The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-09 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1841.

No 15,343

R./ARRlAGES.—Gentlemen in want of New
or Secondhand Carriages, are requested-to inspect the
Exten‘ive Variety at MARKS and SON'S, Langham-place,
Cavendish-square, NOW SELLING at reduced prices, in con-
sequence of the Rebuilding of the Prernies.

RITISH IRON COMPANY. --Those
-11 r SHAREHOLDERS who are threatened with Writs.
unless they pay the THIRD ILLEGAL CALL, are advised
to forward the Writ to Mr. T. 1)1. VIOKERY, of 25, Lin-
coln's Inn-fields, who has instructions to defend all such Act
By order of the Trustees for the United Shar
BAehOltlers,
.lAS. ILEY.

PRICES OF CANAL,DoCK,ASSURANCE COMPANY SHARES, &c. &c. &C.

FINANCIAL AND LEGAL REFORM
Two Commissions:of Inquiry are about to be appointed
by her Majesty's Government.
The one at the suggestion of the First Lord of the
Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer--the
other at the suggestion of the Lord Chancellor.
The object of the first of these Commissions will be to
inquire into the charge of collecting the public revenue,
and of considering whether it will be possible to effect
any reduction in that charge, either by the consolidation
of offices or by the suppression of them, or by new ar-
rangements, for the receipt and transmission of the
revenue.
This Commission will also inquire whether any addi-
tional facilities can be given for carrying on the com-
merce and manufactures of the country without lois or
risk to the revenue.
We understand that Lord Granville Somerset, Mr.
Gladstone, Mr. Bingham Baring, Mr. Milues Gaskell,
and Mr. Pringle, have undertaken to conduct the inqui-
ries above referred to. Lord Granville Somerset, who
will preside oxt[ttalie Commission, took a leading partsain
the investigatiMi on which the reductions made by the
Duke of Wellington's Government in 1828, 1829, and
1830 were consequent. It is probable that the Commis-
sioners will visit some of the principal outports for the
purpose of examining personally into the mode of con-
ducting business.
The object of the second Commission, which the Lord
Chancellor proposes to institute, will be to examine into
the forms and modes of proceeding in the Courts of
Equity, with a view of rendering the system lass cum-
brous, and the progress of a suit less tedious and ex-
pensive.
We have reason to believe that Lord Langdale, Mr.
Pemberten, and Mr. Wigram, who has been recently
appointed Vice-Chancellor, have undertaken to lend
their invaluable services for the conduct of this investi-
gation, which, like the other, will be carried on without
any charge to the public.
The preceding announcement, we are sure, will be
read with sincere satisfaction. Perhaps there is no
very great pecuniary saving to be made by the sup-
pression or consolidation of the offices connected
with the collection of the revenue ; but saving is
not the sole object ; another and at least equally
important consideration is the feeling of the public,
who revolt not so much at the actual amount of the
total yearly levy of taxes, as at the proportion of
that levy which is withdrawn from the national ser-
vices by the expenses of collection. The impediments,
.too, which various branches of commercial dealing nut
unfrequently sustain from the operations of fiscal regu-
lation, are infinitely irksome to men of business, and the
removal or modification of them, as far as may be prac-
ticable without loss to the revenue, will be a boon very
highly valued by all the classes connected with the
foreign trade of Le country. The direction of the in-
quiry is committed to a Nobleman eminently qualified
by his official experience to conduct it with sagacity and
judgment ; and the whole measure, unforced as it has
been by any Parliamentary requisition or popular outcry,
affords a most satisfactory earnest of the Government's
sincere desire to administer the public affairs fur the
public good.
The other of the proposed Commissions, that which
has been instituted for the purpose of examination into
the proceedings of courts of equity, holds out the pros-
pect of advantages still more important. The delays
and expenses of those proceedings have for centuries
been a curse to the country, and a slur upon its jurispru-
dence. The names of the Commissioners, two of them
presiding over courts of equity, and the third, the ablest
and most eminent man whom the bar of those courts
has boasted in our time, are sufficient guarantees that
no half considered, headlong changes will be at-
tempted ; but we trust, from their enlarged views
and their elevated position, that they will feel them-
selves entitled to treat the subject boldly, and to recom-
mend a large re-casting, not, indeed, of the principles
which regulate the decisions in Chancery, but of its
general procedure—for instance, by an effectual curtail-
ment of pleadings, by a devolution upon the Masters of
a variety of duties and powers now vested only in the
superior Judges, and by an extensive substitution of parol
evidence for affidavits and written depositions.
Sir Robert Peel's reforms are not of the kind which
fill the pockets of Reformers. The revisions here con-
templated tend on the contrary to the retrenchment of
patronage and the reduction of expense ; and if they
repay their authors, it will be only in the approbation
and respect of the public.—Times.

