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Madame Lemmens-Sherrington, Mr. Bentley (solo pianoforte), Mr. Oscar Beringer. Conductor, Mr. MANNS. Haydn's Symphony in B flat. Schumann's Pianoforte Concerto in A minor ; Overtures, Mozart's " Figaro" and Mendelssohn's " Trumpet," Admission, Half-a-crown, or by Guinea Season Tickets. Transferable Stalls for the twelve concerts, One Guinea : Stalls for this concert, 2s. 6d. NV . F . A N D CO. ' S EUROPEAN r iSSURANCE SOCIETY Empowered by Special Acts of Parliament. For Li :'c Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in Situations of Trust. Chief Office-47, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London. Annual Income, 0300,000. Capital, subscribed by more than 1,600 Shareholders, nearly £BOO,OOO. DIRNOTORS. CHAIRMAN—GeneraI Sir FREDERIC SMITH, K.H., F.R.S. The Rev. A. Alston, D.D. I R. M. Carter, Esq., M.P. E. Hamilton Anson, Esq. Edmund Healey, Esq. A. R. Bristow, Esq. I Reginald Read, Esq., N.D. This Society are now ISSUING COMPLETE LIFE POLICIES. The peculiar features of these Policies are as follow :- 1. The Payments Cease after Ten or Twenty Years. 2. The Policy is not forfeited by the non-payment of renewal premium during the ten or twenty years. 3. The Assurer is entitled for each yearly payment he has made to a paid-up Policy for one-tenth or one-twentieth of the sum Assured. LAW AND POLICE. DOMESTIC SEWING MACHINES ARE MANUFACTURED SPECIALLY FOR FAMILY USE. WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.—This matter was brought before Mr. Leman, chief clerk in Vice- Chancellor Bacon's Chambers, on a question of great importance, affecting as it did the holders of policies to the enormous extent of £1,100,000. It transpired that in 1865 the Western was amalgamated with the Albert Assurance Company, this being in accordance with the powers vested in the directors of the former by their original deed of settlement. 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IV. Champagny's Caesars of the Third Century. V. The Erckmann-Chatrain Novels. VI. S. Thomas Acquinas. VII. The Definition of Papal Infallibility. VIII. Notices of Books. LOndon : BURNS, OATES and Co., 17 and 18, Portman Street, W., and 63, Paternoster Row, E.C. Third Series. Ready this Bay. No. 5. Mr. Childers. The Admiralty, No. 6.—Cabinet Ministers. • THE 'SILENT MEMBER." SKETCHES IN THE COMMONS. FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD SERIES. Price Sixpence each, by post Sevenpence. Or complete in One Volume, cloth, lettered, price 2s. Provost & Co., Henrietta-street, W.C., and all Booksellers. NOW READY, CHARLES K ENT'S POEMS. THE FIRST COLLECTIVE EDITION. Handsomely bound in cloth, bevelled boards, Crown Octavo, price Seven Shillings and Sixpence. "As a poet their author must live. He has the sweetness of Wordsworth, the vigour of Southey, and the elegant versatility of Coleridge. it is, however, as a poet of the affections that Mr. Kent chiefly excels. The longer and more ambitious poems exhibit extraordinary genius."—The New Monthly Magazine. "As many of these compositions are already old acquaintances, we need only glance at the picturesque and appreciative de lineations of poets in their haunts, called `Dreamland ;' at the rich and finished transcript from nature, entitled Fructidor ;' at the chivalrous tone of the writer's mind and its sympathy with modern ideas, as evidenced in such poems as Lamartine in February ;' at his simple and genuine pathos, of which `Amelia' is a type; and at his sympathy with the animated pleasures of rural life, in evidence of which we may cite The Morris Dancers.' Aletheia' is the longest, and, on the whole, the noblest poem in the collection. It will be recurred to not only for its beauty of description, but for its pure and elevated philosophy. The reader will note not only the atmosphere in which the chief figure moves, but also the full and appropriate details which enrich the picture. The high and varied merits of the book ought to insure its popularity."--Athenaeum. " Mr. Charles Kent, the Editor of ' The Sun,' ranks very high as a poet."—Publishers' Circular. " The versatility of style, and the fresh and vigorous writing in these poems, lend a charm which we seldom find in the poetry of the day."