The Sun.
London, England, 1863-06-04 00:00:00

N°. 22,132.

DR. MOIJAT'S AD VENTURES.
To-Morrow, June 5, in Bvo., with Illustrations, 165.,
ADVENTURES AND RESEARCHES
AMONG TIJE ANDAMAN ISLANDERS.

By Dr. MOUAT,
Hurst and Blaekett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF "NO CHURCH."
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In Three Vols., post Bvo.,
GIULIO MALATESTA.
By THOMAS ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE.
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A NOVEL,
[This Day.

NEW SPORTING NOVEL.
In Three Vole., post Bvo.,
CHARLIE THORNHILL ; or, the Dunce o:
the Family. A Novel.
By CHARLES CLARKE.
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[This Day.

In post Bvo., 7s. ed.,
STRANGE THINGS AMONG US.
By H. SPICER. [This Day.
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VIM' SUN, LONDON, THUEsDAY EVENING, JUNE 4, 1863

WESTERN MANCHESTER, and LONDON
LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY SOCIETY.
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Established 1842.
Chief Offices-3, Parliament-street, London, and
77, Ring-street, Manchester.
ACTUARY—Arthur Scratchley, Esq., M.A.
SPECI %TEN S OF BONUS ALLOTTED. —E. G. has paid
£lB3 11s. 3d. in Premiums towards his Policy for £1,500;
£lO6 12s. id. Bonus has already (1860) been allotted to him.
R. S. has paid £7 6s. in Premiums towards his Policy for
£5O ; £6 2s. lid. Bonus has already (1860) been allotted to
him.

ANNUITIES AND ENDOWMENTS GRANTED.
Full Prospectuses, Proposals, and every information may
be obtained from the Actuary in London, the Local Secretary
in Manchester, or any of the Society's Agents.
always desirous
This Society, always desirous of extending its operations
and connections, offers to influential residents in the towns and
villages of the United Kingdom liberal allowances on business
which they may be able to introduce. The services of Soli-
citors, Medical Men, Surveyors, Auctioneers, or Tradesmen
of good local standing, are invited in the capacity of Pri-
vate or Public Agents. All applications to the Offices are
treated as confidential. Prospectuses, Forms of Proposal,
Almanac's, &a, forwarded post free.

ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY.
HEAD OFFICES,
29, Lombard-street, London, and Royal InburanCe-
buildings, Liverpool.
Total Annual Revenue exceeds £500,010.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000.
• FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Receipt of FIRE PREMIUMS has been as follows :-
1854 £128,459 1858 £196,148
1850 • 151,733 I 1860
'While for 1862 they exceeded £300,G00.
The Fire Revenue has been enhanced, in four years, by the
enormous sum of more than £lOO,OOO, and during the last six
years it has been dcubled.
ai oreover, the latest Parliamentary Return of Insurance
Tax paid to the Inland Revenue Office (ordered to be printed
by the House of Commons, Bth July, 1862) exhibits the
ROYAL INSURANCE COMPANY, as respects increase of
business, at the HEAD OF ALL the Insurance Offices.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
The rapid progress and position of this branch will be best
shown by the following statement of the New Life business
effected for the
Year. Sum Assured. New Premiums.
1855 £206,514 .. £5,90918 7
1857 329,350 .. 10.270 8 6
1859 434,170 .. 13,086 8 5
1861 521,101 .. 16,627 18 0
While the sum assured by New Polices in the year 1862
amounts to more than Seven Hundred Thousand Pounds
Sterling.
Large Bonuses declared 1855 and 1860—X2 per Cent. per
annum. The greatest Bonus ever continuously declared by
any Company.

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FALSE POSITIONS.
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JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

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A NOVEL

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Cartes de Visite, 10 for lOs. 6d; 21 for £l. Miniatures on
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styles.

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especially recommend their improved Family Tea, reduced
to 3s. 2d. ; Souchong, reduced to 3s. 6d. ; mixed Assam, re-
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reduced from 4s. 4d.
to 3s. lid. per lb.
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OLDRID GE'S BALM OF COLUMBIA,
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London, W.C., and all chemists and perfumers. For chil-
dren's and ladies' hair it is most efficacious and unrivalled.

