The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-06 00:00:00

THE IMPRESS, FRIDAY EirtliTiNG, FEBRUARY '6, 1863.

Ipolicy in China was in reality tae most succeed ul
part of the right hon. gentleman's attack, but it
occupied comparatively little space, and his grand
assault was directed against the proposed cession
of the lonian Islands to Greece. There is really
nothing to be said of this attack, except that it
t was a failure. The right hon. gentleman
referred with something like contempt to the
views of "professors and mere rhetoricians"
who had undertaken to discuss the question.
But he himself displayed a ludicrous ignorance
of the facts and reasons on which the whole
question turns. He ventured to assert, for ex•
ample, not only that these Islands are an integral
part of the British empire, to which they have never
in any legal or political sense been annexed, but
that they belonged to the British nation in exactly
the same sense and by the same right as Paris
belongs to the French. It would be idle to
attempt any serious reply to absurd statements
of this sort. For the rest, Mr. DISRASLI made
an elaborate attempt to show that the policy of
the Government now is inconsistent with the
views held by Lord Pskwesaros ten or twenty
years ago. This attempt shows a complete and
almost hopeless misunderstanding of the real ques•
tion involved in the proposed cession, and of the
way in which it is regarded by the nation at large.
The country does not care whether the policy of
the Government is in harmony with the views ex-
pressed by some of its members, thirty or forty
years ago. The real question for the country is
not whether the policy of the Government was
bad some years ago, but whether it is good now.
We have advanced during the last few years be-
yond the pernicious maxims and sinister traditions
that constituted the very life and soul of diplo-
macy half a century ago. We recognise other
principles of political action, other laws of inter-
national morality, than those which dictated the
Treaty of Vienna, and guided the Mrrreiutien
school of statesmen. The leaders of the Opposi-
tion do not appear, however, to have advanced at
all. They still regard the worst maxims and
traditions of a corrupt diplomacy with a
kind of superstitious veneration, and openly
appeal to them as the last grounds and final
causes of a nation's policy. In discussing the
cession of the lonian Islands, Mr. Disasatt
coolly laid down the principle that power
being the statesman's supreme motive and
aim, and these Islands having been originally
gained by force, and being thus a symbol of
our national dominion, ought to be retained at
any cost. This is the only principle he laid
down in the course of his elaborate address, the
only confession of faith he ventured to make, and
it is in substance a confession of moral scepticism
and political despair. The Right Hon. Gentle-
man's speculations with regard to the issue of the
great conflict on the other side of the Atlantic
and the future of America reveals the same
gloomy and revolting faith. The love of power,
the lust of dominion, is, according to the Right
Hon. Gentleman and his friends, the ultimate
principle of all human action, and the con-
flict in America he views as a revolution which
will inevitably leave enthroned on that vast con-
tinent Imperialism with all its disastrous adjuncts.
The destruction of all true national life, of all real
freedom and progress, is the political millennium to
which he looks forward. Fortunately, the state-
ment of such principles is, in these days, enough
to make them practically harmless. The principle
involved in the cession of the lonian Islands is
not the love of power, but of public justice, and a
regard to the rights and welfare of independent
communities.

LATEST IN T ELLICIANOK

THE POLISH INSURRRCTION.

" All the correspondence and despatches from
Warsaw," says the Temps, " tend, day after day, to
gi►e the Polish insurrection larger proportions.
We do not flatter ourselves that we can discover
the precise truth in the midst of the contradictory
assertions which reach us ; but certain it is
that the corps of insurgents are increasing
every day in numbers and in importance.
The movement is universal in the country,'
says a letter in the National Gazette of
Berlin ; 'and every day fresh accounts are received
of encounters between the troops and the insur-
gents. It is said that the Grand Deka Constantine
has demanded a reinforcement of 50,000 men ; but it
is doubtful whether great resultscan be achieved with
strong bodies of troops in a guerilla warfare carried
on in the woods. The peasants are, it is true,
generally partisans of the government ; but, never-
theless, they are in many places joining the in-
surgents.'"

A Warsaw letter of the 314 says :—" The Rus-
sian government has already announced several
times that it had suppressed the revolutionary
movement. Rut, in spite of the difficulty which
there is here in ascertaining what is passing at a
distance, it is certain that the insurrection is main-
tained, and is rather gaining than losing ground.
When dispersed on one point, the insurgents rally
on another, being everywhere received with eager-
ness by the population."

