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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSU-
RANCE SOCIETY.
OFFICE, 26, CORNFIILL, LONDON.
Capital 500,0001.

Empowered by Act of Parliament.
The system of Deterred Annuities, originally proposed by the Na-
tional Loan Fund Life Assurance Society, for the better advance-
ment of the objects of Benefit and Friendly Societies, having received
the approbation of a considerable body cf the active members and
officers of those Institutions, and the Directors of the National Loan
Fund Society having been urgently solicited by them to establish a
Branch Office in connexion with those Societies and the Operative
Classes generally, in which their services might be successfully en-
gaged, a Committee has been sanctioned by the Directors to open
communication wills the different Societies, with the view of more
effectually d.sseminating the valuable benefits amongst the indus-
trious classes, and a plan has been proposed with that object.
ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE.
Many praiseworthy but ineffectual attempts have been made to
bring within the scope and operation of the laws of mortality- and
money the savings of the Indust nous classes, as well - various cal-
culations regulating their distribution, having for their object either
Immediate, contingent, or deferred benefits.
A slight examination, however, will demonstrate that the con-
struction of these associations or societies is defective; and that in-
stead of affording an easy access and a free choice of investment,
which should he the privilege of every one, they confine too nar-
rowly the channel through which a benefit can alone be secured;
and, in proportion as their action is circumscribed and embarrassed,
their utility is limited. For example, it is not to every individual,
or to every class amongst the industrious community, that provision
in case of sickness is an object of such importance as to call for a
peenniary sacrifice ; while to others such a provision appears more
attractive, and the loss of employment caused by sickness Is a risk
against which they desire to he guarded. For this anomalous state
of things there is an effective awl simple remedy ; that is to say,
instead of covering, by one weekly or annual payment, two or more
contingent or deferred benefits, so to arrange it that each separate
benefit should have its separate contribution.
It is to not having observed this rule, and to the association of
two dissimilar functions, and by confounding a sick allowance and
an annuity fund in one and the self-same payment, that much of the
evils and mismanagement has arisen amongst Benefit Societies.
No mechanism can be so perfect for the management of a sick -
eess-fund provision as that afforded by the constant sectional asso-
ciation and watchfulness of the several members composing it, By
this means a thorough and constant check is mutually exercised, and
none but the really sick are likely to become chargeable upon it.
But the same perfection, or the same security, Is seldom attainable
where a fund is to be accumulated through a succession of years,
and where results are to bear out calculations, money investment
being in general beyond the experience of the industrious classes.
For these reasons it is clear that the funds destined for is provision In
sickness should be kept entirely distinct from the fund intended as a
provision for old age :-
Ist. Because the laws of sickness and mortality, though apparently
connected, do not depend on the same calculation.
2d. Because there are a great number who, its order to secure a
larger
provision in old age are willing to take the risk of providing
for probable sickness on themselves.
3d. Because the responsibility of managing ft provision for old age,
cntinued to a distant period is, its a great measure, incompatible
with voluntary associations, fluctuating laws, and individual irre-
sponsibility, and more exposed t• a failure in the performance of
such a contract, that when undertaken on the same principles that
ordinarily govern commercial bodies.
4th. Because the expenses of providing for sickness must, when
netted in the same payment with provision for old age, tend to dimi-
nish still more this provision : nor is it wisdom or good policy to en-
danger the one for the sake of the other.
Impressed with these convictions, and with an intimate knowledge
of the discussions passing within the bosses of many of the existing
Friendly and Benefit Societies, the parties whose nurses are here-
unto attached, have had several meetings, with a view of proposing
or adopting a remedy for those and other evils ; and in this manner
to give an additional force to the principles of brotherhood, unity,
and mutual aid, on which friendly societies are based, by guarding
them from the ricks of sudden dissolution.
After much diligent search amongst the combinations ingeniously
proposed from time to time for the attainment of one of the principal
objects of Friendly and Benefit Societies, they have found none equal
in simplicity and comprehensiveness of design, as well as forethought
and sympathy for the wants of the industrious classes, as the plan
proposed by the National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society. It is
true that the author of that plan has furnished an argument against
provision in sickness; but, without concurring In the immediate ex-
pediency of abandoning a provision in sickness, no one can read the
other part of the plan itself, without being fully saliafied that the
convenience and safety of Friendly and ktenefit Societies will be
greatly secured and consulted, by separating the payment of a sick
allowance from an annuity for old age.
A deputation having waited on the directors of the National Loan
Fund, who met in the handsomest manner the overtures made to
them for the establishment of a separate office for the transaction of
business connected with Friendly and Benefit Societies, and the in-
dustrious classes in general, resolutions have been entered into, con-
stituting the undersigned as a Committee, with power to mid to its
number, for the promulgation of the benefits contained in the an-
nexed prospectus, under the guarantee of the Capital of the Society,
and which, without interfering with the numerous objects connected
with the institution of Benefit and Friendly Societies, will in their
opinion greatly enlarge their sphere of utility, and afford a protection
to the working classes in old age and adversity, which nothing tip to
the present day has adequately secured to them.
Thomas Burthom, P.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters.
John Fussell, C.II„ Ancient Order of Foresters.
John 11. Gordon, D.S., Ancient Order of Foresters.
James Male, D.C.R., Ancient Order of Foresters.
Henry Hunt, r. 0., Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows.
Jo.eph Nugent, Pro. C.S., Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows.
Joseph Reeks, 11.0. F., Order of Old Friends.
Samuel Timbrell, D.C.R.. Ancient Order of Foresters.
DEFERRED AN surriEs.
Example.-A person aged 24 next birthday, by the annual pay-
ment of 1/. Os., or quarterly payment of 75., or monthly payments
of 23. 2d., may secure, on attaining the age of 60, the option of re-
ceiving Annuity, 10/. 19s. 23. ; Cash down, NV. 3s. ; or a Policy
on his Life, 1371. 17s.
Example.-A person aged 2G next birthday, may secure, on at-
taining the age of GO, an Annuity of 101., with the other options, by
the annual payment of 1/. Gs. 9d., or a single payment of 221.17 c 3d.;
or on payment of 6/. 14s. 3d. for disparity, he will be entitled to
the same benefits by an annual payment of 18s. I Id., the same as
or age 20.
Example.-1 person aged 30 next birthday, by the annual pay-
meet of hi. 65., or quarterly payment of 70., or monthly payment
of 2s. 2d., may secure on attaining the age of 65, the option of re-
ceiving Annuity, 181. Os. 4d.; cash down, 1481. 12s. ; or a policy on
his life 1751. 1 Is.
Example.-A person aged 35 next birthday, by the annual pay-
ment of 11. 65., or quarterly payment of 78., or monthly payment
of 2s. IL, may secure, on attaining the age of 65, the option of re-
ceiving, Annuity, 151.05. 4d. ; cash down, 1481. 12s. ; or a policy on
his life, 1751. his.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON,
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This Institution embraces important and substantial advantages
with respect to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities. The assured
ha-, on all occasions, the power to borrow, without expense or for-
feiture of the Policy, two-thirds of te premiums paid (see Table);
also the option of selecting benefitsh, and the conversion of his in-
terests to meet other conveniences or necessity.
Assurances for terms of years are granted at the lowest possible
rates.

DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The remarkable success and increasing prosperity of the Society
has enabled the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare
a fourth bonus, varying from 35 to 85 per cent. on the premiums paid
an each Policy effected on
XA
thEe ProM fit
PLES. scale.

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Bonus Bonus In ii a g ..,.., ~,
.1 Assured
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s. d.
60 1000 3 4

1837
1838
1839
1840
1841

X 217 15 4100 0 11,
192 3 Oi 87 1 41
165 11 101, 74 1 91
116 7 61 54 0 101
111 6 8; 49 10 01

£l6 0 41.£445 0 0
13 10 2\ 395 11 1
11 3 1! 34 2 3
7 IS 10, 296 13 4
710 4, 247 4 5

The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in
'ecember of the present year.
F. FERGUSOINT CANIROUX, Secretary.

IMPERIAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
CORNIIILL, LONDON.

DIRECTORS.
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, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
Andrew Colvile, Esq. Henry Pearce, Esq.
George Henry Cutler, Esq. George Reid, Esq.
George Hibbert, Esq. William It. Robinson, Esq.
Thos. Newman Hunt, Esq. Newman Smith, Esq.
FOUR-FIFTHS, or 80 per Cent., of the PROFITS will 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-
ing example :
PROFITS to POLICIES of 25 TEARS STANDING, entitled to
participate in the Bonus declared in 1846.

Age Cash paid on Or Prem. And an-
at Sum Annual Bonus surrender reduced nual re-
Entry.' Insured. Premium. added. of Bonus. to. turn of.
£ £ a. d. £ a. d. £ a. .1. £ a. d. X s. d.
15 1000 19 510 451 5 0 174 12 3 8 6 9 .• ••
20 1000 21 15 10 451 5 0 193 12 2 815 0 ...•••
30 I 1000 26 14 2 451 i 0 236 18 7 710 5 • •
40 I 1000 33 19 2 451 5 0 284 0 6 4 9 8 ...•
50 1000 45 6 8 451 5 0 235 911 ..•••• 419 4
60 , 10.)0 63 13 4 451 5 0, 384 12 5 .••••• 36 10 6
Insurances without participation in profits effected at reduced
rates.
• • of n+l,ny. nticnninrna

Prospectuses,
now given by t
above; at the B

and an explanatory statement of
ibis Company, may be had at tl
,ranch Ofllee, 16, Pall-mall ; or of
SAMUEL IN,

f other advantages
:he Chief Offlees as
the Agents.
GALL, Actuary.

