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The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-30

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COLWMONS, Sept. 28.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at five minutes before
Five.
Lord LEVESON took the oaths and his seat for Lich-

field.
Sir G. CocKßErnx took the oaths and his seat fur
Ripon.
Mr. GREENE brought up the Report of the Private
Bills Committee on the Duke of Marlborough's Estate
Bill, Riddell's Estate Bill, and Clayton's Name Bill.

CORN-LAWS:
• The Hon. F. BERKELEY presented petitions against
the Corn-laws, and praying the House not to separate
until it had carried into effect her Majesty's gracious re-
commendation in her Speech at the beginning of the Ses-
sion—from the Congregation of Presbyterians in Lewin's
Mead, Bristol ; and from Dissenting Congregations at
Kingsdown (Wilts) ; North Nibley, Wootton- under-
Edge, and other places in Gloucestershire.
Sir J. BECKET presented a petition, which was
agreed to at a meeting convened in Leeds b.} the Mayor,
praying for a repeal of the present Corn-laws, to the
operation of which the petitioners ascribed the extreme
distress under which the manufacturers were suffering.

Mr. GIBSON presented a petition from an indvidual
residing in Lambeth, complaining that the Corn•laws
were grievously injurious to the most important interests
of the country, and praying that the food to be consumed
in the workhouses might be allowed to be taken out of
bond free of duty.
Mr. FIELDEN]gave notice that, on the Order of the
Day being read for a third reading of the Poor-law
Commission Continuance -Bill, he should move that the
Bill be read a third time that day six months.
London, England, 1841-09-30

SUMMARY OF NEWS

AN D
VtibUr Oti
ptton.

" Who runs may lead."

FOREIGN. .
The Journal des Debats of Tuesday has a long article,
assuring us that France has no intention of disarming
any of the twenty
.sail of the line which she has now in
commission. Notwithstanding our vast Indian empire,
and our numerous colonies in every part of the world,
France contends for the right of keeping a navy afloat
equal to ours. This is surely not over-pacific, consider-
ing the burst of joy with which the Debats hailed the
accession of the Tories to office. What would the Debats

think of our pacific intentions were we to propose rivaling
France in the strength of our army ? And have we not
about the same claims to become a great military power
that France has to become a naval. one ?

The King of the French held a grand review at Cora--
peigne on Sunday, at which he delivered to the Colonels
of the 22d, 23d, 34th, and 25th Regiments of Light In-.
fantry ; to the Colonels of the 68th, '69th, 70th; 71st,
72d, 73d, 74th, and 75th of the line ; to the Colonels of
the 7th, Bth, and 9th Hussars; and to the Colonel of the
13th Chasseurs, their respective colours. The troops
then took the oath of allegiance proposed to them by
Marshal Soult, and the King addressed them in a speech
which will be given in another part of The Sun. The
ceremony was altogether very imposing.
Great differences have arisen between the French and
Belgian Commissioners upon the Tariff question.
A letter from Badajos of the 18th, states that the Mi-
guelite brigands were defeated at Anonches, in Portugal,
about four leagues from the Spanish frontier, on, the
16th, by some detachments of the Royal" troops.' There
were between 90 and 100 in the gang, of whom 40 were
killed on the spot, and 38 taken and shot in less than an
hour after their capture.
The ex-Regent of Spain has written to the Madrid
Government for her pension, as the widow of Ferdinand-
the Seventh. Maria Christina is one of the riehest in-
dividuals in Europe, and yet she pleads poverty to the
very Government against which she protested in July last!
Serious disturbances took place near Naples on the
Bth instant. A Colonel and his orderly officer were
killed by some labourers. The troops were called out
and ordered to fire upon the people, when four persons
were shot dead and many wounded. The rioters fled to
the mountains.

The King of the Belgians, accompanied by the Queen,
the Duchess of Kent, and the fashionables at Brussels,
assisted on Monday at laying the first stone of a branch
railway, connecting the southern, northern, eastern, and
western lines which intersect Belgium. Several addresses
were presented to his Majesty on this occasion, to which
he very handsomely replied by giving most of the par-
ties concerned an excellent dinner. There is nothing
like feeding loyalty.
London, England, 1841-09-30

SHOREHAM.

OnMonday evening a highly respectable meeting
took place at the Star Inn, Shoreham, fur the purpose
of addressing her`Majesty on the present destitute con-
dition of the working and industrious classes.
ThomAs GUILLAUME, Esq., the high constable, was
called to the. Chair. .
Mr. DAVIS proposed, and Mr. BRADLEY seconded,
a resolution, that a petition, then read by him,, be pre-
smteito.her Majesty; -through his Grace the Duke of
Norfolk, which was carried unanimously.
London, England, 1841-09-30

HAMMERSMITH.

A meeting was held at the Windsor Castle, on INfon-
day evening, for the organisation of the. Anti-Corn-law
Association, proposed at the public meeting held on
Wednesday last, at the Latymer school-room. The
association was formed, and the meeting was adjourned
till the following Monday, at eight o'clock.
London, England, 1841-09-30

DISTRESS IN SPITALFIELDS.

