The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-17 00:00:00

ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE.

Many praiseworthy but ineffectual attempts have been made to
bring within the scope and operation of the laws of mortality and
money the savings of the industrious classes, as well as various cal-
culations regulating their distribution, having for their object either
Immediate, contingent, or deferred benefits.
A slight examination, however, will demonstrate that the con-
struction of these associations or societies is defective; and that in-
stead of affording an easy access and a free choice of investment,
whicl should be the privilege of every one, they confine too nar-
i owly the •hannel through which a benefit can alone be secured ;
and, in proportion as their action is circumscribed and embarrassed,
their utility is limited. For example, it is not to every individual
or to every class amongst the industrious community, that provision
in case of sickness is an object of such importance as to call for a
pecnniary sacrifice ; while to others such a provision appeafs more
attractive, and the loss of employment caused by sickness Is a risk
against which they desire to be guarded. • For this anomalous state
of things there is an effective and simple remedy ; that is to say,
instead of covering, by one weekly or annual payment, two or more
contingent or deferred benefits, so to arrange it that each separate
benefit should have its separate contribution.
It is to not having observed this rule, and to the association of
two dissimilar functions. and by confounding a sick allowance and
an annuity fund in one and the self-same payment, that much of the
evils and mismanagement has arisen amongst Benefit Societies.
No mechanism can be so perfect for the management of a sick -
ness-fund provision as that afforded by the constant sectional asso-
ciation and watchfulness of the several members composing It. sly
this means a thorough and constant check is mutually exercised, and
none but the really sick are likely to become chargeable upon it.
lint the same perfection, or the same security, is seldom attainable
where a fund is to be accumulated through a succession of years,
and where results arc to bear oat calculations, money investment
being in general beyond the experience of the industrious classes.
For these reasons it is clear that the funds destined for a provision in
sickness should be kept entirely distinct from the fund intended as a
provision for old age :
let Because the laws of sickness and mortality, though apparently
connected, do not depend on the same calculation.
2d. Because there are a great number who, in order to seoure a
larger provision in old age are willing to take the risk of providirqg
for probable sickness on themselves.
3d. Because the responsibility of managing a provision for old age,
continued to a distant period is, in a great measure, incompatible
with voluntary associations, fluctuating laws, and individual irre-
sponsibility, and more exposed to a failure in the performance of
such a contract . that when undertaken on the same principles that
ordinarily govern commercial bodies.
4th. Because the expenses of providing for sickness must, when
united in the same payment with provision for old age, tend to dimi-
nish still more this provision : nor is it wisdom or good policy to en-
danger the one for the sake of the other.
Impressed with these convictions, and with an intimate knowledge
of the discussions passing within the bosom of many of the existing
Friendly and Benefit Societies, the parties whose nausqs are here-
unto attached, have had several meetings. with a view of proposing
or adopting a remedy for those and other evils ; and in this manlier
to give an additional force to the principles of brotherhood, unity,
and mutual aid, on which friendly societies are based, by guarding
them from the risks of sudden dissolution.
After much diligent search amongst the combinations ingeniously
proposed from time to time for the attainment of one of the principal
objects of Friendly and Benefit Societies, they have found none equal
In simplicity and comprehensiveness of design, as well as forethought
and sympathy for the wants of the industrious classes, as the plan
proposed by the National Lonn Fund Life Assurance Society. It is
true that the author of that plan has furnished an argument against
provision in sickness; but, without concurring in the immediate ex-
pediency of abandoning a provision in sickness, no one can read the
other part of the plan itself, without being fully satisfied that the
convenience and safety of Friendly and Ileneflt Societies will be
greatly secured and consulted, by separating the payment of a sick
allowance from an annuity for old age.
A deputation having waited on the directors of the National Loan
Fund, who met in the handsomest manner The overtures made to
them for the establishment of a separate office for the transaction of
business connected with Friendly and Benefit Societies, and the in-
dustrious classes in general, resolutions have been entered into, con-
stituting the undersigned as a Committee, with power to add to its
number, for the promulgation of the benefits contained in the an-
nexed prospectus, under the guarantee of the Capital of the Society,
and which, without interfering with the numerous objects connected
with the institution of Benefit and Friendly Societies, will in their
opinion greatly enlarge their sphere of utility, and afford a protection
to the working classes in old age and adversity, which nothing up to
the present day has adequately secured to them.
Thomas Burthom, P.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters.
John Fussell, C.R„ Ancient Order of Foresters.
John H. Gordon, u.S., Ancient Order of Foresters.
James Hale, D.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters.
Henry Hunt, P.G., Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows.
Joseph Nugent, Pro. C.S., Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows.
Joseph Reeks, 11.0. F., Order of Old Friends.
Samuel Timbrell, D.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters.
DEFERRED ANNUITIES.

