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London, England, 1857-07-21 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESD A Y EVENING-, JULY 21, 1857.

Al R. HENRY MAYHEW'S. CURIOUS
• CONVi,.:I•SAZIONES with a few Odd Characters out of
he Streets of London.—St. Martini's Hall, July 27 to August Ist.

THE GENERAL LIFE and FIRE
ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Z,OTPE IS lIEREEY GIVEN, That the Thirty-eighth HALF-
YEARLY DIVIDEND, at the rate of Six percent., declared on the
th it slant, is payable to the flt treholders, at the Office of the Corn-
PanY, 62, King Willi: um-street. London-bridge, betwetn the hours of
ten and four. By order of the Board.
July 20, 1857. THOMAS TRICE. Secretary.

ESTABLISUED 1667.
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11_1) COMPANY.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap. 9.

AND
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Major-General ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park, CHAIRMAN.

Number of Policies issued, upwards of 11,000.
Annual Income from Premiums (exczusive of Interest-on Invest-
ment,), upwards of £84,000.-
Rates of Premium redueed to the lowest possible scale compatible
with security, a d computed in such variety of wars, as to suirthe
circumstances and convenience of every class of Policy-holders.

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ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary

CONTRACT FOR TALLOW.

Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy,
- Somerset-place, 20th July, 1857.

THE Commissioners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britair,
a •id Ireland, Du I'IEItERY GIVE NOTICE, that on TUESDAY,
the 4th August next, at Two o'clock, they will be ready to treat
with .nehmersons ss may be willing to Contract for supplying her
Majesty's Dockyards at Deptford and Woolwich with

CJNTINUED RIOTS AT BRLFASP, AND
CONFLICTS IVITH THPI MILITARY.

Tlie disturbances and faction fights which have
bent already noticed as having occurred at Belfast;
.r several night, after the partisan celebration of
the 12th of July, resulted, on Friday and Saturday
night, in a serious conflict with soldiers and con-
stahu!ary. These disgraceful tumults appear to
have origina'ecl in the old enmity between the
Oningemen and the Ribbonuaen. • The Belfast News

Letter says :
"We have elm:Treed that on every successive
evening the tours' pursued by the rioters has been
invariably the same. A nember of them, from
the notorious locality of " The Pound," meet to-
gether in an adjicent field, if possible l ehind
a ditch or embankment, having previcetslysupplied
th-mselves with missiles in the shape of brick-bats,
" pavers," and some with more genteel, but more
deadly weapons, pistols and guns. Another party
is then organised, who move out into the open field
or, if they can, take up a sheltered position like
their opponents. Au irregular hedge-fire is now
commenced by both parties under cover. Buick-
bats, stones, and bullets whiz indiscriminately
through thg air, but without much effect on either
side ; and it continues only for a few moments, for
a b'a'sk body of conetabnlary and local police is im-
mediately seen to approach at 'double quick.' In
au instant the formerly opposing and apparently
irreconcileable pastes co-mingle and take to flight
or shelter, which, if they can, they hold until a fa-
vourable opportunity pre-ants iteelf. They renew
the attack, but this time it is-fipon the policemen,
whom they pelt right and left, and it is only a
mercy that some of them, or some of the magis-
trates, have not been struck by 'the random shots
which are constantly fired."
After relating what a narrow escape Mr. Tracy,
the resident magistrate, had on Thursday night,
when a bullet passed close to his head, the News
Letter says :
"Tire most stringent measures were used to clear
the streets, and show the rioters that they would
no longer be permitted to.pursue their own lawless
incline,' ions with impunity. The police used their
sticks and the butt-ends of theiecarbines, and in
one instance the soldiers used their bayonets, which
in our opinion was somewhat reprehensible. A
number of prisoners were captured, and one lad
brought into the police-barrack was found to have
received four slight subs in the back."
Three of the local police were severely cut with
stones on Thursday. "On Friday," says the
Northern JVhig " there was greater excitement
than during the previous evenings. The fields op-
posite the Pound Laaniog were literally filled with
people, and the Pound Loaning itself contained a
mass of persons ready to seize on the first opportu-
nity for opening a riot. About half-past 8 o'clock
the roll of musketry was incessaet—not blank cart-
ofth liefe' crowds than
cart-
ridge, but heavy charges of balls and shot. It is
str,nge that with all this expenditure of ammuni-
but this is
ammuni-
tion, oonar
ne,
ywoemwhei arr)Ngerey
tnowo
the
ht record
the s
tcooeliless
ofon
rioters desired to extend
ich
to their opponents. At the corner of Quadrant-
road the rioters appeared in force, and at-
tacked the local police with considerable severity.
in Cullinetree-road the same proceedings went on
for some time, until at length the military were
again called out. Four companies of infantry and
a troop of cavalry, under the command of Major
flood, arrived shortlyafter 9 o'clock at the Durham-
street police barracks. The magistrates then pre-
sent were—Mr. Tracy, R M. ; Wm. Coates, J. P. ;
and R )bt. Thompson, J.P. The troops were
divided into parties for the purpose of clearing the
streets. While one of there was passing through
Cullingtree-road the mobs of but'a parties waited
to assail them with stones, and several of the cavalry
and local force received repeated blows. Another
party of the military charged down Sandy-row.
Here some of the crowd sought refuge in a small
Feld adjacent to the Ulster Railway Xerminus,
where they were pursued by the infantry, who had
been previously thrown out into skirmishing order.
We have been informed that nothing but the inter-
ference of the constabulary saved these people from
the bayonets of the infuriated soldiery."
The Dublin Freeman's Journal of yesterday has
the following :
" Belfast, Sunday Night.—.-The night has not
passed off without Woodshed. A girl was shot over
the left eye, and was at once brought to the hospi-
tal. She is alive this morning, and only faint hopes
are entertained of her recovery. A boy received
a ball through the calf of the leg. A girl on the.
Cullingtree-road also received some shot or a ball
in the left side. She was taken to her house, and
was attended by a medical man and subsequently
by a clergyman. All these people are Roman Ca-
tholics. There is no doubt that some of the Sandy-
raw party also have been hurt. At one moment
last night affairs were most critical. The Riot Act
was several. times read ; and, as the mobs did not
separate, the stipendiary magistrate (Mr. Tracy)
ordered all the constabulary to load. The military
had all their pieces loaded. Next came the order,
" Make ready," but the magistrate humanely ad-
dressed the rioters, and his advice, in conjunction
with the appearance of 'the military and consta-
bulary, had a good effect. The mobs disappeared,
and stone throwing and discharges ceased. In an
hour or two fears for the public safety had disap-
peared. Fifteen persona were arrested and lodged
at the police office. This morning
to see the numbers of wives or sisterswho thronged
of seeing their
about the building, in the hope it was pitiable
friends. They will be brought up at the police-
' office to-morrow. I shell let you know the result."

