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THE SUN, LONDON, FIiIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1863.

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LEGAL and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY,
No. 10, Fleet-street, London.
26th February, 1863.
The members of this Society are requested to take notice
that the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING will ne held at
the Office of the Society, at One o'clock precisely, on i UES-
DA , the 17th day of March next, when the vacancies then
to be created, by four of the Directors and two of the Auditors
retiring in rotation, will be filled up.
The Directors and Auditors thus going out are eligible for
immediate re-election.
By order of the Board,
JOHN NETTLE PON, Secretary.

CONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars.
London, 27th February, 1863.
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE, That the ANNUAL
GENERAL COURT, and also that an EXTRAORDINARY
GENERAL COURT, will be held at the Society's House,
No. 6, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, on SATURDAY, the
21st day of March, at Two o'clock precisely, for the following
purposes :

ORDINARY GENERAL COURT.
To receive the Auditors' Report of the Receipts and Dis-
bursements of the Society during the year 1862, and to
eiect Auditors for the present year.
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL COURT.

To consider a proposed amendment of the Article 82* of the
Deed of Se ,tlement, by which the Directors will be em-
powered to grant Assurances to the extent of £lO,OOO,
and, if approved of, to pass a Resolution to that effect.
As the Resolutions of the Extraordinary General Court
will require confirmation, so Saturday, the 28th March, is ap-
pointed for that purpose, at Two o'clock precisely.

By order of the Board of Directors,
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary.
_

* Article 82.—That no Assuranee shall be granted by the
Society, on the same Life or Lives, for more than the sum of
Five Thousand Pounds.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,

No. 11, Lombard-street, London, E.C.
Established 1821.
Subscribed Capital, Two Millions.

DIRECTORS.
Sir MINT() FARQUHAR, Bart., M.P., Chairman.
CHARLES WILLIAM CURTIS, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Henry Hulse Berens, Esq., G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq.
Henry Bonham Carter, Esq. John Martin, Esq.
Charles F. Devas, Esq. Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Francis Hart Dyke, Esq. James Morris, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Henry Norman, Esq.
James Goodson, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. Abraham J. Robarts, Esq.
John G. Hubbard, Esq., M.P. James TuHoch, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq. Henry Vigne, Esq.

AUDITORS.
Lewis Loyd, Esq. . . 1 Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Cornelius Paine, jun., Esq. I Noel Whiting, Esq.
T hos. Tallemach, Esq., Secretary I Saml. Brown, Esq., Actuary

LIFE DEPARTMENT.—UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF AN
ACT or PARLIAMENT, this Company now offers to new In-
surers EIGHTY PER CENT. of the Profits, at Quinquennial
Divisions, or a Low Rate of Premium without participation of
Profits.

Since the establishment of the Company in 1821, the
A mount of Profits allotted to the Assured has exceeded in
rash value £660,000, which represents equivalent Reversionary
Bonuses of £1,058,000.

After the Division of Profits at Christmas, 1859, the Life
Assurances in force, with existing Bonuses thereon,
mounted to upwards of £4,730,000, the Income from the Liie
Branch £207,000 per annum, and the Life Assurance Fund,
ndependent of the capital, exceeded £1,618,000.

FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances are effected upon
every description of property at moderate rates.
LOCAL MILITIA and VOLUNTEER CORPS.—No
Extra Premium is required for service therein.
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their
values, if such value be not less than £5O.

ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, re-
ceived and registered.

MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge
or Policy Stamps. _

Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this
Company.

