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London, England, 1848-10-14 00:00:00

Nt;.17,489.] LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING

PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE,
50, REGENT-STREET, and 1, ROYAL EXCHANGE-
SITILDINGS, LONDON,
Established 1806.
INVESTED CAPITAL, 1,230,0001.
Annual Income 140,000/. Bonuses declared 743.0001.
Claims paid since the Establishment of the Office, 1,671,0001.
PRESIDENT.
• The Right Honourable EARL. GREY.
DIRECTORS.
The lion. Arthur Kinnaird, Chairman.
The Rev. James Sherman, Deputy Chairman.
Henry B. Alexander, Esq. William Ostler, Esq.
Henry Bleacowo Churchill, Esq. George Round, Esq.
George Dacre, Esq. James Sedg-wick, Esq.
Alexander Henderson, M.D. Frederick Squire, Esq.
William Judd, Esq. William Henry Stone, Esq.
dir Richard D. King, Bart. Capt. W. John Williams.

JOHN A. IiEAUMONT, Esq., Managing Director.

Dann lAN—John Maclean, M.D., F.S.S., 29, Upper Montague-

street, Montague-square.

The Rates of Premium are those ad-Opted by the principal Life
Offices, the rate without bonus Is lower than that of most ether
offices.

The Bonuses aro added to the Policies, or applied to the reduction
of the Premiums.

Policies issued by this silica are purchased at their hill value ; sr
Loans may be obtained upoa then, after they have been in ezistence
for 'firs years.

a a party neglect to pay for the renewal of his Policy, he may
repair the •mission any time within twelve months, upon proof of
zood health.

The Profits (subject t • a trifling deduction) are divided among the
Insured. The plan upon which they are divided ;Ives to each party
insured a share proportionate to the amount of the Premiums he has
contributed.

In addition to the above advantage.s,4he Directors have determined
to adopt the principle of allotting, a prospective Bonus to Policies
laming between the Septennial periods of division, in order that all
the, Policyholders may participate equally in the Profits of the
Society.
The following Table shows the amount of Bonuses added to Policies

existing at the present time.

Polley
ITo.

Date
of gain
policy insured.
1808 480
1847 904
1810 1200
ISII 100
1420 2000
152 11000
1822 2000

Total eum
Increase on payable, to
original which future
Insurance. bonuses will be
added.
- - -
X 8. d.
83.10 percent. 115 10 2
,109.17 „ 1882 11 1
96.68 „ 2360 5 6
13.02 „ 2928 8 1.
95.33 „ 3906 13
71.17 „ 8.558 17 8
84.7 5541 3 6

Bonuses
added.

6.21
1114
1395
32811
3392
435$

£ a. d.
415 10 2
982 12 1
1160 i I
1328 II 6
1906 13
3558 17 8
2541 3 6

Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained upon applica-
tion to the agents of the office in all the principal towns of the United
Kilwdom ; and at tho head office, No. 50, Regent-street.

PROMOTER LIFE ASSURANCE AND
ANNUITY COMPANY,
9, Chatham-place, Blackfriars, London.—Established in 1526.
Subscribed Capital, 240,0001.
DIRECTORS.
The Right Hon. W. ft. Ilayter, Robert Palk, Esq.
M.P. John Louis Prevost, Esq.
Chhrles Johnston, Esq. Samuel Smith, Esq.
John Towgood Kemble, Esq. Le Marchant Thomas, Esq.
John G. Shaw Lefevre, F.R.S.
TRUSTEES.
John Deacon, Esq., John G. Shaw Lefavre, Esq., rats., and
Charles Johnston, Esq.
This Society effects Assurances in every variety of form, and on
most advantageous terms, both on the bonus and non-bonus systems.
The Premiums, without participation in the Profits, ars lower titan
these of most other offices, whilst those on the participation scale hold
ouy the prospect of a handsome addition being made every Five
Y rs, to the sum assured. The holders of Equitable Policies can
secure their bonuses at the approaching division on the best terms
with this office.
Prospectuses, with tables of rates, and all Author particulars, may
be.obtained at the office.

