The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-13 00:00:00

No. 16 686. LONDON FRIDAY
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GRAVESEND FOR SIXPEN CE.
BOAT AND RAILWAY INCLUDED.
Te Star and Blackwall rackets leave the
BRUNSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL.
WEEK DAYS.—At 9%, 10%, 12, 1%, 3%, and b.
SUNDAYS.—At 9%, 11, 1%, and 3.
The Trains starting One Quarter of an Hour before each of
,these times.
FROM THE ROYAL TERRACE PIER, GRAVESEND.
WEEK DAYS.—At 8%, 9%, 11% 1,3, and 5.
SUNDAYS.—At. 8%, 11%, 3. and 5.
On Monday Moinings an extra Packet at half-past 7.
Fore Fare, Gd.; Chief Fare, 9d.
Bills of the times for, boats calling at the intermediate Piers, to
be obtained at the Star Office, Blackwall Railway.
Star Office, Gravesend', Feb. 27.

THE CAMPAIGN on the SUTLEJ creating
immense interest at the present moment, there is exhibiting
at the ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION Portraits of the
most Distinguished Men both in the SIKH- ARMY and GOVERN-
MENT of LA.11011.F., takoa by a lady of rank, distinguished in the.
Fine Arts, during her residence in India. Also, Portraits of Sir Henry
Harditige, Sir Robert and La ,y Sale, &c. 1;y means of the OPAQUE
MICROSCOPE these interesting Portraits are on a magnific: nt
scale. Mornings, at Half-past Four o'clock; Evening% at a Quarter
to Ten. The LECTURES include those on ASTRONOMY, during
Lent on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, COLEMAN'S WORK-
ING MODEL ascending and descending Inclinid Planes, &c. &c.
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AdminTion, Is.; Schools, Half-price,

ANOTHER " DECEPTION. - GENERAL
.
TOM TEIUMII does NOT play at Astley's next Week. The
person advertised to appear. there on Mr. Carter's big horse, as
" Field• Marshall General Tom Thumb," is FOUR TIMES the Ge-
nergl's weight and size. The General weighs only 15 Pounds. He
has appeared THREE .TIMES before her Majesty the QUEEN, and
has performed before nearly all the Crowned !hada of Europe. He
is now about to return to America, and is holding his FAREWELL
LEVEES every day and evening at the EGYPTIAN HALL (up
stairs), from Half-past Eleven to 'One—half past Three to Five, and
Half-past Seven to Nixe o'clock. Doors open half an hour previous.
Admission Is.—Children half price.
_ . .

Every Night next week, after the close of his Evening Levees at
Egyptian Hall, at Nine o'clock, the little General will appear at the
Lyceum Theatre, in a New Play, written expressly for him by Albert
Smith, Esq., entitled "Hop. s' my Thumb, or the Ogre and his ..even-
League Boots."

THOMAS DEW JONES, otherwise WILLIAM
JONES.—TEN POUNDS REWARD will be paid to any
person giving Information of THE PRESENT ABODE of the above-
namvd Person, or proof of his cl:ath. He left the house of his
brother, Mr. George Edward Jones, in the neighbourhood of White-
chapel, London, some time in the month of June, 1842, and has not
since been heard of by his friends. He was then about seventeen
years of age, five feet six inches high, with sandy-coloured hair,
and grey eyes, was much freckled, and very stout. About 1841
he was in the employment of a farmer at Ongar, in Essex; and in
the beginning of 1842 he was in service at the White Swan Irn, Tot-
tenham, Middlesex, and was called Bill Jones. He is supposed to
be in some humble employment in the country, or to have gone
to sea. _ _ _

TIIOIIAS DEW JONES himself will hear of something to his
advantage, by applying to Messrs. WALKER, GRANT, and Co.,
13, Kines-road, Gray's Inn, London, to whom information respect.
lug him is to be sent.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHELL, LONDON.
Capital /.500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
This institution offers important and substtntial advan-
tages with respect both to Life Assurances and Deferred Annuities.
The assured has, on all ce:.asicns, the power to burr )w, without ex-
pense or forfeiture of the Policy, two-thirds of the premium paid,
(see table) ; also the option of selecting benefits, and the conversion
of interests to meet ether conveniences er necessity. Assurances
for terms of years are granted on the lowest possible rates.
DIVISION OF P2OTIT
The success and increasing prespsrity of the Society has enabled
the Directors, at the last annual investigation, to declare a third
Bonus, varying from tit) to 73 per cent. on the premiums paid on
each Policy effected on the Prot! scale.
EXAMPLES.

