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IMPERIAL LIFE INSUR&NCE COMPANY
No.l, Old Broad-street, Loudon, K.C.
Instituted 1820.
HENRY DAVIDSON, Esq., chairman.
'l]rw.iviti) HENRY CHAPMAN, Req„ Deputy-Chairman.
In4urueees effected before the Blet.l , dill be
''lttilect to Three Team' Additions bede=
suweti Vit.ot

SAMUEL LNGAU: Actuary.

/IRE MAURITIUS LAND CREDIT AND
AGENCY COMPANY (Limited).
40 be incorporated under the Companies Act, 1P62, by which
the liabi ity of each shareholder is limited to the amount of
his shares.
Capital, £230,900, in 12,500 shares of £2O each—of which 1,5C0
are reserved for Mauritius.
41 Per share to be paid on application, and another £1 on
allotment. Further calls to be made as required, at inter-
vals of not less than three months. But it is not Contem-
plated to call up more than £4 per share.

TRUSTEES.
81r S. Villiers Surtees, K.B. (Silkmore House, near Stafford),
late Chief Justice of :Mauritius.
'lames du Buis•on, Esq. (Messrs. Henekell, du Buisson, and
Co.)
James A. Guthrie, Esq. (Messrs. Chalmers, Guthrie, and Co.)

11 DIRECTORS.
,a/or-General IT. P. Burn, 9i, Inverness-terrace, W. (late
r,.t.ember of the Ind an Military Finance Commission).
ueorge Ireland, Esq., Blackheath Park (Messrs. Ireland,
Fraser, and Co., Mauritius).
George Lyall, Esq., 9, Mincing-lane (Messrs. Lyall, Still,
,a*.d Co.)
.tzobert M`Kerrell, Esq., Inverness-terrace, W. (Messrs. Scott
,and Co., Mauritius).
ter Ranken, Esq., 0, Idol-lane (late Manager of the Mauri-
tius Branch of the Oriental Bank Corporation).
With power to add to their number.
MAURITIUS BOARD.
4ohn Curr'e, Esq.' Merchant and Planter.
The Hon Sir Gabriel Fropier. Member of Council. &c.
The Hon. IL Lemicre, Mayor of Port Louis, Member of
The
n. Charles Montocchio, Member of Council, &c.
anile Pipon, Esq, Vice-President cf the Chamber of Agri-
culture, &c.

With rower to add to their number.
GENERAL MANAGER.
C. J. A. Ulcoq, Esq.
AUDITOR.
John Ball, Esq. (Messrs. Quilter, Ball, and Co.)
BANKERS.

In London -The Union Bank of London.
In Mauritius—The Oriental Bink Corporation.
Itc.„ SOLICITORS.
-""s•Wilson, Bestows, and Carpmael, 1, Copthall-buildings

BROKERS.
Messrs. P. Cazenove and Co., Threadneedle-street.
Ceo. E. Seymour, Esq., Throgmorton-street.

