The Sun.
London, England, 1866-02-13 00:00:00

SCIENTIFIC AND ORNAMENTAL PRESENTS.

ORNAMENTS for the Drawing-room, Library,
and Dining-room, consisting of a new and eiegant assort-
ment of VASES, Figures, Groups, Candlesticks, Obelisks, Ink-
stands, ,eantiful inlaid Tables, Paper weights, &0., in Italian,
Alabaster, Parian, Marble, Bronze, Derbyshire Spar, dm
Lnported and manufactured by JAMES TENNANT, Mine-
ralogist to her Haiesty, 149, Strand, W.C., London.

Mr. Tennant arranges elementary collections of ROCKS,
MINERALS, and FOSSILS, to illustrate the new edition
of Lyell's Elements of Geology;,, they will greatly ficilitate
the interesting study of MINERALOGY and GEOLOGY,
and can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 500 guineas each.

PRACTICAL INSTRUCTION in GEOLOGY and MINE-
RALOGY to given by Mr.TENNAN r,P.G.S., at 149. Strand.

THE RESCUE SOCIETY wishes to add another
home to thn 12 now in operation. Last year no fewer
ihan 455 poor,• friendless, young females were rejected Prom
want of FUNDS and room, making a total of 3,087, who have
been sent away in five years. Here aro brief details of a few
of the most recent cases:

F. P., aged 16, fallen, mother dead, deserted by her father.
M. A. F., aged 13, homeless, both parents dead.
A. 8., aged 17, fallen, father dead, deserted by her mother
S. D., aged 15, fallen, mother dead.
C. 8., aged 15, fallen, mother dead,
A, 8., aged 16, fallen, both parents dead.
H. S., aged 14, homeless, deserted by her parents,
M. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
C. H., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
A. G., aged 18, fallen, father dead.
E. K„ aged 18, fallen, both parents dead,
S. 8., aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
M. A. W. aged 17, fallen, both parents dead.
S. D., aged 15, fallen, both parents dead.
The new home the Committee wish to form would be for
young girls, almost children, from the age of 8 to 15, who
have been led astray from the path of virtue.'
Contributions will be received gratefully by the Secretary,
Mr. Daniel Cooper, 65, Queen .street, Cheapside; ur by Messrs
Barclay and Co., Lombard-street

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, Gray's-inn-road,
in the immediate vicinity of the Great Northern Rail-
way Terminus, King's-cross.
Patron—Her Most Gracious Majesty the QUEEN.
Vice- Patron—His Royal Highness the Prince of WALES, K.G
President—His Grace the buke of BUCCLEUCH, K.G.

This Hospital, founded in the year 1828, the first to estab-
lish the principle of flee admission to the sick poor, without
the delay and difficulty of Governors' orders. is wholly de-
pendent for support ou voluntary contributions and t •.;aczes.
It aff,rds reliet to a large number of in-patients, and, in
addition to this, the average number of attendance of the
lestitute sick has for a coniderable period averaged between
1,000 and 4,000 weekly.
'the Committee earnestly solicit the ASSISTANCE of the
benevolent, as the premises of this Hospital are capable of
mitaining several nundred more beds, had the Committee
the requisite funds to maintain them.
Contributions are received by the Treasurer, Edward Mu •
erman, Esq., Nicholas-lane; also by Messrs. Coutts and Co.;
Drummond and Co. ; Giyn and Co.;• Harries and Co. ; Ransom
and Co. ; Prescott, Grote, and Co.; Smith, Payne, and Co. ;
Barclay and Co. ; W.llianas, Deacon, and Co.; Overend, Gur-
ney, and Co. ; Nisbet and Co-. Berners-street ; I. Barned and
CI, Liverpool ; and at the Hospital. from 10 till 5.

STA.nieoup aMITU. Secretary.

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and
111 most useful invention of the day, AQUA AMA ft LL A.
Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., Red Bull Wharf, 93,
Upper Thames-street, Perfumers to her Majesty, respect-
fully offer to the public this truly marvellous fluid, which
gradually restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no
matter at what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the
properties of dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the
system, and when the hair is once restored one application
per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per
bottle, or in half bottles. 10s. 61. Testimonials from artistes
of the highest order, and from Individuals of undoubted re-
spectability. may be seen on application. Messrs. John
Goonell and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal
Highnessthe Princess of Wales.

