The Sun.
London, England, 1869-08-14 00:00:00

UTE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1E69.

THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELFHT.

LONDON AND NORTH - WESTERN
RAILWAY.
WEST COAST ROUTE TO SCOTLAND.

Additional Express and Further Improved Service of

Trains betn:ren London and the NOrth of Scotland

An ADDITIONAL EXPRESS TRAIN, conveying
first and second class passengers, now leaves Euston Sta-
tion at 8 p.m., for EDINBURGH, GLASGOW, PERTH,
and the North of Scotland. A direct Train for Greenock,
in connection with this Express, leaves Motherwell at 7.0
a.ni., arriving it. Greenock at 8.20 a.m., allowing ample
time for passengers for Oban and the West Highlands to
join the lona Steamboat, which leaves Greenock at 9.0
a.m. Tourist Tickets and Return Tickets for Scotch Sta-
tions aro available by this Train. Passengers for Green-
ock are conveyed without change of carriage by this Ti sin.
Passengers for Edinburgh by this Train will join the
Limited Mail at Carstairs : these for Perth and the North
of Scotland will j3in the Train at Gartsherrle.
Passengers by this Train are allowed fifteen minutes at
Carlisle for refreshments.

The Train leaving Euston Station at 9.0 p.m. has been
accelerated so as to arrive at Aberdeen at 2.0p.m., two
hours and twenty minutes earlier than heretofore.
A new Express Train for London leaves Aberdeen
(Caledonian) at 9.0 a.m., Glasgow (Caledonian) 1.45 p.m.,
an .l Edinburgh at 2.0 p.m. ; arriving in London (Euston
Station) at 3.15 a.m.
Passengers booked through to Scotland are allowed to
break their journey at Carlisle.
For further particulars see Time-bills.
W. GAWK WELL, General Manager.
Euston Station, August, 1869.

LONDON AND COUNTY BA.NKING
COMPANY.

Established 1836.
Subscribed capital, £2,500,000, in 50,000 Shares, of
£5O each.
Pa4l- up Capital, £1,000,000 ; Reserve Fund, £500,000.
DIRECTORS.
Nathaniel Alexander, Esq I Frederick Francis, Esq.
Thos. Tyringliam Bernard, Frederick Harrison, Esq.
I Esq. Lord Alfred Hervey.
PLilip Paton Blytb, Esq. William Champiou Jones,
John Wm. Burmester, Esq. Esq.
Thomas Stock Cowie, Esq. James Morley, Esq.
John Fleming, Esq. William Nicol, Esq.
_

GENE/ME 'MANAGER.
William XVlCewan, Esq.
CHIEF INSPECTOR.
W. J. Norfolk, Esq.
INSPECTORS OF BRANCHES.
H. J. Lemon, Esq., and C. Sherriug, Esq.
CHIEF ACCOUNTANT.
James Gray, Esq.
SECRETARY.
F. Clappison, Esq.

At the Half-yearly General meeting of the Proprietors,
held on Thursday, the sth August, 1869, at the City
Terminus Hotel, Cannon-street Station, the following re-
port for the half-year ending the 30th June, 1869, was
read by the Secretary.
FREDERICK FRANCIS, Esq., in the Chair.

The Directors, in presenting to the Proprietors the
balance-sheet of the Bank for the half-year ending 30th
June last, have the satisfaction to report that, after paying
interest to customers, and all charges, allowing for rebate,
and making provision for bad and doubtful debts, the net
profits amount to £85,010 2s. 7d. This sum, added to
£5,817 4s 10d, brought forward from the last account, pro-
duces a total of £90,827 7s. sd.

ANNIBAL.

They have declared the usual dividend of 6 per cent.,
with a bonus of 21 per car t.. for the half year, free of in-
come tax (being at the rate of 17 per cent. per annum),
which will absorb £84,601 9s. 10d., and leave £6,223
17s. 7d. to be carried forward to profit and loss new ac-
count.