The following account of the distressed condition of
the weavers in .gfiitaltields, Bethnal-green, &c., was
drawn up by a gentleman well acquainted with that dis-
trict, and handed to Mr. Sidney Smith at the Shore-
dittli meeting on Monday night. We are assured that it
may be relied on :
STATS OF THE WEAVERS.—There are about 14,000
looms in Bethnal-green, Spitaltields, Shoreditch, &c. ;
about 3,000 are quite out of work, and
,the 11.000 at
work are only three-fourths of their time. employed,
which causes great distress and privation among, those
who are considered the respectable portion of the district.
The average earnings when at work are about 7s. 6d.
per week each loom ; from this is to be deducted ,ts. 6d.
per month, or Is. lid. per week, for expenses of twining
in and twisting in, which leaves the miserable starving
income of 65.4 d. per week.
There are about 800 souls in the Bethnal-green poor-
house, and about 1,600 receiving out-door relief. There
are hundreds without a bed to lie on, having parted with
it for food. Cases are occurring every day that weavers
are parting with their looms and tools to obtain food for
their starving family—those being the only things left
of any value that they can dispose of ; and when they
are gone they are quite destitute—not a bed to lie on—
not a chair to rest on, nor tools to work with. This is
the heartbreaking situation of many hundreds of the
useful industrious Spitalfields weavers.
. Pawnbrokers and furniture-brokers are :o stocked with
geed s, they have great difficulty to find room to put them
in their warehouses.
Three-fourths of the shopkeepers are insolvent—rents
cannot be got in—to distrain is of no use. Ali that could
be sold is gone for food.
11,000 looms employed, at 7s. 6d. per week, £4,125
3,000 do, • unemployed, do. do. 1,195

14,000

£5,250

ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE.
'NDER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSBALDISTON.
Seventy-fifth time of Miss Vincent in the character of " Su-
san Hopley ;" third week of Wilks' successful drama of " Raf-
laelle, the Reprobate !" and first week of " The Flying
Dutchman," with Childe's Phantasmagorical Representation
of the Spectral Ship in full sail.
THIS EVENING, SEPT. 30,
The highly interesting and pathetic Domestic Drama, called
SUSAN HOPLEY ; OR THE TRIALS AND VICISSI-
TUDES OF A SERVANT GIRL. William Dean, Mr. E.
F. Saville ; Susan Hopley, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged
Heroine of Domestic Drama.

After which, RAFFAELLE THE REPROBATE ; OR.
THE SECRET MISSION, AND THE SIGNET RING.
Raffaelle, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Count des Monte, Mr. Dale ;
Gablin, Mr. Howard ; Pauline, Mrs. Lee.
To conclude with THE FLYING DUTCHMAN ; OR
THE PHANTOM SHlP.—Vanderdecken, Mr. Dale; Toby
Varnish, Mr. Seaman ; Peter Von Bummel, Mr. Gardner ;
Lestelle, Mrs. Lee ; Lucy, Mrs. Howard.
Boxes, 23.—Pit, I s.— Gallen, 6d. Half-price to the Boxes
only, at. Half-past Eight.
To. morrow, Susan 1-lopley, Raffaelle, and the flying Dutchmai
London, England, 1841-10-15

MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCE.

AtiWednesday's adjourned meeting of the Talacre Coal
and Iron Company the total claims on the Company
were stated at 33,0001, and the Chairman is at present
sued for 10,0001. It appeared from the Report that
seventeen individuals had purchased the mine of
Talacre, in Flintshire, for 75,0001., which they had sold
to the Company for 110,0001.
According to accounts from Rochdale there is little
change in the wool market, manufacturers buy for im-
mediate use only at the old prices.
The accounts from Spain have had rather an unfa-
vourable effect on the Manchester trade, as some buyers
of goods for that country, who were doing much busi-
ness a week or two ago, have left off purchasing. Yarns,
however, are shipping off in large quantities, but prices
are no better.
London, England, 1841-10-15

IVIGNE'Z -TRAIT/ M-COMPSERCE.

The Liverpool West India Steam Company are urged
by Government to spare no expense or exertion in finish-
ing the fleet of fine steam frigates, which are to carry
the mails. Seven of the largest of these vessels are
very far advanced, and the whole sixteen must be ready,
according to contract, on the Ist of January.
London, England, 1841-10-15

AGRICULTURAL.

Accounts from Fair, do not speak favourably
of the hop-market. file supply had been 3,018 pockets
of Farnhams, and 2,500 of other sorts.

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

A draft of the 99th 11egiment11fTsiJfiigarrison at
Chatham, finally to proceed to New South Wales with
convicts ; another draft of 118 of the 80th left on Thurs-
day. The 33d proceeds to Cork, from which place the
97th has come in. The 77th proceeds to Sheerness, in
place of which the 75th returns to Chatham.

MAW AND POLICE.
In the Marylebone Registration Court on Wednesday the
name of George handers, attached to the Portuguese
Embassy, was struck off the list, on the ground that he
did not pay rates and taxes.
Mr. Coventry, on his attention being called to the de-
cision given on a previous day, by which he allowed the
name of Lord Bridport to remain on the list contrary to
the decision of another Revising Barrister, said he saw no
reason to alter his opinion, as Peers were not represented
in money matters in the Rouse of Commons. A strange
argument when it is matter-of-fact that Peers return one
half of the Members.

At Hatton-garden on Wednesday the driver of the
cabriolet No. 431, was fined 10s. for refusing to take
a fare.

Frederick Smith, driver of an errand cart, appeared at
the Kensington police-otlice at the instance of Frederick
Shipley, the driver of one of Cloud's omnibuses, charged
with having by careless driving damaged the vehicle.
The evidence, however, took an unfortunate turn for the
complainant. Two witnesses proved that he was the
real offender, and the magistrate, Mr. Paynter, therefore
ordered him to pay 505., with costs, for damage to ex-
defendant's wheel; 20s. to defray the expenses of one of
the witnesses; ss. for the other; and ss. to the boy, who
was thrown out by the furious driving of Shipley.
London, England, 1841-10-15

PUBLICATIONS.

