The Sun.
London, England, 1849-04-09 00:00:00

THE COAST OF AFRICA.

The Penelope steam-frigate, Captain L. T. Jones, with
the broad pendant of Sir Charles Hotham, K.C.8., First
Class Commodore, arrived from the west coast of Africa

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on Sunday morning. She sailed from Ascension De.
comber 18th; Prince's Island, January 2d; Sierra Lone,
February, 22d; Cape Verde, March 17th; and Teneritfe,
March 28th.

The Centaur, bearing the broad pendant of Commo-
dore Fanshawe, C. 8., arrived at Porto Prays on the
Ist of March, on which day Sir Charles Ilothim re-
linquished the command of the station to that officer.
The ships then were employed as follows, viz.:—
Sierra Leone division—The Sealark, Kingfisher, Wa-
terwttch, Spy, and Pluto.
Bights of Benin and Biafra—The Cyclops, Firefly,
Pantaloon, and Teazer.
Southern Division—The Philomel, Alert, Cygnet,
Cont- st, Britomart, Star, Grappler (ordered home),
Blazer, Bonetta, Dart, and Dolphin.
At Ascension—The Tortoise.
On the evening of the 2d of February, Commodore
S;r Charles Hotham, with a squadron composed of her
Majesty's ships Penelope, Favourite, Sealark, Water-
witch, Dart, Bonetta, and Pluto, anchored off that
notorious slave depot, the Gallinas ; and at day-
light the following morning, with the commanders
of .the above-named] ships and a force of 300
men, landed and destroyed the whole of the barra-
coons and slave factories at Dombocorro, Solyman, and
other places in the neighbourhood. The expedition re-
turned on the 3d, without the lois of a man ; and,
although exposed to a night's lodging on shore in one
of the sickliest parts of the West Coast of Africa, they
escaped without a case of fever. The value of the pro-
perty destroyed is not estimated, but the fear of a repe-
tition of such a punishment, and the subsequent mea-
sure adopted of blockading the territory, will, it is ex-
pected, drive the slave dealers from this their favourite
haunt.

