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ct as Deputy Treasurer to the Society, under the super-
intendence and control of the principal officer.
XXI.—ACTUARY.—The Actuary shall annually report
to the General Meeting in January, whether the sickness
and mortality experienced by the Society during the by-
gone year, have been in accordance with the calculations
of the Society, and at the same time exhibit a statement,
showing the surplus or deficiency of funds, and the rate of
assessment to be lesied, in terms of Article VIII.
XXII.—COLLECTOR OR OFFICER.—The Collector or
Officer shall, if required, give security fur his intromissions ;
and, immediately after the election of Office-bearers in
January, and the meeting of Directors in July, call on the
Members for payment of their contributions, handing over
the money to the Treasurer as soon as collected, or when
required to do so, and exhibiting, when called for, the re-
ceipts remaining on hand. He Lhall also call all the meet-
ings of the Directors and of the Society, as the Secretary
may direct, and do such similar business of the Society as
may he requ:red.
XXIII.—PROCEDURE WHERE MEMBERS DECLINE TO
ACCEPT OFFICE, OR BECOME DISQUALIFIED TO HOLD IT.
—ln :he event of any Member refusing to accept of an
appointment, or becoming disqualified to hold office, the
next highest nominee at the election shall be appointed in
his stead ; in which case the Member so appointed shall
vacate any other office to which he may have been elected,
and the office so vacated shall be in like manner filled up ;
declaring that Office-bearers appointed in this manner,
absil only be bound to complete the term of those in whose
place they come—such service being accounted to them as
la full servitude ; and when so called to the general ma-
enement, their names shall be placed at the foot of the
Roll of Directors, and progress accordingly. Members who
may have i„;:1.1 either the offices of President or Treasurer
for three years, „,:‘/ decline again to accept of these
offices without incurring- nenalty attached to refusal.
XXI V.-EXPENCES OF THE SOCIETY-HOW DIS-
BUBSED.--The necessary expences of the Soj:.tv, including
salaries, rents, and incidental charges, shall be d;stez.:r4ed
out of the funds thereof, as the same may be allowed by
the Directors ; the expense of their meetings being always
ressrieted to a sum not exceeding One Shilling for each
per-on present.
XXV.—DISPUTES TO BF. SETTLED BY ARBITRATION.
—All disputes which may arise between the Society or
any person acting under them, and any individual Member
thereof, or person claiming on account of any Member,
shall be settled by arbitrators who shall be appointed as fol-
lows :—At the first general meeting of the Society
after the Enrolment of their Rules, fire Arbitra-
tors, residing within the Parliamentary bounds of the
City or Glasgow, shall be named and elected by the
Members, none of said Arbitrators being directly or indi-
rectly beneficially interested in the funds of the Society ;
and, in such case of dispute, the names of the Arbitrators
shall be written on separate and similarly folded pieces of
paper, and placed in a box or glass, and the three whose
names are first drawn out by the complaining party,
or by one appointed by him, shall be the Arbitrators to de-
cide the matters in difference. The Arbiters in the dis-
charge of their duty, shall adhere to the forms prescribed,
and make use of the powers conferred on them by the Act,
and their decision awarded in the form subjoined to these
Rules, shall be final and binding on both parties. Should,
in any ease, the three who have been drawn hold three se-
veral opinions, a fourth shall be ballotted for, in manner
herein mentioned, whose opinion shall determine the mat-
ter in dispute. In the event of the death, the refusal to
act, or the anywise becoming disqualified of any of the Ar-
biters, the number five shall be again made up at the first
meeting of the Directors.
XXVI.—ARBITERS TO BE TRUSTEES FOR THE SO-
CIETY.—The persons chosen as Arbiters shall also act as
Trustees, in certifying to the Bank of England, that the
deposits which may be made, are truly the funds of a regu-
larly and lawfully constituted Society ; and all Government
or Bank of England securities shall be taken in the name of
said Trustees.

XX VII.—PENALTIES EXIGIBLE ON REFUSAL OF OF..
FicE.---For the purpose of enforcing the Rules of the So-
ciety, the following penalties are declared to be exigible, viz.
A Member refusing the Presidentship, to pay..... 205.
Refusing to be Treasurer,.. 4os.
Refnsing to act as a Director, 10s.
Which several penalties shall be exacted, and go into the
funds of the Society, the payment of the same being accounted
service. The President refusing or neglecting to call a
Meeting of Directors, when duly requested to do so, shall
pay 10s. An Office-bearer absent from any meeting of
the Society, or of the Directors, shall pay 2s. An Ordi-
nary Director absent, Is. ; or neglecting to perform the
duties of any Sub-committee to which he may be appointed,
or to visit the sick at the request of the President, ss. ;
but these penalties may lie mitigated or remitted by the
Directors, as circumstances may require.
XXVIII P ROVISION FOR CASES NOT EMBRACED BY
THE RULES.—Should any case occur in the Society con-
cerning which the Rules are silent, the Acts of Parliament
relative to Friendly Societies shall be held as regulating
the same ; and for this purpose, the Secretary shall at all
times be provided with copies of these Acts, 10 Geo. I V.,
cap. 56, and 4 and 5 Will. I V., cap. 40 ; and in the event
of any disagreement or misunderstanding in regard to the
Rules of the Society, or interpretation of anything herein
contained, the Board of Directors shall decide the same,
and record their decision in the Minute-book, as a prece-
dent in like cases.
XXIX.—ALTERATIONS OR AMENDMENTS OF RULES,
HOW TO BE MADE.—AII alterations or amendments of the
foregoing Regulations must be made in terms of the before-
mentioued Acts of Parliament, and agreed to by, at least,
three•fourtbs of any meeting held for the purpose of decid-
ing thereon ; but before any alteration can take place,
a e pisition by not less than a fifth of the whole Members,
stating the proposed alterations or additions, must be
lodged with the Secretary, prior to the ordinary meeting
of Directors in November, or two months before any gene-
ralmceting to be specially called to consider the same ;

