The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-05-16 00:00:00

ECONOId IC FUNERAL SOCIETY.—
Capital £)00,000, in 6,000 Shares of £.26 each.
This Institution has been formed, anticipating the most happy
results in favour of every class. There will be a scale of prices,
whereby the Society itself will be prevented from taking advantage
of public approbation ; and each individual may ascertain, when
giving instructions for a Funeral, the amount of the debt about to
be incurred. _ _ _

Considered as a protecting compact, whereby the subscribers can
secure themselves, their friends, and dependents, from unreasonable
and extravagant charges, the concern must be extensive; but when
regarded as the means of saving to the community in almost every
ease one third, and even half, compared to the present prices, there
can be no doubt of its success. Long have the heavy expenses on
these melancholy occasions been severely felt and deeply lamented,
and no other way presented itself to the Committee of correcting the
evil but the present measure, namely, that of forming an Associa-
tion, which, by its respectability, would overcome vulgar prejudices.
The foundation of the Society has been long laid, and the Company
have at command Funeral Carriages, Horses, Feathers, &c. and many
Parish Clerks have consented to give up their private business, and
become Agents for this So-iety. The profits to shareholders are
calculated at 15 per cent. per annum, arising from circumstances
with which the public will be well satisfied. The sum expended
upon Funerals annually in London amounts, by the calculation, to
nearly two millions of money.
A deposit of 21. per share will require to be paid immediately
after the allotment of the shares.
Prospectuses may be had at the office of the Solicitor, Mr. James
Carden, jun. 35, Abeburch-lane, Lombard-street; where, and at
the Hankers', Sir Walter Stirling, Stirling, and Hodson, 354,
Strand, applications for Shares, post-paid, may be addressed.
Parish Clerks, Sextons, and others, who may have hitherto acted
as Undertakers, as well as those who are accustomed to the business'
of an Undertaker in any of its brandies, and who may be desirous
of being esnnected with the above Society, as well as all other per-
sons who have been in the habit of supplying, at wholesale prices,
the various articles required in Funeral Ceremonies, may apply by
letter, directed to the Solicitor, as above, it being the intention of
the Directors to distribute the business as much as possible through-
out each district.

•° It appears that a similar plan was established in 1809 for the
whole city of Paris, and which continues unaltered.

P— -
URSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chan.
I eery, made in a Cause wherein .loseph Dare and others are
Plaintiffit, and George Gordon and others are Defendants, the
CREDITORS of JOSEPH DARE, late of Southampton-street,
in the parish of St. Giles, Camberwell, in the county of Surrey,
Esq. (who died in the month of February, 11113) are forthwith to
come in and prove their debt,. before Francis Paul Stratford. Esq.
one of the Masters of the said Court. at his Chambers in South-
ampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London; or in default thereof
they will be excluded the benefit of the said Decree.
SHEPPARD, THOMAS, and LEPA RD, Solicitors.

Tt USICAL ESTABLISHMENT for the highly-atl-
1!.1 mired, ver fashiensbie„ newly-constructed, small PA-
TENT I)ITAL HARPS, and new British LUTES. elegant,
little Instruments, which produce all the essential properties. fire
tone and general effect, of the Pedal Harp, though only one third
the size, and are also as sweet an aeromraniment to the Voice,
Piano-forte, Stc.; and what renders them still more desirable Is,
they require hardly any instruction to play on them, Sc.c.
Are to be seen and heard and only had of E. LIGHT, Sell.
Music Professor, Inventor, and Patentee, 43, Great Mary-la
bonne-street.
N.B.—The above are warranted to stand the hottest climates
abroad.

---‘.lBesidee the new Harp and Lute, Ladies arc also instructed
on the Piano-forte, in Singing, &e. in ths present style, either here,
pc wended at home.—This is not a Music-shop.