The squadron was quite free from sickness. Much
benefit appears to have arisen from the Commodore's ar-
rangements of sending the officers and men navigating
slave-vessels direct to the Adelaide tender, instead of
landing them, as heretofbre, at Sierra Leone.
Commodore Bouet Willaumez, with the Penelope, the
Espadon, the Caiman, and the Serpent, was at Sierra
Leone on the 10th of February. Every friendly inter-
course was kept up on the part of the authorities at Sierra
Leone and the British naval officers with the officers of
the French ships, who appeared much pleased with their
visit to and reception at the port. Commodore Bouet
sailed on the 20th of February with his squadron for the
Bights, on a tour cif inspection. The Serpent is a small
steam-vessel of thirty-horse power and light draught of
water, intended for the exploration of the Gaboon and
Assince. On the 20th of February last a very reeler).
choly accident occurred at Sierra Leone. It appears
Slat a party of men belonging to the detachment of the
West India Regiment stationed there were employed in
shaking out the composition from a number of rockets
which had been condemned as unserviceable. One or
the men, to facilitate the operation, struck two rockets
together ; they exploded, and ignited a heap of the com-
position which was lying on the ground, and the whore
party were blown up and frightfully burnt ; they were
taken at once to the Military Hospital—some died
almost immediately, and out of the fifteen who were en-
gaged in the laboratory, only one survived.
Sir Charles Hotham has been continuously employed
on active service for six years and five months, and has
commanded the African squadron upwards of two years
and a half. He was relieved at his own request in con-
sequence of ill-health. On saluting the Commander-in-
Chief, Sir Charles immediately struck his broad pen-
dant, in accordance with the old rule on that subject,
but which has fallen into disuse for many years, the last
who followed it being Lord John Hay, on his return
from the north coast of Spain, in the North Star.
ARRIVAL OF COMMODORE SIR C. HOTHAM AT
SPITHEAD. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. -- The Penelope
steam-frigate, Captain L. T. Jones, with the broad pen-
dant of first-class, Commodore Sir Charles Hotham,
arrived and anchored at Spithead on Sunday morning, at
nine o'clock. She came in through the Needles, and
when off the Kicker Point, saluted the flag of Admiral
Sir R. Capel. After receiving the return salute from the
Victory, Commodore Hot ham being in the presence of a
captain of higher seniority (viz., Captain Purcell, of the
Superb), hauled down his broad pendant. The Commo-
dore, with Captain Jones and Flag-Lieutenant Purvis,
landed at noon, and the two former paid their respects to
the Port-Admiral. The Penelope brings no news from
the coast, having sailed from Sierra Leone about three
days after the Wanderer and Ranger. She put into the
Cape Verdes, and remained 17 days at St. Jago, await-
ing the arrival of Commodore Fanshawe in the Centaur,
and cobbling up and repairing her boilers. About
the 23d of February the Centaur arrived, and Commo-
dore Fanshawe having taken the command, sailed
on the Ist of March for Sierra Leone. The Penelope
left St. Jingo, the 4th, and put.into Teneriffe, where she
remained three days putting her boilers in order. She
left the 28th of March, and has had a tolerable passage
home, under steam and canvas, occasionally using two
boilers, and repairing the other two, and so on alter-
nately; her boilers and funnel are all to pieces, and have
thousands of patches on them. During the two years
and three months which the Penelope has passed on the
coast, she has bee❑ comparatively healthy, particularly
for the last twelve months. The ships on the coast have
generally been also very healthy. She has taken eight
slave vessels, two only having slaves on board; in her
last exploit, when she went up the river Gallinas for
twelve miles, and destroyed a dozen barracoons, she also
captured a few slaves, but the greater part escaped into
the woods. She found a large store of slave shackles,
and a large magazine of powder, which were all destroyed.
Mr. Ferguson, the secretary of the Governor of Sierra
Leone, has come home passenger in the Penelope, and
also a Captain Bennett, late in command of a vessel
wrecked at Teneriffe.
The Penelope will be paid off at Portsmouth, and will
probably be inspected,: and go into harbour to-morrow,
when the Commodore will probably leave the ship.
PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAT.—The Favourite, 14, Com-
mander Murray, sailed from the coast for England to
be paid off on the 21st of February, on which day she
left Sierra Leone. She would have arrived ere this, but
had some service to perform in the northern rivers. She
may be looked for on a change of wind.
During 1847.8 the captures of vessels and slave car-
goes exceeded those of any former years on the African
station, even including the remotest waters—the coast of
Cuba, Brazils, Cape of Good Hope, &c.
The Leander, 50 gun frigate, built by Blake, was
undeeked yesterday. This is the ship to which Captain
C. Eden has been appointed, but has not hoisted the pen-
dant as yet. She has had her copper stripped, and is to
have new copper to replace it.
The Collingwood, 80, and Defence, convict-ship, were
removed from the basin at noon yesterday, and warped
to moorings in the harbour.
The Stromboli steam-sloop, Commander Lord A.
Beauclerk, disembarked the volunteers of the 16th and
54th Hegiments by means of her own boats yester-
day. The paddlebox boats did the principal part of this
essential duty in an expert manner,
.which proved how
useful those essential adjuncts to steamers are in
such work.
Wind south; light breezes and fine weather.

