The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-26 00:00:00

THE UNITED MERCANTILE rind TRA-
VELLERS' ASSOCIATION, and GENERAL MU-
TUAL LIFE ASSURANCE and ANNUITY SOCIETY for
securing Annuities to Aged Travellers, Warehousemen, Clerks, and
Others, and Endovrments to their Widows and Children ; and for
Mutual Assurance of Lives and Survivorships, Granting- Annuities,
and the Purchase and Sale of Reversionary Property and Interests.
TRUSTEES.
George Grcte, Esq., M.P. James Pattison, Esq., M.P.
Thomas l3rockelbank, Esq.
Ti RECTORS.
Samuel Wilson, Esq., Alderman.
Robert Currey, Esq. Ambrose Moore, Esq.
John Crouch, Esq. Giles Redmayne, Esq.
Thomas Dakeyne, Esq. Peter Bolt, Esq.
Joseph Dowson, Esq. Joseph H. Wailer, Esq.
John Evans, Esq. Robert Wilcoxon, Esq.
William Comber Hood, Esq.
Mr. J. R. Cuflley. Mr. W. Williams.

A UDITORS.
Mr. J. Stokes.
BANKERS.
Messrs. Prescott, Grote, Ames, Baillie and Grote.,
MANAGER.-Warwick Weston, Esq.
Sotic ITO a s.--Messrs. Newbon and Evans.
PHYSICIA N.---Dr. Cursham.
To be empowered by Act of Parliament.
A proportion of the Profits of the Society will be set apart as a
Fund for the Relief of Necessitous Members and their Widows,
and augmenting the Annuities to Aged Travellers and others,
Members of the Society, in cases of necessity.
To no class of persons are the advantages of Life Assurance so
applicable, and vet by none so little maturely considered and ap-
preciated, as by Commercial Travellers. It is, indeed, a matter of
surprise that amongst so numerous and influential a body of men,
P"sessint,; adequate incomes, and of increasing responsibility and
impor*.ance, no Society on the basis of Mutual Assurance has been
for':eed, for providing against the casualties of life, or the incapacity
of age.
The means of disseminating the principles and advantages of Life
Assurance throughout the country, and at the same time promoting
the success of a Society for Mutual Assurance, are peculiarly within
the influence of Commercial Travellers, who, it is reputed, consist
of upwards of 20,000 persons.
The United Mercantile and Travellers' 'Association has been
formed on the requisition of numerous respectable Commercial Gen-
tlemen, sensible of the advantages to be derived by themselves, their
'Widows, and Families, in the establishment of a Society on the
principle of Mutual Assurance, who have pledged themselves to its
support. The Society also claims the influence and support of the
Principals of Mercantile Establishments ; its operations affording a
provision in advanced age, and thus relieving them from, either
supporting, for the residue of life. a faithful butt incapacitated ser-
vant, or the pain of seeing him in want.
The subscribed Capital of 50,000/. in Share? of Si. each is only
necessary as a Guarantee Fund, to meet any immediate demands on
the Society ; and it is considered that no more than a Deposit of 1/.
Will be required.
The Shareholders' proportion of profits to be limited to either an
Annuity for 10 years, at 13/. 10s. per cent. on the amount paid on
their Shares ; or 5/. per cent. on such amount paid.
The Directors reserve the power of paying off those Shareholders
who do not claim the determinable Annuity after the expiration of
ten years.
In order to meet the peculiar circumstrnces of each particular in-
dividual, Tables are constructing, embracing not only many novel
tures, but the most approved description of business transacted
the existing Life Assurance and Annuity Offices :
Immediate Anfrnities, of a fixed or of an annually increasing
amount.
° eferred Annuities, either for fixed or annually increasing
*mounts ; which may be paid for either in one sum, or con-
'verted into equal, increasing, or decreasing annual payments
for any given time, short of the period when the Annuity is to
commence.
The Assurance at death either of a fixed sum, or of one annually
increasing in any given ratio, for which the premiums may be
paid in one sum, or in equal annual payments, or annual
payments increasing or decreasing in any given ratio.
Assurance either of a fixed sum, or one annually increasing,
at a given age, payable however if the death of the party
: should happen earlier.
The Policies may, at entrance, be so made as to give the option
iai
the parties, either of effecting a Life Assurance, or an equivalent
beferred Sum or Annuity, or any other object more suited to the
views of the parties.
To afford the Members a provision in case of unforeseen calamity,
sickness, or temporary change of circumstance, the Society will at
all times purchase its Policies at a fair value, or make advances
thereon in proportion to the amount oftPremiumsrpaidd.
Premiums paid.
All questions not involving fraud between the Assured and the
Society, Will be referred to arbitration.
The whole of the Premiums will be calculated at as low a rate
as is deemed consistent with the stability of the Society ; and as
the receipts of the Society will be employed in the purchase of
Reversionary Interests, and other advantageous investments, after
the lapse of a few years, a considerable reduction thereon may be
conf.dently anticipated.
"The Profits of the Society subject to the before-mentioned pay-
bsents to the Shareholders, will be divided, at the expiration of the
first five sears, annually, amongst the assured of five years' stand-
ing, in reduction of premiums, or as a bonus to their Policies ; re-
taining always four years' profit as a guarantee fund, except such a
proportion as shall be appropriated for the relief of the Widows of
Members in case of need, and in augmenting the Annuities to ne-
cessitous Aged Travellers and others, Members of the Society.
It is also intended to have a separate Table of Premiums, to effect
any of the foregoing objects at a fixed rate, the parties thereto not
participating in the profits of the Society.
Agencies will be established at Liverpool, Birmingham, Man-
chester, Sheffield, Leeds, Bristol, Norwich, and other principal
towns, for facilitating the ohjects of the Society.
All Communications, and Applications for Shares, are requested
to be made by letter, post paid, addressed to the Secretary, at the
Temporary Offices, No. 2, Great Carter-lane, Doctors' Commons,
where Prospectuses may be obtained, and also at No. 73, Grace-
church-street,