Financial y (Limited) have een
ii',c°llragedlnternational to aid in the orga cinisation Societof this Company by b
the
eujture°egsire for its succes evinced by the Chamber of andAgri-
the commercial bo y in Mauritius, and by the
1,„":19- support it has met with from leading houses connected
'4,h the colony.
tt Lille progress of the island as a sugar-producing colony has
In„laie been extremely rapid. The production of sugar has
~"re than doubled within the last twelve years; and the
of last year (viz., IS6'-63) exceeded 150,( 00 tons.
Withindlie same period of t me there has been an increase
1:10,000 in the population, consisting, for the most part, of
-4,41,n immigrants who are becoming permanent settlers.
Railways,,
the first section of which will probably be opened
?11, next year, are in course of construction; and cannot fail
',Niter to develop the resources of the island.
„ The annual exports have for the last five years exceeded,
ill an average, £2,500,000 ; while the imports have, during
`l,t same period, amounted to little more than £2,001,000.
th'llie colonial Midgets have, for many years past, shown, on
,lskVeritge. a large surplus.
iie legal rate of interest on mortgages in Mauritius is 9
)Sei cent. ; and the Company in rsising morey in England on
~,)etitures, for investment in the colony, will preserve such
107.44,,rg1n as, together with the commission they may receive
the small amount of paid-up capital required to conduct
e business.
~,•lrith a view to secure the debentn-e holders, it will be a
ighle shallhe total amount raised by the Compan
%ee never exceed the amount inveAted inMortgages
;,,',4 that investments shall be made only in First Mortgages,
ills for amounts not exceeding half the estimated values of
e Properties offered as security.
I,,,krrangcments hav, already been made for placing the first
-Ue of debentures on satisfactory terms.
Mortga,,e L
erass in Mauritius, of six years and up
), ards. the borrow will be required to contribute half-
early to a Sinkiun- Fund, on the principle of "Credit
t'''neler," which has been adwith so advantae to
oth
lender and borrower in many parts cfmuch the Continengt of
addition to employing its own capital, the Company will
h'ji'st the money of constituents, guaranteeing interest, or
'!letpal and interest, as may be agreed upon.
toiliere is in Mauritius an cient register of original titles
14n 1. connected with the "Land Court" of the island; and
ttse a Transcription Office, where successive titles may be
aped
e mortgage investments made by the Government say-
i,Ze bank of Mauritius, during the last twenty-five years,
ta„,._c've that investments judiciously made under the mortgage
,v of the island are eminently secure.
i& new law which is passing through the Local Legislature
I, 11 reduce the operation of lending on mortgage to a condi-
of still greater simplicity and safety.
ilrihe management of the Company will be vested in the
,oard of Directors in London, assisted by a Board in Maus
The influential support given to the Company both in
httßind and Mauritius, and the great want ot such an insti-
n, must secure an ample field for safe and lucrative ope-
i!e
ion,
thl:he Directors of the International Financial Society feel,
sh',„refore, no hesitation in recommending the undertaking to
,-tvourable notice of the public.
cis 'rated copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Asso-
lit"Lion may be inspected at the Offices of the F olicitoi s,
I,e,,E3Bsrs. Wilson, Bristows, and Carpmael, 1, Copthall-build-

, •
tt "Dplications for shares must be addressed to the Interns-
t,(lnal Financial Society (Limited), at their Temporary Offices,
I)", Old Brold-street, E.C., in the annextd form, which must
G; lett with their bankers, Itiebors. Glyn, Mills, and Co., No.
iForrthard-s treet.
ecernber, 1863.

FORM OF APPLICATION FOR SHARES.
No (To be left with Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co.)
To the Directors of the International Financial Society
Gen (Limited).
tlemen,—Naving paid to your bankers the sum of
being £1 per share on shares, I request you
I° allot n;e shares, of £2O each, in the Mauritius
414.Z1_ Credit and Agency Company (Limited), and I hereby
Vo become a member of that Company, and to accept
and I rhares or any less number that may be allotted to me,
equest that my name may be placed on the Register of
Membersill respect of the shares allotted to me.
I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant,
Name in full ......................
Address in full ............... .....
Reference ........................
Date ..............................

MAURITIUS LAND CREDIT AND AGENCY
The DlR''Prn COMPANY (Limited).
t NO
CI i r soc" —.ORS oft the INTERNATIONAL FINAN-
,. .1 I Filly 0 .
~,,,atice tha.
APPLICATIoNs Niz.md), hereby give , ,
will be
received after 12 0•010ek in he above Company .
.010erk on FRIDAY, the Ist January next.

By order.
51, Old Broad-stree
SALT A. MICHAEL, Secretary.
t, 30th Dec ,1803.

_________--
0 CURE NO PAy
- -.—The Pre-eminent, success
N., ._ attending the use of icimsllAW'S VOLTAIC
PLEXIBLE BELT, novel in .
P—nciple and action,
oure 01 nervous and muscular affections, admits of its sale
i)eing made dependent upon verified efficacy. A new Belt can
be hal on trial for a month, free of charge, for rheumatism,
neuralgia, sciatica, in the
epilepsy, nervous debility, paralysis,
lumbago, tic doloureux, bronchial cough, asthma, spasms,timins, indigestion inactive live, &c. By the mild continu-
ous electric current evolved, exhausted vital ener,y is enec-
lacy restszed. Prices, ss. to 155. each ; for extreme cases,
according to size and Power. Testimonials sent free.—Depot,
+I, Crjoked-lane, Kin", William-street, City.

