The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-06 00:00:00

gLAtER v. OLDK.NOW.—OLDKNOW v. STATER.
ANN PEAKE, DECEASED.—Pursuant to a
Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made in the causes
et Slater v. Oldknow and Oldknow v. Slater, and dated the 9th day
of March, 1946, all and every the relative, or relatives, or the repre-
sentatives of any such relative or relatives of Ann Peake, formerly
of Small Heath, in the parish of Ashton, near Birmingham, in the
county of Warwick, spinster, who departed this life on or about the
10th day of July, 1044, are forthwith, by their Solicitors, to come in
and prove their relationship and kindred before WILLIAM BROUGHAM,
sne of the Masters of the High Court of Chancery, at his
Chambers, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London ; other-
Wite they will he excluded all benefit or advantage miller the Will
of the said Ann Peake, or under the said Decree.
CLARKE, GRAY, AND WOODCOCK,
20, Lincoln's lim-telds. Agents the B. Cliesiline, jun.,
Birmingham.

BEARD'S COLOURED PHOTOGRAPHIC
PORTRAITS are takcn at
S 5, King William-street, City ;
34, Parliament•street. Westminster; and the
Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent-street.
gnat improvement has been effected, Mr. Beard's portraits
low exhibit a degree of boldness, and stand out with a relief, greatly
clesiderated In all the earlier specimens."—Times.

ROYAL. EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION,
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
(Established by Royal Charter A.D. 1720.)
I oil FIRE INSURANCES.
oil *anal fifteen days allowed for payment of Premiums
181114 due at Christmas will expire on the 9th day of January
uext.

Tw nll LIFE INSURNCES.
°-1.4; of the profit on the Company's Life Business since De-
rpber, Mil, will be apportioned, periodically, among Policies for
; without involving the Assured in any risk of Partnership.
_The Company has returned to the position in the Royal Exchange
which it had occupied In the former building from 1720 till its de-
strUeUon by fire in 1838.
Branch Office
GOVBINuIt—TIIC
Suis-Govraxoa —W
DIPUTT-CIOVERNOR— The

29, Pall-mall.
,mas Tooke, Esq.
illiam Sampson, Esq.
Hon. J. 'P. Leslie Melville
.ECTOII.3.

Henry Bainbridge, Esq.
George P. Barclay, Esq.
Edmond 8. P. Calvert, Esq.
John Garrett Cattley, Esq.
Alexander Colvin, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq.
John Deacon, Esq.
Itiversdale W. Grenfell, Esq.
William T. Ilibbert, Ecq,
Lancelot Holland, Esq.
Sir Georg* Larpent, Bart.
John C. Lochner, Esq.

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Sir J. W. Lubbock, Bart.
Charles John Manning, Esq.
Henry Nelson, Esq.
Edward 11. Palmer, Esq.
John Henry Pelly, Esq.
Abraham G. Robarts, Esq.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Sir Samuel Scott, Bart.
William Soltau, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Oetavius Wlgram, Esq.
Charles B. Young, Esq.
ALEX. GREEN, Secretary.

ItOYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE

OFFICE.
ROYAL EXCHANGE Nov. 25, 1846.
The COURT a DIRECTORS of the ROYAL-EXCHANGE AS-
S/MANCE do hereby give notice, that their TRANSFER-BOOKS
;111 he gIIUT itout TUESDAY, the Bth of December next, to THURSDAY,
aft 7th of January follovring, that the ANNUAL GENERAL .COURT
VT: Xhalilted by the Charter will be holden, at their Office, on the RoyaI-
eII'IVIDEESDAT the 23d of December next, at Twelve
0 clock in the Forenoon ; and that a Dividend will be considered of
at the said Court.

ALEXR. GREEN, Secretary.

ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
um 39, TIIROGMORTON-STREET, BANK.
—POWERED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT.
TiIOMAS FARNCOMB, Esq., Alderman, Chairman.
Richard E
EI;
sL,
nltAs LEAF, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
•Arden, Esq. John Ilumphery Esq., Alderman.
rifilwiaraind
Rates,
M.P.
Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman.
Thom '
Camplin, Esq. cremiah Pilcher, Esq.
James Clift, Esq. Lewis Pocock, Eeq.:
Rupert Inglelly, Esq.
PHYSICIAN—Dr. Jeaffreson, 2 Finsbury-square.
SURGEON—W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
CONSULTINO ACTUARY—Professor Hall, of King's College.
LOW RATES OF PREMIUM.
Persons Assuring in this Office have the benefit of the Lowest
?Ides of Premium which is compatible with the safety of the Assured,
and which is, in effect, equivalent is en Annual Bonus; they have
likewise the security of a large subscribed capital—an Assurance
rand of nearly a Quarter of a Million—and an Annual Income of
tPwards of 60,0001., arising from the issue of between 5,000 and
GAO Policies.