J. S. NEWBON, Honorary Secretary.
FoR3I OF ♦PPLICATION FOR SHARES BY WAY OF ANNUITY.
I request that you will insert my name as a Subscriber for
Shares of 5/. each in the United Mercantile and Travel-
,
lers' Association, for which I engage to pay the Deposit of It. per
Share, and such further Calls, if any, as may be required ; and
agree to accept an Annuity for Ten Years, after the rate of 13/.los.
per cent., as my Share of profits on the amount I may be called to
Pay up.

To the Directors of the
United Mercantile and Travellers' Association.
FORM OF APPICATION FOIL SHARES AT Si, PER CENT.
I request you will insert my name as a Subscriber for
shares of 5/. each in the United Mercantile and Travellers' Asso-
ciation, for which I engage to pay the Deposit of I/. per share, and
such further Calls, if any, as may be required ; and agree to receive
Per cent, as my Share of profits on the amount I may be called
To pay up for Ten Years certain, after which time I consent to be
paid off.
To the Directors of the
United Mercantile and Travellers' Association.

OLD FURNIVAI:S-INN WINE STORES,
and BRETT'S HOTEL, Holborn.
We are too tenacious of the reputation which the Proprietors of
this Establishment have enjoyed for upwards of fifty years ever to
tamper with the quality of our Wines. Connoisseurs may, there-
fore, rest assured that our Ports and Sherries, at 545. per dozen,
are of the highest possible character ; while economists will find
that those at 305., 365., 425., and 485., being genuine wines of
Various degrees of maturity, are well worth their respective prices.
Nasdeq, draught, 28s. ; oldest crusted, 36,,. ; Marsala, 245. ;
Sicilian Sherry, 265. ; first-class Cape Madeira, 1:•;s. ; Bucellas,
and 425. ; with every description of French and Rhenish
Wines, on terms proportionate t o age and quality. Single bottles
tnay be had as samples. An assortment of a dozen or upwards
'‘.ol market town in England,
if previously settled for in London.
HENRY BRETT and CO.,
Old Furnival's-Inn, Holborn Bars.

PATENT PRESERVATIVE AMBER and PELLUCID
SPECTACLE LENSES.
ATRONISED by HEM MAJESTY the QUEEN of HANOVER,
Ills ROYAL HIGHNESS the DUKE of SUSSEX. the DUKE
of RICHMOND, the DUKE of BUCKINGII M,k &C. &c.
11411.. E. SOLOMONS, OPTICIAN, Patentee
of the AMBER SPECTACLES, &e., 36, OLD BOND-
: STREET (nearly opposite the Western Exchange), whose re-
ilently invented SPECTACLES extend relief and preserve'
lion to the visual organs, where their distress and injury have
frequently been complained of, effects resulting from the use of
~ommon spectacles. The expense of E. Solomons' Amber and Pel-
lucid Lenses is not greater, and- in many eases LESS than that of
the ordinary glasses usually sold ;—the efficacimis and extraordinary
Properties of the former for the improvement and preservation of
sight, which render a single pair of spectacles available for a number
of years, and their superlative excellence over all others are:attested
by the following, and many other eminent practitioners :
Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R.S., President' of the College of
Surgeons.
Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bart., F.R.S., &c., Saville-row.
Rir James E. Anderson, Al. D., &c., 11, New Burlington-street.
n. Keate, Esq., Sergeant Surgeon to her Majesty, 15, Alba-
marls-street.
Martin Ware, Esq., Oculist, New Bridge-street. '
(:. Aston Kev, Esq., St. Helens'-place.
Titus Berry, Esq., Chester-terrace.
'W. Coulson, Esq., Frederick-place, Old Jewry.
Marshall Hall. Esq., M.D., F. R.S. , Manchester-square.
James Copland, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., Bulstrodc-street, do.
J. T. Conquest, Esq., M.D.,Fin.ibury-square.
C. J. B. Aldis, Esq., M.D., Old Burlington .street..
E. W. Duff-in, Esl., 14, Langham-place.
.1. Soden, Esq., Surgeon to the Eye Infirmary, Bath.
J. licdgson and J. F. Lcdsam, Esqrs., Oculi Eye Infirmary,
Birmingham. •
J. Stevenson. Esq., Oculist to his Maßsty.
Professor Ilufeland, Physician to the King of Prussia, Berlin.
Professor Kreysig, Physician to the King of Saxony, Dresden.
Professors Clarus and Kuhl. Oculists, Leipsic.
• 13rofessor Donitz, Oculist, Dresden.
fa' A Branch of the above firm is ppened for a short period at
• 4:1, St. George's-street, Canterbury, than which no other establish-
merit exists iu this country, authorised by Mr. E. Solomons, who is
totally unconnected with persons of the same name. The above
SPECTACLES, bearing the ONLY PATENT now extant,
no Other improvement in Spectacle Lenses having been effected
for the last 20 years, their disposal is exclusively contined.to 36, Old
fiend-street, and 23, St. George's-street, Canterbury.