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lIROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE,
50, REGENT STREET, LONDON,
Established 180(i.
INVESTED CAPI ['AL, 1,200,0001.
Annual Income 140,0001 Bonuses declared 529,0001.
Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 1,520,0001.
PRESIDENT
The Right Honourable EARL GREY.
11PIRECTORS.

The Earl of Macclesfield. Rev. James Sherman.
The lion. Arthur Kinnaird. Henry B. Churchill, Esq.
Sir Iticharcl D. king, Bart. William Judd, Esq
Alexander Henderson, M.D. James Sedqwick, Esq.
Capt. ►v ..fohn Wil iam.s. Alfred Beaumont, Esq.
John Deering, Esq. George Dacre, Esq.
William ❑enry Si .ne, Esq. Richard Sherwood, Esq.
1. The Rates of Premium are those adopted by the principal Life
Offices, the rate without bonus Is lower than that of most other
offices.

2. The Bonuses are added to the Policies, or applied to the reduc-
tion of the Premiums, or may be received in cash as soon as de-
•:laren, at their then present value.
3. Loans are granted upon the Policies issued by this office, or the
t'olicies are purchased at their full value.
4. If a party neglect to pay for the renewal of his Policy, he may
repair the omission any time within twelve months, upon proof of
good health.
Bounces paid upon Policies whi

t have becOme Claims,

Lite insured.

John Wharton, Esq.. Skelton Castle
Sir John Saunders Sebright, Bart...
Sir Widiant Wake, Bart. .. • • • • • • ..
Earl Strathmore •• • • .!• • • ••• • •

lies•. H. W. Champneys, Canterbury
The Marquis of Wellesley • .•..• • . •
Earl Cathcart . • . .

iSum insured.] Sum paid.

5,000
5,000
5,000
5,000
3,000
2,000
1,000

.£ s. d.
7,706 6 0
7,652 13 3
7,500 5 9
7,128 15 8
4,509 I 1
3,411 1 3
1,862 4 11

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Kingdom; and et the head office, No. 50, Regent-street.
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DIRECTOAS.
HENRY JAMES PRESCOTT, Esq., Chairman.
GEORGE FIELD, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
James C. C. Bell, Esq. Daniel Mildred, Esq.
Michael Bland, Esq James G. Murdoch, Esq.
Charles Francis Cobb, gm John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
Andrew Colvile, Esq. Henry Penne, Esq.
George Henry Cutler, Esq. George Reid, Esq.
George Hibbert, Esq. William It. Robinson, Esq.
Thos. Newman Hunt, Esq. Newman Smith, Esq.

FOUR-FIETN:4, or 80 per Ceiit., of the PROFITS be as-
signed to policies every fifth year, and may be applied to increase the
sum insured, to an immediate payment in cash, or to the reduction
and ultimate extinction of future premiums, as shown in the follow-
ng example :
ruoFrrs to POLICIES of 25 TEARS STANDING, entitled to
participate in the Bonus declared In 1846.

Age Cash paid on Or Prem.lAnd an-
at Sum Annual Bonus surrender reduced nual re-
Entry. Insured. Premium, added. of Bonus. to. tura of.
£ £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. s. d.
13 1,00 19 510 451 5 0 174 12 3 8 6 9 ....••
20 1000 21 15 10 4.51 iOl 193 12 2 815 0'
30 1000 26 14 2.451 5 01 236 18 7 710 5 . •
40 1000 33 19 2 1:51 5 0: 284 0 6 4 9 8 •• • •
50 100', 45 6 8 451 5 0' .35 911 ...... 419 4
60 ' 10 5) 63 13 4 451 5 01 384 12 5

Insurances without participation in profits effected at reduced
rates.
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now given by this Company, may be had at the Chief Offices as
above ; at the Branch Office, 16, Pall-mall ; or of the Agents.
SAM CEL INGA Lib, Actuary.

HOWITTS JOURNAL OF LIIERATURE
AND PROOVE,S.