K u ?TURES.— _
BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOC-M
IN
--A LEVER TRUSS
) (PERFECTED AND 111Xo,. ED
,;IBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1882j,4"T IN THE GREAT
111.1:flowed by upwards of
4W 0 I I unfired Medical Gentierne
J'vention in the curative
so often
.e
of HERNIA.
the most effective
I o
the use of a steel spring.ften—ll
ii 4 here avoided—a soft bandage hell4rtful in its effects,
13,4 Y, while the requisite resisting power I,:or.ern round the
-.oe-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting withuPplied by the
end closeness that it cannot be detected, aud°o much ease
b.rie`r sleep. A descript ve circular may be tY be worn
.'"8", which cannot fail to tit, forwarded by post,-;;* and the
u thc
"eruference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
'etit to the manufacturer.
Mr. WRITE, VB, Piccadilly.
1 LA.D_SouinbgioleiT, ruu55;311685.,62d1.5,.,2i15. f)ti., and 31s. fid. Postage, le
425., and 528 tag ge, 1 8 8d:
-.4 unibilic:l'rruss, .425. and 525. bd. Pose,Posta ls. 10d.
l'e
"" Bt-°thee Orders to be made payable to John White, Post.
'wee, Piccadilly.

NEW PATENT
MASTIC STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CAPS, &c., for Varicose Veins and all eases ot
‘,4,-)lV.Tict3 and Swelling ot the Legs, Sprains, &c. TheY are
". fight in texture, and inexpensive, and arc drawn on
Q`"'o•
ordinary stocking. l'rioe 4s. 6d., 7s. Ocl., 108., to 168.
`wa l'o,stage 6d.
Manufacturer. 2231. Piccadilly.

LAIMBERI"S ASTHMATIC BALSAM.—AN
Or PECTUAL ItEMEDY, without Confining the bowels
ti,„ I,'!frecting the head, truly efficacious and pleasant, is ad
(),,txl to be the best medicine tor immediately relieving
colds, confirmed cases of asthma, and incipient con-
Dr'LiPton. It frequenfly cures persons whom the faculty
Dr°,4"rce incurable, admirably allays the tickling which
v.kes frequent coughing. In approaching consumption
th.j,2l,cts arc truly beneficial. Persons deprived of sleep, or
,:I)Yirlf2: down for fear of suffocation, may depend on relief
minutes after taking it. Prepare° on,y and sold by
(!hemlst. Kin;~-W.lllam-street, Charing-
thre2 -London, and by all drugg,sts, in bottles, 134 d., and
quantities in one, 2e 9d. each. Ile particular. and ask
et': Lambert's Asthmatic Balnm, The name and address Lte.
is
the etauip.

IVILESSRS. BOTT. JACKSON, AND CO.
execute COMMISSIONS on all races throughout the
year. Market price guaranteed. Remittances. London and
Westminster Bank. Post-affize Orders payable at Camber-
well-park.
N.B.—Betting on the Waterloo Cup.
Address—BoTT and JACKSON, "Man of the World" Wine
Stores, George-street, Camberwell-park, London.

TF THIS SHOULD MEET THE EYE of any
one troubled with Wind in the Stomach, Indizestion, or
Biliousness, take PAGE WOODCOCK'S WIND PILLS.
Tneir world-wide celebrity proves them of sterling merit.
Of all medicine vendors at is. lid. .nd 2s. 9d. ; or free by
post for 14 or 33 stamps from Page D. Woodcock, Chemist
Lincoln.

