The Sun.
London, England, 1846-07-25 00:00:00

ISEAT 11TAUKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—OId MeadoVHi7,3/T7il; New ditto, 215 s
to 3/ 12s; Old Ctovrr, 4/ lOs to N 159 ; New ditto; 31 Be to
4/ 15s ; Oat Straw, 12s to 11 168 ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s
to 1/ 165 per load. Supply good, and trade very dull.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 3s to 4/ 4s; New
ditto, 2/ 6e to 3/ 15s; Old Clover, 4/ to 5/ 14s; New ditto,
315 s to 4/ 15s; Oat Straw, 1/ 12s to 1/ 15s; Wheat Straw,
1/ 165 to 1/ 185 per load. Trade dull, at but little variation
in prices.
WHITECRAPEL.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 3s to 41; New
ditto, 215 s to 3/ 14s; Old Clover, 41 to 51 17s; New ditto,
3/ 58 to 4/ 16s; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 1/ 14s; Wheat Straw,
1/ 14s to 1116 s per load. A full average supply, and a sluggish
demand.

HIGHLY INTERESTING TO
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES.
By the 10th Geo. 4, c. 56 (as amended by the 4th
and sth Will. 4, c. 40, and 9th. and 10th Vict. c. 27),
Societies may be formed
1. For.the lawful insurance of money to be paid on
the death of the members to their husbands, wives, or
children, kindred or nominees, or for defraying the ex-
penses of the burial of the members, their husbands,
wives, or children : Provided that no person under the
age of six shall be allowed to become a member of such
society, and that no insurance shall be effected on the
life of any child under six years of age. •
.2. For the relief, maintenance, or endowment of the
members, their husbands, wives, children, kindred, or
nominees, in infancy, old age, sickness, widowhood, or
any other naturel state of which the probability may be
calculated by way of average.' --
3. Towards making good any loss sustained by the
members by fire, flood, or shipwreck, or by any contin-
gency of which the probability may be calculated by
way of average, whereby they shall have sustained any
loss or damage of their lives or dead stock, or goods or
stock in trade, or of the tools or implements of their
trade or calling.
4. For the frugal investment of the savings of the
members fir better enabling them to purchase food,
firing, clethes, or other necessaries, or the tools or im-
plements of their trade or calling, or to provide for the
education of their children or kindred, with or without
the assistance of .-haritable donations ; provided always,
that the shares in any such investment society shall
not be transferable, and that the investment of each
member shall accumulate or be employed for the sole
benefit of the member investing, or the husband, wife,
children, or kindred of, such member, and that no part
thereof hall be appropriated to the relief, maintenance,
or endowment of any other member or person whom-
soever, and that the full amount of the balance due
according to the rules of such society to such. member
shall he paid to him or her on withdrawing from the
society, and that no such last-mentioned society shall
be entitled or allowed to invest its funds, or any pat t
thereof, with the Commissioners for the Reduction of the
National Debt.
5. For any other purpose which shall be certified to
be legal in England or Ireland by her Majesty's Attor.
ney or Solicitor-General, awl in Scotland by the Lord
Advocate, and which shall be allowrd by one of her
Majesty's principal secretaries of state as a purpose to
powers and febilities of the said Acts ought
to be extended ; provided that the amount of the stun or
value of the benefit to be assured to any member, or any
person claiming by or through him or her, by any so-
ciety for any purpose so certified and allowed as herein-
before mentioned, shall not., exceed in the whole two
hundred pounds ; and that this limitation shall be in-
serted in the rules of every society established for any
purpose so certified and allowed ; and that no such last-
mentit tied society shall be entitled or allowed to invest
its funds or any part thereof with the Commissioners fur
the Reduction of the National Debt.—(9h and 10th Vic.
c. 27, s. 1.)
When a society is formed, under the provisions of 'the
said Acts, for any purpose in addition to that of provid-
ing relief, maintenance, or endowment, in case of infancy,
old age, sickness, widowhood, or other natural state as
aforesaid, the contributions or payments for every such
other purpose shall be kept separate and distinct, or the
charges defrayed by extra subscriptions of the members,
at the time such contingencies take place.--t 9 and 10
Vict. c. 27, s. 3.)
The rules of every friendly society established after
the third day of July, 1846, shall provide that a book or
books be kept, in which all moneys received or paid on
account of any particular fund or benefit for which the
rules of the society provide shall be catered in a separate
account, distinct from the moneys received and paid on