SAVAGE'S DICTIONARY OF PRINTING.
Just published, in Bvo., with Diagrams, :265. cloth,
A DICTIONARY of the ART of
PRINTING.
By W. SAVAGE,
Author of " Practical Hints on Decorative Printing," &c.
~* rho object has been to make a practical work, that
might meet the exigence of the printer while in the exercise of
his art, and would serve as a book of reference to the author,
the librarian, and to every one interested in books or their
production.
London, England, 1841-10-15

Two-thirds of Profits divided annually amongst the Assured.

DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT.
By the plan exclusively developed by this Society, a single
Deferred Annuity is made, net rally to answer the same object,
but to far exceed in amount '4:no entire bene,Et of all the act-
30intages heretofore nr,ey obtained by the middle and industrtntis
classes through .eptrate investments in Savings' Banks, Be-
nefit S° eLeyearly
its, and Loan Banks.
A small
or weekly contribution will secure the
most ample return for after life; thus-21. 12s. per annum (Is.
a week) at the age of 20, will give the policy holier the fol-
lowing option, at the age of 65
Annuity for for remainder of life £47 16
Cash 394 I I

6
0 or a

Policy, without further contributions, of 466 0 Cat death.
Other periods of life (of 50, 55, and 60) may be also taken
with similar advantages.
2.. Two-thirds at any time lent on deposit of policy, being a
land 2lwr vs available during sickness or want of employment.
3. Two-.birds of all payments returned to representatives in
case of premature death.
N.B. Policies, as collateral money.securitv, for periods of
one to five years, effected at lower rates than are charged by
any other Office, (See Tables A. and with option of con-
tinuance for Life at the usual rates.
F. FERGUSO►N CAMROUX, Sec.
London, England, 1841-10-15

TAONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
3, CHARLOTTE-ROW, MANSION HOUSE, LONDON.
21, ST. ANDREW-STREET, EDINBURGH.
And 64, FLEET-STREET, DUBLIN.
DIRECTORS.

Alexander .Anderson, Esq.
John Atkins, E=q
James Bidden, Esq,
Captain F. Brandreth
James Hartley, Esq.
Vice- Admiral Robert ihnyman
Benjamin Ifill, Esq.
SOLICITORS. —Messrs. Pal.
SEC RETA RY.—]

Kennett Kingsford, Esq.
John M'Gutlie, Esq.
John Maclean Lee, Esq.
J. Marmaduke Rosseter, Esq.
Alexander Robertson, Esq.,
Managing Director.

vier, France, and Palmer.
F. Edgell, Esq.

„ .
This Company divides amongst the Mutually Assured the
Whole of the Profits of the participating branch of Assuranee,
and also guarantees the payments by a Proprietary Capita).
Table to Assure £lOO, IN ith addition of profits :
Age. £. s. d. Age. - £. s. d.
20
25 ... ........ .•. '2 2 7 50

35
40

55
58

5 13 8
6 11 10

For the Non-participating, the seale of Premiums is ai low
as complete security will permit, and a Half Premium Credi
Table has been computed. whereby ONE-HALF of the PRE-
MIUMS MAY REMAIN UNPAID for SEVEN YEARS,
without endangering the Policy.
Credit Tab .e to Assure £lOO Payable at Death.
Age. X. s. d. Age. X. s. d.
15 ... Ol6 1 I 40

20 ........ 0 18 0
25
30

45
50
54

Certificated Attorneys and N
all cases remunerated by the t
Fees) are invited to communieal
pany, or the Managing Directoi

Medical Gentlemen (who are in
usual Commission and Medical
,te with the Agents of the Com-
ers in London,

VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE AND
LOAN COMPANY.

No. 18, King William-street, City.
Sir JAMES DUKE. M.P., Chairman.
BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq.. Deputy Chairman.
William Allen, n.q, John Esq.
Benjamin Barnard, Esq. John Nolloth, Esq.
Charles Baidwin, Esq. 1 bonus Nesbitt, Esq.
James Cockburn, Esq. Major-General Robertson
Bryan Donkin, Esq., 1 B.S. Daniel Sutton, jun., Esq.
Aaron G.ldsmid, Esq O'Bryan Bellingham Woolsey,
James Law Jones, Esq. Esq.
E.OLICITOR3.—Messrs. Lake and Curtis, SO, BasinghalLs";reet.
Assurances of every description may be effected by this Com-
pany, on a scale entitling parties to participate in profits, or on
a low non-participating scale. Premiums, in any case, made
payable to suit the convenience of Assurers. Loans, repayable
by instalments, are granted to parties assured with the Com-
pany, on a liberal and advantageous plan, either on real or
undoubted Personal Security.
WILLIAM RATRAY, ACTUARY awn SECRETARY.
London, England, 1841-10-15

POLISH BALL AT THE GUILDHALL.

Deputy Pococx gave notice that he should on the
next Court day present a petition from Lord Dudley
Stuart, Mr. Thomas Campbell, Captain I\l'Donnell,
and other tried and able friends of the unfortunate
Poles, praying that on some night after that of the 9th
of November, the use of the hall might be given by
the Corporation for a ball and concert for the assistance
of those distressed refugees of that nation, who are now
in a state of lamentable destitution in this country.
London, England, 1841-10-15

STATISTICS.

