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London, England, 1852-08-23 00:00:00

GENERAL MANAGER

Henri Christopher Eiffe, Esq.
AUDITORS.
C.E., Parliament-street.
liVimee I In
.Kl°ePnkt,Eg' Esq., 51 and 52, Paternoster-row, and Norwood.
Arthur Mere, Esq., F.1.8.A., 58, Pall-mall.

MEDIC AL orricEns.
Campbell De Morgan, Esq., 51, Upper Seymour street.
Nicholas Parker, Esq., M.D., Finsbury-square.
Prior Purvis, Esq., M.D., Greenwich.
Ed. Johnstone, Esq., M.D., Regent-street, and Clapham.

STANDING COUNSEL.
Sir Wm. Page Wood, M.P.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, Tritton, and Co., Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. Terrell and Matthews, 30, Baiingliall-street .
The public in general are invited to a consideration of the compre-
hensive plan of this Society.

Whilst it transacts all the ordinary business of Life Assurance on
the most liberal conditions, it freely opens its doors to those exposed
to extra risk, and affords them advantages watch have heretofore
been denied.
It grants Assurances against every contingency of life to persons
of all classes or professions, on terms equitably adjusted to the risk
incurred.

'SPECIFIC ADVANTAGES.
1. This Society grants Assurances on the lives of all classes, in-
cluding Seafaring, Military, and Naval Service, as well as persons
proceeding as passengers to foreign climates.
2. No extra premium charged. on Assurers who desire to travel be-
tween any port in irtg‘ drase..4.lu.l.anY of .tbe_oorts from
Gibraltar to-the M'alW - • -;
3. ,No 9i•Vp, profillain charged for residence in any part of Europe,
in Australia, or Canadas, or any healthy parts of North or South
America.
4. Assurances may be had on the Lives of Mariners, to cover the
constant' trade between the United Kingdom. and any part of the
world, or the constant trade in any given place, as for instance be-
tween.the East Indies and China.
*,,* The premium for a specific voyage may be obtained on liberal
terms.
5. The extra premium which is charged for residing in unhealthy
climates, or for actual service in military or seafaring pursuits, is
discontinued on return to, and during residence in, the United
Kingdom, or the healthy parts of Europe. The Policies are then
continued during residence at the ordinary premiums standing against
the age of the assured at the time of effecting the assurance, evi-
dence as to health being first adduced to the satisfaction of the Di-
rectors.
G. The whole of the profits divided among the assured for life, all
of whom are proprietors, and possess control over the management
without responsibility.
7. Guarantee Policies for Filelity of Trust, in combination with
Life Insurance, granted at little more than the simple rate for ordi-
nary Life Policies.
8. All Policies indisputable, except in cases of premeditated fraud.
No charge to the assured for medical fees, stamp duties, or any other
expenses in effecting a policy beyond the premium.
9. The Directors give favourab:e consideration to proposals from
diseased or non-select cases, at premiums proportioned to the risk,
a system especially advantageous to parties whose health may have
been impaired by over attention to business, foreign residence, &c.
From the principles which are here briefly stated, it is evident
that the system of assurance acted on by the Hope Office cannot be
too strongly recommended. To all who have any surplus capital it
offers a secure and profitable cpode of Investment ; it combines all
the advantages of Assurances and Savings It inks together, for, in
the event of premature death, a large capital Is at once created for
the survivors, that would require years to be produced by any other
mode of investment.

li. C. EIFFE, General Manager.

AT AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
MEETING of the HOPE LIFE ASSURANCE and
HONESTY GUARANTEE SOCIeITY, duly convened, and held
within their Offices, No. 4. Princes-street, Bank of England, on
Wednesday, the 21st July, 1852, at the hour of One o'clock,
HENRY MORGAN VANE, Esq., in the Chair,
It was unanimously resolved—That henceforth the number of
Directors shal be increased from ten to twelve, and that '
Henry Philip Hope, Esq., Official Assignee, District Bankruptcy
Court, Leeds, and Dr. Thomas Wheelwright, M.D., of Lower Philli-
more-place, Kensington, London, be elected Members of the present
Board.
It was proposed by Jouß STEwAaT, Esq., seconded by JAS COB-
BETT, Esq., and unanimously resolved—
That the best thanks of the members are due and hereby sincerely
accorded to the Board of Directors and General Manager, for the
Jt.onssoff, Esq., M.D., seconded by
unparadel-d success which has accrued to the Society by their ju-
,lltci,oviaiss apnidozoeaseloausbymEanDa\gvAem.Den
Jois- SuovE, Esq., and carried by acclamation—
That the warm acknowledgments of this meeting be made to 11.
H. Vane, Esq., the Chairman of the Board of Management for the
very able, lucid, and cheering statement rendered by him of the
Society's affairs.

