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London, England, 1853-04-16 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1853.

GAME EXTRAORDINARY !—Just arrived
from Norway,:in fine condition, and in consequente of the
long and severe winter, a large quantity of I'TARMIGAN or WHITE
GROUSE, BLACK GAME, and CAPERCAILZIES (or Cocks of the
Wood) • All consigned to E. HOWARD, Leadenhall Market, and
mac be had of tke pr ncipal poulterers throughout the metropolis
and chief provincial tox ns.

TO TILE PROPRIETORS OF E IST INDIA STOCK.
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,

T. •
HE o 3eedmgs of this day having terminated
in the Election of Mr. D. C. Marjoribanks for a se it in the
Direction of your affairs, l have the honour to inform you, that.it is
now my fixed determination to proceed to the Ba11)t upon the first
vacancy which may occur, and to renew my earnest solicitation for
the hon)ur of your support.
I beg to assure you that the result of my Ca 111,883 to this time, in-
eludinT premises of support from a very large portion of those Pro.
prietora whom the election of Mr. D. C. Marjoribanks has set free,
warrants my entertaining the most sanguine expectation of euccess
upon the next occasion.
It will be my duty again to submit to inspection, and I trust
your approval, the grounds upon which I have ventured to solicit
your suffrages, and to this I shall address myself without delay.
With grateful acknowledgments of the kindness with which I have
been personally received,

I have the honour to be,
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, -
Your most-obedient Servant,
FREI:1E111C MILLETT,

1, Upper Brook-street, April 13, 1853.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.-
Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fulham-
road. Op m Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during
the week, " The Thistle," " Shamrock." "Rose," and "Amino,"
Waltzes, the "Napoleon" and "Le Romanesque" Galops, " Le
Cirque' Quadrille; " The Gold yawk," and " Juno," Polkas.—
. _

Admission, is. Doors open at Half•past Eight; to commence al
Nine o'clock, and terminate at Half-past Eleven.

NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE.

THE DEPOSIT and • GENERAL LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,: -• 7-

IS, New Bridge-street, Black&tars, London.
CAPITAL--ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND FOUNDS.

Chairman—The Right Hon. the Viscount Drumlanrig, M.P., P.C.,
Comptroller of her Majesty's Household.
R. FaHowley Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury.
G. Noel Clarke, Esq , late 17th Lancers, Junior United Service Club.
George Coode, Esq., Portland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvo% St.
Helier's, Jersey,
Stephen Cracknall, Esq., 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting-hill, and 11,
.'ew-square, Lincoln's-inn.
W. Jones, M.D., Davies-street, Berkeley-square, and Lutterworth,
Leicestershire.
George Knox, Esq., 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tor
Lodge, Staff ords hire.
Alexander Maclean, Esq„ Harrow-on-the-Hill:
David C. Poole, Esq., 32, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square.
William Prinsep, Esq., 147, Leadenhall-street, and 8, Hyde-park.
place West.
Robert Andrew Riddell, Esq., Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law.
Dr. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square.
Major Sperling, 14, St. James's-square.

AUDITORS.
. J. Bigg, Esq„ 126, Strand, Actuary and Secretary to the Medical,
Legal, and General Life Office.
William Jones, Esq., Accountant, 3, Guildhall-chambers.
A. Peck, Esq., 8.A., Actuary to the Engineers and Masonic Life
Office, 345, Strand. _ .

, .
BANKERS.
Sir Charles Price, Marryat, and Co., 3, Xing William-street, London.
Messrs. Hopkinson and Co., 3, Regent-street.

PHYSICIANS.

Dr. Lewis, Finsbury-place.
Dr. Scanlan, 21, Upper Seymour-street West, Connaught-square.

SURGEONS.

R. T. Chapman, Esq., 16, Lower Seymour•street, Portman-square.
Michael Teevan, Esq., 44, Gloucester-place, Hyde-park-gardens.

CONSULTIfiG ACTUARY.
Francis G. P. Nelson, F.L.S.
INSPECTOR OF AGENCIES.
F. P. F. Strousberg, Esq.
STANDING COUNSEL.

William Wellington Cooper, Esq., New-square, Lincoln's-inn.

SOLICITORS.
Messrs. 13111 and Mathews St. Mary-axe.
RESIDENT SECRETARY.
Charles W. Isevan, Esq.

