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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.- THROUGIi TIIIRD-CLASS TltAlN.—Notice is hereby Riven, that on and after the Ist of k ebruary Third-Class Passengers, b 7 the 6 a.m. Train front Paddington, and the S a.m, Train from I:ly r:tenth, will only be boolccd to and from Stations on the Oxiord and Birmingham, Bristol and E. - 4..ter, and South Devon Railway. Passengers to or from Stations on the Great Western Line can only be conveyed by First or Second class. Paddington, Jan. 27, 11154. LONDON Si NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. —The Public are requested to take liotlee that, BS, ORDER THE )3T3I.V3TER.-lit:N ou all after the Ist of Feb ruary, the 1.)./W.i rawir TitAlg leaving London at a quAr.er be.orc 9 will c ill At Militia, and will cease calling at Wat ford, Wolverton. and Euxton. Motu N WILT Tlt N from the north, a , riving at Euston at 4.40 a in., will ecttie c4llin; at Euxton, Lichfield, Wolverton, and r ing. The I.rown Mail Tiain leaving Loudon al 9 p.m. cease ca ning at Barrow. A. NEW TENIN to WA.TFORD, Sunitty3 excepted, calling at all the interined.ate stations, w.ll leave Loudon at 9.3 pan. The train leaving ...iverpool at 9.40 a.m., and Maachester at 9.45 a.m., wilt leave Liverpool at 9 la a.m.'. Gad Maneaester at 9.30 a.m., altd the corresponding branch trales will be ititertd atxxin.lingly. Fo; other alLerattons see time bills. By order. MARK 'WISH. General Manager's Office, Easton Station, London, January, 1851. LONDON & SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. NOTICE 1.8 HERE itY GIVEN, That the next liAla•- 1 4..L1tLY GENERAL MEETING of the Proprietors of the Loudon alid South- Western Railway Company wilt be held at No. 34, York toad, Lain'teth, on flit3tt.llla Y, the 16th day of February , 1854, at , o'clock precisely, when the Daecto.l will submit a report on the affairs of the Company our ng the preceding halt-year. A, dividend. Will be declared, and the general business of the Company tfausacted. And Notice is Hereby t urthtr Given, That at this meeting an Election of Directors will Glee place, and that there are seven vacan cies in the Direction occasioned by the resignation of the Hun. Francis Scott, M.P., Joint Hibbert, jun., Esq., J.lin Mills, Esq., } Leary Ker Seymer, Esq., M.P., and William Reed, Esq., and uy the retirement, under the provisions of the " London and South-Western Railway Amendment Act, 1847," of Lieutenant-Colonel George Henderson and Charles smith Mortimer, Esq. Colonel Henderson and Charles Smith M ortimer, Esq., the two retiring Directors, are re-eligible. and have given the regular notices Hid they will offer themselves for re-election accordingly. William. Austin, Esq., William Benson, Esq., Henry Currie, Esq.. the Hoh • Ralph Renew Dutton, Moreton John Edward Frewen, Esq.. Captain William Conway Gordon, 6ir William Heatbcote, Bart., Edward John Hutchins, Esq., M.P., Lieut.-Col. John Luard, Captain Charles Edward Mangles, Melville Portal, Esq., Philip Snell, Wm. Snell, Esq., and Brodie M'Giiie Willcox, Esq., M.P., have slat) severally declared their intention, according to the provisions of the Acts of Parliament regulating the Company, to become can didates for election. 'The Books of the Cempany for th , transfer of stock and shares gill be closed en Thursday, the 2d day of February, and remain closed until Thursday, the 16th day LI Feoruary, 1854, both days Inclusive. By order of the Court of Directors. L. CROMBIE, Secretary. York•read•Ofittei, Jan. 26, 1854. WATERFORD and KILKENNY RAIL WA T .—Dublin, January 25, 1854.—At a numerous ant roost influential MEETING of the Irish Shareholders in the Water ford and Kilkenny Railway Company, held This Day, at the Com- Ifteretal-buildings, Dame street, LUKE BUTLER, Esq., T.C., in the Chair, The following Resolutions were unanimously adopted : ?kat —lt was propbsed by William Hudson, Esq., and seconded by John Elliott, Esq., That the Committee of Shareholders appointed on the 12th of Oc tober, 1853, be requested to convene a Special General Meeting of the Proprietors, to be beta in London as early as possible, for the purpose of taking into consideration the present deplorable condition of the affairs of the Company. Second—lt was proposed by James Robinson, Esq., and seconded by A. C. Taylor, Esq., That this Meeting views with the greatest apprehension the de larainat. on of the present Directors and Solicitors to proceed with e construction of the Kilkenny and Great Southern and Western aallway, which this meeting considers would vitally injure the Water ford and Kilkenny Company. - - - Third—lt was proposed by Oliver Speer, Esq., and seconded by Patrick, Daly, Esq., That this meeting urges upon the shareholders the absolute neces sity for the appointment of an entirely new board of Directors and tioticitors, as this Meeting is unanimously of opinion that the share holders can no longer place confidence in the present Board and their Solicitors. - - • --------- was proposed by John Elliott, Esq., and seconded by Peter Hickes, Esq , That the attention of the Committee of Shareholders be directed to a report 01 the opposition given by the Directors and their Solicitors to the Bagnalstown and Wexford Railway Company in the last ses• alon of Parliament out of the funds of the Company. Fifth—lt was proposed by George Taylor, Esq., and seconded by James Milligan, Esq., That the attention of the Shareholders be called .to the advantage and necessity of appointing an efficient Local Board of Management, to actively and personally superintend the working of the Railway. Blzth—lt was proposed by Patrick Cranny, Esq., and seconded by John Delaney, Esq., That a Committee of the Shareholders in Ireland be appointed to _co-operate with the Committee of Shareholders in Lo ndon, and that LIM following gentlemen be requested to form such Committee, with Power to add to their number :—Wm. Hudson, A. Stephens, J. M. Mahon, Luke Butler, A. C. Taylor, J. Elliott, George Taylor. Esqrs. (Signed) LUKE BUTLER, Chairman. ...Luke Butler, Esq., having vacated the c hair, and John Elliott, 48 (1., being called thereto, the thanks of the Meeting were unani mously given to Luke Butler, Esq , for his courteous and efficient conduct in the chair. (Signed) GEORGE TAYLOR, Hon. Sec. MR. 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By Denis Florence M`Carthy. 10. A S eco n I Peep at the Dramatic Gallery of the Garrick Club. 11. The Dismal Mute—A Romaunt. 12. British and Irish Ornithology. Dublin : James M`Glashan, 60, Upper Sackville-street. Wm. S. Orr and Co., 2, Amen-corner, London, and Liverpool. John Menzies, Edinburgh. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Edited by W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, Esq. Contents for February. No. CCCXCVIII. Gotthoid Ephraim Lensing. Annabel Annesley's First Valentine. By the Author of the " trn. holy Wish." Moore's Diary, Mick Cassidy's Boots. By Dudley Costello. William 11. Prescott. By Sir Nathaniel. The Californian Indians. Taie3 of my Dragoman. By Basil May. No. V. How Mohammet was. The Openin2 of the Pass. Yurther Extracts from the Commonplace-book of a lately deceased Author. The Passion Flower. By William Dalton. Norway and its Glaciers. Napoleon's Royalist Aide-de•Camp, M. de Narbonne. Bell's Edition of Dryoen. Literature of the Month. Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly. *.* Sold by all Booksellers and Newsmen. THE finest EPERNAY CHAMPAGNE, equal to Moet and Chandon, at 61.95. per three dozen case quarts ; and the renowned Chateau Itausau Margeaux, or de Braue de Can tenac, at 48s. per dozen, or 481. per hhd. Imported direct from those celebrated vineyards, both now leased to T. W. STAPLETON. 51, .King-street. Regent-street, where the wines can all be tasted free, or had conditionally on approval or return. Every club in London supplied with the Champagne except three. The clarets now im porting have been for the last 40 years sold only at 84s. to 965. per dozen. NOTICE. -CLARET, CLARET, CLARET. Chateau Raman Margeaux, Chateau de Braue Cantenac. 