The Sun.
London, England, 1840-07-20 00:00:00

TRUSTEES.

General the Honourable ir ALEXANDER DUFF, K.C.H.
Major General ALEXANDER, H,C. S.,
JAMES DUFF,:Esq. M.P.
The affairs of the Company to be under the direction and
control of

THE EGARD OF MANAGEMENT.
Sir James Broun, of Coniston, Bart.
William Bell, of Princes Street, Hanover Square, Esq.
Richard Broun, of Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square, Esq.
Alexander Gordon, of Fludyer Street, Westminster, Esq.
Henry Kerr, of Orchard Street, Portman Square, Esq.
Harman Lewis, of Gordon House, M.A.
John Macdonald, of Norfolk Street, Esq.
Thomas Pembertom, of Cadogan Place Esq.
George Robinson, of Stone Buildings, Lincoln's Inn, Esq.
Thomas Bolph, of St. James's Square, Esq.
With liberty to add to their number.
AUDITORS.
Robert B. Pollard, of Bemell House, Middlesex, Esq.
Charles Hutton Gregory, of Croydon, Esq.

MEDICAL OFFICERS.
Wm. R. Basham, of Chester-street, Grosvenor-place, M.D.
Edward W. Pollard, of Brompton-square, Esq.

BANKERS.
Messrs. Coutts and Co., Strand.
London and County Jointstock Bank, 71, Lombard-street.

Royal Bank of Scotland.
The benefits flowing from Life Assurance cannot be bettor
illustrated than by the recorded opinion of the late Mr. Mor-
gan, " that an assurance on any life, effected in any office, is
not only a private but a public benefit ;" and the opinion of a
man of so much knowledge and experience, who devoted a
long life to the management of one oithe oldest and most pros-
perous of these establishments, must alone be sufficient to im-
press a conviction of their utility and importance on every re-
flecting mind. The increase of Companies for the Assurance
of Lives so far, then, from being ?the result of ill advised or
hazardous speculation, is to be attributed to an extended know-
ledge of the protection and security afforded by them, and of
the solid basis and unerring principles on which the experience
of more than a century has proved them to be founded. This
knowledge is increasing and will continue to increase with the
extending intelligence and means of information possessed by
those classes of the community to whom the system of Life
Assurance is snore peculiarly applicable.
" The Agricultural and Genaral Life Assurance Company,"
is framed upon such principles as to secure the greatest benefits
to its members, and so regulated in its details as to be free from
the usual imperfections and defects, and the managers feel as-
sured that the principles upon which it has been founded, and
the regulations under which it will be conducted, entitle the
establishment to the confidence and preference of the public.
ADVANTAGES exclusively presented by the " AGRICUL-
, TUR AL and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COM-

PANY."
The Board of Management is composed of Shareholders and
Policy-holders, the majority being assurers to the extent of
2,0001. each with the institution.
The holders of Policies for the term of Life for 2,0001. and
upwards, qualified to became Members of the Board.
The Auditors are policy-holders, and the holders of policies
for the term of Life for 1,0001. and upwards, qualified for that
office.
The holders of policies for the term of Life for 1,0001. and
upwards, have votes in the election of Auditors.
The Trustees to be nominated by the Metropolitan Board,
and by the Local Committees, the latter in each case to be
composed of a majority of the holders of policies for the term
of Life for 1,0001. and upwards.
The Funds of the Company to be rested in the Trustees,
none of whom are to be Shareholders, but all of whom may be
Policy-holders, who are to have a poxer of intervention in the
affairs of the Institution for the protection of Assurers.
No severance to be made of the assurance fund, nor any
dividend paid upon the capital stock, until a Report, approved
by the Auditors, shall have been made of the debts, credits,
and precise state of the Institution, showing the estimated pro-
fit, a cautionary reserve to protect against casualties, and the
sum applicable to meet the outstanding engagements to the
Trustees, who are vested with a veto against the payment of an
excessive dividend.
No claim upon a policy to be resisted, except upon the autho-
rity of a special report and recommendation of the Committee
of the district within which the policy was effected, showing a
fraud upon the Company, or some well-grounded objection to
an unjust demand.
All claims payable within one month after proof of death.
Ten per cent.. on the sum assured may be received imme-
diately after satisfactory proof of death shall be afforded, when-
ever the circumstances of the claimant shall render such an
accommodation essential.
No proof of birth required after a claim shall arise, as the
age of the assured will be at all times admitted in the policy.
Fraud only to vitiate a policy, and all disputes to be settled
by arbitration, at the option of the assured.
Policies assigned, or duly deposited, as equitable securities
with creditors, not vitiated by suicide, death by duelling, or
the hands of justice.
Unopposed probates and letters of administration of diocesan
Courts entitle claimants to receive the sums assured in this
office without being subjected to the expense or delay required
to obtain the usual authority from the Prerogative Court.
Policies forfeited by non-payment of premiums renewable
upon satisfactory certificates of health, and the payment of the
premium in arrear with interest thereon, with a small fine to be
fixed by the Board.
Females and others to whom it maybe inconvenient to appear
before the Board will be attended by the Medical Officers of the
establishment.
A Committee of the Managers and the Medieal Officers
attend daily for the dispatch of business at the office, where
. every practicable facility is given for the completion of proposals
' for Assurance, and where every requisite information relative to
the establishment may be obtained.
A reserve of Shares has been made for appropriation in the
i country, and applications for them, and for the office of Agent
' to the Institution in the different towns of the kingdom, are
I retimsted, addressed to
C. F. S,IRKM/ON, Esq., Resident Manager,
. 2-5, 7S,vy, Bridge-street, Blackfriars.

