The Sun.
London, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

NATIONAL MERCANTILE. A'S-

SURANCE SOCIETIES.

The annual dinner of the member. and friends of
these very improved and successful Life and Fire
Assurance Societies took place on Saturday evening,
at the London Tavern. The annual meeting- was
held at the office of the society, in the Poultry, in the
early part of the day, Robert \Yilcoxon, Esq., in the
chair. The following report, was read and adopted :
" Gentlemen,—The directors have great pleasure
in submitting to the proprietors a statement of the
receipts and disbursements of the society during the
year ended September 80th, 1848, which is
appended hereto, with a certificate of the- ac-
curacy thereof signed by the auditors of the society.
"In, reference to the progress of the society the
directors;are.enahled to report that, notwithstanding
the depressed state of the country during the last
three years, the society has progressed most favour-
ably as regards its increase of business, and, also, in
its increase of assets, and in regard to the averago
amount of claims by deaths.

"From the statement ;nexed it will be seen that
the average annual amount assured in the three years
ended December 1845, was 94,4161., and in the three
year ended December 1848 166,8081. Showing an
average annual increase of 72,3921., or an increase of
77 per cent.

" Diaring the same period it will be found that the
increase in the assets ofihe society have increased to
the extent of 80 per cent.

5. a,

" The average annual amount paid
to the executors of deceased mem-
, bers, during the three years ended
December, 1845, was 4,090 18
" And during the three years ended
December, 1848
" Showing an annual decrease in
the amount paid in respect to
claims of 1,308 18 9
" The total amount paid in respect
to claims from the commencement
of the Society up to the end of
1848, a period of ten years, is.. 23,587 9 1

"Or an average annual amount 0f... 2,358 14 1,
"In the former reports the directors have :only
stated the amount paid in respect of claims, after de-
ducting therefrom the amount received by the society
in respect to lapsed policies, but in the present state.
writ the actual amount of claims alone is given, and
nearly the whole of this amount has been paid by
means of the premiums received upon lapsed policies.
"The great consideration for the policy holders is
not so much the amount as the character of the busi-
ness transacted by an office, and the directors have the
satisfaction of thinking that few if. any offices can
congratillate themselves upon so fortunate a selection
of lives, as is evidenced by the small amount of
claims that have fallen due and been punctually
paid by this society in each case without litigation.
"In the report for the year ended December 10,
1845, the directors stated that they had the satisfac-
tion to believe that the society would, by the pur
chase of the premises consisting of the long range of
buildings Charlotte-row, not only have. made
an excellent investment of money, but would
be enabled to' occupy moat commanding pre-
mises at a very small annual rent. In reference to
this expression of their opinion, the directors are
new enabled to report that they are realising 5 per
cent. upon, the investment money, and occupy the
present valuable and commanding premises rent free.
" The directors have, in conclusion, only to make
their annual appeal to the members to use their in-
dividual-efforts in behalf of the society, and also to re-
mind them that the next dividend will bedeclared in
1851, and that the amount of the bonus will neces-
sarily be more or less, according to the progress of the
society during the interval."

