The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-08 00:00:00

Births.

BESHBY.—On the 6th inst., at 40, Chester-square, Lady
Frances Bushby, of a son,
BENTINCK.—On the 6th inst., at Ramsgate, the wife of
Lieut.-General Charles Buntinck, of a daughter.
COBHAM.--On the 7th inst., at Morden, the wife of Gee.
Strode Cobham, Esq , of a son.
VILLIERS.—On the 6th inst., at Winchmore hill, the vzf°
of J,,hn F. Villiers, Esq., barristenat-law, of a daugu-
ter.

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NOTICE IS GIVEN, That an EXTRAORDI-
NARY GENERAL MEETING of the LONDON
-r•QUITARLE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE SOCIETY
Will be held at Radlev's Hotel, New Bridge-street, Blacir-
Mars, London, on WEDNESDAY, the 23d inst., at One
o'clock precisely, to ratify an agreement, to be read at such
meeting, for a transfer to and an amalgamation of the busi-
ness of the Society with another approved Assurance A sso -
ciation, and, it deemed advisable, to dissolve the Society.
J. L. PILRINGTON, Manager.

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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,
£10,086,332.

A bonus of three-fifths of the profi' s periodically made 4.m
Parties insuring, who have thus, from time to time, rece.,ved
811 ms amounting in the aggregate to .E 440,000 ; and the c:iociety
now holds a large Resn've appli ^able to a future
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. __

THE ROYAL INST;ECANCE COMPANY.
HEAD,
29, Lombard-street. T.„ciidon, and Royal lneurance-
buit,dings, LiverpoeL
Total Annual r.evenue exceeds vson,o,o.
Accumulated Funds in hand over 1,000,000.
Chairman in Liverpool :
r.JHARLES TURNER, Esq., M.P.
Chairman in London :
WILLIAM WAINWRIGHT, Esq.

EXTRA crs FROM THE REPORT FOR THE YEAR

1862.

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28.
18.

Th'. Directors of the Royal Insurance Company are now
called upon to make their accustomed periodical Report at the
11e,cting 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.
Tie high comparative position held by the Royal in the
Gcwernment Returns of Duty is ag,in fully m.intained.
The profit of the business Of the year exceeds considerably
the amount realised in the preceding year, and in fact sur-
passes that of any year, with but two exceptions, since the
commencement of thi+ Office, the balance to the credit on
account of British and Foreign Insurance. being £45,107 10s.
Sd., and of the North American business, which is kept repa-
y,tal £11,097165. 10d.

LIFE BRANCH.
The very gratifying duty now falls upon the Directors to
state the sum assured on m-sw policies for fhe year 1862
exceeds even that of the yekr 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
haw
years it is believed that such a sum acsured as that which
as Just been announced as the result of one year's business
Was all but unheard of.
watched, portion of the Company's business has been carefully
_atched, and cannot fail to give much satisfaction to the
!hareholder, as well as no small encouragement for the
re to the participating life assurer.
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 assurance mounts to L 143,281. Various degrees
of ineligibility have led to these lives being declined.
NO small number of the Assurance Companies of the day
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
brieflyl to the United Kingdom, they have to announce that
in Fire Business its progress has been undoubtedly more
,Fid than that of any other Company established either in
London or elsewhere, except when amalgamations have taken
Place. The returns of duty have proved this. In Life, the
amount of New Policies already reported make all other
evidence needless.
The Directors conclude their present Report with the
expression of an opinion that the prospects of the Royal
thee,
Company were never brighter, and of a consequent
thefounded on a grateful remembrance of the past, that
Oe future may unfold for it a sphere of still greater maeni-
ljide, combining distinguished commercial success to the
Uffice with a lengthened career of usefulness and protection
to the public.
PERCY M. DOVE, Manager and Actuary.
JOHN B. JOHNSTON, Secretary in London.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.