PORT OF LONDON SHIPOWNERS' LOAN
AND ASSURANCE COMPANY.
Offices, 20, ST. HELEN'S-PLACE, LONDON.
The Deed of Settlement of this Company having been approved by
the Registrar, and the number of Shares presented by the Act having
been subscribed for, the Directors will proceed upon the Ist of May
next, ensuing, to issue Sea Policies under their Common Seal.
For the effectual protection of both shareholders and the assured,
the constitution of this Company is based on the principle of limit-
ing the amount entertained in and upo:i individual vessels, or their
cargoes, in rateable proportion to the capital subscribed, and remain-
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greatest care, thereby securing a wide and equalised distribution of
outstanding risks, to the entire exclusion of gambling profits, and
ruinous losses, from both sides of the account.
Under special clauses inserted in the Deed, no single Insurance,
for the space of twelve months, from the date of issuing the first
Policy, will exceed 5001. For the Aspace of three years from the same 1
date the limit has been fixed at ,000/. ; and for the space of seven
years at 1,5001.,—a method of proceeding obviously calculated to
ensure a steady and remunerative business, and avoid the disastrous
results incidental to an opposite system.
A list of the Board of Directors, of the officers of the Company,
and of the Agents appointed for the outports, will be given in the
Prospectuses, which will be published after the complete registration
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THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. No.CLVIII.
Nine distinct articles constitute the 158th number
of the Quarterly. Upon the " Recent Editions of
Shakspere," the Reviewer utters a very copious and
somewhat acrimonious diatribe, awarding little credit
to Mr. Payne Collier, and less to Mr. Charles Knight.
We cannot but think that the observations upon the
latter commentator are characterised by a tone rather
too invidious, and, to our thinking, very little de-
served. To Mr. Knight the English nation is in-
debted for a splendid edition of our immortal dramatist;
an edition more accurate than any individual edition
ever previously issued, illustrated by antiquarian and
philological notes of singular value, and accompanied
by the most ingenious biography of the poet of poets.
When, therefore, we find the Quarterly Reviewer
bantering Mr. Knight upon the slovenliness of his
English, and bantering him in English as slovenly,
and uncondensed, and straggling, as any we can
just now call to our recollection, we are disposed to
"skip" the remainder of the article for something
less splenetic and more agreeable. But we refrain
from yielding to this momentary ebulition of indig-
nation, because of the acuteness by which these un-
merited sarcasms are accompanied. While we pro-
test against the Reviewer as having no right to
criticise the style of Mr. Knight, inasmuch as be him-
self has, in page 311, penned, perhaps, the worst con-
' structed sentence ever printed in the Quarterly (be-
ginning " llis fellow-players, who enjoyed," &c.), we
are bound to acknowledge that the criticism, in its
entirety is a beautiful and charming composition.
Speaking of Dr. Johnson as among the most distin-
guished of the very many distinguished commentators
on Shakspere, we are rejoiced to observe that
the writer awards him the praise which has been
hitherto so seldom and so grudgingly pronounced, but
to which he is so justly and so eminently entitled. Ac-
cording to the Aristidrean principle, it has become the
faihion to depreciate the abilities and to disparage the
disposition of the Doctor. Now-a-days he is seldom
depicted as other than a surly old brute in a snuff-
coloured coat and worsted stockings, growling per-
petually over the tea-table of Mrs. Thrale, throwing
the insolent 2Lgis of his patronage over Goldsmith,
leading the town by the nose as coarsely as Saint
Dunstan did the Devil, retailing platitudes to
Bozzy, and possessing altogether about as much
capacity for political criticism as a hound or a hedge-
hog. Never was a gigantic mind so traduced, never
was a subtle fancy so maligned, never was so great a
man so miserably and causelessly caricatured. Like
all creatures of genius, Dr. Johnson had his eccen-
tricities many of them unpleasant eccentricities
—but that his intellect was pliant and com-
prehensive, that his literary knowledge was profound
and versatile, that his judgment was ripe, his per-
ception keen, and his heart sensitive to its very core,
not all the fribbles of the " parrot sentimentalists "
and the " minnow antiquists " of this or any other
generation can disprove.

" Whatever flaws later criticism may have detected in
Johnson's own magnificent preface, it helped to make
Shakspere better appreciated. flis notes accom-
plished the same end. He had, unfortunately, but little
sympathy with the ideal parts of poetry—nor had he
patience always to penetrate into his author's design,
which required a stronger belief than he entertained of
Sbakspere's approximation to artistic infallibility
but his great general powers enabled him to paraphrase
into perspicuity many an involved and enigmatical line
—to stamp with a more legible impress many a noble
specimen of worn or corroded coinage ; and few things
are more disgusting than the disrespect with which his
Shaksperian labours generally are treated by the
parrot sentimentalists as well as the minnow antiquists
of later times."