JAW INTELLIGZNCE.
(THU DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

After tarn Sittings at rut Prior at Westminster. —(Before
Lord Chief Jodie* Cockburn sad a Special Jury.)
CL..412 V. TM 0401:1!.—PIT/170N OP MOW,

The further hearing d this eon was rammed this morn-
' ing. when
I The Lord Chief Justice summed up.
Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., Mr. Deurnan,.Q.C., Mr. J. A.
Russell, Mr. Webster, and 111 r. Ben again appeared for the
suppliant. The Attorney-General, Mr. Colher, Q.C., Mr.
Lush, Q.C., Mr. West, and Mr. M'Bory for the crown.
The Lord Chief Justice said, though at first sight this
case appeared to be complicated, yet when they came to
look at it by the light of commonsense and calm reason, the
mist which fervid eloquence bad thrown around it would
: soon vanish, and the difficulty would as soon disappear.
I The petitioner presented his case in two forms : first, that
his patent of 1853 had been infringed by the Lords
j of the Admiralty in the oonstruction of the Warner
and secondly that he was employed by the Lords
of the Admiralty in the character of naval
non-
structor, and that he was to be paid at the rate of 5 per
cent. commission on the outlay on ship built by the
Admiralty, and that io consequeoce he supplied them with
models, plans, aud drawing& In order to disembarrass the
ease as much as possible his lordship proceeded to dispose
;of the second put of the claim first. lie expected the
I learned Attorney<leneral would have put It to him at
the end of the suppliant's case that he bed
failed in making out his on, and have asked him to with-
draw it from the jury. If the learned Attorney-General
had done so he should have withdrawn it from their wed.
deration ; but, ea that was not done, he must put it to them
and ask them if them if they considered there had been
sufficient proof of the contract as to justify them
in returning • verdict for the petaitimer. It
was to be recollected that Mr. Clare went to
the Admiralty • they did not seek him, and
ls
the forwarding the mode and plans to the Admiralty was
• spontaneous act on his part. He did not mean to say
there was anything obtrusive in Mr. Clare's soden, bat
be mentioned it to show that he did not seed them to the
Admiralty under any contract as to remuneration. His
lordship referred to the petitioner's interview with Admiral
Berkeley, who introduced him to Sir B. Walker,
by whom he was turned over to Mr. Edy. and
Mr. Lloyd, practical officers of the department, and it
was evident front Mr. Clare's evidence that he was
unable to favourably impress them with the importance
of his invention& Mr. Clare was dissatisfied with the ,
result, for he seemed to consider everyone connected with
the Admiralty ship-building department great danced
and idiots. Up to that time there was nothing in
the shape of employment, for he received unmis-
takeable intimation from the Admiralty that they did
not intend to avail themselves of his suggestion&
In 1855 he again 'spontaneously iddrened the Ad-
miralty. In this country, where men's minds were on
the rack for inventions, the public departments were be.
sioed with applications for the adoption of the inventions,
and it was the general practice for them to submit them to
the different departments for consideration, but not under
the impression that it constituted an employment for which
they were to be paid. After Mr. Clare had sent
in his models and drawing some further correspondence
took place between him and the Admiralty. He fink
charged them with piracy of his inventions in the coostruo-
tion of the Warrior; and afterwards he applied for compen-
ration, in consequence of that infringement. It was not
mail 18511 that he applied, for the first time, for •
compensation of 5 per rent. on the vessels built
and it was then he received an answer that they
wore all designed by the naval constructor to the
navy without reference to any other person's plans,
end then he applied for the altos of naval methanol coo- '
grader to the navy. If out of such evidence the were
able to discover a contract to remunerate, their in
vision must be keener than his ; for in the whole of his ex-
perience he had heard so wild or extravagant a claim.
Upon the patent the petitioner might have a case well
worthy of their consideration, but he thought it was im-
possible to say that out of the correspondence that
took place between the parties there wee the
remoten shadow of an engagement by the Admiralty. The
office of naval architect was one of considerable importance
and responsibility, and required that the party a