By the recent appointment of Ur. Whitbread Tomson as
Manager of the Head Office, a vacancy has arisen in the
Auditorship, which, in accordance with the Deed of Set-
tlement, it will be in the power of the Proprietors to fill at
the annual meeting in February next.
The dividend and bonus (together £1 14s. per share)
will be payable at the Head Office, or at any of the
branches, on and after Monday, the 16th instant.
BALANCE-SHEET OF THE LONDON AND
COUNTY BANKING COMPANY,
30TH JUNE, 1869.

DR.
To capital paid tip
To reserve fond
To n mount due by the
T. nk to cui:oalors'
balance, &c. X12,411,803 2 4
To rabilities on ac-
col-Winces, covercd
by securities

£1,000,000 0 0
Z,.00,000 0 0

11,3CG,810 18 9

To profit and loss
ha'aneo hcont;lit
from last account
To gross profit for
the half-year, after
making provision
for lad and doubt-
ful (kids

5,817 4 10

20,40 G 1 1

2119.'223 5 11

By cash on hand at
Head Office, and
branclo.g, and with
Panic of England... .£I,BC-1,713 1 7
By cash placed at call
and at notice,
covered by secu-
rities .

... ...... 1,198,7C9 17 5

Investments, viz. :
By Government and
Guaranteed Stocks 1,300,123 16 8
By other stocks and
kecurities

59,581 3 8

By discounted bills,
and advances to
customers in town
and country 9,361,787 5 8
By liabilities of custo-
mers for drafts sc-
ent ted by the Bank
(as per contra) 1X5,035 16 5

£3,063,512 19 0

1,359,705 0 9

10,e16,823 2 1

By freehold premises in Lomb: rd-
street and Nicholas-lane, freehold
and leasehold property atthe branches,
with fixtures and fittings
By interest paid to customers
By salaries and all other expenses at
Head Offices and branches, includ-
ing incotre tax on profits and
salaries

237,972 3 8
52,977 0 8

£15,636,064 4 8
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT.
To interest paid to customers as above £52,977 0 8
To expenses, ditto
To rebate on bills not due, carried to

new account
To dividend of 6 per cult. for the half-

20,344 18 1

year
To bonus of 2 per cent.
To balance carried forward

59,718 14 0
31.882 15 10
6,225 17 7

£269,223 5 11
By balance brought forward from last
account £5,817 4 10
By gross profit for the half-year, after
making provision for bad and doubt-
ful debts

£269,223 5 11
We, the undersigned, have examined the foregoing
balance-sheet and have found the same to be correct.
(Signed) WILLIAM NORMAN,}
Auditors.
R. H. SWAINS,
London and County Bank, July 29, 1869.
The foregoing Report having been read by the Secre-
tary, the following resolutions were proposed, and unani-
mously adopted :--
1. That the Report be received and adopted, and printed
for the use of the Shareholders.

2. That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the
Board of Directors for the able manner in which they have
conducted the affairs of the Company.
(Signed) FREDK. FRANCIS,
Chairman.
The Chairman having quitted the chair, it was resolved,
and carried unanimously

3. That the cordial tbanks of this Meeting be pre-
sented to Frederick Francis, Esq., for his able and cour-
teous conduct in the chair.

(Signed) W. CHAMPION JONES,
Deputy Chairman.
Extracted from the Minutes.
(Signed) F. CLAPPISON,
Secretary.

LONDON and COUNTY BANKING

COMA
Notice is hereby given, P
thaNt Y. a
DIVIDEND on the
CAPITAL of the Company, at the rate of Six per Cent.
for the half-year ending 30th Jut.e, 1869, • with a BONUS
of Two and a Half per Cent., will be PAID to the Pro-
prietors, either at the Heal °dice, 21, Lonthird-street, or
at any of the Company's Branch Banks, ou and alto
MONDAY, the 16th inst.
By order of the Board,
W. McKEWAN General Manager.
21, Lontbard-street, Aug. 6, 1869.

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AND TIIE MOST COMPLETE, WIT!! NEW IMPROVEMENTS
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The p culler simplicity of thess Machines enables any one to
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Illustra' ed Price Lists post fre .