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O YAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION
(Incorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
rRESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
K.G., F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DEPUTY-CHAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S.,
APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
-lie beginning of the year 1860, the Royal National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
Society and other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
tor' 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-cart iages, 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 enabled them to establish their present magnificent fleet
et 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 its Crews practised in the management of their
boats, which can only be effected by a large and permanent
grTeahteacnodnitrairultyteneagrtioanteaflulaiwyo acknowledge the following con-
tributions:—.

Her BUJ X s.
estY the Queen .. .. annual 50 0 0
Campbell, the Hon. Mrs. G. .. .. annual 5 0 0
Clerk. Colonel, R.A.
.. annual 1 1 0
Coutts and Co" Messrs., Bankers ~ .. annual 10 0 0
Currie, Wm., Esq
,4th don.lo 0 0
Erie, Lord Chief instice . don. 10 10 0
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral Sir A., K.C.B. .. 2d don. 25 0 0
Fenwicic,
Esq., cost of a Lifeboat and Tran-
sporting Carriage 250 0 0
Harvey, Rev. G. G. and•Blrs. • • .. don. 30 0
Martin, Sir Henry, Bart • • .. 7th don. 10 0 0
Moore, Rev. G. B. • .. don. 15 15 0
Smith, Mrs. George, Gree•nwicli 3 0 0
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, K.C.B. .. annual 2 0 0
Thom. s, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collected by her
Ladyship 16 16 0
Willoughby d'Eresby, ford .. .. annual 5 0 0
Donations and Annual Subscriptions will be thankfully re-
reived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
Percival, and Co., 76, Lombard-street; Messrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; brews. Berries, Farquhar, and Co., 16, St.
James's-street, London ; by al the Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the United Kingdom; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis. Esq., at the Office of the Institution, 14,
John-street, Adelphi, London, W.C.

TRINITY MONDAY.—A Special General Court
was held at the Trinity-house, on Tower-hill, at which the
Right Hon. Viscount Palmerston was unanimously re-
elected Master, and Captain William Pigott Deputy Master
of that ancient corporation for the ensuing year.
PRECEDENCE OF EDINBURGH AND DUBLIN.—We
understand that the committee of the Royal Horti •
cultural Society charged with the arrangements for the
ceremonial of uncovering the memorial of the Exhibition of
1851, en the 10th of June, have had under their considers,
tion the position to be occupied in the procession by the
representatives of the cities of Edinburgh and Dublin, and
have decided that the Scottish capital is entitled to prece-
dence over the Irish. The quarterings of the arms on the
Royal shield gives a heraldic precedence to Scotland, and it
appears that in all the public ceremonies, such as corona-
tions, which have occurred within the last hundred yea's,
the officials of Scotland have been ranked before those of
Ireland. It has been said by some of our contemporaries
that at the coronation of George 111. the Irish peers
took rank immediately after the British peers, and it
has been thence inferred that they came before the Scot-
tish peers. But this is an unwarrantable inference, founded
on a mistake. The Scottish peers on that occasion, as on all
Others, ranked as British peers (in terms of the 23d article of
the Union) before the British peers of their own degree,
created since 1707; while the Irish peers were ranked after
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PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, JUNE 3.
PUBLIC HOUSES BILL.
Order for second reading read. Motion made and question
proposed, " That the bill be now read a second time."
Amendment proposed, to leave out the word "now," and
at the end of the question to add the words "upon this
day three months." Question put, " That the word 'now'
stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayes,
103 ; Noes, 278.

