The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-14 00:00:00

No. 17,618.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY E -!:;* G

of NTR ACT for WELSII COALS for
DEP TFORD.

'Department of the Comptroller for Victualling and Transport
Services, Somerset-place, March 13, 1849.

The Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral
of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, do hereby give
notice that on THURSDAY, the 29th instant, at One o'clock, they will
be ready to 'treat with such Persons as may be willing to Contract
for supplying and delivering into her Majesty's Victualling Stores
at Deptford,

1,200 Tons of Handpicked Bryndorway, Llangenneek, Graigo'.a, or
Aberamitu Merthyr Coals.
One-third thereof to be delivered by the Ist May, another third
thereof by the 31st July, and the remainder by the 30th 4epteniber
next.

The conditions of the contract may be seen at the said Office. No
Tender will be received after One o'clock on the day of treaty, der
any deiced, intim the party attends, or an !went for kiln duly au-
thorised in writing.
'Every Tender mast be addressed to the Secretary of the Admi-
ralty, aid Year in the left hand corner the words " Tender for CoalS
for Deptford," and mutt also be delivered at Somerset-place, ac-
companied by a letter signed by a responsible person, engaging to be-
come bound with the person tendering in the sum of 3001. for the due
performance of the Contract.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU-
RANCE SOCIETY.

26, Cornhill, London.
Capital £500,080.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuties.
Policies Issued by this Society have a twofold advantage :—provi-
sion for the family of the Assured, and an augmenting pecuniary
available resource to himself, if needful, while living. The Assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense, or for-
feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the Premiums paid.

Annual
, eg Yre;

Polley
taken
out, in

Berms In! • " •
addltioa ; Bonus is
to Sum Cash.
Assured. •

Perrnz• tke
sent kisl/red
ductiun oflmay bar-
Apuital row 011
PreniAim:

X 2.11. i X s d. X s. d. I £ s. 1.
262 14 3 121 15 11 20 0 0 543 17 9
237 15 6 108 16 4 17 7 6 494 S 10
211 1$ 6i 95 16 9 14 17 7 445 0 0
163 8 4 75 15 10 11 10 2 395 11 1
159 1 4 71 6 9 10 19 8 346 2 3
132 2 6 58 17 6 819 10 296 13 4
84 11 81 37 10 I 614 2 247 4

s. d.
7434

DEFERRED ANNUITIES.

By the operation of the same principles, the Society is enabled to
afford to tke public a plan of Deferred Annuities far more advanta-
geous than any hitherto offered, whereby an individual, by the con-
tribution of a very small annual, monthly, or weekly saving, may se-
cure either a comfortable provision for himself in advanced age, or,
at his option, a large sum of money, or a policy to his family at his
death ; while by giving to the purchaser, at any time, the power of
borrowing two-thirds of all previous payments, it removes all risk
of forfeiture from inability to continue premiums, besides affording
an ample resource during sickness and want of employment ; and
should the purchaser die before arriving at the stipulated period, two-
thirds of his payments will be returned to his representatives.
The following Table is a specimen of the great and varied advan-
tages which the judicious application of a small saving caa secure
through this Society.

I. BENEFITS

11. PREMIUMS
To secure
on attain- F Annuity.£lo 10 e
ingtkeage Cash .. 82 10 0
of 65, the Policy.. 97 8 6
option of J

Secured en attaining the age of
65, by an Annual Premium of
21. 12i.

P.lyable Payable Payable
Annu- I in one for Dis-
,xt ally. sum. ,parity.
s. d. £ s. d.'£ s. d.
20 0 10 11 10 0 10 9 e e
30 0 19 610 7 1 7 3 11
40 1 17 327 311 19 410

'.,innuity.l Cash. I Policy,

X s. dIX s. d
47 16 6 394 11 0
26 15 10 221 0 01
13 19 115 8 0;

s. d.
4(G 0 0
1261 8
;136 6 8

Immediate Annuities are also granted by the Society on liberal
terms, as will be seen by the following extracts from the Tables,
showing the annual amount of annuity upon every I@o/. deposited :
Age 50, £7 Bs. I Age 60, £9 14s. 3d. Age 70, £l4 2s. 2d.
The Annual Report, with Tables of Rates, Sec.. may be had at the
Office, or any of its Branches in the Country ; or, on application, will
he forwarded post free.

