The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-13 00:00:00

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE•

TATTERSALL' S—YESTRIIDA y.
ta Nothing was done yesterday on either of the stakes now in the
arket. The only offer on the Cleaell Stake was 6 to 4 agst
Gre Clear
well m
orflUS.

ll_ NOTTINGHAM' RACES.— WEnsmsDA Y.
ir Sherwood Stakes of 25 eovs. each, h. ft., with 20 added by the
embers for the County, for three years old ; colts, Bst. 51b ;
jvilli.„4's, Set. 211). One mile and three quarters. 3 Subs.
Ah,• Q.• t. Peel's Cantata Templeman 1
'rFrost's Capulet 2
A cl„ Won by a neck.
.-'1), or Piece of Plate, value 100 sous., by Subscribers of 10
"''''''. each. The surplus to be paid to the winner, the second
it.rreceiving 10 sous. Two miles and a half. 17 Subs.
Vyr. Bird's Redshank, 4 yrs, Bst. 81b ...C. Edwards 1
....,_1,.. Barrow's Catharina, aged, 9st 2
Col Rolleston na. Gipsy, 5 yrs, Bst. 81b 3
Captain Pearson's Lucifer, 5 yrs, 9st
A pi Won very easily.
Town,
of 601., given by the Town and by the Members for the
"in, for horses, &c., never having won that value before start-
ng for this Plate. The second to receive 101. Heats, two miles
i‘irla half.
Ai... Lacpsns ch. f. by Recovery, 6st. Illb
lo.f, ey's Subaltern, 3 yrs, 7st. ..
ir• Charlton's The Young Squire, 3 yrs, 6st. 111 b ... dis
T

:he Countess of Bridgewater will return to Ash
"uge Castle next week.
Lord Gardner will leave Bath House South
,
Audley-street, in a few days, on a tour.
Lord Fitzroy Somerset arrived in town from Wal-
bier Castle on Wednesday last.
General Evans and the French Minister, M. Ser-
tuier, had an interview with the King of the Belgians at
Brussels on Monday last. The King and Queen were ex-
Peeted to leave Brussels for Paris on Tuesday.
Part of the suite of the Queen. Dowager left Bushy
Yesterday for Hastings.
.„ The Hon. Mr. Wellesley left town on Monday last
for the Continent.
The Hon. Carroll Worsley arrived in Piccadilly
Yesterday from the Continent.
The Hon. Miss Talbot, niece of Lord Fitzroy So-
Nerset, leaves town in a few days on a tour.
The Hon. Richard Watson, son of Lord Sondes,
left tow, yesterday for Rockingham Castle, Northamp-
r•
ashire. Mr. Watson has lately returned from St. Pe-
Leraborgh. •
to The Hon. Col. Lyster and a large party are going
Melton Mowbray next week.
Despatches from Downing-street were forwarded
Yexterday for Lord Melbourne, at Brighton.
10 13. espatches were forwarded yesterday from the Co-
linetaal Department for the Earl of Gosford, for Sir Francis
he d. and for the officers commanding in the British de-
auencies in North America.
h The Waterloo Gallery, at Windsor Castle, has not
ii:en {generally shown to visitors during the last three weeks,
consequence 4 of various arrangements and improvements
the interior. This splendid collection of portraits
iillowever, be shortly open to the public as usual.
the berLik fße ford. It has bee n's box at Drulane adjoinstted that
with
of
I,lry- elegantl
~ct
tlk curtains, richly gilded chairs, &c. y fi up
Pat% understand an application is to be made to
piosirent to establish a Local Court in the borough of
to rY, which may take cognizance of debts amounting
and, ,The population of the borough is 230,000. persons,
the
3:obenefinCiaajlo:ity are tradesmen, such an Act would be
York gaY last the bronze statue of the late Duke of
truck was conveyed to Edinburgh Castle from Leith on a
ten drawn by eight horses. The height of the statue is
fiai flt, and it is about four tons weight. It will re-
erected. the Castle until a site is fixed on and the pedestal
Yeste.d Spenceratouarn.d Lady Louisa d'Horsay left town
• ay on
c, The H
'Pene„ n'n• Captain Spencer, R.N., is expected at
Bright ouse, in the Green Park, on Monday next, from
N '3ll his
his browt
°big Earl Althorpe Park, the seat of the

THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,— Amongst the improvements suggested at the British
Museum, I beg leave to recommend that a printed catalogue
be made, as soon as possible, of the paintings placed round
the gallery, which is over the King's Library, of the length
of three hundred feet, consisting of portraits of the Royal
Family, and of distinguished literary characters, with the
names under them of the persons represented, of the painters,
and of the donors. It is a very interesting collection, but
requires the assistance of a printed catalogue to be published,
as, from the want of it, much of its interest is lost. Another
advantage will probably accrue from the publication of a
printed catalogue, namely, that individuals possessing por-
traits of the above description, will be induced, from public
spirit, to present them to the British Museum, towards fill-
ing the spaces at present unoccupied.

AN AMATEUR.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND ASSLT-

RANCE.

(From the Dublin Freeman's Journal.)
Politics pervade the entire social system of Ireland in all
its relations, and operate to the prejudice of the nation's
best elements of strength, wisdom, and happiness. They
engross the active energies, mental and physical, of the
country. All the enterprises, all the exertions of the na-
tion are engaged in the attempt to create and to maintain a
political existence. Like the inmates of a blockaded for-
tress, the entire population seem to have but one aim and end
—that of self-defence, while every effort and art which would
sustain and enable life are forgotten. The current money, as
well as the current laws, has been hitherto used as an in-
strument by the rich man to make the poor man poorer,
and the weak still feebler ; while the intellect, which is de-
voted to the effort, would have been able to remove the
impediments which beset the path of the latter, and thrust
him out from every resource, has been wasted in the vast
arena of political strife.
The classes in Ireland which ought to be the produc-
tive classes—the classes which really are productive for
every purpose but their own comfort—have ever been de-
nounced as an improvident race ; while the simple but sad
truth is that the rich English—their taskmasters at home
and abroad—have, exerted their utmost skill to make
them what they are represented to be. The relative posi-
tion of the parties may suggest the utility of this to a nar-
row mind, and selfishness has adopted the suggestion as a
law. In ordinary transactions, embracing opposite interests,
the poorer, the feebler, and the more reckless sub-

serve to the advantage of others ; and what is
true of individuals is true of states and nations. The

powerful has an accumulating advantage in the multi-
plied exhaustion of its dependent, when their union
is so unnatural as to leave them separate interests,
The monied party in England have made this maxim, sel-
fish and narrow as it is, the basis, and an improvement of
its results, the bond of connexion between the two countries.
Those who thus beggared the people attributed their misery
to their own turbulence, " which scared away all capita-
lists," while, in fact, the turbulence was an imaginary and
wicked creation of their own, for the very purpose they
seemed to deprecate ; and the same jealous iniquity which
shut the serfs of the soil out from education closed the door
on every hope of gain. The laws against the possession of
property may not seem so barbarous as those against the
acquirement of knowledge ; for, while the acquisition of the
table of multiplication was rewarded by the gallows, if the
knowledge was possessed by a Catholic, he only incurred
the fin:Pitt/re of an estate in land, should he be wicked
enough to acquire it ; still the apparent mildness of the
latter enactment operated through a vigilant spirit of plun-
der which made it equally effectual with the other. But
when the object of both was effected, the object itself was
made, in turn, a crime—the people were called " savages"
and " beggars," and as the code of blood relaxed, and the
statute book was relieved from its curse, the code of preju-
dice and libel succeeded, and the lies of newspapers conti-
nued what tyranny began.
Very recently, however, a spirit of liberality and enter-
prise combined has begun to trample on the prejudice of
ages, and seeks a generous speculation in partnership with
an impoverished country. In this honest policy the ".ra-
tional Bank (f Ireland" has been the first successful expe-
riment. The great principle of that establishment was to
make the people sharers in itg benefit, and give them an in-
terest in its success. Already has the wisdom of the course
become apparent in the profits of the establishment, but,
above all, in the protection it has afforded the poor—the
cabins it has defended against the revenge of wicked land-
lords, and the spirit of enterprise and hope which it has in-
fused into the oppressed.
On the same principle—on a still broader principle, car-
rying the means of acquiring a competence lower down in
the scale, opening accesses to the scantiest resources, and
creating, as it were, one vast speculation, in which the na-
tion at large may engage, is

"THE NATIONAL LOAN FUND ASSURANCE."

