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

The Prince and Princess of Wales.

Another delay in the visit of their Royal High-
❑esses the Prince and Princess of Waits to San-
..lringham has been tendered necessary, but we
believe it is finally arranged that the special train
will leave Windsor, and travel through to Wolver-
ton to-morrow, only staying at Lynn to receive the
address of congratulation of the corporation. Their
Royal Highnesses will stay at Sandringham, it is
expected, over the Easter holidays.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary, attended by Lady Geraldine
Somerset and Captain P. Cust, left their residence on
Thursday afternoon, for Balvoir Castle, on a visit to the
Duke of Rutland.

The Princess George of Saxony has been safely
lelivered cf a daughter. A son had been hoped for, the
Royal family not yet having any direct male heir.
The Duchess of Somerset had a reception last
evening at the First Lord of the Admiralty's official resi-
dence, at 'Whitehall,

The Marquis of Queensberry, R N., has arrived
at Eaton-place West on a visit to the Dowager Marchioness
of Queensberry.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Bath have left
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Longleate, War-
minster.

The Earl of Derby was able yesterday to be
present in the House of Lords. The noble earl is much
better, but some days must elapse before he regains his
strength.

The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have
joined the circle visiting the Duke of Rutland at Belvoir
Castle.

The Right Hcn. Sir George Grey returned to
town yesterday afternoon from Windsor Castle.
Sir Henry and Lady Hoare and Miss Hoare have
left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Paris.
Lady Molesworth entertained last evening, at
her residence in Eaton place, the Prussian Minister and
the Countess Bernstorff, the Duchess of St. Albans and
Lady Diana Beauclerk, the Marchioness of Ely, the Mar-
quis of Sligo, Earl Granville, the Earl and Countess De
Grey, Lord and Lady Lyvedan, Viscount Falkland, Lord
Frederick Cavendish, M.P., Lord Dunkellin, M.P., Gen.
the Right Hon. Cecil Forester and the Hon. Mrs. Forester,
and Mr. and Lady Margaret Beaumont.

Lieutenant the Hon, Albert Denison, R.N., has
left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Paris.
DEATH OF THE DUKE OF GRAFTON.—At an
early hour yesterday morning the Duke of Grafton expired
at Wakefield Lodge, Northamptonshire During the last
month or so the duke has been in such a very bad state that
the members of his family were fully prepared for the sad
result. He was in his 74th year.

DEATH OF CAPTAIN WILLIAM HENRY HIGGS,
R.N.—A vacancy has occurred in the list of officers on the
out-pension of Greenwich Hospital for a Captain R.N.,
valve £BO per annum, in consequence of the death of that
gallant and distinguished officer, Captain William Henry
Higgs. The deceased officer was in his 83d year.

Berkeley-street dates from 1659, and St. James's-
street, then called Long-street, was finished in 1670.
Dover-street and Old Bond-street (the latter named after
the speculator who built it—one Sir Thomas Bond) were
laid out about 1688, and Albemarle-street and Bolton-street
about 20 years later. Clarges-street was finished in 1718,
and Half Moon-street in 1730. The same year also saw
the completion of Hanover-square, Grosvenor and Berke-
ley-squares being almost contemporaneous with it. At the
beginning of the last century, Oxford-street, or Tyburn•
road, as it was then called, had only a few scattered houses
on the north side. Pennant describes it as " a deep hollow
road, full of sloughs, with here and there a ragged house,
the lurking-place of cut-throats." So late as 1746 there
were no houses on the north side west of Marylebone-lane.
Nlarylebone is derived, not as is often thought from a cor-
ruption of La Bonne, but from St. Mary Le Bourne—a
brook which bounded the manor of Tyburn on the east, as
,he West Bourne (now so familiar a name to us) did on the
other side. The course of this brook (which crossed Oxford-
street from north to south, near Stratford-place) is still to
be traced by the depressed level of the valley through which
it used to run. And, doubtless, the irregular course of
larylebone-lane itself, which contrasts so markedly on the
map with the rectangular streets all round it, marks the
winding of the rural lane which once followed the stream-
let's course. Oxford market was founded in 1731, and Mid-
dlesex Hospital in 1745. Cavendish-square was planned in
1715 " on a waste and dangerous spot, intersected by a
shady or lover's lane' from Margaret-street to the spot
where Manchester-square now stands." Wigmore-street
was begun in 1729, but the Harley Fields (where Whitfield
used to preach) were not built upon till about 1770. Port-
land-place dates from 1772. Portman-square was built
between 1761 and 1784. Fitzroy-square was not begun till
1812, which is also the date of Nash' s plans for Regent-
street and the Regent's-park.
The son of M. Jullien, whose name is advertised
as the conductor of a London orchestra, is the author of
some interesting papers on the organisation and manage-
ment of the French army, which have appeared in Mr.
Dickens's periodical.
PROPOSED TOWER BRIDGE..—IrI reference to the
scheme for a foot passengers' bridge from Irongate-stairs,
near Little Tower-hill, en the north side of the Thames, to
aorselydown old stairs on the south, the Board of Trade
report that they feel compelled to object to the construction
of this bridge, which would greatly interfere with the traffic
in the Pool, and they trust that the select committee on the
bill will not allow this structure to receive the sanction of
earliament.