A
Adderley, C. B. GeYES-103.
tty, S. G. Owen, Co 11,
Agnew, Sir A. Glyn, G. c. Packe, Col.
Bailey, C. Groo•an, Sir E. Pakenham, Col.
Baines, E. liacrtield, Geo. Paull, 11.
Barnes, T. HaMurton T. C. Pennant, Col.
Bazley, Thomas Illiaamm
Baxter, W. E.
Beach, W. W. Hanmer Sir J. Pugh, D.
Bernard, Col. Ilassard, M. D. Robartes, T. J. A.
Hamilton Major
'LordC. Prirgtooet,t, H Sergeanta.
Blackburn, P. ilibbert, J. Rogers, John
Bond, J. W. Holmesdale, Lord Ron, J.
Bridgres, Sir B. Hood, Sir A. Salt, T.
Brooks, R. Rol siali, T. B. Selwyn, C. J.
Buckley, Maj.-Gen. litune, W. Smith, Abel
Buller, Sir A. Hunt, G. W. Spooner, R.
Burghley, Lord Kendall N. Stuart, Col.
Caird, James Laird, J. Stuart, Col. W.
Cairns, Sir H. Langton, W. H. G. Sykes, Col. W. H.
Chapman, J. Lawson, W. Talbot, C. R. M.
Cholmeley, Sir M. Lamy, A. Tite, Wm.
Collier, R. P. Lindsay, w, s. Tollemache, Hon. F.
Coningham, Wm. Lyall, G. Tollemache, J. H.
Dent, John Dent Mackie, J. Trollope, Sir John
Dering, Sir E. M`Mahon, P. Vance, John
Dunbar, Sir Wm. Maguire, J. F. Verner, Sir Wm.
Duncombe, A. Mainvvaring, T. Vivian, H. H.
Duncombe, W. E. Miller, T. Waldron, L.
Dunlop, A. Miller, William Watkins, Col. L.
Dutton, Hon. R. H. Mills, A. Westhead, J.
Ennis, John Morris, D. Whalley, G. H.
Esmon de, J. Mundy, William Winnington, Sir T
Ewart, William Mure, Davtd
Ewart, J. C. Newdegate, C.
Ewing, H. E. C. Ogilvy, Sir J.
Finlay, A. S. O'Neill, E.
Foljambe, F. J. S. O'Reilly, M.

TELLERS.

Somes, Joseph
Pease,, H.