ANNUAL PREMIUM T• ASSURE £lOO.

Age.
20 £0 17 3
30 1 1 3
40 1 5 0
50 1 14 1
60 3 2 4

Whole Term.
£0 19 1 .£1 11 10
127 2 0 7
1 6 9 2 14 10
1 19 10 4 0 11
3 7 0 6 0 10

For One Year. 1 For Seven Years.

One-half of the " Whole Term" Premium may remain on credit
for seven years, or one-third of the Premium may remain for life as a
debt upon the policy at 5 per cent., or may be paid off at any time
Without notice.
Policies assigned as a security to others, will not be rendered void
21 consequence of death suicide, duelling, or by the hands of jus-
tice. In case of death by the above causes, where the Policies are
not assigned, the gross amount of Premiums received will be returned.
Claims paid in one month after proofs have been funiished.
The Medical Officers attend daily at a Quarter before Two o'Clock,
and Policies issued the same day. , _

EDIVARD BATES, Resident Director.
A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents.

CLERICAL, MEDICAL, AND GENERAL
LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,

No. 78, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury.
Instituted 1624.
FOURTH DI VISION OF PROFITS.
___An extraordinary General Meeting of the Proprietors of this Society
7th
will be held at the Office, in Great Russell street, on THURSDAY, the
day of January ensuing, at Twelve o'clock precisely, for the pur,
Mlle of declaring a BONUS out of the Profits which have accrued
coin the general business of the Society during the Five years clui-
ng June 30th, 1846, and at that Meeting the Persons Assured have
he right of being present.

The same Meeting will be made special, in order that the Pro-
prietors may take into consideration the expediency of amending
and altering some of the existing laws, -regulations, and provisions
of the Society, pursuant to the Deed of Constitution.
GEORGE U. PINCKARD, Secretary.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR
ANCE SOCIETY,
26 CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
Zh respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
ture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table) ;
tt° the option of
selecting beivtlts, and the conversion of his in-
treats to meet other conveniences or necessity.
s4ranoes for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible
situ.

The DIVISION OF PROFITS.
rentarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society
a enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation to declare
hLurt,l, bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid
'4en Policy effected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

m@ Premium.
:..V Bonus
added ,; Bonus g 2. 9 Assured
. E 5- may
5. 'A Borrow.
• 2,'''
"-- —...—_—. --
£s' d- 1837 £217 15 1;X100 0 111.£16 0 4 £445 0 0
CO inrtn 1838 182 3 0; 87 1 41 13 10 2 395 11 1
---, 3 4 1839 165 11 10 74 1 9 11 3 1 346 2 3
11840 116 7 6; 54 0101 718 10 296 13 4
......_ 11841 111 6 81 4910 01 710 4 247 4 5

The division of profits Is annual, and the next will be made in
December of the present year.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Secretary.

THE SELF-SUPPORT INSTITUTION,
(aided by Voluntary Contributions,) for the Cure of Stricture
of the Urethra, and all other Diseases of Urinary Organs, Nervous,
Local, and General Debility.
SURGEON—F. B. COURTE-NAY, 11.R.C.5.L., 2, Chandos-street,
Cavendish-square.

To small tradesmen, clerks, mechanics, and the working classes
generally, this Institution offers, in at 1 cases, gratuitous surgical
assistance, and ta others medicine also rreeof expense.
Apply at the Margery adjoinng the Surgeon's residence.

DERBYSHIRE, STAFFORDSHIRE, AND
WORCESTERSHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY COMPANY.

(Provisionally Registered.)

At a Meeting of the Shareholders in the above Company, convened
by virtue of the Act 9 and 10 Victoria, cap. 28, and pursuant to the
notice duly published in the following Gazettes and Newspapers, and
on the following days, that is to say, " London Gazette" of 25th De-
cember, 1846, " The Times," " Morning Herald," and " Morning
Advertiser," of 24th December, 1846, and held at No. 4, Queen-
square, in the city of Westminster, being the office of the Company,
at the hour of Eleven o'clock on this day, the 4th of January, 1847.
JOHN MEE MATHEW, one of the Members of the Committee of
Management, was by the Members of the said Committee then pre-
kat, and within one hour of the time appointed for the holding such
Meeting, unanimously elected Chairman, and having taken the
chair, Messrs. John Gilbert Lander, Joseph Causton, and Thomas
tensusan, three Shareholders in the said Company, were hums-
dlately afterwards elected by said meeting Scrutineers, to verify and
take the votes of the Shareholders entitled to vote under said Act,
and to cast up and declare the same,
It was then moved by GEORGE WHITWORTH, Esq., and seconded by

WILLIAM SMITU CATCIIPOLE, Esq.—
That the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcestershire Junction
Ilailway Company be dissolved.
The Chairman having put the question of dissolution, the Scru-
tineers proceeded to take and record the votes thereon, and reported
that persons representing 6,575 shares, being more than one-third
Part of the shares actually issued, were present and voted ; and that
BO votes were in favour of the dissolution of the said Company, and
that 6,495 votes were against such dissolution.
The Chairman then stated that the motion for dissolving the Com-
pany was not carried.
On the motion of W. llsnals, Esq., seconded by J. C. CURTISS,

Esq.—
Tke marked thanks of the meeting were unanimously given to
the Chairman aad the Scrutineers for the manner in which they had
Performed their duties.

