, against th© mere phantoms of what more vulgar rhetoricians have dubbed before now the " bloated aristocracy." In his plain thinking and out speaking there is very much, no doubt, of the sturdy independence of JOHN BULL. But it is JOHN BILL, Quaker wise, with his choler* up. It is a specimen of the genus BULL, before whose eyes the trailing of the scarlet robe of a peer is just sheer distraction. Nothing appears to irritate JOHN BULL—we beg Pardon for so transparent a lapsus— we mean t, of course, and should have said, JOHN BRIGHT—more than the flourishin g o f t h at red garment of the nobility, unless indeed it be the still more maddening gleam to him of the purple of a Mona►cb. One filiation alone apparently can soothe his agitated feelings, at the mere thought of these dreadful symbols of old-world vanity—that one assuaging and tnoPifying consideration being the thought of the—well, yes! the— ;]tatea cf Arc.,eriva Nothing t. , ) all appsarance Call EV , .tt shake Mr. ERTUIT'S i::yaity--not to Queen VICTORIA, 1)0 nothing of the kind! but tu the United States of Anierici. His feelings of respect and admiratio❑ for the institutions of the great North Arnerion vutures to . ask if this word is nut a vary obvious misprint ? Republic are clearly indestructible. Through the fiery ordeal of the present deadly conflagration of CivilWar,there,in that afflicted country, his homage for the perfection of that particular exemplar of a Democratic form of Government, pass scatheless, as if animated with the life of a salamander, and clothed in raiments of asbestos. There is something charming in this devotion—it is so complete. In its completeness it is perfectly Arcadian. One "listens delighted" to the dulcet utterances of a tender affection so untiring and unconditional. Mr. BRIGHT'S love of America, since first ho became wedded to her cause, seems never yet to have got out of its honeymoon. If there were a Dunmow across the Atlantic, as there are all sorts of other places, such as a Cairo, and a London, and a Rome, and so forth, under an American aspect —if there were among those other topo graphical plagiarisms, anything at all like our English Dunmow, with its porcine and marital institutions—Mr. BRIGHT would certainly be in a f-ir way to win his Flitch of Bacon at the appointed time. Listen to him as he yesterday prostrated himself in the dust before his own ideal of what America is, and in the same breath railed like another self-banished TmroN against the country of his birth and the people who are, never theless, to be supposed, in spite of his fearful language against ,them, to be still his own countrymen ! Speaking of the deplorable civil war yet ragiog at its fiercest in America— speaking of that civil war yesterday in St. James's Hall, Piccadilly, to an immense concourse of work men there assembled together as a demonstration in favour of the Northern States and of Negro Eman cipation, Mr. BRIGHT asked his artisan audience in so many words, " Have you any special interest in this contest ? " Without immediately giving his own answer to that point-blank inquiry, the hon. gentleman went on to remark, with scorn in every inflexion of his harmoniousvoice, and in every move ment of his eloquent lips, " Privilege thinks it has a great interest in it, and every morning with blatant voice it comes into your street and curses the Ame rican republic. Privilege has beheld an afflicting spectacle for many years past. It has beheld 30 millions of men happy and prosperous, without Em peror, without King, without the surroundings of a court, without nobles, except such as are made by eminence in intellect and virtue [General BUT LER to wit, we will suppose ? or Admiral WILKES let us say ? or BARNUM? or TRAIN ? or Nature's nobility of that kind, Mr. BRIGHT P] without state bishops and state priests, [Mr. BRIGHT quite for gets that there have ever been such people in existence as a JOSEPH SMITH or a BRIGHAM YOUNG, apparently], sole vendors of the law that works salvation, without great armies and great navies, without great debt, [No ! but they are making one now fast enough !], and with out great taxes. Privilege has shuddered at what might happen to old Europe if this great experiment should succeed!" Whereupon Mr. BRIGHT having reached that climax his congenial audience breaks into a storm of applause! For all the world, just as if that " great experiment" had succeeded ! And so on, and so on—risque ad nauseam, as the classically educated Captain WRAGGE would say, if not ad infinitum. Seeing what we all see, knowing what we all know, as to the state of things politically and socially amongst ourselves and amongst the North American republicans—Mr. BRIGHT can yet de nounce the European system as a" rotten system"— those are the very words he used in its regard as recently as yesterday ! Vaunting to the skies as nothing less than absolute perfection the free insti• tutions, the blissful condition, the complete com mercial prosperity enjoyed by the enviable race who look up to their Chief—not in a Windsor but in a White House ! Beholding in that chief not a mere Constitutional Sovereign like Queen VICTORIA, but —again we are tempted to employ the favourite language of Captain WRAGGE, in order in any way adequately to express the emotions inspired by the theme—that ne Plus ultra of Dignity, Autho rity, Wisdom, and Beneficence, profanely called by Some "Old ABE!" For ourselves, we are almost tempted to call him sometimes, still more profanely, " Old Gaby"—say, when he is making some more than usually senile ghost of a joke to the sound of the distant carnage among the opposing armies of Federals and Confederates ! Or, again, when in the midst of the ruin and desolation caused by the feebleness of his wholly inconsistent policy he is outraging public decency alike in the Old World and in the Ne w by actually receiving an absurd little dwarf, like General Tom THUMB, with a sort of State ceremonial. These, forsooth, are the objects of Mr. BRIGHT'S unstinted admiration, while he can find nothing but foul words to lavish from a marvellously ample vocabulary upon the Political Constitution, the Free Press, and the other (in spite of Mr. BRIGHT) still popular in stitutions of our own fatherland, of England, of the United Kingdom. We certainly stand amazed before the choice made in this matter by the lion. member for Birmingham.', It is the result surely—(at least we may venture to say that)-- of an astounding hallucination. The presentation of the City Address to her MAJESTY will give general satisfaction, and is one of the most gratifying of the incidents relative to the Royal Marriage. It is the first step taken in a direction that lead the Sovereign back again to her subjects, after ;the gloom and seclusion of the late trying year. Right and fitting as was that retirement it still has been attended with secondary evils that have militated against the prosperity of trade. 