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FRAIII CIE.
he Emperor on Queen Victoria's Visit.
--niapoieori Feels Insulted and Ready
to_Flaht.
From the Gaulois we translate the following
notice of an important letter which It describes
"under all reservations" in the following terms:
"I am assured of the existence of a letter
which has been addressed by the Emperor to one
•of his most intimate friends, (Persigny ?) a man
with whom he is on the most Confidential terms,
and whose advice has been found often the most
'sagacious and always the most sincere.
This letter alluded to the conduct of Queen
Victoria in not returning the visit which she had
received from the Empress.
It is true that the Empress herself had dispensed
the obligation, of the visit. Still the Emperor, in
the aforesaid letter, has not concealed his dissat
isfaction at a behavior unheard of in the history
'of the official world, and bas allowed his friend
to understand how little of belief (to pen d'illu
•sions) he retains In the role, not very friendly to
wards France, which the Queen is to play at
lucerneLEngland being about to meddle with
the commercial Union now concluding between
Trance, Belgium and Holland.
"As for . a war, the Emperor declares himself
ready for one, but he announces that he prefers
to wait until a favorable pretext shall be pre
sented. ,
"This should be a letter of the loftiest impor
tance; its significance is such that, notwithstand
ing our confidence in the source whence we have
obtained it, it is impossible for us to give it with
out - guarding It with all the reserves potsible.
The future will reveal which is right; our corres
fiandent, or the official journals, which will not
ail - to - overwhelm - us with contradictions."
—Switzerland is not behind in thc general ar
inament—question-f—fa—reWlY—sitiont 105,000
breech-loading rifles have be added to her stock, :
and the general expenditure for war material
reached the sum of $875,000 up till June.
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BENJ. L. TAYLOR,
(lie! MarshaL
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LETTER
The Latest Sensation at the Capital--
Muckier liediviens—His Attack on
Dollins is Like the Kludibrastie
~, and Will Kick its Owner Oyez:—
polling, has Troops of Friends Beady
to go Tile BalL but The) are not
Needed—lie Turns the Tables on
Binekley and Demands ills Be.
sneval—A Tempest In a Teapot—lin.
portance or the Fennsylvania.Elec.
icon in October, &C.•
Worreepondence of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.]
Sept.-2d, 1868.—The excitement
of to-day was the reported arrest of Commis
sioner Rollina i npon charges preferred before ono
of the United States Cortunissioners in New
York. Nearly all the morning .11r. Rollins's
office was crowded with anxious friends, all im
patient to know the extent of the "fuss." A. Man
never knows how many friends he has till
be gets in trouble,and the amiable Commissioner
no doubt felt this morning that an admirable op
portunity presented itself to tat the sincerity
of friendly professions, for the most of those
who bled to the office supposed that a marshal's
officer at least would have the Cotnrnissioner in
durancerile,when "bail" would be at & premium.
Suffice it to say, be had "any qtumtity" of offers
of bail, or any other assistance supposed to be
needed by a person in such desperate straits.
But to the gratification of everybody the Com
missioner took it very coolly, and bade his
friends.- dismiss their fears, for he did not in
tend to pay any attention to the humbug accuse,-
tions conjured up by Binckley. Then, too,' the
smi g end accommodating private secretary of
the President, Wm. W. Warden, Esq , came over
directly fnam the Executive Mansion, and in the
most Insinuating and diplomatic style assured
the Commissioner that the President nad not in-
stigated the charges—had nothing to do, with
them—and, indeed, was rather mortified at
Thnekley's conduct. This was more than we
bail a right to expect of Johnson. But, never
theless, he made the amende, and so promptly,
that few doubt his entire sincerity, so far as this
case is concerned.
Before this, Rollins had taken the offensive by
going over to Secretary McCulloch and demand
ing the immediate removal of Binckley for his
outrageous conduct, and there is a pretty strong
vrobability that Binckley will be decapitated,even
before Congress meets.
Biuckley is determined to be famous or in
famous—he don't care much which—so he
selected the present time to make a grand sensa
tion by concocting the arrest of Rollins, which
be (Binckley) supposed would create a "tremen
dous excitement . ' But Binckley's plans have
come to nan'ght, for the 'President and Secretary
McCulloch both disavow hit act, if they do not
positively condemn it, so Hinckley's sensation in
Likely to coat him his officLal head. "A consum
mation most devoutly to be wished."
ILVOICENG OYER TOE VERMONT ELECTION.