LONDON, FRIDAY, NOV. 5.
Number Dividend " ' s • • Price
of per CANALS. net
:leases. Annum. Paid. Shire
1,756 7 per cent. Ashton& Oldhern...Averageo7/.lBs.sh. 104%
e,00.) 1.16 th. 101. Birmingham,
1,48-2 41. Ashby.de.le.Zotien Average llesiesh. 72
i,e6o Basingstoke r
1,005 54!. Brecknoek end, borgavenny ...150esh. 92
41'00 ..... .... Ditto & Liverpool Junce Pee. 611.100 25
600 3/. Bridgewater and Taunton.loo/.sh. all pi -
Croydon... ..... "...Ave'
SOO 51. Cheimer wad Ma ;:water ..... ....1001.'n• 103
I.l(it'a share ..,,BV. Fe 711. :100
500 221. Coventry ...... s., ees , _ ........... 1001. sh. Seo
2, 60 51. Os. Dud1ey....... lool.sh. 94
sem 131. Derby ... .......... 1001. sh. 120
:1,0,11 .1 per cent. Danube and Mayne 411 135 4d.pd 30
3,575 e 4, ;4'J:311.26.10d. sh. --
Ellesmereand Chester Averegel332.sn. 76
231 621 Erewesu „5e„,„,... se „e, .- ~...100Lsn. 735
,297 351. Forth und Clyde..... Average 0001. 165. b. 610
11;600 74 Grand junction 1001. en 11
2,&194 255. Grand Union ....... 1001. sh. 26
• ,500 .... ..... Grand Surrey... es. ........ 1001.5h. 15
1,000/ 41. percent. Ditto (optional) Lean . 1602.
-006 Grand Western ............... 11. sh. allpd 101%
500 131.125. odd. GlemorganthireS
749 I.s• Gran24l'n .. .. e .. lsol.sh. 20.0
6.238 21. Os. Huddersfield "A:i7e;a..g. ...... /1. 63. 6d. sh. 27
108 ... ...... Kensington .. Aver. cost 172/.13e.401. 420
100 sh. all pd 104
25,523 11.10 s. Kennet and A;07,...Av. 09/. Itis. 10d. sh 22es
146991 11. 7s. Lancaster ..... Average 47/. 65.: 5d 23
2,8971 1101. Leeds and Liverpool ........... . ... 1001. s h 710
5451 111. Leicester • ese.„ „ .......... ....1401.'51. 150
,g 97 5/. Os. Leicester & Northampton Aver. 1+31,102 70
409 101. Monmouthshire ... ..... e ........... 100/.sn 200
2'250
181. Melton Mowbray •..,«.«..1(101. sh. 200
eOO 95/. Mersey and Irelfell .... .......... .. .. 1001. sh. 550
3,000 21. 105. Macclesfield ~....,.•..„ 1001.311. all pd. 23
247 174 Neath lOOl sit. 325
2,400 51. Peak Forest Average about 781.5 h. :, 79
21,418 89, Regent's (or Loudon) Av. 331.165.80. sh. 9
5,669 61. Rochdale Average 851.5 h. 00
eCO 81. Shropahire i 251 sh. 137
••••••••.••••••••• ........... 04.14 •
SOO 101. Os. Somerset Coal ........ . . 1501. sh. 180
3,6002. 4/ per cent Ditto Lock Fund Stock -.1.21. 10s. sh. 114
00 we, Stafibrd and Worcester HO/ sh. 666
500 15/, Shrewsbury,..,;. 125/. sh. 280
aoo ge Sturbridge...... .... 1451. sh. 396
3,1;47 21. Os. Stratford-en-Avon etver....791. 9s. ed, sh. 35
539 1241 Swansea .....„.„ ,e,......... 1001. sh. 265
3,752 21. 10e. Severn and Wee end Railway Av.S5l. sh. 45
2,6110 W, 321.105. Teent and Mersey. 4 share lOOl. sh. SSO
0,149
I.°°°'l9 181. Warwick and B'rmitegbam ...... 10131.511 230
I,oooSah.
9eo 13e Warwick and ..lateen' PAIL sh. 115
7,600 41. Worcester & Birminebtan Av.7B/.Bs. sh. 55
5000 265. Wilts and Berke Average 67/. Ws 83. sh. 28%
Eon tie Wylie. and Essingtor Mt. sh 74
526 ,„, se 6o:site:ten . ....... e. ........ ...- SeeL sh. 30
998 1.1 Wey and Arun. llOl. en. 20Se
DOCKS.
I°6 Sr
,16515 h. P.
• 5 per rent. East and West India c.0....a...5t0ck 10114
3,238,310;1. :31. p.e t. London Stock 73
Ditto Bonds
0,200 81. Os. sd. Bristol Average 1471.05. att. 75
68,e24/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts lOB
3e2,7te 5 iser cost. St. Katharine Stock 92
500,0413 43 per cent. Ditto Bonds -, lOO%
-00.41410 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years
Deptford Tier "01. sh. 201. pd 10
......
BRIDGES,
1,600 11. H .. amm.sr/0U: 50/. sh. 21
1,201 Southwark, Old ...... ...Av. Gad. es Sri. sh. 33e
1,700 IL 158. Ditto, New, of 74 per cent., sol.sh. 16
.4'oo .... ... Waterlog. ... . 1001. sh. :34
5,000 nos. 0:1. Pitta, Old Annuities of 81 00/. pd 21
401. pd 183
soesCOL 51. per cent. Ditto Bon s
Vauxhall ...... ...Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh 26
5,000 19a. 3d. Ditto, Newd Ditto of 71.
5,848 tete
ASeIeIIANCE COMPANIES.
2,000 3/ ICs Attlee eool. sh. 501. pd 72
1.0,000 €b
pnd 153 .er cent.] Allianceßritlsh es Foreignloo/. sh. 111. pd 14
e e
:0,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Merino lOOl. sh. 5/. pd 5
24,000 11. per sh. Alias 5411. sh. 5/. pd 143
1,20045 h. 81. Birmingham I'
ire .. "ss/ sh. 55/. pd 107%
20,000 4/. per cent. British Fire 250/. sh. 50/. pd 40
12,000 6/. per cert. leritee C0mm...111 5Ol. s', 5!. pd .6
5,000 51. per cent. Clerical & Medical Lite, Mesh. 21106 pd see,
4,000 el OS County 100!. sh. 101. pd 10
MOO es. Eagle. •• •'••' 5Ol. sh. 51. pd 5
nee f 5 per cent./10001.5h. 250!. pd 400
'te j and 301 bs. '
2,e71 221. percent. European Li. • "01. sh. all pd 22
50,000 2s. Ditto, New '2Ol. ski. 2/. pd IFe
..000,C001. f /.per et Glebe Stock 113%
2.1,000 51. Om:Alan
30,000 4s. Oe. Hope ........... 50/. sh. W. pd 5
Economic Life
2,300 51. 12s. fid. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 50!. pd 133
7,500 9s. Imperial Life ... 103/. sh. 10/. pd 10
13;459 51. par rest. Indemnity Marine lOO/. oh. 8/, pd Z
2,020 31 lOs Kent Firc 5Ol. sh. all psi 92
3/. Ditto I,ife 5Ol. pd etS
10,000 16s. Law Life lOOl. sit. 10/. pd
5,000 less. London, Fire 25/. sh. 12/. 10s. pil ISSS
3,900 10s. London, Ship "51. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 18 ye
Leno,ooo/. ... ..... hfinerva Life 100/. sh.
5 wine/.
3e.,0110 51. per cent. Palladium Lite 'Of. sh. 2/. pd et 6s
50,000 5/. per cen. Protector Lien pd 18e Od
10,600 4 per cent. t
Protestant kesrenters .... IGO!. sh. 5/. pd 5%
9,500 1/. Provident Lite lOOl. eh. 10/. pd 20
201',G60 4s. Od. Rock Life
e 9,0201 51. per cost. Royal Exchange Stock ISO
6,0(10 5 per cent. University Life 100/. sh. 5!. pd 54e
10,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 100/. eh. Si. pd 7U
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
25,000 Agri.. and Corn. of I relanci2sl. 1 h. 10/. pd
15,1)00 S per cent. Australasia 401. sh. 40/. pd 51
10,003 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 'eV. sh. 101. pd 13
10,000 19 per cent. Birmingham Bank 50/. sh. 101. pd 13%
31,000 6 per cent. London & Westminster 1001.
pd 21%
60,000 5/. London Joint Stock 50 sh. 10/. pd Mg
..1,000 4 per cent. Len caster lOOl. sh. 501. pd 50
05,000 11; per cent. Liverpool 100/ sh. lel/. tel 18%
50,000 le per cent. Manchester and Liver
