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nor carried cut without coal, and these being THE INTERNATIONAL LIRE ASSURANCEJ
wanting the sinews of all production are wanting SOCIETY OF LONDON.
also. To this, it has been replied, neither iron TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING ADVERTISER.
SIR,—My attention having been called by more than
one of our policy-holders to a paragraph in your paper
nor coal are wanting, and other ores of value are
to be met with in abundance. All in vain. The of Saturday last, headed "A Case of American Sad-
leirism," under an impression that it had some reference
capitalist until of late has contented himself with to the United States Branch of this Company, which
a shrug of incredulity, and a demand for more has for many years been established in Wall-street, New
York, I shall feel obliged if you will explain, in your
convincing proof of the truth of these allegations. next number, that the "International," therein referred
Well, such proof is now forthcoming, and not to, is (or was) a Marine and Fire Insurance Company
of New York, and had no connexion whatever with the
on -unreliable authority, but on that of the Indian International Life Assurance Society of London.
Government. That coal is to be had in certain I beg to refer you to a paragraph, on the same sub-
jeet' in t w Curier, of Se
quarters has already been shown ; that iron of h
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Sir Pork, yourso
most obediepnttember 19th.ly,
good quality and abundance, too, is to be had on EDMOND S. SYMES, Chairman.
easy terms, the papers to which we have drawn 142, Strand, London, Nov. 3, 1356.
attention sufficiently demonstrate. While wars
and rumours of wars have engaged the attention
of Europe the Indian Government, it will be
seen, has not been remiss in the discharge of its
important duties. So far back, indeed, as 1850
we find the East India Company has had tho-
roughly competent agents at work to verify the
truth of the alleged discovery of iron ore in the
three Presidencies, and to ascertain the quality
and quantity of the ore, the localities in which it
is to be found, the means of transport, and how
far the circumstances generally are favourable to
a successful working. The reports of these
agents are now before us. That there
should be some conflict of testimony was to be
expected ; but we think a perusal of these papers
will convince the most sceptical that in India are to
be found in abundance all the elements of progress
and material prosperity—that nothing, in short,
is wanting but capital and enterprise to elevate
the country from its prolonged depression, and
render it of essential service to the mother
country. The Nerbudda Valley report, it is true,
is not wholly satisfactory ; but if a sufficient
supply of wood to melt the iron is not forth-
coming there is no reason to doubt a due supply
of coal will be found on investigation. In the
province of Kumaon the researches of Colonel
DRUMMOND have already been crowned with suc-
cess. Both iron ore and fuel have been dis-
covered. In a route of about sixty miles along
the outer face of the lower Himalayan range the
gallant Colonel has observed frequent and rich
deposits of first-rate ore—solid ironstone actually
lying exposed in huge blocks on the surface, and,
independent of the bed below, capable of yielding
60,000 tons of metal. At Dechowree, the most
western portion of his route, the solid bed of ore
in one part is exposed, we are told, to a thickness
of 30 feet, in another it measured 24, in a third
50 feet. In the area of a mile the ironstone on
the surface, it is calculated, would yield not less
than 100,000 tons of pig iron. The beds of iron
ore in this district, in point of fact, appear to be
inexhaustible, and the ore, on being smelted,
has been found to be of " the very best quality."
The Bengal report is unfavourable, but it is ex-
ceedingly unlikely Bengal will prove an exception
—the more so when it is considered that the
process of smelting is being carried on in one
quarter by an independent Coal Company. In
Madras all that is wanted for the production of
iron in abundance is additional capital, the ex-
istence of rich beds of the ore being indisputable,
and the process of smelting being carried on to a
limited extent. If there be an exception it will be
found in the Presidency, of Bombay, where hitherto
the iron smelter has almost been driven out of the
market by the iron from this country. It is,
nevertheless, far from improbable that a discovery
of coal may place the Bombay smelter in a more
advantageous position. The simple, unexaggerated
facts contained in the reports suffice, however, to
prove that if the future of India is not what her
best friends could wish, it will not be because she
is wanting in any element of prosperity save the
possession and application of capital. Iron and
coal she has to offer in abundance. Let her but
have the command of capital, and in the speedy
activity of her countless millions we shall not fail
to. recognise a splendid field for our commerce,
and another bulwark to our dominion.