The Republicans have been rejoicing all day
over the ."good news" from Vermont. and the
"straw" from Wilmington, hick shows
bow the wind is blowing in that direction. This
election in Vermont has redoubled the interest
which centres in the result in,Perinsylvania, and
n. arly every Pennsylvanian ie . btitton4toled on
the streets, in hotels, passenger railway cars, and
in every place of - public reatn%,.and With,
questions as to how the Old Keynes:le State "Will
goln October. I,ler one, hums never doubted
that we ahall,e.arry the State by a handsome ma
jority in Oenaber, and baVe so expressed myself;
out there -are-some- croakers who are always
!Tightened at the smallest speck of disaster,
and are ready to desert their guns even before
the battle' has commenced, and a few of these
have been prognosticating the State as
"doubtful," or "if we carry it, it will be by a
very small majority," 64c., &c., till some of our
Republican friends began to believe that Penn
sylvania really was doubtful. The Vermont elec
tion settles that point, for It indicates as clearly
as the noonday sun that in all the Republican
States the Republican vote will be largely in
creased over any previous election, just as the
. - ocratic voth — in the Democratic States of
Maryland and Kentucky will show a correspond
ing increase in those States. This is caused by
the extraordinary exertions being made by each
party in States where theyhave undisputed sway,
tint that there will be any other result than the
election of Grant and Colfax in November, no
eane man believes. Still, our leading Republicans
are nervous about Pennsylvania, and It behooves
your Repabilcan people to be "moving - on the
enemy's works" without further parleying.
The grand Soldiers' and Sailors' National Con
vention to be held in Philadelphia early in Oc
tobers, is looked upon here as certain to arouse
e dormant enthusiasm of your city and State,
and will be productive of the most excellent re
snits.
THE DISTRICT ATTOELNEYSIRP.
So many erroneous reports have been published
concerning the actual state of the District Attor
neyship affair, in relation to Judge Cadwalader's
refusal to recognize O'Neill, that I have taken
some pains to obtain information from an offi
cial quarter as to its actual statue at this time. It
appears that Judge Cadwalader said he could not
admit the validity of the appointment of O'Neill
till he had heard an argument. That argument has
oot occurred, but will be Made, it is supposed,
when the Judge returns to Philadelphia. What
course will be taken by the Executive Govern
,. • et-if-the-Imm Dbouldlinally dectse against the
validity of the appointment of O'Neill is not yet
known, as the law officers have not advised on
the subject.
BOLLUIS'S CASE STILES CITIIMCED BY BMCKLEY'S
LNDISCRET/ON
The result of Bincliley's indiscretion has been
greatly to strengthen Rollins's position in the
matter of the appointment of Supervisors, and
his friends to-day all advised him to "stick"
firmly as he had commenced, and to make no
concesaions. He will certainly do so.
RETURN OF EX COLLECTOR ILA:SCOCK.
John Hancock, ex-collector Fourth Pennsylva
nia District, and latterly acting collector of Reve
nue at New Orleans, has returned here, General
Steadman having resumed control - of the office
there. Hancock intends returning to Philadel
phia to take an active part in the campaign
against Judge Kelley. SUSQUEHANNA.
A CV/111011S DOCURIENT.
Dramatic Criticism One Igundred and
Twenty Years Ago;
The following Is a criticism of Garrick's perform
ance of a part in a drama entitled A Miss•in
Her Teens, produced in the Covent Garden The
tre, London, in February, 1747. The critic
,con
tributed his opinlobs to the London Magazine:
" As it Is an old Maxim, that the Taste of the
Town Is best discovered from their theatrical Di
versions, I have given uncommon Attention to
the Success of a Dramatick Performance, which
has much ingrossed the Conversation of all Com
panies; and,whether it be owing to a Respect for
the Author, or the Merit of the Production ,has
been indulged a very long Mtn. having all along
equally filled Covent Garden Theatre with Com
pany and Laughter.
" I have been one of the numerous Spectators
wtwice myself, and have also read the Piece wittwolerablyh
st Attention; so thinking I must be
ell qualified for such an Operaticn, and that it
will not a little oblige the Town, who are greatly
divided In applauding or censuring they at pres
ent know not what, I venture to make you a
Present of a Disscction of Miss in her Teens; or,
The Medle_y of_Lat7ers.
" This Farce, indeed, has little of Novelty to
recommend it, the Subject having often before
been handlectwith equal Mastership-ted-Dill.
It is true too,that some Characters are unnatural,
and others faulty; that there is very little Plot,
'and no Moral; But these are Blemishes which it
shares in common with many celebrated Coate
KING TON.
dice; and It is Merit enough, to in title it to be
made a Skeleton, that
"Mr. G-rr-k is the Author of it.
"The best Actors have performed in it.
"And that the Town have been hugely diverted
with it.