Example.—A person aged 24 next birthday, by the annual pay-
ment of 11. 68., or quarterly payment of 78., or monthly payments
of 25. 2d., may secure, on attaining the age
37/of 60, the option of re-
ceiving Annuity, 107. 195. 2d. ; Cash down, 1071. 3s. ; or a Policy
on Ills Life, 1. 17s.
Example.--A person aged 26 next birthday, may secure, on at-
taining the age of 60, an Annuity of 101., with the other options, by
the annual payment of 1/. Os. 91.. er a single payment of 22/. 173.3c1,;
or on payment of 61. 14s. ad. for disparity, he will be entitled to
the same benefits by an annual payment of 18s. 11d., the same as
or age 20.
Example.—A person aged 30 next birthday, by the annual pay-
ment of 1/. 65., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payment
of 2s. 2d., may secure en attaining the age of 65, the option of re-
solving Annuity, 18/. Os. 4d.; cash down, 1481. 12s. ; or a policy on
his life 175/. 11s.
Exam,de.—A person aged 35 next birthday, by the annual pay-
ment of I/. Gs., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payment
of 2s. 2d., may secure, on attaining the age of 65, the option of re-
ceiving Annuity, 18/. Os. 4d. ; cash down, 148/. 12s. ; or a policy on
his life, 175/. I Is.

LIFE ASSURANCE.
Example. —A person at the age of 30 next birthday may secure
the sum of 100/. payable at his death, whenever it may happen, and
also participate in the Annual Division of Profits, by the annual pay-
ment of 2/. 9s. 3d.
Example.—A person at the age of 25 next birthday, by the pay-
ment of 4s. per month, or ls. per week, may secure the sum of
1121.55. payable at nis death. whenever it may happen, and like-
wise share in the annuals profits of the Society.
. FERGUSON C OfROUX, Secretary.

-IPHE CENTRAL COMMITTEE for WATCH-
1. ING OVER the INTERESTS of PROTESTANT DISSEN-
TERS at the ensuing GENERAL ELECTION.
SAMUEL MORLEY, Esq., Chairman.
All communications to this Committee may in future be addressed
to the Secretary, Mr. CHARLES WALKER, at the Offices of the
Committee, No. 16, New Broad-street, London.
June 12, 1847.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE RAILWAY.
THIRD INSTALMENT.
21. per Share of 171. 103., due Ist of August, 1847, making 81. 4s. per
Share coiled up.
OXFORD AND BLETCHLY JUNCTION RAILWAY
COMPANY.

Notice Is hereby given, that the Directors of the above-mentioned
Company have this day made a Call of 2/. per Share, payable on the
ist of August, 1847.
The Shareholders are accordingly requested to pay the same at
any of the under-mentioned bankers, producing at the same time
the call letter, without which payment of the call cannot be ac-
cepted.
HARRY VERNEY, Chairman.
WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary.
30, Great George-street, Westminster,
11th June, 1847,
BUCKINGHAM AND BRA
MPCKLE Y. Y JUNCTION RAILWAY
CO

Notice is hereby given, that the Directors of the above-named
Company have this day made a Call of 21. per share, payable on the
Ist of AUGUST, 1847.
The Shareholders are accordingly requested to pay the same at
any of the undermentioned Bankers,* producing at the same time
the Call Letter, without which payment of the Call cannot be ac-
cepted.
HARRY VERNEY, Chairman.
WYNDHAM HARDING, Secretary,
30, Great George-street, Westminster, June 11, 1847. -
Inter, st .ft 5 per cent. will be charged by the Bankers on all Calls
hich remain unpaid after the appointed day.
No interest accrues on any Share during the period when any Call
due by the Proprietor remains unpaid.
No transfer of shares will be received on or after the Ist August,
1847, until the call i, paid.
*BANKERS.
London • • ....Messrs. Glyn, Halifax, Mills, and Co., Lombard-
street.
Birmingham• . The Birmingham Banking Company.
Liverpool . • .. The Borough Bank.
Manchester • • Sir B. Heywood and Co.
Aylesbury. Messrs. Bickford and Hunt, and the London and
County Bank.
Backingham.. Messrs. Bartlett, Parrott, and Hearn, and the London
and County Bank.
Banbury •• . .111ess s. Cobb and Co., and Messrs. Gilbert and
Tawney.
Oxford .. Messrs. Wootten and Co., and the London and County

