The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-07 00:00:00

N°. 18,290,] LONDON, WEDNESDAY NING

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AND
EQUITABLE ERIE INSURANCE COMPANIES
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.

DIRECTORS.
t*Y. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.

*W. A. B. Bennett, Esq.
*Hugh Croft, Esq.
tElliotseu, M.D„ F.R.S.
*Ralph Gough, Esq.
*M. C. Maher, Esq.
*John Moss, Esq.

*John Rawson, Esq.
*John Shaw, Esq.
t*Edmund S. Symes, Esq.
t*Clement Tabor, Esq.
t Joseph Thompson, Esq.
t*Augustus Vigne, Esq'

AUDITOR.
tProfessor Wheatxtone, F.R.S.
PHYSICIAN.
Eatotson, 51. D„ F.R.S„ 37, Conduit-street.
SURREON.

t*E. S. Symes, Esq., 77, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-KURT&
ACTUARY.
t'►W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S.,
SECRETARY.
*D. T. Lyons Clanchy, Esq.
SUPERINTENDENT.
*W. A. Hawkins, Esq.
BANKERS.
t*Messrs. Glyn, HaWax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lombard-street.
SOLICITORS,
Messrs. Sutton, Ewens, Ommanney and Prudence, 6, Basinghall-

street.
W. Tatham, Esq., 22, Throgmorton-street.
NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE.

CAPITAL-500.0001.
The WITHDRAWAL TABLE of the Society affords to the As-
sured the greatest possible present and prospective advantages that
can he conferred by Life Assurance. On this Table the Assured is
entitled, at any time, to receive at interest an immediate advance,
to the extent of one-half the amount of the paid annual Premiums,
without security, personal liability, or deposit of the Policy, but by
simple endorsement thereon ; or the half Premium may be with-
held during the whole continuance of the Policy. . ,in the
event of the Assured at any time not requiring to' ue the
Policy, on its surrender one-half of the annual paym Is will be
returned by the Society.
Lapsed Policies may be renewed without fine, on proof of health
and payment of arrears of Premium without interest.
Notices of Assignment of Policies registered and acknowledged,
so as to make them available as securities in the hands of
third parties.
Na Entrance Fees or any other charge beyond the Policy Stamp.
The present nnual income of the Society from Premiums is
63,0001.; the amount covered by the Policies of the Society is
1,781,5801.; and the reserved profit, applicable t(I future bonus to
the Assured, amounts to 82,4541. ss. 6d. At the last annual inves-
tigation, reported in May, 1850, the bonuses declared to the As-
sured were, the option of a return of 15 per cent. On their Premiums
in cash, or a reversionary addition to the original cam assured by
each Policy varying from 20 to 65 per cent.
EXAMPLES OF BONUSES ALREADY DECLARED.

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1 Perma.
Annual ;Polley] ne Bonus in ' n t Re-
' -:
Age. 0 iL. Pre- I taken: &ddition Bonus in duction of
t Milian. 'out in to Sum Cash. Annual
r., I Assured. Premium.
—.1—.0 ----
X s. el. £ s d. £ s. d.
1537 292 6 9 139 16 9 22 13 1
1838 267 11 4 126 17 2 19 19 7
1339 241 18 6 113 17 7 17 8 8
£ X 5.d. 1840 193 12 6 93 16 8 14 010
60 11000 74 3 4 , 1841 189 12 6 89 510 13 511
, 1842 162 16 8 76 18 4 11 8 3
1843 115 10 10 55 10 10 8 110
1844 77 19 2 38 15 10 5 9 11
4 10 1
1845 66 15 0 44 10 0

THE NEW NAVAL NOVEL.
•
Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo.,
RALPH RUTHERF ORD.
A NAUTICAL ROMANCE.

By the Author of " The Petrel "
"Safe am I arrived in haven, a weather-beaten but experienced
shipman, enabled to indicate the hidden rocks and quicksands of this
life's perturbed shores. Often have I struck, otten been wrecked,
but never foundered. Possible, though little probable, are future
storms."— Trenek's Memoirs.
Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

This day, foolscap octavo, 55.,
CREMISTRY of the CRYSTAL PALACE.
A Popular Account of the Chemical Properties of the Chief
Materials employed in its Construction. By T. GRIFFIN-IS, late
Professor of Chemistry in St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

By the seine Author,
CHEMISTRY of FIRE, AIR, EARTH, and WATER. An Es-
say, founded upon I,,etures delivered before the Queen. With Illus-
trations. Secend Edition. 4s. 6d. _ _

RE':REATIONS in CHEMISTRY. Second Edition, with nume-
rous Illustrations, much enlarged. ss.
The WRITING-DESK and its CONTENTS, taken as a Text for
the Illustration of I mpo. taut Facts in Experimental Science. 2s.
London: John W. Parker and Son, %Vest Strand.