Established 1840.
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring Rsq., M.P. Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. I Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
Mutual Lif, Assurance for all classes.
This Association has now in existence 6,000 policies, for a
total sum of £1,500,000.
The Annual Income is ..
The Accumulated Fund exceeds
It has paid in Claims

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£51,000
.. 2 0,, 00
.. 112,000

The whole of the profits are divided quinquennially among
the Members Three divisions have already been made•
when the following sums have been added as bonuses to the
policies -
.. X 1,400
.. 11,500
.. 23 200
.. 56,500

Dec. 31, 1847 ..
„ 1852 ..
„ 1837 ..
„ 1882
making the total bonus additions, £98,600.
}'onuses nri:i be received in cash or appliei to the reduc
Lion of premiums at the option of the assured, in lieu of an
addition to the ()Icy.
Attention is especially invited to the system of free or paid-
up policies introduced by this Association, by which the
sacrifice so often submitted to on the relinquishment of
po icy is wholly avoided.
The balance-sheets of the Association are open to all,
whether assurers or otherwise
Active and influential agents will be appointed in unrepre-
sented districts.

WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary.
Chief Office, 15, Moorgate-street, E.C., Aug 1, 1863.

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Estnblishea by Charter of his Majesty George the First)

FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIUS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JoRN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.

'Henry Bainbridge, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq.
•john Garratt Cattley, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Thomas Dent, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq.
iiobt. Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.' _
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq.

!ORS.
Wi►mot Holland, Esq.
Earl of Leven and Melville.
Chas. Jno. Manning, Esq.
Henry Nelson, Esq.
The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
William Soltau, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
William Wallace, Esq.
Chas. Baring Young, Esq.

Medical Referee, SAMUEL SOLLY, Esq., F.R.S.

FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par-
ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
participation.
The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one
Life.

No. 22,214.

MANILLA AND JAPAN.
1'; ow ready, Bvo., with Illustrations, 148.,
A LADY'S VISIT TO MANILLA AND
JAPAN. By ANNA D'A.
durst and Blackett, Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-
street.

This Corporation affords to the Assured—
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average r
Invested Capital
Stock.
The advantages of modern practice,—with the security
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALF.

The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
United Kingdom, free of charge.
ROYAL ExcHANG7I, LONDON.

ROWI. P. STEELE. Secretary.

NORTH BRITISII AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COIIPANY.

NEW NOVEL BY MRS. THOMSON.
Nov ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols.,
AT
E X T D 0 0 R.
By Mrs. THOMSON,

Author of "Constance," &c.
Hurst and Blackett, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

FGYPTIAN HALL.-MR. J. K. LORD.
F.Z.S., Nightly in his popular Entertainment, entitled
" AT HOME IN THE WIL bERNESS."

&dmlesion-55., 35., 25., is.

T" E OXFO R D,
s, OXFORD STREET, W.
THIS E VENING, will be performed Operatic Selections
from Sir Henry R. Vishop's THE SLAVE and Halevy's
MUSKETEERS (first time in England).

Principal Artistes—Miss Russell, Miss Ellison, Messrs.
Green, Bernardi, Huish, &c., with full band and chorus.

Conductor, Mr. F. Jonghmans.
Flute Solos by Drew Dean. itc.

Comic, by UNSWORTH (" or any oiler man "), Eugene,
W. Randall, A. Lloyd, and George Hodson.
Ale a Performance by Herr SCHALKENBACH on his
wonderful insti ument, the PIANO ORCHESTRE, contain-
ing a full baud of 40 instruments.
the HALL has just been newly Decorated and Ventilated,
and is one of the most Beautiful in the Metropolis.
Open at 8 o'clock. Admission, 6d. ; stalls and balcony, is. ;
private boxes, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL " GHOST."—In order
to gratify the curiosity of nightly-increasing crowds,
Mr. C. MORTON has transferred the representation of Pro-
fessor Pepper 'nd Henry. Dirks, Esq.'s, world-famed spectral
Illusion, "THE GHOST," from the Picture Gallery to the
Concert Hall, where a new and elegant stage is erected,
affording a more ample view of the Illusion from Stalls, Bal-
cony, and body of the Hall. He has also arranged for Mr.
A. Silvester to give (with all that gentleman's latest im-
provements and effects), REPRESENTATIONS EACH
EVENING, at Ten o'clock.