'these Clarets are the finest in the world, supplied to every Court in Europe, of great natural body, full of bouquet, nure, free from her mitage, co;, - nac, or acidity. Price 48s. per dozen, or 481. per hhd Cases of 3or 6 dozen sent on approval or return. The medic il pro fession are specially invited to taste these wines, and on application can have a bottle free. Call or direct to the Sole Lessee of the Estates, Mr. T. W. STAPLETON. 51, King-street, Regent-street.— The 1846 and 1848 Vintages are those on sale. __-- -) !".,".....: ' , ((/' z ji ‘ i,6 i ; Lz l / 2 . 4 1 / 40 - - ta Z7 :?4 1 ,. L -4,':4:- . +. . • IT VERBAL ROVI :.:,.-.:,..". . .-.... ASSURANCE, 52, King Win ~..„ t 4 ------- , LIFE • ASSURANCE. Allowance in sickn , lefl „o.a" r • 4 ,,. :. e ;': - . - ' ---` L. , EDWARD PUGH , ••,), „.,,, , C f .r % • ---I .e. w - '' ,-. 1 .., , „ ~- r A le-t... .. . ..'. - , W. A 01 t l / 4 .. ~.. ~ -- 44 ti-. -:• : ; C ...1-.. -.... ;k ..., -'' t. ' 4:46._ ....,' 0 . "" ..i4.6 -A .4 •0' 1 '' ' ' IF , `,. • . '0 1)., .'. E MUTUAL LIFE \ .-:, A , ..1. ...,,,, ~, ~, 1 ~,,, iil •.. L:' . .,.,. 17 , 44 .'1 7 f:*- : \-' :. i - t' 'C'''' . - - T H E _SOCIETY, 39 ,,King-street,lChear ) ; % .1 I 4 ... I-' 2 - ,110.- - '- 4.,..... , %,4 - "--""• — Th - -4, ^ 4 -4 , 4 . + +' r - 4 _ , Trz4." l. ? 4.-.. r." , -,f,---- 1 , 7 ,,,k s ~ ~ ,i, .. ~,.4 ‘, 1 6x, ~,,, ~”0, ..,,,,,,- . , v, 1, ~.., -,-,..„ - a ~... , ~.. , . 1 4 ..'4, ok J„ .is a's -, A - .'L% ' r'''' . ./N „ ' 1834. --..--....-t-A4kce.. ~<,' 4 .,- ' IT 4 ~:- ' - 2 ' , .1/ 9 ..4..., ' lv 3 6 . -., :., —;-...bitoiT' ' ' el \7, ‘ ,l so4, l'' ''Pl jr.' < "4 '' '/\ ' - ..._--.- ~,„, „, ~,,o y , Dry, ~,,, g ' / }, t , ~ 4 . 4 , . ” ..,'• * .O . .. v 0 [PRICE SD. there is no reason but the high duty, why the whole of the pro perty of the kingdom should not be insured. The present amount of revenue at 3s. per cent. is 1,100,0201. If the whole insurable pro perty of the kingdom were insured, with a duty of three-halfpence Only per cent., it would yield a revenue of 1,250,0001., or an increase of 150,0001„ per annum, above that now obtained from the Three ;hiding duty. This modification is moreover the form which our various pro gresSive measures have pointed oat. High duties., wherever they cat be evaded, are found to be no more advantage to the exchequer than high prices to the till of the shopkeepe - . The reduction of po , tige.fron its former prohibitory charges to one penny, has tp•ottzlit increase instlad of loss to the revenue. The reduction of the expenses of transit have caused an enormous increase in the receipts of the Railway and Steam-boat Comp mies. Toe redaction Otnaibus and Cab Fares have led again to increased profits. The reduction of receipt stamps to the uniform penny will secure t corres..indinir revenue, honestly paid. and avert the continual ittfilld practised oil the old system. Thosc latelligentreforms, then; which sea the masses letter-writing and travelling, will, if applied to the Fire duty, set the masses Insuring. • REASONS WHY nip; UNITY lIAA ORIGINATED TIIIS • MOVEM E The co operative power which the Unity Fire Insurance Associa tion poss^sses, and the vast tnritory over which its appeal can be made, afford peculiar facilities to- estivilishing a machinery Which ;nay be the mea‘)s, vets in th i next session of Parliament, of effect ing, If not the repeal, at least, the .nodificatiort.of this obnoxious tax. the unprecedented number of its proprietary, consisting of upwards of Five thousand Shareholders, a number witch is being day by day augmented by the issue of One Million New Shares,—the identity of interest secured between its Sharehol lers and Insurers, by the settled and guaranteed division of its profits, whereby the energies and sympathies of both are enlisted in its advancement—the num ber and energetic character of it s A g ents —and the extent of country over which its Shareholders are di ffused —enable this Association to made by any office not interested in maintaining the present duty. The Unity was established with a view of introducing a new era a Fire Insurance. It sought by an heretofore unattempted diffusion the gross profits, it enables the insured fairly to of the Shares, to enlist the active co-operation of an enormous pro prietary. Bythe defined and guaranteed divisio n of two-thirds in the o f prosperity they help to secure By preventing the insurance of pro perty, where no flra• occurs, being an outlay and no return , it g ives the utmost encouragement to the adoption of a system which saves both rich arid poor from rain, In Eighteen months the Unity has secured - the Large st Proprie tary in the World, consisting of Five Thousand Share holders. It has participate effected 8,254 Policies, insuring 5,005,1201. It has its original capi tal One Million Stirling, fully subscribed. It has obtained a paid-up working Capital of One Hundred and Twenty-five Th msa.nd Pounds. It has increased its Capital to Two Millions Sterling, and it is now issuing One Million New Shares of I/. each, at cent. per cent. pre mium; 41,000 of which have been allocated to 450 Shareholders in three weeks. The connections of the Unity feel strongly the injustice of a tax which fetters the wheels of progression, and leads to such continual calamity. The machinery which has effected the foregoing results, can now be put into operation to arouse the whole country to the importance of soaking a repeal of the obnoxious duty ; or if it must still be enforced for the purpose of revenue, then such a modification of it as shall make it merely nominal. It is a question In which every individual is interested—but to the mass of the people of the kin;- dom, is in reality, a question of vital importance. The fo!lowing is an extract from the Petition of the Members o the Unity Fire Insurance Association. and others interestedin the Repeal of the Duty on Fire •Insurance : The Petition of the Policy holders and other Members or the Unit y • Fire Insurance Association, and of the undersigned Persons who are destrOus of extending the Benefits of Fire Insurance to all classes of her Majesty's subjects. Humbly Sheweth,—That your petitioners believe it to be an acknowledged principle of your Honourable House, that it is the duty of the Legislature to encourage, as far as legislation can do so, habits of prudence and foresight in every member of the com munity, and especially in the middle and industrial classes. That in conformity with this wise and parental principle, your Honourable House did, by the 3rd and 4th William IV., cap. 23, most justly exempt from duty all insurance from loss or damage by fire on all Agricultural Produce, Farming stock (live or dead), and Implements of Husbandry; as also by other Acts, Hospitals, In firmaries, and Asylums. In conformity with the same great principle, your Honourable Rouse did, by 7th Victoria, cap. 21, materially reduce the duty upon Marine Insurance ; and in the last session of Parliament did grant a large reduction in the stamp duty upon Policies of Life Assurance, as well as an exemption from income tax of the moneys devoted by individuals to Life Assurance purposes. That while these exemptions are accepted as a great and wise boon, they bring into still stringer contrast the far he svier burden of a duty on Insurance of the remaining property of the country from Fire. That besides an uniform stamp duty of one shilling upon every Fire Policy, however small the amount insured may be, there is also a separate and constant annual duty of three shillings per cent. upon the sum insured. That in all commonly Hazardous Insurances, the premium charged by the offices amounts to only Is. 61. per cent. per annum, so that the three shillings annual duty is double, or 2)0 per cent. upon too premium. That so Artisans, and others of the great Industrial Classes, the whole of whose property consists of their furniture and the tools of their trade, the fiscal charges (amounting to 216 per cent. per an num upon the premium of a policy for 1001.) operate as a complete bar against insurance. That so severe is this tax upon prudence and foresight felt to be by the communit Y at large. th it the proportion of property insured from Fire in the United Kingdom, scarcely. if at all, exceeds one third of the ascertained amount of property insurable. That in Marine Insurance, by the salutary act passel in her pre sent Majesty's reign (7 Victoria, cap. 21) the rate of duty was re• duced to threepence per cent. so ton:: as the rate of premium does not exceed ten shillings per cent., while in Fire Insurance, on the e mtrary, it is still kept up at three Millings per cent. although the rate of premium he but eighteenpence per cent. Thus on Marine Insurance the duty is but threepence per cent. upon the premium, while in Fire Insurance, the duty alone is 203 per cent. upon the premium, besides the shilling tax upon the po'icy. That your Petitioners, while they hail with gratitude the justice and the wisdom of those bonus to the Agricultural and Shipping inte rests, further pray you , * Honourable House to take into your favour ahle consideration the justice and excellency of affording a similar exemption to all other property, and implements of industry, Whe ther tools of handicraft or any other machinery. Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray of your Honourable House, That the uniform Stamp Daty upon all Fire Policies may be re dared from One Shilling to One Penny. That the amount of duty now chargeable upon all Fire Policies may be repealed. Or that it may be reduced to 6d. p er cent. Or that such oher modilic 4tion may be made in the duty now levied on Fire Insurance risks, at your Honourable House may in its wisdom see fit. Signatures may be affixed at the C hief Offices of the Unity Fire Insurance Association, 40. Pall Mall ; at the Offices of all the Agents of the Unity throughout the Country; and at the LOCAL OFFICES. Bradford, York,hire— 12, Darley-street. Bristol Albion Chambers. Eastern C. unties-79. S . Giles'-street, Norwich. Halifax, Yorkshire-25, Waterhouse-st.reet. L , eds —5 South Pat ade. Liverpool-11, Lord-street. Manchester—Adelphi Buildings, Piccadilly. Northampton—Drapery. :Not•ingham—Wheeler Gate. Sheffield-67, Market-place. Southampton-2. High -street. Birmingham-42, Temple•street. THOMAS 11. BAYLIS, General Manager and Secretary Unity Fire Insurance k ssociation, Chief Office s , 40, Pall Mall, Loudon. January, 1854. //fO,/ et,;-,,06 .DEUT LIFE iam•streett, London-bridge. lees. RAWSELL, Secretary. ASSURANCE ipside, London.] ; Established The entire profits are annually divided amongst the members in proportion to the premiums paid, accumulated at compound interest. EXAMPLE. Policy effected in 1834, at age 57 £2,000 Additions to do ...... ••• • • ... .............. 1,174 Total paid on becomi SAM UEL clalmin 1853 £3,174 BROWN, Actuary. ANNUITIES ON THE MUTUAL PRINCIPLE , ENGINEERS', MASONIC, and IJNIVERSAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. - - • 345, strand, London. PITROHA SERB OF ANNITITIF.S 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 bus iness. ANTLIONT PECK, M.A., Assistant-Actuary. SUN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY, London. • SHARE OF PROFIT INCREASED FROM ONE-HALF TO FOUlt-FIFTHS. Policies effected with this Society after Midsummer, 1850, and re maining in force at each Septennial period of division, will PARTICI PAT F. IN FOUR-FIFTHS of the Net Profits of the Society accru ng after Midsummer. 1858, in proportion to their contributions to those prtgits, and according to the conditions contained in the Society* Prospectus. The Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives are lower than in many other old-established offices, and Insurers are fully protected from all risk by an ample guarantee fund, in ad dition to the accumulated funds derived from the investments of remiums. Policy Stamps paid by the Office. Prospectuses may be obtained at the Office in Threadneedle-street, London, or of any of the Agents of the Society. CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary. INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY COMPANY, _ No. 72, Lombard-street, London. Richard Malin% Esq., Q,c , TRUSTEES. John Camp bell I James Fa liar Madoz, Esq. Renton, ESq. I Richard Sp ooner, Esq., M.P. William Wilberforce, Esq. William Adams, Es DIRECTORS. q. Robert H. Forman. Esq. PI John Atkins, Esq. John Ha milton, Esq. A. Bevan, Esq. J. Hamilton. Esq. Join Dangerfleld, Esq. Chas. O. Parnell, Esq. W. Williams, Esq. AUDITORS. Henry Adron, Esq. I Ralph W. Bis hop, Esq. Charles M'CullOell, EsO, Henry Burn ett, Esq, SoLscrroas.—Aessrs. Atkins and Andrew. SEcarrma.—David Alison, Esq. Paddington Local Board, 24, Connaught-terrace, Edgew are-road. The Rev. James Shergold Beene, Jas. Herring ton Lowther. Esq. A.M. Charles rembert en, Esq. Captain Creed. George Y. Robson, Esq. Roger Gadsden, Esq. W. H. Triodes*, Esq. Szcarraar —Chas. Hoghton, Esq. The policies of this Company being indisputable, (in ter ms of the Deel of Constitution duly registered) are TRANS FE R A.B LE SECU RITIES, their validity not being dependent, as in the case of ordi nary policies, upon the import of past, and perhaps forgotten circum stances, and office documents. Used as FAMILY PROVE SIONS, they relieve the assured from all doubt and anxiety as to the future. This is a purely MU MAL SOCIETY, there being no proprietary body to whom any part of the profits belong. the whole being divi sible amongst the insured themselves. The following shows Ilse large and steady progressive amount of business the Company iSnOW doing, and has done during the last five years : Sums Assured. New P remitlMS. 1849 .. ••• • .. £108,647 ..... £4,364 1850 •• .... 110,215 3,974 1851 • • ...... 127,488 4,438 1852 .• • • • • .. 115,195 4,296 1853 .. • • .• .. 123,093 4,532 ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager. LIFE AS S lI R A. 2 4 1. OE; REPORT of the SELECT COI MITTEE of the HOUSE of COMMON'S, and the DEPOSIT SYSTEM—the New and Important Feature of Life Assurance adopted by The DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMP ANY. The following is an extract from the Report of the Select Corn mittee: - " THE OBJECTS Which persons HAVE IN VIEW IN EFFECTING IN SURANCES upon their lives, are GENERALLY OF AN IMPORTANT AND SOLEMN character, viz., the PROVISION FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS after the death of ' their NATURAL PROTECTORS; unlike any ordinary transaction of trade, a CONTRACT ONCE ENTERED INTO CA NNOT BE DISCHARGED OR ABANDONED, if doubts of the stability of an Aloe 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 ago of the assured ; persons are thus placed in the ANXIOUS AND UN HAPPY DILEMMA OF BEING COMPELLED TO PERSEVERE IN PATINE PREMIUMS FROM YEAR TO YEAR, with soNE suspicion and doubt as to the ultimate advantage of doing so, oft OF INCURRING THE SE RIOUS LOSS WHICH, UNDER THE MOST FAVOURABLE CIRCO MSTANCES, MUST ATTEND THE ABANDONMENT OR SALE OF A rower." On the DEPOSIT SYSTEM a person is NOT " COMPELLED" to pay from " TEAR TO YEAR," and he does not, if desirous of " ABANDON ING" his Policy, incur any " sextons Loss," but, on the contrary, he may pay such amounts, and at such times as he may find most con venient; 111 can stop paying whenever he pleases, and he can with draw tile whole or part of his premiums. If the whole be with drawn the Policy is cancelled; if part only, then the value of the Policy is diminished by the assured value of the part withdrawn. A it, aced 20, opens a deposit policy with a payment or 5/ , which it will be seen he increases from time to time, and occasionally diminishes. „v 0 cl d, r, C 440 My ^ 4 ,V es ce, i ' d ‘) 4 ' ; 77, 1 li .8 1 , c ; ONI .... 0 CO Cl ...O. 01 lt. t• :O . 0 5 t ! il, V biD i. -. oo t• OD OD aCD C 4 . :: Z 5 7 ;,' 3 S i „, , 4 ti t .1. i... ...-. ... ci .—, C•11C.4,, NVIDO <4 LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 31, 1854. This day is published, price One Shillin4 , NV-FEY'S TO BLAME, THE PRINCE, THE PRESS, or the MINISTRY? A Letter to Lord Aberdeen. By PLAIN SYEECit. London : William Freeman, 69, Fleet Street ; and all Booksellers. 1854. WAR Y Y E L ISRO S PE S a E nd A A T 9I.k of th Sea, and an T d -U the F K ro E ntiers i o n f Russia and Persia, and including Cireassia and the shores of the Caspian Sea, with the acquisitions of Russia. One sheet, coloured. Sheet, 2s Gd ; case, 4s. ; and on roler. varnished, 7s. Gd. The COUNTRIEi between TURKEY and Burt MAIL extending from the Black yea to the Burman Empire, and comprising the Ottoman dominions, Persia Bokhara, and India, with the Red, and Caspian Seas. Four small sheets, 2 met 6 inches high, 3 feet 7 inches whie. Sheets, 11. ; cove, 1/. 