THE FIELD 
1041 
NOVEMBER : This was an- 
ciently the ninth month of the 
year (whence ita name), but when 
Nurna added the months of 
January aud February, in 713 
D.c., the Romans had it for the eleventh, as it is now. 
Nov. 10, 1828. Siege of Silistria raised by the 
Russians. 
Nov. 29, 1830. War against Russia for the Inde- 
pendence of Poland. 
Viscount and Viscountess Curzon are at present staying, 
on a visit, with their relatives, the Duke and Duchess of 
Beaufort, at Badminton. 
The Earl aud Countess Granville have left town for 
Staffordshire. 
The Earl of Stradbroke has been entertaining a distin- 
guished party at Henhain Hall. Among the company were 
the Marquis of Bath, the Earl aud Countess of Chesterfield, 
the Earl and Countess of Glengall, Mr. and Lady Sophia Des 
Voeux, Sir Robert and Lady Pigot, Viscount Clifden, Vis- 
count Canterbury, &c. 
The Earl and Countess of Wilton and family have arrived 
at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, from Heaton-park, near 
Manchester, for the hunting season. 
The Earl of Denbigh and the Ladies Fielding intend leav- 
ing Newnham Paddox shortly, for Paris, where they will 
pass the winter. 
The Viscountess Boyne died on Wednesday, at the family 
mansion in Belgrave-square, after a long illness. 
The Countess of Kinnoul has arrived at the family resi- 
dence, in Green-street, Grosvenor-square. 
Viscount aud Viscountess Falmouth have arrived in St. 
James's-square, from Mereworth Castle, en route to Brighten, 
for the winter. 
Lady Alfred Paget and her infant daughter are progressing 
favourably. 
Lady Ribblesdale gave birth to a son and heir on Monday 
last. 
Lord De Mauley has been indisposed during the last few 
days. 
Lord Southampton has arrived at tho Clarendon Hotel 
from Whittlebury Lodge, Northamptonshire. 
Lord Brougham arrived last week at Cannes. Lady Malet 
is staying, on a visit, with Lady Brougham in Grafton-street. 
Lord Killeen, Captain in the 8th Hussars, was among the 
officers who left Cork for the Crimea in the steam-transport 
Jura, on the 26th inst. His lordship's father, the Earl of 
Fingal, came to Cork to take leave of him. 
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. M'Murtrie have left Edwards' Private 
Hotel, George-street, for Liverpool. 
Captain Leyland, and Mrs. aud Miss Lcylaud have left the 
Clarendon Hotel for Brighton. 
Tho Sirdar Goolaub-Khan Bahadoor, and Hakeem Abdool 
Nubbee Khan Babadoor, aides-de-camp of the Maharajah Nur- 
runder Sing, Mahinder Bahadoor of Puttialah, in the north- 
western provinces of India, attended by their interpreter, 
Allee Moodee Ahamad, paid a visit of ceremony, on Wed- 
nesday, accompanied by Mr. C. Ii. Thompson, to the Chair- 
man of the East India Company, at the India House. The 
Sirdar and Hakeem arrived by the last steamer from India, 
attended by a small native retinue, to make preparations for 
the arrival, on an early visit to the British Court, of their 
Prince, the Maharajah, who has already arrived at Calcutta, 
which he is expected to leave for London by the steamer 
of December. 
Mr. J. H. Palmer. Mr. R. 
II anbury, Mr. R. N. Fowler, 
Mr. J. Dillon, Mr. K. Hodg- 
son, Mr. D. Meinertzhagen, 
Mr. S. Hodgson, Mr. A. Per- 
kins, Mr. Aid. Finnis, Mr. J. P. 
Foster, Mr. H. H. Gibbs, Mr. 
D. B. Chapman, Mr. Aid. 
Salomons, Mr. Aid. Wire, Mr. 
J. Cattley, Mr. R. Sturges, Sir 
J. L. Goldsmid, Mr. A. W. 
Robarts, Capt. Shepherd, Sir 
John Musgrove, Bart., Mr. B. 
Cohen, Mr. J. D. Powles, Mr. 
G. Moore, Mr. W. G. Slied- 
don, Mr. G. Houghton, Mr. 
G. Lawrence, Mr. C. S. Paris, 
Mr. J. Blyth, Mr. B. B. Greene, 
Sir G. Carroll, Kt., Mr. Aid. 
Farebrother, Mr. T. H. Brook- 
ing, Mi - . G. Frith, Mr. H. J. 
