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London, England, 1841-08-23 00:00:00

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IVATIONALAOAN FUND SOCIETY
..i_ FOR GRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, '&c.
No. 26, CORNHILL.
Crofts' £500,000,
Empowered by Act of Parlament.
111 RECTORS,
T. LA MIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
J. Elliotmon, M.D., F.R.S. I John Rawson, Esq.
John. Griffith Frith, Esq. Jehn Riddell Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Es,. Joseph Thompson, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. I Professor Graves, A.M. F.R. S.
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LIFE ASSURANCE.
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upon a Policy of Assurance.
The annexed is a short Table, showing the Annual Premium
for assuring £lOO on the Whole Life, or for a Term :

FOR LIFE.
A. B.
Age. Without Wit h For One For Five
Profits. Profits. Year only. Years, only
s. d. s. d. s. .d. 1. d.
20 1 13 7 1 17 4 0 17 0 0 17 6
30244293 0 19 6 1 0 0
40 218 8 35 3 1 310 15 0
50 44 2 413 6 113 0 116 6
.no 613 78 4 (3 0 0 39 6
Two-thirds of Profits divided annually amongst the Assured.

DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT.
By the plan exclusively developed by this Society, a single
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but to far exceed in amount the entire benefit of all the ad-
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L. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure the
most ample return for after life; thus-21. 12a. per annum ( Is.
a week) at the age of 20, will give the policy holder the fol-
lowing option, at the age of 65
Annuity for remainder of life... ......... £47 la 6
Cash 394 11 0 or a
Policy, without further contributions, of 466 0 oat death.
Other periods of life (of 50, 55, and 60) may be also taken
with similar advantages.
2. Two-thirds at any time lent on deposit of 'milky, being a
fond always available during sickness or want of employment.
3. Two-thirds of all payments returned to representatives in
case of premature death.
N. B. Policies; as collateral money-security, for periods of
one to five years, effected at lower rates than are charged by
any other Office, (See Tables A. and 0- )• with .r
tinuance for Life at,tha usu-d rates.
ROUX, See.