able to lay down a ship, sod make the necessary plans and
design' for the whole of the vessel. Now, Mr. Clare
was never brought up to the ship-building, but had
been a produce broker at Liverpool till 1847.
Such • person making for the office of naval
mechanical ocinetructor to the royal navy was an extrava-
gant proposition, and it was not at all surprising that Mr.
Clare's learned counsel, feeling the difficulty of the
case, had endeavoured to get out of it by an
appeal to their pinions, which he had done in a
very skilful manner. He now came to the really im-
portant part of the case—viz., the infringement of the
patent. Mr. Clare claimed the construction of • separate
and independent framework, to which the Skill of • ship
was to be affixed, secured by wood sheathing and tongue-
ing and grooving the iron plates. There was • difficulty
in this rage that did not generally arise in similar cane
The patent claimed was well known and US.
derstood, and the question for the jury in soh
eases was whether the alleged infringement was in point of
fact actually and substantially the same as the patent.
Bat here the proposal= was as is were rennin.
They knew precisely what those had done who
were said to have infringed the patent, but
they did not know precisely what it was the
suppliant bad patented. If he had patented, in effect, •
separate and independent framing without plates, it had
been adopted in the Warrior; and if not, then there bad
been no infringement. They had, however, to deal with
the most obscure specification he ever recollected to have
read. The text generally gives a tolerable meaning
to the patent, aod the drawings supply any deficiency.
But here the text gave them little information, and if they
believed the wanness., the drawings told them less. Look-
ing at both with the assistance of the scientific evidence,
they must find their way to the conclusion of what was in
the patent. It was not the question what wee
in the mind of the inventor, and what be
intended to patent, but what he had really patented.
He could not Gomm ahead in the patent that which he bad
not disclosed to the public. If it were otherwise it would
lead to dangerous consequences—when, for instance, •
man had produced something of superior excellence, for the
patentee to say he intended to include it in his patent, and
thereby claimed the right to exclude other. who laboured in
the some field, and deprive them of the benefit of the kuow.
ledge and skill they had brought to bear upon the subject.
Before they adopted his statement of what he intended to
do contrasted with what he had done, they ought to
consider it with mistrust and scrupulous attention. A
man very often took a strong view of his claims. Mr. Clare
imagined that he had discovered something very useful to
the public and beneficial to himself. He was evidently •
disappointed man in not having had his plans and schemes
accepted by the Admiralty, and in not being taken
into the public service. After referring to the
minute details of the case, his lordship said
that if this was an infringement of the petit over s patent
the government were as responsible for it as any of her
Majesty's subjeota. He confined he was a little startled
at she high figure the petitioner had pat upon his eerviries,
but setting that apart if his patent had been infringed be
was entitled to compensation.
The jury then retired to consider the verdict, and after
an absence of an hour and a half returned into court with a
verdict for the =WO.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Botor. the Judge Ordinary.)
WATIRS r. WATERS AND MANLEY.
The petitioner, a Cornish miner, was married to the re.
spoodent in 1839, and some time afterwards be went out to
Chili, leaving his wife an allowance. In 1844 be came back
and found her living with the co-respondent, by whom she
had five children.
Decree nisi, with costs.
Mr. Shaw for the petitioner.
SWALLOW V. SWALLOW AND ISWIEL
The petitioner was a domestic servant. He married the
respondent in 1854 ; and it was alleged that she bad com-
mitted adultery with a man servant in • family residing at
No. 7, Porchester-square, where she bad lived since 1880.
The evidence showed that Lewis's room was neat to that oc-
cupied by the cook and housemaid ; and that the forum, (the
respondent) was in the habit of frequently going undressed
to the co-respondent after the family had retired to rest.
Lewis used also to come in to the women's room and behave
with indecent familiarity towards ]dn. Swallow.
Decree nisi with meta.
Dr. Swaby and Hr. Ward for the petitioner; Mr. Searle
for the respondent.