—Examiner. "Poems marked by grace, feeling. awl strong love of nature, and a cultivated and genial spirit."—Daily News. " The poems which appear for the first time in this volume are not unworthy of the author's earlier productions."—Daily Telegraph. " Mr. Kent may not aspire to be classed among the Dii Majores ' of the poetic court, but assuredly he will take a very respectable position among the lesser divinities."—Standard. - - . "There is much that is very beautiful in the poems before us—a collection of the thoughts, the emotions, the feelings of a whole lifetime."—Tablet. The "Rock " expresses its " cordial admiration for the genius and the taste of Mr. Kent as a poet of very considerable powers and culture," adding "The real vigour of Mr. Kent's poetical spirit manifests itself chiefly in dealing with the feelings. He is equally at home in pathos and in terror, and in strains that go right to the heart and s ti r th e emo ti on s to the lowest depths." " Mr. Charles Kent has long been known to wield a facile pen inavriting poems of the class just indicated, and it is but fair to add that he takes high rank among the minor poets."— Echo. The "Westminster Review." while regretting it "cannot join in the choirs of praise, nor share in the enthusiasm which has Weer' raised over Mr. Kent's poems," adds that it " cannot, how ever, part with the book without expressing a word of praise for its generous t;:ne and sympathies." " He is a true poet, and his works will live.". W. ,r 1 '—News of the `• We have the pleasant task of welcoming, as a real addition to the ranks of our true poets, Mr. Kent. lie is something more than a mere versifier ; he is a real poet, and has proved it. Milton at Cripplegate '—an exquisite picture of the blind old poet discoursing sweet sounds upon the orgati in solitary but resigned sadness—is a poem that ought to live. Such of our readers as care for the roll of Milton's own blank verse, for thoroughly poetic fancies, for delicate imagery, and fora high and pure tone of moral feeling, we must leave to ponder over this short poem for themselves."—Londou Figaro. - • " That very graceful poem which appeared in the Times' as a welcome to Longfellow, and which, from the initials , was attributed to the author of Hypatia, was written by Mr. Charles Kent, the Editor of `The Sun,' and was worthy of a priest of Phoebus Apollo."—Punch. i` We find in the volume a luxuriant imagery, the fruit of a life-long study of nature. As for flowers ! —Mr. Kent is as well up in them as Shakspere himself. Lastly, it recommends itself to' us by its historical sympathies and views, and by the charm ing pictures of domestic life, with its affections and blessings, which it frequently affords us." —The Month. -•-• " When the goddess Flora appoints a poet laureate, it will certainly be Mr. Charles Kent. His poems absolutely glow with flowers in as vivid and delicate word-painting as ever depicted them. A poem of great stateliness and imaginative beauty, in which Mr. Kent vividly groups the more striking and poetical creations of Mythology, shows how their lustre, feebly illumin ing the light of the world, wanes before the radiant approach of the Spirit of Truth, `Aletheia.' '—The Illustrated Review. CHARLTON TUCKER, 21, Northumberland-street, Strand. WAYS AND MEANS. A Story of Life's Strug gles. By ➢lrs. C. L. Balfour. 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SEAMEN'S llosPrrA (late Dieadnought).--- Notice is hereby given, that this HOSPITAL is now RE 40VED to the late Infirmary of the Royal Hospital, Green wich, where any seaman, needing medical or surgical care, will be admitted on personal application, as heretofore, without in troduction or recommendation. The Society's offices are re moved from the City to the same building. KEMBALL COOK, House-Governor and Secretary. At the Annual General Meeting of the Proprietors, held on Thursday, the 2nd February, 1871, at the City Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street Station, The following Report for the Year ending the 31st December, 1871, was read by the Secretary. William Champion Jones, Esq., in the Chair. The Directors, in submitting to the proprietors the balance sheet of the bank for the half-year ending the 31st December last, have the satisfaction