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London, England, 1854-04-17 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 17, 1854.

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INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY
COMPANY,
No. 72, Lombard-street, London.

Richard Matins, Esq., Q.C. M.P. I
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john Campbell Renton, Esq.
James Fuller Madoa, E 39. Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
William Wilberforce, Esq.
DIRECTORS.

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William Adams, Esq. —_
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Robert H. Forman, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq. John Hamilton, Esq.
H. A. Bevan, Esq. J. Mathews, Esq.
John Dancerfield, Esq. Chas. 0. Parnell, Esq.
W. Williams, Esq.

AUDITORS.

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Henry Aaron, Esq. I
—.Ralph W. Bishop, Esq.
Charles 31`Culloch, Esq. Henry Burnett, Esq.
BoLiciTols.—Messrs. Atkins and Andrew.
SECZETARY.—David Alison, Esq.

Paddingtnn Local Board, 24, Connaught-terrace, Edgware-road.
The Rev. James Sher old Boone, Jns Harrington Lowther, Esq.
A.M. Charles Pemberton, Esq.
CaptAin Creed. George Y. Robson, Esq.
Boger Gadsden, Esq. W. H. Tender. Esq.

A.D. 1720.
ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
• CORPORATION,

(Established by. Charter of his Maje;ty George the First),
For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES.
OFFICES—ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
BRANCH OFFICE-29, PALL-MALL.
Octavius Wigram, Esq., Governor.
The Hon. S. T. Leslie Melville, gab-Wvernor.
George Pearkes Barclay, Esq., Deputy-Governor.

DIRECTORS.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq.
Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq.
John Garrett Vattley, Esq.
Alexander Colvin, Esq.
Edward Maxwell Daniell, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
Riversdale Wm. Grenfell, Esq.
Robert Hanbury, jun., Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
William Tetlow Hibbert, Esq.
Lancelot Holland, Esq.
Sir John Wm. Lubbock, Bart.

Charles John Manning, Esq.
Henry Nelson, Esq.
Edward Howley Palmer, Esq.
Sir John Henry Pelly, Bart.
Abraham George Robarts, Esq.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Thomas Smith, Esq.
William Ronan, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq.
Thomas Tooke, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Charles Baring Young, Esq.

MEDICAL REreasE —Samuel Sony, Esq., F.R.S.

Notice.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment of Fire Pre-
interns tailing due at Lady-eay will expire on the 9th of April.
Life Assurance may be effected to the extent of Ten Thousand
Pounds on one Life; with, or, at lower eremiums, without partici-
pation in profits.
The Reversionary BONUS on Participating Life . Policies has
averaged 2 per Cent. per annum on the sum assured, or 46 per cent.
on the Premiums paid.
The Corporation bear the cost of Policy Stamps and Medical Fees.
The Assured are subject to no charge but the Premium.
No extra Premium is required for service in the militia.
The Corporation affords to the Assured all the advantages 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 near;y a century and a half. There is but one
older lite office in existeace.

Persons assured in this Office in any department are exempt from
the liabilities of partner,hio.

FARMING STOCK.

The Corporation having determined on a reduction of " One Shil-
ling per Cent." in the rate or Premium for the Insurance of Farm-
ing stock and Utensils in England and Wales, the Company's agents
have been fully instructed upon the subject, and are authorised to
accept Insurances on that class of property accordingly.

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ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.

JOILN A. HIGHMI, Actuary and Secretary.

