The Sun.
London, England, 1856-03-28 00:00:00

DONCASTER SPRING MEETING.

First and Second Class ordinary DAY TICKETS will be issued at
The Euston Station, to Doncaster, by any Train excepting the 9.15
a.tn. Express, en MONDAY and. TUESDAY, the 31st March and
Ist April, AVAILABLE to RETUttN by the Ordinary Trains on
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the 31st March and Ist and 21
April.
In addition to the above, First Class Express Day Tickets wil2 he
Issued on Monday and Tuesday, 31st of March and Ist of April, by
the 9.15 a.m. Express Trains, Available to Return by the Fxprcss c r
any Train on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the 31st March
and Ist and 2d April. By Order.
General Manager's Office, Euston Station, 3Larch,l3sU.

MANCHESTER and LONDON LIFE
AgSURANcE and LOAN ASSOCIATION,
77, King-street, Manchester.
Assurances, Annuities, Endowments, and Loans effected onliberal
terms.

CHARLES HENRY MINCHIN, Secretary.
Agents wanted.

LAW LIFE ASSURANCE OFFICE,
FLEET-STREET, LONDON,
MAurr 6, 1855.

IiOTICEIS TIF.FIEBY GIVEN, That the BOOKS for the TRANS-
?ER of SHARES in this Scoiety will be CLOSED on Thursday, the
20th instant, and will be re-opened on Wednesday, the 2d day of
4pril next. The Dividends for the • ear 1555 will be payable on
Monday, the 7th day of April next, ft, c 1 on any subsequent day,
between the hours of Ten and Three o'clock.
By Order of the I)i•ectors.
WILLIAM SAMUEL DOW ES, Actuary.

at NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION,
48, Gracechurch-street, London.
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For Mutual Assurance on Lives, Annuities, &c.
Chairman—SAMUEL HAYTIURST LUCAS, ESQ.
Deputy Chairman—ClLAßLES LUSHINGTON, Esq.
Illy Abstract of the Report of the Directors for 1855 :
" The number of policies issued during the year • . ...... • • 1,073
illy Assuring the sum of •
Annual premiums thereon
Policies issued fr'm the commencement of the institution
in December, 1835 .... .......... .....• • • •• ........ 13,567
Policies now in force
Annual Income From Pre-
ntiums(after deducting £33,31$
in . abatement allowed) .. • £189,955 15 2
m Ditto From Interest stn In-
vested capital . . 49,807 18 3
£239,763 13 5
ally Amount returned to members in abatement of
16 premiums • ............. •• .. • • ........ 240,133 11 8
Amount of bonuses added to sums assured .. •• •. 126,564 0 0
Amount paid in claims by death from the com-
mencement of the institution ..
D. Balance of receipts over the disbursements is
• the year .. • • . • • •
Increasing the capital stock of the institution to 1,2 .1.049 17 4"
At the last division of surplus profits made up to Nov. 20, 1852,
the reductions varied from 6 to 89 per cent. on the orizinal amount
ala of premiums, according to the ace of the member and the time the
Policy had been in force ; and the bonuses ranged in like manner
from 50 to 75 per cent. on the amount of premiums received during
the preceding sive years.
ala Members whose premiums fall due on the Ist of April are re-
Minded that they must be paid within 30 days from that date.
The Directors' Report for 1855 may now be obtained en applica-
tion.
au n . 20th March, 1856. JOSEPH MARSH, Secretary.

