The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

EVENING SUN.

j~,

GREAT WES TERN RAILWAY.
-yEi, Notice is hercby given, that the next HALF-
co-FLY MEETING tif the PROPRIETORS of this
,„ ~,-•I'ANY will be held, pursuant to the Act of Parliament,
r*.gsristol, at the Bristol Station, on TAuasnAY, the 26th Au-
at, at Twelve o'Clock, or the general purposes of business.
The Chair will be taken at Oro o'Clock precisely.
CHARLES RUSSELL, Chairman.
ROBERT BRIGHT, Deputy-Chairman.
Alhe TRANSFER-BOOKS will be CLOSED on the 16th
eerrsit,
i.thd will. not be opened. until after the said Half-yearly
aseetmg on the 26th:
a, rue 123 provides that no person shall be en titled to vote
be, Pr°xY unless the instrument appointing him shall have
4 transmitted to one of the Secretaries of the Company at
"t five days before the meeting.—By Order,
CHARLES A. SAUNDERS,t Secretaries.
THOMAS OSLER
'4:6llway Offices, Princes-street, Bank, London;
Railway Station, Bristol.

IEtL AC KWALL RAILWAY.
The RAILWAY TRAINS run from the NEW TER-
twxlNtrs
stutain Fenchurch-street, and also from the Minories,
zitie. ell, Stepney, Limehouse, West India Docks, and Poplar
tt, 'il°ts, fromr the Blackwell Terminus, every quarter of
be hour, Half-past Eight in the Morning till a Quarter
~Zra Ten at Night (except Sundays during Divine Service),
"n 2 Half-past Ten to One.
N Fares, First Class 6d. ; Second Class 4d.
8,,,,:013.--On Sundays the Trains will start from the Minories
n instead of Fenchurch-street.
h street, Aug. '2, 1841.

LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAIL•
thWAY COMPANY.—Notice is hereby given, that
TRANSFER BOOKS of this Company will be CLOSED
oal MONDAY, the 9th inst. until MONDAY, the 16th inst.,
preparatory to the allotment of the new shares.
11,.i • " iMportant that all out-standing Transfers should be
that in on for before the 9th inst. for regstration, in order
ti, the allotment of the new shares may berm ade to the par-
- Pl'operly entitled to them. By order of the Board,
J. WARRINGTON, See.
urG% F h ch-strcet, August 2,

BLACKWALL AND GRAVESEND.
1,, NEW FAST IRON STEAM BOATS.
The " RAILWAY " I The " BLACKWALL,"
T, ,he " BRUNSWICK,", " FATHER TH AMES.°
An
SONS OF THE THAMES," STEAM BOATS..
TIMES OF STARTING.
28011. ELACKWALt FROMGRAVESENP.
l"nlingt at 9 Morning, at 7 Town Pier
past 9: I past 7 Terrace Pier
• past 8 do.
• past 11 do.
Afternoon, past 12 do.
2 Town Pier
▪ past 2 Terrace Pier
past 3 do.
J. past 4 d.. _
Town Pier
past 6 Terrace Pier
past 7 do.

Ns, ••• past 10
Nltkftetn Oon, It
past 1
past 2
past 4
' ••• mast
past 6
Oast 8 I
FARES.
Week Days—Chief Cabin, Is. ; Fore Cabin, Bd.
U Sundays—Chief Cabin, ls. 6d. ; Fore Cabin, Is.
THE RAILWAY TRAINS
alsofr"om the
, e NEW TERMINUS, Fenchurch-street, and
°ln the AI ori Shadwell, Stepney, Limehouse, West
`ut Docks, andm
Pop' lar 'Stations, and from the Bl
ackwall
thes—ginis, every quarer of an hour, from half-past eight in
morning, till a quarter before ten at night' (except. on
-N44:141.3 daring Divine Service, viz. from. hal, .past ten till ens)
Itoi,c, On SUNDAYS the Trains wasted from the
Ml-
tg.S Station instead of Fenchurch-street.
...-:--I.:.—venchureh-street, Aug. 2, 18,11___

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NATIONAL LOAWFUND SOCIETY
LIFE FOR GRANTING
ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.
No. 26, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.