PROVIDENCE ROW NIGHT REFUGE,
FOR
HOMELESS WOMEN AND CHILDREN,
14A, Providence-row, Finsbury, E.C.
Sixty Thousand Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, have been given in this Institution to the
destitute, who otherwise would have had to pass the
nights in the bleak streets or under railway arches.
At present nearly 500 Nights' Lodgings, with Suppers and
Breakfasts, are given gratuitously every week. The poor
from all parts are admitted, the only condition being that
they are homeless and starving. The Manager, &c.,
receives no remuneration whatever. Notwithstand-
ing the provision made by the Poor Houses, each
night numbers of young women, children, and orphans
are, for want accommodation, refusedadmittance, andhave
to spend night after night in the cold, wet, and sleet. To
meet this evil, and to provide more ample accommoda-
tion, £2,000 has been raised, but to accomplish the
work a sum of at least £l,OOO more will be required.
Besides providing shelter for the homeless, this year it
is proposed, as far as the donations obtained for the pur-
pose will allow, to give bread and coals to poor families
in want. Will you, in your charity, help to carry on and
accomplish what has been begun ? Will you help to give
shelter to the really homeless, and food to the really
starving ? The smallest donation will be most welcome,
and, night and morning, the prayers of the destitute will
be offered in your behalf.
SUBSCRIPTIONS are earnestly requested, and will be
gratefully received by the Rev. D. GILBERT, D.D., No. 22,
Finsbury-circus, E.C.
DONORS AND SUBSCRIBERS TO THE REFUGE.
His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE Or WALES, K.G.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, K.G.
His Royal Highness the Duke D'Aumale.
His Excellency the Count D'Apponyi.
His Excellency the Count Lavradio.
The Earl of Abergavenny. Messrs. Dimsdale, Drewett,
The Earl of Desart. Fowler, and Barnard.
The Earl of Denbigh. Messrs. Hanbury and Lloyds.
The Earl Grey, K.G. Messrs. Prescott, Grote, Cave
The Earl of Harewood. and Co.
The Earl of Eglinton. London Assurance Corpora-
The Earl of Kenmare. ' tion.
The Earl of Durham. Royal Exchange Insurance
The Countess of Albemarle. Company.
The Lady Ellen Browne. Sun Fire Office.
The Lady Camilla E. For- R. W. Barclay, Esq.
teseue. J. Bethel], Esq.
The Viscount Gage. Mrs. Barniwall.
Field-Marshal Lord Gough, Miss Burton.
K.P. Mrs. Curling.
The Lord Dormer. J. Henry Challis, Esq.
The Lord Petra. Dr. Carvalho.
The Lord Leigh. R. Crawford, Esq., M.P.
The Lord Chelmsford. H. Cazenne, Esq.
The Lord Cranworth. Mrs. Chesterton.
Baron de Rothschild, M.P. A. H. Campbell, Esq.
The Hon. C. Langdale. Miss Douglas.
The Hon. W. Browne. Messrs. Durant & Co.
The Hon. H. G. Campbell. Messrs. Dawson & Sons.
Sir Charles Price, Bart. Miss Dobson
Sir Robert Gerard, Bart. Cursetjee Furdonjeo, Esq.
Sir Pyers Mostyn, Bart. Miss Franklin
Hon. Rustomjee Jamsetjee Dr. Gull.
J eejeebhoy. C. Gould, Esq.
The Governors of the Bank H. E. Gurney, Esq.
of England. Messrs. Hills & Underwood.
The Worshipful Company of Capt. Hogg.
Armourers and Braziers. Miss Kaye.
The Worshipful Company of J. Kynaston, Esq.
Tallow Chandlers. J. Knight, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of L. Lloyd, Esq.
Drapers. J. Lewis Mieville, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of Miss M'Mahon.
Grocers.
C. Manning, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of Miss Martin
Saddlers. Breton Martinez, Esq.
The Worshipful Company of Messrs. Ponsford and Sou-
Salters. thall.
The Worshipful Company of F. X. Pereira, Esq.
Merchant Tailors. Mrs. Palmer.
Tho Directors of the Bank of 11. W. Prescott, Esq.
Australia. F. Philips, Esq.
The Directors of the Bank of N. H. E. Prowett, Esq.
Australasia. M. R. De Quadros, Esq.
The Directors of the Colo- G. A. Shee, Esq.
nial Bank. H. Riddell, Esq.
The Directors of the National T. Riddell Esq.
Bank of Ireland. Messrs. Ralli Bros.
The Directors of the Provin- Messrs. De la Rue and Co.
vial Bank of Ireland. Miss Rombold.
The Directors of the Char- Mrs. Simpson.
tered Mercantile Bank of Mrs. Scott.
India, London, and China. Mrs. Southby.
The Directors of the Impe- Messrs. Tucker and New.
rial Ottoman Bank. F. Ward, Esq.
The Directors of the London G. Basil Wood, Esq.
and County Bank. Miss Young.
The Directors of the Union J. Young, Esq.
Bank. Messrs. Zulueta and. Co.
Messrs. Coutts and Co. Stc. ttc.