Bank.
Bieester.. • ...Messrs. Tubb,

CARSON'S ORIGINAL ANTI-CORROSION
PAINT, specially patronised by the British and other
.Go-
vernments, the Honourable East India Company, the principal
Dock Companies. most public bJclies, and by the Nobility, Gentry,
and Clergy, for out-doo work at their country seats. The Anti-
Corrosion is particularly recommended as the most durable. out-
door paint ever invented, for the preservation of every deascriptioeen
n
proved by the practical test of upwards of GO years, and by the nu-
merous testimonials (between 300 and 400) in its favour, and which,
cement, Sac., work, as hs b
of iron, wood, s-one, brick, compo,
from the rank and station in society of those who have given them,
have, perhaps, never yet been equalled by anything of the kind
hitherto brought before the public notice.
Lists of prices, colours, and other particulars, wiil be forwarded on
application to Walter Carson, 15, Tokenhouse-yard, back of the
Bank of England. No agents.

DR. CULVERWELL on HEALTH, HAPPINESS, and
LONG LIFE.
In pocket volumes is. each, by post (in stamps), Is. 6d. each.
OW TO BE HAPPY.
Jucunde Vivere."—Cic.

WHAT to EAT, DRINK, and AVOID.
(With Diet-tables for 11 Complaints.)
a.
MARRIACE and its MYSTERIES.
To be, or not to be, that the question."—Shakspeare.
4.

The PASSIONS—Their ADVENT and CONTROL.
" Cura ut valeas."

These- publications are free from empyrical mysticism, and are
adapted to the intelligence of the times.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Mann, 39, Corn-
hill ; Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street ; and all Booksellers, or direct from
the Author, whose practice is exclusively devoted to home consulta-
tion. Mornings till Three, and in the Evenings from Seven till wine,
At 10, Argyle-place, Regent-are/at.

LAMB'S VEGETABLE COMPOUND; an
Effectual Cure for all descriptions of Worms that infest
the Human Body, Indigestion in all its varied forms, Ner-
vous Diseases, Bilious or Liver Complaints, all cases of Fits arising
from Intestinal Irritation, Impurities of the Blood, Eatly stages of
Consumption, and all other ailments producing a delicate state of
the constitution.

The Ve.mtable Compound is extremely mild and easy in its opera-
tion; females of the most delicate constitution, either suckling or
during pregnancy ; young children, or persons at an advanced
period of life may take it with perfect safety, without hindrance of
business or change of diet, and at all seasons of the year without
the least danger of taking sold, and warranted not to contain any
preparation of mercury or turpentine.
The following are a few of the many thousands of cases success-
fully treated by the Vegetable Compound, during a practice of up-
wards of twenty years ,

MAY 19th, 1847.—John Lawrence, cabinet-maker, of 13, Essex-
street, King's Cross, New-road, London, while taking Lamb's Vege-
table Compound, passed a tape-worm eight yards long. He com-
plained for some time of pains and giddiness in the head, sickness in
the morning, and violent pains and weakness between the stomach
and bowels, unpleasant fullness after eating, the bowels distended
with wind, very low-spirited and nervous, a sensation of something
in the throat, aching pains in the limbs, Sce.
MARc'! 20th, 1847.—Mrs. Draper, aged 60, wife of John Draper,
of Wildmoor, :1a the parish of Sherfield Green, near Basingstoke,
while taking Lamb's Vegetable Compound passed a tape-worm
several yards long. She had been subject to almost every symptom
of indigestion for many years, and never could obtain any benefit
until taking the Vegetable Compound, since which she has enjoyed a
good state of health up to the [resent time, May 22d, 1847.
MAY 18th, 1847.—Mrs. Sims, living servant with Mrs. Hill, St.
James's-walk, Clerkenwell, London, while taking Lamb's Vege-
table Compound passed a tape-worm several yards long. She had
complained of pain and giddiness in the head, sickness, weakness,
of the limbs, shortness of breath, and palpitation of the heart ; pains
in the stomach, side, and back, and scarcely ever felt refreshed from
food or sleep.
Sold wholesale and retail by the proprietor, Richard Lamb, 75,
High llolborn, in packets at 2s, 9d. each; oue packet being suffi-
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Chemist, 78, Gracechurch•street ; Mr. Dodd, Chemist, 91, West-
minster
Bridge-road, Lambeth; T. A. Bridge, Chemist, 270
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persons above ten years old must ask for the
Mr. Lamb may
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Monday, WNW, end Nirodneedity, frara Ten ttrenr.
—"be consulted personally at his residence, every

ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH. AND
MATURITY.
WITH TWENTY-FIVE COLOURED ENGRAVINGS.
Just published, Twentieth Thousand, in a sealed envelope, pries
Is. 64., or post paid, to any address,
for 3s. 6d. in Postage tamps,
directS from the Author's residence.
ELF-PRESERVATION : A Medical Treatise
on the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Maturity.
Illustrated with Twenty-five Coloured Plates on the Anatomy.
Physiology, and Diseases of the Urinary and Reproductive Organs,
explaining their various !fractures,
the injuries that art pfoduced in them, by solitary habits, and ether
excesses. With Practical Observations on the Treatment of Nervous
Debility, Local and Constitutional Weakness, and other diseases of
the Urethra. uses, and function', and showing
By SAMUEL LA'MERT, CONSULTING SURGEON,
9, Bedford-street, Bedford-square, London;
Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, ,Honorary
Member of the London Hospital Medical Society, Licentiate
Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c.
CONTENTS OP THE nexATisx.

CHAPTIIt 1. On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindraneca
and 0 bllgations, and on Infelicitous and Unproductive Unions.—
Cuanza 2. On the Anatomy and Physiology of Use Generative
Organs, their functions, structures, and secretions, proving that great
Mental and Physical Power are dependant upon their healthy action.
—CuarrEa 11. On Solitary Habits; their various effects on the
Animal Economy ; the concealed cause of Debility of the functions
of the Stomach, Lungs, and Brain, and general weakness of the
Mental Faculties. CIAPTEE 4. On the Secret Disorders of Youth
and Maturity, and the Treatment of Nervous and Local Weakness,
Mental Debility, and Premature Decay.—Casyrras 5 and 6. On
the Disorderr arising from indiscriminate Excess, Gonnorhosa
Gleet, Strictures, and other Diseases of Urethra.

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th consequences.Theengravfnifsof
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an invaluable
act as a salutary warning to youth and maturity, and by its perusal
rnsnv questions may be satisfactorily replied to, that admit of no ap-
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Published by the Author, and may be had at his residence; also
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At Home for Consultation daily, rom Nine till Two, and Prom
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SQ rt A RE. T.ONDO

GUN COTTON.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—Perceiving numerous. experiments are being
into the mthinsteps should be taken for the preservation of life and
with
g the
districts,
rin ots f, ntthr?mdku eii tn gon lyhe right that some above article
th
property from the dangers to which both are exposed
frGm the distribution of gun cotton for sale amopgst the
various shopkeepers ; taking for granted, as stated by
the patentees, its explosive properties exceed that of
gunpowder, consequently it must b.e more dangerous •
added to which, I understand it is liable to spontaneous'
combustion. Why, .then, is such a commodity to be
vended ad libitum whilst the dealers in gunpowder are
subjected to such heavy restrictioas and penalties ?
Again, I should like to know. how the insurance:upon an
individual's stock and premises would stand affected in
the event of an accident arising from such a commodity
being upon the premises ? If the subject is not taken
up by the Government, and that soon, we shall have
some much more frightful accidents than have recently
occurred on our railways. Let us bear in mind "„Pre-
vention is better than cure.
Your insertion of the above will be esteemed by
Yours respectfully,
C. SEYMOUR.
:10, Monmouthshire, June 14, 1847.

Nant-

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An export of silver is now taking place from
France to Russia. A similar export also is expected from
this country.
FOOD RIOTS.—It is with much regret we have to
rjonfiance steamer, which
sailed immediately for Falmouth.—Cornwall paper.
[ADvERTISEMENT.] —ASTONISHING CURE OF A. VERY
announce the recommencement of food riots in the West. A
requisition for the military arrived here on Wednesday at
12 o'clock, and by 2 o'clock a company of the sth Fusiliers
with 18 gunners, and drivers, two non-commissioned officers,
officerfianelddopnieeces,
we
reef
putt h e
oßnoyb,aolaArdrttihllee, and two six pounder
BAD LEG OF THIRTY YEARS' STANDING BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS
AND OINTMENT.—The wife of Mr. George Bourne, butcher, of
Stockton-on-Tees, suffered for full thirty years, with a dreadful bad
leg, apparently originating by the bursting of a vein internally. The
pain was intense; the most eminent medical men tried to cure it
but in vain; at last she was induced to try Holloway's Pins and
Ointment, when, to the astonishment of herself and an who knew
her, the leg, in the course of eight weeks, was thoroughly healed and
cured, and has remained sound and free from pain for the last nine
months. Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's zeta-
Umlaut. 244, Strand, London.