NOES —278.
Acton, Sir J. George, John North, Col.
Adair, H. E. Gibson. T. M. O'Brien, Sir P.
Adam,W. P. Gladstone, W. E. O'Ferrall, M.
Alcock, T. Gore, J. R. 0. O'Hagan, T.
Angerstein, W. Gore, W. R. 0. Onslow, Guildford
Annesley, Col. H. Goschen, G. J. Packe, C.
Antrobus, E. Gower, G. W. L. Padmore, R.
Astell, J. H. Greaves, Edward Paget, C.
Atherton, Sir W. Greene, J. Paget, Lord C. E.
Bagwell, J. Greenwood, J. Parker, Major W.
Baring, IL B. Gregson, S. Peacocke, G. M.
Baring, Sir F. Grenfell, C. P. Peel, Sir R.
Baring, Thos. Geo. Grenfell, H. R. Peel, F.
Bar ttelot, CoL Greville, Cu!.. F. Peto, Sir M.
Bass, M. T. Gray, Capt. Pevensey, Viscount
Bathurst, A. A. Grey, Rt. Hn. Sir G. Phillips, G. L.
Beecroft, G. S. Grosvenor, Lord R. Pilkington, James
Bellew, R. M. Gurdon, B. Pinney, Col.
Bentinck, G. C. Banbury, R. Portman, W. H. B.
Berkeley, H. Handley, John Potts, George
Berkeley, Col. Hankey, Thomson Powell, F. S.
Berkeley, C. Hardcastlo, Jos. A. Powell, J.
Biddulph,:Col. R.M. Hardy, Gathorne Pritchard, John
Booth, Sir R. G. Hartopp, E. B. Ramsden, Sir J. W.
Botfield, Beriah Hayter, Sir Win. Raynham, Viscount
Bouverie, E. P. Headlam, Thos. E. Re ton C,'. W. J.
Bouverie, P. P. Heathcote, Sir W. Ricardo, O.
Bramley-Moore, J. Heathcote, G. H. Ridley Sir AL W.
Henniker, Lord Rowley, Hon. R. T.
Briscoe, J. I. Herbert, H. A. Russell, Hastings
Browne, Lord J. T. Hervey, LordA.
Brand,Brams toHn., BT.. W. Henley, Lord .. Roebuck, J. A.
Russell, A. J. E.
Bruce, Lord E. A. Hesketh, Sir T. Russell, Sir Wm.
Bruce, H. A. Hill, Hon. R. St. Aubyn, J.
Bulkeley, Sir R. Hodgson, K. Salomonq,Alderman
Butler, C. S. Hodgson, R. Scholefiekd, W.
Buxton, C. Holford, R. S. Sclater-Booth, G,
Calthorpe, F. H. Holland, E. Scourfiela, J. H.
Cardwell, Rt. Hn. E. Hopwood, J. T. Scrope, G. P.
Cartwright, Col. Hornby, W. H. Scully, V.
Cave, S. Horsnmn, E. Seely, C.
Cavendish, Hon. W. Howard, lion. C. Seymour, Digby
Cavendish, Lord G. Howes, E. ?Seymour, A
Cecil, Lord R. Hubbard, J. G. Shaft°, R. D.
Churchill, Lord A. Humberstone, P. S. Shelley, Sir J. V.
Clifford, Col. Hutt, W. Sheridan, H. B.
Close, M. C. Jervoise, Sir J. Shirley, E. R
Cobbett, J. M. Johnstone, Sir J. Smith, Augustus
Cobbold, John C. Jolliffe, Sir W. Smith, Sir-F.
Coke, Col. Jolliffe, H. Smith, M.
Cole, Hon. H. Jones, D. Smollett, P.
Cole, J. L. Kekewich, S. Somerville, Sir W.
Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Kerrison, Sir E. Stacpoole, W.
Cowper, Hon. W.F. King, Hon. P. Staniland, M.
Crawford, R. W. King, J. K. Stanley, Lord
Cubitt, George Kinglake, A. W. Stansfeld, J.
Cubitt, Ald. Kinglake, Serj. J. Steel, John
Darner, S. D. Kingscote, Col. Stirling, Wm.
Davey, R.
Dickson, Col Knatchbull-
Hugess Stewart Sir M. R.
Knight, F. Stracey, Sir H.
Dillwyn, Lewis L. Knightley, R. Sullivan, M.
Dodson, John G. Knox, Col. Taylor, P. A..
Douglas, Sir C. Lacon, Sir E. Tempest, Lord A.V.
Doulton, F. Leader, N. Thornhill, W. P.
Duff, M. E. Lee, W. Thynne, Lord H.
Dundas, Sir David Legh, G. C. Trelawny, Sir J. S.
Dunne, M. Legh, W. Turner, J. A.
East, Sir J. B. Leighton, Sir B. Turner, C.
Edwards, Col. Lennox, Lord G. G. Vandeleur, Col.
Egerton, A. F. Lever, John 0. Vane, Lord H. G.
Egerton, E. C. Lewis, Harvey Vansittart, Wm.
EEgerton,W. Lidliell, Hon. H. G. Verney, Sir Harry
cho, Lord Locke, John Vernon, H.
Ellice, Rt. Hon. E. Long, W. Villiers, Rt. Hon. C.
Elphinstone, Sir J. Longfield, Robert Walcott, Adm. J. E.
Enfield, Viscount Lopes, Sir M. Walker, J. R. B.
Evans, Sir De L. Lowe, Rt. Hon. R. Wattington, J.
Evans, T. W. Lowther, Col. H. C. Way, Arthur E.
Eane, Col. Lygon, Hon. F. Weguelin, T.
Farquhar, Sir M. MacEvoy, E. Western, S.
Farrer, J. Malcolm, J. W. Whitbread, S.
Fellowes, Edward Marsh, M. H. White, L.
Fenwick, Henry Marshall, W. Wickham, H. W.
Ferrand, W. Martin, P. W. Williams, Col.
Filmer, Sir E. Martin, J. Williams, W.
Foley, Hon. H. W. Mildmay, IL Wood, Rt Hn. Sir C.
Forster, Charles D. Mitford, W. T. Woods, Henry
Foster, W. 0. Moffatt, George Wrightson, W.
Fortescue, Hon. F. Moncreiff, J. Wyvill, M.
Fortescue, C. S, Montgomery, Sir G. Yorke, Hon. E.
French, Col. Morgan, C. O. S.
Gallwey, Sir W. P. Morgan, Major TELLERS.
Galway, Viscount Mowbray, Rt. Iln. J. Jervis, Captain
Gard, R. S. Norris, J. T. Sumer, H. K.

