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The Premium or Assurance Fund is now £360,530 38.,
showing an increase of £51,085 17s. 10d. during the year.
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that the next division of profits will take place at the end
of the year 1863, and that all Policies effected in the year
1861 will share in the Bonus to be then distributed, pro-
vided the Premiums are paid annually.
CHARLES HARWOOD, Chairman.

JESSE HOBSON, Secretary.

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THE MIRE 6 A.FFAIR.

The Moniteur contains the following report to
the Emperor, from the Minister of Justice, concern-
ing the affair of M, Mires :
_ _

"Paris, March 4.
" Sire,—A judicial act with which public atten-
tion is greatly occupied has recently taken place.
On the requisitions of the Procureur-Imperial of
the Tribunal of First Instance pf Paris, the banker
Mires has been arrested. This measure which was
called for by the gravity of the charges against
him, and the importance of the interests compro-
mised, has made a great sensation. It has given
rise to several judgments in the courts of law, and,
as always happens in such cases, calumny has en-
deavoured to increase its proportions. The rumour
prevails that, by acts of suspicious generosity,
Mires has been able to create for himself protectors
sufficiently powerful to save him—if the accusations
against him should be verified—from the chastise-
ment of justice; that third parties, whom their
situations not only interdicted from touching gains
which cannot be avowed, but even from engaging
in the legitimate operations of commerce and manu-
factures, clandestinely associated themselves to his
destiny; that the evil is so general and so great that
the Government, at the risk of saving the guilty,
has resolved to smother the affair, preferring rather
to avoid a scandal to which the results are incalcu-
lable than to expose the sores created by corruption.
These assertions implicate in such a way the honour
of justice and of the Government that I think it
necessary to point them out immediately to your
Majesty, but I do so not because I feel the necessity
of defending the magistracy against suspicions of
connivance or weakness, for the public conscience
disavows such an insult on there- Everybody in
France—friends, enemies, and indifferent—knows
and proclaims that no consideration turns aside the
magistrate from his duty ; that before him, as be- i
fore the law, all citizens are equal; and that though
he exercises with moderation and reserve his re-
doubtable ministry, the guilty never escape his ac-
tion, entertaining as he does the salutary idea that
if the necessities of repression are sometimes pain-
ful, the impunity of recognising fault is a dishonour
for justice and a danger for society. But what can-
not be tolerated is that an upright Government
should be accused of the design of casting a veil
over acts which are subjected to the severities of the
Penal Code. I would confine myself, if public
opinion had need be reassured against such super-
stitions, to repeating the terms in which your Ma-
jesty, at the moment the prosecution commenced,
traced the conduct of the magistracy :—' I desire
that in ttis sad affair justice shall probe things to
the bottom resolutely, and without any personal
considerations. Suspicion now floats over everybody,
and the innocent are consequently compromised in
a general accusation which does not designate the
guilty. It is indispensable that light shall be thrown
on the affair.' Sire, the magistrates are acting in
conformity with your intentions. The investigation
is being made with a scrupulous care, and with
patience which no obstacles disconcert. All the ac-
counts, all the papers are subjected to a severe exa-
mination. Nothing will escape the investigations
of justice, and light will be thrown on the affair.
If, contrary to my expectations, the accusations
which party spirit has raised, and which are spread
by inconsiderate and malignant persons, do not fall
before the investigations commenced, justice will
not fail in its mission.—l am, &c.,

" D ELANGLE."

LORD ADOLPH US VANE TEMPEST IN

CUSTODY.

EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN COURT.

Some time after the usual hour of closing the
Marlborough-street police court yesterday, Lend
Adolphus Vane Tempest, M.P. for North Durham,
was brought before Mr. Beadon in custody of Act-
ing-Inspector Silverton, and Elliott, a constable of
the C division, charged with disorderly conduct in
Coventry-street.
The defendant was brought to the court in a
cab, and when before the magistrate appeared
with his dress in great disorder, having been,
owing to the state he was in, carried up the
stairs by five or six officers.
On being placed before the magistrate, in a very
excited state, he said—l suppose you know I ain
a member of the House of Commons ?

Mr. Beadon—l am not
_aware that you are.

Defendant—You are a liar.
Elliott—l found the gentleman in Coventry-
street about four this afternoon—
The defendant here behaved himself in such a.
way, as to call from Mr. Beadon the remark—if
you don't know how to conduct yourself, I will
wait till you do.
Elliott—l found him in the centre of the roral
stopping horses in the broughams and cabs thrit
were passing. There was a crowd of about 500
persons collected. I could not tell his object,
The defendant was in a very excited state, and
very violent.
Defendant—Do you know I'm a member of the
House of Commons ? Reporter, put it down.
I'll have it reported.
Elliott—He was throwing cigars about among
the crowd, and also his money. I' then took him
into custody. There was an obstruction of the
public thoroughfare. The defendant was in the
same excited state as now in court, and there
was great difficulty in getting him to the
station.

