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ending 31st December, 1868, showing the amounts x’eceived and paid on account of sickness, have not been completed consequently no correct idea can be formed as to the society’s operations in that particular branch since December. 1867 but the contributions received in that year amounted to L 388,650 18s 5d ; interest, L 85.350 14s 5d ; and admissions to L 15,768 2s 6d, making the receipts L 499,669 15s 4d ; paid in sick benefits, L 251,385 17s; funeral benefits, L 75,412 4s 2d; together L 326,798 Is Id, leaving a clear gain of L 172,871 14s 2d, and making the accumulated capital of the Unity L 2,525,864 7s. Assuming that the success of the society in 1868 has been equal to that of 1867, and there is no reason to doubt it, they had a reserved fund of L 2,729,736 Is 2d. A good deal of legislation has been done this week by the annual moveable committee in the interests of the Order while they have been in session.

A TOUCHING SCENE AT SEA. (From the New York Sun.) Two weeks ago, on board an English steamer, a little ragged boy, aged nine years, was discovered on the fourth day of the voyage out from Liverpool to New York, and carried before the first mate, whose duty it was to deal with such cases. When questioned as to his object of being stowed away, and who brought him on board, the boy, who had a beautiful sunny face, and eyes that looked like the very mirrors of truth, replied that his stepfather did it, because he could not afford to keep him, nor to pay his passage out to Halifax, where he had an aunt who was well off, and to whose house he was going. The mate did not believe the story, in spite of the winning face and truthful accents of the boy. He had seen too much of stowaways to be easily deceived by them he said ; and it was his firm conviction that the boy had been brought on board and provided with food by the sailors. The little fellow was very roughly handled in consequence. Day by day he was questioned and rcquestioned, but always with the same result. He did not know a sailor on board, and his lather alone had secreted him and given j him the food which he ate. At last the mate, wearied by the boys persistence in the same story, and perhaps a little anxious to inculpate the sailors, seized him one day by the collar, and, dragging him to the fore, told him that unless he told the truth in ten minutes from that time he would hang him from the yardarm. All around him were the passengers and sailors of the mid-day watch, and in front of him stood the inexorable mate, with his chronometer in his hand, and the other officers of the ship by his side. It was the finest sight, said our informant, that he ever beheld —to see the pale, sorrowful face of that noble boy, his head erect, his beautiful eyes bright thi’ough the tears that suftused them. When eight minutes had fled, the mate told he had but two minutes to live, and advised him to speak the