A duel with swords has just taken place between
the director of the Diritto of Turin and the director of the
Politica del Topolo of Milan, in consequence of 9, dircus-
sim in their journals. '1 he former received three wounds,
whilst the latter escaped with a slight scratch on the head.
The state of the director of the Ifiritto is not considered
dangerous,

NAS

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The Chronometrical Chart of the History of England ;
Civil and Military, Religious, Intellectual and Social.
From '. 55, to A.D. 1860. Togeth'r with a Table of
the Contemporary Sovereigns of Europe, from William
the Conqueror to Queen Victoria. By David Nesmith.
Messrs. Philip and Son, Fleet-street, London; South
Cas le-street, Liverpool.
Mr. Nasmith's idea amounts almost to a discovery.
History is not with him as an old almanack.
Viewed by this keen-witted, clear-headed scholar,
it has loomed before his " mind's eye" in various
shapes and colours, as distinctly visible and as easy
of remembrance by the would-be chronologist as
the map of England by the would-be geographer.
The paramount merits of Mr. Nasmith's very
original projection of the History of England
are two—its simplicity and its symmetry. As
now published, The Chart appears under two dis-
tinct forms : either bound in cloth, as an Atlas, or
mounted on rollers in a single sheet five feet square.
The Atlas being better adapted for the use of stu-
dents, as a mast valuable adjunct to the reference
books lying habitually upon the library table of
the lettered Englishman. The hanging chart,
mounted upon rollers, being more suitable for the
purposes of instruction upon the walls of a school-
room. Upon the wall of every schoolroom in the
land we should be right glad to know that this
truly admirable Chart of the History of England
would before much longer be hanging.
We speak of it thus, emphatically, it
is true, but quite dispassionately also :
uttering our opinion solely in our professional
capacity as critics, strangers to the author of the
chart, but grateful admirers of the happy ingenuity
displayed by him in its compilation and arrange-
ment.
How to explain that arrangement of his in words?
That is our difficulty. Yet another glance at the
Chronometrical Chart almost induces us to believe
nevertheless that a lucid verbal explanation of its ar-
rangement is after all practicable. It is in its entirety
as a chart mounted upon rollers, and suspended
against a wall, that the symmetry, the beauty, and
the perfected completeness of the scheme ass whole
become the most readily recognisable. Far more so
than when the chart, disintegrated, so to speak, and
paged into an atlas, comes the more handily within
reach of the student seated at his desk. It is, there-
fore, of the chart in its five-feet square form that
we would here be understood to speak exclusively.
So displayed to view—the Times of our History, the
events of our History, are brought before our gaze
altogether. They can be scanned there upon that
symmetrical chart at a glance. They are arranged
there harmoniously, in due proportion, relatively to
each other. How arranged Mr. Nesmith
has himself explained with admirable lucidity
in a paper read by him on the 12th of
last November before the members of the
College of Preceptors. In the course of that paper
the author reminded his hearers, as we are here,
in turn, enabled to remind our own readers, that—
" The History of England involves the whole or part of
three distinct periods of 1,000 years each.
" 1. The 1,000 years immediately antecedent to the birth
of Christ, with the history of which in connection with
England we know very little; to this period a very small
space at the head of the chart has been allotted, which con-
tains the notice of but the events, the invasions of Julius
Caesar.
" 2. The second period is the first 1,000 years of the
Christian era, containing many more, but still comparatively
few, and for the most part unimportant events. This
period is represented by the long band immediately below
the first division, It is divided into ten parts of one hun-
dred years each; which are respectively subdivided into
ten parts, viz., a band and nine squares of ten years each ;
and to every event in this portion of the chart, the unit
figure is prefixed. Thus, in the fourth square of the
first division, is ' 4 Beric at Rome ;' and as the
first division represents the period A.D. to An, 99,
the fourth division represents the ten years from 40 to 49;
therefore the figure 4 prefixed to Beric at Rome shows that
Beric was at Rome in the year 44 A.D.
" 3. The third division represents the second 1,000 years
of the Christian era, not yet completed ; it occupies the
great body of the Chart. In this part the plan of con-
sttuction is fully carried out. It forms a square divided
into a band, and nine squares of one hundred years each.
These periods are respectively divided into a band and nine
squares of ten years each; which are again subdivided into
a band and nine squares of one year each."
Such is the arrangement of the Chronometrical
Chart, as described in a few simple words by the
ingenious compiler of it. As may be readily con-
jectured, the eff_et of the spacing of the different
epochs, as we look back from the present time into
the past, the old familiar " air and harmony of grace
express," by becoming as a matter of course "small
by degrees and beautifully less." The clearness and
distinctness or the whole is further secured by
differently colouring the various dynasties; by
printing the names of the Sovereigns, so to speak,
" in relief ;" by giving the narrative in ordinary
type, legal matters in Old English, statistics in
Egyptian or Arabic, and miscellaneous particulars in
Italics, beyond all this employing a diversity of
compact and easily recognisable symbols. A Scroll
typifying a Treaty, a Tree the acquisition of Terri-
tory, * literary men ani matters, t fine arts,—
'companies and united action, s (for example) the
particular day of the month, md. married, dr.
daughter, bit, built, and so forth. Altogether the
Chart is a wonderful Microcosm. It is a cyclo
[Alija of information. And what is more than that,
it is pleasant to consult—the eye discriminating
easily, and even agreeably, upon the instant,
by the mere tint of the colour, the particular
people, or the particular dynasty green
Britons, brown Romans, blue Saxons, orange
Danes, drab Normans, yellow Piantagenets,
pink Lancastrians and Yorkists, green Tudors,
rose-coloured Stuarts, :with a white patch in the
midst of that blushing space to mark the inter
regnum of the Commonwealth, and finally the red
house of Hanover ! The diversity of information
here compacted together is really something in its
way surprising—something that at times has about
it almost the effect of wit! Wit being
defined by some metaphysical inquirers as the
effect produced by a sudden bringing together of
two wholly distinct matters, never before
brought thus into direct association. Oar meaning
in likening the effect here produced as having in
this sense somewhat of a resemblance to the effect
produced by wit, may be exemplified, by the way,
upon the merest passing reference to the parti-
cular division of the Chart allotted to 1784 ; where
we find it recorded that in that same year, "Lord
Palmerston was born," and " mail coaches were
introduced !" A certainly startling double-charge
of information that ! Lord Palmerston, born in
he very same year in which mail coaches (long
since: fallen into disuse and almost forgot-
ten) were firat introduced. 7 his good old coach,
however, having long survived—and long may he
still survive them—far into the railway era!
Altogether, we hesitate not to pronounce this
eingularly beautiful Chronometrical Chart of Mr.
Nasmith's a veritable boon, in its way, to the
whole Educated or Educating Community. It
tends, in a delightful manner to systematise the
knowledge of us all. And, for inasmuch as it is
practically calculated to do this, we have reason
to regard with gratitude the intellectual ingenuity
that has produced it.

