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London, England, 1870-08-05 00:00:00

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ADVANCES MONEY upon personal security, Bills of Sale,
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THE GREAT WESTERN HOTEL.
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" One of the most elegant, comfortable, and economical hotels
in the three kingdoms."— The Field, July 31, 1869.

LONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COM-
PANY.—Established Capital 1836. Subscribed Capital
£2,500,000, in 60,000 shares of £5O each. Paid-up Capital
£l,ooo,ooo—Reserve Fund, £500,000.
DIRECTORS.
Nathaniel Alexander, Esq. Frederick Harrison, Esq.
T. Tyringham Bernard, Esq. Lord Alfred Hervey.
Philip Patton Blyth, Esq. William Champion Jones, Esq.
John William Burmester, Esq. E. Harbord Lushington, Esq,
Thomas Stock Cowie, Esq. James Morley, Esq.
I Frederick Francis, Esq. William Nicol, Esq.
General Manager.
___....

William mcKewan, Esq.
Chief Inspector.
W. J. Norfolk, Esq.
Inspectors of Branches.
11. J. Lemon, Esq., and C. Sherring, Esq,
Chief Accountant.
James Gray, Esq.
Secretary.
F. Clappison, Esq.

HEAD OFFICE, 21, LOMBARD STREET,
Manager.
Whitbread Tomson, Esq.
Assistant Manager.
William Howard, Esq.

At the Half-Yearly General Meeting of the Proprietors, hold on
Thursday, the 4th. August, 1870, at the City Terminus Hotel,

Canon Street Station,
The following Report for the Half-Year ending the 30th June,
1870, was read by the Secretary.

Willimii Champion JOnes, Esq., in the Chair.

The Directors, in presenting to 'the proprietors the balance-
sheet of the bank for the half-year ending the 3Cth Tune last,
have the satisfaction to report that, after paying interest to the
customers and all charges, allowing for Rebate, and making
provision for bad and doubtful debts, the net profits amount to
£83,285 6s. 11d. This sum added to £8,195 ]7s. sd. brought for-
ward from the last account, produces a total of £92,181 4s. 4d.
They have declared the usual dividend of 6 per cent., with a
bonus of 2} per cent. for the half-year, free of income tax (being
at the rate of 17 per cent, per annum), which will absorb
£85,000, and leave £7,181 4s. 4d. to be carried forward to Profit
and Loss New Account.

Mr. John William Burmester, after 15 years' service, has re-
quested, on account of his advanced age, to he relieved from
office as one of the trustees of the bank, and Mr. Frederick
Harrison, a director, has been elected in his stead.

The dividend and bonus (together £1 74871;I share) will be
payable at the Head Office or at any of the branches, on and
after Monday, the 15th instant.

BALANCE SHEET
Of the London and County Banking Company 30th June, 1870.

Z s d

To Capital paid up
Reserve Fund..
Amount due by the Bank for
Customers' Balances, &c.
Liabilities on Acceptances,
covered by Securities .. 1,880,716 4 0
15,252,510 8 11

£ a d
1,000,000 0 0
500,000 0 0

13,871,794 4 6

Profit and Loss Balance
brought from last Account 8,895 17 5
Gross Profit for the Half-
Year, after making provision
for 13ad and Doubtful Debts,
viz

253,259 18 1

262,155 15 6

ONDON AND COUNTY BANKING COM-
-1-4 PANY.—Notice is hereby given that a Dividend on the
Capital of the Company, at the rate of 6 per cent., for the half-
year ending 80th June, 1870, with a bonus of 21 per cent., will
be Paid to the Proprietors, either at the head office, 21, Lombard
Street, or at any of the Company's branch banks, on and after
MONDAY, the 15th instant.
By order ox the Board.

W. M`KEWAN,
Secretary.

21, Lombard-street, August sth, 1870.

HELP FOR THE SICK AND WOUNDED IN

WAR.

A public meeting was held at Willis's Rooms by the
Society for the Aid of the Sick and Wounded in War.
Thy; Duke of Manchester took the chair, the Prince of
Wales being unavoidably absent. The Duke said
they wished to establish a national committee in
connection with the Geneva Society, which had been
recognised by most of the Governments of Europe. Col.
Lloyd Lindsay read a letter addressed to the Swiss Govern-
ment by our Foreign-office, stating that the French and
North German governments had agreed to accept the addi-
tional articles to the convention of Geneva. Lord Shaftes-
bury moved the formation of a national society in conformity
with the Geneva regulations; and other resolutions having
been moved by Field-Marshal Sir J. Burgoyne and others,
and adopted, a committee was appointed to carry out the
objects of the meeting.

