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W 7! , a - ;. • 9 k • "L.tt: " e • 7 4- ,099k-I_O t : r; ; • 1 Nib .11 . , s. 11* . . pr - - - '=~:~; • ~:r ■ I I ;Zinn I • . • • .* , ll PRICE SEVEN PENCE. • SIX OF TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS IN ONE DAY. CARROLL gratefully acknowledges the patronag e 46-1 he experienced in his late Contract, and in soliciting public favour for the present Scheme, he begs again respectfully to state, that by Act of Parliament, there can be NO MORE LOTTERIES After the present Drawings. By retaining all the popular Attrac tions in.CARROLL'S Contract, and greatly increasing the amount of Prize-Money, the present BRILLIANT SCHEME Is now submitted to public notice, including for the drat time since the establishment of Lotteries, and before • THEIR FINAL CONCLUSION, SIX £20,000 £20,000 £20,000 £20,000 £20,000 £20,000 dtu &e. exceeding one-fourth of a MILLION OF MONEY ALL IN 'ONE DAY, the 18th of OCTOBER. Tickets and Shares are now on Sale at CARROLL'S Offices, 19, Cornhill ; 7, Charing.Cros,; and 26, Oxford-street, London ; where he sold, in Four Months, Four Prizes of £20,000! and lately, Four Prizes of £30,000! In the Lottery drawn the slst ut May last, CARROLL sold No. 5,446 (Class 11), a Prize of £10,000! and Six other Capitals! considerable sufferers, because the members its general have probably not the knowledge, if they have the honesty, necessary to an equitable settlement; but these sufferers probably do not know the ex mit of their loss; and indeed if, as will be the most probable case, they receive a sum in hand, instead of an an nuity to commence in even a few years, they will not have the inclination to complain. Nor could they be relieved in the way pointed out by the Acts, which provide only for a payment of money. It appears to your Committee, that "a breach of the Acts, by any trustee, member, or officer of a society, whether it be made the subject of c unplaint by an in. dividual aggrieved, or not, shiuld be liable to punish ment in a mode mere easy than an indictment at com mon law. It might, perhaps, be expedient that two Justices, in Petty Sessions, informed of an hitt ation to divide or appropriate the funds of a society oth,rwise than according to law, should be empowered to issue an order far staying all proceedings therein ; 21:13 that all persons concerned in a breach of such order, should be punishable by fine and imprisonment by summary EAST-1A DIA ROUSE, Serettekr 14, 1525. HE COURT of DIRECTORS of the UNITED TcoMPAAY of MERCH.II TS of ENGLAND, trading to tie E.IST-INDIES, do hereby give N o tice, That the QUARTERLYENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY) appointed to b e held at their House in Leaden mg.street, on WEDNESDAY, the 28th instant, is made further SPECIAL, for the purpose of laying before the Proprietors, for their approbation, a Resolution of the Court of Directors of this tta), granting to :11r. SA? DIPORD ARNO% the sum of 51500, upon the grounds therein stated. The Report required by the By cap. 6. sec. 20. together with the Do:unions upon which the Slid Resolution has been formed, are open far the Inspection of the Proprietors at this House. PETER AUBER, Assistant Secretary. PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY AND REVIEW. On the Ist of January, 1826, will be published ; In One Vol. Bvo. SPORTS of the PARLIAMENTARY PRO CEEDINGS of last SESSION, systematically arranged and cri:iciwd. M s ., in another Volume, to be had separately, if required, A BSTII ACTS of all important PAPERS presented during the SESSION. To be continued Annually. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green. HENRY'S CALCINED MAGNESIA continues to be prepared with the most scrupulous care and attention, by Messrs. THOMAS and WILLIAM H/OillY, Manufacturing Chemists, Blanchester. It is sold in bottles, price 2.5. 9d. or with glass stoppers at es. 6d. stamp included, with full directions for its nor, b their various Agents in the Metropolis, and throug hout the United Kingdom; but it cannot be genuine, unless their names are. engraved on the Government Stamp, which is fixed over the cork or stopper of each bottle. Of most of the venders .f the Magnesia may be had, authenticated by a similar Stamp, HEW'S Atoms= Smarr of Voices, the invention of Mr. Henry, and the only genuine preparation of that article. •BERKSHIRE. DISTINGUISHED MANSION - !r. a S:nall Beautiful Park, with the Right of Shooting over Five or Six Hundred Acres, upon the High Bath Road. • TO BE LET, For One, Two, or Three Years, - - - AN ELEGANT MANSION, fully Furnished, and comprising every Suitable Appendage for a Large Esta blishment, with or without Land ; the whule in the most perfect order, and possessing every possible recommendation, particularly ai to situation and neig hbourhood, within about sis h ours drive of PARLIAMENTARY REPORT. Town. For particulars, &c. apply, postage paid to Daniel Smith and , Son, Sursefors and land Agents, Dishopagate Church-yard, Lon don, and A'indsur, lkrks. CAPITAL MANOR N F.STATE, WITH OR WITHOUT A ADVOWSOIC TO BE SOLD BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, By DANIEL SMITH and SON, AVERY VALUABLE and highly improvable FREEHOLD FARM, of above FOUR HUNDRED ACRES, a large portion of which is Meadow