SHIPPING—This Day,

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning.

Arrived—Athens, steamer, from Cape of Good B.OPe:
La Message and Argyll, steamer, from Carentan ; and
Georges, from Cherbourg.
Sailed—Naples, for Bourbon ; Janette and Laura, for
Swansea.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GI:AYE:SEND, Friday Morning.
Sailed, March 20—Constance, for Barbadces ; Lord Nel.
son, for Mauritius.
Sailed, March 27—Kinn .ird, for Rangoon., Madawaska,
for Goutzacoulds ; Onyx, for Mauritius ; Johanna, for
Dantzic ; Seine, steamer, for Boulogne.
DEAL, Friday Morning.

Passed—Cid, crew steams-, for Ei&a; Scidenskjold:for
Quebec, Constance, for Marseilles ; Rickard and William,
for Lagos; Mary and Martha, for Galatz—all from Lon-
don; Lloyds Sm:thson, from Sunderland, for Vera Cruz.
Anchored—Europa and Exter, and Peacock, of Wey-
mouth, from West, for North; Graces, of Shields, from
North, for West.

DOUBLE EXECUTION AT DORCHESTER.--This
morning the condemned convicts Preedy and Fooks
underwent the extreme penalty of the law, over the t,ld
entrance facing the Froome meadows. There was a large
concourse of spectators,

The " British Nation" Life Assurance.

