The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-13 00:00:00

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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.
CaNtal 4500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important and substantial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all occasions, the power to borr)w, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
Isee table); also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of his interests to meet other conveni.nces or necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF PxOFET..
The success and increasing prosperity of the •toetety has enabled
the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonne, varying from 30 to 7‘ per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy elected on the Profit scale.
EXAMPLES.

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The division of profits is annual, and the next will be made in De-
cember of the present year.

F. FF.RGITSON CA3dROUX, See.

PROMOTER LIFE ASSURANCE and AN
NUITY COMPANY,
9, CHATHAM-PLACE, BLACKFRIARS, LONDON.
Established In 1826.

DIRECTORS.
Wm. Goodenough Hayter, Esq., Robert Palk, Esq.
M.P. John Louis Prevost, Esq.
Charles Johnson, Esq. Samuel Smith, Esq,
John Towgood Kemble, Esq. Le Marchant Thomas, Esq.
John G. Shaw Lefevre, F.R.S.

TausTEEs.
John Deacon. Esq. ; John G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq., F.R.S.
Charles Johnston, Esq.

This Society is supported by a subscribed Capital of 240,000/., and
by a considerable accumulated premium fund.
Assurances are effected at a low rate of premium, without profits,
or at an increased premium, with participation in the profits of the
Office.

The following are the annual Premiums required for the assurance
of XlOO on a healthy life in either case:—

WITHOUT PROFITS.

Age 20 I 11. I Is. Bd. I 30 f 21. 2s. 2d. I 40 121 17s. Od. 150 141. Os. 8d

A Bonus in ready money, at the rate of 15 per cent. on the pre-
miums received (equivalent to a reversionary bonus of about 30
per cent.) was declared in May, 1842, on all beneficial policies on
which three annual premiums had been paid in the December
previous.

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A division of the profits takes place every five years, and the hold-
ers of beneficial policies can receive their bonuses in ready money, or
have them applied in augmentation of their policies, or in reduction
of their future premiums

Assurers may contract to pay their Premiums either in one sum, in
a given number of payments, in annual, half-yearly, or quarterly pay-
ments, or on the ascending or descending scale.
Officers in the Army and Navy, on active service, Persons afflicted
with chronic and other diseases, and such as are going beyond the
limits of Europe, are also Assured at moderate rates.
Prospectuses and all necessary information may be obtained at the
Office. MICHAEL SAWARD, Secretary.

NEW AND AMUSING NOVEL,
Entitled " BILL BLAKE," or " A TRIP TO PARIS,"
by the Author of " Edwin Leslie ;"

Also, an Interesting Sketch, entitled,

" THE PLEASURE PARTY,

be published in the Columns of
THE ULSTER GAZETTE,
COMMENCING APRIL 13, 1846, AND CONTINUED IN
CONSECUTIVE SECTIONS UNTIL FINISHED.

The Ulster Gazette, Irish Turf Register and Sporting Chronicle,
(established in 1843), is published every MONDAY, in the city of
Armagh, and is a journal devoted to the interests of Agriculture, to
the encouragement and record of Field Sports, and other species of
rational amusement. It is Non-political, and its columns contain,
besides Parliamentary, Army, and Navy News, all the Irish Sport-
ing Intelligence of the Week,—Racing, Hunting, Coursing, Yachting,
Angling, Shooting, &c.,—together with Original Articles on Veteri-
nary Science and Agriculture.
Publishing Office, 9, Russell-street, Armagh, and 28, Lower
Ormond-qnay, Dublin, where Orders for the Paper, Advertisements,
and Communications, are respectffilly requested to be addressed.
Terms—Single Paper, 43%d. ; Quarterly, 4s. 6d.; or 17s. 6d. a Year.
London Agent—Thompson, Palsgrave-place, Temple-bar.

EASTER HOLYDAYS.
Novelties of extgan. interest and information at the
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION
Scenes in the OREGON TERRITORY a part of an en- tirely NEW SERIES of DISSOLVING VIEWS.form PORTRAITS of
the most Distinguished Men in the SIKH GOVERNMENT and
ARMY of LAHORE, magnified by the OPAQUE MICROSCOPE ;
also, Portraits of Sir Henry Hardinge, Sir Robert and Lady Sale. The
PHYSTOSCOPE and CHROMATROPE, with new and beautiful
variations. The most interesting of the Novelties at work are
MACINTOSH'S ROTARY ENGINE, COLEMAN'S PATENT
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE for ascending and descending Inclined
Planes, FARRELL'S ARCHIMEDIAN RAILWAY. an ENVE-
LOPE CUTTING MACHINE, WOOD'S NEW PATENT STEAM-
ENGINE GOVERNOR, and the ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.
Experiments with the DIVING BELL and DIVER. Lectures on
CHEMISTRY and NATURAL PHILOSOPHY, with brilliant ex-
periments.

Admission,Sshools, Half-price.
A brief Description of the Oregon Territory, from Notes by a Nine
Years' Resident, presented to the Visitors.

