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WILLIA/d LEAF, Req., Deputy-Chairman.
~/7/91 ternpts that
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iirehard X. Arden, Esq. obn Humphery Et,q., Alderman,
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Wtatant Banbury, Esq. M.P.
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Eilvvbeat Bates, Esq. camas Kelly, Esq., Alden/MI.
eremlak Weller, Esq.
Ms Pocock, Esq.

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Pert Ingieby,

Puisiciam—Dr. Jkalfroson, 2 Finsbury-square.
• guAGIKON—W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederiet's-place, Old Jewry.
. Cotissualso AcianizT—Professor nail, of King's College.
LOW RATES OF PREMIUM.
Persons Assuring in this Office have the benefit of the Lowest
rate of Premium which is compstilde with the safaty of the Assured,
anti wblch is. in efliet, equivalent to an Annual Bonus ; they have
Likewise the security of a largo subscribed capital—an Assarance
'NM 01 a Quarter of a Million—and an Annual Income of
95,0•01., arising front the issue of nearly 0,000 ['obelus.

[PR iCE

ANNUAL PREMIUM TO A.SSURB £lOO.

Age.

For One Year,

For Seven Years. Whole Term.

X(1 17 3
1 1 3
1 i 0
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1 6 9
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o,,,,e•hAt of the " Whole Ten Pn" remium may remain en credit
or oeven yeara or one-third of the Premium may remain for life as a
debt upon the policy at 6 par cent., or Luny be paid off at any time
Without nattce.
PoUde, asaigned no a security to others, will not be rendered void
eousequetice of Meath by suicide, duelling, or by the hands of
iftice• In co'e of death by the above cauges, where the Policies
are not assigned, the grosa amount of Premiums received will be re-
turned.

Claims paid In nne inor.".tx after proof hare been approved.
The Medical Ofricers attend daily at a Quarter before Two o'Cloek,
*ad Policies towed the same day.

R. RATES, Resident Director.
A liberal Commission to Solicitors and Agents.

ENGLAND to INIKA. and AUSTRALIA
The INI,IA and AUSTRALIA MAIL STEAM-PACKET
COMPANY, incorporated by Royal Charter, which limits the re-
sPonsibility of the shareholders to the amount for which thoy Indivi•
453.117 subscribe, and authorises the Company to establish commu-
nications to and sued from the United Kingdom, the East Indies,
Australasia, vet Mew Zealand.
Capital One MMion sterling.
Divided into series of shares of 201. each.
C•MMITTEN.
lib George Larrat, Bart., Chairman of the London Committee of
1846 for Extension of Steam Navigation to Australia.
Sir William Terner. Bart., M.P.
Tion..Trancls Scott, M.P., Agent for sew South Wales.
at Thomas L. Mitchell, -Surveyor-General of New South Waite,

London.
Abdy, Indian Army J. Maclean Lee, RM,
Thonias Browne, Esq. Captain Richard Lloyd, Indian
Captain Cogan, Indian Navy ' Navy
Archibald Cunitn,,,haate, Eeq. Milbourne Marsh. EM.
Captain FL M. Denham, F.R.S., It. Montgomery Martin, Esq.
Royal Navy .J. Monteflore, Esq.
G. H. Donaldson, Esq. Sir F. Waekett Myers, K.C.S.
Capt. R. J, Yayrer, Royal Navy Alexander C, Ogilvie, Esq.
Captain Fonl,East India Maritimeßichard Paterson, Esq.
larynx) (Robert Henley Payne, Esq,
Captain R. T. Gordon. Royal Navy,John Wilson Pillans, Esq.
Z. 15, Halawell, EN*, M.A., r.R.S.IG. H. Skead, Esq., Master, Royal
Capt. H. Hamilton, Royal Navy Navy
Gustay., Hamilton, Esq. Colonel Terrens, F.R.S.
Jamos limner, Esq. William Gordon Thomson, Esq.
J. A. Jackson, Esq. Waghorn, F.R.A.S„ Royal
Charles Joyce., Esq. Navy
Frederick Lambe, Esq. Melvil Wilson, Esq.
Ilaxanas—Mesers, Currie and Co., Cornhill.
SOLICITOIIB-11esem. Barron and Clarke, Bloomsbury-square.
India. Australia, China, and the adjAcent regions, contain a popu-
lation of more than half the number of the inhabitants of the
globe, and teens with every product which eoa minister to the wants
of man.