W. S. E. WWI:HOUSE, Actuary,

VICTORIA. LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
18, King William-street, City.

Established 1833
TRUSTEES.

Benjamin Hawes. Esq. I Charles Baldwin, Esq.
Thomas Nesbitt, Esq.
_ . . _

.
The Directors solicit attention to their new Prospectus Almanac
for the present year, In which t+,e peculiar advantages offered by the
Company to Assurers are fully explained.
On Policies taken out for the whole term of life, one-third of the
premium may remain unpaid till death, or one-half may remain on
credit for five years. Extended permission to travel or reside abroad
is granted, and a new scale of extra premiums for foreign risk,: Is
published. . .

Four-fifths, or 80 per cent. of the profits, are appropriated to As-
surers entitled to share therein.

Advances are made to Assurers on assignable property or income,
and also on the guarantee of most undoubted personal sureties.
WILLIAM RATTRAT, Actuary and Secretary.

POLICIES FREE OF STAMP DUTY TO THE ASSURED.
ENGINEERS, MASONIC, and UNIVERSAL
MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

Head Office, 345, Strand, London,
(opposite Waterloo-bridge).
Medical Referees paid by the Society.
A Policy once granted never disputed.
Premiums may be paid Half-yearly, Quarterly, or Monthly.
The whole of the Profits amongst the Assured.
FREDERIC
,LAWRANCE, Actuary and Secretary.

TN consequence of the great rush of Visitors to see
BANVARD'S GRAND MOVING PAINTING of the MIS-
SISSIPPI and MISSOURI RIVERS, at the EGYPTIAN HALL,
Piccadilly, the Proprietor respectfully announces Two Exhibitions
every day during the bolliays. Tkis immense Painting is the
Largest in the World, and exhibits more than 3,0011 miles of Ameri-
can scenery.—The Day exhibition will commence every A fterneria,
at Half-past Two, and the Evening at Half-past Sc vee o'clock ;
doors open kalf en hoar before commencing. Admission, lower
seats, 2s. ; gallery, Is.

IWITZERLAND, from the REGITI KULM.
Just Opened, at the Panorama Royal, Leicester-•qu Ire, a su•
blime and beautiful View of Switzerland, taken from the Itiglil Kulm,
embracing nearly the whole of that magnificent country, innumer-
able cities, villages, lakes, the celebrated Falls of Rossberg, Mount
Pilate, with mountain above mountain, and terminating with the
vast range of the snowy Alps. Much expense has been incurred in
giving additional light to this vast Picture, which is in the large Ro-
tunda. The Views •f Paris and Pompeii are also now open.
Admission, Is. each view, or 2s. 6d. to the Three.—Schools half-
price.

LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
SAUCE is universally allowed to be the most Piquant and
the Richest in Flavour of any Sauce in use, and for Fish, Gravies
for Roast Meat, Steaks, Game, &c., or a test for Curries, Soup, Cold
Meat, it is entirely unrivalled.
The unparelleled success of this Sauce having induced imitations,
purchasers are particularly requested to see that the name of LEA
and PERRINS are upon the Label and the Metallic Capsules, as also
to read the Testimonials (which are enclosed with every bottle)
from the residence of Royalty, the principal Club houses and Ho-
tels in London, Edinburgh, &c. &c., and from private Families in
'the country.
Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrin& 6, Tere-street, Oxford-
street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; Messrs. Earelay
and Sons, Messrs. Crosie and Blackwell, and other Oilmen, Loudon,
and generally by all dealers in sauces.

ON the STATE and PROSPECTS of the
LABOURING CLASSES.

