The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-19 00:00:00

WITH PROFITS.

NITRO& PROFITS.

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A division of the profits will take place quinquennially.
Bonuses accrue after three annual premiums shall have been
paid; and parties can receive their bonuses in a present sum,
or have them applied in augmentation of their Policies, or in
reduction of their future Premiums.
Assurers may contract to pay their Premiums either in one
sum, in a given number of payments, in annual, half-yearly, or
quarterly payments, or on the ascending or descending scale.
Officers in the Army. and Navy on active service, Per-
sons afflicted with chronic and other diseases, and such as are
going beyond the limits of Europe, are also Assured at Mode-
rate Rates.
Policy holders have a right to attend the General Meetings,
at which the Auditors report annually the state of the Com-
pany's affairs.
Prospectuses, and all necessary information, may be obtained
at the Office.
MICHAEL SAWARD, Secretary.

EMPOWERED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT
4 VICT., CAP. 9.

BRITANNIA lilt ASSURANCE COM.
PANY,
No. I. PRINCES-STREET, BANK, and 8, KING WIL-
LIAM-STREET, CITY, LONDON.

This Institution is empowered by a Special Act of Parlia-
ment, and is so constituted as to afford the benefits of Life As-
surance, in their fullest extent, to Policy-holders, and to pre-
sent greater facilities and accommodation than can be obtained
in other Offices. The decided superiority of its plan, and its
claim to public preference and support, have been proved in-
contestably by its extraordinary and unprecedented success.
Among others, the following important advantages may be
enumerated :

A most economical set of Tables—computed expressly for
the use of this Company, from authentic and complete data,
and presenting the lowest Rates of Assurance that can be of-
fered without compromising the safety of the Institution.
Increasing rates of premium on a new and remarkable plan,
for securing loans or debts, a less immediate payment being
required on a policy for the whole term of life than in any
other office.

payable either Annually, }IX-yearly, or Quar-
erly, in one sum, or ,_
A Board of Directors in atteud.....ce daily at Two o'clock.

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Age of the Assured in every case admitted in the Policy.
All claims payable within one month after proof of death.
Medical Attendants remunerated in all cases for their reports

Premium per Cent. per Annum payable during
A„.— First Five Second Five Third Five row lb Five Remainder
Years. Years. Years. Years. of Life.
20 -CI 1 4 £1 510 £1 1011 X.l 16 li £2 :1 8
30 1 6 4 1 12 2 1 111 1 2 7 4 2 17 6
401161244214 6 8 7 3 4 2 4
50 216 7 3 9 4 4 5 5 5 6 6 ' 6 13 7

PETER MORRISON. Resident Director.
A liberal Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents.

PRESENT TO THE MONKS OF ST.

BERNARD.

It is well known that the Monks of St. Bernard de-
vote themselves to the rescue of travellers from the
snow, of which the mountains around the Hospice are
continually covered. The Hospice itself is the highest
inhabited spot in Europe, and the inclemency of the air
is consequently very great. These worthy men go out
at night as well as by day, and the effect of the climate
proves so trying, that in the course of two or three years,
the foundation of incurable pulmonary disease invariably
exhibits itself. This, however, does not deter them from
their Christian course, nor others in filling up their ranks
as they fall off. nese facts having become the subject
of concern to persons who have recently visited the Alts,
it sugge,ted itself to their minds, that the " Respirator,"
which has done so much for pulmonary invalids in this
and other countries, might add the monks to the number
of those who acknowledged its efficacy. This idea has
been at once adopted, and a suitable present is now on
its way to these truly benevolent individuals.
A correspondent informs us that upon Mr. Jeffries,
the scientific inventor of the " Respirator," being con-
sulted, he expressed a confident opinion, that on the
plain surface of the earth or at any moderate elevation,
this instrument, aided of course by suitable clothing.,
would prove very effectual, but that at so great an
elevation something might be attributable to the rarity
of the air, and its diminished pressure upon the lungs,
which probably has a share in inducing the disease.
Yet as he has himself, in his travels in the Himalaya
Mount sins, found at the same elevation a few villages
of very healthy inhabitants, he entertains a sanguine
hope that cold is the main cause. The result of this
experiment cannot fail of being highly interesting, not
only in a medical but also in a philanthropic view.

