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would enable a man of twenty-five years of age to provide,
by the aid of those humane establishments which have
been formed for the accomplishment of so much good—
the assurance offices of the metropolis-501. to his family
on his death, or a small annuity when he reaches a given
age.
The assurance of life has b, en esteemed by the igno-
rant a luxury, which the opul,nt classes alone could
purchase. It is obvious, from what we have said that not
only is life assurance within the means of the humblest
mechanic, but that from the precarious nature
of their subsistence and the poverty which their"decease
would entail upon those they must leave behind them, it
is more incumbent upon them to make some provision,
however small, for tho future, than any other class of
society !
The man whose thoughts do not extend beyond the
mere gratification of the wants of the day is on a par
with the mere animal ; forecast shows the mastery over
the lower passions of our nature; it is our duty, therefore,
to exercise it to the best of our ability; and, as we have
said, there are few who cannot do so. Life Assurance,
let it be borne in mind, is a barricade thrown up against
the foul fiends—want and misery!

Again—but a small portion Of the industrious classes
seem alive to the fact that few homes arc worth more than
the amount of the accumulated rent for ten years. By
becoming a member of a building and investment society
he may buy a house outright for the ten year.' rent;
the money is furnished by the Society; he mortgage s
the house to it as security for his payment of the rent to
it for about ten years, it is then delivered up to him in-
tact,—it is his for ever!
The mass of the people know nothing of the advan-
tages to be thus obtained. Let those whose at-
tention has not been arrested by these simple
facts pulse ere they are beyond their reach.
They earn money, and they spend it all:
show them how they can be provident,—give them
an interest in their labour, beyond supplying
the mere wants of the present hour, and you
create better citizens, better morals, and at the
same time, a social police, who, having something to
lose, would array themselves against the reckless
and the turbulent for the common benefit and protec-
tion of all. " Procrastination is the thief of time;" the
boldest and the strongest often go down into te val-
ley of death, before the weak and dying;—the head of
a family, whose labour brings present comfort and hap-
piness whose death would bring misery and
agony—unfathomable wretcheduess—may be stricken
down among the dead this night. Let those who would
lessen the agony of the throes of death recollect that
they must work out their own redemption ; and
that if they defer the preparation for the work
trail the ba, k is bowed and the head is bleached
the effort will be vain and fruitless. They will
thus add to the pains of the deathbed the wild
agony of despair—the thought that, by the smallest ex-
penditure of money in earlier life, that despair would
not have taken the place of happiness and peace, and
that those for whom they were bound to provide by every
law, human and divine, would have been left in comfort
instead of deplorable wretchedness !—The Reporter of
June.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BaassELs, MAY 31.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ••••• • • • • • •• •
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent • • • • • • • •
Loan of Thirty Millions, FourperCent. •• •
Ditto Three per Cent.......... •••• • • • •
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions,ditto ••• • • •
Ditto,ditto,lB4o • • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 88
88MDitto,ditto,1842.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ' • • •
81 8 •X
Ditto, 1836... •• • • • • •••• • • •
Ditto, 1838 .... ••••• • • • •• ••• • • • •
Ditto of the City, 1832 • • • • • • • • • • " •" •
Bank of Belgium.... • • •• • • • • ••• • • •
Ditto, 1843 . .• •••••• • • ' • "" ••• • ••
• • 6-3 i, A
1070% 67
Issue of 1811 .. •• • • • • • • • • • •• • •
Exchange on London, 25.50.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY 28.
5 per Cents. ••••••"• • • • • • • • 89%
2% per Cent. •••••• • • • " •
Ditto, 1839.. •• •• •••• • • '• • •
Bank Shares ••• • • • •"" • • • •
Esterhazy's L0an.....................

RAILWAYS.
The Northern.. —• • .
Gloggnitz .
Livornese ............ • •

..... . .. 97 9714

PRUSSUN FUNDS.—Bnuarr, JUNE 1.
Prus;,ioarneisgteErexcehnatn•g•e•s•—••............ 1015 6
2i 6 21% 101,
Bills. Money.
St.Schuld Sch., 3% per Cent .• •• •' •• 78
On London, three months • • •• •• •• •• • •
On Ilamburgh, two months •••••• • • • • 149%a
On Paris, two months.— .. • • .. • • •• m0nth5................ 80% 80%
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WATCH AND CLOCKMAKERS PENSION SOCIETY.—
On Tuesday last a large number of the bubscribers and
friends proceeded on an excursion by the Eastern
Counties Railway to the Rye•house, Hertfordshire,
which is becoming a favourite place of resort; its
beautiful grounds, together with the delightful walks in
the neighbourhood, and the advantageous terms the
railway company allow to benevolent societies, is calcu-
lated to make the Rye-house very popular.
DEPARTURE OF THE CAMBRIA.--ThiS steamship,
carrying out a:large number of passengers and the mails
fur Canada and the United States, sailed from Liverpool
on Saturday evening.