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April Ist, laS4

THE WAR.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.
The crew of the Nile, 91, Commodore Martin, were
paid advance of wages on Saturday, and at half-past six
o'clock in the evening she sailed from Plymouth for
Portsmouth.
The Stromboli, 6, paddlewheel steam-sloop, Comman-
der Robert Hale, which arrived from the Brazil station
on Friday, discharged her powder and came into Ports-
mouth harbour on Saturday, preparatory to being docked
and refitted for the war service.
The Portland, 50, Captain Chads, flag of Rear-Ad-
miral Moresby, C. 8., is hourly expected from the Pacific.
The Majestic, 91 guns, new screw steam-ship, Captain
James Hope, C. 8.; &c., on Saturday tad her compasses
adjusted under the superintendence of Mr. John C. Bar-
low, master of the Waterloo flag-ship. She has been
swung at her moorings. Her crew crew will be paid
their advance in the early part of this week, and she
wiil leave Sheerness for the Downs about Thursday or
Friday next on her way to the Baltic. A number of
seamen volunteers have been draughted from the flag-
ship for service in her.
A draught of seamen volunteers and :ads left Sheer-
nes-, on Saturday to join the Hannibal. This ship is
being fitted in dry dock, and all the available force is
put on her to expedite her fitment. Several of her officers
are sent to the northern ports to procure seamen volun-
teers for her.
The Ganges, 84 guns, now under repair and nearly
ready to be put out of dry dock, is to be forthwith fitted
for active service in the Baltic.
The Columbine, at Chatham, ig jury-rigged, and is
nearly ready to proceed as a sailing,poot :depot for the
supply of steam coals to any of the fleet requiring them.
She will be partially armed, and fitted with two long 82-
pounders on traversing pivots.
The water tank vessels also belonging to this port are
to be fitted with similar guns and proceed to the Baltic.
The Miranda, 15 guns, screw steam-ship Captain
Edmund M. Lyons, will be ready for departure to the
Baltic in a few days.
The Wildfire, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, (tender to
the Waterloo), Master-Commander Mr. George Brock-
man, is making good detects in the Basin. The Wild-
fire i 3 to be engaged on particular service.

The Hart, sailing tender to the Wellington, Second-
Master J. Anstey, has sailed for Stockton-on-Tees on
particular service.
The African, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, '5.. Gill,
Second-Master, is undergoing repairs and making good
her defects to prepare her for particular service.
The Rhadamanthus, steam-transport, Master-Com-
mander Belam, went into the steam basin at Portsmouth
on Saturday, to land machinery for the Colossus, 80,
under process of conversion to a screw ship.
Captain W. H. Kennedy, R.N., late Inspecting Com-
mander of the Plymouth Coast-guard, has been appointed
Deputy-Controller-General of the Coastguard, vice Cap-
tain E. Oinma,nney, R.N., and Commander Walker,
R.N., Scientific Examiner of the Mercantile Marine
Board of this port, has been appointed Superintendent
of the Breakwater, vice Stewart, deceased.
By letters from the Black Sea fleet, we learn that one-
third of the executive officers belonging to the gunroom
of each ship are ordered to be discharged, to serve in
the Baltic fleet, and are coming in the Apollo troop-ship.
There will be about 60 mates and midshipmen.
The launch of the Royal Albert, 131. screw steam-
ship, has been postponed to Saturday, May 13, when it
will take place in the presence of the Queen, his Royal
Highness Prince Albert, and other members of the
Royal family. The ceremony of naming the' ship will
be performed by the Princess Royal.
The launch of the Cossack screw steam-frigate, pierced
for 30 guns, with one large pivot-gun, all on the upper
deck, and built for the Emperor of ' Russia by Mr.
Pitcher, ship-builder, Ncrthfleet, took place on Saturday,
at half-past 2 o'clock ; she was navigated to moorings
alongside the Salsette receiving-ship, where she remains
for the present, and will be completed for active service.
She appears a remarkably finely-built vessel, on good
lines. She has the figure head of a Cossack, and when
rigged will have a similar appearance to the Highflyer,
except that she is apparently longer.
The Simoom, 18, iron (screw) troop-ship, Captain
Smith, after a remarkably long passage, arrived at Spit-
head at 1 p.rb. yesterday. She will of course refit for
further service without delay. She brought to Spitbead
100 military invalids, Lieutenants Arbuckle, of the 57th
(in charge), and Hebden, of the 50th ; also William
Armit Eyre, a convict, formerly Paymaster of the 47th
Foot, sentenced by court-martial to transportation for
embezzlement of public money. The Simoom, it is re-
ported, will be refitted to convey the 79th Highlanders
from Portsmouth to Turkey. She left on the 25th of
March, when the Ceylon, Vulcan, and Vesuvius were
the only men of war there. She passed Gibraltar
on the 3d inst., where lay the Frolic, 16, Commander
Nolloth. In the Mediterranean the Simoom saw 18
Government transports, three of which were' numbered
4,5, 6, and had artillerymen on board. Since then she
has experienced fine weather, but strong contrary winds,
especially in the chops of the Channel. The air pumps,
slides, and other parts of her machinery are out of order,
and he put into Plymouth for coal, being bound to
Portsmouth.

