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Copies of the detailed at • terms of business, and any further information , will be supplied ( —snrted I ... branches—M. . _ , _ _ ...... „ a „ ...„,.____,......„,,,,,,,,,,„ m r.„.„,,„,.....,„„..... L.'s 1 ....a.......... 17 15irm,...menc,a,.....,..r,..., ~,, ~,...., , . —, ... ,--- s „ ..onnityIir2I.IC,MTE.TINGISIIMMIg....-ItaErra , .1 • • ---.- ...-..'"` • -.-. ..--- .... .__. ...., _._ K their wants known to th.11n.",1 nf , P ..... A • ••• - ' ''' )ry Waiting the •e sales are last Friday 5, oats, and and calves, b., rearing nbs, Qd to )ach ; 5d per lb. *rom 9s 0(1 iing do., 4s Is Od to 000 3 Od to 615 Od ; ditto to Os Od; d to Os d ; 47s Od to nisi 2s 2d neat is 4d 2s 9d cash, about no re not pre the entire 3,000 mats ms ; and of have been t is rather et : kc. J. .-.28 0 ,_.21 6 -.29 0 ...29 0 -_29 6 6 28 3 _3U 0 _2B 0 ...30 0 ...28 9 ...24 6 ...29 6 .. ...28 6 ley 40 0 sen better being an- Sacks ; it. Cale- Lnd York- North , 8 1-16 ; oved in ig prices East Lan- Les, 138 ; he share in the d by the 'et not a L 'Change the Bank, Tokenhouse-yard ; and at any of the . Strand ; 77, Bridge-road, Lambeth ; Goswell-road, Islington ; and 1, Shaftesbury-terrace, Victoria-street, Pimlico By order of the Court of Directors. HUG LI INNEi CAMERON, General Manager. CONTRACT FOR CASKS. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, 3 d Feb. , 1854. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give notice, that on TIMODAY, the 16th instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat 'with such Persons as may be willing to Contract tor supplying' and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at DE r fEORD, 15,000 TIGHT avid DRY CA SKS of various dimensions, to be delivered, One Fifth of each in two months, and the remainder in 4 equal monthly deliveries afterwards, Or at an earlier period if preferred by the party tendering. Tenders may be made for the whole Contract or any lesser quantity. Patterns of the Casks may be seen at Deptford, and the conditions of. the contract at the said Office. No tender will be received after one o'clock on the day of treaty, but it will not be necessary that the party tendering, or an agent appointed by him, should attend at this Office, as the result of the offer will be communicated in writing. Every tender must be addressel to the Secretary of the Admiralty. and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Casks." and roust a so be delivered at Somerset-place, accompanied by a letter signed by two responsible persons, engaging to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 201. per cent. on the value for the due performance of the contract. . No. 19,146.] Just ready, • QIR CHARLES NAPIER and the D UKE of WELLING fON— a Supplement to " Indian Misgovernment." By Lieut.-General Sir WILLIAM NAI'IEE, K.C.B. Charles Westerton, Hyde-Park corner. Now ready, price Is., p ALMERSTON IN THREE EFO CHS. A Comparison of Opinions with Facts. By WASHINGTON WILES, Author of "A History of the Half Century.' London : William Freeman, G 9, Fleet-street. Just published, price 45., free by post, 5s , PHYSIOLOGICAL RESEARCHES into the Causes of Nervous Debility and Genito-Urinary Maladies, Spermatorrhcea rationally considered, with unanswerable Remarks on the empirical manner these Diseases are treated; being a Guide to Health, Long Life, and Happiness. By M E HIGHS. Sherwood, Piper, and Co., 83, Paternoster-row. Ju.t Published, T HE LAWS of WAR AFFECTING COM MERCE and SHIPPING. By H. BYERLEY THO3ISON, Esq., 8.&., Barrister-at-Law. Price is. 6d. Smith, Elder, and Co., 65, Cornbill, 1 market I tone at Just published, New Edition, price Is , T" CURABILITY of CONSUMPTION being a Series of Papers, presenting the most prominent and important Practical Points in the Treatment of the Disease. By FRANCIS lI:RAMADGE, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians, late Senior Physician to the Royal Infirmary for Diseases of,the Chest, lee. Also, by the same Author, A TREATISE ON AS fIIMA. London : Longman and Co. Fourth Edition, price 55. 6d., with cases, ON CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, &c. ,By ALFRED B, MADDOCK, M,D. " The treatment pointed out is at once simple, ingenious, and natural. and the evidence adduced of its efficacy and succe-s is incon troy:1111)1c "—liampdhire Telegraph. " We feel that we are doing an act of kindness to thousands of our fellow creatures in recommending an immediate and careful perusal of this work."—Somerset Herald. Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., Stationers'-hall-court, and through any Bookseller. ROBERT COCKS and CO.'S STANDARD OCTAVO EDITIONS.—MESSIAH, Gs. 6d. The CR EA TIUN, 4s. td. Edited by JOHN BISHOP, of Cheltenham. Folio copies, 13s. Also, SAMSON, by Dr Clarke, Gs. Sir George Smart's opinion : -" I consider the arrangement of both these oratorios to be most excellent ; it Includes all that the vocalist can desire, and the instrumentation is adapted in a very masterly manner ; the Appen dix to Messiah' is a valuable addition. (Signed) GEORGE T. SMART." —N.B. Specimen pages gratis and postage tree. London : Robert Cocks and Co., New Burlingtou•strect. THE SWEET VESPER BELLS of ANCONA. Ballad. Written and composed by JOHN PARRY, and Illustrated with Reminiscences of Ancona, atter a •-ketch from the Comp , ser's Portfolio. 2s. 6d. This admired song is altogether one of the happiest conceptions of this gifted favourite of the public. London : Robert Cocks and Co., New Burlington-street, Publishers to the Queen. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, 'FEBRUARY 4, 1854. PEOPLE'S EDITION OF MR. MACAULAY'S ESSAYS. On Tuesday, the 28th instant, will be published, in crown Bvo., Part 1., price One Shilling, and No. 1, price l y 2 d., NIR. MACAULAY ' S CRITICAL AND HISTORICAL ESSAYS. People's Edition. To be pub lished in Seven Monthly Parts, at One Shilling; and Weekly, in Numbers, price Three Half-pence each. *** The Prospectus and Specimen may be bad Of all Booksellers in Town and Country. London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. NEWPORT, -4)3ERGAVENNY, and HERE • FORD RAILWAY COMPANY. FIFTEENTH ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That the Fifteenth Ordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders of this Company will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, in the City of London, on TFIUItSDAY, the 23d day ot February next,at 12 o'clock precisely, for to purpose of transacting the ordinary business of the Company, and for the election of five Directors and one Auditor, in place of the same number who will retire W. E. FITZHAIIRICE, Chairman. The Transfer Books will be closed on and from the 9th day of Fe bruary next, till after the Uetting. THOS. PRIM BARD, Secy. London, 26, Spring gardens, Jan. 19. NEWPORT, ABERGAVENNI and HERE - FORD RAILWAY. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That an 'EXTRAORDINARY MEETING pf the NEWPORT, A.BERG A VENNY, and HEREFORD RAILWAY COMPANY will be held at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, in the City of London, on THURSDAY. the 23d day of February instant, at One o'clock, tot the purpose of giving add,tional authority to the Directors to exercise the borrowing powers of the Company, under the original Act, 8 vie., cap. 16. W. E. FITZ YI U RICE. Chairman: THOS, PRITCHARD, Secy. London, 26, Spring-garlens, 2d Feb., 1354. GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY COMPANY . or CANAD A.—Notice is Hereby Given, That the Directors have made a CALL of 21. 10s. on each and every share of the A series of the company, and a CALL of 10 per cent. on each class of the De bentures ?'f the company, payable at the Bank of Messrs. Glyn, Mi Is, and Co., Lombard-street, London. The said Calls are due on Monday, the 6th February, 1854. If not paid on or before that date, interest at the rate of 6 per dent. per annum willbe char ged oh those in arrear. Shareholders have the power of paying up the whole or a portion of their shares in lull, and. interest at the rate of 6 per cent. per an num will be allowed on all sums paid In anticipation of Calls. The Directors further give notice, th-ft by'a recent Order in Council to the Government of Canada, the Debentures of the Province will be issued in January next to those shareholders who shall pay to Mess. s. Glyn, Mills, and Co 51. per share (that is, 21. 10s. per share in addition to the Call now advertised) on each of their shares, and in full on the Debentures of the Province to which such shares are entitled. By order of the Board. WILLIAM CHAPMAN, Secretary. 2, Leadenhail•street, London, Dee. 3, 18.53. MINING INVESTMENT.--Pau ties seeking safe and profitable investments should tux. a their attention to the shares of those companies farmed for mining , especially when their estates are in Corn Wall and Devon. The die! .dends from many of these are equal to 10, 15, and 20 per cent. upon the outlay while others not yet paying dividends, but having excellent prospects of soon doing so, afford alsurolant scope f Jr speculation, not alone from * anticipated early returns to the props ethry, but likewise on account of the great enhancement in the vr Jim of the stock at tendant thereon. Mr. J.NO. S. LANE, 32. Poo It ry, London, having correspondents in all the richest mineral districts in England, is in a position early to advise his clients. Parties communicating will re ceive all requisite information, and Sir. LArs:E, will recommend either dividend paying, or•hon-dividond payin g concerns, to those wishing to embark in mining enterprise, and at: we his reasons for so doing. 32, Poultry, London, Jan., 1854. BONUS TO SHARBTIOLDEILS. HAMILTON'S MODERN INSTRUCTIONS for the PIANOFORTE. 50th Edition, 45.; for singin4, 3a Edition, ss. " These are new editions of highly popular works. Mr. Hamilton devoted himself wholly to the task of musical instruction ; and his didactic treaties on every branch of the art, the fruits of an intelli gent mind, aided by large experience, are by far the most useful works of their class extant in this country."