The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-19 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1860.

10UNTRY APARTMENI S.—To be LET,
‘...) Furnished, THREE BED ROOMS, a Sitting Room,
and use of a Kitchen, near a healthy village twelve miles
from London. The house stands in a very extensive garden
and is close to Bushy Park, at an easy diet ,nce from two
stations. Omnibuses piss within a few mantes' walk to and
from London, and the stations several time! during the day.
To those seeking rural retirement and quiet comfort this ad-
vertisement offers unusual advantages. Address, M. E.,
Hampton Wick, Middlesex.

THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY of the
BANK of ENGLAND do hereby Give Notice, That on
and after this day, the 19th of May, the business of the Bank
of Etighmd will CLOSE on SATURDAYS at Three o'clock
in the afternoon, instead of at four, as at present.
May 19, IS6O. .TAMES STEWART, Secretary.

IMPERIAL CONTINENTAL GAS ASSOCIA-
TION. Incorporated by Act of Parliament.
Notice is Hereby Given, That the HALF-YEARLY OR-
DINARY MEETING of the Proprietors of the Imperial
Continental Gas Association will be held at the office of the
Association, No. 7, White Hart-court, Lombard-street, Lon-
don, on WEDNESDAY, the 30th May, 1860, at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon precisely, when a Report will be made to the Pro-
prietors and a Dividend declared ihr the half 'year unding 31st
Dec., 1859.
By order of the Board,
WILLIAM WALTON, Secretary.
Dated this 2d day of May, 1860.

THE INTERNATIONAL LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
142, Strand, London.
Empowered by Act of Parliament, for LIFE ASSURANCE,
SURVIVORSHIFS, ANNUITIES, ENDOWMENTS, &c.
DIRECTORS.
EDMOND SHEPPARD SYMES, M.D., Chairman.
John Elliotson, M.D.,Cantab., I John Moss, Esq.
F.R.S. John Symes, Esq.
Henry J. Hodgson, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.
SECRETARY TO THE BOARD.
Alexander Richardson, Esq.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
Augustus Blonde!, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Professor Wheatstone, F.R.S., and Professor J. Radford.
Young.
MEDICAL REFEREE GENERAL.
J. Elliotson, M.D., Cantab., F.R.S., 37, Conduit-street.
ACTUARY.
W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., Sze.
ASSISTANT ACTUARY.
Barker Woolhouse,
BANKERS.
Messrs. Glyn, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Gregory, Gregory, Skirrow, and Rowcliffe, Bedford-
row.

The next Quinquennial Division of Profits will be declared
in May, 1860.
Examples of Bonus up to May, 1855 :

Bonus in • Permanent
Bonus m
Policy Sum addition Reduction
taken Age. Assured. to Sum Cash. of Annual
out in, Assured. Premiums.
£ £ s. d. £ a. d. £ s. d.
1838 55 3,000 867 17 7 428 1 4 56 3 8
1841 48 4,000 749 4 0 325 16 0 32 0 4
1845 59 2,000 232 18 0 156 15 0 16 6 0
1848 60 2,000 154 2 8 103 16 8 10 15 2
1851 rG 2,800 120 17 0 72 14 6 6 7 7
The following are amongst the advantages offered by the
International Life Assurance Society:—

The following are amongst the ad,
International Life Assurance Society:—
The Society was established in 1838.
Two-thirds of the profits are divided amongst the assured
every five years.
For prospectuses and every other information, apply to the
Chairman, 142, Strand.

EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman.

142, Strand, London, W.C.

11.811 BIWIDAY.

THE DRAIVING-ROOM.

Her Majesty the Queen held a Drawing-room yesterday
afternoon, in celebration of her birthday, at St. James's
Palace.

Her Majesty and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort,
accompanied by the Princess Alice, arrived from Lucking-
ham Palace, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in
Waiting, and escorted by a detachment of Life Guards.
The Duke of Cambridge, and the Princess Mary, Prince
Frederick of the Netherlands, the Prince of Waldeck and
Pyrrnont, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Prince Frederick
of Holstein, and the Maharajah Duleep Sing were present
at the Drawing-room.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons
arrived in State, wearing his gold robe
.of office, and at-
tended by Lord Charles J. Fox Russell, Sergeant-at-Arms,
House of Commons, the Rev. Henry Drury, Chaplain to'
House of Commons, the Secretary, and Trainbearer.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, and
other Knights of the Garter, wore the Garter, together with
the Collar of that noble Order, the day being observed as a
Collar day.
The Marquis of Ailsa and other Knights wore the Collar
of the most ancient Order of the Thistle.

