The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-18 00:00:00

Johnstone and Hunter, London and Edinburgh.

IMPORTANT NOVELTIES ON AND AFTER EASTER
MONDAY. •
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The Rotation of the Earth Demonstrated by Foucault's re-
cent experiments, as exhibited at the Pantheon in Paris.—An His-
thrice Lectufe on the Harp, by Frederick Chatterton, Esq., with
Vocal and Instrumental Selections from the Bards, assisted by Miss
Blanche Young, ILA. of Music, and illustrated by Drawings of the
Harps of various Nations.—Lectures on Chemistry byJ. H. Pepper,
Esq , illustrating the nature of Flame and Explosion, with brilliant
experiments.—Lectures on Natural Philosophy by Dr. Bachhoffner.
—Two Series of Dissolving Views :—One series entirely painted by
Charles Smith, Esq., &c., &c., &c.
Open every morning and evening.,—Admission, Is,: Schools,
Half-price.
The Gas-fitters ' Association are now fitting up in the Institution
an extensive series of Apparatus, Burners, &c., to illustrate the
Economical Application of Gas for Illuminating, Culinary, Heating,
Chemical, and Manufacturing purposes.

Parma-
IMPORTANT TO READ.
neat Re- ' Annual Policy Banns in
V, ELEGANCE AND ECONOMY COMBINED, AND SILVER
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Annual SUPERSEDED.
Assured. Premium. Nos. 41 and 42, BARBICAN.
Age.
1,50 i
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A s. d. £ s d. £ s. d. return, and post free, you will get a handsome teaspoon of
1837 292 6 9 139 16 9 22 13 1 CHARLES WATSON'S SOLID ALBATA PLATE.
1838 267 11 4 126 17 2 19 19 7 This beautiful material has now enjoyed an unparalleled success
1839 241 18 6 113 17 7 17 8 8 for ten years. It has survived all other solid substitutes ; has gone
X A s.d. 1840 193 12 6 93 16 8 14 010 the circuit of the globe; has been tested for its sweetness and
60 1000 74 3 4 1841 189 12 6 89 510 13 811 purity, in all climates, for every domestic ase ; and, however uto-
-1842 162 16 8 76 18 4 11 8 3 plan it may appear to the sceptical reader, C. WATSON stakes his
1843 115 10 10 55 10 10 81 10 reputation on its possessing all the essential attributes of silver, both
1844 77 19 2 38 15 10 b 911 in wear and sweetness.
1845 66 15 0 44 10 0 410 1 His establishment also contains every article in electro-plate. from
the most neat and simple to the most costly and recherche. Knives
Extensive Travelling Leave granted without extra Premium and Forks, Paper Tea-Trays, Dish Covers, and an endless variety of
Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates. Jewellery.

Extensive Travelling Leave granted without extra Premium
Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates.
EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE.
Capital-500,0001.
(Incorporated under 7 and 8 Vict., cap. 110.)
The leading principles of this Office ars—Moderate and equitable
Rates of Premium for each class of risk—Annual division of Profits.
The difficulty of collecting the elements on which to proportion
Premium to risk in Insurance against Loss by Fire has been so
great, that the rates at present charged are more the result of guess
than calculation.
It has been found by experience, that the total annual losses of
different Established Companies have not been proportionate to the
amount of annual Premiums received by each.
It is of the highest importance, both to the Insured and Insurers,
that such an anomaly should cease, and an approximation to the
true risk be made. To secure this object the Equitable Fire Insu-
rance Company is established.
The true rate of Premium for Fire Insurance can only be ap-
,roached through Classification and Average, which has not hitherto
been sufficiently acted on, or systematically applied.
Whatever be the nominal rate, the bonus or return periodically to
the Insured will determine the true Premium equitably payable, as
security against less for so great a calamity as fire, and the Insurer
•is largely interested in this question, and will consult his interest by
supporting a system where, by a careful combination
to the of Cl
risk assifica-
tion and Average, the Premium will be proportioned .
The Equitable Fire Office will, by a constant analysis of its own
experience, from time to thee, adopt such rates of Premium as the
nature of the risk may justify, and will decline to enter into arrange-
ments as regards tariffs with other offices.
With this view an annual investigation will be made into each
class of risk, and a return of one moiety, or fitly per cent. of the aett
excess will be made to all classes of Insurers whose Policies have
been in force for three years.
Insurances against Loss by Fire are effectd by this Company upon
every description of Property on moderate teerms.
Farming Stock insured at 3s. per cent, without the Average Clause.
Prospectuses, and every information may be obtained, on applica-
tion at the Office, or to any of its Agents.