GUARDIAN FIRE AND LIFE
ASSURANCE COMPANY,
No. 11, Lombard-street, London.
DIRECTORS.
FRANCIS HART DYKE, Esq., Chairman.
HENRY HULSE BERENS, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.
John Dixon, Esq. Stewart Marjoribanks, Esq.
Sir W. M. T. Farquhar, Bart, John Martin, Esq., M.P.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Brt. ',Rowland Mitchell, Esq.
Thomson Hankey, Esq., M.P. James Morris, Esq.
John Harvey, Esq. Henry Norman, Esq.
Jchn G. Hubbard, Esq. Henry R. Reynolds, Esq.
George Johnstone; Esq. John. Thornton, Esq.
John Labouchere, Esq. James Tulloch, Esq.
John Loch, Esq. Henry Vigue, Esq.
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AUDITORS.
A. W. Roberts, Esq. I Henry Sykes Thornton, Esq.
Lewis Lloyd, jun., Esq. 1 John Henry Smith, Esq.
George Keys, Esq., Secretary.
Samuel Brown, Esq., Actuary.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.—Under the provisions of an Act of Par-
/lament, this Company now offers to future insurers Four-fifths of
the Profits, with Quinquennial Division, or a Low Rate of Premium
without participation of Profits.
The next division of Profits will be declared in June, 1860, when
All participating Policies which shall have subsisted at least one year
at Christmas, 1859, will be allowed to share in the Profits.
At the five divisions of Profits made by this Company, the total
reversionary Bonuses added to the Policies have exceeded 913,000
At Christmas, 1854, the Assurances in force amounted to upwards
of 4,240,0001. ; the Income from the Life Branch in 1854 was more
than 200,0001. ; and the Life Assurance Fund (independent of the
Guarantee Capital) exceeded 1,700,0001.
FOREIGN RISKS.—The Extra Premiums required for the East
and West Indies, the British Colonies, and the northern parts of the
United States of America, have been materially reduced.
INVALID LlVES.—Persons who are not in such sound health as
Would enable them to insure their Lives at the Tabular Premiums,
Islay have their Lives insured at Extra Premiums.
LOANS granted on Life Policies to the extent of their values, pro-
vided such Policies shall have been effected a sufficient time to have
attained in each case a value not under 501.
ASSIGNMENTS OF POLICIES.—Written Notices of, zeceived
and registered.
MEDICAL FEES paid by the Company, and no charge will be
made for Policy Stamps.
Notice is hereby given, that Fire Policies which expire at Lady-
day must be renewed within fifteen days at this office, or with Air.
SAms, No. 1, St. James's-street, corner of Pall-mall ; or with the
Company's agents throughout the kingdom, otherwise they become
void.
Losses caused by Explosion of Gas are admitted by this Company.

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ESTABLISHED 1837.
BRITANNIA LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
1, Princes-street, Bank, London.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament, 4 Viet., cap. 9.
1)111ECTORs.
Major-General ALEXANDER, Blackheath Park, CMA.I/074N.
WMiam Bardgett, Esq., 149, Fen chnrch-street.
George Bevington. Esq., Neckinger Mills. Bermondsey.
F. P. Cockerill, Esq., Shadwell and Twickenham.
George Cohen. Esq., Shacklewell.
Millis Coventry, Esq., White Hart-court, Lombard-street.
John Drewett, Esq., 50, Cornhill.
Erasmus Robert Foster, Esq., 1, Princes-street, Bank.
T. S. Glrdler, Esq , 7, Tokenlv.use-yard.
H. L. Smale, Esq., Doctors' C0M1140115.
&ration:a Bellenden lief, Esq., 8, Old-square,
Lincoln's Inn.
Soucrreas.—Messrs. M'Lecd and Stenning, 16, London-street,
Fenchurch. street.
EANKER9.—Messni. Dimsdale, Drewett, Fowlers and Barnard,
50, Cornhill.
Increasing Rates of Premium. for ,ccuring Loans of Debts.
Half Premiums, only, required during first seven years.
Stun assured payable at Sixty or et death if occurring previously
Provision, during minority, for Orphans.

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BRITANNIA MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION.
Empowered by her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent.
Profits divided annually.
Premiums computed for every three months' difference of age.
llaif-credit policies—the unpaid half premiums liquidated out o
the profits.
(YROTILISTARY.) (MUTUAL.)

(YROTILISTARY.) (MUTUAL.)
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Half Whole Half Quar-
a preuthun premium Annual Yearly t
First for Re- Age. 1 oly
Seven *I ainder preraiurn Fre- Fre-
i mium. Intuit.
Years. of Life. I
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£ s. d.l.£ s. (I.lYears. Months, £ s. d.; A s. d., E s. d.
30 11923 61 30 0' 2 7 3'l 142;0 12 3
40 1922 18 4, 3'27 61 1 ,I 012 4
50 2 2 61 4 5 01 6 2 719 1 4 6, 012 5
GO 3 6 8 613 41 9 2 8 2, I 4 8, 012 6
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E. R. FOSTER, Resident Director.
ANDREW FRANCIS, Secretary.