A.D. 1720.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION
(Established by Charter of his Majesty George the First)

FOR SEA, FIRE, LIFE, AND ANNUITIES.
Offices, Royal Exchange, London.
Branch Office, 29, Pall-mall.
OCTAVIITS WIGRAM, Esq., Governor.
GEORGE PEARRES BARCLAY, Esq., Sub-Governor.
Sir JOHN HENRY PELLY, Bart., Deputy-Governor.
DIRECTORS.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq. Wiimot Holland, Esq.
Robert Barclay, Esq. Earl of Leven and Melville.
John Garrett Cattley,_ Esq. Chas. Jno, Manning, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq. The Hon. Josceline W. Percy.
Thomas Dent, Esq Charles Robinson, Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq. Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Fredk. Jos. Edlmann, Esq. Eric Carrineton Smith, Esq.
Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. William Soltau, Esq.
Pobt. Amadeus Heath, Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq., M.P.
Wm. Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.. William Wallace, Esq.
Jas. Stewart Hodgson, Esq. Chas. Baring Young, Esq.
Medical Referee, SAMUEL Sotax, Esq., F.R.S.
NOTICE.— file usual fifteen days allowed for payment of
FIRE PREMIUMS falling due at Christmas will expire
on 9th January.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this
Corporation on advantageous terms.
In the Life Department, assurances are granted with par-
ticipation in Profits, or, at lower Premiums, without such
participation.
The Reversionary Bonus on British Policies has averaged
nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum assured.
Equivalent reductions have been made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The divisions of Profit take place every Five years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on one
Life.
This Corporation affords to the Assured—:
Liberal participation in Profits—with exemption from
the liabilities of partnership.
A rate of Bonus equal to the average returns of Mutual
Societies—with the guarantee of a large invested Capital
Stock.
The advantages of modern practice,—with the security
of an Office whose resources have been tested by the ex-
perience of nearly a CENTURY AND A HALE
The Corporation have always allowed the Assured to serve
in the Militia, Yeomanry, or Volunteer Corps within the
United Kingdom, free of charge.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.

ROBT. P. STEELE, Secretary.

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of which are unfailing in their operation. Thomas Elliott
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wigs, £1 10$.

HOSPITALS, ON PRIVY COUNCIL* ACT
SIGN, v. CHAPEL-WARDEN BOY EDW. VI.