The authorities of Stettin, according to the
North German Correspondent, were surprised the other
day by the appearance of a strange sort of volunteer,
who insisted on being permitted to enter the ranks and
fight against the French. This was a young country girl,
tall and strong, and furnished with an excellent character
from the burgomaster of her village. It was no easy
matter to put her off, and when made at length unwillingly
to comprehend that her sex debarred her from being a
soldier, she went away declaring she would try
another regiment, with which she hoped to be more for-
tunate.

METROPOLITAN GOSSIP.

THURSDAY.

It would be interesting to know what Mr. Lowe thinks
of the supplementary estimate which was laid upon the
table of the House of Commons on Monday afternoon,
amid the stentorian cheers of a densely thronged assembly.
The idea of the representatives of the people applauding
with might and main this addition to their burdens
must have struck him. as rather funny. To him
individually this having to increase the estimates
for the two services by almost exactly the same amount
as that which he struck off at the beginning of the session,
must be particularly unpleasant, as it will effectually pre-
ve'nt him from effecting any more striking tours de force
for some time ,to come. Happy must he think himself
if this two millions should prove the full amount
of the war burden which, thanks to the Continental con-
spiracy, we have to bear. That is not at all
likely to be the case. On the contrary, the country is in
such a mood now that it will insist upon having the
defences placed upon, if not a war-footing, yet next door
to it. By this time Mr. Gladstone and his colleagues
have learnt that the nation has fully made up its mind
not to suffer any attack upon the neutrality of Belgium,
and to be prepared to resist any such attempt by force of
arms,

Of course there is great rejoicing in the Conservative
camp at this sudden change of affairs. The Conservative
party have an inborn and invincible repugnance to eco-
nomy, and it was a real pain and grief to them to see
the army and navy estimates cut down as they
have been since December 1868. The recalling
of discharged soldiers, marines, and dockyardsmen
seems in Conservative eyes to justify all that the
Opposition has said for the past eighteen months against
the " cheeseparing" policy of the Government. The fact
that Europe has passed suddenly from a state of seem-
ingly profound peace, to one of war on a gigantic scale
counts for nothing with them. Each re-engaged artizan,
each re-enlisted soldier is, according to them, an incontro-
vertible witness to the folly and the danger of economy.
But though this sort of criticism is eminently unfair, there
cannot be a doubt, I think, that the Admiralty has carried
its reductions too far. The fact that several of our iron-
dads have been delayed for some days in port after hav-
ing received urgent orders to weigh anchor immediately,
and that this delay has arisen from the deficiency of shell
in one case, of bread and water tanks in another, and of
victuals in a third ; the fact that one of our great ports is
actually without sufficient rope to supply the
wants of a single troop-ship, these circumstances
shew that efficiency has been sacrificed to
economy. They are comparatively small matters
it may be said. But nothing is a small matter which
keeps our ships in port when they ought to be at sea.
Moreover, it would be satisfactory to know that these
are the only deficiencies. The statement which has
appeared to the effect that Captain Harvey vainly offered
his torpedoes to the Admiralty, and that they, and the
secret of the invention, have been bought by the Russian
Government is a most serious and alarming statement.
Unfortunately, it is only too likely to be true. It would
be only too much in accordance with the policy which
our Government has.always displayed towards inventors,
the policy which made Mr. Reed resign his post, the
policy, which at the present moment keeps Captain Scott
out of his just reward for his gun carriages. Fortunately
for the nation, though unfortunately for the last named
officer, his invention has been accepted by our Govern-
ment, and thanks to him we are able to make up in great
measure for the deficiency of men in our navy by me-
chanical means, which enable us to work the largest gun
with a minimum crew- He did not take his invention to
Russia : England enjoys the benefit of it, and England
has hitherto refused to pay him for it.
I learn from private sources that Government has for
some time past been strengthening our position at Gib-
raltar. This great fortress is more carefully guarded than
ever. It would, of course play an important part in the
event of a war between this country and France, lying
as it does midway between the French western and
southern ports of Cherbourg and Toulon.
Sir Wilfrid Lawson seriously damaged a high Parlia-
mentary reputation by the course which he took on
Tuesday night in dividing against the supplementary esti-
mate. That Mr. Henry Richard, secretary of the Peace
Society, should have so voted, will not surprise any one,
for he is one of those who think that even the most
strictly defensive war is sinful, and he would let the
French march from Dover to Holyhead without offering
any resistance. That Mr. T. B. Potter, who assumes to
be the chief inheritor of the fame and policy of Mr.
Cobden, should do so likewise need not excite much asto-
nishment, though Mr. Cobden would certainly not have
added the present alarfn to his ` ` Three Panics."
As for Mr. Rylands, he believes that soldiers
are the greatest anachronism in the world, always except-
ing diplomatists, whom (teste Mr. Disraeli), the hon.
member for Warrington would, in his "juvenile fervour,"
abolish. Mr. Charles Reed, the Congregationalist, M.P.
for Hackney, Mr. Ilingworth, the Wesleyan M.P.
for Knaresborough, and Mr. Anderson, of Glas-
gow, are men of so little weight that one does
not heed how they vote. But that a man of Sir
Wilfrid Lawson's calibre and stand should have
moved the rejection of the estimate is really a misfortune
both for himself and for those social reformers who are so
greatly indebted to him. It is worthy of note that the
minority of seven did not include a single Quaker, and I
have no doubt that even Mr. Bright, were he at his post,
would approve the measures now being taken by his
colleagues.
The time is at hand when all opportunity for blunders
of the kind just mentioned will be at an end. By
the close of next week the session will in all probability
have terminated, a session more than usually remarkable
for the measures that have been passed, and the events
that have occurred. Two of the best acts which will re-
ceive the Royal assent are the offspring of the war. The
Foreign Enlistment Act, and the Act enabling Ministers
to call Parliament together at six days' notice.
The latter measure is only too likely to be
put in operation during the present recess. We
may indeed think ourselves fortunate if Ministers
are able to postpone till next February any further appli-
cation for money. At present it is thought probable that
there will be an October session.

