The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-14 00:00:00

"PROPOSED ADDITIONAL ARTISLE OF WAR.

"Any officer who snail shout or wusud a man shal I
be permitted to avail himself of his privilege as a British
subjvct in not being required to criminate himself; but it
ail officer shall shoot or wound a bull, and it he shall
avoid or evade being led into an admission of having
shot or wounded the bull, or. if he shall not at once dis
close and discover to the authorities, civil and military,
the whole and every pert of his participation in showing
or wounding the bull, he shall be accused of falsehood,
arraigned bel,re a general court martial, and upon
conviction of all or either of the aforesaid offences shall
be cashiered."
June 8. AN OLD OFFICER.

ROYAL GENERAL DISPENSARY.--A general meet-
ing of the governors of this charity was held
dayyester-
xir. J. A
morning
in the ir . A
ginasttheDispecthisaary •hoursteer th
, Alde usualers
ate.lso.rinreetiti
proceedings of reading the micutes, &c., the chairman,
referring to the report of the committee, expressed some
anxiety at the rapid increase of patients and applicants
for relief. From the Ist of January to the lit lit Match,
1849, there were 4,572 patients, and from the let et
March up to that time there had been 4 024, being nearly
at the rate of 18,000 per year. This did not arise from
unusual prevalence of disease, for the report of their
apothecary on that head stated that no disease was pecu-
liarly predominant, and that all of them in the city of
London were of a mile character; but it arose from the
institution being the oldest, the largest, and the most
ct ntrul of all institutions of a simitat nature; and it Wtr:6
a well-known tact that a great many patients r,-iu,ed to
go to any other institution, rather preferring to remain
,sithout attendance. '1 heir funds were perkctly iiiade.
quate to meet this great demand, and being wawa ing
to retrench their charitable exertions, they had no alter-
native but to present the emergency to the public, and to
appeal to the adsoc,icy of the press in aid of the oldest
and most useiul institution of its ki44 in or near the
metropolis. The efficient nature of the services they
had rendered had caused this great influx of patients.
who flocked to the dispensary from within a circle of
tees ty miles round it; and though the c(lnmittet. were
unwillin to refuse ant, they were paiiiludy alive to the
fact that their expenditure exceeded their in,.ore... on an
average of 3501. per annum. The r. port also mentioned
the precautions taken by the committee to insure irritant
attendance on cases of diarrhea, and diseases of the
bowels. No obj‘clion was ..if rid to the reception- of
this document, several gentlemen corroborating, from
their own experience, some of the facts above stated.
The meeting separated atter thanking the chairman.
NEWPORT, Jura 13.--Wind N.E.---61d. George Tur-
ner, Portland, United Staters.. -

THE IMPROVIDENCE OF A
PEOPLE.
in the eyes of foreighers we are a wealthy, money-
making, provident pm.; le. We labour unceasingly with
our hands and with our heads; we amass wealth, we
support cur chat iiios with a nainiticence r.-d+ erns,
in a great ttivasure. the r,fitiement and amount of our
vic• a; our iag-aies fl at in every sea, we are call. d into
and t way tl:e coonci s of other nations, greater in extent,
but w. ak,r in pow.r, and the sun nev,r goes down upon
our vast possessions, hut shines perennially upon them;
yet we are nut, as a people, prot id. nt. The snit stlrritg
sounds of music from the palace tall upon the . ar of !ha
wretch langulahing in i.overty at d rags upon his pallet,
,„,.en is the proximity of w. alth and squalor—u
(mixt, and the highways f the sist. r isle,
men, w0t114.-ti. and es., wine..r lives have ti.,•tt one
(talk, bitter. night of agony and suffering, unelle-
qw-red by the slightest gleam of auu hint, the amount

