The Sun.
London, England, 1859-06-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING; JUNE 23, 1859.

Vkr. EYM.OU TH and CHANNEL ISLANDS.
Y STEAM PACKET COMPANY (Limited). -SUM-
gER . SERVICE Steam Communication between' the
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY of ENGLAND and
GUERNSEY and JERSEY, via Weymouth.
Through Booking from all the principal stations on the
Great Western Railway.
The steamers sail from Weymouth every Tuesday, Thurs-
day, and Saturday, at
-eight a.m.
,Further particulars at the Railway Stations, and of
JOSEPH MAUNDERS, Manager and Secretary.
Weymouth, May 1, 1859.

WEYMOUTH and CHANNEL ISLANDS
STEAM PACKET COMPANY(Limited).—STEAM
COMMUNICATION between the GREAT WESTERN
RAILWAY of ENGLAND and the WESTERN RAILWAY
of FRANCE, via Weymouth and Cherbourg.
Through Booking from all the principal stations on one
line to the principal stations on the other (Padding-ton to
Paris excepted). -
The steamers sail from Weymouth every Tuesday, Thurs-
day, and Saturday, at six a.nt (carrying the malls both ways).
Further particulars at the Railway Stations, and of
JOSEPH MAUNDEIIS, Manager and Secretary,
Weymouth, May 1, 1859;
GUARDIAN FIRE A:
CO3ll

ND LIFE ASSURANCE
'ANY,
treet, London, E.C.
;TORS.
LENS, Esq., Chairman.
~ Deputy Chairman.
Stewart Marjoribanka, Esq.
John Martin, Esq.
Rowland Mitchell, Esq. ,
James Morris, Esq.
Henry Norman, Esq.
Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
Sir Godfrey J. Thomas, Bare.
John Thornton, Esq.
James Tulloch, Esq.

No. 11, Lombard-al
DIREC•
HENRY HULSE BEI
HENRY VIGNE, Es
John Dixon, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq.
Sir...W. M. T. Farquhar, Bart.,

M.P.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P.
John Harvey, Esq. - -
John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P.
JOhn-LabouChere, Esq,
John Loch, Esq.

Atlpr.

TORS.
Lewis Loyd, Esq. f Henry Sykes Thornton, 1354
John Henry Smith, -Esq. Cornelius Payne, jun., Estr.
Thomas Tollemach, Esq., Secretary.—Samuel Brown, Esq.,
Actuary.

LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN
ACT OF PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to future•ln-
surers EIGIITY PER CENT'. of the Profits, with Quinquennial
Division, or a Low Bate of Premium without participation of
Pfofits. '
The next division of Profits will be declared in June, 1860,
when all Participating Policies which shall have subsisted at
least one year at Christmas, 1859, will be allowed to share in
the Profits.

At the Five Vivisions Of Profits made by this Company, the
total. Reversionary Bonuses added to the Policies- have
exceeded £913,000.
At the last 'valuation; at Christmas, 1854, the Assurances-in
force amounted to upwards of £4,240,000, the Income from the
Life Branch in 1854 was more than £200,000, and the Life As-
surance Fund (independent of the Guarantee Capital) exceeded
£1,700,000.
FOREIGN RISKS.—The Extra Premiums required for
East and West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern
parts of the United States of. America, have been materially
reduced.
INVALID, LINES.-=Persons who are not in such sound
health as would enable their to insure their Lives at the Tabular
Premiums, .may have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums.
LOANS granted on • Life' .Policies to the extent of their
values, provided such Policies shall have been effected a suffi-
...cient time to have attained in each case a value not under £5O.
ASSIGN TENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of re-
ceived and registered.
MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge
made.for•Policy_Stamps.
Notice is hereby. Given,. That Fire Policies'which expire ate
3110iiinnier- must be reneWed, within fifteen ilapi at this
Office, or with Mr." Sanaa, NO: 1, St James's-street,-corner of
Pall Mall; or with the Company's Agents throughout the
,i...Vlll:NtiPthcrwise they hepome void. .
`cLo ses caused.-67_ xplosionefillitt are admitted by this
ony'.:rnpa t - .•

N ATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION
48, Gracechurch.street, London.
For 'MUTUAL ASSURANCE on LIVES, ANNUITIES, &c.
Established December, 1835.
DIRECTORB :
SAMUEL lINYITURST LUCAS, Esq.,Thairnian.
CLIA RLES LUSHINGTON, Esq., Deputy Chair Man.
John Bradbury, Esq. - Rob. Ingham, Esq., M.P.
Thomas Castle, Esq. Chartles Reed, Esq. „,
Richard Fall, Esq, Robert Sheppard, Esq.
John Feltham, Esq. Jonathan Thorp, Esq.
Charles Gilpin, Esq.„lif,P.._ Charles Whetham, Esq.
Charles Good, Esq.

