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without being either subject to the restrictions, or en-
titled toil* privileges bf the Aet. Cases of this sort
have occurred.
The Act contemplates another case, in which ,the
Justices may think it inexpedient to give the privileges
to a new 'society. They. are required to satisfy them-
selves, 4, That the formation of such society will be
useful and beneficial, regard being had to the existence
of any other society alteady formed tinier wholes'me
toles, within the same district for the like purposes.!'
Your Committee are not aware whether any attett-
tion has been paid to this most useful enactment.
It is clear that a very small society cannot be secure;
among a very few individual;, the law of average will
not operate. What number of persons ought to com-
bine, in order to form an average, it is not easy to
state; and there is a-difference of opinion as to the
lowest number that will be secure. Your Committee
think it desirable that no society should consist.of fewer
than '2OO members. Where a proposition is made for
establishing a new club, in a town, village or district,
in which one already exists, and which appears to be
incapable, f om its population, of supporting two clubs
sufficiently numerous, the Magistrates are perfectly
justified in refusing, if they shall so think fit, to give to
a second the special privileges of the Act.
It is a question for con,ideration, how far the pre-
ference of larger s Kieties ought to be carried ; and
whether Magistrates ought to act upon it, where there
is no ground of objection to the small ore which it is
proposed to establish. Of late )CATS, institutions have
been formed, intendel to embrace all the inhabitants
of a county, or large district. Such societies un-
doubtedly possess 'many advantages ; the security is
much greater, by reason not only of the number of
members, but of the superior responsibility of the
trustees and officers, and the greater intelligence and
accuracy with which the business is likely to be con-
ducted. There is no possibility of using the society for
purposes of unlawful or dangerous combination. The
medical attendance also will probably be more libe-
rally rewarded; and if the concern is of sufficient mag-
nitude to allow of an agent in every part .of the dis-
trict, there is perhaps no greater danger of imposition
than when the society consists entirely of neighbours,
acquainted with each other. Nevertheless it is certain
that the people themselves are disinclined to substitute
a sobscription to these general institutions for their con-
tribution to clubs managed by themselves; they do not
like to see the management in other hands than their
own ; and they have an undefined apprehension of an
inva.ion of their funds by the Government. It would
doubtless be very desirable to remove these idle jea-
lousies, and to encourage the people to accomplish their
object in the more secure and • certain method pointed
out to them ; but it may be doubted whether it would
be sillier prudent or just to carry this attempt so far as
Withhold the privileges ci the law, from any smaller
assnci.ition,, which appear to be constituted upon sound
and safe principles, solely because there is a county in-
stitution, to which the contributors may resort. It is
always to be apprehended, that the effect would be, not
to extend the larger institution, but to prevent the estab-
lishment of the smaller, or to occasion its being formed,
without the protection of the law.
A more specific provision will be necessary, with
respect to the form of enrolment, and the authentica-
tion of the copies; points upon which thete is some
discrepancy in the Acts, and in the practice of the
Counties. And your Committee recommend the ex-
ample of the County of Kent, where the Act appears
to haee been executed with propriety and judgment.
The employment of Counsel is quite unnecessary. There
ought to be a s:mcific fee for the Clerk of the Peace,
whose duties ought to be defined.
The. Act requires the same process, where an altera-
tion in the Rules is desired, as it prescribes for thcir
or final establishment.
The provision to which your Committee have next
to advert, is a peculiarity in the Act of 1819, upon a
sufficient attention to which, the stability not less of the
larger than the smaller Societies essentially depends.
" Such Justices shall not confirm and allow any tables
of payments or benefits, or any rules dependent upon
or connected with the calculation thereof, until it shall
have been made Appear to such Justices, that the said
tables and tulles are such as have been approved by
two persons at the least, known 'to be professional ac-
tuaries or persons skilled in calcutation, as fit and pro-
per, according to the most correct calculation of which
the nature of the case, will admit."