The Echunga transport, No. 44, embarked Captain
Longmore's troop of the Bth Hussars on Saturday morn-
ing, and in the afternoon she was towed by the Confi-
arce steamer from Homoaze into the Sound. _ _

The Mary Ann, horse-transport, which arrived on
Friday, was placed alongside the jetty in Hatnoaze on
Saturday. . _

The Peninsular and Oriental Steam-ship Company's
ship Euxine embarked on Saturday and yesterday the
following staff officers :—Captains De Morel, Hackett,
and Wetherall, and Dr. Jamieson ; also Captain Chip-
pendale, one subaltern, and 20 men of the 19th Foot,
who arrived by rail on Saturday. The Euxine also took
on board an immense quantity of the munitions of war
from the Ordnance stores, large supplies of provisions
from the Clarence-yard, 17 tons of cartridges, also the
horses of Colonel Lord de Ros, Major Wellesley, and
Major Claremont, with their servants. The Euxine will
complete her shipments of war stores to-day, and sail
in the evening for Turkey. Captain Engledue, manag-
ing director of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Com-
pany, came round in the Euxine to see the shipments,
in conjunction with the military authorities of Ports-
mouth.

The Albatross, screw steam-ship, hired from a mer-
cantile company, and chartered by the Admiralty for six
months service, came into Portsmouth harbour on
Saturday from Queenstown, to be armed as a man-of-
war transport, and fitted and manned with an efficient
crew, for the Eastern expedition. Her mercantile com-
mander, Captain Lyell, of the Preussische Adler, is to
command her, but an Admiralty officer will be on board.
She is ordered to be fitted for staff-officers.
The hired freight-ships Ganges, Pride of the Ocean,
Dunbar, Bombay, and Semezli, taken up to convey the
17th Lancers from Portsmouth to Turkey, arrived at
Spithead on Saturday morning from the Thames, and
were towed into harbour on Saturday and yesterday by
the steam-tugs. The Lancers embark to-day, and sail
to-morrow for their destination.

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The workmen at the Royal Arsenal were at work all
Good Friday to forward the munitions of war required
for service in the East. While some of them were em-
ployed in making rockets one of these misiles exploded,
igniting a portion of the composition. Although the
roof of the shed was blown off, and a portion of one of
the sides thrown down, strange to state none of the
men were injured to any dangerous extent, having been
only blown some distance from the positions in which
they were at work. Fortunately, pi consequence of
former dangerous explosions having taken place, which
were sometimes attended with fatal-results, great care
is taken in having the made rockets carefully covered as
each is finished and put aside, and, nsequently, those
in the shed which had been previou. y made remained
unignited and perfectly safe. The oval Sappers and
Miners were promptly on the spot wi their fire-engines
;
and buckets, but all the aid required.of them was to re-
pair the shed, that the men might goon with their work.
About 50 pensioners arrived at Woolwich garrison on
Saturday evening, and are quartered in the west
square of the Royal Artillery barracks, which is
to be tha head-quarters for those who have volun-
teered for service in the East. They will num-
ber about 500, and will be draughted as opportuni-
ties ofter to the seat of war. Severs of the pensioners
from Dublin have on their local uniforms, and the others
are in plain clothes. They are to be allowed pay at the
rate of Is. 3d. per day, in addition to the pension they
receive at present ; and, in the event of their services
being required for any length of time, they will be
allowed to calculate the full period from the time they
volunteered for an increase to their present pension.
The spare men and horses of the first division of
Royal Artillery for service in the Ear are to embark at
Woolwich to-morrow.
On Saturday morning at four o'elotk the fourth com-
pany of the 19th Foot proceeded to Portsmouth, there
to embark in the Euxine for Gallipoli. Another de-
tachment leaves the Tower this day, travelling by the
North-Western Railway to Liverpool, there to embark.
fur Gallipoli. The
,main body of the regiment is ex-
pected to embark on Tuesday at Portsmouth. 0,1 Sa.
turday afternoon the third companillif the 19th, which
had been quartered at Kensington;, marched into the
Tower. The regiment leaves 400 recruits to be disci-
plined before joining.
On Saturday morning the light company of the 97th
Regiment of Foot marched from the Infantry Barracks,
Windsor, under the command of Cap4in Bourton, Lieut.
Heron, and Eti,i.,:n Vickers, and pro eeded by the Great
Western Rail ,vay to Paddington, whence they marched
to Kensington Barracks, to relieve the oth Carbineers,
a squadron of whom had recently furnished the guard to
1 Kensington Palace. On Monday last a squadron of the
Royal Horse Guards (Blue) marched from Windsor to
Hampton Court, where they relieved a squadron of the
17th Lancers, and have continuedlo take the garrison
duty up to the present time.
The 3d Dragoon Guards, now sttioned in Dublin,
have been chosen as one of the first regiments for the,
display of experimental tailoring. On Good Friday the.
1 new pattern overalls were taken into use, and, since the
adoption of the celebrated If Albert" ohaco by the in-

