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London, England, 1852-06-18 00:00:00

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TO THE ELECTORS OF THE BOROUGH
OF FINSBURY.

GENTLEMEN,
I have been honoured with requisitions, numeromly signed, re-
questing me to become a Candidate at the ensuing Election for the
representation of your Berou:th in Parliament.
Possessing the confidence of a small, :but intelligent constituency,
and not wishing to intrude myself upon the Electors of any Borough
returning Liberal Members to Parliament, I solicited toe requisi-
tionists to afford me opportunities of ascertaining generally the
wishes and feelings of the Electors of the Borough of Finsbury.
Public Meetings have been held in different parts of the Borough,
and resolutions have been passed by larg,e majorities, affirming the
principles of the requisitions, and pledging themselves to support me
at the ensuing Election. Atteran opinion so widely expressed. and
almost unanimous, I can no longer hesitate to declare myself ready
to accept the onerous but high diStinction of becoming a Candidate
for your suffrages.
During the time I have had the responsible honour of a scat in
Parliament, 1 have supported, by my votes, the great principle of
Commercial and Religious Fr, eflom. of which I have ever been the
advocate in private life; but in presenting myself as a Candidate for
the suffrages of so large and important a constituency as the Bo-
rough of Finsbury,
limits of an address will permit, to give you a general outline of my
political opinions, I feel it to be my duty, as tar as the narrow

I AM IN FAVOUR OF
.he Extension of the Right of Voting for Members of Parliament,
and that, to protect the poor and honest voter in the free exercise of
his suffrage, the Ballot should be substituted for the present mode
of voting'.
That the Duration of Parliament should never extend beyond
Three Years, and the Act requiring a property qualification for
Members of Parliament shmld be repea!ed.
Attached to the principles of Free Trade, I will not only
strenuously oppose ,every attempt to restore the Corn-laws, but
will, with my utmost ability, aid in procuring the removal of all
restrictions upon the free exchange of the products of our national
industries with those of all other countries.
Our financial policy, based upon no just political or economical
principle, requires to be thoroughly revised, so as to reduce our
expenditure, and render our system of taxation more equitable in
its operations.
In our Military, Naval, Diplomatic, and Colonial Establishments,
large savings may be effected without impairing their efficiency.
The Income Tax, Probate Duty, and Post-Hire Duty, are examples
of the mode by which some classes of the community and some
descriptions of property are unfairly and improperly assessed-
•: As one of the representatives of the people, lt:oefellclAp4r4ftrty
to bridFavout; tiaeasitigly, to promote economy of expends are and
to support the introduction of measures by which all classes may
contribute their fair proportion to the revenue of the State. The
reasons offered for the increase of our *tending army are, to my
mind, inconclusive, and I have therefore opposed, and shall continue
to oppose, a forced and unequal conscription in the form of a Militia.
In a free state, religious opinions should not prevent either the
enjoyment of civil rights or of political power, and I have always
supported the removal of all disabilities on account of religious faith,
and I have been, and shall be, the humble but energetic advocate of
complete religious equality.
I am opposed to the payment of any religious denomination from
the taxes raised for secular purposes, and I am deeply convinced
that a large amount of the demoralization and crime which unhap-
pily exists in these islands arises front a deficiency of education in
the masses of the people.
I should, therefore, give my earnest and active support to any
measures which would diffuse sound secular education amongst all
classes of my fellow-subjects.
The Reform of the Court of Chancery, the Abolition of the Eccle-
siastical Courts, t,e Government of our Colonies, by and through
their own freely-chosen representatives, are subjects which must
occupy the attention of Parliament during the coining Session, and
in the consideration of these great questions my conduct would be
guided by the great principles of a steady, impartial, and inexpen-
sive administration of the laws, and of full, fair, and free popular re-
presentati ,n.
Believing that the freedom which is enjoyed by the British people
is mainly owing to the diffusion of municipal institutions, and the
exercise of the power of local self-government, I am opposed to the
centralization in the hands of Government-appointed Commissions
the Administration or control of local affairs, but that the people
should govern themselves through their freely-chosen represen-
tatives.
The vast and important interests in the Borough of Finsbury re-
quire from its Members of Parliament a careful attention to its local
affairs, and should I have the honour to be chosen as one of your
representatives, it will be my duty, as well as my pleasure, to devote
an assiduous and energetic attention to the general affairs of the
Borough, as well as to the imperial interests of the country,
I have the honour to be, Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
Park Village West, Regent's-park. JAMES WYLD.

BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE
ASSOCIATION.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
.
'Empowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
DIRECTORS.
CHAIRMAN—CoIoneI ROBERT ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park.
IVilliam Bardgett, Esq.., 149, Fenchurch-street. •
George 13er:ngton, Esq., Neckinger Mills, Bermondsey.
F. F. Coekerill, Esq., shadwell, and Twickenham.
George Co:.en, Esq., Shacklewell.
Miles Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street.
John Drewet, EQq., 50, Cornhill.
Erasmus Robert Foster, Esq., 1, Princes-street, Bank.
T. S. Girdler, Esq., 7, Tokenhouse-yard.
H. L. Smale, Esq., Doctors'-commons.
STANDING COUNSEL.
H. Bellenden Kerr, ESq., 8, Old-square, Linncoln's Inn.
SOLICITORS.
Messrs. liPLeod and Stenning, 13, London-street, Fenchurch•strect.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Dimsclale, Prewett, Fowlers, and Barnard, 50, Cornhill.
This Institution was originally established under a different title
in the year 1839, on the plan of admitting the assured to participate
in four-fifths only of the profits ; but the Society has since been re-
mode'led so as to become a strictly " Mutual Association."
The whole of the funds and property belong to, and are accumu-
lated for the exclusive benefit of the assured.
The profits are divided annuallY among the policy-holders, and
applied in reduction of the current year's premium ; thus constitut
inn, in effect, an immediate cash payment to the assured.
Half-credit policies are granted on terms unusually favourable to
the holders. the amount for which credit is given being gradually li
quidated out of the profits.
Two Tables of Rates have been computed ; one entitling the as
i-ured to participate in the profits after payment of five annual pre-
miums ; the other considerably lower, in which the period of parti
cipation is deferred two years lomer : the premium ultimately payLl
able by the assured is, however, precisely the same, whichever Table
of slates may ill the first instance be selected.
General meetings of the members are held annually, to whom lull
and complete statements of the affairs and funds of the Society are
submitted, and by whom the division of the profits are from time to
time declared.
At the Annual General Meeting held on the 27th April last. a di-
vidend of 30 per cent, upon the current year's premium was awarded
to all members who had made the requisite flamer of payments on
their respective policies.
By order of the Board of Directors,
B. R. FOSrER, RestdentDirectar.
ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary.

London, May 1, 1852.
The "Britannia Mutual Life Association" is altogether dis-
tinct from, and independent of, the Proprietary Office transacting
business under the name of the " Britannia Life Assurance Com-
pany." The only connexion between the two establishments is, that
their affairs are conducted on the sine premises and by the same
officers, by which means the entire disbursements of the Mutual
Association are reduced to a small per tentage on the receipts.

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GUARANTEE FOR FIDELITY OF TRUST.
PROFITS DIVIDED.
RATES—From 7s. 6d. per cent. upwards. No charge for Stamps
An allowance made in the Guarantee Premium where a Life As-
surance and Guarantee are combined.
LIFE ASSURANCE.
Policies Indisputable save in cases of Fraud.
Arrangements can be made with this Office to prevent the loss of a
policy where the Assured is unable, from temporary embarrassment,
to keep up the payments,
H. B. SHERIDAN.
TIMES FIRE AND PROPERTY ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Every description of Fire Assurance. Profits Divided.
Agents Wanted.
H. B. SHERIDAN.

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ADAI
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~IIE 'PHYSICIAN'S
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-umuit of 1848.
I
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Just published, in 1 vol. Bvo., price 12s cloth,
R. S. LAING'S OBSERVATIoNs on the
SOCIAL and POLITICAL STATE of D--.PNMA.RK and the
DUCHIES cf SLESWIC and HOLSTEIN, in 1851: being the
Third Series of Notes of a Traveller on the Social and Political State
of the European People.
" A well-timed and valuatle contribution to our knowledge of the
actual condition of a country whose intestine dissensions and the
consequences involved in them, threatened for se
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long a period to
give birth to a general European war. ....
Turning from the
political to the descriptive part of Mr. Laing's work, we find not onlY
a great deal of information, but much amusing matter ; and had we
space to quote from it, there are many passages which we have
marked that would justify our assertion."—Examiner.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Long/flans.