From the census of the city of Chester it appears
there are of inhabited houses 4,800 ; uninhabited, 406 ;
building, 291 ; females within the city, 10,667 ; males,
12,708 ; total, 23,375. The population in 1801 was
15,052 ; in 1831, 21,363.
According to official statement there are 5,371 county
magi.3trates in England and Wales. Of these 1,354 are
clerical, and 4,017 laymen.
The large parishes of St. Andrew's, Holborn, and St.
George•the Martyr, by the census of 1321, had a popu-
lation of 41,728. The proportion of burials in 1832, at
20 per cent., would be 2,086 annually, and eight over.
The burial grounds are as follow :—By the church in
I'lolborn, lf acre; in Gray's Inn-lane, 3f acres ; St.
George the Martyr, about 2 acres—together, 7 acres.
Divide 2,036 by 7 it gives 298 per acre for the burials ;
but if you allow* for the burials in cemeteries and else-
where, it gives 224 bodies annually for every acre of
burial ground. Multi lying 224 by 9, for nine years'
burials, from 1832 inclusive; to Christmas, 1840, it gives
2,016 bodies spread over every acre of burial-ground in
9 years ! _
London, England, 1841-10-15

TORY CONSISTENCY.

The contrast between the Duke of Richmond of
1841 and 1830 is such that we can with difficulty be.
lieve, on reading his bpeeches and protests at the two
periods, that the same individual held such opposite
opinions. The country was in a most distressed state
in 1830. In the debate an the address, in the House
of Lords (Feb. 4), the Duke of Richmond, who now
consigns the manufacturers without compunction to a
five months' starvation, was quite indignant at Lord
Goderich recommending patience. His Grace said—
" He was not sanguine enough to suppose that his
arguments would have any great weight there, but out
of doors they would have their effect. The Noble
Viscount (Goderich) said it would be a delusion to
hold out a hope that Parliament could provide a remedy
for this evil. Were their Lordships, then, to tell
the labourer and manufacturer that they must starve?
Where they to tell the yeomanry that there
was no remedy for them but patience ? That
was not the language to hold to them in their distresses.
He should not, however, shrink from the performance
of his duty, although be might be exposed to the serious
charge of—' assaulting,' he believed, was the word—
the Administration. Not that he had any wish to as-
sault.the Government ; but he hoped that the expres•
sioo of opinion in the House would be strong enough to
show the Noble Duke (the Duke of Wellington) that
their Lordships intended to do their duty to their coun-
try, and to act with justice to all." The following
protest was entered in their Lordships' Journal next
day by the Duke of Richmond :—" Because it is the
bounden duty of Parliament to examine the causes of
public distress, and, as far as may be in its power, to
administer speedy and effectual relief. Because the re-
lief which ought to be administered cannot be delayed,
without injury and injustice, and also without danger to
the country, of which the welfare must be destroyed,
and of which tke tranquillity might be disturbed by
continuance of the distress which is now suffered."
London, England, 1841-10-15

S LIMIARY OF NEWS

AND
Public la ti tido n.

" Who runs may read."

As the insurrection progresses in Spain, the King of
the French ostentatiously parades his sympathy for the
insurgents in the person of Maria Christina. On Sunday
his Majesty, accompanied by the Queen and Maclaine
Adelaide, his sister, visited Queen Christina at her hotel
in the Rue des Courcelles. Such a visit at such a time
must be regarded as in the highest degree hostile to the
Spanish Government. What would the French Govern-
ment say were Espartero, as Regent of Spain, to pay
visits to the young Duke of Bordeaux, at a time when
an insurrection in his name had broken out on the Py-
rennean frontier ? Would they not regard such an in-
decent proceeding as almost tantamount to a declaration
of war ?

The Gazette dc France states that a Council of Mini-
sters was held on Sunday, to deliberate upon the menaces
of the Spanish Ambassador relative to the countenance
given by the Court to the Spanish insurgents. It was
decided, in order to quiet Spain, and to preserve the ap-
pearances of neutrality, to make a show of preventing
Queen Christina from leaving Paris. A telegraphic
despatch was also sent off to the provinces, to prevent
the Carlist officers from entering Spain. As these offi-
cers are not disposed to bare a blade in support of the
pretensions of Christina, their detension in France can
be of little consequence to the Spanish Government. No
orders were, however, issued to prevent the partisans of
Christina from crossing the frontier.
The National of Tuesday states that the report of the
attempted insurrection at Madrid, on the night of the
7th instant, communicated to the ex-Regent, differed
very materially from the published telegraphic despatch.
According to that Journal, Espartero's victory was com-
plete, and the leaders of the insurrection, taken with
arms in their hands, were shot. The number reported
is thirty. The object of the conspirators was to carry off
the young Queen and her sister.
The wealth of Queen Christina is enormous. Of the
property of King Ferdinand she carried out of ,Spain in
gold and jewels to the amount of sixty-five millions of
francs. She has immense sums vested in the Securities
of England, France, Russia, and the United States.
With the sole exception of King Louis Philippe, Chris-
tina is the richest individual in Europe ; and yet her
avarice, more than her ambition, prompts the attempt to
revolutionize Spain.
It was reported on the Paris Bourse that General
Don Diego Leon was one of the conspirators shot in
Madrid by order of the Regent.
The fortress of Pampcluna, now in the possession of
General O'Donnell, is well provisioned, and mounts sixty
guns. It is so strong that military men in Spain have
declared that it is capable of resisting an army of 80,000
men with a hundred heavy guns.
The Sultana Ebedoull*h, sister of the late Sultan
Mahmoud, died at Constantinople on the 17th ult. As
is customary in Turkey, she was buried on the same day.
The great Officers of State attended the funeral, which
was otherwise strictly private.
London, England, 1841-10-15

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

Yesterday a Court was held for the dispatch of a
great deal of public business.
The LORD MAYOR informed the Court that he had
received a letter from Alderman Piric, expressive of
that Alderman's intention of accepting the office of
Mayor for the year ensuing.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. WELLS requested to be informed whether any
proper accommodation was to be given to the C.ty
Police Commissioner for the transaction of the im-
portant business of that functionary, who was at present
very indifferently located ?
One of the membors of the Police Committee
assured Mr. Wells that premises well adapted to the
business of the City Police Commissioner would'soon
be ready for the reception of Mr. Harvey.
London, England, 1841-10-15