iiiye•so 845
. i I
- 1 1
1.: 'gl llama Benxi in al n m l'e =tl2
1, g Premium. E.; I added. Cash. Kg g 'A. 'l2
' •1 5: *4 2 5
4 PA
."-. -......... • • .-•-•..........
1837 £l9l 13 5 5,87 13 51£13 17 I £395 11 1
X X s. . 1838 165 13 0 74 13 10 11 8 6 346 2 3
pro 4 3 4 1839 138 13 61 61 14 3 9 210 296 13 .1
1840 89 001 41 13 4 6 0 0 247 4 5

' The d.:: Talon of profits is animal, and the next will be made in 3.)c-
-.,:em3e.r of the prezent year.
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F. FERGUSON C A MROUX, See.

ix RITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE
COIF PANY.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Empbwered-by special Act of Parliament, 4th Vict., cap. 9. .
ADVANTAGE& OF THIS INSTITUTION.
MUTUAL ASSURANCE BRANCH.
Complete security afforded to the Assured by means of an ample
subscribed capital, and the large funds accumulated from the pre-
miums on upwards of 6,000 policies.
Half the amount only of the annual premium required during the
first live years, the remaining half premiums being paid out of the
profits, which, after five years, will be annually divided among the
Assured.

MUTUAL ASSURANCE BRANCH. I PROPRIETARY BRANCH.
Half Pre- Whole Pro- Half Pre- IWhole Pre-
Age. mium, first mium, after Age. mium, first mium, after
fire years. five years. seven years. seven years.
£ s. d. X s. d. X s. d. X s. d.
20 1 0 .0 2 0 0 20 0 18 0 1 16 0
25 1 2 2 2 4 4 25 0 19 7 1 19 2
30 1 4 11 2 9 10 30 1 1 9 2 3 6
35 1 8 6 2 17 0 35 1 4 11 2 19 18
40 1 13 3 3 6 6 40 1 9 2 2 18 4
45 1 19 6 3 19 0 45 1 14 10 3 9 8
50 2 7 9 ' 4 15 '6 50 2 2 6 4 5 0
55 2 18 10 5 17 8 55 2 12 9 5 5 6
PETER MORR SON, Resident Director.

-POLAND.

The following notice of the extent and population of
the different provinces which constituted the ancient
republic of Poland will be read with interest at a moment
when their inhabitants are making an effort to become
independent of their present rulers. Gallicia, which now
belongs to Austria, has an extent of 1,580 geographical
miles, and a population of 4,797,243, nearly all Poles.
About 2,oo9,oooprofess the United Greek religion, about
the same number are Roman Catholics. There are
rather more than 250,000 schismatic Greek;,
30,090. Protestants, and 283,345 Jews. The re-
public of which Cracow is the capital has about 21
geographical square miles, and 145,787 inhabitants.
The territory and the town form a republic, under the
protectorate of Austria, Russia, and Pruss!a. The
Grand Duchy of Posen, which forms part of the Prep-
Bien monarchy, has a superficies of 536 square geogra-
phic'al miles ; a population of 1,290,187, of whom
372,789 profess the Prussian Evangelical religion, and
are chiefly Germans by origin and in language. There
are 783,916 Roman Catholics, who are nearly all Poles.
The Jews are in n mber 77,102. Prussia has also
other populations Polish origin in Silesia, and
eastern and wester :Prussia, from Dantzic to the
frontiers of Russia ;
.but as they have been sepa-
rated from the oth Polish people for more than a
century, it is not sup sad that they will take any part
in the insurrection. The ancient provinces of Lithuania,
White Russia, and Samogitia,, form the Russian Go-
vernments of \Vilna, Witepsk, Grodnn, Kowno, Minsk,
and Mohilow. Their population is 4,978,369.
These countries have for four years been suffering
from scarcity of provisions, and the people are,
therefore, in a state of great excitement. The
nobles and a epextion of the people are
Roman Catholic - the rest, who wore forruvrly of
the United Greek-Church, s have now become, by
choice or fcsrce, members of the Schismatic Greek
Church, but a great number of the peasantry have
refused to acknowledge the 'Russian bishops who
were appointed to succeed their priests. There are
also a few thousand Poles in the Russo-German
Governments of Courland - and Livonia. Ia the
Ukraine and Little Russia, viz., the G )vernments of
Vo'hvnia, Kieff, Poltawa, Kurks, &c., the nobles pro •
fess the Roman Catholic faith, but the people now profess
the same religion as the Russians. The population of
these Governments, which are of great extent, amounts
to eight millions. What is called the kingdom of Poland,
and which is under the authority of Gen. Paskewitch, is
alio of considerable extent, and has a population of
4,769,790. Thus there are in—

Gallicia
Cracow 145,787
The Grand Duchy of Posen 1,290,187
Lithuania
Little Russia
The Kingdom of Poland

Giving a total of 23,981,376
The population of Russia is 63 millions, that of Austria
37 millions, and this of Prussia 16 millions, indepen-
dently of the population of the different provinces of
ancient Poland.

CASE OF CRIM. CON.