About eighty gentlemen sat down to dinner, which
was presided over by Mr. Wilcoxon, who was supported
on his right by the respected member for Maldon,
David Waddington, Esq., and on his left by William
Nicholson, Esq., the eminent distiller. Among those
present we observed William Lawson, Esq , George
Moore, Esq.,- James Peek, Esq., Giles Redmayne,
Esq. ; John Mair, Esq ; C. J. Jones, Esq. ; George
Stockdale, Esq, &c., &c.
Due justice having been done to the dinner, which
was provided in the best style of the London Tavern,
and which, with the wines, gave general satisfaction,
The CHAIRMAN gave in succession the usual loyal
and constitutional toasts, which met with warm re-
spongea from 'the company.
The CHAIRMAN then rose and said—Gentlemen,
it is now my pleasing duty to propose a toast which
I am sure will receive from you every demonstration
of satisfaction. It is one which I give as
you.. may conceive with great delight, and the
gathering together of so many_friends of the institu-
tion round this festive board fully evinces the great
interest you all tiike in its welfare. I will give you
without further preface "Prosperity to the National
Mercintile Life Assurance Society."—(Prolonged
cheering.) Before I enter particularly into the
subject will you allow me to make two or three
passing observations.. In-the first place I would just
remind you that individually, commercially, and nation -
natty, we have of late been called upon to pass through a
season of extraordinary difficulty and trial.-- (Hear,
hear.) We have witnessed on every side the wreck
of fortunes—of property to. a most awful extent. Our
trade, manufactures, and, industry hare been para-
lysed, - and our -labourers, artizans, and mechanics
have wanted the baranecessaries of existence. Riches
have taken themselves wings and flown away, and
we have been reduced to a state of necessity, indeed.
But. -in the . state -of things to which I have al-
luded let us turn our • eyes elsewhere. The
condition of the countries which constitute Europe
has been infinitely worse than the state of our own.
In them, indeed, there have been " wars and rumours
of wars." - The people hies engaged in strife, and
trade and. industry have been all but paralysed. In
them anarchy, revolution,, and bloodshed have
marked their onward course, and the " hand
of brother has been lifted up against brother ;" but
in our birth-place;•England, we have been fortunately
exempted from beholding those horrors which have
been witnessed. elsewhere.—(Hear, hear.) It is true
that wicked and designing men- have been found, and
such men will ever be found, even in the freeest coun-
tries, doing their utmost to stir up the worst passions
of the very lowest classes--to stir up misguided mul-
titudes, to trample upon our laws, to rob us of our
birthright, our invaluable privileges, our unequalled
constitution, but their -puny attempts have been
frustrated, their evil deSigns have been subverted ;
for the right hand of an all- wise Almighty Provi-
dence was outstretched for our pretection in the hour
of our trial—(Cheers)—and I do think that we are
much indebted to- -that Protestant'faith, which as a
nation we profess, for having been enabled to suppress,
yet at the same time mercifully, the vain attempts
that have been made to stir up discord in the land.
--(Hear, hear.) Gentlemen, if these things, which I
have stated so imperfectly, be really matters of fact,
and I do not think any one will deny that
they have taken place—that we have passed through
a period of great danger, and undergone much suffer
ing-,;those who, pause to contemplate the events that
have of late taken place must be of opinion that each
and every one of us must have suffered in our degree,
and that public bodies, as well as individual commu-
nities, life assurance societies not excepted, must have
participated in that which has been so common
to all.—(Hear, hear.) Many of you have
had an opportunity; of being present to -day at
the annual general meeting of proprietors. You had
there laid before you a full, frank, and faithful report
from your board of directors, together with a balance-
sheet of our financial condition, prepared by our
actuary, and certified as to its correctness by your au-
ditors, showing the present condition of this prosper-
ous company.--(Loud cheers.) I do not think this
is either the time or the place to enter into an array
Of figures, or to enter into anything like a
detail upon a subject like that of assurance ; but I
am called upon, as the chairman of the company,
broadly to tell you that, notwithstanding the un-
equalled pressure of the times, we have not only
maintained our position, but we have made a cons i
derable advance.— (Loud cheers.) We have issued
a very large number—a very large number, indeed-a
of additional polices, whilst our losses have been com-
paratively small, and we have, at the same time added,
as you may readily conceive, very largely to the
amount of our annual reseile.—(tlear.) Gentle.
men, I only wish that life assurance was better un-
derstood, fur I am certain it would then be far more
highly appreciated. I wish the whole community
was more deeply impressed with its immense import-
ance, for it is really lamentable when we look around
and see how much misery is caused, by neglecting to
assure, and how few there are who participate in the
many benefits which it is calculated to bestow, out of
the vast number who, reckless of their own
interest, and the future condition of those
near and dear to them, seem not alive to the
duty which devolves upon all men, but more particu-
larly-upon- those who have others dependent upon
them, to assure their lives.—(Cheers.) They are
mere passive spectators of its incalculable advantages.
The existence of ,that- husband, or that father,
who has the prudence to assure his life, whilst
health and strength are vouchsafed to him—
who has discharged that duty which is due to
those nearest and dearest to his heart's affections,
is relieved of a great portion of his cares, but more
especially is such an act a source of the utmost con-
solation to him in the period of mental or bodily
suffering; had he deferred his intention until then, or
until some future day, he might not be able to accom-
plith it.—(Hear.) I look to you, gentlemen, to
spread a knowledge of the great importance of life
assurance among your friends. I appeal to my
friends, .the commercial travellers, whom I have been
in the habit of ineeting from time to time, and who have
done and can do so much for us, to aid us in the 1
fixture in the same excellent spirit as that which has
animated them during the past.—(Hear, hear.) I t,

look to your untiring exertions, your indefatigable
zeal, to help us onward, and to second the earnest
desire of your directors to make this one of the largest
life assurance societies in this great City—(Loud
cheers)—and thus enable us to be the happy instru-
ments of relieving the father, the mother, the widow,
the orphan child perhaps from sinking into a state of utter
destitution and want. It is in your power to aid us
to a vast extent, and I look to you to do so to the
best of vour ability, to forward the aim and object
which I believe we all have in view—the increased
prosperity of this institution.—(Cheers.) I give you.
" Prosperity to the National Mercantile Life Assur-
ance Society."
The toast was drunk with the utmost enthusiasm.