account of any other benefit or provision.—(9 & 10 Vic.
c. 27, s. 4.)
The returns of the rate of sickness and mortality re-
quired by law to be sent by every friendly society at in-
tervals of five years, to the barrister or esti/ovate:by
wnom ine ruieS of the society may have been certified,
shall be henceforth sent to the registrar of friendly so-
cieties is England, Scotland, and Ireland respectively,
according to such form as shall be prepared for that pur-
pose by the said several registrars, under the direction of
one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State ; and
with every such return shall be sent a report of the
assets and liabilities of such society ; and this provision
shell be inserted in the rules of every society which shall
be established efter the 3d day of July, 1846.--(9 and 10
Vict., c. 27,•5. 5.)
The treasurers, trustees, stewards, or other principal
officer of every such society, who by the rules of such
society are or is bound to prepare or cause to be pre-
pared the yearly general statement of the funds and
efficts of such society, shall be the persons who shall be
respectively bound to make or .cause to be made, and
send to the Registrar of Friendly Societies, the said re-
turns of the rate of sickness and mortality, and the said
report of the assets and liabilities of such society ; and
every such person who shall refuse or wilfully neglect
to make or cause to be made or to send the said returns
of sickness or mortality, or the said report of the assets
and liabilities of such society, at the time and in the
manner prescribed by the said Acts, or this Act, shalt
be liable to a penalty not exceeding the sum of five
pounds, to be recovered, with costs, before any justice of
the peace having jurisdiction where sech society shall
have its place of meeting, and on non-payment thereof
the same, with the reasonable costs of conviction, shall
be levied by distress and sale of the goods and chattels
of the offender or offenders by warrant under the hand
and seal of such justices.—(9 and 10 Viet. c. 27., s. 6 )
After the third day of July, 1846, the registrar of
friendly societies in England, Scotland, or Ireland shall
not certify the rules of any friendly society etahli-hed
after that day for. the phrpose of securing any benefit
depending on the laws of sickness or mortality, unless
such society shall adopt a table which shall have been
certified to be a table which may 'be safely and fairly
adopted for such purpose under the hand of the actuary
to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National
Debt, or of some person who shall have been for at least
five years an actuary to some life assurance company in
London, Edinburgh, or Dublin ; and the name of the
actuary by whom any such table shall have been certified
shall be set forth in the rules, and printed at the foot of
all copies of such tables printed for the use,,of the
society.—(9 and 10 Vict. c. 27, s. 13.)
The fee payable to the registrar for his certificate is
one guinea, but he is not entitled to a fee in respect of
any alteration or amendment of any rules, upon which
one fee has been already paid within the period of three
.years, nor for any certificate to rules, &c., which are
copies of any that have been certified by him and duly
enrolled.—(4 and 5 Will. IV., c. 40, s. 4,5.)
Two copies of the rules, alterations or amendments,
written on paper or parchment, signed by three mem-
bers and the clerk or secretary (accompanied in the
case of an alteration or amendment of rules with an
affidavit of the clerk or secretary, or one of the
officers of the said society, that the provisions.
of the Act under which the rules are enrolled:,
have been 'complied with) must be sent (with
the fee of one guinea, by a post-office order) to the
Registrar, for the purpose of ascertaining whether the
said rules, or alteration or amendment thereof,
are calculated to carry into effect the intention
of the parties framing such rules, &c., and are in con-
formity to law, and the provisions of the statutes in
force relating to friendly societies, and the registrar is
to give a certificate on each of the said copies, that the
same are in conformity to law, and to the provisions of
`the statutes in force relating to friendly societies, or to
point out in what part or parts the said rules are repug-
nant thereto. The registrar is to return one of the
copies to the society and to keep the other, and the
rules may be legally acted upon from the time when
the same are certified by the registrar.—(4 and 5 Will.
c. 40, s. 4., and 9 and 10 Vie., c. 27, s. 12).
For the important provisions contained in the Friendly
Society Acts, reference must be made to the 10 Geo.
c. 56; 4 and 5 Will. IV., c. 40; 3 and 4 Vic., c. e 3; and
9 and 10 Vie.„ c. 27.
The following are among the benefits derived from a
friendly society being enrolled:-
1. The rules are binding, and may be legally en.
forced.