PRIZE MEDAL.-INTERNATIONAL
EXHIBITION, 1862.
FRANCIS TUCKER .t CO., Wax Chandlers, &c.,
To the Queen and the Prince of Wales.
(Established 1720.)
The Jurors' Report on Wax and Church Candles, in 1862,
testifies to the excellence of the quality of Messrs. Tuckers'
manuf suture.
A. distinguished Dignitary, in a letter addressed to Francis
Tucker and Co., on the subject of
WAX CANDLES with PLATTED WICKS,

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says :
" I have found them fully equal to the recommendation
which you ~rave them, and can sincerely, in my tuna, recom-
mend them to the clergy for the use of the altar."
Finest quality, with Platted Wicks, patented.. 2s. 24. per lb.
Third
Ordinary quality . • • • .. .. .. 2:4. Ccl. per lb.
n VEGETABLE CANDLES, with a Mixture of Wax.
, est go:di t .. .. .. Is. 54. per lb.
,econcl Y • ... ..
quality .. .. .. .. .. is. 34. per lb.
cluslit y
8, South 31oltolRn
Carriage pre- .
• • • • • ~ .. .. ls. ld. per lb.
Carriage paid to London on Orders of Five Pounds in value.
The largest Establitsll3
ANCIS TUCKER AND CO.,
laintreet, Grosveno--square. Manufactory—
gton (Established 1730).
of,Wax Candles In England for the Manufacture
for the use of the Altar.

EETH.—Mr. Esic.-,
ti,T, -vs
the construction of ARTIF
following advantages :—A set or ARTIFICIAL TEETH has the
INVENTION in
manship and mechanism, can be ri,,M, of excellent work-
most perfect accuracy and success, in anfnd fitted with the
pain or extraction of stumps, and to answer hours, without
of mastication and articulation.
are quite immoveable, except at l'il
They area Atthe
wires or fastenings, and adapt themselves so perfectly
without
purposes
Y to the
gums, that they
of the wearer. Invalids or residents in the countryecoPtion
just these teeth f a many changes of the month without theaid of a dentist. They are not so ilable to injury, are alway
useful, and will last a lifetime. Comfort guaranteed. Tret!
tise explaining Mr. Eskell's Patent, &c., free for 7 stamps.
Inspection of specimens and consultations tree.-B,Grosvenor-
street, Bond-street, W ; and at 39, Bennett's-hill, Bir-
mingham.

T IFEBOAT SERVICES.—During the recent
heavy gales some of the boats of the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution have been instrumental in rescuing the
crews of the 'following wrecked vessels :—Schooner Theophi-
lus, of Aberdeen, 5 men; barque Tamworth, of Norway, 17;
schooner Northern Lights, of Preston, 4 ; pilot boat, of St.
Ives, 7 ; schooner Arlon, of Workington, 4 ; schooner Gipsy,
of Drogheda, 4 ; smack Saucy Jack, of Inverness, 1 ; barque
Marietta, of Lisbon, 1; fishing boat, of Filey, 7; Tenby
fishing boat, 3 ; and barque Providence, of Dantzic, 7. Total
lives saved, 55. The lifeboats also assisted in bringing safely
into port, with their crews, consisting of 29 men, the Italian
brig Camoglin o, the schooner Sir Colin Campbell, of Whitby,
the schooner Guilia, of Palermo, and the ketch Snip, of Am-
sterdam. The lifeboats also went off in reply to signals of
distress on fourteen oceasions, but their services were not
ultimately required. The amount of reward paid for all
these services was £216.
The Committee of the Institutionearnestly AP PEAL to the
public for ASSISTANCE to [enable them to meet the con-
tinued heavy demands on the Society's 125 lifeboat estab-
lishments. Contributions are received by all the London
and country bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis,
Esq., at the Institution, 14, john-street, Adelphi, London.

IRELAND.

DUBLIN, Dec. 30.