This provision is, in principle, of the highest utility,
and it has already, your Committee have reason to be-
lieve, been productive of much good ; but its effect has
been. impeded by some defects in the provision itself,
and by some errors in practice.
Who are professional actuaries or persons skilled in
calculation? And in what way are the Justices to satisfy
themselves that the. persons by whom the tables are
signed. really answer the description of skilful calcu-
lators ? Your Committee have called for a Return from
each County, of the names of all persons upon whose
opinion any tables have been sanctioned ; and by an in-
spection of the names, coupled with h cal information
obtained from members of the Committee, your Com-
mittee are informed, that in many Counties, the Bench
have been sati.fied with the signature of petty school-
masters and accountants, whose opinion upon the pro-
bability of sickness, and the duration of life, is. not to
be depended upon. Your Committee will presently ad-
vert to several suggestions which have occurred to them,
for making more effectual the enactment in question ;
but they desire now to call the attention of the House
to the inquiries which they have pursued, with a view
to the formation of accurate tables for the usz of
Friendly Societies. They are apprehensive, that on an
inspection of the evidence which they have collected, it
may be thought tbat.they have gone in some degree
beyond their assigned functions ; but they hope, that
when the House considers how naturally the several
questions which depend upon human life and death
How one from the other, they may be pardoned for not
having stopped the witnesses who-were before them, at
the, very point at uh:ch their evidence ceased to have an
immediate • and apparent bearing upon the subject of
Friendly
.Societies.
They feel assured that they have collected a mass of
valuable information, upon subjects connected with the
birth, health, life, and death of mankind; and there is
indeed hardly any poiot, illustrated by this information,
which may not become the object of a society formed
under the present law, seeing that the Act describes as
the ohjects of thitse ocieties “4,lse maintenance or as-
**ince of the cootribtliors thereto, their wives or chd-
alteajo sickness, iotarscy, advanced age, widowhood,
de any other natural .wate or contingency whereof the Ix-
cur tonceiasasceptible of calculation by way of average."

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CA LCUTTA, MARCH is.
We have letters from Manahan to the 13th ultimo.
They state that the Siamese are up in arms, and in
great force in the immediate neighbourhood of our:
forces. Colonel Smith, C.B. commanding the Light
Brigade, is to reside at Martaban, for the purpose of
communicating, on the part of Sir A. Campbell, with
the Siamese Government. We are told that they ap-
pear to have the greatest anxiety to get possession of
Martaban ; and it is added, that.they would not scruple
much about the means. It is understood that all these
offers of assistance are made by the Sirdars alone, the
King of Siam not having yet publicly declared his
views; apparently he is restrained by the usual cau-
tious and timid eastern policy ; but no doubt his Of-
ficers are now acting under his secret instructions,
reserving to himself, however, a loop-hole, through
which to escape from the resentment of the Burmese,
in case of our failuie, which he probably thinks at pre-
sent not altogether impossible. It is, however, expezteel
that he will now very so )n come forward in al open
and undisguised manner, and we hope that we shall be
able to make such terms eventually with him as will
secure a future regular commercial correspondence
with the whole of the Siamese dominions.

MARCH 25.—1 t is not easy to conjecture where the
enemy mean to make their stand ; if, indeed, they mean
at all to dispute our much to Ummerapoora. Prome
is situated at the entrance into the hills, and is described
as naturally strong, and as the key to Alfa Proper ; yet
there appears to be no disposition on the part of the
Burmese to try their strength with us at this Thermo-
pyle of their country.
Mama 19.—We have perused letters from Rung-
pore, Auam, of the 9th instant. They contain no news
of any great importance; but merely state that we are
now in full possession of that country; and the cam-
paign, so far as military operations are concerned, is
nearly closed.
APRIL I.—The P.sscoa, it appears, has dispatches on
board from the King of Siam to the Right Hon. the
Governor-General. We have no: heard a susmrise as
to their contents, except that his Siamese Majesty ex-
presses his readiness to send 50,000 men against the
Burmese.

