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London, England, 1863-07-29 00:00:00

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THIRD EDMON

IN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK.

Postage on Letters, ckc., for India and China,
by French Packet,

The following arran
French Post-office b gements have been made with the
y which,
after the Ist August ziezt
letters and printed papers may be forwarded to India and
China by the French lino of mail packets, at the same rates of postage as are chargeable on letters and printed
papers sent via Marseilles for conveyance by British
packet :
Letters addressed to Aden, Ceylon, Madras, Calcutta, and
Pondicherry—Not exceeding f oz., 10d ; above 4 oz. and
not exceeding 1 oz., is 8d; above 1 oz. and not exceeding
2 ozs., 3s 4d ; above 2 ozs. and not exceeding 3 ozs., Os ;
each additional ounce, is 3d. Letters addressed to Cochin.
China, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore—Not ex-
ceeding oz., is 4d ; above oz. and not exceeding 1 oz.,
2s 8d; above 1 oz. and not exceeding 2 ozs., Os 4d; above
2 ozs. and not exceeding 3 ozs,, 8s; each additional ounce,
2s Bd.

Newspapers 3d each, not exceeding 4 oz. Other printed
papers not exceeding 4 oz., 6d; above 4 ozs. and not ex-
ceeding Alb, Is ; above Alb and not exceeding Ilb, 2s ; every
additional Ilb, Is. Letters, &c., intended to be forwarded
by these packets must be specially addressed—" By French
Mail Packet for Marseilles."

Upon letters for Ceylon the postage must be prepaid, but
upon those for the British poseessions in India and Hong
Kong, the postage may either be paid in advance, or left to
be paid on delivery, at the option of the sender.
In all cases, however, where the postage is not prepaid,
an additional rate will be charged on delivery.
The prepayment of postage on letters for Pondicherry,
Saigon (Cochin Chins), and Shanghai (at which placer
France has Post-office agents) is optional, without any fine
for those sent unpaid.
The postage on newspapers, books, and other printed
papers nau.t in all cases be prepaid according to the regula-
tion in force with respect to similar articles sent by the
British packets.

The french packets leave Marseilles on the 39th of each
month for Alexandria, in correspondence with a line from
Suez proceeding to Aden, Point-de-Galle, Madras, Cal-
cutta, Singapore, Cochin China, Hong Kong, and Shang-
hai. Letters, &c., intended to be forwarded by them must
be posted in, or reach London, at the latest in time for the
day mail to Franco of the 18th.

A CHARITABLE BEQUEST IN DANGER.