One of the most successful and do,urving of our
provident institutions, is the " British N at
316, Rtgent-sireet. The company, and the so-
cieties amalgamated with it have paid upwards of
£1,300,000 in the defrayal of over 3,u00 claims.
This is an institution which has achieved far more
success than could justly have been prophesied by its
admirers when it was set on foot in the year 1852.
At first the institution erred a little on the side of
generosity to the public. Its conductors are en-
abled, however, now to publish the following
figures :
Annual income (nearly)
Invested funds exceed (irrespective of the capital) 257,000
New business effected 1862
And we learn that the business of the current
year presents still more gratifying evidences of the
public appreciation of the principles of the associa-
tion. Here is the plan of its constitution, clearly
and eloquently told in its own prospectus :
" Life assurance is one of the most important elements of
the principle of association, and affords the opportunity of
investment and provision to almost every class of society.
Not only is it a means of family: provision to the man of
income, but to the wealthy landowner, the merchant, the
trader, and the artisan, it offers unequalled facilities. There
are practical difficulties, however, which have presented
themselves to the minds of intending assurers, and have
prevented the more general adoption of life assurance.
These are-1. The want of some benefit to the assurer
himself, should he attain old age, and perhaps outlive the
persons for whom he assured. 2. The fear of litigation on
some disputed point, after the payment of many years'
premiums, whereby the assurer bequeaths a law suit in-
stead of a legacy to his descendants. 3. The fear of being
unable to continue the premiums on the policy, whereby
the payments of many years would be lost, and the object
of the assurance defeated. The policies of this association
obviate all these objections :—By the application of the
profits to rendering the policy payable during the lifetime
of the assured—by the avoidance of all uncertainty or liti-
gation, by making policies indisputable—and by the pro-
visions for the non-forfeiture of policies by inability to keep
up the payment of the premiums."

These are very important objects to achir,ve by
the instrumentality of life assurance, and it is satis-
factory to note that they are liberally dealt with
by the company. That the policies should be pay-
able during the life of the person assured, and with-
out any extra premium whatever, is a very impor-
tant feature in the programme. Upon this theme
the explanatory book already quoted from, says

"It is frequently the case that the object for which a life
is assured passes away, or the family for which an assur-
ance is effected becomes richer than the person whose life
is assured in their favour; or that in declining years the
money,which is ordinarily only payable at death, would be
invaluable. The principle, therefore, of applying the bonus
at each division to the extinction of the latter premiums on
the life, and thus of making the amount of the policy pay-
able in the lifetime of the assured, is one which recommends
itself to the mind of every assurer. For instance, under the
ordinary plan, the survivors of a person assuring his life for
£5OO, would, at his death, receive £5OO, and either some-
thing extra in the way of bonus, or the assured might dur-
ing life have paid a decreased annual premium. But under
this system he may receive, say on reaching 55 years, the
£500."

It is a grand and attractive feature in the plan of
operation that no policy can ever be forfeited after
it certain period by the non-payment of the pre-

RiIUM :--

"After the payment of five annual premiums on whole
life policies, effected with profits, the association will tot
forfeit the policy by reason of the temporary intwility of the
assurer to pay up his premiums, but will, on application,
advance the required amount for premiums at interest, as
often as the value of the policy will admit. Thus an as
surer who has paid five annual premiums of, say £lO
each, being temporarily inconvenienced, could have the
sixth premium credited to him and charged on his policy at
inteus+, he having the same indulgence the following
year, or, at least, as often es the value of his policy
would admit of it. He would also have power to repay the
amount so credited as soon as convenient, or leave it a
charge on the policy. By the deed of settlement, five per
cent, of all the profits are also set aside for the formation (i
a fund for sustaining the whole life bonus policies cf those
who are temporarily unable to pay up the premiums."
We will now quote a few of the examples ap-
pended to the society's tables
" Table I.—A person aged 30 next birthday may, at his
decease, secure to his family and survivors the sum of
4,000 by the payment during life of £24 Os. 101. annuallYl
£l2 7s. 6d. half-yearly, or £6 53. quarterly, and will be fur-
ther entitled to a participation in the bonus of the associa-
tion, which may be applied—

(1) In rendering the policy payable during the lifetime of
the assured.

(2) In reduction of future premiums.
(3) In adding to the amount assured.

" Table lI.—A person aged 30 next birthday may. at his
decease, secure a fixed sum of £l,OOO by the payment dur•
ing life of £2l. Is. Bd. annually, £ll ls. Bd. half-yearly, or
Xt3 Os. 10d. quarterly.