Company's Offices, Manchester, July 9, 1840.
MANCHESTER and BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY COMPANY.
CALL of 5/. per SHARE, maging 35/. per Share called up.
The DIRECTORS have this day made a CALL upon the
Proprietors of FIVE POUNDS per Share, and have ordered
and appointed that the same become payable at the Company's
Bankers on the Eighth day of August next. The Proprietors
are therefore requested to pay the amount, on or before the ap-
pointed day, at either of the undermentioned Banks, viz. :
In Manchester... The Bank of Manchester.
London... ...... Messrs. Denison, Haywood, and Co.
Interest at the rate of 51. per cent. per annum will be charged
on all sums in arrear.

THOMAS ASHTON,
Chairman of the Board of Directors.

MANCHESTER and BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY__

CONTRACT FOR WORKS.

The DIRECTORS of the MANCHESTER and BIR-
MING HAM RAILWAY COMPANY will meet at their Of-
fices, No. '23, Bond-street, Manchester, on THURSDAY, the
30th July, at Twelve o'clock, to RECEIVE TENDERS for
the Contract

No. 10, OR DANE VIADUCT CONTRACT.
To make and maintain a Bridge or Viaduct over the River
Dane, in the county of Chester, the northerly end whereof
will be situate in a field marked on the Parliamentary Plan
No. 47, in the township of Twemlow ; and the southerly end
whereof v ill be situate in a field marked on the same plan No. 2,
in the township of Church Hulme, both in the same county.
The length of the Viaduct will be about 1,719 feet, and its
greatest height 87 feet from the river to the rails.
Drafts of the Contract, with plans and specifications of the
proposed works, will be ready for inspection on and after Fri-
day, the 17th instant, at the offices of the Company's Engi-
neer-in-chief, at Store.street, Manchester, and at. the othces of
the Assistant Engineers at Brereton, in Cheshire.
Printed forms of tender may be had at the above-named
places, and at the Company's Offices, in Bond-street, Man-
chester ; at which latter place all tenders mu=t be lodged, on
or before the 30th of July, at Twelve o'clock, indorsed
" Tender for Works," and addressed " To the Chairman of
the Board of Directors." No tender will be received which is
not made according to the printed form to be furnished at the
Company's or the Engineer's Offices.
The party whose tender is accepted will be required to enter
into a bond to the amount of ten per cent. upon his contract,
and to give two sureties for the due performance of suth con-
tract; the names of which sureties, with their description,
must be set forth in the tender.
The Directors will not consider themselves bound to accept
the lowest tender. Part;es tendering, or persons duly autho-
rised by them, must be in attendance at the Company's Offices,
in Bond-street, Manchester, at the time of meeting.
THOMAS ASHTON, Chairman.
Manchester, 10th July, 1840.

PUBLICATIONS.