Through the liberality of the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire Company, the persons employed upon
the public press were favoured with the opportunity of
passing over nearly every part of the Lincolnshire por-
tions of their lines on Monday last, when the part from
Barnetby station to Gainsborough was opened. The fa-
cilities afforded furnished the opportunity of traversing
the line from Lincoln to New Holland, to witness the
stupendous pier and the works in course of progress there;
and thence after a brief interval a return train ran back
to the Barnetby station, and on to Gainsborougb. After
ample time for seeing the sights of Gainsborough and ob-
taining refreshment, a return train gave the opportunity
of sweeping across Lindsey to Grimsby, and those who
availed themselves of the chance had nearly half an hour
to inspect the preparations for the docks. Barnetby was
reached again shortly after a half-past six, and Lin-
coln at eight, the whole having been accomplished in a
much picturesque scenery is not
period short of thirteen hours. After leaving Lincoln,
presented
till arriving to the eye
in the neighbourhood of Caistor. Much of
the land on both sides of the line appears of very poor
quality, and seems very unprofitably cultivated, par-
ticularly the North Lincolnshire property of the Lord-
- Lieutenant of the county. Many of the churches are
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mean -looking. Generally the stations are very corn-
s:, OREIGN BITTERS.—On a recent importation of a modious. Thornton
College
Earl of Albemarle,
passed at a short dis
parcel of bitters, being the extract of
vvo-mwood, the tance: it was foundedbyt thee ruins
uhiinrsd are still interesting.
same being for an eminent metropolitan firm, was en- and was richly endowed:
ecclesiastics carried into effect a
ed h
tered for the duty, as goods manufactured at the ad It was here that the
valorem duty of 10 per cent.; but the revenue officers sentence whichl
ve. Traditionsigned an offender to the tomb
i says the delinquent upon
considering the article to be liable to the wine duty, ap- while
iie awful punishment was inflicted was Thomas
yet a
plicatioa was made to the authorities for the delivery of v‘G'hreoemtharn, the fourteenth Abbot, who. was a very
the bitters at the duty proffered by the parties, and it
wicked man. The skeleton is said to have been found
appearing, on examination by the proper officers of the
untur
department, that the quantity of spirit contained in the
a o
le, a y since, in a small walled-up dungeon, with a
article was but a very trifling per tentage on the whole table, brass candlestick, and a book. The run between
Barnetby and Gainsborough, particuls..rly during the
of the liquid, directions were given by the authorities summer months, will afford many beauti=ful and pleasing
for the delivery of the bitters at the ad valorem duty of
10 per cent. as requested. points of view. The Kirton tunnel, whi,ct, is about three.
quarters of a mile long, fills almost with a feeling of dread
THE RAILWAY AT DONCASTER.—Two locomotive engines are to be brought to Doncaster next week to I the person who for the first time in his life sees a great
' road sweeping through the bowels or the earth. The
ballast the line between Doncaster, Rossington, and end next Kirton is castellated. All along the line, the
Bawtry. The tunnel-bridge for the Bulb), read will be inhabitants of the villages and towns crowded the stations
completed in about a fortnight, and it will then be de- and points from which the passing trains could be seer,
Bided by the company whether they will throw a bridge Gainsborough kept holiday', and seemed to have sent
over the line at Littlemoordane, or divert the road. The its whole population to the hill upon which the station
traffic on the line north of Doncaster is increasing very is placed, and which is not far distrait from the spot
satisfactorily. Many horses have this week been brought
from Manchester for our fain—Nottingham Journal. where Cromwell first signalised himselt- :In the civil wars.
: —Stamford Mercury.

THE CU-TTNTRY MARKETS-
( .fie Thrii.!=deiv, being
0! b., 1,1 m; coursp, ,cas slentierl:y tended
,•
and the general business was on a limited scale. Tuesday's
prices were obtained for wheat and flour. Oats and oatmeal
wers both dull, and easier to purchase. Barley, beans, and
peas
were without alteration in value. There was very little
doing in Indian corn, and prices stand unchanged; the best
yellow corn is worth 30s 6d per 4801 b, down to 28s for white.
Very full prices are paid to-day, with a good demand for In-
dian corn.