'hus, many well-wishers to the community havebeen anxiously looking forward tothe time when the Court mourning should cease as to a period when better times might 07awn on those wholie dark days in business have made them dejected and despond ing. The civic authorities presented a most appro priate address, and while invoking the blessing of heaven on this auspicious union they made special allusion to the happy influence which they desired it might exercise upon the present position of the QUEEN, and added that they trusted " it may prove a solace to voar MAJESTY under your present cares." This truly represents the general wish of the nation. From the time when the Prince of \VALES'S marriage was first spoken of, all concurred in expressing a hope that this new interesting and important event might rouse her MAJESTY from the depression which she so naturally felt, and which is sometimes more painfully overwhelming when the time for mixing in active life draws near than even in the first crushing hours of affliction. Her MAJESTY'S reply was very satisfactory. She ad verted in touching terms, not only to the occasion of joy, but the event of sorrow, in which her people had shown their sympathy :--`= I am truly sensible of the gratifying proofs of loyalty and attachment to myself and the Royal Family which have been exhibited by the citizens of London, not less in their deep sympathy in my heavy grief, than on the occasion of the marriage of the Prince of WALES." This is a suitable recognition of the deep feelings that have been everywhere evinced on the subject of the irreparable loss that Her MAJESTY has sus t_;it7Ed, is another matt er o f re j oicing in this i and that is, that the mo s t c i n i d 6 c d p . o T : e c tare is y, sin a 1 affort is over, since the trial of such a nature is always the greatest. It is ear nestly to be trusted that all who have influence with her MAJESTY will persuade ber not again to lapse into retirement, but to come forward on all State occasions, and where there is no great parade or excessive gaiety to be expected, to resume those duties in the performance of which she so ex cels. Then we shall have the satisfaction of feeling that the marriage of the Prince of WALLS was twice blessed in its results, and, besides witnessing the improvement of many desponding classes of the community, wo shall know that the chief per sonage herself has the best prospect of being restored at least to partial happiness. Nothing can divert the thoughts from the weight of overpowering cares, or soothe the memory that is prone to dwell too much on natural grief, as the distracti)n of active engagements. This is one great bentfit bestowed by toil on the heirs of Adam's doom, and it will be conferring no kindness on our well-beloved Sovereign, if her nearest advisers seek to prevent her from incurring any fatigue or responsibility, now that so many engrossing attractions and so many new and engaging objects are at hand to interest and sustain her. We trust that the ceremonial of yesterday is an augury of the public re-appearance of one whose absence no one can sup ply, and who is so associated with the best wishes and hopes of her subjects that to know she is still in the gloom of retirement will east a damp on all heartfelt rejoicings and throw a sombre shade over all coming festivities. L There is in existence a large class of well-mean ing but narrow-minded individuals, who in their attempts to reform and remodel the world are likely to do a great deal of mischief. We have many representatives of this well-intentioned body of meddlers among us, and though the good sense of the community generally keeps them in check they occasionally contrive to carry their point, and by so doing produce a reaction which is injurious to the real interests of religion and order. We can all • remember the disastrous results which followed the introduction of I ord GROSVENOR'S Sunday Trading Bill, when the Government were forced to yield to the illegal opposition of riotous mobs what they had refused to the common sense and justice that generally regulates our legisla tion. The injustice of men, whose homes and club-houses were furnished with every luxury, forcing a rigid observance of the Sabbath on those whose tables must often be bare, if not supplied on the morning of that day, was so manifest and glaring that the general feeling of the public sup ported the opposition to the bill, however unseemly or disorderly the forms in which it was expressed. We have now a repetition of the same mistake, originating, doubtless, with men of excellent principles and benevolent intentions, who are sin cerely anxious for the good of their fellows, but who make the very common and serious error of trying to drive instead of to lead them. Experience has often enough proved the utter futility of such an undertaking. If men would lay down their vices at the word of command, as soldiers do their arms, there might be some hope of good results from the projects of Lord ROBERT MON TAGU and the schemes of Mr. SOMES. But, a 3 if to afford us an invincible answer to their plausible arguments, we have an existing proof of the falacy of such theories in a part of the Uaited Kingdom which ought, according to its laws, to be the most highly moral and sober nation in Europe, but which is unfortunately very much the reverse. The practical consequences of the FORBES MAC KENZIE Act are not such as to encourage the most enthusiastic of teetotallers to desire its extension to England, yet the object of Mr. SoMEs' " Bill for shutting public-houses on Sunday " is virtually the same. It is confidently asserted by those qualified Ito judge that the FORBES MAC KENZIE Act has in no wise diminished the sale of spirits, inasmuch as the poorer classes, compelled to purchase their stimulants over night, provide alcohol—which does not deteriorate by keeping— instead of the comparatively harmless malt liquor which is their usual beverage. The evil effects of gin drinking are already evident enough among our lower classes without the Legislature throwing this additional temptation in their way—a temptation which apeears the greater when we remember that on Saturday night the artisan's pockets are full and that the Sunday is his holiday, with which he naturally associates some degree of convivial enjoyment. To pass a bill like Mr. SOMES'S would consequently be to transfer the profit from the publican to the gin palace, to irritate the lower classes, and to make them regard with disgust the welcome day of rest—that Divine boon which, like every other good gift, is given for man's use, not his abuse. Anything that tends to elevate the minds of the working classes, that by degrees re fines and cultivates their tastes and habits, is a ,tep gained towards the better employment of the Sunday ; but arbitrary legislation and restrictions, which are felt to be unjust because directed only against the poor, will never succeed in rendering them ' religious and temperate. Mr. ROEBUCK'S satirical suggestion, that in the event of the bill in question being read a second time he should move that all club-houses be shut on the Sunday, was a pointed reproof to the ill-advised promoters of this now social reform. The bill will, no doubt, meet with ' a very strong opposition when it comes on for the second reading, and it will, we should hope, be finally thrown out ; but so great is the mistaken z-,al of the promoters of such schemes, and so easy is a consent to high-sounding regulations which do not effect the comfort of the voter, that it will be necessary for the real friends of order and progress to be ready to meet it. The less our legislation runs directly counter to the feelings and wishes of the masses the better, and the less our pious obser vances depend on Acts of Parliament, the more ad vantageous it w . . 