Mr. Turner, the vocalist, here favoured the com-
pany with a song, from which we extract the follow-
ing verse introduced with respect to the company :
" Here's success to this worthy company ;
May it ever thrive, and prosperous be :
And may the lives that they assure
Be happy as long as they endure.
And he that will this toast deny,
'Down among the dead men let him lie.'"
—(Applause and laughter.)
Mr.D.WADDINGTON, M.P., proposed the next toast.
Not only was the subject on which he presented him-
self before them a difficult one to touch upon, but
when touched, one got rid of it with alacrity—
" Fire." He wished to give them " Prosperity to the
National Mercantile Fire Association"—a sentiment
which was received with the loudest demonstrations
of applause. He hoped with their aid that it would
go on and prosper, anti that a similar gathering
would take place every year to celebrate its progress,
and that of its twin sister, the life department.—
(Cheers.) Such anniversaries did not occur too often
when they took place "but once a year."—
(Hear, hear.) He hoped, however, during
the intervals that ensued that they would
not forget that the success of the department to which
he referred depended much upon the exertions of
the commercial travellers of the country.— (Hear.)
It was an institution of which any man need be
proud ; and he felt, therefore, that the members, in
electing him their chairman, had conferred a great
honour upon him.—(Prolonged cheering.) Really
they seemed so enthusiastic in favour of the institu-
tion that it was unnecessary for him. to say anything
to induce them to labour in its behalf. Under such
auspices it was sure to prosper. He wished merely
to tell them when they went forth to night
to do all in their power to promote the prosperity of
the National Mercantile Fire Assurance. He was
sure after the eloquent appeal of the Chairman, that

the life department would receive as heretofore the
benefit of their generous aid. As the one had been
ably advocated and patronised throughout the length
and breadth of the land, he believed that the other
would receive support in the same degree, because it
was founded upon those true commercial principles
which would command the countenance and assist-
ance of all men ; it destroyed the monopoly which the
old offices had so long enjoyed; their monopolising
spirit would be destroyed by moderate premiums, yet
amply sufficient, as proved by facts, to cover the
risks. They had, therefore, a strong argu-
ment to wield in its behalf, and if they advocated it
well, as he knew they would, it could not fail to ,suc-
ceed.—(Cheers.) Although he was not formerly an
admirer of the principles of free trade, yet he was
strongly in favour of the application of the principle
to fire insurance.—(Cheers.) He consigned this
bantling to their care, in the hope that they would
foster it ; if they did so he was sure they would have
many festive anniversaries of this day to congratulate
it upon having arrived at a prime and happy man-
hood.—(Loud cheers.)
The toast was drunk in a bumper. _

