The Sun.
London, England, 1852-10-12 00:00:00

TRUSTEES

Richard Malin', Esq., Q.C., M.P. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. I James Fuller Maddox, Esq.
Wililam wilberf wee, Esq.

COPIES of this year's ANNUAL RE t'ORT-of the business of the
Company, and containing Observations by the Manager on the
present state of the p actic3 of Life Assurance, as to the validity
of Policies, may be had at the chief offices, or from any of the
agents.

ALEX. ROBERTSON. Manarter.

DEFECTS in the PRACTICE of LIFE ASSURANCE, and Sag-
rations for their Remedy. 6th thousand. By Alexander Robert.
son. W.B . A LA. Orr and Co. Price Is.

PERIODICAL SAVINGS applied to PROVIDENT PUR-
POSES, with Observations on Friendly and Odd Fellows' Societies,
Freehold and Building Societies, Life Assurance, and Self-Pro-
teeting Assurance. By Alexander Robertson. Orr and Co. Price
is. 6d.

BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Established August 1, 1837.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Via., cap. 9.
CllAlllMan—Colonel ROBERT ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park.
ADVANTAOES OF THIS INSTITUTION.
INCREASING RATES OF PREMIUM.
A Table especially adapted to the securing of Loans or Debts, and
to all o:her cases where a Policy may be required for a temporary
purpose only, but which may be kept up, if ne essary, throughout
the whole term of life.
HALF -CREDIT RATES OF PREMIUM.
Credit given for half the amount of the first seven Annual Pre-
miums, the amount of the unpa'd Half. Premiums being deducted
from the sum assured when the Policy becomes a claim.
sum ASSURED PAYABLE DURING LIFE.
The amount payable at the death of the Assured, if he die before
attatninthus combining g the age of slaty, but to the assured himself, if he attalus
that age,
upon life. aprovision for old age an assurance

ORPHAN'S ENDOWMENT BRANCH.
Established for the purpose of affording to parents and others the
means of having children educated and started in life, by securing
annuities, to commence at the parents' death,
and to be paid until a
child, if a son, shall attain his 21st year, or, if a daughter, her 25th
year of age.
...

These annuities are at any time commutable for their fill value, if
a ready money capital is required for a marriage portion, or on en-
tering into business or a profession.

BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION
1, Princes-street, Bank, London. •
Empowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
Annual division of profits—applied in reduction of the current
Year's premium.
Policy holders entitled to participate in the profits after payment
of five or seven annual premiums according to the table of rates se-
lected.
Premiums charged for every three months' difference of age---not,
as is usually the case, for every whole year only.
Half credit policies granted on terms unusually favourable to the
assured, the amount of halt premiums for which credit is given,
being liquidated out of the profits.
At the Annual General Meeting on the 27tliApril last, a reduction
of 30 per cent. was made in the presentyear's Premium on all policies
of five or seven years' standing.
A Board of Directors in attendance daily at Two o'clock.
Age of the assured in every case admitted in the policy.
Medical attendants remunerated in all cases for:their reports.

(PROPRIZTART.) (;.lIITUAL.) ExtraA from the H Extract from Table with Participation
Credit Hates of in Profits, after Seven Yearly
Premium. PaymentS
---
------- -----
Half whole
premium (Annual) Half Quar•
4 during premituu Age.
First for Re- Pre-
Seven ma'nder
-mlnm. minin•
Years. of Life. pAnnreminnaml Yearlypr terly
--
X s d. £ s. d. Years. Months £ s. d. X s. d. Z 8. d..*
28 019 7 119 2 30 0 2 7 3 1 4 2 012 o
30 1 1 9 2 3 6
3 2 7 6 1 4 4 012 4
35 1 411 2 910
40 1 9 22 18 4 6 2 710 1 4 6 012 5
45 1 14 10 3 9 8 40
9 2 8 2 1 4 8 012 6
, 80 2 2 6 4 5 0 0 3 3 0' 112 3 016 5
55 212 9 5 5 6
6 33
34
61
11
1122 160 °0
1166 97
60 3 6 8; 613 4 9 3 4 7 113 1 010 10
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D— R. FOSTER, Resident Director.
ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary.

