The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-02 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, APRIL 2.
It is officially stated that the last reports received
from Mexico announce that General Forey had
summoned a council of all the generals and chiefs
of the service for the 28th February, in order to
arrange the details of the movement on Puebla, and
ive their final instructions.
The parks of artillery, the war material, and a
great depot of stores were concentrated at
Quecholac, to which place all the munitions neces-
sary for the first operations had been conveyed.

The sanitory condition of the army was very
satisfactory.

The Constitutionnel of to day in an article signed
by M. Limayrac says ;—" In the maintenance of
Fould in the Ministry, the country will see
with pleasure a fresh pledge of good order in the
finances, and of reduction in the public burdens."
BOURSE, April I.—The arrival of the English
Funds with an advance of t, has given some little
stimulus to this market, and Three per Cents, have
been done with a slight improvement, and are now
firm at 69f. 55c. The Railway Share Market has
been quiet, but prices, in general, well maintained.
Mobilier show a further advance. Stock became
offered towards the close, and prices again receded
to leave off as follows :

It per Cents. . . 96 35
Do. end month
3 per Cents
Do. end month 69 15
ew 3 per Cents
Do. end month —
Credit M0bi1ier...,1345
Do. end month 1342 50
RAIL'

Bank Shares 3380 -
Credit k onoier ..: 1490
Italian Loan 7l 40
Do. end month 7l 40
Russian .. —
Austrian
Spanish Threes 52 25
Home Debt
,WAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans lll5 -- .. 1107 50
Northern -
NOW ditto
Lyons and Mediterranean 1220 .. 1218 75
Geneva 430 -- ..
Southern 763 75 .. 765
Western
Eastern ....
Sardinian
Austrian ... ..... 508 75 .. 505
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa 737 50 .. 735
Ditto to Barcelona

ACTS OF PARLIAUENT.—The number of public
Acts passed in the present Session, which commenced on
the sth of February, is seven.

The distinguishing pecularities of this cffice are
Ist. That Policies issued on the profit scale by
peeuliar principles of the association become pay-
able during the lifetime of the person assured,
without any increase of premiums. After having
been in force a period of five years policies are ab-
solutely indefeasible and indisputable, and all right
to question them on any ground whatever after
that time is renounced and discharged. A special
cause to this effect is contained in the deed of set-
tlement of the association. 2d. That all the ad-
vantages of a mutual office are obtained, with the
security of a subscribed capital ; 80 per cent. of the
profits will be appropriated to the holders of poli
cies who have assured according to the tables for
participating in the same. Ten per cent. set aside
to form a fund for the assistance of persons who,
through misfortune or illness, may not otherwise
be able to keep up their policies. The importance
of this arrangement will, at once, be evident to all.
3d. That there is in it secured the adoption of a more
equitable division of profits. To the extinction of
the last payments of premiums sre appropriated
those profits which are generally applied by way of
bonus, thus enabling the association to pay the
policy during the assured's lifetime, providing
against the often-urg,d objection, " that persons do
not themselves reap the benefits of their payments,"
and adding to the stability of the office instead of
weakening its resources. The profits of the asso-
ciation are so fairly divided that each assurer re-
ceives the whole of the profits to which he is en-
titled, instead of incurring the risk of having them
t en _
given to one who dies before any profit has h
really made on his policy, a risk inseparable from
the system ordinarily adopted.
Every contingency incidental to the duration of
human life is entertained. The assured have the
security of a large subscribed and fairly paid up
capital ; and at each division of prefirs 80 per cent.
thereof is awarded them. They have thus no per-
sonal risk, and yet enjoy all the advanteges of a
mutual office. Ten per cent. of the realised profits
are set aside to form a fund for the assistance of
persons who, through misfortune or other-
wise, may not be able to keep up their policies.
The office allows one-half of the premium to remain
at credit. with small interest payable thereon, as a
debt upon the polity for the first five years (subse-
quently renewable for a further term), so that any
one desiring to assure for, say £l,OOO, would only
pay the rates for £5OO. Should he die £l,OOO would
be paid to his heirs or to whomsoever he might will
it, less the due unpaid premiums.
Auot her advantage is that policies issued on the
profit scale e., entitled to a share in the periodi-
cal profits) become payable during the lifetime o,
the person assured, and without any increase of
premium whatever. How policies are nsade payola),
during the life of the assured, the following table
will show :
To ASSURE £lOO, PAYABLE DURING LIFE.