Edited by WILLIA3I and MARY HOWITT.
Part IV. —May Ist, 1847, price Sevenpence, contains four splen-
did Eneravings by Linton, W. Measom, and W. G. Mason, with vig-
nettes by G. aleaiom and Linton, from paintings by Miss Gillies,
Kaulbach, Sonderland, Murillo, and Sant.
Amongst the literary articles are Memoir of Ebenezer Elliott—
National Education and Government Education, by William Howitt
Anti-Climax, by R. H. Horne—The Three Funerals, by Miss
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Susan Lee's Birthday Adventure, by Edward Youl—Trip to Texas,
by Franklin Fox —Death of Tiberias, by N. T. Moile, author of
" State Trials," &c. &c. &c.
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—Boston (United States) Athenaeum.
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CONTENTS OF VIE TIE/TISE.

Cuanza I. On the Philosophy of Marriage, with its Hindrance
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the Disorder,' arising from indiscriminate Excess, Gonnorhcea
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The Chair will be taken at One o'clock precisely.
By order of the Committee,
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King William-street, May 3d, 1847.

sVILSON'S SCOTTISH ENTER
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THIS EVENING, May 3, at Eig,.t o'clock, Mr. WILSON will
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PART FIRST.—Tne smiling Sluing comes in rej.deing—Saw ye my
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light, for my Heart it lies under your Feet, Love.

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BILL OF EXCHANGE FOR SIX HUNDRED• POUNDS.—
ERA U D.
TO BANKERS, BILL-BROKERS, DIS-
COUNTERS, and OTHERS. A BILL of EXCHANGE for
6001., dated London, the 19th kpril, 1847 ; drawn upon the Rev.
John Penleaze, Black Torrington, Crediton, Devon, made payable
six months after date. to the order of the Drawer, and accepted
payable at Messrs. Barclay, Bevan, and Go., Bankers, London;
having been OBTAINED by means of FALSE PRETENCES,
All persons are hereby cautioned against receiving. negotiating, or
in and• manner dealing with the same Bill of Exchange ; and any per-
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For further information, apply to Messrs. Bush and Mullen, soli-
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London, April 30, 1847.

FORGED SCRIP.
EAST INDIAN RAILWAY COMPANY.
The Directors regret to announce that a considerable quantity
of Scrip, fraudulently intended to represent the Scrip Receipts of
this Company, have been discovered to exist, and the Holders of all
Scrip Receipts of the East Indian Railway Company are hereby re-
quired to send the same to the offices of the Company for Identifi-
cation.

D. I. NOAD, Secretary.
8, Broad-street Buildings, April 29, 1847.

.4FAST INDIAN RAILWAY COMPANY.
Notice is hereby given, that the,.DEED of SETTLEMENT
will be sent into the country on TuvaiDAY next, the 6th of May
after which that portion of the scrip numbered 1 to 80,000, which
shall not have been registered, will, at the discretion of the Board,
be forfeited without further notice.

D. I. NOAD, Secretary.
No. 8, Broad-street-buildings, May 1, 1847.
N.B. Copies of the report, with printed forms to accompany the
scrip, for registration, may be obtained on application at the offices
of the Company, 8, Broad-street-buildings ; Messrs. Carden and
Whitehead, Royal Exchange-buildings; and .slessrs. Laurence,
Cazenove, and Pearce, Bartholomew-lane.
The registered share certificates will be issued in the order in
which the deed is executed, and the priority regulated by the date of
execution.

So soon as arrangements will admit a notice will be issued calling
on holders of new scrip to present the same for registration.

LOUVAIN A LA SAMBRE RAILWAY.
DIRECT TO NAMUR AND TO CHARLEROI'
Notice is hereby given that the SECOND ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING of the SHAREHOLDER.; of this Undertaking will be
held at the LONDON TAVERN, Bishopsgate-street, London, on
TVJESDAY, 11th May Next, at ONE o'clock precisely, on the General
Business of the Company.
Resolutions will also en this occasion be taken relative to the
Shares upon which the Call of 21. per Share, due on the 2d Octo-
ber last, has not been paid, the time for which payment was, by a
resol.,tion passed by the Board, and duly advertised, extended to
the 31st of March last past; and a proposition will be submitted on
the subject of the formation of the important line from Brussels to
Namur.

JOHN BARNES, President.
GEO. DANCE, Secretary.

