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      Atuknjeum Life Assurance Society. This S...

      322 . Not a single claim had yet come against the officea strong proof of the vigilance of thc directors , and of the care of the medical officers . The expenses of founding the society had been paid for , and tho directors had every confidence in tho society ' s success . The Chairman expressed his entire satisfaction with the progress of the society , in which expression Mr . Alexander Richmond , as a director and large shareholder , said he fully concurred . Mr . James Andrew Durham said he looked to the fact of the society not being encumbered with an excess of capital , but having a respectable proprietary to look to in case of necessity , as one of the means that must contribute greatly to its success . He believed the company had been established on thc right basis , and that it would succeed .

      On the motion of Mr . Harriss , a dividend of five per cent , upon the subscribed capital , clear of income-tax , was carried unanimously , after an expression of opinion that this rate of per-centage had been agreed upon with a view to permanency , and that if one year onl y had been taken into consideration , the dividend might have been at the rate of twenty-five per cent , per annum . Mr . Cribb , in proposing a vote of thanks to the auditors , took occasion to animadvert upon the conduct of the press in commenting upon the position of life assurance companies . His remarks were deprecated by Mr . Edward Brooks , as a member of the society , and one who was not desirous that tho Athenaeum Society should take up the cudgels for the younger life offices .

      Mr . Mitchell said that , seeing Mr . Tomline s name connected with the society , he had had every confidence in its management . It was his firm persuasion that the society would confer a great benefit upon literary men , and that the _Athenaeum Institute would prove to it a valuable appendage . Mr . Tomline adverted to three recent instances of men of geniuswhohad died suddenly , and left their families almost wholly unprovided for . He ( Mr . Tomline ) was secretary to the Shakspearian Society , and , as such , meeting in conversation with the Lord-Justice Knight Bruce , that learned authority had remarked to him— " How is it that we find men of literature and genius , who can write essays

      that are the admiration of their country , thus making no provision for their families ? If you can point out to me a way in which it could be done , it should have my best support . " He ( Mr . Tomline ) had said that it could only be done by means of a self-supporting institution like the present . Any mere eleemosynary institution would wholly fail . It was his duty to state that Mr . Disraeli , although so much occupied in affairs of State , had taken so warm an interest in the prosperity of their Institute that he had called twice personally to express his interest in its progress , and his desire to render it any good offices in his power . Sir G . Staunton aud the Marquis of Bristol had similarly tendered their good offices .

      Mr . Sutton and other gentlemen having expressed their favourable opinions of thc progress of tbo society , and all the customary resolutions having been unanimously adopted , the meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to tho reverend chairman .

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      M I S C E L L A N E 0 U S. The Queen, Pr...

      M I S C E L L A N E 0 U S . The Queen , Prince Albert , and five of the royal children , loll Osborne on Monday for Balmoral . All along their route tho stations of the railways were bedecked with flowers and evergreens , nnd the usual manifestations of loyalty were made at places where the train stopped . The royal party slept on Monday at Derby , on Tuesday at Edinburgh , and reached Balmoral safely on Wednesday afternoon .

      The Earl and Countess of Eglinton , accompanied by Captain Cost , private ; secretary , Major Hagot , aide-decamp in waiting , Lord and Lady Naas , Mr . Wynne , & c , left Dublin on Tuesday morning by the Dublin and Droghedii Railway , and after a short stay in Drogheda continued their journey to Uolfast , where they arrived in lho afternoon . Addresses were presented to his Excellency by the mayor and town council of Bel fust , and by tbe directors of the Ulster Railway Company , and in tho evening a magnificent banquet win given in the Music Hall . Tho Lord Lieutenant will be present , therefore , at , tbe meeting of tho llritish Association , which began at Belfast , on Wednesday . Lord Eglinton visited on Tuesday the Queen ' s Colleges at , Uelfasf , and in reply to the address of the president passed a high encomium on fhe system of education there pursued .

      Tho News From India By Fhe Last Mail Is ...

      Tho news from India by fhe last mail is not , very . striking . No further advance had been made up the country by General Godwin . On the contrary , he was demanding more troops , and he had declined fo move until they were granted . Lord Dalhousio was on his way to Rangoon to judge for himself . The troops wort ; healthy . The only activity was iu the naval force ; the Proserpine had forced her way up the Irrawaddy nearl y to IVome , mid hud intercepted boats laden with provisions , destined for the _Iturniese army assembling at Pronie . From the north-western frontier conies a report , that . Sir Colin Campbell bud resigned the I _' eshuwur command in disgust at flic obstructions of tho military board .

      Tho News From India By Fhe Last Mail Is ...

      The Board of Health have , in consequence of the recent news from abroad , expressed their formal opinion to the Government that two medical officers should be specially appointed to take such steps as may seem best calculated to meet and mitigate any attack of cholera upon this country .

      The New Rules And Orders In Chancery Wer...