Our new Lord Mayor is resolved to bring out the
corporation on New Year's-day with a splendour
surpassing anything of the kind known in modern

timer. It is intended to revive the warlike and
picturesque usages of the middle ages. All the city,
functionaries will figure in the procession in appro-
priate costumes—from the Recorder and the Presi-
dent of the Court of Conscience to the city turn-
cocks. There will bo trumpeters in quaint dresses,
knights in brass armour, javelin men, mace-bearers,
and gallow-glasses in suits of mail, armed with
battle-axes, mounted police, hussars, &c. Of late
years the corporation seemed to be getting rather
ashamed of the antiquated mummeries of the Lord
Mayor's show ; but the splendours of which it was
shorn will now reappear, brighter than ever after
the temporary obscuration. It would
,do Mr.
Ruskin's heart good to witness the renaissance of
mediaeval art in connection with civic displays; to
see the lumber of antiquity, the mouldering relics
of departed ages, brought out into the sunlight,
freshly painted and decorated, as if to shame the
bald utilitarianism of modern civilisation. Happily
the Saxon origin of the Irish corporations does not
detract from their antique charms to the Celtic
imagination. On the contrary, the intention is to
make the civic procession of Dublin resemble, as
nearly as possible, the same pageant in London,
with the addition of our tall gallow-glasses and
some other Hibernian variations. In fact, accord-
ing to the programme that has just been issued by
the secretary of the Lord Mayor elect, Mr. Michael
Angelo Hayes, there has been no procession to
equal this in poetic conception, richness of artistic
colouring, and theatrical effects, since the Highland
clans were marshalled in Edinburgh by Sir Walter
Scott to meet George IV, It is supposed that this
revival movement will greatly increase the circulz
tion among us of Mr. Carlisle's " Sartor Resartus."
The delay of the Galway mail steamer Columbia
is accounted for by the following facts : On her out-
ward voyage she suffered severely from the gales
which at that time visited the Irish coast and
Channel. Her boats are said to have been carried
away, her decks s wept,and her pad dleboxes stripped.
These damages had to be repaired in New York,
where she was a day late in starting, and was en-
gaged in taking in coal when the passengers were all
going onboard. She was a day late at St. John's,
and was delayed 17 hours there in coaling again.
She is said to be a slow vessel from being too deep
in the water, which is caused by the weight of iron
put on to increase her strength.
The Commissioners under the late Fishery Act
are at present holding a court in Limerick, and are
engaged in defining the mouths and the boundaries
of the estuaries of the river Shannon and its tribu-
taries, the Maigne, Fergus, and Deel. The Shannon
Fishery Company, the Shannon Fishery Protection
Association, the Lower Shannon Protection Asso-
ciation, the Harbour Board of Limerick, the Lime-
rick Snap-net Fishermen, as well as Lord Annaly,
the Knight of Glynn, and other fishery proprietors
were represented by counsel.
Mr. Benjamin Whitworth, an eminent and
wealthy Manchester merchant, having recently
offered to erect a handsome town-hall in Drogheda,
his native place, a meeting of the inhabitants was
held in the Tholsel last Monday to hear the terms
of the offer and make all necessary arrangements.
A resolution conveying the thanks of the inhabi-
tants to Mr. Whitworth for hie munificent offer, and
gratefully accepting it, was passed by acclamation ;
and a committee of 24 (12 Protestants and 12
Catholics) was appointed to select a site for the
building and superintend the work. Another
public-spirited gentleman, Mr. Smith, offered to
give an extensive piece of ground (free of all
charge) for the site, which was provisionally ac.
cepted.

The Condemned Convict, Samuel Wright.

The execution of Wright has, we learn, been
postponed to Tuesday, 12th pros. Strenuous efforts
to avert the capital sentence are being made by
working men and others in the Lambeth district.
The all but universal feeling on the subject appears
to be that the very summary course of procedure in
this case was incompatible with a due regard for
that fairness which has hitherto invariably distin-
guished British justice in dealing with offences in-
volving the life of the accused. There is some
reason.to believe that Wright intended to apply for
the postponement of his trial; but it is said that he
was overcome and lost his presence of mind at the
last moment. This is not to be wondered at when
the extraordinary haste with which he was called
upon to plead, after being committed by the coroner
and magistrate, ere taken into consideration.

A very general opinion appears to prevail that
Wright's sentence will be commuted,
arising pro-
bably from the public feeling
being favourable to
that course. Wright has himself memorialised Sir
George Grey, setting forth his account of the sad
affair which has placed him in his present awful
position.—Morniny Paper.

