The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-19 00:00:00

ITALY.

The French army w not quit Rome immediately,
AS the contract for provisioning it has been renewed
for three months. The Spanish troops will have
evacuated the Roman territory before the com-
mencement of the new' year; 4,000 of them em-
barked ut Terracina on the sth for Spain, and there
are now only 3,000 remaining in Italy.
The result of all the elections to the Chamber of
Deput ic r of Piedmont (with the exception of those:of
the Island of Sardinia) was known at Turin on the
14th, and there is now no doubt but that the Azeglio
_Ministry can command a large majority.

LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POLICY COMPANY.
Yesterday a meeting was held at No. 24, Con-
naught-terrace, Edgewere•road, to consider a plan for
securing to the district of Paddington the benefits of
life assurance, by establishing a branch of the above
company.
The Rev. J. S. 800 NE, of St. John's Church'
Paddington, presided, and in the course of a forcible
and eloquent address, stated that the project of form-
ing a branch insurance company for this large and
important district was suggested so long ago as the
mouth of July ; and when the question came to be
considered with which existing office the promoters
should connect themselves, they selected the Indisput-
able Life Policy Company, because it was bared upon
the soundest principles which skill and prudence could
dictate, and because it had been attended with the
greatest success. He need not say that the parish
was quite large enough for such an institution as was
now contemplated—a parish in which there were above
30,000 inhabitants and between 4,000 and 5,000
houses, and in which an annual rental was paid of
more than 300,0001. He thought the present ,pro•
jeet was well calculated to supply the deficiency
which now existed, inasmuch as the establishment of
a district office would bring the subject more com-
pletely and forcibly before the attention of the inha-
bitants, and save them the trouble of going in quest
of an insurance company. The Indisputable Life
Company was established upon mutual principles, and
it was believed that sooner or later all companies
must come round to those principles, which were un-
questionably the most advantageous to the interests
of the public. He was convinced that the principle of
indisputability was one which ought to be advanced
and encouraged in every possible way. The sound-
ness of the plan was apparent. It was most unfair to
refuse to survivors the amount of a policy, provided
the conditions of the insurance had been fulfilled by
the payments of the stipulated premiums. Under
all circumstances he was not only most anxious that
this branch-office should be established, but he was
very sanguine as to the success of it. He would ad-
vise all gentlemen interested in the undertaking to
exert themselves to the utmost of their power towards
making the principle known throughout the district.
He was quite sure that by so doing they would confer
great and permanent benefits upon the inhabitants of
this large and increasing district.
G. YOUNG ROBSON, Esq., barrister, and several
other gentlemen addressed the meeting upon the
expediency of the plan proposed, and the value of the
feature of indisputability peculiar to the company
with which they were to be connected; and the fol-
lowing resolutions were unanimously adopted :
" That life assurance being now an acknonledged ad-
vantage to the community, it is desirable that so exten-
sive and it.fluential a district as Paddington should
possess a local life assurance establishment for the
benefit of all classes of its numerous inhabitants.
" That to secure to this district all the benefits de-
rivable from life assurance, it is expedient that a branch
office in connexion with an established company, founded
upon the most approved principles, be formed in this
locality.
" That a communication having been opened with the
London Indisputable Life Policy Company, founded
upon the well-tried and now most approved plan of
complete division of the profits amongst the assured
themselves, and th'e long-desired principle of indisputa-
bility of policies, and that company having consented to
open an office in Paddington with a local board of direc-
tors selected from that district, this meeting highly
approves of the proposed undertaking, and pledges itself
to promote the success of an institution eminently well
adapted to confer great and permanent benefits upon all
classes of the community."
Mr. ROBERTSON, as the representative of the gene-
ral board of directors of the Indisputable Life Policy
Company, said he was authorised to state that having
given the fullest consideration to the various commu-
nications submitted to them by the promoters of a
Paddington establishment for Life Assurance, the
board were prepared to carry out the plan in the most
efficient manner, so as to meet the wishes of the pro-
moters, and secure for that district a share of the
success which had attended the parent company.
A vote of thanks was then passed to the chairman
and the meeting separated.

BARKER V. GODDARD.—We have been requested
to state, in reference to the report of the above case
which appeared in the The Sun of yesterday, that the
plaintiff was Mr. C. Barker, of Birchin-lane, not
Messrs. Barker • that Harvey was the projector of
only one of the lines of railway, and that Goddard,
the defendant, was not a promoter but purely a com-
mitteeman, and in every way adopted the acts of the
officers of the company, both by the resolutions of
the meetings and his own letters.
We are authorised to state that a copy of the
agreement entered into on the 23d of August, 1849,
between the Society of Arts and Messrs. Munday,
for securing the execution of the proposal of his
Royal Highness Prince Albert, to establish an Exhibi-
tion of thelndustry of all Nations in 1851, may be in.
srected at the Society of Arts, John-street, Adelphi.
We ur.derstand that a large and influential body
of the inhabitants of the Ward of Cornhill have
requested James Wyld, Esq., M.P., to offer himself
as a candidate for the Al lermanic gown, should a
vacancy occur. _ _ .

We had entertained a hop that we should have
seen the name of our old friend No:ter announced in the
bills of Drury.lane Theatre, as box bcy,k keeper, which
office he filled for upwards of tw.nty years with credit to
himself and satisfaction to the public; but we regret to
find that he stilt is, and has been for a long time, out of
employment. We sincerely wish we could hear of some
ccoupatiou for him.