      The new Rules and Orders in Chancery were issued on Wednesday , and published in full by most of the morning papers . A meeting was held on Wednesday at the Belvidere Tavern , Pentonville , when a society was formed under the title of the Finsbury Knowledge Tax Repeal Association . The object of tho society is to obtain the repeal of the newspaper stamp , and of the advertisement and paper duties . The foundation stone of the newl y endowed schools , in connexion with the Hebrew Educational Institution , was laid in Hope-street , Liverpool , on Tuesday . The ceremony was performed by Israel Barned , Esq . The Rev . Dr . Adler , the chief rabbi , was present . The proposed structure , which will be in the Tudor style of architecture , is intended for some 400 pupils .

      Su * John Patteson , Archdeacon Froude , and a large number of the clergy , assisted in laying the foundation stone of the new chancel of the parish church of St . Mary Church , South Devon . Many of the nobility and gentry have liberally contributed to this work , among whom was an anonymous donor of 1000 Z . After the ceremony was over , a substantial dinner was provided for one hundred widows and aged poor , on the vicarage lawn . In the evening a supper was given to the workmen employed in the bunding .

      The spinners of Blackburn have applied for an increase of 10 per cent , upon their present wages . The millowners of this town had a meeting on Wednesday to take the matter into consideration , but they declined to accede to the men's request until they ascertained whether other spinners throughout the district were receiving or were prepared to demand a similar advance . —Preston Chronicle . In July , the Government Emigration Commissioners contracted for upwards of twenty vessels , destined to carry out 3500 emigrants to Australia . During August four ships have been chartered ; and during September , three more will set , sail . Big steamers are the order of the day . Another was launched at Blackwall on Monday , and named the Hydaspes . Her engines are on the screw principle . She is intended to carry mails to East India via the Cape of Good Hope . The great Synagogue of the Jews , in Duke ' s-place , was opened on Thursday with solemn ceremonies . It is said to resemble a Protestant church , except that there is no communion table , no pulpit , no pews ; and that the women are barred off from tbe men . Mr . Adler officiated as chief Rabbi on the occasion .

      A meeting was held at St . Martin s Hall , on Thursday , to promote emigration . The real object was to obtain public support for the Australian Employers' and Emigrant ' s Registration Society . This society proposes , by a system of registration , to bring together those who want labour and those who want employment ; so that emigrants might proceed to Australia and find certain situations there . The means of the association would bo a capital raised by shares subscribed for by tho emigrants themselves .

      'J he evening service in Bartholomews church at Liverpool was disturbed on Sunday week by the breaking of two windows , and hy the report of six pistol shots immediately outside the church . The windows were found to havo been broken b y stones thrown from the front of tho church . The pistols were fired in a beershop close at hand , kept by a man named _M'Manus . Tbo man excused himself by saying that his bouse had been recently broken into , and he occasionally fired pistols to prevent the samo thing taking place again . 'The neighbourhood near tbo church i . s inhabited by very low Irish , and it i . s said that an extra policeman is required to protect tho church and congregation

      The ship Vtdlorn bus left Bristol for Melbourne _, freighted with a large number of passengers and cargo for the all-absorbing gold diggings . The passengers numbered nearly llOO , and their departure created quite a sensation in the city . Thousands of persons of all grades crowded down to tho Cumberland-basin to seo her start , a steamlug towing her down the river Avon . She passed along amid the cheers of the assembled spectators , of whom there were 7 , ( UK ) or 8 , 000 present . Emigration is taking place to a large extent , from Bristol , and an effort is being made by the authorities to obtain tho sanction of Government I . o its being made a port for the departure of Government emigrants , on tbe ground that it , is most , centrally situated for South Wales and tho West of England .

      I he Montreal Gazette gives fhe following return of the number of house .., Su :., burnt in tbe city of Montreal on tho 8 th and Oth of July : — Number Number A , Estimated ¦ W _..-.. I , c o Assessed . r . ,. VV _urds . ot ol ... . Value ot n ia -r Value . -.. . . Houses . J _' tunihcH . Property . St . Louis . f , 47 8 ( 58 £ 057 ( 5 . i ; ir > 0 , ( 5 ( X ) Hast . . . 10 ' 27 1 ( 580 28 , 000 St . . James i » 78 . 'IHO C > r _, HO 0 . ' ) , O 0 O St . Mary . 2 ( 14 Kilt IMlll ( 50 , 21 ( 5 Total . i ion 2 HH « i . 20110 . _L' 340 , 810

      Mr. C. | \ Honey, Tho Secretary Of The D...

      Mr . C . | \ honey , tho secretary of the Dublin Industrial _Inhibition , whieh fakes pluoo next year , left town on Saturday for _Pariti . Mr . Jioney is provided with strong letters

      Mr. C. | \ Honey, Tho Secretary Of The D...

      af recommendation from the Count _WalewsM to the Mb ™ ters of the Interior and of Commerce , and he _huTi " letters to Mr . Jerningham , the _ohargi cPaffhires afP „ ° to Baron _Dupin , _tftoJ _& _g oo _* L _jJSS _^ other influential persons m Paris , who were identified with the Great Exhibition of 1851 . He has had _iaSSrtS interviews with the authorities there . _*«*< wry . The secohd balloon ascent for scientific purposes , under the direction of the Kew committee of the Council of th British Association , was made from "V auxhall in * _£

