The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-11 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF TLIE SUN.

SIR,— W ill you likely afford your protection to the
ladies against a rudeness shown them in (of all places
in the world) our Opera Houses?
O❑ most nights you tray observe them standing and
struggling for a humble peep at the stage, behind the
brawny shoulders of comfortably seated gentlemen, who,
I am ashamed to say, rarily cfler a few minutes' rest to
their de;icate and pretty neighbours.
Can it be that in these days of refinement, we forget
the old and honoured law, place pour les dames, or is
it that we wish to show foreigner. now sojourning here,
that we are, indeed, tac behind them in triouc oourtvaiea
whicb,thrcwjso great a charm over good society elsewhere?
Pray, Sir, jog our gentlemerx's' memories on the point,
and thereby oblige very many of your countrywomen.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
Mornington-crescent, June 10. A VISITOR.
[lt would be a matter of satisfaction to all English
gentlemen it the hint of our correspondent were taker.
We trust, therefore, that all our fellow-countrymen in-
discriminately may afford the foreign visitors to the
metropolis evidenee, however tardy, that in some respect
at least the people of these barbarous islands are pro-
Ecients in pulitenes.,.—ED. Sun.]

[A DV I:R.TISEM ENT.]
FIRST REPORT t:F THE DIl EC I'URS or THE LNW
PROPERLY ASSURANCE AND TRUST SO
CIE IY, 30, ESSEX-S I REET,STRAND, LONDON.
At the Annual General J4ee iag, h.ld on the 30th May,

1851, at the Socii;ty'sOtilees.

At this, the first Annual General Meeting of the Law
Property Assurance and Trust Society, the Directors
have grs at pleasure in submitting to the shareholders
their Report of the proceedings of the past year.
The advantages of the novel application of the prin-
ciples of Assurance to Leaseholds, Cepyholds, and Life-
holds, as well as the Redemption of Mortgages and of
L ans, and the Security of Building Societies, in addition
to the contingencies of Life, have been more extensively
appreciatsd tnan was expected, and your Directors refer
with much gratification to the transactions o this So-
ciety during the first veer of its existerce. 313 Pro-
posals have been received. of which 192 have been ce:mpl4ed,
and are now in force, yielding an Annual income of
2,2:34/. 16s. 3d. In addition to these 27 more have been
accepted. and are in process of completion.
Your Directors congratulate the shareholders that not
a single Life Policy has become a claim.
The confidence with which the plans of this Society
are viewed by the public is evidenced by the fact that aU
the Shares in the Capital Stock of the Society are sub-
scribed. And your Directors, continuing to receive ap-
plications for further allotments, have found it expedient
to declare forfeited such Shares as had not been taken
up, and in order to extend as widely as possible the In-
terests of the Society, they have resolved to issue the
few remaining forfeited shares only in small lots.
The management of the Office has been carried on
with the utmost caution and prudence, regard being had
rather to economy then displaye The entire fixed An-
nual Charge upon the Society's funds, including the
Salaries of Secretary, Medical Officer, Clerks, and
Porter, with rent and taxes, does net exceed 800/. per
annum. Thus already the Annual Income is much more
than double the fixed expeedituie. The Society therefore
offers the almost unprecedented instance of having become
self supporting at the end of only one year.
On ref. rence to the List rf Agents of this Society, it
will be seen that the services of a highly respectable and
influential budy of gentlemen of the legal profession
have been secured, and the assistance of the shareholders
is particularly requested in -increasing their number in
localities not yet represented.
Your Directors invite special attention to the peculiar
and great advantages offered by this Society to those
s ffeclieg Lite Assurances on the participating scale, in-
a.much a, they receive Eighty per Cent. of all the profits
arising from every branch of the Society's business on
the participating scale.
The Assurauce of Titles is now beginning to be under-
stood and appreciated. Many proposals have come before
the Board, some of which have been accepted, and your
Directors anticipate a eery extensive and advantageous
business from the plan they have adopted, in cases e here
large natures are sold in small lots, tor assaying the title
to each of the purchasers, and thereby saving the expense
of a separate investigation of the whole title, and of an
attested copy of the title- deeds.
In conclusion. your Directors offer the it congratule-
dons to the shareholders on the entire success which has
attended the Society. Feeling assured that the advan-
tages uttered by it are so mani-est as to require only to
be wsll understood to be universally adopted, they beg
to impress upon the shareholders the necessity for active
co• operation in melting known its plans to their triends
sod the public, and thus to assist in placing the Law
Property Assurance and Trust Society in that position,
which the experience of the past year asArrea your
Directors it may shortly occupy,—namely, in the fore-
most rank of Assurance Societies in the United Kingdom.
WILLI tm NEISON,
28th June, 1851. Aotuilly and Secretary.
30, Essex-street, Strand, London.