1 501.2 h. 151. pd 9y,
pool District
00,000 7 per ("eel Manchester 100:. sh. 10/. pd 5
20,000 8 per eent. Provincial Bank of IrelandlOOL sh. 251.p4 404
10,(100 6, er ccet National Walk of Ireland 50/. sh. 1741. pd 1514
10,000 6 per cent National Proveicial Eng.lool. sh. 351. pd 3,1,‘
10,00 Ditto New... Wt. Ms. 10/. pd 10
.0,000 Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 10/. pd 52
6,000 10 per cent. Hampshire 5Ol. sh. 5/. pd 9
GAS LIGIrr AND CORD COMPANIES.
2,500 lOs Od Bath 20!. sh. 161. pd 22
5,000 British 40/. sh. 161. pd 18
5,000 Ditto Provincial . 2O/. sh. 19/. pd 24%
15.1,.,pdesiicert.1
928 51 105 Birmingham 50/. el. 90
4,250 210 s Bristol eO/ sh. 36
e,250 3/ lOs Brighton 902 sh 13%
730 3/ lOs Ditto, New ..................... sh 181. pd 9
2,471 44 per cent. Brighton General ................ ski. all pd 9%
6,000 71. 10s. Continental Consolidated ....751. 0211. Pd 109
1,000 101. City of London.. ....... ...100/. sh. all pd 195
1,000 61. Ditto,New ............. . 1001. sh. 75/. pd 150
4,000 3/.os. Equitable 5Ol. pd 20
10,000 Si. per cent. Imperial 5Bl. sin 59
800 51. per cent. Isle of Thanet 251. sit. 20/. pd 1834
2,350 61. per cent. Independent 30/. ah. all ra. 56
11,000 4!. per cent. Phoenix 5O/. en. 391. pd 31
63%
1,000 4/. per cent. Ratcliff 1001.5h. SO/. pd
000
F,0030 51. per cent. United General 5Ol. sh. 471. pd 31
240 5/. per cent. Warwick 5Ol. sh. 50
400 51. per cent Wakefield ..........,•.••••251. sh. 22
2,600 3/. Westminster Chartered ..... ....COI. sh. 58
6,060 12s. Ditto New 5ll sh. 101. pd 11%
720 3 per cent. Yarmouth 2Ol. eh. lel. pd
WATER WORKS
4,800 315. Birmingham ...................... sh. 25/. pd 21
4,423 71. East London .......................... 100/. sh. 162
5,500 21 155. Grand Junction .........e 41/. les. 40. sh. 55
2,060 21. Kent 100/. sh. 52%
X 372 101. Liverpool Bootle 2201. sh. ees
1,500 2 /105 New River London Bridge Water Ann. - CO
6,486 2/ les Manchester and Salford ........... elW):. sh. 55%
1,000 5 per cent. South London ~ ................ . ... lool.sh. 11218,294 441. West Middlesex Average Metres. 9d. sh. 90
1,360 1114 S YOI:i Building Co. Lessee Prop. 1001. sh. 35
IRON RAILWAYS.
6,000 Birmingham and Derby ...... lOO/ pd 49
9,500 Binninghem and Gloucester KO/. pd 563
15,000 Bristol and Exeter 1001 sh. 60 pd 28
7,500 Cheltenham& G.Western 100Lsh. 62;e L 18%
3,004 Clarence 1001. sh. 1001 pd 20
8,000 ......... Dublin and Drogheda...... 1110/. sit. 5/. pd
51,00 e Eastern Counties 251. sh. 231. pd 7%
10,000 Great North of England 100/. sh. Mt. pd 63
10,1)18 IS per rent. Grand Junction lOOl. sh, all pd 500
25, 00 23 per cent, Great Western 1601. sit. /351. pc! 704
25,000 Ditto New 511/. sh '0! pd 55%
6eooo 5 per cent Gosport Junction... 'le. sh. 50/. pd 52
2e0013 5 per cent. Ei••• ' e pool 100/. oh. 1001. pd 145354
8,000. Hull end Selby 501. sh. 50!. pd 29
9,200 4 per cent. Leeds and Selby leo sh. (154
511;11 10 per cent. Liverpool& Manchester 10(1.sli. 100/. pc., 119 N
,9' 8 10 per cent. Ditto Half Shares 5O/. pd 90
11495 10 tier cent. Ditto Quarter Shares "51. pd 45
30.000 „ ........ Lcilcio)i and Brighton 501. sh. 50/. ed 37
24,000 ......... reendon and Blackwell 2.5/. sh. 25!. rd 9
10,000 S per cent. London and Greenwich 201. sk. 201. pd 605 e
25,000 84 per cent. London & Birmingham 100/. sh. 90!. pd 158
251;00 el. Cs. Ditto Quarter Shares ....'251. sh. 5/. pd 2114
31:250 ......... Bit e New Shares 32/. sh. 3•21. lid 52%
36,000 5 per cent. London and SeeVestern Av. 381, 17s. 93. se3e
33,000 , ........ London and Croydon/ Av. 13/. 15s. Dd. 11%
Ditto New Scrip....S 11%
13,000 3 per cent. Manchester and Leeds-100/. sh. 70/. pd , sii4
t 3,000 Ditto Half Shares 5Ol. 251. pd '2l
10,000 Manchester and Birmingham 701. sh. 40/. 20%
Ditto Extension 7l. pd 2%
10,000 2/.l(e. Midland Counties... 'OO/. sh. lON. pd 83 .
15,000 1!. Os. North Midland
11.10 s. Ditto New 40/. pd 31%
10,256 ...... ... Northern and Eastern.... 501. sh 431. pd 15
eeicel Preston and Wyre 5O/. sh. 30/. pd 36 '
44,000 south Eastern and Dover ...... ... 281. pd 1914
1,060 10/.per cent. Stccktoa and Darlington .... ...lOU sh. 2e5
0.600 ..... .... Thames Haven .50/. sh 51. pd .•
6.000
• MINES.' . ' • , ,
Albion Copper 51s T.• a 1.141 . Ist
Altcn l6l. sh 12!. ut .1. pd 10
Angio elexieansiss. 51, pneuxe. sh. at 1 e I
le
Ditto Subscription .................251. pu ig
Bolanos • 1504 eh all pit 35
Brazili an I mp. Is s. 51. pm... 351. sh.2o/. pd 5
Macaubas & Locaes United 251.5h.251. pd 4
Ditto St. John Del Rey ...20/. sh. 141. pd . 1%
Bolivar Copper Company, 201. sli. 20/. pd : I
Ditto Scrip lO/. sh. 10/S pd 2
British Iron • lOW. sh. 601. pd
British Copper 51.5 h. 441. pd 1%
Cats Branca 641, pd beg
Candonga ....,• 7ll. pd 5
Copiapo ..... 2O/, ale 131. pd 10
ins. 2 pm. 40/. M. all pd
Columblan, ass. 51. pm. „ 551. sh. 551.
pd 0%
English pc! 2
rxipican.
General 511ningAssociation20esh.18/. pd 14
Mexican Company WO/. sh. GO/ pd
Polberou Consols .. ........101. eh. W. pd 4
Real del Monte, Unregistered -
......... 2%
Ditto Loan Notes... ....... „.....,..1301. pd 160
.......
2%
' 4l pd 3
West Cork .......... 501.5 b 501. pd 28
LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. '
1 000 .. London, with Bronze Ticket ..asgs sh. .21
i'enn ....... London University ......
...loot. alt all
L, 700 .........,„ pd 7
790 ......... Russet' ..............«.»,.,«,..,3..••• "25gs. utt, 6
King' College ...„1001 IoK
MISCELLANEOUS. .
to, yyj 155. Australian Agrimiltural.loo/eshe 28/. pd '59
5,300 1. per cent. British American Land Colnpany3se4 pd ss
10,000 el. per cent. Camel. C9_1210037... ...... lOW. sh. 321/,pd • 28
Unliitiiritttic;iliew
Scrip
Upper Lanai. Loan .
City Bonds, 4 p e e VI
ent ..... .e............ .. .. lea
, "" ... ' . Ness BrUTISTtlek Lannel Competes...ol.
" alSteam Zvi
20,000 le es. Genet' , n „ gatien 151, 5h..14/. pd .24
10Lper cent. Hudson s Dee' stoels
London Com. Sale Rooms ...,Av.
,CEO
1 .... Caoetcheue Comps y **"--V. 751. sh. 19%
30,000 5/. per cent.
141. pd ; le%
ienar Int• So pd . is
/54 5/. per cent. iteeerS Y • c... 1001. sh. 100/. pd 95
1,100/. sh. 100!. pd 107
e Thames Tunnel
4Ma ....... - Van Dieillela'S Land 501. sh. all ed 10
:moo
69.
....1001. alt. 1841. pd 4
9,633 51. per cent.. Ditto New