is also occupying the attention of the Government.
There is still, however, an immense deal to be done,
and this cin be accomplished only by the adoption
of firm and vigorous measures, in the execution of
which regard should be had to personal suscep-

tibilities, or to a desire to screen the misdeeds of
offending administrators. The means at command,
unfortunately, for the prosecution of such a policy,

are limited. There are undoubtedly some able and
well-meaning men disposed to undertake it, but their
efforts are often paralysed by the active intrigues of
many and the listless apathy of the rest. It is again
stated, and this time with an authority which leaves
no doubt on the subject, that Fuad Pasha will be
reinstated in his old post of Grand Vizier. The
nomination will be made it seems either before or
immediately after the approaching festival of Cour-

ban Bairam. He is to be succeeded, it is affirmed,
in the administration of the Ministry of War by
Omar Pasha, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army.
The Budget has not yet made its appearance. I
have reason to believe the leading features of the
financial statement have been communicated to the
embassies here, who have already reported to their
respective Governments on the subject. The outline
of it I have already given two months ago, and
until its publication in extenso it will be unneces,
sary to make any further remark on the subject,
the more so as the information which has since
reached me leads me to know that I have cor-
rectly anticipated its provisions. When I stated that
the amount would be between £14,000,000 and
£15,000,000 I was not far from the mark, for it
is now estimated at 321,000 "purses," equal to
£14,600,000. I understand that the Turkish Go-
vernment lay great stress upon the great increase

which exists, as compared to the financial receipts
in 1830, which then only showed a revenue of

£6,000,000. It must not be forgotten, however, that
in those days Turkey had no public debt ; and the

system of taxation which has since been adopted,
in order to provide for the increasing requirements

of the State and the payment of interest on their
liabilities, which in itself exhausts more than one-
fourth of the public revenue, was not then in

existence.

With the view of giving an opportunity to the
Turks of visiting Europe and acquiring such know-
ledge and information as may be advantageously
applied towards the progress of their own country,
an excursion trip (tram de plaisir) is being organized
here, and I understand that this well-judged scheme
is receiving the support of the Government. The

first expedition is to consist of 150 or 200 young
Mussulmans, including, it is said, the sons of some
of the leading statesmen and Pashas. M. Misierie

is charged with the arrangements of the voyage,
and a staff of interpreters and employes who have
some knowledge of Europe is to be attached to the
expedition. The programme includes a visit to the
French capital, via Mediterranean and Marseilles ;
from thence to England, and back again, by way
of Germany, Vienna, and the Danube, to Constanti-
nople. The charge made, comprising travelling ex-
penses, subsistence, and sightseeing, is, to be £7O,
which is certainly very moderate ; and if the first
voyage bears satisfactory fruits, it is proposed to
repeat the experiment and extend its objeetsa.re If,
P in
the pursuit of amusement, these young men ,
and to
ad-
vised to lay aside their oriental
examine and investigate seriously the
the view to
the wonders
which they are about to witness
wrii
their permanent good, and withs, be the most
European institutions,
practical means to open their
perhap a desire to emulate
eyes to the defects of
their own system.
The en
mode of European education
pursued by some of the more advanced men here
in regard to their sons has not, up to the present
and clan.,
much good. But then
been productivethe
means employed haveof been ill-judged
gerous. We see many instances of young Turks
suddenly transplanted from the paternal harem to
the unsteady regions of the Quartier Latin in Paris.
There, without guidance or advice of any kind,
they are but too frequently drawn into a course of
riot and dissipation; and, after two or three years,
they return to their own country, importing with

