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TRUSTEES.

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No. 112 i
CoUPtY °

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and Invested Funds
Annual Revenue 922,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Insuran-es firantei both at Home and in Foreign Countries
on the most liberal terms. •
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Every facility offered to Insurers.
Ninety per Cent. of the Profits divided among the Insurers
" the participating, principle.
The new Life business Iransacted in 1802 as follows :
Policies. Am,rint In=ured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23.641 0 0
P°*Tric of Proposal and every information will be furnished
01 application at the

loyDoN OFFICES :
58, Threadneedle-street.
4, New Bank Buildings. Lothhury.
'West-end Office B, Waterloo-Place,

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
oThe duty paid to Government for the year 1502 was
'°62, and the amount insured on farming stock,
X10,C56,32.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profi,s periodically made to
Parties Insuring, who have thus. from time to time, received
sums amounting in the aggregate to £440,000 ; and the Society
now holds a large Reserve applimble to a future Bonus.
,The rates of premium are in no case higher than those
,i_larZed by the other principal offices making no returns to
their Insurers.
For pro,pectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

THE ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal Insurance-
buildinzs, Liverpool.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds ,500,0-o.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,0'30,000.

Chairman in Liverpool :
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P.
Chairman in London :
WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE TEAR

1812.
The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
called upon.to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
Meeting of its Shareholders.
The FlRDirectorsE BRANCH.
aa pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the
close of the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
r TlnenMS have not only reached but exceed £300,000.
Go n hih comparative position held by the Royal in the
„y.ernmgent Rerns of Duty is again fully msintained.
4,111 e profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
s.es amount realised in the preceding year, and in tact sur-
r "es that of any year, with but two exceptions, sine.• the
commencement of thi4 Office, the balance to the credit on
scount of British and Foreign Insurances being £45,107 108.
r.el:, and of the North American business, whichis kept sepa•
4LeIY, £11,007 16s. 10d.
The LIFE BRANCH.
very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
I'.l..atee the sum assured on new policies for the year 1662
eveno that of the y esr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
x..Yle almost unexampled amount for a single year of n
4.7 1,408 new policies issued. Until within the last
years it is believed that such a sum acsured as that whichT, Just been announced as the result of one year's business
Aar all but unheard of.
Watched,
Portion of the Company's business has been carefully
and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the
aeholder, as well as no small encouragement for the
lute re to the participatitr, life assurer.
afforded
of continued care in the selection of lives is amply
Ziorded by a statement of the number rejected. These have
proposed
to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum
L"r:Posed for assuran^e mounts to £`44,281. Various degrees
I.;,Pellgibility have led to these lives being declined.
Bmall number of the Assurance ( ompanies of the day
record_, their accepted lives annually at a sum not much. it at
exceedino, those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
ah a
le in a single year from deterioration of some kind or
another.
If, to complete their review, the Directors now advert
briefly to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
Fire Business be progress has been undoubtedly more
11Did than that of any other Company established either in
London or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken
place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the
amount of New Policies already reported make all other
evidence needless.
The Directors conclude their present Report with the
rcPression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
Insurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
tope' sounded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
future may untold for it a sphere of still greater magni-
tude,e, combining distinguished commercial success to tile
office with a ler gthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASOCIATION.

Thomas Barinz, Esq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual Life Assurance for all classes.
This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a
total sum of £1,500,000.
The Annual income is
The Accumulated Fund exceeds
It has paid in Claims

.. £51,000
2'0,, 00
.. 112,000

The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among.
the Members. Three divisions have already been made'
when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the
Policies

£5,400
.. 11,500
.. 23 200
.. 56,500

Dec. 31, 1847 ..
„ 1852 ..
„ 1857 ..
raakinz th „ 1862
e total bonus additions, £96,606.
Bonuses ma; be received in cash or applied to the reduc
tion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the t obey.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
-119 Policies introduced by this Association, by which the
sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of
Po icy is wholly avoided.
The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all,
Whether assurers or otherwise
Active and Influential agents will be appointed in unrepre
rented districts.

W3l. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1861
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A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)
FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARKES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.
henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wiimot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
„John Garrett Cattlev, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
``ark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq. Samnel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
itobt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' William Wallace, Esq.
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. ' Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par-
ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
participation.
The -Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferrl that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take
place every Five years.
Any sum not exceeding £l5 ,000 may be insured on one
Life.
This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Proflts—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
Stock.
The advantages of modern practice,—with the security
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF.
The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
In the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
United Kingdom, free of charge.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
Commissariat Offire,
Aldershot, 2d September, 1863.
TENDERS will he received at this office, until
noon, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th September, 1863,
from persons who may be willing to enter into Contract for
the supply of
FORAGE,

In such quantities as may be required, from Ist November,
1883, to 3 st October, 1804, for the use of ITer Majesty's
Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the com-
mand.

Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on apt,lication at this office, by letter or in person,
between the hours of ten and four o'clock.
The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and
delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the
outside " Tender for Forage"), and no Tender win be noticed
Unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered
by the hour appointed.

HENRY B. MORSE,
Deputy Commis wary-General.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
TENDERS will be received at this Office until
12 o'clock noon on the tel of October, from persons who
may be willing to enter into Contracts to supply
FORAGE AND PAILLASSE STRAW,
in such quantities as may be required, for the use of Her
Majesty's Land Forces stationed in the following places,
from Ist Noycmber, 1863, to 31st October, 1861 :

FORAGE.
1. Hyde-park, Kensington, Regent's-park, and
Guards.
2. Hounslow and Kneller Hall. Horse
3. Hampton Court.
4. Windsor.
5. lirtubton.
6. Sandhurst.
7. Enfield.

1. Brornpton HouPale,lHMjyjdWaErkS,TanßdAßWen• sington.
2. Itegßenatrr'salasr.k, St. John's-wood,
and Bt. Chelsea.
Barracks.
and Portman-street
43 . Wellington S.
New
Barracks,
an
5. The Tower.
6. Hounslow and Kneller Hall.
7. Hampton Court.
3. Windsor.
O. Brighton, with Coast Forts from N
ham. etvhwell to Shore-
-10. Croydon.
Separate Tenders must be made for Forage and for pail_
lasso Straw for each ot the above-mentioned Stations 0r -el.":
Bar-
racks as group
i and numbered.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may b
tamed on application at this office, by letter or in e ob.
between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock. person,
Tenders on the priutel forms must be properly
"fi),lled before
and simied, and no Tender will be noticed unless delivered ti
at the under-mentioned I 'Mee, under closed envelope (marked
Ita the outside " Tender for Commissariat Supplies
' o'clock noon on the 3d October next.
(signed) W. T. POWER,
Comm esary-General.
bePu, Commissary-General's...s.%.„ Office,
1.04 -^-strept pgardens,
don' 'o'
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ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail•
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
aid instant admission to the destitute sick, without the for-
mality of governors' letters. It is entirely devoted to desti-
tution in its most pitiable form—viz., that which is accom-
panied by sickness and disease, and is now of sufficient
magnitude that, with adequate support, it may be rendered
capable of admitting into its wards a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have MO beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
The Weekly Board feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to a❑able them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.

Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Alas terman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co. ; Harries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; W ]Hams, Deacon, and Co. ; reverend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and at the Hospital.

STANFORD S. SMITH Secretar

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION

(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONEsS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
li. G., P.R.S.
CHAIRMAN--Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., v.p.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., P.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.

The Committee of Management have to state that, since
• lie beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
I.nstitution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of Eng'and, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Lite-boats of the
Society, iind other means, since its formation, is 12,800 ;
for which services 82 Gold 6ledals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£11,480. in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion nas also expended .E67,' 00 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-carriages e, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous
British public during the past few years, a support which
support which they have received from the
has enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom
Deeply sensible, however, of the great responsibility That
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient,
state, and i' t Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whiq, can only be effected by a large and permanent
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classes of their
countrymen to aid them in upholding and perpetuating so
great and truly national a work.
The Committee gratefully acknowledge the following con-
tributions :

Her Majesty the Queen X s. zi
:: ..
annual"nual 505
0 0
• annual 1 1 0
Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. ..
Clerk, Colonel, KA. • •
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K..e.8. .•: 2d don. 25 0 0
Coutts and Co., Messrs., Bankers •..: annual 10 0 0
Currie, IVM., I'~sq•, • • • • -• .. 4 tlt don.lo 0 0
rmtliereal 10 10 0
1,14:,
ar lnes,
hLao,,r,
ed, Cvhi
ci ee f.
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Fenwick, G.
T., Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-
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Harvi

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3 0 0

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Martin,ey Sir Henry, Bart. • • • • 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore. Rev. G. H. • • • • • • • • don. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich • • • • 30 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. • • annual 2 0 0
Thou.. Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her
Ladyship • • • • • • • •• • • 16 16 0
Willoughby d'Erosby, Lord ......annual 5 0 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfblly r -
eived by the Bankers of the Intitution, Messrs. 'Mutes
Percival. and Co., 76, Lombard-street ; Messrs. Coutts anci
10-, 59, Strand; qessrs. Berries, Faxouhar, and Co., 16, St.
_ atnei's-strect, London ; by a 1 the Collectors of Customs
Mc_i,Bankers in the Unitedßiogdom; and by the Secretary
I",Vitard Lewis. Esu at the Office Of the Institution, 14,
72treeto AaelpWLondon,