fantry, a more unbecoming or unsoldierlike change has
not been devised for the disfigurement of the wearers.
The colour is a very light dusty-looking silver grey,
daubed down the sides with a broad yellow stripe, the
glare of which contrasts abominably with the dull hue of
the canvas-looking affair which is to supersede the hand-
some dark blue at present worn by the cavalry.
The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland has been pleased to
appoint Captain Sir William Russell, Bart. (7th Hus-
sars), to be Aide-de-CamP, in the room of Captain the
Hon. J. J. Bourke, 88th Foot, who has proceeded With
his regiment to the seat of war.
A strong recruiting party from the Royal Marines
has arrived in Dublin, being the first time for many
years past that this corps has been engaged on a similar
service in the Irish metropolis. Ireland, however, is
essentially a nursery for the land force, and, except in a
few localities, offers no inducements to the emissaries of
the Admiralty. Neither marine nor seaman would
have any chance before a " regular" red coat.
The 91st Regiment, now in Dublin, have received
orders to hold themselves in readiness for Cork. Tile
third depbt, stationed at Naas, are under similar orders
for. Limerick.

The depot of the 68th Light Infantry, at present sta-
tioned in Newry, have received orders to bold them-
selves in readiness to proceed to Belfast early next
month.

A letter received in Dublin by a relative of a non-
commissioned officer in the 80th Regiment, stationed at
Prome, India, states that that corps, which, along with
others, was under orders to return home, had received a
notification that its services might be required at the seat
of war in Europe. The writer also mentions that a
similar order had been received by the 87th' (Royal
Irish) Fusiliers.
On Thursday 18 pensioners, belonging to Majors
Crompton and Harris's divisions of volunteers for service
in Turkey, left Dublin at route to Woolwich, at which
place the whole of the pensioners selected for this duty
are to be assembled, preparatory to their formation- for
foreign service. These men are healthy, robust fellows,
well able to perform the duties assigned to them—viz.,
attendance upon the sick and wounded, and drivers of
light carts attached to the hospital staff.
Brigadier-General Scarlett, sth Dragoon Guards, has
presented 2001. to be divided among those wives of the
men of the regiment who cannot accompany their hus-
bands to the East. Major Bolton, late of the regiment,
has presented 601., and Colonel Balders and the officers
have subscribed 1501. for the same purpose. Lieute-
nant-Colonel Balders, C. 8., sth Dragoon Guards, has
been appointed by the General-Commanding-in-Chief to
be second commandant of the cavalry depot at Maid-
stone.

The Courier transport, 1,000 tons burden, which ar-
rived at Queenstown on Monday, has been fitted in
every respect for the accommodation and comfort of the
troops. She is under immediate orders for departure
for the East. On Tuesday the Timandra, under com-
mand of Captain Toz,w, and the Star of the South,
1,052 tons burden, Captain Frei el arrived in this port.
They will be followed by other vessels intended for the
transport of the 39th and 89th Regiments to the scene
of the war in Turkey. These vessels have not yet been
supplied with stores, but it is expected that they will
take them in at Haulbowline.