Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-10-22 00:00:00

THE QUEEN INSURANCE COMPANY 7 The first.wanual meeting 4f the ,shareholders of the Qu.een Insvannee Company twas halti,y,tsterday, at loon, .at the dile% at the -Exam-age. Ther.:.as. B. Forwood, the absence of the chairman There were pre- Francis A. Clint, itellen, Esq., G. W. uard Hall, Esq., G Jernes Turnbull, Esq., W. =Daglish, Esq., Com all, Eq., A. 11. Cowie, Slei,gb, I I, Esq., I Loudon, G. P. Gordon Rose, :nes Johnson, Esq Ater, Esq., the annual rer 4.1 a most satisfa plat the divid f 5 per a es in London, io had Esq., occupied the chair, is of the company, Edward Heath, I sent also U following gentlemei Esq., J. A. Picton, Esq., Joseph Ewing, Esq., C. It. Hall, Esq., I Esq., Edward Lanz rear Thomis.F. Bennett, Esq., W. II Higgins, -Esq., J. C. Heath, R For wOod, '. L. Hodson, I Rick C. T. Stamford Irving, E,,g 1. 7 Patrick I. Hind, Es( Mr: CU and balan e man which exhi ;, 1859. imbers, r of the eompa be - sides agencies in many of the pri kingdom: Th sonted to hecor: narr.ty— d J. H. II )id incr hnildin neetling,s of the eompaq'for the yea It was shown that the iu iinaouute4 to £20,000 ; .that imounted to about on the paid-Up capital v al for election sq., Kenneth and tha, in cons, eveloptileut ; of .tl. ;, to be call inunedta lisanpoin that e )rnmu had n he was .i'vould ; carried tt a tic co u not on! pr 1 „1 chief; n ffith a Ibacl it was to be expected that on such an omas would surround such good wishes with the exp resent juin )uld con liberdlity tho directors *oul 3 of et business of this 4r by a_Specie3 or lilsan - iei, l q44Qllyour to had a attention. (IF Would all 'exti: ath's family in nd expre a moil rity in i the reed' muce to th the direCtor with integrity; with enterp he added a confident hope undue oapositi _ snaw a spirit of aa p loasant xriatry, t 9 ram fair and honourable competition to 17..;0fue struggles ; that they should, by that conduct whit.h he hoped would ever mark every . institution connected with the town, conduct the business of the Queen Insurance Company so as to give satisfaction to th community. And the chairman of the board, feeling t. of the onserva- he just' tions which the worthy Mayor on that occasion ma viiedsa Queen' He pledged nuntqf thcin6 Itioat9 that Mayor indicated; and now e dir&tor met prietors, and.-they.flid now. challenge for themselves an opiniOn as t 0 whether the. Queen's Insurance Company had not in their hands fulfilled the pro Mises which their chairman then•made for it. (Applause.) They believed that they had conducted the • affairs of the company with integrity; they hoped they had not ,been found wanting in enterprise ' and. they trusted that, in every risk where a question had a"isen, that the community at large had been dealt with with liberality. (Hear, hear.) He could, he thought, say that he had confidence that the same principle which .had guided the board hitherto would guide them in the future. He would now pro ..SCed t 4 111#Q that the report aiid Wince-sheet be re ceived and adopted, and he tiusted . those documents would give them satisfaction. •- He might say to them thatthe directen, when they commenced the manage ment of the institution, •had scarcely—in fact, they had not ventured to—hope for such a result to - their first year's operations. They kne*, certainly, .that there would be a certain degree of opposition ; that they would have to contend with a great deal which might mar the prosperity of tho institution; that the enter prise. to a .-meeidation ; and that _ _ extent, w from the result of the enterprise they might not be able to call the shareholders together at the end of the year and say, " Here, gentlemen, is a satisfactory result of oar efforts; we have extended our business." The directors felt that there was a great deal to be hazarded. Now, in looking over the figures in the Y.wri, they would find that whilst the income had been 1'20,000 in the past year, of their existence, their losses had been only £2,700, and that they were able to carry forward a balance of £9,500 to the next year. This, he thought, would be admitted to be, on the whole, satisfactory. (Hear, hear, and applause.) Those gentlemen who had not perhaps re garded the nature of th 6 competition that had to be undertaken in starting . an institution of this kind, were not perhaps in a position to appreciate all that had been undertaken. To use a homely phrase, the directors felt that there was a field to cultivate, and that there had been placed in their hands the :ploughs and seeds wherewith to do it; but the risks might have -resulted so as to compel• them to say,—"We could not call down the beams of the- sun, nor bring down the dew of Heaven to fructify the seed." Now, the directors had appointed agencies in different parts of the country, and these of necessity involved considerable ex pense, the result of which of course was in the future. The chairman then went on to observe that the business of the company had not been the result of any jealous rivalry, or the result of any endeavour to tread upon tie ground occupied: by their neighbours, and to reduce their income while ex tending. that of the Queen's. The directors of the Queen's had, on the contrary, no such feeling, and had been met throughout the whole course of