10s. ; rollers, vanished, 11. 16s. CONSTANTINOPLE, PLAN OF. Sheet, 55.; me, Bs. Gd. CAUCASUS, drawn from the latest documents of the Russian hn ' perfal Staff, with the Russian Possessions and the independent Tribes, and the adjoining Frontiers of Turkey and Persia. In sheet, ss. ; case, Bs.; roller, varntled, 12s. MAP from ENOLA.ND to I DIA, embracing the whole of Central Asia, and designed to show the line of communication with our In dian Possessions, and the relative position of Russia to England and Ilindostan. One sheet,. 2 feet high, 3 feet wide. Sheet, Ss.; case, 12s ; rollers, varnished, Its. James Wyid, Geographer to the Queen and H.R.R. Prince Albert, Charing-cross East, next deior to the Post-OffiCei and 2, Royal Ex change. • Just published, price 4s. 6d., post Bvo., WITH SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS, THE. HUMAN HAIR, Popularly and Physio logically Considered, with special reference to its Preserva tion, Improvement, and Adornment, and the variou , modes of its Decoration in all countries. By ALEXANDER ROWLAND. " A really entertaining and instructive volume."—John Bull. "An admirable work, which we most cordially recommend "• Weekly Times. " A volume of considerable interest." Gazette. "To the ladies the work must always possess a more than com mon interest."•—Lady's Newspaper. "We recommend the volume to all who love to be at once in structed and amused."—Church and State Gazette. " A very pleasant. sensible, and readable book —well worthy of perusal."—Bristol Mirror. "One of the most bewitching books—embracing all that is curious or suggestive, bearing even remotely upon the subject."—Brighton Guardian. "A book full of interest and amusement . . contains the only rational rules for managing the hair we ever recollect to have seen In print."—Liverpool Standard. "A charming volume. It deserves to be read by all, and we pro- Tiaise a source of instruction in its pages."—Sunday Times. London: Piper, Stephenson, and Spence, Paternoster•row, and all booksellers. Naval and Military RIIPTURE.-" COLES'S TRUSS IS BEST." This is the invention patronised by Sir Astley Cooper, and the most eminent Burgeons-worn and recommended by William Cobbett, and which has commanded, for thirty years, a constantly , increasing reputation ; it is what a Truss should be perfectly effi cacious, yet agreeable to the wearer, Read " Cobbett's Legacy to Ruptured Persons"—gratis. None genuine unless marked with the Address, 3, Charing Cross. BRECKNELL'S SKIN SOAP.—Alteration of FORK and PRlCE.—Brecknell, Turner, and Sons, bag to announce that their celebrated OLD YELLOW SOAP for the SKIN is now sold in SHILLING PACKETS, of either four rounded ta blets or eight square, each of which is stamped " BRECKNELL'S SKIN SOAP," as heretofore. This soap is rec,mmended as the best for producing a clear and healthy skin, being made expressly for the purpose of the best materials, and not scented.—Brecknell, Turner, and Sons, Wax and Tallow Chandlers, Soap and Oil Merchants, &c., to her Majesty, Bee Hive, 31, flaymarket, London. 1/1 ATCHES FOR THE MILLION.-EXTRA.- LT ORDINARY DISCOVERY. —Infallible Waterproof Con greves, or Hygienic Matches, manufactured without Sulphur, by the sole inventor. A. M. PO LLL AK, in Vienna; warranted to ignite promptly, and to stand all Climates ; besides their neatness and ex ternal perfection. The most prominent virtue of these Lucifers is, their being entirely free from that pernicious odour of sulphur which has been so fatal to many persons, and is not only obnoxious, but decidedly dangerous. Sole agent for Great Britain and the Colo iiies—Herman Kiaber, Albion-place, London-wall, London. To be bad of respectable grocers, oil shops, tobacconists, &c. Shipowners, captains, and brokers supplied on liberal terms. TEAS AND COFFEES at Merchants' Prices. Congou Tea...... •• • ..........• • . 35., 3s. 2d , 3s. 4d. Bare Souchong Tea .... • • ........ 3s. 6d., 3s. Bd., 45. Best Assam Pekoe Souchong, a very extraordinary Tea ............ 4s. 4d. Prime Gunpowder Tea • • ...... 45., 4s. Bd., ss. The Best Gunpowder Tea .. • • .... ss. 4d. Prime Coffee at Is. and ls. 2d. per lb. The best Mocha and the best West India Coffee at Is. 4d. Teas, Coffees, Spices, and all other goods, sent carriage free, by our own vans and carts, if within eight miles; and teas, coffees, and spices sent carriage free to any part of England, if to the value of 405., or upwards, by PHILLIPS and CO SWANN:, Tea and Colonial Merchants, No. 8, King William. street, City, Lonlon. A general Price Current, containing great ad vantages in the purchase of Tea, Coffee, and Colonial Produce, sent post free, on application. Sugars are supplied at market prices. THE FAMILY LIVERY.—Arms and C rests correctly ascertained, and in any case a steel die expressly cut for the buttons, free of cost. In many Instances the expense thus Incurred will exceed the charge made for a footman's complete suit, viz., 41. 10s. (th s includes all the items generally charged separately), so that tlao quolity, style, and general excellence of the materials may be easily inferred. as it must be obvious to al that a continu ation of orders would alone remunerate. Liveries for Mourning, for an Embassy, or other emergencies; any number of suits may be made wi,li n a few hours' notice. By general request a book is kept for the entry of families and servants' names, who, on changing, may wish to refer to the same. H. J. and D. NICOLL, 'MERCHANT TAILORA, 114, 116, 118, 120 , REGENT-STREET, and 22. CORNIULL, LONDON. E S SRS. NICOLL, REGENT-STREET.- In England, or from France and Garmany, the best talent in cutting, workmanship, and materials, are secnred for the use of gentlemen by this firm. who combine excellence with economy, as illustrated in the PATENT TWO GUINEA PALETO r, sold in the country and colonies by their recognised agents, but in London ONLY at 22, CoRNIIILL, and the principal depot in the centre of .REGENT-STREET—viz., Nos. 114, 116, 118, and 120. CHARLES H. MAY, General Advertising Agent, Commercial Chambers, 33, Gracechurch street. WALKER'S RAGGED SCHOOL BLACKING (Secured against Fraudulent Subs itutes by Patent Capsnied Bott'es). preserves and softens the Leather, giving it a brilliant polish, and at the same time resisting the wet. To be had of all Oilmen in Town and Country. Warehouse, 2, Crescent place. Blackfri,irs, London. ,old by MANBY and Co., Patent Cleansing Crystal Warehouse, Temple•bar West. and by all Oilmen. CAUTlON.—observe the rime " WALKER Sr. C 0.," on the Patent Capsule. ()RPHAN WORKING SCHOOL, HAVER .STOCK-HILL. PATH I.IEIS MAJESTY' THE QUEEN. For Children of Both Sexes, of Denominations, and from Every Part of the Kingdom. The neat Election will occur in April, when 25 children .will be admitted. Candidates must be b?tween 7 and 11 years of age and in good health. Formal° Mina, and all the requisite information, may be obtained by applying at the office. All applications must be in the hands of the Secretary before the Ist March. With ordinary effort every case must eventually succeed, as the votes at e'earried forward so long as the child is eligible. JOSEPH SOUL, Secretary. Offices, 32, Ludgate•hill. Contributions will be thankfully received. 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NO CHARGE for STAMPING CRESTS, Initials, &c., en paper and envelopes, at LOCKWOOD'S, 75, New Bond-street. Large cream-laid note paper, five quires for Is.; thick vellum ditto, five quires for IS. 6d. ; Albert and Queen's size, five quires for 6d., 9d., and Is. ; envelopes, Gd. to Is. Gd. per 100 ; foolscap paper, 6d. per quire ; copy-books, 2s. 6d. per dozen ; card plate engraved, 2s. 6d. ; 100 best card., 2s. 6d. Mourning stationery of the best and cheapest qualities. Wedding orders promptly exe cuted. A large vaiiety of writing and dressing cases, envelope boxes, blotting boob, inkstands. Church Services, &c. Copy the address—Lockwood, 75, New Bond-street. OZEATT'S COPAHINE-MEGE, or Saccharatt, C %MILES, 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, 4s. 6d. ; 50, 2s. 9d.