To earry out effectually and economically steam communication
With those countries is the object of tide Company, for whose ope-
rations awe is an ample and profitable field, especially as regards
Our testricrous and 'valuable colonies in the Southern Pacific, which
have an Increasing Intercourse with India as well as with England
—we the only portions of the British empire a connected by steam
navigation with the parent state, and liar which a charter by the
overland route has been exclusively granted to this Company. -
The route sanctioned by the Lords of the Admiralty for this Corn-
Pull" is vii Ceylon, Singapore, and Torres Straits, the advantages of
'Which ars. that Sydney, the metroplltan capital of the whole of the
Australasian colonies, would be brought to a certainty within 64 or
66 days of London (frequently In GO),- and within lees than 30 days
K India. The coal stations are convenient, excellent Noel from the
Pits at Nett-ens:le, Nevr South Wales. can be pat on board there at
7e. to 73.6 d. par ton.
Pre.Pitetases, With forms of application for shares, and further
beton:tuition may Ws had on application at the offices of the Com-
Pun where a copy of the Royal Charier of Incorporation may be
oblitned.
Ofiews, 84 Cornhill London. JOHN TATES, See.

MATTIIIAS DUNN.

QTAItiZAS for the SERPENTINE.
When Winter comes chilling the air,
And his subjects are all in a shiver,
What thousands-are seen to prepare
For a skate on the Serpentine river.
Then the Dress-mart of AfOSES and SON,
Is furnished with Coats for the skaters,
Which garmsitqs at all times Lave won
The title of being "first-raters."
•
'When the river a twelvemonth ago
Was" glazed by the clerk of the weather,
What a sight did the Serpentine show.
With its thoasands assembled together. -
The, wrappers ef*MOSES were won
By the gents on the hard-freeing waters,
/Vial the furs were observed to adorn
TIM numbers of kingland's fair daughters.
And may we not view thent again?
Ye., the river once more may be frozen ;
Skates auxin may be cal!ed for, and then •
Will the Warehouse of .11("SEW be chosen.

At once let the public prepare,
For truly there Ls very good reason I
haste to 1103ES' famed Warehouse, for there
Is the thcacest or dress for the season.

LIST OF PRICES.
SAADI NADI.

Beaver TagUeni •• . •• ••
Chesterfield and Codrington's, and every
description. of Over-coat, handsomely
.• • I 4 0
1 8 0
The ?Sunnier, especially adapted for snowy and
wet w2nther.......... •• .• ••
The Premier.— •• •• •• •• •• •• •
Boy's Winter coats, in every style.
Itit's De. Trousers, lined .• •• •
Doeskin ..........
Dre's...
Frock
Doulble-breasted Winter Vesta...
Roll enlist.... ~ .....
Boys' Hussar and Tunic iMsits..