the year by most liberal treatment and kindly exchanges -of business intercourse with the great companies, on the whole very satisfactory to the directors. When they considered the great increase of the town and the trade of the port, there was ample room he thought for a third good insurance company in Liverpool, and pointed out that in the smaller city of Edinburgh there were about fifteen such institutions. He hoped that ere many years were over the Queen's would be able to boast of being a n equality with the two w hich were an honour other local insurance colnilppoannies, to the town. The property insured against fire in the Queen's in the first quarter of their existence was only £630,000, whilst in the fourth quarter it was £2,639,000, and since that time--the 31st of Au gust last—there had been a large accessio n to the fire business. The chairman then, at considerable length, alluded to the immense amount of property passing in transitu thr9ugh Liverpool annually which was not insured against fire, and argued that prudential considerations should operate with commercial men to secur e them selves against risk by insurance. In 1836, the year which marked the establishment of the first of our insurance companies, the number of ships entering the port was 15,060, and tonnage 1,497,000 ; but our commerce had se greatly extended that, during the past year, 21,300 vessels, of 4,550,000 tons, had used this port; the value of the cotton imported here was £28,000,000 sterling ; and of the whole exports of the country, which amounted to £101,000,000, there was exported f r om ,Liverpool alone £51,000,090. It was plain, .. _ ant room for t he Queen, Ch e Oldest effices. The life insurance business of the company had increased very rnueh. The avordge -amount efqolicies was £635. Sir. Heath had fondly Sipped thatthe society would be embraced by all clues of the community, and he trusted .that every one con nected with the institution would wed himself to fop ward amongst his dependants andffriends a knowledgse of the existence of this-society, and of the benefits to Ire derived - front insuring with it. (ffear, hear.).. the chairmanithen said the directors had been very cautious md•-concluded by moving the in granting Adoption of Air. T. T. Bennet 1c Lhe , motion, which v • • agreed to. Mr. Councillor Kitchen, one arf the director and at to Mu, was. stow A vot acclama An his Lam now and the Gene little'w mrt to .r y )er cent. ou;the paid-up in a speech of I fiend of fiv- Heath, f libert ngrattilatory nature but there is still much t come • when Italy is to regai independence. This time it must 1 ishcd; and from the Alps' to Sicily she ma' free ! Providence has given us the man w Reded to 7,Acnit us together. It is round N Emma:l7ler f.lat we must rally to repulso the st "1... We will no longer bear the .1 but retire and leaVe us 'to cni and we will at once w ) . long as he -1 yf who. expricneed so man to my counti-i .eward, I have y birth ? vourably scions in pea bat s a 3 1 frie his do:n fire of mu sires to sub Cothing to expect from its b It 13 Only by union and fore sure.... , a ao no one will dare 'to that we s: if dome let them hand. Italiaa remarn tier Fifteen thy musket a h to, make ref. I Lot an embro: Zonaves. lii their simple, easy dress, they are the soldiers in the 1 world. I rem , mnber once finding m: during my 4 in erican :Campaign, in the midSt of a vast. p. where:neither from the interior nor from the s. which the enemy had blockaded, any of our wan be supplied; The herds . - of the plain were our, resources, their flesh was our only .notiiishinent; were our protection from the heat o Ln, . and • our covering • at night; , e you our soldiers, armed only witi Musket, performed prodigies of 'F4iour. We %vol.( terror of the . Imperia,lists i and . .my kw hunire. brave men put to route the enemy -by thousands. We, my friends, we want arms; and that this wa exist no longer, I have proposed that Ital form a subsrciption to purchase a million of Think only _ how many wrongs we have redressed. Bear in mind what - a series of witnessed a foreign oppression Remember to what ignominious death hasbeen condemned a Cicero Va Ad his young sons, a Ugo Bassi, an Antonio Elie do not, ..perhaps, recollect this martyr to the .c Italian libertyLLlet me relate to you one trait of heroic courrm , . Antonio Elia, a dative of Aut._ a simple sailor. He had scarcely attaind his twent, year when the ship which he navigated was captured by one of those Turkish galleys which then harassed the coast of the Adriatic. The Turks manned their prize with ten seamen and an officer, confining all the original crew in the ship's hold, except the young Antonio they retained on deck for their own service. A stron , sirocco came on, and the extreme obscurity which accom panied it awoke in Antonio's breast the idea of deli vering himself and his companions. He went to the prow, where he succeeded in gaining possession of a hatchet. Armed with this efficient weapon, he returned to the poop, where he had so lately left the pirate com mander. When he' arrived where he thought the officer was, he struck at him with his hatchet, but the blow fell on the deck. For a moment he hesitated to draw it out, but the officer, surprised at the noise, and suspecting something wrong, drew his