and Pasture, well watered, beautifully situated upon a Turnpike-road, within an easy digance of several good Market Towns, fr. a rich and fa vourite Sporting County, with the Advowson, Glebe Lands, &c. The whole Rates upon the Estate do not exceed E2O per mem. Same adjoining Estates, with or without a good Family Residence, may be bad if required. For Particulars, &c. apply, postage paid, at their Offices, Bishopsgate Church-yard, London, and Windsor, where a 'Plan may be seen. STAINS of RED PORT WINE, Tea, Fruit , Mildew , and every Vegetable Matter, are entirely removed from TABLE LINEN, Cottons, Muslin, Laces, and other articles of Dress,by HUDSON'S CHEMICAL BLEACHING LIQUID: it also removes the above stains from Ladies'BUFF Dresses, without injuring the Buff colour, and restores all kind of discoloured Linen to its original whitenessy without injory to the texture of the cloth. Prepared and Sold by W. B, Hudson, Chemist, 27, Haymarket, London : Sold also by most Perfumers, Druggists, and Medicine Venders, throughout the United Kingdom, in bottles at ss. ss. and :is. each. N.B.—Mr. W. B. Hudson has no concern whatever with the al tides sold under the name of Hudson's Botanic Tooth Powder and Tincture. EAKE'S GENUINE PILLS, justly famous for .1.4 curing, in all Its stages, the VENEREAL DISEASE. — One small Pill is a dose, and the. taking of one Hex, is a recent case, will soon convince the patient of the certainty of his speedy recovery. Nothing t-an be better contrived, more safe, or more convenient than this Remedy, for such as are obliged to go journies or to sea, as it needs nn confinement nor restraint of Diet ; and sixty years experience (in an extensive practice) has proved that it will effect a Cure when repeated Salivation and all other methods avail nothing. For the Scurvy and other Chronica 'Disorders, this Medicine has not its parallel. Upwards of 40,000 persons of both sexes have been radically cured of the above cruel disor ders, within the last .eight years. Prepared. and add by the sole Proprietors, T. TAYLOR and SON, Members of the Royal Col lege of Surgeons, at their House, No. 9, New Bridge-street, in Boxes of only 2s. 9d. each, duty included.---N.B. Two back doors, and Lights in the Passages at night.—They are also sold, by their appointment, with copious directibus, at the Toy-shop, !OS, Oxford-street; Mr. Disborough's, No. 7, Fish-street-hill, nearly opposite the Monument ; and by one Person in every con siderable Town in .Great Britain and Ireland. Advice gratis to Persons taking the above, or other of the Proprietor's Medicines. COMPETITION; OR, THE TRIUMPH OF MERIT. rt T O those who from honour have never yet twered 1 Due prefrence conceding," an Agent observ'd, " 'The Public, fair Candour still prone to inherit, Are guided, and justly, by intrinsic merit — Impartially then, by true test to attain A knowledge whose BLACKING your favour shall gain, These un-labell'd bottles I place on the table, From Lannon Competitors each; and that able Of choice you may be, on these Boors quickly, boy, Your polishing brushes with care now employ." Six different BLACKINGS in Honour's pursuits, Went forth then to grace the like number of Boors; While known Amateurs mark'd •the progress of each, pref'rence by suss...mu:o Lomas to teach. The task when completed—" No difficult choice," These judges exclaitu'd, with unanimous voice, Viabosoever's the thocanta this bottle contains, Of Victory the palm most decidedly gains; Here art gives this Barr with resplendence to clash Unrivall'd that glows with the radiance of glass ; While each of the others apprently prays Permission to hide hs now diroinish*d rays." " THE ISICHTII or Meese your judgment proclaims," Rlately the discerning Agent exclaims, Reversing the bottle, when to! each eye met The now reveal'd label, of " Weenies hue Jar." While thus, allabash'd, Competition withdrew, More suark'd the applause by the Amateurs grew. " Thus Workmen," they mid, " ban established his name, Despite of OKTKACTION, in permanent Eason" This Easy Shining and Brilliant BLACKING Prepared by Is $O, STRAND, London; And sold in every Town is the Kingdom. LIQUID is Bottles, lid. lad. led. and tad. each. Also PASTE BLACKING, in Pots, 6d. 12d. and tad. each. A-Shilling Put of Passe is sepal to nur lA. Bottles of Liquid. tl Asti fos WAlLliditi's Backing. The Select Committee appointed to consider of the Laws respect ing Fasztatti Socirms, and to report the same, with their O bservations thereupon, to the House: and who were empowered to report the Minutes of Evidence taken before them;—have, pursuant to the Orders of the House, considered the Matters to them referred, and have agreed upon the following Report (Conetudedfrom our Paper of Yesterday.) Another suggestion is, that the Justices of every County should name two or more persons, upon whose certificate only they will sanction the tables. If it were certain that the Justices woald be careful to name only actuaries of acknowledged ability and experience, with out reference to provincial connection, this suggestion might prudently be adopted. But your Committee are of opinion, that the object might be more effectually accomplished, by providing for a similar nomination,' by some authority not local, but extending over the whole of England. A Bill, which