LORD DIMDRENNAN —We rt•gret to learn !hat
Lord Dundrerman, who has for some days past been absent
from his judicial duties, has been suffering from severe indis-
position. The answer to itiquilieA on Friday was, that his
Lordship was somewhat better.— Kdinburgh Courant.

CHARING CROSS HOSPITAL.—Yt stcrday a meeting
of the Governors of the above Hospital was held in the
Board-room, for general business. The annual statement
of the operations of the hospital for the past year showed
that 19.h,5 i,.digent sick persons were relieved, at a cost of
2,4301. 3s 11d.: of these 1,210 were in. patients, 643 of which
were cases of severe accidents; the out-patients numbered
I'.B9s—making grand total, same its commencement, in
1818, of i 86,63 sick and needy individuals who have par,
token of the advantages of the institution.

THE QUICKEST VOYAGE EVER MADE BETWEEN
EGYPT AND ENGLAND.—The Orietal Steam Company's new
steam-ship Ganges, 4'400 tons and 500 horse-power, con-
structed by Messrs. Todd and M'Gregor, of Glasgow, and
which was placed by the company as an extra vessel on
the Southampton and Alexandria line, made her passage out
from Southampton to Alexandria iu 11 days 2 hours' steam-
ing, being an average rate of Ili knots per hour f. r the
whole passage. She arrived at Southampton on the Bth inst.,
having made her passage home in 11 days and 6 hours'
steaming, or nearly at the same rate as on the passage out.
Including the stoppages at Gibraltar and Malta the actual
time occupied on the voyage has been a little under 12 days,
being within one day of the actual time now occupied in
transmitting the Overland portion of the mail to Alexandria
through France. Messrs. Tod and M'Gregor are now con-
structing three large steamers for this company. The
Ganges will take out the India mail of the `4oth inst. from
Southampton.

THE FAILURE AT LivEßPom..—Yesterday (Tues-
day) a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Finch and Willey,
of the Windsor Foundry, Liverpool, was held at the Claren-
don-rooms, South John-street. Mr. Wizkham, of the Low-
moor Iron Company, was unanimously voted to the chair,
and a statement of the accounts, drawn up by Mr. Bewlay,
was submitted, from which it appeared that the total liabili-
ties of the firm were 65,0001, to meet which it was calculated
that the assets from all sources would realize 10s. in the
pound. Mr. E. Finch stated that eighteen months ago, on
the retirement of Mr. Smith, who is a creditor for 7,000/.,
there was a loss of 6,0;'01. on the concern, and that the com-
pletion of contracts then on hand had since entailed a further
loss of 7,000/. The bank of Liverpool is well secured, as also
Mr. Geacb, of Birmingham, who had advanced 10,0001. on
account of Chepstow-bridge; but the creditors of Finch and
Son are also creditors to this estate to upwards of 20,000/.
A committee, consisting of Mr. Pearce, of the firm of Jones,
Bland, and Co., Mr. Ledward, and Mr. angton, was appointed
to wind up the concern as speedily as possible.
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ft Hotel,
the Richmond,entertainment
was bril-
liantly RACHEL.—Notwithstanding the incle-
mency of the weather, the Matinee Literaire et Musicale,
iavnetnlyyesterday d at theTi
,e c
hCia4sf
parttle
H:
con-
sisted of dramatic recitations by Mdlle. Rachel, aided by
M. Raphael and other artists of the St James's Theatre.
Her scenes, which were act d. not merely read, produced
a great impression, especially the celebrated one from An-
dromaque, in which she first took the English by storm when
she wade her deb& at her Mdesty's Theatre. The in-
tervola were filled up by the delightful siuging of Mdlle.
Charton.

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bT. ALBAN'S BRIBERY COMMISSION.—The pm( na
proposed to be appointed Commissioners of Inquiry, and
whose names are mentioned in the hill now before the House
of Commons, are-Frederick Slade, Thom is Phinn, and Wil-
liam Forsyth, The remuneration to be five guineas a day,
over and above travelling expenses.
THE HIGHWAY TO THE WEST.—It is announced
that Vie arrangements are completed for opening the Mid-
land Great Weston Railway to Galway on the Ist of August.
The Earl of Clarendon has expressed his readiness to attend
the inaugural ceremony.
THE HONOURABLE SOCIETY GP THE INNER
TEMPLE. -- On Monday evening the students of this society
presented Mr. William Hurlstone with a handsome silver tea
service, as a token of respect' for his long and efficient duties
in the society. It bore the society's area, and the following
37th Templey ear to
ofMhris
inscription: " Presented by the Students of the Inner
Williamezi
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luyriltsht otnhee s i
, e:Qtti
tl the completion
l,rilaity
Tout'
rnmis,
1851." . •