OUNTRY. APARTMENT S.—To, be let
G 'fitrnished a laige airy bed-room; servant's room, and
jomfortable sitting-roorn, with use of. nkitchen, situated in a
healthy village and romantic neighbourhood, 12, miles :ft•ora-
town, and within easy distance of two stations. The house.
stands in an extensive garden. No other lodger or children.:
Address, post paid, to Dl. E., Post-office, Hampton Wick. ,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWTON RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
Trial Handicap.

Jack Spring
Lottery 2
Three ran.
_ _ Golborne Park Stakes.

North Lancashire
Libellous .. 2
Aristocrat.

Great Newton Handicap.
Prince of Denmark
Archduchess
Woman in Black
POP 3
Nine ran.
Makerfield Plate.

- -
Buttercup
Princess of Orange
July
Seven ran. .

THE ROYAL LITERARY FUND.

, The 70th anniversary of theßoyal Literary'Fund
was celebrated.last night by a dinner at tke Free-
masOns' Hall, Great Queen-street, Lincoln's-inn-
fields'; the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, presided,
and was supported by Prince Frederick of Holstein,
the Earl of Ripon, Lord Headley, Vice-Chancellor
Sir J Stuart, Mr. Justice Haliburton, Mr. Puller,
M.P., Mr. Macaulay, M.P., Professor Owen, Mr. R.
Bell, the Right Hon. J. Wilson, Mr. G. Cruikshank,
and other leading friends of the institution.
Between 200 and 300 gentlemen were present,
and accommodation was afforded to a number of
ladies, as spectators of the proceedings, ix the gal-
lery.
After the cloth had been drawn,
The CHAIRMAN gave " The health of the Queen,"
observing that this institution was peculiarly in-
debted for its prosperity to the favour which it had
received from the Crown, and the countenance thus
afforded was not only honourable to the Literary.
Fund,, but reflected honour upon the Sovereign of
these realms.
The toast having been drunk with the customary
demonstrations of loyalty, •
The CHAIRMAN next gave " The Prince Consort
and the rest of the Royal Familg." It was well
known, he said, that-the Prinee Consort, by the as-
siduous cultivation and discipline of admirablona-
tural gifts, sedulously continued amid the various
engagements inseparable from his high position,
had placed hiniself in the first rank of educated
minds, and had. set a brilliant example alike to his
own hildren—by whom it was to be, hoped it
would be emulatedttnd to all who chine within.
the Sphere of his influence.
The, CHAIRMAN then rose and said—The toast I
have now to propose is " Prosperity to the Royal
Literary Fund," and although I am loath to speak
of myself. I cannot 'introduce this toast without
apology. It is a toast which ought not to be sub;-
mitted to you without remarks which would em-
brace results of careful thought and preparation,
because they are no Ordinary topics which are sug-
gested by an occasion like,the anniversary of this
very peculiatinstitUtiOn. I need hardly tell you,
however, my lords and gentlemen, that the circum-
stances in which 'l' myself stand "at the present
moment are not favourable to those tranquil medi-
tations—(cheers and laughter)—without which I
should have failed to 'discharge my duty in a beL
coming manner, but with the of which I might
have hoped to perform it at least. in such a manner
as to show that I was not insensible to' the favour
don the inrequesting me to preside-on this occasion.
Accession to a laborious office • in, the Government
of this country isliivariably followed by a period of
distractiOn and' COiffusioni'siiCh ak Only deserYes`t he
,primeval term of chaos ; and, the, concerns and rela-
tions. of a contested; election, equalloynerit a similar
description: IV is mypeculiar 'felicity. to unite in
my own: • person'' both' these' sources 'distraction.
(Cheers and laughter.) Under these eirmimstances
I shOuld, perhaps, haVe censulted your interests, if
I had requeSted our friend the secretary to dispense
with my-attendance:‘—(eries of "No!")--iiiconside-
ration of the.poverty of my-resonrces ;,and if I had
sought that obscurity, in reference o you,. for which
alone I am really qualified: But. it is not in aecord-
anoo,with the English character to rtin away, and
I could not prevailoirmyself to forget the occasion,
upon which, if I cannot submit to you anything
worthy of yourntdtice,- I may be at -least enabled
to attain the main ; purpose I had in view, when 'I
'consented to ,occupy,this chair—namely, as a man
of the world, unworthy 16 be associated with the
honours of literature, to 'bear an emphatic' testi-
mony, to its, pre-eminent' and .surpassing value.
(Loud. cheers.) I desire to pay homage to the Lite-
rarrFund as an institution which meets the ne-
cessities of men '-of letters. •*-1 desire, likewiie in-
volved as I am in the: most active ..buiinesa oithe
world, to pay a homage in your, presence. to letters
theinseives—td-tha,t great; pOiverful, humanising
, . ~,
agency; to,wlgca we;owe Innen or Wnit, sweetens
anii embellishes, ,as well as,- of what honours and
'dignifies life.: 'With res pect to thiS:institution you
have its eulogy' upon 'former occasions from
other tongues, and, frOM minda, 'More richly Ttir-
nished. Tho§e who have preceded me ifi.this chair
have again and'again exhausted almost all that can
be said an canimending this institution to your
warm support. Yell are yourselves thoroughly con-