.... -. s. d. s. d.
Wheat, per 701 h : Barley, Feeding— 3 3 to 3 6
English, white . • 7 0 to 7 4:nye, per 4801 b 0 0 0 0
Do. red .. 6 6 6 91 Beans, English, pr
Irish, new .. • • 510 6 01 imperial quartr 34 0— 36 0
Do., old • . • • 6 0— 6 3' Irish and Scotch,
Dantsic— .. • • 7 0 - 7 4 per 4801 b.. .. 30 0— 31 0
1)o., good mixed 6 10 7 0 Foreign, duty pd. 23 6 24 6
Lowerßaltic,whit, 6 10 7 3 European, per On-
Do. red.. 6 6 610 perial quarter.. 32 0— 33 0
American . • • 5 9 7 0 Peas, English, per
Canadian .. .. 5 9 6 8 imperial quartr 30 0— 33 0
Spanish, red and Foreign .. 30 0— 33 0
white.. .. • • 6 6 7 0 Malt, English, per
Tuscan and Bar- Imperial quartr 58 0 61 0
letta, red .. •• 6 2 6 4 Do., Irish .. 55 0— 56 0
Marlanopoli .. •• 5 8— 5 10 Do., brown .. 54 0 —57 0
Odessa, Polish • • 5 9 6 0 Flour, English, pr
Do., hard.. • • 5 o—s 10 2801 b •• 34 0— 35 0
Egyptian .. 4 0— 4 6 Irish, extra fine.. 35 o. 36 0
Oats, per 451 b : United States, per
English and Scotch 28— 2 10 barrel .. 23 0—25 0
Welsh • • • .. 2 5 2 6 Canadian .. .. 23 0— 24 6
Irish, uew .. •• 2 6 2 7 Oatmeal, English,
Do., old . • • 2 6 2 8 & Scotch,pr24oll) 94 0— 26 0
Barley, English, pr Trish, new ..
imperial quarter 30 0 —32 b Do., old .- •22 0— 23 6'
'.
Irish, Scotch, and flindi in corn, per MI anx, per 6011).. 3 3 3 1 4801 b • • .. 28 0— 31 0 1
MANCHESTER, APRIL 7.—No material change has occurred
in the state of the trade during the week, a limited demand
having been experienced for flour at barely previous rates. 2
Oatmeal has, however, moved off rather more freely without
alteration in prices. Of English malt and Irish oats the ar- :
i
rival at Liverpool and Runcorn are to a tolerably fair amount; - r
but the arrivals of other articles of British produce are exceed- '1
ingly scanty. From abroad the imports of wheat, beans, "I
Indian corn, and flour are large. Our market this morning 'it
was of a very quiet character, and but little business was ; I
transacted in either wheat or flour, for which it was necessary 'IF.
to submit to rather lower prices than those current on this day •
3e'nnight. Oats and oatmeal were in (very moderate request, 1
but cannot be noted heap er.
WINCHESTER CORN MARKET, APRIL 7.—Corn—The wea- i
ther being all that could be wished for agricultural operations,
and the spring sowing nearly finished, many attended the :1
market this day. The samples of home-grown wheats 'were
less by at least half than the average quantity of this period of
the year, after a harvest of plenty. On the stands were
shown many samples of fin:eCanadian, Hamburgh, Russian, and • t/
other foreign-grown wheats, the weights of from Ohba to 631b5
per imperial bushel. A considerable quantity of the finest i
quality found buyers at the prices of last week, yet to tempt
buyers of any other sorts a reduction of 5s per load had to be
acceded to. Barley of fine quality fit for malting found ready
buyers at rather more money ; best chevalier for late sowing
also in good demand ; grinding and distilling of slow sale, at
last quoted prices. Oats—a very large show of samples. Eng. ‘.
lish-grown Polands, potato, and best black declined Is per
qr ; Scotch, Irish,(and west of England feed declined is 8d ,per
ditto less; while foreign were scarcely saleable at those falls
in price. Peas were offered lower by 2s per quarter ; best
boilers making but 32s per quarter. The corn markets in
other towns in this county during the week were exceedingly
flat ; sales slow at reduced prices, with but very poor shows of
home—grown corn. e, •
READING, APRIL 7.—Wheat, per quarter, 34s to 555; bar-
: ,
ley, 25s to 359; oats, 16s to 22s ; beans, 30s to 40s; peas, ,
30s to 409. Fat hogs, 9s to Os Od; porkers, 9s 6d to Os per' t
score. Poultry—Fowls, per couple, 4s Od to 4s 6d ; ducks, 'i!
per couple, Os Od to Os Od; geese, each, Os Od to Os; butter,
per lb, is Id to Is 2d; eggs, 18 to 20 for Is.
ABERDEEN, APRIL 6.—Grain—Oats 14s to 14s 6d, 401 b per 1
bushel ; barley, 23s to 245, 52Ibs per bushel; bear, 23s to 245,
52 lbs per bushel ; wheat, 505 to 53s ; oatmeal, lls 6d to 12s 6d
per boll ; flour, 38s to Os per sack. Provisions—Beef,
4d to 7d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 7d ; veal, ditto, 4d :'-
to 7d ; pork, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; lamb, per qr., 6s to 7s 6d;
tallow, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; potatoes, per peck, 10d to is;
hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each Od to Os ; hares, each, Os
to Os ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 8d to 10d ;
eggs, per doz, 6d to 8d ; cheese, per stone, Os to Os ; hens, per
pair, 3s 6d to 4s ; chickens, ditto, 2s 9d to 3s Od • ducks, ditto,
2s 6d to 3s Od; ducklings, ditto, Os to 2s 6d ; turkeys, each, 311
to 4s Od ; geese, ditto. Os to Os; butter for exportation (present
cure), per cwt, 50s to Os ; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, sid
to Od ; 41b loaf, 8d ; 21b boat, 4d ; pork, per stove of 14 lbs
Os Od to 3s 6d ; pork fine, small, Os Od to 5s 6d ; pork large,
3s 6tl to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of 204 lbs, Os to 100 s.
Meal—Oatmeal, Is 3d to Os Od; bearmeal, is 3d to Os Od,
peasemeal, Is 10d to 28; sids, 6d to 7d ' • barley flour, is 4d to
Is 5d ; barley dust, 7d to 8d ; flour, ls iOd to Os; barley, per lb,
lid to 24d.