Yesterday 'at noon Mr. Thackeray was buried in
the cemetery of Mensal-green. The day was so
fine that, notwithstanding the distance from town,
a vast concourse of his friends were enabled to sur-
round his grave, and to pay him the last honour.
Many hundreds must have been present of almost
every rank and class. Mr. Thackeray had the gift
of associating with a wonderful variety of persons ;
to be in his company was in the case of most per-
sons to be entirely at ease with him ; and it was
impossible not to pass` from easy intercourse to
affection and regard. Among the great throng of
mourners we noticed nearly all the foremost men of
letters and artists of the day, some of them having
travelled far to be present on the sad occasion. It
may be enough to state this in general terms, and
we forbear to mention nem', because in so large
and promiscuous a crowd in 'which there were no
signs of arrangement or precedence it is difficult
not to overlook some eminent men who might be
entitled to mention. Only very few of Mr.
Thackeray's most intimate fricnds were expressly
invited to the funeral. The hindreds on hundreds
who attended came of their own accord to bear
witness to the worth of a' ear friend and a
much admired masalt-Isnaset ~,these we venture
to refer to but one name—that of Mr. Charles
Dickens. We do so because he is the author
most frequently remembered in connection with
Mr. Thackeray, and because he has sometimes been
regarded as a rival. In point of fact, there can be
no rivalry between these two great novelists, and
any special comparison between them must proceed
on superficial grounds. No one had a greater 'ad-
miration for Mr. Dickens than Mr. Thackeray
himself, or more unaffectedly rejoiced in his ex-
ceeding popularity. On the other hand, to no one
could all thought of rivalry with Mr. Thackeray
be more distasteful than to Mr. Dickens, who always
recognized Thackeray's genius, and yesterday came
a long journey to testify to the love and the honour
which he felt for his great literaty brother.
Forone so distinguished it has been suggested that
Westminster Abbey is the only fit resting-place. It
must be remembered, however, that Mr. Thackeray
desired to be interred in the simplest manner at
Kensal-green. He has been laid in a brick-built
grave beside one. of his children, and his family
affections were so strong that we believe it would
have been a positive pain to him if, when he was
alive, he could have looked forward to being sepa-
rated from his children is the tomb. Those who
were nearest to him, and whom he loved best of
all in the world, were so mash in his mind that
even in the presence of casual acquaintances whom
he saw only at one or other of his clubs he could
not choose but let out somewhat of the strong feel-
ing which stirred within his heart for those who
were as the light of his eyes. It was one of the
simplest and most winning traits of his character;
and by those who could not help knowing what he
felt in this way no more touching sight could be
witnessed than that of his two young daughters,
veiled in crape, advancing from the crowd that
pressed about the grave, taking a last sad look at
the coffin, and then turning suddenly away. These
are reasons why Mr. Thackeray should be buried in
his own ground at Kensal-green. Mr. Thackeray
had a rarer distinction than that of being a great
writer ; he was a classical one. He is the greatest
master of English prose which the century has pro-
duced. There may have been men of greater genius
than he; there may been more forcible writers than
he ; but no one hes approached him in the command
of polished idiomatic English in all its varieties, in
flexibility and richness and finish of style. At first
this was not fully understood, but now it is seen
more and more clearly every year ; and Thackeray's
English, notwithstanding the liberties which he
sometimes took with it, is coming to be regarded as
the model English. We may say of him, as John-
son said of another, the most classical writer of the
last century, " Whoever wishes to attain an Eng-
lish style, familiar, but not coarse, and elegant, but
not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to
the volumes of Thackeray." Such a man, who is
something more, something rarer than a great
writer, surely deserves a niche in Westminster
Abbey. But, in the darkness which for us and all
who knew him overshadows this festive season, it is
not of the great author and the brilliant wit that
we think most ; it is of the warm-hearted, simple-
minded gentleman, honest in all his ways, trans-
parent in all his words, full of charity in his utmost
satire, and ready to give even when ho had little

to spare.
Among the mourners were Mr. Dickens, Mr.
Tom Taylor, Mr. Shirley Brooks, Mr. Mark Lemon
_ . . .