NOTICE.—In the stoppage. on Friday, of the Protestant 1
church service, by the life Montague trustee (sworn in as i
of Geo. ll.'s Indian Carib College Hof Bermuda), being read I
over, the assumed Lord-mayor, I, -aldermen. governors—as
titular Roman Catholic O.S. Priors of the late Palace*Pry- ' '
Zone of King's-..?. sadly trinity : • Fish'ry data, Whence the
following reasons, to clergy of St. Paul's, churchwarden
oath-deputy of Irish Catholic Union Act, 1791, the Rev.
E. HUDSON, and submitted to by Black-friars agent-presi-
dent Cope-land (under Julius 3's lannebrog Holstein Red -
hat'd bishop's boy Edw. 6 on £-Exchange P*Grefham), for
Elbe and Sound dues to Kt,—' which God forpid'est, Sles-
wig of May 's2—red-glove and turban of H. 4, cancelled,
on 5 Eliz. 1, in 1832 Dutch Loan act, abolishing all foreign
power repugnant to the same.
I. That the re-seizin of ' Den-mark nesse life-copyhold of
Rokesley, Mint-master's Bridewell Palace scite, as that of
the House of Parliament to 1553-5, otherwise the aleet
Court of the King's Custom-house fisc—built by the stone
of ancient London wall and Baynard's rraiver castle—so
" Sir Montfichet's lay-tower (monks of Blackfriars
In Br idewell's fleet chapel,) Parleyment briar's'
Thus, on the London stone Rib River-trust, requiring
for Wotton validity, a re-set with Carib.&of the 13 Privy
Council'rs sign—so prevent Chapel-warden a-privi-lege, of
Blackfriar justices within the Verge-rod, attempted (H. 8,
v. Catherine also, on Sir T, Moore.' Speaker') by Mr. Civil-
Jus. Cardinal Wolsey, and Deputy-justice Campeggio, last
Court Assumption, 21st June, 1529, on Sir Francis Bryan's
grant, 1547, in Brandon Estate, till 1825, X set over the
Brazil'd Calvin-Swiss 1557 Cmsar-bishops of Peru.
2. That the Eau dspital of Christchurch and Bridewell's
pry-zone of the C-L'arc-en-well fileet-court (late under the
Swan-hopping fishmonger's 1536-grant) in ' super alt'm
mare' now under poor-law audit data 25th March and 29th I
September broad R 4 declination of the Polar Star—could
not be admitted since the Lord Mayor Conservancy of the I
river Thames had ceased, on Ed. 3's Mortimer-heir settle-
ment of the Crown-rota king as of England's meter.
3. That on withhold'ng the parish gown there can be no
church rate imposition—So prevent like violation of the
LVIII. canon induction truce, by the Rev. E. Walker, at
Cheltenham—thro' his assumed i.e., churchwarden-take of
Ch - h rood-acre—as the Prior
Thames-7-font of the parish p a. c
Evesham & Atkyns
to Sic T. Chamberlayne, of ... resbury,duty
keys, robe and rope, on 19th Feb., by seizing Cirencester's
Lantheny Severn rie-trust' ' ' was absolved fromle(nsee
8t h , and(ss ) S
soE
Sun of yesterday)—saving HIS specia 1
by ) Car-
teretmoving Calendar' 1582-86-97-1603-1721Montague19.58
are not
s New-st le earthy-
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repugnant to the holy scripture .
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food, by 1824
Eliz,
ea
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ce
12 ,
for Common law-replenish of River-bailiff
Act, in 5-6 W. 4, c, 63, the State meter Act, for Leet Crt.
Jurats Ova Fishery-park in O.style plant.
Note,--4. Stuart Wortley, M.P., is not a Montague, but
a Sidney Wortley-Newcomen, of illegitimate line, hang-on
to the It, c. h priors, 20th Feb. at Itadley's hotel. So Bute's
Rothsay Sir C. Stuart (Hobart ni/Edgcumbe Foster) yield-
up to undersigned 1825-Brazils Cwsar, Imp. Pedro Ist, as
Edw. In.'s Gass-grandchild M Vmer's offspring in
Anne or i
Crown-heir trust of the 's * death, of
Hen. 4th sister Eliza. people, on
.Richard 2 ,
Holland.--m A.P '' : :.. •
(Eel-king signed)
CHARLES ' ' A OKERLEY, J. P.
Born, 'Montague Ed
me. IT'S i brother J. gfiuore Atkyns 4 Chamberlay ,
ne of
No. 54 in Eyeeham's Plantaand's Sty-voice, in 1-2 W. 4,
fish trust 14 J. i. exemv. -genestella o.S.—pollen-food
peeral Prior --all H. 8,1:, uell 1774-1837—as of itt3 late Ist
through" trustees' privy
councillors being nullified
daughters intermarriage,
one, as Geo. 3's Copenhagen-Fetter ge, save this life-
! Hobart Vere Foster, as England's page, May 1814, before
Denmark.
II PETER BASQUET, England's Carib Ind. Chief
of 1842-3 ae
Admiralty Red flag Chain-bearer, elect 22 ,
the State 1584 Don Quixote and San o yrs. no pay on
hc
Panay cruelty,
London-notice, February 21,1863.

once mighty army of the Potomac peaks and pines
like a ricketty child. It has ceased to inspire hops
in its friends or terror in its foes; and will, accord-
ing to all present appearances, be sent for change of
air and scene to North Carolina, and lose the dis-
tinctive appellation by which it acquired renown
under the guidance of M'Clellan. This is a gloomy
picture, and by no means overcharged with dark
colours. A few days, however, may throw a little
sunshine into the foreground. If Charleston be
impregnable, Savannah may be vulnerable. The
Mississippi may be coaxed into the canal which en-

gineering science is digging out for it, and float the
gunboats of the North to the other side of Vicks-
burg ; and, if the army of the Potomac should

abandon " the sacred soil" of Virginia, General
Rosecrans and Joseph Johnson may again come to
blows in Tennessee, and fight a battle less indeci-
sive than that of Murfreesborough.
In the meanwhile, although Mr. Seward may
know or care to know nothing of the circumstance,
offers of mediation and rumours of peace are on all
men's tongues, and stir up the combativeness of
parties and politicians in all the Federal States ;
there are unpleasant symptoms in the West and