The public is respectfuily invited to examine the principles of the
Deposit System of Assurance. which is based upon tables calculated
i.Y. and is under the immediate supervision of, Francis G. P. Nelson,
F Sq.. F.L S., the Consulting Actuary to the Company.
Comparative Tables to assure 5001 on death, by a person aged
wcnty next birthday, on the ORDINARY and on the DEPOSIT system
>tAssurauces.

ON THE DEPOSIT SYSTEM.
Hun able to pay, or not
desirous of paying or
omitting topay,thePo-
Hey would still remain
of its FULL value,
522/.22.7d.ti1l death, if
20 years after, no fur-
ther payment beingre-
gifted. Ifhowever the
party, from any cause,
wished to cancel the
Policy, ho could not
onlydraw out all hehas
put in, viz., 2251., but
0 /I.los Od 2:5/. 5221.257 d 2871. 2s. 9d. a certain bonus of 62/.25. 9d. In the bargain,
which is more
than one-fourth of the
whole of his payments,
or he could either draw
out a part, 201. or 501.,
diminishing the Policy
only by the assured
value of the sum se
drawn out at the age
when withdrawn. See
pagess and7in detailed
pamphlet, by
F. G. P. Nelson, Esq.

On comparison of these two tables it will be seen that a person
ander the novel system of DEPOSIT assurance can secure the follow-
ing advantages, via., Ist. For a less sum, paid annually, he can assure
a larger sum in case of death than under the ordinary system.
Idly. In the event of a desire to surrender his Policy he can receive
in this Company, by the above example, which applies to all ages,
THREE times as much as on the ordinary system. 3rdly. In the event
of inability or omission to pay, his policy remains still his property,
of the same value as it was, though he cease his current payments
for any number of years ; whereas on the ordinary system, he gets
nothing. 4thly. Should he require to increase or decrease the
amount of his policy, he can do so at pleasure. He can at any time,
by giving a fortnight's notice, withdraw any part from it. up to the
whole amount of his previous penitents and with interest. After he
has withdrawn part one year he can, by a single payment, three
years, or any time afterwards, raise his policy to a greater or even
its former amount ; and by this system he can at all times regulate
his annual savings by his annual expenditure, with the facility in the
itargain of having a fund to fly to in case of necessity, the same as
in a bank, with this palpable advantage, however, that ho gets inte-
rest for his money, and in case of death his family receive mere than
the amount of his savings. In ordinary Life Offices be can do DO
such thing, but his policy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment
ho ceases to pay his current premiums, and, instead of having any
tund to fly to for aid, all his hats-earned savings become forfeited to
the society, and his misfortunes serve to benefit the pockets of his
m or efortu:nafe co-assurers.
Such a system is too equitable and too striking to be overlooked
and DEPOSIT assurance is the only system of assurance which can be
universally recognised and adopted when the principles are imper-
ially canvassed, and its palpable benefits become widely diffused. It
confers greater advantages than a bank because it allows a fair rate
of interest in case of withdrawal, and gives twice the amount in the
:lands of the Company to the representatives of the Depositor le
case of death, thus combining the

ADVANTAGES OF A -BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF

AN ASSURANCE COMPANY.

In case of endowment assurances the advantages of the DEPOSIT
system aro still more striking.

ADVANTAGES OF THIS COMPANY UNDER THE ORDINARY

LIFE ASSURANCE BRANCH.

To those who prefer this branch Policies are granted from 201. to
5,0001. on every known principle thereof.
Lives in all but the worst stages of disease, and such as have been
rejected by other Offices, are taken at rates equivalent to the parti-
cular disease.

Loans from 50/. and upwards granted on every kind of security,
!eat or personal, on the most equitable terms to the borrower
Annuities of every description granted on very favourable terms.
Non-forfeiture of a Policy.—ln case of inability to pay the currant
premiums, the Directors will either purchase the Policy at a fair
market value, or give a rew one in lieu thereof, less 5 per cent., inte-
rest corresponding in amount to the whole of the previous payments
which have been made.

Detailed prospectuses with tables in further illustration of the De-
posit system, and any further information may be obtained on appli-
cation to the Agents in the country, or to .

CHARLES W. BEVAN, Resident Secretary.

B.—Agents wanted in all parts of the World.