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rtiIlHE LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND
DUBLIN GUARANTEES) MUTUAL and PRO-
PRIETARY LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
No. :t. CHARLOTTE-ROW, MANSION HOUSE, and 5,
GREAT MARLI3OROUGII-STREET, LONDON ;
64, FLEET-STREET,. DUBLIN.; and
21, ST. ANDREW-STREET, EDINBURGH.
DIRECTORS.
KENNETH KINGSFORD, Eq., Savage-gardens, Chairman
BENJAMIN IFILL , Esq., Wclbeck-street, Deputy Chairman
Alexander Anderson, Esq., York-place, Portman-square
John Atkins, Esq , White Hart-court, Lombard-street
James Bidden, Esq, Spread Eagle-court
Captain F. Brandreth, Scots' Fusilier Guards
James Hartley, Esq., Mecklenburgh-square
John INl‘Gtiffie, Esq., Osnabur,gh-street
John Maclean Lee, Esq., Seething-lane
J. Alarmaduke Rosseter, Esq., Kennington-terrace
Vice-Admiral Robert Honyman
Alexander Robertson, Esq., Portland-terrace, Regent's-park,
Manager.
Au DITORS H. H. Cannan, Esq., Finsbury-square
Robert E. Alison, Esq.,• Cornhill
Mantean ADVlSER—Marshall Hall, M. D_ ,• F.R. S., L. and E.
SECRETARY—F. Edgell, Esq., Noel-street
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Palmer, France, and Palmer, Bedford-
row.
CONSTITUTION OF THE COMPANY.
This is the only Guaranteed Mutual Life Compaay—All other
Assurance Companies are either Mutual, in which the parties
Assured are also their own assurers, there being no Share-
holders and no original Capital—or Proprietary, in which the
assured have no share in the profits, which belong exclusively
to the Shareholders—cr Mixed, in which the assured have the
option, on payment of larger premium, of participating in a
portion only of the profits. By the Constitution of the Lon-
don, Edinburgh, and Dublin Company, the Mutual Class of
the assured are entitled to the Whole of the Mutual Profits, as
if they had been assured in a purely Mutual Society, and they
have also the security of the funds of the Company supplied by
the Shareholders, who, 'guarantee by the subscribed Capital, the
payment of the sums assured—the assured themselves being re-
lieved from all responsibility, and thus placed in the right of
the advantages afforded both by Mutual Societies and Proprie-
tary Companies.
Table to Assure £lOO, with profits :
Age. £. s. d. Age. £. s. d.
20
25
35
40
Those who wish to assure a specific sum without regard to
future additions, are charged according to a scale which is as
low as a due regard to the complete security of all parties will
admit of.
Table of Premiums without addition of Profits :
Age. £. s. d. Age. X. a. d.
20
25
35
40
PRACTICE OF THE COMPANY.
Important improvements have been introduced into Life As-
surance practice by this Company, whereby the mode of ob-
taining Policies is simplified, all doubts as to their validity are
removed, and their application is much extended.
The Policies are Indefeasible and Indisputable, unless they
have been fraudulent]) obtaine !. They at once create for the
assured an unquestionable right in reversion, easily negotiable,
and valuable as a collateral security in pecuniary transactions.
One-half of the Premiums may remain unpaid for Seven
Years, affording a greater facility and more economical plan
for loan transactions and family provisions than any other which
has been suggested, allowing a Policy to be dropped at one-half
of the usual sacrifice, and entitling the assured at a future pe-
riod, when loss of health may prevent him from obtaining a
new assurance, to continue a Policy for double the amount of
the sum for which he has paid premiums.
Credit Tab'e to Assure £lOO.
Age. X. r. d. Age. £. s. d.
15 ..
20 ...... ........ 0 18 0 45 ..
25 .. 1 0 7 50
30
Whole World Policies, entitling the party to go or to reside
in any part of the World, are granted on payment of a small
additional premium, according to tho circumstances of the case,
but fixed and determined at the time of granting the Policy.
Provisions for Old Age may be made by the purchase of an
annuity to commence at any defined age, or by effecting a Life
Assurance according to the following Table, whereby the sum
assured is made payable to the Assured himself on his attaining
60 years of age, and in the event of his death before that time,
it is payable to his heirs or assigns.
To Assure £lOO to the Assured Himself at 60, or to his Heirs.
Age. £. s. d. Age. £. s. d.
15
20 ... ... 2 8 7 40
25
30
Chronic Diseases form no bar to the granting of Policies
upon the lives of persons suffering from them ; an additional
premium being charged according to the nature of the risk.
The Agents of the Company, and the Manager in London,
will, on application, forward, free of expense, Forms of Propo-
sal and every requisite information, to parties desirous of effect-
ing Assurances.
All Official Communications are considered as strictly con-
fidential.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM Tilt EVENING ?AYERS OF YESTERDAY.
GLOBE.—By the law of England the unpaid Ma-
gistrates are the supervisors of the far ►arger number
of the prisons throughout the kingdom. ;Until
within the last half century they exercised their
functions in this, as in almost every other depatt-