N.13.—11y the Statutes of the Company it i■ necessary that all
Shareholders intending to be present at the above Meeting should
deposit their Share Certitlcates with the Secretary, at least Ten Days
before the 11th proximo, in order to intitle them to take part in the
proceedings.
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THE MAGAZINES.

BLACKWOOD.
So solicit ousis Blachwoodto forward its peculiar political
creed, that it sum- times perils its rsputition in literary_
criticism by undeserved attacks and extravagant panegy-
rics. In th, number just published the latter failing is
particularly visible. M. de Tocqueville has so
depreciated
the system of republicanism as applied to modern go-
vernment, that Maga feels bound to him by the ties of
gratitude: and, in acknowledgment of the kindness
done to the cause of Coniervatiam by M. de Tocqueville's
" Democratic en Anierique," the reviewer has the auda-
city to place him on an equality, as a political philoso-
pher, with—Machiavelli and Bacon! With Machiavelli,
the astutest, wiliest, craftiest, shrewdest, and most ac •
complished of all political philosophers! with Bacon,
" the wisest and the brightest of mankind!" with Bacon,
at once the creator and the high priest of rational philo-
sophy! with Bacon, of whom no eulogium could be ut-
tered too fervid, no expression too reverential, no evi-
dence of awe too extraordinary! But Blackwood is not
satisfied with merely once drawing this absurd col:h-
-and condensed than Tacitus," says
parison ; it enlarges and dilates up
the magazine writer
on it. " Less caustic
of De Tocqueville, " less imaginative and eloquent than
Burke, he possesses the calm judgment, the discrimi-
nating eye, and the just reflection, which have
immortalised the Florentine statesman and the
English philosopher." Was ever flattery so
wordy and egregious! But we have by no
means given this flattery in its totality. At.the risk of
tautology, Christopher tells us again,
with his prim self-
complacency, that M. de Tocqueville "is a Burke
without his imagination,—a Machiavelli without his
crimes." We had hoped, by the way, that we should
never hear from such lips as those of Christopher the
old cant allusions to the crimes of the immortal author
of the " Prince." We presunsi:d that Mr. Macaulay had
thoroughly exploded that popular delusion. But, alas!
for the whirlwinds of the logic, and the tempests of the
rhetoric of the e'oquont essayist,—they have blown
through the " talking oak," without stirring a twig;
the stubborn leaves still go on prattling as they did
heretofore, and- they have now mingled their allusions
to the criminality of the Florentine with the most
fulsome praise of a Parisiaephilosophe 1 M,- Le Comte.
de Tocqueville is doubtless a marvellously clever writer,
but we protest he is no Machiavelli; and we aver that be
is as far removed in point of genius from the great Lord
Bacon as one of Madame Tassaud's wax dum-
mies is removed from the Jupiter of Phidias.
M. de Tocqueville has the worst vice with which an
ambitious author can be cursed—the vice of egotism s
witness the title of his latest lucubration, the " Histoire
Philosophique du Regne de Louis XV." Even the loving
Blackwood cannot help acknowledging that neither
Robertson, nor Guizot, nor Sismondi, nor :ichlegel, nor
Bossuet, had the hardihood to parade their own self-
esteem in so flagrant and impertinent a manner upon a
title-page ! Beyond this, as was evinced in the logo-
machy between M. de Tocqueville and Lord Brougham
a few years back, the former is utterly destitute of the
first requisite of a true philosopher—equanimity. Re
a Machiavelli, forsooth! he a Bacon !--Sluch, however, as
we dissent from Blackwood in its opinion of the intel-
lectual eminence of this Frenchman, we are prepared
to admit the justice, and sometimes the sagacity, of the
less personal observations in the opening contribution
for May. We coincide in a great measure, for example,
in the opinion that " there is not an intellect which
rises to a certain level now in France---not a name which
will be known a hundred years hence--which is not tho-
roughly Christian in its principles. Chateaubriand, Guizot,
Lamartine, Vilmain, De Tocqueville, Michelet, Sis.
mondi, Amqi 6a Thierry, Beranger, Barante, belong to
this bright band." With one exception, we think the
catalogue tolerably correct, that exception being, of
course, M. Michelet. In like manner, we conceive that
Adorphe Thiers is, with all submission to the writer,
rather likely to go down to posterity to the distance of
a hundred years, and more too ! A very flippant article
follows about "Real Ghosts and Second Sight ;" just
the converse of the calm, staid, and even philosophic letters
of Sir Walter Scott, on "Demonology and IN Itchcraft."
Thanks to Blackwood, a thousandfold, for the four
Sonnets upon—Life, Love, Heaven, and Earth, and the
Prospect—by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. They are
sunbeams of poetry gilding the murky way of this
work-a-day life. The first sonnet is quaint, but its very
quaintness is ennobled by the grandeur and majesty of
its tone. After asking whether there be not a subtle
sympathy thrilling from all points of the universe in
vibration and rebound—
" Life answering life across the vast profound,
In full antiphony by a common grace ;"
The poet continues—