Mr. WADDINGTON again rose and said, it was now
about six months ago since he had the honour and
gratification of presiding over a meeting at Wansted.
He there saw the children educated in the Commer-
cial Travellers' School, whose healthy and happy
appearance gave evidence of their bounty and phi-
lanthropy. He witnessed there, with the greatest
delight, the fruits of the unwearied exertions of the
commercial travellers themselves, who out of their
hard earnings had contributed so generously towards
that noble institution; but that gratification was much
enhanced by the fact that he had formerly belonged to
the great body of commercial travellers.—(Cheers.)
The foundation of that school was, in his opinion,
mainly owing to the exertions of Mr. Carney ; but
had it not been taken up by one of our most pros-
perous citizens, one who had himself risen from the
shopboard, and who, in this great city, was second to
none—he alluded to the treasurer, George Moore,
Esq.—(Loud cheers)— it never could have prospered
as it had done. These exertions were ably seconded
by Mr. Nicholson, who was venerated in years as he
was in character. It bad also, he might state,
been supported by every member of the board of the
Societies whose anniversary they had assembled to
celebrate. Perhaps it had not been taken up by the
city of London as it deserved, but the lack of that
support had been in a great measure compensated by
the laudable exertions of th 2 few.—(Loud cheers.)
The fact that the number of children admitted into the
school would be increased by 10 at the next election,
making the entire number 60, evinced the zeal of the
commercial travellers as a body in favour of the
splendid establishment they had erected. The
National Mercantile Life contributed 1001.
a year, which evinced the interest that com-
pany felt in the welfare of the institution.
He hoped they would take the first opportunity that
presented itself to them, of visiting the school, when
they would have their hearts thrilled, as his was, at
the delightful sight he beheld—and come forward at
the anniversary to-morrow, and say, " Long may
such an institution prosper." He begged to give
them—" Prosperity to the Commercial Travellers'
School," with which he begged to couple the names
of Mr. Cuffley and of Mr. Moore.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. CUITLEY, who was very much cheered, re-
turned thanks. Whilst he modestly took credit for
having aided to the best of his ability to institute
the school, he wished those present to understand that
their thanks were equally due to Messrs. Moore,
Carter, Stockdale, Walsh, and Jones, without whom
it never would have existed.—(Cheers.) Their
thanks were especially due to Mr. Moore, who, in
truth, ought to be termed the father of the whole
school. They meant to bore the commercial travel-
lers until every one subscribed, and there was not an
orphan to provide for.—(Hear, hear.) Both the
National Mercantile and the school were equally
deserving of their support. Not only had
the school provided for the children of
commercial travellers, who had toiled far away from
their homes, but it had provided for the children of the
heads of houses, and it had therefore a strong claim
upon them.—(Loud cheers.) He trusted they would
all join them at the anniversary to- morrow, and not
forget in the course of their ensuing labours that it
would not have existed but for the aid the National
Mercantile had afforded it.—(Loud cheers.)
Mr. GEORGE MOORE thanked them very cor-
dially for the honour they had. conferred upon
him. He assured them he was prepared
to excel all he had done in the future, if his health
was spared, on behalf of the school.—(Cheers.) He
hoped, however, the present meeting would not in-
terfere in the slightest degree, as he was sure it
would not, with the anniversary of the school. He
had his eye upon them all, and if they were not all
present at it he should hold them responsible.—
(Cheers and laughter.) His friend Mr. Giles Red-
mayne had done more than any other man for the
school.—(Hear, hear.) He it was that went
through the City with his partner soliciting
aid in its behalf.— (Hear, hear, and cheers.)
They had, however, assembled to-night to congratulate
each other on the wonderful success of the National
Mercantile Life Assurance Society.—(Hear, hear.)
The board, of which he was an unworthy member,
felt the liveliest interest in the welfare of the school.
He never in his life consented to connect his name
with any undertaking with more pleasure than when
he put down his name as one of the directors of the
National Mercantile Fire Assurance Society. Pre-
vious to the fire in his establishment in

Aldermanbury he and his partner paid
4s. per cent. for the assurance of their
premises; but that rate was subsequently in-
creased to I ls.per cent., so that they had to pay 9461.
a year.—(Hear, hear.) Now the rates of this office
were from 2s. 6d. to 95., according to the risk in-
curred. This was a vast modification, and since the
office stood aloof from those which charged monstrous
rates, it deserved the generous support of every com.
mercial house. Such had been his interest and sym-
pathy in the undertaking that he had sent out 6,500
letters on behalf of the society, signed by himself and
the other members of his firm; he had received re-
plies from a great many influential houses,
thanking the directors for the formation of the so-
ciety. They complained of the highltariff and exor •
bitant charges of some of the old offices, and of their
sticking together in order the better to take advan-
tage of the public. The moderation of the charges of
his office must commend it to thousands. If an
office can assure at rates varying from 2s. 6d. to 9s.
for what was formerly charged 4s. and now I ls., the
latter class of offices must be either shocking bad
men of business, and ought not to be trusted with
such affairs, or they are taking a most shameful
advantage of the public. There could not be such a
difference in business as between 2s. 6d. and l ls.—
(Hear.) If this office can assure at trifling charges
compared with other offices, it, as he had said, would
confer a great benefit upon the country at large, and
an ample guarantee of its high character and good
faith was to be found in the high character of the
men who constituted the board of direction.—(Hear,
hear.) He could not give the office all the attention
he could wish, but, his sympathies were most warm
towards both departments.—(ilear.)