2. Protection is given to the members, their wives,
and children, &c., in enforcing their just claims, and
against any fraudulent di,solution of the society.
3. The property of the society is declared to be vested
in the trustee or treasurer for the time being.
4. The trustee or treasurer may, with respect to pro-
perty of society, sue and be sued in his own name,
5. Fraud committed with respect to property of so-
ciety is punishable by justices.
6. Registrar may order transfer of stock, &c., if person
in whose name it stands is out of England, &c.
7. Application may be made to Court of Chancery by
petition, free from payment of Court or counsel's fees,
&c.

8. Disputes settled by reference to iustices or arbitra-
tors ; order of justices or award of arbitrators final.
9. Power to invest their funds with the Commissioners
for the reduction of the National Debt, and to receive
interest at the rate of 3/. 1 fis. Oid. per cent. (except in
certain cases mentioned in 9 and 10 Vie., c. 27.)
11. Priority of payment of debts, in caso ofiicer, &c.,
of society become bankrupt, insolvent, has an execution,
&C., against his property, or dies.
12. In caso of death of members payment may be
made of sum not exceeding 201., without the _ expense,
&c., of obtaining letters of administration.
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13. Members are allowed to be witnesses in all pro-
f:o4llga, criziwg (g civil, sospedulg t4operty of gocioty.

14. Exemption of all documents, &c., from stain,
duty, except when an assurance is granted on any one
life to an amount exceeding 2001.
Form of Affidavit to be annexed to Alteration or
Amendment of Rules. 4 and 5 Will. 4c. 40, s. 4.
I --, of --, the clerk (or secretary, or one of the
officers), of the --Society, held at ---, in the count,'
of --, make oath and say, that in the making .tl!°
alterations (or amendments) in the rules of the said
eociely, the provisions of the Act under which the rules
of the said society are enrolled have been duly' complied
with.
*worn this day of ,18 ,
before me S.

A JuEtice of the Peace acting
for

Act
Extract from 7 and 8 Vic. c. 110, entituled " An
for the It listration, Incorporation, and Registration
of Joint Stock Companies.'
Tbis Act applies to every joint stock company
ls,
therein defined, (except banking companies,
scientific and literary iustitutions, and, also, friernll7
cicties, loan societies, and benefit building eociettse
respectively, duly certified and enrolled unaer
statutes in force respecting such societies, ether tinit
scho
such friendly societies, as grant assurances
,to an ext."
upon one life, or for any one person to an amount eti
ceeding 2001. And if before a certificate of provision, f
registration shall be obtained, the promoters, or gni°
them, or any person employed by or under OOP ,'
take any moneys in consideration of the ailotmeri;
either of shares or of any interest in the concerti, or If
way of deposit for shares to be granted or alloted, orb;
sued in the name or on behalf of the company, any P
or scrip, or letter of allotment or other instrument
writing to denote a right or claim or preference or Prc;:,
mise, absolute or conditional, to any shares, or ad"
Use the existence, or proposed formation of the Ova;
pany, or make any contract whatsoever, for or in thennll3l:
or on behalf of such intended company, then every nut
person shall be liable to forfeit, for every such offeneei
sum not exceeding twenty-five pounds; and that it 510 P e
be lawful for any per Son to sue for and recover the WI
by an action of debt,—(7 and 8 Vic. c. 110, s. 2, 24. 4
Every information respecting the establisment
friendly societies, savings' banks, annuity societies, an
benefit building societies, may be obtained and instro%
tions published by order of the Lords of the Treasor.7o
with a forns of rules and tables applicable thereto, wtlhe
be forwarded free of expense, on Application by
general post, pre-paid, directed to the
" Registrar
Friendly Societies, in England, London," All letvr
and packets must be pre-paid.
No friendly society, unless duly certified, can lege
invest its funds in a savings' bank.
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FRENCH FLAYS-ST. JAMS'

