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;VATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE
L ASSCRANf,F, sOCTErr.
26, COR-ICHILL, LONDON. •
Capital £500,000. Empowered by Act of P aril am en t .
The leading features of the Society are guaranteed of an ample
Proprietary Capital.
Moderate Rates of Premiums.
I'v/45-thirds Premium Loaned to the Assured.
Annual Division of Profits.
Half the Premium may remain as a T.oan for Five Years.
Extensive Travelling Leave granted, without extra Premium.
Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates.
N.B. The last Annual Bonus to the Assured varied from 27 to 65
per cent. (according to age) on the Premiums paid.
Examples of Bonuses already Declared, and Options.

Prospectuses, with tables of rates, &c., may be had at the Mike,
r any of its branches in the country ; or, on application. will be for-
Tarded post free.

W. S. B. WOOLHOUSE, Actuary.

ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
6, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, BLACKFRIARS.
Established 1823.
Impowered by Act of Parliament, Z William IV.

• DIRECTORS. .
011AIlmAN—Right Hon. Sir T. FRANKLAND LEWIS, Bart., M.P.
DEPUTY CHAIRMAN—HENRY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq,
Alfred Kingsford Barber, Esq. Sir Alex. Duff Gordon, Bart.
Arthur Kett Barclay, Esq. Archibald llastie, Esq., M.P.
Henry Willett, Esq. John Mendham, Esq.
Robert Biddulph, Esq. William Routh, Esq.
Thonias Edgar, Esq. '
PHYSrCIAN—John Ayrton PRTiS, M D., F.R.S., No. 27, Dover-street.
President of the Royal Collage of Physicians.
SURGEON—Benjamin Travers, Esq., No. 12, Bruton-street.

AcTjAsy—James4ohn Downes, Esq.,

The following are among the advantages offered by this society :
ECONOMY combined with Security.
The RATES of Premium are lower than those of any other office,
which entitle the assured to participate in the profits, and considerably
lower than those of any other Mutual Assurance Society.

The WHOLE of the PROFITS are divided every fifth year among
the Assured, and a Bonus is added, after the payment of the Fifth
Annual Premium to every Policy effected on the participating Scale,
if a claim accrue thereon prior to the next division of profits.
The BONUSES declared at the three former divisions (arising
from three-fourths only of the profits), averaged 16, 31, and 36 per
cent. respectively on the amount of Premiums paid.

The BONUS declared in 1349 (arising from the wkole of the pro-
fits), being the result of the operations of the Society during the last
five 3 cars upon the Mutual Principle, averaged 62 4 per cent. on the
Premiums received.

All Assurances effected during the year 1849, on the equal rates of
Premium, will be entitled to participate in the profits to be declared
in 1854.

The subjoined Tabl
resulting from low P 1
among the Assured :

le shows the advantages offered by this Society,
temitims, and a division of the entire profits

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20 21 15 10 1260 260 108 12 1380
30 26 13 5 1205 205 110 12 1327
40 3' 19 6 1140 140 118 11 1269
50 45 6 0 1 30 30 129 10 1169

Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained on application to
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary.

SEA, FIRE, LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Offices,
31, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
Ca dital —lOO,OOO '.
En Shares of Twenty Shillings each, to be paid in full on Allotment.
DIRECTORS.
Howell Gwyn, Esq., M.P. George Ile'more, Esq.
John Rennet, Esq. Sir William Ogilvie Bart.
Thomas Bunting, Eqq. Frederick A. Peel, Esq.
Alexander Davi-, Esq. W. Yates Peel, Esq.
John Kelland Durant, Esq. John Wreferd, Esq.
Augustus Collingridge, Esq., Managing Director.
AUDITORS.
Henry Rogers, E.g. I Henry Wood=, Esq.
Ebenezer Koper. Esq. Samuel Henry Ranger, Esq.
MEDICAL REFEREES:
PHYSICIAN.
James Eidson Bennett, Esq., M,D., 24, Finsbury-place North.
SURGEONS.
John Fisher Goude Esq , M.R.O S., 83, Cheapside.
Fredk. Cu. Crane, Esq., M.R.C.S., Leicester-square.
RANKERS.
Messrs. Currie and 'o., 29, Cornhill.
Commercial Bank of London, Lothbury.
SOLICITOR.
John Chapple, Esq., 70A, Aldermanbury.
MARINE DEPARTMENT.
UNDERWRITER.
Mr. John Powis, Member of Lloyd's.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
ACTUARY.
Mr. Alfred Burt.
FIRE DEPART ENT.
SUPERINTENDENT.
Mr. John Nelson.
SURVEYOR.
George Moody Longmore, Esq.
BROKERS.
John H. Golding, Esq., Warnford.court, London.
Thomas Bayley, Esq., Warnford-court, London.
Messrs. Turner, Brothers, Throgmorton-street, London.