All the other Musical and Pictorial attractions as usual,
including Operatic Selections, &c. ; Unsworth (the modern
Demosthenes), Eugene, Arthur Lloyd, George Hodson, &c.

ROYAL ALHAMBRA PALACE. The
GHOST ! The GHOST ! ! The ONLY COMIC
GHOST !! ! —The beautiful FAIRY FOUNTAIN.—A
Grand Divertissement by Signora Rachele and Mariannina
and Signor Guiseppe Francesco, assisted by a corns of
Twenty young Ladies—Selections from favourite Operas :
Principals, Miss M'Gregor, Mr. Albert, Signor Georgini, and
Mr. Vernon Rigby.

NICOSI A, the Great Violinist. will make his
Second Appearance in England THIS EVENING
and Every Evening, at:the ALHAMBRA.
Doors open at 7--commence at half-past 7.

ARGYLL ROOMS, Windmill-street, Piccadilly.
Th, se eb,gant Booms, entirely and costly redecorated,
are NOW OPEN for the Winter Season.
The musical department is under the directorship of Mons.
Jullien, conductor of the band. This celebrated band will be
called for the future "The London Band."
Manager of the Rooms—M. GRENET.
Sole Lessee, R. R. BIGNELL.
Admission, ls.
Doors open at 8 o'clock.

RUPTURES.—BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT.
WHITE'S MOO-MAIN LEVER TRUSS
(PERFECTED AND EXHIBITED IN THE GREAT
XIIIBITIONS OF 1851 AND 1862), is allowed by upwards of
Two Hundred Medical Gentlemen to tie the most effective
nvention in the curative treatment of HERN I A.
The use of a steel spring, so often hurtful in its ,effects,
s here avoided—a soft bandage being worn round the
ody, while the requisite resisting power is supplied by the
Hoc-Main Pad and Patent Lever, fitting with so much ease
nd closeness that it cannot be detected, and may be worn
luring sleep. A descriptive circular may be had, and the
cruse, which cannot fail to fit, forwarded by post, on the cir-
lumference of the body, two inches below the hips, being
'eat to the manufacturer,

PRICR..._..4d.
STAMPED ....sd.

Mr. WHITE, 228, Piccadilly.
A Single Truss, 165., 215., 265. 6d., and Us. ed. Postage, Is.
t Double Truss, 31s. 6d., 425., and 525. ed. Postage, is Bd.
A.ti Umbilical Truss, 425. and 525. 6d. Postage, ls. 10d.
Post-office Orders to be made payable to John White, Post-
office, Piccadilly.

1E NEW PATENT
LAST
IC
STOCKINGS,
KNEE-CA PS, ke... for Varicose Veins and all oases of
Weakness and Swelling oi 'he Legs, Sprains, !to. They are
.orous, light in texture, and inexpensive, and are drawn on
Ite an ordinary stocking. Price 4s. 6d., 7s. ed., 108., to 16s.
each. Postage tiff.
JOHN WHITE. Manufacturer. 225. Piccadilly.

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

KEATING'S PERSIAN INSECT DESTROY-
ING PO WDER, for which a Prize Medal was awarded
to the Producer at the International Exhibition, 1862,
This Powder is quite harmless to animal life, but is un-
rivalled in destroying Fleas, Bugs, Flies, Cockroaches,
Beetles, Gnats, Mosquitos, Moths in furs, and every other
species of Insect.
Sportsmen will find this an invaluable remedy for destroy-
ing Fleas in their Dogs, as also Ladies for their Pet Dogs.
Being the original importer of this now invaluable article,
which has found so great a sale that it has tempted others to
vend a so-called article, the public are therefore cautioned to
observe that the packets of the Genuine Powder bear the
autogragh of THOMAS KEATING.
Sold in packets, ls., 2s. 6d., and 4s. 6d. each, or post free for
14 or 36 postage stamps, by Thomas Keating, chemist, 79, St.
P:ul's-churchyard, London, E.C.