" I think this sudden joyaunce which i.lumes
A child's mouth sleeping, unaware may run
From some soul breaking new the bond of tombs :
I think this passionate sigh, which, half begun,
I stifle hack, may reach and stir the plumes
Of God's calm angel standing in the sun."

" Rosaura; a Tale of Madrid," is sufficient in the way
of romance, and interest, and animation, for even the
most jaded reader of the feuilleons. Those who are de- !
sirous of plunging into a very pretty metaphysical
thicket may do so in the paper entitled " The Visible
and the Tangible." The thicket has the advantage of
being a delightfully intricate labyrinth, and the writer
has the advantage of being perfectly well acquainted
with the clue, leading into the very core of the mystery
and out again. Both reader and writer—as is almostin-
variably the case with the least profound metaphy-
sical investigations being about as wise on
emerging as they were on entering ! A
very pleasant dissertation follows upon the respective
merits and demerits of modern French romance writers.
From Vonore de 13alzac with his Pere Goriot and Eugenie
Grandit, to Eugene Sue with his Mysteres de Paris and
Juif Errant, and on to Alexandre Dumas. Of the hitter,
the Marquis de 1% Pailleterie, a most facetious anecdote
is narrated. M. Dumas, as is generally known, is a quad-
roon—his veins are tinctured with the blood of the blacks.
His father, the republican general of the same name, was
a mulatto, born in St. DotnintYo, the son of a negrese
and of the white Marquis de 16a Pailleterie. Bet listen
to the anecdote :—A person more r, matkable for inqui-
sitiveness than for correct breeding—one of those who,
devoid of delicacy and reckless of rebuff, pry into every-
thing—took the liberty
to question M. Dumas rather
closely. concerning his
gen ealovical tree.
"'You are a quutroon, M. Dumas ?' be began.
" I am, Sir,' quietly replied Dumas, who has sense enough
not to be ashamed of a descent he cannot conceal.
" ' And your father P'
" ' Was a mulatto.'
" And your grandfather?'
" ' A negro,' hastily answered the dramatist, whose patience
was waning fast.
"'And may I inquire what your great-grandfather was?'
are, Sir!' thundered Dumas with a fierceness that
made his impertinent interrogator shrink into the smallest
possible compass. 'An ape, Sir—my pedigree
commences
where yours terminates.",

The gist of the entire contribution from which this
humourous incident is eXtracted, is to bring more pro-
minently before the
English readers one of the French
romanciers who is less
known than he deserves—Charles
de Bernard, the clever author of the " Gentilltonune Cant-
pagitrd." " Belisarius—was he blind?" is a really learned
paper, endeavouring to prove that the Belisarius of ro-
mance anti the Belisarius of history are two distinct per-
sonages, and not, as Lord Mahon presumes, identical.
Men have undertaken before now to maintain that Robin
Hood never existed. We prefer—we are not ashamed
to acknowledge it—we prefer being in error on these
points rather than having- visions so beautiful destroyed.
" When ignorance is bliss," &c. " Ancient and Modern
Ballad Poetry" is a pleasant jumble of lyric tid-bits, pre-
faced with a very churlish and sardonic sneer at those
who are still struggling to acquire poetic fame. There
is likewise a gallant epitaph from the German of Wil-
helm Muller, some dainty Scottish melodies by Delta,
and a marvellously dry, -barren, tooth-breaking article
on the " Scotch Marriage Bill." May. the month of
rosy beauty," as Leigh Hunt calls it, has a pleasant and
seasonable accompaniment in I3iackwood.