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London, England, 1853-04-05 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1853.

MOUNT CARBON CHARTERED COAL
and IRON COMPANY.
NOTICE.—At a Meeting of the Directors, held March 29,
Sir ROBERT PRICE, Bart, M.P., in the Chair,
Prof. D. T. ANSTED, F.R.S., &c., was unanimously ELECTED
CONSULTING ENGINEER to the Company, and has signified his
acceptance of said office.

By or!er of the Boari,
30, Bucklersbnry, March 31. W. A. TIOEBER, Sec.

11,10IINT CARBON CHARTERED COAL,
and IRON COMPAN Y.
ITo more APPLICATIONS for SHARES in this COMPANY will
be RECEIVED after THURSDAY, April 7. Country applications
will close Satur:ay, April 9th.
By Order of the Boar!,
30, Bucklersln;ry, Arrll 2. W. A. lIOEBER, Sec.

1O AGENTS.—Life Assurance Agents in any
part of England may with advantage become Agents for Fire
Insurance, and thereby greatly extend their Life bu.iness. The
Directors of the UNITY FIRE INSURANCE ASSOCIATION—an
institution established on new and important principles, and possess-
ing upwards of Two THOUSAND SHAREHOLDERS, whose names and
addresses are published with the Prospectus—are ready to receive
applications for Agencies, accompanied by references. By looking
over the List of Shareholders, applicants will probably find several to
whom they are known. For terms, prospectuses, &c. apply to
THOMAS 11. B AYLIS, General Manager and Secretary.
Chief Offices, 40, Pall Mall, London.

NEW FEATURE IN LIFE ASSURANCE.

HE DEPOSIT and GENERAL LIFE
• ASSURANCE COMPANY,

18, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London.
CAPITAL—ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS.
DIRECTORS.

Chairman—The Right llon. the Viscount Drumlanrig,
Comptroller of her Majesty's Household.
R. YaHowley Barnes, Esq., 11, City-road, Finsbury.
G. Noel Clarke, Esq , late 17th Lancers, Junior United Service Club.
George Coode, Esq., rortland-terrace, Wandsworth, and Belvoir, St.
Helier's, Jersey.
Stephen Cracknall, Esq., 1, St. John's-gardens, Notting-hill, and 11,
Few-square, Lincoln's-inn.
W. Jones, ➢I.D., Davies-street, Berkeley-square, and Lutterworth,

Leicestershire.
George Knew, Esq., 15, Connaught-square, Hyde-park, and Tor
Lodge, Staffordshire.
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.

The sum the
ordinary Ufa
Offices would
give him for
the surrender

The sum the ordinary
Life Offices would give
him if he were unable
to pay, or if he omitted
to pay his current
annual premium of
Si. 6s. 3d. after he has
paid into their coffers
249/.73 6d., and wh!ch
they have had the use
of at compound
interest, or in
the event of his death
one hour after such
omission or inability

At the
end of

1., Annual
..,!,3 premium
4 to assure.
. 5001.

thirty
years when
the party
is fifty
years old,
hewillhave
paid into
the office.

Ms
policy
at that

or sale

age,
lin case;

of his policy,
after thirty
years'payments
amounting to
2491.75. 6d.
which theyhave
ihad the benefit
of at compound,

I death
will be
worth,

interest.

to pay.

little more
0 3/.65. 3dJ249/.75.6d. 5001. than 801. I NOTHING.
perhaps 901.
ON TIIE DEPOSIT SYSTEM.
Ifunable to pay, or not
desirous of paying or
omitting., topay,thero-
!lcy would still remain
of its FULL value,
522/.2c7d.tilldehth, If
20 years after, no fur-
ther payment beingre-
quired. Ifhowever the
party, from any cause,
wished to cancel the
Policy, he could not
onlydraw entail helms
put In, viz., 2251., but
0 //. 10s Od 225/. 5221.257 d 2871. 2s. 9d. ejlalnn Limbsa?..f.6l2.l.
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
under the novel system of DEPOSIT assurance can secure the follow-
ing advantages, viz., Ist. For a less sum, paid annually, he can assure
a larger sum in case of death than under the ordinary system.
2dly. 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 ho 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 II up to the
whole amount of his previous payments 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
aargain of having a fund to fly to in case of necessity, the same as
in a bank, with this palpable advantage, however, that he gets Inte-
rest fur his money, and in case of death his family receive more than
the amount of his savings. In ordinary Life Offices be can do no
such thing, but his policy at once lapses or is cancelled the moment
he ceases to pay his current premiums, and, instead of having any
fund to Ay to for aid, all his hard-earned savings become forfeited to
the society, and his misfortunes serve to benefit the pockets of his
rnor efortunate 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 impar-
tially 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
hands of the Company to the representatives of the Depositor in
case of death, thus combining the
ADVANTAGES OF A BANK WITH THE BENEFITS OF
AN ASSURANCE COMPANY.
In case of endowment rssurances the advantages of the DEPOSIT
system are 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,
real 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 eitner purchase the Policy at a fair
market value, or give a new 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.

