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JAL and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.
No. 10, Fleet-street, London, March 29, ISO?.
7E..OTICE IS -HEREY GIVEN That the ANNUAL
IjNERAL MEETINGB of this Society will be held at the
°,,use of the Society, No. 10, Fleet-street, London, on MON-
'1:1", the 14th day of April next, at I, o'clock prec sely, to
'2,.eceive the auditor's report for the year 1861 • to elect two
';''dll-ectors in the place of the Hon. Sir Thomas 'Joshua Platt
James Wittit Lyon, Esq., both deceased: also to elect
eur other directors. in the place of the four then going out o "ice in rotation (all of whom being eligible for re-election,f themselves accordingly) ; also to elect au auditor for the
liu•oprietors, in the place of John en ry I lolton, Eq., resigned;
also to elect an auditor for the assured, ins the place of
„,‘!&11 Osborne, Esq., then going out in rotation, who, being
'Llgible for re-election, Offers himself accordingly.
By order of the Board.
JOINT NETTLETON, Secretary.
L EGAL
and. GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.
o. 10, Fleet-street, London, March 29, 15,;2.
c HEREBY GIVEN, That an EXTRAORDI-
at tj A-ENERAL MEETING of this Society will be... held
to.A.,•'e ',souse of the Society, No. 10, Fleet-street, on .510N-
the 14th day of April next, at half-past 1 o'clock pre-
set .f, for the purpose of declaring the amount of profit to be
'ctr,s
q ending ot
on the of the
31st Assurance Fund inl. respect of the fire
By order (;) the Board.
JOHN NETTLETON, Secretary.
CHANCERY.—.Between HERBERT REGI-
, WALD WTI/CELE-IZ, an infant, by Robert Locke, his
friend, Pla'aitifl and ii TOOTELL, rVE
_endants aIVriNNE, andCHARLES ALFREDJOHN LLEWELYN
•t Def. RELE" (an 'infant, by henry Burslem, his guardian),
in freehold.,nd in the matter of an undivided moiety of and
' leasehold estates in thwiktif
anti 'p
.A. 13
Of s, Potter New-
-1161. sh of Leeds: the town-
of 13r4dford town-
:o2l pariah of Dewsbury,
ley, all in the county of
Situate in Goswell-street
Litlrm and. Horseferry-
.rish,of SA..rohtif. the Evan-
aurtY of Mid ilesex; and of
the pirisheS of Edniontdh
')oth
in the County of Swerty,.
Sydenham, in the county
tee respectively were de-
Ray, Esquire, deceased;
Tate Leases and Sales of
185 g.• .he matter of " the: Ray Estate Act,
Nottcg is hereby Given, thit, pnrsuant maid Acts, and
‘lO the general orders of the said Court, aPetition was on the
.:Iventy-fourth day of March, one thousand eig,ht hundred and
/,'FtY-two, presented unto the Right Honourable the Lord
VP>ll Chancellbt of Great Bri'ain, for hearing before the
4.,e-ehancellor Sir Richard Torin lijnriersley,; by Charles
Tootell, of the Common Pleas-Office; Chancery-lane,
%rentLlewelyn Wynne, of N. 46, Lincoln's-inn-fields, in the
)" of Middlesex, Esquires,,prayln4 that order m 1 ht
Silver authorising the petitioners to concur with Richard
44`,er Oliver, Esquire, in carrying out .an agreement with.
.11.0'1.,5reeting a demise to Willfam HollingsWorth'of three, 1,1,1178 in Old4freet aforesaid, and foryeisting in the peti—
letiseN ,Powers. of grantim,, , uildincr, and other
aII41.!
.to all the • real'. estate!' o prised' in the will
.kl,l codicil of .the said--Henry B 1 ard• deceased,
• • authorisinp. the petitioners to • sell. • certain allot-
-1141 of land at Twickenham, Putney, .and Brockley
4,1141 n the petition mentioned, aid to concur with Robert
111_0d Esquire,ln Selling a Acid at Burley afore-
' cli4; called the
,Fox Garthil and/ the 'Denton Tithe Rent
et pg:ol6 in the petition inentioned, ~and 'certain slips of land
ester NeWten Aforesaid, and selling•to Mr. Thomas
A4les certain coat tinder-land at Birstitl aforesaid.
't3e,"Od Notice is Also Given, that the said petitioners may be
148'd With any order of the Court, or of the Judge in Cham-
, or Notice relating to the subject of the said petition, at
41,°8i:floe of the said Llewelyn Wynne, No. 46, Lincoln's-inn-
b.2 London.
q‘ed this 20th day of March, 1862,
L. WYNNII,
Solicitor for the Petitioners.