CHATHAM, Monday Evening.
The gale which swept over this port and neigh-
bourhood yesterday raged with carcely any abated
fury till midnight. From alstoon until three
o'clock in the afternoon the wind was unusually
powerful, the patent anemometer showing the pres-
sure to be as high as 301 b. to the square foot. Two
or three terrific gusts showed a pressure of nearly
401 b., a force which has been rarely equalled in this
country. In Ordnance-place a heavy stack of
chimneys was blown down, and falling on the ad-
joining house crushed in the upper portion. The
inmates, who had timely warning given them, ma-
naged to escape unhurt. At Chatham parish church
a portion of one of the windows on the south side
was blown in, and some panes of glass were broken
at Melville Naval Hospital. At sunrise this morn-
ing the barometer had risen to 28.65, and this
evening the mercury stands at 29.05, the gale hav-
ing entirely ceased.

PORTSMOUTH, Monday.
The violent gale which prevailed here yesterday
from 4 a.m. until sunset gradually abated between
sunset and midnight. The wind veered to W.N.W.,
at which point it subsided to a somewhat strong
breeze by daylight this morning, and with none of

the violence of the preceding day. During the nigh.
the town was in darkness, the greater number o.

the street lamps being destroyed. When daylight
came it was found that but few houses had escaped
damage of some kind. Some of the fine elm trees
which grew on the town ramparts have been torn
up by the roots. One large brewery has lost its
entire roof, another has lost its tall chimney, and
the walls of gardens and other enclosures have been
breached and levelled in all directions. In New
Southsea several of the ill-constructed " villas"
have been levelled to the ground. Several persons
have been seriously injured by falling materials
or from being blown down by the wind, and two
horses were killed at Landport by a large chim-
ney falling on them. The Hamburg brig Johanna
Elizabeth, Captain Robsein, coal laden, from
Newcastle bound for Martinique, which was
known to be safely anchored among other windbound
vessels at the Motherbank on the day preceding the
gale, was on the afternoon of Sunday, when the
wind was blowing at its greatest force from W.S.W.,
observed to be drifting through Spithead to leeward,
apparently having parted her chains at the Mother-
bank. About an hour before dusk she struck on the
Woolsoners, a dangerous shingle shoal lying between
Hayling and Portsea islands, and directly off Fort
Cumberland. Her foremast was seen to go by the
board immediately after she struck, and the crew
then took rtikeitßT iu.the main rigging, the sea break-
ing heavily over the brig's deck. The inaintnastsoon
followed the foremast, and with it the crew of the
vessel were all lost. They appeared to have tried
their boats, as the latter were seen under the brig's
bows soon after she struck on the shoal, but if so
they must have given up the idea as hopeless. As for
rendering assistance from the shore that was impos-
sible, as the lifeboat station is to leeward of the
shoal, and a high surf was breaking on the beach.
One body, that of a seaman, with the vessel's keel,
her boats, and other portions of the wreck were
washed ashore to-day under Fort Cumberland. The
brig which drove ashore under Haslar Hospital dur-
ing the gale proved to be the French brig Banque-
reau, Capt. Sicillac, from Bayonne, bound to Glo-
cester. Her captain is lying in prison in the Isle of
Wight for refusing to pay a claim of pilotage made
upon him. In his absence and during the gale the
vessel parted her chains and drove ashore at the
point mentioned. Some Portsmouth watermen
dragged a boat over the Haslar peninsula, and,
launching her at no great distance from the brig,
succeeded in taking off the whole of the crew, leav-
ing at the same time two of their number on board.
men got the brig off and
At high water the same
took her into Portsmouth harbour.