GENERAL TOM THUMB'S FAREWELL
LEVEES at the EGYPTIAN HALL.—EASTER WEEK.—
All Tickets that have been issued will be received, notwithstanding
their dates. The little General appeals in all the costumes and per-
:orrnances in which he bad the distinguished honour of appearing
three times before her Majesty, and before all the principal Courts of
Europe.

Flours from Half-past Twelve "to Two; Half-past Three to Five;
and Half-past Seven to Nine o'Clock. Admission, ls.; Children,
Half-price.
. _

After Nine o'clock he appears at the Lyceum Theatre.

EARLY HAY HARVEST.-RICK CLOTHS,
with Poles, Follies, and Lines, eomplote.
"No farmer should be without a good rick cloth, for ft is
certainly one of the most usefhl things he can have ex his pre-
mises."—Gardener's Gazette.
Rick Cloths, both New and Second-hand, at a reasonable soot,
at BENJAMIN EDGINGTON'S, 2, Duke-street, Southwark.
Early application will ensure prompt attention. A Warehouse at
208, Piccadilly. Marquees, Tents, Flags, Netting and Bunting for
Fruit Trees, Railway Truck Covers, ace.

ROWLAND'S MACAS SA R OIL
preserves and reproduces the Hair ; prevents it from falling
off or turning grey ; restores grey hair to its original soleur ; frees it
from scurf and dandriff, and renders it soft, silky, surly, and glossy
—facts abundantly preyed by innumerable testimonials, which are
Open for inspection at the proprietors. As a wild stimulative, cor-
rective, and preservative igent, )LOWLAND'S MACASSAR OIL
has the exclusive patronage of the several Sovereigns and Cearts of
Europe, and with rank, fashion, and discernment, supersedes all
preparations of professed similar import. A small pamphlet accom-
panies each bottle of Rowland's Macassar Oil, wherein important
hints and advice will be found on the culture of the hair of Watley,
and on its preservation and beauty through the several stages of
human life.

CAUTlON.—Unprhaolpled shopkeepers, fbr tho sake of gaining a
trifle more profit, vend the most spurious trash under the title of
"Macassar 011." It is therefore imperative on purchasers to see that
the words ROWL &ND'S MACASSAIt OIL, are is two linos
on the wrapper of each bottle, and oa tho inside of
the wrapper nearly 1,500 times, containing 29,923 hitters.
Price as. 6d., 7s. Family Bottles (equal to four small), 10s. 6d., and
double that size, 21s. per bottle.—Sold by the Proprietors, A. ROW-
LAND and SON, 20, Hatton-garden, Landon, sad by Chemists and
Psrflunexs.

*.* All other Macassar Oils are nautililent Comiteshits.

