The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

EXAMPLES,

Premium. Bonus Bonus in g V, Assured
added. Cash. F may
g g Borrow.
•
• £ £l. d. 1837 £217 15 1 £lOO 011 £l6 0 4'.£445 0 0
'o' 1838 182 3 0 87 1 4: 13 10 2, 395 n 1
licloo 3 4 1839 165 11 10' 74 19, 11 311 346 2 3
18401 116 7 6 54 010! 718 101 296 13 4
118411 111 6 8 4918 0; 710 41 247 4 5

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

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY.
26, Cornhill, Dec. 24, 1846.
Notice is hereby given that the Half-yearly Interest, at the rate
ISt Five per Cent. per annum on the Capital Stock of this Society,
"due on the 31st instant, will become payable on the 11 tb January
ilezt, and Proprietors may receive the same on application at this
'alike on that, or any subsequent day, between the hours of
itleven and Three o'clock.
By order of the Directors,
F. FERGUSON CAMROITX, Secretary.

IVATIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSUR-
i ANCE SOCIETY, Poultry, Mansion House, London.
'Notice Is hereby given that the Annual Dividend on the Capital
ttock of this Company, due on the 31st of December last, can be
rteeetved by applying at the Offices of the Society, on and after
',THURSDAY next, the 12th instant.
Jan. 9, 1847. J. JONES, Actuary and Secretary.

CITY OF LONDON LIFE ASSURANCE
CIETY,
• FOR ACCUMULATIVE AND GENERAL INSURANCES.
Offices, 2, Royal Exch,tnge-buildings, London.
EDW. FRED. LEEKS, Secretary.

EYEBROWS, MOUSTACHIOS, and WHIS-
KERS Produced in a few weeks, and Baldness removed and
it,d by the use of GRIBISTONE'S AROMATIC REGENE-
IitATOR, an essential spirit, drawn from aromatic herbs and flowers,
e. sew drops of which cure headache in a few minutes ; it is also a
*lost delightful, fragrant toilet perfume. Sold only in triangular
limttles, protected by the Government stamp, at 4s• ; double the size,
• ; and double this size, I Is. each ; enclosed in *a
Pamphlet, con-
Ming testimonials of undoubted authority, entitled " ThredMinutee rti7ice on the Growth and Preservation of the Human Ufa, &c."
and 125., for money orders onry.
post, 4s. 6d., 7s. S(l,,
ighgate, near
Sold wholesale only at Griinstone's Ilerbary,
a °Aden ; and by Messrs. Barclay and Son, Farringdon-street ; Sanger,
conduit-street
Messrs. Butler and Co., Cheapside ; Fi,sh6eBr,ared.riTiehlluer,
't:onduit-etreet ; Mr. Johnston, medicine warehouse
'tl4l by all Chemists. Perfumers, and others For Edinburib, J. and
~.•1!. Reline; Leith-walk ; for Manchester, eremite and Son, Adver
ier-oftice.

" Times" news-
To Tin LADIES.
This lady had the following letter inserted in the
~ttber on Ang. 7, 1g46. Reader, remember, this letter was put into
natty of
Paper... by the lady herself, as a testimony to ma.
airs. Weekley, of No. 3. Swan-street, Borough, takes this oppor -
Publicly thanking Mr. W. Grimstone, of the Herbary, High_
Rate for the efficacy of his Aromatic Regenerator, in having emu_
etely restored the hair on her head, after using it about four months,
AO the whole of her hair is much stronger and mere luxuriant than
tve.'• was before the baldness appeared.
`' hire. Weekley inserts this testimony to the virtues of Mr. G.'s
rigenator; feeling assured that many ladies would gladly purchase
lls. bottle if they were as certain of its virtues as she is, from ex-
-I,D7l,ence, not only In the restoration and production of hair in abund-
e, but as a cure of nervous headache ; as a toilet perfume it is far
I„',?'ond any to her taste. She will feel a pleasure in answering any
of respectability to the above facts.-3, Swan-street, Borough."
...11 cases of the hair becoming thin weak, or turning grey, a few
`"Ps on the crown of the head occas'ionally, every week, will pre-
,itit',evcnt It t
the hair ftom coming away with the comb, make it strong, and
Ong grey, rendering the hair luxuriant and curly. A
drops an your hairbrush before brushing the hair,
•er brilliancy causi it t will give the
ng
most delicate ladies may nse this delightful product of the
..,,3zr aromatic herbs and flowers with confidence ; its refreshing
i';'3_,,leremoves headache and makes it a most necessary companion
•tn L! toilet. In cases of nevous headache, pour ten or twelve drops
h,...:±te Crown of the head; if vary bad, repeat it every quarter of an
)kailif. In most cases relief Is certain in ten minutes It produces
ik,.°ll children's heads in a few appplications. If us. used on infants'
.N,4.8, it has such a peculiar cooling influence on the brain as to pre-
ioa,,:irvulsions, as well as promoting the growth of hair.—See
nti et of testimonials.
-44. tatters addressed to wow:a Gilmetoite Ilerbary, Highgate.