Prescott, &c. During the 
course of the proceedings the 
Lord Mayor read, at various 
times, several long lists ofsub- 
scriptions, the principal con- 
tributors being the Corpora- 
tion, £2,000 ; the Bank of 
England, £2,000 ; the Gold- 
smiths’ Company, £1,000 ; the 
Grocers’ Company, £1,000 ; 
the Fishmongers' Company, £500 ; Messrs. Gibbs, £500 ; 
Messrs. Barclay, £5U0; Messrs. Bury, £500; Messrs. Roths- 
child, £500 ; Messrs. Smith, Payne, aud Co., £500 ; the Sun 
Fire Office, £500; the Indemnity Mutual Marine Insurance 
Company, £500 ; Messrs. Glyn, £500; SirR. P. Glyn, £200 ; 
Messrs. Pickford, £500, &c., &c. The total amount of the 
subscriptions already received was upwards of £16,000. 
The Public Health — Decrease op Cholera, — (From the 
Itegiatrur-GeneraC s Report .) — From the present return it will 
be seen that the cholera epidemy in London is for this 
season quickly passing away, and that the total mortality 
has nearly resumed its former position. In the week that 
ended on Saturday the number of deaths registered from all 
causes was 1,228. In the ten corresponding weeks of the 
years 1644-53 the average number of deaths was 952, aud 
with a correction for increase of population 1,047- The ex- 
cess of last week is 181. The deaths from cholera, which 
were 163 iu the preceding week, have fallen to 66. Those 
from diarrhoea are 46. In the western districts 10 deaths 
from cholera were registered last week ; iu the northern 3, 
iu the central 11, iu the eastern 12, aqd in the southern 
districts 30. The C6 deaths occurred iu the various sub-dis- 
tricts as follows: — Iu Chelsea South, 2, ; in Chelsea North- 
east, 1, ; in Belgmvo, 3 ; in St. Margaret, Westminster, 2 ; in 
Long-acre, 2 ; iu St. Mary (Maryleboue), 1 ; in Regent’s Park, 
1 ; in Kentish-town, 1 ; in St Giles, South, 4 ; in City-road, 
3; in St. Botolph, 1 ; in Cripplegate, 1 ; in West London 
North, 1 ; in City of London South, 1 ; in Holywell, 1; in 
Hackney -road, 2; in Bethual -green,') 2; in the Town ot 
Bethnal-green, 1 ; in Artillery (Whitechapel), 1 ; in Mile-end 
New Town, 1 ; in Whitechapel Church, 1 ; in St. Maiy (St. 
George-in-the-East), 1; in Poplar, 2; in St. Saviour (South- 
wark), 6 ; in St. John Horselydown, 3 ; in St. Mary Magdalen 
(Bermondsey), 3 ; in Keut-road, 3 ; in Borough-road, 1 ; in 
Trinity (Newington), 1; in St, Peter (Walworth), 3; in 
Waterloo-road (first part), 1 ; in Lambeth Church (second 
part), 1 ; in Kennington (first part), 1 , in Clapham, 
1 ; in Camberwell, 2 ; in Greenwich IV cut, 2 ; in 
Greenwich East, 1 ; and in Plumstead, 1. Last week the 
births of 733 boys and 714 girls, in all 1,447 children, were 
registered in London. Iu the nine corresponding* weeks of 
the years 1845-53 the average number waa 1,407. 
Battersea Literary and Scientific Institution.— O n 
Tuesday last Commodore Chubb, of the Anglesey Yacht 
Club, delivered a very interesting lecture before the members 
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METROPOLIS. 
Ball and Concert at the Guildhall in aid of the 
Patriotic Fund. — It will be remembered that at u Court of 
Common Council, held on Thursday week, on the motion of 
Sir J. Duke, seconded by Mr. Carr, it was unanimously re- 
Bolved, “ That the use of the Guildhall, after the banquet on 
Lord Mayor’s Day, should be granted for the purpose of a 
ball and concert in aid of the Patriotic Fund." A com- 
mittee was thereupon formed, with a view to carrying this 
benovolent object into effect, and they met yesterday for the 
first time to make their preliminary arrangements. Aider- 
man Farcomb was unanimously called to the chair. It was 
decided that the price of a gentleman’s ticket should be 15s. ; 
that of a lady, 10s. fid. ; aud for a double ticket a guinea. 