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Its Condition and Prospects : with Descrintt
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y
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Times' Com-
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THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The memberS of the Legislative Body met on Wed-
nesday in their bureaux, to terminate the nomination of
the Committee on the sumptuary Bills lately presented.
The Committee consists of the following members:—The
Duke the Duke d'Albufdra, Bsroo de Bussieree,
Baron de Ravine', M. Ancel, M. Hallez-Claparele, M.
Boissy d'Anglas, Count Frederic de I.4grange, and M.
Desenuroux de Gnulmin, M. Favart, I+,l. Pongerard, M.
Schneider, M. de Kergorlay, and M. do Ladoucette. Of
these gentle Men, the first nine are opposed to the mea-
sures in foto; M. Favart is opposed to the Bill increasing
the duty on the transfer of real property, whilst only
the last four have signified their intention of supporting
the Bills. A second Committee was also nominated,
namely, on the Bill relative to the re-election of the
councils-general, the municipal councils, and the coun-
cil,' of arrondissement.

The Siecle dwells upon the cruel hardshirs which the
proposed taxes on paper will add to the already over-
burdened and depressed daily journal. The papers on
which stamp duty has lately been doubled, and whose
interest has been almost lost by the restrictions imposed
on the pens of writers, will now have to endure an addi-
tional fiscal burden, which, in many cases, will be:the
last straw that breaks the back of the camel. It calcu-
lates that the tax will add nearly three-and-a-half francs
to the journal supplied to the subscriber, without count-
ing loss on proofs stud waste, and the duty on the dif-
ferent- other sorts of paper consumed in the establish-
ment. All the trades into which paper enters will suffer
more or less, and yet the gain to the revenue will be
paltry. The respectable booksellers are preparing re-
monstranees against this impost.
...094g2t;tliug to. the Pays there will be an extraordinary
session, of a few -Cra-inength, to enable the Corps Legis-
lay' to pass bills prepared by committees, amongst
which there will be some railway bills. The line to
tCahpeis.rbourg will, it is believed, be brought again on the
The release of ABD•EL-FADER is thought to be about
to take place. On Wednesday the chief of the State
had, it is said, an interview with the Commandant of the
Chateau d'Amboise, who,. it was said, was taken to the
Elys6a by the General S. ARNAUD, Minister of War,
on the eve of the departure of the latter.

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The Patric says:—
"We have learned a fact which shows the popularity of
the Prince President among the working classes. It is known
, that the miners of Rive-de-Gier left off' work some days ago,
in consequence of a dispute with their employers about
wages. It is now announced that they are getting up a sub-
scription to send delegates to Paris, to submit the case to the
Prince President, and take him for arbitrator."
There was a further rise in the price of public securities
at the Bourse. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. opened at
1001. 65c., and closed at the same price for the end of
the month ; the Three per Cents. closed at 70r. se. ;
Orleans Railway Shares, 1,240 f.; Rouen, 840. ; Havre,
323 f. 75c. ; Avignon, 373 f. 75c. ; Vierzon, 617 f. 50c.;
Basle, 2681. 75c.; Bordeaux, 637 f. 50c.; Paris and Stras-
burg, 5761. 25c. ; Tours and Nantes, 383 f ; Paris and
Lyons, 6481. 7.5 c.; the New Austrian Loan, 94%.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 17m
Great Indian Peninsula, 6:)B—Ditto, 5%—Luxembourg,
45/6—Namur and Liege, 6%—Northern of France, 24
21)1. 3 per Cent. Bonds (formerly Boulogne and
ADmittien' s shares), 14 Orleans and Bordeaux, 16—Paris and
Lyons, 111 A—Paris and Rouen, 335—Paris and Stras-
bourg, 22% ex d.—Sambre and Meuse, 47/B—Tours and
Nantes, 12.