EIRECTORS. .
J'
,„.. T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
j. ,Liliotson, M.D., F.R. S. 1 John Rawson, Esq.
Dtkl, GriffithEN vi Frith, Esq. Jehn Riddell Stodart, Esq.
a nter Gordon, Esq. . Clement Tabor, Esq.
e'lrge Lunklei, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.

l'roie_ AUDITORS.
nor Wheatstone, F. R. S. I Professor Graves, A.M. F.R.S.
SQL,4OTuar —W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S
1°114)&8a —Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ewens, and Omman-

ney, 6, Baiinghall-street.

LIFE ASSURANCE.
paid ges the perfect security to the policy holder of a.large
stn4rilT Capital, and accumulating funds, the following is one
tie
ten
,many of the advantages' which belong exclusively to
Renate Mies of Life Assurance and Daferred Annuities lo
by 't h. Society, viz.—Power to borrow (without tle-
uPot reen'e, or forfeiture) Two-thirds of all premiums paid
Policy of Assurance.
fin' knUeXed is a short Tale, showing the Annual Premium
£lOO on the Whole Life, or for a Term

FOR LIFE.
4 -''' I A. B.
—'e Without With For One For Five
Profits. Profits. Year only. Years only
....„......
----
, X. s. d. X. s. d. X. s. d. X. s. d.
20 1 13 7 1 17 4 0 17 0 ( 17 6
30244293 0 19 6 1 0 0
40 2 11 1 S 5 3 1 3 10 1 0
50 4 4 2 413 6 , 1 13 0 1 16 6
60 613 6 7 8 4 ( 3 0 0 3 9 6

No) 15,264

MORNING SUN.
WANTED to be forwarded by Post on the
Eveninir, of Publication.
Terms to be addressed to J. C., No. 10, Clarke's-buildings,
East-street, Greenwich.

ITNIVERSAL LIFE ASSURANCE OF-
FICE, 1, KING WILLIAM-STREET, LONDON.

DIRECTORS.
Sir HENRY WILLOCK, K.L. S., Chairmarn.
JOHN STEWART, Esq., M.P., Deputy Chairman.
Col. Sir Richard Armstrong, . illiam Kilburn, Esq.
C. 8., K. C. T. and S. Charles Otway Mayne, Esq.
John Bagshaw, Esq. John Rogers, jun., Esq.
Augustus Bosanquet, Esq. Robert Saunders, Esq.
Chas. Dashwood Bruce; Esq. Jas. Duncan Thomson, Esq
Ellis Watkin Cunliffe, Esq. Captain Samuel Thornton,
Raikes Currie, Esq. M.P. R.N.
AUDITORS—Robert Hichens, Esq.; Crawford Davison Kerr,
Esq. ; Robert Gardner, Esq.
Batirmus—Bank of England; and Messrs. Curries and Co.
Souctroa—William Henry Cotterill, Esq.
PHYSICIAN—George Burrows, M.D., 45, Queen Anne-
street.
Actuator—David Jones, Esq.
POLICIES ON THE Livgs OF PERSONS ABOUT TO PRO-
CEED TO, OR RESIDENT IN INDIA, either in a Civil or Mili-
tary capacity, may be effected at very moderate rates of pre-
mium, calculated from extensive data exclusively for the use
of this Office.
The Society has Committees established at Calcutta, Ma-
dras, and Bombay, where Assurances may be effected, and the
premiums be made payable either in India or in Great Britain,
as may be most convenient to the parties.
The profits are declared in each year, on the second Wed-
nesday in May, on which date all those whose policies have
been in existence five complete years, are entitled to partici-
pation therein.
One-fifth of the ascertained profits of the five preceding
years is divided between the lolicy-holders and shareholders ;
three-fourths to the former, and one-fourth to the latter. The
remaining four-fifths are set apart to enter into the average of
the succeeding years, and thus to provide against unforeseen
contingencies.
1 Messrs. Bagshaw and Co., Calcutta.
Agents in India Messrs. Hall, Bainbridge,and Co., Madras.
ille s e • 1.4.:4.fr0 IllkwhaV.
__, r&lskio ,
,_ ~.,
—3sy orderot the-Board,'
DAVID JONES, Actuary.

rIHE LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND
DUBLIN GUARANTEED MUTUAL and PRO-
PRIETA RY LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
3, CHARLOTTE-ROW, MANSION HOUSE, and 19,
REGENT-STREET, LONDON.
21, ST. ANDREW-STREET, EDINBURGH.
And 64, FLEET-STREET, DUBLIN.