The principle of its operation cannot be said to begin
where that of all other institutions of a similar nature ends,
because it embraces all that the others do, and affords the
same facilities ; but its character of national utility results
entirely from the multitude of new facilities it creates down-
wards, admitting to its benefits those against whom all others
were closed. We do not profess to be able to give, in one
view, all tho details of the system, but we will endeaveur to
explain those leading features which appear to us'to recom-
mend it to the nation.

A person insuring his life may insure it for one year, for
five years, or for life; and he may pay the premium in one
sum, yearly, qua; tcrly, or monthly—for example :
A person thirty years old, by paying 1/. 4s. 2d., will effect
an insurance for one year, and should he die within that
year, his representatives will be entitled to 100/. ; or he
may insure it for any greater number of years—the rate in-
creasing in proportion ; thus, if it be for life, the premium
will be 21. 4s. 4d. annually.
But supposing this person engaged in business—so that
the aforesaid sum will be a loss to him, and the abstraction
of it from his capital would ruin his business—he can borrow
two thirds of it immediately on the security of his policy, by
paying the society an interest to be specified—say five per
cent., and thus (supposing the premium 3/.) he will really
have to pay only 11., and five per cent. interest on the other
two. The next year he can borrow four pounds, and so on
—thus creating for himself a cash credit account—the
greatest advantage that the most eminent merchant can ob-
tain by a connexion with a bank. This is the first great re-
commendation of the system.
We still keep the same person in view—viz., a per-
son thirty years old, insuring for one hundred pounds—
and supposinc, that he pays for five years, and afterwards,
through neglect, does not pay, by such neglect he would
forfeit his entire policy, though he may have paid thousands,
to any other Insurance Company ; from this his representa-
tives will receive two-thirds of all his payments, provided be
has paid for five years.
This is a second great recommendation, for it entirely
secures the assured against the risk of any considerable loss.
Again, he may at any time give up his policy—change it
into a new assurance, or dispose of it for its real value to
the Society, or to convert it into a cash credit account, or
into a lodgment with accumulating compound interest.
And this we think a third great recommendation.
Hero it may be proper to add that the Company will also
act in the capacity of a " savings bank"—they will receive
money, at three per cent. interest, to be paid at ten days'
notice:

The same person still, and for the same amount of policy,
may adopt the alternative of paying 21. 9s. 3d. insteltd of
21. 4s. 4d., and he would then be entitled to two-thirds of
the profits of the Society, which, we will explain thus :
Suppose he borrow, as in the former case, 21. out of 31., and
pay five per cent. for the 21. ; then, if the profits of the So-
ciety be seven per cent., be will be entitled to receive as
large a sum of interest as he pays—thus reducing the pre-
mium to one pound instead three.
There are several other modes of effecting the insurance,
which we have not space to go into to-day, but the great
benefits to the poor are comprised in what we have already
stated. We do not deem it necessary to add any recom-
mendation to the simple facts we have detailed. We
scarcely think any one could be so improvident as not to
avail himself of the undoubted means of securing for his fa-
mily the competence they brought within his reach. Nine-
pence a week will secure to a poor tradesman's family the
sum of 1001. at his death, and the society furnishes facilities
to make that ninepence available, and whenever he is too
poor to continue it, he will be entitled to the value of his
payments, combined with the chances of his policy. How
easy would the einepence go—how foolishly may they be
spent—how many miseries and crimes may not the spending
of them create—what an impulse to industry, to sobriety, to
morality, will not the sparing of them necessarily bring into
action—and what a blessing, what a happiness to the mind
to be confident that the children of one's love will not be
left totally dependent on the death of their natural protector.
We have confined ourselves to one sum of 1001. to avoid
confusion ; but any sum smaller or larger may be, secured by
proportionate payments of premium.
We have omitted to mention, what in other instances
would be the first essential, the security of stability the so-
ciety offers—because the names of the parties afford a se-
curity in themselves, and because principally T. Lamle
Murray, Esq., who was mainly instrumental in establishing
the National Bank, is at the head of them. We confess,
too, that we seize with avidity a plan so much at variance
with the system we have described in the beginning of this
article ; and we hail as a blessing this opportunity of res-
cuing the people from wretchedness, and the national cha-
racter from obloquy.

Sir Robert Peel and family arrived at Antwerp
on Tuesday last, with the steam-boat from Loudon, and
put up at the Hotel du Grand Labouraur,