ARMY CONTRACTS.
Commissariat Office,
Aldershot, 2d September, 1863.
TENDERS will be received at this office, until
from
pnersooonn,
son
who
mEDayNbEeSwDiAlliYo,g tthoe
e3oottehr
iSnetpotcemonbterrtiotlBf6o3r,
the supply of

FORAGE,
in such quantities as may be required, from Ist November,
1863, to 3 st October, 1861, for the use of Her Majesty's
Forces stationed at Aldershot Camp, and within the cOm-
Iliand.
Forms of Tender and Conditions of Contract may be ob-
tained on api,lication at this office, by letter or in person,
between the hours of ten and four o'clock.
The Tenders must be properly filled up and signed, and
delivered at this office (under closed envelope, marked on the
outside " Tender for Forage"), and no Tender will be noticed
unless made on forms obtained from this office, and delivered
by the hour appointed.

HENRY B. MORSE,
Deputy Commissary-General.

Established 1809.
Incorporated by loyal Charter and Special Acts of
Parliament.
ACCUMULATED AND INVESTED FUNDS, £2,122,828.
ANNUAL REVENUE, £422,401.
LONDON BOARD.
John White Cater, Esq., I P. du Pre Greutell, Esq.
Chairman. A. Klockmann, Esq.
Charle Morrison, Esq., De- John Mollett, Esq.
puty hairman. jmius S. Morgan, Esq.
A. De a rroyave, Esq. G. Garden Nicol, Esq
Edward Cohen, Esq. John H. Wm. Schroder, Esq.
James du Buisson, Esq. George Young, Esq.
EX-DIRECTORS.
A. H. Campbell, Esq. Robert Smith, E.
P. C. Cavan, Esq. Frederic Somes, Esq.
P. P. Ralli, Esq.
Manager of Fire Department—George, H. Whyting.
Manager of Life Department—W. F. Birkmyre.
Superintendent of Foreign Department—G. H. Burnett.
Secretary--F. W. Lance.
General Manager—David Smith.
?IRE DE ?ARMEN .

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, at King's-cross.
Patron—The QUEEN.
President—The Duke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.
Treasurer—Edward Masterman, Esq.

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The Company ►rants Tnsurances against Fire in the United
Ringdom, and all foreizn countries.
eodr i
Mercantile. Risks :n the Port of London accepted at re-
d:4:
Losses, prt,mptly and liberally settled.
Risks.—The Director:, having a practical know-
... Fie of foreign countries, are prepared to issue Polices on
the most tavouraAe terms.' In all cases a discount will be
allowed to Merchants and others effecting such Insurances.

LIFE DEPARTMENT
The following Statement exhibits the improvement
during the las few years :
NO. of Policies
Premiums.
effected
Issued. Sums.
£12,565 18 8
1956 ........ 455 ....... . £377,425
14 070 1 5
1859 ........ 615 ...... 449 913
18 0 ........ 741 .......... 4-5:649 ..... ' 14,071 ~)
16,553 2 •
1861 ........ 785 ..... 527 6in
1862 ........ 1t37 .......... 7 '3.34
Thus in five years the number 68of Policies issued was 3,623,
assuring the large sum of £2,928 947.
Th.e_leading features of the Office are :-
1 Enti features
to Assurers.
2. thererge Bonus additions already declared, and the
on
of a further Bsonus at the next investiga-
tion.
3. The advantages afforded by varied Tables of premiums
—unrestricted conditions of Policies—and general
liberality in dealing with the A ssured.
Forms of Proposal and ever information will be furnished
on app:ication at the y
IIEAD OFrICES : .... LONDON. 58, Threadneedle-street
4, New Bank Buildings,
Princes-street.
N EDINBURGH... 64,

'ORTII BRITISH AND MERCANTILE
INSURANCE COMPANY.
WEST-END OFFICE:
8, WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL.
Secretary—ALEX. J. RUSSELL.