THE "SINGER" MANUFACTURING COMPANY.
Chief Office in the United Kingdom:
147, CHE A PSIDE.
Branch Depots or Loca Agents in every Town

Ti is EVENING, at 7, MY PRECIOUS BETSY: Mr Atkins and
Miss Johnstone. At 8, THE SERPENT ON THE HEA NTH :
Mr R. Phillips, Mr E Atkins. Mr Stuart, Mrs M. Eburne, Mrs L
Murray, itc. And DOMESTIC ECONOMY: Mr Atkins and
Mrs Leigh Murray.

ROYAL STRAND THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manageress, Mrs. Swanborottch.
lins EVENING. at 7.30, AM( iNG THE BREAKERS: Mr
Clarke. TIIE TOODLES. JOAN OF ARC: 31 ossrs. Thorne,
James. Fenton; Mesdames Goodall. I.yd la Maitland. Burton. To
Conclude with THE CHOPS OF THE CHANNEL. Mr. D.
James,

ROYALTY THEATRE.
Under the Management of Miss M Oliver.

rilIS EVENING, at 7.30, A ROVING} COM %lISSION. After
which CHECKMATE. Followed by THE MILT I'ARY BILLY
TAYLOR To conclude with IN FOR A HOLID ‘Y Mr
Dewar, Mr. Danvers, 'Miss M. Olivet Miss Saunders, &c.

PRINCESS'S THEATRE.
Sole Lessee and Manaper, Mr. Vinin!,

Tuts EVENING. at 7, PR ESUMPT sVE EVIDENCE. After
which, A:A A• D GALATEA : Herr Formes, Mr V. Rigby, Mr
M. ,mith, and Miss Blanche Co:tie. To conclude with A. QUIET
FAMILY.

PRINCE OF WALES'S ROYAL THEATRE.
Ceder the Management of Miss Marie Wilton
Tess EVENING, SCHOOL: Messrs. Hare, H. J. Montagne,
Addison, Glover, and Bancroft: Mrs. Buckingham White. Miss
C. Addison, and Miss J►arie Wilton. After which, A WINNING
HAZARD. And A LAME EXCUSE

CHRISTY MINSTRELS. St. James's Hall, Every Night, at 8
Wednesdays and ; aturdays, et 3 and 8 all the year round.

ROYAL AL II AMB RA PALACE. THREE BALLETS
Promenade Concert. Band of 60. Begin at 8. le. Box-office
o pen from 11 to 4.

ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS, Regerrs-park, OPEN daily (ex-
cept Sundays). Admission, Is.; on Mondays, 6d. Children
under twelve, (Id

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Slllt

LOA' DOW, SATURDAY; A UGU67 14, 1809.

A hundred years will have elapsed to-morrow since
be birth of the GREAT NAPOLEON. Humanly
speaking, it is the most wonderful century in the
history of the world. And of the extraordinary
events which have chiefly signalized that most won-
derful century, the central arena was France, and
the hero of the scene NAPOLEON BoNarmaz. Even
in his-earliest youth, old General PAOLI, of Comic),
spoke of him as "one of PLUTARCH'S heroes." Awl
the words were expressive of no extravagance. For, as
SAUL in stature excelled by a head and shoulders the
most stalwart, forms in the Hebrew multitude, NAPO-
LEON, even in his own lifetime, assumed, by right, the
loftiest rank upon the same level with the grandest
leaders of the human nee. BYRON apos-
trophised him as the new SESOSTRIS. Europe
recognized Lim as the modern CHARLEMAGNE.
As a Soldier he was brought into comparison with
As a Conqueror he was associated with
ALEXANDER. As a Lawgiver his name was coupled
with that of LYCURGUS. Wielding the pen as well as
the sword, as did C.ESAR, with a master-hand, like
C.ESAR, al-o, he had the priceless gift of a tongue of
rare and, at times, of peerless eloquence. A judge
of oratory, no less illustrious himself, as an orator,
than HENRY, Lord BROUGLIA3I, has said of NAPOLEON,
in his " Statesmen of the Time of George 111.," that
his speeches prove him to have possessed the capability,
had he so pleased, of being one of the greatest
orators the world has ever heard. Many of his ad-
dresses to his soldiers arc masterpieces of rhetorical
art. His Farewell to his Old Guard at Fontaittbleau
—his oration iu the Champs de Mars in the year fol-
lowing, the speech beginning, " Soldat, Consul, Ein-
pereur, je tiens tout du Peuple"—are simply match-
less as appeals to the hearts an I the imaginations of
Close who listened to him. As a great Captain, hid
icltieventeats were nothing less than electrifying.
Its history is as enthralling, is as extraor linary a
romance, or rather a collection of rout tnc
is the 4` Arabian Nights Entertainar2n-s." lie
wilt up and pulled down the thrones
of Europe at his pleasure. lie enterel
iu t, in nplt, one after another, all the great c tpitals
If the Continent—Viennt, Berlin, M tdrid, Milan,
t5,636,0t;4 4 e I -'l°B"'

