The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-21 00:00:00

CORK-AUG. 19.

The following were the quotations this morning:--Red
wheat, 8s Od to —s 01; white, lOs 3d to —s Od , barley, 6e
Od to Os Od ; oats, js Gd to Os Od. ; black do., 5s 9d t•
8s 2d.

EDINBURGH GRAIN—JULY 19.
A liberal supply of farmers' wheat to-day, which met s
slow sale at is under the prices of last week. Barley met
a fair sale, and prices unaltered. Oats chill, and declined
Is per qr.
Wheat on the top Is Od down average is 4d down.
Barley on the top 4s 6d up average Os lid up.
Oats on the top 3s Od up...... average Os 3d up.
Beans on the top Os 6d down ...average Os 8d down.

Total Supply and Sales. -
Wheat ...1291 qrs Sold :925 qrs
8ar1ey........ 181 qrs Sold 134 qrs
Oats
Beans l2 qrs Sold 12 qrs
_ _ _

Flour sells as follows :—Whites, 41s Od ; extras, 39s Od
superfine, 37s Od ; fine, 35s Ocl.

DERBY SMITHFIELD—At:G. 18.
The supply of fat beasts to-day was not so plentiful tat
last week, and prices were in favour of the seller. The
number of sheer was short, but lambs were mole plentiful.
Fat calves scarce, and the demand flat. The show of pigs
was large, and nearly all sold.
Beet
Mutton
.4 id to 5d
Lamb Bd to --d Rough fat, 3s 9d per stone
Hides, 3d to 41d; calf skins, ,5d to 6d.

F [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills._
Distempers of the Skin.—The readiness with which Hol-
loway's unguent removes all obstructions in the circula-
tion of the vessels and lymphatics, explains their irresistible
influence in healing old sores, bad wounds, and indolent
ulcers. To ensure the desired effect, the skin surrounding
the diseased part should be fomented, dried, and imme-
diately well rubbed in the Ointment. This will give
purity to the foul blood, and strength to the weakened
nerves—the only conditions necessary for the cure of all
these ulcerations which renders life almost intolerable. No
sooner is the Ointment's protective power exerted, than
the distinctive process ceases, and the constructive business
begins. New healthy growths appear to fill up the lately
painful excavated pit.

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in an East Indianian.--For premium, name of ship, Ne..
PPIY to Messrs. Lain°. and Co" 27, Coleman-street, Bank.
o control over or interference in the outfitting- exercised.

EDINBURGH (Reduced Fares), from Irongate-
. wharf, Tower.—Saloon. 20s ; fore cabin, 15s; deck
(Whitey; and sailors on'y,, 7a M; return tickets (available for
a month\ 308 and 2?s td. The cheapest and quickest sea
route by the splendid new STEAMSHIPS of the LONDON
and EDINBURGH SHIPPING COMPANY, sailing every
Wednesday and Saturday, at 10 morning. Apply at the
Spread Eagle, Regent-circus ; or at Irongate-wharf.
—_____

PASSENGERS AND TRAVELLERS
PROTECTION AND COMPENSATION OFFICES,

16, Craven-street, Strand, London, W.C.
Passengers by
Rail, Road, or Water. and others suffering
from
loss or injury to themselves or property, should apply
or redress and compensation at the above Offices' established
to render prompt assistance to all classes upon the most ad-
vantageous terms.
Advice on application gratis. Letters must be addressed
to "The Manager," enclosing a stamp for reply.

NORTH BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established 1809.
Incorporated by Royal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
Accumulated and Invested Funds £2,122,828
Annual Revenue 422,401
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

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In suran, es aranted 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
on the particip4ting principle.
The new Life business transacted in 1862 as follows :
Policies. Ameunt Insured. Premiums.
1,037 £763,334 £23,641 0 0
Forms of Proposal and every information will be furnished
on application at the

OFFICES :
LONDON 58, Threadneedle-street.
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West-end Office B. Waterloo-place, Pall-mall.

No. 22,199.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

and success are alike admitted by all, and yet the number
of annual subscribers amounts only to 1,000. Our financial
position therefore is anything but satisfactory, and we feel
confident that it is only necessary to call attention to it to
induce all who approve of the objects of the association, and
whose means enable them to do so, to become subscribing
members. In that cue we should number• our members by
thousands instead of hundreds—our income would be ample,
well-assured, and independent of the many chances of the
prize meeting, where success or failure depend upon the acci-
dent of weather, and we should then be able to deal more
liberally with the volunteers and the shooting public, and
carry more fully into effect the objects for which the assn•
cia. ion was founded.