s.d. s.d

DALKEITH, APRIL 5 —The relative weight per four bushels
of the three prices of wheat were 18st 101 b, 18st 51b, and 1 7st
81b. Oats, 13st 21b, 12st 61b, and 1 Ist 71b. Barley, 16st 101bs
16st 31b, and 14st 121 b. Peas and beans, 19st 11b, 18st 31b,
and 1 7st 61bs.

Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior.
2,6 Wheat .........£2 10 0 £2 3 0 £2 0 0
663 Oats
246 Barley llO 0 1 8 0 1 0 0
103 Pease and Beans 1 10 6 1 8 0 1 6 0
Ayes age of wheat 44s 104 d.
BELFAST, APRIL s.—This week the supplies of grain at
market have been rather better than for some time past, and
the quality and condition is generally good. Wheat sells at
former prices, and is in fair demand. Foreign rather more in-
quired for, and the usual qualities of Baltic sell at 10/ to 101
10s, and fair Odessa, 9/ to 9/ 5s per ton. Flour is in better
demand, at a trifling reduction in value. American barrels are
a free sale at 24s 6d to '2ss each. Barley sells pretty freely at
former rates. Oats are about ld to 2d lower than last week,
but sell well at the decline. Oatmeal sells at an advance of 2d
to 3d per cwt. Indian corn is in good demand at 71 to 717 s 6d
per ton for yellow, and 5s less for white.
Coax. APRIL 6.—The general aspect of trade is still dull,
for although the arrivals of foreign grain to this port have
dwindled away, yet to some of the English ports they are still
large, and tend naturally to cause a continuance of that de-
pression which has been so long felt. The supplies of home.
grown grain to the English markets, as well as to our own,
have fallen off very materially, indeed to such an extent as to
warrant the belief that farmers must be well nigh drained, and
the stocks in their hands reduced to a very narrow compass.
The receipts of grain at our own market are wretchedly small,
those of wheat having again this week fallen short of 100 bar-
rels! The prices of every description of produce remain much
the same. In prepared (Irish) wheat we have had nothing
passing, but in foreign a few transactions have taken place at
late prices, 26s per barrel being the current value of Marian-,
ople. In barley we have nothing doing. Of oats the same
may be said, no quotable alteration in price having taken plait.
since our last. The trade in flour is excessively dull, bakers
still confining themselves to the supply only of their more press-
ing necessities. Indian corn in the early part of the week
was in demand at prices which exhibited an upward tendency,
but an attempt to establish an advance bas had the effect
of checking business. Indian meal remains without change.
Flour—Firsts 14s Od to 14s 6d; extra 15 t Od ;
seconds, 13s Od to 13s 6d; households lOs to 12s ; thirds &to 10s
per cwt. Oatmeal lls to lls 6d; Indian meal Is 9d to 8s; wheat
meal, lOs 6d toll s per cwt. Indian corn 7/ 5s Od to 7/10s per ton.
Bran 41 to 4/ 5s per ton. Hay Farmers 25s to 40s; average 36s ;
dealers 42s to 48s ; average 00s Od per ton. Straw—Farmers
22s Od to 31s Od; average 275; dealers 00s Od to 00s Od;
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 6d;
household loaf 5d to 50 per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to
10d per lb. Coals—Newport 16s; Lydney 17s ; Landore 16s ;
Beet Neath Culm I4s per ton. Tallow 43s 6d to 44s