Died at Spittal, aged 94, Robert Wishart,
tailor, late convener of the incorporated trades of Old
Aberdeen, and upwards of 70 years a resident there.
CAUSES OF DEAFNESS.--The current Num-
ber of the " Lancet" contains the following remarks on
the causes of deafness, in a review of Mr. Harrison
Curtis's recent work, " The Present State of Aural
Surgery :"—" The connection which the author shows
to exist between the general nervous system and the
auditory nerve, explains how causes, apparently widely
separated from any immediate influence.upon the organs
of hearing, may still act as morbific stimuli to that organ
of sense. . Thus we read, that the exciting causes of dis-
eases of the ear may be, wet feet, thin shoes, cold cur-
rents and draughts of air, keeping on wet clothes, sleep-
ing in damp rooms and unaired beds, want of outdoor
exercise, living in a vitiated atmosphere, neglect of clean-
liness, the use of adulterated food, or that of a stimu-
lating kind, intemperance, excesses of any sort, mental
anxiety, Scc."
[ADVERTISEMENT.]
" PERSONAL COMFORT."—The present sea-
son being that in which the utilities and grateful effects
of "-Rowland's Kalydor" become equally apparent with
that of summer, we strenuously recommend it to those
persons who suffer from the baneful effects of inclement
weather on a tender and delicate skin. Its extraordi-
nary efficacy in allaying all irritability and tendency to
inflammation of the skin, is no less esteemed than are its
peculiar virtues in enhancing the beauty of the com-
plexion ; and, as a toilet appendage, is of unquestionable
safety, efficacy, and of unrivalled elegance.
DEAINESS.—Sound Magnifiers, and Invisible
Operative Voice Conductors, to enable persons at an advanced
age, and of old standing extreme deafness, to join in general
conversation, and to catch the sound of a distant low speaker
at a public assembly ; they are the size of • very small gold
seven shilling piece, and when in the cavity of the ears, they
are not in the least perceptible nor more uncomfortable than
having a small piece of fine wool in its place ; they are composed
of a metal to collect sound, peculiar to the Messrs. E. and B.
Solomons themselves ; and although they are so extremely small
yet they enable those afflicted with extreme deafness, and
those who are only slightly dull of hearing to hear in every
respect equal to those of most acute hearing. Messrs. S. and
is. Solomons, 39, Albemarle.street, Piccadilly, opposite the
York Hotel, and 76, King William-street, City. Newly-Invented
Spectacles, immediately they are placed before imperfect vision,
either by day or candlelight, that mist and dullness winch
appears before the eyes is at once removed, every object bare ming
clear and distinct, so that the post aged defective eyesight be.
comes bright and brilliant, and is brought to Its youthful, natural
and original state. These valuable inventions have gained the
patronage of the Royal Faintly, and the unqualified approbation of
above 400 of the principal members of the medical profession, and
numerous individuals of high distinction, who have been greatly
benefited by their use. S 9, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite
the York Hotel, and 76, King William-btreet,City.—No connexion
with persons of the same Marne.

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, OCT. 2 7.—Yesterday morning the
Nile steamer arrived here from Alexandria, bringing
back Tafiz Bey, the Turkish Envoy, and a further in-
stalment of tribute, amounting to two and a half millions
of piastres. From the frequency of these remittances,
though their amount be not seri considerable, it would
really appear to be the Paeha a intention to fulfil Is
pecuniary obligations with
Cite Porte. The prospects of
the country are in truth at the present moment of the
most gloomy description, and however disposed I may
feel to adopt a less desponding tone in my letters, I
cannot really discover any consolatory or redeeming fea-
ture to dwell upon ; for if we turn from the internal
affairs to the foreign relations of the Porte' the indica-
tions of weakness and decay are still more palpable. The
fact. is, that in her transactions with the European
Powers, Turkey has lost all sort of independence, and
their Ambassadors and Ministers arrogate the right of
dictating, to her not only in matters of foreign policy,
but also or domestic economy ; whilst the least scrupu-
lous of them, and such as have most to bestow in the
way of bribery to. the Turkish Ministers, are sure to
obtain a preponderating influence here.
M. Titotf; the Russian Minister, presented a few days
ago a note addressed in the- most patronising tone to the
Porte, in which he informs it that the local Government
of Servia have, at the special request of the Emperor,
duly reprimanded the subordinate authorities who had
countenanced the revolt of the Bulgarians on their fron-
tier. The Porte is further Informed in this very conde-
scending epistle that certaln r ervian deputies who had
through Russian influence be a exiled, and are at present
residing at Constantinople, II ill be permitted to return to
Servia. All this officious a 4 insolent interference in the
internal
most
evil a ffaauigr s
my o f
rtohre i countts %welfare
lfare arid independence.
'js, to say the least, of the
Another affair in which the French as well as the Rus-
sian Ambassador has interested himself, is A tlispute be-
tween the Catholic and Greek clergy of Syria. A formal
complaint has been made by the latter that the Roman
priests by adopting the Greek language and costume, and
cunningly suppressing and changing certaia parts of their
own liturgy, such as designating the Pope chief of the re-
ligion, &c., they have succeeded in seducing from the
folds of their proper pastors nearly the whole of their
Hocks, who have thus been unable to distinguish the one
from the other ; the number of the members of the
Greek church, which was originally two hundred thou-
sand, has been reduced by this means to sixteen.
What they require is, that the Catholic clergy shall
henceforth be compelled to wear some distinctive dress or
badge.. The Catholics, on the other hand, who are sup-
ported by M. de Pontois, the French Minister, as the
Greeks are by M. Titoff; declare that the Greeks, as the
less numerous body, should be made to wear these dis-
tinctive marks, more particularly as they are of their
own seeking. The affkir has not yet been settled.