*WI% Garrick Action in both his Scenes
i t s in imitably adapted to his Character; and it re
marked of the Tragedy of the Earl of Essex, that
the' it has not ono good Lino it never falls of
drawing Tears from the Sectators; so, though I
believe no other Actor liv ing could divert us in
the Character of Fribble, yet it is impossible to
see Mr. Garrick in it without very great Mites
tainment. Were I disposed to be serious My.
Thoughts would lead me to lament the
tune of baying good Actors upon the English
Theatre; for it is, certainly, a Misfortune to have
our Understanding lulled to sleep, and to be
obliged, whether we will or no, to be highly-, di
verted we cannot tell why; that ' Nonsense' mast
please from Mr. Garrick; Stupidity from Mr.
Woodward; and 'very- gross BaWdry be excused
in Mrs. Pritchard. 1
"But as the natural Barometer of the. Mina no! - ,
sembles the artificial one of the Weather in this,•
that the Spirits In the one and the Quicksilver in'
the other, never rise suddenly (=re ale
high to keep that Pitch, a Fall being always very
soon the consequence; so Reflection at home stiv
ceeding En tertammen t at Covent Garden Theatre,
Asionishment is introduced at
" Tbe Possibility of Mr. Garrick's diverting us
with the trifling Circumstances of a Piece of black
Silk on his Finger; a Cambrick Handkerchief on
his Neck,• the Posture in which he presents a Pill
or tialve Box; the arming of a chair; the Ad
'trances, to a Duel; and the Trip on,and Jaunt off,
the Stage. D. is a Pity Mr. Garrick should Int
pose the ridiculous talk upon himself, of on)*
thg us in so unaccountable a Manner.
' Next comes poor Woodward—he is to divert
us with the Length of his Sword, and the short
ness of his Jerkin; a Distortion of the Face being
occasionally thrown in to surprize a laughter.
But Woodward is not much to be pitied, because
he's in his Element.
"But perhaps Mrs. Pritchard is the most to be
pitied; if it is a disagreeable Task to be brolight
upon the Stage for no other purpose than—to
talk Bawdry.
" I have clone with the Plot, Action and Char -
&eters in this celebrated Farce, and shall have
very little Trouble in examining the Sentimenta
and Moral. For, theP Sentiments are adanted to
the Taste of the two Galleries, each Character
taking and forcing Opportunities to convey. Co.
vent Garden Ideas; old Sir Simon Lovett himself,
revolving, in his Paasion, to ravish the whole
family. And as to the Moral;--It is, that, let
Education take her utmost care of FemateMiuda,
yet Nature is powerful enough to debauch them.
••This Is the Skeleton of Alias in her Teens, acted
and published in the Year One thousand seven
hundred and forty-six, for the diversion and in
struction of—young Ladles.
"And to applaud the Taste of the Town, the
Author, in his Advertisement, returns the Public
Thanks for their so favourable Reception of such
a Trifle."
l'lteirty Years Ago anti ',Nom,
In the course of a dramatic .artiele, the London
TOSTral'h gai4t -
Whiry' Years ago tneattical property had
reache' its /meat point Of depreciation. A stern
tht ologicalreaction—Evatigetical on one side and
Pnseyitical on the other—and the distractions of
the cOntest'over the first Reform' bill, were un
favorable. to theatrical business. There were
spasms of expensive speculation, followed by
dreary intervals of dullness; but as a rule mana
gers were rained, the public was indifferent, and
the standard of acting was low.
The English Opera Rouse had tried English
Opera and failed. The mountebanks and the ani
r,.a 1 drama were the rage. Even Mr. Braham
wrecked a magnificent fortune In his theatrical
speculations. The Queen's Theatre became the
"home of the mouldiest enterprises." and the
East End theatres dragged out a miserable exist
ence.
Now, however, the two expensive Italian opera
enterprises may lose money, but the rival mana
gers continue to raise salaries and Increase ex
pense a yearly. The Haymarket and the Adelphi
arc both prosperous. At the Lyceum, Mr. Fal
coner is reported to have made .£20,000 by a
single piece.
' The Telegraph says: •
.•
' Of the Princess's what need is there to say
more than that Mr. Boucicault is constantly ma
king Mr. George Vining's fortune and his own?
The once hopeless little Strand has become a
fashionable place of entertainment. The erst de
spised 'Miss now the New Royalty, has,
ander the generalship of Miss Oliver, taken the
favor of theatrical patrons by storm. The Olym
pic is still popularly frequented. The St. James's
is thronged by aristocratic amateurs of a remark
able genre of entertainment The Dobbins have,
it is true, deserted Astley's, but is not a tragedy
by Disraeli in course of performance there? Tne
former 'Duathole' of Tottenham Court road
is now the delightful Prince of Wales's, where
Miss Maria Wilton continues to present the
public with dramas of modern life, so admirably
written, and acted with such polish and refine
ment that a stranger might imagine that the lords
and ladies among the audience had walked bodily
from the stalls and the boxes on to the stage to
let the groundlings and gallery know what
" o:ate " and "Play" were like. In addition to
this - resuseitatiotr23f - thn - ole---i n
to a new and highly-improved Surrey, and to the
large, the popular and vigorously-managed
houses of the East End—we have, or we are pro
mised half a dozen new theatres in London. St.