The House of Commons have during this session
lost few men of any note. Mr. Henry Berkeley was
the best known of those who have died. Sir John Simeon
was noticeable chiefly as the only Roman Catholic mem-
ber for an English constituency. Mr. Denison, M.P.
for Newark is a real loss, for though he was too young to
have acquired a Parliamentary reputation, there is no
doubt that a man of his heroic character and great abili-
ties would have made his mark. The only eminent poli-
tician who has died during the session is Lord Clarendon,
and it is not a little remarkable that, just as the death of
Lord Palmerston was the signal for the breaking up of the old
Whig Liberal party in England, so the death of his colleague,
(almost the only representative of that party in the pre-
sent Cabinet) was the signal for the letting loose of waters
for that great flood of war which is now devastating the
Continent. It may not be generally known that the war
has had the remarkable effect of restoring a dead man to
life. It is stated in a contemporary of yours that
should we be unfortunately engaged in hostilities the
command of the British army will be conferred upon Sir
De Lacy Evans. I should have thought that a veteran
of 83 was scarcely the most suitable man for so arduous a
post, especially if he had happened to be bed-ridden
before attaining that age, and to have died since. But
then when dead men rise from their graves we know not
what they may not be able to do.
It seems probable that we shall have some more con-
tested elections very shortly. Lord Midleton's life is
despaired of, and his death would lead to the accession of
his son, the member for Mid-Surrey, to the peerage.
Mr. William Brodrick, the gentleman in question, is a
strong Conservative, and in that respect differs from his
brother as much as darkness differs from light. Mr.
George Brodrick is one of the young Oxford party who
at the general election were, with very few exceptions,
beaten by Conservatives. Mr. George Brodrick could hardly
have hoped for any other fate, for he went and bearded
the Duke of Marlborough in his own borough of Wood
stock. Both brothers are able men, and did well at Ile
university. The other impending vacancy will occur in
the) same county. Mr. Briscoe, who sat in the

House of Commons before the Reform Bill of
1832, is moribund. He represents West Surrey.
There will then remain only one vacant seat to fill, that
for Dublin, where both the Liberal and the Conservative
candidates have declared for a national legislature. A
serious fact this, shewing how rapidly the current
of feeling is setting towards a repeal of the
Union. When the Dublin vacancy is filled the number
of M.P.s will be 652, six short of the proper number.
The deficiency arises through the disfranchisement of
Bridgwater, Beverley, Cashel, and Sligo. This is a
smaller number even than the House contained during
the nine years that elapsed between the disfranchisement
of Sudbury and St. Albans, and the allotment of those
seats to Birkenhead, South Lancashire, and the West
Riding. The present vacant seats will not be allotted
until after the census of 1871, in other words I presume,
not until the session of 1872.