—Spectator, Dec. 10, 1853. • • • HOME COUNTIES AND METROPOLITAN FREEHOLD LAND SOCIE' t".f. A Bonus of 51. Bs. 4cll. per cent, will be adds d to the past year's subscriptions, and in future . interest at the rate >I 51. Bs. 4d. per cent. Per annum will be given on all subscriptions, w ith such additional tones at the end of the year as the prefits of the:;Soclety may allow. Two Estates have been purchased for this So, ety during the past year—that at Wood-green (chiefly allotted) has been very satisfac tory and profitable, both to the allottees and the Society at large. The other Estate (not yet allotted) promisors to b e a more successful purchase than the first. there being a great demi rid for plots upon it. It is situated ih Wimbledon-park, in the midst ,)1' gentlemen's seats, and is adapted for first-class villas. There are two special advantages in this So•lLety, viz., members are not required to pay down any part of the plc a of the land prior to choosing plots. The full amount of the shares ,drawn in the ballot is advanced; also that snore shares are not draw it in the ballot than can be supplied with law], so that the members: may have the ad vantage of selling their drawn shares at a premiu mi. A share in full is 301., with an entrance fee of Is. By order, HENRY KNI G lIIT, Secretary. " THE PRESS," No. 40, This Day (Saturday), contains, among others—War—The Western Powers and the Eastern Question—Suppressed t•icandals—Mail Steamers and Bien-of-War—Strikes and Savans—Supply of Sailors--Lord John Russell and Mr. Wilson Croker —Tile Law of Partnership and Limi ted Liability—Parting Interview between Lord Aberdeen and the _ _ . _ _ CLOSE OF HOLIDAYS. e return of Youth to their respective Boarding-Schoo It induces a solid tuoe from parents and guardians for their Per sone Comfort and Attraction, and ROWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL, :for accelerating the growth and improving and beautifying the hal r, ROWLANDS' KALYDOR, for improving the skin and compienit and removing cutaneous eruptions, and ROWLANDS' °DONT 0 , or Pearl Denti frice, fbr rendering the teeth beautifully white, az td preserving the gums, are considered indispensable accompanirn ft its for the attain ment of those Personal Advantages so universal ,y sought for and admired. Beware of Spurious Imitations. The only get u tine of each bear the name of "ROWLANDS' " preceding that of t, be article on the wrapper or label. Sold by A. ROWLAND and SONS, 20, Hatton*. garden, London; and by Chemists and Perfumers. ussian Anibassador Literature—Ru , kin's Stones of Venice —The borough holding his seat, on the ground that he took his seat before the time specified within which the elec tors could petition r►gainst his return. as he took his seat within five days of the prorogation of the last session, and the electors ought to have fourteen days allowed them after th e return to petition against it. He concluded by moving that the petitioners be now allowed to present a ptitition to the house against the return of Mr. Thomson. Hankey, the sitting member. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL thought it was highly desirable that the hone e should be put in possession of the facts of the case. ..A. committee last session decided that Mr. Whalley was not duly elected, and that Mr. Hankey ought to have been returned. After the committee had adjourned the inquiry on the appli cation of Mr. Whalley "n counsel, it was stated by his counsel that it was not intended that Mr. Whalley should then go into a recriminatory case. There was abundant opportunity fbr Mr. Whalley and his counsel to have then gone into a recriminatory case against Mr. Hankey, and though M r. Coppock, Mr. Whalley's agent. had instructions to do so, Mr. Wballey's counsel stated he did not wish to do so. He (the Attorney-General) believed there was no precedent for receiving a petition now against the return, and though he believed the house ought to give full opportunity to inquire into all the circumstances of elections, yet he thought the sitting member ought not to be harassed by petitions, unless in cases where the select committee had made a special re commendation to do so, which was not the case in re ference to the last return for Peterborough. Mr. SCOTT, a n - ieta.ber of the committee who tried the petition, confirmed the statement of the Attorney- General, that Mr. Whalley's counsel declined to go into a case of recrimination. History of Yucatan, by Charles St. Johu Fancourt, Esq.—Recent Novels, Mabel, by emma Warburton—APeford—Lismore, by Mrs. A. Crawford—Ruth Gamley, by Mrs. Mackenzie Daniels—Charles Stanley—Letter to John Bright, Esq., M.P., on the India Question, by James Wilson—Notices of Books, Pamphlets, and Reprints— Periodical Literature—The Theatres—together with all the News of the Week. _ GLENFIELD *PATENT STAR CH (used in her Majesty's Laundry), and WOTHERS P DON'S Machine made CONFECTIONERY, MAR SIA LADE, JAMS , JELLIES, &c., (which gained the Prize Medal of 1851), may be h a d of all Grocers ; wholesale of Wotherspoon, Mackay,. and Co., 6 6, Queen-street, Cheapside, London, and Robert Wotherspoon and 0 a., Glasgow. --- London : Robert Cocks and Co., New Burlington-street, Publishers IMPERIAL PARLIA_MENZ " THE PRESS" is published every Saturday, at the Office, No. 110, Strand, price 6d. May be had of all newsmen, and at the railway stations. Money orders to be made payablo to Mr. Alfred lye. 30 35 25 55 HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTITADAY.) Mr. BANKES said he must press upon the house the motion he had made for the reception of the petition. Mr. ISAAC BUTT thought there was by no means so clear a case for refusing to accept this petition as• the Attorney-General seemed to think this was not a petition from Mr. Whalley, but from the electors of Peterborough, who charged, whether truly or falsely he did not say, bribery and corruption against the sitting member. And, moreover, it should be borne in mind that the case of recrimination was not gone into simply because Mr. Coppock thought fit, in direct opposition to the instructions of Mr. Whalley. (Hear, hear.) He then moved an amendment that the petitioners be heard at the bar of the house in support of their allegations. Mr. PALMER thought, upon every principle of law and common sense, the decision of the committee who tried the merits of the former petition, and which declared Mr. Whalley unseated and Mr. Hankey duly elected, ought to be respected. Mr. BUTT did not press his amendment, and the motion was negatived without a division. to the Queen The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat o mt the woolsack at 5 o'clock. THE EASTERN QUESTI ON. pURSSELL'S BRIDE CAKES, 1 to 10 Guineas; Dessert Cakes, ls. to 10s., viz., Dundee, Madeira, School, and Savoy Cakes; Swiss and French Pound Cakes, Is. 6d. per lb. ; Swiss and Italian. Pastry, for evening parties, Is. to 3s. per doz. ; 16 sorts of Almond Cakes, Ratiflas, and Maccaroons, 2s. per lb. ; Rout Cakes, 3s. per lb. ; Mixed Cakes, Is. 6d. per lb. ; Mixed Biscuits, is. '2d. per lb.; Biscuits in bags or boxes, 14 for Is., viz., Arrowroot, Brown, Digestive, Milk, Abernethy, German Cuddy or Captain's Biscuits ; Mince Pies, 4s. and 6s. per doz. ; Jellies and Soups, 4s. per qt.; Creams and Ices, 6s. per qt.; Made Dishes. Raised Pies, Hams, Tongues, Fowls. Caution.—John R. Purssell, 162, Regent•street, and 20, Ludgate-hill, only. COMMON SENSE for SIXPENCE ! A Book for Young Men. By a Physician. For the public good and the suppression of quackery. Numerous anatomical descriptive engravings, price 6d. ; through all Booksellers, in a sealed envelope, or sent post tree tor 6 postage stamps. SILENT HINTS on Certain Subjects; a Medical Mentor for the Million, containing. numerous pre.criptions and directions by which H.mpiricism and Quack. ry are defeated, and all usual remedies superseded. By following very simple directions all those complaints resulting from error are speedily removed, natural strength restored, and vigorous health imparted. " No young man should be without it."—Globe. "Just the thing that was wanted."—Politician. Ad tress, Mr. Lewes, Medical Publisher, 2, Charles-street, Hatton garden. London. CURRENT HISTORY.—The DAILY PAPERS SUPPLIED throughout the eatire west-end dis tricts, either for reading or keeping. Clubs, reading societies, and regimental messes contracted with. All the business of an adver tising agent promptly executed by HENRY WETIONE, newsman, 213, Oxford-street. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE g. ave notice that on Monday he would call the attention pf the house to the question of " peace and war," and particularly to some passages contained in one of the k ttest despatches addressed to St Petersburg—that of the 24th December. Their lordships then adjourned. The house then went into committee. MERCHANT SHIPPING AND PILOTAGE. JAPANESE EXHIBITION. The FIRST DIRECT IMPORTATION from JAPAN is NOW OPEN for EX aIBITIONT, at the Gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, SA, Pall-Mall East, for a limited period, as the Society re quires the Gallery for their paintings. Admittance, after atarday, is, HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YES' TERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 4 o'clo ck. PRIVATE BILLS. Several railway and other private bil Is were brought in by Mr. BROTHERTON, and read a first time. PETITIONS. Mr. LOCKE KING presented a pet ition from Mit cbairn, in Surrey, in favour of Ocean Pei Lily Postage. Sir G. PECHELL presented a petit ion from Brigh ton, praying an active operation may lao taken against Russia in favour of Turkey. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL pres ented a petition from Southampton, against the consolidation of boroughs and counties for police purposes. IRISH GRAND JURY SYSTEM. REMOVING or WAREHOUSING FURNI TURE.—Contracts entered into for the removal to any dis. tance. Estimates sent, gratis, including risk of damages, packing up furniture, thins, plate, and glass, wines, books, instruments, &c. Wrappers, mats, boxes, hampers, &c., with waterproof coverings for bedding, and the hire only charged. Pictures, engravings, works of art, packed in cases on an improved principle, at T. .I%IA.DG WICK'S, 11, Pavement, Finsbury. JOZEAU'S COPAHINE-MEGE, or Saccharatt, C A.PSULES, approved by the French College of Physicians, successfully administered in the Paris and London Hospitals, and acknowledged by them to be the best remedy for the cure of certain diseases (see " Lancet " 6th Nov., 1852.) Price, per 100, 4.. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d.—To be had of the Inventor, Gabriel Jozeau, 49, Haymarket, London, whose name is printed on the Government stamp ; and all the principal chemists. MORRIS'S BLACK SWAN HOTEL, SNIG-HILL, SHEFFIELD. _ . Mr. F. SCULLY wished to ask the 3 Chief Secretary for Ireland if it is the intention of G 'overnment to in troduce any measure to amend the GI and Jury system in Ireland in the present session. Sir J. IkOUNG said the Governrr tent had no such intention.