Age Age Age
next ] Annual next Annual next Annual
Birth- Premiums. Birth- Premiums. Birth- Premiums.
day, day. ay.
15 £1 14 6 30 I£2lo 1 44 £3 14 0
16 115 0 31 211 4 45 36 ,2
17 115 8 32 212 9 47 40 11
18 116 6 33 ,214 3 49 47 0
19 117 5 35 '217 6 50 410 10
20 118 4 36 2 3
519 1 415 0
21 119 4 37 31 1 54 59 1
22 20 4 38 33 0 55 614 8
24 22 7 39 35 0 56 60 1
25 23 10 40 36 9 58 612 3
26 2 5 1 41 38 6 60 7- 5 6
27 26 4 42 3310 3 65 93 0
28 27 8 43 12 0 70 11 16 0
29 2 8 10

1 -
The Briton hes an income of over £lOO,OOO, and
investments in the public funds and other securities,
amounting to £lBO,OOO. New business is estimated
to be coming in at the rate of £16,000 a year.
The manager of the Briton is Mr. John Messent,
who has the advantage of acting in co-operation
with an influential board of directors. Among
these are noticeable men of substance and position.
like Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P. for the city of
London ; the chairman of the board being Dr. Bar •
low, and the deputy chairman Mr. Webb.

LDrd de Tabley and Lieutenant-Colonel Kingf-
cote have succeeded Lord Rivers and the Hon.
Sackville West as Lord and Groom in Waiting.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales has
given instructions that the wedding presents to be
exhibited at the South Kensingt,n 'Museum are to comprise
not merely the jewellery, but almost all the presents which
have been accepted. The day for the public exhibition will
be announced as soon as the arrangements are sufficiently
completed.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Tweeddale and
the Ladies Hay have left Hill-street for East Stoke Park,
Wilts,

Viscountess Downe has arrived at the Pavilion
Hotel, Folkestone.

DEATH OF LORD WATERPARIC.—This noble-
man, who had attained his 70th year, expired on
Tuesday last. He was the son of the first baron (created
1792), and married, in 1837, the youngest daughter of the
first Viscount Anson and sister of the Earl of Lichfield.

DEATH OF ADMIRAL SIR JOHN LOUIS.—We
have to announce the death of this officer, who ex-
pired at his residence, 61, Eaton-place, on Tuesday last.
Sir J. Louis entered the navy In 1795, as first-class volun-
teer, on board the Minotaur, 74; and when lieutenant of the
Naiad he assisted at the cutting out of a French war-
schooner, near Brest. He commanded the Aigle,in 1814,and
became captain in 18i.6, rear-admiral in !838, vice-admiral
in 1849,and admiral of the white in 1815. Sir John received
the good-service pension in 1860. He was superintendent
of the Malta dockyard from 1838 to 1813, and superinten-
dent at Devonport, from 1846 to 1850. He was also naval
aide-de-camp to William IV. During his comte•and of the
Aigle, Sir John Louis earned a very high character, and
was particularly praised for the manner in which he placed
his ship, and the precision of her fire when engaged in
cap uring and destroying a French convoy under the guns
of Port Maurice. In 1807 he married the eldest daughter
of Lieut.-Col. Kirkpatri3, of the Bth Bengal Native Infan-
try. He is succeeded in the baronetcy by hi, grandson.
DEATH of VICE-ADMIRAL W. G. COURTENAY.—
This officer died o❑ Tuesday, at his residence in the
Albany, aged 67. He entered the navy in 1805 (under tLe
auspices of Earl St. Vincent), and first served on board tb•
Amszan, 38, commanded by the then Captain (afterwards
t•ir William) Parker. During the six years he remained
with this vessel he saw much active service, and assisted,
in comi.,any of the London, 98, at the capture, in 1806, after
a long running fight, of the French 80 gun ship the Ma-
rengo, and the tamed Belle Poule frigate. He next joined
the Victory and Bellerophon, and, on obtaining his lieute •
aancy in 1813, he served in the Crescent, 38, the San Josef,
and several other vessels. In 1822 Mr. Courtenay com-
mended the boats of the ON rene, 20, and displayed great
courage and judgment at the destruction of some slave fan
tories in the Gallinas River on the African coast. Being
promoted in 1823 to the Bann. 20, he became for some
months senior officer on the African station, after which he
held temporary command of the Owen Glendower, 36, dur-
ing the Ashantee war. He after wards returned to the Bann,
and in that vessel captured two Brazilian slavers, with 728
slaves on board. He was made p st captain in 1828 in the
Magnificent, receiving ship at Jamaica. In the following
year he assumed command of the Mersey, 23, when ho
returned to England, and was paid off in 1831. He ob-
tained rank as Vice-Admiral of the Blue by seniority in
1801.

STATE OF PAUPERISM—The Poor Law Board
have issued their annual returu of the number of
paupers relieved on the Ist of July in England and Wales,
with the exception of the few parishes still under the 43d
of Elizabath, or under Gilbert's Act. In July, 1861, the
number of paupers relieved was 851,574; in July, 1862,
92.5,310—an increase of 8 7 per cent.; but the increase among
the adult ablebodied paupers was 16.6 per cent., following
an increase of 8.6 per cent. in the previuus )eat. The pro •
portion of the paupers reliev. d in July, 1862, was 1 iti 21,
or 4.7 per cent, on the population as enumerated in April,
1861; in July, 1861, the proportion, on the same popula-
tion, was 1 in 23, or 4.3 per cent,
A PENNY SERIAL ROMANCE.—Rather tantalizing
close of a new instalment :—At length, maddened
by the thoughts which whirled successively through his
brain, scorching and biistering it with the images they con-
veyed, he turned round, and advanced upon her with
glaring eyes, and foaming at the mouth like a tiger.
" Woman I" he said, as the white froth bubbled on his lips;
" when I first saw you, I believed that your—that your—
past history —" She turned upon him like lightning,
and, with her finger pointed menacingly at him, she ex-
claimed, in a clear, firm, determined voice—" To be con-
tinued next week."