yatagan, and wounded Antonio severely in the shoulder. The latter, seeing his blood flow ing, redoubled his efforts, and launching his axe upon his adversary, he laid him dead at his feet. Encouraged by his success, he now turned to the crew, and, as if endowed with supernatural force, he slew them all hilt two or three, who, with cries of terror, leaped overboard into the sea. This Antonia Elia, a very lion of courage, fell before the Austrian powers in 1849, because he would not clandestinely abandon his wife and children. "Thus interestingly, and much more than this, the general spoke, but it would occupy too much of my space to give more. It was not an orator seeking to astonish his auditors by eloquent periods, but a chief, an adored friend, in open-hearted converse with his faithful adhe rents, awakening in them sentiments of patriotism by the recital of acts of heroism. But the hour of our de parture was drawing nigh, and we were obliged to take leave of our kind entertainer and regain our carriages." whom TIKE FOREMAN OF A JURY IN DANGER.—At the Manchester , city sessions, on Thursday morning, before R. B. Captain =,i, rant ßecorder, a young man, self namedArMstronfr Esq., aad 24, was charged with attempting to obtain a" watch by false pretences from a man named William g aters, a waiter at Cope's spirit vaults, in St. Mary's Gate, on the 30th ult. Th e jury charge having been proved, the guilty. As soon as the verdict had been found the priso ner B oner threw a piece of brick, about the size the pri soner with great force at the head of the e ' lo f r e a man's an of the jury, but it missed the mark and struck the ln wood work of the bench , about t hree y ards fro m the Recorder, who appeared ver y much anno y ed at the occur rence. The brick appeared to have been taken from the ga o l, but how the prisoner secreted it without being discovered is.not known. The prisoner was sentenced to two years imprisonment. lie was removed to his cell, and on being visited soon , afterwards, he was nearly naked, having torn to ribbons all his clothes, with the exception of his shirt, stockings, ald shoes. lie ;c4 informedlifethe lihort in police that he had vent eleven years o: compan from the date of payment of the earls to the 31st Au ~ t 1859, he paid, free of income-tax. Mr. W. U. Higgins seconded the motion, which v Mr. Bernard Hall moved, and Mr. G. P. M seconded, the re-election of the retiring director On the ir • Messrs. J. A. 1'). l'iCton, 1 and C. Dowie, 11. hind were eleeted directors OF ti; eoirtpan: I Mr. I Banner was r ;-6lected an a -on the !vatic 3f the Chairmar After the Aiml complimentary votes of .thanks, isecial vote of thanks was accorded to the manager, M Clirehugh, who acknowledged the compliment in a bri bat pointed. speech, wherein he congratulated the char, holders upon: n ti bad attained to on which amply retained reputation of 'Liverpool for the high character and sta in a feeling speech, moved, and ;ended, "that this meeting, the first rf. -the Queen Insurpee Company, 1 s to E. heath, a was ca: ro GAR ALDI th Gari Bologna this table li can in *which they recount orv, an NORTIIFIIN DAILY TIMS. LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.—YEsTERDAy [Bcfire M. MANSFIELD:] A NSFIE L THE CRAW E KEEPING A BROTHEL . Madame Wictorine ralwards was again placed in the -dock. - charged. with keeping a. brothel in Gerald-street. Mr. 'Cobb, in absence of Mr. Bluck, defended the 7 A Mr, Bailey said 1. 23,. Gerald-street. II sequence of t How were you y my wife a lion any pai No. ag is it since yet time a I pay £l9 where I am no because it w t was not Witness : Four the sa'nr: deserin innoved b out? Withess: N Witness Mr. Cohl amusement ? I it since 7oll ie that you • Ir. Cob ee amusements Mr. Cobb sai' WAKEFIELD ELECTION COMMISSION, The Comniissioners resumed their inquiry ateleven on Thursday morning. ' - William Trear, teacher of music, examined by Mr. Serjeant Pigott, said he voted for Charlesworth, but never offered a bribe except by way of a joke. 'Believed he told Thomas Paget that money was being dE in coal scuttles, and that he might as well hay( dred or two as any one else. Paget was a Ler and witness never expected that he would money was flying in al' " Joe" was particularly IA Paget lie might ha' A' in addition to hi 4 50 for every vote he rnigh . Did not olfer anybody els( ether Ibb • to'rote for r a debt "of S, Charleswortl John Jubb 9: Mr. S for a ti m Speak ,rt Jackson, stated that j 1. Taylor, Ca uk, sW, iked to riey ; pay my , ceived r;la Market. n three voter kat his house, and slept there. Voters were also refreshed at his house, and his bill against the Cmservatives amounted to more than A Fieldhouse—Voted for Leatham, and received m' Joseph Tunnacliffe. Was offered .R.,50 by 3lowther to vote for Charlesworth, but declined to tike it Charles 'Peat said him h Wood, a voter, showed 5 in his•own workshop, which he said he bad 1 for his vote. Wood had been examitrad, and )thing. ant Pigott remarked that it was sad to see icidhg 6ridente which had been laid - before the commissioners, In some of the cases the perjary,was to Certif s•that the commissioners should feel it their duty them to the Attorney-General, in order that heioffending - parties might be prosecuted. 