EMPOWERED BY SPECIAL ACT OF PARLIAMENT,

4 VICT., CAP. 9.
BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE COM.
PANY,
No, 1. PRINCES-STREET, BANK, and 8, KING WIL-
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This Institution is empowered by a Special Act of Parlia-
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sent greater facilities and accommodation than can be obtained
in other Offices. The decided superiority of its plan, and its
claim to public preference and support, have been proved in-
contestably by its extraordinary and unprecedented success.
Among others, the following important advantages may be
enumerated : _ _

•A
most economical set of Tables—computed expressly for
the use of this Company, from authentic and complete data,
anti presenting the lowest Rates of Assurance• that can be of-
fered without compromising the safety of the Institution.
Increasing rates of premium on a new and remarkable plan,
for securing loans or debts, a less immediate payment being
required on a policy for the whole term of life than in any
other office. _ _ .

Premiums payable either Annually, Half-yearly, or Quar-
terlv, in one suns, or in a limited number of payments.

ii'.l3oard of Directors in attendance daily at Two o'clock.

Age of the Assured in every case admittc:d in the Policy.
All claims payable within one month after proof of death.
3ledical Attendants remunerated in all cases for their reports
London, England, 1841-10-15

ney, 6, Ba'singl,all-street.

LIFE ASSURANCE.
Resides the perfect security to the policy holder of a large
paid up capital, and accumulating funds, the following is one
amongst many of the advantages which belong exclusively to
the principles of Lifo Assurance and Deferred Annuities ori-
ginated by t h, Society, via.—Power to borrow (without de-
ay, expense, or forfeiture) Two-thirds of all premiums paid
upon a Polity of Assurance.
The annexed is a short Table, showing the Annual Premium
for assuring £l6O on the Whole Lite, or for a Term :

FOR LIFE.
A. B.
Age. Without 1 With [ For One For Five
Profits. [ Profits. Year only. Years only
s. d. 1 X. e. d. s. d. £. s. d.
20 1 13 .7 [ 1 17 4 ' 017 0 017 6
302441293 0 19 6 1 0 0
40 21881 3 5 3 1 13 10 15 0
50 44 2 4136 1[ 113 0 116 6
GO 6 13 6 [ 7 8 4 I( 3 0 0 3 9 6
London, England, 1841-10-15

COU/Vll-PASITIONABLE.

The Prince and Princess of Capua arrived at the Star
and Gartar Hotel, Richmond, on Wednesday, from North
Wales, after a visit of condolence to Lord and Lady
Dinorben.

The Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch left Whitehall-
gardens on Wednesday, on a visit to her Majesty at
Windsor Castle.

The Duke of Wellington is expected to leave town
for Walmer Castle, to-morrow.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Tweddale have left
town for Paris, to meet the Duke of Manchester.

The Dowager Lady Holland, is prolonging her re-
sidence at Byam House, Brighton.
The marriage of Lord Walpole to Miss Pellew, only
child of the Hon. Sir F. Pellew, will take place about
the end of October.

The Duke of Wellington, notwithstanding the ad-
vanced period of the season, rises shortly after day-
break, and, if the weather will permit, walks for some
time before breakfast in the garden attached to Apsley
House, his Grace regulating his exercise by one of
Payne's pedometers, so that ho may know how much
ground he has walked over. Thus the great captain of
the age preserves his health, which, it affords us pleasure
to be able to state, is better than for some years past.

The Princess de Canino, widow of Lucien Bonaparte,
is arrived in Paris, and has been received by the King
and Queen.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Yesterday, in 1814, died John Curran. His forensic
displays were unrivalled. Horne Tooke said—" Cur-
ran 's wit, like a mine of virgin gold, incessantly crumbles
away from its own richness."
Sir Edward Sugden has taken Lord Plunkett's house
in Stephen's-green, for " one year certain," at a rent
of 4501.

At the usual Petty Session held on Fridays in the
Board-room of the Strand Union, it was stated that for
the last four weeks in succession not a single Magistrate
had attended. On Friday last the parish officers and
collectors of the parishes of St. Clement Danes and St.
Paul, Covent-garden, and about seventy parties who had
been summoned for non-payment of rates, were in attend-
ance for two hours to no purpose, as not one Magistrate
was in attendance. _ _

The death of Prince Borromeo is announced as having
lately taken place at his villa of the Isola Bella, on the
Lago Magiore.
A gentleman, who has been employed by the Govern-
ment in trying to civilise the wild men who live in the
Bintoune forests of the island of Ceylon, thus describes
them:—" They were really wild; could not count three;
knew nothing of days or years, bad no gods, or worship,
or ceremony. They are fast improving in everything."
We advise the Government, after this gentleman has
finished his labours in Ceylon, to send him to the north
to tame the "wild men" in the Kirk.
London, England, 1841-10-15