THE ERA NEWSPAPER DERBY and ST.
LEGER GIFTS of 1851 will be distributed on THURSDAY,
3.lay 15.
All who forward (by that date) 11. 6s. to Mr. Frederic Ledger,
Era Office,• Catherine-street, Strand, will receive the Era Family
and Sporting Journal for 52 weeks, and participate in its Gifts, which
have already been distributed among subscribers to the amount ,a
8501. The Era is the only weekly journal devoted to the interests
of Licensed Victuallers; Freemasons, Foresters, and Odd Fellows.
The ERA of May 4 gave two columns of Cricketing, the opening
Dinner of the Marylebone Club, and All England Matches to come.
Also, six columns of the Chester Races, four columns of Freemasonry,
Forestry, and Odd Fellows; ten columns of the Royal Opening of
the Exhibition, four columns of Theatricals, &c. &c. .
The ERA of May 10 will contain Programme of YORK RACES
next Tuesday, with TOUCHSTON E'S Prophecy of Winner for the
Great Match between Flying Dutchman and Volligeur. The DOG
of JOE MUGGINS will also have a few hints about the Winner.

Order of all Newsmen, or send six postage Stamps to Frederic
Ledger, Era Office, 3, Catherine-street, Strand.

REV. W. TROLLOPE'S GREEK TESTAMENT, WITH ENGLISH

NOTES.
Second Edition, bound in cloth, Bro., price N

THE NEW TESTAMENT IN GREEK, with
a carefhlly Corrected Text; a Critical Conspectus, and Co-
pious English Notes ; adapted to the Use of Schools and Universi-
ties, and to the purposes of General Reference. To which are an-
nexed a Chronological Harmony, and Three Indices. By the Rev.
WILLIAM TROLLOPE, M.A., of Pembroke College, Cambridge.
London : William Tegg and Co., 85, Queen-street, Cheapside.

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shall excel him either in novelty, variety, quality, or price. His prin-
ciple is to warrant every article, and to exchange or return the money
for any found in the least detective. Many of his articles are manu-
factured on the premises, and most of his patterns are invented by
himself. Owing to the increase of novelties in papier mache, Mechi
has devoted additional Show-rooms to these manufactures, which the
public are always welcome to inspect. His cutlery, strops, ladies and
gentlemen's dressing-cases, writing-desks, work-boxes, and every
article for the toilet and work-table, as well as for presents or for
amusement, form a tout ensemble rarely to be met with, Medii
keeps working cutlers on the premises, so that every description of
cutlery may be ground and repaired daily. Table-cutlery, razors,
strops, &c., for shipping. Bagatelle-tables for public rooms.

THE GREAT EXHIBITION,

Notwithstanding the gloomy, cold, and doubtful charac-
ter of the weather yesterday, the receipts of the Commission
were larger than on the previous day, and an immense con-
course of people assembled in the interibr of the building.
The fresh accessions of visitors, however (strangely enough),
appear to have no effect in crowding the passages and ave-
nues ; for, as the novelties of, the nave and transept are ex-
hausted, the less frequented parts are explored, and numbers
are thus drawn off from those central points where their pre-
sence might lead to inconvenience.
While, by a slow but satisfactory process, the public are
gradually adapting their examination of the interior to its
arrangement and sectional importance, the Executive Com-
mittee are still anxiously considering the educational uses to
which the occasion can be turned. They appear to feel the
impossibility of establishing any organization for regular in-
struction among their adult visitors, but they en-
tertain hopes that the great metropolitan schools will
avail themselves of this opportunity for a systematic
and careful study of the Exhibition. To such
institutions they would be prepared, we understand,
to grant. every possible facility ; and, when the aptitude of
youth to catch instruction at the eye is considered, it would
be a thousand pities if such a chance were neglected. If our
great seminaries have any real zeal in the cause of education,
they will not hesitate at once to organize the means for
turning this opportunity to profitable account, and from all
we can learn we believe that they will find every disposition
among those placed in authority to aid them in their efforts.

rze NOFORT ES.
The novelties observable are chiefly either decorative or
such as have reference to the adaptation of the instrument to
particular uses.
The visitor will be charmed with the splendour and taste
with which most of the pianos exhibited are ornamented and
mounted.

LACE GASSING MACHINERY.
In the manufacture of lace, muslin, and other delicate fa-
brics, it has been found that.when the article comes from the
loom its surfaee is covered, with a multitude of small hairy
fibres, whim more or less disfigure it, and which it is neces-
sary to detachby some process which will not injure or de-
face the lace.

The methods formerly adopted for removing these fibres
from lace and other fine fabrics, was as follows :—An iron
eylinder, whose length was equal to the width of the lace
and muslin, was made red hot. The lace or muslin being
stretched tight was then made to pass in contact with this
red hot iron, being pressed upon it with a certain force, and
moved over it at a certain speed, the speed and pressure
being so regulated that the lace remained' in contact with
the red-hot iron a sufficient time to burn off the superfluous
fibres, but not a sufficient time to destroy or injure the deli-
cate fabriC itself.

As the art of manufacturing gas was improved, and its
application extended, it supplied an improved substitute for
this purpose, of which the apparatus exhibited by Messrs.
Burton and Earnes is an example.
A row of gas-burners will be observed in the machine,
the length of which corresponds with the width of the lace
to be " gassed," as it is called. The lace is made to pass
through this row of gas flames with a certain velocity. It
is possible to give to the lace a velocity so great that the
flame will not have time to destroy a single particle of the
superflous fibre; and on the other hand, the velocity may
be retarded, so as to destroy not only the fibre, but injure
or destroy the lace. By experience a certain speed is ascer-
tained, which will give to the gas flames the time necessary
to destroy the fibre without damaging the lace.
This, however, is only one of a great multitude of contri-
vances of exquisite beauty and ingenuity which have contri-
buted to render the fabrication of lace by machinery one of
our most important manufactures.