THE GREAT TRIBULATION OF POLAND.—By far
the greatest of Poland's misfortunes is not that she
is oppressed, but that she is partitioned. Whenever a writer
or speaker begins to compare the Prussian with the Austrian,
or the Austrian with the Russian mode of persecuting the
Poles, and ends, as most persons do, by according the pre-
ference to the German forms of tyranny, he proves that he
does not understand the Polish question from the Polish
point of vie, or he would not enter into such comparisons
at all. The one thing certain about the future of Poland is,
that the country will not remain divided. There is a com-
plete unity of feeling between the four parts, of which two
—Lithuania and the kingdom of Poland—are in the hands
of Russia; and unle.s Poland gains her independence, the
Poles of Posen and Gallicia will end by joining their fate to
that of their brethren under the Russian sceptre. This is
not me, ely the personal opinion of the writer, it is an opinion
or rather a determination, which he has often heard ex-
pressed by the leading political men of both the German-
Polish provinces. They will submit no longer to the triple
torture under which they have writhed for so many years,
and it is for the West of Europe to choose wheth r it will
help the Poles against Russia, or whether, sooner or later,
the Poles shall be forced to obtain Russian assistance against
Prussia and Austria.—Cornhill :Magazine.
A 'flPss JUROR.—At. Chester, on Monday, the
Assize Court was somewhat startled by the gesticu-
lations and loud tones of a gentleman who had been sum-

monad as a juryman. He loudly demanded how long he was
to be kept there ?—The Judge (looking up surprised)—
Bring that person here. The juryman was accordingly
forthwith seized and led before his lordship, exhibiting at
the same time time unmistakeable symptoms of having been
indulging in deep potations during the day.—The Judge,
addressing the juryman, said—What do you mean, sir, by
disturbing the court in this way ?—The juryman—l was
brought to attend upon your lordship on the jury; I
have left four children, without a roo•her this tan years.—
The Judge—You are very unfit to be a jury man.—The
juryman (who continued to speak with a strong Alilesian
accent—l am very unfit, your lordship; lam the biggest
robber from here to London. (Loud laughter.) The Judge
—Well, put him in the dock on his own statement. The
j aryman—Put me where you like. lam the i iggest rob.
ber, and Judge Harden will tell you the same thing. The
juryman w,,s then placed in the dock, where he shed co
pious tears, and gave utterance to various uninteltigible re-
marks. The Judge—Keep him in custody until he gets
sober, and then let him be discharged. The fuddled jury.
man was then led into the castle, saying, " God bless you,
my lord ; may you live for a hundred years; may I see you
in heaven. (Laughter.) God bless—(the voice, in ventrilo-
quial style, died away in the distance)."
) TRADE OF GLASGOW.—The number of sailing and
steam vessels which arrived at Glasg-'w iu 1831 was
but 11,542. with total tonnage of 732,327 ; while last year
the number had increased to 15,864, with an aggregate
t nnage of 1,530,642. In 1831 no larger vessel than 3 0
tons arrived ; in 1841, three vessels got up to Glasgow ot
l.etween 600 and 700 tons; ten years later four vessels of
1,000 tons rrrived ; and in 1861 not less than 29 vessels ot
1,000 tons and upwards came up to the Broomielaw. Lao
Sear there were floating in the hat bout 96 vessels of from
700 to 1,000 tons, and 48 of 1,000 tons and upwards. In
(862 there were G 9 vessels in the harbour having a draughl
of 18ft, 4.5 of 19ft, 18 of 201 t, and lof 2 itt The Clyde was
the very cradle of steam navigation. It was on the Forth
and Clyde Canal that the application of steam
power to vas
sels was first attempted, though it was not successfully ac-
complished till several years after, in the beginning of this
century. It was on the Forth and Clyde Canal that Ful-
ton, whom cur Am. rican friends claim as the first to apply
the steam-engine to maritime purposes, witnessed these
°ally experiments, and from there carried them to the other
side of the Atlanti" ; and, profiting by what he had seen,
established the first steamboat on th Hudson to run be-
tween New Y, rk and Albany. Seotlasid not only gave the
idea of the first steamboat to Americans, but it led the way
to the adoption of this class of vessels generally in Europe
Half a century since the waters of the Clyde were first
ploughed by the paddles of the Comet, a tiny vessel of
some three horse power, with 40 feet keel and 101 feet
Warn. Two years elapse and the Elizabeth of eight
horse power, and the Clyde of 14 horse power, are found
competing with the pioneer of steam ships for traffic on the
river,