Ile in ae fuatxen camp tigns, eaz't of
ear sa amazing that it is a matter of d:spu e to
is day, as to which of all the fourteen was the
nost extriordivary—whether the palm of pre-emi-
ience should be accorded to his earliest campaign, in
which he rushed from victory to victory, as one
[night say at the pas de cltarge ; or to the
campaign closed by his grandest triumph,
the " Bat tle of the Emperors," as it was
:alhal, in which he defeated the united Imperial
armies of Austria and Russia upon the field of
Austerlitz; or that wonderful campaign of 1814, in
which, by a series of dazzling zizgags, seemingly multi-
plying his forces by the rapidity of his movements,
he contested inch by inch the invaled soil of France,
crossing swords alternately with two advanc-
ing armies, and only beaten down at last by
the tr,achery of the Statesmen and the treason
of the Marshals he himself had raised to
distinction and covered with glory by his muni-
ficence. It has even been said by Lord BRoUGIIAM (in
the work already referred to), when speaking of the
most disastrous of all NAPOLEON'S great campaigns,
the campaign in Russia, that, among them all, until
the fortunes of war were abruptly changed by an
unprecedentedly early frost and by an unparalleled
conflagration, it, the Russian Campaign, was incom-
parably the most successful and the most triumphant.
Beyond all his military exploits, however, the grandest
of all his achievements was the Code Napoleon. It
has come, long since, to be the law of Europe, more
or less all over the Continent. It is the Code of modern
Civilization. It was recognized by NAPOLEON himself as
the securest pledge to him of the gratitude and admira-
tion of posterity. Apart from his majestic and en-
during labours as aLawgiver, he had other and no less
clearly recognizable justifications for having assumed
to himself the Dictatorship. lie restored Order out
of the sanguinary Chaos caused by the Terrorism of
the great French Revolution. lle restored Religion
to a land where all the altars had been overturned,
where the ministers of the altars had been either
driven into exile or butchered, where, in the
principal Cathedral of Paris the shameless spectacle
had been beheld of a naked strumpetbeing worshipped
under the title of " The Goddess of Reason," in the
midst of a hideous Saturnalia. Overthrown, at last,
by the banding together against him of the old world
dynasties of the nations he had so often conquered,
led on by the one nation in all Europe that he had
never conquered, it was thought, it was said, it was
insisted upon by his enemies, as a fact altogether un-
deniable and patent to the comprehension of the whole
world, that the system built up by NAPOLEON was swept
Away for ever, that the dynasty he had created was
utterly extinguished, that his work had proved alto-
gether perishable, that it had crumbled away, and had
permanently disappeared. Incarcerated in the Island
of St. Ilelena by the terror of the Kings—dead after
six years of cruel exile, at Longwood—buried away
for a score of years under the willows of a neigh-
bon: ing valley—it was imagined by many, that, like
CHARLES XII. of Sweden, the GREAT NAPOLEON had
merely left behind him—

" A name at wLioh the world grow pale,
To point a mural, or adorn a tale."
CHATEAU Bill AND, enthusiastic Bourbonist, im-
placable anti-Bonapartist as be was, bad said
very soon after Waterloo, that the display any-
where on the borders of France of a grey great-coat,
a little three-cornered hat, and a pair of jack boots,