11 be for the real interests of religion and civilisation. The Very Latest Literary Intelligence. lady Audley's Secret—has been Found Out. For further particulars inquire of Mr. W. S. Fullom, of Surbiton. N.B.—We are sorry to add, moreover, that Miss Aurora Floyd, otherwise Mrs. Mellish, proves after all to be a mere Woman of the World. Nevertheless —Miss Braddon has actually had the courage to write the following amazing little note to one of our contemporaries ; Miss Braddon presents her compliments to the Editor of the .211 - ol ning Poet, and begs to state that her novels, "Lady Audley's Secret" and "Aurora Floyd," are entirely and thoroughly original, and not derived in the slightest degree from Mr. Fullom's book, of which she never heard until the publication of that gentleman's recent lett. rd. 6, Meeklenburgh-square, March 26. MR. SUTHERLAND EDWARDS, the author of "Ttl€ Russians at [tome," "The History of the Opera," and other m orks, has been &spatched to Poland, as correspon dent to the limns, Mr. Sims Reeves and Mr. Santley will sing a! the National Choral Society's Passion-week performance of the " Messiah," at Exeter Hall, on Tuesday the 31st being the only occasion these great singers will sing to gether in this oratorio during the season. Mr. G, W. Martin conducts as usual. CANADIAN MAILS.—The Royal Mail steamship North American sailed from Liver2ool fur Portland yester day. Besides ti Canadian mails she took out a fall cargo, and had about 1.50 pasz - .ngc:rs, of whom 15 were cabin pas oeng,Ars. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.- Mr MAPLESO has the honour to announce that . _ the OPERA SEASON of 1: 61 will commence on SATUR DAY, April 11. The prospectus, with full particu'ars, may be obtained on application at the Box-office, v.h ch is open daily, under the superintendence 4 f Mr. :Nugent, from Ten to Six; and at all the principal Libraries and Musicsellers. TH F. ATR E-R YA L, DRURY-LANE.- Loosen and Manatrer, hlr. Edmund Falconer. 'PH IS EVENING, EXTREMES ; or, Men of the Day. IkTes•rs. Henry Lorraine, IT. sinc'air, S. Cathaem, .1. I:ohms, ; Mrs. D. P. Bowers, Miss Clara Weston, and lira. Ed mund Falconer. To conclude with TILE SPANISH. DANCEM , . Mr. J. Robins and Mi,s Lydia Thompson. Commence at 7 . 1 TtiEAT RE-ROI A i., HAYMARKET. Lessee Mr. J. B. Buckstoae. LI IS EVENING, at Seven o'clock, will he performed UK AMERICAN COUS IN. A ss Trencimrd, AIL Buck ,tone , Lord onn4reary, Mr. Sothern. rolowed by MY MINT'S ADVICE. Messrs. Howe, and ,ot.hern ; hiss Linl , ..Y. and 31i8.4 Coleman. To conclude with I !XV. HUNTING. THEATRE ROYAL LYCEUMOPEN, under the Sole Management of Mr. PECIITER. El IS EVENING, March "27, to commence with an Orkinal Sketch. entitled A SUDDEN ATTACK. Messrs. Shore, Garden, H. Widdicomb, Mss Henrade, and Mrs. Lee. Alter which, at a Quarter to Eight, a New Romantic Drama, to ThreP Acts, a - 4 , 1 Pr)io , tte, entitled THE DUKE'S lIGTTO, by Evil Peva', and John firouc.:hatn. The pr:nlipal character wilt be sustained by Mr. Feclitep, sunported by Messrs. G. Viiiinfr, J. grougLam, 11. ‘Viddi combe, IV. 3Mtyre, E. (larks, Garden, naymond, 11. Beier, Dawson ; Misses Carlotta Leelercq, Kate 'ferry, K Lavenue, and Elswortliv. Sta?e-Manager, Mr. G. Vining. Acting-Manager, Mr. 11. Barnett. jI 11 0 YA PRINCESS'S THEATRE Loa.t.e. and Ilanaaer. 16r Linda& TIIIS EVENING, TUE LOTTERY 'TICKET. Messrs. G. Behnore, Fitzjames, and Cathcart; Miss ItudspAlt and 31r. H. 3.larston. To ba followed by the drama of AURORA FLOYD. Mi,;s Amy Sedgwiek. Jiiss 11 enderson, and 11Ers. Simp ,, on ; Messrs. ft. Roxby, 11. Vczin, G. Belmore, C. Seyton, Wallace, and Collett. To conclude with THE HONEYMOON. Messrs. Roxby, Vezin, Belmore, , tephens, and Cathcart ; Miss Constance Aylmer, Miss 31. Olivvr, and Miss M. Jones. NTIT - P.O-P.O YAL, A DELPHI.- Sole Proprietor and Manazer, Mr. B. Webster. - - THIS EVENING (9th time) AURORA FLOYD. Miss Avonia Jones, Miss H. Simms, Sirs. Billinglon ; Mr. Benj. Webster, Mr. Paul Bedtord, Mr. R. Phillips, Mr. Billington, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Sefton, Mr. Romer, Mr. C. J. Smith. After which, A VALENTINE: Messrs. J. L. Toole, Paul Bedford, Miss Kate Kelly, and Miss Seaman. Commence at 7. r HE THIRD EDITION OF " THE SUN," 1. Containing the L - teat SPORTING INTELLIGENtE, can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLY.NIE, NEWS AGENT, No. 4, Connaught-terrace, Hyde-park. ANOTHER LARGE ISSUE OF THE WEDDING SUN Is now Publishing. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. This DAY.—Moraing, 6h. 54m.—Afternoon, 7h. 21m, To-moimow.-Morning, 7h. 49m.—Afternoon, Bh. 25m. Zjiit 6 - 10 Z. Snit THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENTING, AIA.IICI-1 27, 1863. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) BUCHAREST, MARCH 26. The Government has contracted a loan of 50 millions of francs with English and French c:ipi- talists. The agents of some great financial houses have memorialised the Government for concessions to construct railways, and to establish a bank for granting credits on landed property. Perfect tranquillity prevails everywhere. SPAIN. MADRID, MARCH 26 (Evening), The Infanta Don Juan de Bourbon, after having visited this capital incognito, has returned to France The Correspondencia states that the Infanta's journey has not been productive of any result. ALEXANDRIA, ZECH 27. The Messageries Imperiales steamer Donnai arrived at Suez yesterday with mails from India and China, 130 passengers, and 910 packages of merchandise. The Labourdonnsis leaves Alexandria to-day with the above for Marseilles. FRANCE. PARIS, MARCH 27. It is officially stated that the news published yes terday by a London journal that Mr. Chojecki, private secretary to Prince Napoleon, had arrived at Cracow with important communications for the insurgents, and had, without stopping, proceeded on to the camp of General Wysocki, is devoid of any foundation. M. Chejecki is not secretary to the prince, but librarian to the Senate, and is not only now in Paris but has not quitted it for a single day since the commencement of the insurrection. No person has been entrusted by the prince with any mission whatever to the insurgents. Le Pays of this morning announces that