MYSTXItIOUS AFFAIR.-Yesterday a considerable
Notation was created in Newoutle-on-Tyne end neighbour-
hood by information that the body of Captain W. M.
Gales, of the Durham Militia, who had bees missing over
two months, had been found in an old shaft of Oxclose
limy, neer Washington. On the night that Mr. Gal dis-
;Pellh* had been dining with a friend at the village of
iohlgatod, and it was thought that he bad fallen into
the Weer on his way home and was drowned ; and
the Wear had been dragged almost every day since Mr.
Gales was missed, as a large reward was offered for the die
Gooey of the body. It appears that oil Tuesday some work-
men °muscled with the colliery had been sent down the
old aloft at the Oxclome Pit to look after work connected
with pumping, but before they had proceeded far they dis-
covered a portion of a gold chain and the cue of a watch
in a small cistern in the shaft. Upon bringing them to
bank they were subsequently identified as belonging to the
miming gentleman. The polio, were immediately comma-
abated with, end on Wednesday pitmen were sent down the
shaft to explore it thoroughly, and 70 fathoms down they
found the body of the unfortunate gentleman lying berme a
beam. It was very much decomposed, bat when brought to
bank it was sully identified as the body of Mr. Gales. The
shaft in which the body was found is wrought oat, and it in
not now need in the workiag of the colliery. It ie said to
be 200 fathoms deep, and filled to a ameidessige extent
with water, the air . being, of 03111110, foul It is sur-
rounded by a paling six or seven DA high, and the shaft
does not lie in the way Mr. Gale Ahimid have taken on k
tool to the river. An inquest was to be held on the body
yesterday.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIS DAY.)

NEW COURT.

THE CHARGE Of DININAI7DING AN INSUBANCE OMIPANT.
' The trial of Gawps Ruston and Janes Bert for
defrauding the Universal Marine Asuman, Company of
8001. was resumed this morning before Mr. Baron Changed!.
ow=t Ballantine and Mr. Gifford addressed the jury
of their respective clients.
The lury retired at twenty minutes past one o'clock
to deliberate upon their verdict, and in about tines
quarters of an hour they returned a verdict of Not Guilty,
as regarded both prisoners.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

CLERKENWELL.
TON RAMS, THE la-CHANPIoN OF =OLAND, LN A NM

Charlotte Sayers, aged 30, residing at No. 10, Saljem,
Cottages, Camdea-street, Csmdee4own, described at of to
ocroupation, was charged before Mr. D'Eyncourt with wil•
fully breaking 20 penes of glue, value 10a., the property a
Thomas Sayers, ex-champion of England, and circus pro-
prietor.
Whee the charge we. called on it was found that the
skeet was not 'Mud with the name of the complainant,
but oaly with • cram, and upoe Sayers being asked if that
was his, he answered in the affirmative.
Mr. D'Eyncourt—Do you wish to proceed against your
wife for the damage?
Tom Sayera—M, s.
The defendant (who. was showily attired, and had on a
bat) mid— Let him. I am covered with bruises where he haa
knocked me about, and my arms are black and blue from
I his illuage, and be has repeatedly knocked me about.
Tom Sayers then proceeded, and mid that the defendant
had been away from home for two nights, and on her
return she ill.uaed him. On Thursday at about
twelve o'clock she west to his house and made
• peat disturbatioe and thee went outside and threw stones
through the windows. She broke twenty windows, and the
damage amounted to about 10s. He wanted the defendant
to keep away and not annoy or aided him any more, as he
was tired of it. She caused a large mob of psrwu to as-
semble around his house, and this annoyed him and the
neighbours.
The defendant said that she was a married woman. and
when her husband left her Sayers took his place, and had
cohabited with her ever since. When he came to her she
had a house fall of property.
Mr. D'Eynoourt inquired if it was true that the defendant
was not the complainant's wife, and if so, if he intended to
live with her any more. If true, it was not very creditable
to either party.
Tom Sayers replied it was true the defendant we. not his
wife. He did not intend to live with her any more as he
thought he had had quite enough of it. This was not the
ant case of the kind.

The defendant said that her husband left her eight years
ago, and that the complainant and his children came to live
with her, and she looked after them. She complained that
the complainant on Wednesday returned home under the
influence of liquor, broke op her furniture, and threw it iota
the street, and then kicked her out. He told her, after
she bad taken some of the goods to • little room
she had engaged, that if she came on the followiag day she
could have the rest, and when she went quietly for them
be refused to give them to her. He had now got a watch
and chain, some 'mooches, and other articles belonging to
her in hie possamice.
Mr. D'Eyneoart inquired it that was true, and remarked
that if it was so, the complainant had better give them up
and avoid disputes of this kind.
Tom Sayen said there was nothing of the sort in the
hones . • but if there was anything belonging to her there she
was at liberty to have it, and more if she required it, as he
did net wish to have anything more to do with her.
Mr. IYErmourt asked if the complainant wanted the
amount of the damage, or would he be satiated if the de-
fendant promised not to go to the house again or molest him
in any way.
Tom Sayers replied that he did not care much about the
amount of the damage. He wanted her to keep way from
hint.