THE GREAT CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

Mr. RICHARD LAMBERT JONES (the Chairman of
the London-bridge Committee) brought up a Report
from that Committee, for borrowing the sum of
25,000/., to enable the Committee to proceed with the
great City improvements without delay. The Report
stated, that the Committee, in addition to the various
Reports they had made, from time to time, of their
proceedings, had, since their last Report, proceeded
to carry several of the provisions of the Act, passed in
the second and third years of the present reign, into
effect, by completing the improvements in Upper
Thames-street, and widening Cateatoa-street and
Lad-lane, and they had directed notices to be given for
the purchase of property, and entered into various
treaties with the owners and occupiers of property in
those neighbourhoods, and in Wood-street, for the
purposes aforesaid) in order to complete those respec-
tive improvements with as little delay as possible.
The Committee also certified, that, in carrying into
effect the provisions of the former Acts, for the sale of
the ground-rents, they had been enabled to dispose of
that property upon advantageous terms ; and, inasmuch
as the funds for completing the improvements would
arise from the sale of the remaining ground-rents, and
from the ground to be built upon in Lothbury, Basing-
hall-street, Cateston-street, Lad-lane, and Wood-street,
but could not be made available till the ground was let,
and the buildings were completed, they found them-
selves delayed in proceeding into their treaties as
expeditiously as they could desire, from the present
want of a sum of 25,000/. ; and, having consi-
dered the state of the funds under their control, with
all the charges and liabilities, they were fully satisfied
that, after payment of such charges and liabilities, and
the repayment of the proposed advance, a considerable
surplus would remain applicable to other improvements
contemplated by the Act. Under such circumstances
they suggested the propriety of being permitted to take
measures for raising the sum of 25,0001., to be secured
upon the remainder of the ground-rents on the several
places before mentioned, and guaranteed by the act
of the Corporation, to enable them to complete the
whole of the improvements without delay, in order to
afford the public the immediate benefit ; and they re-
commended to the Court to authorise them to take
proper measures accordingly ; the said sum to be re-
turned out of the sale of the remaining ground-rents
which seem more than adequate for that purpose, as
soon as the several improvements should be completed.
The Report was unanimously agreed to.
Mr. JONES intimated that if the Committee could
sell the ground at once there would be no necessity for
borrowing a farthing ; but the Act distinctly stated
that they could not sell until the houses were built.
The moment, however, a house was up a purchaser
was ready.—( Hear, hear.)
London, England, 1841-10-15

"It is emptier than Colonel Sibthorp's head or Peter
Borthwick's pockets: We are told it is advisable to pro-
rogue Parliament— to prorogue it in defiance, of the re-
monstrances of the people and the representations of the
all-pervading distress made in the _House of Commons.
But we are not told why it is advisable, and we have yet
to learn, from the experience of the future, whether it
has been safely and wisely advised."
The Dublin Evening. Post, alluding to Lord Eliot's
dismissal of Mr. John Cahill, Crown Solicitor at the
Tipperary Quarter Sessions, remarks—" The Tories
have drawn the sword. The game of delusion is entirely
at an end, and. the reign of terror is commencing. Thus
it is that Sir• Robert Peel seeks to conciliate Ireland,
whilst every arrival from the Continent and from Ame-
rica indicates impending war."
On the subject of the Queen's Speech the York
Courant remarks as follows :—" A Royal Speech is not
ono from which we should ever expect to gain much en-
lightenment, but one more inane than the one read on
this occasion we have never rend. But it is consistent
with the party, and a do-nothing session could not be
more appropriately closed than by a say-nothing Speech."
London, England, 1841-10-15

THE CITY COMMITTEE DINNERS.

Mr. WELLS, after having made an attack upon the
unreasonable practice of dining together, adopted by the
working Committees after their laborious duties, moved
that a late resolution for granting an addition of 1001.
for the annual eating and drinking expenses of the
Committee for letting the Bridge House Estates be
rescinded.

Mr. HEPPEL seconded the resolution, being always of
opinion that large sums of money ought not to be ex-
pended in eating and drinking.
Mr. LAWRENCE argued in favour of the practice,
and stated that the gentleman who so habitually ob-
jected knew nothing whatever of the difficult and la-
borious duties which the Members of the Committee
were obliged to attend to, and for which no remunera-
tion whatever was ever thought of except the agreeable
convivialities which he seemed so anxious to put an
end to.
Mr. ANDERTON said that he once thought as Mr.
Wells,—who, by-the-by, was beginning, as he jud;ed
from certain symptoms, to change—pretended to think ;
but he was now, from his experience of the working
Committees, a complete convert, and he, therefore,
heartily agreed in the necessity of keeping up the old
civic style of hospitality.—(Hear, hear.)
The motion of Mr. Wells was then negatived by an
immense majority.
London, England, 1841-10-15

3 15 5
4 10 7

5 13 8
6 11 10

For the Non-participating, the scale of Premiums is as low
as complete security will permit, and a Half Premium Credi
Table has been computed, whereby ONE-HALF of the PRE-
MIUMS MAY REMAIN UNPAID for SEVEN YEARS,
without endangering the Policy.
Credit Table to Assure £lOO Payable at Death.
X. s. d. Age. X. s. d.
15

Age.

20 ........ 0 18 0
25
30

45
50
54

1 16 6
2 3 9
2 12 5

Certificated Attorneys and Medical Gentlemen (who are in
all cases remunerated by the usual Commission and Medical
Fees) are invited to communicate with the Agents of the Com-
pany, or the Managing Directors in London,
London, England, 1841-10-15

LITERARY AND SCIENTIPIC.

Mr. Wertheimber's new calculating machine appears
to attract much notice. It works arithmetical questions
in all the four first rules from one farthing to millions of
pounds sterling. On the 6th inst. her Majesty and
Prince Albert were present at the action of the machine
at Windsor Castle, and were highly pleased.

SPORTING.
Walsall Races, so many y ears the favourite resort of
the lovers of sport, have been discontinued this year
from inadequacy of funds.
Partridges and sportsmen have become equally scarce
in the country, owing to the very wet weather.
London, England, 1841-10-15

NAITAL AND MILITARY.

Rear-Admiral Sir Edward King, K.C.8., was at Rio
Janeiro on the 26th of August, preparing to sail for the
Rio de la Plata. Rear-Admiral Thomas was expected
in the Brazils from England about the end of September.