• [ PRICE SD. - Commercial Gentlemen and others are respectfully solicited to give this Hotel a trial. The house has bben thoroughly lie-furnished, and affords every domestic comfort. Spacious and excellent Stabling. T. g. and R. M. MORRIS (late Head Waiters at the Royal Hotel, Sheffield, and Angel Hotel, Whitby), Proprietors. DUBLIN UNIVERSITY. whilst..the4r4tv:vne:rn 7 -Close-ties ^4 imitv Mr. FAGAN wished to ask the not:hie lord the mem ber for London whether it is the inte 'llion of her Ma jesty's Government to introduce this session any mea sure for reforming the Dublin Univerrsity, having for its object the opening all the honour .8, privileges, and advantages of that University to studei els of all religious denominations. . _ _ _ Lord J. RUSSELL said it was no 6 intended at pre sent to introduce such a bill, but the s' abject was under consideration. BRITISH DIUSEUD E. CONTR ACT FOR BUM. Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport Services, Somerset-place, 2d Feb., 1854. THE Commissioners for Executing the Office of Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do Hereby Give Notice, that on THURSDAY, the 16th Instant, at One o'clock, they will be ready to treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores at DEPTFORD, • When to be deliver, d. 1 Gallons. Half in three weeks, and the re- RUM .. ~..............50,00a mainder in three weeks after wards, or earlier if preferred by the party tendering. The Ram to be exempted from the Customs Ditties. Tenders will be received from any firm for any portion of the total quantity not less than 2,000 gallons, Samples of the Rum to he sent in pints for each import mark, and the average strength of each mark ex to be stated, and not an average of different marks or strengths of several imports, and any parcel of Rum that is found not to be of the same quality, mark, or average strength, of the sample tendered and accepted will be rejected by the officers. The samples produced by persons whom tenders are not accepted are requested to be taken away by them frnmediately atter the con tract has been decided. .. . . . .. The conditions of the revised contracts, to which particular atten tion is called, may be seen at the said office, at the 4 Bice of Com mander Bevis, at Liverpool, and of the Co'lector of Custom 4 at Bris tol. No tender will be received alter One o'clock on the day of treaty, nor any noticed unless the party attends, or an agent for him, duly authorised in writing. Every tender must be addressed to the Secretary of the Admiralty and bear in the left-hand corner the words " Tender for Rum," and must also be delivered at S merset•piace, and must be accom panied by a letter signed by two responsible i ersons, enga;ing to become bound with the person tendering in the sum of 201. per cent. on the value, for the due performance of the contracts. INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY, No. 72, Lombard-street, and 21, Connaught-terrace. TIUSTEEB. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P7I - WChard 3fallns. Esq., Q.C., J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. James Fuller Minion, Esq. William Wilberforce, Esq. The POLICIES are INDISPUTABLE, in terms of the Deed of Settlement of the Company, duly registered, and are thus rendered Certalnyamily Provisions, and Negotiable Documents of Security. This Company has lntro.luced, as more peculiarly applicable to the Middle and Industrious Classes, a plan of SELF-PROTECTING INSURANCE, whereby in one Policy for one rate of Premium are combined an Insurance of a Sum payable either at death or on attaining a specified age, and a pension or annui'y after that age ; aid giving the full b. nest of all Premiums that have been paid, although the payments should at any time be discontinued. ALEX. ROB F,R SON, Manager. COMMERCIAL and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE, FAMILY ENDOWMENT, and LOAN ASSOCIATION, 112, Cheapside. Notice is hereby given, that the ANNU tL GENERAL MEET ING of the SHAREHOLDERS in this Association, will be held at the offices, as above, on MONDAY, the 20th day of February instant, at One o'clock precisely, for the purpose of electing new Directors to supply vacancies, and other necessary matters, according to the provisions of the Deed of Settlement. TIIROUAND. Chief Clerk ANNUITIES ON THE MUTUAL PRINCIPLE. ENGINEERS', MASONIC, and UNIVERSAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. 345, Strand, London, PITR :IHASE RS OF ANNUITIES ADMITTED TO PARTICI- PATION IN THE PROFITS. Policy Stamps paid by the Society. Assignments of Policies Registered Free of Charge. A Liberal Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents on the Introduction of business. ANTHONY PECK, 111. A., Assistant-Actuary. LIFE ASSURANCE; REPORT of the SELECT COMMITTEE of the HOUSE Of COMMONS, and the DEPOSIT SYSTEM—the New and Important Feature of Life Assurance adopted by The DEPOSI and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY. The following is an extract from the Report of the Select Corn- Inittee - " THE OBJECTS which persons HAVE ;Dr VIEW IN EFFECTING IN SUEANCES upon their lives, are GENERALLY OF AN IMPORTANT AND SOLEMN chsracte , , viz., the PROVISIoN FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS after the death of their NATcranx. PROTECTORS ; unliks any ordinary transaction of trails, A CONTRACT ONCE ENTERED INTO CANNOT BE DISCHARGED OR ABANDONED, it doubts of the stability of an office should arise, WITHOUT A SACRIFICE OF PREMIUMS PAID IN PAST YEARS, and the necessity of effecting new policies in other offices at increased rates of premium, owing to the greater age of the assured ; persons are thus placed in the ANXIOUS AND UN HAPPY DILEMMA OF BEING COMPELLED TO PERSEVERE IN PAYING PREMIUMS FROM YEAR TO YEAIL, With SOME suspicion and doubt as to the ultimate advantage of doing so, oz OF INCURRING THE SE RIOUS LOSS WHICH, UNDER THE• MOST FAVOURABLE CIRCUMSTANCES, ?RUST ATTEND THE ABANDONM3NT OR SALE OF A POLICY." On the DEPOSIT SYSTEM a person is NOT "COMPELLED" to pay from TEAL TO YEAR," and he does not, if desirous of " ABANDON ING" his Policy, incur any sE Ramos Loss," but, on the contrary, he may pay such amounts, and at such times as he may find most con venient; he can stop paying whenever he pleases, and he can with draw the whole or part of his premiums. If the whole be with drawn the Policy is cancelled; AT part only, then the value of the Policy is diminished by the assured value of the part withdrawn. A B, aged 20, opens a deposit policy with a payment of 51., which it will be seen he increases from time to time, and occasionally diminishes. C o." 4 ...:...010n.mm10m.,,-,... .., I. •••• ort 07 , :vt . eq.ll,l,34l7AlgSg=t;2B Ch 3 -12 ----,... I 41 it c) Z la . .0„. ...., „..... „. , , ~,.., ...... a ~, 4 g 5l „ ; ,..,,,,f ;.....??, 1-.44 .4.0,N !!. . 5 u 502. ~--m .m , ..k... cr, ...,.., - O , INM 0401 M rn ni . 07 rt CD ..4 E 4 C•I SA ..4. I m 1:3 t ,, c . f . ... 3 . A 4 fi, I.s .; ~ II II 11111 m ••ti . . o ° 41 . 4 ; IQ g F ___„,_ - co $4 C 4 C 4 04 CI C 4 04 CI C 4 CO 1 ) -a O • , 0 3 24 !' l ' 4, - etlil 41' , —"""g2.4gr.n2L4iMSg 'a ~. 1 ° al Q .. -.I 1 '. l o 1 6 A i ~„2 a— 2 . = 222 t; z r o: a t. .... • I 2 , t ... 1 ai , . N i .0 1 2 ....4 Rg W H ----=-----1---: - •.•. • .. : . 1 • •,.= . 4 i c: V;W;Pg'aglit'gtg 4 , -,op.oti,AA..oRPIA w A r 4 01 10 . 0 I-. nO , r 1 ea C . le, . 10 .0.0 101.0 \ . 2 G 0.... _ __ __ Thus AB, in 10 years, has saved and invested at different inter vals various slims amounting to 971., by which he had been insured in case of death for 2601. 12s. 7d ; but A B re mires 22/. ; by draws this stun out, and diminishes the value of his Policy by 601. Bs. 3d. at different times. leavitm him in case of death a Policy for 2001. 4s. 4d., and during his life a fund of 751. to draw out at any time, in part or wholly. The first claim settled by the D sposit and Qeneral Life Assurance Company was upon a deposit of 101. which W parent made for each of five children, instead of aiding it to an account they had at the Saviors Bank. One of them died a few days after the 101. was de posited, and the father received 34Z. 65., being the amount of the De posit Policy. EXAMPLE. No. 2. supposing A B, aged 23, when 33e opens a Deposit Policy his the me ans, and continues VOLUNTARILY to pay the same sum every year in the same way as he is COMPELLED to do in the ordinary system. Age. MR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC, including the BEENESE OI3ERLAND and the SIMPLON, EVERY EVENING at Eight o'Clock, (except Saturday), and Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Mornings, at Two. Stalls, 35., which can be taken at the box office every day from 11 to 4 ; area, 25.; gallery, IL—Mont Blanc, Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly. L"GYPTIAN HALL.-CONSTANTINOPLE _ is open TO-NIGHT at Eight, and Every Day at Half-past Two o'clock. 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(IN TRUE it FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, IF with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors n , •clation to the Treatment and Cure of the Impuissant and Sexual Hypochondriacs, Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. T)whlch is added, an. ESSAY on SEXUAL DEBILITY, by the Editor. "Dr. Pickford , s known to English readers by his frequent practi cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the first time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the nou-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall ietect any other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his flower to correct." —London Medical Gazette. May 30, 1851. The tribe of 'Quiet Sympa thisers:and ' Medical Friends,'are mercilessly exposed ; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who suffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds would be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— much money...... This volume is well qualified to put an end to the empirical system of treating Spermatorrhosa, and to placs the treat ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore, likely to do much eood."