to report that, after paying interest to the customers and all charges, allowing for Rebate, and making provision for bad and doubtful debts, the net profits amount to £87,167 16s. 4d. This sum added to £7,181 4s. 4d. brought from the last account, produces a total of £94,349 Cs. Bd. The usual dividend of 6 per cent. for the half year is recom mended, together with a bonus of 3 per cent., both free of income tax, which will absord £90,000, and leave £4,349 Os. Bd. to be carried forward to Profit and Loss New Account. The present dividend and bonus, added to the June payment, will be 174 per cent. for the year 1870. The Direct Ors retiring by rotation are :—William Nichol, Esq., Thomas Tyringham Bernard, Esq., and Nathaniel Alexander, Esq : , who being eligible offer themselves for re-election. The dividend - and - bonus (together £1 16s. per share) free of income-tax will be payable at the Bead Office or at any of the branches, on and after Monday,. the 13th instant. BALANCE SHEET Of the London and County Banking Company 31st December, 1870. Dn. To Capital paid up .. Reserve Fund.. Amount due by the Bank for Customers' Balances, &e. Liabilities on Acceptances, covered by Securities £ s d 13,396,251 11 1 3,110,121 18 5 Profit and Loss Balance brought from last Account 7,181 4 4 Gross Profit for the Half- Year, after making provision for Bad and Doubtful Debts, viz 255,157 13 6 £ s d 1,000,000 0 0 500,000 0 0 16,506,373 9 6 262,338 17 10 £18,268,712 7 4 sd ad By Cash on hand at Head Office and Branches, and with Bank of England .. 1,995,283 17 10 Cash placed at Call and at Notice, covered by Securities 1,672,294 2 2 3,667,578 0 0 Investments, viz. Government and Guaranteed Stocks .. .. 1,399,882 0 0 Other Stocks and imcurities 83,542 15 2 L,483,424 15 2 Discounted Bills and Advan ces to Customers in Town and Country .. .. 9,607,534 5 4 Liabilities ol Customers for Drafts accepted by the Bank, as per Contra .. .. 3,110,121 18 5 Freehold Premises in Lombard-street and 12,717,656 3 9 Nicholas-lane, Freehold and Leasehold Pro perty at the Branches, with Fixtures and Fittings .. .. • • .. .. 247,649 0 0 Interest paid to Customers .. 48,521 19 9 Salaries and all other Expenses at Head Office and Branches, including Income Tax on-Pro fits and Salaries .. .. • • .. 103,882 8 8 Profit and Loss Account. £18,268,712 7 4 To interest paid to Customers, as above £ s. d .. 48,531 19 9 Expenses ditto __ • . 103,882 8 8 Rebate on Bills not due, carried to New Account .• • .• •• 15,585 8 9 Dividend of 6 per cent. for half-year .. 60,000 0 0 Bonus of 3 pe.• cent . .. • • .. 30,000 0 0 Balance carried forward... .. . • .. 4,349 0 £262,388 17 10 • Ca. By Balance brought forward from last Account .. Gross Profit for the half-year, after making provision for bad and doubtful debts.. 255,157 13 6 £262,338 17 10 We, the undersigned, have examined the foregoing Balance Sheet, and have found the same to be correct. Wm. JARDINE, WILLIAM NORMAN, Auditors. R. IL SWAINS, London and County Bank, 26th January, 1871. The foregoing report having been read by the Secretary, the following resolutions were proposed and unanimously adopted :- 1. That the Report be received and adopted, and printed for the use of the Shareholders. 2. That a dividend of 6 per cent., together with a bonus of 3 per cent., both free of Income Tax, be declared for the half year, ending the 31st December, 1870, payable on or after Mon day, the 13th instant, and that the balance of £4,349 Os. 3d. be carried forward to Profit and Loss New Account. 3. That William Nicol, Thomas Tyringham Bernard, and Nathaniel Alexander, Esquires, be re-elected Directors of this Company. 4. That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Board of Directors for the able manner in which they have conducted the affairs of the Company. b. That Williatist fardine, William Norman, and Richard Hinds Swairfe, Esquires, be elected Auditors for the current year, and that the thanks of this meeting be presented to them for their services during the past year 6. That the thanks of this meeting he presented to the General Manager, and to all the other Officers of the Bank, for the zeal and ability with which they have discharged their re spective duties. (Signed) W. CHAMPION JONES, Chairman. The Chairman having quitted the Chair, it was resolved and carried unanimously 7. That the cordial thanks of this meeting be presented to William Champion Jones, Esq., for his able and courteous con duct in the Chair. (Signed) WILLIAM NICOL, Extracted from the minutes. Deputy-Chairman (Signed) • F. CLAPP] SON, Secretary. LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COM PANY.