NEW TRANSLATION OF THE
BIBLE.
Church Extension.—Mr. Hume's amendment to Sir R.
Inglis's motion, that an humble Address be presented to her
Majesty, praying that, before recommending this house to
grant any further sums of public money towards Church
year 1809.
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that, in the opinion of a large portion of the people in England,
the present revenues of the Church, if wisely administered, are
amply sufficient to provide religious worship
and instruction
for that portion of her Majesty's subjects belonging to the
Established Church of this kingdom."...._The San, No. 14,833,
Friday, May 22, 1840.
" We observe in a pamphlet, ' Anti-Deist,' published by
Mr. Bellamy, that Exodus, c. iii., v. 22, is a gross mistransla-
tion. He notices a: number of other errors in the translation
of the Bible now in use, equally hostile to the true meaning of
the writers. It is not a little curious, that many of these mis-
translated passages, which give meanings in direct opposition to
the real ones, have been as stoutly defended
by eminent theo-
logians as any in the whole book, and long commentaries have
been written upon them, expressly to show their beauty and
propriety."—The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821.
To CORRESPONDENTS.--" The Bible.—We have been so
earnestly exhorted to persevere in opening our Paper to the dis-
cussion of the merits of the New Translation, as a question of
the utmo t importance to the interests of mankind, that we feel
it to be our duty to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore,
shall be attended to in turn, as we have reason to believe that
the Heads of the Church have already directed their attention
to the controversy.".—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 5,
1818.
" Surely the elevated patronage which this New Translation
has deservedly obtained, should operate as a general example
and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledged
errors, descend to posterity polluted with all those errors; er
shall it be transmitted to the latest generations of mankind,
with as much of its original purity as it is possible for human
sagacity, knowledge, and diligence to elucidate and confirm."_,
The Sun, Monday, November '23d, 1818. The Sun, Septem-
ber 30th, October 7th, and 2sth, 1837.
" Published in 1818 and 1819. Parts 1 and 2, price 245.
each, dedicated by permission to his Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales, as Regent.
" The New Translation of the Holy Bible, containing the
three books of the Pentateuch, Genesis, Exodus,
Leviticus,
and reconciling the numerous discrepancies in Jerome's and the
European versions.
Part 3d in 1821, containing from Numbers to Deuteronomy.
By John Bellamy.
SPECIMEN OF EMENDATION.
Authorised Version, Deuteronomy, chap. 14, V. 22 Thou
shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed."
" It is a well-known maxim of English law, suggested by
common sense, and recognised by every principle of justice, o
infer, that the long and uninterrupted enjoyment of a e 1
civil
right must have originated in a regular grant from the original
owner, although no express evidence can be produced of ex-
istence of such conveyance. On Tithes.—Quarterly Review,
No. 53.
New Translation :—" A tenth thou shalt tenth, of all the
increase of thy seed." Note—Onkelos, the most eminent of
all the learned Rabbis, who lived before the dispersion of the
Hebrews, and consequently made the translation of the Sacred
Volume into Chaldee at the period when the Hebrew was a
national language, thus translates e the claus__
Gnasaara
tignsarah, " a tenth thou shalt tenth, which is the same as the
Crrn lO`Y
Hebrew. The Septuagint -an -a•rsocrEi (both
Alexandrine and Vatican) " a tenth thou shalt tenth." The
learned Selden, Lo Clerc, and tl otherle great authorities on
tithes, say—" It is not likely thatLevites should have had
a tenth of the whole produce of the land,
because the number
of the tribe of Levi, compared with the numbersi
of the other
tribes, was so trifling. Neither could it be of all the produce
of the land, but of the increase of the
seed , as it is truly said
in the common version : for
aeonr_laisseens necessarily have
been that part of the produce fr re as weds n
to give
the increase, had been returned to the grower out of the
gross
h
produce ; otherwise it could not have een said it was the " in-
crease of the seed."
" When the harvest hactbeen ended, and all
he
gathered, then
the husbandman laid aside his great t.hemma,
mma , otherwise called
the first fruits of his threshing floore,. . . of which it bath beene
spoken in chapter on first fruits; which,
i though it were one
of ten, in respect of that portion which the Levites received,
yet
it was but one of a hundred
"in respect of the husbauelman's
stocke, who payed the Levites • , „„ the Levites paved
m a tenth por-
tion unto the Priests ; this they termed agnather min-ham-
magnasher, the tithe of the tithes, Nell. 35. 38. The Pharisees
would pay a tenth, Mat. xxui.23 ; and hence it is that they
boasted, They gave tithes of all that they possessed, Luke
xviii. 12."—Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, used by the ancient
Hebrews. Dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke, Chancellor of
the University of Oxford. By Thomas Godwyn, B. D. 1634.
" The Council of Calcuith, or Calchlte, held in 785, or, ac-
cording to others, in 787, on account of erecting Lichfield into
an Archbishopric, ratified the Qanons of a Synod that had been
convened just before in Northumberland. Gregory and
Theophilact, who presided as the Pope's Legates, acknow-
ledged, in their letter to the Pope, that they were the first that
had been sent into England with that character. The follow-
ing are some of the Carona of the Synod of Northumberland,
ratified by the Council of Calcuith:-Bth. The ancient
privileges of the Church are carefully to be preserved. The