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)
The deaths in London in the week that ended last Sa-
turday were I,'h's7. The average uuwber of deaths in the
37th week of each of the 10 years, 1853-62, becomes 1,158,
when deaths from cholera in 1854 are excluded from the cal-
culation, and a correction made for increase of population.
Tho deaths in. last week were about 100 in excess of the
estimated number.
The mortality from smallpox is now greatly reduced, the
deaths from it in the last three weeks having been 31, 29,
and 28 reqectively. The deaths from diarrhoea, which
reached 233 in the third week of July, have fallen to 93, as
shown in the present return. Scarlatina is at the present
time the most formidable of the epidemic diseases ; it was
fatal in 124 cases in the week, while measles was returned
in only 7 cases.

There were 4 deaths from scarlatina in Kensington-town
sub-district, 4 in Kentish-town,7 in Islington, 9 in Bethnal-
green district, 9 in 'SVhitechapel, 4 in Poplar, and 11 in

Newington.

Last week the births of 938 boys and 985 girl©, in all 1,923
children, were registered in London. In the 10 correspond-
ing weeks of the years 1853-62 the average number (cor-
rected) was 1,802.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29 801 in. The mean
daily reading was above 30 in. on Friday and Saturday.
The barometrical pressure fell to 29'40 in. on Monday; and
it rose to 33.10 in. on Saturday, The mean temperature of
the air in the week was 54.5 deg., which is 3.1 deg. below
the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by
Mr. Glaisher). The mean daily temperature was below the
average throughout the week. The highest day tempera-
ture was 66.6 deg. on Monday. The lowest night tempe-
rature was 42.3 deg. on Friday. The range of the thermo-
meter in the week was therefore 2.1'3 Oeg. The mean daily
range was 17.6 deg. The difference between the mean dew-
point temperature and air temperature was 71 deg. The
mean degree of humdity of the air was 76,complete saturation
being represented by 100. The wind was in the south-west
on five days. Nearly an inch of rain fell on four days, and
of that amount 4-10ths on Thursday. A thunder• storm
occurred after 10 p.m. on Wednesday. The mean of the
highest temperature of the water of the Thames was 63.8
deg. ; that of the lowest was 61.6 deg.

THE ANNAMITE AMBASSADORS IN PARIS.—The
Annamite Ambassadors, whose arrival we yester-

day announced, are the objects of great curiosity to the
Parisians. Their appearance cannot be said to be prepos-
sessing, and eleanliness they seem to look upon as a crime.
Like the Chinese and Japanese they dispense with pocket-
handkerchiefs, but the square pieces of paper which the for-
mer use as a substitute, either have not found their way to
the kingdom of Annam, or are considered there as one of
the supet fluities of exaggerated civilisation. The cones