MICHAEL SAWARD, Secretary.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.-8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London ; 97
George-street, Edinburgh; 12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow; 4, Col-
lege-green, Dublin.

taxxcroas.
JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman.
IIANANEL DE CASTRO, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
Samuel Anderson, Esq. D. Q. Henriques, Esq.
Hamllton Blair Avarne, Esq. F. C. Maitland, Esq.
E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., Resident. William Railton, Esq.
Charles Downes, Esq. John Ritchie, Esq.
Charles Graham, Esq. F. H. Thomson, Esq.
SECOND SEPTENNIAL DITISION OF PROFITS.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament in 1834, affords
the most perfect security in a large paid. up Capital, and in the great
success which has attended it since its commencement—lTS A.NNUAL
INCOMB BEING IFPWAILDS or 94,0001.
In 1541 the Company added a bonus of 21. per cent. per annum on
the sum insured to all Policies of the participating class from the
time they wars effected, to the 31st of December, 1840, and from
that date to 81st December, 1847, VA /, per cent. per annum was
added at the General Meeting en the 6th of July, 14411.
The bonus thus added to *ldes from March, 1834, to the ilst of
December, 1847, is as follows :

Sum
♦ssured.

45000
noo
5008
6000
6000
6000
MO

Time Assured.

13 years 10 mths
12 years
1, years
$ years
6 years
4 years
2 years

Sum added to
Policy inls4l
£683 6 8
500 0 0
300 0 0
100 0 0
• • ••
•• • •
•• ••

Sum added to 'Sam payable
Policy In Is4Bl at Death.

£7a7 10 0 £6470 16 S
787 IS 0 6287 10 0
787 10 0 6067 16 0
787 10 0 5887 10 •
678 0 • 6675 0 0
456 0 0 6450 0 •
225 0 0 6225 0 0

The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
•nly one-half need be paid for the first five years where th• In-
surance is for Life.
No Entrance Money or charge except the Policy Stamp.
Every information will be afforded on application to till Resident
Director, No. $, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.

BLAIR'S GOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS.
Copy of a letter from Mr. J. J. Wilson, Chemist, M.nk ear,