North-West-which betoken that the enthusiasm of

the people of those regions for the war and the Union
has cooled down ; that no more volunteers can be
had for love or money ; that no forced men can be

draughted under tlie penalty of a new secession;
and that, in fact, the great West is seriously debat-
ing whether it will not cast in its fortunes with th
South. There is no stability anywhere. The poli-
tical pattern shifts from day to day, and is unsteady
as the reduplications of a kaleidescope. The West
is all alive with perilous discontent, and New York,
which was once proud to call itself the Empire
State, and to govern all the rest by the influence
of its opinion, makes no sign. Its leading
men are timid. Its Legislature is so evenly
balanced between the rival factions that it can no

longer speak with the ancient authority. Its great
merchants and bankers hold aloof, uncertain what
to do or what to think. Its triumphant democracy
content themselves with disparaging the judgment
and the honesty of the President, and of everybody
about him, with complaining of the war, the taxes,
the currency, the prospects of the country, and of
all that the Government has done or left undone.

Professing a great love for the Union, a great de-
testation of emancipation without the consent of
the Slave States, and a bloody-minded determina-
tion to fight out the fight to what they call the
" bitter end," they act as if their professions were
all insincere, and as if they had set their hearts
upon peace and a compromise, without daring to
take the measures to hasten or secure the end which
they desire. Perhaps, however, the day is not re-
mote when New York will be forced to declare itself
with more distinctness, and when the dumb patriot-
ism of the people will find a voice sufficiently power-
ful to be heard above the roar of faction. A serious
crisis is too palpably approaching to permit any one
to doubt that the most stirring events of the war
must occur during the next three months. The
great question of an army or no army will have to
be decided during that interval. On the Ist of June
at least one-half of the existing military force of the
-Republic will have ceased to exist by the expiration
of the term of enlistment of the volunteers who en-

gaged themselves for two years and of those who
engaged for nine months. If these men will not re-
enlist, what is to be done ? Will the President, by
a coup d'etat, seek to compel them to remain in the
service P And, if so, what will be their fighting
value ? Will he again try the potency of bounty-
money to induce Irishmen and Germans to lend
their aid to the cause of free institutions in the
North and of subjugation in the South P He may ;
but are the men to be found ? And does not the
very flower of the Irish and German immigration
lie baried in the bloody battle fields of Antietam,
Fredericksburg, Murfreesborough, and other Gol-
gothas of this merciless contest ? Or will he
imitate the example of the Southern President,
and resort to a conscription ? He may, no doubt;
but, if he do, he may drive out of the Union
not only the Border Slave States, but the great
Prairie States of Indiana, Illinois, and lowa per-

haps even New York, Pennsylvania, and New
Jersey. Or will he rely upon " God and the
Negroes," as Mr. Ward Beecher and Mr. Wendell
Phillips recommend? The Negroes, if Mr. Frederick
Douglass speaks their sentiments, will not lend the
aid of their strong arms except upon► terms which
the white race would reject with scorn and indigna-
tion. They are besides so few in numb:tr as to be
incapable of rendering any real assistance. Look
where he will, the President can find small comfort.
The task set him is superhuman. There seems but
one chance left—to call a general convention of the
American people, and leave in their hands the
issues which are beyond his control. The Constitu-
tion not only warrants, but commands such a course
of action, and it will hereafter be considered a
crime in Mr_ Lincoln by the world's judgment and
that of history that he did not at an earlier period
of the struggle remove the responsibility of blood-
shed from his own weak shoulders to those of the
whole people that were better able to bear it.
It was Mr. Lincoln's clear duty to have inaugu-
rated this movement. But it has been taken out