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be beyond a doubt far ahead of the foreign courts
both with regard to goods and cases. During every
day the roads leading to the Exhibition are now
blocked with van loads of packages, which it taxes
the energies of hundreds of men to unload as fast as
they arrive; and Mr. Thompson, the most untiring
and indefatigable of general superintendents, has
even his capacity for business overwhelmed in the
multiplicity of duties thrown upon him, while Mr.
Sandford, who, in addition to his duties as secre-
tary, is the supremo general manager of all, has to
rush through the building as if he was possessed,
to avoid the stream of questioners, applicants, or
remonstrants who flock to him from all parts the
instant he makes his appearance in the interior.
There are, of course, other men who could have got
through the same amount of work as Mr. Sandford,
but there are very few who could lave managed it
as he has contrived to, so as to give satisfaction to
all. Last week no less than 9,000 packages came
In to the building, of which about 4,0 P ere foreign,
5,060 "In: the corresponding week of 1851
the deliveries were scarcely over 4,000 cases. It
would be very easy to make arrangements for the
reception and unloading of these packages if the
slightest intimation' could be giver.fin advance of
either. their weight or size. But a mass of 40 tons
is not unloaded without a little previous arrange-
ment, and even the best plans are liable to be upset
when the packages prove to be too large to come in
at any of the entrances, as has been the case with
twe or three already. It is a singular fact that
as a general rule the averageiweight of goods in
classes is nearly three times as great as in 1861 ;
while the number is only one-third greater. The
`preliminary arrangements for the opening ceremony
have been arranged, and on Saturday the Commis-
sioners issued the following official notification :
." CEREMONIAL TO BE OBSERVED AT THE STATE
OPENING OF THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION.

. " The Queen being anxious to mark ter interest
in the success of an undertaking, in promoting
which the Prince Consort had taken a most active
part, has notified her wish that the opening of the
Exhibition should bear as much as Possible the
Character of a national ceremony. • Her Majesty has
therefore been pleased, under the present impossi-
bility of herself performing that ceremony, to ap-
point his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
K.G., His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Lord High. Chancellor, the Earl of Derby, LG.,
and Viscount Palmerston, K.G., G.C.13'., to be her
representatives to conduct it in her name.

" 1. Her.Majehty's Ministers and the Royal Com-
missioners for the Exhibition of 1851 will attend in
the procession, and her Majesty's-Commissioners for
the Exhibition;w4ilkinvite the Royal and distin-
guished personii:..at the head of the respective
Foreign Commissions, the Foreign Ambassadors and
Ministers accredited to this country, to take part in
the ceremony. .
"2. ±Her Majesty's Commissioners will seek the
co-operation -of the guarantors of the Exhibition,
jurors, members of both Houses of Parliament, heads
of the Church,. Universities,, law; army, navy, and
Volunteers, the, municipalities, scientific and artistic
institutions, the local and other committees aiding
the Exhibition, &c., in giving to the State opening
a national character. For such persons there will
be a number of reserved seats, but the number is
necessarily limited. While desiring to meet the
wishes of all, her Majesty's Commissioners must
reserve to themselves full power of dealing with the
arrangements according to their discretion. Her
Majesty's Commissioners request that gentlemen
occupying officially reserved seats will appear in
uniform, official, or Court dress.

" 3. The principal ceremonies will take place under
the two domes and along the whole length of the
nave. The official reception of her Majesty's repre-
sentatives and of distinguished visitors taking part
in the ceremonial will be held in the Central South
Court. The procession will start from this point
and proceed to the west dome. Here will be a chair
of state, and, after a verse of the National Anthem
has been sung, an Address will be received. The
procession will then move down the nave to the
east dome, where the musical performances will
take place, after which the procession will return
to the throne at the west dome, a prayer will be
offered by the Bishop of London, and the Hallelujah
chorus and the National Anthem will be sung. The
opening of the Exhibition will be declared by his
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. Military
bands will be stationed in the South Central Court.
" By order of her Majesty's Commissioners,
" F. R. SANDFORD, Sec.