- -
quences are not pleasant to witness, the change of climate
having affected some of the distinguished visitors with
coryz3. It has also been seen with surprise that the chief
dignitaries among them alone wear shoes—rank with the
Annamites being outwardly marked by the covering for the
feet. They are great smokers,and are hardly ever to be seen
without a cigar or cigarette in their mouth, and they are
said to show a lively appreciation of FL each cuisine; they
are fond of champagne, and truffles in particular meet with
their approbation ; they are even said to prefer this savoury
tuber to their favourite dish at home—pickled caterpillars.
Like other countries, the empire at Annam possesses several
orders of chivalry—the Order of the "Elephant's Tusk,"
and that of the " Horn of the Rhinoceros" being the prin-
cipal. These honorary marks of distinction are not, it is
stated, greatly coveted, as the insignia weighs, according to
the various classes, from 15 to 100 pounds, so that a grand
cross is exposed literally to sink beneath the weight of his
sovereign's favour, The ambassadors have commenced their
rounds of official visits, and are said to be well versed in the
laws of etiquette. The first ambassador—described as re-
markable for his intelligence, and for that reason looked upon
with suspicion at the Court of Hue--is accompanied by two
great dignitaries, who under the pretence of assisting him
are specially charged to keep a watch over him. He is re-
ported to be aware of this, and takes his precautions in con-
sequence. The account which has been given of their mis-
sion appears to be true. The Emperor of Annam wishes to
recover the three provinces of Lower Cochin-China cccupied
by the French. The motive for this desire is not so much
to recover a few hundred leagues of territory as to plunder
and hang the faithless subjects who have submitted
to the French. At the same time he would not be sorry
to dupo the foreign barbarians, to whom be offers, it is said,
40,000,000f.without having the remotest intention of giving
them a sou, The ambassadors will consequently have to
broach a very difficult question, and the more so as it is
with people already aware of their manner of interpreting
treaties they have to deal with. Accustomed as they are to
conceal their thoughts and never telling the truth, they be-
lieve that every one else acts in the same manner. Thus,
when the first ambassador was informed of the arrival of
Commander Aubaret, who is charged to escort them while
in France, he perfectly understood he was about to have to
do with a man who knew how to manage them, and could
not help exclaiming " Bon l nous allons 6changer autant de
mensonges que de paroles." The ambassadors will not be
presented at Court until the Emperor's arrival at Compii:gne
in the course of next month.—Galignani.
DARING BURGLARY AND CLEVER CAPTURE.—On
Monday evening, the premises of Mr. James Clark,
umbrella manufacturer and warehouseman, Candleriggs-
street, Glasgow, were broken into, and a cash box and £44
stolen. The premises were locked up at the usual time, a little
past 7 o'clock, when it was believed everything was secure.
Shortly before eight, however, a girl on the back stairs ob-
served three boys making their exit from one of Mr. Clark's
back windows, and accordingly informed Mr. Morrison,
stay manufacturer, of what she had seen. Mr. Morrison
promptly informed the police of the matter, and at once
steps were taken to discover the robbers. As it was pos•
Bible that some of the party might still be inside, the pre-
mises were surrounded by constables, and a messenger sent.
to Mr. Clark to bring the keys of his establishment. This
being done, on entering the premises ne one was found,
but it was apparent that facilities for the entrance of the
robbers must have been given from within. It was also
discovered that a desk in the counting-house up stairs and
one in the shop on the street flat had been forced open, and
the money they contained, amounting to £44, carried off.
A pair of boy's boots had been left behind, and these were
carefully preserved by the police. Suspicion was at once
attached to John Maitland, a lad of thirteen years old, who
was in the habit of closing the back windows. Hence
Detectives Stewart and Harley were sent to Whitevale to
apprehend him. To apprehend the other boys, who must
have taken part in the robbery, was now the duty set
down for the detective police. With a rather imperfect
description of them, they sallied forth to scour the city.
About midnight a little light was thrown upon their
pathway, by the inquiries of a woman named Ramsay
and a man named Moffat, at the Central Police-office for
boys belonging to them who had not come home as usual
that evening. Sub-inspector Audley Thomson, who took
a note of the description and names of the missing boys,
shrewdly guessed that the youths might hs,vo had some-
thing to do with the burglary, and therefore produced the
boots which had been found in Mr. Clark's warehouse, in-
quiring whether either person knew them. Mrs. Ramsay at
once identified them as belonging to her son. When Maitland
was brought to the station-house he confessed it was he and
two other boys who had committed the depredation—the
other boys being Ramsay, aged 13, living in Wesleyan-
street, and James Moffatt, aged 16, residing in Nelson-street.
What had become of them he could not say, as they had
been disturbed on coming out with their booty, and had taken
a different way and had left him, but he had heard them
speak of going to Liverpool or London. No further trace of
the boys could be found until yesterday morning, about
nine o'clock, when a telegram was being despatched from
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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Kehay as, Greek Minister of Finance,
has forwarded to this committee the following
letter in connection with his report on the state of
the Greek Exchequer. This letter explains in a
very satisfactory way the present position of Greek
finance, and refers also to the important question
of the bonds of 1824-5, which have now so much
interest for the English public.-1 have the honour
to be, Sir, your obedient servant,
STEFANOS XENOS, Hon. Secretary.
Philhellenic Committee-rooms, 12, Charing-
cross, S.W., Sept., 16.

Ministry of Finance, Athens, Sept. 5, 1863.