—To be had of the Inventor, Gabriel JOZetlll,49, Haymarket, London, whose name is printed on the Government stamp ; and all the principal chemists. A LLSOPP'S INDIA PALE ALE. In CASKS or BOTTLES. PARKER and TWINING (late Harrington Packer), 5x 2 , PALL-MALL, are now delivering the October brewing in casks of l 8 gallons and nr wards. Alio in Bottles, Imperial Measure. Quarts,• Bs.; Pints, ss. ; Half-pints (for luncheon), 3s. per dozen. GLENFIELD PATENT STARCH (used in her Majesty's Laundry), and WO CHEM POON'S Machine made CONFECTIONERY . , %tAR A LAD F., JAMS, JELLIES, &c., (which gained the Prize Medal of 1851), may be had of all Grocers; Wholesale of Wothersoo ut, Mackay, and Co., 66, Queen-street Cheapside, London, and Robert Wotherspoon and Co., Glasgow. THE WELLINGTON (late Crockford's) CLUB HOUSE, entrance 160 Piccadilly. Gentlemen visiting Lon don can dine in the Splendid Dining Rooms of this celebrated esta blishment at a very moderate scale of charges. The Dining Room is the largeAt in London ; the Cooking first-rate ; and t^e choicest Wines are' supplied in the Imperial mea'ure. Reading and Smoking rooms are open for the accommodation of gentlemen after dinner. UNITY FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, Registered pursuant to Act of Parliament. • Chief Offices-40, Pall-Mall, London REPEAL OF THE GOVERNMENT DUTY OF THREE SHILLINGS PER CENT. ON FIRE INSURANCE. It has been the aim in modern times to arrange a system of taxa tion which, while it supplied the exigencies of the State, would leave commerce unfettered, and equalise the burdens of individuals. The various changes which have been lately made need not be here reca pitulated. The principle is affirmed, mud the removal of all fiscal ano malies can only he a question of time. There is, however, one tax so anomalous, so unjust, so cruel, so opposed to the avowed policy of the Legislature, that it demands especial and energetic effort on the part of the public to seek for its abolition. 'lle duty on Fire In surance is a tax indefensible save only by the no essity felt at the time df its imposition. an impost was then levied on every thing which could by any possibility be taxed. It wasdn tne 3 ear 1815, Ville act 55 Geo. 111., c. 184, that the duty was first imposed, and chick has remained o the irese! t time nnaltere , i, of three shilling: , annually for every hundred pounds insure! from fire. Fire' Insurance Associations are practically the subscription of sums of money by the multitude to save individuals irons ruin by a sudden calamity. A tax, thereibre, on this subscription is opposed to the a-ho!e theory of dseal legislation. and forms at once an aggra vation of distress and a premium on imp•nylderice. LosS by fire, were it not covered by insurance, would frequently be ruineus.to individuals, anti injurious .to the wealth of the country. Amocla lions, therefore, of the people to prevent a ruin which legislation can neither avert nor restore, so far from being prejudiced and op pressed by , fiscal burdens, ought to receive every assistance and encouragement from the Government. But in fire insurance, the Government not only does not protect the people, but it absolutely prevents protection ; for many persons remain uninsured, or are insufficiently insured, merely because they Cannot afford to pay the duty. • INJUSTICE OF THE TAX. The tax"on lire insurance is unjust in principle. It is a tax upon calamity. Men are liable to the inroad of a secret enemy, whose advent cannot be anticipated—whose devastation cannot Ise averted —and who carries ruin in his train. To save himself from this ruin and devastation, the insurer pays a sum of money in combination with others for mutual protection. Having the opportunity, if a man neglects to insure his property, he commits an injustice on his fel lows, on the country, and on the Government. The destruction of his property leaves him a pauper, and a claimant on the in dustry eta. resources of others. By the consumption of his goods, he abstracts a portion of the wea'th of the country, which he has no power to replace. He probably casts out of employ those who have been dependent on him for labour, without the power of reinstating them. And by pauperising himself, he no longer pays his fair pro portion of the expenses of the State. But if his neglect be an injustice, how much more unjust must be a Government impost upon the man who insures his property, and thus saves the wealth of the country, defends himself from pau perism, and continues to contribute to the expenses of the State? What would be thought of that government which imposed a tax upon a man whose property had been consumed ? Though it would be more palpable, it would not be more unjust than the taxation of another because he had already providently taxed himself, to pre serve his property, and the wealth of the nation. The impost, moreover, is indefensible, because it does not come within the primary principles of taxation. One of the first principles of taxation is, that the tax shall press as evenly as possible on all the subjects of the realm. If we try the duty on fire insurance by this test, we find that the largest properties in the kingdom wholly escape taxation, Men who have a large number of ships, for in stance, do not insure, because they get such an average of loss as to insure themselves one ship against another. It is possible to ima gine property over which the individual loss of each item would be less than the amount required to!insure the whole. So that, in fact, the largest holder of property, since he did not insure, would evade the duty which must be paid by the poor man who icsures a few chairs and tables. The man, therefore, who does not insure his pro perty escapes taxation. The effect of this impost is, that he who does his duty to the State shall be taxed —he who neglects his duty to the State shall pass free. Taxation of the people, also, for the exigencies of the State, is only righteous when it yields protection in return. ln Fire Insurance the State yields no protection whatever. A man may have insured his property, valued at 1,0001., for 50 years : during which time he will have paid 371. 10s. to the Insurance office, and 751. to the Govern ment. At the expiration of that time, if his property be consumed, the Office will pay him 10001., while the Government knows nothing, and cares nothing for him or his misfortune. Tried by this test, again the tax is therefore indefensible ; and no more reason could be given for its imposition than for a tax on fire engines, fire escapes, water mains, or other engines or appliances for the avoidance of calamity. REMOVING or WAREHOUSING FURNI TURE.—Contracts entered into for the removal to any die. tance. Estimates sent, gratis, including risk of damages, packing up furniture, china, plate, and glass, wine., 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. M A DGWICK'S, 11, Pavement, Finsbury. GREAT REDUCTION in FANCY DRESSES. ALLAN and CO., 69, '7O, and 71, St. Paul's-churchyard, beg to inform Ladies that most decided advantages will be offered during next week. Every robe has been re-marked at such a price as must insure their object, viz., a clearance prior to extensive pur chases for the coming spring. N.B.—French Merinoes have also been reduced. Every description of Family Mourning. INERALOGY and GEOLOGY. Elementary Collections, which will greatly facilitate the ,tudy of these interesting branches of science. can be had at 2,5, 10, 20, 50, to 100 guineas each, of J. TENNANT, Mineralogist to her Majesty, 149 Strand, London. Mr. Tennant gives Private In struction in Mineralogy and Geology. He is also agent for the sale of Sopwith's Geological Models, which can be had in sets from 2/. to 5/. each. ORNAMENTS for the DRAWING-ROOM, LIBRARY, and DINING-ROOM ; consisting of a great variety of vases, figures, groups, inkstands, candlesticks, obelisks, inlaid tables, &c., in Derbyshire spar, marble, Italian alabaster, bronze, &c. Manufactured and imported by J. TENNANT, 149, Strand, London. CURRENT HISTORY.