THE .1 TRE.
last

:ht in the charade!

Ma&moiselle Rachel appeared last nig, , it. biebf
of Virginie, in Latour's tragedy of the same name, w,.Ars
produced in 1835 at the Theatre Francais, excited the
of the classicists, who hailed in M. Latour "the CO
man" whose advent they had so long expected,
.111Irie td
to depose the usurping Romanticists, and to restore W-41) do'
the throne of Poetry. Whether M. Latour is likely
hwe
this, we shall not now stop to inquire. We shad
another opportunity of entering into the literary In KO
of his production. At present we must confine ourseior
to the acting by Rachel in the character of the here his
The two great characters in the play are Virginie and APePost
Claudius; and in the interview between them in the se the
act, when Claudius ventures to speak to Virginie of lovesbig
outbur;t, of indignant scorn, with which she Insetl ,haf
avowal, was one of the grandest triumphs that 'bleu' -.at,
ever achieved. She well understands the form of contr.-01
The retiring maiden of the first act had, by the aseiduitftsd
Claudius, become transferred into the indignant and ins"„ re
woman, who with withering sarcasm spurned from her &be
sence this insulter, patrician though he might be her,
villain dares to make a midnight attack uperl, tot
and her description of this attack to her Jeerer
is one of the finest pieces of acting,. king
seen. Her utterance is impeded, and she seems euna to
with. nlinglekaliger,„ and fear while describing tbe.nefe,isie
her. Tat her. Th repreilatltion of the character of V ll'7
is. perhaps, the greatest triumph as a whole that Madenol
Ir
Rachel has as yet achieved during her visit to Louden'
was in every part perfect.
FRENCH PLAY S. —Her Royal Highness the 111009
of Cambridge, accompanied by the Hereditary- 'lf sy
Duke and Duchess of Meclenburgh-Strelitz, -,enuyolitt
tended by the Baroness Ahlefeldt and air. Edmund St• "hot
Mildmay, honoured the French Plays with her presene„egor
evening; we observed also the Duke and Duchess of B_ _.d
fort, the Duchess of Sutherland, Countess of Carlisle, 100
Morpeth, Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbanos
Countess of Chesterfield, Lady Newport, Countess and La
ths
Cadogan, his Excellency the Russian Ambassador ami„ise
Baroness Brunnow, Earl and Countess Grey, the „13,!pluiS
Minister, Madame Van de Weyer, and Mr. Bates, jo
of Titchfield, the Ladies Bentinck, Lady Grenville, to
Beaumont, Lord Anson Lord Cranstoun, Baron Kolleroido.
.Earl of Scarborough, Lady Suffield, Earl of Clarendon, 51e,
Villiers, Lord Duncannon. Lady Alice Peel, Lady Grenl,ol
Lady Kinnear Macdonald, Count Bellegarde, Sir Georg!, Sir
Miss Talbot, Lady and Miss Macdonald, Mrs. Erringr: sir
Robert and Lady Newman, Sir William Massey Stan„lellon•
C. Vaughan, Lady Fitzroy Kelly, Sir Isaac Goldsmni,
R. Dundas, and Mr. and Mra. Brownrigg, M. Canofari'isseS
Itice Trevor, Mrs. Denistonn,,-Mr. Dudley, And the oh, the
Majoribanks; Mrs. and Misses Hammersley, Anu
Misses Bligh, and Mr. Lumley.