LAW AND POLICE.
At the Uxbridge Petty Sessions on Thursday, Capt.
Brew, formerly of the Scots Greys, now of the Middle-
. ex Militia, was held to bail for publishing a letter in the
Windsor Express tending to a breach of the peace. The
charge was preferred at the instance of Dr. Beasley,
proprietor of an academy in Uxbridge, whom the defen-
dant alleged had published a pamphlet imputing to him
want of decency and civility towards the corps.
Mr. Laverty, who had been fined 51. some time ago
at Marlborough-street, for alleged isapropet conduct to
a female in Regent-street, presented himself yesterday
before Mr. Hardwick, and made disclosures which led
to the belief that the charge had not the slightest foun-
dation. Steps are to be taken to investigate this singu-
lar affair.

At Queen•square the landlord of the Nag's Head,
Knightsbridge, appeared on a summons at the instance
of an Inspector of the name of Moran, charged with per-
mitting persons of .bad character to meet in his house.
Mr. Clarkson, who was engaged for the defendant, was
about to call witnesses, when Mr. Gregorie said he
would save him the trouble, as it did not appear that
any case was made out, and the conduct of the Inspector
in taking the landlord into custody would be the sub.
ject of inquiry before a superior Court.
London, England, 1841-10-15

api gt V 49 7' 'MI
!Anil tair gA67.ll\id

AND
PlOtir trioptuton.

" Who runs may rend."

FOREIGN.

• The King of the French was presiding at a Cabinet
Council when the news arrived of the suppression of the
attempted insurrection at Madrid. M. Duchatel, who is
opposed to the intrigues of the King for the restoration
of Christina, proposed that M. Salvandy should at once
sot out as Ambassador t• Madrid, and by his presence
satisfy Spain that France was not disposed to sanction
attacks upon the established Government. The King
and some Members of the Cabinet, including M. Guizot,
opposed this, but M. Duchatel insisted that a delay
would be regarded by Europe as hostile to Spain, and
would inevitably lead to a serious misunderstanding
with England. The King yielded with difficulty, but
finally gave directions that M. Salvandy should at once
proceed to the Spanish capital.
The Spanish Ambassador at Paris demanded the re-
moval from that capital of MM. Toreno, Martinez de la
Rosa, and Zea Bermudez, who compose Queen Chris-
tina's Council. This demand the French Government
has complied with, and on Wednesday it was intimated
to these gentlemen that they could no longer be suffered
to remain in Paris.
A few days ago Auvergne was subjected for 48 hours
to a violent storm of wind and rain. Many houses were
unroofed, and trees torn up by the roots. The Dore and
other streams have overflowed their banks. Great da-
mage has been done to the vineyards at Clermont, and
in some parts the roads are rendered impassable.
The country of Arles, in Provence, is suffering dread-
fully from the stagnant waters left by the late inunda-
tions. Intermittent fevers are raging hi parts where they
have not been known for ten years. The plain of the
Crau is suffering so severely and extensively that it is
said there is scarcely a man to be found capable of work-
ing. In the hospital at Arles there hare been 200 fever
cases at a time. Even the wards built in 1835 to receive
cholera patients, are filled, the beds of convalescents
being immediately occupied by fresh subjects.
The Temps states that the number of persons incul-
pated by Quenisset, as his accomplices in the attempt
against the Royal Duke, is eight, as already stated, and
that ten individuals are now in custody. Numerous ar-
rests hare been made at Lyons, of persons supposed to
be implicated in this affair. It is not expected that the
preliminary inquiries can be terminated before the end of
next month.

The St. Etienne papers state that some persons have
been arrested in that town on charges of being affiliated
to secret political societies at Lyons. The Courrier de
Lyon says that documents of some importance have been
seized at the pace of meeting of the individuals belong-
ing to the secret society called the Charbonnerie Re-
formee.
The Commerce asserts positively that Christina and
Don Carlos have decided upon a union between Queen
Isabella and Don Carlos's eldest son, and that the fact is
incontrovertible.
London, England, 1841-10-15

301 6 11

1,267 14 3
D. O'BRIEN, Secretary.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
LYSOL VENT DEBTORS' COURT, Oct. 14.
(Before Mr. Commissioner BOWEN.)
IN THE MATTER OF JAMES HIGHWAY.
The insolvent applied on his petition to be discharged,
and was supported by Mr. Nicholls, and opposed by
Messrs. Cooke and Woodroffe. He was subjected to a
long and searching examination by Mr. Cooke, relative
to the disposal of 5001, which he had acquired by the ver-
dict in a suit in equity, in which he was plaintiff. His
statement was to the effect that he invested the money in
the Three per Cents. Reduced Stock, which he sold out
soon afterwards, a portion being paid in law expenses
and the balance spent. In his cross-examination he ad-
mitted that the sum left after the law costs amcunted to
3501., and that he had about this time bought three
Exchequer Bilis, of one hundred pounds each,
in the name of Mr. Thomas, a gentleman, at pre-
sent in India, by his order, which he also subsequently
sold out, and remitted the amount of the sale to India.
Mr. Cook having cautioned him, that his client was well
aware of the facts of the case, and would surely institute
a prosecution for perjury, the insolvent said he misun-
derstood Mr. Cooke ; the Exchequer Bills were bought
in his own name, and that he had appropriated one of
the bills to his own use.
Mr. CooKE having commented in strong terms on the
insolvent's evidence, and several witnesses being exa-
mined on both sides,
The COURT ordered the case to be adjourned for ten
days, to afford time for preparing a fresh balance sheet,
and likewise intimated to the insolvent that he-should
afford more satisfactory information touching the dis-
posal of the money he received, as there was a strong
presumption that the greater portion of it was in the
funds to his benefit.