POLICE TESTIMONI.—The following has ap-
peared in several of the Sunday Papers :—ln our last
week'S paper we gave an account of the gross misconduct
of a policeman named Russell, belonging to the F. divi-
sion, who swore to having seen an " unfortunate" girl,
five successive nights, in the Strand, exercising her
wretched calling, and annoying gentlemen who were
passing; while the fact was, that during the whole of the
period sworn to by this credible witness (except the night
of her apprehension) the poor creature was confined in
the House of Correction. There is, however, one part
of that account which we have since been desired to cor-
rect. The worthy Magistrate (Mr. Jardine) was not
informed of the result of the investigation made by the
Police Commissioners ; on the contrary,..they. had not
the courtesy to make any co:thrumication at alt to him
upon the subject. On Monday morning last Russell
(notwithstanding. all that had so recently taken place)
had the hardihood again to bring before the same Ma-
gistrate (Mr. Jardine) another unfortunate female,
whom he charged with having been disorderly in the
Strand on the previous night. His evidence on this
occasion was of so suspicious a nature, that the wor-
thy Magistrate again - refused to act upon it; and the
following morning he sent 'for Sandrock, the super-
intendent of the ?division' and on his arrival informed
him. of the
.evidence given by Russell on the previous
day, and that the prisoner had called a witness whose
evidence completely rebutted his statement—adding, that
he (Mr. Jardine) felt very much inclined again to en-
dorse on the charge sheet a memorandum, to the effect
that he did not credit the evidence of the policeman
Russell. Mr. Jardine then said that he would take that
opportunity of publicly expressing his astonishir ent (to
use the mildest term) at the extraordinary conduct'of
the Police Commissioners in retaining Russell in the
force after having had their attention called to the . re-
mark which he had felt it to be his imperative duty,
as a Magistrate, to make on the charge sheet With refer-
ence to Russell's conduct He would repeat that Russell
in the evidence he had given rigalnst Jane Field, had
evidently been guilty of wilful peKjury, 'and if such
gross conduct were allowed to pass unnoticed by
the Police Com Missioners, particularly after having
had their attention called to it by a Magistrate, he
trembled for the consequences, witnessing, as he did,
the number of charges that Were daily brought
before that Court by policemen, whose evidence was
altogether unsupported. With regard to' the want of
courtesy the Commissioners of Police had shown, in not
informing him of the result of their investigation into
Russell's conduct, -he would abstain from making any
remarks, but he desired him (Sandrock) to report to
them, that he (Mr. Jardine) and his brother Magistrates
had for a long time past viewed the conduct of Russell
with great suspicion, which was confirmed by what had
since transpired with reference to the case of Jane
Field. His conduct on Monday had renderel that
suspicion still stronger.' Sandrock, after listening to the
above observations, promised to report them to the
Commissioners, muttering something -about Russell not
being " quite so good a policeman as he .'ought to be."
The result of Sandrock's report has not been forwarded
to Mr. -Jardine, but on inquiry, we hare been informed
that Russell has received. an intimation from the Com-
missioners, that " his resignation would be accepted," and
•
he has since resigned accordingly. • ' •
COLONEL HILL, 53D REGIMENT, AND THE 1.
PLYMOUTH TOWN COUNCIL.—At the last electios for
the borough of Plymouth, Sir Henry Blackwood, who is
an elector, rather imprudently produced a copy of
the Standard newspaper among a crowd of persons,
and. publicly announced the defeat -of Lord John
Russell in the City. Sir Henry was immediately
set upon by a number of the bystanders, and grr
danger of his life,. Colonel Hill, and others of the 53d, in
undress, rushed to his relief, when an affray , took
place, and • blows were exchanged. The next.day the
Colonel waited on the Mayor and expressed his regret
in the presence of the town-clerk at his haying been
pant during the election. The Coloilers explana-
tion was considered perfectly • satisfactory to the Mayor
and the town•clerks At a meeting of the Plymouth
Town-Council on the 18th, a resolution was passed,
" That the presence of the military during an election
is highly improper; and That it be a recommendation to
Lord Hill, the Coastnander-in-chief, that all officers and
soldiers should remain in the barracks during any future
election for this borough ;" and " That a copy of this
resolution be forwarded to the •Horses Guards." The
Connell consists of about 18 Conservatives and 30 Whigs.
NORTH KENT R 4 ILWAY,—The journey from
London to Rochester and Chatham will he reduced to
an hour -and a half, viz., from London to Blackwell by
railway, teA minutes ; from Blackwell to Gravesend, an
hour ; and from Gravesend to Rochester by new rail-
way, twenty minutes, ThP AtIVVPy frcgp Rochester to
Maidstone is proceeding tinder Mr, GibbOhrough the
valley of the Medway, crossing at Cuxton. The North
Kent Railway is ultimately to connect London over the
Grea6yieh Railway with Woolwich, Dartford, Graves-
end, nochestes, Maldstoce, Canterbury, Ramsgate,
iiar-
gate, Sandwich, and Dad,
The Governor of Gloucester gaol, it is §tud, has
received a respite for seven days, for Weyman, convicted
of the murder of Mr. Fisher, at Tocicington, and it is
thought that the sentence of death will be transmuted
into banig.hraent for life.

