The Sun.
London, England, 1869-03-31 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MA UCH. 31, 1869

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THE LOAIBARD EXCHANGE AND
NEWS-ROOXI. _

Lombard-street, London.
MANAGER—Mr J. H. YOUNGRIJSBAND, late Treasurer
and Secretary of the Liverpool Exchange.
Subscription, £3 3s. per annum, or Os. monthly, payable

in Advance.

The Room is supplied with Newspapers, both home
and foreign ; Reuter's Telegrams, giving commercial,
political, and general telegraphic information ; Shipping
Lists, Directories, Time Tables, and other Books of Re-
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There is also an excellent Refreshment-room attached,
as well as a Reading and Writing Room, comfortably fur-
nished.
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turers, and others is invited to this Institution, which will
be found very convenient to gentlemen whose business
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BRITON MEDICAL AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSOCIATION.
Chief Offices-429, Strand, London.
TRUSTEES.
Lieut.-General Sir J. E. IR. Partridge, Esq., F.R.S.
Dupuis, K.C.B. Francis Webb, Esq.
Sir James Duke, Bart. W. Tyler Smith, M.D.
Sir Fergusson, Bart., I Millis Coventry,

F.R.S.
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD —FR ANCIS WEBB, Esq.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN W. TYLER SMITH, Esq..
EXTRACTS from the FIFTEENTH ANNUAL RE-
PORT, read at the Annual General Meeting held at the
Society's House on Thursday-,""18th March, FRANCIS
WEBB, Esq., in the chair.
The directors have received 3,212 proposals for assur-
ing the sum of £972,866 18s. 9d. 2,472 policies were
issued, assuring £703,451 4s. and producing in annual
premiums the sum of £25,227 Bd.
The following tabulated returns exhibit the new busi-
ness transactions during the three quinquennial periods :

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‘
61
Fgg 6 o Amount 6 Amount Annual
44 0, o o Proposed. Z Assured. Preminms.
Va
4-4
---
£ s. d. £ s. d. s. d.
1858 4,802 1,023,140 0 0 3,318 (54,140. 0 0 21,347 16 5
1863 13,244 2,779,666 0 0 9,746 2,037,383 0 0 63,507 19 10
1868 17,466 4,861,303 5 9 13,699 3,752,967 4 8 122,257 17 6
Total.. 35,512 8,664,109 5 9 26,763 6,444,490 4 8 207,113 13 9
The uet premium income has increased to
the sum of .£216,704 1 7

The net premium income
the sum of
The interest on investmen
of receipt yield

s aud other items

1,276 18 1

Making a total income of .£257:980 fJ 8
The claims were 335, amounting to the sum of £12,886'
12s. ld.
The balance •of the year's • income was £68,026 9s.Ad.
The assets of the association at the close of the fear
amounted to £667,493 Bs. 51.
The directors draw special attention to the fact tbet the
next bonus valuation will take place at the end of the year
1872, and that all polices effected on the profit scales prior ;
to the 31st December, 1869, will be entitled to particivate I
in the same.
The directors also draw attention to the successful esti-
blishment during the past year of the Britannia Fire
Association, under the auspices of the Briton. The direc-
tors believe that the establishment of a4F,ire Company, to
work in active co-operation with the Life, will tend much
to the advantage and profit of both institutions.' it- is',
scarcely necessary to remark that the capital funds and
constitution of each office are quite separate and distinct..
By order of the Board,. • • '
JOHN MESSENT, Actuary and Secretary.
London, March 18, 1869.


EAGLE INSIJRA.N.CIi COMPANY,
LONDON.v
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Report of the Directors for the yeai.ending the_ 30th
June, 1868, read at the Annual' General Meeting of
Proprietors August 14, 1868— Colonel, CHARLES
WETHERALL, K.C.T., Chairman' of the Company, in
the Chair.
The proprietors will no doubt remember that at the last.
annual general meeting a report Was made to them for the
quinquennial period then terminating,- and that a • bonus'
was declared in respect of it amounting to the sum of
£208,774. The surplus fund account, as under, commences:
with the balance of June, 1867, after deduction of .this
bonus—that is to say, with the debit of £772,740 13s. 9d.