—The DAILY PAPERS SUPPLIE L., throughout the catire 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 WET CONE, newsman, 213, Oxford. street. LONDON NEWSPAPERS REGULARLY SUPPLIED from HORNE'S old-established General News paper Office, 19, Leie-ster-square. All the Morning Papers for warded by the early trains at 1/. 12s. 6d. per qr. ; by the same even• lug post, 235. ; second day, 15s. ; or, on receipt of postage stamps, any paper will be forwarded by mail, rail, or steam.-19, Leicester square. Established 1826. FIFTEENTH PIJBLIC DRAWING. —The Shareholders of the CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY are informed that the FIFTEENTH PUBLIC DRAWING for RIGHTS of CHOICE on the Society's Estates is fixed for SATUR DAY, the 11th of February, at noon precisely, at the Offices, 33, Norfolk•street, Strand. Alt shares taken up to the time of placing the final numbers of the uncompleted shares not on the order of rights in the wheel will be included in this drawing. Members are respectfully requested to refer to their pass books, or to their agents to be sure that their suhscriptions are not in arrear up to the date of the drawing. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary, THE CONSERVATIVE L. The following returns show the pi Franchise undertaking from its commenw Public Drawing. The number of Shares during the first five quarters are as follows Shares in Progress. Shares Completed Date, 1852. Sept. 7 to Dec. 24.. 1853. Dec. 24 to March 24 Juno 24 .• •• •• • • September 29 ... December 24 .... • • Total.. •• .• • 1,360 1,347 1,462 1,310 1,547 7,026 1,547 1,430 1,679 1,478 1,690 PEt2,161 It 0 8,083 0 6 17,401 15 3 18,428 18 11 20,302 2 11 7,824 £76,377 8 7 Shares taken from the 7th of September, 1852 ' to tke Four teenth Public Drawing on January 1 4, 1854...„ • .. 8,406 Shares on the Order of Rights by completion, by public.d;;vr ins, and by seniority •• • • •••• • • •• •2,224 Last Share No. on the Order of Rig h ts by seniority:: :: 712 Subscribed Capital • • ••••••••.• •• • • • ' •• £420,300 0 0 Paid up .. ... ••• • . Bonus realised on shares during the first year.. •• •• Six per cent. Interest now allowed on completed shares, and on payments of a year's subscription and fees, and upwards, in advance ........................Five per cent. Estates purchased ..............................Sixteen., •, ready • for allotment •• •••••••• •• • • .• Five. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London, Jan. 14, 1854. ON THE SECRET CAUSES OF SELF-ACQUIRED MISERIES AND DISAPPOINTED HOPES. THE SILENT FRIEND. In Six Languages—Fiftieth Edition. CONTAINING THE REMEDY FOR PREVENTION OF DISEASE. Illustrated by One Hundred Anatomical Coloured Engravings and Cases. New Edition, enlarged to 200 pages , Price 2 e. 6d., by post, from the Establishment, 3a. 6d. in stamps, rirElE SILENT FRIEND , a Me dical Work on 1 the exhaustion and physical decay of the System, produced by excessive indulgence, the consequences of infection, or the abuse of mercury, with directions for th e use of the preventive lotion, fol lowed by observations on Marriage, and the disqualifi ca ti ons w hich R. and L. Berners-street, Oxford- Prevent it. Illustrated by 100 Coloured Engravings. By PERRY and CO., Consulting Surgeons, 19, street, London. Published by Sherwood and Co. 23, Paternoster row, and sold by Hannay, 63 , an d Sanger, 150, Ox ford-street; Gor don, 146, Leadenhall-street ; 95, Farringdon-street ; W. Sutton, 10, Bow Church-yard; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; E. Johnson, 68, Cornhill. PART I. treats of the anatomy and physiology of the reproductive organs, and is illustrated by 28 Coloured Engravings. PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessive in dulgence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. Illustrated by 10 Explanator3 Engravings. PART 111. treats of the diseases resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. This section is illustrated by 62 Coloured 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 causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. THE CORDIAL BALM OF SYRIA CUM ten exclusivelyemployed in treating nervous and sexual debility, impoce, &c v ., e and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, an anti-syphilitie remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symptoms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, 11s. and 335. per bottle. Perry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and I ls. per box, a certain remedy for gonorrhcea, glect, stricture, and chronic inflammation of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, IL A minute detail of the case is required : age, habits, and posi tion in society. Si. Packets, with advice, to be had at the Establish ment only, by which the fee, IL, is saved. Messrs. Perry, Surgeons, are in attendance, daily, at 19, Berners-street, Oxford-street, Lon don. from Eleven till Two, and Eva to Eight; on &WA/ from Eleven tO One. AND Togress o ment to issued an, SOCIETY. f this Freehold the Fourteenth d Cash received IMPOLICY OF THE TAX. Not only is the Fire Insurance duty unjust in principle, but its pre sent mode of imposition is impolitic towards the exchequer and to the community. It is the avowed aim ofthe Government to aggran dise the wealth of the kingdom, and to preserve, as far as possible, even individuals from pauperism. How much greater is its duty to foster and encourage provident habits in the people, and to unfetter all institutions which lead to these results. Whatever promotes the welfare of the people, is necessarily a benefit to the Exchequer. The Fire Brigade which saves a mass of property from destruction, pre serves a property to be st ll rated for revenue. The Insurance Office that guarantees an individual from sudden ruin, preservesa taxpayer to the State. To cast difficulties therefore in the way of Institutions which preserve the insurer from ruin, and to impose a tax which acts as a prohibition to insurance, is unquestionably impolitic when viewed merely in its influence upon the Exchequer. It is holding out a premium upon improvidence, and encouraging men to leave to chance that safety and immunity which they might with certainty have secured. If a man does not insure his property and a fire consumes It, he has committed an injustice upon the community. The more nearly then he assures his property to its real value, the more just he is to the community. But the more he exhibits this sense of•jus:ice, the more he is taxed by the Oovernment. Such a man is not taxed for his wealth, but for his prudence and sense of justice. An anomaly which admits of no defence. OPPRESSIVE CHARACTER OF THE TAX. - - The oppressive nature of this duty upon Fire Insurance is also totally disproportioned. On common insurances, the premium charged for insuring property is Is. 6d. per cent., while the duty is 3s. per cent. This is 200 per cent. for no benefit upon what the cflice charges for securing the property of the insurer. On artisans, and others of the great inolustrial classes, the imposition is still more grievous, and to them it acts as a complete prohibition of the advantages of insurance. In one particular—that of too's of handl craft—the sympathies of the community have very lately bee strongly excited by the total loos of the implements of the arti zans, - where a fire has unfortunately taken place These men have not only been thrown temporarily out of work, but have been also deprived of their means of earning a livelihood, or cast on the eleemosynary assistance of benevolent individuals. The artizan does not require this. He_ only asks that facilities may be given _ . . . in, that he may insure his chest of tooli and the implements his trade, without contributing 200 per cent. to the Governmei for which he receives no returu whatever. EFFECT OF THE TAX ON - INSURANCE. The practteal effect of the tax is exhibited in the sm all amount of property insured in comparison, both with the insurable property of the country, and with the insured property of o her countries where no such prohibition exists. The value of property in Great Britain and Ireland is 4,000,000,0001.; and the value of insurable property has been estimated at half that suns. The amount of property insured in all the offices in Great Britain is eight hundred and fifty millions, realising a Government revenue of 1,100.0001.. whereas the insurable amount of property in Great Britain being estimated at 2,000,0e0,0001., would yield, if insured, a Govern ment duty of 3,000,0001. These returns show that one-th , rd only of the property of the country is insured against fire. This esti mate is proved to be correct by the return made of fires actually occurring. The total number of Fires in the Metropolis in 1852 was 923. Of this number 442 were insured for building and contents, 124 building only, 74 contents only. Of these experience would teach us to esti mate that the property consumed was only insured to two-thirds of its value. The numbers would therefore stand thus:— Building and contents insured.. •• • • .......... 