Threaded.
Threaded. plated
Good Strong Electro-
Electro-
Albata Plate.
Fiddle. Fiddle. Fiddle.
Doz. Doz. Doz. Doz. Doz.
F. d. s. d. s.'d. s. d. s. d.
Table Spoons • • 16 6 21 0 30 0 45 0 63 0
Table Forks •• .. 16 6 21 0 30 0 45 0 63 0
Dessert Spoons.. 12 6 16 6 25 0 36 0 43 0
Dessert Forks .. 12 6 16 6 , 25 0 36 0 42 0
Tea Spoons —• . 5 6 8 0 1 13 6 18 0 30 0

A WEDDING RING AND A GUARD RING for 215., both of
them sterling gold and stamped. Parties at any distance, by cutting
the circle of their finger on a piece of card, and enclosing it with a
Peet-office order, will have them sent by return of post.
This is an agreeable and pleasent mode of purchasing these arti-
cles, and saves a personal application.
A Gold Chain for either Lady or Gentleman, weighing half an
ounce, 40s. ; an ounce, 80s.
L A 3IPS.—THE PATENT CANDLE LAMPS have obtained for
themselves a deserved and unrivalled superiority, and reasonably so.
Oil Lamps are most offensive to the smell, and the ephemeral Cam-
phine emits such smut and unwholesome effluvia as to injure health
and rain dresses, &c., whilst the Caudle Lamp is inodorous and pare.
CHARLES WATSON invites the public to an inspection of the
above, in every variety, commencing with the Queen's Lamp, from.
2s. to 268. ; the mid size, from 12s. to 355. ; and the magnum, from
355. to five guineas. Candles for the above at the lowest price in the
trade. _ _

COMMUNION SERVICES of all sizes.
ESTABLISHED in 1795.---Address, 41 and 42, Barbican.
Merchants, Shippers, &c., allowed a liberal discount.
A Catalogue sent post free. All goods exchanged if not ap-
proved of.
Carriage paid to any part of the kingdom.

t National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society.
* Equitable Fire
t• Both Offices.

ONE PAYMENT FOR THE WHOLE OF LIFE.
rrHE RAILWAY ASSURANCE COMPANY,
for granting Assurances upon Payment of a Single Premium,
against Loss of Lite or other Personal Injury arising from Railway
Accidents. Incorporated under the Act of Parliament, 7 and 8 Vic.,
cap. 110. Capital - One Hundred Thousand Pounds. Offices, No. 5,
St. James's•street, London.

TRII3TEES.
The Right Hon. Earl Fitzwilliam. The Common Sergeant.
The lion. henry G. Spencer. I Charles Hopkinson, Esq.
The distinctive feature of this Company consists in the sufficiency
of ONE PAYMENP to cover an Assurance for the WHOLE OF
LIFE.
The first is the only expense and trouble, there being no annual re-
news lof premium.
By granting Assurances to Passengers only. and excluding all
those persons in the employ of Railway Companies or Contractors
among whom the heavier risks occur, the Directors of thie,Com-
pany are enabled to issue Policies at a lower rate of premium than
is offered by any existing Company.
Upon proof being given that a party assured has met with his
death by railway accident, the Company will pay to his representa-
tives the full amount of his Policy.
If the accident shall result in personal injury only, the Company
will pay to the assured a fair compensation for such injury.
Assurers have the option of travelling In carriages of any class, and
on any railway in the United Kingdom.
The Directors are now granting assurances upon the following
terms, viz. :
For every Policy of 1001. 01. ss. I For every Policy of 1,0001. 21. 2s.
Or et ft 5001. 11. ss. 1 7
2 0001. 41. 4s.
Agents are appointed in all the principal towns of the United
Kingdom, through whom Assurances max be effected.
W. W. WILLIAMS, Secretary.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
iJ COMPANY.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
8, Waterloo-place,Pall-mall, London ; 97, George-street, Edinburgh;
12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow ; 4. College-green, Dublin.
LONDON BOARD.
CHARLES GRAHAM, Esq., Chairman.
CHARLES DOWNES, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
El. Blair Avame, Esq. .T. G. Henriques, Esq.
E. L. Boyd, Esq., Resident. F. Chas. Maitland, Esq.
Charles B. Curtis, En. William Railton, Esq.
William Fairlie, Esq. F. H. Thomson. Esq.
D. Q. Henriques, Esq. Thomas Thorby, Esq.
The bonus added to policies from March, 1834, to the 31st
December. 1847, is as follows :

Sum ,
1 Time Assured. Sum addedto, Sum addedto Sum payable
Assured. 'Polley inlB4l Polieyin 1848 at Death.
--- -- -------
£5OOO 13 years 10 mths'X63B 6 8 £787 10 0 £6470 16 8
5000 1 year •• 112 10 0 51t2 10 0
1000 12 years 100 00 157 10 0 1257 10 0
1000 , 7 years •• •• 157 10 0 1157 10 0
1000 1 1 year ,•• •• 22 10 0 1022 10 0
500 'l2 years 50 00 78 15 0 628 15 0
500 , 4 years 45 0 0 545 0 0
500 , 1 year •• .. 11 5 0 511 5 0

The Premiums, nevertheless, are on the most moderate scale, and
only one-half need be paid for the first five yeards when the In-
s trance is for Life.
Every information afforded on application to the Resident Direc-
tor, No. 8, Waterloo-place, Pall-malli. London.

PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE
ASSURANCE ASSOCIATION and BENEVOLENT FUND.
Established in London, 1840.
TRUSTEES.
Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P. IW. G. Prescott, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Jun., Esq. Baron L. de Rothschild, M.P.
This Association offers the following advantages :
The Mutual Principle of Assurance.
An Equitable Rate of Premiums.
Division of Profits every five years on Policies of three years'
standing.
The Division of Profits up to 31st December, 1847, averaged 33
per cent. on the Premiums payable for the next five years.
All Policies Indisputable, except in cases of fraud.
The sum assured may be MADE PAYABLE to the WIDOW,
WIDOWER, or CHILDREN, WITHOUT ANY DEDUCTION for
PROBATE or LEGACY DUTY, and FREE FROM ANY OTHER
CHARGE WHATEVER.
By order of the Board,
PHILIP HENRY BYRNE, Secretary.
42, Moorgate.street, March 29, 1851.
Parties desirous of becoming Agents for Towns where none have
been hitherto appointed, are requested to make application to the
Secretary.

METROPOLITAN C
RAL LIFE ASSURANC
Waterloo-place, London.

OUNTIES and GENE-
E SOCIETY, 21', Regent-street,

FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY'
THOUSAND POUNDS.
All the most stupendous projects of this and any age owe their
birth and maintenance to capital. Where there is only limited
capital, man's best schemes are stultified, and cannot develop any
maturity of growth. A cessation of capital would result in a com-
mercial paralysis, and a disorganization of the social system would
necessarily follow. Capital is the creative power which sets in
motion the machinery of the mercantile world ; and when properly
employed and regulated, is productive of mighty results.
In no country is the power of capital more prominently brcught
to view than Britain, where its wonderful effects are everywhere ap-
parent.
The innumerable intersections of railways, the launching of enor-
mous vessels, the erection of mast factories and other giant projects,
may be cited as triumphant instances of the power of British capital.
Perhaps, there was never an age in whictt the agency of capital
was so abundantly employed as tile present; and, without query,
there certainly never existed such vast t roofs of its workings.
The last quarter of a century (which has, happily been a period of
compsrative peace to England) has witnessed an investiture of
capital in trade never before known ; and the result is gloriously
manifest.
It is the pride of Hyam and Co. to know that they have applied
their capital to so essential a purpose ; and it is their satisfaction
further to know that capital thus employed has been productive of
such astonishing results.
The amount quoted at the heading of this advertisement is an ac-
curate quotation of the sum total which Hyam and Co. annually em-
ploy in carrying on their various and vast Establishments in the
principal towns of the three kingdoms. The proprietors do not pub-
lish this with a view of astounding, or falsely captivating ; but they
make it known as a trading statistic—a fact not to be controverted.
The employment of five hundred and fifty thousand pounds as ca-
pital must, of necessity, operate in favour of the public. Such an
eoormous capital brings the markets within the command of the pro-
prietors.

The largest capitalists and the largest buyers in the world are
Hyam and Co., and when the reader takes into consideration the va-
rious channels through which this immense amount is circulated,
he will not for a moment question the statement. The capital of
liyam and Co. has planted vast Tailoring Emporiums in all the first
towns of the kingdom (as seen in the subjoined list), and has given
employment for 25 years to thousands of artizans.
It need scarcely be stated that this capital is expended, not only
in buying favourably the best specimens of materials, but in securing
the best artistes and work for the purposes of manufacture. This is
evident in the present spring stock, and let it be understood that
quality and cheapness are " inoculated" at the various Establish-
ments of Hyam and Co., the current capital of which amounts annu-
ally to 550,0001.

HYAM and CO., Tailors, Clothiers, and Manufacturers.
West-end Establishment • • .. • • • •86, Oxford-street.
City Establishment .......... • .36, Gracechurch-street.
Provincial Establishments of Ilyan, and Co.
Manchester-63, King-street. Hull-17, Market-place.
Manchester —26, Market-street, Bristol —42, Wine-street.
Liverpool-63 & 65, Lord-street. Glasgow-48, Argyll-street.
Birmingham-23, New-street. Dublin-30, Dame street.
Leeds-44 Briggate.

DR. CU ERWELL'S NEW WORKS.
To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ; Carvalho;
147, Fleet-street ; Mann, 39, CornhUl ; or direct from the author ,
price One Shilling each ; by post, Is. el.
EXJOIMENT OF LIE E.
Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Time."
CONVENTS :—Early Rising—Sprlag and Summer Mornings—Ex-
minions about the Environs of London—The parks , Lanes, Hills,
Forests, Fieds, High-roade, and other pleasant pl aces—Country
Trips and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evening., at Home
—Musio-1 ne Drama—On Eatirg, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air,
Rst, Ease, Occupation, &c., Le.
It.