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MIDLAND ' COUNTIES, 'NOTTINGHAM, JULY
During,the last week or, two, the weather in the 21 the
counties has been all that' is desirable for forwarding .
,whiharvestingteand
large breadth of hue I;ilieningeCr°P3, and operations are PropessinfZeu
relcoas,
cut and stacked ,in Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, A.,n„ s have
and the remark is, general-tha finer and heavier Pi.'
redwbea thay
hat is
not been gathered fer sOme years;` generally - fi4e
light in straiv, yet plump and full in ear, and perfect bog
front blight. The recent light rains and Misty. es tioi
showers have contributed much benefit to the ripening efle,
here and there, it is true, the ill effects of partial stnrtnrcpeo..
shown in patches of beaten down corn, and though tire vtil!
ing of plots will thus be retarded, no substantial illl.tle'neo!
three
result
or four weeks.weath if the erThe continueoods
influence cfd the warm and ry
weather
ged
the prospects of an abundant harvest, are fOreshadeTiollie
the great reduction that has been and is taking rolaci`„eeejslf
market price of corn in the present week. At the w...dpir
market at Newark, held yesterday, the 22d instant, ansi"eithi
non of ss. per quarter on the figure of last week weeilture
nutted to on wheat, and the tendency of prices of agn-
produce is decidedly downward. .
onneal4
THE ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN
RAILWAY.—DEATH OF ONE OF THE SUFFESERS•he
our painful duty to announce the death of one of the 'to
ferers through the frightful accident which occurred (!aderil
Eastern Counties Railway on Saturday last. Our rs7Bere
will remember that in the list of injured passengers We-0110'
tioned, not by name, a gentleman living at Victoris
°fells
Dalston, who was said to have sustained a concussion t belP
brain. This gentleman died yesterday morning abegabovei
past nine o'clock, at his residence in one of the ue
named villas. His name was Mr. Hind, principal 41.,,t'etteet:
of Hind and Son, silk fringe manufacturers, in VV 00°— eon'
Cheapside, and well }mown and highly respected throng el
the London and Coventry silk trade. Mr: Hind's PI al
injuries were in the abdominal region, where, tk"ur fell
position in which the fragments of the broken carrille4e bf
upon him, he was dreadfully crushed. He was attee te
Mr. Bransby Cooper and Mr. Aston Key, in additinh ittieg
Touhnin, of Hackney, who paid him the most utuelijd ieet:
attention to the last. But the injuries he had recei”,i, en°
beyond the reach of medical science and surgical so's
nothing being practicable but to alleviate his stilferitraieg'
anodynes, he lingered in great pain till yesterday' 111
when he was released by death. A
be#l4
THE OoRS AND lllVLllS.—lnverness already
to wear the aspect of preparation for the 12th of Auge'ro'ett
embers (f sportsmen arriving and departing daily, euedeoLi
to shooting quarters. Those especially who add. to in°L'liegr
sport the more solitary, but no less exciting, sport of anew i 0
are all fast on their way to the Jivers, which are
i 600•
prime order, and with weather of alternate clouds anuhereti
shine, such as tempts the salmon to dash at the fete" 0 0
and barb,d hook. On the Beauty, Mr. Perceval has takbeeo
number of salmon of late. Mr. Jones, at Rosehall, has eualS
very successful. Dr. Cumming and A. Houhlpne Esq., °jilt
landed a number from the Ewe ,• and on the Findloriit no' $
other day, Lord A. Churchill and P. G. Cumming, Escloete7o.
six. Moors are still in great request, and the foLowingre'leee
been taken lately :—Glenlivat, C. Goring, Esq ,
apd
evil, C. T. Master, Esq.—Stittenhani, J. T. Tiscl. all, ESCI",iI,
Colonel Moore—Torridon, W. Berwick, Esq.—StrathiurVO4.
W. Eyton, Esq.—Harris, Mr. Lloyd, and R. M. Leeks,