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given by the Sultan in the Valley of the Sweet Waters
where he has fixed his summer residence. The
troops forming the garrison of Constantinople are
made partakers of these festivities. In detachments
of some hundreds each time they are marched to
the valley, where the Imperial bounty is extended
to them in the form of a substantial repast, followed
by athletic sports. To-day the diplomatic body
will be the guests of the Sultan at a great dinner,
for which invitations, in his name, have been issued
by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. In conse-
quence of these rejoicings the quiet valley now daily
presentt the appearance of a gay and animated
scene. On Friday last a very large concourse of
people, numbering some 16,000 of different classes
and denominations, assembled here with the object
of petitioning the Sultan to allow his portrait to be
taken, and distributed in photographic cartes de
visite among his subjects. From this multitude a
selection was made, consisting of two members for
each separate creed, who formed a deputation
charged to convey to the Sultan the public desire.
The deputation was received in a gracious manner,
and their request acceded to. The originator of this
movement was the person most interested in the
matter, inasmuch as he will reap a rich harvest
from the enormous sale which is sure to be realised.
It is, of course, represented as a spontaneous move-
ment of the population ; and the eagerness with
which people come forward to sign the petition
gives colouring and confirmation to the assertion.
The idea was started by Abdullah, the photographic
artist of Pera, the same whom the :Prince of Wales
did the honour to sit to during his visit to Constan-
tinople.
In the midst of these festivities, demonstrations,
and rejoicings it is to be hoped that the more serious
intentions of the Sultan and his Ministers will not
be lost sight of. It is in moments of great popu-
larity like the present that advantage should be
taken to establish a firm hold on public opinion by
reducing to practice the public measures of which so
much is heard in theory. This Imperial munificence
dazzles and captivates the people for the time, but re-
action seldom fails to set in. The soldier is undoubt-
edly gratified by the feast which is served to him by
order of the Sultan, but it is not likely it will make
him forget that he is several months in arrears of
pay. The Government clerk who has to support
himself on 500 or 1,000 piastres a month cannot fail
to give way to a feeling of bitterness in witnessing
these prodigalities when he knows that his
humble stipend has not been paid to him for many
months. An enlightened critic, in reviewing in one
of the London journals some of my letters, in which
I pointed to the cruel position of the civil employes
whose salary had fallen in sad arrears, accounted
for the fact by the bold statement that it was in no
way wonderful, inasmuch as by the rules of the
Turkish service the employes were paid " quarterly
and as to the troops, why they had "always" been
in arrear, and so it did not matter. I know of in-
numerable cases of employers who have nothing in
the world besides their pay, and who have received
nothing for six, seven, and in some cases ten months.
As to the army, I have no hesitation in saying that
some of the provincial corps d'armee have not been
paid for months. In the forthcoming discussion
in the House of Commons on the subject of Turkish
affairs we shall hear it stated, no doubt, on authority,
that the empire is in a state of high prosperity ; but
the facts which I have mentioned tend to prove one
of two things,—either that this vaunted prosperity
is exaggerated, or else that there has been a culpable
negligence while lavishing large sums in other
channels in providing for the more urgent require-
ments of the service. No one has ever ventured to
deny that the resources of the country are great,
and only require for their development that they
should be properly administered. Towards this
desirable end some progress has been made very
lately as regards the administration of finance.
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them the vices alone of civilisation without its cor-
responding benefits, and having acquired no other
advantages but a knowledge of the French lan-
guage, disfigured, however, by the plentiful intro
duction of slang terms. With proper precautions,
and under proper guidance, these evils might easily
be averted, and a serious investigation into our
institutions may he made to supply a remedy for
the defects of their own.

The feast of Courban Bairarn begins on Wednes-
day. To-day is observed as a holiday at the Porte
in consequence of the entertainment to the diplo-
matic corps. To-morrow being the eve of the fes-
tival, the day is observed in the same manner. The
feast itself lasts four days, so that a whole week is
set aside, during which all work is at a standstill,
and devoted to the pleasures of the dolee far nie2zte,
which is so much the vogue with this easy-going
Government.