Last night duringGthßeEgAaTleytAhßeßbiOn.UgTrile,rll.ol,oonfd‘avyh.it.
burn, Beldington, master, bound from London to
Hartlepool, in ballast, came ashore off this place.
The surf lifeboat belonging
to the National Life-
boat Institution was at once launched, and for-
tunately saved the shipwrecked crew. The same
lifeboat afterwards put off and rescued the crew of
the bark Reliance, of Whitby, bound from Middles-
borough for Dieppe with a cargo of coals. She had
lost three anchors, and had driven foul of the
schooner Sarah Ann, of Jersey. While the small
lifeboat was thus engaged in saving the crew of the
Reliance, the large lifeboat of the institution went
off to the Sarah Ann, and fortunately succeeded in
bringing her and her crew safely into harbour.
POOLE, DORSET, Monday.
Yesterday the storm caused great destruction to
shipping. The steamer Royal Albert, fearing that
assistance might be required by vessels in distress,
about 10 o'clock steamed out of the harbour. She
passed near a brigantine of 130 or 140 tons, name
unknown, and which had been abandoned by the
crew. She found the Poole pilot-boat No. 11 in
distress about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and suc-
ceeded in saving the crew, but the boat was lost.
The men having been brought to Poole, the steamer
again went out, and took in tow the Manley Wood
lifeboat. It appeared that the lifeboat had behaved
well during the gale, but in consequence of the ex-
treme violence of the wind the crew were not able
to make any headway. The lifeboat crew had been
in the boat from 11 o'clock till half-past 6, when
they found there was apparently no further demand
for their services, and she was taken to the lifeboat
station at Northaven. In the course of the evening,
abouthowev however,
miles ,
ma
messenger
engerarrived from Christchurch,
Poole, and stated that a vessel
was driving ashore there. Horses were obtained,
and the boat was conveyed along the road from
Northaven to Christchurch, a distance of about 15
or 16 miles, the crew being conveyed to the latter
place from Poole in an omnibus. Before the arrival
of the boat, however, the vessel had become a wreck,
and part of the crew had perished. It appeared the
vessel was the Eliza, of Tynemouth, laden with
coal, Beck, master, and owned by Mr. C. P.
Ward, Devon. While in her distressed condition
at the mouth of Christchurch harbour, Mr.
Henry Cutler, fishmonger, of Bournemouth,
took a boat and very courageously went to her as-
sistance about half-past 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
He succeeded, after great difficulty, in reaching her.
He found the crew, seven in number, huddled to-
gether. On taking them ashore three of the men
were found to have perished from exposure. The
captain and the remaining three men are alive. The
brigantine Elizabeth, of Tynemouth, 119
.tons re-
gister, laden with coals, at 7 a.m. yesterday was rid-
ing in Studland Bay with one anchor. As soon as
she began to drive the second anchor was let go,

Cornwall was yesterday forenoon visited -by
another gale quite equal in violence to any that
has yet preceded it this winter. Rain fell without
intermission till 4 p.m., at which time it was, if
possible, fiercer than ever. Several houses in
Truro were partially unroofed, and upwards of 20
fine old trees blown down in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of the town. Telegrams reported the
gale to be raging with great severity at Falmouth,
Penzance, and St. Ives.

Mr. Peabody's Second Gift of ZlOO,OOO

foi the Poor of London.

The following is the letter to the trustees for adminis-
tering Mr. Peabody's former gift of £150,000 for the bene-
fit of the poor of London, in which that great philanthro-
pist announces his intention of adding another £lOO,OOO
to it :
Gentlemen,—When I made a donation of £150,000 for
the benefit of the poor of London, in March, 1862, it was
my intention, if my life was spared until my retirement
from business, and Providence continued me in prosperity,
to place in your hands, as trustees of the charity, a further
gift for the same object. That time has now arrived ; but
before entering upon the subject of the second donation
allow me to say a few words relative to the course you hare
pursued with regard to the first. Your duties and respon-
sibilities have been great, and the performance of the work
undertaken, you must have been aware, would occasionally
and inconveniently tax your valuable time ; but from high
motives of benevolence and dqty, you cheerfully accepted
the trust, and I cannot but express my grateful thanks for
your constant attendance at the meetings of the board, and
my gratification at the great success that has attended your
labours.
With regard to this, my second gift, it is my desire that
in the appointment of future trustees the same rules may
be continued as adopted for the first ; and that the United
States Minister at the Court of St. James's for the time
being shall always be one of them.