of his hands. Those who from their position ought
to be the leaders have, like him, suffered inferior
agencies to perform their work. Even the great
State of New York, as already observed, has allowed
the lead in the efforts to procure an armistice and a
convention to be taken by. States of less importance
than herself. New Jersey, which is thoroughly De•
mocratic, and has both a Democratic Governor and
a Legislature, was the first to move, and has been
rapidly followed by Illinois and Indiana, the
people of which have done much of the fighting
and suffered most of the real hardships of the
war, and have not profited by war contracts
like the Eastern and Atlantic States. New York,
New England, and Pennsylvania have fought
by deputy. Their trade and commerce have not
been ruined, and many branches of both have actu-
ally been increased in consequence of the war ex=
penditure ; but the Western States have not only
given the life blood of their eons, but seen their
fertile fields rendered useless, except for bare sub-
sistence, by the stoppage of the Mississippi and the
utter destruction of their once profitable trade with
the South. When these States speak Peace they
mean Peace. New York and the Middle States are
more quiescent because more prosperous. They love
the Union so much that they would, if possible,
restore it by unqualified submission to the South
in the matter of slavery. They look upon the Pre-
sident's Emancipation policy as both a blunder and
a crime. But, although some of their leading Demo-
crats talk of fighting to the last extremity, many of
them would much rather dissolve the Union with-
out another battle, in the hope and expectation that
the South might, under proper Democratic mani-
pulation, become the nucleus of a new Republic,
which might include New York, New Jersey, and
Pennsylvania, as well as the Border Slave States,
and they talk of war without caring to carry it on
in the mode of President Lincoln, or by the agen-
cies of the party that elected him. In the North-
Western States the Democratic party takes a more
practical
and intelligible as well as more honest
•
course. They do not say with Mr. J. Van Buron
and other New York Democrats that the war must
go on, butinsist that it must stop. New Jersey has
appointed Commissioners to proceed to Richmond,
if the Government will grant permission, to invite
the Southern States to send delegates to meet those
of the Northern States in a Grand National Conven-
tion to discuss the state of the country. The Le-
gislature of Illinois has also appointed Commis-
sioners to confer with the delegates appointed by
other States to meet at Louisville, in Kentucky, in
March, and has adjourned without the transaction
of its ordinary business until June, when it proposes
to reassemble to hear the report. In the Indiana
Legislature the peace resolutions propose Nashville,
in Tennessee, as the place of meeting ; but if there-
solutions be adopted, as appears probable, Louisville
will be substituted for Nashville to secure the neces-
sary unity and harmony of action. The Assembly
of Kentucky has appointed nine Commissioners,
six from the House of Representatives, and three
from the Senate, to meet the Commissioners of the
other States at Louisville, and has invited New
York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Delaware,
Maryland, and Missouri, as well as In,drtntaes are
Illinois, to co-operate. The New Engla.na Dr
not included in the invitation; but
sit:rsiN
the project widens, that all the Stat
urgency no lest
°lases e' a
a
what
the case demaLds, a
repre-
sented,ouisvi
laen, dotehraetw,
ilwill instead
bs: ofa partialth e
Convention at
than the justice and mereyewo
general Convention at N
the party
York,. PhiladLeilnpehoilan,
witearlteimopoerne,
toI any:ash otherngt°a adviceor. Sl.
thanui Louis.
thatt ofM r:
which trusts to emancipation. of the negroes as the
sole cure for the frightful evils of the nation, he
would seize the opportunity which these movements
present to act upon the advice tendered in the reso-
lutions that are now lying for consideration in the
Indiana House of Representatives. They state that
it is the imperative duty of the chief Executive of
the nation to proclaim an armistice in order that a
Convention of all the States may be held. There has
been more than enough of useless bloodshed. The
bravery of both sides has been sufficiently shown.