THE LATE MR. GERMAIN LA VIE.

(From the Solicitor's Journal.)
On Tuesday morning it was announced in the
City that this eminent solicitor had been killed by
a fall from his horse on Constitution-hill, while
taking an early ride prsparatory to the business of
the day. It is but a few weeks since that we had
to lament the death of Mr. James Freshfield, whom,
together with Mr. La.vie, most persons would have
agreed to name as th atwo highest authorities on
commercial law existing in the City of London. It
will not have been forgotten that Mr. Freshfield
died at the age of 56, of a c'n
died which was
probably induced or assgravatei by excessive appli-
cation to his professional duties. Mr. Lavie has
died at about the same age, leaving a great reputa-
tion, and a void which it will be difficult to supply.
The deceased gentleman was not only a solicitor
in large practice and thoroughly master of his
work, but he was also gifted with many talents and
accomplishments which enhanced the influence due
to his professional position. lie was educated at
Eton, where he was highly distinguished as well
for industry and capacity as for general good con-
duct. From Eton he went to Christ Church Col-
lege, Oxford, and took his degree in 1823, having
obtained a first class in mathematics. At this time
he was itetsnded for the bar, but the sudden death
of father, who was a member of the old firm of
Crowder, Lavie, and Co., induced him to change
his views. In order to supply as far as possible his
father's place, he entered the office as clerk to Mr.
Oliverion, then and now a member of the firm, and
after completing his articles, was admitted to prac-
tice as a solicitor in Easter Term, 1827. Mr. Lavie
was a student of Christ Church, and it was at one
time probable that be would have been elected to a
fellowship at Merton College. Up to the time of
his death he held the office of auditor of Christ
Church, and under this title was the professional
adviser of the college ; and he enjoyed in a high de-
gree tbe friendshipdy. and confidence of that distin-
guished
Ability and industry had won for Mr. Lavie
gLreoantdon, success.app
high academic honour, and when he had taken his
degree at Oxford, and turned his thoughts to the
bar, his own powers, and the position of his father,
apareamni'se aßr eudt on
his father's death lie sacrificed whatever hopes he
may have cherished of the more
promise
eminent
im
an solicitorea rly
andin
splendid triumphs
of the bar, and devoted himself to supply to his
family, so far aspossible, the heavy loss they had
sustained. To this duty he was constant through-
out his life, and we have been informed that he
remained unmarried in order to discharge more
completely the obligation he had taken upon him-
self of providing for those whom his father's death
had left in embarrassed circumstances. To the
profession which he thus adopted, rather under a
sense of duty than from choice, Mr. Lavie brought
the same assiduity and the same capacity which he
had displayed at Eton and at Oxford. For many
years past he has been the professional adviser of
a large number of the leading commercial estab-
lithments of the city of London, and also of many
of the great mercantile firms of Scotland, Ireland,
and the provinces. He was a member of the coun-
cil of the Incorporated Law Society, and always
attended the discussion of questions which were
deemed to lie within his peculiar province. He
also acted in his turn as an examiner of the candi-
dates for admission.
Mr. Lavie was a member of the royal commis-
sion appointed in 1854 to inquire into the arrange.