215 Building only insured.. • • • • .. • • • • 83 Contents only insured."... •• • ...... ........... 24 T0ta1...... ......... 302 It will thus be perceived that oat of 923 Fires, in only 302 instances or less than one-third, were the parties fully insured. This is a prac tical evidence of the operation of the Government duty as a prohibi tion of Fire Insurance. We have further proof of this by comparing the amount of property insured in Great Britain with that of other countries. The figures stand thus : France ........ Germany .. United Kingdom .•..• • .. 850,090,000 The insured property of this country, by this return, is shown to be nearly equalled in Germany, and to be exceeded by Five Hundred and Sixty-five Millions Sterling in France. We have here, then, a duty imposed by Government which is shown to be unjust, anomalous, and impolitic in theOry and prin ciple, and in practice injurious to the best interests of the com munity. There is no one who would be so mad as to leave his property, whether small or large, either uninsured or insufficiently insured, if he had merely to pay the rates of premium which fire insurance associations have found to be sufficient to meet the risk incurred. It is the difference between Is. Gd. per cent. and ss. Gd. par cent. imposed by the Government duty and the Government stamp, which causes the most p•ovident and prudent country in the world to leave two-thirds of its property uninsured. A pro gressive Government cannot suffer snch an anomaly to exit. The tax is so unjust snd so obnoxious that efforts must be made for its immediate repeal, or if that cannot be obtained then such a modification of it as will remove its injurious effect upon the community. Mr. J. R. MTIILLOCH says— " Perhaps the duty on Fire Insurance is the most objectionable of existing Stamp duties. It amounts to 3s. per cent. on all property insured; whereas the premium paid to the Insurance Office on ordi narily hazardous property, is no more than ls. 6d. per cent., or only half the duty. Thus, if a person wish to insure 1,0901. on a dwel ling-house, a shop, warehouse, or other commonly hazardous pro perty, he pays 15s. to an insurance office as an indemnification for the risk, and 30s. to Government for leave to enter into the transac tion So exorbitant a duty cannot be too severely condemned. It discourages that providence and forethought, the encouragement of which ought to be an object with all prudent Governments ; and it is the principal cause that much property is not insured, and that what is insured is seldom sufficiently covered. Every individual, in fact, who insures any commonly hazardous property is obliged to pay three times as much as the risk is really worth Under such circumstances, the wonder certainly is, net that a great deal of pro perty is uninsured, but that such is not the case wills a great deal more. Seeing the vast importance of insurance, it may well be doubted whether it ought to be charged with any duty, however slight. But were the duty fixed at 6d. per cent., its influence in re pressing insurance would not be very sensible, and the increase of busing ss to which such a reduction of the duty would lead, would be so very great, that we have little doubt that in a few years the re duced duty would yield nearly as large a revenue as is derived from the present exorbitant duty."* Mr. PORTER also observes— " If it be desirable—and who can doubt that it is so ?—that al per sons should secure themselves from losses arising through accidents beyond their control, it must thee be held unwise to subject laser ance to taxation ; and when, as in this country, the tax thus levied amounts to 200 per cent, upon the sum required by the Insurance offices to corer the ordinary risk from accidents by fire, the degree of discouragement occasioned by the duty must needs be very great. It is not only by reason of the security arising to individuals, amounting often to the prevention of beggary, that Insurances against fire and upon lives are beneficial ; they exercise a good effect upon the country generally through the accumulation of savings which they cause. The money, as it is paid to the Insurance offices, is beneficially employed, and made to stimulate in one way or other the industry of the nation; and when called for by the arrival of the contingency against which the payments were meant to provide, it is pretty certain that in a large proportion of cases the money is so much clear gain, because witifoutvuch a resource the premiums out of which it is provided, would have been unprofitably consumed."'" ADVANTAGES OF THE REPEAL OF TILE TAX. The advantages which would accrue from the repeal of the duty on Fire Insurance are not solely that 3s. per cent. would be saved to the insurer. A vast amount of property throughout the kingdom. now uninsured, would then be protected in a commercial sense from fire; and the wealth which is now consumed would be replaced. But above all, it would lead to the insurance of the property of the poor, and of those who are now by the slightest calamity by fire involved in almost irretrievable ruin. It is scarcely surprising that when an office can afford to insure property at Is. 6d. per cent„ the poor man hesitates when he finds the premium and duty and policy together amount to ss. 6d. Thus he leaves his property uninsured, and takes his chance of a calamity which may never happen. Suppose in Rail way Insurance there were a duty of 200 per cent., howmany of those who now seldom travel without adopting it would then avail them selves of the system? It is in vain to inveigh against improvidence while our statutes actually discourage prudent forethought. There is no reason why Fire Insurance should not be universally adopted. There is no reason why the artisan should not insure his implements and the servant her box of clothes—why the tradesman should not insure to the value 'of his goods, and the rich man to the extent 0 , his possessions—save an unjust impost which makes him pay 200 per cent. for nothing. MODIFICATION OF Viz TAX. Although the Fire Insurance duty is unjust in principle, end In jurious in practice. still it is possible it may not be altogether got rid of at once. There has been a great tendency in the Government towards gradual repeals of any taxation, however obnoxious it might be. It should not be so in this instance. But it has been thought better to provide for tie alternative, —that if the repeal cannot he effected, at least, a modification may be obtained. Hospital. infir maries, and farming stock, have been already exempted from this burden. By the 7th Victoria, cap. 21, the duty on Marine lnsurayfce was reduced. The duty on marine rsks of lees than 10s. is 3d. per cent., the duty graduating upwards i n proportion to the premium. It is, therefore, proposed to ask for a repeal of the Fire Insurance duty, or that it may be greatly modified. The reduction of the stamp on the policy from one shilling to one penny, and the re duction of the duty from 3s. to 6d. per cent., would not only re move the prohibition against fire insurance among the industrial classes, but would lead to such an increased insurance of property as to yield a revenue in excess of that now collected. It must he remembered that the present rate is prohibitory— that but one-third of the property of the kingdom is insured—that * 31‘Culioch's British Empire (3d edition) vol. IL, page 209. t rOrttee Popes: Of the Itetloo, Page 591. Passages marked * are 11 'on direct, Fore Cabin. Saloon. To or from Gravesend and London ••••• • • • • • 10d. .. Is. 2d. 9, Gravesend and Blackwell or Woolwich Bd. •• Os. 10d. Between Gravesend and Intermediate Piers.. 