Martin's Hall has become The Queen's; an inn
and and a factory in Holborn have been merged
into a theatre and an amphitheatre; Old Lyon's
Inn is to be turned into "The Globe ;" and the
strand Music Hall will be, by next Christmas, the
Gayety Theatre."
Rascality of a Mormon Bishop.
The Salt Lake City Reporter speaks as follows
of the attempt of a Mormon Bishop—also a con
tractor on the railroad, to swindle his employes:
No are informed that a Bishop and a party of
men, from one of the wards et the city, took a
sub-contract upon the joint stock plan, under the
general contract of Brigham Young. They pur
chased the necessary tools upon time, and fi
nally completed the work, the Bishop keeping
all accounts and looking after things generally.
The men are now informed that it will take
more than will be received for their work to
pay for the tools, which, the Bishop says, will
have to be sold to help pay the tool-maker's bill.
The Bishop will not exhibit or make a statement
of any accounts, and the poor laboring men,
after spending several weeks at the hardest, kind
of work, are in a fair way to be swindled out of
their money. It is a beautiful system, indeed,
that will permit the practice of such outrages
upon the rights of men. As long, however, as
they will stand such proceedings, without as
serting their rights,juat so long will they have to
suffer.
The Arkansas Rioti.
A despatch to the St. Louis • -Democrat, under
date of September let, gives the following ad
.ditional account of the riots in Arkansas :
" Governor Clayton has returned from Lewis
burg. The insurrection las - been - quieted, the
court reinstated, and the trial resumed. The dif
ficulty was commenced by the rebels breaking up
the court with an armed force, and dispersing
the Union men. The latter soon collected a
hundred strong and took position in a cotton
field, and whipped three hundred rebels. Several
of the latter were shot and, othersare missing.-
The Union loss was none. Governor Clayton,
on arriving, addressed the insurgents, ordering
them to disperse. Meanwhile the Sheriff arrived
with a posse of three hundred strong, and quiet
was restored."
—The pratty Princess Degmar writes very
graceful sonnets.
PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1868.
THE DRAMA. IN LONDON.
OURIMOLE COUNTRY.
fiTore A bon t The nuriekedest Ititan”—lie
is a Nituninnw—utoismanls domina
tion—The °Mee Seekers—General
Items.'
(Conersoroonce of the Phllada. Evening Ballotivol
NEW Yon it, Sep tembcr 2, 1868.—The melancholy
days are coming—the saddest of the year—the
days of the falling leaf—the days when the turtles
sing—but they will not crowd too .closely upon
the heels of departing summer. Even now,while
your correspondent chronicles such facts as he
deems it best for the public to learn, and as he
moralizes in his urinal way upon the evil that is
ddne In thle overgrown city everyday, the air is
hot and oppressive, and the perspiration flows
in streams from all;the Pores of his body. Yes
terday the thermometer averaged about 79.
but If there is any reliance to be placed upon
signs, to.day is much warmer, despite the splen
did rain which fell last night.
--" "The Wickedest Man in New York" is again
'on the carpet. He is now the nine days' wonder.
El e has closed his dance-house, turned his brothel
Into 's chapel of - prayer, his ball-room into a nini
sion, and himself into one.of the most sanetimo
alone individuals of modern times. Under the
tuition of A. C. Arnold, a 'gentleman clerically
Inclined, but somewhat given to the business of
peddling quack medicines, Mr. Allen, the Wick
elle et Man, now ho to , become one of the
Lord's chosen peo e. He has spent only twenty
five years of his e In a round of such iniquity as
would make the the vilest sinners of Sodom
-shudder to think of, and the ministerial frater
nity, who take a brotherly, and salt were, a Bar
num-y interest in him, express themselves as be
ing hopeful of his ultimate reformation. It is
needless to say that Henry Ward Beecher, Cha
pin, Frothingham, Cheever and gentlemen:of
that stamp have not yet been induced to lend
their influence in insulting humanity with this
"last sensation." Let it be known to your readers
that this Allen is to-day a wretch as vile as he
was on Saturday night, at 11 o'clock, at which
time he - had his odalisques about him, and led
them in a bawdy song to a sacred tune, and gave
saints' names to filthy pictures on his walls,
and read from what purported to be a Bible a hid
eously obscene story, and invited the coarse men
around him to "see to the women." His oniy
object now is to make his notoriety pay. He
will remain pious until the opportunity is pre
sented for establiAbing a more stylish dance-house
in another place, and turning his calling to
better account. Curiosity to see and hear the
"Wickedest Man in New York" will draw thou
sands to his shop who never would be induced to
seek pleasure there, and as he will establish the
rule which his numerous visits from ministers
recenuy rendered necessary, viz.: that every man
coming to see him should leave or spend s2—hia
change from iniquity to righteousness will be a
profitable one. .