THE NAVY.

The iron paddlewheel steamer Recruit, 6, 150
horse power, Commander G, F. Cottam, fitted at
Chatham for the coast of Africa, was taken to the
llaplin Sands on Wednesday for the purpose of
making an official trial of her speed at her sea-going
trim, with all her Armstrong and other guns, stores,
&c., on board. On the occasion of her former trial,
on the 9th ult., the Recruit, after one breakdown,
attained au average speed of 10.508 knots per hour
in six runs at full boiler power. In four runs, with
half of the boilers cut eff, the average speed was
8.652 knots, the paddlewheels making 31 revolu-
tions per minute. Her mean draught was eight
feet. Since her former trial all her guns, stores,
&c., have been put on board, and the result of her
performance on Wednesday leaves little doubt that
the Admiralty will abandon their intention of send-
ing her to sea, and immediately transfer her officers
and crew to another vessel. With all her stores on
board the Recruit lies like a log in the water, and
at times during the trial on Wednesday the sea
washed over her sponsons in a manner which was
rather alarming. Only two runs were made at the
measured mile, when the speed attained was only
about five knots an hour. Capt. Hall, in command
of the steam reserve, was on board to superintend
the trials; the other officials present being Mr.
Baker, chief engineer ; Mr. Moore, principal assist.-
master-ship wright at C ,atham dockyard; and Mr.
Ramble, inspector of machinery afloat. After
steaming twice over the Maplins, the perform-
ance of the vessel was found to be in the high-
est degree unsatisfactory. Captain Hall conse-
quently determined on abandoning the trial, and
the vessel was brought bask to harbour, a very
strong report of the unfavourable result of the trial
being at once forwarded to the Admiralty. The
Recruit is sister ship to the Weser, 6, now in
the Mediterranean. Both vessels were originally
constructed for the Prussian Government by Mr.
Scott Russell on what is termed the wave line prin-
ciple. They were afterwards exchanged with the
Admiralty for a couple:of our wooden sailing frigates.
The fitting of the screw frigate Arethusa, 39, 500
horse power, for the pennant, is being hastened as
much as possible, the Lords of the Admiralty hav-
ing decided on placing her in immediate commis-
sioo. It is stated at Chatham that she, as well
as the o.!tavia, 39, 500 horse power, and the
Constance, 39, 500 horse power, will be despatched
on an experimental cruise to test and compare their
steaming and sailing qualities, the Arethusa, the
last of the 50 gun sailing ships altered to screw
steamers, not having been at sea since she under--
went the converting process at Chatham dockyard.
On the recommendation of Capt.. J. K. Hall. com-
manding the Cnathain reserve in the Medway,
a method is to be adopted on board the Cumberland,
74, guardship—provided it is found to be practica-
ble by the dockyard authorities—for masting cor-
vettes and other similar classes of ships, without
necessitating their being docked for that purpose.
This will effect a considerable saving both of time
and expense, the want of such an arrangement often
operating most injuriously to the service, by com-
pelling every vessel, however small, to be taken to
the masting shears in the steam basin of Chatham
harbour. The plan only awaits the favourable re-
port of the dockyard officials, to whom it has been
referred, to be at once carried into effect.

Now ready at all the Librares, in 3 vols.,
LADY EMILY PONSONBY'S NEW NOVEL,
"MARY LYNDSAY."
" This story is interesting end entbralling throughout.
Mary Lyndsay' is a most charming heroine."—Sun.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

T H 0 X F OR D,
R, OXFORD STREET, W.

THIS EVENING, will be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. Bishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's
MUSKETEERS (first time in England).
Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs.
Green, Bernardi, Finish, &c., with full band and chorus.
Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean &c.

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

Chairman in Liverpool :
CHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P.