M. Christides, who had been driven into exile imme diately after the Greek Revilution, last evening quitted Rome to return to Athens, whither he had been summoned. At the close of a long and able article upon Poland in Le Siecle (an at gumenr, signed Leon Ptee), the writer observes sententiously and signi ficantly, "There is no defeat for the oppressed. There is only a &fficillt series of steps by which to remount to Überty." Le Constautionnel this morning notifies the fact that his Imperial Majesty the Emperor Napoleon having recently transmitted to the Prince of the Asturias, the heir presumptive to the Crown of Spain, the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour, the journals of Madrid are exulting over that act of imperial courtesy, while the Queen of Spain herself has written a letter of thanks to the Em peror. L' op . tt ion Nationale (as well as Le Pays and Le Constitutionned) gives the whole of the remarkable speech delivered yesterday by M. Octave Feuillet before the French Academy, in the presence of H.I.M. the Empress and the Princesses Clotilde- NaPoleen and Matilde, upon the occasion of the orator's reception. BOURSE, March 26.—The market has not shown much animation, but the closing rates of yesterday have been maintained, Threes being now at 69f. 45c. Railway Share Market also quiet. Prices receded towards the close, and left off as follows : it per Cents. 96 60 Do. end month.... Bank Shares 3780 Credit Fonder 1490 Italian Loan 7l 05 Do. end month 7O 85 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes — Rome Debt rAYs. 3 per Cents Do. end month 69 30 New 3 per Cents .. Do. end month.... Credit Mobilier.... 1275 Do, end m0nth....1282 50 RAIL' Orlear s Northern Cash. Account. 1116 25 .. 1116 25 1040 .. 1040 New ditto O • . Lyons and bleditsrranean 1215 .. 1217 50 Geneva.. Southern .. 752 50 .. 756 25 Western Eastern .... Sardinian 390 .. Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 730 .. 730 Ditto to Barcelona THE DANISH ROYAL THEATRE. (From the Denmark.) Of the three Scandinavian countries, Denmark hqs the most characteristic dramatic literature. Baron Ludvig rtolberg, who died in 1754, may be cow.idered the real founder of the Danish stage. He has given us a cyclus of comedies, in which he has depicted the customs and social Etat., of his time with so masterly a hand, that as Oehlenschlaeger, our fiat tragic poet, says, we may through his plays alone form a good idea of our social state in hid day. Of actresses we must mention Mrs. Heiberg, our prima donna, the above-named poet J. L. Heiberg's widow, who, elthough now no longer young, has never been equalled, either in merry or touching parts. Mrs. Phister, wife of the actor of that name, is famed for sustaining her part to perfection in Heiberg's pieces, as chambermaid. We have also Mrs. Socking, Mrs. Hoist, and others. It connot be sa,d that we possess a national opera; certainly we have come compositions in which the national songs may be heard, such as " Little Kirsten," by Hart man, and several compositions by Veyse and Gade; but we are obliged to have recourse to much foreign music. Oar Iste for genuine music is well cultivated. Mozart's is highly appreciated, and well performed. Our most cele- brated opera singer is P. Schram, who enjoys great re putation both as actor and singer; Leporella, in " Don Juan," may be considered his chief part. B anseu has a soft and melodious voice, with a peculiar talent for ballads. Ferslev is a good bass, Steen berg, a middling tenor. We must mention the excellent debutant Nyrop, who appeared last year and was very suc cessful ; it is his fine figure and great talent as an actor which has given him his complete triumph, for his voice— tenor—is nothing unusual. Of late Docker has come for ward, and is a promising debutant. Mrs. Gerlach is our prima donna, and we must mention Mrs. Liebe and Mrs. Sahlgreen. Our theatre possesses also a ballet, which has been created by Bournonville, who at present is employed in Sweden. We have a good right to be proud of our ballet, which is national, and in an artistic point of view pre-eminent, for no other country can produce its equal. But if this is to continue, it will be necessary that Bournonville, its natural supporter, should return, for it has been on the decline since Carey took the management. THE BANK OF ENGLAND. 1863. The following is the House List of Governors and Diree :ors of the Bank of England foe the year ensuing :-- FOR GOVERNORS. Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq., Governor. Henry Lancelet Holland, Esq., Deputy 'Governor, FOR DIRECTORS. Thomas Baring, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq, llenryWollaston Blak9, Esq. John BPnjittrin Heath, Esq John William Birch, Esq. John Gellibrand Hubbard, Travers Buxton, Esq. Esq. Stephen Cave, Esq. Charles Frederick Huth,Esq. EdwardHenryChapman,Esq Alfred Latham, Esq, Robert Wigram Crawford, George Lyall, Esq. Esq. , Thomas Masternian, Esq. William Cotton, Fut. Alt-sander Matheson, Esq. Charles Pascoe Gr en t e l t , E sq. Bonamy Dobree, s J h au tsfl ie i s a r d do N r e ri rt s v , e E , q. Henry Rucks Gibbs, E-q. George Warde Norman, Esq. John Saunders Gilliat, Esq ! Clifford Wigram, Esq. The Election for Governor and Deputy-Governor will be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 7th April; and for Directors on Wednesday, the Bth April, from ten o'clock in the forenoon till four in the afternoon. AIR. GLAISIII,R'S SCIENTIFIC BALLOON ASCENTS —The ascent wl.ich was contemplated yesterday from the grounds of the Crystal Palace was postponed, owing to the violence of the wind. Dr. Lee, the president of the Astronomical Society, and chairman of the Meteorolo gical Committee, with Mr. Glaisher, Mr. Coswell, Mr. Negretti, and other men of science concerned were on the ground early. Towards noon the wind rose, and as it reached a speed of 70 miles an hour, blowing from due west, tad would have taken the balloon in less than an hour over the Note, the ascent was put off. The balloon, however, remains on the spot, and, if practicable, the ascent will take place this day, as all the parties are within reach of the telegraph. Owing to the continued severe illness of Mr. Wilkie Collins, ho is unable to take the chair, as announced, at the annual dinner of the Theatrical Tun, and hie place will be supplied by lk.F.r. Charles Dickens. i l f , (Cona • i* -'‘...„ ~3,--_, ~,,,,,ertubt HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, March 26. The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by Lieut. Colonel lion. 1). 1): Ros, drove out yesterday afternoon. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales drove out. The Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Malmesbur3, and Viscount Syd[ey arrived at the Castle yes terday. Presentatin of Loyal Addresses to her Majesty. The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London, the Lord Nlayor of Dublin, and the Lord Provost of Edin burgh, vith deputatioue, attended at Windsor Castle this afternoon, to have the honour of pre senting addresses to her Majesty. The Queen received the addresses privately in the White Drawing-room. Her Majesty was accom panied by the whole of the Riyal family now stay ing at Windsor, and was attended by the Lord Chamberlain and the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Home Department. The Sheriffs of Lon-::on and the City Remem brancer had an audience of the Queen, to receive her Majesty's commands as to receiving the ad dress of the City. The Lord Chamberlain then introduced the depu tations. The Lord Mayor of London, accompanied by Mr. Alderman Copeland, Mr. Recorder, Mr. Sheriff Lawrence, Mr. Sheriff Jones, Mr. Truscott, the mover of the address, Mr. Deputy Jones, seconder, Mr. Kearns, Mr. De Jersey, and the City Remem brancer were first introduced, and the address of the corporation of London was presented to her Majesty, and a gracious answer was returned. The mover and seconder had the honour of kiss ing her 'Majesty's hand, and the deputation mated. The Lord Mayor of Duolin (Hon. John Prender gast Vereker), accompanied by Alderman. Jahn Campbell, Councillor John Martin, Councillor John Gray, the Town Clerk, the Sword Bearer, the Mace Bearer, and the High Constable, was then intro duced, and the address of the corporation of the City of Dublin was presented to her Majesty, and a gracious answer was returned. The mover and seconder had the honour of hiss ing her Mjesty's hand. The deputation then retired. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh, accompanied by Mr. Illarwick, City clerk, and W. H. Graham Lawson, private secretary, was n(•xt introduced, and the address of the city of Edinburgh was pre sented, and a gracious answer was returned. The Lord Provost had the honour of kissing her Majesty's hand, and the deputation retired. The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol was pre sented to her Majesty at an audience by Sir George Grey, and did homage on his appointment. Tne Rev. Dr. Stanley was the Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting. The Prince and Princess of Wales. Another delay in the visit of their Royal High nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales to San dringham has been Tendered necessary, but we believe it is finally arranged that the special train will leave Windsor, and travel through to Wolver ton tomorrow, only staying at Lynn to receive the address of congratulation of the corporation. Their Royal Highnesses will stay at Sandringham, it is expected, over the Easter holidays. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and the Princess Mary, attended by Lady Geraldine Somerset and Captain P. Cust, left their residence on Thursday afternoon, for Belvoir Castle, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland. The Princess George of Saxony has been safely delivered of a daughter. A son had been hoped for, the Royal family not yet having any direct male heir. The Duchess of Somerset had a reception last evening at the First Lord of the Admiralty's official resi dence, at Whitehall. Toe Marquis of Queensberry, R N., has arrived at Eat@n-place West on a visit to the Dowager Marchioness of Queensberry. The Marquis and Marchioness of Bith have left. Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Lotgleate, War minster. The Earl of Derby was able yesterday to be present in the House of Lords. The noble earl is much better, but some days must elapse before he regains his strength. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have joined the circle visiting the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir Castle. The Right Hon. Sir George Grey returned to town ycsterday afternoon from Windsor Castle. Sir Henry and Lady Hoare and Miss Hoare have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Paris. Lady Mo!esworth entertained last evening, at her residence in Eaton• place, the Prussian Minister and the Countess Bernstorff, th© Duchess of St. Albans and Lady Diana Beauclerk, the Marchioness of Ely, the Mar quis of Sligo, Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess De Grey, Lord and Lady Lyvedan, Viscount Falkland, Lord Frederick Cavendish, M.P., Lord Dunkellin, M.P., Gen. the Right Hon. Cecil Forester and the Hon. Mrs. Forester, and Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont. Lieutenant the Hon. Albert Denison, R.N., has left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Paris. DEATH OF TIIE DUKE OF GRAFTON.—At an olrly hour yesterday morning the Duke of Grafton expired at Wakefield Lodge, Northamptonshire During the last month or so the duke has been in sued a very bad state that the tnerobcr:4 of his family were fully prepared for the sad result. He was in his 74th year. DEATH OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM HENRY HIGGS, lt.N.—A vacancy has occurred in the list cf officers on tht• out-pension of Greenwich Hospital for a Captain R N., value £BO per annum, in consequence of the death of that gallant and distinguished officer, Captain William Henry Higgs. The deceased officer was in his 83d year. Berkeley-street dates from 1659, and St. James's street, then called Long-street, was finished in 1670. Dover-street and Old Bond-street (the latter named after the speculator who built it—one Sir Thomas Bond) were laid out about 1688, and Albemarle-street and Bolton-street about 20 years later. Clarges-street was finished in 1718, and Half Moon-street in 1730. The same year also saw the completion of Hanover-square, Grosvenor and Berke ley•squares being almost contemporaneous with it. At the beginning of the last century, Oxford-street, or Tyburn. road , as it was then called, had only a few scattered houses on the north side. Pennant describes it as "a deep hollow road, full 'of sloughs, with here and there a ragged house, the lurking-place of cut-throats." So late as 1746 there were no houses on the north side west of Marylebone-lane. Marylebone is derived, not as is often thought from a cor ruption of La Bonne, but from St. Mary Le Bourne—a brook which bounded the manor of Tyburn on the east, as the West Bourne (tow so familiar a name to us) did on the other side. The course of this brook (which crossed Oxford street from north to south, near Stratford-place) is still to be traced by the depressed level of the valley through which it used to run. And, doubtless, the irregular course of Marylebone-lane itself, which contrasts so markedly on the map with the rectangular streets all round it, marks the winding of the rural lane which once followed the stream let's course. Oxford market was founded in 1731, and Mid. dlesex Hospital in 1745. Cavendish-square was planned in 1715 "on a waste and dangerous spot, intersected by a sbady or lover's lane' from Margaret-street to the spot where Manchester-square now stands." Wigmore-street was begun in 1729, but the Harley Fields (where Whitfield used to preach) were not built upon till about 1770. Port land-place dates from 1772. Portman-square was built between 1764 and 1784. Fitzroy-square was not begun till 1812, which is also the date of Nash's plans for Regent street and the Regent's-park. The son of M. Jullien, whose name is advertised as the conductor of a London orchestra, is the author of some interesting papers on the organisation and manage ment of the French army, which have appeared in Mr. Dickens's periodicL.l. PnorosEn TOWER BRIDGE.