MEDICAL ADVICE ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIE2 OF

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YOUTH AND MATURITY. --------
DR. SA.MUEL LA'AIERT, 37, BEDFORD-SQUARE, LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, and Metric ilaced Member of the University of
Edinburgh, Honorary Member of the Londo 1 Hospital Medic
Society, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Ball, London, Sec., Scc.
t:U AY be consulted, personally, or by letter, on
v a. the various disorders of the nervous and generative system,
resulting from juvenile irregu'arities and excesses, which have pro-
duced more misery In youth, degradation in manhood, and prema-
ture decay at all stases of life, than perhaps any other class of dis-
eases known to modern pathologists. Long and practical experience
in the treatment of these diseases has proved that there are In exist-,
cure secret causes of self-acquired miseries and disappointed hopes in
existence, traceable to certain pernicious habits, to which Nervous
Debility, various forms of Insanity, Unhappy and Unfruitful Marri-
ages, Impotency, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and their
endless medifications owe their almost entire origin.
It is absolutely necessary that all men should know that there are
principles of personal management which cannot be violated w:thout
incurring grievous penalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed
the heyday of inconsiderate self-indulgence, how these penalties
may be mitigated, how the sting of their bitterness may be remove I,
and how the evil and its con- equences may be avoided, and above all,
that there is scarcely any degree of physical infirmity or functional
derangement to which the timely aid of science cannot app:y a cure.
tree.
DOCTOR LA'MERT has for a long series of years been engaged
in an extensive practice in the treatment of these delicate com-
plaints, and s the on'y legally qualified rhysielan who, regardless
encounnfindtenn cthe,estehreontnigrhin
et:
emvields,lutmrnmofwttlitieeipt unbnligcrapdreesosf,
steoeideltryeeist
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the confidence,
taunts and envy of the hypocritical and mock-modest, has had
rewarded by the great success that has attended practice,
publications, assumed In selecting this department ofhe has beets amply
attention
of their patent nostrums, foreign
have been induced to place
Lis e
efforts
s in the
At home for consuit
treatment of the
care of unqualified cases,
which are too generally confided to the
and Ignorant empiric 3, who, with their pirated
Six till Eight. All letters faith in their pretensions.
names and titles, and pretended virtues
, have Inflicted serious injury on those wise
tion daily from Eleven till Two, and from
c to any initials or address.
medicines
ciisnedscselanra)!'lee ftehrwatarmust contain the fee of If., and advice and
should first obtain a patientscopy of wishing to consult Dr. LAILERT
his work on

SELF-PRESERVATION.;
A Medical Treatise on the Philosophy of Marriage, and Nervous and
Generative Debility, illustrated by fifty coloured engravings, and des-
cribing in detail the various disorders resulting from secret habits and
excesses. The Perusal of this treatise will assist in the correct
description of their cases, and may be had, price 2s 6d, in English,
French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, or German,
Brothers and Co., 23, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ;
Mann, 39, Cornhill ; Storie, Titchborne-street, Haymarket; or free
oy post
for forty-two stamps, to any address from the Author's red-
elleel al. BUTOADificABE, Lokrogy. of Messrs. Piper