By order,
HEN RI CIIRISE. EIFFE, General Manager.
London, 21st July, 1852.

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No British or Co'onial Brandy can compare with this pure
and wholesome spirit, introduced by us to the public a generation
ago. Supported as to its purity at its outset by the testimonials of
such men as the late Dr. Turner, the late Mr. Hume, and of living
celebrities, professed chemists, who analysed the spirit, it ever has
been unrivalled for its WHOLESOMENESS ; the patronage it has
continuously enjoyed vouches the universal appreciation of its
FLAVOUR, which is identical with that of choice Champagne
Brandy.
It is sold throughout the Kingdom, by respectable dealers, in glass
bottles, protected by the Patent Metallic Capsules, at 3s. a bottle ;
in dozens, bottles and cases included, at 18s. per gallon. ; and in
stone jars of two gallons and upwards, at 16s. per gallon, pale or
coloured.
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7, SMITHFIELD-BARS, ST. JOHN-STREET.

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_Walytical Investigation of the Physiology and Functions of
Marriage, in all the bearings in which that important subject affects
the health and happineEs of Alan, with its Disqualifications and Impe-
diments, tracing their origin to the effects ofjuvenile solitary habits,
youthtul excess, tropic climates, or close study ; followed by prac-
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of Impuissance, Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhcea,
syphilis, and all diseases of the Urinary and Generative System. Il-
lustrated by 50 coloured Engravings, on the Anatomy of the Repro-
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E 7, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
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Hal, the London Hosp
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immediate and
oeof the few
diseases incidental
to the generative system, and
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RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, AUG. 21.
STOCK EXCITANGE.—The share market has been firm
to-day, but there was not much business doing. The
only transactions reported were—Caledonian, 3834—York
and North Midland, 47.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 21.
STOCK EXOBAMGE.—The prices to-day were rather better,
though the sale§ are small. The transactions were as follow:
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 9% dis.— Blackburn
(late Blackburn, Clitheroe, and West Yorkshire), Preference,
b per cent., 241,!—Caledonian, NlA—Eastern Counties, 11
East Lancashire, 17 yB—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 804—
Ditto, Fifths, 4% dis.—London and North-Western, 122 y
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 29—Ditto, 6!. New
Preference, 'hp.—Midland, 7534 —South-Eastern and Dover,
213/—York and North Midland, 24%8—Shrewsbury and
Chester, Preference, guaranteed 8 per cent., 18%.
MANCHESTER, Aua. 21.

STOCK The transactions to-day were as fol
low:—Blackburn (No. 1), 6 yt, —Cale cl onion, 201,i—Et
Anglian, Preference, 6 per cent., 3 1-16—Eastem Counties,
10:13-16 c..--East Lancashire, 175 A—Lancashire and York-
shire, 7934—Ditto ( West Riding Union), 3 dis.—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 29 —Ditto, New 61. Preferene
1% p.—Midland, 75%—South-Eastern and Dover, 21% ",
Dublin and Drogheda, 48%.
BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 21.
STOCK EXCTIANGE.—The railway share market has
throughout the week, laboured under considerable depression'
although on Friday afternoon it rallied a little, and main-
tained a trifling improvement to-day. There are, however,
few buyers in the market at prices at which holders are dis-
posed to sell, and consequently very little business is trans-
acted. South Staffordshire shares maintain a firm price'
and, as will be seen, have now nearly reached par. The
following were among the closing quotations:—Birmingham
and Oxford (cal:s duly paid) sellers, 30—Birmingham, woi.
verhampton, and Stour Valley, buyers, 11, sellers,
London and North-Western, buyers 121%, sellers 122% ex
div.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolshire, buyers, 28--
Midland, buyers, 74%, sellers 75—Shrewsbury and
min ham (Class A), buyers, 9%, sellers, 9%Q—Ditto 03),
buyers, 6%, sellers, 61. Bs. 9d.—Ditto, Preference, buyers,
10 Union, sellers, 21/s —South Staffordshire,
buyers, 3/s, sellers, % dis.