N.l3.—Agents wanted In all parts of the World.

DR. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row, CarvaLho,
147, Fleet-street; Mann, 39, Oornhill. Price One Shilling each; by
post, Is 61.

ENJOYMENT OF LIFE.
"Health, Recreation, and Rational Use of Time."
CONTENTS : —Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex-
cursions about the Environs of London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills
Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places —Country
Trips and Rambles—The Sea —London at Night—Evenings at Home
Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Bleeping, Bathing, Air,
Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., &C.

THE INDISPUTABLE LIFE POLICY
COMPANY,
No. 72, Lombard-street and 24, COlillanght-terraeL
TRIISTEES.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
T. Campbell Renton, Esq., M.P. I James Fuller Madote, Esq.
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.O , M.P. William Wilberforce, Esq.
The POLICIES are INDI4PUTABLE, in terms of the Deed of
•ettlement of the Company, duly registered, and are thus rendered
CERTAIN FANTILY PROVISION'S, and NEGOTIABLE DOCU-
MENTS OF SECURITY.

lhis Company has introduced, as more peculiarly applicable to the
Middle and InduQtrions Classes, a plan of SELF-PROTECTING IN-
i(JRANCE, whereby in of.Paicy for one rate of Premium, are
tombined an Insurance of a Sum payab;e either at d .atli or on at-
•ahiiug a specified age, and a pension or annuity atter that age ; and
;lying the full benefit of all Pretniums that have been p4id, although
the payments should at any time be discontinued.

ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COM PAN Y,

Established by Act of Parliament in 1334.

No. 8, Waterloo Place, Pall Mall, Londaf.

The distinctive features of the Company embrace, among:
others:

Tables of Premiums formed on the lowest scale compatible with
security, and constructed to meet the various wants ,of assurers,
and every risk to which protection by assurance can be extended.
One-half the Life Premium for the first Five years may remain on
credit.

Loans granted on approved Personal Security.
Assured not restricted in their limits of travel, as in most other
Companies, but may proceed from one part of Europe to another in
decked vessels, without License, and to British North America, and
many parts of the United States, without extra premium, by merely
giving the ordinary notice, to the Office in London of the intended
visit.

Whole-world Policies granted at slightly increased rates of
Premium, thus rendering a Policy in money transactions a real
security.

_
Prospectuses, and every information, may be obtained upon app&
cation to the Resident Director. •

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call at the Grays, Greenhithe, and Purtleet Piers.
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Time.

Direct Trains from the Boats marked t
Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Stat
every quarter of an hour.

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BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLICKWALL,
lowing Trains from the Fenchurc

lon to an parts of London

WEEK. DAYS.

, on the arrival of the fol•
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SUNDAYS.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
The Bishop of LLANDAFF took the oaths and his
seat.

Lord LYTELLTON presented a petition from unions
in Worcester •praying for an alteration in the Law of
Settlement.
The Bishop of EXETER presented a petition from a
place in Devonshire, against the admission of Jews into
Parliament.
THE CITY ADDRESS TO THE EMPEROR
NAPOLEON.