'A number of witnesses were then, called, who spoke to attempts 'which had been made to• bribe them by Sharpleyto vote for M. Leatham. The inquiry was again adjourned. . DEATTI op MR 1 his familiarity . Lies of the orikint- GRIVE 1 death ?,eui'red .orthwiek, ,3yere formed under Ind to him the grin I . 4,was silsd ;o;ieial 'of fife most d National Portrait G He was of kind and , m of the B: most Cl dmirabl We rezret to Mr. Francis Saturday last. to any info Leir history unrivalled flperinten 04,Museum of paint- will be sincere riled, and ESGLISIIMA.N iaUle r th . p alwdys •s, in. the Nord, says com: 1 here on the th from Ostend, anication from le railwayLstation. lie was !Ines on duty were compello de Ville ; and the authorit ishman «ho ,his way to f insanity iolcnt tirit the some medical men, ake him to the him his exami put into y about rs of introduction To judge from his with hi: a, he must (kite that during Italy, aua on thebotlN before Dr. Bik t, Birmingham, on rioman She outrag said.. he; .wars very Ike return anted to Iruy a w iteh, b . _ one, anti Ai very watch whidh her that was £25 if he was He asked her i morning to let him look c She 1( back to h, doily; so . the g ring, and 61d1im show 1 •ould buy it .1 Monday lsked her overt cam had it. round her and he turned )ver. her neck and he made quickly o She had never s met him in Soho-street.. She w man. She did not know that the prisoner was maker, and had lived in Everton for three year Cobb : Will you swear now that the prisoner is the man Witness : Yes, positively; but he had a different dress on then.—Sarah Henderson said, on Friday, :the 9th of September, she came through Mrs. Mornson's shop while the man was in. She was positive the prisoner was that man.----This concluded the evidcnee for, the prosecution.—Mr-Co'ob wing just beginning .to address his Worship for the defence ; when, on the application of Mr. Clough, who said he could have farther evidence by to-day, the prisoner was remanded: g the THE CHARGE OF MURDER AGAINST A HUSBAND. — Peter Brown, whom, it will be -recollected ; was re manded from last week, charged with the murder of Mary Brown, his wife, by striking and otherwise ill using her.—Mr. Cobb appeared for the prisoner.—Dr. Sayers said : I am surgeon. I knew the prisoner's wife. I attended her before death—on the sth October ; that was the day previous to her death. She died on the 6th. I found the left leg and the left shoulder very much bruised, and there were also bruises on the body and chest. Her husband told me that she had been beiten.—Mr. Cobb : .Where you at the inquest Witness : Yes.—Mr. Cobb : There was a woman, named Macbeth, in the dock ? Witness : There was a woman in the dock, but I don't know what they called her.— Mr. Cobb : Did the deceased not tell you that it was that woman who caused the injuries ? Witness : I don't know whether she said a man or a woman.—Mr. Cobb said there was a person here who wasTresent at the in quest, informed him that it was sworn on oath there that the deceased had stated that she received the injuries from Macbeth.—Mr. Mansfield said there was no evidence against the prisoner, and he must be dis charged. REFORMATORY INSTITUTIONS.—At the Devon county sessions on Tuesday, Sir John Duckworth,- the chairman, congratulated the grand jury on the fact that, out of twenty-two prisoners which the calendar contained, there was not a single juvenile offender for trial. The Bramp ford Wood Reformatory had worked exceedingly well ; it was capable of accommodating thirty boys, but at no time had it contained more than twenty-three, and at the present time there were only twenty-one boys there. SCOTCH BANKING.—The last monthly return with reference to the position of the Scotch banks of issue, made in acco r dance with the Bth and 9th of Victoria, cap. 38, shows an average weekly circulation of £4,039,817, being an excess of £1,290,646 over the fixed issue. The average amount of gold and silver coin held was £2,389,415. The_ issues ibit an increase of £61,396, and the £1.7,772, as comp took of bullion an in nay occupied the house isic t was in con min n. They . Mansfield : parlour win- le to my win- that .T) lie waiter t sovereign ou imn left hand policeman wa ind searched, b )mplainant th ^ pri : Did you Mr. Cobb: In th I\lr. Cobb : Wht 'en o'cloelc,' Witiiess in a .positia tilt it is 1011 CV COU, ).at ken in ')e found sheets in the win three, if .you.waut it, as we say at sea. Yo a long head, but I can answer all the. questions you ask ine.-- 7 The prisoners were arraigned,. and pleaded not guilty.--Coinmittal to the sessions. CURIOUS CHARGE OF STEALING,ANIr,ITCH.