York,

" To Mr. Thomas Prouty

41 14th June, 1147.
" 8114—Having suffered most dreadtblly for the last six years from
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wonderful medicine, you are at perfect liberty to publish it. d
" I am, Sir, yours respectfully.
" J. J. WILSON."
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A R R I A G E.
VI One half the world are desolately single, and the ether
supposing them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em-
iitter the latter. The solitary one nay shield himself under the plea
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minprosiag harry ; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
tad broken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
end social content. The dowry should net be the only marriage set-
tlement. Honour and justice deresed that health should form as item
in the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes er
neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
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14 0 V E is the leading feeling of the human
breast. . More exalted than mere passion, it sears high above
every other impulse of nature, and is not only stronger than avarice,
but more engrossing even than ambition. No man is exempt from
its intuence, or can avoid its sway; and business, pleasure, philo-
sophy, and divinity itself become neglected under tke enthralling
power of LOVE, which, unlike most things, increases in intensity
with time, until it receives the sacred consummation of marriage.
When union does not take place, however, this passion, this
fervour, this golden tide of the manliest feelings becomes a deadly
poison in the heart, which now darkens, as It before bright-
ened, all thins upon earth. How is it that men, of most un-
changeable habits, will change at the very altar, and after a life-
time spent in the fulfilment ef every engagement, snap the very con-
tract asunder which should be most binding to an honourable mind?
It is the effect of conscience. The Lover, by enervation of early
habits, or the results of secret disease, knows himself to be
disqualified, and dares not enter a state which has been
instituted by Divine Law for the fulfilment et important
ends. The wretched condition of such a being must subsequently be
beyond measure deplorable Loving and beloved, he entails the
most miserable disappointments on the object of his choice, and upon
himself a desolation the most horrible, when the simple possession ef
natural attributes would change the scene, and yield to beth a life of
unalloyed happiness. The subject is interesting,
and deserves the
attention of all. Those desirous of investigating it will find the
fullest and most satisfactory information in the little work entitled
SELF-PRESERVATION.
Illestrated by forty coloured engravings on the anatomy, physiology,
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solitary habits, excesses, or infection.
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pages is likely to prove as strikingly beneficial as the admonitions of
a homily blended with the practical advice of a writer on medicine."
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THE STONE QUARRIES OF CAEN.
The principal quarries, says Mr. Godwin, F.R.S.,
who lately visited them along with Mr. C. . Smith,
one of the Government Commission for selecting stone
for Westminater Palace, are at Alemagne, about a
mile and a half due south of Caen. There are others
at La Maladrerie, a suburb of Caen, in another direc-
tion, but of an inferior quality . .We have de-
scribed two quarries as being entered by means of a
shaft, and there are many others in the same position.
The majority, however, of the Alemagne quarries are
on the hill-side, overhanging the river Orne, and need
no shaft. The river runs at the foot of a deep escarp-
ment, which rises 60 or 80 feet above it. At this level
there is a wide roadway, and then beyond this the hill
again rises; and it is on the face of this second es-
carpment that the quarries are opened.
These are worked to a greater extent, and from
west to east, the joints facing the cardinal points;
some of them extend more than a quarter of a mile
under ground. A few of them communicate by late-
ral passages one with another, and would shelter an
army. The glimmer of the quarrymen's lights seen
at the end of a gallery, and the sound of their chisels,
a scarcely heard " pick, pick," increase the peculiar
effect of the scene.
The ceiling bed (about 2 feet 6 inches thick) is
called the bane Cloutier. It is cohesive and sound, but
cannot profitably be worked, and is never taken out.
The workable beds, six in number, are named as
follows :
The Banc pourri.—This is under the ceding bed,
and is about 3 feet thick. It is considered a good
stone, well indurated, but as it occasionally con-
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feet thick.
The Pierre franche, which follows, is about 3 feet
deep, and appears to be' considered the best and most
durable bed. Then come
The Banc de quatre pieds, and
The Pierre de trente pouces. Both of these are
good beds, and are the lowest which ought to be used
for external work. The last bed which is quarried is
termed
The Banc franc ; and this being like the gros
banc, nearly fire feet thick, is split into two thick-
nesses, three feet and two feet, of which the upper
(two feet thick) is called the banqueret of the bane
franc.
There seems to be no difference of opinion, amidst
the greatest differences .in other respects, as to the
unfitness of the whole of the banc franc for external
work.
Of late, one of the Caen houses (Messrs. Luard
and Beedham), becoming satisfied that the bottom
bed is not fit for outside work, profess to mark with a
cross every block which comes from it, so that these
may be used in parts not exposed to the effects of
weather, and we are disposed, after inquiry, to believe
their profession. If builders, to save labour or through
carelessness, will, nevertheless, use the " bad" bed
externally, the culpability of course rests with them,
and the reputation of the stone is risked in spite of
any precaution which may be used to prevent it.
We do not find that the other merchants profess to
distinguish the blocks of the bottom bed from those of
the upper. One of the principal of them, who, al-
though be would not admit that the franc bane gave
the worst stone, still called it in conversation the
" bad" bed, said, "If I distinguish this, I shall have
to keep it back, and what can 1 do with it ? When
dry, the stone looks all alike, and I defy any person
then to tell one bed from another." This is true
enough; but which bed will last the longer, and what is
the wise course for those to adopt who are really inte-
rested in maintaining a good reputation for the stone,
are quite another question.—Builder.

TUE CLAN MuNito.—A correspondent sends us
the following notice:—" The Cla❑ Munro is of Irish
origin. In the eleventh century, Donald, son of Oran,
Prince of Fermanagh, came to Scotland, and for services
rendered in driving the Danes, with groat slaughter, out
of the province of Moray, the Kiug invested him with
the barony of Easter Dingwall—from the Peffrey to the
Water of Alines% Having been born on the banks of
the Roe,' in the county of Derry, he was styled the
Man of Roe,' subsequently changed to Man-de-ro—
Monro, or Munro, and the district bears his name to this
day, viz., Ferrindonnuil, or Donald's Land. With the
the late chief and baronet, Sir Hugh, terminated the
male line of Colonel Robert of Obsdale, afterwards Sir
Robert Munro of Fowlis, the family honours having de
scended to the present baronet, Sir Charge,, as the lineal
male descendant of Sir Robert's • brother, Lieutenant-
General Sir George Munro, K. 8., who married the Hon.
Christian Hamilton, eldest daughter to the first Viscount
Boyne. Sir George entered the Swedish service, and
commanded a division of Gustavus Adolphus's army at
the battle of Lutzen. On the breaking out of the civil
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Colrain, in Ross shire."—lnt•erncss couricr.