............ • 15 0
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TO !I-LAMINA.
Winter Coats, in every style and shape, hand-
. from I 6 0
somely trithmed
1111!ed cloth Over-coa•s, velvet collar and cuffs 2 4 0,
Tweed Wrapper....
8 0
I)oeskin Trousers • •••
6 0
Dress Coat ••••• • •• • •
Best quality made.. •• • • •• •. 2
Frock Cs • •
Best quality made. •. • 3 3 0
Cashmere Vests .. •• • • ••• • .• ..... •.•• • • 0 8 6
Satins, 7stahl or Fancy •• • • ........... 0 12 0
Bey's HtiMar and Tunis Suits 1 6 0
0 16 0
A Suit of Clothke complcte 1 16 0
Sfourning fo any extent at Five Minutes notice.
observe.—Any article purchased, ready made, or made to mea-
sure, if not approved of, will be oxiManged, or if preferred, the
Money returned:
E. agosES and S9l, Tailors, Woollendrapers, Clothiers, Hatters,
noute;rs, Furriers, Boot and Shoemakers, and General Outfitters, for
Ladles and Gentlemen, 154, 155, and 156, 157 Minories, and 82,
84, 85, and 86 Alagate, City, London.
Csultion.—X. Moses and Son regret being obliged to guard the
public against impostor's, but kare learned that the untradesman-
like falsehood of being enialected with them, or it's the same concern,
Mat been resorted to in many Instances, mid for obvious reasons.
They have no cormezion with any other house in or out of London;
Aid those who desire genuine and cite'''. clothing, &c., ahoald eall at,
er send to, Minories send Aidgate, City, London.
Notiee.—No business transacted at this establishment from sun-
set Friday, till sunset Saturday. when business is resumed till twelve
o'clock.

A R R I A G E.
NI- One half the world are desolately single, and the other
islPPOshig them married, questionably contented. Diffidence, or a
sews el right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em-
bitter the latter. Tim solitary one may shield himself under the plea
ei caudoe and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret un-
emProsleg harry; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,
antbroken health, are the great hindrances to domestic happiness
social contest. The dowry should net be the only marriage set-
tlement. Honour end buiticedemand that health sheuldform aaitem
1e the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Bligkted hopes or
fileet wound mere sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if
these surmises concern yeti, procure Dr. CULYERWELL'S little
,__,14431011t8 •On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vela., Is.
each (by poet, in stamps, Is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively
er prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered
17 Misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining
• They are net intended certainly for mere idle cariosity, but
the dealt perusal of these mere deeply interested, to whom
IRV are listed as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on
ine *eve subjects, by anqualified authors, which alone or
rt....etbV, aro a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two ether
Ablimitieris claim your attention (same price Is. each,
wY lc 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and
Avoid." and • " How to bps Happy." They are net merely
DlMPhlete, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the
ephememl seribblings of the keur, but the study of the author's
.._"ge,Wko *Wei his present existence, health, and position to this ob-
...Tanen of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he
*Mld be done ante—te live atter nature's laws—and to keep always
fit the '• stray side of the way." The above works may be had of
INlOrweod, 23, Paternoster-row ; Caryalhe, 147, Fleet otreet ; Mann,
31, Cornhill ; Naha*, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or ether-
) from the anther (who may be conferred with personally,yt
engage
aellora: aid 'minus), 10, Argyll-plate Regent-street ; aid all
Bk

DR. LAWERT ON THE SECRET INFIRMITIES OF TOUTH
AND MATURITY.—WITH 4O COLOURED ENGRAVINS6 ON
STEEL.
Just published, and may be had in French or English, is a Sealed
Davelope, 28. Od„ or post-free, from the Author, for tarty-two
*ant"
SELF-PRESERVATION ; a Medical Treatise
el the Physiology of Marriage, Infelicitous and Unproductive
Unions, and the Secret Infirmities and Disorders of Youth and Ma-
turity, usually acquired at an early period of life, which enervate
the physical and mental powers, diminish and enfeeble the natural
feelings, and exhaust the vital energies of Manhood ; with Practica:
Observations on the Treatment of 'Nervous Debility and Indigestion,
'Whether arising from these canses, close study, or the influence of
tropical climates: Local and Constitutional Weakness,
Syphilis,
Stricture, and all Diseases and Derangements resulting from Indis-
cretion. 'With Forty coloured Engravings, illustrating the
jdint"V. Physiology, and Diseases of the Reproductive Organs,
explaining their structures, uses, and functions, and the various
kinries that aro produced In them by solitary habits, excesses, and
tafeetioa.

