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THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1864.

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR. OF " ST. OLAVE'S."
Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
JAN I T A'S CRO S S.
By the Author of "St. Olave's."
" There is real cleverness in ' Janita's Cross.' The charac-
ters are distinctive and life-like."—Saturday Review.
" ‘Janita's Cross' is in all respects equal to `St. Olave's.' "
—Post.

11,1 eERSONS SEEKING LANDED
LS ATES, TOWN AND COUNTRY RESIDENCES,
FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD INVESTMENTS, AND
PROPER al% GENERALLY-

the following is a summary :—Twelve miles of connecting
sewers had been constructed on the middle level sewer con-
tract at the estimated cost of £309,000. Nearly four railed
of the sewers intended for the interception of the western
district drainage had been completed at a cost of about
£.53,000. Three out of four of the compartments of the
northern outfall reservoir were now completed, and con-
stoutly received the sewage brought down from the high
and middle level sewers, and discharged such sewage into
the Thames at Barking at the ebb tide only. The fourth
compartment, the embankment over the whole reservoir,
and the sluice-house would shortly be completed. The value
of the work here executed amounted to about £164,500.
About four miles of the southern low sewer had been com-
pleted at the estimated cost of £121,000, and under the
contract for the works at Crossness work to the amount of
£225,000 had been executed. On the first contract for the
Thames Embankment (between Westminster and Waterloo
bridges) work to the amount of £33,000 had been executed ;
but on the second contract (from Waterloo-bridge to the
eastern end of Temple. gardens) the work had not been
altogether of so satisfactory a nature, and it would be neces-
sary in some respects to adopt a new system in carrying out
the work.

To BE HAD GRATIS, at the principal Railway Bookstalls
throughout the kingdom, or at the Auction and Estate Offices,
No. 67, Chancery-lane, London, Messrs. E. and H. Lumley s
"FREE PROPERTY REGISTER," containing a varied selection
of landed and house properties now in the market, from
the nobleman's mansion, with its manorial domain, to the
cottage with its few acres.
OWNERS OP PROPERTIES wishing to Sell or Let can em-
brace the opportunity that the medium of this Re2ister
affords, by sending the particulars of their properties to the
Lumley can in most cases introduce immediate customers,
Estate Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London, as the Messrs.
where the property is of an eligible ehara ter, thereby avoid-
ing the disadvantages of delay and its attendant incon-
veniences.
THERE IS NO CHARGE incurred, unless a tenant or pur-
maser is introduced through . Messrs. Lumley's Agency,
and then only the usual moderate commission.
Auction and Land Offices, 67, Chancery-lane, London.

Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

THE CREDIT MOBILIER (Limited),
80, Lombard-street, E.C. •
Capital, £1,000,000, in 20,000
Shares of £5O each.
Subscribed Capital, £500,00n
, in Ao,Ooo Shares.
DIRECTORS.
Chairman—The Right Hon. James Stuart Wortley.
The Hon. T, C. Ha'iburton, John Westmorland, Esq.
SLP. Edward Warner, Esq., ..
Alexander Dunbar, Esq. Char.es Ellis, Esq.
Ado:phe Hakim, Esq. Ja r.es Levu*, Esq.
Charles E.
-Newbon, Esq. Henry pownall, Esq.
MANAGER.
Albert Grant, Esq,
•
BANKERS.
Messrs. Masterman, Peters, Mildred, and Co., London.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smiths, London.
This Company is prepared to negotiate Government and
Municipal Loans, and to aid in carrying out Concessions.
To effect the purchase and sale of Shares, Stocks, dr.o., and
to transact financial business generally.
To make advances on approved securities.
Also to receive money on deposit, for periods and terms to
be agreed upon.
Communications to be made to the Manager.
THOMAS SHORT, Secretary.
Temporary Offices, 80, Lombard-street, London. E.C.

The report was ordered to be entered on the minutes, and
after various other matters had been disposed of the board
adjourned.