I now propose that, as soon as a deed can be prepared by
your solicitor to fully and legally meet the views and direc-
tions which I shall state herein, to transfer into your names
5,000 fully paid-up shares of stock in the Hudson's Bay
Company, of £2O each, amounting to £lOO,OOO, and repre-
senting one-twentieth part of that vast territory. It is my
desire that all dividends, as they fall due and are collected,
shall be at once invested in shares of the company until
the market value of the capital and invested accrued divi-
dends reaches the sum of £120,000, which, it is my impres-
sion, may be within two or throe years ; but should I be
mistaken in this anticipation, and should the market value
of the entire shares, including those acquired by the re-
investment of dividends, be less than £lOO,OOO, at the ex-
piration of two years from this date, I will at that time
either make up the deficiency or take the shares, paying for
them £lOO,OOO in cash, as the trustees may think best ler-
the interest of the fund ; and in the event of my death be-
fore that time, my executors. will be duly authorised and
directed ta fulfil
,th is engagement.
Should the shares bo taken by me for £lOO,OOO, or sold to
others at the limit stated above, I desire that the proceeds
shall be invested in safe securities, including interest ac-
cruing on the same up to the Ist of July, 1869, when you
or your successors will consider all restrictions regarding
sales at an end.

The delay thus caused in appropriating this gift to the
charity will, I think, act beneficially by enabling you; first,
to expend the £76,000 now remaining on hand of the former
donation, thereby testing by further experience the wisdom
of the course you have hitherto pursued. Taking the joint
capital of the two gifts at a minimum of £250,000, it will
form afund, tke operation of which is intended to be pro-
gressive in its usefulness as applied to the relief of the poor
of London (so correctly defined in your recent report),with-
out exclusion in consequence of religious belief or political
bias. It will therefore act more powerful in future genera-

tions than in the present ; it is intended to endure for ever.
A century in the history of London is but a brief period
comparatively within the life of man, and should your suc-
cessors continue the management of the charity as you have
begun it, it is my ardent hope and trust that within that
period the annual receipts from rents for buildings of this
improved class may present such a return that there may
not be a poor working man of good character in London
who could not obtain comfortable and healthy lodgings for
himself and his family at a cost within his means.
As your course with regard to the former gift of £150,000
is already defined in your trust doed, I can only express my
own views and wishes regarding the appropriation of the
principal and income of this second donation, and leave to
yourselves and your successors to manage it accordingly.
You aro fully authorised to use any portion of the fund
in building lodging-houses for the labouring poor as ex-
pressed in my former letter; but as before many years it is
to be apprehended that desirable sites for such buildings
may be difficult to obtain at moderate prices within the
limits of the metropolis ; in that event, it is my desire that
my trustees for the time being may seek out and secure at
such rates as the state of the fund may warrant, such free-
hold sites within ten miles of the present Royal Exchange,
as may appear eligible, both on account of salubrity of posi-
tion and proximity to the great centres of labour and rail-
road accommodation, due regard being had to the probable
burden of taxation. It may also be desirable to obtain
from railroad companies the most economical arrangements
procurable for the conveyance of working people at stated
hours to and from London at such moderate fares as wil
come within their means.
Comfortable and convenient houses are to be erected
upon those sites for the exclusive accommodation of the
honest and industrious poor of London, under such regu-
lations and such toms and conditions as my trustees may
direct, subject only to the guiding principles laid down in
respect to my former donation.
As dwellings in such sites may in some instances be re-
mote from schools and other facilities for instruction, the
trustees shall be at liberty in such cases, should they con-
sider it needful, to sot apart space, adjacent to the building
and suitable for schoolhouses for the children of the fami-

lies holding tenements. But such schools must be so orga-
nised as carefully to exclude sectarian influences, and so
conducted as to avoid denominational jealousy. With this
view it is my desire that the course of education shall be
exclusively of an elementary and literary. character.
I would also suggest to my trustees that, for the mental
improvement of the inmates, the schoolrooms might, if
they think desirable, be open some hours during the even-
ing ; and that books, periodicals, and newspapers be pro-
vided for those who chose to attend, and that at certain
seasons popular and scientific lectures might be introduced
at a charge, if any, merely sufficient to defray necessary
expenses.