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to the latest period of existence :
FROM MR. NOBLE' HULL.
" Mr. Plaxton, of Cottingham, five miles from Hull, has
long been afflicted with a most severe internal disease. So
dreadful were the paroxysms that he frequently expected death
was at hand to release him from his sufferings. For a great
length of time he had been unable to sit down at all, even be-
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Life Pills, purchased a small box for him, and on his calling
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ing effects produced by one box that he was able to sit down,
and on taking two other boxes his pains have left him ; his ap-
petite is good, and he is able to follow his vocation nearly as
well as he ever did in his life."
" Mrs. Shaw, wife of Mr. Shaw, yeast dealer, had been a
great length of time afflicted with a severe internal disease.
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Infirmary ; there she received no permanent benefit. Having
heard of Parr's Life Pills, he purchased a small box; she be-
gan to mend immediately on taking them, and two more boxes
have cured her. She is now as well as she ever was in her life."
" Mrs. Stevenson, of Cottingham, five miles from Hull, has
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and during that period has tried .211 kinds of medicines, but
without any permanent relief. After taking four small boxes
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in a manner which for comfort has been unknown to her for
above ten years. (Signed)
" EDMUND STEPHENSON, her Son.
" Witness—Joseph Noele."
" I have to acknowledge with delight the benefit I have re-
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heard of Parr's Life Pills, and after taking only two small
boxes, feel grateful to be able to add I now enjoy perfect health.
" ELLEN HART, No. 20, Kingston-square,
" Witness—W. Hart. North-street, Hull.