Lord CAMPBELL then rose to put a question to the
noble lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, of
which he had given him notice, and which had reference
to a subject of great national importance. He alluded
to the declaration or address which the newspapers stated
had recently been presented to his Imperial Majesty
Napoleon 111., "in the name of the English nation."
Now, in putting his question, he had no intention to
throw blame on the individuals who had presented this
address. He had the pleasure of knowing some of them,
and he believed them all to be highly respectable, and
actuated, no doubt, by patriotic and disinterested mo-
tives. But if, in presenting the address to which he re-
ferred, they had acted without the authority of the Home
Government, he apprehended they had been guilty of an
offence against the law of the land—at all events of an
offence against the law of nations. It is an established
rule, he believed, that the intercourse which took place
between independent nations could only be transacted
through the medium of ambassadors or ministers sent
from the respective courts of those nations—such a rule
haying been established in order to the preservation of
international tranquillity. The rule would be found laid
down by all writers on this important subject, but he
would only trouble their lordships with an extract from
Vattel, who was supported by Puffendorff and all his
illustrious predecessors. Vattel remarked :

" Nations are to treat and hold intercourse with one an-
other, and, bound by reciprocal obligation, to consent to
such communication. But nations and sovereigns do not
treat together immediately. The only expedient for nations
and sovereigns is to communicate and treat with each other
by the agency of Procurators or mandatories, of delegates
charged with their commands, and vested with their powers
—that is to say, public ministers. The minister is, in some
sort, a representative of a foreign power, a person charged
with the commands of that power, and delegated to manage
its affairs."

Without quoting the opinions of other jurists on the
subject, he would simply refer to what took place in
1791, when it was stated that a deputation was sent
from this country to the Empress of Russia. At that
period one party in this country thought we were ag-
grieved by the proceedings of the Russian Government,
while another were of opinion that -the English Govern-
ment were to blame. The party in favour of Russia sent
a deputation to St. Petersburgh in the person of Mr.
Adair. Upon this proceeding Mr. Burke passed the
following severe comment :

" Thi; proceeding of Mr. Fox does not (as I conceive)
amount to absolute high treason ; Russia, though on bad
terms, not having been then declaredly at war with this
kingdom. But such a proceeding is, in law, not very re-
mote from that offence, and is undoubtedly a most uncon-
stitutional act, and a high treasonable misdemeanour. The
legitimate and sure mode of communication between this
nation and foreign powers is rendered uncertain, precari-
ous, and treacherous, by being divided into two channels,
by which means the foreign powers can never be assured of
the real authority or validity of any public transaction.
This proceeding has given a strong countenance, and an en-
couraging example to the doctrines and practices of the
Revolution and Constitutional Societies, and of other mis-
chievous societies of that description, who, without any
legal authority, are in the habit of proposing, and to the
best of their power of forming, leagues and alliances with
France."

Now he (Lord Campbell) apprehended that the principles
thus laid down by Burke were inconsistent with the
transaction now under discussion. He apprehended
that unless this deputation to the Emperor of France
were authorised by the British Government to proceed
in that capacity, they had acted in violation of the law,
although unconsciously so, As to the declaration itself,
it was perfectly harmless. In many of the sentiments
contained is it he concurred. But inasmuch as such
declaration was not the result of any public meeting of
her Majesty's subjects, or in conformity with any ad-
dress agreed to at a public meeting, he could not recog-
nise its legality. The document in question contained
nothing more than a simple declaration of a desire that
the relations of amity and peace between the two na-
tions should be kept up. In his opinion at no former
period had there been a greater desire on the part of all
classes in this country to maintain those relations of
peace and amity with France. (' Hear, hear," from the
Earl of Malmesbury.) Such was not the case in 1791,
when the then Government took up one line of policy
and the opposition another. (Hear, hear.) To revert,
however, to the declaration under discussion, he be-
lieved it to be a clear violation of the law. This country
knew nothing of the document until the curtain was
withdrawn, and Napoleon the Third was discovered,
surrounded by his ministers and approached by the
English deputation. He (Lord Campbell) did not
know whether the English ambassador was pre-
sent on the occasion, or whether his sanction was
asked to the transaction. Was he (Lord Campbell)
to suppose that Sir James Duke was sent over to super-
sede Lord Cowley, and that he went over to France
invested with the authority of an ambassador extraordi-
nary or a minister plenipotentiary ? The form of lan-
guage employed by Sir James Duke to the Emperor
would have been all very well had the subject in hand
been the cession of a railway or a canal ; but such lan-
guage on a subject relating to our internal relations
ought only to have proceeded from the lips of an accre-
dited minister of the Crown. Sir James Duke said :