The Earl of Orkney, who has been very ill at Temple-
more, is pronounced out of danger.
The Sligo Journal says, with the exception of a re-
cruiting party, there is not a single soldier at present in

Sligo.
Yesterday a meeting of the Universal Provident Life
Assurance Company was held, to settle the list of con•
tributories. The liabilities amount to about 5,0001.
THE POOR-LAW CONTEST IN ST. PANCRAS —The ves-
try of St. Pancras have retained Mr. D. D. Keane as
their counsel in the probable legal contest about to take
place, ac to the right of the Poor-law Board to interfere
in the management of the affairs of the workhouse.
BISHOP or LONDON. The consecration of the Bishop

(elect) will not take place, as stated by some of the
papers, on Sunday, the 16th instant, at Westminster
Abbey, but will take place at the Chapel Royal, White-
hall, on Sunday, the 113 d instant.
ENTERTAINMENT AT THE LONDON TAVERN BY THE
LORD MAYOR ELEOT.—Yesterday the Lord Mayor elect
entertained the Coart of Aldermen, the Sheriffs, and
officers of the Corporation of London, and a dis-
tinguished party of private friends at dinner, at the
London Tavern. Am )ng the guests were General Sir
W. F. Williams of Kars, Bart, M.P. ; General Sir G.
Pollock. _ .

ELY AND BURY ST. EDMUNDS RAILWAY.—A railway
of 174 miles in length is projected between these towns.
It is intended to branch off from the existing Newmar-
ket and Bury line at Catnrow Bridge.
At the Preston Town Hall, on Friday last, a lad
named Partington was fully committed for trial for
causing au accident on the Preston and
.bongridge Rail-
way, by tampering with the " points."
There is no truth in the rumour that judgment was to
be delivered to-day in the cause of Westerton v. Liddell.
THE Cnors IN CONNAUGHT. —Speaking of the har•
vest in the west, the Galway Mercury says : - " Every-
thing relative to the harvest is now safe, so that rain can
do but little harm. The harvest is a splendid, a rich,
and a bountiful one, thanks be to the Almighty

Giver."
THE FAOTORY GIRLS AND PRESTON S. BROOKS.—The
factory girls of Lowell have given expression to their
feelings upon the late Sumner outrage, by sending to
P. S. Brooks thirty pieces of silver (3 cent pieces),
a rope, and a winding sheet, with a letter freely ex-

pressing their sentiments.
DEATH 03' A COMEDIAN.—An inquest has been
opened at Great Yarmouth on the body of Thomas
Russell, a comedian, who died suddenly in the green-
room of the theatre of that town on Wednesday even-
ing. It appeared that he bad been in embarrassed
circumstances, and had denied himself, to a great ex-
tent, the necessaries of life.
WHAT Is A YOUNG LADY.—This much agitated
question, we presume, will now be finally set at rest,
as we find an elderly lady advertising for a companion,
expressly stating that " the young lady must be about
40 years of age."
SEEING Hl3l.—Lothario—Ah ! dearest Ann, of your
love, I'm dying, and at your feet I lie. Anna—l see
you're lying.
The arrivals of specie yesterday comprised 271,0001.
from the West Indies, 51,0001. from Boston, and

15,0001. from the Mediterranean, making a total of
337,0001. Of this 177,0001. is silver and the rest gold.
The commercial advices from New York by the

Niagara describe no great change in the itoek.
market, transactions being in suspense until the

arrival of further news from Europe regarding the
course of the Rink of France. In the prevailing
uncertainty there was an indisposition to draw bills upon
Paris, and the rate of exchange on England had con-
sequently advanced. The next steamers would be the
Ericsson and the Persia, and the latter was expected to
take a large amount of specie. Erie was quoted 601 to
61 ; Reading, 80 ; New York Central, 84 ; and Illi-
nois, 1161.
THE MURDER OF MISS HINDS.—We perceive that
the Government has bestowed upon Mr. Nicholas Kelly,
R.M. a good service pension of 100/. a-year for the zeal
and ability exhibited by him in reference to this out-
rage. We understand that the pension came to Mr.
Kelly quite unsolicited and unexpected by him.—Anglo-
Celt.