As some of these dwellings will probably be at inconve-
nient distances from good markets, I would also suggest to
my trustees to consider the propriety, in localities where it
may seem to be required, of providing within the build-
ings, or near to them, apartments in which the tenants
may organise co-operative stores for supplying themselves
with coal and other necessary articles for their own con-
sumption, subject to such regulations as, in the judgment
of my trustees, may be needful.
I also beg to suggest and recommend to you and to your
successors in the management of this trust, that in the
month of February, in every year after 1868, a report of the
progress in buildings (if any should be commenced), with
an account of receipts and expenditures, with the various
items attending the management of the fund, be prepared
and published in the London newspapers. I would add my
wish that in like manner, as trustees of my former gift,
you should continue once in every year to lay a similar
report before the public.
it having occurred to me that for good reasons my trus-
tees may wish, at a comparatively early period, to change
some part or parts of the deed which is to be prepared
for the management of this fund, I therefore hereby autho-
riSe them to do so at any time during my life conformably
to any resolution or resolutions which may be unanimously
passed by their board and approved by me.
In conclusion, looking to the object of this donation and
to the large development in coming years of an arrange-
ment designed to promote the physical, moral, and social

London, Feb. 6, 1866.
Sir,—We feel that we only anticipate the satisfaction and
gratitude of the public, when we express to you our own,
on the receipt of your letter announcing the enlargement
of your already abounding generosity to the poor of London.
The importance of this second gift is not to be measured
by its money value alone ; it will impart an augmented use-
fulness to the unexpended portion of your previous dona-
tion, by enabling it to be applied over a greatly enlarged
area, as well as to give increased comforts and accommoda-
tion in the buildings to which it may be appropriated.
Tho most moderate return for so large an investment
will furnish a permanent income, the judicious expenditure
of which must in time exert an irresistible influence in
raising the character of that class of houses which are now
occupied by the labouring population in all parts of the
metropolis ; and thus to a remote posterity your name will
continue to be held in grateful remembrance by the people
of London, as the benefactor of the poor on a scale hitherto
unequalled in this or any other country.
Yours faithfully,
STANLEY, Chairman.
C. F. ADAMS.
J. EMERSON TENNANT.
C. M. LAMPSON.
J. S. MORGAN.

To George Peabody, Esq.

Post Office Savings Banks.

(From the Eleventh Report of the Postmaster-General.)
The increase in the business of the Post-office
Savings Banks during the year ending on the 31st
March, 1865, was very remarkable, since, though
only 73 additional banks were opened during the
year, the increase in the number of depositors dur-
ing the year was at the rate of 40 per cent., the rate
of increase during the previous year, in which year
161 additional banks were opened, having been at
the rate of 42 per cent.

The increase in the number of depositors in Post-
office Savings Banks is constant, and subject to very
little variation. It is at its highest point in January
and February, and at its lowest point in November
and December of each year, but on the whole year
it amounts, and for a long time has amounted, to a
net increase of from 11,000 to 12,000 depositors per
month, the term net increase" being used to de-
note the difference between the number of deposi-
tors coming in and the number going out during
the month.

For some time after the first establishment of
Post-office Savings Banks the average amount of
each sum deposited ranged between £3 and £4,
whereas the average amcunt of each sum deposited
in the old savings banks had usually ranged be-
tween £4 and £5. As, however, the nature and ad-
vantages of the Post-office banks became known to
the poorer classes of the community, and as new
banks were opened from time to time. in rural dis-
tricts, or in those parts of great cities which were
inhabited by large numbers of the poorer classes, a
gradual reduction in the average amount of each
deposit took place, and that amount has for some
time ranged between £2 and £3, whilst the average
—amount of each sum deposited in the old savings
banks has not undergone any marked alteration.
So long as this constant influx of new depositors
' continues, and continues to be accompanied by a
gradual fall in the average amount of each sum de-
posited, no marked increase can be expected to take
place in the average amount due to each depositor.
That amount has for some time ranged between
£lO and £ll, and under the operation of existing
circumstances will not reach £ll for some time to ,

come.
On the whole, it seems reasonable to expect that
the annual increase in the business of Post Office
Savings Banks will for some time be from 130,000
to 140,000 in the number of depositors, and from
£1,400,000 to-11,500,000 in the capital of deposi-
tors.