Royal Humane Society.

Yesterday evening the 90th anniversary festival of this
society, one of the oldest as it certainly is one of the most
valuable of all our London charities, was held at the Free-
masons' Tavern. The company was not numerous, owing
perhaps to the fact that for the last two or three years the
festivals of this society have been in abeyance, bat what
they wanted in numbers was amply made up in zeal and
earnestness, as the liberal donations at the close of the
evening clearly showed.

The chair was taken by Viscount Dufferin, who was
supported by Sir Breok Brydges, M.P., Sir Wm. Fraser,
Mr. Sheridan, M.P., Mr. Thomas Page, C.E., Mr. Donald
Nichol], and ether friends of the society. The dinner
was of a most excellent kind, and, what is more rare at
these public entertainments, was admirably served.
The report of the society which, at the conclusion of
the repast, was distributed about the room, spoke most
cheeringly as regards the usefulness of the society. Dur-
ing the past year 208 cases of resetting or attempted
rescue from drowning were brought under their notice,
comprising 262 persons ; of these 246 were successfully
treated, but 16 were, unfortunately, beyond recovery when
y had also in the same period
co
taken out of the water-16 of the number were cases of
attempted suicide.
those ie
who were instrumental
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in saving life frem drowning the following rewards:—
namely, 4 silver medals, 73 bronze medals, 9 thanks of the
society on vellum, 73 thanks on parchment, and 69 pecu-
niary rewards of various amounts. In the past summer
e and
no lees than 255,142 persons were estimated to have bathed
in the Serpentine River during the hours appointed for
morning and evening bathing. It was not surprising
that 36 casualties should have occurred out of so large a
number of bathers ; but it was satisfactory to state that,
awing to the attention of the society's men, not one had
proved fatal.

After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts had been given
and received in the usual cordial manner, the noble chair-
man gave the toast of the evening. He said that nearly a.
century had elapsed since they first entered into their con-
flict with the powers of the grave, and dared to dispute with.
the Angel of Death the spoils he had already counted as
his own. Each successive year had enabled them to inscribe
fresh victories on their rolls, though others had been un-
doubtedly engaged in analogous efforts. The advance of
science, the spread of civilisation, had done much to pre-
serve
the world from the inroads of disease. The citadel of
human life was better guarded now than formerly; but the
utmost that either science or civilisation dare to pretend to
was a defensive attitude. To them alone had it been given
to carry the war into the enemy's country, and annex a pro-
vines of his empire, to penetrate beyond the mysterious
frontier which separated them from eternity, and restore
to the kindly light of day and the pleasant love of friends
those who had already tasted of the bitterness of death,
whose eyes had passed into the dim borderland beyond the
grave, whose feet had wended one stage on that journey
not to be retravelled by mortal man. He called upon them
therefore in all earnestness to drink success to the Royal
Humane Society, than which he did not believe there was a
more valuable association existing.
The toast was drunk with all the honours, and at the
close of the evening the secretary announced a list of dona-
tions amounting to £3OO.

After this toast was drunk the Chairman had the pleasure
of presenting to Mr Donald Nicoll the medal of the society
for his gallant and most desperate effort last February to
save the lives of three persons who had broken through the
ice on the lake at Hampstead, and who were fast drowning
till he came to their assistance. At the most eminent peril
of his own life Mr Nicoll succeeded in saving two, but the
third person, a lad, sank under the ice before he could reach
him. The award of this medal to Mr Nicoll was greeted
with immense applause.