HUNGARY.

A letter from Pesth, dated Feb. 26, says :
Our political sky is overcast. The state of siege
at Fiume, which forebodes no good to peaceful con-
stitutional development in Hungary, brings us, on
the other side, into a most undesirable collision
with Croatia. Fiume, the seaport on the Adriatic,
has an Italian population, which however clings to
Hungary, and has a decided antipathy against
Croatia. Before the invasion of Jellachich the town
and district had always a separate Hungarian go-
vernor, but in 1848 the Ban of Croatia occupied
Fiume and annexed it to Croatia. After the
diploma of the 20th of October, thf inhabitants,
freed from Austrian bureaucratic oppression, re-
membered their ancient allegiance to Hungary, and
claimed the re-annexation thereto, by an address to
the crown and a deputation to Vienna. Their
wishes were not attended to. On the contrary, a
new county was formed in order to swamp the
Italian population and Hungarian sympathies by
adding a strong Croatian population, formerly con-
stituting the separate district of Buccari, to the
district of Fiume. Serious disturbances were the
natural result of such a policy, which together with
the fear of a Garibaldian invasion induced the Ban
of Croatia, General Sokchevich, to proclaim martial
law. The county of Pesth remonstrated against
this violation of the law in an address to the Chan-
cellor of Hungary, and requested likewise that
Fiume should be re-united to Hungary, taken out
of the jurisdiction of the Ban of Croatia, and put
under the governorship of some distinguished Hun-
garian:\ The Croatian county of Agram took this
address for the emanation of a hostile spirit of Hun-
gary against Croatia, declaring that Fiume, by her
geographical position, cannot but belong to Croatia.
The county resolved, therefore, to protest against
the state of siege by an address to the Ban, but
to cut off her amicable relations with the county
of Pesth. Thus we were again threatened with
rival claim which might easily embitter the feel-
ings and trouble the peace and alliance but lately
concluded between Hungary and Croatia. The
county of Agram seems to have felt how in-
opportune was the resolution against Pesth,
and tried to neutralise the bad effect by sending an
address to the Emperor in favour of a complete
amnesty for all the political prisoners and exiles.
This step is certainly significant enough, since there
are no Croatian exiles abroad, all the refugees being
Hungarians, and belonging to t!at party with whom
Croatia was at war 12 years ago. We cannot but
acknowledge the delicate feeling of the Croatians
which led them to such a noble resolution, and we
hope the Hungarians will reciprocate it by laying
less stress upon the question whether Fiume shall
belong to the crown of Hungary through Croatia
or in a direct way. In fact, the Hungarians ought
to face the question of the different races in Hun-
gary boldly, and if they think that the irrepressible
conflict with Austria draws near, they should try
to ally themselves with the Croatians, Serbs, and
Roumans, by the most extensive concessions, even
by yielding to their prejudices some points which
by historical right belong to Hungary. If, on the
other hand, the leaders of our movement believe
that a reconciliation with Austria is possible, and
that the Hungarian ministers at Vienna possess
sufficient influence over the mind of the Emperor
to have all the laws of 1848 re-established, then
they might insist upon all their old rights,and
claims towards Croatia, the Serbs, and Roumans.
And let us not forget that, if the more recent laws
from the 17th century down to our days call Sla-
vonia and Croatia " partes adnexre," the expression
of " regna socia," implying federation and state
rights, is not unknown to our more ancient laws.
Let us under the circumstances forget now for ever
the annexed parts, and let us examine all the claims
of Croatia as a federal kingdom, let us extend
these claims even to the Slavonians who scarcely
pretend to them, but let us be true friends with
the Croatians before the wiles of Vienna involve
us both in a new war. The tidings from Vienna
are indeed ominous; we hear that the Chevalier
Schmerling prepares a new draft of a theoretical
constitution for the whole empire, as bungling and
centralising as Baron Bach's notorious stillborn
organisation, which was to surround the throne
of the Emperor with democratic institutions.
It is said that a central Diet is to supersede the
functions of the Hungarian Diet—that all the
questions of the taxes and duties, of income and
expenditure, of the post, telegraph, railways, means
of communication, commercial intercourse with
foreign countries, the public debt, and everything
concerning the army, are reserved to the imperial
Parliament at Vienna, by which the Hungarian
Diet at Pesth or Buda would become a mockery
and delusion. Should this news prove true, then
the way of reconciliation is at once blocked up, We
cannot believe that any Hungarian Minister would
ever countersign such a draft, or that the Diet could
be induced to send a delegation to the central Par-
liament. Francis Joseph may once more rule
Hungary by the sword—he has done it for full 11
years—or he may govern the country constitu-
tionally by a responsible Ministry independent of
German Ministers, but Hungary cannot be ruled
by a Vienna Parliament. Any attempt to enforce
on the Hungarian municipalities the laws passed
at Vienna by Germans, Bohemians, and Galicians,
must lead to a revolution.