—MiChaeI Doyle, a short-built, dark-featured man, described as a shoemaker, residing in Evcrton, was'charged With steal inn a • watch from Mrs. Morrison, :wife of. Mr. - Mor rison, watchmaker, Pembroke-street. - Mr. Pember toil appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.. for the. fence ct thq le cam saw p, and wed it sent a boy remain until 1 sat on t site side of the t CJ)lVerr3 , She ncv tarrad; ar l'q:went'out t )f bratatly 44 he could him a short whit )or, l and he went air L.:hour: He said he promising to- retm not belong to Liv said _that hdr there at presm t~two e cha: ie wO 311 in it nest door of lich we were Witness t tO f,ro tO i Paris offered him £35 t ie debt, and. £5O in'addition out of I ild vote for "1 but wi ald not say what id denic y Leighton iii f canvassed a clay or two before th y3n Leighton on behalf of tin:. and eiv Leighton £lO in mon and the man accepted stating received niore from Thomas Link, who appeared before the Commission yesterday in n received anything for his v, ih:r, and 'tidtriitted - that his Conservatives. cation, aid denied. having was re-called this morn rife received £3O .from the leetor, deposed - to having i to bri viclence zencia.r a place dsafety. This gentlerna 35 years of age, is provided with for'several cities on the Continent appearances end the property belong to some good Ile ha; tTavelled much, having he Grim( .ous other Stat ,-END TRAGED f Samuel' William Dutton rim D the Bell Inn, Wethiesd#. The first Witnes examincd was throat was cut on th said : My name is Ann CannaVin'e, but I am sometimes called Fanny Bird. Bird is my stepfather's name. I am single, and I resided in Park-street for about a fortnight before the Ist of October. My parents live in a court in Blucher-street, Holloway Head, and previously to that I lived with them. I. have worked at the manufacture of Florentine buttons. (Having been informed that she was not obliged to say anything which might tend to criminate herself, the wit ness proceeded): On the morning of the Ist of October,. between twelve and one' o'clock, I 'went into the Red Cow Inn. I stayed there till about a quarter past one o'clock, and in the meantime took a glass of ale with' Sarah Clayton, whom I knew before. ,We both came out of the Red Cow together. She went down Dale end, and I towards High-street. It was raining hard, and I stood by the lamp in front of the Bell. I stood there .two or three minutes, and while standing some one came and stabbed me in the neck, but who it was I do not know.—Sarah Clayton (the woman NO oit is alleged was fighting with the previous witness on the morning of the Ist inst.) was then called, and after being cautioned was examined. She said—l am a pearl button maker, living at No 5, St. Thomas-street. I was in Dale-end on the morning of Saturday, the Ist October, at about twelve o'clock. I went into the Red Cow Public-house and stopped there till about two o'clock. I had two or three glasses of port wine. I was neither sober nor drunk; I knew what I was doing. I had been to the theatre with four young women ; there was no men with us. I don't know their names, with the exception of Polly Baker and Annie Easam. At the Red Cow I saw Fanny Bird and several other persons whom I knew by sight. While I was there a young man named John Tulley came in, and said he was going to fight, and that Bob Brettle had backed him. Thomas Perry got up, and said he would fight ; and Tulley replied Stop til you come out, and I will fight any of you." The house was being closed. Tully went out first, and all the rest followed. I and Fanny Bird came up into this house (the Bell), and we had two or three pints of port wine. We all drank ; we were the same party who had left the Red Cow, with the exception of Jack Tully, who had gone home. Perry was there, I and Fanny Bird were them, and altogether there were nine of us. Ido not know any more names. Perry was getting drunk and stupid, and I took him down Dale-end to get him home. It must have been pretty nearly three o'clotk when we left. Perry and I went home, and I did not 0. • A 1, • • come back again.—The jury, returned a verdict of " t some pc BALLOON TRIP FROM AMERICA TO ENGLAND, The New York' Herald contains an . recount of a leviathan" balloon, whiCh is course of being com pleted at New York. The object intended to be ac complished by this vast rerial ship is to cross the Atlantic with great rapidity, and this object Mr. LoWe, its designer, declares himself certain of obtaining through its agency. According to the Herald, he says he will be able to "plough his way through the air, to England in 43 hours, or, at most, in 73 hours. In describing the balloon, the Herald sacs :—" An idea of the balloon's immense size may be formed when we state that the -4- ;re length of the ball a-;•0 90 ..toon 13 355. .deb, or nearly ieet higher than Trinity steeple. Its dimensions in other . . respects correspond with its great height. Its circum ference at the longer diameter is 387 feet, and at the transverse diameter 330 feet. It will thus be seen that the body or bag of the balloon is nearly globular. The greatest diameter, or the.distance from the to the neck, is 120 feet while its transverse diameter, at the widest pert, is 104 feet.. The car, which is 20 feet in cir cumference and four feet deep, is made of rattan, having. a hole in the floor eighteen inches in diameter, from which a stout ladder conducts to the_ boat, twenty feet beneath: The car is circular in form, surrounded with tracing hoop. From this hoop down to the edge of the baskpt is a curtain, thus converting the basket into a Windows are inserted in the canvas, that the ronauts. may, while protected from the cold by their means of making observations. The cauvas wall, ha car is, moreover, to be warmed by a newly-invented heating apparatus, denominated the lime stove.' This stove, besides warming the apartment, will also serve to perform sonic of the ordinary culinary operatioo voyagers will thus have a double protection against the extreme cold experiehced in high latitudes, and Which F the most prominent annoy :tenth, and suspanded to the boat, fort '-Uve feet-in a L eient feet beam, and four feet in-depth bola will ha an Eric v principle. This ns, - and Mr. Lowe an elevating or deprossi hus doi away with the f course, a be propelled by appen, fro a i the as a screw steal] andisail,' and 'Ai; icient for casks and bo. voyagers will a The Ili, wise earn folding lifebot copper buoys, wei for the purpose o: 1 to 'cut the balloon 1 the same manner jrovided with a mast Water and provW6ns en in . India-rubber yat.ed region to which the :•e^zes, and would obviously 31i it might be contained. 