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,N KW S PA_P E
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Yesterday the anniversary meeting lamysar.„:7-
tution, of which the Queen is patron, - terlVAsa-a`Wae
in the theatre of the United Service Instithiiona S
Whitehall—the Duke of Marlborough, president of"
the society, in the chair. The Earl of Shrewsbury
and Talbot was present and took part in the
proceedings, with several naval officers of high rank.
The principal objects of the society are—first, to
board, lodge, clothe, and forward to their homes!
or to their nearest consuls, if foreigners, all wrecked
seamen, soldiers, or other poor persons of all na-
tions cast destitute upon the coasts; secendly,
to assist seamen, whether of the Royal navy or
merchant service, fishermen, coaelguardmen, pilots,
boatmen, and apprentices, to replace their clothes,
boats, &c., when lost by storm or other accidents of
the sea, and to relieve their widows, orphans, and
aged parents. Its operations embrace every part of
the coasts of the United Kingdom, affording by
moans of upnerds of 700 honorary agents, succour
in the hour of distress to eaves shipwrecked per-
son east upon the coast: The noble chairman, in
au opening address, said that during the past year,
which had been one of great disaster at see,
1,949 vessels had been wtecked on the coasts of
these islands, a fact that would efferd some idea.
of the amount of human suffering which this insti-
tution sought to relieve. 'Whenever occasion arose,
he said, its agents and emissaries presented them-
selves with outstretched arms to receive the poor
sufferers whom the ocean cast on shore, to protect
and console them, and afterwards to forward
them to their homes. This year the number of
cases the society had relieved had been unusually
large, and it had been in consequence, compelled to
draw to a certain extent on its invested capital.
Since its establishment in 1839 the beneficent objects
of the society had been gradually extending, and
when it was afterwards incorporated by act of Par-
liament powers were given to its executive commit-
tee to found in connection with it an institution
long urgently needed for the mercantile marine of
England, whenever a fitting opportunity offered,
and similar in its objects to Chelsea and Greenwich
Hospitals. The number of seamen employed in the
mercantile marine of this country was estimated at
a quarter of a million, but until now there had been
no home or refuge to which aged and disabled
sailors could resort to spend their last days in com-
parative comfort. He was happy to think that the
disgrace to the country which the long continued
want of such an institution implied was about to be
wiped out. Since their last annual meeting the
house and grounds at Belvedere-on-Thames, which
belonged to the late Sir Calling Eardley, had been
purchased by the society on reasonable terms, and
there they contemplated the establishment of a home
for wornout and disabled seamen. They had also,
during the past year, established a provident fund,
to which seamen were at liberty to contribute, and
from which the managing committee anticipated
great advantages to all who might avail themselves
of it as a means of providing against the necessities
of age. The secretary then read a report for the
last year, from which it appeared that, besides the
loss of the 1,949 vessels on the coasts of the United
Kingdom, the wrecks is the colonies had been ex-
traordinarily great, and the attendant loss of life
beyond all precedent. The gross income of the
society in the year had been £16,308, or less
than that of the previous year by £1,427.
The mariners and fishermen subscribing vo-
luntarily 3s. a year numbered '50,040, of whom
2,142 had been added since the last annual meeting,
The flag of the society continued to be carried by a
large number of vessels, and served to maintain an
esprit de corps among its maritime members. The
shipwrecks continued to increase with the increase
of tonnage employed, and the loss of life had been
this year unprecedented. Shipwrecked persons to
the number of 6,544 had been boarded, lodged,
clothed, when necessary, and sent to their homes
during the year, among whom were the crews of
vessels belonging to other nations. Of widows, or-
phans, and aged parents 3,764 had been relieved,
but were considered fit objects for an annual grant
for a few years. In 1863, 10,308 persons were re-
lieved in all, making a total since the institution of
the society in 1839 of 131,200. Since 1851, the year
it commenced giving rewards, the committee had
awarded 30 gold and 158 silver medals, and nearly,
£BOO in pecuniary rewards, besides various testi-
monials for heroic exertions in assisting at the saving
of 4 863 lives from shipwreck. The committee re-
ferred with expressions of regret to the decease
during the year of Admiral Sir Henry Hope, their
chairman tor many years; of the Earl of Aberdeen,
who for several years served on the committee ; and
of Sir R. Plumptre Glyn, a most liberal benefactor
of the institution.