• RT BAMVEL LA'MERT, M.D..
9. REDPORD-STRERT, BEDFORD•SQUARE,
LONDON.
octor of Medicine. Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, Honorary Member
of the London Hospital Medical Society, &c.
Marriage requires the fulfilment of several conditions. in order
that It may be really the cause of mutual happiness. Could the
Veil, which covers the origin of domestic wretchedness, be raised,
and its true source in every instance disclosed, in how many could
hist traced to physical disqualifications and their attendant disap-
Pollittnents. Exceseee are always injurious ; the gift,
which when
1'664 In rsoderation is fraught with advantage, becomes, when
abeial, the prolific source of mischief. and of greater or less Injury
to the constitutional and vital powers. The particular excesses. on
the nature and come:mutes of which this Treatise professes to dilate.
are productive of greater severity of misery to the hamaa frame,
an Say ether t• whit* it is subject.
A
. Tide
natom work contains an accurate and complete •account of the
their relay
tiavend rhybiology of the Reprainctive Organs, and of
conditions In health and disease. It deservedly
rquires the closeet attention and study, ter what subject can
avid f more imaortaace than the preservation of the health,
‘4o47*t the physical capabilities of which every man should
41"Pwl• it unfortertately happens that the unhappy
of baceesive indulgence anti vicious habits, whether acquired
to early /lib or trem the follies et advanced age, while sufferlag
Il•tal their invariable censequexces, unwisely entertains a fear of ap-
plying to a qualified physician for relief. Shame and the dread so
Inianently, but of entertalaeal that these complaints are
heYottd the Tea* of arts alike restrict him and prevent his seeking
for assistance where alone it can be procared. In acting thus, he
%Mete that accurate discrimination in ascertaining the causes of
atteave, apmpathy with the sufferer, and, above all, secrecy, 'eve-
ilably charectexise Use intelligent and practical physician, and to the
medical man who can show by hi." posse sion of the requisite legal
Vialifications that he is entitled to esteem and respect in his profes-
sional pursuits, the utmost csafidenee should be extended. Dr.
LA'MERT has obtained the highest medical honours, as his diplomas
"'lir'', and the great extent of his practice for many years is a
guarantee for his professional experienee, which has reference almost
solely to the tras:tient of these diseases.
d2Published by the Author, and may be had of Rent and Richards,
;, Paternoster row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street: Static, Tichhorne-
_ _llset, Haymarket ; Mansell 115, Fleet-street : Gordon, 146,
t.eadenhall-stroet. London ; or, free by post for forty-two stamps,
he Anther, who may be consulted on these disordets personally
, front 0 T.,. and fro= Nit at Ms
1 Widgataigir4