The day fixed for the ball is Wednesday, the 15th Novem- 
ber. A sub-committee of seven was formed for the purpose 
of making the necessary arrangements, which, it is believed, 
will be executed ou a scale of almost unexampled grandeur 
and magnificence. On Thursday a meeting of the citizens of 
Loudon was held at the Mansion-Louse, in aid of the Royal 
Commission. The Lord Mayor presided ; and there were 
also present Tho Lord Mayor Elect ; Mr. T. Baring, M.P. ; 
Mr. G. C. Glyn, M.P. ; Mr. T. Hankey, M.P. ; Mr. S. Ureg- 
aon, M.P. ; Mr. M. T. Smith, M.P. ; Mr. J. G. Hubbard, Go- . 
vernor of the Bank of England ; Mr. T. M. Weguelin, Deputy strength long when the union is an unlawful one, as, in the in- 
Governor of the Bank of England; Mr. R. C. L. Bevan, Mr. stance of strikes, riots, aud the like 
B. Oliveira, M.P., Mr. C. Mills, Mr. C. B. Young, Mr. J. cord inherent in an unlawful union, . . 
Bates, M. E. Baring, Mr. E. Burmester, Mr. R. W. Crawford, | takes root in its vitality, and, promoting dissension, breaks ] and the Necessity 
asunder its bonds. The most extraordinary combination of 
modern times for supporting right against might, aud check- 
ing the advance of universal tyranny and oppression, and 
placing the peace and harmony of tint world on a sure basis, 
is witnessed by the union of the hands aud hearts of tho two 
greatest nations of the world, at present joinod to hurl Lick 
despotism on the haughty tyraut of the north. Would to 
God he wore engagod in promoting the advancement of science 
and the raising the moral standard of his own subjects, 
by directing their attention to peaceful pursuits, instead of 
playing that disastrous part in the buttle-fields, where tho 
sad conditions are thoso which exact as the stake the 
prosperity of nations and tho blood of men, where tho winner 
is lie who best succeeds in destroying what he covets, with- 
out boiug able to foresee the extent of the sacrifices ho must, 
impose on himself to obtain it." Tho lecturer thou proceeded 
to give tho history of friendly societies, aud traced their 
origin to tho Soxuus, illustrating his theory by reading some 
quaint rules, translated from tho original Saxon, of societies 
held at Cambridge aud Exeter, and traced their modern 
formation from the time the Legislature first gavo attention 
to tho subject jn 1"73 to tho reoent act of the 13 anil 14 Vic. 
c, 115, He thou desoribed the origin and principles of tho 
building aud land societies, autl completed his lecture by a 
very elaborate exposition of tho history and principles oi 
life assurance associations, with a statistical survey of the 
bills of mortality, and various tables which huve, from time 
to time, formed the bases of calculation. The lecturer in* 
troduced some very extraodinary anecdotes illustrative of 
the advantages of adopting the principles, aud also some re- 
markable trials arising out of speculations of the kind in 
a former era. Ho made several very vivid appeals to his 
audience, commendatory of the system, and alluded to 
tho recent visitation of cholera in the following language: — 
“ What numberless instances have lately occurred around uh, 
where the strong, the healthy, tho futhers of families, liavu 
been suddenly struck down by the invisible agency of that 
dire and awful pestilence whigh sends uq herald to announce 
its approach — a few short hours and the prop of a house is 
gone, und those it supported enveloped in its ruin. There 
are some death-bed scenes where cousolatiou and hope may, 
in some measure, alleviate the bitterness of separation, but, 
what must be tho feelings of him, the agonising thoughts, ol 
the forgetfulness to have made a provision tor such a 
moment. • The pains of illness may bo alluviated by the sym- 
pathies of love, and the pillow of death smoothed down by 
- • - - - - ■ ■ | mt CJIU relieve the torture of a 
.iousnefs of its owu wont of fore- 
1 tiio criminal neglect of this great moral duty." 
ou “The Advantages of Combination as instanced by Life pathies of love, apd tho pula 
Assurance, Building, Land, and other. Provident Societies." j the hand of afTeath 11 , but wl 
The lecturer commenced by saying, "Combination signifies ‘ mind racked with the consul' 
union, aud it may exist for an unlawful as well as a lawful thought and tho criminal n> 
purpose; but it bos rarely ever been knowu to maintain The president of the society, the Rc\ . J. . . eukiusou, vicar 
•* * an unlawful one, as, iu the iu- of Battersea, was iu tho chair, and a large iwsoinbly greeted 
ike. There is geperally dis.- I the lecturer at hia conclusion with considerable applause, 
ion, which, sooner or later, | \ future lecture is announced by Dr, Bain, «u Respiration 
lrntnot.inr' diHspnainn breaks anil the Necessity of tree V until atiou as a Sanitary Measuie. , 