Mr. liiEyncourt (to the defendant)—Will you promise me
to keep away from the complainant and not to annoy him!
It is not because he has cohabited with you that you are to
annoy him, although there is riot much to say on either side.
The defendaot said she would, if the magistrate com-
pelled him to give up her goods and elm greeted her a
summons for the assault. On one ocarion he nearly killed
her, and although he was takes to the polies-ststion she
would not attend and press the charge. She now had
bruises on her arms and body from his violence.
Mr. D'Eymeurt said there must be no "ifs" in the
question. He then ordered her to be bound over in the sum
of 101. to keep the peace towards Tom Sayers and all her
Maity.,:e subjects for six calendar mouths.
&yen left the mart be was followed by a troop
of boys.

ALLIANCE BANK OF LONDON AND LIVERPOOL
Limlrsp.—(THlS DAY.)

The first ordinary general meeting of the share-
bottles was held at noon at the London Tavern ; Mr.
J. N. DANIELL in the chair. The followieg report and
Wake-sheet were presented :
"The directors have much pleasure in meeting the
shareholders for the first time, and piecing before them a
statement of the progress of the bank since the °morose:o-
melet of bruiser in London on the the 19th of May, and in
Liverpool oo the Ist of July last. The articles of associatioa
require that the first ordinary general meeting of shareholders
&alba held within twelve months from the commence-
ment of business. The directors have therefore thought it
advisable to call the proprietors together at this period,
with a view to the future half-yearly meetings being held in
January and July, in accordance with the custom of other
*at-stock banks in London. The annexed balance sheet,
mode op to the 31st Dec. last, shows an amount of business
acquired during little more than seven months in London,
awl six months in Liverpool, which the directors think
teapot but be very gratifying to the shareholders—the
ascent due by the bank oa current deposit and other
scemints being 1,019,1601. Os. itd. The net profile, as per
statement, amount to 2,6521. Iris. ltd., which it is proposed
tocarry forward, to be dealt with at the close of the current
halt year. The directors, having resolved to open
• branch in the borough of Southwark, have obtained a
veer eligible site at the corner of High-street and South-
mirk-street, on which it is proposed to erect suitable
banking premises. In the meantime, Winos has bee.
oommenced in temporary promisee opposite. As required
by the articles of association, all the directors retire from
office at this the first ordinary meeting, and being eligible,
offer themselves for re-election. The auditors, Mr. C`•. H.
Jay and Mr. H. W. Banner, oleo retire from office, and offer
themselves for re-election.