—Medical Circular, June 16, 1852. London: H. Banters, 219, Regent-street. ON THE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES T AND HE DISAPPOINTED REMEDYTHE CONTAINING FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE. Illustrated by On e Hundred Languages — Fiftieth Anatomical Coloured Engravings and Establishment, 3s. fid New Edition, enlarged to 200 pages, Cases. price 2s. 6d., by post, from the in stamps, rbt o infection,t l ie MEM SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on n s h y e s q i c u a l e n e decay es system , produced by ex i cessiv th e e in ex au h l a g us en t c io e n , t a h n e d eo p mercury, with directions for the use of thepreventive or the abuse of lowed by observations on Marriage, and the disqualifications lotion, fol lowed it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. which PERRY and C 0..: Consulting Surgeons, 19, Be By R. and L. niers-street Oxford street, London: Published by Sherwood and Co 23, P ' . - :oW, and sold by Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Gor don,Ox"ford-starternoster- -146, Leadenhall-street ; 95, Farringdon-street ; w. Oxford-street; Row Church - yard; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; R Johnson, 68, Co n i, 10, ill. PART I. treats of the anatomy and Physiology of the reproductive rn organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engraving., PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, produchig mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative Incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanatory Engravings. PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the rimary or scondary form, and conins explicit directions for their treatment. e This section is illustrated by 62 1 t Engrav ings. PART IV. contains a Remedy for the Prevention of Disease by a simple application, by which the danger of infection is obviated. PART V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage and its duties. The Call4CS of unproductive union are a lso considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inqnired into. 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Commission allowed. 25 per cent. upon new Life Premiums, and 5 per cent. renewal, also 15 per cent. Fire Premiums, new and renewal, with any necessary charges such as postage, &c. Address to C. Y., 4, Broadway, Lud gate-hill, London. TRIESEMAR, protected by Royal Letters Patent of England, and secured by the Seals of the Ecole do Pharmacie de Paris, and the Imperial College of Medicine, Vienna. The long continuance of most Maladies arising from impurities, while it tends to render detection more certain, and thus frequently to embitter the domestic hearth, also serves to excite feelings of dis • appointment, and to induce lowness of spirits, and other sensations of a most painful kind. The TRIESE MAR effectually, in the short space of three days, ccmpletely and entirely eradicates all traces of these Disesses, to whatever stage they may have advanced. p masess ing at the same time the manifest advantages of being utterly devoid of taste or smell, and of all nauseating qualities. It may lay on the toilet table without its use being suspected. Sold in tin cases at I is. each, free by post, 2s. extra, divided hats separate doses, as administered by Valpeau, Lallemand, Roux, &c , &c. This quantity is sufficient for any case, however virulent or protraeted.—To be had Wholesale and Retail at Barclay and Sons, 95, Fan ingdon•street ; Johnston, 68, Oornhill ; Hannay and Co., Oxford-street, London. QUEEN'S SPEECH.. *** It was imagined by some of my subjects that it woutd be difficult to make up a speech at the opening of Parliament —foreign relations being in a rather sad condition, and some people having made free with our home institutions ; but notwithstanding all these circumstances it becomes me to congratulate you on the vast amount of prosperity which is felt in all commercial circles—a proof of which are the transactions of E. MOSES and SON; they have been more industrious than ever in furnishing all my subjects with the Best and Cheapest Dress, which has not only improved the condition and comfort of my people, but is the most coAent reason for the peace and satisfaction which prevails throughout these great kingdoms. What are the intentions of the Emperor of the North it is difficult to determine, but the North itself is not capable of resisting the strong and fashionable Overcoats, Paletots, and Attire for all classes made by E. Mons and SON, for it is the best and cheapest ever offered. It is a source of regret that many of the necessaries of life are charged most enormous prices, but our loyal subjects, E. MOSES and Sox, have so reduced the Price of Caathing, Hosiery, Hats, Boots, and Shoes, Btc,, that the inconvenience of high-priced food is little felt by the great majority of my subjects who patronise their Este blishinents and its Branches, New Oxford-street, corner of Hart street, Fargate, Sheffield, and Bradford, Yorkshire. I recommend to you the affairs of those in Australia, and trust you will fit them with laws as E. Mons and Sox Outfit them with Clothes and every other artic'e required for that prosperous country ; and as this business is attended to with the greatest industry, care, and experience by E. Moses and Sow, either wholesale or smaller parcels may be selected at any moment. I trust you will continue to imitate their business-like example, as you recollect so well their name, places of business, and plans of trade. CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like lalsehood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or " It's the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and for - ibvious reasons, they beg to state that they have No QONNEXION WITU ANT OTLIEB. HOUSE IN OF, OUT OF LONDON, except their own Establishments, as follows : London City Establishment, 154, 155. 15, and 157, Mineries, 83, 34,85, and 86, Aldgate, opposite the Church, all communicating. London West-end Branch, 506,507, 508, New Oxford-street, 1, 2 and 3, Hart-street, all communicating. Bradtord(York_shiLe).l:iranc.li, 19 and 20, tridge-street. Sheffield - Branch, 36, Fargate. Colonial Branch, Melbourne, Australia. Merchant Tailoza Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen. IMPORTANT.--Should any article not give satisfaction, it will be exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest price, from which no abatement can bo made. The Establishments are closed from sunset on Fridays to sunset on Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock. A new Book, " The Epitome of Comfort and Economy," contain ing full lists of price,s, our system of self-measurement, &c., &c., may bo had on application, or post-free. A handsome Almanac for the year ending 1854 can be had, gratis on application. lei Pon pule Francais. Qui at parla Itallano. idler scricht man Deutsch. Aqua se habla Dam° MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY. DR. SAMUEL LA'MERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON, Doctor of Medicine, and Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical gocletY. Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c. MAY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on the various disorders of the nervous and generative system, resulting from juvenile irregularities and excesses, which have pro duced more misery in youth, degradation in manhood, and prema ture decay at all stages of life, than perhaps any other class of dis ases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are in exist ence secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous Debility, various forms of Insanity , Unhappy and Unfruitful Marri ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their endless modifications owe their almost entire origin. It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are principles of personal management which cannot be violated without incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be removed, and how the evil and its com4equenc es may be avoided, and above all, that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot apply a cure. DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com plaints, and is the only legally qualified Physician who, regardless of the taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had the confidence, through the medium of the public press, to direct attention to these enormous evils, from which no grade of society is free. In selecting this department of practice, he has been amply rewarded by the great success that has attended his efforts in the treatment of these cases, which are too generally confided to the care of unqualified and ignorant empirics, who, with their pirated publications, assumed foreign names and titles, and pretended virtues of their patent nostrums, have inflicted serious injury on those who have been induced to place faith in their pretensions. At home for consultation daily from Eleven till Two, and from Sixl medicinesiilslEdiegschiartna. bbl A ee Ilth for w ardedl e a t t te r s pat m ieto i n ts tsan t cow3inisthariagtshtooerfecoaeansodfruielgsi.t, and advice and t A Medical Treatise on S t E he LFPRE hOnld first obtain a copy of his work on excesses. G r e i sh n ei e rh r igp a t t ii i ho v nd e eoTt Debility , fohtei htheepierr vara:perusal illustrated s it o : f disorders this by t LA 3ra fifty- s eo eui l t o :,, red zil PhilosophyS R ofV A M T I a r 0 r g e and Ne r vou s E I n : f ss ro e and may be had, price 20 6d, in English, s mn i gr s s t eaerv in en t g uh s t , ae a h n e t d sr d rh e en s c i French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German, of Messrs. Piper f;rotaers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, oxford-street; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Storie, Titehborno-street, Haymarket ; or free by post for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Authoro Tea . 110,37 ) .144/01)3D-StitiAttS LONDOI. Mr. PELLATT wished to ask L ord John Russell whether arrangements have been madn i t-that the public may have access to the British Mu seum at least five days in the week, instead of the more lilmited number of days hitherto allowed. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said he uould not answer the question. It had better be put to one of the trus tees of the British Museum. Mr. GOULBURN was afraid no change could be made in the present arrangement. TENANT COMPENSATION. Mr. Serjeant SIIEE wished to ask the Secretary for Ireland whether the Government will undertake to in troduce the Tenants Improvements Compensation (Ire land) Bill into this house, before it is submitted to the judgment of the House of Lords. Sir J. YOUNG replied in the negative. The bill would, having already passed the Commons, be intro duced into the other house, and referre d to a select com mittee of the Lords. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS. Mr. BENTINCK wished to ask the President of the Board of Trade, whether it is the intention of her Ma jesty's Government to bring in a bill during the present session, or take any other steps, for the better preven tion of accidents in railway travelling. Mr. CARDWELL said it was the intention of the Government to bring in a bill on the subject in the course of the present session. NOTICES OF MOTION. Mr. ADDERLEY gave notice that on Tuesday next he should put a question to the noble lord the member for the city of London relative to the intentions of the Government this session on the general subject of national education. FIRE INSURANCE. Col. SIBTIIORP gave notice of his intention to renew his motion shortly for the reduction of the duty on fire insurances. MILITIA DEPOTS. In reply to Col. GILPIN, The SECRETARY AT WAR stated that it was the intention of the Government to introduce a bill to ex empt militia depots, and storehouses from the payment of local rates and taxes. UNIVERSITY REFORM. Mr. BLACKETT wished to ask Lord Palmerston if he intends to lay before Parliament copies of any cor respondence that has passed between the Home Office and the Chancellors of Oxford and Cambridge, on the subject of University Reform ; and between the Home Office and the Authorities of single colleges in the said universities, on the subject of. Coll eg i a t e R e f orm . Lord PALME RSTON said it was his intention im mediately to lay before the house the first part of the correspondence, and probably he should be able to pro duce the second part at no distant period. Mr. HENLEY. wished to ask L or d J. R usse ll by whom, and at what ti me, the instructions referred to in page 54, line 49, of the report of the Oxford University Commission were issued, and if there be any objection to lay a copy of the instructions on the table of the house. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said the instructions were not written, they were verbal. FLOODS OF TH SHANNON. Colonel DUNNE wished to ask the Under Secretary for the Treasury, whethe r an y , or if any, what steps have been taken with respect to the comp l a i nts o f th e inhabitants of Banag her and its vicinity, of injury done to their property by the floods of the Shannon which have been caused by operations of the Board of Works •n that river. Mr. WILSON said the memorial had been referred to the Board of Works, but no answer had yet been received. BURIAL SOCIETIES. Lord STANLEY wished to ask the Secretary for the Home Department, whether it is the intention of Go vernment to introduce a bill for the better regulation of burial societies, and f or the prevention of abuses con nected therewith. Lord PALMERSTON was quite aw are t h at t h ere existed great abuses connected with these societies, and it was his intention shortly to introduce a bill for the purpose of correcting or preventing a recurrence of those abuses. (Hear, hear.) THE BRITISH MUSEUM. Mr. HUME asked whether any intention existed on the part of the Government with a view to the improved management of the British Museum, in accordance with the recommendation of a select committee of the house ? Viscount .PALMERSTON said he would reply to the question on a future day. OATHS IN SCOTLAND. In reply to a question from Mr. BRIGHT, Viscount PALMERSTON said the case of a person named Alexander, who was committed to prison at Edinburgh for refusing to take an oath on conscientious grounds, was that of a person who was not legally exempt from taking an oath ; but ho would look into the case to see if the term of his imprisonment could be shortened. LAW 01? PARTNERSHIP. Mr. RICARDO asked if Government had received any report from the commission appointed to inquire into the law of partnership, or whether the Government intended to bring in any measure on the subject this session. Mr, CARDWELL replied, that the Government were in daily expectation of receiving the report. PETERBOROUGH ELECTION. Mr. BANKES drew attention to a petition which he had presented against the present member for Peter- The house then went into committee on the navigation laws, when Mr. CARDWELL said—l rise to move for leave to bring in a bill to give effect to that passage in the Speech from the Throne in which the Queen proposes that we should strike off the last fetter upon free navigation, and that we should consolidate and amend those various laws which, since the repeal of the navigation laws have been passed for the benefit of British shipping. With regard to that second bill, it will not be necessary for me to trouble the house at any length. That consolidation was intended to have been carried into effect by my right hon. friend the member for Taunton (Mr. Labouchere), and it engaged the assiduous attention of my right hon. friend the member for Oxfordshire (Mr. Henley.) The bill which I shall, with the leave of the house, have the honour to lay on the table will be a bill of no ordinary dimensions ; it will contain many changes ; but it will affect subjects whiCh have either been already disposed of by the house, or have been much discussed by the persons interested in them. • I shall endea vour to follow the advice given me on a former evening by my hon. friend the member for Liverpool. I am most anxious to obtain the best opinion of those most competent to judge of these matters. We shall, when we come to the second reading, ascertain, what their sentiments are, and I shall bethen better able to see what is the best way to prc ceed, whether in a committee of the whole house, or, as is sometimes most advantageous in the case of measures of this kind, by referring the bill to a select committee up-stairs. I will content myself with saying that the first part of that bill will refer to questions of the registry of ships, and the measurement of ships, and it will contain a novelty which I hope will meet with the acceptance of the house, I mean the substitution of a new and more scientific mode of mea surement for that which now subsists. The mode to which I refer is well known by the name of the person who has written a description of it—Mr. Moorsom. It is believed to attain these advantages, that while it arrives at the same general average of tonnage it ascertains the contents of each ship with greater aczuracy, and therefore fairness. It takes away all encouragement by the mode of measure ment to antiquated and inferior models of construction, and by going of an accurate internal measurement of capa city it favours strength of model and thereby safety of navigation. This mode of measurement has been referred to the surveyors and assistant-surveyors of the navy, to the naval assistants of the Board of Trade, to the Trinity house, and several eminent persons, and I believe to the Shipowners' Association of Liverpool and London. It is of course only upon a concurrence of nautical authorities that a change of that kind can be carried through the house, as there are but very few members who could ven ture to say that they were able to describe the advantages which would follow the adoption of this peculiar mode o measuring ships, or who would like to hazard an opinion upon a matter so purely technical. The next subject upon which I propose to consolidate the law, is the question of discipline—the law by which provision is made for the subordination of the crew to the master, and for the com fort of the crew on board ship. This is a subject which has particularly attracted attention during the last three years, and with respect to which I have derived the greatest assistance from the labours of my predecessors. in fact, I found a bill already prepared on this subject when I entered office ; and here I have had to go over a work already accomplished. I have gone over it neverthe less, and have made some changes, which will of course be the subject of fair and dispassionate discussion and con sideration. The next subject is one which lam sure cannot be mentioned in the house without exciting the greatest feeling of sympathy. lam sure that no ono who hears me has failed to sympathise with the grief which has been generally felt at the lamentable cases of catastrophe at sea, of which, within the last few days, we h a v e unfortunately witnessed so great a number. It will be our duty to consolidate, and, I hope, to amend and improve, the machinery entrusted to the Board of Trade, for the purpose of limiting, as far as possible, the occurrence of accidents of this kind. The particular change we shall introduce into that part of the law is this. It is known to the committee that no master or mate can now leave the country in a British ship engaged in the foreign trade without having obtained a certificate of his competence to be trusted with the care of valuable pro perty and with the lives of those committed to his charge. But no such provision exists with respect to the home trade. Now I think it reasonable that, with regard, at least to that part of the home trade which is connected with the conveyance of passengers, such a provision should exist. I think that if we are called upon to be respon sible for the survey of the hull of vessels, and of the engines which are placed on board, it is only right that wo should endeavour to have that security for the good con duct of masters and mates engaged on the shores of this country which the law has entrusted us with the means of obtaining as to those engaged in the over sea trade. (Hear, hear.) The difficulty of holding the inquiries which it is our duty to hold in cases of this kind is exceedingly great, when the number of accidents is so great as has recently been the case, on account of the diffi culty we have in sparing of, the officers of the board, whose time is fully employed, to be absent on this duty. I am, however, happy to be able to state to the house— and I am sure the house will rejoice to hear—that I have re ceived a communication from the elder brethren of the Trinity-house, expressing generally their willingness to assist the Government in conducting inquiries of this kind. (Hear.) I shall take the liberty of introducing into the con solidation bill one provision, in which I hope I shall carry along with me the sympathy of the house. The house is aware that great and benevolent efforts have been made — chiefly by the subscriptions of private individuals—to esta blish the means of saving lives perilled by shipwreck onthe coast of this country. Upwards of one hundred—l think altogether one hundred and twenty—life-boats have been established at different points. and in some places they are maintained with so much regularity, energy, and ability, that they contribute materially to save life. Liverpool is I a case;of this kind ; and there are also life-boats, of which the same may be said, at Shields, Yarmouth, and other places. Nor should I omit to remark that to the Duke of Northumberland the country is indebted