The Shipwrecked Mariners' pmg4
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The claims of the society on public support were
eloquently urged by the Earl of Shrewsbury and
Talbot, Mr. G. A. Brograve, Mr. Oliphant Fergusson,
Mr. Lydall, Dr. Sparke, R.N., Admiral Hall, and
Captain the Hon. Francis Maude, R.N.
A resolution was unanimously adopted recording
the continued success of the society in relieving
human suffering under the harrowing circumstances
attendant on shipwreck, and the meeting pledged
itself to renewed exertions hi carrying on so benefi.
cent and patriotic a work.
A cordial vote of thanks was passed to his Grace
the chairman for his courtesy in presiding on the
occasion, and with that the meeting terminated.

Railway and Public Companies in
Parliament,

Yesterday the bill for conferring on the North
London Railway Company additional powers in re.
spect of their works and capital was passed in the
committee on metropolitan railways) and the clauses
of the London and Blackwell Company's Bill were
settled, The further consideration of the Ilfracombe
Railway Cop.'s bill was adjourned until Monday,
and Mr. Kerslake stated the case of the proposed
Launceston, Bodmin, and Wadebridge Junction
Railway, which seeks incorporation with a capital
of £250,000 in shares and £85,000 by loan, for the
construction of a line of 21 miles from a junction at
Launceston, with the authorised line of the Launces-
ton and South Devon, passing by
Camelford to a
junction with the northern branch of the Bodmin.
and Wadebridge Railwayat its northern termination
at St. Breward. The new company are to be au-
thorised to contract with the London and South
Western, the Okehampton, Launceston and South
Devon, and Bodmin and Wadebridge Railways,
as to
its working, use, and traffic. Mr. Somerset examined
witnesses in favour of the project. Mr. Hope Scott
was heard for the Great Northern Railway in
oppo-
sition
to the proposed Great Eastern Northerne
h Junc-
tion. The opposition of the town
S.
Cheltenham
was opened by Mr. Calvert and o
Mr.
Hill against
the East Gloucestershire Railway, iur. Davis and
others connected with the locality being examined
s the
against the project, and in
favour
Saun-
ders. Mr. Grierson, of the
O r e a toWf iet sbt
eyr n, Mr.w
a
principal witness exit
mined by Mr. Locke against
Junction, and Mr. Cawkwell,
general manager of
,
f the London and North Western,
Coleridge, by Mr. on the proposed Brecon and Mer-
thyr Extensions. Pro ressive
proceedings occupied
the committee on the gGI asgow and North British,
and on
the proposed Dublin Metropolitan and Lan-
cashire District lines, which are expected to termic
nate on Monday. In the Lords the bill of the Leeds,
Bradford, and Halifax Railway for a short line at
Bradford to connect with the Lancashire and York-
shire, to take new lands, and raise £96,000 was
passed. The cases taken and bills passed in Lord
Redesdale's committee were those for the North
British (Perth Branch), \Vest Shropshire Mineral
Company's new lines, East Indian Railway, Sun-
ningdale and Cambridge Railway, London, Brighton,
and South Coast (Tunbridge Wells Extension), and
North Western Railways.
METROPOLITAN SUBWAYS.—Yesterday in this
committee Mr. Phinn and Mr. Johnson, for the
Metropolitan Board of Works, stated that after de-
liberating on the decision of the committee not to
allow gas as well as water pipes to be laid down in
the new London subways, the board had determined
to withdraw the hill.

The Temps announces the receipt of intelligence
from Constantinople mentioning the death by apo-
plexy of Nazim Bey. eldest eon of Fuad Pacha, Grand
Vizier. The deceased was attached to the mission filled by
his father in Paris in ISSB, and was afterwards Ottoman
commissioner at the Universal Exhibition in London. The
Grand Vizier lost his second son, Kiazira Bey, not long
since, and is now childless.

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