The Sun.
London, England, 1839-10-16 00:00:00

34, Bridge-street,lllaCkfriars, London.
Established in 183.
LOWER RATES of PREMIUMS than any ether Office
that entitle Parties to a participation in the profits.
iho Bonus declared in 1834 amounted upon an average to
16/. per cent. upon the premiums then paid ; and recently a se-
cond Bonus has been awarded amounting on the average, to 31/.
Per cent. en the premiums paid during the Last five years.
All Assurances effected on the equal scale of rates during this
Tel(1839) will participate in the profits at the nntt,divisicn
"44.
Polices on th • lives of Persons dying by suicide, duelling, or
I,'„Y the hands of justice are not void, as respects the sntsress of
'allies to whom they may have been legally assigned.
Assurances may be effected on any and every day.
By order of the Board of Directors,
JOHN KNOWLES, Resident Director.

IMMEDIATE BENEFITS OFFERED TO THE
PUBLIC.
LFE ANNUITIES,
CALCULATED on EQUITABLE PRINCIPLES ! ! !

INDEPENDENT WEST MIDDLESEX
ASSURANCE COMPANY,
°Pl3o9ite the Bazaar, Baker-street, Portman-square, London.
South St. David's-street, Edinburgh ;
Ingram-street, Glasgow ;
Era And Sackville-street, Dublin.
11Powered under the several Acts of Parliament of 14th Geo.
lIL c. 48 ; 2.. d Geo. 111. ; 53(1 Geo. 111. c. 141; 3d Geo.
‘-• c. 92 ; and Ist Vic. c. 10.
LIFE ANNUITY RATES.
For every 1001. deposited, this Association will grant the An-
auity placed opposite the Age of the Party depositing.
From 50/. and upwards, in proportion.
"_e_c:3oto4Oto4s to 59 to 55 to Mu
te t 5 to 70 to 75 to 00

9. 1.44 10 .E 9 0.0 to xif) 101£12 10 $l5 10£20 0 £25
Per Per Per Per Per Per Per Per
Vent. Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent Cent. Cent. Cent. Cent.

LIFE INSURANCE RATES,
14daced 30 per Cent. per Annum Lower than any ether Office.

le.te

LIFE ASSURANCE RATES.

to 45 to

hafnium s. s. d. £s. d s. d. 1.4 s. s. 4.1.2 s. d.
1111 011 012 n 612 6 012 0,12 15 Op 5 •

This Company make no charges for intermediate ages under

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50 }ears.
FIRE INSURANCE RATES.
Common Insurance. s. d.
Private Houses and Shops (not hazardous)... 1 0 per Cent.
Hazardous
Double Hazardous
Farming Stock
The Rank of England;
BANKERS{ Bank of Ireland; and
Western Bank of Scotland.
SECRETARY—G. E. WILLIAMS.

Prate@ io not reject of
Till you've read our Prospectus.
earl in November will be published, what every impartial in-
dividual will admit is much wanted in the Irish Metropolis,

a really Honest, Able, and LIBERAL WEEKLY JOUR-
NAL, which it has been determined shall be called
H E W 0 R L D.
Now that we have sat down to draw up our Prospectus,
we do solemnly protest that vt e would have given a considerable
cute could we, by any means, have induced Lord Brougham
and Viscount Palmerston to perform the duty for us, by
Way of proxy. The ene would have described all that
" THE WORLD" ought and will be, a thousand times better
than we can ever hope to do ; while the other would have en-
shrouded all our errors and weaknesses in so murky a mantle
of mystification, that they would have escaped the " audax et
vigilans" scrutiny of the keenest customer in the New Police.
Failing in our attempt either to enlist the ex-Chancellor, who
was in hot haste to meet the hero of Waterloo at Dover, or
the Prince of Protocols, who assured us that " he had not a
paragraph in him," the last having been expended to complete
the piseatory portion of the Queen's Speech, we had some
notion of applying to Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, but feared
he would be too Whiggish and classical. Then we turned
Sur eyes to Eaton-square, and thought of placing ourselves
tinder an obligation to Sir William Alolesworth, but changed
our mind, lest his Durham politics should creep through a
transparent veil of Radicalism. Tom Wyse we were half in-
'lin to solicit, but he wouldhave been rather heavy, and had
!nottath to de in Waterford. Richard Sheil had the next place
pt our consideration, bat his style would have been too spark-
ag and light for us ; and, moreover, we knew that ha was
busied not only in preparing a patriotic address to the electors
of Tipperary, but also in obtaining some knowledge of the
tallow and molasses trade out of Al.Culloch's Commercial
Dictionary."
Having at length seen that we must ourselves put en our
apron, and take up our tools, for the due execution of the un-
dertaking, we were fairly bothered deciding whether the affair
lhould he extremely long an dull, or uncommonly short and
Merry. Conscience whispered that we should speak the truth,
hut we remembered that the philosopher of Alahnesbury has
denounced all truth-telling public writers as dangerous to the
safety of a corrupt and tyrannical commonwealth, and has re-
commended that both them and their lucubrations should he
bundled off to some comfortable and hospitable country, like
Australia or New Zealand. Our disposition and interest
prompted us to treat a grave matter with becoming serious-
tMts but then the advice of Pliny flashed upon our memory,
mend in vita sic in studiis pulcherrimum, &c.) where he recom-
mends to mingle mirth and gravity in our studies. We
feared to be vivacious and pointed, lest we should be condemned
as frivolous and slanderous, and suffer that public displeasure
which has ever been visited upon unhappy authors since the
time that the Athenians burned the books of Protagoras, and
the Romans hunted Diogenes and his companions out) f:
city, for telling more than they wished to hear. " [Nina).
Natal.," as Dick Stapleton phrases it, would have inclined
us to he a little vain, thereby following the counsel
of Lord Bacon, who informs us that " the fame of Seneca and
Cicero was kept fresh by their boasting, which seems to be like
varnish, that not only makes wood shine, but last ; but we drew
ourselves up, and, upon reflection, decreed that self.praise, se
far as we were concerned, should be monopolized by the com-
pounders of Alorison's Pills, and Holloway's Poor Alan's Oint-
Ment. Here, then, we were at a dead-lock, and seizing our
Pen, first wrote a furious letter to Dr. Dionysius Lardner, com-
plaining that science l.ad not yet discovered some piece of me-
chanism that might manufacture Prospectuses of all sorts and
'ices by steam—then set about inditing one after the good old-
fashioned plan.
The Amphitryon thinks the choicest blessing of life a re-
cherche repast; the exquisite prizes above all things a well-cut
coat, or an unobjectionable cigar ; the Ennuyee pants fur the last
now novel, or the opera ; the Rational Man al one loves as
honest and clever newspaper. But where is ho to find it":
Most assuredly not among the Liberal Journals of Dublin ; for
we, not long ago, went over the catalogue of the Liberal Me-
tropolitan prints with the talented Mr. George Robins, who
confessed, with a yawn and a sigh, that beginning with the
oldest, and leaving off with the youngest,—" the chief of the
Irish Press," (a tribute, by the way. paid to our own humble
exerti,,ns by the honest Sheffield Iris)—" he never had the
misfortune to have submitted to his inspection se bad a lot, or
one which would furnish such scanty materials for the puff ex-
traordinary." Spenser tells us that the Dublin Liberal News-
papers, or " earryers of newes," in his time were " fooles and
notable rogues." Tom Moore, if we are to believe Willis, has
described the present generation as downright blockheads; while
Mr. O'Connell, by way of driving home the nail, designates the
whole concern _ _