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NTATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITU-
TION, for ASSURANCE of LIVES, ENDOW-
MENTS, and ANNUITIES, 13,Nicholas-lane, KingWilliam-
street.
MEMBERS whose PREMIUMS become due on the Ist
of April next, are hereby informed that the same must be
paid within 21 days from that date.
March, 20, 1839. JOSH. MARSH, Secretary.

ANTI-COAL MONOPOLY ASSOCIATION.
AT a MEETING held at the Storey-gate
Hotel, Westminster, on Saturday, the 23d day of
Mardi, 1839, GEORGE RENNIE, Esq., in the Chair, the
following resolutions were carried unanimously : 4,4
I. Resolved—That the most satisfactory evidence having
been given of the extortions and other abuses of the Coal Com-
binations, and of the means by, which the same may be defeated,
this Meeting approves of uniting the Consumers of Coal into
an Association, with such Capitalists as may join diem, under
the name of the " Anti-Coal Monopoly Association."
11. Resolved—That the following gentlemen, having rignified
their support of the cause, be requested to act as a Provisional
Committee, with power to add to their number :
Chairma.e-1. T. LEADER; Esq., M.P.
Attw.)ocl, T., Esq. M.P. 'Rennie, Geo.; Esq., No. 1,
Illewitt J Esq M.P. Chesham-place, Belgrave-

Bird, J. , Esq. , Congrevc-House,
Birmingham, and Dinas
Mowddwy, Wales.
Ewart, W.', Esq., M.P.
Galloway, Alex., Esq., C.E.
Hill, Rowland, Esq., F. R. S.
Lewis, David, Esq., No. 4,
Chesham-place,; Belgrave-
square. i .„_
Pryme, Geo., Esq., M.P.
111. Resolved—That the following Address be issued as the
Prospectus of the Association ; that the same be advertised ;
and that the Provisional Secretary be instructed to cause the
same to be left at the houses of all Consumers of coal throughout
the Metropolitan Districts:—

! squrre.
Smith, Dr., Geologist.'
Thompson, Col. Peyronnet,
Hanover-terrace, Regent's-
park.
Villiers, Charles, Esq., M.P.
Wallace, Robt., Esq., 2.1. P.
Wilson, Thos., Esq., Bank-
hall and Silkstone Colliery.

" AIDE TOI, ET LE CIEL T'AIDERA."
ROSPECTUS OF THE ANTI-COAL-MONOPOLY

ASSOCIATION.
FIRST CAPITAL, 500,000/.
In 50,000 Consumer's Shares of 5/. each ; and 23,000/.
Capitalist Shares of 10/. each.
Each resolvable into the other when convenient ; and the
latter bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum

the Consumer's Shares renewable for ever.
No Deposit—no Subscription Deed—no Act of Parliament—

no Debts—no Credits.

The object of this Association is to secure to its Members of
the consumers' class, Coals of every description, at the cheapest
rate at which they can be procured, without being subjected to
any of the monopoly regulations or exactions.
In order to effect this great object, it is necessary that the
Association should be self-dependent; that it should have its
awn pits, its own vessels, its own wharfs, warehouses, wag-
gons, &c. ; or that it should have contracts, binding down
parties for any of them at the lowest stipulated cost.
Great and praiseworthy efforts have been made by the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor, and others, to break down the Coal
Monopoly, and with considerable success ; but it must be evi-
dent to all that so long as the chief sources of supply rest in a
few combined hands—so long as the Public cannot command
their own means of production, carriage, and delivery.—no iso-
lated efforts, however gigantic and persevering, can entirely
succeed in placing the necessary article of fuel, at the lowest
cost, in the cellar of the consumer. _ _ _

The Monopolists have set at defiance the Legislature; they
set at defiance the Lord Mayor, and all other individual oppo-
nents ; they would crush any single-handed rival disposed to
open trade • they dare not set at defiance the combined Con-
sumers ; they cannot crush a Hundred Thousand Shareholders,
with the means of supply in their own possession.
Besides the enormous artificial cost laid on coals by the deten-
tention of vessels—the limiting the supply beneath the de-
mand—the agency of factors—the large per-centage of profits to
cover bad debts and long credits—there are great frauds in the
mixing of coals, by which the public are injured to a large
extent. This Association will save the cost and prevent the
fraud. Men who are their own Coal-merchants can have no
temptation to tax or cheat themselves.
The preliminary measures for this Association have been
going on for twelve months. Every inquiry has been made
necessary for the completion of the undertaking. Persons con-
nected with the monopoly in the north are desirous of breaking
from it, and have offered their pits at a valuation to be taken
in shares. Other mines of coal yet unworked are offered at a
low seignorage. Contracts are offered of the best Silkstone
and Frockton coals of Yorkshire, of the coals of Staffordshire
and Derbyshire, and of the Welch and ' othdr coals of great
value fur particular purposes. Contracts for freight, for wharf-
age, for delivery are offered ; and even now, before the posses-
I:ion of their own resources within themselves, excellent domestic
coal may be placed in the cellar of the consumer at from 21s.
to 225. per ton, leaving Is. per ton to pay five per cent. in-
terest to the capitalist, and all the expenses of the manage-
ment.