for the most praiseworthy exertions on the subject. I have thought it My duty to communicate with an officer whose zeal and ability on this subject are well known—Captain Washing ton—as to whether it is not possible at a moderate expense, to do a great deal in the promotion of the important ob ject of saving lifes at sea. I have received communications on this subject from CaptainWashington,from the deputy master of the Trinity-house, and from the commander of the Coast-guard ; and they, in conjunction with the naval members of the Board of Trade, are considering whether it might not be possible at a very small expense to introduce order, system, and regularity, where heretofore there has been negligence and confusion, and thereby to render those means of saving life efficient and productive of good. lam in dined to think that,with a' view to securing this end, the Board of Trade may well propose to expend a small sum of money annually, and I believe that for this purpose asmaller sum will be sufficient than we shall economise and save from the other arrangements which are to bo introduced. The bill then, I may state in general terms, will consolidate the law with respect to the discipline and comfort of the seamen, with respect to measures for ensuring their safety, and with respect to a subject that was disposed of last year—that of lights and pilotage. I shall, as I said before, be happy to give the utmost consideration to all sugges tions that may be made, and all communications which may receive either in or out of the house , for the object of the bill is not so much to make changes in the law as to bring the existing law into a consolidated shape, into that shape in which it may most subservo the interests that great mercantile community, for the promotionit of adopted welfare it is intended. In the form of draught for the printed bill I shall endeavour to direct attention as much as possible to those parts whic h are new, and after s time shall have been given for the co nsideration of its pro visions, and a discussion taken on the second reading, , will be ample opportunity to put it into such a shape is not bill of this kind should wear. I hav e said that this bill not intended to make any great change in the law, and the house may perhaps expect that I should take this oppor tunity of giving some account of the mode in which those changes have operated which it has been my duty in Rawer years to submit to Parliament; The house will rg. . had communications of the most pressing kind made to me, extracts of which I hold in any hand, from agriculturists in the north of Scotland, complaining that they cannot find carriage for their produce, from owners of quarries com plaining that they cannot get their stone to market, and others in the same strain. I may refer more particularly to a communication I have received from a gentleman at Newcastle, who states that he is a very large manufac turer of alkalies, and obtains much of the raw material from Dublin. Vessels from Norway go to Dublin with timber, then from Dublin to Newcastle with ballast, and so return to Norway with coals. But your law will not allow them to bring that raw material from Dublin to Newcastle, of which the manufacturei at Newcastle stands in need, and thus he is debarred from the supply of an article in dispensable to him to carry on his business with profit. What, then, becomes of the ballast that is taken in at Dublin? It is discharged into the Tyne, and the trustees of the Tyne navigation are at the expense of sending it to the German Ocean. So that whilst it is impossible to pro cure a sufficient number of English vessels to bring the necessary supply of the material, you have daily examples of foreign vessels entering the Tyne with ballast, a corn • mediae , with which the banks are already laden to such an excess, that the river commissioners have been latterly ad vertising for the construction of barges to convey the bal last to be deposited in the German Ocean. (Hear, hear.) It is not very easy perhaps to say what will be the precise extent of benefit afforded by the operation of this measure; but I have obtained a return from the customs, by which it appears that foreign vessels to the amount of 415,000 tons—and the return does not give the whole—went in the year 1852 from one quarter of the kingdom to the other. I ask you take a course that will give the public the full bene fit of this new supply of carrying vessels, and let us consider whether there is any reason to be afraid of making the con cession. Tonnage has increased ever since the year 1849, and the wages paid to the men have risen to rates higher than were ever paid before. In the last session of Parlia ment we were told by those who made gloomy prognostica tions, that the youth would not enter into the naval ser vice, and that the number of apprentices had fallen off. Now I find that from the year 1850, when the number of appren tices reached its minimum, it began rapidly to increase, and while in 1852 the number was only 5,800, last year it was 6,800, an increase of 1,000. (Hear, hear.) What does the example of foreign countries teach us ? In the year 1819 we threw open our navigation, neighbouring State now United to traybf-C ,ate sy —I mean France— made no change in its laws. What was the immediate consequence? A transit trade sprung up from France to America through England, which in the year 1852 attained the value of 2,500,00 m; and which, I believe, when the returns of 1853 are completed, will be found to have exceeded in that year 3,003,0001. (Cheers. That is, those who were not afraid of opening their trade) have carried that amount of produce on account of others. (Hear.) We live in an age when scientific discovery is yearly increasing the facilities of human intercourse. The progress of sound economic views, and the, multiplying de mands of civilisation, bid us break down the artificial bar riers that have been raised, interposing useless impedi ments to the intercourse of nations. (Cheers.) In former years this policy has been pursued under more favourable circumstances ; it is proposed to complete it at a time when the nation has not been blessed with a propitious harvest, and other circumstances are adverse; We see that our . foreign trade has been doubled within the last twenty years, and that although an immense proportion of our taxation has been reduced, what remains is more produc tive than the former imposts. In terminating the fortieth year of peace, we may reflect with satisfaction that we have not been unmindful to cultivate those arts which flourish through peace, and that if clouds now darken the prospect, we have at least strengthened the foundations of our resources, and confirmed those feelings of amity and goodwill with which we are regarded by the most civilised and powerful nations of both hemispheres. (Cheers.) Mr. HORSFALL expressed his hope that time would be given to consider the measure before its second reading, and also that measures would be taken to prevent any evasion of the law. There was reason to believe that such an eva sion had taken place last week in the port of Liverpool, from the fact of a Russian vessel of between 400 and 500 tons having been transferred to a publican in the town on nine months acceptance upon a penny stamp. He was given to understand that this vessel was fitting out for the Brazils, commanded by a Russian captain, and manned with Russian officers and seamen, but was intended to sail under the British flag. That, he thought, was not the in tention of the change whichlad been made in the naviga tion laws, and he trusted that, in the measure about to be brought in, provision would be made to prevent such frau dulent transactions. The right hon. gentleman having alluded to the unfortunate and melancholy loss of the ship Tayleur, he might be permitted to mention that he had re ceived that morning a letter from the charterers of that vessel, expressing themselves a little aggrieved at some ob servations which fell from his hon. friend and colleague (Mr. Liddell) in the house a few evenings ag o, to the effect that the loss of that vessel was owing to her being manned, to a great extent, with foreigners of various countries, Nu bians, Lascars, and Chinese. The fact was, that there were but fourteen foreigners in all among the crew, not so large a number as the ship might have carried under the old navigation laws, so that the argument founded on this misinformation must fall to the ground. The writer of the letter he held iu his hand also stated that the master of the vessel had a first-class extra certificate, that the chief officer, or mate, had a master's certificate, and the second mate a first mate's certificate. He could not withhold his meed of approbation to her Majesty's Govern ment for having suspended the register ticket, the operation of which had driven l large number of our seamen into American and other foreign services, and would assure the. right hon. gentleman the President of the Board of Trade that the mercantile interest would cordially co-operate in rendering the measure as effective as possible. Mr. HUME had never expected to hear so gratifying a speech from the Treasury bench as that of the right hon. gentleman, remembering all the difficulties and appre hensions by which every attempt to effect any change in the navigation laws used to be met. He entirely concurred in the propriety of removing the last rags of restriction that remained in our mercantile and maritime legislation, and, perhaps, even the right hon. gentleman had not yet got to the bottom of the subject. The tonnage law had long operated to the prejudice of British shipbuilding, and he fully approved of Capt. Moorsom's plan of measurement, charging the solid contents of the vessel instead of the outer capacity. But he would suggest to the right honourable gentleman that the best course would be to get rid of the tonnage duty altogether, and charge for cargo, not for ton nage. He would strongly urge on the Government to make provision for instituting an officialinquisition into the loss of vessels whenever it shall occur on any part of the coast. He had heard it stated, on unquestionable authority, that in the short space of 9 months no fewer than 45 ships had been lost between Newcastle and London, from bad com passes, want of proper charts, and similar causes. Was it to be tolerated that when an unfortunate individual could not fall down dead in the public streets without an inquest being held to ascertain the cause of death, hundreds of souls were to be lost in connection with shipping on the coast from year to year