During the year ending 31st March, 1865, the
capital sum due to all the depositors in Post Office
Savings Banks throughout the kingdom in reased at
the rate of 31 per cent. The sum due to depositors
in England and Wales increased at the rate of 32
per cent. ; the sum due to the depositors in Scotland
increased at the rate of 18 per cent., and the sum
duo to the depositors in Ireland increased at the rate
of 17 per cent. The rate of increase was, however,
much higher in some counties in England and Wales.
Thus it was 71 per cent. in Cornwall, 57 per cent.
in Dorsetshire, 56 per cent. in Monmouthshire, 69
per cent. in Shropshire, 50 per cent. in Hampshire,
56 per cent. in Leicestershire, 52 per cent. in Wor-
cestershire, and 56 per cent. in Yorkshire.
Although, as I have shown, largely increasing
numbers of persons use the Post Office Savings
Banks for a prblonged investment of their savings,
there are in the Post Office Savings Banks, as in the
old savings banks, large numbers of other persons
who use the banks for a short time only as mere
places of security for the money which they do not
require for immediate me. The total sum deposited
up to the 31st March, 1865, inclusive of interest, in
Post Office Banks, was £9,217,000, and of this sum
£3,852,000, or 42 per cent., had been withdrawn up
to that date. The total number of depositors who
had entered up to that date was 690,912, and of
these 166,572, or 24 per cent., had closed their
accounts.
The labour and the cost of the Post Office Banks
up to the 31st March, 1865, must be measured, as a
matter of course, not by the number of accounts re-
maining open at that date, but by the whole amount
of business on all accounts opened and closed up to
that date, or, in other words, by the whole number
of transactions to that date.
The cost of each transaction, i.e., of each deposit
or of each withdrawal, in Post Office Savings Banks,
continued up to the 31st March, 1865, to be rather
less than sevenpence, to which sum, prior to the
passing of the Act for the establishment of Post
Office Savings Banks, it was estimated that the cost
of each transaction would attain.
From an examination into the occupations of
about 11,000 depositors in Post Office Savings Banks
in all parts of the kingdom, it appears probable that
the 524,340 depositors who had opened accounts in
the Post Office Banks on the 31st March, 1865,
may be thus classified :
Females, male minors, and trustees
Males of independent means, or of no stated occu-
pation, professional men, and their clerks or

assistants
Males engaged in education
Tradesmen and their male assistants, farmers, and
clerks of all kinds, except clerks to professional
men, and clerks in general offices .................. 53,756
Mechanics and artisans, journeymen mechanic;
and artisans, domestic servants, farm servant;
railway servants, policemen, labourers, pen-
sioners, boatmen, fishermen, and merchant
5eamen...................................................... 110,518
Persons employed in the revenue departments 2,570
Persons in the army or navy ........................ 4,682

31,353
5,G92

Total " 524,340
Of the -whole number of depositors in Post Office
Savings Banks nearly one-third reside within the
limits of the London postal district. Of the whole
number of depositors in the Post Office Banks
throughout the kingdom about 4 per cent. have
balances due to them of £5O and upwards.
In London there was in each year one depositor
to every seven persons; in the rest of England and
Wales one depositor to every 14 persons ; iu Scot-

I From particulars obtained from one of thesufferers,
it appears that at the top of the building is what in
the trade is termed a pit, which at the time of
the accident contained, it is stated, about three tons
weight of molten metal. Standing round the pit
with their hot moulds for the purpose of filling them
were ten of the workmen, and five others were
standing some distance off. Whilst the men were
thus employed the metal suddenly blew up and the
liquid fire—for such it may be termed—was scat-
tered about in all directions, breaking the skylight
at the top of the house and falling upon every per-
son near. The men who were working at the pit
were in their shirt-sleeves, and of course the hot
metal soon penetrated the thin covering, and stuck
to the skin of the ten workpeople, and also five
others who were some distance away from the pit.
One of the workmen not connected with the metal
department had the molten metal forced down his
back, and a portion entered one of his eyes, by
which he was much injured. Having been surgi-
cally attended to, he was enabled to return to his
home. The other 14 persons were, however, so
badly scalded that it was deemed advisable to have
them removed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, which
was accordingly done, and they were attended upon
by the whole surgical force of that excellent insti-
tution. Most of the sufferers are severely scalded
upon the backs, shoulders, arms, and face, but it is
understood that the vital portions of the chests of
each have escaped, which can to some extent be ac-
counted for from the metal first flying upwards and
then dropping upon the heads and shoulders of the
unfortunate persons.

As to the cause of the disaster nothing is posi-
tively known. The whole of the moulds in use had
been previouslyheated, consequently they could not
have contained any moisture likely to have occa-
sioned the metal to blow up ; but the general opinion
of some of the sufferers is that during the gale of
the previous day the rain had by some means fallen
into or round the pit of metal. If such was the
case the blowing up of the pewter is easily accounted.
for, as it is well known that if water should find its
way amongst hot metal it invariably explodes,
almost with the force of gunpowder. The damage
done to the premises beyond the destruction of the
skylight may be termed inconsiderable.