Field-Marshal Viscount Combermere, Field-Marshal
Lord Seaton, Admiral Sir George Seymour, Sir John Law-
rence, Right Hon. Sir G. Grey, Sir C. Wood, Sir John
Pakington, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Sir Robert
Gardiner, and other Knights, wore the Collar of the most
Honourable Order of the Bath.

The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone appeared in
his gold robe as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

The Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and the Lord Chief
Baron of the Exchequer wore their gold official collars.

The Master of the Rolls and Yice-Chaucellor Stuart wore
their gold robes of office.

The Queen and Prince Consort entered the Throne-room
accompanied by the Princess Alice, Prince Frederick of the
Netherlands, the Duke of Cambridge, the Princess Mary,
the Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Prince Edward of
Saxe Weimar, Prince Frederick of Holstein, and the Maha-
rajah Duleep Singh.
The Queen wore a train of white ribbed silk, trimmed
with ruches of crape, white roses, and white bugles, the
petticoat, white crape over white silk, trimmed to corre-
spond.
Her Majesty's keaddress was composed of a diadem of
opals and diamonds, white feathers, and white crape veil.
The Princess Alice wore a train of rich white crystalline
silk, trimmed with tulle and bows of riband. The petti-
coat of rich glace silk, bouillone of tulle, dotted with bows
of riband.

Her Royal Highness wore a wreath of lilies of the valley
and camellias as a headdress ; ornaments, diamonds.
The Prinegss Mary of Cambridge wore a white moire
train, lined and bordered with pink, trimmed with Mechlin
lace, bouluets of flowers, and silver cord. The petticoat of
pink glace silk, covered with puffings of crape, and hand-
some tunic of Brussels lace. The corsage to correspond.
Ornaments, pearls, and diamonds.
Her Royal Highness wore as ,a headdress a diadem of
diamonds, feathers, and a silver tulle veil.
The foreign Ambassadors and Ministers were introduced,
when the following presentations to the Queen took place in
the Diplomatic Circle :
By Madame de Carvalho Moreira—Madame Borges, wife
of the Brazilian Charge d'Affaires at Venezuela.

By Mrs. Dallas—Miss Grimmell, a lady of New York,
United States.

By the Ministers from Brazil—The Major Borges, Bra-
zilian Charge d'Affaires at Venezuela.
By the Danish Minister—Mr. Alfred Hage, a distin-
guished member of the Danish Parliament.

disappointment, inasmuch as the weather was so very bad
that there was not a soul on the ground.
The illuminations were very brilliant. The most attrac-
tive were those exhibited at the offices and residences of
her Majesty's Ministers, the clubhouses in St. James's-
street and Pali-mall, and the theatres. The tradesmen at
the west-end of the town exhibited some magnificent devices.
Although the illuminations were' less general than usual,
yet, upon the whole, they have scarcely ever been surpassed
in splendour. -

ADMINISTRATION OF THE irdlß-OFFIC_E.

As the army estimates are about to be voted by the
House of Commons, and an increase of £3,000 is asked for
the salaries of temporary clerks in the War-office for the
current year, the following statement respecting their po-
eition and treatment is submitted to public notice :
At the outbreak of the late war with Russia the enormous
increase of business at the War-office necessitated a cor-
responding increase in the number of workers, and a certain
number of duly qualified persons were engaged as temporary
clerks with salaries ranging from £l2O to £l5O per annum.
At the conclusion of the war, however, the temporary clerks
were not dismissed, but their numbers amount to 152, in
addition to the 391 clerks that form the regular staff of the
War-office.

The duties performed by these so-called temporary clerks
are the same as those falling 'to the share of the regular
establishment, and their efficiency and zeal have repeatedly
been acknowledged by those in authority over them. But
though on a footing of equality with the regular clerks in
regard to all they give, they are far from being so in regard
to what they receive, for besides the drawback that their
salary can never rise above £l5O, they labour under the
following disadvantages as compared with the clerks on the
establishment :

1. They cannot obtain a rise, however small, in their
salary, from £l2O upwards, without being called upon to
give considerable extra timo.

- 2. The leave of absence to which they haie a claim during
the year is loss by three weeks than that allowed regular
clerks.

3. When attacked by illness, and obliged in consequence
to be absent from the office beyond the period of leave to
which they are entitled, their pay is stopped, and they are
liable to be dismissed.