Tile', SECRET INFIRMITIES OF YOUTH AND MATURITY,
Just published. prim Is., illustrated with cases and numerous
engravings ; free by post for 14 stamps.
NERVOUS DEBILITY;
Its Causes, Sympto ms, anc3 Care.— en Essay on Sper-
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successtul mode of treatment of the diseases of the Generative
System, obtained by the use: of the Microscope in detecting and
distinguishing, by urinary examination, the real cause and effect of
every variety of complaint, whether arising from solitary habits
excesses, accident, or climate, followed by practical remarks, founded
on twenty yearn' experience in the treatment of Impuissance,
Nervous Debility, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhcea, &c. To which
are added, Commentaries on the Physiology of Marriage, with pre-
cautionary, hints on the evils emanating from empirical practice,
and on the dengeroue remedies advocated by various writers on
then important disorders.
By SAMUEL LAIMERT
37, BEDFORD-SQUA PP, LONDON,
Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edin-
burgh, Honorary Member of the London Hospital Medical Society,
Licentiate of Apothecaries' Hall, London, &c., &c.
The essential object of this treatise is to point out the fearful cen-
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ether class of disease known to modern pathologists. Its perusal is
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their physical condition, and who are conscious of haying hazarded
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It is absolutely necessary that all men should know, that there are
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The Author has for a series of years been engaged in an extensive
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untortunately been too generally confided to the care of ignorant
emeirics, who inflict great injury on those who are induced to place
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NERVOUS DEBILITY may be had price Is, of Messrs. Sher
wood and Co., 23, Paternostererovr; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ;
Horne, 19, Leicester-square; Mann, 39, Cornhill ; or free by post for
14 stamps to any address from the Author's residence, 37, Bed-
lo-d
-square.
At home fox cmiultatioti daily frOM CIOYCU 1111 two, and from pix
11leight

LIST OF GOVERN-ORS AND DIRECTORS
OF THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

The following is the House List of Governors and
Directors of the Bank of England for the year ensuing,
viz. :

FOR GOVERNORS.
Thomas Matthias Weguelip, Esq., Governor.
Sheffield Neave, E.q., Deputy Governor.
FOR DIRECTORS.
Henry Hulse Berens, Dn.
Arthur Edward Campbed, Esq.
Edward Henry Chapman, Esq.
Robert Wigrarn Crawford, Esq.
William Cotton, Esq.
James Pattison Carrie, Esq.
Bonamy Dobree,
Benjamin Buck Greene, Esq.
Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Esq.
Henry Hocks Gibbs, Esq..
Thomson Hankey, Esq.
John Oliver Hanson, Esq.
John Benjamin Heath, Esq.
Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Esq.
Henry Lancelot Holland, Esq.
John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq.
Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq,
Charles Frederick Huth, Esq.
James Malcolmson, Esq.
James Morris, Esq.
George Warde Norman, Esq.
John Horsley Palmer, Esq.
Henry James Prescott, Esq.
Thomas Tooke. jun., Esq.
The election for Governor and Deputy Governor
will be held at the Bank onTuesday, the Bth of April, and
for Directors on Wednesday, the 9th April, from ten
o'clock in the forenoon till four in the afternoon.

THE MISSING STEAMER PACIFIC.—The following is an
extract from a letter just received by a clergyman in this
country from a friend of his in New York, who sailed
from Liverpool in the Atlantic on the 6th of Feb., 14
days after the Pacific had started from the same port :
—" New York, Feb. 26, 1856. Eighteen weary disagree-
able stormy days brought us on Sunday morning to New
York. The captain, who had crossed the Atlantic 243
times, declared he had never bad such a bad trip as this.
The ship had scarcely got out of the Mersey when the
headwind began increasing to a gale, against which we
had to fight until we reached this shore. When two days
out the fog became so thick that we could not see the
length of the vessel. On the third day floating ice began
to make its appearance, increasing to such an extent that
we could only feel our way. For two days and nights we
kept crawling along, the captain hoping to get out of it
every moment. Fog, fog, fog !. nothing but fog and ice !
On the third day, at 7 o'clock in the morning, we saw a
spectacle which none on hoard will ever forget ; it was, in
fact, the finger of Providence, and some more deserving
than I and others must have been on beard. The whole
veil of fog rose like a curtain, and we looked upon an
ocean scene beautiful, fearful, and grand. The atmosphere
as far as the eye could reach was clear ; the sun shone
brightly on a continuous chain of icebergs above 100 feet
high, intermingled with fields of ice. Chain after chain
burst upon the sight, and the sight was awfully impres-
sive. In a less time than it has taken to write this the
curtain descended, and all became obscurity again. The
captain took the hint and turned his ship towards Eng-
land for the remainder of the day, aid towards the south
at night, not resuming his course to America until the
following morning. After 18 days' passage we arrived at 1
New York, when we learnt that the Pacific, another
steamer belonging to this, which Failed 14 days before
us, had not arrived, and I fear that she is lost, with all
on board. Our ship behaved nobly ; nothing broken or
strained. It is wonderful how man combines wood
and iron to withstand the power of the wares."
WEST COLLACOMBE MINE.--A general meeting of the
adventurers was held on the 25th inst., J. A. Joseph,
Esq., in the chair. The financial statement presented
showed a balance in favour of the mine of 394/. 158. 7d.,
which was passed and ordered to be printed and cir-
culated.