without a similar inquiry taking place ? Such an investigation appeared to be an act which humanity called for, and a measure which the position of this great mercantile country rendered absolutely necessary. He would therefore suggest there should be an inquest in all such cases ; and the mode of holding it might be extremely simple. We had no fewer than 6,400 officers stationed along the coasts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, within 10 miles distanco of each other, some of whom could in the shortest possible space institute such an inquiry, whenever the necessity arose in their different localities, and take evi dence and furnish information to the Government in a shape never heretofore obtained. On this very day he had read in the newspapers an account of the loss of an emigrant ship on the Canadian coast, with 120 souls. That only confirmed him the more in the conviction that there must be something radically wrong in the mode of navigating ships of that description. We had heard of more melan choly loss of life in that way from time to time than had ever taken place under any other circumstances. He would, therefore, press on the Government the necessity of seeing that emigrant ships were in future placed on a bet ter footing than heretofore. Adverting to another point in the speech of the right hon. gentleman, he (Mr. Hume) had always been of opinion that life-boats ought to have been supplied by the Government all along the coast. (Hear, hear.) He thought that a part of the naval esta blishments in the dockyanls might be much more usefully employed in building life-boats for such a service than in pulling ships to pieces, in which they were often engaged. In Liverpool and other large towns along the coast there would of course always be life-boats supplied and main tained at the expense of the local community, but it was otherwise with small obscure places, bordering on the sea, where shipwrecks were quite as frequent. The Duke of Northumberland, when at the head of the Admiralty, much to his credit, offered 1001. as a premium for the best life-boat, which was won, among a great number of compe titors, by, he (Mr. Hume) believed, a person in Yarmouth. Had his grace continued in office, the next step which he (Mr. Hume) expected would have been taken was the placing, at the public expense, a life-boat at every desir able spot on the coast. He had hoped, too, that there would have been a further change with respect to the light dues. The mercantile navy paid in 3845, in the shape of light and carrieddues, out t h h y e t h r e e c G i v o e c I t nm y s e a n n t c , t 2 i o w n e , o d o 0 1 b y . znw. t a h ;hv a iya t enhi h dn, os with ttuhesaae ere instead the Government must now i u n p c o r n eas th ed to 400 the mercantile of taking it upon themselves, as he contended they ought to do. He thought the light dues in their present shape ought to be abolish e d, or merged in the general expendi ture of the country. He believed, if proper economy were exercised, 60,000/. or 80,0001. would defray the whole charge in r es p ec t of the light dues, instead of about 400,0001., the sum at present collected. He would say let the first charge be on the goods and not on the ships. He held that a merchant sending goods from Manchester, Birmingham, or any other place ought to be as much under an obligation to pay a charge of that kind as the shipowner. Let the Government go at once to the goods, and they would simplify the whole matter. That would be, in fact, a substitution of the advantages of direct for indirect taxation. The hon. member concluded by exp ress i ng hi s great satisfaction at the change which was made in the matter of pilotage, Mr. H. T. LIDDELL said his honourable friend and col league (Mr. Horsfall) had adverted to some observations which fell from him on the first night of the session touch ing the melancholy loss of the Tayleur. He (Mr. Liddell) was sorry to find that those observations had given some umbrage to the owners of that ship. It appeared that in referring to that catastrophe, and connecting it with some supposed inadequacy in manning the vessel, he had acted on some misinformation. He was the last man who would heedlessly seek to aggravate the distress which those gen tlemen must necessarily feel on such an occasion ; but, nevertheless, considering the statements that had appeared in the public press, especially one in the Liverpool Mail of Saturday last, in which it was said that all the narratives of the few survivors of the crew and passengers as yet con curred in the assertion that the vessel was insufficiently manned, he could not but fear that great blame rested somewhere. He could not remember the language held last year by the honourable member for Bath (Captain Scobell) and several other naval members, and the strain of triumph uttered by the honourable member of for e Mon trose (Mr. Hume), as to theindisputablo su cc e ss mea sures passed for giving freedom t o n avigation—(hear, hear)—and he did think, perha p s h err on o o n u e r e a u b s i l e y, m th em at b in er those cases of shipwreck, which t he (Mr. Hume) admitted had been more frequent thandid r th e e s y t, ought to have been, bl a me and responsibility somei o n wn defe q n u o a e r , te t r h . at made nothi ng of a premeditated S ho e hwaidshed, howev er, now to say ; i n his on accusation against the ownaersreallottftstrithretellstsuenftihidritiyunate ship the occasion in question. been laid on blame to the the fact of the jury pot "TiDg member that an act was passed by which the whole light funds of the country were collected into an aggregate sum, and were placed under the administration of the board which I have the honour to preside. That act came into operation on the Ist of October last. After examining the state of the receipts and the estimates for the coming year, it appeared to us that we were justly called upon to exer cise the power vested in us of reducing these light dues by order in council, and on the Ist of January, accord ingly, by order in council, we reduced one-fourth part of the dues formerly levied. Whilst, in former years, the receipts accruing from those dues amounted to upwards of 400,0001. that receipt will in future be reduced, as a consequence of the change we have made, to the sum of 101,5501. (Hear, hear.) That was the first operation of the measure of last session, but I hope it will not be the last ; because, having made this change, we re viewed our whole financial p os iti on . W e found that we had a balance of credit at our bankers of 70,0001., we have an estimated surplus for the ensuing year, after all the expenses attendant on the works now being carried on have been defrayed, of 53,003/. ; and a stop has been put to burdening the fund with pensions for life, a practice a hich threatened to make serious inroads on it. (Hear, hear.) This will secure for it a saving of 23,0001. more, and there are other classes of expenses incurred in connec tion with this fund, which, in cordial co-operation with different bodies, I am endeavouring from time to time to reduce, and therefore I hope that at some early period further reductions may be made. (Hear, hear.) With respect to the other measure, that for the regulation of pilotage, I will only say in general terms that the contem plated union between the Trinity-house and the Cinque Portes pilots has been effected, that the regulations made by the Trinity-house have been carried into operation, and that a reduction—less than was intended, on account of the intervening rise in the price of provisions which has occurred, but still a reduction in the charge for pilotage, that will be for the benefit of the shipowner, has been made. A diminution of the charges for pilotage on a vessel to the extent of one-fourth has been effected, which could not have been made under the previously existing law. (Hear, hear.) eThe house will remember that there were also difficulties with respect to the pilotage of the Bristol Channel, a matter the arrangement of Which presentetiiet only from its legal complication, but also from the physical difficulties of the locality, greater embarrassments than any other similar question in any part of the - United Kingdom. I ventured to state to the house that I thought it highly probable that if Parliament invested a department of the Government with mediv.torial power, that power would be efficaciously exerted without resorting to coercive means—(hear, hear)—and I am happy to mention that the two members for Bristol, accompanied by a body of gentlemen deputed from the west, did me the honour of expressing their intention of acquiescing in any sugges tions the Government might make after an inquiry con ducted by the naval members of the board. I hope, therefore, I may say that the difficulties connected with the pilotage of the Bristol Channel are either entirely solved, or aro in a fair way of being solved. (Hear, hear.) The honourable member for Sunderland took great inte rest in the question of ballast, and will be happy to learn that the grievances complained of on this particular head are in a fair way of being redressed. The house is aware of the importance of adopting adequate yet not oppressive or irksome means of effecting a registry of seamen, in order to establish a record of the identity and character of each of the persons who collectively make up the seafaring population of this country. The registry ticket, the means selected for the purpose, was very unpopular with the men, from the penalties imposed for infraction or neglect of the law ; and upon the best inquiry that I could make from competent authorities, I thought it was quite as likely to increase desertion, by the use of counterfeit tickets, as to check it. Acting, therefore, on the power with which we were vested by the law, we have abolished the register tickets, and, of course, with it all the penalties to which it gave rise, having under the Mercantile Marine Act established those modes of re gistration which we believe will be quite effectual in regard both to the identity of the men and their cha racter. (Hear, hear.) In the last session of Parlia ment we conferred a power which the British shipowner ever since the repeal of the navigation laws, had considered himself entitled to possess, of manning the vessels of our merchant navy without distinction of nation among the in dividuals composing the crew. lam sure that some honour able and gallant friends of mine in this house, who antici pated a great deal of evil from that reform, will be happy to learn that, up to the present time, no alarming symp toms have been manifested. My hon. friend the member for Liverpool challenged me on the subject with respect to that melancholy accident which has recently taken place. It would be wrong in me to anticipate the result of the in quiry now pending. I can speak, therefore, only from what appears in the verdict of the jury and the testimony given by the master. I know testimony was given that it was the fact of there being many foreigners in the crew which occasioned the loss of the vessel, but the master's testimony was entirely to the opposite effect, and when I look to the verdict of the jury, I find no hint of the disaster having been caused by that circumstance. 