Next to the post of Commander-in-Chief the most
arduous is that of newspaper correspondent. The arrests
of the various gentlemen who are doing the war for the
London papers have agreeably (so far as their readers are
concerned) diversified the dull time of waiting before hos-
tilities commenced. The French authorities appear to have
been rigidly impartial in their treatment. The correspondent
of the Napoleonist Standard has fared no better than the
correspondent of the Bismarckian Times. In fact, the
first has fared rather worse, since he has been arrested
twice, while Mr. Charles Austin has undergone the pro-
cess only once. Mr. Blanchard Jerrold is writing in
the Daily News letters describing the state of Paris,
and there is one of his in to-day's paper. Mr.
Woods is gone to the seat of war for the Scotsman, and
not as I mentioned last week, by a slip of the pen, for the
Times. A new weekly penny paper, called War News, is
announced, and will no doubt soon vie with the Police
News in the sensationally horrible character of its illus-
trations.

The war is not.one of those ill.winds which blow nobody
any good. Not only have the newspaper proprietors and
the map-sellers been making a fine thing out of it, but,
what is called the " South Kensington clique," has suc-
ceeded in attaining the object of its ambition, the object
for which it has been manoeuvring these many years. On
Thursday night, in spite of very strong opposition, Govern-
ment succeeded in obtaining a vote for building a
museum for the natural history collection (now at the
British Museum) on the waste piec,e of ground which, ever
since the Great Exhibition of 1862 was pulled down, has
been a waste howling wilderness. It had been intended to
build on the Thames Embankment, but as Parlia-
ment would not listen to the proposal, this is Mr. Ayrton's
alternative, and no doubt the consciousness of the dissatis-
faction which it would excite gave zest to the pleasure which
our amiable .lEdile felt in proposing it. With the end of
the session close at hand, and members hurrying off to
the Moors, and with other more important matters to
engage us just now, it is scarcely likely that any attempt
will be made to reverse this vote. The Continental war
will sufficiently occupy public attention, and King Cole
may build away with a merry old soul.
The war is likely to give rise to a good deal of literature
of a more permanent kind than the letters of Special Cor-
respondents. Sir Alexander Malet, whose acquaintance
with German politics is very extensive, will shortly have
out " A History of the overthrow of the Germanic Con-
federation by Prussia in 1866." Another work just an-
nounced is entitled " Military Resources of Prussia and
France, and Recent Changes in the Art of War," and
consists of articles written by Lieutenant-Colonel
Chesney and Mr. Henry Reeve, editor of the
Edinburgh Review, in that quarterly. The last-
named gentleman is the author of the article on
Lord Clarendon in the new number of Fraser's Magazine.
Messrs. Hachette are publishing a " History of Germany
from 1866 to 1870," and " Prussia and Austria since
Sadowa," by Emile de Lavaleye, the distinguished Belgian
writer. By way of contrast, and the contrast is as
great as it can possibly be, Mr. Rose, better known to
the world under his noes de plume of Arthur Sketchley, is
actually going to publish a weekly paper devoted to
the doings of that most detestable of all personages
" Mrs. Brown," the very mention of whose name
is enough to drive sane men wild. " That way madness
lies." It is scarcely possible to conceive of literature
descending to a lower depth short of Holywell-street.
That there should be a single man, woman, or child who
can think of Mrs. Brown without a sensation of loathing
is inconceivable. To have this wretched creature appearing
every Monday morning is worse than famine, war,
and pestilence all at once. By way of relief, let me
mention for the benefit of those who can distinguish be-
tween real wit and utter vulgarity, that Mr. Lewis Carroll,
author of that most charming book, " Alice's adventures
in Wonderland," has in the press a new
work about the same dear little lady, and
called "Through the Looking Glass, and what
Alice found there." It will have forty-two illustrations,
by John Tenniel. Mr. Hubert Jerningham, who seems
to be doing a good business in " over-setting " (as the
Germans say), is translating Baron Hubner's Memoir
of Pope Sixtus the Fifth, who ruled from 1585 to
1590. Mr. Brenchley, F.R.G.S., is publishing notes of the
cruise which he made among the South Sea Islands in
the Curacoa, under Commodore Sir William Wiseman.
A cheap edition of Andrew Marvell's works is promised.
The last number of " Edwin Drood" will appear on Sep-
tember Ist, and will have a portrait of Mr. Dickens
from Mr. Mason's photograph.
There is a good story going the round of London draw-
ing rooms just now. A little while ago Sir Edwin Land-
seer strolling by the house of a nobleman, was attracted
by the throng of well dressed persons crowding in.
He followed them, and found that he had
walked unwittingly into a bazaar that was
being held for some charitable object. He was
speedily recognised, seized upon by graceful captors, and
told that there was no release for him until he had paid his
footing, he did so in the shape of a drawing. This
sketch of an animal, dashed off in a few minutes, was
quickly sold, and added £25 to the receipts of the bazaar.
Concerning another member of the Upper Ten the
following tale is current. Being ptessed by
his creditors, and not having the coin to
satisfy them, he did what landowners are
accustomed to do under the circumstances—he resorted
to his plantations. There was one that took the fancy
of a purchaser, and as it contained no timber in the ordi-
nary sense of the word, but consisted chiefly of box trees,
the noble vendor could not imagine what purpose the
buyer had in view. That mystery was soon solved. It
was intended to use the wood in making croquet mallets.
" Happy thought," said the needy nobleman. "I, too,
can make croquet mallets." So he erected the necessary
machinery, and has realised a very handsome amount.
I have not space to say much about the magazines.
Politicians should read Professor Seeley's article on the
Reform Bill in Macmillan. Theological readers should
no less read Dean Stanley's article in the Contemporary
Review on the Athanasian Creed. Lovers of art will
welcome Art, a new art journal, whereof the two first
numbers are now before me. Each number contains six
photographic illustrations. But the literary part is
stronger than the pictorial, and there are admirable articles
by many well-known writers, including Mr. Jeaffreson, Mr.
Blanchard Jerrold, Mr. Burton, and Mr. Yapp, of Paris.
Mr. Burton, writing about the proposed decoration of St.
Paul's, strongly deprecates the erection of painted win-
dows, as being absolutely fatal to mural decoration. He
mentions that Sir Joshua Reynolds proposed to decorate
the Cathedral, and that had his offer been accepted, the
building would have been ruined, for Sir Joshua knew
nothing of mural decoration. The Art Journal for this
month has the first of a series of illustrated articles on
the Merchants of the Middle Ages, by the Rev. E. L.
Cutts.