It is not proposed that this Association should sell any
coals, but only supply its own members. It will have no
individual objects to serve. The gentlemen provisionally acting
disclaim any other interest than that which is common to the
community. They have advanced the necessary expenses of
its formation, which they expect to be repaid, but no more.
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Company, but without the ordinary characteristics of Joint-
stock Companies. There will be no deposits—no responsi-
bility—no self-constituted directors or officers—no liability to
the laws of trading, partnership, or bankruptcy.
A gentleman or tradesman who takes ten or twenty consumers'
shares in this Association may, while he remains in London,
get his 501. or 1001. worth of coals at their natural cost, with
the addition of 5 per cent. to the capitalist ; and, when he
chooses to go into the country, need not have one farthing of his
money lying idle or unproductive, but, by exchanging his con-
sumer's tickets for capitalists' tickets, will get his 5 per cent.
until he return, and then exchange again for consumers' tickets,
and save probably 30 per ce.it. in the price of his coals.
A self-protecting Association against the Coal Monopolists
was formed in Edinburglithe year before last, which had the
effect of enabling coals to be procured during the dreadful
winter of last year (when they reached the enormous price of
455. per ton in London) at a cheaper rate than during the
preceding summer and autumn, and which enables the best
Scotch Coal to be now procured in Edinburgh at 12s. per ton,
and the Newcastle Coals at 17s. 9d. per ton.
It is proposed that there shall ultimately be twelve Director s,
each holding 100 Shares, six from the Consumer's class, and
six from the Capitalists' class, with salaries to be fixed upon at
a general meeting of the Shareholders. Two Directors of each
class, eligible for re-election, to go out annually. All appoint-
ments of permanent officers to be made by the Directors thus
chosen.

The Duke of Wellington, in a speech on the finances of the
country, during the Administration of Earl Grey, said, " He
was not opposed to the repeal of the coal tax, or any other tax,
merely because it was a reduction of taxation, but the Noble
Earl, would recollect, on a former occasion, he thought that the
best plan of reducing taxation was that which relieved the con-
sumer ; and, regarding the coal trade, he had said that the
best way was to correct the abuses to which it was subject, and
he was sure the abuses in that trade operated more than taxes
in raising the price of the article."
The machinery of the system to which his Grace alluded may
be traced in the following facts. In the North the great Coal-
owners enter into a bond, with heavy penalties to each other,
tilt to send more than a certain quantity of coals to the London
market, and to sell coals to none who will not sign a paper
agreeing to conform to the regulations of waiting their turn.
In the South those regulations are, that, when coals are in the
Pool at 235. 6d. per ton, only forty cargoes shall be sold—when
235. 9d. and 245., fifty cargoes—when 245. 3d. to 245. 6d.,
sixty cargoes—when 245. 9d., seventy cargoes—and a reduction
of ten ships for every shilling below 235. 6d. The operation of
this may be seen in the following table :

An Account of the Number of Vessels coal laden sold from the
Pool on the Coal-market each Market-day during the month
of December, 1838; the Price of the Best Coals (Lambton) ;
the Number of Ships waiting for Meters at Four o'Cloek ;
and the Number detained in the different Sections of the
River, between Bugsby Hole and Gravesend :

GUARDIAN FIRE' .AND LIFE -.0-
SURANCE COMPANY,
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London.
DIRECTORS.

JOHN SHORE, Esq., Chairman.
ROWLAND MITCHELL, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
W. 'C. Brandram, Esq. Stewart Marjorbanks, Esq.
John W. Buckle, Esq. John Martin, Esq., M.P.
John Dixon, Esq. Robert Mitford, Esq.
William D. Dowson, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
Nicholas Garry, Esq. John G. Rarenshaw. Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Jun., Esq. A. H. Poulett Thomson, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq. John Thornton, Esq.
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METROPOLITAN LIFE 'ASSURANCE
SOCIETY
FOR MUTUAL ASSURANCE.
aD;4'7W-44, DIRECTORS.
T.,!: John Allcard, Esq. Charles Hensley, Esq.
Richard Low Beck, Esq. Joseph Hoare, Lsq.
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The Directors hereby give notice to members whose Pre-
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be paid within thirty days from that date.
The leading principle of the Society is the appropriation of
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years' standing.
The premiums of members (who are the only proprietary of
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RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Superintendent.
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I.2“)YAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
AA.) OF HOUSES AND GOODS FROM FIRE,
No. 21, LOMBARD-STREET,
(Established by Royal Charter in the Reign of King George
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For Assuring Houses, Buildings, Goods, Farming Stock, &c.,
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Sir JOHN WM. LUBBOCK, Bart., Governer.
THOMAS TOOKE, Esq., Sub-Governor.
BARTHOLOMEW JEFFERY, Esq., Deputy-Governor.
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March, 1839. SAMUEL FENNING, Secretary.
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