ments for law study in the inns of court, being the
only solicitor who assisted in that investigation.
In the appendix to the report will be found a
statement of Mr. Lavie's own opinion, which must
convince every reader that the author of it was a
very able man.
We need not repeat the melancholy details of
Mr. Lavie's death, which have appeared in the
daily papers. It may, perhaps, appear rather
strange to hear of a solicitor riding in the park at
ten in the morning, at which hour most men are
either at, or making their way to, their offices.
But it was Mr. Lavie's•habit to take exercise at this
time, and to go into the City at 11 or 12 o'clock,
and to stay there much beyond the usual. hour. He
was a very 'early deer ; and had. been all his life a
most hard-working man, al bough his hours of
la'aour were not exactly those most usually a 'opted.
It is satisfact-etv to know that there is no ground
for imputing delay or neglect to any one who was
near the scene of the fatal accident. The injury
was so severe as to admit of neither remedy nor
hope and the unfortunate gentleman was insensi-
ble and painless from the moment of filling from
his horse. This sad event occurred very near the
spot which proved fatal to the late Sir Robert Peel.
We have heard that, when 'an undergraduate at
Oxford, Mr. Lavie received a severe injury while
riding, caused by his horse suddenly throwing back.
its head and striking him violently on the face.
One of his eyes was very seriously damaged by the
blow, and his sight was permanently impaired by it.
For six months he was absolutely forbidden to look
into a book ; and he spent the interval at Tours,
acquiring a mast. ry of the French language, which
proved most valuable to him afterwards in his busi-
nes.
We believe that among all who knew the deceased,
whether professionally or in private life, the most
profound regret has been felt at his untimely death.
We have already shown what was his conception of
duty towards a mother and younger children, who
had been left almost without provision by his
father's death. We cannot estimate the magnitude
of. the sacrifice thus made; because we do not know
what hopes and aspirations, more or less reason-
able, were laid aside for ever when the deceased
entered into articles. But we can appreciate the
quiet unostentatious way in which- Mr. Lavie, like
the thorough English gentleman he was, put selfish
considerations on one side and simply did what he
conceived to be the duty cast upon him. Such a
character, both moral and intellectual, as that of
Mr. Lavie, commands respect and confidence. It
was felt among the profession that, on any ques-
tion of peculiar delicacy, there was no better opi-
nion thau that of the deceased. He was, perhaps,
as good an example as could be found of the results
of our public school and university training as pre-
paratory to active life, and whoever desires to in-
sist upon the preliminary education of solicitors,
will find in Mr. Lavie's career the most striking
illustration of its advantages.

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way. As we have no other empire embracing a
population of 200,000 with Whom we can shorten
communication by 1,000 miles, it is difficult to
s-?e how the precedent is likely to be revived,
and, even if this were not the case, it could
rot, as has been truly observed, prove other-
wise than useful, since, supposing it to he suc-
cc-ssfol, the sooner it could be followed the better,
while in the other case there would be an unan-
swerable ground for refusing its repetition. At all
events, if the Euphrates route is to be abandoned
the opposition to the Suez Canal should cease. It
would be discreditable to England 'to insist that
because she lefties to do anything other nations
shall likewise remain pwsive.—l'intes City Article.

TEE NATIONAL GALLERY.

(From the Times)

A rumour of so strange a kind has gob abroad,
and has oh, ained so much credit in what are called
" well-informed circles," that it would be highly
satisfactory to meet it with an authoratative con-
tradiction. This it is : —lt is asserted that as soon
as Parliament has risen, or at any rate during the
recess, the recent Report of the Royal Commi-sion
upon the site of the National Gallery is to be
treated as a nullity, and that the collection is to be
transferred to Kensington. In justification of this
violent act, it will be pleaded that the decision
received the signatures of only three of the Com-
missioners. These three, however, constituted a
clear majority. Mr. Ford had been selected as one
of the original six, but from the first be had refused
to act, consequently the number was reduced
from six to five. Now, with regard to the five,
Professor Faraday a gentleman whose name
we would mention with the most unfeigned
respect—refused, if we are rightly informed, to
affix his signature to the decision, or to any decision.
He gave the Commission the benefit of his scientific
knowledge, but would meddle no further with the
matter. Four Commissioners remained. Of these
tht es reported in favour of leaving the National
Collection of Pictures where it is ; one took another
view. If this be not the decision of a majority we
know not what it is.
We do not say we ourselves believe that the de-
cision of the Commission will be disregarded, for the
proceeding is so monstrous as to defy belief, but we
are justified in the assertion that credit is attached to
it by persons who h ►ve pre-eminently a right to be
well informed upon such a subject. Under these
circumstances the course to be pursued is so obvi-
ous as scarcely to need suggestion from us. The
Commons decided that an Address should be car-
ried to the Throne praying the Queen to appoint a
Royal Commission for the purpose of investigating
and deciding on certain points connected with the
National Collection of Pictures. The Royal Com-
mission was appointed, and has made its report. It
is now proposed, we are told, to treat as a nullity
the result of this investigation, which originated in
the Commons' House ; but that assembly will have
greatly degenerated from its ancient spirit if it
tolerates so grievous an indignity. The habit of
treating Parliamentary decisions with indifference,
not to say with contempt, should receive a timely
check. There is yet ample time for putting such a
question to the Treasury Bench as will consider-
ably hamper the authors of this design, if, indeed,
it be a reality.