January, 1849.
The Committee of the SOCIETY for the IMPROVEMENT of the
CONDITION of the LABOURING CLASSES feel unwilling to allow
the opening of a new year, under such unparalleled circumstances as
the present, to pass over without offering to their subscribers, an 1
the gentry, clergy, and middle classes of England generally, a few
words of congratulation and of caption.
The grounds of congratulation will be obvious to every one —that
a year of convulsions to Europe generally should have elapsed in
England almost without any serious alarm, and that this general
tranquillity should have been preserved during the pressure of muck
want of employment, poverty, and privation, may well excite a feel-
ing of gratitude, and lead its to priie more deeply those institutions
which have thus "weathered the storm ;" and,' above all, that spirit
of religion; which, even partially and imperfectly diffused as it is,
has y 4 chosen itself, though in weakness, the best controller of no-
tional perturbations.
' But, besides these general grounds of thankfulness, the Committee
have much cause to congratulate their subscribers on the progress
Made in their own more immediate work in the course of the past
year, Not only has the gracious patronage of her Majesty and her
Royal Consort encouraged and enabled them to commence a new
work of magnitude and importance—the Model Lodging-house for
nannies, which will shortly, it is hoped, rise from the ground in the
immediate vicinity of St. Giles's—but the example already set be-
gins to be extensively followed. Within thelast few months the Com-
mittee have had the pleasure of witnessing efforts of a kindred na-
ture, and most of them confessedly in imitation of those carried on
by this Society, made or planned in several populous and important
places.
In the great parish of St. Anne, Soho, the rector and a parochial
committee have completed and opened a large lodging-house, in
which excellent accommodation is provided for as many as I3G per-
sons of the industrious classes.
Adjoining to this, in Pt. James's, Westminster, the rector, with a
parochial committee, is employed on a similar undertaking.
At Edinburgh and Glasgow modellodging-houses have been opened
and further efforts is the same direction are contemplated.
In the city of Bath a similar work has recently been undertaken
by the clergy and a Ice,al committee, add there can be no doubt of its
speady And complete accomplishment. • • • •
At Brightod, a lodging-house for thq workiag-classes is planned,
and measures for its establishment have been taken by several of the
clergy. • •
At Macclesfield the same object is engaging the attention of the
inhabitants, and a measure of this kind is nay/ in.ptogress. aeyeral
other movements of the same desialiption,' in other Owns, are in vh-
ioll3 stases of maturity.- '"..
Nor ought we to forget—though an entirely independent move-
ment—the recent opening of the Metropolitan Buildings, near Old
St. Pancras Church, in which excellent lodgings are provided for as
many as 110 families of the industrious classes.
Observing all these efforts of benevolence, commencing nearly at
the same time, the Committee feel that there is abundant ground for
congratulation ; and that it is hardly too much to hope that at no
very distant day the wants and comforts of the town labourers
throughout England may be generally, or even universally, regarded
with interest.