—In reference to the scheme for a foot passengers' bridge from Irongate-stairs, near Little Tower-hill, on the north side of the Thames, to florselytlown old stairs on the south, the Board of Trade report that they feel compelled to object to the construction of this bridge, which would greatly interfere with the traffic in the Pool, and they trust that the select committee on the bill will not allow this structure to receive the sanction of t'arliament. A duel with swords has just taken place between thl director of the .Diritto of Turin and the director of the Folittca 6: 7, , , J Torok of Milan, in consequence of R. dim's siln in their journals. 'l'he former received three wounds, whilst the latter escaped with a slight scratch on the head. [he atat of the director of the birWo is not considered dangerous, NASMITH'S CHART. The Chronometrical Chart of the History of England ; Civil and Mili;ary, Religious, Intellectual and Social. Flom 8. , 55, to A.D. 1860. Togeth.r with a Table of the Contemporary Sovereigns of Europe, from William the Conqueror to Queen Victoria. By David Nasmith. Messrs. Philip and Son, Fleet street, London; South Cas.le-street, Liverpool. Mr. Nusmit h's idea amounts almost to a discovery. History is not with him as an old aimanack. Viewed by this keen•witted, cleat-headed scholar, it has loomed before his " mind's eye" in various shapes and colours, as distinctly visible and as easy of remembrance by the would-be chronologist as the map of England by the would-be geographer. The paramount merits of Mr. Nasmith's very original projection of the History of England are two—its simplicity and its symmetry. As now published, The Chart appears under two dis tinct forms : either bound in cloth, as an Atias, or mounted on rollers in a single sheet five feet square. The Atlas being better adapted for the use of stu dents, as a mFst valuable adjunct to the reference books lying habitually upon the library table of the lettered Englishman. The hanging chart, mounted upon rollers, being more suitable for the purposes of instruction upon the walls of a school room. Upon the wall of every schoolroom in the land we should be right glad to know that this truly admirable Chart of the History of England would before much longer be hanging. We speak of it thus, emphatically, it is true, but quite dispassionately also : uttering our opinion solely in our professional capacity as critics, strangers to the author of the chart, but grateful admirers of the happy ingenuity displayed by him in its compilation and arrange ment. how to Explain that arrangement of his in words? That is our difficulty. Yet another glance at the Chronometrical Chart almost induces us to believe nevertheless that a lucid verbal explanation of its ar rangement is after all practicable. It is in its entirety as a chart mounted upon rollers, and suspended against a wall, that the symmetry, the beauty, and the perfected completeness of the scheme as a whole become the most readily recognisable. Far more so than when the chart, disintegrated, so to speak, and paged into an atlas, comes the more handily within reach of the student seated at his desk. It is, there fore, of the chart in its five-feet square form that we would here be understood to speak exclusively. So displayed to view—the Times of our History, the events of our History, aro brought before our gaze altogether. They can be scanned there upon that symmetrical chart at a glance. They are arranged there harmoniously, in due proportion, relatively to each other. How arranged Mr. Nesmith has himself expltsined with admirable lucidity in a paper read by him on the 12th of last November before the members of the College of 'Preceptors. In the course of that paper the author reminded his hearers, as we are here, in turn, enabled to remind our own readers, that— " The History of England involves the whole or part of three distinct veriods of 1,000 years each. " 1. The 1,000 years immediately antecedent to the birth of Christ, with the history of which in connection with England we know very little; to this period a very small space at the head of the chart has been allotted, which con tains the notice of but the events, the invasions of Julius Camar. " 2. The second period is the first 1,000 years of the Christian era, containing many more, but still comparatively few, and for the most part unimportant events. This period is represented by the long band immediately below the first division, It is divided into ten parts of one hun dred years each; which are respectively subdivided into ten• parts, viz., a band and nine squares of ten years each ; and to every event in this partL,n of the chart, the unit figure is prefixed. Thus, in the fourth square of the first division, is 4 Beric at Rome ;' and is the first division represents the period A.D. to An, 99, the fourth division represents the ten years from 40 to 49; therefore the figure 4 prefixed to Beric at Rome shows that Beric was at Rome in the year 44 A.D. '' 3. The third division represents the second 1,000 years of the Christian era, not yet completed ; it occupies the great body of the Chart. In this part the plan of con st: uction is fully carried out. It forms a square divided into a band, and nine squares of one hundred years each. These periods are respectively divided into a baud and nine squares of ten years each; which are again subdivided into a band and nine squares of one year each." Such is the arrangement of the Chronometrical Chart, as described in a few simple words by the ingenious compiler of it. As may be readily con jectured, the effect of the spacing of the different epochs, as we look back from the present time into the past, the old familiar "air and harmony of grace express," by becoming as a matter of course "small by degrees and beautifully less." The clearness and distinctness of the whole is further securei by differently colouring the various dynasties; by printing the names of the Sovereigns, so to speak, " in relief ;" by giving the narrative in ordinary type, legal matters in Old English, statistics in Egyptian or Arabic, and miscellaneous particularai❑ Italics, beyond all this employing a diversity of compact and easily recognisable symbols. d Scroll typifying a Treaty, a Tree the acquisition of Terri tory, * literary men anl matters, -1- fine arts, — companies and united action, t (for example) the particular day of the month, md. married, dr daughter, bit. built, and so forth. Altogether the Chart is a wonderful Microcosm. It is a cyclo ; Delia of information. And what is more than that. it is pleasant to