CHARGE OF FORGERY AGAINST A SOLICITOR..-00
Saturday a painful interest was excited in the commercial
circles of Hull by the arrest of Mr. William Cooper Robinson,
an attorney of hitherto highly respectable repute, pursuing
his profession in Parliament-street in that town, on a charge
of having forged an I. 0. U. for 1,000/. It appears that on
the previous day Mr. Robinson went to the office of Mr.
Wells, of the firm of Park and Wells, bill discounters, and
stated' that he desired to negotiate an advance of 1,0001. on
the deposit of some title-deeds as security. Mr. Wells
agreed to accommodate him to this extent, if sufficient value
should be represented by these deeds, which Robinson alleged
to belong to
property of which a Mr. Priekett
Mr. Prickett, the remainder to be
gagee, and that the sum was required to pay off the mort-
was mort-
gage.. As be had not the papers with him, it was agreed
that 5001. should immediately be advanced if an I. O.U. were
given for that sum by
fur-
nished on the delivery of the deeds. Robinson then left, and
shortly returned with an 1.0. U. purporting to be signed by
Mr. Prickett for 1,0001, who, he said, desired that it shonld
be for that sum. Feeling some doubt upon the matter, Mr.
Wells made an excuse for leaving his office, and hastened to
Mr. Prickett's, where he at once found that the signature to
the I. O.U. was a forgery, and intimation having been given
to the police, Mr. Robinson was at once apprehended. He
was examined before the m
A A --e Mayor and a full bench on Satur-
. day, Aucl lenuul.tew

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
WHITEEIAVEN JUNCTION.
The half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors
of the Whitehaven Junction Railway was
held on
Friday at the Swings Bank; the Right Hon, the
Earl of Lonsdale in the chair.
The SECRETARY (Mr. Yeats) read the report of the
directors, which stated that the accounts for the past
half-year showed a receipt from traffic of 5,2821. 15s.
0 2., and an expenditure of 2,7301. 43. 51
inte-
rest balance available for dividend, after payment of
on loans and preference shares, was 772/.163.8d.,
and it was proposed to divide 3s. per share. A sum
of 2951. 17a. 101. is charged for repairs of sea walls.
The works at Redness Point are nearly completed, and
the cost will be about 1,100/. The further sum of
2501. will ba required for repairing other portions of
the wall between Redness Point and Parton, which
the directors intend apportioning as follows :-796/.
3s. 91. to be paid out of the capital, and the remainder
to be paid out of the revenue by setting apart a cer-
tain sum ette'3 half-year. The agreement for the use
of the Maryport station expired on the 18th instant,
end the directors have obtained a considerable reduc-
tion in the charges. An arrangement has been
entered into with the Flimby Colliery Company for
the conveyance of their coals over the railway for a
period of seven years ; and contracts have been entered
into for the supply of 100 coal waggons on line at a
fixed sum per annum,. the colliery company indemni-
fying this company from any loss in the contracts in
the event of the colliery being discontinued. On the
capital account a further expenditure of 1541. ss. 4d.
has taken place during the half-year.
The Noble CHAIRMAN then said, the accounts of
this company, which had just been read, varied very
little from those submitted of ,last year. There was
only a difference of Qa_ w t.,„.tlkreceipts. Last year
901: was received from' the Parnesi-Coitipany for the
hire of an engine. There had also been some reduc-
tion in the charge for conveying the mails. With
these exceptions the receipts for this half-year were as
nearly as possible the same as those for the corre-
sponding period of last year; and, with respect to the
expenditure, there was only a difference of 471. The
sea-wills have given some trouble, and must, to some
extent, affect the dividend. Upon consulting various
shareholders upon this subject, the prevailing opinion
was found to be that they would rather have a certain
dividend than apply all the revenue to the repair of the
walls, and the only difference in the dividend between
the present and the last year would be a shilling minus
per share. Those proprietors who could not well saeri-
flee all that was available for dividend must keep up
their spirits, and look for a better dividend in twelve
months. Their prospects for the ensuing half-year
were somewhat better than they were at the com-
mencement of this. The opening of the tunnel con-
necting this company's line with that of the White-
haven and Furness Company would certainly be of
some advantage ; they bad also a sum to receive from
the Lancaster and Carlisle Company for the hire of an
engine, and there were one or two other items with
which the directors hoped to be able to liquidate the
cost of repairing the sea-walls. With respect to that
remaining to be paid out of capital, there was money
yet unborrowed upon the shares of the company
which would be available for that purpose. With
regard to the walls, the principal portion of them was
firm and i•olid. The prospects of railway property
were generally looking better, and the amalgamation
of
fe south. Most Bist companies
logoing promisingly forward in
th
likely, when they got another step
to the south, it might prove to their interest to amal-
gamate with another company. Re moved that the
report of the directore be received and adopted.
The resolution was carried unanimously.
A dividend of 3s. par share, less income-tax, was
declared, payable on the 30th of August instant.
The retiring directors and auditors were unani-
mously re-elected, and after a vote of thanks to the
chairman, the meeting broke up.