SURPLUS FUND ACCOUNT, 30TH JUYE, 1868.
DR. INCOME OF THE YEAR.
Balance of account, 30th
June, 1867, £981,514 13 9
Less amount distributed
as bonus 208,774 0 0

Premiums on new assur-
ances

14,596 1 5

Ditto on old ditto 366,215 7 3

£380,811 8 3

nterest from invest-
ments 117,584 7 3

.£498,395 15 11
Profit and loss, balance
of account
Total income -- 544,466 9 2

£1,317,207 2 11

CR. CHARGE OF THE YEAR
Dividend to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives
assured £265,523 13 5
Additions to those under
participating policies 22,816 4 7
Policies surrendered 28,642 11 3
Re-assurances, new
Ditto, old 50,365 0 8

£370,618 5 3
Commission
Medical fees
Income tax ... 2,215 4 7
Expenses of manage-
ment 15,489 8 5
400,777 9 5

Total cbargo
Balance of account, 30th June, 1868 907,552 8 6

£1,317,207 2 11
Examined and approv-1
THOMAS ALLEN} Auditors
HENRY ROSE,
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The total income of the year, it will be seen, is £544,466
9s. 2d., and the total outgo £409,651 14s. sd. ; the diffe-
rence, or the sum laid by--viz., £131,811 14s. 9d.—raises
the fund again to £907,552 Bs. 6d.
The interest received during the year is £117,584 7s.
3d., arising from the productive portion of the realised
assets of £2,897,157, mentioned in the last year's report.
The whole assets, productive and unproductive, may there-
fore be considered as having improved at the rate of rather
more than 4 per cent. ; or, if the profit shown of £46,070
13s. 3d., derived from various extraneous sources, be in-
cluded, at upwards of £5 12s. per cent.
The premiums on new assurances are £14,596 ls. 9d.,
and of this sum £3,270 15s. 4d. has been expended in re-
assurances.
The claims on decease of lives assured are nearly iden-
tical in amount with those of 1866. They are less than
those of last year by nearly £19,000.
A considerable reduction, too, appears in the amount
of premiums paid for re-assurance, many of the risks
re-assured having terminated by death and other causes.
The expenses of management are less than those of last
year by upwards of £1,400. But they still include charges
incurred in the final closing of the two officeslast absorbed
by the company. The whole expenditure, however, in-
cluding income tax, is at the rate of little more than 51
per cent. on the total income.
The balance-sheet is as follows :
DR. LIABILITIES.
Interest due to proprietors
Claims on decease of lives assured, and
additions thereto unpaid
Sundry accounts
Liability under sums assured, &c. (1867) 6,369,169 11 7
Proprietors' fund
Surplus fund as before 907,552 8 6

Total £7,565,198 1 3
CR. ASSETS.
Amount invested in fixed mortgages £1,460,772 2 7
Ditto ditto decreasing ditto
Ditto ditto reversions 347,136 5 5
Ditto ditto funded securities
Ditto ditto temporary securities
Current interest on the above invest-

36,243 7 6
22,601 2 9

nients
Cash and bills
Advanced on security of the company's
159,503 14 9
27,112 9 6
112,460 15 0
Value SundrypAgents'l
coi policies
abs
premiumsc ac 1 of lu
nc ss
(1867)
4,506,167 18 0
Value of re-assurances 86,860 13 9

Total £7,565,198 1 3
Examined and approved.
THOMAS ALLEN,) Auditors.
HENRY. ROSE,
The present disposition of the Company's funds is shown
by this account. On ccmparing it with that of 1867, it
will be observed that further investments have been made
on mortgage and in the Government funds, and that about
£ll,OOO more has been advanced on security of the com-
pany's policies. Exclusive of the sum indicating the value
of the future premiums, the assets amount to £3,059,030
3s. 3d.
The direction of the company is now constituted as
follows :
The Right Hon. Sir JOHN YOUNG, Bart., K.C.B. Chair-

man.
WILLIAM FREDERICK DE LA RUE Esq., Deputy-

Chairman.
Charles Bischoff, Esq.
Thomas Boddington, Esq.
Charles Chatfield, Esq.
Sir J. Buller East, Bart.,
D.C.L.
Robert A. Grays Esq.
Wm. Augustus Guy, M.D.,
F.B.S.