" Sire,—We have the honour to appear before your Ma-
jesty for the purpose of presenting to your Majesty and to
the French nation a declaration from the commercial com-
munity of the metropolis of the British empire.
" We have only to add the expression of our conviction
that this document conveys at the same time a faithful re-
presentation of the feelings of the people of England at
large."
They express a fervent—
" Hope that under your reign France and England may
be always united," &c. _ _ _

Of this -declaration the Emperor, in his reply said :
"It confirms in me the confidence with which the good
sense of the English has always inspired me."
He then expresses some alarm as to what was done last
year, adding :
" But the good sense of a groat people cannot be long
deceived, and the step which you now take is a striking
proof of this.
" Like you I desire peace ; and, to make it sure, I wish,
like you, to draw closer the bonds which unite our two
countries."

These (continued the noble and learned lord) were most
gratifying sentiments, but, nevertheless, wholly irregu-
lar, if uttered without the authority of the home govern-
ment. He was not disposed to blame the parties, who,
no doubt, were ignorant that they were acting wrongly.
But consider the danger to which the country might be
exposed by allowing this proceeding to become a prece-
dent. Suppose for instance, there were a party in this
country who, disapproving of the policy of the French
government, agreed to a declaration, and presented an
address, praying that such policy should be changed.
Suppose, instead of the person addressed being Napoleon
111., it was a red republican government. There might,
according to the example now set, be a deputation of
Socialists, Chartists, or United Irishmen, to such a go-
vernment, asking for fraternisation. His noble friend (Lord
Clarendon) had once presided over the sister island, and
could not fail to remember the alarm which day by day
was felt by reason of these deputations, particularly by
the deputation which went to France headed by Smith
O'Brien. Surely that was considered an alarming circum-
stance by the English Government, but how could the
one proceeding be justified and not the other ? He be-
lieved the gentlemen in the present case to have acted
with good motives, and to have erred from inadvertence.
They were no doubt anxious to express their desire that
the two countries should be drawn closer together in the
bonds of peace and amity ; but different objects might
have been entertained. It might have been desired to
raise the funds by such a proceeding, or to depress them.
But without further observation he would proceed to ask
the question of which he had given notice, simply as-
suring his noble friend that he desired to give offence in
no quarter, and that if be thought his question would
even infinitesimally disturb the good feeling which sub-
sisted between the two countries he would not put it.
But, considering the high office which he (Lord Camp-
bell) held in the country, and that in that respect he was
a guardian over its laws, he begged to be permitted to
ask his noble friend whether the deputation of merchants
who were stated to have recently proceeded to France
with an address were sanctioned in what they did by her
Majesty's Ministers ?
Lord CLARENDON (who, with the other noble
lords who joined in this conversation, was imperfectly
heard) said, he could not help thinking that his noble
and learned friend had attached to his question more
importance than it deserved. Certainly, when the noble
and learned lord had the goodness to give him notice of
this question, he (Lord Clarendon) had not expected he
would have come prepared with high legal and parlia-
mentary authorities in support of his position, or that
he would have gone back to transactions which had oc-
curred 60 years ago. Still less had he expected that his
noble and learned friend, holding the high official posi-
tion he did, would have declared upon such evidence
that certain merchants and citizens of London, in the
transaction referred to, had committed a violation of the
law. (Hear, hear.) It appeared to
,him (the Earl of
Clarendon) that a great part of his noble and learned
friend's statement rested upon a fallacy, assuming, as
his noble and learned friend did, that the deputation ap-
peared as speaking in the name of the nation. Such was
not the case ; and it appeared to him (the Earl of Claren-
don) that they did nothing more than present an address
from certain merchants and others of the city of London.
In reply to his noble and learned friend's two questions,
he would first of all acquaint him that Lord Cowley had
not in any way been superseded—(a laugh)—and that
the sanction of the British Government to the deputation
had neither being given nor asked. Two or three days
before the deputation proceeded to Franco a gentleman