The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-21 00:00:00

TUE
CIITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY,
FOR ACCUMULATIVE AND GENERAL ASSURANCES.
2, Royal Exchange-buildings, London.
DIRECTORS
• The Very Rev. the Dean of Hereford
Robert Owen Aland, Esq.
William Betts, Esq.
James Risdon Bennett, Esq., M.D.
John Blakeway, Esq.
Charles Conick, Esq.
George M. Dowdeswell, Esq.
F. A. Durnford, Esq.
Robert Keate, Esq.. F.R.S.
Stephen H. Lee, Esq.
David Ogilvy, Esq.
John Fowls, Req.
Lieut.-Colonel Rowland.
Witham Simpson, Esq.
William Thacker, Esq.
William A. Thomas, Esq.
Francis Watts, Esq., F.S.A.
George Watson Wood, Esq.
ACTUARY— G. J. Farrance, Esq.
This Society combines three distinct, yet co-operating systems
131,„ e MUTUAL, securing all its advantages without its risks or lie-
ties, an important consideration to Assurers.
PRPRIETARY ;
Vt'CCOUMULA.TIVEan ord
his DEPOSIT SYSTEM, introduced by
HALF Th CREDIT PREMIUMS for stipulated periods.
444 e Payment of Premiums may be altogether omitted for a time,
er certain arrangements.
All further information, may be obtained of
EDWARD FREDERICK LEEKS, Secretary,
2, Royal Exchange-buildings.

TUE GENERAL LIFE AND ASSUR-
ANCII COMPANY,

kix ---E;tablishei 1237.
kyrered by Special Acts of Parliament, 3d Vic., Cap. 20, and 10
Vie., Cap. 1.
tg. Xing Williara-street, London; and 21, St. arrid-street,
Edinburgh.
Capital, One Million.
DIRECTORS.
-_

t`,.
rte teasfieli, Esq. Charles Hindiev, Esq., M.P.
titsTas Challis, Esq. and All Thomas Piper, Esq.
I•4°,Qeorge Cope, Esq. Thomas B. Simpson, Esq.
41, "ixoa, Esq. Hon. C. F. Villiers, M.P.
, 11,11 Fletcher, Esq.
diehard Jelin Bilks, Esq.
,r,-ra aollier, Esq. Edward Wilson, Esq.
kt ‘4a LA.DYD'AIi Fire renewal receipts are now ready, and may
144(1 en application at the Head Offices of the Company, or of
Or its Agents throughout the country.
tel4,tlis LIFE DEPARTMENT the Company transacts all business
tlt4,`"i to Life Assurances, Deferred Annuities, or Family Endow-
Ski 'I, upon the most liberal terms consistent with sound principles
Allblic security.
IQ ° all Agents, Solicitors, Auctioneers, and Surveyors, liberal al-
.„
•ces are made.

THOMAS PRICE, Secretary.

VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
18, King William-street, City.
Established 1838.
TRUSTEES.

Benjamin Hawes, Esq. ----
Charles Baldwin, Esq.
The t, Thomas Nesbitt, Esq.
r
th •Arectors solicit attention to their new Prospectus Almanac
vr,,,,e Present year, in which the peculiar advantages offered by the
13„vanY to Assurers are fully explained.
PrerillE,:olicies taken out for the whole term of life, one-third of the
editmro may remain unpaid till death, or one-half may remain on
for five years. Extended permission to travel ror reside abroad
trite
d. and a new scale of extra premiums for foreign risk: is
NI ed.
krer lis, or SO per cent. ef the profits, are appropriated to As-
e untrittled to share therein.
also are made to Assurers on assignable property or income,
on the guarantee of most undoubted personal sureties.
WILLIAM RA.TTRAT, Actuary and Secretary.

tMLICIES FREE OF STAMP DUTY TO THE ASSURED.
NGINEERS, MASONIC, and UNIVERSAL
MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
Head Office, 345, Strand, London,
Ite (opposite Waterloo-bridge).
dical 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.

IN consequence of the great rush of Visitors to see
%„, lIANVARD'S GRANT MOVING PAINTING of the MIS-
WSIPPI and MISSOURI RIVERS, at the EGYPTIAN HALL,
teMilly, the Proprietor
.r...spectfully announces T
aint Exhibitions
LTY day during the htuisays. This immense g is the
u.‘riteat in the World, and exisatits more than 3,000 miles of Amer- -
Ikigmcenery,—The Day exhibition will commence every Afternoon,
tealf.past Two, and the Evening at Half-past Seven o'clock ;
11144 Open kalf an heir before comnaeneng. Admission, lower
is 2
s. ; gallery, le.

THE 'ROYAL POLYTECHNIC
Le INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET.
'tlatr;4-", es explaining the Art of Magic ley Mr. Shaw, with il-
krkrnions, changed every week, daily at a Quarter to Four,
gc,,,!'very Evening at Nine.—Lecture on Chemistry daily at a
bti72,er to Three o'clock.—Dr. Bachhoffner's Illustrations, en As-
teet'„lll7, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at One • cloc k
"res en the Ventilating of Mines, &c., by meals of the Steam
4e.,;—;4, 'View in the Gold District of California is added to the
uissolving Vlews.—New Chromatrope.—Machinery and Models
oZed, &c.—The Music" is directed by Dr. Wallis.
tia,t,n,...n daily prom Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (including
from Seven till Half-past Ten.
Is.—Schools, Half-price.—The New Catalogtlo, Is.

vi A B. R 1 A G. E.
sttpb,,_ One halt the world are desolately single, and the other
Sis"`„ tag them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
iltte',,Y right • determine the former, and miscalculated hopes un-
lit t._'• Lae latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea
bettu„ tlon aid worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
iLat trosing harry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
iid broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
!.nit:°.rial content. The dowry should net be the only marriage Bet-
te ti,"t- Honour and justice demand that health should form =item
bet e compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes er
tihe.brt Wound more sorely than poverty er misfortune. Reader, if
hte 'llrmises concern you, procure Dr. CI7LVERWELL'S little
el4follts .. on Single and Married Life, pub. in 2 vols., is.
Leith (by best, in stamps, Is. Gd. each). Let ne imaginatively
by Zo,, er prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
tba'"&interpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining
tilt They are not intended certainly for mere idle curiosity, but
" closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom
,they',Le offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth as
'4lat,,-"uve subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
4tta.-ur, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other
b 1 Publications claim year attention (name price ls. each,
kspaost Is, 6d.) called What to Eat, Drink, and
and How to be happy." They are not merely
,tB. but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
~,s-,Doeineral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
le, owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob-
wceut co, of the maxims he would Inculcate—to do unto others as he
the %e done unte—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always
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Ileyhi.lioni the author (who may be conferred with personally,
beks—,'Cri.arld evenings), 10, Argyll-plate Its4ent-street; and all