and the notice of such meeting shall contain intimation
the purpose thereof.
XXX.—SOCIETY HOW TO BE SUED AND DISSOLVED.-

The Society may sue, and be sued, in name of their Treat.

surer for the time hein,, ; and it shall only be dissolvable
in terms of the Act of Parliament, made in the 10th year
of, the reign of George the Fourth, for consolidating and
amending the laws of Friendly Societies, special regard
being had to the 26th section, which narrates the manner
of dissolution.

At a General Meeting of COMMERCIAL. TRA VELLERA, held
within the Argyll Hotel, Glasgow, upon the 10th day of
January, 1838,
WILLIAM Git.mouß, Esq., Chairman,
The Society was declared to be formed ; the preceding
Rules were unanimously adopted as the Constitution thereof;
and the following Office-bearers elected for 1838, viz.
Mr. Gilmour, President.
• Mr. J Imes Gourlay, Vice. President.
DIRECTORS.

Mews. John Knox
William Christie
Malcolm Kerr
Alexander Aitken
Robert Robertson
James Bland

Messrs. William Crichton
Alex. NP K inlay
John Smith
Patrick Scotland
Geo. Mathieson
Alex. Rankin.
L. B. Thomson, Treasurer.
Alexander Borland, Actuary.
Juhn Hey Robertson, M. D., Surgeon.
Edward Railton, Secretary.
James Reid, Collector.

On Sunday week, the neighbourhood of Mountness-
ing, Essex, was visited by a tremendous hail-storm, accompa-
nied by snow. The wind from the North-west was blowing a
perfect hurricane at the time, and the clouds of snow and hail
as they were whirled along presented a dense and singular ap-
pearance. Several of the haiktones were of the size of small
pistol-bullets, and such as in their descent came in contact
with the more forward fruit trees, tore away the blossom, and,
in many instances, completely severed the stalk to which it
was attached. Considerable damage was done to various
greenhouses in the neighbourhood. The snow, in the short
space of ten minutes, was upwards of an inch thick, and the
fields presented the garb and aspect of winter, instead of the
usual attributesof spring.
The Constitutionnel says—" The choice of Marshal
Souit, as represent ;tive of France at the coronation of the
Queen of England, may perhaps surprise, when taken in
connexion with the souvenirs of Portugal and Toulouse. It
is owing to a circumstance much talked of in the Chambers.
A French Admiral, during his late stay in London, was in-
terrogated as to who was to be the representative of France at
the coronation ; and, as he found a difficulty in replying
otherwise than by conjectures, many eminent persons, and
particularly the Duke of Wellington, hinted a wish that this
mission should be intrusted to Marshal Soult. The Queen
also, it is said, expressed the same desire. This being known
at the Tuileries, seems to have determined the choice of Ole
Duke of Dalmatia. "—[The allusion to Toulouse will not
escape our readers : the name of that city will be found in-
acribed on the Arc de l'Etoile among the list of victories. A
rogintent of English Guards bears the same name on its co-
lours for the same affair; and this concluding action o" the
Peninsular war has always been reckoned by the English
army as one of the most brilliant, though sanguinary, vic-
tories of the Duko of Wellington.]—Note by the Editor of
Galignani's Messenger.
A lamentable instance of superstition has lately oc-
curred in the Hautes Pyrenees. A young girl of the commune
of Azereix, near Tarbes, who had been deserted by her lover,
resolved to try every means to rekindle in his bosom the love
which was extinguished. Assisted by her mother and a noted
Circe, she composed a drink, whieb was to have the desired
kffect, and administered it to the )oung man, who swallowed it
without suspicion. To compose this philtre, the body of an in-
fant was exhumed, cut to pieces. and exposed to the action of
a string fire, and the liquid coming from it served to the young
man. A sister of the girl, actuated by jealousy, informed
she young man of the whole affair, and he has, in conse-
uence,l been seized with a dangerous delirious (e'er.—
French Paper.