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 mat metropolis.
a very large proportion of
the casual sick of this great metropolis. It requires but the
funds in order to have 600 beds available for the reception of
these the most wretched of our fellow-creatures. Moreover,
it gratuitously affords medical advice and medicine to more,
on the average, than 3,000 out-patients a week.
The Weekly Board feel it theirimperative duty to make an EARNEST APPEAL to the public for continued support,
to enable them to admit and relieve the distressing cases that
daily present themselves.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward
Alas erman, Esq.' Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Contts and
Co. ; Drummond and Co.;!ferries and Co. ; Ransom and
Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and 60. ; Smith, Payne, and Co. ; Glyn
and Co. ; Jones Loyd and Co. ; Barclay and Co. ; Denison
and Co. ; W lliaras, Deacon, and Co. ; Overend, Gurney, and
Co. ; Nisbet and Co. ; Messrs. J. Barned and Co., Liverpool
and at the Hospital.
STANFORD S. SMITH Secretary.

The Moors and Forests in Scotland.

(From the Inverness Courier.)

The moors have not generally yielded well during the
present week, owing to unfavourable weather. Previous to
the 31st ult. Mr. W. Webb, at Fodderty, bagged to his own
gun, in two days and three afternoons, 326 brace grouse ;
and on the 31st Mr. Garth shot 28 brace grouse, 1 woodcock,
1 snipe, 16 hares, and 1 rabbit at Achnacleroch. Up to the
same date Lord Scarsdale and party, at Carr Bridge, had
killed 400 brace of birds. On the 25th ult. Mr. Bentinck,
M.M., bagged 30 brace grouse on the Cromdale Hill moors,
Capt. Hutton bagged 211 brace grouse and 2 hares in a few
hours the following day, on the Blairnamarrow beat, and
on Friday upwards of 20 brace grouse. On the Ballindalloch
moors, on the 25th, Thos. Cambell, Eq., Edinburgh, and
Mr. Lawson, M.P., shooting over the same dogs, bagged 20
brace grouse, 1 snipe, and 3 hares. On the same day Mr.
Lawson and R. Pocklington,Esq., bagged 23} brace grouse,
1 snipe, 2 hares, On the Cromdale moors Mr. Saltmarshe, on
the 22d, killed 18 brace grouse after 12 o'clock. On the
24th he and Mr. Bathurst had 34 brace grouse and 3 hares ;
and on the 25th Mr. Bathurst and Mr. Blackburn, M.P.
killed 37 brace of grouse and 2 hares. On the 28th Mr.
Saltmarshe and Mr. Bathurst killed 34 brace grouse and 7
hares. The grouse are plentiful, strong, and wild; the
covies are very good on the high ground. On the 21st ult.
Simon Heir, Esq., went to the Lesmurdie moors about an
hour and a half, and killed 7} brace grouse and 4 hares. F.
V. Nugent, Esq., and Capt. Nugent shot on the Farr moors,
Strathnairn, from August 12 to 22, 131 brace grouse, 5
blackgame, and 20 hares. On Monday, 31st ult., Mr. Tew
Capt. Munro, of Poyntzfield, and Mr. Fenton went to the
Swordale moors to try for blackgame, and shot 7i brace.
They finished with 261 brace grouse and 5 hares.
His Grace the Duke of Richmond and party continue to
get excellent sport. On the 24th, the Duke and Prince
Edward killed 22 brace and 2 hares, and Lord March a stag.
Mr. Cox and Mr. Vivian had 141 brace, 4 hares, and 4 snipes.
On the 21st, Lord March brought down two deer, and the
Duke of Richmond and Mr. Cox had 26 brace grouse and
2 hares. Prince Edward had 2 brace grouse. On the Dun-
.d 22
Dun-
phail moors, Major Cumming Bruce and Henry Gordon
Cumming, Esq., bagged 201 brace grouse and 3 hares on
anded 19 f brace e grouseTbe Ea andrl of 1
Fife 3 hares.was
the 20th. On the 27st, Major Cumming and Mr. Henry
Gordonagge
braceCumming grousebag
g 6 hares.Mr. Smith and party, on the 19th bagged 15 brace, 1 duck,
and 1 hare; and, on the 24th, Mr. A. Smith and party
b
out on Thursday and Friday on the Baynack moors, and
bagged 36 brace of grouse on the former and 28 on the latter
day.