per cwt. Whiskey, 25 o. p., 6s Od per imperial gal-
lon. Meat—Beef 4d to 7d; Mutton 5d to 6d; veal
SL-d to 7d ; pork 4d to 50 ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 6d per
lb. Hops 61 lOs per cwt. Bangor slates 3/ 2s 6d to 315 s per,
ton. Bark—Barbary 71 to 8/; Valonia 141 to 001; French"
71; English 71 per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to 12s per stone.
Hemp 351 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 18s to 19s ; red
ditto 26s to 28s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ 10s to 12/ per
ton. Timber—New Memel 4/ 108 ; old scarce; red pine 31
15s ; yellow pine 3/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 201; second
quality 17l per 120. Hides—Market 10s to 16s; salted lls to
16. per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 21d ; market 2d to lid per lb.
Potatoes, white 10d to 12d; Minions 18d to 20d; Guano—
Peruvian, 10/10s; Ichaboe 9/ per ton ; Tar—Archangel, is.
per barrel. Eggs, 4s to 4s 2d per hundred.

1I AR I._ Ale_ K ET.
GLASGOW, APRIL 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following are to-day's transactions :
Clydesdale Junction, 60::% -- Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr
Halves (No. 1), 61. 165.—Ditto (No. 2), 4% Glasgow and earn-
Urn, 264~North British, Preference 24s.—SCUtti811 Central, 24.

[ADVEM rlSEMENT.J—Holloway's Pills, the Uni.;
versal and most Popular Iteuiedy for all Diseases Inci-
dental to Females.—The invigorating and purifying
qualities of this medicine are so peculiar that females of
all ages, suffering from any of the diseases to which they
are more particularly subject, may with cot ildence have
recourse to it for relief, a few doses of which will
shortly alleviate their sufferings, and ultimately restore
them to perfect health and strength. The remedy is
sate and infallible, whether taken at the critical period of
passing from childhood, or turning the meridian of life,
and its beneficial effects are acknowledged by number-
less mothers of families. Sold by all druggists, and at
pfessor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, London.
The Lincoln Guardians, unwisely listening to the
zu.;;;-estion of one of the Government School Inspectors,
h classified the children of both sexes for scholastic
purposes. No good of any kind is gained by the plan,
but much evil may be its result, in the formation of as.
sociations which may ripen into a closer intimacy when
the } oung leave the house to make their way in the
world. Many of the keen-judging anticipate immoral
consequences; and there can be little doubt of the im-
propriety of herding females with big lewd-tongued lads,
whosa improper observations cannot bo restrained, as
thu:, eatinut be detected.—Stanford Mercury.
THE STATE PRISONS AT THE Towsa.---The cele•
`voted Beauchamp Tower, which has for a long period
been used as a mess-house 'or tha officers of the garrison,
will shortly be thrown open to the public. The Beau-
champady To )ew
Ge rr st h tehe
Earlf)ri prison-house hs
soeuxiis e
soi
rf he
W.
vvu naflol
aret
eu,ntahtee
Her.) of Scotland, and at on period contained two Sove-
reigns as prisoners, viz., James of Scotland and the King
of France.— United Service Gazette.