Turning to the agricultural districts, the Committee feel that the
only way in which these can be efectually attended to, is by the
active co-operation of the landed proprietors, the clergy, and gentry,
in the important work of raising from ignorance, destitution, and
discontent, a large proportion of the labourers of Great Britain,
With this view, the Committee are happy to be able to state, the'
having prepared plans and speciacations for several kinds of agri-
cultural cottages, they have received, since the month of June last,
no fewer than 184 applications for copies of them, the greater part of
which applications have been made by gentlemen who avowed their
inten ion of immediately beginning to raise, in their respective
neighbourhoods, better dwellings for the agricultural poor t an those
which have hi herto been so common in our villages. The Com-
m! ttea have also issued a plan for a Village Lodging-house, adapte I
for unmarried agricultural labourers, quarrymen, and miners, and
they have the sati factaan of knowing that, in various places, especi-
ally at Brampton-park, near Huntingdon, and at Tunaridge-wells,
t is sort of dwelling la now in course of erection.
The Committee also receive most gratifying account.- of V- e efforts
niakiug he different parts of the country to improve the dwellings of
the poor, among the foremost of which they must place the recant
erection of a con.i Curable number of excel ent cottages at Ampthil.
and other oy his Grace the Duke of Bedford, who is about
to extend tie same system of improvement over the whole of his
large propel la..
Yet while giving utterance to these congratulations, the Com-
mittee feel compelled to add some words of caution. They fear that
certain erroneous notions, which have long been prevalent, are still
entertained in many quarters as to the expediency and propriety of
all or any such attempts to ameliorate the condition of the poor. It
seems still to be thought by sense, that to render the labouring
classes comfortable is to encourage their increase—that to encourage
their increase leads to the growth of pauperism—and that pauperism
is " the devouring evil which threatens to swallow up all the pro-
; erty of the country."
mement's glance at the statistics of the present century may
snake to dissipate some of these. tliusicns.
The population of England and Wales, in 1817, was 11,349,750;
the sum expended in 1817 on the relief of the poor was 6,910,9251.
In 1847 the population lead grown to at least 17,000,000, bat the
sum expended en the relief of the poor in that year was only
6,2"8,7851. Thus, in 1817 the pauperism of the kingdom was equal
to a levy of more than 12s. en each person ; in 1847 it did not amount
to 7s. on each.
Ia 1817 a sum of 6,910,9251. was raised on rateable property of the
value of 82,000,0001. In 1847 the sum of 5,298,7851. was raised on
property valued at 67,000,0001. Thus; in 1817 the rateable property
of the country had to bear a levy of 2s. Bd. in the pound, while in
1847 that levy was reduced to Is. 7d.
Hence, whatever allowance we may make fer the stricter admi-
nistration of the poor-law, or for the reduced price of the necessaries
of life, these few figures will show how ungrounded is the alarm
entertained by some, that pauperism is an ever-Increasing evil, which
must, sooner or later, swallow up all property.
To take a contrary view, is it not a striking fact, that a property-
tax of only 7d. in the pound yielded, in 1847, more money than was
expended on the whole pauperism of England and Wales ?
These few facts are adduced solely to quiet alarm, and to restore
confidence. The Committee feel assured that nothing is now wanted
to raise the English labourer, generally, to a position of moderate
comfort, so far as his physical wants are concerned, but an increase
IA hope and confidence—hope and confidence en the part of the
employer and proprietor, and the like feeling on the part of the
labourer. . _ . . .

-It is to be feared that a sentiment of despair, naturally leading to
recklessness, is the principal cause of much of the improvidence and
'Vice still prevalent among the working classes. If the labourer is
not only poorly fed and clothed, and wretchedly lodged, but sees also
no prospect of improvement, even in thevista of years, who can won.
tier if the least temptation, either to sensual indulgence or to reck-
less engagements, proves tco mach for his stability ? To imbue a
man with self-respect, or thoughtfuliess for the future, it is clearly
essential that hope should brighten the prospect. It is but too pro-
bable that most of the Improvident marriages which occur among
the poor arise front the utter absence of all hope that marriage shall
ever be anything else than improvident. The man who has known
the comfort of a decent home, and can look forward to the posses-
sion of such an one, will not be very likely to throw himself wilfully
it tcpeverty and wretchedness.
Hence it may be safely regarded as one of the surest safeguards
against rash and imprudent marriage, to give the young labourer
some knowledge of the comforts of a respectable home, and to afford
him a prospect of acquiring such for himself by the exercise of in-
dustry, prudence, and frugality.
The Committee will not further enter into details, or press their
convictions with undue confidence. But they may surely beg, with-
out blame, the attention of the gentry and :middle classes to the
signs of the times, aid to the vast importance of rendering the con-
dition of the labouring classes as comfortable as their natural posi-
tion will allow. Everywhere the spread of knowledge and education
is clothing the working classes with power. That power they have
ased, and are using, in various parts of Europe, to overthrow those
whom they consider to have wronged or oppressed them. In Eng-
land, happily, there exists no real ground for such complaints. But
even the ordinary sufferings of poverty, if net soothed by sympathy,
and alleviated by the hand of wealthy benevolence, may be some
times mistaken for the inflictions of injustice. Hence the Divine
warning and counsel can never be more seasonably applied than at
this moment :—" The poor shall never cease out of the land ; there-
fore I command thee, saying, thou shalt open thine hand wide unto
thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in the land."
In conclusion, the Committee would add a few words on their
own immediate concerns. The work entrusted to them becomes
daily of increasing importance. Their correspondence with all parts
of England rapidly extends, and appeals are continually made to theta
which involve an increased expenditure. The principal work, too,
in Loudon—the Model Lodging-house for Families, now about to be
commenced, will require an expenditure of at least 8,0001., while
little more than 5,0001. has yet been subscribed for that purpose.
On every ground, therefore, the Committee would earnestly ask
for new and enlarged contributions. No other society, they believe
it may be safely asserted, devoting itself to the physical necessities
of the poor, has embarked in so extensive and necessary an under-
taking as this in which they are engaged. They desire to do some-
thing to ameliorate the condition of the whole labouring population
of the kingdom; and few and feeble as their efforts have yet been,
they still find encouragement to hope that, by perseverance, and
with the blessing of Him " who judgeth the cause of the poor and
needy," even this great work may in a measure be accomplished.
signed for the Committee,
ASHLEY, Chairman.