J. MEE MATHEW, Chairman.
JOSEPH CAUSTON,
THOS. BENSUSANlSerutineers.
J. G. LANDER,
Witness—R. S. MICKENZIE.
J. FAYREIt.

AN INFALLIBLE HAIR DYE.
OWLANDS' AIELACOMIA, the most sue-
cessfUl liquid preparation over known in this or anyothir
country for dyeing the hair of the head, whiskers, mustachios, and
eyebrows a natural and permanent brown or black, so exactly re-
sembling the natural colour of the hair as to defy detection. It is
perfectly innocent in its nature, is free from unpleasant smell, and
can be used by any lady or gentleman with the greatest ease and
seereeY- Its effects are so permanent 'that neither water nor perspi-
ration will is
them ; and it is entirely free from those properties
(usnal hi hair dyea) whichhair,Pricegive an unnatural red or purple tint to the

for the ROWLANDScompo ODONTO ; or, Pearl Dentifriee, a white powder
teeth, nded of the choicest and most recherché ingre-
dients of the Oriental herbal. It eradicates tartar from the teeth.
removes
the most pure spots of incipiand peent decay, polishes and preserves the enamel,
imparts arl-like whiteness, and gives sweetness
and perfume to the breath. Price 2s 94. per box.
Sold by the Proprietors, A. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-garden,
London, and by Chemists and Perftunere.
THE PERFECT SUBSTITUTE for SILVER.
Public during the twelve
enmbaedfoerie litobfat
3'eurs WILLIAM S. BURTON
The high estimate forme's
(lyatteheßirr„
n....Nitv( and BURTON'S)
chemically purified material
hasbe
Useful and ornamental article usually
e:rill.ad, itero)s,ifiletiltasassineegav,lelreayets
it deer, the charaeteristic purity and,dnidirsitobil,i,tAy
into existence the deleterious compounds a Plate," •• Berlin
elver," and other so called substitutes; they are at best but bad
imitations of the genuine articles manufacturrieddd,laendTsohirdeaodnwly by him.
Table Spoons and Forks King's
Patient. Pattern. attern.
Dessert ditto and ditto , Rill size per
128. Od. 28s. Oa P
. an-
dozen,....• •. . ...... ..ditto .• •• • • Od ...• ••• • • '
' Od.
10s. • 21s. -- Od. 25s Od
ditto__ is. Od. I ls. Ocl. 12e.. Od..
Tea ditto and ditto,
Gravy ditto .............. ...-- 3s.
Od. 6s. Od. 75
I s, BURTON (late
NICKEL ELECTROPLATED. —The REAL NICKEL SILVER,Od
introduced and made only by WILLIAI
RIPPON and BURTON'S), when plated by thaeripsaotnetnhtepyreocryesteogit
Messrs. Elkington and Co.,it beyond an comp
employed as such either
article, next to sterling silver, that can be
usefully or ornamentally,increasing popu.
larity of the material itself, and the high character of the method of
. In the lengthenedand
plating, the public have a guarantee that the articles sold by
W. S.
Burton (and by him only) are, as it regards wear, immeasurably
superior to what oan be supplied at any other house,while by no
Possible test oan they be distinguished from real silver.
King's.
. .. les. 325. ••
Fiddle. Thread.
38s.
Tea Spoons, per dozen
..... • • 58s.
Dessert Forks
~ .
.. . 105. , , 4r,s. • •
625.
Dessert Spoons .............. 30s. • • 525. • • 755.
Table Forks
i, .......... 40s. .. 68s. • •
805.
Table Spoons
7ts.
Tea and coffee 3ete, 'natters, candlesticks. ke.. ed
prices. All ki
eatal°"63* with ecvingkas well as of every ironmongery article'
eUt (PS' Peet) gra
tree. at proportion at.nds of re-plating done by the patent process, Detailed
(P
S. BURTON (late RIPPON and BURTON'S) Stock
of general Furnishing Ironmongery is literally the largest in the
World, and as no language can be employed to give a correct idea of
its variety and extent, purchasers are invited to can and inspect it
—.39, Oxford-street (corner Of lievrman-street). Established in
Wtllo-Street, 1820.