DISTINGUISHING PEATURTS.
1. Exemption of Shareholders fro n all Liability.
2. The Right of Transfer at Will.
3. Periodical Division of Profits.
4. Five per Cent. Interest Guaranteed (irrespective of further Divi-
dends) upon the paid-up Capital.
5. Yearly Audits of Accounts by Auditors exclusively chosen by the
Proori •tors.
6. Life Policies INDISPUTABLE and free of Stamp-duty to the As-
sured.

Applications fer the remaining unsilotted Shares, and on the sub-
ject of MARINE, FIRE, and LIFE ASSURANCES to be addressed
to tke Agents of the Society ; or to the Head Office as above.
AUG. COLLINGRID6E, Managing Director.

MESSRS. BASS, RATCLIFF, and
GRETTON have THIS DAY REDUCED the price of
their PALE ALE to PRIVATE FAMILIES, to ls. Bd. per Gallon,
or 30s. the Kilderkin Cask of Eighteen Gallons.
Orders for the New &mina addressed to Bass, Ratcliffe, and
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November 2, 1849.

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TO MR. PROUT, 229, STRAND.
"No. 208,1'lecadilly, London, October 19, 1847.

••
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" MICHAEL NASMYTH."

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An One hall the world are desolately single, and the other
opposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes ern-
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By THOMAS. HAMILTON,
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Author of " Peninsular scenes and Sketches," &c. &c.
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FASHIONS FOR NOVEMBER.
(From the New Monthly Belle Assemblee.)
PUBLIC PEOMENADE DRESS.—Robe of Pekin broche
in two shades of marron ; corsage en Amazone ; tight
sleeve, a three-quarter length, rounded in the horse-
shoe shape at bottom; cambric under sleeve. Black
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an easy fit, the lower moderately wide. Sleeve a
half length, wide at the bottom, trimmed with a fall
of black lace surmounted by two rows of velvet
ribbon in zigzag. The skirt is decorated with three
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sleeve. White satin chapeau, a round open shape,
the interior trimmed with sprigs of scarlet geranium
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DEMI-TOILETTE.—BIue silk robe ; the corsage, half
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Embroidered muslin
trimmed mequal
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and finished with three rows of black lace; muslin
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CHOLERA AND DIARRHCEA.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DEATH OF ANOTHER FLAG OFFICER.