My dear Sir, —M. Routfos, the President of the Council
of Ministers, has communicated to me the translations you
forwarded to him of the letters of "A Philhellene," the
article of the Times, and also your answers. I must con-
gratulate you on the lucidity of your replies, which so easily
correct the erroneous opinions of "A Philhellene" regarding
the state of our finances. I take advantage of this oppor-
tunity to forward you en explanation of the reasons that
induced me to draw up my financial report, and to point
out to you at the same time, more in detail, borne of the
incorrect statements published on the subject.
When I asked from the National Assembly a credit for
the month of July (the entire Budget of 1863 could not yet
be voted), I took occasion to make a brief exposé of the
state of the National Exchequer and the consequent
necessity of contracting a loan. Having been asked at the
same time by one of the foreign ambassadors for a state-
ment of the monetary wants of the country, I hastened to
publish, in the shape of a memorandum, the report I had
presented to the National Assembly. It wag this report
which M. Rouff3s forwarded to your committee. It is easy
to perceive that I did not intend it as an expose of the
Budget of the current year, or a picture of our future finan-
cial prospects, but simply as an answer to questions ad-
dressed to me, and a statement of the amount of loan required.
(rile necessity for the loan is absolute.) That this is the real
character of the report is proved by the fact that I only speak
of our estimated possible revenues, and mention, en peasant,
our trifling actual taxation as compared with other countries.
It is strange that "A Philhellene" should have mistaken
the report for the budget of the current year, making thereby
some grievous errors. In the first place, he supposes that
12,000,000 drachmas am a deficit of the present year; and
secondly, that 22,000,000 drachmas, which represent the
constant yearly revenue of the country during some years
past, should now be returned on the balance-sheet minus
6,000,000 drachmas. which "A Philhellene" regards as a
visionary property, though these 6,000,000 are the proceeds
of former arrears and revenue arising from the national pro-
perty. How incorrectly am I interpreted, and what strange
burdens are thrown on this unfortunate budget of 18631
As you yourself correctly observed in your letter, this de-
ficit of 12,000,000 drachmas will be better described as an
inheritance derived from the bad financial management of the
Governments of the fallen dynasty, which was hidden by
provisional loans, and by the refusal to meet acknowledged
engagements, particularly with foreign creditors. It is true
that a part of this amount represents monetary wants of the
present year, but this is not a deficit between expenditure
and revenue, but at rears of acknowledged and secured debts,
the collection of which is postponed by the anomalous state
of the country.
It surprises me to find that after baying mentioned this in
my report, the deficit of 12,000,000 drachmas, arising from
explained causes, should still be characterised as a deficit
attachable exclusively to the year 1863. And what appears
still more extraordinary is the attempt to saddle even the
future with tb.o same constantly recurring burdens.

I ask you whether, when a European State transfers
ancient loans, originating either in extraordinary expenses
or other causes, from a dette flottante into Consaidis, it is
assumed that the capital of such loans is to form a regular
item in every future budget, or whether the interest only is
to appear there ? What else do we purpose doing than to
transfer into Consolide's all the debts contracted before the
revolution of last year, and, at the same time, to cover by a
loan the extra wants which this revolution has created ?
I now come to the second erroneous argument of " A
Philhellene," which, I have no doubt, arises more from mis-
take than a deliberate wish to misrepresent. In concluding
my report, I wished, by contrasting the taxation in Greece
of 10s. a head with that of other counties, to show how
comparatively light our burdens are, and bow, without be-
coming onerous, they may be still increased, For this reason
I divided the sources of revenue into two classes—firstly,

the revenues arising from the real taxes (16,000,000
drachmas) —and secondly, the revenues arising from the
income of the national property, and the arrears of taxes
remaining from former years, amounting to 6,000,000
drachmas. "A Philhellene" mistook their classification for
a;modification, and, regarding the 6,000,000 drachmas arising
from the second source of revenue as visionary, adopted
16,000,000 drachmas as the real yearly revenue of the
country.

I consider it scarcely necessary to add that the yearly

reveLue of 6,000,000 drachmas which I placed in the second
class is much more likely to increase than to diminish, for,
as I stated in the report, the national property, valued at
more than 50,000,000 drachmas, and the arrears of debt to
the nation, amounting to 60,000,000 drachmas, guarantee
to the national treasury a yearly revenue of 6,000,000
drachmas. By a judicious arrangement, and with good
management of the national property, this sort of revenue
is capable of being vastly augmented.
From this you will perceive how exaggerated are the sal •
culations of " A Philhellene,' who raises our expenditure
to £1,500,000, and lowers our revenue to VOO,OOO.
When the contemplated loan is negotiated, I am positive
that every thingwill be satisfactorily arranged, both as regards
the deficit of 12,000,000 drachmas, and also every expense

connected with the reception of our new King. The fears
of a deficit in the next three months are wholly groundless
—in the first place, because these three months fall at the
end of the year, a period when most of the taxes become
due ; and secondly, because the arrival of the King will re-
establish order, which will enable the outstanding taxes to
be collected. I must inform you at the satno time that the
loan taken from our National Bank of 3,600,000 drachmas,
which we intend to settle out of the proceeds of the new
foreign is not payable immediately—and oven, in case
ofanu loan,nexpected public difficulty, its payment may be post-
poned.
. .