'We know that 190,000 seamen sailed in the merchant shipping of this kingdom during the year just expired, being the largest number I believe that ever manned our trading fleet. (Hear.) In the three months that elapsed since the act passed, between the Ist October and the Ist January, there were between 2,500 and 2,600 foreigners only in that number. (Hear.) Hon. members know that the former have allowed one fourth part of the whole crew to be foreigners ; if, therefore, the whole number of foreigners for these three months has been but 2,500, I think the fact may administer some conso lation to those who were so very apprehensive of the conse quences of this reform. (Hear.) Two other subjects have oc cupied the attention of the Government, and I think it will be interesting to the house to learn the progress that has been made on these heads. The house probably remem bers that in the autumn of last year we received a commu nication from the American Government, inviting us to join with them in observations to be carried on at once for the purpose of constituting a new science in aid of the mariner, by recording observations on the prevailing winds and currents, of the ocean. It is naturally a very interest ing branch of inquiry to us, for it implies not only an im provement in the laws of navigation, but it implies a cul tivation of the intelligence of the masters, of British mer chant ships, and a reciprocal interchange of good offices with that nation which is at once our rival in the art of the navigator, and our partner in all the associations de rived from kindred in the ties of blood, and from a host of elevating recollections and noble feelings. (Cheers.) In answer, therefore, to the invitation addressed to us, Capt. Beechey, the able assistant of the Board of Trade, attended a conference, held at Brussels, and Government intend to submit a moderate estimate to the house this year, to enable them to furnish a certain number of the most worthy and intelligent masters of British ships with such instruments as may enable them to make nautical obser vations that will be of benefit for the purpose of ascertain ing the force and direction of the prevailing winds and currents, and making such other observations, geognostic and meteorological, as may enter into the plan laid down by the American Government. (Hear, hear.) There was another subject in which great interest was felt and ex pressed by many members of this house—that of nautical education, and I recollect that the right hon. member for Oxfordshire (Mr. Henley) asked me whether we intended under the bill we passed to maintain the schools instituted under his auspices for the education of seamen. My answer was that we did intend to maintain those schools ; and I am sure he will be glad to hear that there is another moans now in operation, which, we hope, will act still more bene ficially in the same direction. My right hon. friend took great pains, when he was in office, with a new department that is rising under the Board of Trade, that of industrial. education. I have been able to place its heads in commu nication with the mercantile marine department, and we propose to take pupil teachers from the excellent naval school at Greenwich, and to send them down, on the same principle adopted by the department of industrial educa tion, to be masters of children destined hereafter to go to sea, as well as of persons now engaged in the sea service. I ought to apologise for having detained the house so long, but it was necessary to communicate the various steps we have taken to carry out the provisions of the law passed by Parliament for the important objects to which I have adverted. One other subject remains, on which I had the honour of addressing some observations to the house last year. It will not have been forgotten that the subject of passing tolls occupied the consideration of this house on more than one occasion during the past session of Parlia ment. I ventured to say to the house that it appeared to me that this was a wider question than it had ever been understood to be ; and that occasion was now presented to inquire into all the duties levied on ships and on goods carried in ships, which were not applied to the benefit of the imperial revenue, for this is a branch of our imposts the annual income of which is measured by hundreds of thousands, and, I am sorry to say, the burden of debt by millions. A commission was appointed accordingly, which has instituted extensive inquiries as regards this part of the kingdom, and which has also collected a great deal of information regarding Scotland and Ireland ; and I have reason to believe that in a short time I shall be enabled to lay on the table their report concerning those bur dens. (Hear, hoar, and cheers.) Having given this nar rative, as brief as can make it, of what has passed on these heads since we last met in this house, I will now in vite your attention to another department of the subject, r which I think will be felt to be one of g reat interest. Her majesty, in the Speech from the thr one, has invited e you to strike off from the free navigation of these seas the last remaining fetters of old restrictions and prohibitions. only do justice to my right hon. friend the member for Taunton (Mr. Labouchere), when I say I know it was by considerations derived from revenue only that he was in duced to omit this just an d proper concession, when, in the year 1849, he introd uced the bill for the repeal of navigation laws. It has been the duty of the present Go vernment to examine the grounds upon which those appre hensions rested, and, like many other apprehensions whi c h have stood in the w a y of manifest improvements, I think it will be found that they may, with perfect safety, b e entirely disregarded. Officers of the Board of T reasury have been examined, and I have felt it my duty to inves tigate with as much care as possible the grounds on which the objections expressed rested. I have a scer t a i ned the o pinion of the mo st experienced officers of the Customs and E xc ise, who are most likely to be apprehensive of any danger to the revenue, and there is a preponderant balance of testimony—indeed, if possible, as strong as the prepon derant balance of argument-Lin favour of this manifest and reasonable conclusion, that if a fraud is to be perpe trated on our watchful revenue officers, that fraud will be far more easily perpetrated by persons speaking our language and acquainted with our habits, who have friends an d communications amon gs t th e lower classes where the goods are to be introduced, than it would be by a foreigner coining hero without any of those natural ad vantages. (Hear, hear.) But again, if these apprehensions are unsound, perhaps I shall be asked if there is any strong necessity for the change now proposed as affecting our coasting trade. Can any man who lives on any part of the coast be so little concerned in what is going on around him as not to know the necessity which now exists for ships and shipping in every part of the kingdom ? In the coal trade the wages have risen from 41. 6s. to 6/. and 71. ; the freights are more than doubled. Such is the demand for sailors, notwithstanding the introduction of foreigners into our merchant service, permitted by the act of last year, that every British subject accustomed to make his livelihood by the sea, as is shown by the register of seamen, has full employment, that pensioners who are entitled to pensions are abandoning their tickets, in order to avail themselves of the great wages that are paid to them, and that those who have gone abroad to carry their services to America have come back, in order that they may enjoy the better MEI i.ll. 02. 17 9 0 0 4 11% 9 0 5 1% at-olte ah Mon daily fir-'~i'' ..~-ij Year. 1851.•. ....... •• •••• 1851 ...... •••••••••• 1853 • ...... •••••• •• •1867•• •• •• • ••••••• 1858. 1860....•..• •• .• •• •• to •• to ..,••••• ..... ••• 1870 ..... .•• •• •• •• ~ 1871— •••••• •••• • to 1814— #••• ...• • to to 18S6 ..... • • • • • • • " ' to 1891. •• •••• •• .• •• • X. s. d. 49 6 6 4R 16 0 47 18 0 47 4 6 4G 10 6 45 17 6 45 4 0 41 10 6 43 17 6 43 4 0 206 7 6 190 4 6 141 3 0 1,000 4 0 194 13 6 147 18 6 182 10 6 1,525 h 6 Th premium of DU. commencing at 23 years of age, and paid upon an ona Policy (As tx must BE) evry year tillyears old, wills cure the same sum, viz., 1,0091., but if A B lives 17 years longer (which is the probable duration of life at the time he effected the Insurance) his Deposit Policy, for the same payments as for an ordinary Policy of 1,0001., will have increased to 1,525/. 6s. 61 TRUSTEES. The Right Honourable the Lord Viscount Drtmalanrig, M.P., P.C. Comptroller of her Majesty's Household. Major-General Sir W. Clayton, Bart.. 79, Gloucester-Place, Port. man -square. Sir Charles Price, Bart., Banker, London. Vice-Admiral Aysc,ough, Prospect House, Southampton. CIIAIRMAI.T. The Right Hon. tho Lord Viscount Drumlanriz. M.P., P.C., Comp troller of her Majesty's Household. CONSULTING ACTUARY. Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., F.L.S. STANDING COUNSEL. B. B. Crowder, Esq., Q.C., M.P., Recorder of Bristol, Counsel to the Admiralty, and CJudge .P Advocate coln's thehe Fleet. IS, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London. B. Atafins, Esq. , Q... Lin. Chief Office, No , the agents in Loans granted at 5 per cent. ou real or personal security. Annuities on most favourable terms. Diseased lives and lives de- dined by other offices accepts,' at equitable rates. For Prospectnseo and farther information apply to e country, .4* to C VI. Bevan, R. sident , zePretirv. Agents wanted in all parts of the United Kingdom, N.B.—Life Assurances effected on the ordinary plan. Pamphlets, to be la ' ad gratis on application a Ampt the r u bu s h crs a try id* onclosing § name st.) - ~~- -__.....-.....,,,_.................____ 42q 127 127 53 1 4 53k hu. tr. rzlan n , rtain 14 . 1 .4 r 1 , 26 26 'h.Sat. edaily edally