. .
[the editor of the famous periodical in which were

laid the foundations of Mr. Thackeray 's fame), Mr.
John Leech (a fellow pupil and friend), Mr.Tenniel,
Nlr. Horace Mayhew—in short, the whole staff
of the contributors to Punch ; Mr. Robert Browning
(the poet), Mr. Anthony Trollope, Mr. Theodore
Martin, Mr. John Hollingshead, Mr. G. H. Lewes,
Mr. Dallas, Dr. W. Russell, Sir James Carmichael,
Mr. H. Cole, C. 8., Mr. Robert Bell, Mr. O'Neile,
R.A., Mr. Creswick, R.A., Mr. George Cruikehank,
Archdeacon Hale, Mr. E. Pigott, M. Louis Blanc,
Mr. Herman Merivale, Rev. W. Brookfield, Baron
Marochetti, A.R.A., Rev. Wm, Mitchell, Mr. Rus-
sell Sturgis, Mr. George Smith, Mr. Charles Collins,
Mr. Palgrave Simpson, Mr. Henry Thompson, Mr.
Seymour Haden, Mr. P. Fladgate, Mr. Reeves
Traer, Mr. Henry Reeve, Mr. F. Elliot, Mr. W.
Richmond, A.R,A., Mr. John Millais, A,R,A., Mr.
Richard Doyle, Mr. Valentine Princep, Sir Vim.
Alexander, Mr. Richard Redgrave, R.A., &e.
The coffin, which was exceedingly plain, bore
upon it the following inscription :--
" WILLIAM MAKEPEACE TIIACKERAY,
ESQ.,
DIED 24TH DECEMBER,
1863,
AGED 52 YEARS.

THE HOSPITAL FOR WOMEN, Soho-square,
founded in 1842, and designed exclusively for the
treatment of those peculiar ailments from which neither
age, rank, nor character exempt the female sex, was re-
opened on Wednesday, when a number of addresses were
given in the ward by several noblemen and gentlemen.
From the statement issued, it appears that, as the building
required extensive repairs, and the committee were desirous
of providing further accommodation for in-patients, it was
determined to add another storey; but the walls being un-
equal to sustain the additional weight had to be taken clown
and rebuilt. Prior to the alterations only 25 in-patients
could be received at once, with a yearly average of 135;
now 50 patients can be accommodated. The average
attendance of out-patients annually is 14,000. The cora..
mittee are earnestly appealing for funds to enable them to
discharge their liabilities, and provide for the occupation of
all the new wards.
DUTIES ON PLAYING CARDS.—In 1788, and again
in 1801, the duty on cards was increased on sixpenny
packs, till it reached the sum of half-a-crown a pack. The
traffic in cards not duly stamped was powerfully stimulated
by the high duty. Various evasive devices were invented,
and more than one speculator amassed a large fortune by
selling, under various pretences, cards on which no duty had
been paid. Under the then arrangements, waste aces of
spades could not be procured to any great extent, for the
damaged aces were returned to the Stamp-office,and allowed
for in the cardmakers' accounts. Packs, therefore, were
made up for sale with a blank card in place of the ace of
spades:Cut-corner cards, as they were called, i,e., packs of
cards of which one corner was cut off, and minus the ace of
spades, were sold in immense quantities. Cards with a
Corner cut off were considered by Parliament sufficiently
mutilated to render them unfit to be used in play. The pub-
lic, however, put up with the inconvenience of using cut-
ccrner Cards rather than pay the high tux. In fact, the law
was found powerless to prevent evasions ; every fresh enact-
ment produced some fresh dodge for driving through it. It
was therefore decided to diminish the duty, and to legalise,
under certain restrictions, the sale of second-hand cards. In
the year 1828 the half-a-crown duty was reduced to one
shilling. The shilling duty was to be denoted on the ace of
spades. This was the duty one shilling ace, called " Old
Frizzle," on account of the elaborate flourishes which
adorned it, with which all card players wore familiar up to
last yr,—Qhcc a 117c,a.