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CITIZEN AND IRON STEAM BOAT COMPANIES.
Yesterday evening the anniversary festival of the Iron
Steam-boat Company was celebrated at Cremorne•gardeng,
when about 400 of the men employed in the United Iron and
Citizen Stearn-boat Companies, together with their wives
and families, sat down to an excellent supper, provided by
Mr. Simpson, the proprietor of the Cremorne-gardens. Mr.
Bytord, the senior captain of the Iron Steam. boat Company,
prsided. The health of her Most Gracious Majesty the
Queen and the Royal Family having been enthusiastically
responded to, the chairman proposed the healthe of Mr.
Hazlewood and Mr. Jennings, the chairmen of the Iron and
Citizen Steam-boat Companies, both of whom acknowledged
the compliment, and returned thanks on behalf of the board
of management to the men employed by both companies,
for the diligence, attention and civility which they had inva-
ii EWSI'Ai' 14'. i. risibly shown towards the general public. The healths of
~
:r., , te,. Mr. Fraud; late chairman of the Citizen Company, Mr.
:::-:7..-.
_.
~ ,';''':,;.,,!,-.4,9:•\\ Burnrey and Lieutenant Acheson, the superintendents, and
r <)
15i...,
„. i.7,.;',-:s-,.:.f, the est of the officials of the two companies, were also given
.„,,,v-i, j.,, , v-', by the chairman, and severally responded to by those gentle-
.cio,..Fr--,,:-7,441:4 , men ; after which the conipany
'
*-;:;.,.,1-.-.A.;;;V,i7 where the dancing w k
.4.00 ~. adjourned to the
. ball-room,
) the °cession, as ept up to a late hour in honour of

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LONDON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1852.

A remarkable and, in many respects, masterly
paper on the subject of the East Indian Company's
Charter, appears in the current number of the New
Quarterly.* The extraordinary importance of the
question involved in this subject commands for it, at
once, the attention to which it must at all times have
been acknowledged to be entitled, but which at the pre-
sent juncture has become absolutely imperative with
every humane and patriatic Englishman. Under any
circumstance we should have welcomed an argument
in favour of the obvious and inalienable rights of our
Asiatic dependents, but now, when the intrinsic value,
or rather the actual existence, of those rights is about
to be brought under the consideration of the Imperial
Legislature, we are anxious to further with all pos-
sible earnestness the statements here appositely put
forward by oar esteemed contemporary. It must be
remembered, in the first instance, that the
matter is one of no ordinary nature, but
aff,cting in an intimate manner the destinies of
no less than 150,000,000 of GOD'S creatures ! Upon
the decision about to be arrived at by the Parlia-
ment of Great Britain will depend the happiness or
the misery of that astonishing number of our fellow-
beings—their happiness or misery, recollect, for
twenty years to come—as CREIT SING intimated
years and years ago, their wealth or want, their cul-
ture or ruin, their life or death, under the still
problematic influence of a good or an evil Govern-
ment. A grand, nay, more—a very solemn and very
awful reflection ! A reflection which should weigh
upon the conscience of every thinking man in the
United Kingdom with the sense of a supreme and
fearful responsibility. It reminds us in an astounding
manner of the vastness of the administrative labour
which has devolved within the last century upon
the nucleus of the Anglo-Saxon race, namely, upon
those members of the great family of mankind who
happen to be denizens of this little cluster of islands
—the inhabitants of what may be called the British
Archipelago.

What we are required at this juncture to decide is,
simply the relation in which, during the next twenty
years, the Hindoo slave shall stand in regard to
his conqueror and so-called protector, the Trader
Savereign. We are bound to consider within the
next few months whether or not, during the con-
siderable interval of time before specified, we shall
band over again " one hundred and fifty millions of
human beings" 'to the almost irresponsible authority
of a "corporation of capitalists." Hitherto we have
postponed the settlement of this gigantic political
1 difficulty with a negligence in the highest degree
I culpable, and indicative of a very shameless and flagrant
Indifference. England has allowed her attention to be
diverted again and yet again from the solemnity of
the question therein submitted to her scrutiny and
judgment by occurrences inferior in themselves, but
more closely affecting her own fortunes, and some-
times, it must be admitted, her own stability. Pre-
cisely as the time has come round in which the re-
' newel of the powers entrusted to the Court of Direc-
tors in Leadenhall•street devolved uponthheavCeenbtereanl
Government, the interests of the nation
almost exclusively concentrated upon some question
more immediately influencing the fortunes of the
British multitude. It was thus, in 1782, when the
people thought more of themselves than of their
Asiatic fellow-creatures in the presence of the Northern
Confederacy, of the war with France, and of
American independence. It was thus twenty years
afterwards, when Europe was involved in the
struggle consequent upon the French Revolution.
Twenty years again elapsed, and we were still battling
fiercely with our gold and our arms, with military
tactics and political intrigues, against the veteran
soldiers of the Emperor NAPOLEON. Another twenty
years, cod the nation having but just accomplished the
labour of Cathobiletiactcianrncarried
aotin the
Emancipation, was involved in
ft
ohrems absorbingahou t t
to be
excitedu bythe
generalprojected g a
er
e-
i-
zation of the Commons
Rouse of Parliament. Yet
another twenty years have elapsed, and England is

See pp. 343-352 in the October number (iv.) of
The IVezv Quarterly Review and Digest of Current Li-
terature," a periodical eharaoterised by delightful fresh-
ness and distinguished ability, although published at lesa
than half the price of its other quarterly contemporaries.
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