The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-19 00:00:00

Iftnry Bainbridge, Esq.

Sir John Wm. Lubbock, Bart.

EdmOnd S. P. Calvert, Esq. Charles John Manning, Esq.
John Garrett Cattley, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq.
Alexander Colvin, Esq. Edward Howley Palmer, Esq.
Edward Maxwell Daniel, Esq. Sir John Henry Telly, Bart.
William Davidson, Esq. Abraham George Roberts, Esq.
Itiversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq.
Robert Hanhury, jan., Esq. William Soltan, Esq.
Robert Amadeus I feat!), Esq. Joseph Somes, Esq.
'William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq. Thomas Tooke, Esq.
James Stewart Hodgson, Esq. William Wallace, Esq.
Lancelot Holland, Esq. Charles Baring Young, Esq.
MEDICAL lIEFEREE--SRMUCI Stilly, Esq., F.K.S.
Notice.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pre-
Llama falling due at Christmas will expire on the 9th of January.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected with this Cor-
poration on advantageous terms.
The Assured are exempt from the liabilities of partnership, and
payment of their claims is guaranteed by a large invested capital-
stock.
to the Life Department, assurances are granted with participation
1A profits, or, at lower ?remiums, without such participation.
The Reversionary BONUS on Lite Policies has averaged 2 per
Cent. per annum on the sum assured, or 4G per cent. on the Premiums
raid.
Any sum not exeee ling 10,0001. may be assured on one Life.
The Corporation bears the cost of Policy Stamps" and Medical Fees,
and requires no entrance-money. The Assured are subject to no
expense but the Premium. No extra charge is made for service in the
Militia.

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LOANS arc granted on Life Policies to their full va'ues.
This Corporation affords all the advantmes of modern practice,
with the stability of an office safely constituted under Royal Charter
and Special Acts of Parliament, and tested by the experience of
nearly a century and a half. There is but one older Use office in
existeace.

ROYAL EXCIIANGE, LONDON.
47011 N A. INGHAM; Actuary and Secretary.

F4ARL FITZWILLIAM'S COLLIERIES, on
. the South Yorkshire Railway.—SAMUEL rLim OLT., of
?Sheffield, begs to announce that the arrangements he has been
lionoured to make for carrying a porti,.n of the produce of these ex-
tensive Collieries, and also of the •Ailkstone Collterie., to London,
via the London and North-Western Railway, are sufficiently ma-
tured to enable him to commence delivering from Camden and Ken-
sington Stations on clew Year's I)iy. nice prr lon, within four
miles of either Station :--Silkstomt,4 21s. 8(1.; Etsecar, 235. 4,1 t, cash
on delivery, or on giving the order --Temporary ()diens will be
opened at both Stations on December 18th, or booking orders, which
in the meantime Mr. Pamsolt will be t'lad to receive at .Shellield.
* These same Coals are now bring supplied by the Great Northern
Railway, at 27s , tail Company having at present, and t tit Decem-
ber 31st next, a monopoly of the supplies on the South Yorkshire
Railway.

SPECIAL NOTICE.—UntiI March 1, 1855, E.
MOSES an 1 SON'S ESTABLISHMENTS will be CLOSED at
EIGHT O'CLOCK EVERY EVENING, except Saturday, when
they will be open till 11 o'clock.

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LITERARY CHRISTMAS PRESENTS,
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LIVES of the QUEENS of ENGLAND. By
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ZOOLOGICAL RECREATIONS. By W. J.
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• MR. KNIGEITON'i NEW WORK.
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TROPICAL SKETCHES ; or, REMINIS-
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GENERAL BOUNCE ; or, The Lady and the
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Originally published in " Fraser's Matazine."
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Now Ready, Bvo., Is.
SPEECH in HOUSE of COMMONS, TUESDAY,
12th December. On the CONDUCT of the WAR.

By the Right Hon. SYDNEY HERBERT, MX,
John Murray, Albemarle-street.

Price 4d., free by post for ihr3 Stamps,

OMMON BLUNDERS MADE in SPEAK-
INC/ and WRITING.
By CHARLES W. SMITH, Author of " Hints on Elocution," &c.
" This us?ful Mlle hook will settle many disputes. It ought to be
on every table ; and be particularly recommended to the young be-
fore habit makes common blunders uncommonly hard to cure."—
Britannia.

L-ndon : W. 11. Collingridge, City Press, 1, Long-lane

Now ready, price Is ,
VIDENCE of the RELIGIOUS *WORK-
. ING of the COMMON SCHOOLS in the STATE of MASSA-
CHUSETTS; with a Preface.

By the Hon. EDWARD TWISLETON,
Late Chief Commissioner of Poor Laws in Ireland.
James Ridgway, Piccadilly, and all Booksellers.

JOHN BRIGHT-IS HE RIGHT ?-A LET-
TER to the Secretary cf the Peace Society respecting the
Principles of that Institution and the Present War. By an Early
Member, law a Repudiator of the Sentiments of Mr. Bright.
London : J. Bigg and Sons, Parliament-street. Edinburgh : H.
Robinson ; Glasgow : Win. Love ; Manchester : Abel Heywood.