NICIIOLON 1! 1)0 )19;i :!h of the
Chairman, whose business habits and hi.gh character
he warmly eulogised. With respect 'O, the board of

• directors, he would only make this statement—that
they all possessed the most true habits of business he
had ever met with. Instead of entering at their meet-
ings into the politics of the day, the chairman's hammer
went down, they set to business, transacted it, and
went away.—(Hear, hear.) His zeal in both life and
fire departments was unequalled, and his experience
of the world and general urbanity enabled him to
confer upon each the most essential service.—(Hear,
hear.) He knew of none who could promote the
prosperity of these institutions more than the great
body of commercial travellers to whom he had the
honour to belong for 40 years.—(Hear, hear.)
The toast was warmly responded to.
The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks. He had
been connected with the life department since its
formation, and he assured them that its progress had
far surpassed his expectations. He appealed to them
to co-operate with the board, in order that the inter-
ests of both proprietors and policy-holders might be
promoted to a still greater extent than heretofore.
Mr. ROBERTS proposed the health of the deputy-
chairman (Mr. Waddington) and the directors of the
life department—a body of gentlemen who were
richly entitled to their confidence and gratitude. He
wished to couple with that toast that of the health of
the Chairman, the Deputy- Chairman, and Directors
of the Fire department.—(Cheers.)
Mr. WADDINGTON briefly responded. His first
appearance in that tavern was in connexion with the
National Mercantile Life Assurance Society. The
chairman on that occasion put him forward as a
suckling; and he thought that, therefore, they might
take him as a child of their own.— (Hear, hear, and
laughter.) He hoped they would second the exer-
tions the directors might put forward with willing
hands and hearts.
The CHAIRMAN wished to propose the health of
their very meritorious Actuary and Secretary, Mr.
Jenkin Jones.—(Loud cheers.) He did not wish to
pronounce any panygeric upon his merits, but this he
wished honestly and faithfully to declare, that the
directors round him a most useful, most efficient, and
a most valuable secretary.—(Cheers.) He had now
been connected with the office for very many years,
and he possessed the unbounded confidence of the
board of directors.—(Hear.) As a man of business,
as an accountant, as a mathematician, and as a
secretary he was unequalled.—(Cheers.)
Mr. Jsmeisr dorms said, they would readily under-
starsd that the success of the National Mercantile was
most deeply interesting to him. Whether the advan-
tages which it professed to afford were realised or
not was to him, they would as readily understand, a
question of all and everything.—(Hear.) That those
advantages had been realised and participated in to
the extent they had was to him a source of unmingled
satisfaction. Quite apart altogether from selfish con-
siderations, be did feel a deep and paramount interest
in the association.—(Hear.) Some allusion had been
made to the vicissitudes which the office, like other
establishments, had undergone since its commence-
ment, but for having been able to surmount all the
difficulties and dangers which they had had to en-
counter the directors and himself were much indebted
to the kind exertions of many in that room. He

must confess that some Ns ere averse to the

holding of the annual dinner, of which he was the
main instigator, for he had ever urged upon the
directory the celebration of the anniversary of the
establishment of the office. Some thought that the
holding of the dinner at this period of the year would
prove inimical to the anniversary of the school. Now
he entertained an entirely different opinion ; it would
serve it. Of this, however, they might rest
assured, that since the school bad grown out
of the National Mercantile, the directors
would not only do nothing which might
seem likely to prove inimical to it, but would
oppose everything that might partake of such a cha-
racter.—(Hear, bear.) The Chairman had alluded to
the embarrassments of the last three years. Now he
had much pleasure in stating that, notwithstanding
the difficulties of the times and the general suffering
that had fallen to the lot of public bodies as well as to
private individuals, the National Mercantile had
been enabled not only to keep its ground, but to
prosper and progress to an extraordinary degree.—
(Hear.) He found that during the years 1843,
1844, and 1845 the effected assurances amounted to
283,2491. 95., which yielded an average premium of
94,4161. 9s. They would recollect that in those
years people had no occasion to complain of the
state of the money-market, for the people had so
much money they did not know what to do with it, so
they threw it away.--(Laughter.) But the years
1846, 1847, and 1848 were years in which money
was scarce, when people found great difficulty in
meeting calls; nevertheless, the amount assured in
those years was 500,4251., or an average annual sum
of 166,8081., being an average increase of 73,0001. a
year. During the first three years he had mentioned
he found they had paid to the executors of deceased
members 12,272/, or an average sum of 4,0901.185. ld.
In a society which bad existed so many years, and which
held policies to so large an amount, they must be
aware that they must have to meet sooner or later
heavy claims; but they had been particularly fortu-
nate, since, instead of having been called upon to pay
the greatest amount they had estimated they had paid
the lowest—(Hear, hear)—for whereas, in the first
three years they had got 4,0901.18 x, Id. as the average
for each year, in the second three years they had paid
but 2,7811. 19s. 4d., being an average decrease instead
of an increase of I,3lol.—(Hear.) The total
amount paid for claims since the commencement
of the society is only 23,5861. At the same time
their assets had been inceased 80 per cent. It was
unnecessary for him to dilate upon the utility and
necessity of life assurance. The first thing a man
should do was to assure his life, and thereby benefit
his family. They might depend upon it if life as-
surance was more practised, there would be much
less distress in the land. The neglect of making
a future provision, which could be done at so small
an outlay, caused the most bitter distress, and often
produced crime—for the punishment of which they
would have to pay less if men were more provident
with respect to those that belong to them.—(Cheers.)
With regard to the Fire- office, he would only
observe that it was under a distinct board, and the
liabilities were separate from the Life, and that he
felt confident of its success if it were supported with
the same spirit as the Life. He thanked them most
cordially for the kind manner in which his health had
been proposed and responded to.
Several toasts followed, that of Mr.Redmayne, Mr.
Nicholson, Mr. M'Culloch, and the auditors, and the
company
,a hedtidntooatstsmepaasrtaetr.e until a late hour. Mr.

