The Sun.
London, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

GRAVESEND via BLACKWALL RAIL-
WAY, and STAR and BLACKWALL PACKETS.
Railway ani. Boat included in one Payment.
Fore Cabin and Second Class Railway, NINEPENCE ;
Saloon and First Class ditto, ONE SHILLING.
To or from Blackwall or intermediate Piers,
Fore Cabin...... • • Gd. Saloon• • •• Bd.
No other Packets call at the Grays or Greenhithe Piers.
From The Terrace Pier, Gravesend, at 7%, Sy*, *4, 11%, 1, .7,
and S. Sundays, at 7%, 5%, 1 i 3, 1,3, and 5.
From the Brunswick Wharf, Blackwall, at 9J4, 11, 12, 1%, 3,4,
and 54. Sundays, at 9%, 11, 1%, 3,4, and 54.
The TRAINS starting one quarter of an hour before each of these
times.

Passengers marked are run direct, the Packets not being per-
mitted to stop at Piers or for Boats.
Omnibuses from Fenchurch-street Station to all partr of London
every quarter of an hour.
BOAT TICKETS.—TweIve Months, 41. 4s. ; Six Months, 21. 15s. ;
Tree Months, 11. Iss. ; to be had of the Collectors on boar I the
packets ; Mr. Monk, Terrace Pier, Gravesend ; cr of Mr. Saunders,
Brunswick Wharf, P.lackwall.
November 22, 1847.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CALL for TWELFTH INSTALMENT if La. per SHARE
*la 100/. Shares, making 901. paid; for SIXTH INSTALMENT of
10s. per SHARE on 251. Shares, making 171. 10s. paid ; and for
SOURTII INSTALMENT of 21. 105. per SPIABE, on 171. Shares,
making 91. 10s. paid.
The Direotors of the Great Western Railway having resolved, at a
oeting held this day, to CALL, molar the provisions of the Act of
Parliament, for an Instalment of el. per Share on 1001. Shares ; also,
for an Instalment of 21. Ids per Share on 251. Shares; and also an
Instalment if 21. 10a. per Share ea 17/. Shares, Notice Is hereby
given, that the Proprietors are required to pay, on or before the 12th
January next, the said sum of 51. in each of their respective Sharee
of 1001. ; and to pay on or before the sth day of January next the
num of 21. 10s. on each of their respective 251. Shares ; and the like
num 4:121. 10s. ou each of their respective 171. Shares, to nay of the
undermentioned bankers of the Company, viz. :
London—Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co. ; at the Great West-
ern Itailyray Office, 29, Gresham-street, City.
Brietol—Meesrs. Miles, Harford, and Co. ; Messrs. Bane, Ames, and
Co. ; Stuckey's Banking Company ; the West of Eng-
land and South Wales District sank.
Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool.
Cheltenhara—The County of Gloucester Bank.
'reading—Messrs. J. and C. Simonds and Ce.
By order of the Board of Directors,
CHAS. A. SAUNDERS, Secretary.
London Terminas, Paddington, December 2,1847.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
25, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
Capital £500,000, it;supowered by Act of rarliament.
Thus Institution embraces important and substantial aPtvantages
With respect to life assurances and deferred annuities. The assured
has, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the policy-, two-thirds of the premiums paid (see Table);
also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion of his in-
terests to meet other conveniencies or uecessity.
Assurances for terms of years on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION CIF PROFITS.
The increasing prosperity of the Society has enabled the Directors
at the annual meeting held on the 12th May, 1647, to declare a flft)i
bonus, varying fl•om 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid on each
policy effected on the profit scale.
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Bonus
addition Bonus In
Assured. Cash.

Annual In:Bey
Pre- taken
mium. out in

I Pcrrna-
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duction of

!Sum the
Assured
may bor-
row OR
Policy.

Annual
Premiums,

a.
s.
7434

1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842

s. d. s d.
243 5 3,112 8 5
218 4 81 99 5 10
192 1 10' 86 9 31
143 5 10 66 8 4
138 14 21 61 17 6
111 6 81 49 10 0

s. d.
18 4 6
15 13 5
13 4 9
9 19 1
9 9 2
7 10 4

1X s. d.
1494 8 10
445 0 0
1395 11 I

346 2 3
29i 13 4
247 4 6

The Annual Report, with tables of rates, &c.,
*Mee, or any of its branches in the country ; o]
be forwarded post free.

may be kad at the
•, on application. will

F. FERGUSON CA

:OUX, Secretary.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
LECTURES on AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY, by F. 11.
Nolmes, Esq., Daily at Half-past Three, and every Evening at Nine
o'clock, except Saturday Evening. TWO LECTURES by Dr.
RACHHOFFNER—one on the Laws of Nature, in reference
to the important subject of SANITARY MEASURES; the other
on the various modes of VENTILATION, in which the PHYSI-
CAL PROPERTIES of a JET of r'TEAM will be exhibited, wick
Novel and highly Interesting Experiments, Daily at Two and at
Eight o'clock in the Evening. The ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS
worked. The worauNG MODELS, explained. DISSOLVING
VIEWS. The CHROMATROPE. DIVING BELL and DIVER,
with HYDE'S NEW APPARATUS for CONVERSING under
WATER, &c. &c.

Admlssloa, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

STOVES.
WALKER'S PATENT PHCENIX STOVES,
for Churchea, Halls, Shops. ace. The most powerful, safe,
economical, :sod convenient Stoves made. Prices from 2/. 2s. t•
161. 16e. each. Shall Stoves, 18s. each. Requiring no Chimneys.
302, OXFORD-STREET, LONDON, and 48, OXFORD-STUEET,
21IRRING1112t ; and of all the Ironmongers in the Kingdom.
JOYCE'S PATENT FUEL.

THE REGISTERED SYRIAN PALETOT is
prepared in every colour, for selection, at Messrs. SWAIN
and CO.'S, Cr.urt Tailors, 379, Oxford-street. Price 21.

SIR JAMES MURRAY'S FLUID CAM-
P/1,0.R —Three grains to the fluid ounce, the most cordial re-
14terstive in low fevers, mental depression, and nervous diseases. See
The Lancet," November 20, 1817, page .553. In bottles, Is., 25.,
is., and, ga. each, with directions for use.

SIR JAMES MURRAY'S FLUID MAGNESIA.
The safest Antacid, and Polveß t of uric salts in gout and gravel.
&Ad by the Sole Consignee, Mr. WILLIAM BAILEY, North-
etr(set, Wolverhampton; and all wh-lesale and retail Druggists and
iteldicine Agents throughout the British Empire, in bottles, Is.,
28, 6d., 3s. 6t1., is. lid., I le., and 21s. each.