to me since the late providential escape from collision
upon the Manchester and Liverpool Railway. A
train, on its passage from Liverpool to Birmingham,
on approaching the acute curve of the Warrington
junction, was observed by the switch keeper to be
coming at the rate of forty miles per hour, instead of
five or six, which is the speed ordered for that especial
part. Judging that certain mischief would be the
re3u:t of taking the turn with that speed, he promptly
and praiseworthily determined to allow the switch
to remain unturned, with the intention of signalising
the train back again. Accordingly, the train bolted
past towards Manchester at the rate of forty miles per
hour, and, in spite of his flags and signals, held on its
pace. The guard now saw that something was
wrong; but, as he had no other means of communi-
cating with the engine-driver, he scrambled over the
tops of the carriages, at most imminent risk, till, at
length, on reaching the engine, he discovered that
both engineer and stoker were under gross intoxica-
tion. So considerable a time, therefore, had elapsed
before he could arouse them to a sense of danger,
that they had reached Patricroft, and were upon the
point of running into a passenger train, which must
have been attended with great loss of life, when
matters were brought to a stand-still.
The perusal, therefore, of the above account has
led me to the following reflection, as to a practical
and effectual means of enabling the guard of a pas-
senger train to hold an immediate control over the
steam valve of the engine, viz. :-1. Every carriage
top, on the right hand side, to be fitted up with two
small blocks. 2. Also a line, or chain, to be reaved
through these blocks, and to the length of the carriage
with spare chain, to meet the space between the car-
riages. 3. The end of each of these chains to be fur-
nished with a hook and eye, by which they can be
connected and disconnected at pleasure. 4. The
guard to ride upon the last carriage of the train,
which must always be fitted up with a small winch,
around which the end of the rope is coiled. 6. The
other end of the rope or chain, to be attached to the
handle or lever of the steam valve, so contrived that,
when the guard turns his winch, the rope slould
immediately withdraw the steam from the engine,
which would at once bring the train to a stand, as
well as apprise tha engine-driver that there was some-
thing wrong.
In order to carry out the arrangements, the car-
riages must, at each main terminus, be so placed that
the line leads up or down one specific side ; and, in
attaching or detaching carriages, each carriage carries
with it its own fittings in the same manner as it now
carries its connecting chains. The above method
would provide against the contingencies arising from
intoxication of the driver, sudden illness, accidents
by lightning, the engine-driver falling off, or aban-
doning the engine under the influence of sudden
danger, &c. In short, I humbly submit, that a quick
and entire shutting-off of the steam would be more
generally effective, in preventing accidents, than any
expedient hitherto devised, and that, too, in the most
simple and economical manner.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Jan. 6, 1848.
P.S. By fitting up both sides of the carriages, tl?
necessity for turning them at the termini will be
obviated ; by exhibiting a flag from the carriage-
window the guard could immediately operate.

SINGULAR DEATH IN A PRISON.
Yesterday evening Mr. Bedford held an inquest in
the Tothill-fields Prison on the body of Mrs. Hannah
Thomas, aged 45, a lady respectably connected, who
was committed from Bow-street, on Friday last, for
giving a servant a false character.

Ann Stone, a sub-warder, said, in answer to ques-
tions by the jury, that the cells were not heated with
pipes, but prisoner had two blankets and a rug. On
Sunday she made no complaint. At half-past seven
the next (Monday) morning witness found her lying
on the floor with her bed and bed-clothes. She spoke
to her, but she could not or would net get up. She
called Mrs. Anderson, another warder, and she was
raised up, but was apparently unable to stand; they,
however, put her day clothes on.
The CORONER—What was that for ? Witness said
she did not know, but they did it.
The CORONER—Was no medical assistance sent for ?
Witness replied in the negative, and said that she
wentko breakfast; and on her return, at a quarter
past eight, the deceased was sitting in the corner
where they had left her, and talking to herself.
The CORONER—Did it not occur to you to send
for the surgeon ? Witness replied that she di I not,
for she thought she was shamming. At twenty
minutes past eight, on going to deceased, she appeared
dead, but by order of the matron she was put into a
I warm bath ; and the doctor, having been apprised of
her illness, almost immediately attended, but when
taken out of the bath she was quite dead.
Mr. John Levies, the surgeon of the prison, stated
that he saw the deceased on Saturday, not on ac-
count of any illness; she complained of suffering, but
that she wished him to intercede with the magistrate
to revoke her sentence. She spoke of the disgrace
of being there, and cried very much. He saw her
the next day, but she made no complaint. Mr. Levies
then stated that he had opened the body, and found
about a pint of venous blood in the cavity of the chest,
which had come from the lungs and fully accounted
for the death.

After a lengthened investigation, in which the pro-
priety of visiting the cells in the night was suggested
by the coroner, and the governor of the prison having
stated that the wardens had no right to give en
opinion as to whether the prisoner shammed ill or not,
the jury returned a verdict that the " Deceased died
from natural causes."