Ti extent of which uo pen c,u pa iit, lie (town
and di. of aid tatnine; th• u,a1,(1., bete wai
and to want wth k is to IA ant bread, I. eigit g, aro
raimtn'; )et are we an improvident peeVe, when v, e
have the weal sofb. it g provident To hear that a man
ha, did and kit his w !hint a farthing— I.
them to cliai.ce—o, live or perish an) whet c; in the w.t k-
house, in the prism. or tt e street, is so common aL oc•
current e 1111 r.. t to be reparchd us ,tich ga shoidd. a,
he- ult. gral parts of a dt,vst.r, e inch in 11)e aggr. get
amounts to a national esda why ! Forecast and (tit
M. ItSG prudence would obviate this to a vast extent.
Ihe mass of the teople possess no capital save their la-
our, and the sustenance- which it produces may, the
next moinEnt, be impaired or taken a, ay altoge,ther. It
becouo s therefore the absolute duty of the pm,rest
t • provid,, in howe..v.r slight a degree, for the suprrt of
hiit•sett and his family in ti-at seas -n of helplessness
which c, mes upi.n men when they least xpect such
a visitati, n. 'the curtailment of some slip lit
enjoy ink nt—a glass of beer, or a "screw" less a da)--
w“ul‘i enable a man of twenty • five years of ag,- to pro-
vide, by the aid of those humane establishments wt leti
have bet n formed for the accomplishment of so much
good—the assurance offices of the metropolis--501. to his
tenuity on his death, or a Swan annuity when he reaches
a gtv, n age.
The assurance of life has been esteemed by the
ignorant a luxury, which the opulent classes alone could
purchase. It is obvious, from what we have said, that
not o',ly is life assurance within the meats of the
humblest mechanic, but that from the precarious natur,
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 pro,
vision, however small, for the future, than say other class
ut society! _ _ _

The mda whose thoughts do not extend beyond the
mere gratification of the wants of the day is on a par
with toe mere animal; forecast shows the mastery over
the lower passions of our nature; it is our duty, there-
fore, to exercise it to the hest 0, our ability; and, as we
have said, there are tew who cannot do so. Life assur-
ance, let it bo born© in mind, is a barricade thrown up
against the foul tiends—want and misery !
Again: but a small portion of the industrious classes
seem alive to the fact that few homes are worth more
tLen the amount of the accumulated rent for ten years.
By becoming a mi mter of a Building and Investment
Society he may buy a house outright for the ten years'
tent; the money is furnished by the society; be mort-
gages the Louse to it as security for hi, pay meta of the
nt to it for about ten years, it is then delivered up to
him intact—it is his tor ever!

The n2nss of the people know nothing of the advan-
tages to be thus 4 brained. Let those whose attention
his not been wrested by these simple facts pause ere
they are beyond their reach. They earn money, and
they spend it all; show them how they can be pro
yids lit—give them tin interest in their labour
beyond s,_pplying the mere wan,s of the present hour.
and you crews: better ctriz, us, beit r morals, and, at the
same time, a s•:cial police. who, having-something to lose
would array themselves against the reckless and the tur-
bul.nt h,r the common benefit and potection of all.
" Proctastibation is the thief of time;" the boldest and
the strorgest of en go down into the valley of death le-
fore the weak and dying;—the head of a family, %ieu,
labour brings present comfort and huppitiess.—whose
death would bring misery and agony—unfathomable
wretchedness,—may be stricken down among the d, ad
this night. Let those who would lessen the agony of the
throes of death recollect that they must work out 04 it
own redemptioh; and that if they deter the preoration
tor the work until the back is bowe and the head is
bleached, the effort will be vain and ftuitltss. They
will thus add to the pains of the deathbed the wild agony
of despair—the thought that, by the smallest expenditure
of moth y in earlier life, that despair would not have
taken the place of huppitiess and peace, and that those
for whom they were bound to protide by every law,
human and divi, e, would have been left in comfort in-
stead of in de plorahle wretchedness !—The Reporter and
Savings' Banks Advocate.