In politics we have little that is new to talk
about. . Grant will surely be el etped if Seymour
does not receive a majority of theel oral votes,
at least this is the unbiassed ()pinto of large
and Re übllcans.
numbers of both Democrats
esi t
The Democratic Convention at Albany have nom
inated John T. Hoffman as their candidate for
Governor. He is their strongest man. Michael
Connolly, "Big Judge" as he la familiarly known
here, has drawn out from the Democratic Union .
Organization, and given his 'allegiance to Tam
marry -Ila/L In case Hoffman is elected, the "Big
Judge" becomes Register of-the City and County
of "New York, with salary and rperquisites worth
about $65,000 per annum. General Hoseerar.s was
here on Monday night. A Tribune reporter was
sent to bore him about the White firdphur Springs
rol‘sion, but the General was very prudently reti
cent or non-committal, and the reporter filled his
half column with fol-de-rol and a chorus.
A. J. I. F. C. H. Duganne, editor of the Sun
day hispatch, has started a little twelve-pkged
sheet, called This Week. The first number will
appear on the 15th. It is printed, by Blackwell,
and is owned by somebody who hails from
Liberty streo Whether it will take or not de
pends entirdiy on the weather, the state of trade,
and the temper of the _pnblie That it will de
serve success Is not for a moment a matter of
doubt.
Some of our Jersey friends are becoming tired
of their wives. One unhappy husband yesterday
threw his sponse into the Hackensack river; and
another, at Hoboken, came very near killing his
with a pistol ball.
This last case, however, was accidental, and
only serves as another lesson for those who will
keep loaded firearms in their dwellings. How
much better to keep a good Bradbury plane, or a
set of stationary tubs, or a Newfoundland pup,
or some other piece of furniture that will not go
off and hurt people. i'
The Situation-Salnavtre War Steamer
Slivain Captured.
JAC3l2L,Saturday, Aug. 8, 1868.—At Port-an-
Prince affairs were very much the same as when
we last reported.
The principal event had been the capture of
the town of Petite Goave by Gen. Normil, and
the subsequent seizure of Salnave's war steamer,
Silvain. The capture of Petite Goave took place
after desperate fighting, and the slaughter of 700
Piquet& or savage negroes, who had risen In fa
vor of Salnave.
on the morrow of this- oeeurrence—the-war
steamer Silvain, thinking that the town was still'
In Salnave's 'possession, 'made her appearance
and anchored in the harbor. When the ship came
is sight a large body of men appeared on the
shore and cried "Five Salnave." The Commo
dore and other officers .then landed and were in
alto] to join the crowd in partaking of cham
pagne. While drinking the poor fellows were
arrested and Imprisoned, and two boats well
armed were sent off to; capture the steamer,
which was easily secured. The news
caused great excitement as Salnave had sent
OD board the Silyain (also called the. 22d De
cember) all his wealth, viz.: $600,000 In
Eby tian paper and $120,000 in gold, besides some
valuable funiittire and jewelry. The capture of
this steamer maddened Salnave, who determined
to revenge himself on the merchants of Port-an-
Prince. So he declared that he required of - them
$200.000 in gold, without even saying for what
purpose the money was needed. These poor
merchants, are already almost ruined, bat fear
may compel them to find the amount. It is
asserted that Salnave intended marrying a young
lady from Gonaivea, and that the furniture on
board the Silvain was to be used in their new
dwelling.
It is surprising to see how the Americans assist
Salnave. Report says that he has promised to
sell them a portion of the island. They have
a email steamer here, which they keep run
ning, giving news and assistance to Salnave's
party.
Salnave has now two presses at work, issuing
now bills of $lOO, $lO and $2; but they can't work
fast enough, although they make $200,000 per
day. He now requires $6,000,000 to pay off the
soldiers.—N. Y. Times.
Attempted Revolution in Vera Cruz—
New Pronuncuuniiento—Uprising in
Campeche. -
VERA Cum, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1868.--So vari
ous and contradictory are the rumors here that
it is almost impossible to arrive at the truth as
to what is going on in the interior, and even in
the vicinity of this , city. The revolution at
tempted in this State under Prieto ,and Domin
guez appears-to have -ended in amoke.--Pariles
acting under their lead are reported to have been
attached and routed at various points; and the
leaders are said to be attempting to escape from
the country. A squad of prisoners, some nine or
ten in number, and said to have belonged to that
party, came in to-day. There were two Cap
tains among thein.