Chairman in London

WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

EXTRACTS FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR

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The Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
Meeting of its Shareholders.
FIRE BRANCH.
The Directors have, as pleasingly as unexpectedly, at the
close o the year, to announce, for the first time, that the Fire
Premiums have not only reached, but exceed £300,000.
The high comparative position held by the Royal in the
Government Returns of Duty is ag,in fully mb.intamed.
The profit of the business of the year exceeds considerably
the amount realised in the preced,ng year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, sine the
commencement of thi Office, the balance 0 the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurance. being £45,10; 10s.
ed., and nf the North American business, whichis kept sepa
rately, £11,097 16s 10d.

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LTFE BRANCH..
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on n w policies for fhe year 1F:62
exceeds even that of the yeqr 1861 by £lBO,OOO, and has arrived
at the almost unexampled amount for a single year of
£701,427 on 1,498 new policies issued. Until within the last
few years it is believed that such a sum assured as that which
has just been announced as the result of one year's business
was all but unheard of.
watThchedis portion of the Company's business has been carefully
, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the
shareholder, as well as no small encouragement fbr the
luttire to the participating life asAturer.
Evidence of continued care in the selection of lives is amply
afforded by a statement of the number rejected. These have
amounted to 311 for the year, on which the aggregate sum
proposed for as suran a mounts to .Z 143,281. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
No small number of the Assurance Companies of the da
record their accepted lives annually at a sum not much, if at all, exceeding those which the Royal has declared as inadmis-
sible 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
in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more
rapid than that of any other Company established either in
Lond)n 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
expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
Insurance Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
hope, founded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
the future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater maeni-
tude, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Office with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection
to the pubic.

PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE
SOCIETY.
The business of the Company exceeds £70,000,000.
The duty paid to Government for the year 1862 was
£85,062, and the amount insured on farming stock,
£10,('86,132.
A bonus of three-fifths of the profis periodically made to
parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, received
sums amounting in the aggregate to Z4{oooo ; and the Society
now holds a large Reserve appli-able to' a future limns.
The rates of premium are in no case higher than those
charged by the other principal offices making no returns to
their insurers.
For prospectuses apply at the Society's Offices, Surrey-
street, Norwich ; and 6, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Black-
friars, E.C.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
Established 1821.
Subscribed Capital, Two Millions.
DIRECTORS.
CHARLES
Sir MINTO FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Chairman.
WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., John Labouchere, Esq.
Henry Bonham Csrter Esq. G. Shaw Lefevre q.
, Es
Charles F. Devas, Esq. John Martin, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. James Morris, Esq.
James Goodson, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq.
Thomson Flankey, Esq., M.P Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
John G. Hubbard, Esq., MP. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq.
Predk. H. Janson, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Lewis Loyd, Esq. Henry Sykes ,
Cornelius Paine, Jim 1., Esq. Noel Whiting, Esq.
Thornton Esq.
Thos. Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Sarni. Brown, Esq., Actuary
LIFE DEPA RTMENT.—UNDER TILE PROVISIONS or AN
ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In-
Furers EIGIATY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial
Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of
Profits.
Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the
Amount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in
cash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary
Bonuses of £1,058,000.
After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life
Assurances in force, with existing. Bonuses thereon,
amounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Lite
Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund,
independent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000.
LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER
Extra mium is required for service therein. CORPS.—No
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their
values, if such value be not less than £5O.
ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re-
eived and registered.
MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge
or Policy Stamps.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.—Insurances are effected upon
every descrip:ion of property at moderate rates.
Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this
Company.

Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or any other man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, E. Righton, and A. Lloyd,

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 EPIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOAN HENRY PEux, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq. -----
Wiimot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and 3felville.
john Garrett Cattley, Esq. Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Henry Nelson, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
The lion. Josceline W. Percy,
William Davidson, Esq.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
'Thomas Dent, Esq.
Alexander D E
izobt.
Pedk. Area
Eruce' sq'
rnde Eric Carrinaton Smith, Esq.
Jas, Win s Tetite ~._ w dimann, Esq.__
RiversdaleNsrSamuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
William Soltau, Esq. 1 p . unreenaltehl,LEEsqsq..
R'ibbert, Esq.. Joseph
'Hi Wallace, Esq,.
Baring Young, Esq.
".rt odgson, Esq. Chas. Medical, Refer„ SAMUEL s Tax r R
s
William Wallace,
Esq., 3 . .
FIRE and Ijm,
d with this
. 0 , Esq., - •---' '
-- I{% ASSURANCES may be effected Corporation on dv .
In the Lite De n an,sgeous terms.
ticipation in Proil
ithout such
participation.
The Reversiona ts, or, at lower Premiums, w
artment, assurances are granted with par-
ry Lulus on British Policies has averaged
Equivalent reductir4sn
nearly 2 per cent. pe
payable by persons vvho
Pr oil tPtrelfterr
annum on the sum assured.
Premiums
have been made in the
The divisions of ed that form of Bonus.
Any sum not exceedin.e Place every Five years.
one
Life. Z 15,000 may be insured on
This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Pr ft
the liabilities of partnenthip° ta—with exemption from
A rate of Bonus equal tot ee the av
&R
Societies—with the
Stock. guaran fer e returns of Mutual
o a large invested Capital
The advantages of modern practiee,—with the security
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
in of nearly a CENTURY AND A RALF.
perienCe
ation have always allowed t
The Corpo.r , _ _ he Assured to serve
a Yeomanry, or Yolunteer Corps in the :ifiliti ,
free of charge. within the
United Kingdom,