of truth, justice, and compstiSion would penetrate to the
hearts of their master's judges. Their last shilling; dis-
appeared, ere these hopes tied. The health of the first
comer, Meer Ali, who with his colleagues had been sub-
isting upon the bounty: of private friends, .now sank
under protracted care and distress ; his life being . in
danger, he addressed the Court, praying that they would
save it, by advancing him a sum sufficient to pay 'his deb:s,
and enable himself and four attendants to return to
India. The answer to this prayer, dated one-euid-fwenty
Jays after (7th October), is before us. We give it entire.
" Your petition, dated 14th September, requesting an
advance of 7001., to enable you to. return to India, has
been laid before the Court of Directors, and,,, in reply, .1
ant commanded to inform you that the Court cannot, take
into consideration any such proceeding from ene only of the
individuals at present residing in this country, as agents
of the late Raja of Sattara.
" J. C. MELVILL, Secretary."
The terms of this inhuman reply, which left Meer Ali
the option of the grave or a gaul, so increased his disor-:
der, that death would hare put a speedy period to his
sufferings, if a gentleman,
.Sir Charles Forbes, had•not
immediately come forward and paid the. money required
to extricate him from his embarrassments, and defray his
passage to India. The other agents continued to live on
in utter penury. At length, their credit ceasing, &en
for necessaries, and themselves dreading arrest for debt,
they ventured to appeal to the Court, -stating that they
were thirteen persons in number wantirig bread, and so-
liciting a trifling advance for their necessities, which
might be paid out of the 80,000/. belonging rightful' -;
to their master, or even out of 4,000r0e jewels, hrs•
property, deposited with a banker at Bombay, the
seizure of which the Government had sanctioned. This
appeal, the India House Secretary acknowledges as :hi-
lows; on the 7th April, 1841 :
" Tour letter, dated 16th March (22 days before),
respecting your pecuniary difficulties, aed request of TM
Advance for 2,000/. has been received and laid before- the
Court of Directors, Vtid I have it in command to state than
the Court see no reason for complying with your request:'
ttl,4ot4tt.
4pril the Agents again liiiplored
assistaner.,,'" "' they :repeated that • they` were - • in.
absolute di'Stress' without the means of subsistence,
and. if not'relieVed Should be compelled to throw them-
selvefor advice and assistance upon the Lord Mayor ;"
but they now pledged „themselves " as a matter of ne-
cessity," that if assisted and furnished with the means,
they would leave England, and depart for • India by the
first convenient opportunity. On the 15th of May,
thirty-Jive days after, the Court reply to the Agents,
'that in consideration of their pledge, their " distressed
Circumstances," and upon their having engaged their
Tpassage, an advance would be made to them (a con-
cession for which it iS understood they are indebted
to the humanity of Sir J. llobhouse, of • whom it
.must be recorded-that he never kept one of their com-
munications more than a day unanswered). The sum
was afterwards increased to 4,000/. ; it was advanced to
them in the first instance by their bankers, Messrs.
Forbes, Forbes, and.CO., and only repaid upon this house
producing proof to the Court of Directors that the Agents
had actually embarked and sailed. The Court further de-
scended to require from this house "a statement of the
appropriation cf the money." There is a remaining part
of this correspondence too truly characteristic of the
•Agents and of the Court to be passed by unnoticed. The
Agents, with the principles of men of honour, end with
the gratitude of virtuous minds for the sympathy which
Sir C. Forbes was the foremost to show for tlnar Hien
master, the Raja, and for the unvarying interest, kind-
ness, and attentions he had. manifested to themselves
throughout their painful residence in Englaird, besought
the Court of Directors, unknown to Sir Charles, to dis-
charge the pecuniary obligation by which he had gene-
rously saved the• life of their colleague, Meer Ali. The
Court, of course, refused in their usual words, aping the
style appropriated to Majesty. Immediately Sir C.
Forbes became aware of the request, which .proper feel-
ings induced the Agents to prefer, he caused it to be in-
timated to the Court that he never meant to contaminate
himself " by making the sum he had advanced to Meer
Ali a subject either of claim or solicitation on the East
India Company." We here close our notice of this dis-
graceful transaction. It is not posssble for language to
heighten any part' of it. It is in truth in :trict keep-
ing with all the other portions of the Sattara pro-
ceedings. The same men who inhumanly refused to ad-
vance a trifling sum to save the Envoy of a Prince
from starving in a strange land, scrupled not to lavish
800/. of the public money upon a tavern dinner to Lord
Keane ; nay, no longer ago than last week, they gave a
large, sumptuous, and 'expensive feast, at the expense of
the starving natives of India, to the persons called Scru- •
tineers at the late election of one of their own body !
The thing seems incredible, though we assure our readers
it is no more than the fact. These are di) men, who
are the rulers over the natives, and the disposers of the
revenues, of all India ; these the men who call themselves
the judges in the last resort of the Raja of Sattara, and
condemned him unheard. All past experience of their
deliberate deeds, as they come to light, contrasted with their
despatches, forbids the future hope of rhame or amend- ,
ment. But one course remains—" Cuncta frustra tentata,
nunc immedicabile vUlaus, Ense recidendum. ni