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completely blowing off the centre finger 01
hand, and lacerating the skin of the neck behind
the right ear of the volunteer in front of hire. Mr.
Jackson, assistant-surgeou of the corps, promptly
attended, and having bandaged M. Lilley's shat-
tered hand, and administered a little brandy to him
and his companion, Lilley walked away from the
park in the most manful manner. Col. Erskine at
the conclusion of the evolutions addressed the re-
giment, and said he was not going to flatter them,
that was no part of his duty ; but he should not
faithfully discharge his duty if he did not award
them that praise he considered they deserved. He
was much pleased with two things especially—
their steadiness under arms and the silence which
had been observed in their ranks; and the ieudy
manner with which theyhad formed equare on being
called upon by him through their commanding offi-
cer suddenly to do so proved that they were well
drilled—a fact creditable not only to those who
drilled them, but to themselves for having so effi-
ciently acquired it. He should not fail to make a
most favourable report to the Secretary of State
for War, not only as to the efficiency of the bat-
talion, but as to the able manner in which it had
been handled. The regiment then marched back to
headquarters.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Reed, the new chief constructor of the navy,
yesterday paid an official visit to Woolwich dock-
, yard, of which the authorities had been previously
apprised by the Board of Admiralty. Mr. Reed was
first conducted over the iron-cased ship Caledonia,
and afterwards inspected the Repulse, Wolverine,
Dartmouth, and the other ships about to be converted
under the new system. He also inspected the dock-
yard schools, with the intention of establishing a
school of naval architecture in the dockyard. Mr.
Mr. Reed will renew his visit of inspection to the
dockyard this morning.
The official Admiralty designs, prepared under
the direction of Mr. Reed, for the re-construction of
the wooden frigate Belvidere, 51, as an armour-
plated frigate, have been received at Chatham dock-
yard, and are now being copied to scale preparatory
to the vessel being taken down and reconstructed
under No. 7 shed, where preparations are making
for commencing the work as soon as a sufficient
number of hands are releasbd from the ether vessels
now in progress. The statement that the Belvidere
is to be converted into an armour-plated frigate, ac-
cording to the plans of Mr. Laing, the master-ship-
builder at Chatham, is not strictly correct. Although
he prepared designs for the new vessel, they were
not acted upon by the Admiralty. The Belvidere,
as well as the whole of the five armour-plated
frigates ordered to be built in accordance with the
recent decision of the House of Commons, are to be
constructed from the designs prepared by Mr. Reed.
The sailing frigate Active, 36, Commander T.
Heard, one of the squadron of sailing vessels built
from the designs of Admiralty Symonds, having
been converted into a training ship for the Naval
Reserve, left Chatham harbour yesterday for Hartle-
pool, where she will be stationed. The Active,
although launched about 20 years since, was never
out of Chatham harbour. Her upper and main
decks are fitted up in a very complete manner for
the service for which she is meant, and commodious
cabins have been erected for the officers, warrant-
officers, and police who will do duty on hoard.
The following appointments were made yes-
terday at the Admiralty:—

Commander—David Miller, to be Captain.
F. W. Sutton (B), engineer, to the Indus, as supernu.
merary.

Edward Tewell, acting engineer, to the Orlando.
Thomas Catchpool, assistant-engineer, to the Asia, for
the Charger.

SOUTH-EASTERN.

Thos. Scott (B), to the Cumberland, as supernumerary.
James Legate, to the Edinburgh, for tenders,