was introduced into the House in the year 1818, and which was the original sketch of the Bill which afterwards became the Act 59. b Geo. 8, c. 1.28, contained the following provision That the Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury shall, within three months after the passing of this Act, nominate and appoint five or more persons, of whom two at the least shall be professional actuaries, or persons skilled in arithmetical calculations, to be a Com mittee for the purposes of this Act ; and any Society or Institution submitting tables or rules to such Committee for approbation, shall pay to such Committee such rea sonable fee er fees as the said Lord High Treasurer, or Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, shall appoint; and the amount of such fees shall be applied, under the direction of the said Lord High Treasurer, or Consinis sioners of his Majesty's Treasury, towards remunerating the said professional members of the said Committee, and otherwise towards defraying the incidental expenses attending the execution of this Act." Your Committee are informed, that this clause was omitted in consequence of an alarm which It occasioned among Friendly Societies, especially in the North of England, of an intention on the pan of the Government to interfere with the funds of the societies; although no apprehension could be more utterly groundless, it was Ithought advisable to withdraw the clause, and to sub- Fathom the provision respecting actuaries, which is now, in face. By a petition, referred by the House to your Committee, and from other quarters, suggestions have been made for establishing a Central Board or Offite, for the approving, in the first instance, of the calcula tions upon which Friendly Societies are formed, and subsequently watching over their management. Your Committee are not prepared to adopt this suggestion ; but they are of opinion, that the same objects may be accomplished in a mode which will require but little alteration of the law, and which will not excite alma or jealousy. By the present law, every Society which desires to avail itself of tt'e Government Debentures, is required to send to the National Debt Of copies of the rules, after they have been enrolled at the Sessions; your Committee propose, that the rules of Friendly Societies shall be transmitted to the National Debt Office previe ously to enrolment; and that the actuary of that office shall perform, eithir singly or in conjunction with ano ther calculator, to be named by the Commissioners, the duty of examining and certifying the tables of payments and benefits, and the rules connected therewith ; and he should be required to accompany his certificate with' such observations and suggestions as may appear to him useful towards furthering and securing the object of the Society. The enrolment at the Sessions would then' , proceed as at preseat. The managers of Savings Banks are required to fur nish to that Office, annual accounts, in a form pre scribed. Your Committee are inclined to think, that there could be no reasonable objection to placing Friendly Societies on the same footing in this respect as the Saving Banks, or in requiring them to make to the office in London, periodical returns in a prescribed form, whence the state of their affairs might be deduced. If this provision should be thought likely to excite alarm, it. would be enough that the Office should furnish each Soc - ety with a form of the return, and with instructions for keeping their bocks ; and declare a readiness to give an opinion upon the sufficiency of the funds, and the prospects of the Society, whenever an application, accompanied by a return in the form prescribed, should be made to it. In furtherance of these suggestions, and that the num ber and extent of Friendly S males may be known, your Committee propose, that these institutions be no looser permitted to deposit their funds in Saving Banks; but that they be required to draw their debentures directly from the Bank. Your Committee have hitherto confined themselves to the casualties usually provided for by Friend l y l Societies ; but it will be perceived, on a perusal of the evidence, that they have considered also the possibility of applying the principle of mutual assurance, not only as is now done iii a degree by some of the larger insti tutions, to the endowment of children at a future age, perhaps 14 or 21 ; but to the maintenance of young children. Being aware that much difference of opinion exists as to the desirableness of this object, the Com mittee content themselves with directing the attention of the House to the evidence of Dr. Granville and Mr. Finlaison, on the possibility of calculating the necessary tables for accomplishing it. Following the order of the Act of 1819, your Com mittee are now to advert to a provision which it con tained, for allowing the Quarter Sessions " from time to time to make and publish such general rules for the formation and government of Friendly S cieties or In stitutions under ti.e authority of this Act, as to such Justices may appear fit; and to require that the rules of all societies thereafter established within such county or tiding, shall be made conlbrinable to such general rules; and it shall also be lawful for such Justices to declare, that the