I must not pass over in silence the blame which "A
Philhellene" throws on the National Assembly for having
reduced the land-tax. This reduction was dictated by a
spirit of justice towards all the tax-paying classes, and this
reduction is compensated for by a proportionate impost on
articles hitherto untaxed.
What most surprises me is the effort made unsuccessfully
it is true, but still made—by " A Philhellene," to mix up
with my report the question of the old loans. My report
had no other object than to show the unavoidable necessity
of a loan in order to cover the present monetary difficulties
of the country, and was wholly unconnected with the sub-
ject of those bonds. My fervent desire was, and now more
than ever is, to see the just demands of all the creditors of
the Greek Treasury satisfied as soon as possible. This de-
sirety ah
es ecno sun of justice as well as by the con-
i
a mode of proceeding would tend to the
y. I know very well that the
kingdom cannot be developed, unless that
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hscbtaeaoti tnfesgtduhocebhf
which distinguishes civilised nations be established, namely,
public credit—a fact which I - must confess was unfortu-
nately the different Governments of the
fallen
dyne lost
y. sight of by
But this subject could not be made an item
in my report, as nothing was yet definitely decided regard-
ing it by the legislative bodies, and, such being the case, I
t
think "A Philhellene" ought to have been satisfied with
what I said regarding the ancient creditors of our country.
In conclusion, I have reason to hope that the information
which I have forwarded to you in this letter, though brief,
will suffice for the present to enlighten public opinion in
England regarding the state of our finances.
Accept, my dear Sir, the assurance of my sincere friend-
ship. E. J. KEHAYAS.
M. Stofanos Xenos, Hon. Sec. Philhellenic
Committee, London.

SUPERSTITION IN SOMERSETSHIRE.—A sad in-
stance of moral depravity, and a proof that the once
popular belief in witchcraft has not entirely died out in our
country villages, came before the magistrates of the Bridge-
water Divisional Petty Sessions last Week. The facts came
out in a charge of assault preferred by two women—a mother
and daughter—of Auntspill, against another woman of the
same place, and from the evidence it app
de-
fendant (Ann Hogg) had for a long tittle considered herself
"hag ridden "—that is, she had ex eared that the
sensa-
tions, non-orthodox maladies, &C. She had for some time
with the complainants
before had occasion to " fall out " experienced queer
(Charlotte and Caroline), and in consDqueace her ignorance
had led her to put down these feelings and illnesses to the
credit of a power possessed by the complainants. With this
idea uppermost in her mind she had resources to the specific
counter-charrn of "drawing blood
from the bewileher,
which operation was described by the elder of the com-
plainants thus :—" Between eight and nine o'clock on the
evening of the 28th ult. I met the defendant the Hunt-
spill-road, and she came behind me end ran something in
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THE " MONITEUIt'S" TRIBUTE TO HIM, AND THE
COMPLIMENTARY OPINIONS OF OTHER FRENCH

PAPERS.

In the customary theatrical review given every
Monday all the principal Paris papers of yester-
day's date (said the Paris correspondent of the
Mites in his communication of Tuesday even-
ing) make honourable mention of Charles
Mathews's performance at the Varie es. The
ifoniteur leads the van, and nearly the whole of
Theophile Gautier's feuilleton is devoted to " The
Timid Englishman." In him he finds a sign of the
times, a new tendency, and one peculiar to our
epoch :—" When English actors came to France for
the first time, towards the close of the Restoration,
their presence caused tumults which almost became
riots. The national amour propre repulsed them
with a violence such as to•day one can hardly ima-
gine. One might really have thought perfidious
Albion was seriously attempting to dispossess us of
our territory. Intercourse was then rare between
the two nations, and there was little goodwill be-
tween them. The study of Shakapere, Byron, and
Walter Scott had not then initiated us into the
English imagination, and the grotesque caricatures
due to the rancours of 1815 passed for striking por-
traits. On the other hand, the British had not a
very correct idea of the French. They pictured
them always as hairdressers and dancing-masters,
feeding Exclusively on frogs. That was the sum
total of their information concerning us, and Ho-
garth's old caricatures still appeared to them true
to nature. Things have now changed. Thanks to
steam, we breakfast in Paris and dine in London.
People seldom hate one another except from want
of sufficient acquaintance, and aversions generally
spring from misapprehensions. Paris gave an en-
thusiastic reception to Macready and Helen Faucit,
and London applauded Fechter playing in English
as it had applauded him when that charming actor
belonged to the French company at the St. James's
Theatre. And now Mr. Charles Matthews pays
us the compliment of coming to the VariC'es to
perform in a piece of his own in cur language.
Mr. Mathews is a first-class comedian, very cele-
brated in England, a distinguished author, and a
pevfect gentleman. His success in Paris has been
complete, especially since the piece has been relieved
from certain developments rather too lengthy for
Parisian impatience, which understands everything
when only half-spoken, and listens no longer when
once it has understood. Mr. Mathews has in his
acting a something of Perlet, something of Henri
Monnier, and something of Arnal, and, moreover, a
special Britannic savour, which to our mind gives a
great deal of originality to his play. His accent,
exceedingly slight, destroys no illusion, since he is
playing the part of an Englishman who is speaking
French. Is it not strange that, at the moment when
one of the most esteemed English comedians is acting
in our language, Taillade is preparing to perform
Macbeth in English at the Vaudeville Theatre ? Is
it not a sign of that intellectual reconciliation we
spoke of at the beginning of our article, and which
has been brought about, after such long antipathies,
by the progress of a civilisation which tends to
blend all nations in one common humanity ?"
Jules Janin in the Debats, the Temps, the France,
the Presse—all, in short, speak in equally hand-
some and friendly terms. The Steele finds that
Mathews's style of acting has something of Lafont
and something of Levassor. The Temps declares that
Levassor or Brasseur would envy him his carica-
ture of an Englishman, and urged him to select, in
the French repertory, some of the pieces Levassor
is wont to play; the Opinion Nationale [whose tri-
bute to Mr. Mathews has been already given in The
Sun] wishing him to take Arnal's part of the "Homme
Blase" which he has played habitually in the English
version, and predicts a great success. As it is, in the
" Anglais Timide," the papers all declare his success
complete, and the best proof of it is that the
Varietes, which was doing very badly with a stupid
piece called " La Chanson de la Marguerite" before
he came, now cannot find room for all who fain
would have places.