      Nassau balloon , Mr . Green being again the driver rm Thursday last . The ascent took place at twenty _minuted before five , and the observers , Messrs . Welsh and Nicklin remained up nearly three hours ; the descent beinff _safelv effected about five or six miles from the Boxmoor station at thirty-five minutes past seven . The greatest altitude attained was somewhat less than on the former occasion being 19 , 000 feet , and the lowest temperature experienced was the same—viz ., 7 ° of Fahrenheit . The air at thia altitude was found to be extremely dry . —Athenaeum

      A hue of radway has been provisionall y registered ( thirty-eight miles in length ) , in order to connect Woolwich Chatham , Portsmouth , Windsor , and Hampton Court ' joining the Windsor and Staines railwa y at Staines , _crossing the Thames at Sunbury , then forming a branch on the Surrey side to Walton-on-Thames , in order to shorten the royal progress en route from Windsor to Osborne . The line is to proceed to Hampton Court , where it intersects the London and South-Western at the junction , thence passing through Maiden , Mitcham , to Penge ( from the Crystal Palace ) , through Beckenham , Bromley , Eltham to Woolwich , with a branch to Dartford , embracing Chislehurst , the Crays , and Bexley , thereby connecting Chatham with the other important government dep 6 ts . A connecting fink , therefore , will be created with all the leading radways in England .

      Captain Shepheard Is Now Likely To Be De...

      Captain Shepheard is now likely to be decently withdrawn from public notice . On Tuesday , at the Marlborough-street police-court , a gentleman applied to Mr . Bingham for an order to deliver into his keeping the captain who is at present in prison for want of sureties . The applicant said he was prepared to send Captain Shepheard to Haslar as soon as released . Mr . Bingham waa very glad to hear that the captain ' s friends had done that which it would have been more desirable had it been done some months ago . He would readily do all in hia power to get Captain Shepheard placed in proper hands .

      An elopement took place last week from Portsmouth . The young lady concerned was one of the daughters of a gentleman of considerable wealth , whose mansion is in the immediate vicinity of Portsmouth , on the sea shore , and she herself was possessed in her own right , it is said , of 2000 _Z . She was 'twenty-one years of age , and the person with whom she eloped was her father's groom . This prudent young gentleman had taken the opinion of counsel as to what danger , if any , ho should run in eloping with his master ' s daughter . He also inquired as to what would become of the 2000 ? . to which the young lady was entitled . To these inquiries he had satisfactory replies , it would appear , the young lady being of age , and the money clearly her own . He was at , the same timo cautioned not to

      convey away any property whatever belonging to his master . Upon this measures were taken , and one day last week tho pair proceeded to the Fareham station of tho South Western Railway , from whence they proceeded to London , where , on Saturday , wo aro informed , they wero married by special licence . What is " acting as a waterman" on tho river Thames ? A case waa tried boforo tho Lord Mayor , on Tuesday , at the Guildhall , which turned upon this question . James Kemp , a fisherman , at Teddington , was charged with acting as a waterman . Tho act consisted in taking gentlemen to anglo in a punt . Evidence was brought to show that fishermen havo so acted for many years unchallenged . Now tho watermen claim the exclusive privilegounder tho Waterman ' s Act of letting boats on tho Thames , lho Lord Mayor said ho considered it to bo his duty ,

      ascon-_ servator of tho river Thames , not only to protect tho rights of tho watermen but tbe rights of tho river fishermen . Uo well know that tho business of those industrious men had been most _soriously interfered with , particularly ot la years , by the introduction of steam-vessels on the river , ana by other causes , which operated to break down their spirit ; with their want of prosperity . He could not but consider that the employment of fishermen in punts , in rendering assistance or instruction to gentlemen in angling , formed a part of their business as fishermen . Indeed , ho apprehended that such employment constituted tho only nioao they could be said to possess of obtaining tt livelihood J <« their families . Under all tho circumstances , ho was _suro ho was bound to put a liberal interpretation upon words of the act of Parliament , to which ho had foe *" with very anxious care . and . having attended to the arg

      incuts of the gentlemen _ongaged upon both sides , no come to the conclusion that tho defendant had not in " instance " acted , " according to tho words of the . 17 M » _» j _^ tion , " as a waterman , or plied or workud or naviga . «< wherry , lighter , or other craft , from or to any plu _™ i hire or gain . ; ' 1 le should , therefore , dismiss tho _suninM h ., and , as it appeared to him to have been tho object ot , t » o interested to try the right , no costs should bo required-John Birf , the proprietor of the miscellaneous _<» IIoot , ° " of animals , living in blissful union in _V _^ _gax-MUM ' applied to Mr . Floury on Saturday under the _w " _^ . Mi ' . Mi . riMf _. im . _'nH _liY . r _noiYin time nasi , ho had heen

      polled to confide the charge of his " family to a you j , man , owing to rheumatics . Tbis young man luwi u flicking him in various ways to an alarming oxteri ., j selling some of his favourite pets without leave , and 1 . "" ' ft ( ing tho money . Somo time ago tho -young man saia a person had taken a fancy to his boot _monkey—o" «

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1852, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04091852/page/10/