for public traffic, or by persons not already incorporated,
whereby the construction of any new line of railway is au-
thorised, a clause to the following effect, viz. :—And
whereas, pursuant to the standing orders of both houses of
Parliament, and to an act of the ninth year of her present
Majesty, c. 20, a sum of /., being one-tenth part of
three-fourths of the amount of the estimate of the railway
authorised by this act, has been deposited with the Court
of Chancery in England (or Ireland, or with the Court of
Exchequer in Scotland, as the case may be), [or Exchequer
bills, stocks, or funds to the amount of 1., have been
deposited or transferred pursuant to the said act, as the
case may be], in respect of the application to Parliament
for this act; be it enacted, that notwithstanding contained
in the said recited act the said sum of /. [or the said.
Exchequer-bills or other funds, as the case may be] so de-
posited or transferred as aforesaid, in respect of the appli-
cation for this act, or the interest or dividends of such sum
of money [Exchequer-bills, stocks, or funds], shall not, ex-
cept upon the execution and deposit of such bond as here-
inafter mentioned, be paid or transferred to or on the
application of the person or persons, or the majority of the
persons, named in such warrant or order, or the survivors
or survivor of them unless the said company shall, previ-
ously to the expiration of the period limited by this act for
completion of the railwayherebyauthorised to be made, either
open the said railway for the public conveyance of passengers,
or prove to the satisfaction of the lords of the committee
of her Majesty's Privy Council for Trade and Foreign Plan-
tations that the said company have paid up one-half of the
amount of the capital by this act authorised to be raised by
means of shares, and have expended for the purposes of
this act a sum equal in amount to such one-half of
the said capital ; and if the said period shall expire
before the said company shall either have opened the
said railway for the public conveyance of passengers,
or have given such proof as aforesaid to the satisfaction
of the lords of the said committee, the said sum of
money (Exchequer Bills, Stocks, or Funds) deposited or
transferred as aforesaid, and the interest and dividends
thereof, shall immediately, from and after the expiration
of the said period, be forfeited to her Majesty, and be paid
and transferred by the officer or person in whose name
they shall then be deposited or invested to the account of
her Majesty's Exchequer, and when so paid and trans-
ferred, shall be carried to and form part of the Consolidated
Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland;
Provided that any time after the passing of this act, if a
bond in twice the amount of the said sum of £
shall have been execute by the company, with one or more
sureties (such bond to be prepared to the satisfaction of,
and such surety or sureties to be approved by, the Solici-
tor to the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury),
conditioned for payment to her Majesty, her heirs or
successors, of the said sum of £ if the said com-
pany shall not, within the time limited for the completion
of the said railway, either open the said railway for the
public conveyance of passengers, or prove to the satisfac-
tion of the lords of the said committee that the said com-
pany have paid up one half of the amount of the said
capital by this Act authorised to be raised by means of
shares, and have expended for the purposes of this Act a sum
equal in amount to such one-half of the said capital ; and
if such bond shall have been deposited with the said solicitor
to the said Lords Commissioners, then such sum of money
(Exchequer Bills', Stocks, or Funds) and the interest or di-
vidends thereof, shall be paid or transfen-ed to, or on the
application of the person or persons, or the majority of the
persons, named in such warrant or order as aforesaid, or
the survivors or survivor of them; and the moneys to be re-
covered upon such bond shall be dealt with in like manner as
the said sum of money (Exchequer Bills, Stocks, or
Funds), and the interest or dividends thereof, would have
been dealt with under this act if such bond had not been
executed and deposited as aforesaid.
" In case of any railway bill to which neither of the
foregoing provisions may be found to apply, a special pro-
vision for effectually securing, as nearly as may be, in
accordance with the same, the completion and opening of
the railway to which the bill relates."
The hon. member said these resolutions were the result
of the unanimous opinion of a committee, appointed id
'te beginning of the session to consider not only no'