6d. .. Os. Bd. BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 51. Os.; Six Months, 3/. Os. ; Three Months, 21. Os.; to be had of the Collectors on board the Packets; or of Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend. Nov. 17, 1853. Useful Pamphlets, to be had gratis on application at the Publishers. (if by letter enclosing a postage stamp.) ATKINSON and COMPANY'S PRICE CUR RENT of Useful and Ornamental FURNITURE, UPHOL STERY, LOOKING GLASSES, BEDDING, &c. Also, THE LADIES' MA NUAL, or Guide to the Extensive Mercantile Estab lishment of ATKINSON and COMPANY, DRAPERS. SILK and SdAWL MERCERS, HABERDASHERS, HOSIERS, and LACE MEN. London : Published by the Proprietors, Atkinson and Company. 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster-bridge-road, Lambeth. MECHI'S CHESSMEN, in Ivory, Bone, and Wood, 4, LEADENHALL-STREET, LONDON, the best and cheapest, which may also be said of his Back-gammon, Draught, and Chess Boards, Cribbage Boards, and Pegs, Cusqioned Bagatelle Tables, Pope Joan Boards, Work-boxes, Desks, Pocket-books, Writiag and Envelope Cases, Dressing Cases, Tea Caddies, Table Cutlery, Sheffield Plated Ware, Pen-knives, Scissors, Clothes, Hair and Tooth Brushes, Combs, Razors, Strops, &c. Quality of all articles first-rate. THOMAS SALT and CO EAST INDIA PALE ALE BREWERS, BURTON-ON-TRENT. STORES. London— .. 22, Hungerford-wharf. Liverpool 52, Henry-street. Manchester •• 37, Brown-street. Birmingham .... 26%, Bull-street. Bristol .... • • Back Hall, Baldwin-street. Nottingham .. • • •• .. 14, Milton-Street. Dublin .. • • ...„ 4, Crown-alley. Eqinburgh .•.•• •..... 17, Downie-place. Dundee .............. 13, New Inn Entry, High-stree PARR'S LIFE PILLS ARE NOW, FROM THEIR MANY VIRTUES, THE ESTABLISHED FAMILY MEDICINE THROUGHOUT THE BRITISH EMPIRE. PARR'S LIFE PILL S will be found speedily to reanimate the spirits, improve the digestive powers, and restore the whole nervous system to a happy and natural state; the balsamic powers of this medicine produce that delightful feeling of good spirits so very desirable, and disposes both body and mind to healthy exercise—everything under Its influ ence soon wears a joyous aspect, and the varied duties of' life are performed with pleasure; and, instead of long and weary nights, gives sound and refreshing sleep. If the stomach and bowels re ware it, rAltlt'S LIFE Ptt.t.s act as the mildest and most agreeable purgative, and by their cleansing powers totally eradicate a redun dancy of b le. Sold by E. Edwards, 67, St. Pant's-churchyard ; Barclay and Sons, Parringdon-street ; Sutton and Co., Bow-churchyard ; Han nay and Co., and Sangar, Oxford-street, London; and by all respect able chemists and medicine venders in town and country. In boxes, price Is. I Y i d., 2s. 9d., and in family packets lie. each. * * *None aro genuine without the English Government Stamp fixed round the sides of each box. R AVESEND STAR PACKETS. No other Packets call at the Gray s, Greenhithe, and Pnrfleet Piers. The Packets call at the Piers as underlined (weather permitting) FROM TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND. V °8 0.) 4 T 1 me. Terrace Pier. 'll¢ *l'B4 t 9% 11% 8% 11% 3% eked A. Station to all parts of London :WALL, on the arrival of the to: 'enchurch-street Station. C, csi ..r 2 4. -• 0.. z Le r. CID li gv.f, - , 1111 11111 t:l ,=1"-F.1 0 .. Cl CI . . CO . . fie 0 . NCI . C* t 1 ,+? gi ';'‘ ~4 -6 I 7 ,4 4).' 1414,0.10 0.,,,, 0w... - . 0001,-... -1 •:) ';', I ... -, . --. • 1.... C.) 0 a H ei LI) .o •: : : • • • •• •• • . •:.• • . • • • o • • g, : m ▪ m . .. Thus AB, in 10 years, has saved and invested at different inter vale various sums amounting to 971., by which he had been insured in case of death for 2601. 12s. 7d. ; but A B requires 221. ; he draws this sum out, and diminishes the value of his Policy by 601. Bs. 3d. at different times, leaving 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 Deposit and General Life Assurance Company WWI upon a deposit of 101. which a parent made for each of five children, instead of aiding it to an account they had at the Savings Bank. One of them died a few days after the 101. was de posited, and the father received 341. 65., being the amount of the De posit Policy. EXAMPLE No. 2. 23, when he opens a Deposit Policy has the rOLUNTARILY to pay the same sum every year is COMPELLED to do in the ordinary system. Supposing A B, aged means, and continues in the same way as he Year. Age. X. 2. d. 49 6 6 48 16 0 47 18 0 47 4 6 4G 10 6 45 17 6 45 4 0 44 10 6 43 17 6 43 4 0 1851 ................ 85F.... ........ to to .. • ..... 206 7 6 190 4 6 870 .............. . L 1471...... •. ....... 141 3 0 to 3T4.............• 1,000 4 0 to to 11555..... • ..•.....,.. to 1891.• •• •• .• •• •••• •• 194 13 6 147 18 6 182 10 6 1,525 b 6 Th premium of 14/. commencing at 23 years of age, and paid upon an ordinary Policy (AS IT MUST BE) every year till A.. 8. is 46 years old, w ill secure the same sum, VIZ., 1,001/., bet if A Il 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 1,5251. 6s. 6d. TILUSTEEL Tae Right honourable the Lord Viscount Drumlanrig, 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 Ay„ cough, Prospect House, Southampton. CHAIRMAN'. The Right lion. the Lord Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C., Comp troller of her Majesty's Household. CONSULTING ACTUAILT. Francis G. P. Nelson, Esq., F.L.S. ST ANDING COUNSEL. ;2. R. B. Crowder, E sq ., Q.C., ALE., Recorder of Bristol, Counsel to the Admiralty, and Judge Advocate of the Fleet. R. Ma‘ins, Esq., Q.C.. M.P., Lincoln's-inn. Chief Mice, No, IS, New Bridge-street, Blackfrlars, London. Loans granted at 5 per cent. on real or personal security. Annuities on most favourable terms. Diseased lives and lives de clined by other offices accepted at equitable rates. For Prospectuses and further information apply to the agents in e country - , or to C. W. Bevan, Resident Secretary. Agents wanted in all parts of the United Kingdom. N.B.—Life Assurances effected on the ordinary plan. Pamphlets, to be tad gratis on application at the Publishers if by letter encloain; a postage stamp.) :THIRD EDITION.—WITH ADDITIONS. Just published, Bvo., in cloth, price 55., by post tree, hs. 6d. ON TRUE A; FALSE SPERMATORRHCEA, with the View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors n relation to the Treatment and Care of the Impuissa nt and Sexual Hypochondriacs, Translated from the German of Dr. PICKFORD. T)whlch is added, an E3SAY on SEX.UAL DEBILITY, by the Editor. "Dr. Pickford is known to English readers by his frequent prac fitirst - cal contributions to German medical literature. This is the time, he informs as, that he has addressed himself to the non-medi cal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detect any ether equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to correct." —London Medical Gazette. May3o, 1851. The tribe of 'Quiet Sympa thisers:and Medical Friends,'are meroilessly exposed ; and if this book could find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the com plaint of which it treats, wo aro satisfied that manyhundreds would us saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is of less importance, though it is that which the quacks moat prize-- much money ......This volume Is well qualified to put an end Creat e empirical system of treating Spermatorrhosa, and to plan the re.lnt upon a more'rational and physiological basis. It is, %enters likely to do much good."—Medical Circular, Juno 16, 1852, London; H. Dallier°, 219, Repeat-greet, !satui Direct Trains from the Boats m, Omnibuses from Fenehurch-stri ev ery quarter of au hour. BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACIi lowing Trains from the 1 N 'ERZ DATE. SUNDAYS. i . 8 co 4 , , i . 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