In a subsequent paragraph the critic remarks, that
no judicous editor would ever attempt to supersede
the majority of the Doctor's notes upon Shakspere,
seeing that " for beauty and force they are tot to be
surpassed." One figurative expression in this paper
strikes us as being peculiarly happy, exemplifying as
it does in a single sentence, the advantages derivable
from the multitude of commentators on our greatest
fellow-countryman. Shakspere, observes the writer,
" is like a vast country from which no persevering
voyager returns without affixing his name to an islet
or a creek which had eluded form* explorers." Such
is the amplitude of that continent of poetry ! Before
we proceed to another article we must commend the
elegance and originality of the elucidatory passages
upon the opening scene in " Hamlet," that inimitable
and thrilling scene,
" every minute circumstance" of
which Airs. Radcliffe regarded as " contributing to
excite some feeling of dreariness, or melancholy, or
solemnity, or expectation." (See her posthumous paper
on " The Supernatural in Poetry.") A learned essay,
descriptive of " Private Life
among
the Greeks and
Romans," and a palatable reelzae from "Planche's
History of Costume" follow. When we have uF,
re-
marked that the Quarterly considers the Government
protest against the Montpensier alliance as having
been made " under an erroneous interpretation of the
Treaty of Utrecht," and maintains " that the mar-
riage in question is not at variance with the stipula-
tions of any treaty or with public law," we are
persuaded that enough has been said upon the chapter
about the late Spanish intrigues. Our readers will
not be solicitous to dip again into the dregs of
such eccentric arguments as those adduced by the
Honourable Gentleman the Member for Shrewsbury
and the Noble Lord the Member for Lynn ; dregs,
too, which taste neither of the saccharine absurdities of
Lord George Bentinck or the acid wit of Mr. Dis-
raeli. One of the most extraordinary discoveries of
modern times is undoubtedly that of the arrow-head-
ed writings of Behistan, containing a history of Da-
rius Hystaspes, his deeds, his possessions, and his pa-
rentage. By deciphering these mysterious hierogly•
phics, the science of philology has achieved little short
of a miracle, and has confirmed not only the records
of Herodotus but of every profane historian. As a
popular account of this marvellous discovery the pa-
per relating to it in the Quarterly deserves the highest
eulogium. It is scrupulously sequential throughout
—is comprehensible to the shallowest understanding,
without descending to a puerile simplicity, and com-
presses the substance of many volumes into the com-
pass of a pamphlet. The utter extravagance of the
Irish policy unfolded by one of the reviewers in a
paper upon " Out-door Relief," precludes us from en-
tering upon any serious examination of its objec-
tions and propositions. So outrageous are the absur-
dities crammed into the dissertation that they have
Quarterly Review
induced a contemporary to exclaim, in the very ex-
tisredmeliitryiooufs hri,s asAtoundishdmelierniot,us it
" Theun
unquestionably ap-
pears to be in coupling so much of the abusive with
so much of the Quixotic. According to the estimate
herein taken of the difficulties of Ireland, nothing
can be done for her substantial advantage until a
minute inventory of her contents, her capacities, her
expenditure, her inhabitants, her estates, her munici-
palities, her mortgages, her average crops, in fact of
to, belonging to, or contained in
Ireland, shall have been drawn up and deposited
everything relating
within the reach of the Legislature. The filling up
eligtGn Dispatches,"
of St. George's Channel, the aerial steam-carriage,
and the removal of the town of Windsor, are nothing
in feasibility to this. Remembering the melancholy
fate of Colonel Gurwood, the supplementary notice
o f
collected
thene
new
edition
andproduced
contributions—the first and last—complete this num-
ber of the review ; both biographical, both of con-
siderable length, and both penned with superior
o f
under
d "Wellington
hiseii supervision,i cannot
be regarded as superfluous or ill-timed. Two other
ability. One in commemoration of a distinguished
sailor, the other of a remarkable statesman, namely
of Vice-Admiral Sir Jahleel Brenton and of
the Right Honourable Viscount Sidmouth. One is
suggested by a memoir written by the Rev. Henry
Raikes, Chancellor of the Diocese or Chester, the
other by a memoir from the pen of the Hon. and
Rev. George Pellew, the Dean of Norwich. As may
readily be anticipated, the " Life of Lord Sidmouth,"
depicted in the Quarterly Review is coloured by that
cool blue which is the invariable tinge of everything
political, when viewed through its old Tory goggles.
But the Quarterly looks more bluely than ever upon
Henry Addington, for about Henry Addington there