" Table 111.—A person aged 30 next birthday may secure
at his decease, provided he die within the term of one year?
the sum of £l,OOO by the payment of £ll Os. 10d. ; or may
secure, provided he die within the term of seven years, the
same sum by the annual payment of £ll9s. 2d. (This table
may be advantageously employed in commercial transae'
tions, either for securing debts, money advances, or short
partnerships, or any contingency certain to occur within
”ne or seven years.)

" Table IV.—Single Payment Assurances—Assurances
may be effected under this table for any desired amount"'
say from £'2s and upwards ; and being wholly paid up, be
ceme absolute reversions, descending in all their entire'',
without charge or trouble, to survivors and heirs at the
death of the assured. A person aged 40 next birthday IllaY
secure £lOO with bonus, at death, by the payment of £5l
17s. sd. Policies of this description are always available
for present pecuni iry purposes, seeing that money may! at
all times, be readily obtained upon them by the holders free
of cost, for temporar) accommodation.
" Table V —Joint lives—Two persons, aged respectively
25 and 30, may secure £l,OOO payable at the death of either,
by the annual payment of £32 13s. 4d., during the joint
c..ntinuance of their two lives.

" Table VT.—Endowment Assurances.—A person aged
25 next birthday may, by the annual payment of £2B 18s'
td., secure to himself £l,OOO, together with the additions by
way of bonus, on his attai❑ing the age of 60; or the same
,imount would be payable to his survivor, in the event of
his dying before that period.
"Table VII.--Endowments for children.—Example4'
(The moneys paid to be forfeited to the office in the event
of the child not surviving the term.)
"£lOO may be secured to a child aged 3 years, on attain.
ing 14, by the annual payment of £6l9s. 9d., or by a 6,41°
sum of £59 13s. Id.

" (All premiums returned in the event of the child not
reaching the agreed ago.) £lOO may be secured to a child
aged 3 years, on attaining It, by the annual payment of
a 6s. 2d.

"£lOO may be secured to a child ag d 3, on attaining 21,
by the annual payment of £3 174. 9d.''
The profits, divisable every five years, it mai
be remarked, are apportioned in the followivg
liberal manner :

"Ninety per cent, to the assured, whereof 70 par cent;
is applied as follows:—I. In rendering the policy payable
during the lifetime of the assured. 11. In reduction of
future premiums. 111. In adding to the amount assured'
5 per cent, to the assured for a policy sustentation fund, t°
secure policies from lapsing when assurers are temporartlY
unable to pay the premiums. 15 per cent, to the assured
for purchasing up the shares at the market price, so that
the association may become mutual, when the entire
assets will belong to the policy holders. 10 per cent. to the
shareholders, in addition to interest of not less than 5 Per
cent. per annum, on all capital paid up."
The above illustrations will, however, be suffl-
cient, in regard to the British Nation Assurance
Company, of which Dr. George Birmingham is the
chairman and Mr. Like the manager.

THE ROYAL WEDDING.—The estimate for "
cellaneous, special, and temporary objects" show that the
marriage of the Prinoe of Wales necessitates a vote for
£23,455. The £23,455 is made up of the following items
Extraordinary charges devolving on the departments of her
Majesty's household and travelling expenses, £10,300; for
works at Windsor under the direction of the Office of Worltg
and Public Buildings, £3,200 ; for illuminations of public
buildings, £7,000 ; and for opening the theatres to the pub"
lie on the 10th, £2,955. _ _

Mr. LUMLEY AT HER MAJESTY'S TTIFATRE.--"
Some friends of Mr. Lumley have projected three
testimonial performances, to be given for his benEfit,
May, at the theatre, the brilliant annals and glories of whict`
are so intimately associated with his name; and Mr. Maplo'
disposal. The performances
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c:lco' mini (Marchinn, G6etal,i)
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having volunteeted her services for the three represents'
dill the Operaerivean 1-€l:l.u,escei:ltiut bicolor
tions. Mdlle. Piccoloruini, however, as has been rumoured+
does not intend resuming the stage as a profession After
performing for Mr. Lumley she goes back to Italy and
retires again into private life. With the invaluable aid of
the clebrated ex-prima donna, with the principal at- i'ts
her Majesty a Theatre, and, indeed, all the talent iu rho
country— for everybody will be anxious to lend a hand O
so intero.ting an occasion—the three testimonial pericir'
mances cannot fail to prove unprecedentedly attractive''
The nights for the three representations are fixed for Wed,
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