Subscriptions.
Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen and his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert .. .. .. .. .. £3OO 0 0
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager .. .. .. .. 150 0 0
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of KeHt .. • • 100 0 0
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester .. 50 0 0
The Right Hon. Earl Spencer • • • . .. .. 100 0 0
Sir Joseph Copley, Bart., Id don. • • • • .. .. 110 0 0
The Right lion. Lord Feversham .. • • .. --100 0 0
S. M. Peto, Esq., M.P. . • • • •• .... 100 0 0
Rev. E. Holland .. . • • • .. .. .. 100 0 0
His Grate the Duke of Bedford . • • • 100 0 0
Miss Portal .. • • • • • • • • • • .. 100 0 0
....:
...... ......
........
111100000000
0000
0000
Messrs. Barclay and C 0... ••••
Kosmos
Abel Smith, Esq. • • • • • " • • •
Lord Willoughby De Eresby
A Friend, by L. Sullivan, Esq. .. • • .. • • 100 0 0
Total to Jan. 1, 1349 .• .. £5,663 8•6
Donations since received :
The Rev. Dr. =erten £25 0 0 Mrs. Hugham •• £2O 0 0
A Friend .. .. 50 00W. P. Angell, Esq. e 5 0
R. B. Cooke, Esq. • • 50 0 Mrs. Schael • • 20 0
Major Cruikshank • • 50 0 Mss Cath. Stuart .. 20 0
A., per Nisbet • . 50C E. i
W. M. L. •• 0 0
Y. T. .. .. 4 0 0 Major Little
I .. 10 0
C. Saver, Esq. • . 8 0 Lady Murray .. 2 2 0
A. Palmer, Esq. • • 5 0 W. Jennings, Esq. .• 10 10 0
A. H. litradshaw, Esq. II 0 R. Wilkinson, Esq... 5 0 0
Donations and annual subscr ions will be received by Messrs.
Williams, Deacon and Co., Birchin-lane ; Messrs. Henries, Farqu-
har, and Co., St. James-street; Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand;
Messrs. Strahan, Paul, and Co, Temple-bar; and by Hatchards,
Picadilly ; Seeleys, Fleet-street and Hanover-street ; and Nisbet,
Berners-street ; or by the Secretary, at the office, 21, Exeter-hall.

HIGHLAND DESTITUTION.
This day is published,

FIRST REPORT for 1849 of the Edinburgh
Section of the Central Beard for the Relief of Destitution in
the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Price 3d.
Ir.
The Reports for 1848. In one volume, bound in cloth. Price 2s. Gd.
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.