3ks, which are certainly a difficulty. An India-rubber ill be tal part of' the outfit. Two 0 and 200 pounds respectively, inZ the gas, will be attached to the balloon. The ball,;on is - provided with an ordinary ship's Michor; - weighing •100 pounds, to land with; the rope. attached to it is 100. feet long and foUr inches in circumference. Two or three sets of small grapnels are on board, to be used when - the large anchor is not necessary. Flags of every - notion will be carried, and passports to every country in Europe will be ob tained from the Secretary. of State for the voyagers, who are some eight in 'number. Many persons have already applied for a - passage:nany of them offering immense sums for the privilege—but their requests have been in- variably denied, as the first trip - is intended to be purely scientific, to solve the. problem whether balloon ing to Europe is practicable. Among the articles to be taken on the trial trip are n 0 small parachutes, by which to drop letterk papers, and documents of any kind, 'to , steamers or vessels on the ocean over which the balloon may pass. These packages will be done up in India-rubber mail bags which will float upon the water. Several carrier doves will be taken along, to be despatched home on arrival anywhere, orin the event of any accident. Roman candles and signal rockets will be provided in case of being thrown on any shore where it will be necessary to signal distant vessels. One hundred copies of each daily and illustrated news paper in the city will be taken along, to' be" delivered in London and Paris two clays after their publication here. Each person will be provided with an India rubber suit, to serve both as a protector against the cold, and as a life preserver in the water. The entire weight of the balloon and its appendages is 32 tons. Its . lifting capacity is. 22 tons, leaving. a net lifting capacity of 19 tons. The balloon will, therefore, be' capable of carrying a great , quantity of freight and a goodly number of passengers when an airship line to Europe is established: The first passengers will be the reronaut himself; Mr. Lowe, several scientific seamen and landsmen, and the representatives of the Press, together with a gentlenian who will act as the historian of alb occasiOn. The balloon is denomi nated the " City of New York." -A space of nine days will be required in filling it with gas, the balloon's capa city being. 750,000 cubic feet, or about then times larger than any balloon heretofore constructed. The cost of inflation alone will be $l,BOO, and the amount expended •so far in the construction is nearly $25,000. The balloon will be finished in a few weeks, and it is contemplated to start some time in October." _.4.---. ROBERT STEPTIENSON.—A writer in the Engineer, evidently from personal knowledge, says The fore most man amongst our engineers has passed away. Robert Stephenson is no more on this earth, save in the memories he has left behind him. Pleasant are those memories to those who survive him and who knew him. Nothing base or unworthy clings to them. He was a man in his own right, an Englishman of good type and character; one fitted to make this material world better that he found it ; one fitted to be a chief and a leader over other men, whom he ruled by a loving nature ; never grudging praise or re ward to those who did well ; never hard or harsh to those who did badly in ignorance; never forgetting a service rendered to him by those who worked for him, or failing to help them when his power could be avail able. To know him was to love him, and mere g.old was not the link that attached to him iose around him with a faith not to be shaken. There was ever a gra cious smile upon his face that cheered the looker on. The large wealth that accrued to him by his own work, and that of the father who preceeded him, tested the manhood in him by a prosperity, which is the true trial of a man's strength. Any man may suffer adversity; because he cannot get away from it ; he bears the load which he cannot shake off ; but in pros perity he becomes a free agent, and gets full scope for his follies or vices. Tried by this test, Robert Stephen son was a veritable man. He did not build churches for the sake of finding his name in the newspapers ; he was not known by ostentatious charities ; he dwelt in a modest house, to which his friends were welcome ; and few knew the extent of his income or how large a portion of it went in acts of generosity to worthy or unfortunate people—not peddling almsgiving—but large and gracious impromptu gifts, not gifts seeking for return in other favours, but gifts in a sympathetic spirit of help when respect went with them." MINERAL WEALTH OF NEW ZEALAND.