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

at Stratford-upon_
of the TERCENTENARY of
(of Which sir Robert
il'l_l EtLhEeBBIRItATHTioOtNSHAKCSonaIIktRtpEe,
tv?u, Th Tereentena.r,Y_ _..
. uFs is Chnirman now receiv-
N•';. Hamilton, Bar. , K
v and they may also be paid to the
4,:r. SUBSCRIPTIO- -, -
Barwick and Leamington Banks,
aunt of the Tercentenary Committee. at the Stourbridge
Kidderminster'4'..cl or
Warwssrs. Greenway, Smith, and
theirMe London agents, Messrs.
G'r4a/I°M-upon-Avon ;
SmillwaY Warwick ;or rr h ys and Co., or Messrs.
th 1. ' m ssrS Lan ur
aYn , , P
eretnt
,s enary Committee, in
1;1137'hn,814,4 Coe banke e, Loud on
rest their cla
tion list tinaubmittina the subscrip.
ftll ' ''•
The Committee
of Shakspea ' and assistance. appeal, to the admirers
" trheetnoarttihonpirmaoidstearnaestly
the birillplac'lns upon the ground
attraction to
but the centre of .
all admirers e of Shakspeare,
nd that it was his
home, that Stratford is not only
of the great Poet's works, a _
and „ed. rne, the town he loved, and where he lived al

Also, a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his
wonderful instrument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain-
ing a full band of 40 instruments.
1 he HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated,
and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, ed. ; stalls and balcony, Is. ;
private boxes, 10s. 6d.

NOTICE.—The GHOST! GHOST !! GHOST!!!
AT CANTERBURY HALL.
Two representations of Professor Pf pper's startling Illusion
will be given on Mondays. Wednesdays, and Saturdays, at
Nine and a qu.rter• past Eleven o'clock ; other Evenings at
Eleven only; and produced with all the newest improve-
ments by Mr. A. Silvester, which can be seen only at this
establishment.
Dramatic Readings by Mr. Graham, in addition to Grand
Operatic Selections. Cantatas, Gle. s, Songs, Comic and
Sentimental, and UNWORTH, the Stump Orator.
Open every Evf-ning at half past Seven.
Admission, Sixpence.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—A Grand Divertissement by
Signora Rachele and Mariannina and Signor Guiseppe Fran-
ce-co, assisted by a corns of Twenty young Ladies—The
Conrads as the Original French Clowns and on the orde
Elastique—Les Petit Monstres— Brian and Conly in an
amusing and novel Burlesque —Mrs. Brian as Old Aunt Sally,
&c., &c.—Wood and his Wonderful Son—Grand Operatic
Selections :—Principals, Miss M`Gregor. Mr. Albert, Signor
Georgini (the new Italian tenor), and Mr. Vernon Rigby—
Band and Chorus of Sixty Performers.