DIRECTORS.
Alexander Anderson, Esq. Kennett Kingsford, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq . John M'Guffie, Esq.
James Bidden, Esq. John Maclean Lee, Esq.
Captain F. Brandreth J. Marmaduke Rosseter, Esq.
Vice-Admiral Robert Honyman Alexander Robertson, Esq. ,
Benjamin Ifill, Esq. Managing Director.
John Johnson, Esq., Alderman ' •
SOLICITORS.--klessrs. Palmer, France, and Palmer.
SECRETARY.—F. Edgell, Esq.
IMPORTANT IMPROVEMENTS have been introduced
into LIFE ASSURANCE PRACTICE by this COMPANY.
The POLICIES.are INDEFEASIBLE and INDISPUT:
ABLE, unless they have been obtained by fraudulent misre;
presentation.
The Beard of Directors satisfy themselves upon the va-
rious questions proposed before 'they enter into the contracts
of assurance, and frame their policies in such terms as to pre-
clude all future questions as to their validity, and thus ren-
der them indisputable and negotiable aocuments of future debt
against the Company.
Parties may be assured either upon the participating or non-
participating plan ; the assured are relieved of all responsi-
bility, and the participating class is entitled to the whole of the
profits upon that branch of the business. - •
Table to Assure £lOO, with addition of profits

Age 25. I Age 35.: I Age 40, I Age 45. I Age 50. I Age 55.
£2 2 7 1 .£2 15 I° 7 " " 8

Persons interested in the lives of nominees or debtors may,
for a trifling extra premium, be relieved from the risk of their
Policies being forfeited by the parties going to foreign coun-
tries.
ONE-HALF of the PREMIUMS MAY REMAIN UN-
PAID for SEVEN YEARS,
Affording a greater facility for Loan Transactions and Fa-
mily Provisions than any other plan which has been sug-
gested.
Credit Tab'e to Assure £lOO Payable at Death.

Age 20. Age 25. Age 30. Age 40. Age 45, I Age 50.
£0 18 0 I .€1 07I£1 3 7 I 11 5£11661 £2 3 9

•
The usual Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents,
and Medical Gentlemen are in all cases remunerated for their
reports.
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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(LLOYDS.

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Caribbean, from Bor-
deaux to Calcutta,,, 25th June, and Eliza, Johnston,
Liverpool to Perna urn, 27t1:4-an-th° EcOn'toz, -11 Y tl:2-
/1)
Queen-Mab, arrive at Liverpool. Condor, Liverpool to
Boston, 17th ult., la 41, lon. 56 ; Lord Nelson, Hull to
Labrador, 27th, lat. 47, lon. 30 ; Fanny, Liverpool to
Quebec, 22d, lat. 45, lon. 42 ; Lady Constable, do. for
do., 28th, lat. 48, lon. 29 ; Jane of Galway, sth, off
Cork ; Rival, Newfoundland to Bahia, Bth, lat. 6, lon.
26 ; Union, Boston to Cape of Good Hope. 24th, lat. 33,
lon. 40 ; Superior, Batavia to London, 29th, lat. 42, lon.
37 ; Hersulla, from Amsterdam, 30th, lat. 44, lon. 35,
by her Majesty's ship Melville, arrived at i'ortsmouth.
Tagus (s.), 31st, off Lagos ; Liverpool (s.), sth lat. 45,
by the Braganza (s.), arrived at Southton. Isabella,
London to Bombay, 23d June, lat. 28 S., lon. 38 ;
Severn, Liverpool toßahia, 9th ult., lat. 9,N,. lon. 29W. ;
George Canning, for Africa, 27th, lat. 43, lon. 34 •, Gos-
sipium, London for Quebec, 30th, lat. 45, lon. 32,' by the
Helene, arrived at Falmouth. ( Sultana, from Buenos
Ayres, by the British Queen, arrived off Cork. Andro•
macho, Calcutta to London, 6th June, out ninety days ;
Lord Vestern same day, which had spoken the Frede-
rick Hut in the Straits of,, Sandy, by the Couch, arrived
at the Cape of Good Hope. • Patriot, Alexandria to Lon-
don, 27th ult., thirty miles East Of Malaga, by the
Warblington, arrived at Cadiz. Whitby, London to New.
Zealand, 29th June, lat. 3 S., lon. 32 W., by the Inde-
fatigable, arrived off Falmouth. Carnatic, London to
China, 12th ult., lat. 15, lon. 39 ; " Jury, London to
Malta, 29th, lat. 45, lon. 9, by the William Alexander,
arrived at Plymouth.
..