Chas. Thos. Holcombe, Esq.
Joshua Lockwood, Esq.
James Murray, Esq.
Philip Rose, Esq.
George Russell, Esq.
Thos. Godfrey Sambrooke,
Esq.
Admiral Tindal.;

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I N CORPO RATE D LAW SOCIE ry, U.K.-
LECTURES an.] LAW CLASSES, 1868-69.

LECTURES.

Three Courses of Lectures on Common and Mercantile
LaW, Conveyancing, and the Law of Real Property and
Eqpitv, will be delivered in the Hall of the Society in the
months of March, April, May,. and June nest.

THE LONDON SURGICAL HOME for
DISEASES and ACOIDENTS of WOMEN, for
the Reception of Gentlewomen and Females of Respect-
ability upon a weekly payment. Under the management
of Mr. Baker Brown.
The private medical attendants of the patients are
invited to visit them, and to meet in consultation before
treatment.
Full particulars can be obtained on application to the
Lady-Superintendent, 18, Stanley-terrace, Notting-hill,
W. ; or to Mr. Baker Brown, 136, Harley-street, W.

HOMELESS BOYS OF LONDON.-FUNDS
are earnestly solicited for the purchase of food and
clothing for the
126 boys on board the Chichester Training Ship.
150 boys in the Refuge, 9, Great Queen-street.
94 girls in the Refuges, 19, Broad-street, and Ealing

370 children.
£ll5 will keep a boy or girl for one year.
Contributions received by the London and Westminster Bank
214, High Holborn, and 41, LothbuXY, J .O.; and by
WILLIAM WTLLI4IIIS, Secretary.
No. 8, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-fields.

HOME for the HELPLESS.—ST. JAMES'S
DIOCESAN HOME. for FEMALE PENITENTS
(Hammersmith), under the immediate direction of the
Bishop of London. The work carried on by a Sisterhood,
"in faithful accordance with the principles of the Re-
formed Church of England." FUNDS greatly needed
COUNCIL.
The Bishop of LONDON,
Rev. J. W. Ayre 1 Major-Gen. Rt. Hon. Percy
Rev. F. G. Bloomfield i Herbert. MP . .

Hon. and Rev. F. Byng
Rev. R. G. Baker
Rev. S. Brooke
The Lord Clinton
Rev. W. Cadman
E. Charrington, Esq.
Rev. E. L. Cutts, Chaplain'
Rev. E. Capel Cure
Rev. J. E. Cox
Octavius Coope, Esq.
Arthur Currie, Esq.
Rev. J. Connell
Rev. 0. W. Purse
C. J. Freake. Esq.
J. S. Gilliat, Esq.
Rev. Dr. F Hessoy
H G Heald, Esq.
R. Hook, Esq., Treasurer
Subscriptions will be recei
Messrs. Harries, Farquhar,
Secretary, Rev. S. W. Lloy(
man-square, to whom comm

Rey. J. E. Kempe
Rev. W. F. Erskine Km)llys
Rev. S. W. Lloyd
Rev. A. Martineau
Rev. W. D. Maclagan
Rev. Daniel Moore
Rev. J. Moorhouse
J. D. Morton, Esq.
Rev. Canon Nepean
Rev. E. Parry
John Pearson, Esq., Q.C.
Rev. G. P. Prescott
Rev. P. Pigott
R. T. Pigott, Esq.
R. R. Pym, Esq.
Hugh H. Seymour, Esq.
R. Wade, Esq.
Loftus Wigram, Esq.
ived by any of the above ; by
and Co ; and by the Hon.
1, 14, Seymour-street, Port-
urications may be addressed.

ROYAL HOSPITAL for INCURABLES,
West-hill Putney-heath.

Established' 31st Jul-y, 1854.
This Institution exists for the comfort. and relief of per-
sons (being above the pauper class) afflicted with incur-
able bodily disease.
Relief is afforded-Ist. By supplying a home, with
medical attendance, nursing, and all requisites for the in-
valid.