versant with its character, arid the' few words that
I shall add cannot, I am sure, do more than testify
to the interest which I feet in its prosperity and
progress. It is not; of course, for Ine to refer to
arguments and controversies such as must neces-
sarily prevail, 'froth time to time, in a country of
free discussion, with respect to the details and ma-
nagement of institutions like this ; but I rejoice to
say that even those arguments and controversies,
though they may have retarded the progress of the
institution,' have not sufficed to reverse it, and I may
perhaps even venture to say that they have not
sensibly retarded it. This institution, like• other
things great and good, was born and nurtured amid
adversity; but it has steadily advanced, and in its
advance it has been favoured by the combined
efforts ofthose who are possessed of the most abun-
dant means and the highest station
.and of those
who have to testify their good-will from slender re-
sources. I believe I am justified in saying that it is
an institution which advances from year to year—
almost from day to day. It may not yet be able to
cover the whole field which is open to its benevo-
lent enterprise; but it is enabled to cover a large
and a continually increasing portion of that field ;
and I trust that meetings-such as this, to whatever
criticism they may be open, will at least have the
effect of warming our hearts towards one another
with respect to the purpose of the Literary Fund,
and of encouraging us in that which is undoubtedly
a work of true humanity, of true philanthropy, and
of the truest wisdom. (Cheers.) Standing as Ido
in the presence of at least one highly distinguished
foreigner, you Will, I am sure, permit me to say that
I dwell with great satisfaction on what I may call
the world-embracing character of this institution.
(Cheers.) There is something in the character of
letters which, although it does not refuse the im-
press'of nationality, but, on the contrary, affords
one of the best, the most interesting, the most effec-
tive, and the most innocent channels for the con-
veyance of national feeling, yet declines to admit
nationality as a fetter and a bond—(cheers)—which
unites the brethren of the republic of letters, that
brotherhood being as broad as our common flesh
and blood ; and you enjoy a distinction as sound
in principle as it is remarkable in practice by ex-
tending to the citizens of foreign countries that
relief which your own fellow-countrymen claim at
yoUr'hands only by virtue of the double character
of literary merit and innocent want and necessity.
By this institution we acknowledge in some degree
the debt we owe to foreign countries-Lthe debt we
owe to Italy, the mother of the modern literature
of Europe-(cheers)—the debt we owe to the lucid
minds of France—the debt we owe to the profound
and laborious studeftts of Germany. (Cheers,) You
cannot by pecuniary grants to necessitous men
acquit yourselves of that debt, for every obligation
that addresses itself to the minds of men is in the
very nature of things incapable of being paid off by •
money; but although you cannot discharge the
debt, you acknowledge it, and an acknowledgment '
of such debts is all the tribute that justice either 4
requires or can receive. Well, now, with respect
to the operation of the fund, I look upon it from
without, but I rejoice to' think how well it is
adapted to the 6Xigencies it is intended to meet.
How peculi,ar are the wants of the class you attempt '
to relieve, and how well adjusted is your machinery
for the purpose of encountering the necessities of
ease!, Cast your eyes where you will over the
world, and everywhere you are met by evidence of
that law' of inequality in the state of man which
provokes some into murmurings and fretfulness,
and which affords to others a school of Christian
discipline and of pious resignation. That law of
inequality, ordained as it has been by Providence
for the purpose of training mankind for an
ultimate state of perfection; is, nevertheless, a
law which it is the business of charity and
love to control, to counteract,-and to limit in its
working: You attempt to control that law and
to correct the severity of its 'pressure in the very
case where the need is greatest. (Cheers.) I may,
indeed, couple with the profession of literature
those who belong to a sister calling —I mean the
calling of the fine arts--for there is little that can
be said with reipect to the essential condition of
the pursuits of one class which is not equally ap-
plicable to that of the other. This principle, at all
events, is applicable to •both—that the followers of
those elevated pnrsuits, in proportion as they
follow them with an enthusiastic devotion, which
is alone the parent of things really great, become
in many cases less capable than they would other-
wise be of bending down their minds to the ordi-
nary course of life. It frequently happens, there-
fore, that one belonging to this brotherhood will
come innocently into distress, where in the case of
a man not connected with these peculiar pursuits it
might fairly have been expected that he would not
have become dependent' on the benevolence of
others. Together with this circumstance rendering
thern less capableof sustainin g ordinary Iranian. cares,
there is; we have all seen, a peculiar suseoptibi-.1