A number of unopposed petitions were heard in the
early part of the day, in which there appeared no fea-
ture of public interest. The greater number of the ap-
plicants were ordered to be discharged forthwith.
London, England, 1841-10-15

London ; Longman, Brown, and Co.

BY AUTHORITY.—THE POOR LAW.
This day is published, price 6s.
9HE SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE POOR-LAW COMMISSIONERS, with
Appendixes, and Two Plans of Workhouses.
London : Charles Knight and Co., 22, Ludgate-street.
London, England, 1841-10-15

No 15,321

NATIONAL LOAN FUND SOCIETY
FOR GRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES, DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.
No. 26, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.
DIRECTORS.
T. LAME MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
J. Elliotcon, M.D., F.R.S. I John Rawson, Esq.
John Griffith Frith, Esq. Jehn Riddell Stodart, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Clement Tabor, Esq.
George Lungley, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.

A UDITORS.

Professor Wheatstone, F. R. S. Professor Graves, A . NI. F. B.S.
ACT TJ RY-.-W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F. R. A. S
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Sweet, Sutton, Ewens, and Omman-
ney, 6, Basinghall-street.

LIFE ASSURANCE..
Besides the perfect security to the policy holder.of a large
paid up capital, and accumulating fun.ls,, the following is one
amongst many of the advantages which belong exclusively to
the princinles of Life Assurance and Deferred Annuities ori-
ginated by th. Society, viz.—Power to borrow ( without de-
ay, expense, or forfeiture) Two-thirds of all premiums paid
upon a Policy of Assurance.
The annexed is a short Table, showing the Annual Premium
for assuring £lOO on the Whole Life, er for a Term

FOR LIFE.
A. B.
Age. Without I With For One For Five
Profits. Profits. Year only. Years only
E. s. d. s. d. E. s. d, s. d.
20 1 13 7 1 1 17 4 017 0 "017 6
30244293 0 19 6 1 0 0
40 218 3 5 3 ; 1 310 1 5 0
50 4 4 2 j 4 13 6 1, 1 13 0 1 16 6
60 6 13 6 7 8 4 I( 3 0 0 3 9 6
London, England, 1841-10-15

Two-thirds of Profits divided annually amongst the Assured.

DEFERRED ANNUITIES DEPARTMENT.

By the plan exclusively developed by this Society, a single
Deferred Annuity is made, not only to answer the same object.
but to far exceed in amount the entire benefit of all the an-
vantages heretofore only obtained by the middle and industrious
classes through separate investments in Savings' Banks, Be-
nefit Societies, and Loan Banks.

1. A small yearly or weekly contribution will secure the
most ample return for after life; thus-21. 12s. per annum (Is.
a week) at the age of 20, will give the policy holder the fol-
lowing option, at the age of 65
Annuity for remainder of life... ......... £47 16 6

Cask - ... 394 11
Policy, without further contributions, of 466 0
Other periods of life (of 50, 55, and 60) may be
with similar advantages.
2. Two-thirds at any time lent on deposit of policy, being a
and alws ys available during sickness or want of employment.

0 or a

0 at death.
also taken

3. Twi;-.hirds of all payments returned to representatives in
case of premature death.
N.B. Policies, as collateral moneysecurity, for periods of
one to five years, effected at lower rates than ace charged by
any other Office, (See Tables A. and B.), with option of con-
tinuance for Life at the usual rates.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Sec.

TIONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
3, CHARLOTTE-ROW, MANSION HOUSE, LONDON.
21, ST. ANDREW-STREET, EDINBURGH.
And 64, FLEET-STREET, DUBLIN.

DIRECTORS.
Alexander Anderson, Esq. Kennett Kingsford, Esq.
John Atkins, Esq John M'Guffie, Esq.
James Bidden, Esq. John Maclean Lee, Esq.
Captain F. Brandreth J. Marmaduke Rosseter, Esq.
James Hartley, Esq. Alexander Robertson, Esq.,
Vice- Admiral Robert Honyman Managicg Director.
Benjamin Ifill, Esq.
SOLICITORS.—Messrs. Palmer, France, and Palmer.
SECRETARY.—F. Edg,ell, Esq.
This Company divides amongst the Mutually Assured the
Whole of the Profits of the participating branch of Assurance,
and also guarantees the payments by a Proprietary Capital.
Table to Assure £lOO, with addition of profits:—
Age. .E. I Age. £. 0. d.

2-0
25

45
50

35
40

55
58
London, England, 1841-10-15

THE PRACTICE OF BURYING WITHIN THE CITY OF

LONDON.

Mr. A NDERTON brought up the Report of the Com-
mittee to whom it was referred to draw up petitions to
both Houses of Parliament, praying that measures
might be adopted to interdict the revolting and inju-
rious practice of burying the dead in church-yards and
vaults in the City of Landon.—(Hear, hear.) The
petitions were read and unanimously agreed to, and it
Ras ordered that they should be presented in the usual
manner to the Legislature.
London, England, 1841-10-15

THE CITY CORONER.

A Report was presented from the Secondaries' and
City Courts' Committee on the reference upon the
espence of the office of Coroner. To the Report was
appended a letter from Mr. Payne, the City Coroner.
Both documents were ordered to be printed, and taken
into consideration on a future day.
London, England, 1841-12-27

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Is. 3db per foot ; 2 inches, Is. Bd. per foot ; bronzed fenders,
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RANTED.—TABLE KNIVES, with Ivory Handles, 14s.
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Dessert, 6s. Sd. ; Carvers, 3i. per pair ; Globe-shape Tea-
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