Letters from Cawnpore mention that the 62d Regi-‘
ment N. I. received orders on the 21st ult. to proceed
front Barra to Muthoora. His Majesty's 59th are also
under orders to hold themselves in seediness at a mi-
nute's notice. Field batteries were likewise to proceed
on the 24th towards Mutboora. We heir that troops
'are concentrating there from all directions. It is gene-
rally understood that this sudden activity has arisen out
of the events at Bhurtpore, which we noticed yesterday.
Since writing the above, the following extract of a
letter from Agra, dated March 18, reached us :
'1 You will be astonished to bear of some transactions
at Bhurtpore. The Raja, Balder Singh, son of Runjeet
Singh, died suddenly at Goberdhun, the 28th of last
month, leaving his heir, a child of seven years old (who
had only been recognised as successor a few days before
by Sir D. Ocbterlony), under a Regency. It appears
that the old Ranee wanted to have the sole manage-
ment of the country; the consequence was, an uncle of '
the little boy determined on investing himself as sole
Regent ; and for this purpose he very deliberately
gained three battalions over to his cause, placed sentir
nels and piquet; throughout the town, attacked the fort,
blew the gates open, entered, and seated himself on the
throne, after murdering one of his relations, who was
cot down at the very toot of it, and some of his fol.
lowers, and gave out that he had acted on solely disin-
terested motives ; that he had no intention of usurping
the sovereignty, but merely intended to act as a guar-
dian to the child, under whose name business should be
carried on. The Ministers of the late Government are
confined; but everything is quiet at present; a Vakeel
was dispatched to Sit D. Ochterlony immediately, but
we have not heard the result. The business of attacking
the fort was a regular fight ; we heard guns firing from
two to seven o'clock in the mot fling, a few days since."
APRIL 4.—Letters from Rangoon, arrived per the
Charles Forbes, which left the Pilot on the 18th, giving
some additional interesting intelligence of the progress
of the Army. Sir Archibald Campbell was still at
Sarrawaddy, on the 11th, eight days' march from
Prome ; he had advanced thus far without firing a shot,
and was feeling the want of supplies, which, however,
were daily expected from Rangoon. Brigadier-General
Cotten, after the capture of Yang-yon-chu, proceeded
to Donebew, and on the 7th attacked that place with
200 men of the 89th (what other troops were engaged,
we do not know), and took the first stockade. He then
attacked the second, but was unsuccessful, and obliged
to retire (evacuating the stockade he had before taken),
and to embark his meta in the boats. He dropped
down four miles below, and forwarded a dispatch to
Brigadier M'Creagh, stating that he must wait for
the reinforcements under him. Our loss was great ;
,Captaius Rose and Cannon, of- the 89th, killed ;
and three wounded; 11() men killed and wounded.
The Bundoolah is said to have 14,000 men in the
wotks, and :3,000 in war-boats. Mijor Sale had taken
Bassein, the Burme.e having burnt the town to the
ground; but it is feared he cannot get on so rapidly
as he expected, for want of means. The 45th (King's)
from Ceylon was entering the river as the Charles
Forbes came out ; and Brigadier M'Creagh was ex-
pected to move from Rangoon immediately, to rein-
force Brigadier-General Cotton, the bullocks and car-
riages, for which he was waiting impatiently, having
arrived. He takes with him the Royals and two na-
tive Regiments. The High Priest of theDagun Pagoda
had come into Rangoon on the 13th, with all his fol•
lowers, and the town is now as thickly inhabited as
ever, the people still crowding in from the country
with supplies.
APIIII. s.—We understand that Sir David Ochter-11
lony, has issued a proclamation, explaining the reason
for the assembling of the force in Bhurtpore. This
measure, it is hoped, will have the effect of rendering
hostilities unnecessary. The whole of the Meerut force,
troops from Cawnpote, and a very large battering train,
are concentrating. Sir David Ochterlony was to be at
Muttra on the 23d of March, and at Agra on the fol-
lowing, or next day.
We were incorrect, we find, in stating yesterday, that
Sir A. Campbell, had not reached Sarrawaddy until the
11th ultimo. He was there on the Ch ult. and he ex-
pected to be in Pro= in eight or ten days. The dis-
comfiture at Donabew will probably delay him, as he
may retiograde a little to chastise the Bundoolab.—
Brigadier M'creagh's reinforcement was to follow, and
join Sir Archibald': column, not Brigadier-General
.Cotton s, and.was to march by land. . . . •
We have received letters from Bauskunde, Cacharr
26th March. The rains had fairly set in at Munnipote;