EAST INDIA SHIPPING.
Arrivals.—Her Majesty's ship Melville, Captain R. S.
Dundas, from China, at Portsmouth ; sailed from Macao
25th March, Cape of Good Hope 10th June ; St. He-
lena 26th June ; Ascension Ist July. Palestine, Sim,
from New South Wales, off Margate sailed from Syd-
ney '23d March. Dispatch, Tomlinson, from the Cape
of Good Hope, in the Downs ; sailed from Table Bay
10th May, St. Helena 30th May. Eagle, Buckley, from
Port Philip, in the Downs ; sailed Ist April, Pernam-
buco 24th June. Japan, M`Lellan, from the South Seas,
in the Downs ; sailed from St. Helena sth June. Queen
Mab, Ainley, from Bengal, at Liverpool ; sailed sth
March, St. Helena, Bth June. Maryborough, Cooper,
from Bengal, at Bristol ; sailed Bth March. John King,
Bristowe, from the Mauritius, in the Downs ; sailed
24th April.
Arrivals at St. llelena.—The Minerva, Wainwright,
June 13, from New South Wales ; Mandane, Murdock,
14th, from do, and both sailed on the 14th for London ;
Diana, Garrick, 14th, from Desolation Island, and sailed
to London ; ' Rainbow, Winn, 14th, from London ;
Derby, Lee, 16th, from Newcastle ; Apprentice, Cade-
head, 19th, from the Cape to Rio ; Schoon Verbond,
Drayer, 21st, from Batavia, and sailed 22d to Amster-
dam ; Mary Roper, 22d, from Calcutta, and sailed 22d
to Liverpool ; Lord Western, Lock, 23d, from Singa-
pore and Batavia, and sailed 24th to Liverpool ; Majes-
tic, Smith, 23d, from Port Philip ; Reliance, Hall, 24th,
from Bombay, and sailed 26th to Liverpool ; Bato, Key-
ser, 25th, from Batavia, and sailed 26th to Dordrecht ; a
schooner, prize to the Waterwitch, 25th, Mr. Sturdie in
charge ; Imatim of Muscat, Thickbroom, 26th, from Cal-
cutta to London ; Buen Nova, 26th, prize to the Fan-
tome, full of slaves.
Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of' Good Hope.—Sir John
Byng Ellis, June 2, from London ; John Graham, Lar-
ner, from Newcastle.
In Simon's Bay.—Anna, Robertson, June 10, from
London,
Departures from Table Bay.—Le Gol, June 2, for
Nantes ; Brilliant, for Port Philip ; Hugh Walker, 6th,
for the Clyde ; Fame, for the Mauritius ; St. Helena,
for Sydney, from Simon's Bay ; Princess Victoria, May
31, for London.
Arrival at Port Philip.—Singapore, Hamilton, March
20, from a survey, and to sail in April for King George's
Sound and Singapore.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.

The only St. Leger horses backed yesterday were
Middleliam and Tearaway, the former in tens, and the
other for 2001., the prices being severally 8 and 10 to 1.
Nothing done on the Derby. The room was very thinly
attended, owing to the Wolverhampton races, which com-
menced yesterday. The St. Leger " Price Current"
closed as follows!

ST. LEGER.
5 to 4 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Coronation
4 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Van Amburgh
7 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Middleham
10 to 1 agst Mr. Ferguson's Tearaway—taken
25 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Eringo—taken
25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Lampoon—taken
THE DERBY.

The following bets were laid a day or two back:-500
even laid on Scott's, J. Day's, and M. Dilly's lots against
the field.
Offers to bet 30 or take 35 to 1 about Nessus.
Maroon was sold yesterday fur 1,0401., and Marshal
Soult for 3101.

Too BAD.—A shoemaker at Lynn, Massachu-
setts, the place where they shovel so many shoes toge-
ther, and so fast, lately whipped one of his apprentices to
death because 'he could not hang up the shoes as fast as
the master made them !
COMING TO THE POINT.--The following is
a verbatlni copy of a Ciceronian epistle recently sent to a
parish clerk:—" Can wa baa marad to morrow mourners
at alavau o'clock ? Plaza to sand maa wud."