BIRTHS.
On the 4th inst., at Windlestooe, Durham, Lady Eden, of
2 son.
On the 31st ult., at Eastbury, Herts, the wife of Captain
R. H. Crofton, Royal Artillery, of a daughter.
On the 4th inst., at the Triangle, Hackney, Mrs. John
Bullock, cf a daughter.
On the 4th inst., in Park-street, the lady of Captain Lyon,
of Dangstein, of a daughter.
On the 4th inst, at Guildford-street, the wife of J.
Cr.
Maitland, Esq., of a daughter.
On the 6th inst, at Bernard-street, RusKil-square, the
lady of W. Macnaughten, Esq , of a son.

On the 4th inst., at All Saints' Church, Godshill, William,
second son of Mr. Ellis, of Richmond, Surrey, to Kate,
eldest daughter of Mr. Frank Mew, of Rookley-cottage,
Rookley, Isle of Wighr.

DIED,
On tne 30th ult., Captain Edward Bowen, late of the 26th
R2giment l'ombay Native Infantry, aged 35. -
On the 3d ins ~ at Kinlet-hall, Shropshire, aged 63, Hat'•
riet, the wife of William L. Childe, Esq.
On the 4th inst., at Brighton, Margaret Schaw, wife of
J. S. Broadw, 0(19 Esq., of Lyne, near Horsham, aged 71.
On the 4th inst., at Hart-street. Bloomsbury, Ann Kent
Jones, of Little Chishill, Essex, aged 76.
On the sth inst., at Bromley, Kent, aged 85,
_ Frances Est-
court, relict of the Rev. William Hal!, D.D., formerly of
:Acton, Middlesex.

I.rndon : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of
No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, • No. 112,
Strand. in the Precinct of the Savoy, in tlia county of
Jiddlesex, Monday., April 9, 1849.

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that date to 31st December, 1847, 2 per cent. per annum was
added at the General Meeting en the 6th of July, 1848.
The bonus thus added to policies from March, 1834, to the 31st of
December, 1647, is as follows:

_
jkß„umred. Time Assured. Sum added to Sum added t( ;em payable
. Policy inlB4l Policy in 18V- at Death.
£5OOO 13 years 10 mths £683 6 8 £787 10 0 £6470 16 8
bOOO 12 years 500 0 0 787 10 0 6287 10 0
4000 10 years 300 0 0 787 10 0 6087 10 0
6000 8 years 100 0 0 787 10 0 5887 10 0
6000 8 years .. • . 675 0 0 5575 0 0
8000 4 years •• •• 450 0 0 5450 0 0
5000 2 years •• • • , 225 0 0 5225 0 0

The Pr
only one•
:nuance i!
Enl

-emiums, nevertheless, Are on the most moderate scale, and
.half need be paid for the first five years where the In-
s for Life.
trance Money or charge except the Polley Stamp.
information will be afforded on application to the Resident
, No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. London.

Every i
Director.

BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE.
COMPANY,
Princes-street, Bank, London.
Capital, One Million.
_ . _

This Institution is empowered by a Special Act of Parliament, 4
Viet., cap. 1., and is so constituted as to afford the benefits of Lie
Assurance In their fullest extent to Policy holders, and to present
greater facilities and accommodation than aro usually offered to the
The ample subscribed Capital, together with the large ani ein-
tinually increasing fund, accumulate I from the Premiums on upwards
ofl,ooo Policies, affords complete security to the assured; while the
magnitude of the Company's transactions has enabled the Directors
to offer unusual advantages to Policy holders, as will be seen by re-
ference to the prospectus, and to the varied and extensive tables
which have been computed with great care and labour, expressly for
the use of this Institution.
PETER MORRISON', Resident Director.

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uozen.
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admitted bane of trade, and keeps up high prices.
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13 aler (for II years past), Knightsbridge, Agent for
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