Some of the Perthshire moors appears to be well stocked
with game. On Thursday his Royal Highness the Maha-
rajah Dhuleep Singh bagged to his own gun, on the Loch
Kennard range, Grandtully, 50 brace of grouse, and a few
hares and snipe. Sir H. H. Campbell, Bart., shot on the
hill of Monzie, in the afternoon, 7 brace of grouse. The
numerous sportsmen who are residing at Drummond Castle
have secured some excellent bags. The sport of Glenartney,
Longside, Lochernside, &c., has been good. Grouse are
plentiful, and not the least symptom of disease has been seen
among them.
Good sport is obtained in the forests. Down to the 28th
ult. Mr. Holmes had shot at Monar no fewer than 13 stags,
all carrying capital heads, and one weighing 17} stone.
Deer were never seen in finer condition in this district.
From the commencement of the season to the last day of
August, Mr. Thistlethwayte brought down 14 stags in
Lochluichart forest, shooting on that day a fine animal with
beautiful large antlers of the following dimensions, viz.:—
Span, 23f inches ; length, 33 inches ; thickness, 5 inches ;
length of front tines 10 inches. The head was a royal, with
palmated tops, of 6i inches in breadth. Lord Lovat and
party succeeded in killing 23 stags during last week, ten of
the number being shot on Thursday, and all in Glenstrath-
farar forest. On the 21st the Rev. W. Basset shot a fine
stag at Kinclochewe ; and on the 26th J. F. Basset, Esq.,
shot a beautiful animal with a royal head in the same forest.
Lord Stamford shot in his forest of Rothiemurchus, on
Wednesday and Thursday, 4 excellent stags, and about 70
brace wild ducks, and on Friday 5 stags. The Hon, G. S.
Duff has had capital sport in Mar Forest, and up to Thurs-
day last bad killed 14 stags, all of them splendid animals,
the lightest weighing 15 stone, and the heaviest 18 stone.
On the 21th Mr. Bentinck, M.P., killed two fine stags in
Glenavon, weighing respectively 14 stone and 14 stone
101bs ; and on Wednesday he killed one weighing 15 stone.
In spite of bad weather, Mr. Snowie has during the week
received a number of stags heads for preservation. J. G.
Leigh, Esq., has forwarded six, three of them being royals;
Lord Galway, one of ten times ; Christopher Turner, Esq.,
Glenfeshie, a good specimen of a royal ; and F. Bassett,
EFq., Kinlochewe, also an excellent royal. Horatio Ross,
Esq , has also sent a very fine specimen of a royal head.
The antlers measure in length, 321 inches; in span. within
bow of the antlers, 3li inches ; and between the outside
tops, 37 inches. The stag was shot in Glendibidale on the
28th of August ; it weighed 18 stone 31b -, and makes the
twenty•eighth stag shot by Mr Ross and his sons since the
commencement of the season. On the same day a young
gentleman staying at Glendibidale went out with a common
carbine, and shot a stag of nearly 18 stone weight, with
antlers of 33 inches span. Two very fine heads, from J. G.
Leigh, Esq., Strathconon, have been received this morn-
ing. Span of one, 27 inches ; brow antlers, 10 inches in
length; length of horns, 34 inches ; thickness, 5k inches;
weight of de2,r, 17 stone. The other head is almost a
caberslach.

ROiAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT
INSTITUTION

The Wolverhampton and Dudley Mysteries.

(Inoorporated by Royal Charter).
PATRONESS—Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen.
RESIDENT—Vice-Admiral the Duke of Northumberland,
E.G., F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN—Thos. Baring Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.
DEPUTY-CIIAIRMAN—Thomas Chapman, Esq., F.R.S., V.P.

APPEAL.
The Committee of Management have to state that, since
he beginning of the year 1850, the Boyar National Lifeboat
Institution has expended £32,000 on various Lifeboat Estab-
lishments on the Coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
The number
Society. and other means, since its formation, is 12,800;
of lives saved by the Life-boats of the
tor which services 82 Gold Medals, 718 Silver Medals, slid
£.16,480 in cash have been paid in rewards. The Institu-
tion nas also expended £67,000 on Life-boats, Life-boat
Transporting-can 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 tew years, a support which
has enab' ed them to establish their present magnificent fleet
at 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
annual income, they earnestly appeal to all classs of their
to perpetuating so
A them in u holdin,, and
great and truly
tefulry acknowledge the following con-
nationat a wor .
countrymen
tributions
•
tier West,- the Queen

Yesterday a further attempt was made to throw some
light upon the deaths of two persons, which occurred under
extraordinary circumstances at Wolverhampton and Dudley
respectively. It will be remembered that the woman who
was found a worm-eaten cot pse in an empty house at Dudley,
and who was supposed to be the woman who lived with the
deceased man Cheenery as his wife, and who was the last,
person seen in the house where his murdered body was
found, was, after the coroner's inquest, buried without any
post-mortem examination having been made of her body.
Capt. Segrave, the chief constable of Wolverhampton, and
Mr. T. M. Phillips, the coroner for that borough, both de-
sired that she might be exhumed, and they applied to Mr.
Robinson, the coroner for Dudley, to issue his order for the
exhumation. That gentleman, however, having completed
the inquest, could not comply with the request.
At the inquest on the body of Cheenery, which was
further adjourned last week, the evidence still left a
doubt on Mr. Phillips's mind that the woman found at
Dudley was the woman Steadman, who must undoubtedly
have had a hand in the murder of her paramour. That
gentleman therefore made an application to the Secretary of
State for the Home Department for his order to exhume the
body and to submit it to a post-mortem examination. That
order was received yesterday, and witnesses were sent over
to Dudley from Wolverhampton, including the mother of
Cheenery, to endeavour to speak to the body being that of
Steadman or not; and surgeons also went over to make the
post-mortem examination. When the ctffin was opened
identification from the features was utterly impossible, but
the height and build of the corpse were quite those which
characterised Steadman. The identification of the clothes,
was however, complete, most of the garments which were
s
upon the woman when she was found, and in which was
interred, being sworn to as those which Steadman had
l essrs.
accustomed to wear. The surgeons,
who
were
surgeon
°l2ebeen
Nesbit and Mr. Keogh, the latter the senior
of the South Staffordshire Hospital a
ts
was don© in the
il'olverhampton,
then commenced their examination.
d the inquiry was
charnel-house of the Dudley ondent left Dudley.
being proceeded with when oueremcoerrt-04,

The Drought and Seat of the Season.

CELEBRATiON
tratford-un-
of the TERCENTENARY,t of
Avun.the„, BIRTH of SHAKS PE
N. e. /I 'he Tercentenary Co hairceh now SirSir Itr
eee bentir _
ing stirl,llton, Bart-, K.C.8..
1 at the Stourbridge
Committee'
sCthteaeirm(ofanvi
account SeRIPTION.:, and they may also be paid to the
atm Ri4:ll the Tercentenary Comm
d Lesmington Banks,
rati„d4rtninster or Warwick an de
Smith, and
GreenwaVitt-Avon ; Messrs. Gree n
Smith i.'' arck ;' or their
° and Co., or Mes -.l's.
'Glyn ' -and ' M ssrs Hanburys
and Coe,,co , k e - agents, Messrs.
The Ter,_,, "allkers, London. I ond
1 the admirers
tion list t., 411,_tenary uomnri tee, in submittina the subscrip-
of Sha'ks ~, me Ti
appea_ to
Committee
rest their claims
Pelre tnati°n, most earnestly
t. _
r their aid and assista Ge
that Stratford is not only
the bin hplace upon the rou2
,' I liv centre of attraction to
The
all admirers of the
;Bel:earoee';'sutworks, and that it was his
htnne, the town he Ivvedt, and where he lived and died.