Borfance ;heet-31ZBecember, 1862 :—Dr. To capital
(paid up), 245,6051. ; to amount due to customers on
cement and deposit accounts, circular notes, letters of
credit, ht., 1,019,1607. Os. Sd. ; to profit after pay-
ment of salaries and disbursements, 6,0421. 6e. 9cl.
total, 1,270,8074 7a. sd. Cr. By cash in hand, at
Bank of England, and at ea 278,9781. 19a. 7d. ; by bills
disoonoted, loans to costemers ha, 978,0861. 13e. id. ; by
buildings, furniture, bank fittings, ha., at Lothbury, South.
work, and Liverpool, 2,8511. Os. 10d. ; by preliminary ex-
penses, including law oasts, advertisements, he., 10,910/.
4s. Bd.—total, 1,270,8071. 7a. M.
" Profit sad Loss Amount from the 19th of May to the
31st of December, 1862.—Dr.: To current expenses, induct.
mg salaries, general expenses, stationery, postage, &c.,
6,N21. 6s. 9d. • to interest on current deposit accounta,
$,0781. Os. 2d. ; 'to profit and loss new account for Mate of
interest on bills discounted not yet due, 3,389/. 9s. 10d. ; to
balance being net profit, 2,652/. 16s. 11d. ; together, 6,0421
6s. 9d.—total. 16,012/. 13.. Rd. Cr.: By gross profits,
16,012/. 13s. Bd."
The cwurins, in moving the adoption of the report and
accounts, said that the bank having commenced at an inter-
mediate period, it had nevertheless been thought desirable
to convene the first meeting at the usual period for
holding bank meetings. A young bank had of
coarse a large amount of expenses at the outset, and
that was their own position. They began the first two or
three months with 40,000/. The accounts at first iucreased
slowl, but ream*, and up to the present time, they had
rapidly augments& and he hoped that in a few month'
the board would be enabled to present a report in all re-
moras latisfactory. If they bad imitated some other banks
of limited liability by not making any allowance far
rebate of interest on bills, they would now be able to divide
at the rate of seven per Dent.; but he did
not consider such a coarse desirable. In December, the
number of accounts was already 800. (Chien.) A branch
bad been opened in Southwark, which was proceeding eatie-
&charily.
In reply to a question regarding the preliminary expenses,
The Caaxaiws said be admitted that 10,0001. was a large
amount ; but some new banks had spent 20,0001., and is
most be bone in mind that this was not the establishment
alarm but of two banks. He did not think the share-
holders had paid at all extravagantly fee the advantages
they now possessed. The promoters paid all the expenses
ap to the commencement of business.
Mr. KIM mid it should be recollected that the emcees of
that bank was unparalleled in the history of new banks.
The motion was canted unanimously, after which the re-
thing directors were re-elected. Before the last motion was
Paa,
A SHAREBOLDIE having asked whether all the directors
kept their own account, at the Alliance Bank, several
shareholders protested against the question, as unfair,
rimarking that there were many reasons which might
vmat a
director from doing what the questioner appeared to
skei_

111 i Jay sod Kr. Benner were re-elected auditors.
The meeting terminated with • vote of thanks to the
chairman and the other directors ; and to Mr. Thompson,
the manager ; Mr. Millar, the deputy manager ; and other
°Meer, of the estabbahntent.

MEDITERRANEAN EXTENSION TELEGRAPH
COMPANY (LIMITED).-(THIS DAY.)

The half-yearly meeting of the ehareholders was
held at one o'clock, at the London Tavern, Mr. HIM
ifiXA in the chair. _ _

The report gala The receipts have materially in-
mend, whilst the expenditure has been diminished. The
onnpany's cables continue in excellent working order. The
dironon have learned with much pleasure that the
table between Kumla. in Sicily, and Card Oar
Imam in Sardinia (alluded to in their
pert as being about to be laid by the Italian government)
hos recently been eueensfully submerged. They have
baked forward to this event as one of the means of en-
swing a more rapid, and what is of equal importance, a more
regale" tranimienou of between India and this
enentry. The cable will y he in working order and
Se thrones hope to announce at the Lost
neeling that their anticipations in this direction
have beim realised. The usual payment of the
Addend ea the preference shares, and the payment
of a dividend on the original thane are recommended.
In their last report the directors ineggented the expedi-
ency of establishing oat of the prollte a reserve fund to
Inset contingencies. They thick that the time has now
salved when that suggestion;ilionki be carried into effect;
and they therefore recommend that at the approaching
Pasting a sum should be set spirt and invested as the'
1101•111•Doement of such reserve fund."
'lite Cam:ammo, in moving the adoption of the report,
add the receipts of the last half-year amounted to 5,1001,
whit* was an exams of 2,6001. over the receipts of the oor-
x•wponding Hof 1861. The expenditure of the last
half-year In, against 1,964!. in 1861, showing a
bream of 1721. It was to pay a dividend of Is,
par share ce the original
The ripen having bees adopted, a resolution for the
P nitent of a dividend on the anteroom shares was earned.
The CHAIIIMAN having moved that the dividend on the
willed shares be 3s. per share, free of income tax,
Mr.
be 3e. Romeo/4 moved as an amendment that the dividend
6d.

The amendment having been seconded, was put to •
shown/ hands sad negatived.
A dividend of 3a per share was then declared.
A resolution for the surplus to • reserve fund
wan afterwards sdop and the mestiag terminated in the
lama manner.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

itIDAY, 1113117A1N 6, S &IL