THE COUNTRY MARKETS.
HULL, MARCH 13.
Messis. Taylor and Bright's circular states—We have had
a fair supl)ly of wheat from the near ports since this day week,
but some quantity having been previously placed, only .a small
proportion came on tke market, which has been very firm for
all good samples, and such met ready sale as offered. A good
many beans have also come in, and for which there exists a fair
consumptive demand when of good dry quality. Although the
week's import of barley is moderate, that of the previous week
being unsold, the market has been exceedingly heavy, and
sales difficult to efeect at a decline. Our farmers brought a
modeiate supply of wheat for this day's market, and the same
was taken off by our millers at much about last week's prices.
A bett,er shdw of foreign wheat, but not much of fine quality.
There were'several buyers of such itt yesterday's reduction in
Mark-lane, witty which, however, holders were unwilling to
comply, and the actual business done was comparatively very
limited ; the.consuraptlOn in the districts supplied by this port
is now very, great. We quote barley is to 2s lower, and the
decline seemsr likely to bring forward more buyers; prices are
eertainl4lav,, as are also those for grinding. No particular
alteration in' the 'value of other grain. We have more firmness
in linseed, and note being afloat, warehoused parcels fetch full
priees: More bisiness has been done in cakes, their low price
attracting attention. Nothing done in rapeseed, and only a
slow demand far-cakes. Without arrivals of bones the market
is quiet. 7'
The following are the present prices of grain
4 r 8. is.
Wheat, English, red 40 to 43
Do. white ....
Dantzic andp 19-
nigsherg 47 49
Pomerainan 'and
- 4 O 4O 441
Danish, Holstein; &
Friesland. ' 40 —42
Russian and. Odessa 35 40
Oats, Englith. . l4 16
Do. Danish..... • .13 —l5
Do.Friesland l4 —,17
Do. Russ. & Odessa 14 16.
Barley,malting 25 27
Do. grinding 2l 23
Beans 32 34
Do. foreign 0, .. 27 32

s. a
27 31
26 28
39 41
34 39
35 37
32 36
Per ton.
Linseed cakes, Hull 71 5s 01
Do. fine foreign 7l Os
Do. inferior foreign Si lOs
Rapeseed, per 10 qrs. 261 to 281
Rape cakes, do .B7s 6d
Tares, English OOs OOs
Do. foreign 25s —38 s
Guano 5/ to 9/ 5s
Bones, do 95s Od to 97s 6d
Rye meal 6/

Peas, white and yeL
Do. grey
Linseed, Black Sea
Do. Petersburgh
Do. Riga& Archngl
Do. Konigsberg • •••

...
IPSWICH, MA act! 13.
Any attempt to effect sales of wheat to-day proved useless
without a reduction of 2s per quarter. Barley was in a heavy
state, at a decline of Is per quarter. Oats, beans, and peas,
are all heavy sale. Malt and flour at declining prices.
PER itUARTICII.! PER 6111A.RTER.
Wheat 3Bs to 46s Beans . ....... . ...... 22s to 29s
Barley .... 2os to 28s Peas 23s to 29s
Oats l7s to 2Is'Malt.i
Rye

AVERAGES FOR TYE WEEK REHM* MARI, 10, 4849.
Wheat ...... 1,274 quarters at 451. ld.
Barley
Oats •238 $, 181. 3d.
Beans ..
Peas ...... 13 ~ 325. Od.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 13.—This morning's market was
moderately well attended by town and country millers, who
were enabled to make their purchases of wheat at a reduction
of 2d to 3d per bushel on last Tuesday's prices ; the business
altogether, however, was not large. Flour moved slowly, and
declined fully Is per sack and barrel. Oats were id per
bushel cheaper, and oatmeal 3d to 6d per load. Beans and
peas were each is per quarter easier. Indian corn was not
lower than on Friday, when a decline of 6d per quarter on the
price of Tuesday was quoted ; fine yellow corn is scarce.
LEEDS, MARCH 13.—There is a liberal supply of grain at
this day's market. Wheat is fully Is per quarter lower than
this day week, and inferior qualities difficult to dispose of at
that decline. Barley maintains its value, and there is no
alteration in the price of oats and beans.
DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, MARCH 12.—The following are
the prices at this day's market:—
Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third
imperial .. 27s Od 26s 6d 24s 9d
Barleymeal, per ditto 22s Od 2ls Od —s Od
Peasemeal —3 Od —3 Od —s Od
Flour —s Od —s Od —s Od
Pot barley ::•. —s Od sOd —s Od
There were 120 baos..of oatmeal, and 17 of barleymeal at this
day's market. Sales dull ; oatmeal up is per bag on the top,
and 64 per bag on the second quality ;
barleymeal is per bag
up on the top.