THE USES OF LIQUID MANURE,
A few days since Mr. Moore, the secretary to the Me-
tropolitan Sewerage Manure Company, in compliance
with the request of several influential agriculturists, de-
livered a lecture on the application and advantages of
liquid manure, to a meeting of agriculturists, at the in-
stitution, at Staines.
The lecturer stated that the capabilities of the agri-
cultural interest were not at present more than half de-
veloped in accordance with the present state of science ;
that in consequence of the deficiency of scientific know-
ledge, and inattention on the part of the practical agri-
culturists of the kingdom, fully one-half of the raw ma-
terial available for the manufacture of food was lost, and
that the annual present money value of that loss is equal
to the annual profit on the foreign commercial and
manufacturing trade of the kingdom. As a practical
farmer, who had during the last twenty-five years
brought to bear on agriculture the science of the
day, be was compelled to admit that during twenty
years of that period he had been sustaining that pro-
portion of loss on the farm which he cultivated, and it
was only by accident that he was convinced of his error.
The loss referred to is sustained by the general neglect
of the liquid manure made on the farm, and also by al-
lowing the solid manure to ferment and decompose to so
great an extent before it is used that the principal part
of the most valuable portion of it (being volatile) has
been dissipated. The soil also, by improved cultivation,
is capable of bearing a considerable increase of crop. He
was glad to be able to admit that many of the farms in
this neighbourhood were in a high state of cultivation in
proportion to the depth to which they were cultivated;
but he was convinced that if land was improved to the
depth of twelve or sixteen inches instead of six or eight
inches, such land would not only be less susceptible of
the vicissitudes of the weather, but would yield crops
approaching to doable in amount; the roots of the plants
could obtain food at a greater depth, instead of being
forced to contend with each other for food near the sur-
face in a limited sphere. But the first step in this im-
provement is that admirable system of thorough drain-
ing and sub-soil ploughing introduced by Mr. Smith,
of Deanston, and which is absolutely necessary for all
soils that are so adhesive as not to absorb all the rain
water as it falls upon them. Some years back Sir J.
Graham published an account of an experiment made
by him on this principle; he let a field of very inferior
land to a tenant at ss. per acre, who complained that it
was not worth the rent, as scarcely any animal would
eat the grass that grew upon it, which induced the land-
lord to take it into his own hand, and try the effect of
Mr. Smith's method of improvement. It was accordingly
thoroughly drained, and sub soil ploughed and manured
for green crop, after which it was sown with a corn
crop and grass seed; after the crop of corn was re-
moved, it being then under clover, it was valued and let
to a tenant on a twenty-one years' lease, at a guinea per
acre. If his memory was correct, it was stated that the
proceeds of the green crop and corn crop covered the
whole of the expenses incurred in the improvement.
After the land had been treated as recom-
mended by Mr. Smith, it was necessary to
give it an increased quantity of manure. It
might be asked, whence is the additional quantity of
manure to be obtained ? In reply, he not only sug-
gested the necessity of saving the liquid manure made
upon the farm, but also solicited the attention of the
farmers of the neighbourhood to a source of supply
ample to the utmost extent of their wants. A Com-
pany has been formed for the purpose of transmitting the
sewage manure of the metropolis into the country to the
extent of twenty-five miles, by the means of steam
power and pipes, which will enable the Company to dis-
tribute it in the fields for the farmers at so low a price
as it would cost them to cart it from their farm-yards
and distribute it in the fields. It is intended to lay the
main pipe along the main read through Hammersmith,
Brentford, and Hounslow, and branch mains on to Chert-
sey, Staines, and Colnbrook, from which service-pipes
will be laid at about half-mile distances into the lands
where the manure will be required ; taps will be in the
service-pipes at certain distances, to any of which a hose
pipe can be attached by the Company's men for the pur-
pose of distributing the liquid manure in the respective
fields as may be required. The facility and economy
of this mode of transmission and distribution enables
the Company to supply it on such low terms.
Some persons have imagined that it is the
solid part of this manure that is the most
valuable, but this idea is inconsistent with correct prin-
ciple and practical resulta A reference to a very simple
fact, with which we are all conversant, will sufficiently
illustrate this principle ; we all know the great profi-
ciency of the ladies in the making of tea—how do they
proceed ? They pour water upon the solid vegetable
that they put into the teapot ; in the course of a few
minutes they pour out the exhilirating beverage as clear
(but coloured) as the purest water. When they are sa-
tisfied in having thus exhausted all the virtue of the tea,
what becomes of the solid matter ? We all know that it
is thrown away as useless. Similar treatment is adopted
with the liquid manure of Edinburgh ; small cesspools
are made along the main course, in which the solid
matter is allowed to fall as deposit before the liquid is
put over the land, and this solid deposit, when occa-
sionally cleared out, is disposed of as of very little
value. One of the very great advantages in the applica-
tion of liquid manure is, thatit is just in the very state
ready. to be taken up as food by the vegetable kingdom,
as it is well known that no vegetable can take up solid
manure before it is dissolved. The lecturer then re-
ferred to several other advantages attendant upon the
application of manure in a liquid state.—Agricukural
Advocate.

TRADE.
have been rather more inquiries LEEDS,
..
se an. Act
somewhatTi 0 nEs, OF
Apnvt. 10.—There
itnhquiries for foreign wool this
FOREIGN Woor. TRADE,
though still very moderate in
more freely entered into.
Recent rates are maintained.LEEDs.—There was no mpro
cloth•halls, either on Saturday or
reTnt
din sales at the
is
still a complete absence of speculation,ues
the Thehre
confining their operations to purchasing to 'oPdeerrc
only.
merchants
There is no great accumulation of stock in the handsl of
the manufacturers, and prices con
ewxeteekn't ahndavetrSab:
continue about the same as
of late. Business in the warehouses has also been very
dull this week, the very wet weather having prevented
buyers visiting the town. The foreign houses aro also
doing little until the fate of the Tariff Bill is decided.
On the whole, there is less doing than has been the case
for some years at the same period of the season.
BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—The demand for
all kinds of combing wool is unprecedentedly slack, but
prices continue firm. There is a fair demand for cloth-
ing wools. The spinners are very cautious in their
business operations, and are only running as many frames
as will supply their orders. For the season, we hardly
ever remember such a slackness in trade. Prices are
ruinously low compared with the price of wool. There
was a good attendance of lookers on in the piece mar-
ket, but comparatively few pieces are changing hands.
The manufacturers are merely producing goods to sup-
ply orders or deficiencies in their small stocks. There
is no change in price.
MANCHESTER, THURSDAY EVENING.—In the latter
part of Tuesday there was snore disposition to do busi.
ness in cloth than has been shown for many weeks past;
and parties refusing to purchase on the terms offering in
the early part of the day, were willing buyers before the
close of the market. This feeling both yesterday and
to day has been on the increase, and in a few cases a
slight advance has been obtained, though it is by no
means general, but the market closes rather buoyant
than otherwise. Yarns for the East are tolerably ready
sale, and fully as dear.
Altogether it may be said that
the market is decidedly in an improving state.
LEICESTER.—Trade is in the same dull state as last
reported. No improvement is likely to take place until
a.tr Easter. Wools and Yarns are flat, without alte-
ration in Prices.