ELCHO (Chairman). JOHN LAIRD.
SPENCER. RADSTOCH.
HORATIO Ross. BURY, Lieut.-Col.
G. RUSSELL. DE GREY and RIPON.
H. A. TEMPLE; Major. J. S. NORTH, Col.
W. WELLS. JOSEPH PAXTON.
THOMAS FAIRBAIRN. DIICIE.
M. M'Mußuo. W. C. BEWES, Lt.-Col.
THOS. STEELE, COI. S.FRASER, Master of Lovat.
GROSVENOR, C. H. LINDSAY, Lt.-Col.
C. HAY, Major-General. COLVILLE.
J. C. KENNEDY, COl. ALGERNON EGERTON.
LICHFIELD. L. LINDSAY, Lt.-Col.
A. KINNAIRD, Treasurer.
EDMOND ST. JOHN MILDMAY, Secretary.
P. S,—Twenty-five of the banking houses of London have
within the last fortnight kindly agreed to open an account
with the association for receiving subscribers' names and
subscriptions, and it is confidently expected that their ex-
ample will be followed by the other banking establishments
in London and throughout the country.
It is only dm.: to Messrs. Coutts and Co. to mention that
at the formation of the association they opened an account
for subscriptions, and have themselves given an annual do-
nation of 20 guineas. We may also state that although the
annual subscription is only £1 Is., there are 28 members
who subscribe sums varying from two to 20 guineas ; and
Sir W. Martins. Lady Martins, and Miss Martins have given
as donations to the association the very large sum of £375.

COMPETITIVE TRIAL OF SMALL-BORE RIFLES,

1864.

The annual competitive trial of small-bore rifles will, by
permission, take place at Woolwich in the month of Feb.
next..

THE FIRST WEEK of the ALHAMBRA
GHOST, a highly comical and amusing representation
of the popular optical illusion.—EVERY EVENING, at
Eleven o'clock.

ESTABLISHED 1833.
ROWDEN'S FERATFD GINGER BEER. in
ALB glass or stone bottle, warranted to keep good twelve
months. Lemonade, Soda-water, Potass, Seltzer, and every
description of Mineral Waters.—Manufactory, No. 3, White
Hart-street, Drury-lane, W C.

PAGE'S BRICK, TILE, AND PIPE
MACHINE 4, for hand, horse, or steam Power, are the
most simple and efficient extant.—Full particulars and prices
obtained of the makers, E. Page and Co , Laurence Pountney
place, Laurence Pountney-hill, Ca mon-street, E.C., where
they may be seen in operation daily.

TEA.—MOORE BROTHERS respectfully inti-
mate that their New Prospectus is now ready. They
eftpecially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced
to 3s. 2d. ; Souchong, reduced to 3s. ed. ; mixed Assam, re-
duced to 3s. Bd. ; and the finest Assam, reduced from 4s. 4d.
to 3s. lid. per lb.
- -

Minimum bore .451, maximum weight 91 lbs, minimum
pull of trigger 6 lbs.

TO Persons in WANT of MONEY (in Town
or Country).—A GENTLEMAN is willing to MAKE
ADVANCES of CASH, without delay, to respectable persons
(male or female), on their own security. The utmost secrecy
can be relied on.—Apply (it by letter enclose four stamps) to
.v., rt Mr. Robertson s, Accountant, 40. King, William-street;
London-bridge, E.C.---Money advanced on Dock Warrants.

IMMEDIATE CASH ADVANCES.—Persons
requiring Capital, repayable by Instalments, to enable
them to increase or commence business, or for any other
purpose, can readily obtain Advances on application at the
Offices of the ST. GEORGE ADVANCE FUND ASSO-
CIAT I ONS, 11q, Pall-ma 1, SW.
Prospectus and forms sent free.
E. H. GILBART, Manager.

ANEVER FAILING REMED Y.-
Dr. SCOTT'S BILIOUS and LIVER PILLS, pre-
axed without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
cott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
uffer from bilious and iver complaints, indigestion, wind,
*Pasms, giddiness, nizziness of the eyes, &c. For habitual
ostiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to -he stomach, they create appe ite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square
green package, with " William Lambert," engraved on the
stamp.

Each gunmaker will have to bring 6 rifles of the same de
scription and quality. The rifles will be fired from fixed
mechanical rests ; and the description of rifle that givt.s the
best figure of merit will, as heretofore, be selected as the
one with which the Queen's Prize shall be competed for at
the ensuing prize meeting of the association, subject to the
conditions of the manufacturer undertaking to supply the
number of rifles required by the council within a specified
time, of their being in every respect equal to the one chosen,
and of the price not exceeding £l5 per rifle.
The mean figure of merit of all the rifles of each set that
may be tried shall decide the position to be assigned to the
particular description of rifle.
In order to test to a certain extent the amount of recoil,
it may be found desirable to try the shooting from the
shoulder, but the shooting to determine the figure of merit
will be made from the fixed rest.

