The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-05 00:00:00

LIFE POLICIES FREE OF STAMP DUTY.
ROYAL, FARMERS' and GENERAL, FIRE
and LIFE INSURANCE, and LOAN and ANNUITY IN-
smUTION.

Empowered by 6pecial Aet of Parliament.
Tip guarantee of an ample Capital, subscribed by a numerous and
Lifitteatial body of Shareholders,
Exemption of the Assured from the liability of Partnership.
Four-fifths, or 80 per Cent. of the Profits of Life „Inurance divided
amongst the Insured. Life Insurance of every kind effected.
The Bonus added in March, 1848, averaged 26 per Cent. on the
Premiums paid.
Life Policies indisputable. Claims paid promptly.
Medical Attendants remunerated for their Reports in all cases.
Fireinnew Al Receipts, due on the 25th March, should be paid be.
fore the 9th April.

Offices, 345, Strand.

WM. SHAW, Managing Director.

MIDLAND RAILWAY
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" Liverpool, 21st March, 1849.
" To the Chairmen and Directors of the Midland Railway.
" GENTLEMEN, _ _

" We, the undersigned shareholders in the :Midland Railway, re-
quest you to call a Special Meeting of the Shareholders of that Corn-
puny, at as early a date as possible, to consider the propriety of ap-
pointing a Committee of Investigation to examine into and report
upon the management and affairs of the Company, wills full powers
to call for all books, papers, persons, account., &c., and to take such
other steps as they may deem advisable, and, if necessary, to appoint
public accountant to assist them in making a full, clear, and de-
tailed report to the Shareholders at an adjourned meeting, to be held
at an early period."
(Signed by A. 11. Wylie, Liverpool, and 21 ether Shareholders.)

, .
Notice Is herchy given that, pursuant to the above requisition, an
Extraordinary General. Meeting of the Shareholders in the Midland
Railway Company will be held at the Company's Station in Derby,
on TiItiIISDAT, the 19th day of April next, at One o clock in the after-
neon, for the purposes specified in the said requisition.
By order,

J. F. BELL, Secretary,

Datcd this 26th day of March, 1849.

REVOLUTION IN LIGHT-GOOD NEWS.
What Lights are these? Vi•ions of by-gone times, but now
realiVes—The Diamond Lamp is perfect—lts equal is unknown.
The Diamond T.ight for India is tranquil amid the draught of the
Punkah—The Vertical Lamp is shadowless and simple to perfection
—The Pearl Candle Lamp is worth a hundred other Candle Lamps
All who desire the best of Lights can obtain them only here—The
Star, the Golden, the Glass, and tho Reflecting Gas Burners are be-
yond comparison the most brilliant of Gas Lights. The Metropolitan
Light Company her Majesty's dominions with Light supply. The
Public will have none other. The Eight New Lights are constantly
bunting at the Company's Establishment, RICHARD CLARK, Resi-
dent Manager, 447, West Strand, next door to the Electric Telegraph
Company.

N. 13. Guard all from buying the Cared Lamps, they are leaky aid
useless.

DARKNESS REIGNS NO MORE.
The LIGHT of ALBERT gladdens the midnight scene.
Darkness now wears a diadem of Light. A beautiful little Light.
decidedly the best Night Lamp known. All should use them.
Price, for the best, 9d. each. The Lights are GJ. per box. The
Albert Lamps, with the genuine Lights for them, can be had at the
Establishment of the Metropolitan Light Company, RICHARD
CLARK, Resident Manager, 447, West Strand, next door to the
Electric Telegraph • Company.

SPENCER'S CHINESE LIQUID HAIR DYE.
The thousands of individuals who. for upwards of twenty
years have used this celebrated liid, rotnnouance it to be the only
article extant which effectually changes,
grey hair, whiskers, moustaches, &c., to a dark brown or
change
and nuteSe,
rb red
dlackors
without trouble (by simply combing it through the h
pro-
duces by one application a pleasing and permanent
can be incontestibiy proved, that while many dyes tent to 'dea:tdrolyt
the hair by their pernicious properties and dangerous process of ap-
plication, that this article promotes the growth of hair, nourishing
the roots till the latest period of life. Price 3s. 6d., Gs., and 10s.
per bottle.
To be had of the Proprietors, 29, Nottingham-place, Fieldgate-
street, Whiteshapel-read, London ; also of Mr. Johnstone, GS, Corn-
hill ; Butler, 4, Cheapside ; Prout, 229, Strand ; Sanger, 150, Oxford-
street; Barclay, Farringden-street ; Atkinson, 24, Old Bond-
Street; Ilooper, 43, King William-street, London •bridge ; Hanna!,
ca, Oxford-street; Finnigin, Milsom-street, Bath; Elmore, Bull-
street, Birmingham; Roberts, 23, Church-street, Liverpool ; and of
most Perfumers and Medicine Vendors in town and country.
Sent to any part of the kingdom by receiving a remittance, poet-
paid.
Please to ask for 1. Spencer and Co.'s Chinese Liquid Hair Dye."
Observe, the Proprietor's address is on the wrapper.

A It It 1 A ur E.
ig,,,,,,_°1e half the wend 4 desolately single, and the other
--"'"'"`"6 them married, vie zjezably contented. Diffldcnoepee,s moera.
senate et right determine the former, and miscalculated h
hitter the latter. The solitary one may shield himself under the plea
of caution and worldly prudence, and the inditseluble, regretaa-
eeekProsieg harry; but the truth lice deeper. Physical incapacity,
e,
ant broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happin 5.
and social content. The dowry should net he the on marriage set-
tlement. Ilonottr andjustice demand that health sheuld form as item
In the
neglect We compact ; It alone dignities the alliance. Blighted hopes or
the" su sand more sorely than poverty er misfortune. Reader, if
MEMOI gage concern you, procure Dr. CIILVERWELL'S little
"On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vols., Is.
each (by Dom, In stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let ne imaginatively
refined, or prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
ny mieinterpretation
them. They are not In of their 'apposed contents, from obtaining
tended certainly for mere idle cariosity, but
ter the closet perusal of those mere deeply interested, to whom
they are offered as antagonistic te the emoyncal trash put forth en
the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or
together, are a disgrace te the age, Fw little publications claim your attention urthermore, to other
(same price le- each,
by poet Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
Avoid," and " llow to be rEappy.,. They are not merely
pamphlets, bat equal in quantity a library volume, nor arc they the
mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's
life, who owes hie present existence, health, and position to this ob-
Bervance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he
would be done unto—to live after nature's laws—and to keep always
on the " sunny side of the way." The above works may be had of
Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-rest' ; Carvallto, 147, Fleet-street • Mare,
lg. Cornhill ; Nelson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other-
wise) from the author (who may he conferred with persenaPY,
m3rnimisuldZavoaings), 10, Argyll-place Iteafent-Street; e.aa all
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