A PLAN for the USEFUL EMPLOY-
MENT of the PEOPLE.
(From the Kilkenny Journal.)
We are not at liberty at present to publish the name
of the gentleman who has furnished us with the annexed
suggestions, but his position in society is one which
renders him peculiarly interested in the well-being of
the country. We commend his plan to attentive consi
deration, and purpose on a future day to return to the
subject, and offer some observations of our own in con-
nexion with it :
SUGGESTIONS for the IMMEDIATE and GENE-
RAL EMPLOYMENT of the LABOURING
CLASSES on USEFUL and REPRODUCTIVE
WORKS.
It is proposed that special sessions shall continue to
present in each electoral 6strict such gross sums as may
be necessary for the empl.yment of the people ; that
when so presented, same shall be assessed and charged
on each ratepayer, according to the Poor-law valuation,
thus :

Name—A. B.
District—Gowran.
Valuation —4Ol.
First instalment-1/.
Proportion of gross assessment-101.
That upon an account with the above form being made
out and placed in the hands of the proper officer, every
landlord shall, within a limited number of days, be at
liberty to pad• the proportion thereof charged to him or
his tenants (viz., the first instalment or one•tenth), and
upon payment thereof, shall receive from the officer cer-
tain dockets or cheques, each of which shall be estimated
at the value of a man's daily hire, and which shall in
amount be equivalent to the gross assessment charged to
him and his tenants, as in the case above supposed
(which is an extreme case, the gross assessments being
one-fourth of the valuation)—the payment of il. entitles
the party to 200 tickets or cheques.
In like manner, the tenant, in case the landlord shall
omit to avail himself of the advantage thus afforded him,
shall, at the expiration of the time limited, be at liberty
to pay the amount so appearing charged to him, and
receive the amount of dockets to which the landlord
would be entitled, that is, on payment of the tenth he
shall become entitled to the amount of labour, equal to
the gross assessment.
That such landlord and ratepayer, on presenting such
cheques or dockets to the secretaries of relief committees,
shall be furnished with men sufficient to execute his or
their immediate work, or having procured sufficient
bands in his own neighbourhood, whose names appear on
the relief registry, he shall be at liberty to pay them
with these cheques or dockets, which, on being presented
to the proper officer, will entitle the party holding them
to a cash payment for the same.
It is proposed that the relief committees shall continue
as at present. That the rate of wages should be regu-
lated by the magistrates in each locality.
That public works on roads, and unproductive employ-
ment, shall be continued only so far as to afford employ-
ment to those to whom the above plan will not extend.
The entire assessment being a charge on the estate of
the landlord, it is but reasonable that he should have the
alternative of availing himself of the entire labour
created thereby, for which an ample field will be afforded
him. And as an inducement to the tenant to assist the
landlord with payment of the gross assessment, by the
payment of the instalment, he shall receive a sufficient
equivalent in increased labour placed at his disposal.
Both landlord and tenant will be interested in endea•
vouring to engross and employ all the hands on the
labour register of the relief district, and by taking them
from the public works, render the continuance of such,
and the expensive machinery attendant thereon, wholly
unnecessary.
By this means the public tax will be put in progress
of easy collection, Lands will be improved by draining
and subsoiling, increased production will follow by tha
better cultivation of the land, and instead of a necessity
continuing for employment on unproductive works, roads,
&c., they will be carried on only to a limited extent, and
at reduced expense to the public.
As, however, all Public Works to be henceforth exe-
cuted are intended to be of a useful and reproductive
character, ample provision will be made for all unem-
ployed labour on the labour registry beyond that re-
quired for private individual purposes in the manner
proposed. And where, of necessity, unproductive works
must be resorted to, for the employment of the people,
where AO others of a beneficial or remunerative charac
ter can be found, landlord and tenant will be stimulated
to afford employment, and by withdrawing the men from
the labour registry, diminish the means of executing
such works and the taxation consequent thereon. And
thus, by creating a spirit of competition in the labour
market, ketween the three distinct classes, Landlord,
Tenant, and the Board of Works, affording a tenfold
remuneration to the two first classes, a prospect of rea•
sortable remuneration to all, a demand for labour, will,
it is hoped, be created sufficient to engage all the unem-
ployed labourers of the country, in works of a useful
and productive character.

RAILIVA% ALTERATIONS IN
BIRMINGHAA FOR 1847.
(From the Birmingham Advertiser, Jan. 7.)
Few persons in Binning ham have considered the al tera-

tions, much less calculated the results, which will be
effected by. the several projected railways that are in-
tended to pass through the borough. Treating on the
very important matters connected with the gigantic
schemes about to commence, either in a commercial,
financial, or social point of view, would be a work that
would perplex end bewilder our most gifted philosophers
and political economists. We will give a cursory notice
from memory, not pretending to official correctness, of
the several lines of railway affecting Birmingham, with
their connecting branches, which were authorised to
be constructed last session—the lines on whose stage
the memorable and yet to be renewed " battle of
the gauges" was so determinedly contested :—the Lon-
don and Birmingham Extension, the Birmigham, Wol-
verhampton and Stour Valley, the Oxford Junction,
and the Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and Dudley
Railways. These great undertakings, which will during
the present month be simultaneously commenced, when
completed, will connect this vast district of coal, iron,
and hardware with all parts of England. Birmingham
will then form, in a still more complete sense, the " mid-
land metropolis" of railways—the centre to which all
lines, east, west, north, and south, directly or indirectly
tend. For the completion of the two principal lines
which pass through the heart of the town—the Birming-
ham Extension and the Oxford Junction—our enter-
prising and eminent townsmen, Messrs. Branson and
Gwyther, are the contractors. They commence with
the Oxford Junction at Adderley-street, up to which
point, we believe, Messrs. Grissell and Peto have entered
into a contract with the directors. From Adderley-
street to Milk-street, across Oxford-street, Meriden-
street, &e., there will be half a mile of viaduct. The
elevation of the arches will be from 55 feet to 35 feet
in the clear, the highest of them being over Oxford-
street. The tunnelling of this line commences at Park.
street, running under Shut-lane (at which point it
actually crosses the tunnel of the London and Birming-
ham Extension), and under Carr's-lane Chapil, crossing
High-street, and proceeding in its course to Monmouth.
street, which is the limit of Messrs. Branson and Gwy-
ther's contract. The London and Birmingham Exten-
sion commences at the present North-Western terminus
crosses the canal by the proof-house, through part of