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went of their Magisterial office, without control or
molestation from Parliamentary inquiry or public
opinion. While the higher officers of the State were
allowed to prosecute the policy ambition or interest
prescribes, without the interposition of those salutary
restraints which have been since gradually in-
creasing in number and in strength, it was not very pro-
bable that the public would be very acute in discerning
where securities are wanted in the subordinate branches
of administration. The improvement in the public
mind, which has gradually exercised its influence upon
other subjects of national importance, has included the
discipline of criminal prisons within its range ; and cer-
tainly, " the secrets of the prison-house," as they have
been successively disclosed, have not only been " worth
knowing," as they have furnished food for the gratifi-
cation of curiosity ; they also exhibited a state of
things which showed hew dangerous it is to intrust ir-
responsible power to the hands of any body of men,
however estimable in their private and social rela-
tions, which, from the inherent infirmity of our na-
ture, is certain to be abused. We do not suppose
that the great body of our unpaid Magistracy, either
in the present or the former periods of its existence,
have been worse than other men. Their actions
show that they have not been better. The same me-
Lives which govern other men in their several avoca-
tions have actuated them. Of these motives it is only
necessary to observe, in order to subject them to a
jealous scrutiny, that they invariably lead a man to seek
his own happiness ; but that it depends (as far as re-
gards ordinary men) in a great degree, upon the situa-
tion in which a man is placed, whether he will promote
that of others. Hence it is the duty of the Legisla-
ture to take care that every public functionary shall
be supplied with a strong motive to perform well
the duties of his office. Publicity—that is, having the
internal state of several prisons laid bare to the
public eye by means of authenticated periodical reports
from responsible public officers, appointed by the Go-
vernment, and wholly unconnected with the Magis-
tracy, and having authority to enter the prisons at all
times, for the purposes of inspection—seems to be the
most powerful check to evil, and the best means of
effectuating good. The powers thus subjected to public
inspection and control may not, and probably will not,
approve of this intrusion, but society cannot fail to de-
rive from it considerable benefits.
STANDARD.—Sir Robert Peel has taken the
earliest opportunity of the possession of office to re-
sume that character of a real and useful Reformer with
which he commenced his public life, and which he has
never for a moment laid aside, except when disabled by
circumstances from acting in it. The reform in the
administration of the law, which he began nearly 30 years
ago, with so much benefit to the,publie, and which he
vigorously prosecuted while in =office from 1822 to
182.7, is to be again taken seriously in band. A corn-
missioc—it is scarcely necessary to say an unpaid com-
mission—composed of the principal Judges in equity, has
been appointed to consider of the manner in which suits
in that department of the administration of justice, over
which they preside, may be rendered less complicated,
expensive, and tedious than they have hitherto been. If
these Commissioners discharge the duty confided to them
honestly and boldly, and free from professional prejudices
—and it were unjust to doubt them—ehey will confer
upon the country a benefit which it is impossible to
overrate. The Courts of Equity are now practically
closed against all the people, except where objects of
very great value arc concerned, and practically closed
against the less wealthy, whatever may be the object.
If the Courts of Equity are good for any thing, it is
a good confined to the wealthy ; and these Courtsare often a positive evil to the poor dragged within
their meshes, without the power either to de--
fend themselves when enthralled, or to escpe
from the thraldom. It is, however, to present an a
in•
adequate view of the evils arising from the expense
and tediousness of equity proceedings, to limit these
evils to the cases immediately of equity jurisdiction ;
three-fourths or more of the oppression and in-
justice committed by the aid of common law
process is the effect of the inaccessible charac-
ter of relief in the Equity Courts. Take the
common case of a debt unjustly charged, against which
it may happen, from a thousand blameless causes, the
party sued has no remedy at law: Equity provides a
remedy against the injustice to which this attempt at
fraud must in the Common. Law Courts inevitably lead.
The remedy consists in a rigid examination of the plaintiff,
and other means ; but at present
i this remedy, by an
equity process, is so dear, that it s never resorted to,
except when large sums are in jeopardy, and even
then it need scarcely be mid. that it can be resorted to
only by the comparatively rich. Thus the paralysis in
the Equity Courts invades the whole administration of
the law, and nurses a race of cheats and swindlers,
whose malignant influence upon the higher interests of
credit and commerce, and even of public morals, can
scarcely be conceived by those who have not long in-
vestigated and seriously considered the matter.
0