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A silly story got up at Paris in the Opposition Jour-
nals, apparently for no other object than to afford an
opportunity for vituperation against the French Ministry,
has been noticedisy the Journalists of this country in such
serious terms that we deem it only necessary to mention
the subject in order to expose its absurdity. It is as-
serted that the Council of Missolonghi, on the Ist of
August, when closely invested and reduced to great
straits, just before the general assault which was after-
wards so nobly repulsed, bad opened a communication
with Captain HAMILTON, of his Majesty's frigate CA M.
salmi, then before the place, and formally offered to
surrender all Greece to the protection of the British
Government, to be held in the same manner as the
Septinsular Republie, now under our dominion, is subject
to the British Crown. At which offer, not doubting of its
having really been made, all lessof its being readily ac-
cepted, the Fi ench Journals are in a furious rage, talk of
the liberties of Christendom being compromised by Eng-
land,of the views of theEmpetor of RUSSIA on the Grecian
Republic (although the said Autocrat has a pretty con-
siderable number of obstacles, we guess, to surmount,
before be can come in contact with it,) and, finally, that
the Most Christian King is, as they are pleased to say,
the natural protector of the Greeks; and that his inte-
rests would be betrayed by such an arrangement. On
this side the Channel, our contemporaries, the Times in
particular, gravely calculate whether we can afford, in
point of expense, to govern• the Morea on those
.coudi-
tionsP. and conclude, that.it is, after all, a question for
the States of Europe to decide, whether we can be per-
.mitted to accept the offer ?_ Strange, that the ten, ark,

of .sapient Lord Grizzle occdrrect to notociy—:
" Madam, Madam, he made the, giants first, and then
he slew theme

The story is so evidently of Parisian ft:brit:le, that
it may as easily be known as one of the French snuff:
boxes. But whether or no, it may be. remarked,
Ist, That the Council at Missolonghi had no *inherit);
to bargain for the liberties of Greece. 2d. That if they
had agreed to make the offer, they would have found
some difficulty in finding a messenger who could pe:
netrate the lines of the Seraskier, and find his way od
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shipboard. Sdly. Captain HAMILTON is, we doubt 1134
too well instructed in his' duty to receive any such
message. He is there for no other purpose than to
afford protection to the trade of this country, against
any possible violence which miy be attempted by either
of the belligerent forces. With matters of State he
neither could nor would have anything to do.
But, supposing for a moment that the offer were
made by a competent authority, and through the proper
channel, it is in its own nature too absurd to be cam.
mented upon. It is just the same as if Great Britain
were at once to declare war against the Porte, recover the
Morea by force of arms, and maintain it against all the
world ; and, lastly, exonerate the Greeks from any fur-
ther sacrifice of men or money in their own cause, merely
for the honour of having a nominal Governor among
them, under the appellation of Lord High Commissioner!
If, however, it consisted with the inviolable faith, with
the honour and interest of Great Britain to do all this,
we believe htr Councils would not wait for the permis-
sion of the new Amphictyonic Council, called the States
of Europe, to carry into effect any measure which they
may deem expedient. England has never been accus-
tomed to receive the law from any, or all, of the other
Powers of Europe; and we refer to Mr. CANNING'S
spirited declaration, that in her foreign policy she will
be governed exclusively by a regard for her own honour
and interests, without reference to the views or wishes
of other crowned heads I