• RAILWAY—RETURNS.
We extract from the Railway Magazine the sums re-
ceived on the principal railways of Great Britain for the
week ending on the day of the month prefixed to each.
'The return applies only to railways with a revenue ex-
ceeding 1,000/., and includes the money received for pas-
sengers, parcels, carriages, horses, mails, and merchan-
dize :
Aug. 13. Birmingham: and Gloucester
14. Glasgow and Ayr 1,250
14. Paisley and Greenock
7. Grand Junction and Chester and Crewe 10,603
16. Great North of England 1,451
15. Great Western
13. Liverpool and Manchester
14. London and Birmingham 17,892
19. London and Blackwall 1,256
19. London and Brighton
17. London and Croydon
14. London and South-Western 7,175
9. Manchester and Leeds - 5,082
14. Midland Counties `),854
14. Newcastle .and Carlisle 1,851
15. Northern and Eastern
14. North Midland
16. York and North Midland 1,838
- The following calculation of the last weekly returns
of 31 railways, 1,142 miles in length, will be in-
teresting to many readers :—Number of passengers on
twenty-one railways, 293,195, consequently the total for
the week must be above 400,000. The rcceiptsj for pas-
sengers on thirty-one -railways, 74,3991. 9s. 9d. ; ditto
for goods on.twenty-five railways, 15,039/, 4s. 6d.—Total
89,438/. 14s. 3d: This is an average of 78/. 10s. per mile
per week. The traffic, therefore, is certainly at the rate
of more than three millions a year, and carrying fifteen
millions of passengers.

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.
This house closed on Saturday night, only two days
after two other great Houses opened, and we must give
the manager the credit of having performed his part
infinitely better than Lord Melbourne. lie brought
forward good performers who pleased the public, he in-
troduced great variety, and for the laSt session at least,
has taken .care that there should be no divisions. His
principal members he has kept in excellent order; there.
have been no secessions, no rebellion from the lioyai and
noble occupier,: of the omnibns, and everything has gone
on as well as the most enthusiastic' Conservative could
wish. The performances on Saturday were announned
as for the benefit of Rubini, and consisted .of the second
net of Sonnambula, the second act of Marino Faller°,
and the last acts of Lucia di Lammermoor and Lc _Diable
Amouroux. We need hardly say that, at - parting with
their best friends, the performerS did their best, and
were. enthusiastically applauded.
The house did not .close till- nearly an hour after
twelve, and while the Members of the Legislature con-
sider it a sin to allow a tradesman to finish hiS glass
after that hour on Saturday, they consider it no tin to
see Madame Cerito dande in short petticoats, up to nearly
one 'o'clock. " God save the Queen" was sung before
the profanation of the Sabbath commenced.

MR. LINTON'S OIL STUDIES.
Mr. Linton, so well-known for his taste and shill as a
painter, has just brought ont:a great variety of views re-
presenting the splendid scenery of Greece, Italy, and
Calabria. He has spent lately about fifteen mouths in
these countries, has painted the Most' remarkable scenes
in each, and formed altogether, perhaps, the most com-
plete and accurate delineations of the mountains, rivers,
valleys, and towns of those clasSical regions. Vv'e have
not space to enumerate one-half of them, as they pro-
bably are not fewer than three hundred in number, but we
can safely say, from what we have seen of
.part of the
scenery, that they form most -interesting and faithful
representations of countries so admired and revered by
every scholar acquainted with the lan„;ruage of Greece
and Home. The panoramic view of the plain and town
of Sorrento, and the bay of Naples, is an admirable like-
ness. 'So is the Mola di Gaeta, the view of Palermo, the
great vale of Megalopolis, Corinth, Syra,, and. the ru.vina
and plain of Sparta. To a classical scholar, they must
affiwd the highest interest, as he can in a short huar
have a view of almost every pass and mountain and
valley, alluded to or described by the poets and his-
torians of antiquity. The exhibition is to be seen at
the New Wuter Colour Society's Gallery in Pali Mull, but
we believe admission can be obtained only by a ticket
from the artist, and we are not aware that there is any
intention of exhibiting the collection to the public.

.
On a cold frosty morning an unfortunate !pal,
peen Was late in his attendance at school, 'whell was
severely reprimanded by his master: " Faith, Sir,"
:;nia.
young " it was nofault of mine at all, at all.. The
road was so slippery, that every,step I took forward was
two backward.' " Oh, you big blackguard, how can
that be ? If you walked in that fashion, vou never
could be here by any means." "No more I could, Sir,
and so I played the road a trick : I turned my back out
the school, and made it believe I was going ;come
rgain."
A three hundred miles march in India, without
cholera, is one of the pleasantest things in life ;- with
the cholera it is one of the most miserabl4,—Asiatic
Journal.