" International Exhibition, March 28."
The Commissioners have also issued the conditions
under which they are prepared to receive tenders
for the sole right of photographing in the building '
during the time of the Exhibition. Many of the
great photographers have anxiously looked forward
to the publication of this document, and were pre-
pared to offer considerable sums for the privilege of
taking views, &c. ; bnt the third condition of the
Commissioners has up to the present almost entirely
debarred any from making an offer, for if this rule
is adhered to it would be simply impossible to take
any views at all. It is as follows :
" Her Majesty's Commissioners will not provide
any space or room for photographers, or for their
processes of developing or preparing their plates or
otherwise, all of which processes must be carried on
beyond the limits of the Exhibition buildings."
Now, as it happens, there is not a single place
within any moderate distance of the building which
a photographer could now secure, while, even if
there were fifty such, every one at all acquainted
with photography knows how futile it would be
to take views in a building with a bad light,
with plates brought from a distance of even a
quarter of a mile or so. There is plenty of
space near the eastern annexe which might be al-
lotted to photographers without inconvenience, and
unless some such concession is made, the Commis-
sioners are not likely to get any but A very small
tender. The other conditions are principally to the
effect that all photographs must be taken before 10
a.m., and none sold in the building, though even
these amount to nothing, as her Majesty's Commis-
sioners reserve to themselves the right of making
from time to time such rules, regulations, and con-
ditions as to the hours within which and the mode
and places in which the privilege may be exercised
or otherwise as they may think necessary.
Messrs. Kelk and Lucas have accomplished won-
ders in the way of work last week, It is some-
thing almost marvellous to see the rapidity with
which they progress, not only with the building,
but with exhibitors' cases and foundations. Those
great obstacles to progress, the monstrous scaffolds
of the eastern and western domes, are at last down,
The last timber of the eastern dome was lowered on
Saturday, and only one or two ronqin under the
western. The unfortunate delays which at first,
arose in the erection of the eastern dome so alarmed
the contractors that the task of putting up the
western one was handed over to Mr. Ashton, than
whom no one has had more experience, both here
and abroad, in the erection of iron exhibition build-
ings. From this division of labour a keen rivalry
naturally sprang up to see which would get done
first, and the odds were heavily in favour of the
eastern dome, which had nearly six weeks' start of
the western. But in spite of these advantages, Mr.
Ashton steadily gained on his competing structure
in the east; and the long contest which has ex-

• cited great interest in the building, was virtually
brought to a close on Saturday, when both were
finished almost simultaneously, Mr. Ashton winning
by the difference of time he started with—that is,
very nearly six weeks. Of course, to accomplish
such a result Mr. Clemence's wonderful web of scaf-
folding—the largest and strongest that has ever been
erected in this country, had to be sawn and hacked
down piecemeal; and the dome ribs were tested in the
severest possible manner in lowering down huge un-
couth masses of timber, all bolted together, just as
are down nothing of importance belonging to the
contractors' s
wa,wornk remains, Now that both scaffolds
to be done—in fact, so
forward is everything that with a little extra pres-
sure the building could be opened on the 15th of
next month, and easily by the 20th, in a far better
state of arrangement than in 1851. Nothing now
intervenes to cloak the effect of the interior decora-
tions of the domes, which deservedly elicits the
warmest approbation. The inscriptions in white
letters on a rich blue ground round the belt of the
western and eastern domes are appropriate, though
we think that for the million it is almost a mistake
to have them put in Latin. Both are taken from
Ist Book of Chronicles, that round the east dome
being, " 0 Lord, both riches and honour come of
Thee, and Thou reigneth over all; and in Thine
hand is power and might; and in Thine hand it is
to make great ;" while round the west is' painted,
and the power,
and the
O
e,
gloLryo,rda,ndis
tthheeyigcrteoarytneas,a:4o,ll3asty ;
for all that is
tkOtiaven and in the rth is t
Thine; Thine * the
iniom, Lerd, and ou art
exalted as head above all." On the walls ter‘pinat-
ing each transept also similar appropriate sentences
are inscribed.