—The jour nals contain interesting accounts of Dr. Hochstetter's geographical exploration. He had just returned from a visit to Coromandel Harbour, where the coal was examined ara both gold-fields explored. Mr. Heaphy and Mr. Ring pointed out a locality where a thin bed of auriferous quarts grit was known to exist, and the first shovelful washed yielded the usual show of grain and scale gold. Dr. Hochstetter then dug and washed a dishful, which yielded a quartz specimen with a streak of gold through it of about the size of a hazel nut, together with a consider able quantity of large scale gold—a most favourable prospect, and in every panful washed the gold scales abounded. His opinion is said to be that there exists a great quantity of gold not far from the locality where the specimens were obtained, but that the search should be carefully prosecuted among the quartz veins in tb mountains rather than by digging in the a. deposits.—Australian and New Zealand Gazette. THE LATE GENERAL HAVELOCK.--Various state mentsr having been made in the newspapersonl Havelock'ies to time about the neglected state of G eneral present Sir Henry public expanse, and to the tomb being erect ed at the tomb at the Alumbagh, we believe H w a e v ar elo e ck co o rr b e j e e t te in objected that the d ni er i a on.f. :t wrehtE l : t v h nni reg l f gaa u un n add d sp, marblep t rw o ehv m le cdah Siraerf we Henry en v l ay a dub of be the monument,.y tt s ho u supplied rp designsel e l e e v I the a m j o a r d body.e C i n • m iesxeheuaLinagononthee pspreotarwehderien alluvial OCTOBER 22, 1859. SECRET TRAM COMBINATIONS Thr ENGLAND If we are not going to speak of the old methods of intimidation, says the Edinburg h Review, neither are we going to preach political economy that large numbers, we might almost say whole classes, of our working men understand 'the truth that strikes are fatal to their interests. The dreary It is certainly true Ten years ending with 1843 proved that the Lancas had. learned much wisdom in the course of a generation Their patience under the hardships of those years, and their general good understanding with their employers/ . showed that they were aware of the real causes of their suffering, so far, at least, as not to blame the millowners . for withholding the work and wages which they had 'e operatives not to give The distinguishing characteristic of society and gov ernment in Great Britain is perfect openness and pub licity in its arrangements, its legislation, and its execil- tive action. We have no path no hole-and-corner prosecutions ; no mystx tive, veiled or invisible; no punishable offen lout trial ; pus execu- s unknown to tne law ; no subjugation to a nameless autho which interferes with a man's private concerns. is the general belief. There are the Freemasons, to be less kind-hearted people. and the vanity of keeping up a which has no perceptible social effect_ will not permit any extra-jzdicia tiered incompatible with the genuine ;, who relish the are. co republican prinelpies. be so strict; and we allow the Freemaso.— tiously secret amusements, while reprobatin' society which admit of secret laws and a unprovided for by: the constitution of the adver We have been he Americans ats, because But we are not iipon Is their ostenta: to the theory of its governmer aed to exult in the which all generall e great natural of soci vary rule, ntrv. and tion ;and when we hear of continental nat lediterranean to iheiiiolga,;;i4i a oux Qw4 1 thn 111 to rejoice that wit yard, and that the 'e hear of spies, and distrust of n( iat lite ader our d the left, we try to con ich thraldom, and we declare that Em in an atmosphere of c Can it be possible,' then, Op ressive to ,ciety 011 I arbitrary and sur too there is an in'iper at anti those whom it comprehends a the Continent, enforcing myste: obligations by the hands of itTespo defiance of the great natural laws of.human society ,horities, in Recent events may have prepared our readers to take some interest in the inquiry whether the fact is S 3 or not. When they have learned as much as can be . known of Le trades' unions in England, they may judge for them- Ives whether any existing government in Europe, from )1e to St. Petersburg or Paris ,would venture ) stringent a rule over its subjects as a large Constanti proportion of our - working men submit to from other men of their own order. Under the system of irre- - sponsible government which strives to subject the labour m arket to its dominion the characteristic freedom of the English citizen is lost. Hundreds of thousands of our countrymen are unable to say that each man's house is his castle ; that his labour and its rewards are his own property; a n d th a t " li ve an d l e t li ve " 15 the rule of the society in which' he dwells. Whether it is better to be an English workman or a continental artisan, under the restrictions of guilds in one country, a protective :system in another, and political espionage in a third, may be found to depend on whether the Englishman has the spirit and prudence to maintain his position outside of that organisation which under takes, not the administration of any beneficial method of assurance against the accidents of life, but the re gulations of the labour market. The independen t working man•who