By the arrival of the Albion, Captain SwaiNsw, at
Liverpool, Calcutta Papers to the 15th of April, have
been received. They contain various details respecting
the war in the Burmese empire, whlich will be found in
our preceding columns. Their interest is in some de-
gree superseded by later accounts, of which the Albisa
is the bearer. Captain Swairesom, who left Calcutta oa
the 17th of April, states, that on the day he sailed, the
Hon. Mr. ADAM, who was passenger in the Albion,
received a letter from the Secretary to the Govern-
ment, informing him that dispatches had that moment
arrived from the armyin the Burmese territory. They
communicated the important intelligence of Arracan
having been captured, on the 31st of March, by the di-
vision under the command of General Monalsou. The
private leiter did not contain any details otthe egpture
While we participate in the pleasure which our
Raiders must feel at the additional trophies which our
brave countrymen have thus been enabled to erect to
the honour of his MAJESTY'S arms in those remote and
unknown regions, we are bound to remind the Public,
that the intelligence now received is only confir-
matory of our opinion expressed yesterday, that the
Power with whom we are at war is neither deficient
in resources nor in military skill: and that we
are not in reason to expect the subjugation of so
vast a territory by means of a handful of men, how-
ever brave and practised in war, without much addi-
tional effort, and we fear also without a considerable
prolongation of the contest- Captain SWAIISSON indeed
states, that the war in the Burmese country raged with
greater violence than ever, and that there appeared no
prospect of its speedy termination.

This forenoon we received the Al:genuine Zeitung of
the 7th inst. containing intelligence from Trieste, to
the 29th of August. If these accounts can be at all
relied on, the cloud which so lately hung over Greece
is rapidly dispelling, for they represent Missolonghi as
having so successfully resisted an assault on the Ist of
August, that the SERAsKIRR was expected to raise the
siege. The loss of the Turks is variously estimated at
from 7to 12,000 HIM The CAPSTAN PACHA is said
to have sailed from Patras, for the purpose of convey-
ing more troops to Navarino. In the meantime Mmu-
us is on the alert, and will probably give a good ac-
count of the Turkish Admiral. IBRAHIM PACIIA is
represented as surrounded by the Greeks. This we
doubt very much, although he seems inactive. A
letter dated Corfu, August 19, contains tome details of
the appointment of the French Colonel LUMINA to the
command of a Greek Regiment of Infantry at Napoli
di Romania. The Secretary General, MAUROC3RDAro,
and the Minister of War, METAXAS, addressed the
soldiers on their duties. Ti.e ARCHBISHOP having
finished the customary prayers, Colonel PM= took
the oath required by the Greek Constitution, and the
soldiers swore obedience to him. The fol:owing are
extracts from the Aiken:eine Zeitung :

TRIESTE, AUGUST 21.
Our Ossensataire Triestine gives the following news, dated Zante,
August 5 :
" Up to the 2d of this month thirty-eight Greek armed vessel* lad
passed through our sea towards Missolongiti, and were soon followed
by a division of seventeen sail, under the Hydriot Mantis. Amore
the whole number there were seventeen Ere-ships. The squadron
of the Captain Pacba lies off Patras, and endeavours to place itwi!
in security against the Greek ships, which cruise at the distance of
seventeen Italian miles. After an incessant cannonade of ems.
forty days, breaches having been made in several parts of the wa!'s
of Missolonghi, the Turks, fearing that if the siege were protracted
the Greeks might receive relief, resolved to attempt a general and
decisive assault upon the walls, which in fact were fathag down on
every side. They accordingly opened trenches at eines points,
from all of which they attacked the wails ost the Ist of Auguit,
while their boats penetrated into the lake which *wounds the
fortress of MissolonghL The fortress, the lake, and the outworks,
were hidden for four hours in the thickest smoke. At seven o'clock
in the morning the cannonade- ceased; the Wigged had gained A
most decisive victory, repulsed the asst insts oo every side, sad
killed a great number. The Turkish army assounard to thirty-
three thousand men. - • • • •
" A noun. 7.—An English brig whkli arrived bete from Corfa
yesterday evening, brings some farther particulars of the tote events.

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