I have been driven nearly wild during the " octave " of
St. James's by the " grotto " boys. From July 25th
and something more than seven days after London gamins,
each carrying an oyster-shell, stops every passer by
who is likely to possess coin of higher value
than copper, and asks him to " Please remember the
grotto." In sheer self-defence I have been compelled to
start a grotto on my own account, and whenever I see an
urchin approaching me I am out with my shell, and by
asking for his contributions I so completely astonish him
that, bewildered and dismayed, he forgets to ask for mine.

The Goldsmiths' Company have sent a donation
of £5O to the " National Society for Promoting the
Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established
Church."

THE TRIAL OF THE MONARCH AND •THE
CAPTAIN.

The official reports on the trial of the Monarch- and
Captain are published among the Parliamentary papers,
and will be read with very great interest. The first
document is from Vice-Admiral. Symonds, who
personally inspected both vessels at sea. He was not
able to witness firing from the • Captain's guns
beyond a certain elevation, and he therefore sug-
gests that firing at the extreme points of training
and elevation should take place outside Plymouth
Breakwater. In his report on the results of the experi-
mental trials, he says that he should consider the Captain
rather a stiff vessel under sail, a very easy and slow
roller, having in this respect a slight advantage over
the Monarch, On the other hand, she is not so
buoyant, and pitches more. In smooth water she stays
well, and wears quicker than the Monarch, her expendi-
ture of coal being, however, much more extravagant than
that of the Mc narch. With respect to her fighting powers
she can fight her guns in a double-reefed topsail breeze.
With regard to her sailing qualities as a cruiser, she is cer-
tainly inferior to the Monarch, her screws not revolving
until she goes six knots, and she is not able to set her
mainsail with her funnel up. As for her general sailing
qualities, the Captain is a most buoyant and easy vessel,
though inclined to be a little crank. " She
can fight her guns in almost any weather, when no
broadside ship would dare to open a port." Both ships
are capable of fighting their guns in as rough weather as
an action would be fought in. They are both unfit to
cruise in squadrons under sail alone, and in. respect of
firing the forecastles hi both interfere with
the best fire right ahead and bow fire. The
poop of the. Captain interferes with the fire astern
also. Such is the substance of the reports which in their
detailed form extend ove a considerable space. Vice-
Admiral Robinson, in his criticism on the
report, complains that in condemning both ships
as sea-going cruisers, Sir Thomas Symonds has not
done justice to either, also that the stowage of both is
hardly noticed by him. Vice Admiral Robinson is natu-
rally anxious to set the Monarch's ()nod qualities
in the most favourable light, though he praises the
great and successful ingenuity ofthe captain's arrangements.
The Admiralty minute on the report and the criticism
places on record the intention of the Lords of the
Admiralty not to arrive at any conclusion on the
respective merits of the two turret ships, or on
any of the points raised in these papers until
they have the results of the complete trials before
them, when they will communicate their judgment to
Parliament. It may be remarked, however, that-both
Vice-Admirals agree in thinking the turret arrangements
of the Captain superior to those of the Monarch, and
they will be in a great measure adopted in the new
Admiralty ships of the kind.