SUICIDE IN THE STREET.—Last night Mr. S. F
Lang ham, deputy coroner for Westminster, held an
inquiry at King's College Hospital, touching the death of
John Hunter, aged 41, a tailor, lately residing at 41, Lower
Whitecross-street, who committed suicide on Monday last.
Caroline Hunter, wife of the deceased, said her husband
had been in bad health for the last six months, and had
threatened to commit suicide before he left home on Mon-
day morning. He also threatened witness, and said they
had better go out of the world together. She did not see
him after he left home on Monday morning until she saw
him dead at the hospital. He was not in want, but had been
so reduced by illness, she believed, as to affect his mind.
Thomas Grant, carman, in the employ of Messrs. Chaplin
and Horne, deposed to finding the deceased on Monday
morning, about 8 o'clock, inside the gateway of the George
and Blue Boar •yard, Holborn, with his throat cut. No one
was near him at the time. A shoemaker's knife was lying
by his side. There was a great quantity of blood lying at
his feet, as if he had fallen backwards. With assistance he
put deceased in his van, and brought him to the hospital.
He was not dead then. Witness had previously sent for
Mr:Williams, surgeon. Police-constable Sutton said he was
called by the last witness to the George and Blue Boar on
Monday morning, lie found deceased as described by the
last witness. lie asked deceased why he had done it, and
ho said because he had a bad wife. He tried to seize the
knife, and wanted witness to finish him at once. He also
expressed the same wish to the surgeon. Mr. Williams,
surgeon, Gray's. inn-road, proved being called to the de-
ceased. He attended to the wounds in his throat, and advised
that he should be removed to the hospital. There were also
some stabs in the stomach. Chas. Antonini, house surgeon
at King's College Hospital, said deceased when admitted
had a large gash in his throat about seven inches long, and
was very much blanched from loss of blood. He was put to
bed, but he died the same day. Death, no doubt, resulted
from the wound in the throat. After further evidence the
jury returned a verdict of "Temporary Insanity."
CELIBACY AND MARRIAGB.—Another volume of
the " Population Tables," compiled from the English
census returns of 1861, has been issued. Among the subjects
with which it deals is that of the civil condition of the people
of England and Wales. In April, 1861, there were found to
be in England and Wales 12,032,157 persons—men, women,
and children—who had never been married, 6,917,395 per-
sons married, and 1,116,672 persons widowed—in all
20,066,224. The females were 10,289,965 in number, being
513,706 more than the males ; but against this excess must
be set about 162,000 for persons belonging to England in
the army and navy, and merchant seamen abroad at the
time of taking the census, and consisting mostly of adult
males. With regard to the condition of women, we learn
that while the increase of the entire population of England
and Wales in the ten years 1851-61 was below 12 per cent,
and the increase in the total number of females was be-
low 13 per cent, the increase in the number of wives was
above 15 per cent. In 1851 there were 3,015,634 mar-
ried women in England and Wales ; in 1861 there were
3,488,952. The proportion of children to a marriage and
the increase a
wer ewhich marriage
under o
lg
f a2rsr i33,e
aetakeso
rs populationof
a agree greatly affected by the
age place.w h the census was taken
in The number of wives
in 1851 was 290,034 ; but in 1861 the number had risen to
350,919, an increase of more than a fifth. Marriages in-
creased in the ton years, and celibacy declined. The census
of 1851 found in England and Wales 62'5 per cent of its
male population an.' 59.8 per cent of its female population
unmarried ; at the census of 1861 the proportions had fallen
to 61.2 per cent among the males and 581 per cent among
the females. But this is calculating on the whole popula-
tion, children as well as adults; the adult bachelors, men
of 20 and upwards, fell from being 30.28 per cent of all the
adult males in 1851 to be only 27.67 per cent in 1851, and
the adult spinsters from 28.32 per cent of all the adult
females in 1851 to 2612 per cent in 1561. Of the women of
the age of 20 and upwards, therefore, 28 in every 100 were
without husbands in 1851, not 27 in 100 in 1861. Or, taking
none but persons in the prime of life, 20 and under 40 years
of age, 45 in 100 of the men of this age were bachelors in
1851, but only 42 in 1861; and of the women 41 in 100 were
spiesters in 1851, but only 39 in 1861. These figures indi-
cate a time of prosperity and comfort, It is true that the
census of 1861 still found in England and Wales 1,201,576
of the men between 20 and 40 years of age bachelors, and
1,229,051 of the women between 20 and 40 left in celibacy;
but it must be remembered that the celibacy of some makes
it prudent for the rest to marry. The census again shows
that though a large number of men. and women never marry
the population in England can. increase moderately, and the
I work of colonial)* and subduing the earth still go Q 44