At Puebla it was reverted that three columns,
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tinder the command of Gene. Cortina, Cirrion
and Cabrioto, would attack the revolutionists of
the Sierra, who, numbering some fifteen hundred
men, had taken a strong. position and fortified
themselves in the Cerro San Mig,rtel.
We hear almost daily of new pronun
clamientos in all parts of the country. In the
State of . Campeche, ono has been started bv D.
J. A. Mnnos, who collected about one hundred
and fifty men, armed with rifles, and marched
upon Pocyaxnn, where he compelled the offi
cials and, leading men. to join in the proclaml
tion repudiating the State Government. They
acknowledge the GenerarGovernmant. At last
accounts the revolution' ta occupied the town of
Tenabo. And so come reports of uprlslngi all
over the country. Some are against the General
Government, and in favor of .v;ulous aspirants
for the Presidency; others are more modest, and
only aim to upset the State authorities. All have
some ostensible political and patriotic object, bat
love of excitement and the hope of plunder are
the real motives, in almost every instance.—New
York Times.
Royal Insurance Company.
The report by the Directors of the Royal insur
ance Company presented at the mutual meeting
of the shareholders hold on. Friday, the 7th inst.,
is of more than usual length, and of more than
usual interest. The satisfactory results of
.the
past year's business are not only fully set forth;
but the causes that have led to them are clearly
defined. - Fog the first time the Directors and
their zealone and over-worked manager, Mr.
Percy M. Dove, have left us little to say.'
Hitherto, we have been accustomed to draw upon
and combine, in various ways, the figures which
represent the past action of the company, in a
manner calculated to show what may be accom
plished by unflagging energy - high character, dif
fused reputation, and professional skill. But the
ground is, at length, cut from under us; the
directors and their able officers preferring to tell
theh• own story theirown way; and a very pleas
ing story they have to ten.
Setting out with the Flre business for 1867, we
learn from the report that the premium receipts
for the year amounted to the enormous sum of
£460,553; not much short of half-a-million ster
ling—more than the revenue, heretofore, of a=
small German kingdom. Excluding Sundays, the
receipts amounted to close upon £1,500 per day
throughout the entire year. None but those who
are engaged in the management of such colossal
institutions can form the , slightest idea of the la
bor and responsibility associated with such mul
titudinous transactions; every one of which is
surrounded by its separate elements of peril.
The money actually received, day by day, Is suffi
ciently astounding; bat what shall be said of the
responsibility it involves? Assuming ss. per
cent. as the average rate of premium, the sum at
risk, in respect of each day's receipts, is £600,000
—for the week £3,600,000—f0r the entire year not
very much short of two hundred millions.
The result of the year's business is, that after
paying all losses and management charges, there
is a net surplus profit balance of £56,873; which
the Directors have applied to the payment of the
naval dividend and bonne, leaviag a bal re of
£17,892 to be added to thepreviottsly accumulated
reserve fund ; which now amounts 'to £138,805;
a fact not stated in the report. It is a large sum
to retain • but not more than is requisite tom sin- ,
rain the financial equilibrium of the company, in
the event of a recurrence of Fires exceeding the ,
average expectation of the office. We adopt the
term expectation, for there is, a law of Fire Ez
pectation, as well as a law of Expectation of Life;
and it is only by careful, searching, and anxious
examination of every proposal, that safety for
a company can be secured. A property proposed,
forinaurance may be dressed up for the occasion
quite as designedly as • the proposer for a life
policy prepares himself for medical examination
by attempting to physic himself out of a whitened
tongue, adopting means' to subdue a quickened
pulse, and abptaining from getting drunk for at
least a week before the examination tskes
place. In both classes of cases everything that
implies hazard is, so far as may be practicable,
removed out of the way, or carefully concealed'.
The point is powerfully illustrated in the Royal
report, by a tabulated statement of the amount
saved by the office during the past year by
a rejection of risks which the Directors and MB
cers of the Company did not deem it prudent
to accept. The following are the clasiffied
items :
In the Agency Department
" Home
Fore i gn 4/ .
" Guarantee "
£72,811
The meaning of this is very simple. Ia every
instance of rejection there must have been some
ground for doubt, or suspicion, sufficiently
strong to Induce the Company's managers and
agents to keep an eye upon the property so as to
be able to mark the result of the caution th tt has
been exercised. The aggregate of these results
is, that on the day the annual meetii.g was held,
the shareholders were nearly seventy-three thou
sand pounds better off than they would have been
if the proposals which applied to the destroyed
property had been accepted. It is a very re
markable example of vigilance on the part of the
Company's agents; and a startling proof of the
disastrous consequences that would Inevitably
arise from a want of its exercise.