consult—the eye discriminating easily, and even agreeably, upon the insten , , by the mere tint of the colour, the particular people, or the particular dynasty green Britons, brown Romans, blue Saxons, orange Dines, drab Normans, yellow Plantagenets, pink Lancastrians and Yorkists. green Tudors. rose-coloured Stuarts, with a white patch in the midst of that blushing space to mark the inter regnum of the Commonwealth, and finally the red house of Hanover ! The diversity of information here compacted together is really something in its way surprising—something that at times has about it almost the effect of wit ! Wit being defined by some metaphysical inquirers as the effect produced by a sudden bringing together of two wholly distinct matters, never before brought thus into direct association. Our meaning in likening the effect here produced as having in this sense somewhat of a resemblance to the effect produced by wit, may be exemplified, by the way, upon the merest passing reference to the parti cular division of the Chart allotted to 1784; where we find it recorded that in that same year, " Lord Palmerston was born," and " mail coaches were introduced !" A certainly startling double-charge of information that ! Lord Palmerston, born in the very same year in which mail coaches (long since: fallen into disuse and almost forgot ten) ware first introduced. This good old coach, however, having long survived—and long may he still survive them—far into the railway era! Altogether, we hesitate not to pronounce this singularly beautiful Chronometrical Chart of Mr. Nasmith's a veritable boon, in its way, to the whoie Educated or Educating Community. It tends, in a delightful manner to systematise the knowledge of us all. And, for inasmuch as it is practically calculated to do this, we have reason to regard with gratitude the intellectual ingenuity that has produced it. SHIPPING—This Day, (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) i.•:OUTHANIPTUN, Friday Morning. Arrived—Athens, steamer, from Cape of Good liope. La Me,ange and Argyll, steamer, from Carentan; and Georges, from Cherbourg. Sailed—Naples, for Bourbon ; Janette and Laura, for Swansea. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GEAVESEND, Friday Morning. Sailcd, March 20—Conbtunce, for Barbacites ; Lord Nel, son, for Mauritius. Sailed, March 27—Kinn :ird, for Rangoon; Madawaska, for Goutzacoulds ; Onyx, for Mauritius; Johanna, for Dantzic ; Seine, steamer, for Boulogne. DEAL, Friday Morning, Passed—Cid, crew steamer, for tiiboA; Sodenskjold. for Quebec, Constance, for Marseilles ; Richard and William, for Lagos; Mary and Martha, for Galatz—all from Dul -1 don ; Lloyds SuLtbson, from Sunderland, for Vera CI uz. Anchored—Europa and Ester, and Peacock, of Wey- Imouth, from West, for North; Graces, of Shields, from North, for West. DOUBLE EXECUTION AT DORCIIESTBR.—Th 6 tnornieg the condtnined convicts Prt-edy and Fook underwent the extreme penalty of the law, over the entrance facing the Frecnte meadows. There was a large comoume of spectator~, The " British Nation" Life Assurance. One of the most successful and deserving of our provident institutions, is the " British Nition," at 316, Rogent-vreet. The company, and the so cieties amalgamated with it have paid upwards of £1,300,000 in the defrayal of over 3,1.00 This is an institution which has -achieved far more success than could justly have been prophesied by its admirers when it was set on foot in the year 1852. At first the institution erted a little on the side of generosity to the public. Its conductors are en abled, however, now to publish the following figures : Annual income (nearly) Invested funds exceed (irrespective of the capital) 257,000 New business effected 180: And we learn that the business of the current year presents still more graticying evidences of the public aN4reciation of the principles of the associa tion. Hare is the plan of its constitution, clearly and eloquently told in its own prospectus ; `• Life assurance is one of the most important elements of the principle of association, and affords the opportunity of investment and pre vision to almost every class of society. Not only is it a means of family provision to the man of income, but to the wealthy landowner, the merchant, the trader, and the artisan, it offers unequalled facilities. There are practical difficulties, however, which have presented themselves to the .minds of intending assurers, and have prevented the more general adoption of life assurance. These are-1. The want of some benefit to the assurer himself, should he attain old age, and perhaps outlive the persons for whom he assured, 2, The fear of litigation on some disputed point, after the payment of many years' premiums, whereby the assurer bequeaths a law suit in stead of a legacy to his descendants. 3. The fear of being unable to continue the premiums on the policy, whereby the payments of many years would be lost, and the object of the assurance defeated. The policies of this association obviate all these objections:—By the application of the profits to rendering the policy payable during the lifetime of the assured—by the avoidance of all uncertainty or liti gation, by making policies indisputable—and by the pro visions for the non-forfeiture of policies by inability to keep up the payment of the premiums." These are very important objects to achieve by the instrumentality of life assurance, and it is satis factory to note that they are liberally dealt with by the company. That the policies should be pay able during the life of the person assured, and with out any extra premium whatever, is a very impor tant feature in the programme. Upon this theme the explanatory book already quoted from, stys "It is frequently the care that the object for which a life is assured passes away, or the family for which an assur ance is effected becomes richer than the person whose life is assured in their favour; or that in declining years the money,which is ordinarily only payable at death, would be invaluable. The principle, therefore, of applying the bonus at each division to the extinction of the latter premiums on the life, and thus of making the amount of the policy pay abl3 in the lifetime of the assured, is one which recommends itselt to the mind of every assurer. For instance, under the ordinary plan, the survivors of a person assuring his life for £5OO, would, at his death, receive £5OO, and either some , hinr, extra in the way of bonus, or the assured might dur ing life have paid a decreased annual premium. But under this system he may receive, say on reaching 55 years, the £500." It is a grand and attractive feature in the plan of operation that no policy can ever be forfeited after a certain period by the non-payment of the pre- MUM " After the payment of five annual premiums on whole life policies, effected with profits, the association will not forfeit the policy by reason of the temporary inability of the assurer to pay up his premiums, but will, on application, advance the required amount for premiums at interest, as often as the value of the policy will admit. Thus an as surer who has paid five annual premiums of, say £lO each, being temporarily inconvenienced, could have the sixth premium credited to him and charged on his policy at interest, he having the same indulgence the following year, or, at least, as often as the value of his policy would admit of it. He would also have power to repay the amount so credited as soon as convenient, or leave it a charge on the policy. By the deed of settlement, five per cent, of all the profits are also set aside for the formation cf a fund for sustaining the whole life bonus policies cf those who are temporarily unable to pay up the premiums." We will now quote a few of the examples ap pended to the society's tables : " Table I.