rules inOposed for the formation of such Friendly Societies or Institutions which shall be made conformable to such general rules, may be exhibited to and confirmed by any two or more Justices holding Petty Sessions within the division wherein any such society is to be established; and in such case, and sub ject always to the direction of such general rules pub lished as aforesaid, such Justices in Petty Sessions shall have the like powers, and their proceedings shall be subect to the like provisions, in regard to th e fo r m ation of Irieadly Societies, as are by this and the former Acts established in respect of the Justices assembled in General or Quarter Sessions." The first part of this enactment, allowing the publi cation of general rules, to be adopted by all societies applying for enrolment, appears to your Committee to be well calculated to avoid error and delay. In the counties of Gloucester and Wilts such general mks have been published, together with t..bles calculated for the use of the former county, by Messrs. Morgan and Frend. Some difference of opinion has ;Risen, *s to the ex tent to which the power may be delegated to the Petty Sessions (which delegation has taken place, it is under stood, In the county of Devon), and it occurs to your Committee, that instead of continuing this power of delegating the authority of final approbation, it may be advisable to provide that societies may tender their rules to the Petty Sessions, in the first instance, instead of sending them to the Clerk of the Peace; and that the Petty Sessions shall transmit them, with their opinion, and with any explanation which they may think it right to give, whether of their own notion, or upon examina tion of the parties tendering, to tile actuary of the National Debt Office. The next provision of the Act, is one upon which your Committee find some difficulty. It requires that every Society shall have three Trustees at the least, of whom the majority shall be " substantial householders assessed to the relief of the poor, upon a sum not less than fifty pounds." - The objects of this provision assuredly were, to fur nish to every society the guaranty of a certain portion of . respectable and responsible persons; and also to encourage the formation of larger societies, for which there can be no difficulty in finding a sufficient number of substantial Trustees. Your Cummittee believe that the difficulty of procuring Trustees in the smaller societies, has been great ; that in some counties no care has been taken to ascertain their sufficiency, or even their existence, and it will certainly sometimes happen, that the owner of a considerable estate in the country, who retains only a small quantity of land in his own hands, may not be qualified under the Act; never theless your Committee are not prepared with any sub stitute for this clause; the State would perhaps not be justified in giving the ithportant pecuniary advantage which the debentures afford, to any set of persons, for whose funds no . two men of the degree of substance implied by the enactment are willing to answer. And that enactment operates as a preference of the larger institutions, in a degree which may be deemed neither inexpedient nor unfair. These Trustees, in whom all the property is vested, are to appoint the Treasurer; a security which your Committee think it right to retain. They have reason to believe, that questiuns have arisen as to the power of the Trustees. They apprehend, that the power neces sarily lodged in the Trustees, is the power defined in the Act, connected with the security of the fonds only. To these powers, the rules of a society may add, but cannot detract from them. The Act of 1819, provided an entirely new security against a fraudulent or imprudent application of the funds, or dissolution of the society. In the first place, no division of money otherwise than in the ordinary course can be made, nor the society be dissolved, by the vote of any proportion of the members, Without the consent of the Trustees; and such consent cannot be given without the certificate of two actuaries, who shall have been els eady admitted as such by the Jus tices; " that, according to the most correct calculation of which the case will admit, the interest of all the contributors to such institutions, and of all persons having claims thereon, in possession of expectancy, are, by the proposed scheme of dissolution, fairly dealt with . and secured." No alteration appears necessary in this provision, be yond what may be requisite to adapt it to any new arrangement which may be made as to the actuaries. But your Comm tree take this opportunity of observ ing, that sufficient prevision does not appear to be' made by any of the Acts, against a breach of the law in respect to the appropriation of the funds. Let the case be supposed, of the disregard of the prevision now in question. A society is dissolved, against the, will of the Trustees, or by the Justices, without. the ceitificate of the actuaries. The Trustees are not ag grieved in a way which entitles them • to relief in the summary mode pointed out by the Acts. Of the members, it may confidently be as aaased, some are process. The original Act had provided, that the affairs of a society should be conducted by a general meeting, or by &committee appointed at a general meeting, and contained other details as to the management of the business; the Act of 1819 med the societies formed under it, from all these prov isions, and only required that the powers of members, committees, or officer*, should be specified in the original rules. These r'ules were also to speefy the place of meeting ;:by which an opportunity was given to the Justices to'object to the appointment of a house of any particular description, or of any particular house. Your Committee have already given their opinion that the subscription of the funds into a Saving Bank should no longer be permitted. The permission to draw d, bentures from the Bank, at a fixed rate of interest, will, the Committee trust, be enjoyed by Friendly S cieties so long ai it is continued to Saving Banks. They would however at the sane time suggest, that it might perhaps be desirable, with a view to any new arrangement that may be made as to these debentures, that no future calculations should be made at more than three per cent. But in this cafe it would he necessary to provide, - us indeed all institu tions should provide, for an appropriation of eventual surplus. • Nothing in the Act prevents the trustees-from in vesting the money in the public funds, of from lending it upon real security, at interest. This last-mentioned facility is said to have given rise to some *bases, and it may perhaps be advisable to withdraw it. The Act provides " that the Trustees of any society or institution established under the authority of this Act, shall not be liable to make good any deficiency Which may arise in the fends of such society, unless such person shall have respectively declared, by writing under their bands, deposited and registered in like man ner with the rules of such soc ety, that they are willing to be answerable; and it shall be lawful for each of such persons, or for such persons collectively, to liar:it his her or their responsibility to such sum as shall be specified in any such instrument in writing." This clause is peculiar; not being found either in the former Acts, or in the Saving Banks Acts. Your Committee are aware that some difference of opinion has existed as to the legal liability of the Trustees of Saving Banks, and as to the necessity of their being so liable: your Committee are not aware that any inconvenience or question has arisen with respect to the present clause; nor are they prepared with any suggestion respecting it. The next section is equally new ; it provides for the intervention of the Justices, in any case in which the Trustees shall be apprehensive that the funds of the so ciety will be deficient. • This clause appears to require ievision, not only so far as it respects the case in which an enrolment shall have taken place at the Petty Ses sions (which practice it is proposed to discontinue); but because, by what must have been an accidental omission, no certificate of Actuaries is in this case required. 'The next section is the only section of the Act of 1819, which is applicable to societies previously formed. The former Acts appeared to give summary jurisdic tion to the Justices, only in the case of an application from a member of a society conceiving himself ag ! grieved; this Act provides the same relict for the widow or children of a deceased member. Societies formed under the Act of 1819, are in all points wherein that Act has made no alteration, to be subject to the provisions of the Acts of 1793 and 1809. The celebrated Report, made in 1817, by the Corn. mittee on the Poor Laws, refers to a proposition which 'had been made, for enabling parishes to become contri butors to Fr iendly Societies, or to guarantee the benefits of them to individuals. Not having had time fur con sidering this subject, which is one of much difficulty, your Committee content them elves with inserting its their Appendix, so much of the Report of 1817, as re lates to Friendly Societies. The attention of your Committee has been called to a question which has occurred, whether the 16th section of the Act 33 Geo. 3. eip. 54 is repealed by the 49th Geo. 1 cap. 125? The former allows of a rule for submitting disputes to Arbitrators, whose award is to he final, without reference to a Justice of the Peace. — The latter, in giving effect to the decision of the Jus tices, in the cases in which power is given to them by the former Act, is so generally worded as to be sup posed to supersede altogether the provision made in the former Act, for an arbitration. This matter should not remain doubtful. Yout Committee are inclined to be. lieve that the Arbitration Clause has not been produc tive of good effect; and tLey therefore recommend its repeal. Your Committee have been informed, that certain Societies whose rules are regularly enrol:ed, have also framed additional rules,which are intended to be equally binding upon the members, but which are neither en r rolled, nor contained is the printed books of the club. This practice may tend to mislead the public as to tho ml objects of a Society, if sot to cover illegal pro ceedings. It might be proper . to require. that any w inced book, purporting to COOP"a the regulations of a Fr mull, Society established under the Act, should con tain all the rules of that eociety, as mulled, neither