THE LONDON SOCIETY FOR THE

PROTECTION OF YOUNG FEMALES.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sin,—ln your paper of Saturday last a report is
given of the sentence pronounced by Mr. Sergeant
Adams, at tie Middlesex sessions, upon a man named
Murray, who had previously pleaded guilty to an
indictment charging him with being the keeper of
three houses of ill-fame, in different parts of London.
But slight allusion is made to the prosecutors in this
case. It should be known, however, in justice to the
prosecutors, that Murray, who was the keeper of
nearly 60 improper houses in town and country, and
who kept his carriage and servants at Northfleet, was
indicted by the committee of the London Society for the
Protection of Young Females, who have thus suc-
ceeded, at an enormous expense and trouble, in sup-
pressing the practices and closing the houses of this
base brothel keeper, whose illness, there is in reason
to believe, is in a great measure pretended.

I may just 'lda that every effort was made by
Murray's friends to compromise the prosecution.
The committee, however, had but one duty to per-
form, and they were determined (as they over have
been and mean ever to be) to put a stop to the infa-
mous career of the man Murray and his wife, which
they have so successfully accomplished.
am, Sir, your obedient sorvant,
J. B. TALBOT, Secretary.
17, Ironmonger-lane, Gresham-street, Dec. 25, 1848

DEATH OF THOMAS WENTWORTH, BEAUMONT,
ESQ.--The melancholy, intelligenCe reached this town
yesterday of the untimely death in Hampshire, on
Wednesday last, of Thomas Wentworth Beaumont, Esq.,
of Bretton Hall, Yorkshire, and Bywell Hall, Northum-
berland. Mr. Beaumont, by means of his vast posses-
sions in land and minerals, took his rank amongst the
most wealthy commoners of England, and was, in all
respects, a man of mark and consideration. He repre-
sented this county in Parliament for several years, and
was engaged in more than one electioneering contest,
the character and circumstances of which will not be
readily forgotten by the present generation. The
lamented deceased was a man of high spirit and intelli-
gence, of great frankness of manners, and of a mwnifi-
conce and generosity of disposition which always won
the respect and admiration of opponents as well as
friends. Mr. Beaumont is succeeced in his estates
by his son, Mr. Blackett Beaumont, who is nearly of eg
and, we believe, an undergraduate of St. John's College,
Cambridge.—Newcastle Journal.
SAM SLICK'S NEW WORK.—" THE OLD JUDGE ;
OR, LIFE IN A COLONT."—The pictures that have
hitherto been given of colonial life have often been com-
plained of as not being sufficiently trustworthy, but this
cannot be said of the new work just published under the
title of " The Old Judge," written by the most success-
ful delineator of trans• Atlantic character—the author of

" Sam Slick, the Clockmaker"—for it is the result of
fifty years' residence among a people whose pecularitics
are so vividly pourtrayed. To the English reader the
writer's personal sketches cannot fail to afford abundant
entertainment. They lay open, as it were, a new world
to his observation, and therefore there can be very little
doubt that the "Old Juke" will become as general a
favourite as his popular predecessor " The Clockmaker."
A PIG IN A PUCK.--A large cod was lately cut up
in the market of the White Fishing Company here, when,
strange to relate, 3 young pig was found in his stomach.
A sucking pig is considered a vity dainty dish, but du,
is the first time we have heard of one being served up
for a monster of the deep.—Montrose Standard.