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2d. By granting an annuity of £2O to patients at their
own homes.
A now wing to the Hospital has lust been completed
at a cost of upwards of £lO,OOO, and FUNDS are urgently
NEEDED to liquidate the expenses incurred.
There are 120 inmates and 237 pensioners, all entirely
dependent upon voluntary subscriptions.
Nearly 300 approved applicants are awaiting election.
For the maintenance of present operations, for the ex-
tension of the benefits of the Charity, donations, and espe-
cially annual subscriptions, are earnestly solicited. Life
subscriptions, £5 ss. and upwards; annual subscriptions,
half a guinea and upwards, with votes in proportion.
Information will be supplied, with the greatest pleasure,
upon application to the Secretary, by whom contributions
will be thankfully received.
FREDERIC ANDREW, Secretary
No. 10_ Poultry London, B.C. September 1868.

OtIN GOSNELL and Co.'s CHERRY
J TOOTH PASTE is greatly superior to any tooth
powder; gives the teeth a pearl whiteness, protects the
enamel from decly, and imparts a pleasant fragrance-to
the breath. Price Is. 6d.Red Bull .Wharf, 93, Upper
T ames- street, London.

COMPENSATION IN CkSE OF INJURY,
_ AN D
A FIXED SUM IN CASE OF DEATH
Caused by ACCIDENT OF ANY KIND, may be secured by a
Policy of the
RAILWAY P A SSENGF.RS ASSURANCE COMPANY.
An Annual Payment of f 3 to £G Is. insures £l,OOO at Death,
and an Allowance at the rate of £0 per week for Injury.
RAILWAY 4CCD ,ENTS ALONE may he provided against
by Insurance Tickets for Single or Double Journies.
For particulars apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, to
the Local Agents, or at the (Mica, M,CoitivitiLL and 10, REGENT
STREET, LONDON. _

WILLIAM T. VIAN, Secretary.

THE GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY..

Established 1821.
No. 11, Lombard-street; London, 8.0.
Subsciibed Capital Two Millions.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE POLICIES
which expire at LADY-DAY, must be Renewed within
Fifteerr Days at this Office, or with the Company's Agents
throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void.
For PrOspectus" and other information apply to the Com-
pany's Agents, or to

T. TALLEHACII, Secretary.

TRANSAT-

COMPAGNIE GENERALE
LANTIQUE.
4. Rue de la Paix, Paris.
FRENCH MAIL STEAMERS.
NEW YORK.
Leave every 14 days, from Havre and 13reSt, for New York.
RATES OF PASSAGE.
From lIAVRE or BREST to NEW YORK.
First Ulass 7OO fr.
Second Class— 425 fr.
Third Class
Prom Paris to New York, via Havre cr Brest, including
railway ticket, 725 fr. ; second class, 440 fr. ; third class
285 fr.

WEST INDIES AND MEXICO. .
Leave St. Nazaire on the 16th of each month for St.
Thomas, Havana, Vera Cruz, Now Orleans; Porto Rico,
Haiti. Santiago de Cuba, Guadeloupe, Martinique.
JAPAN, NORTH AND -SOUTH PACIFIC, AND
CENTRAL AMERICA (via Panama).
Leave St. Nrmaire on the Bth of each month for Mar-
tinique, St. Martha (United States of Columbia), Colon,,
Aspinwall (Isthmus of Panama), La Guayra, Porto Ca-
bello, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Demerara, Paramaribe,
Cayenne, &c., Callao, Valparaiso, &c., San Jose, La,Union,
San Francisco, China, and JapaL.
Hand books, with full details of all the routes of this-
company, can be had-of
STRINGER, PEMBBROKE, and Co.,
Agents, 8, Austinfriars, London, E.C.

CLERICAL. MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LTFE ASSURAN'E SOCIETY.
13, ST. JAMES'S SQUARE, LONDON, S.W.

CHAIRMAN.
Right Hon. John Robert Mowbray,

DEPUTY-CH A I RMEN.
William Bowman, Esq., F.R.S.
Sir Charles Lococic, Bart, D.C.L., k'.R.S.