In 1851 the courts fot navat and militark
pliances and weapons of war were but' poorly re-
presented. At that time breech-loading guns, per-
cussion shells, of almost unlimited powers of
destruction, iron-plated frigates, Minis rifles (for the
Enfield was not then thought of) would all have
been looked upon as intruders and quite out of place
in a building where nations were to meet for
friendly, rivalry alone. The Exhibition of 1851
was to inaugurate a great era of peace among
nations. For the future they were only to strive
for the promotion of the general welfare of man-
kind, irrespective of creed or country, and at that
time there really seemed to be some chance that
such halcyon days would come to pass, if not in
in Europe, at least in the United States. It is
a significant commentary on the change which
has within 10 short years come ever the spirit of
nations to find that the classes which comprise naval
and military weapons in this Exhibition will be
almost better represented than any other in the
building—that the great trophy of Armstrong,
rising from the coils to the finished gun, or the cases
which show the first step in the manufacture of the
Enfield till the rifle is completed, will be looked
upon with more interest than any branch of trade
or manufacture which exemplifies material progress
and civilisation. It is a simple fact, however, that
no branch of scientific or industrial art has within
the last 10 years been so fruitful of great results as
those which have attended the efforts of various
nations to discover the laws which lead to the more
speedy destruction of their fellow creatures. Eng-
land alone has grown from the Brown Bess to the
Enfield rifle, from long 32's to rifled 300-pOunders,
from wooden three-deckers to huge, fast, black-
looking iron frigates, one of which would baa heavy
overmatch for a whole Channel fleet.' It is not
probable that Foreign Courts will shOW:ranch of
their real progress in these matters. It is in the
nature of Continental Governments to keep these
things as secret as possible, but the English collec-
tion in these classes (11 and 12) will be one of 4e
finest and most varied ever brought together in this
country. Major Augustus Moffatt, of the Bengal
Staff Corps, has charge-of this portion of the ?ible.
Vtion, which helae manned to got ipteethe
possible state of perfection.
Class 11 comprises military engineering, ordnance
and accoutrements, which are again subdivided into
clothing and accoutrements, tents, camp equipage,
&c., arms, and ordnance. In this latter sub class
there is, of course, an immense collection of weapons,
including every description of mechanical and
scientific novelty, from Enfield rifles up to 600-
pounders, and all of them inventions of the last five
or six years. In the nave fronting this court will
be placed the 110 pounder Armstrong and the 100-
pounder Whitworth, flanking on either side a
superb trophy of small arms from Birmingham. In
the court itself will be a most curious trophy of
Armstrongs, which will illustrate the mode of
manufacture of this wonderful weapon, from
the first rough iron coil to the finished
gun. This trophy will be more than 25 feet high,
and weigh nearly 50 tons. There will also be care-
fully detailed models of some of our best fortifica-
tions at Portsmouth, Plymouth, &c., with a model
of London, surrounded by the projected lines of de-
fence, which were spoken of some time since. The
Engineers also send a whole series of models of bar-
racks, hospitals, rolling bridges, field and floating
suspension bridges, with fascines and gabions made
on a new principle, ambulance waggons of all kinds
for sick and wounded, sunken barriers for closing
harbours and rivers, models of sap shields, of ballis-
tic and gun pendulums, and models illustrating the
parabolic theory of the flight of projectiles in vacuo.
There will also be some finished specimens of gun
carriages from Woolwich. Of course, every de-
scription of breech-loading rifle will be there, in-
cluding the celebrated American invention of Mr.
Storm, which we hope will attract the attention
from our authorities it will be found really to de-
serve when seen side by side with its competitors.
A very large number of these Storm rifles are now
being made for the Federal army. There will also
be a fine collection of rifled projectiles fired since
1854, with one of the huge shells made for the
monster mortar, which weighs 22 cwt. Improve-
ments in field tents and camp equipage generally
will be well represented, with a most important
improvement in suspending the soldier's knapsack,
so as to relieve him of half the fatigue now en-
dured in the field and on line of march. Sir Harry
Jones sends a series of military maps and some beau-
tifully executed specimens of photozincography.
Class 12 comprises ships for purposes of war and
and commerce, boats, barges, and yachts, ships'
tackle and rigging. In this class may be studied
the architectural construction of almost every pos-
sible description of vessel in existence or about to
ho produced for war or commerce. There aro ships
sinkable and unsinkable, penetrable and impene-
trable, ships armour-plated, iron-cased, iron-
shielded ; some to engage an enemy below the
surface of the water as well as above it—in fact,
everymeans of destruction and methods of averting
it which the science of attack or defence has yet sug-
gested. Here will be shown a most valuable and
interesting series of models lent by the Admiralty,
illustrating the progress made in naval architecture
for war purposes from the time of the Great Harry
(1514) do en to the present day. A fine and very
large model of her Majesty's ship Queen will be
viewed with interest, standing bide by side with
an equally flue model of the iron frigate Northum-
berland, now building. Visitors may thus at once
form heir opinions of the respective merits of one
, of our finest men-of-Avar of 1h ;9 and ono of our
largest frigates of 1F62. The finest model that has
probably ever been made in this country is shown
by the Thames iron worts as a trophy in the nave.
It is their chef-d cetare the Warrior, built to scale,
and in every respect, even to her plating and Arm-
strong guns, a miniature iron frigate. Near the
Northumberland will also be a model of an iron-
shielded ship, of which report already speaks most
highly. An interesting series of models of ships,
built on Mr. Scott Russell's wave line principle,
since 1851, will also be shown. These will be so
arranged, or rather hung, as to allow professional
visitors to at once form opinions on the comparative

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