THE SEARCH AFTER SIR JOHN

FRANKLIN'S EXPEDITION.
With reference to the great anxiety and curiosity
likely to be excited by the reports which we have
published of intelligence having been obtained of
Sir John Franklin's expedition, the following letter
(which has lately been received from Dr. Sir J.
Richardson, who is prosecuting the overland search
after Franklin and his gallant companions), contain-
ing that officer's estimation of the reports alluded to,
cannot fail to be considered of the highest interest,
affording as it does the most advisable test of the value
of the report in question, and which Mr. M‘Pherson,
an able and experienced chief officer of the Hudson's
Bay Company's service, significantly designates an
" Indian report

" Methy Portage, July 4, 1848.
" My dear Sir,—The public letter in which this is
inclosed will inform you of Mr. Rae and myself
having joined the boat party on this portage, but
though I was desirous that the Admiralty.should be
acquainted with the rumours mentioned in the ac-
companying letter from the chief officer of the Hud-
son's Bay Company's service in Mackenzie River
district, I did not think it right to mention
them in a public letter,- as I place no confi-
dence in them, but merely consider that they have
originated eriestheoyf mayt obtain he
traders and
the desire of the Indians to excite the curiosity of the
questr
in in
the th
hope that
some-
thing thereby. I conclude that the supposed guns
were claps of thunder, which, though very uncommon
in October in that region, is not absolutely un-
known. Franklin was not likely to fire his great
guns for amusement, and even in distress he could
not hope to bring assistance by so doing. Neither
would he remain •two seasons near the Mackenzie
without communicating with the posts of the com-
pany. •
" We have accomplished the greater part of this
portage rather more easily than 1 expected, and we
hope to leave it on the 7th; but the men are much
fatigued, and we shall go to the sea much less fresh
and fit for the voyage than would have been the case
had we had the :help of horses in making this very
laborious portage.
" I remain, my dear Sir, yours very faithfully,
64 JOHN RICHARDSON.
. _

" Capt. W. A. B. Hamilton, R.N.. Admiralty."
" Fort Simpson, Mackenzie River, Ist March, 1848.
" My dear Sir,—When .I had the pleasure of being
your guest at Haslar, on my last visit to England, I
certainly did not then think that we should next meet
in this country, but I am now led to expect that
pleasure next July, somewhere between Athabasca
and Portage la Locke.
" I take the earliest opportunity to offer you my
most cordial co-operations in all matters connected
with the interests of the expedition, that may come
within the influence or means of the company in this
district, or of my own personal services. •
" The Indians hereabout, and the Dog-ribs of Mar-
tin Lake, are already prepared to give their assistance
to the expedition ; and in the course of the last week
in May, when I expect to visit Fort Good Hope and
Fort Norman, I shall have a personal interview with
the Indians who resort to Bear's Lake.

" We have 1ndian....... from the coast that, if we
could vouch for the truth of them, would be of gene-
ral interest. _ _

the- fall of. 1845, a party of Peel's River In-
dians, who passed that season on the coast, reported
that they heard, about the beginning of November,
an unusual noise (at that season) 'like distant thunder,'
to seaward. Another report of a similar noise being
heard in the same direction, late in October, 1846,
was made at the post on Peel's River, and from that
place Mr. Peers writes, under date 17th of December
last, I have reason to believe that some white men
were off the coast last summer, as a party of Indians
who came here this fall, stated that they were some
days in company with the Esquimaux, east of Mac-
kenzie River, in the summer. The latter showed the
former knives (like our scalpers.), and files that they
said were given to them gratis by some white men
whom they saw in ' two large boats,' and who spoke
to them in a language they did not understand, &c.
" I would not mention these reports to one unac-
quainted with the character of our northern Indians,
and the very slight grounds on which they will some-
times spread a report. I am, however, in great
hopes that the object of the expedition will speedily
be attained, and that our mutual and gallant friend
will, Min Sir John Ross, find himself.

" With every good wish and high respect, I remain
my dear Sir, yours, very sincerely,
" M. 2IPHERSON.

" Sir John Richardson."