—A person aged 30 next birthday may, at his decease, secure to his family and survivors the sum of £l,OOO by the payment during life of £24 Os. 103. annually, £l2 7s. 6d, half-yearly, or a 53. quarterly, and will be fur ther entitled to a participation in the bonus of the associa tion, which may be applied— (l) In rendering the policy payable during the lifetime of the assured. (2) In reduction of future premiums. (3) In adding to the amount assured. "Table lI,—A person aged 30 next birthday may. at his decease, secure a fixed sum of £l,OOO by the payment dur ing life of £2l Is. Bd. annually, £ll Is. Bd. half-yearly, or £3 Os. 10d. quarterly. "Table lII.—A person aged 30 next birthday may secure at his decease, provided he die within the term of one year, the sum of £l,OOO by the payment of £ll Os. 10d. ; or may -ecure, provided he die within the term of seven years, the same sum by the annual payment of £ll9s. 2d. (This table !tray be advantageously employed in commercial transac• tions, either for securing debts, money advances, or short eartnerseips, or any contingency certain to occur within. ne or seven years ) " Table IV.—Single Payment Assurances—Assurances may be effected under this table for any desired amnuet , ay from £25 and upwards; and being wholly paid up, be- , came absolute reversions, descending in all their entirety, without charge or trouble, to survivors and heirs at the teeth of the assured. A person aged 40 next birthday maY 3ecure £lOO with bonne, at death, by the payment of £5l 7s. sd. P. licies of this description are always available ,r present pecuri ry purposes, seeing that money may, at 111 times, be readily obtained upon them by the holders free ,f cost, for temporary accommodation. "Table V —Joint lives—Two persons, aged respectively 25 aed 30, may secure £l,OOO payable at the death of either, ,y the annual paym, nt of £32 13s. 4d,, during the j Ant a ntinuance of their two lives Table VI —Endowment As=urances —A person aged 25 next birthday may, by the annual payment of £2B 18s. td., secure to himself £l,OOO, together with the additions by way of bonus, on his attaining the age of GO; or the same tmount would be payable to his survivor, in the event of his dying before that pet iod. "Tabu Vll.—Endowments for children.—Exampleg ( Ile moneys paid to be forfeited to the office in The event of the chid not surviving the term.) "XlOO may be secured to a child aged 3 years, on attain ing 14, by the annual payment of a 19s. 91, or by a single sum of £59 13s. Id. " (All premiums returned in the event of the child not reaching the agreed age.) £lOO may be secured to a c hild. aged 3 years, on attaining 14, by the annual payment of £7 Os. 2d. "XlOO may be secured to a child agad 3, on attaining 21, by the annual payment, of £3 17e 91" The profits, divisable every five years, it may be remarked, arc apportioned in the following liberal manner : "Ninety per cent. to the assured, whereof 70 par cent: is applied as follows:—I. In rendering the policy payable during the lifetime of the assured. 11. In reduction of future premiums. 111. In adding to the amount assured. 5 per cent. to the assured for a policy sustentation fund, to secure policies from lapsing when assurers are temporarily unable to pay the premiums. 15 per cent, to the assured for purchasing up the shares at the market price, sa that the association may become mutual, when the entire assets will belong to the policy holders. 10 per cent. to the shareholders, in addition to interest of not less than 5 per cent. per annum, on all capital paid up." The above illustrations will, however, be suffi cient, in regard to the British Nation Assurance Company, of which Dr. George Birmingham is the chairman and Mr. Lake the manager. THE ROYAL WEDDING.—The estimate for " mis cellaneous, special, and temporary objects" show that the mariiage of the Prince of Wales necessitates a vote for £23,455. The L 23,455 is made up of the following items:-- Extraordinary charges devolving on the department - 6 of her MNjesty's househo:d and travelling expenses, £iO,3CO ; for works at Windsor under the direction of the Office of Works and Public Buildings, £3,200 ; for illuminations of public buildings, £7,000 ; and for opening the theatres to the pub lic on the lOtb, £2,955. Mr. LUMLEY AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.--' Some friends of Mr. Lumley have projecitd three the idiant a nna l s and Waits of testimonial performances , to b e given for his benefit, in whicLt ociated with hi s name; and Mr. Mv.p lj-' , Il a l c a , 0 a i t n t t i h m e a t t h e e l a y t a r e s s , son has most generously placed the Opera House at. their disposal. Tho performances will derive an especial lustre friqn the fact of Mdlle. Piccolornini (Marchion, ss Gaetaui) h av i n g voluntecied her services for the three representa tions. Dldlle. Piecokinini, however, as has been rumoured, does not intend resumirg the stage as a profession After performing for Mr. Lumley she goes back to Italy and retires again into priva'e life. With the invaluable aid of The c elebrated ex-prinn d onna , w ith th e p r i nc i pa l arists of her Maj esty 's Theatre, and, indeed, all the talent in the country— for everybody will be anxious to lend a hand on HO interesting an occasicn—the three testimonial perfor mances cannot fail to prt , ve unpreecclentedly attractive. l'ha nights for the three representations are fixed fir 'Wed noslay, May 6; Monday, May 11; and Monday, May IS. so Then tion to - Tl , O r rate of being discussii The Wednes of bulA exhibit( much it A cti Bull P. est Pub Oth( SevE Gov Othl Not( The stock ul out eel theatre: eiple ac The co Vherea which design prove m tind ge( in the Westm went, o present talia. went w constru dent of petted tree are are san than 43( right t( men aff urdertt peers £125,0 £25 ea( The ( The will ta] will be Dori 'ailed i Su: Irs Coffee, rice, an regards present per cw Mont he At I te'egra 69f. 35 Nor busine: Funds. to the Securit for sp inactiv curreff 921- I The ai went i are fir Bills r 227; d In 1 Tullis able at in pri( vanced while 6 per 69 ; ol ides quoted variou The. 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