Other causes that have had a favorable influ
ence on the business of the past year are speel
_iied_in_the reporb—the lessening—of-the-eeime-of
arson, from the number of convictions that have
taken place and the consequent dread of detec
tion—a revision of the rates of premium on cer
tain classes of risks—the additional caution aris
ing from the heavy losses by Fire Companies du
ring the last three or four years—and the prospec
tive influence of further legislative .protection
against incendiarism by Judicial Investigation
into suspicions fires. Still the greatest protec
tion 01 all will be the continued vigilance of
agents, and firmness by managers in the rejec
tion of all risks of - morelhan ordinary hazard.
We may now pass.to the. Life department. TLe
new premiums for the past year are not sepa
rately stated; but we may arrive at them by ap
proximation from the statement that the aver
age annual amount of sums assured during the
last three years has been £BOl,OOO. The object in
taking the average for these three years is to.
compare It with the average for the preceding
quinquennial period (1859-1864)......€668 000, The
progressive increase in the Accumulated Funds
in this department is thus exhibited :
In 1864. after. .appropriating the
portion .of Profits of the pre
ceding five years to the Share
holders, the Funds stood at...
In 1865 the amount invested for
the year,after paying all claims
and expenses, was
In 1866 do. do
In 1867 do. do
Whilst an estimate of the first
Six Months of 1868 shows a
Credit Balance of about
Total Sums now invested on
the Life Account • £1,031,329 15 11
A MILLION of Accumulated Funds, as we on
before observed, is the Tattenham-corner in t e
great race between Life Assurance Compaubs •
the higher class; and the Royal Insurance $l,, -
pany having now got into the straight running,
we shall be able to see which of its competitbra
in advance it may be able to overtake and pass.—
Post Magazine and Insurance Monitor.
—There is not a shadow of truth in the report
that the owner of a yacht that "forged ahead" lu
a late match has been arrested for counterfeiting
postage stamps.—Judy.
—Turkish carnets are made by hand in Ushak,
In Asia Minor, 1 - 88 miles east of Smyrna, and
four thousand people are employed in the manu
facture. An•atterupt was once made to Intro
duce the use of steam in preparing the threads,
but thepeople were so attached to the old warp
that a riot was the consequence, and the plan
was abandoned. U-shat: carpets by hand!
—Parepa comes East next month.
Jenny Lind is living in strict retirement.
—Eddy is acting in classic drama in Buffalo.
—The Grecian Bend is now vulgarly known as
the "colic stoop."
—A man is going to sail up the Erie canal in a
tub. That fellow will have to be locked up.
—The Methodist preacher, Peter Cartwright, Is
in bad health.
—Heiler, the bankrupt magician, is perform
ing in London.
--Niissen asks $36,000 a season from the Paris
Grand Opera.
—Joe Jefferson begins an engagement in New
York next month. '
—Miles O'ReLtly's poems are soon to be pub;
lhiled.
—Napolexm's stable cost him last year no lam
than $lBO,OOO. When he was , President in 181$
his whole salary was but $ l OO,OOO.
—Tennyson has income from hie works of
about $7,000. per a nn um , - and is said to be ex
ceedingly thrifty withal. .
—The Paris Post-office hunkfive branch
°niece in the city and five and forty-.
three boxes. There are seven deliveries daily.
—Queen Olga, of Greece, is an ardent admirer
of our American poets, and has them all in her
—Southern papers are displaying their learn
ing by searching out the etymology of • the word'
"scallawag," which they say comes from Spanish.
—"Address to the nervous and deliberatld" is
the heading of an advertisement in a Petersburg,
—An amateur of New York city is setting to •
music the prologue to Longfellow's "Golden
Legend."—.Ax.
—Many of the most noted negro minstrels can
not read a note of music but have to learn all
their songs by rote.
—A valuable jewel, stolen from the royal trea-
,
sury, at Lisbon, two years ago, was, recentlyre
covered at Athens. It was a diamond worth'
$150,000. •
—An exchange says Lamartine is still declared
dying. He is the most vigorous invalid of the
century, and bids fair, if he continues danger-4
only live a hundred years.
—The Dutch papers report abundance of fruit
in Holland. Large baskets full of plums sell for
fifteen cents, or about one cent for two hundred
and fifty plums.
—Alexandre Dumas, senior, relishes a pipe
of tobacco and opium, and a glass of absinthe ;
strut two in the morning, above everything else
in life.
—The carriage road and railroad over Mount
Cents, Italy,have recently been partially destroyed
by a fearful storm. Communication was suspended
for several days.