The Toulon papers mention that the Monte-
bello and Hercule of the line are going to have hew
masts fitted, and that they are to be made of Canada
pine furnished by an English house. This is the first
application of this wood in that dock-yard.

?Ric, m 5d

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING; PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.

TlMES.—According to a private letter from Macao,
dated the 22d of August, and which is deemed in the
City of very good authority, the following are the con-
ditions which Sir Henry Pottinger, under his instruc-
tions from this Government, is to demand from the
Chinese as the basis of a treaty of peace between the
two Powers :

1. The opening of all the Chinese ports situated on
the eastern coast to all European nations without ex
ception, who will be permitted to trade freely, subject
to a, moderate duty on the entry and departure of their

2. The abolition of the monopoly hitherto enjoyed by
the Hong merchants.
3. The appointment of an English Ambassador to re-
side at the Court of Pekin.

4. Indemnity to the English merchants for the loss
sustained by the destruction of opium and the abolition

As usual when the Government is in any diffichlty on.
a point of finance, there are abundant suggestions as to
the best means of getting out of it, and no topic has
been more fertile in this respect than the affair of the
spurious Exchequer bills. One suggestion which has
been current to-day strikes us as both novel and inge-
nious, and as it proceeds from one of the most expe-
rienced members of the Stock Exchange, it comes with
some weight and authority. The notion is founded on
that peculiar state of the market existing at present,
which has paralyzed the sale of Exchequer bills, but has
improved the condition of the funded debt, and would
have improved it still more, had not the public been
constantly supplied with the new scrip. Hence, it is
thought, that as the Government have at their disposal
the stock of the savings'-banks, they might avail them-
selves of it for the purpose of taking Exchequer bills out
of the market, and thus substituting one security for
another, with a small advantage on their own side. It
is thought there is the greater propriety in this, as the
funding, though chiefly effected by Exchequer bills, still
leaves this weight upon the market.
The alarm produced yesterday by the statements that
were believed in the very best quarters, of a number of
spurious Exchequer bills having been bought and sold in
the regular market, has, in a great measure, subsided
to-day, having proved upon inquiry to be almost wholly
without foundation. After the most careful research, it
seems that beyond 8,0001., sold by the Bank, and that
since the first alarm, only one spurious bill of 1,0001. has
been discovered, which was purchased as far back as last
May, and would appear further to have got into circula-
tion almost by accident, for out of a large parcel of spu-
rious bills, one perfectly genuine has been discovered.
It is supposed that the party to whom these belonged,
finding himself short by one bill, namely, the bill that
got into circulation, supplied its place by purchasing a
genuine one. Hence the former belief is restored, that
all persons who purchased their bills in the regular mar-
ket before the 21st of October, may consider themselves