STAMPED ....sd.

Rests similar to those used at the last competitive trial
will be provided by the association. Gunmakers can, how-
ever, if they prefer it, bring their own mechanical rests.
Competitors desirous of availing themselves of the rests pro-
vided by the association may, at any time previous to the
trial, go to Woolwich Arsenal for the purpose of seeing that
their rifles are properly fitted to the slides and rests.
Gunmakers intending to compete will be charged an en-
trance fee of £lO, and must send in their names to the
secretary of the association (,n or before the Ist of January
next, after which date the entries will be closed.

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.

as the climate, although hot, is everywhere good; the
cotton plant produces in six months, reckoned from the day
it, is sown, yields two harvests annually, and lasts six years.
—From a source of high authority the following communi-
cation has been received :--" By
our latest advices from the
Aidin district, it would appear that the cot plants !n that
district have not suffered so much from locustste as was at one
time expected they had, The present crop ofTurkey
I think, be calculated about as follows
:—Anatolia Cara.
mania, Syria, 550,000 kintals ; Rournelia, from' 010 to the
"
Dardanelles, 350,000 kintals; Cyprus and other islands in
the Archipelago, 20,000 kintals; Georgia, &c., 30,000 kin-
tals; total, 930,000 kintals, or about 315,000 bales. And
Greece will produce about 70,000 kintals, or 25,000 bales;
total, 340,000 bales."—The following intelligence was
placed before the committee, supplied by the _Levant Herald
of Aug. 5 :—" The reports received in town of the appear-
ance of the cotton crop in the neighbourhood of Dardanelles
and Gallipoli are very favourable; the quantity sown this
year being apparently greatly larger than any ever
hitherto grown, and the quality at the same time being
proportionably superior. The American seed has suc-
ceededexcellently question, and
taken a n d the
b y
produce will
be
a class in th
of staple
district
in
which is
buyers at the present moment as equal to ordinary
e Orleans."—The following letter was read :—" Milford, near
1 Derby, August 13, 1863.—Sir,—We beg to enclose a cheque
on Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, for £5O, as our sub-
scription for the current year to the Cotton Supply Asso-
ciation. We shall be happy to continue our subscription
for five years, if the Association continues its operations for
that period. We cordially agree as to the importance of the
undertaking.—We are, sir, yours faithfully, W. G. and J.
STRUTT.—Isaac Watts, Esq."—This concluded the busi-
ness of the meeting.

Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEITCH, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

. .
This was the first hospital to introduce the principle of free
and 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 500 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 Hoard feel it their imperative duty to make an
EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued suppOrf,
receiveddaelloynptrriebsuetintonthsemarseelves.
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
by the Treasurer, Edward
Maaierman, Esq. Nicholas lane; also byd Messrs. Coutts and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co ; Smith,anP
Co. ; Drummond' and Co. ; Herries . ; Ransom and
_a
Co.n d Co.;
Denison G y n
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and C.O. ; Barcloayvaeyarnneena
ed Co., Liverpool
Canod.
;CNo.is;
bWet ,allniadmeso,. D;
Messrs. ay.
Bearno.
and d, Gurney, and
S. SMITH, Secretary.
and at the Hospital.
STANFORD

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION

If the verdict against Dr. Melia at Croydon is
sound, all we can say is that we must begin to look
sharply about ourselveF. The case is this:—We owe
a man a bill, about which there is, as there is about
a great many bills, a little hitch. Unfortunately it
is not unusual for creditors and debtors to take dif-
ferent views on this subject. In the raeantinat,
while the dispute is going on—and these little dif-
ferences sometimes do go on for months—the time

comes for our annual trip on the Continent. The
year before last we went to the Pyrenees, last year
to, the Tyrol, now let it be a little tour up the Mo-