chooses to conduct his own labour bargains may be more like a freeman than most of his order in Germany, Sweden, or France ; but even he happy as he is in comparison with the "society man next door—is not so free as he ought to be under the laws and recognised usages of his country. The oppression which overwhelms the society man nest door, reaches him in the form of obstruction and ill timidation ; and thus the evil is a public and social oo r t not dependent on the individual choice of the citizens; it therefore demands earnest attention from all ranks Of British society, whether it may appear to affect them or not. In proposing to learn as much as can be known of the arbitrary government of labour in England we aro aware of the difficulty of learning anything, and the present impossibility of ascertaining much. The mana gers of trades unions discountenance records. Their most stringent laws are unwritten ; their most signifi cant usages are unrecorded ; their committees cannot tie fixed with responsibility ; their threats are not expressed, but understood ; their punishments al inflicted by invisible hands. It is only by an occasio ns ' glance that an insight can go gained into that dim parliament and palace of democratic tyranny on wili e the eyes of the Italian, French, and German constia In tionalists are this moment fixed with deep anxiety. r j the midst of the crisis in Italy this Autumn, the Libe leaders have watched the strike in the London bnil,": ing trades, saying that if the i g norant se:fishness of tn workmen should prevail in the struggle, the e 3 ', l - of rational freedom would be disgraced in Eng lol 4 and the brightest beacon of liberty in Europe NO', To cut in smoke. Any victory over the employers on, a scale, on on better grounds than those present' .n the builders' strike, would show that the el s petitive system, so conducted, involves all the worst 0. 1 . 1). of the socialism so much dreaded on the Continent, an entire absence of the benefits which unquestiona bly attend a rational co-operation. The trades' union s, 35 far as they concern themselves with the regulation of the E price of labour, at present unite all the chief evils the antagonistic systems; and their operation is fatal cordingly to the political and social interests of all within their sphere. A SWIND LING C ONFEDE I L A C Y.—A short time brick,a says the Times, the Paris Constitutionnel gave a fu detail of the system pursued by a number of for ei V l sharpers, who take offices in London, and styling thenli selves a firm, the title of which is generally compoun d° of familiar mercantile names, send orders to eo n : tinental manufacturers, giving at the same ti ni " references to some other fictitious establishment in Lo don, which purports to carry on the business of balik'i If further testimony is demanded, they usually sel l a bills for the amount of the required goods drawil?, some leading London bank, which are of cour se 7; honoured on presentation ; but which, meanwhile, oft put the manufacturer off his guard, especially in small Pr, yin cial districts. In this manner all kinds of articles e,l'; obtained, some of them of the most ludicrous descriptiu_ when viewed as subjects of importation into this coo es and occasional instances have occurred where the Par. t e le i r have felt so flattered at finding a demand for ta.,o goods springing up on the part of great mereaall establishments in London, that they have actually tr.arr witted more than the quantity ordered, in the nu that their new customers would honour theul pushing . its consumption. Notwithstanding, tho.is.i.l'eir posure, it is said they are actively continuing 04 operations, and with the amount of car elessnes s th e a ignorance prevailing it seems impossible to pr ey e et we e e w from finding victims. The Vienna Press, a fewbe ono back, contained the following, which appea rs to , 0 be of their newest productions. Letters are request ;dons addressed to the Continental Trade Company , I' o pliB through the manager, John Ellis. No Mr. Joh n answering this description is to be found in the Dip tory, and if such letters were retained until the apP, c olt caused himself to be respectably identified, n0..,00 would the scheme be rendered difficult, but meane_lies:, be gained of assisting the p olice in case of future inclro:se to —" The Continental Trade Company, London/ Were inform the public that it is authorised by sorn,, c ' r ode holders to extend the advance of £200,000, to I :_ e 0 00 to well-established merchants and others, either u?, r o boo' credit or per endorsement, to the amount of X 1 14 );: o ur accepted as sterling, at the rate of five per cent. interest (besiaufblie, commission). For the greater facility of the In: sne e also good foreign bills, their own acceptances, nsloeir• policies, delivery contracts, and other valuable . 1 b e meats, as well as other personal securities, iviSerte, them out. The further industrial guarantees. The Company, as countries'h undertakes the azency of patents from all ca rd and makes advances in cash on patents in o r o der, ‘ l_ ca r. Pursuits in the pang will be published in our advertiseme te, wa- Vienna Presse, as well as in all ether Continetai.cun'ciiti, a ddress, papers of importance. Lei to the Continental Tr- 4tters plea S`' Company, 1.0116