A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the Bridge-house Hotel, London-
bridge ; the Hon. J. Byng in the chair.
Mr. S. Smiles, the secretary, having read the
notice convening the meeting,
The CHAIRMAN said the meeting was called for
the purpose of considering two bills now before Par-
liament. The first was a bill of the Charing.cross
Railway Company, and it was submitted because it
contained clauses conferring a permissive power to
lease or amalgamate that undertaking with the
South-Eastern Company. He thought there could
not be two opinions as to the desirableness of their
being placed in such a position as to be enabled to
make that railway an integral part of their own
system, should they consider it desirable to do so.
The present bill committed them to nothing, as it
was merely permissive. When the bill became law
it would be for them to go into the question of terms,
and they would be called together when a definite
scheme bad been prepared, such as the directors
could recommend for their adoption. The other bill
to be submitted for their consideration was the
Hastings Pier and Harbour Bill. It was promoted
by another company, and gave them a permissive
power to enter into working arrangements with that
company, and the directors considered it desirable
they should possess such a power.
The Solicitor read the heads of a bill for regu-
lating the capital and debenture debt of the Charing-
cross Railway Company, and for authorising the
amalgamation of that company with the South-
Eastern Railway Company.

In reply to Mr. Adams, it was stat€ d that the
present powers of the company authorised the rais-
ing of £1,926,600 and the bill gave power to raise
an additional sum of £700,000 on shares, and
£233,330 on debentures.
A long discussion ensued, in which Mr. Adams,
Mr. C. Bell, Mr. Michell, Mr. C. Child, and Mr.
Beavis took part. Considerable dissatisfac-
tion was expressed at the great increase of the
capital of the Charing-cross Railway from time to
time, and the large amount of it the South-Eastern
Company were called upon to subscribe; but under
all the circumstances it was thought desirable to
approve the bill.

THE ARMY.

The command of the additional troops of the
Mounted Royal Engineer Train,A. hich is now being
raised to augment the branch of the service, has
been given to Capt. B. N. Dawson. The head-
quarters of the troop will be at Aldershot camp.
Capt. W. A. Frankland has been appointed to the
command of the 24th company of Royal Engineers,
on the removal of Capt. Dawson to the command
of the B Troop of the Royal Engineer Train. Lieut.
R. G. Thorold has been appointed to the command
of the 36th company at Chatham garrison, and Capt.
W. S. Boileau to that of the 37th depot company
at head-quarters, Brompton, the latter officer suc-
ceeding Capt. 0. H. Stokes, has been ordered to
proceed from Chatham to Ireland.

A formal resolution approving the bill was then
adopted.

A detachment of Royal Engineers, under the
command of Lieut. Scott, left head-quarters, Chat-
ham, yesterday for the purpose of undergoing a
course of ball practice at the Government rifle range
between the Thames and Medway, previously to
embarking for colonial purposes.
Yesterday 100 non-commissioned officers and gun-
ners of the Royal Artillery, under the command of
Capt. Dixon, lest the head-quarters of the first
division of the depot brigade, for Shoeburyness,
where they will undergo an extended course of
instruction at the School of Gunnery previous to
embarking for India with the reinforcements about
to be despatched. The detachment, under the com-
mand of Capt. Heathorn, having completed their
course of instruction, rejoined head-quarters, from
Shoeburyness, yesterday.
The strength of the Ist Division of the Depot
Brigade Royal Artillery, was increased yesterday
by 200 gunners from the division at Warley. The
officers who accompanied the detachment were
Captains Crowe, Loch, and Whateley.

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On the motion of the chairman, seconded by Mr .
Thomson, a formal resolution approving a bill to
authorise the construction of a tramroad from the
South-Eastern Railway at Hastings to Hastings
harbour was passed, and the proceedings terminated
with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

HAMMERSMITH AND CITY.
A Wharncliffe meeting of this company was held
yesterday at the offices, Duke•street, Westminster,
for the purpose of considering a bill to authorise the
company to make another junction with the Great
Western Railway--Mr. J. Parson in the chair.
The Solicitor read the heads of the bill, which au-
thorised the company to raise £60,000 for the pur-
pose of making a junction with the Great Western
Railway.

The CHAIRMAN moved a formal resolution ap-
proving the bill, and in d3ing so expressed his regret
that the Great Western Company had thought it
necessary to request them to make the new junction
by means of a line under the Great Western up-line
at Paddington, as he believed that no danger would
have resulted from the facing points for the level
junction, as originally proposed.

A long discussion ensued, chiefly in reference to
the purchase of the land required for the proposed
junction and deviation line, and the meeting was
adjourned until the 9th inst. for the reconsideration
of the bill.