For many years thee has not been so hot a summer on the
eo has just ended ; and both there
which
Continent as that
tywthe drought has been very great. It
and in this
gauslf
a serious error had been committed in the
almost looks
Aldershot as a site for a barrack town ; for, the
droughtselectiuohe
s been so great this summer as to compel the
troops to quit the place altogether from want of water. In
fa
and its vicinity no such drought and heat have been
suffered for many years as during the past summer. In-
deed, as regards heat, during the last 158 years it has pro..
bably only once been warmer than it lately was on certain
days. The thermometer last month reached 39 degrees
(102 degrees Fahrenheit) in the shade, which implies
something like the scorching heat of 65 degrees in the sun!
In Paris it is very rare for tho thermometer to rise above
36 degrees in the shade. The river Seine fell to the level of
the great drought of 1719, which forms the zero line of the
metrical ladder on the Pont Royal for measuring the depth
of the river. This is only the second time of such an occur-
rence for nearly 150 years, and the first since the year before
the c,met of 1811. The waters of the Loire, too, have never
been known to he so low as in the season just past. This
great river, which has so often ravaged the country for
leagues by its excesses, was lately crossed, where it meets
the Nievre and Cher, both on foot and in carriages without
either difficult} or danger. The drought and heat in Aus-
tria have been extreme ; as also in Italy, especially at Rome.
In
a r_ OTni2l
In Germany, too, water be lame both scarce and d
e
drought at Aix la Chapelle was such that watser seold'at 15
groseben, or ls. 6d. a 1 arrel. Some few. years ago there
but not
was a considerable drought for successive seasons,
in present year,
to so great an extent, it would seem,
At that time, it may be remembered, there there were serious-
diminishing. Sine •
fears that the rain all was permaneve
then, however, here have been very wet , seasons which
ave tended greatly to rest re the average; and doubtless
sooner or later we may look out for a recurrence of the like
compensatory process.---Builder.

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.. annual 50 0 0

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Campbell, the Son. Mrs. .. annual 5 0 0
Clerk, Colonel, R.A. .. . • • • .. annual 1 1 0
Bankers
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Coutts and Co. Messrs.,
Currie, Wm. 1::scl., • •
Erie, Lord Chief Justice . ....
Fenwick, G. J., Esq., cost °
don.
153
150 00
Fanshawe, Vice-Admiral
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Tran-
sporting Carriag-e • • • '
Harvey,
7,
' Sir Rev.
G Henry. G.,
aßiladr t 1,1" . 7th don. 10 0 0
. • an.n.ual 23 00
00
Moore, Rev. G. B. .. • • ••
Smith, Mrs. George, Greenwich • •
Stirling, Col. Sir Anthony, 1C.C.8• • • • •
Thom, s, Lady, Weston-super-Mare, collectedby her
Ladyship ..
.. 16 16 0
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord .• • • • • annual 50 0
Donations and Annual :••'n' scriptions will be thankfully re-
eived by the Bankers of the Institution, Messrs. Willis,
i'ercival, and Co., 76, Lombard- treet ; 3lessrs. Coutts and
Co., 59, Strand; \iessrs. Berries, Farquhar. and Co., 16, St.
Tani( • 's
-street, London ; by a 1 ;he Collectors of Customs
and Bankers in the United Kingdom ; and by the Secretary
Richard Lewis, Esq., at the Office of the institution, 11,
John-street, Adelohi, London, ii-A.:.