—Migavie, Captain Downes.—/nverness Courier.
rat of
INTOLERABLE BIGOTRY.-7he following f...,°--ons, iS
petition, about to be presented to the House of e°,'"„aticisol
a lamentable instance of the folly into which
being
sometimes drives its votaries :—" We, the undersign- dwell
clergymen of the -Church .of England, humbly P ,iOOlll
your Honourable House, and beg to state, that in the Ne'peet
Gallery there are three pictures, representing the, „Agit
Person of the Holy Trinity under the image of an old 7006
and that two of these representations are so grotesque ,00,
uncouth that they cannot but shock the feelings of aner_'.e.e.
gious person. That your petitioners consider such I:Tor.
sentations blasphemous, and an insult to their holy-rell 81,
They are the very representations of the Deity which ie
been adopted by the most benighted and demoralized
,f
thens. Your petitioners do not deny that the pictures
merbiethaesvepat
paintings,
tinthere bas-:loebiteas".
gst but this fh°l',ie•
no excuse for the great moral evil which arises from s,..ticel
hq
beisttiioonns.m aly, have v
petitionerse great
previous instance of such pictures being publicly .7.-z:co —„
in this country; and they look upon this circun-rge
an indication of the sentiments of the nation in
to
this matter; since it meet deferenturo,
have been from
them, and not from mere accident thatclass of Pie jetty'
so numerous abroad, have been a . eed
ur
England.
.Your BO 'long excluded
petitioners, feeling thaw as
assured
rovitr
Honourable House is d • esirous of checking the belity• QlO
well of suerstition, on the one hand, as of in , uteh
the other, look with eat confidence for a 10v° out
answer to th • gr
They thaw err prayer. hope and tiers. d sue-
Honourable House will interpose your authoritY. ,ps the
press that which publicly. dishonours God and in°l2,l- your
religious feelings of the whole country. Although tbe
petitioners have based their prayer on the grouht,eetS'
insult offered to the Christian faith by grotesque rent for
tions of' its holiest mystery, they would not have been
gotten that the grievance they complain of is a direct
of the second commandment." 11.1
The embankment of the Rhine near Strasburg cote
ceeding rapidly, asehe Government have this year base
900,000 francs for that purpose. Some new cuts ha' oigie
begun, while others have been made available for 1100
lion. Between the above city and Lauenburg neZch UP„
has been abridged by some miles. The steamers, vtiojee
to 1835 required five hours for the above distaneerted to
now in three. Several swinging bridges are also preie
replace the old ferries.—The Builder. Wed'
FREE-TRADE DINNER AT SUNDERLANW" eels'
nesday (the general holiday) a number of gentlen!sia of
brated the triumph of free- trade principles in thel3efge
the Corn and Customs' Bills by a public dinner at the of the
Hotel. A. J. Moore, Esq., one of the alderinelilA'ed p„,r"
borough, who has• long taken a very active and deelas'yee
on this question, presided,' in the absence of the cOr
Browne Esq.), who was prevented 'from attending b,4 vise'
mestic bereavement. Mr. R. French occupied
•
chair.—Sunderland Her4l4.
HANOVER, JULY 17.—His Majesty has bee,,,tll t'-t0
. g ,
for about a week from indisposition, which * is
rePrag
would willingly believe to be unauthenticated,
having taken a more serious character since Yeswe—
counts of the 18th are more favourable. cedt 0 tb
THE POTATO DISEASE.—M. Psych' 1111.11011?! that the
Paris Academy, in the sitting of the 13th ill% germ:
.potato 'disease had again made its appear Flo .ites,s:;4
parts 51-France, notwithstanding fdaenum.
taken to prevent it, and tnkt therefore other g;
to Wanted to to roust its apivoctiags

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