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NITED KINGDOM' LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
Established by Act of Parliament, in 1834.
DIVISION OF' PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED.
DIRECTORS.
JAMES STUART, Esq., Chairman
CAST.I2O,,EM, r..ol4=lo4lpliali, _
frainDeoitlrAvarne, Esq. F. Charles Maitland, Esq.
Edward Boyd, Esq., Resident William Railton, Esq.
E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., Assistant- John, Ritchie, Esq.
Resident F. H. Thomson, Esq.
Charles Downes, Esq.
Surgeon—F. Hale Thomson, Esq., 48, Demers-street.
This Company, established by Act of Parliament, afforaihe most
perfect security in a large paid. up Capital, and in the great success
which has attended it since its commencement in 1834, its animal
income being upwards of 82,C00/.
In 1841 the Company added a bonus of 2/. per cent. per annum on
the sum assured to all policies of the participating class from the
time they were effected.
Tho bonus added to policies from March, 1834, to the 31st of De-
amber, 1840, is as follows:
Sum Assured.
time Assured. Sum added to Policy.
£5,000 • • •• • • 6 years 10 months •• • • £683 6 8
5,000 ••••• • • • 6 years ......
• 5,000 ••••• • • • 4 years .............. 400 0 0
5,000 •••• • • • • 2 years 200 0 0.
The premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need be paid for the first five years, Where the insu-
rance is for life ,
Every Information 'will be afforded on application to the Resident
Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London,
Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd, Esq., of No. 8,

ANECDOTES OF BARRINGTON, THE FAMOUS PICK-
POCKET.—At one of the music meetings in St. Mar-
tin's Church, for 'the benefit of the Leicester Infirmary,
I noticed a tall, handsome man, in a scarlet coat, with a
gold button-hole in a black collar, the fashion of the day,
moving with a gentleman-like air. This person proved
to be the notorious Barrington, the pickpocket. In
going up the middle aisle he was invited into the Mayor's
pew, and sat between Miss St. John and Mr. Ashby, of
Queenby, our late Member of Parliament. One of the
plates was held at the door by this lady and 'gentleman,
and when Mr. Barrington laid his guinea upon the plate
he was kindly thanked by his new acquaintance, and
passed on with a graceful bow. The gentry who held
the plates retired into the vestry to add their contri-
butions, and when Mr. Ashby would have placed his ten
guineas on the plate, to his utter astonishment they had
flown from his pocket. After considerable amazement,
the mystery was' explained by one of the company re-
marking that Miss St. John's pocket was turned inside
out; and that the gentleman who sat between them
had helped himself to the subscription he had put on
the plate, and something besides. It is said that Bar-
rington facilitated his operations by instruments winch
he had made for the purpose. I recollect a circumstance
of this kind. He waited on a surgical instrument maker
and ordered a pair of scissors of a curious form. A few
days afterwards he called for them, liked them, and paid
two guineas which the maker charged. After he had
left the shop, the cutler's wife said, " My dear, as the
gentleman seemed so much pleased with the scissors, I
wish we had asked him what use they were for. He
might recommend us. Do run after him." The cutler
scampered out of the shop, and overtaking the gentle-
man, hoped he would excuse him, but would he tell him,
what use he intended to make of the scissors? " Why
my friend," said Barrington, catching him by the button
of his coat, and staring him in the face, " I don't know
whether I can tell you; it's a great secret." " Oh, pray
do, Sir ; it may be something in our way." Upon which
Barrington, pressing bard upon his shoulder, whispered
in his ear, " They are for picking of pockets." In the
utmost consternation the scissors maker ran back, and
the moment he got into the shop, " My dear," he cried,
will you believe it, they are for picking of pockets."
" Yes, my dear," cried the wife, " what is the matter
with your clothes?" The cutler looked, and presently
discovered that the scissors had extracted the two
guineas he had just received for them.—Gardiner's Music
and Friends.

THE NATIONAL GALLERY AS IT OUGHT TO BE.--
For many years I have been struck with the fine vista
obtained by looking from the rooms of the national col-
lection across the central space, when the Royal Academy
Exhibition has been open ; the effect of the groupeseof
persons, the rich colouring of the pictures, as seen
through only four columns, suggested to my mind how
very fine that effect might be made by throwing the
whole of the rooms into one unbroken series. The ad-
vantage of removing the partitions of the small rooms is
at once seen by a reference to the spot, and if it should
be thought advisable to have some of the rooms larger
than any at present (which is a dougfobratfwutahlyeexapnenruimalent)
some of the
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ex-
hibition may be thus reckoned :—ts% o picture rooms,
each about 55 feet by 44 feet ; four rooms about 48
feet by 35 feet ; and two rooms 48 feet by 30 feet ;
besides the two small octagonal rooms, and the central hall
100 feet long and 48 feet wide ; affording a more ample
space than hitherto allotted for the display of the three
sister arts, one of which, architecture, has been always
confined within scanty limits.—The
Mrs. Romer's new work, entitled "A Pilgrimage
to the Temples and Tombs of Egypt, Nubia, and Pales-
tine, in 1845, in 2 vols. Bvo., bound, with numerous
engravings, price 285., is published this day, by Mr.
Bentley, and may now be had of all booksellers. The
following new works are also now ready :-2. Sir Henry
Ellis's New Series of Original Letters, illustrative of
English History, 4 vols. post Bvo., with portraits, price
211 2e. Weill-3. The Penscellwood Papers, by the
Author of " Hookweli," 2 vols. post Bvo., 215.-
4. Methuen's Life in the Wilderness ; or, Wanderings
in South Africa. 1 vol., with illustrations, price 104. 6d.
bound.-5. Dr. Thomson's Philosophy of Magic Prodi-
gies and Apparent Miracles, 2 viols. Bvo., 285.-6. Ra-
4nsnest ; or, The Red Skins. By .T. Fenimore Cooper,
Esq. 3 vols.
A marble monument to the memory of Miss Lin-
wood has just been erected in the church of St, Marga-
;eV', at losicester,