It may be remarked that " boat " and " ship " are
expressed by one and the same word in the Esqui-
maux language.

THE GREAT SEA SERPENT.
The following very interesting report respecting
the appearance of the extraordinary animal seen by
some of the officers and crew of her Majesty's ship
Daedalus, has been forwarded to the Admiralty by
Captain M'Quhse

" Her Majesty's ship Daedalus,
" Sir,—ln reply to Hamoaze, Oct. 11.
of a sea serpent of to
asyour letter of this day's date,
requiring information
my command, on hteor passage
you, for the assag
been seen from her Majesty's ship Daedalus, under
extraordinary dimensions having
Eastetfhreomtrutthheofa statement
Indies,
I have the honour
informa-
tion of my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,
that at five o'clock P.M.
latitude 24 deg. 44 on the 6th of August last, in
min.S., and longitude 9 deg.
22 min E., the weather dark and cloudy, wind fresh
from the north-west, with
the south-west, the ship on a long ocean swell from
north east by north, something the port tack heading
by Mr. Sartoris, midshi mg very unusual was seen
the ship from before thepinhan' rapidly approachingeani
was immediately reported by hi ' The circumstance
watch, Lieutenant Edgar I) mto the officer of the
and Mr. William Barrett, thrumrnond, with whom
time walking the e master, I was at the
were at supper. quarter-deck. The ship's
" On our attention being
was discovered to be an enormous serpent, with head
r called to the object it
and shoulders kept about four
the surface of the sea, and as
it feet constantly above
nearly as we could ap-
proximate by comparing
with the length of what
our maintopsail yard would show in the water, there
was at the very least 60 feet
of the animal a flour
Wa
d eau, no portion of which s, to our perception,
th used in propelling it through ellavater, either by
vertical or horizontal undulation.
but so close under our lee quarter thatphsasded rapidly,
it
tben
man of my acquaintance I should have easily recog-
nised his features with the naked eye ; and it did not,
either in approaching the ship or after it had passed
our wake, deviate in the slightest degree from its
course to the S.W., which it held on at the pace of
from 12 to 15 miles per hour, apparently on some
determined purpose.
"The diameter of the serpent was about 15 or 16
inches behind the head, which was, without any
doubt, that of a snake, and it was never, during the
20 minutes that it continued insight of our glasses,
once below the surface of the water, its colour a dark
brown, with yellowish white about the throat. It
had no fins, but something like
wthe mane of a horse,
or rather a bunch of seaweed, ashed about its back.
It was seen by the quartermaster, the boatswain's
mate, and the man at the wheel, in addition to myself
and officers above mentioned.
" I am having a drawing of the repent made from
a sketch taken immediately after 'it was seen, which
I hope to have ready for transmission to my Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty by to-morrow's
post. 111 have, &cc.
gi PETER M'QUHIE, Captain.
"To Admiral Sir W. 11. Gage, G.C.H.,
,
Devonport.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, OCT. 13.--Deau Ireland's Professor of the
Exegesis of Holy Scripture proposes during this term to
read some of St. Paul's Epistles, and to continue his lec-
tures on the Interpretation of the Bible, in the Claren-
don, at one o'clock, on Tuesday the 24th instant. These
lectures are open to members of the University who
have passed the examination .for the degree of B.A.
Responsions commence on the 26th instant. Congre-
gations will be holden for the purpose of granting graces
Thursday, Oct. and conferring degrees, on the following days in the
present term : —Thursday, Oct. 19 26
Thursday, Nov. 16; Thursiay, Nov. 23; Friday, Dec. 7;
and Monday, Dec. 18.
The Bishop of Oxford delivered his Primary Visitation
Charge to a numerous body of the clergy in St. Mary's
yesterday. There was full cathedral service, and the
sermon was preached by the Rev. Robert Husiey, Regius
Professor of Ecclesiastical History. To-day his Lord-
ship consecrated a new .burial-ground for the parish of
lloly well.
CAMBRIDGE, OCT. 13.—At the Congregation to-mor-
row (Saturday) notice will be given to the Senate of the
vacancy of the office of Public Orator by the resignation
of Mr. Crick, of St. John's College; and a day will be
appointed for the election of a person to fill the said
office.

Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from
the Colonial office for the Governor of Canada, and
also for the Governors of the other North American
Colonies.