We have to announce the death of another flag
officer—Rear-Admiral of the White,- Sir Samuel
John Brooke Pechell, C. 8., K.C.H., F.R.S., which
took place suddenly on Saturday last, at eleven
o'clock in the forenoon, at his residence, 27, Hill-
street, Berkeley square, in the 65th year of his age.
This gallant officer, who served 21 years on full
pay, was well known to the service as one of the Lords
of the Admiralty in successive Whig boards, that is
from 1830 to 1834, and from 1839 to 1841, during
which time he represented first Hallestone and then
Windsor. He was the eldest son of the late Major-
General Sir T. B. Pechell, Bart. M P.Tor Dounton,
by Charlotte, second daughter Of Lieut.-General Sir
John Clavering, Bart., K. 8., who died commander-
in. chief in India • was brother of the present Captain
Pechell, R N., M.P. for Brighton; grandson of Lieut.-
Colonel Sir Paul Pechell, who was created a baronet
for his services May 1, 1797; great grandson of the
first Earl Delawarr ; nephew of Admiral Sir J. B.
Warren, Bart., G.C.8., and first cousin of the late
Captain S. G. Pechell, R.N. His grand uncle,
George Pechell, a lieutenant of Royal Marines, was
killed at Carthagena. We subjoin the following
epitome of the services of the distinguished baronet
from " O'Byrne's Biography :"
" Sir John Pechell, who succeeded his father as
third baronet, June 18, 1826, entered the navy in
July, 1796, as first class volunteer on board La
Pomona, 40, commanded by his relative, Sir John
Borlase Warren ; and, from August, 1797,. until no-
minated 28th Feb., 1803, acting lieutenant of the
Active, 38, Captain Charles Sidney pavers and
Richard Hussey Moubray, was employed as midship-
man and master's mate, under the late Sir Robert
Barlow, in the Phcebe, 44, and Triumph, 7 In La
Pomone he saw much service on the coast of France;
and in the Phoebe he assisted at the capture of two
French frigates (La N6reide, of 36 guns and 330 men,
and L'Africaine, of 44 guns and 71.5 men, including
400 troops and artificers), one large corvette, L'Heu-
reux, of 22 guns and 220 men, three privateers,
carrying in the whole 58 guns and 455 men, and a
letter of marque, L'Hazard, of 10 guns and 60 men,
laden with spices, ivory, and gum, from' Senegal,
valued at 10,000/. La Nereide did not surrender
until after a close action of 45 minutes, productive
of a loss to herself of 20 killed and 50 wounded,
and to the British, out of 261 men, of 3 killed and
10 wounded; and the resistance of L'Africaine was
protracted until, in the course 'of a desperate night
action of two hours, she had sustained (although the
Phoebe, out of 239 men, had but one killed and 12
wounded) the terrific loss of at least 200 killed, and
143 wounded, the greater part of them mortally. For
his gallantry in the latter exploit, which was achieved
on the 19th of February, 1801, Captain Barlow was
rewarded with the honour of knighthood. On leaving.
the Active, to which frigate, employed on the Medi-
terranean, North Sea, and Cork stations, he had been
confirmed Ist April, 1803, Mr. Pechell, in January,
1806, joined the Foudroyant,lBo, bearing the flag at
the time of Sir J. B. Warren, under whom we find him,
on 13th of the following March, witnessing the capture
of the Marengo, 80, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral
Linois, and 40-gun frigate Belle Poule. He was made
commander, 23d March, 1807, into the Ferret, sloop of
war, on the Jamaica station ; was advanced to post rank
in the Cleopatra, of 38 guns, at Halifax, 16th June,
1808 ; and was subsequently appointed, 25th Sept.,
1810, to the Guerriere, of 48 guns, also on the Hali-
fax station; in July, 1811, again to the Cleopatra,
employed off Cherbourg, in the North Sea, and at
Gibraltar; 20th Oct., 1812, to the San Domingo, 74,
hearing the flag of Sir J. B. Warren, in North
America, where he remained until August, 1814;
and, Ist of July, 1823, to the Sybille, 48, stationed at
first in the West Indies, and afterwards in the Medi•
terranean. In the Cleopatra, Captain Pechell, on
being sent to the West Indies, fought, 22d Jan.,
1809, a close action of 40 minutes, reflective of
credit on his intrepidity and judgment, as well as on
the high discipline and steadiness of his crew, with
the French frigate, La Topaze, of 48 guns, anchored,
with springs on her cable, under a small battery to
the southward of Point Noire, Guadeloupe. At the
expiration of 50 minutes from the commencement of
the conflict, the Jason, 32, and Hazard, 18,
having come up, the enemy surrendered. The
Cleopatra, the only British ship that suffered 10-s,
had two seamen killed and one wounded ; the Topaze
on the other hand, out of a complement, including
100 soldiers, of about 430 men, incurred a loss of 12
men killed and 14 wounded. She had on board 1,100
barrels of flour. As a mark of the sense entertained
be the Admiralty of the Cleopatra's conduct, her first
!ieutenant, Mr. William Simpson, was promoted to
the rank of commander. A few days after the ex-
ploit Captain Pechell, although still belonging to the
Halifax squadron, joined the expedition proceeding
against Martinique, during the siege of which island
he distinguished himself by working into Fort
Royal Bay, previously to the surrender of Pigeon
Island, thereby cutting off the retreat of the
enemy, and compelling them to destroy all
the shipping at that anchorage; among which was
the Amphitrite, another frigate of the largest class.
When subsequently in the same ship on the Gibraltar
station, Captain Pechell made a survey of the
harbour of Ceuta, and drew up a plan of the forti-
fications, together with remarks on the navigation of
the Gut. In June, 1813, being then in the San
Domingo, and under the immediate orders of Rear-
Admiral Cockburn, we find him uniting in the attack
on Crany Island and the destruction of the enemy's
camp at Hampton ; on which latter occasion he com-
manded the boats and tenders detached to cover the
landing of the troops under Sir Sydney Beckwith.
During his command of the Sybille, Captain Pechell
was actively employed in the suppression of piracy
and the protection of the lonian Islands for a period of
three years, during which his boats were frequently
involved in sanguinary actiqns with the freebooters.
He paid the Sybille in November, 1826, and attained
flag rank, 9th Nov., 1846. Sir Samuel John Brooke
Pechell was nominated a C.B. 4th June, 1815, and a
K.C.H. 6th Jan., 1833. Sir John was the author of
a valuable pamphlet, entitled " Observations upon the
Defective Equipment of Ships' Guns." He married,
15th April, 1833, Julia Maria, only surviving daughter
of Robert Edward, ninth Lord Petre, and was left a
widower 6th Sept., 1844."
By the death of Sir John Pechell, Captain Sir
David Dunn, K.C.H., becomes Rear-Admiral of the
Blue, vice William Fitzwilliam Owen, Rear Admiral
of the White ; and by this promotion a captain's good
service pension reverts to the patronage of the First
Lord of the Admiralty.