secure.
CHRONICLE.—A member of the Stock Exchange
who had been examined by the Committee touching his
connection with Rapello's speculations in the Foreign
Securities, and who stated during his examination that
he had committed his books to the flames about three
weeks previously, as he did not suppose they would be
wanted again, has, it is understood, since found his
books, which, by some miraculous agency, have again
been brought back to existence. It is understood that
at the period of the attempt of Louis Napoleon on Bou-
logne, the Rapallo party were actual and optional
Bears of 3,000,000/. of Consels. On the failure of the
attack the Funds rose rapidly, which must have pun-
ished those connected with the speculation most severely.
It is of no use for the bona fide holders of the Exchequer
bills to hang upon their oars in the expectation that the
Government will come forward to their assistance.
Heaven helps those who help themselves, and they need
not expect to be made exceptions. The impounding of
the bills and the retention of them, to wait the directions
of the Lords of the Treasury, showed very clearly that
those bills which do not correspond with the counterfoil
will not be returned to the holders, and that payment
will be resisted of the whole as forgeries.
The object of seeking for a committal of Rapallo on
the plea of uttering forged bills, knowing them to be
forged, is evidently to justify the Government in their
determination to resist payment of all the spurious bills.
From prudential considerations the deputation to wait
upon the First Lord of the Treasury was postponed,
fearing, we presume, that it might compel him to deli-
ver his opinion prematurely. That is a fault which he
generally takes special care to avoid ; and even if the
statement of the case of the innocent holders should
have the extraordinary effect of inducing the Premier to
be explict for once in his life, it would surely be better
for those concerned to know the best and worst of it than
to remain in their present uncertainty. The notion of any
benefit arising to their case from delay is, we suspect,
perfectly visionary. The bills which have been im-
pounded will be produced in Court, we presume, if the
holders raise an action for payment, but not otherwise; and
as the notice from the Exchequer gave distinct warning
.that the bills would be retained, we do not see that those
who parted with their property under:such circumstances
can complain of the impounding. We are not surprised
that the Government should have laid such a trap to get
the better of their own neglect, but we certainly are
rather astonished that so many people of sound sense
should have been caught by it.
Some people, we believe, were induced to send up their
bills, and others to remain quiescent in fear of exciting
the hostility of the Government. Those well-intentioned
gentlemen should consider, however, that the only way
to obtain the good opinion of the Executive will be to
submit quietly to the loss of all their bills. They will
make no advance in the good graces of the Treasury by
merely postponing their claims. They may injure them-
selves by that course, but they need not expect to get
their bilis paid by waiting upon Providence. The only
course is to let the Government know the danger in
which public credit is placed by the course they have
indicated their intention to pursue, and that if it be ad-
hered to they must be prepared with 22,000,0001. of cash
in March and June next, to pay the bills which will
then be sent in for payment, as the floating debt must in
that case continue perfectly unsaleable and useless as a
security for money.
Our Contemporary the Post devotes more than a co-
lumn of its pages this morning to the cause of our ho-
nourable friend Mr. Tasker, and his everlasting Trea-
sury Bonds. The flood of virtuous indignation with
which we are assailed in this fresh attack is irresistible.
For our own part, we are fortunately used to it, but we
should not be surprised if his Excellency the Spanish
Minister of Finance really sunk beneath its force, and
granted the preference to the Treasury bondholders
over the other creditors of his country, which our Con-
temporary so eloquently advocates. We must hope for
the best, however, and still trust that Senor y Hull
will adhere to his bill of the Bth July, regulating the
terms of admission of the holders of the Treasury bonds
to the benefit of Gamboa's decrees. We see no dis-
crepancy between his letter to Mr. Tasker and the
bill itself ; but we must repeat that on this point Mr.
Tacker acts unjustly to himself and his constituents
by withholding a copy of his letter .to Senor y
Hull, enclosed in his appeal to Lord Aberdeen. With-
out that document his fellow-sufferers, as well as our-
selves, are totally unable to appreciate the extent of their
Chairman's services, and the heinous character of Senor
y Hull's delinquencies. All that we 'know of the con-
tents consists in that very small portion of information
doled out to us by the Post, where it is stated that Mr.
Tasker had " felt himself called upon as Chairman of
the Treasury bondholders, to inquire of Senor y Hull
upon what principle it was he intended to proceed, so as
to place them upon that footing on which it is admitted
by him the special character of their claims entitles them
to stand." We ought really to be favoured with a copy of
this communication to the Spanish Minister, which, to use
the emphatic language of our Contemporary " makes
everything, clear, lucid, and intelligible," instead of
"our crooked way of interpreting things;" whereby it
seems that nothing can result but " discord and con-
fuson." We trust that our application may yet be lis-
tened to, and that this new statement of the case of the
Treasury bondholders may be made public. Being with-
out the benefit of the information it contains, we may
labour under error, which its light would instantly
dispel. There is one point on which it is our duty, in
the meantime, to enlighten our Contemporary. lie must
' not suppose, for one moment, that the " controversy has
been revived," for this plain reason, that it never began.
,nayndasisnaimlanaitnsiasionimngutchhes,a, -dalul
eo wa
ne dd uf
opr
fi
erii
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We have merely administered a little merited castigation
toowna
cfoenwcePiut
their bonds, that they could not suffer an opinion to the
contrary. We have always satisfaction• in pulling down
such jackdaws from their perch.
POST.—The circumstances brought to light by the
examination of Smith and Rapallo,
the Mansion House, are such es eet and
to at Bow-street 0
pletely that the whole of the ExchequerProLviellsviesrLecd mby-
the former, without authority,
are forgeries. Smith,
in his admissions, expressly
printed forms for the purpose of being filled up by an-
other hand, and the Government appear, therefore, to
be fully released - from the necessity of treating with
parties on the subject of indemnification. A claim is
made in behalf of those who had the precaution to go to
the Exchequer-office to get their bills verified, and who
are assumed to have had no cause, from the statement there
made to them, to doubt that they were genuine ; but
these persons unfortunately addressed themselves to the
criminal in chief, Mr. Smith, and who, of course,
took care sto satisfy all callers on that head. . Many.,
inquiries have to be made,. and many pointsd, bee,-
law and commercial usage to be disCrese_.
The
fore the validity of such a claim can be cone d d
Times, after insisting with great earnestness upon the.
ted for examine-
surrender to holders of the bills dehpeosi
forgeries were
tion, under the mistaken idea that e
d this within the walls
exe-
cuted by a Government clerk,f a _
andons its
.preten-
' , now ab
of the Exchequer-office itself,
from the factious at
sions on that score, ando,osd i
piracy to refuse any further
tempt to get up a
andc to demand payment in money,
exchange of papers
assumes to-day a tone that denotes a consciousness of
over-precipitation. __
The Times says :
„The confession o
f Mr. Smith to Mr. Maule, the So-
that many bills were given to
licitor to the TreiisurY,
Mr. napallo with the numbers only, and without the
sienature, is very alarming, since, as far as these bills are
colicerned, it is doubtful whether they would afford a
chance of action against the Government, never having