HADDOCK FlSHlNG.—Haddock fishing is said to have
cemmericed favourably at all the stations on the north-
east coast of Scotland, and that already a larger quan-
tity of haddocks has been caught than at any former
period to the same date for a series of years. The fisher-
men are receiving high prices for the fresh fish.
THE ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS.—The autumnal election of
this charity took place at the London Tavern, Bishops-
gate-street, on Thursday last, for the purpose of choos-
ing 15 applicants from a list of 180 approved candidates.
The poll closed at three o'clock, and sometime after the
names of the successful candidates were announced in
the usual way, and the proceedings terminated.
lIANURESTER ART-TREASURES EXHIBITION.—WO un-
derstand that the Treasury and the Board of Trade have
authorised the exhibition at Manchester of the purchases
made for 12,000/. from the Bernal Collection of Medieval
Art. The • purchases respectively made by the British
Museum and by the Department of Science and Art
will be brought together for this purpose.
STAMFOIID AND ESSENDINE RAILWAY.—The branch
railway from the Essendine station of the Great Northern
Railway to Stamford was opened for public traffic on
Saturday. Trains between Stamford and Essendine
run in connection with the through trains of the Great
Northern Bailway to and from London and the north.
THE GRESHAM LECTURlS.—Yesterday the first of
these lectures for Michaelmas Term, on the subject of
astronomy, was delivered in the theatre of Gresham Col-
lege' Basinghall-street, by Mr. Niness, in the place of
the Rev. Joseph Pullen, who was prevented from lec-
turing by serious illness, The moon was the subject of
the lecture, which the lecturer treated a manner
suited to a popular audience. The attendance was un-
usually large, there being 54 persons present, seven of
whom were of the fair sex.
GENERAT. WALKER AND SLAVERY.—An important de-
cree has been issued by Gen. Walker, of Nicaragua, an-
nulling the old decree of the Federal Constituent As-
sembly, among which was one abolishing slavery in
Central America. The effect of this is, that the right to
' hold slaves is now acknowledged by the government of
Nicaragua, and the peculiar institution may therefore he
considered as re-established in the republic.
ROBBERY AT TIIE HOUSE OF THE ASSISTANT JUDGE.—

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On Friday evening, some impudent thief committed a I
robbery at the residence of Mr. Pashlry, Q.C., the
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aid
he was to wait for an answer. As the bell ran, the
footman was brieging the tea service down stairs, and
he placed it on a table in the hall while he went to the
door. He took the letter upstairs to Mr. Pashley, and
when be came down, the man was gone—so were the
tea spoons, the sugar tongs, tea pot and sugar basin,
and an umbrella. The thief got clear away.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-
WESTERN RAILWAY.—We regret to learn that another
collision occurred on this line of railway yesterday after-
noon. The Midland express, due at Euston at 4 p.m.,
ran into a coal train near the King's Langley station,
causing serious injury to a great many passengers, and
blocking the up-line of rails fur a considerable period.
The precise cause of the accident has not transpired.
Saveral of the passengers who bad received only minor
contusions came on to London by subsequent trains, but
those most seriously injured were left at King's Lang-
ley. The traffic of the line was not materially inter-
rupted, and the later trains during the evening arrived
at Huston with their accustomed regularity.
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LeiNDON.—The Council's first
session for toe academical year was held on Saturday last.
A. vote of thanks was then passed to John Hibbert, E,q.,
of Braywiek-lodge, near Maidenhead, for his donation
of 1001., lately presented to the hospital, the third of
the same amount within 12 months, and making with
former gifts 4001. The Council received the report of the
examiners for the Andrew's Scholarships for the best
proficients in Latin, Greek, mathematics, and natural
philosophy, recommending Mr Joseph Maurice Solomon
for the first, and Mr. Percy Greg for the second scholar.
ship, and commending the examination passed by
Mr. Alexander Waugh Young. A letter from Mr.
Greg, intimating that he could not hold the second
scholarship, was read. The first scholarship (1001)
was awarded to Mr. Joseph Maurice Solomon ; the
second (601.) to Mr. Alexander Waugh Young. The
examiners for the Council, besides the Professors of
Latin, Greek, Mathematics, and Natural Philosophy,
were Mr. Robert Baldwin Hayward, Fellow of St.
John's College, Cambridge, Vice-Principal of University
College, Durham, for mathematics ; and for classics, Mr.
John C. Addyes, Scott, A.M., Fellow of University
College, London.
ILLUSTRATED WORKS.—It can scarcely be made ob-
vious to the rising generation how great has been the
extension of art and its improved application within the
last few years, and how much we are indebted to the
originators of periodicals and newspapers (more particu-
larly the latter) containing illustrations devoted to science,
the chef d'cruvres of art, and ti.e events of the day.
Among the la,t, what innumerable subjects there are for
intense interest and attraction—from the deadly conflict
by sea or land to the devastating fire and the fearful
shipwreck ; or, on the other band, the race, the review,
or the royal precession. Our neighbours, the French',
have, with their mual tact and taste, given an immense
impulse to that kind of illustration, in which they enjoy
a decided superiority, and which serves to exemplify the
various wares and commodities of our enterprising Eng-
lish firms. Perhaps a more striking example can scarcely
be afforded than in a work recently put forward,
and containing many beautiful fashions in mantles, robes,
&c:- with descriptions in French by Parisian artistes,
and a scale of prices. A more interesting work for the
drawing-room table or boudoir cannot be imagined,
whether with respect to the present modes of dress, and
the convenience of giving orders, or as a record and re-
ference for future times. It is entitled a " Manual of
Fashion," and is published by the Messrs. Jay, at their
mourning warehouses, 247,- 249, and 251, Regent-
street ; and as it is presented, or sent free, on application,
no time should be loot in securing it.