—NOTIOE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a DIVI DEND on the Capital of the Company at the rate of Six per Cent. for the halt-year ending 31st December, 1870, with a bonus of Three per Cent., will be paid to the Proprietors, either at the head office, 21, Lombard-street, or at any of the Company's branch banks, on or after Monday, the 13th inst. By order of the Board, W. M'KEWAN, General Manager• 21, Lombard-street, 3rd February, 1871. LONDON FREE AND OPEN CHURCH ASSOCIATION. 25, NORFOLK-STREET, STRAND, W.C. (Instituted April 25th, 1866). PRESIDENT.—The Right lion. Ear l Nelson. VICE-PRESIDENTS. —The Bishops of Bangor, Capetown, Chi chester, Derry and Raphoe, Lichfield, Lincoln, Peterborough, and Tennessee, and about 250 Noblemen, 31.P.'s, Church Digni taries, and Country Gentlemen. BANKERS.—Union Bank of London, Chancery Lane, W.C. Subscriptions for the year 1871 became due on the Ist of January OFFICE - *.* FUNDS ARE URGENTLY REQUIRED. Publications and all Information to be obtained gratuitously :rom the undersigned. The Society's operations extend through out the Kingdom. OCTAVIUS L. BILLS, Treasurer. S. R. TOWIVIIEND MAYER, Resident Secretary, February, 1871. Some gentleman who has undertaken a mission among city savages supplies us with the information that a dinner to three hundred hungry children costs exactly fifty 'shillings. From his account of a festival of the kind he witnessed in the neighbourhood of Whitecross-street Market we extract the foll )wing paragraph : " Out-dinning the din of the Whitecross-street Sunday morning market, the roar of leather-lunged costermongers and barrowmen, the defeaning eloquence of the clashing knives and steels of opposition butchers, the shrill cries of women who have potherbs, and children's toys, and second-hand shoes and boots on sale, the wrathful high pitched voice of the street preacher at this corner of an alley, unable to make himself heard amid the laughter created by a quack dealer in sarsaparilla at the other corner, over all these conflicting noises the sound of a bell was heard distinctly—not the measured chiming of a church bell, nor the peremptory clatter cf a factory bell, but a fitful and uncertain ringing, now loud and hasty and urgent, like a fire bell ; now slow and laboured, like the ringing of a bell-buoy at sea. A gentleman in the baked potato interest, however, to whom I applied for in formation on the subject, ruthlessly stripped the bell of everything in the shape of romance. It is the Costers' Mission bell,' said he. And whereabouts is the Costers' Mission?' I asked. That's it over there,' said he, pointing towards a tall building in the distance that towered above the houses. Go down Golden-lane and turn up Hartshorn-court, and you'll come at it if you wants to.' I had no previous intention of coming at' the building in questien, but as soon as my attention was fairly directed to it, the idea immediately occurred to me. What a wonderfully fine view of this curious neighbourhood might be obtained from the flat of its tall roof? Half an hour afterwards, thanks to the ex cellent gentleman to whom the Costermongers' Mission House owes its existence, I had mounted to the toptnost story, and stood on the snow-covered leads looking down. Next day I was present at a spread' at the Mission Hall of a gratifying description. Next day was Wednes day, and for a very long time past, on this day, the good missionary among the savage tribes of St. Luke's has somehow contrived to raise from the charitable, money enough to give the children—poor, neglected, literally half-starved little flledgelings of the surrounding rookeries —a hot dinner, a smoking-hot dinner, and as much as they can eat of it. The reader accustomed to plentiful and regular food can form no adequate idea of what a tre mendous boon this is. The poor little creatures look forward to it as children who are better