The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1824-08-17 00:00:00

'AVO SCHOOL ATLAS OF TWENTY-FIVE
MAPS.
This day is published, finely engraved on twenty-five plates with
all dixeoveries to the present time, in Bvo. outlined and neatly
half-bound. price 12x.
ANEW SCHOOL ATLAS of Modern Gergra.22
containing Maps of all the principal States and RI
dike World (to which is added a Map of Canaan or Judea
Scripture reteling,) the whole compiled from the latest and best
authorities. By I. C. RUSSELL, Geographer.
0,.• The Maps are printed on a fine stout Drawing Paper.
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Where may be had,
(/STELE'S GENERAL ATLAS, royal Ito. thirty Maps,
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vnle, half.bouod. coloured outlines, price 18a. or full coloured, 21s.
GUY'S SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY. royal Ultno. with seven
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ACTS OF TIIE LAST SESSION OF PAKLI4MENT.
5 OEO. IV. (1824.)
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GIFFORTYS ACTS of the sth GEO. IV. (1924) being
the LAST SESSION OF PARLIAMENT ; containing,
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C.VION ON NERVOUS DEBILITY, ERUPTIVE
IHSEASES OF TUE FACE, &e.
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BENEFIT SOCIETIES.
Jun published, by Messrs. G. and W. B. Whittaker, Ave Maria-
lane, in one sheet tiro. price Is., and may be had of all Book-
alien, the Second Edition of
CONSIDERATIONS on the Necessity of Appointing
a BOARD of COMMISSIONERS for the PROTEC-
TION and ENCOURAGEMENT of FRIENDLY SO-
CIETIES AN ACTUARY.
EXTRACTS FROM TIIE PAMPHLET.
Did banks fur savings meet with neglect ? were the depositors
is themselves ? driven to public-houses for meetings, and to
bodlords for treasurers? as were the members of Benefit Societies.
No. othooLnboms, chapels, and proper offiets were selected for their
rven,honorary subscribers came forward to their support, house.
,elms and pansh officers formed their committees,Membersof
l'arliaaseat their trustees, and Noblemen their patrons; and then,
?lib all the disadvantages of Ignorance and neglect on the one
"and', sad the benefit of extensive patronage and encouragement or
tle Wan, the txo institutions were compared, to show the superio-
nty Books over the Benefit Societies."

• • •
toe Ira the advocates for early's banks be easily persuaded to
their usual premiums Instead of insuring their houses against
ra Certainly not. Yet they recommend the mechanic to place
4"Kasy ia the bank to provide against sickness and old age,
!tale they know that sickness, like fire, though somewhat slower
et no opestioes, may, in a short time, exhaust the savings of fifty
"et, and, like tire too, may come suddenly before the first year
• • •
‘"The best friends of the working classes will al•ays introit
'at in provide against the manifold wants of sickness and of old
by means of respectable and irell.condueted benefit societies,
`'` "towels to which ought to form • part of their current and
Parise espensex To those who have anything to spare after this
"'AM
heirmay be useful; the necessities of through e ing first
!carat by t club, the mechanic and labourer,the me-
fins( the may he able to add comforts ; but no Individual
LA.!, lefriencis his neighbour or his onuntry, by enjoining a nil.
:71POn individual sayings as • security against casualty, which
overtake a man in an hour, and in ifew months sweep away
Itteises of ais hole life." • • •
ti !tare are so few ctuaries whocan or will pay atntion to the
t`iit this impostaant part is generally neglected, a tend the rules
ebies are subtnitted, with all the faults of the former, to the
wttrates.of the un in which the
it were Society is to be holden,
ft„...,teettleu somceotimesty renders, as , the most intolerable
411cins, the most abominable nonsense, part of the law of ,
.""11,1" • • •
Id3n
13,h ot recommend that additional enabled be given te authorityen-
al 2,4;,1 the Magistrates are a/ready , by the y of
t Pediment, to publish instructions, to drew up Rules for
n•e_lefit sacieties, to refuse to sanction Amendments to the
1,;71..tte those already formed, until they c.re conformable to the
'iele.eneake improvement, and so ; hut three•fourths of
We tunes M some counties, and the whole of them in others, are
siiiliet_enntdi It is *hewn, I should hope, clearly, that this
Prep
4 fuel, injurious, and it is only the transfer of these
en to an effiuent Board which advocate and which, I again
lath n,cressary to the prosperity of Friendly Societies.
Press, and will be rublithed in a few days, by the same
Author,
pki/X)StRITTIONS for the ESTABLISHMENT and
0 Ell ENT of IoiIIENDLY SOCIETIES, with °entre'
1, Notre, and ("fiend Tab*.