' Some three or four years ago there died a venerable spin-
ster, Miss Agnes Hamilton by name, who had for a long
time managed, and that with signal success, a grocery
business in Hutchesontown. She left about £20,000, the
chief part of which was invested in heritable securities.
Forty years before, that is, in 1821, she had caused a will
to be made, indicating how she wished her means to be
disposed of. In this deed, after providing respectably for
a sister and a servant, she directed that the interest of the
balance should be empended in the payment of annuities,
not exceeding £4 each, to decayed natives of the barony of
Gorbals, or persons who had lived there for 40 years, their
moral character being good, and their age not under 65. The
execution of this trust—the whole patronage and guar-
dianship of the fund, she confided to the managers
of the barony—a body who then boasted a vigorous
such as gave fair promise that it would be permanent. It is
exceedingly probable that the sum she possessed when the
will was made was small in comparison with the value of
her estate when she died; but there is ample evidence that
through all the intervening years, and amid the accumula-
tions which they witnessed, she continued steadily to cherish
her benevolent purpose. Twice over, in 1834 and in 1854,
trifling changes were made on the deed by the addition of
codicils, though its leading provision was left unaltered.
But, prior to her death, the office of " Manager of the
Gorbals' was swept away. The Municipal Extension Act
was, as is well known, the death of all separate and inde-
' pendent jurisdiction in the barony. Hence it happens that
there is no one in a position to administer the trust pre-
cisely according to the manner in which it was devised.
The question arises, shall this hitch utterly frustrate the in-
tention of the testatrix ? The estate is now under the care
of a judicial factor appointed by the Court of Session. A
movement has been made by the next of kin to the deceased
to have her testament wholly set aside, so that the funds
may come to them. It is thought by some philanthropic
and public-spirited persons that there are valid grounds for
resisting this application and securing the fulfilment of Miss
Hamilton's design. There are a number of poor and aged
folk living in the Gorbals who suit the description given
of those whom she meant to :benefit. It is hard to see
how others could directly intervene for their protec-
tion; but they have themselves a just standing-ground
on which to go before the court. That step has been re-
solved upon. Those interested in the business wish, how-
ever, some token of public countenance and aid. To that,
we think, they are extremely well entitled. The object of
the bequest is one of the most exemplary kind—one of
which even Mr. Gladstone, with all his horror of death-
bed charities and the abuses which they engender, would
feel himself constrained to approve. In point of
equity there can bo no question that the case pro..
sented is a good ono ; no case could well be stronger.
In point of actual law there is every reason to hope
for a favourable decision ; the Dundee people are about
to celebrate the recovery of a sum designed for the esta-
blishment of an hospital there, which was made under cir-
cumstances greatly more inauspicious and problematical
embarrassment the case
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On Monday last a general holiday at Woburn, in
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the Canterbury Hall ; Messrs. West and Taylor,t tehres'grmeanit
negro rnelodists ; Mr. Ozmond, the celebrated antipodian ;
Mons. Chapino's ballet troupe; and Mr. R. Phillips. The
whole concluded with a grand display of fireworks, and
passed off most triumphantly, Mr. Nelson Lee receiving
a vote of thanks from the committee.
A LARGE FEE WELL EARNED.—" Mr. Thompson,
the surgeon who performed an operation on the King of
the Belgians, has," says the Journal de Bruxelles, 46re-
ceived a fee of 100,000 f., and the Cross of Commander of
the Order of Leopold."
SNEAKING AWAY FROM A SERMON.—The pain-
ful process—as thus graphically described by the
Saturday Review :—To move to the door as the clergyman
moves to the pulpit is considered by an ordinary congrega-
tion as neither more nor less than a breach of good man-
ners. It wants a face of brass to beat an open retreat under
the general frown of disapproval. One is almost tempted
to recur to the schoolboy expedient of affecting a sudden
determination of blood to the nose. t Nothing but, the
exhibition of sonic such symptom of distress is held to be
a valid excuse for quitting church prematurely. Apart
from the unpleasant consciousness of shocking the feelings
of your fellow-worshippers, there aro physical obstacles
which beset your reti eat. Pew-doors have a nasty way of
first sticking fast in defiance of all the known laws of
mechanics, then of creaking loudly, and lastly, of opening
with an explosive bounce, which echoes through the sacred
fane, and covers the involuntary cause of the disturbance
with confusion. A tender conscience might almost see in
this contretemps a judgment for its indifference to spiritual
privileges as evinced by not awaiting the coming discourse.
Then you may have been so unlucky as to have left behind
you, in your nervous agitation, a Prayer-book, stick, or
umbrella ; and this necessitates a reappearance, which gives
you a peculi:rly hardened and impenitent look. When at
last tho door is gained, your perturbations are not at an
end. The conformation of the ecclesiastical door may be
regarded as decisive of an often mooted question as to the
final cause of doors generally. It is made to shut and not
to cpen. Try it what way you will, it refutes obstinately
to stir on its hinges. The coaxing and the shaking
method are equally ineffectual. At last, recovering twit-
possession from despair, you succeed in penetrating the
mystery of its construction, and with an inward anathema
on the ingenuity of the locksmith of the Plantagenet or
Tudor period, you emerge once more into the street,
heated, flushed, and in a frame of mind anything but tlevc.•
tional.