• The Convict Winsor,

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(From the Exeter and Plymouth Gazette).

The wretched woman, Charlotte Winsor, has ob-
tained another lease of life. For the second time
the day has been fixed for her execution, a second
time the hangman has journeyed from London to
Exeter Gaol for the express purpose of attending
her on the scaffold, and second time has she been
respited almost at the last moment. On Friday
morning came the news that the judges had decided
the last point against her, and on Friday afternoon
the sheriff received intimation that the Home Secre-
tary refused to interfere, and the law must take its
course. The same night the convict was informed
by the governor of the gaol (Mr. Rose) that the last
hope of escape from her doom had vanished, and
that she must prepare to meet death this (Monday)
morning. She received the intelligence with appa-
rent unconcern, remarking, " It's no odds what they
do to me."

The convict's friends—her husband and two sisters
—had what they believed to be a farewell interview
with her on Saturday afternoon, remaining in her
cell with her from half-past two o'clock till five. On
the part of her relatives the meeting and the parting
were painful and distressing ; but the prisoner
maintained a wondrous composure and seeming
indifference to her fate. She talked to them with
perfect coolness, and gave her husband advice as to
his doings after her death, recommending him
to take unto himself another wife. She gave direc-
tions as to what should be done with her clothing
and some little property belonging to her, being par-
ticularly anxious that her daughter (who is a mar-
.
, 'led woman, and could not be present at the inter-
view because she is near her confinement) should re-
ceive her wearing apparel. During the time she has
been in gaol the convict has been taught to read
and write ; and she has lately written a statement
which enters minutely into details concerning the
murder of the child. This statement consists prin-
cipally of alleged conversations between herself and
her accomplice Harris ; and in it she reiterates the
denial that she was the actual murderess, but admits
that she knew of the crime and endeavoured to con-
ceal it. This written paper she wished her friends
to tale charge of, and " advertise " in the news-
papers. The governor, however, would not allow
this to be done, and kept the document in his pos-
session. She thereupon became angry, said it would
be found that she had some spirit left even yet, and
that, if her wish was refused, she would throw the
statement to the people when she appeared on the
scaffold.

Calcraft, the executioner, reached Exeter by the
3.30 p.m. train on Saturday, and proceeded to the
gaol at once, where he remained all night, and re-
turned to London by the 1.30 p.m. train yesterday.
About five o'clock on Saturday afternoon a tele-
gram was received at the office of this journal, to the
effect that another respite had been granted, and
about the same hour the sheriff received a message
stating that a Queen's messenger was on his way
with a reprieve. At 11 o'clock the sheriff received
from the messenger a further reprieve of Winsor
until the sth day of March next, and of course the
wretched object was immediately made acquainted
with the circumstance. The cause of this decision
will be learnt from the following paragraph :
"On Saturday morning Messrs. Burt and Stevens, the
solicitors of the culprit, Charlotte Winsor, gave official
notice at the Home-office that fho Attorney-General had,
upon the application of Mr. Folkard (her counsel), issued his
fiat for a writ of error to the Exchequer Chamber upon the
judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench, on the ground
that the decision of that court was in! direct opposition to
a decision given by the judges in Ireland, that when a
jury in a capital crime had been discharged without giving
a verdict, the proceedings became irregular and therefore
illegal. In pursuance of the usual course the Home Secre-
tary has, therefore, granted a further respite of the criminal
until the end of Easter Term."
No information has been made public as to the
course to be pursued with reference to Mary Jane
Harris, the mother of the child murdered by Win-
sor, and who in her evidence against the latter con-
fessed that she was privy to the crime. As far
back as last October the Home-office acquainted
Harris's counsel with the determination come to
concerning her, and by the courtesy of her solici-
tors,t Messrs. Parsons, of Shaldon, we are enabled o
publish the official letter :

directed by Secretary
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consideration, and, as ho is informed by Mr. Justice Keat-
ing that she gave her evidence on the trial of Charlotte
Winsor in a way satisfactory to the jury, he has come to
the conclusion that lie will be justified in advising that
no further proceedings should be taken against her. Ile is
of opinion, however, that the proper course to take will be
not to grant her a pardon, but, in accordance with the re-
commendation of the learned judge, to make arrangements
for bringing her case before a jury at the next assizes for
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