Extracts from the Report of the Directo •s, presented at
the AET ual General Meeting held on the 27th November,
1868 : _ _

1. The sum of £412,345 was proposed for Assurtince, of
which £307,395 was completed at Premiums pro-
ducing £10,067 per Annum.
2. The amount paid under Claims by death was £100,833,
being the smallest since 1860, whilst the expenses of
management and all other outgoings were even less
than for many years past.
3. On the other hand, the Income was raised to £219,769,
.notwithstanding that its increase was retarded by-
abatements of premium which did not take effect in
the previous seat, and by the cessation of interest on
the large sum paid as Bonus in 1867.
4. The Surplus income
.was very Considerable. It
amounted to £93,152, a sum exceeding by more than
£B,OOO any. previous Surplus during the forty-four
years of the Society existence,
5: The :Accumulated -Fund- was thereby increased. to
-£1,598,906.
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The following are amougpe
,distinctive features of the

Society : • •
CREDIT SYSTEM.,—On any Policy for the wi,ole of
Life, where the age does not exceed GO, one-half of the
Annual Premiums during the past five years may remain
on credit. . , '
ENDOWMENT ASSURANCES may be effected,'
without Profits, by which the Sum Assured becomes pay,:
able on the attainment of a specified age, or at death,:
whicbever event shall first happen:
INVALID LIVES may beussured at rates proportioned
to the increased risk.
PROMPT SETTLEMENT OF CLAIMS.—Claims paid
thirty days after proof of death.
Tables of Rites and Forms of Proposal can bo obtained
of any of the Society's Agent, or of
GEORGE CUTGLIFFr.,, Actuary and. Secretary.
13, St. James's-square, London, S.W.

ABSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN-
FORFEITABLE, UNCONDITIONAL, and UN-
CHALLENGEABLM, issued by the PRUDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-bill, London,
E.C. Established 1848.

The Directors of this Company, in deference to an ob-
jection not unfrequently urged by persons invited to as-
sure, that the ordinary mode of Life Assurance is in their
opinion defective or uncertain, by reason of the operation
of the customary conditions, have resolved to promulgate
the present Tables, and to issue Assurances under them
which shall be absolutely Unforfeitable, Unconditional,
and Unchallengeable.

For the reason referred to, many persons hesitate or
decline to assure on the ground that, in the event of in-
ability or unwillingness to continue payment of their pre-
miums, the Assurance will become forfeited. To this
class of the public the system now introduced will espe-
cially commend itself, being entirely free from all condi-
tions of forfeiture on account of non-payment of premium,
or from any other cause whatever; while at the same
time it absolutely guarantees at decease, when even a de-
fault is made in payment of the premium, a fixed sum in
respect of every premium paid, bearing the same propor-
tion to the total amount assured as the number of pre-
miums actually paid may bear to the whole number origi-
nally contracted to be paid.
Besides this important advantage, every policy will ex-
pressly state what sum can at any time be withdrawn on
the discontinuance of the assurance.
The assured will thus always have the option of retain-
ing either an ascertained fixed sum payable at decease,
or, in case of need, of withdrawing a certain amount, ac-
cording t) the duration of the Policy, such amounts being
set forth on every Policy, and rendering unnecessary any
future reference to the Company on these points, as is the
case with ordinary assurances.
Creditors assuring the lives of debtors will appreciate
this feature as one greatly protective of their interests, and
it will likewise commend itself to bankers, capitalists, and
others who are in the habit of making advances collaterally
secured by Life Policies, as they can at any time learn, by
mere inspection, the exact value, either immediate or re-
versionary, of a Policy of this description.
Every Policy issued on this plan will be without any
conditions as to voyaeing, foreign residence, or other usual
limitations. By this freedom from restrictions of all kinds
the objections before referred to will be entirely removed,
and the Policies will become at once positively valuable as
actual securities.
In addition to the foregoing statement of advantages,
the number of premiums is strictly defined. The longest
term provided for is twenty-five years, and the shortest
five years, as shown by the Tables. Thus, bankers, credi-
tors,t and others holding policies of this class as security,
may always know the utmost amount they may be called
Assurances—a mat
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Security Policies.
The PRUDENTIAL ASSURANCE COMPANY pos-
sesses an income of £215,000 a year. Its position . nil.
questionable, and it o
Mains the largest amount of new
business of any office in the Kingdom. SPECIAL
AGENTS WANTED.
HENRY HARBEN, Secretary.