selle, or a month at Baden Baden. We let out in
tse off, wholeaa d affair
places to be us
us
unconversation that we " are going abroad." Upon
this Jones, the upholsterer, whose bill is the subject
of discussion, makes an affidavit that we owe him
such a sum, and that we are going abroad and leo.v -
sde suspicious.
lock and
aing England without paying, and that he considers
h
plietstntousat
Judge in Chambers for an order of arrest. A capias
isissued, and a sheriff's officer pays us a visit, carries
u
ndlike applies
It be admitted that this is not a pleasant proceeding,
and that it is something of an interference with the
liberty of the subject. Yet it isust what has ha
j-
pened in the case of Dr. Melia. Dr. Melia,l3.
a Catholic
priest, an Italian by birth but a naturalised English
subject, has a dispute with a Mr. Fish, a builder,
about an account sent in for work done in the erec-
tion of a new Italian chapel. Dr. Melia presents
all the appearance and circumstances of a respect-
able man who pays his bills and discharges all fair
demands upon him. He is working in the erection
of this new chapel in combination with a committee
of Italian gentlemen, at the head of which is the
Marquis d'Azeglio. Having signed the contract he
is formally responsible for the payment of this ac-
count; but the responsibility really belongs to the
committee of Italian gentlemen representing Italian
society in London. It is not a case of private ex-
penditure the settlement of which Dr. Melia is dis-
puting ; the question relates to a public fabric
built for public worship; and it might have been
supposed even by the most nervous creditor that the
Marquis d'Azeglio and his friends would not have
left Dr. Melia in the Lurch, but would have consi-
dered themselves the real debtors. In this state of
the case, however, while the dispute about the
builder's claim is going on, Pr. Melia communicates
in conversation the fact that he is anxious to go
abroad, " as he wants rest." Upon this the builder's
attorney, Neate, sends Crump, the attorney's clerk,
to hold an interview with Dr. Melia for the purpose
of obtaining enough disclosure of Dr. Melia's wish
for foreign travel to swear by. Crump does ob-
tain stfficient evidence of this wish or intention,
and swears accordingly, and upon this application
is immediately made to a Judge in Chambers for an
order of arrest, and Dr. Melia, in spite of his appeal
—" For God's sake do not take me to prison to-
night, as lam un well"—is locked up in the sheriff's
officer's house till he finds bail.

The question, then, is whether the case against
Dr. Melia, as laid before the Judge in Chambers,
was honestly stated, or Ns hether it was not partially
and unfairly stated with a view to obtain more
immediate payment than under the circumstances
the defendant had a right to expect. It must be
remembered that though the seam claimed by the
builder, Fish, was undoubtedly a large one, and one
that might naturally create some anxiety, there
was a clear right on the other side to dispute its
justice, and nothing vexatious in a temporary re-
sistance to it. It had been agreed in the contract
that the architect was to pass the builder's account
previous to payment, and the architect in this case
had not passed it—nay, had actuatly disputed it.
Was this fact, tlien, laid before the Judge in
Chambers ? It was not. Nor, again, was Dr.
Melia's official relation of priest to the new chapel,
which mde it improbable that his intended stay
abroad would be permanent, mentioned. For to say
that the Judge might have inferred, from the fact of
the part he took in erecting the chapel, that Dr.
Melia had this permanent appointment is simple
nonsense. Here are two most important facts bearing
upon the very question of Dr. Melia's intention, in
his wish to go abroad, to defeat his creditor, which
were omitted in the statement laid before the Judge.
Taking a common sense view of the matter, we
should have certainly said that we had here an
unfair statement, and that an unfair statement
proved an unfair purpose—the purpose, viz., on the
part of the builder to obtain the full payment of his
bill at once and by the bold stroke of bringing a
sheriff's officer on the scene, before time had been
allowed for the fair consideration of objections to
the amount of the bill. It is impossible that Mr.
Fish could soberly and seriously have believed that
it was Dr. Melia's intention to go abroad for good
and escape his creditors. He himself, in his evi-
dence, says that he did not:—

An early application for slide-bars must be made by those
competitors who intend to use the association rest.
By order, E. ST. JOHN MILDMAY.
11, Pall-mall East.

" Mr, sergeant Shee—Did you believe that he meant to
stay abroad ?

Witness—l was fearful he did.
" Mr. Sergeant Shee—Did you believe that he was going
abroad to defeat your claim ?