Defendant—Did I strike you ? Elliott—No ; you
spat in my face,
While the Chief Clerk was reading the above
over to the defendant, at his request, the defendant;
frequently interrupted him.
Defendant (to the constable)—Are you a judge'
of numbers ? Were there cigars and money enough..
for all the people?
The defendant here, in a very insulting and ex-
cited manner, addressed the magistrate.
Mr. Beadon (to the defendant)—Do you wish to,
say anything ?
Defendant—Did I not say I was a member of tho
House of Commons ? Don't you know (to the con -
stable) that you have done an illegal thing? I ought;
to be at the House of Commons now [defendant
stamped his feet on the table, having been accom-
modated with a chair].
Sergeant Joy and other officers having stated
that the defendant's conduct was exactly as de-
seribed by Elliott,
Mr. Beadon said—Will you give a reason for this
conduct ?

Defendant—l must be heard on oath, then. I'm
dead, &c. I have come here as a favour. I used.
to know Mr. Hardwick and Mr. Bingham. I was
once fined ss. [The defendant here began singing
a tune from a popular opera, beating time on the
front of the witness-box.]
Defendant, addressing the Chief Clerk, who was
writing, said—Now, don't alter anything [again
singing].
Mr. Beadon—lt is perfectly clear that you are
not responsible at present for your actions. I shall
order you to find two sureties, in £5OO each, to
appear before me this day week.
Defendant (after whistling)—Can't you take my
bail for £l,OOO. Am Ito go down stairs ? You'll
have to let me out again very soon.
The defendant was then removed from the court,
after a scene seldom witnessed.

A most disagreeable case in the county of Abauj
increases our apprehensions about the future. A
certain Zahar, an ex-soldier, tried there to excite the
peasants against the proprietors by telling them
the fable that the gentry desire to restore the old
feudal laws about serfage and villeinage, and that
all the old soldiers have got the order from Vienna
on a certain day to kill the great proprietors. Mr.
Ferdinandy, the district judge, at once gave the
order to arrest Zahar, but the ex-soldier fled to the
Imperial judge at Kashan, who not only refused to
surrender him, but signed a warrant for the arrest
of the district judge on the plea of treasonable deal-
ings against the Emperor. The county at once sent
a deputation to Baron Vay, the chancellor,who is still
at his country residence in the neighbourhood of
Kashan, to bring the case to his notice. Still more
important is the arrest of Col. Asboth, of the late
Hungarian army, who was seized and carried to
Bohemia without any legal proceedings whatever
by the military authorities, though the martial law
has not been published at Lugos, where the arrest
took place, and where military interference has not
even a formal excuse. Such are the signs of the
time, still the municipalities do not despair, and are
now deeply engaged in the general elections. As
far as we can see there will be few contested seats,
and every member will pledge himself for the uncon-
ditional restoration of the laws of 1848. Since
Hungary seeks no conflict with Austria, the exiles
have little chance of being elected. The three
speeches from the throne at Paris, London, and
Turin have by their peaceful turn emboldened
Austria in her reactionary schemes ; we can there-
fore scarcely expect that the Emperor should con•
tinue to yield to the legal claims of Hungary. Thus
there is but little hope that the Diet, convened for
the 2d of April, will do more than protest against
the illegalities of the Austrian rule before the face of
Europe, and be dissolved. If Francis Joseph really
believes that he can be crowned with St. Stephen's
crown without the restoration of the law, he is sorely
mistaken. He may continue to be Emperor of
bankrupt Austria, but he cannot become King of
Hungary.

While being brought to the court by Sergeant
Silver ton, the defendant nearly pushed the back of
the cab out.
His lordship was sent to the House of Detention
in a cab in the custody of Welsh and Barnes, the
gaoler and under gaoler, and his conduct on the
way was equally violent with that he displayed
when taken into custody. During his progress to
the House of Detention be frequently spat in the
faces of the officers, and though having a constable
to assist them it was only with great difficulty, and
by the display of great forbearance, that the officers
succeeded in their task. At the place of detention
his lordship's conduct continued so violent that it
was deemed necessary to place him in a padded
room.

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to health."

THE RAILWAY HOST.—In the middle of last year
the railways in operation in the United Kingdom had
127,450 persons in their employment, and the railways in
course of construction employed 53,923 more, making in all
181,373. On the railroads in operation there were 3,601
stations. There were 1,051 miles of railroad in course of
construction, and upon them were employed 7,381 artificers
and 42,126 " labourers ;" but the word " navvy" does not
seem to be admissible in these returns made to the Board
of Trade.