the least important question, but one of the most difficui
' questions which had ever been submitted to the house.
At the beginning of the session the house found that
it had to deal with 167 railway bills, 82 of which in-
' volved combinations of interests between different com-
panies. In order to understand the magnitude of the
interests at stake, he instanced the case of the London and
North-Western Company, which contemplated an arrange-
' ment that involved a raised capital of about 60,000,0001.
annual revenue of about 4,000,0001., and the possession
of 1,200 miles of railway which embraced the whole of
the leading lines of communication north of the Thames.
The hon. member also alluded to an arrangement pro-
posed by the Great Western Company to the adoption
of an uniform gunge, and to other arrangements with re-
gard to railways in Scotland and Ireland. Altogether the
house had to dealwith 2,200,0001. of capital already raised,
as well as considerable sums yet to be raised under acts
of Parliament, with 15,000,0001. of annual revenue,
which was annually increasing, and with the freedom,
economy, safety, and convenience of passengers in this
kingdom, of whom 85,000,000, by the last return, moved
from one place to another in the year. They had likewise
- to-deal-with the whole transit of goods in the country,
and also with the complaints of the holders of property,
which raised very difficult and complicated questions.
Above all, they had to deal with the great question of
the public safety, and to ascertain hew lamentable acci-
dents on railways could be averted for the future. The
committee had had arguments:addressed to them on both
sides by able and competent men—by those who were in
favour of a greater amalgamation of interest, and
14 others who entertained strong apprehensions of
the great danger which would result to the community
if Parliament parted with any of its powers. The com-
mittee had carefully considered the whole subject, and
they were unanimously of opinion that they could not
advise the House to part with any of its powers with
respect to the amalgamation of railway companies.
There was, however, another question which they had
to consider. Many new works were going forward
which were promoted by persons interested in the
neighbourhoods which they affected, and who earnestly
desired that increased railway communication which
they expected certain bills now before the house would
give them. With such linos the committee were most
anxious not to interfere. There was another class of
bills, generally called "fighting bills," which were pro-
moted by projectors who had no notion of completing
them, or by companies as measures of offence or defence,
or by some speculating lawyer or engineer, who
wanted to obtain the sanction of Parliament to a
bill in order that he might put it up to auction
among different companies. The committee thought
that at least for the present session measures
should be taken against any trifling with the interests of
existing companies or of the public, and they unani-
mously recommended the house to entirely put a stop
to those lines which refused to give any evidence what-
ever of their sincerity of purpose. These were the two
things, and the two things only, to which the resolutions
applied. First, they wished to prevent the amalgama-
tion of companies hitherto incorporated, because it was
not yet determined on what conditions the house would
permit those amalgamations to take place; and, secondly,
they advised the • house not to allow any bill to
go forward, which had existence merely on paper, and
had no existence in reality for the benefit of the neigh-
bourhood which it professed to serve. It would be
seen, however, that there was a territory, so to speak,
to which these two principles could not be applied.
They did not intend to prevent the construction of new
works which were promoted by united companies, and
which the wants of certain districts required, and they
had come to the conclusion that that was a particular class
of cases which should not be included. A great number of
bills of this description was before the house, and they
would be excepted from the first resolution. The committee
had treated Ireland as an exceptional case, owing to the
peculiar circumstances of that country, and to the diffi-
culty in obtaining capital there to construct railways,
and they had thought proper to exempt Ireland from
i
the operation of the second resolution.
Mr, WHALLEY said whatever might be the merits
of the resolutions, they would operate as a serious check
to public enterprise in regard to railways. He thought
that neither the house nor the committees of tho house
were efficient tribunals to try railway matters, and did not
give confidence to those having capital in railways.
In his opinion, the only remedy for the present state of
things was the appointment of a board, specially consti-
tuted, for the purpose of making local inquiries as to the
necessity of different railway schemes.
Mr. JAMES MACGREGOR differed entirely from
the hon. gennleman who had just spoken, when he
stated that committees of that house were incapable of
dealing with these questions. (Hear, hear.) For nine
years he had been connected with railway bills passing
through that house, and the difficulty which he found
existing in all those cases was not that the committees
were incapable of dealing with these questions, but
that they had acted without particular instructions.
(Hear, hear.) He hoped the time was come when
the committees would be dignified, as ho might call it,
with instructions embracing general directions as to the
principles on which they should act. (Hear, hear.)
He would not oppose the resolutions of the right lion.
gentleman, but must take the opportunity of saying that
there was an omission which he viewed with some concern

in the fourth report of the committee. He found no allu-
sion to the immense depreciation which railway property
had experienced. (Hear.) On this point he might state
that the capital of 40 English, 9 Scotch, and 13 Irish rail.
ways, exclusive of allguaranteed shares, &c., amounted to
132,221,9761. This enormous property was selling in
the market for only 109,849,0001., being a depreciation
of upwards of 22,370,0001. (Hear, hear.) Now, 12
French railways possessed a capital of 21,244,0001, and
the present value was 40,170,0001., an increase of 90
per cent. (Hear, hear.) He asked them if it was not
desirable to regard with extreme caution any measures
that might have the effect of driving capital from this
country to be embarked in foreign investments of the pro-
fitable character to which he had just referred ? (Hear.)
There were schemes presented to the public of foreign
and colonial ent3rplise, embracing sums of not less than
forty millions of money, to be spent in railway construc-
tion, and chiefly under a guarantee of a fixed annual
interest secured by the governments in whose territories
these railways were to be constructed. He hoped the
time had arrived when, by the assistance of the dis-
tinguished members who compose the committee whose
resolutions they were about to adopt, the outlay of
capital would be as much encouraged and as beneficial at
home as abroad.
Mr. LABOUCHERE said these resolutions had been
most carefully considered by the amalgamation commit-
tee,aas
by whom they were unanimously adopted,nd upon the whole, they appeared to be 'satisfactory to the
railway interest, the house should have no difficulty in