MELANCHOLYDEATH FROM THE
BITE OF A RATTLESNAKE.
We are seldom called upon in New York to record
an event of such a character, or one that has thrown
so sudden a gloom among a large circle of personal
friends and acquaintances, as that of the sudden and
melancholy death of Dr. Arnold F. Wainewright, of
No. 41, Crosby-street, of this city, occasioned by the
bite of a rattlesnake. The snake was sent him by a
friend in Mobile, Alabama ; it was a large animal,
about five feet in length, having twelve rattles ; it
was contained in a box with spars over the top. The
Doctor was on his way home from the ship with the
present, but stopped at the Broadway -house to show
the curiosity. The company present seemed to enjoy
the sight of teasing and irritating the snake, while
the reptile kept whizzing his rattle at a furious
rate. The box was opened, and now there being a
fair field, the reptile kept coiling and rearing
himself in fierce defiance of his enemies. This
display lasted for some time, when Dr. Waine-
wright touched him a few inches below the
head, expecting that it could not bend its body suffi-
ciently to bite. In a moment he snapped, and in-
flicted a wound on the first joint of the middle finger
of the right hand. This occurred at half-past six
o'clock P.N. on Thursday. Dr. Smith was hereupon
immediately called upon, and visited the patient. Re
made a superficial excision of the part, and also cau-
terised it with nitrate of sulphur. lie also applied a
light ligature immediately above the writ. The hand
commenced to swell immediately after the occurrence
of the accident. The deceased was then removed to
his residence by a few friends, and Drs. Whittaker,
Caldwell, Post, Parker, and Campbell were called
in, and an application of turpentine to the wound
was ordered on their arrival, as also the internal
administration of diffusable stimulants. Although
the disease progressed rapidly in its course to
the fore-arm and arm, no constitutional symp-
toms seem to have made their appearance until
it reached what the faculty technically term
the " axilla," or armpit, When immediately the pulse
began to flag; and, notwithstanding the continued
application of stimulants by the mouth and also in
other forms, the pulse never rallied until about twelve
o'clock P.M., when death put a period to his existence.
Nothing could equal the assiduity and attention paid
to the patient by the above-named medical men, who
remained with him throughout from the moment they
were called in. They all, however, frankly acknow-
ledged that they had never seen a similar case before.
Two medical students from Georgia were also pre-
sent, having seen similar cases, and gave valuable aid.
Wainewright was a physician of eminent stand-
ing, .
D d
ing, of high professional reputation in medical, lite-
rary, and scientific acquirements, having
known and universally respected among
his
een Nlell
profes-
sional brethren and friends. lie has been
11 ten years__, t
taker. He was 4 0 years of
a
resident of New York, and studied under Dr.
lie was formerly a
captain in the 50th Regiment of
of Foot in the British
service. The
embalmed,on Sundayan next.
dwill be
buried in te hh Gboedeyrni h,a us
ro
—New York Herald. lbd been
Cemetery

RUSSIAN STATIsTics-According to the almanac
for the year 1848, published by the Academy of St.
Pe'ersburgh, Russia in Europe covers a superficies of
90,117 squat.e miles, with a population of 54,092,000
souls ; the kingdom of Poland, an extent of 2,320 square
miles, with 4,850,000 inhabitants ; and the grand duchy
of Finland 6,844 square miles, with 1,547,702 inhabi-
tants. According to the last census, St Petersburgh
contained 443,000 inhabitants. In 1546, 1,677 poods of
geld, one pond of platinum, and 1,199 poods of silver,
were extracted from the Imperial mines. The publio
debt is estimated at 315,084,200 silver roubles, thus
divided :—Determined foreign debt, 66,836,000 Dutch
florins ; internal debt, 52,497,760 roubles. Letters or
notes of credit are in circulation fora sum of 226,167,589
silver roubles, and assignments of the empire for
117,121,220 roubles.— Giornak del Lloyd Austriaco.

Sir John Pelly transacted business yesterday, at
the office of the Board of ludo.