(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS-11er Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
PnEsiDErer —Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
errAnamAN--Thos. Baring, Faq., IMP., F.R.S., P.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
-he beginning- of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments en the Coasts of klng'and, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society. •,nd other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
for which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, and
£16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion has also expended £67,c00 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-can 'ages, and Boat-houses.
The Committee desire to express their grateful sense of
the generous support which they have received from the
British public during the past few years, a support which
has enab'ed them to establish their present magnificent fleet
of 123 Lifeboats on the shores of the United Kingdom
Deeply sensib'e, however, of the great responsibility that
rests on them to maintain their fleet in a thoroughly efficient
state, and its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, whi h 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
ioantenflualtwyoarcklinowledge the following con-
tributionsX s. d
—mruilteteneagrt
.. .. .. annual 50 0 0
greataerrtlMajesty
a Cnodm t:
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. ..
s Bankers .. .. annual 10 0 0
Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .... .... .... annualannual 51
10
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Coutts and Co. 3lessr ~
the Queen
.• .. .. 4th don.lo 0 0
Currie, Wm., -18C1-9 • •
.. .. don. 10 10 0
Erie, Lord Chief Justicei
Sir ...
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•• • • Martin, Sir Henry, Bart. • •
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don. 15 15 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. • • • •
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich • • • • .. 3 0 0
annual 2 0 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B• • • • '
Thorn, s Lady, Weston-super-Marc, 16 16 0
Ladyship
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and Annual -ni,script 0
Perdival, t • Messrs. Coutts and
and Co, 7e, Lombard—tree • -
aentdveicllaibikyLeretslwielisa.Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Co.,
, London.lessrs. Berries, 'James '8 - s treet
Bohn-street, Adelp'Blll," the Collectors of Customs
59, Strand; . ' Farauhar. and Co., 16, St.
t,eun4edbitvinagidoni;
and
theby the Secretary
Richard
, Laotnath4 Owfficce. of Institution, 14,

Witness—No, .1 don't say that ; but 1 feared that I
should not receire my money for a considerable time."
That is to say, the defendant knew that his
debtor was an honest man and 'would sooner or
tater pay, but that his objection to the amount of
the bill (in which he was backed by the architect)
would take some time to satisfy, and therefore that
he determined to get his money instantly by the
weapon of an arrest. Respectable men do not like
being arrested, and therefore this instrument gives
you a power over them, and is convenient for
quickening payment.
On common sense grounds, then, we should have
said that the builder's arrest of Dr. Melia was
unfair, and unfair upon his own evidence; that is,
that there was malice in it, as the law defines
malice, the real fear of nonpayment, the only legi-
timate motive for arrest, being absent. What the
proper conclusion may be on technical, legal
grounds we cannot pretend to say, If, as Judge
Blackburn says, we are obliged to take the credi-
tor's assertion upon his oath that he did feel his
money in jeopardy as the criterion of a legitimate
arrest, there can be no doubt that such an assertion
was made in the affidavit in Chambers, and that it
was made in court in some parts of the evidence.
But we should certainly have expected beforehand
that the law would require something more than
a creditor's assertion on this point,—that it -would
have required that his assertion should be borne
out in some considerable degree by the facts
of the case. A man may say that "he felt"
and "he thought ;" but had he a right to feel
and to think so ? Were the character and posi •
tion of the debtor and the circumstances of
the whole case such as to justify him in enter-
taining such a suspicion ? It' they were not, and
if he had not the slightest right whatever to
suppose that the person intended to cheat him, then
whatever he thought, the act of arrest is plainly
unjustifiable, and if it is law, it is very odd law,
though, even taking this criterion of a legitimate
arrest, this criterion appears to be very partially
satisfied on this trial. Mr. Fish mny assert that he
felt his money in jeopardy, but the evidence which
we have appears to us to go directly counter to
that assertion, and to leave him an inconsistent and
unsound witness.

So much for this outrageous and indecent arrest
on a respectable foreigner—a gentleman whose cha-
racter, btution, and connntions, and temperate oh-
,ktlon, upon architects' authority, to a builder's
bill, gave him not a fragment of right to suppose
that he was a proper subject for such a proceed-

ing. The Judge himself, indeed, though against
Dr. Melia in point of law, calls it " a most impro-
per proceeding;" end the jury arm Such an act
is, indeed, a violation of all the equities and cour-

teaies of English trade, even if it is technically
E is a disgrace to us as a business community, or
would be a disgrace, did not the whole community
rise up at once to repel and denounce it; and it is

the worse for being a gross outrage upon a
and a guest. foreiguer

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