THE NAVY.

The Cumberland, 74, Capt. w. K. Hall, C.B.
guardship of the Chatham steam reserve, is bein
stripped of her rigging, in order to be fitted with a
pair of masting shears, for meeting small vessels on
the plan proposed to the Admiralty by Capt. Hall,
by which it will no lenger be necessary to send the
vessels either to Sheerness or Chatham to be masted.

The paddlewheel steamer Salamander, 6,818 tons,
220 horse power, fitting for the Chatham steam re-
serve in the Medway, has been almost entirely
rebuilt, having undergone a very extensive repair,
besides being fitted with new boilers, in addition to
which her machinery has undergone a thorough
overhaul. Her standing and upper rigging has been
fixed, and she will shortly be ready to take her
place in the first division cf the steam reserve.

The screw frigate Tamar, 3, 2,812 tons, 500 horse
power, Capt. F. H. Stirling, fitting at the Yore for
immediate service at sea, is receiving on board
nearly 1,000 tons of coals in the great basin, where
two colliers are alongside discharging. The coals are
all heisted on board by means of the steam cranes,
by which a great saving of time is effected.
Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., the Civil Lord of the Ad-
miralty, is now on a visit to Portsmouth dockyard,
accompanied by Mr. Walker, Inspector and Auditor
of Dockyard Accounts, engaged in investigating
the principles and data upon which future annual
Parliamentary returns of dockyard expenses are to
be made out.

The Speedy, screw gun-vessel, Master Comman-
der Burney, in commission for service at the Chan-
nel Islands, having undergone repairs to hull and
machinery at Portsmouth, and received new boilers,
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The Sprightly, paddle-tender, Master Comman-
der
at Portsmouth, and received new boilers, was tested
at Spithead in the working of her machinery on
Tuesday, and was tried at the measured mile.
The Pioneer, 6, screw despatch-vessel, Comman•
der Robinson, recently returned to England
from service on the Australian station, hauled
alongside the shear jetty of Portsmouth yard yes-
terday, and was dismasted under the shears. She
is cleared out and her stores are returned, and will
be paid out of commission after the conclusion of a
court martial, expected to be held on one of her
subordinate officers, which will probably take place
to-day.
The Lyra, 9, screw, Wasp, 17, screw, and Falcon,
17, screw, wooden corvettes, are being brought
forward for commission as rapidly as possible by
ther seamen riggers
sdand reserve in the steam basin
of
The Hector, iron frigate, still remains in the large
dock at Portsmouth, and from the slow progress
being made with her outfit, will in all probability
remain there until driven out by the wants of the
Channel fleet on their arrival at Spithead at the
conclusion of their present cruise.

The following appointments were made yester-
day at the Admiralty :—Andrew Farmer, master,
to the Zebra; Robert Brown, master, additional, to
the Fisgard ; John A. H. Marcus, assist.-engineer,
to the Asia as supernumerary ; James It. Gow,
master's assistant, supernumerary, to the Euryalus ;
Edward M. Ommanney, clerk, to the Alert; and
Charles H. Baker, clerk, to the Royal Adelaide, as
supernumerary.