Captain Edward Richard Williams (1827) suc-
ceeds to the half pay of 14s. 61. per diem, and Cap-
tain Sir Philip Broke, Bart. (1835), succeeds to the
half pay list of 12s. 61 per diem.
By the promotions consequent on the death of the
Admiral of the Fleet retired Captains Thoma Dick
and William Isaac Scott (1814) obtain their promotion
to the retired flag rank ; and by the death of Sir
John Pechell, retired Captain Bertie Cornelius Cator
(1814) becomes a Rear Admiral on the retired list—
these promotions taking place without any advance
of pay.
The senior captain now on the active list is Fairfax
Moresby, C. 8., late the gallant, distinguished, able,
and efficient commander of the Canopus, 84.
There are now vacant an appointment of naval
aide-de-camp to the Queen, and a good service pen-
sion. For the former, the name of the Hon. Captain
11. J. Rous (1823), the 17th senior on the list, who
is not in command of a dockyard, and who is not in
the enjoyment of pension or place. Should it be con-
ferred on Captain Rous, it is scarcely likely that he
would receive the emoluments of the office for more
than 18 months, by which time he will, in all proba-
bility succeed to his flag rank.
The appointment, on Thursday last, of Admiral
Sir Thos. Byam Martin, G.C.8., to be Admiral
of the Fleet, vice Whitshed, deceased, having been
approved by the Queen, the Commander-in Chief at
Portsmouth, Admiral the Hon. Sir Thomas Bladen
Capel, K.C.8., shifted his flag at the main from blue
to white yesterday morning, when the Illustrious
Rag-ship of Rear-Admiral Prescott, saluted the white
flag with 17 guns, which the Victory acknowledged
with 11, and the ships under the orders of the Port
Admiral shifted their blue ensigns and pendants to
white.

APPOINTMENTS.

Lieutenant Frederick 11. Stevens (1841), an officer
of long servitude as a first lieutenant, his last ship
having been the Inconstant, 36, in the Pacific, has
been appointed to the Agincourt, depot ship at Devon-
port ; W. P. Johnson, to command St. Catherine's
coast guard station, vice Hofftneister, resigned ; J.
A. Pritchard, to be inspecting lieutenant of the White
Horse coast guard district ; C. 13. Bailey, to be in
commrind of a coast-guard station ; J. P. Sanderson,
from Bridge of Don to Lannig station, vice Macna-
mare, appointed to the Wellington depot ship of Sheer-
ness ; 11. N. Atkinson,
from Sladdocke to Eastbourne
station, vice Conjad, placed on coast-guard retired
list; J. It Jeffries, placed on coastguard retired list.
Master—John Garner, to command the Cove Bay
coast-guard station. J. W. King's appointment has
been cancelled. _ _

Chaplain—James S. Robson, of the Prince Regent,
90. to the Ceylon, depot-ship!, at Malta, for dockyard
service, vice Watson, to the Thetis, 36, vice Richard
Crooker, to the Prince Regent.