off look for ward to Christmas Day. From Monday till• Wednesday evening the whispering of it grows and grows until it cul minates in a hooray ' that comes from the lowest depths of their little empty bellies, when, morning school concluded, they are informed that they may run home and fetch their dinner things. At stroke of one o'clock here they come trooping in, their young eyes twinkling in blissful expectancy as their young noses sniff the savoury stew seething in the cauldron below ; and just done. I have not yet seen the caul dron ; and as they come swarming in, their tiny ill-shod feet and their uncovered arms and legs blue with cold, faster and thicker yet, till the doorway bids fair to be blocked up, and there is still a mob behind, I have misgivings as to my friend's declaration that there will be enough for all and to spare ; and what an awful thing it would be if, say, only a dozen of these poor, narrow-chested mites of things who passed last night in a delicious dream of Irish stew, who smacked their lips over the breakfast slice of dry bread flavoured with the promise of it, should be sent empty away ! I do not believe that they would survive the shock. They would faint and fall, still clutching the basin that was now a mockery and a snare ; they would go mad and run amuck among their more fortunate stew-consuming brethren. Here they come, each one bringing hi s or h er " di nner things." • I wish the read e r could see the choice collection ! Hand less jugs, milk cans, baking dishes, sauce tureens, small sized tin saucepans, publicans' beer cans, tin washing bowls —anything. They come of all ages, from the sturdy street boy of ten to the tiny six-months-old baby in arms. There were scores of babies under two years old, brought by their sisters and brothers. They came singly, and they came in families. One family in particular was a sight to behold. A fortnight or so back a woman had died in one of the alleys, and under such suspicious circumstances that it was at first supposed that she had been murdered. A coroner's jury thought otherwise, so she was buried, and the matter dropped. But she left six little children behind her—a boy, the eldest, of twelve, and a girl, a patient, shrewd, poor little thing of nine, who now had to be mother to the remaining four. She had brought them out to dinner, and carried the motherless baby, four months old, in her mites of arms ; and there being no room on the forms, • and finding, perhaps, that so sitting she could best feed baby and the next-sized youngster who was little better than a baby, she squatted on the ground with the little brood round her distributing Irish stew, as grave and solicitous as a matron of thirty. The elder children sat up in the galleries with their vessels on their knees and their shoulders bowed, and their countenances beautifully bedewed under the combined influence of savoury steam and energetic ' blowing' to reduce the thick soup sufficiently below scalding point to admit of its being swallowed. Waiters there were none, except the schoolmaster. With his cuffs turned back and his coat buttoned, he faced his herculean task like a man— like a kindly Christian man with a heart that yearned towards little children, and collected " empties" and brought them back replenished, with an amount of alacrity and good-humour that visibly touched the elder boys' hearts as their stomachs filled and their appetites slackened." The usual monthly statement issued by the American Secretary to the Treasury shews that on February 1 the total debt, less cash in Treasury, was $ 2 ,328,026,807. This is a decrease in January of $4,040,986. Correspondence from New York to Madrid an nounces that Fish will retire in March, and that his suc cessor will be Senator Morton, of Indiana, the President's right hand and confidential counsellor. He is an energetic man, by no means friendly to Spain, but it is hoped no further complications will arise about Cuba, as the ques tion seems to have attracted little attention in official circles at Washington, Mr. Le Fanu's New Novel. Now ready at all the Libraries, in Three Vols., C HECK M A T E, By J. SHERIDAN LE FANU, Author of "Uncle Silas," &c. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers; n, Great Marlborough-street.