HOSPITAL for DISEASES of the THROAT,
Golden-square, W.
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President—His Grace the Duke of GRAFTON.
The Committee of Management earnestly APPEAL for
FUNDS to help them to meet the heavy current expenses.
Upwards of 18,000 poor persons have been relieved in the
last six years.

GEORGE WOOD, Secretary.

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FOREIGN NOTES.

ALARMING CONSPIRACY IN ITALY.

Some excitement has been caused throughout the king-
dom of Italy by the discovery of a Republican conspiracy
at Naples, in which several regiments are implicated. A
great number of arrests, both of military 'Wen and of
civilians, have been made. No less than fifty sergeants are
said to have undertaken to aid in the Mazzinian propa-
ganda. It is rumoured that an insurrection was fixed for
Easter, and that the intention was discovered in
consequence of an unexpected review of troops
in the island of Capri. There is no doubt that for some
'months, especially since October, Mazzini has been very
busy, and the existence of a Republican Alliance was well
known to everyone. In December, Mazzini published a
letter declaring for the overthrow of Victor Emmanuel.
Since then the journals of the party have not ceased to
revile him, and he is now styled by them Sardanapalus. An
attack upon Rome is a part of the revolu-
tionary programme. It is said that Garibaldi
does not believe it can succeed. Simultaneously with the
news of this conspiracy at Naples we hear that a bomb
was suddenly thrown down in the cathedral at Palermo
during service, and that it naturally caused the greatest
alarm. It does not appear that anyone was hurt. It is
difficult to understand how the Republicans can hope to
advance their cause by attempts at indiscriminate massacre
among their own friends.

ITALIAN NOTES.
The Italian Parliament separated for the Easter holi•
days with almost nothing done. The papers are com-
plaining terribly of the diarrhea% of words with which
certain deputies are affected, and express their envy of the
way in which English M.P.'s get through the Estimates,
which, perhaps, is just a trifle too rapid. Menabrea, the
Premier, and Cambray Digny, the Finance Minister,
pull well together, and so long as they continue to do so
there is no chance of a Ministerial crisis.

The Parliament has refused to grant a subsidy to the
Adriatic Oriental Company for the purpose of running
steamers from Venice to Alexandria, calling at Brindisi
en route. These steamers now perform the journey with.
great regularity, and generally far within the contract
time; in some instances the voyage from 'Brindisi has
taken only sixty-six hours. The Government seems to be
now awaking to the importance of Italy becoming the
route to India. It is proposed to run a weekly special 411,,41,"5tia1q.z.=
train each way between Brindisi and Susa, so as to allow
travellers to have the full benefit of the shortest route. Still
more satisfactory, the rock in the Cenis tunnel has become
so much softer that this great work is expected to be men
to passengers on January 1, 1871.

PROGRESS IN TURKEY.

The visit of Sultan Abdul Aziz to this country in 1867
seems to have produced some impression upon his Majesty's
not very susceptible mind. He has learnt that all the
world is not Mahometan, that Christians can fight no less
than the followers of the Prophet. He has determined,
therefore, to confer upon the first the privilege of defending
the Father of the Faithful. During the Crimean war; and
notwithstanding the extent of the danger they were in, the
Turks preferred to bear all the military charges, and to
be decimated rather than have the infidels as auxiliaries.
Very recently the Sultan was able to form a guard of
honour composed of Christian young men, and the new
Seraskier has resolved to extend that organisation to the
whole empire. It is in contemplation to constitute an
army of reserve, to be compOsed not only of the nano.'
reserve forces, the redifs, but also of the Christians, Jews,
and men of every religion and race subjects of the Sultan.
A contract has been made with an American house to
supply these troops with 150,000 rifles.

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