—The Viceroy of Egypt has selected the plans
of a palace to be built at Cairo, the estimate for
which amounts to two and a half millions of dol
lars in gold.
—A London shoemaker took his wife fora trip
to the country, and for economy's, sake locked
the children np to starve for a fr days until -
their return. • • -
—The manufacture of wood-soled 'boots and
shoes is one of the latest' Boston novelties. It
is claimed that 'they will last much longer, are
impervious to water, and only cost about one-"
half as much as leather.
—Another aecidcmt to chronicled among the
tourists in Switzerland. A young English lady
oldie climbing up the mountain at Chamormiz
was crushed by a huge block of stone rolling
down. •
—A Paris correspondent writes that the Men
ken's last sickness was induced by extravagant
revelry at a "blow-out," given In honor of her
taking a residence in a pretty cottage at Bon
gival.
—At the village of Grannie% France, a man re
cently sold his horse and wile_togeth • • .• •
sum of s4o,and the wife duly ratified the contract
by administering a sound thrashing to her de
generate better half.
—Patti and her husband drive about in a elm;
colate-colored landau, lined with cloth and silk •
of the same color with servants in a dark-green
llytry trimmed with silver. Patti isnow a landau
ner, and drives her own Caux-ch ! !!
—A political opponent of Sir John A. Macdon
ald, working on a house in Ottawa, lately threw
down upon the Premier a quantity of mortar and
brick dust, and soiled his clothes. Hodd conduct!
as an Ottawan would say.
Maretzek hopes to make money by his double
Gt rman-Italian troupe in his tour in the West.
He thinks that New York is the place to give
opt ra, when one wants to lose money with
promptness and despatch.
—We learn from an English paper that twenty
five thousand people of the sect called Perfect
Love or Entire Sanctification Religionistiii have
just held a camp meeting "at Matthew; us the
Lancaster county or the United States."
—The old settlers of Illinois had a great gath
ering the other day at Clear Lake, near Spring
field. The oldest settler in the company of 4,000
to 5000 assembled, went to Sangamon County in
1817.
£53,901
380 Tramilton_decline&-to-boa-Vice-Presidertt
of Soroets, while warmly indorsing the Woman's
Cinb idea. She objects to the male nomenclature
of officers in vogue, and nominated herself to
the position of "Grand Aunty," which was
unanimously accorded to her.--.N. Y. World.
—Recent explorations have led to the discovery
that tbo asphaltum deposits of Switzerland are
very much more extensive than has been sup
posed. Already forty thousand tons annually are
produced and sold and the prospect Is of a large
increase.
—Among the trinkets for which a Paris jew
tiler has sued the Princess de Mingrelie, are a
heart with pearls and diamonds, $400; a diamond,
cress $200; diamond ear-rings, $200; gryphon
niedallion,vith roses, $200; humming-bird ear
rings, $2BO.
—English liberals are warned to look carefully
at the record and principles of their candidates
for Parliament. It is more than hinted that Mr.
Disraeli counts upon the formation of a third
party in the House, with whose assistance he
hopes to keep office.
—A fire recently took place at Northumberland
HOW°, London, by which about £50,000 worth
of pictures and rare objects of art were destroyed,
especially a collection of Sevres vases given to
lite Northumberland family by Charles X. of
France.
£621.431 15 5
103,146 7 8
124,165 7 5
128,583 5 10
—London paid an enormous amount for the
levelling of Holborn Hill, but it is estimated that
a great gain was made by doing so. This result
is figured out by considering the loss of vital
million
o horses
forty
ri m ers o , np d e he an ee million
carte and vehicles of all kinds which passed over
it, an incline of one foot in fifteen, in the course
of a year.
54,000 0 0
—Of President' Lincoln Thad. Stevens said':
"Be was etninently a/rank man. Ho once rated
me E onn illy for a speech I made on the conduct
of the war, saying I was too fast, and would ruin
all. I, of course, thought him too slow, and we
had a pretty hotdiscuesion. Just about a year
later he sent for me, and I went to him. It was
a hot day, and ho was lying about on sofas and
chairs, In a disjointed way he had. "" I know hint
by the fragments, and so was able to reconstruct
him. 'Mr.-Stevent' he said. `I have just been
reading a speech oryciurs. 4 * flattered, Mr.
President,'
,said I,'but I am not aware that I have
made any speech lately.' 'I know it: he ans
wered, 'but thials a speech you made last year--
the one I scolded you about you remember?'
'Oh, yes, Mr. President,' said f, 'one don't easily
forget your scoldings. I remember. perfectly.'
'Well. Itfr. Stevens, you were rieht and / was
wrong.' ".
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