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ECONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
The Right Hon. Sir T. FRANKLAND LEWIS, Bart.,
Chairman.
HENRY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq., Deputy-Chairman.

THE LONDON INDISPUTABLE LIFE
POLICY COMPANY.

No. 72, Lombard-street and 24, Connaught-terrace.
TRUSTEES.
Richard Spooner, Esq., M.P.
J. Campbell Renton, Esq., M I .P. James Fuller Madox, Esq.
Richard Malins, Esq., Q.C. William Wilberforce, Esq.
The POLICIES are INDIATUTABLE, in terms of the Deed of
Settlement of the Company, duly registered, and are not, therefore,
dependent for their validity on the construction to be put upon pre-
vious statements or the official papers which preceded them, or upon
reports, prospectuses, or other varying documents. They are thus
rendered CERTAIN FAMILY PROVISIONS, AND NEGOTIABLE
DOCUMENTS OF SECURITY.
Owing to this important improvement in the practice of life
assurance, the progress of this company has been rapid from the
commencement of its business, and is steadily advancing.
ALEXANDER ROBERTSON, Manager.

ROY AL ACADEMY OF ARTS,
TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.
The EXHIBITION of the ROYAL ACADEMY is NOW OPEN.
Admission (from Eight o'clock till Seven), One Shilling—Catalogue,
One Shilling.
JOHN PRESCOTT KNIGHT, RA., Secretary.

The Great Exhibition and the Royal Polytechnic Institution.
All the most intereetinj Deposita at the Great Exhibition will, 14
ttilm, be lectured on at the
ROYAL -POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
The present Lectures are on the Chemistry of the Minerals
at the Great Exhibition, including the precious Gems, Crystalise-
tions, &c., by J. H. Pepper, Esq. - Popular Lecture by Dr Bachhoff-
ner on the Total Eclipse of the Sun. —The Rotation of the Earth, ex-
hibited by Foucault's Experiments.—The great economy of Cooking
by Gas explained.—A Lecture on the History of the Harp, by Frede-
rick Chatterton, Esq., with Vocal Illustrations.—Two Series of splen-
did Dissolving Views.—Diver and Living Bell, &c.
The TOTAL ECLIPSE of the SUN.
A Popular Lecture on this subject, illustrated by a series of inter-
esting Diagrams, is given by Dr. Bachhoffner, daily at Three, and
every evening at Nine o'clock, in addition to all the other Scientific
Lectures, Exhibitions, &c.
Admission, is.; Schools, Half-price.
Open daily from Half-past Ten to Five, and every Evening from
Seven till Half-past Ten.

LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO,
Licensed by Act of Parliament.
ARGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-
STREET, ST. JAMES'S.
(Sole Lessee, Charles Emile Laurent, jun., 57, Brompton-square.)
NING,
With LAURENT'S UNRIVALLED BAND.
Principal Cornet-a-Pistons, M. Boulcourt.
Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock—Dancing to commence at
Nine and terminate at Half-past Eleven o'clock precisely.
Admission, One Shilling.

N.B. M. Laurent begs to state, by the wish of many of the pa-
trons of the above Rooms, that on SATURDAY, August 2, the
Programme of Dance Music will consist entirely of selections from
the National Music of Spain, being the Second of a Series of Evenings
solely illustrating the Music of the different Nations of Europe.

PUBLICATIONS.

SAM SLICK'S NEW WORK.
Now ready at all the Libraries, in 2 vols., 215.,
THE ENGLISH IN AMERICA.
By the Author of

"SAM SLICK," "THE OLD JUDGE,'

" Invaluable for its accuracy and impartiality."—Herald.
" A new work from the pen of Judge Halibnrton always finds a
hearty welcome. We have no doubt that these volumes will be con-
sidered the cleverest the author has produced."—Messenger.
Colburn and Co., Publishers, 13, Great Marlborough-street.

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE.
No. CCCCXXX., for AUGUST. Price 2s. Cd.
CONTENTS.
The Census and Free Trade.
Voltaire in the Crystal Palace.
Pictures from St. Petersburgh.
My Novel ; or Varieties in English Life. Part XII.
Paris in 1851.
The London Diary of a German Authoress.
The Raid of Arnaboll. A Tale of the Bygone Year.
The Scarborough Election.
The late D. Al. Moir.
William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London.

NEW WORK BY ALBERT SMITH AND JOHN LEECH.
THE SECOND NUMBER OF
MONTH.
A View of Passing Subjects, Manners, Home and Foreign,
Social, and General. By ALBERT SMITH. Illustrated by John
Leech, will be published on the 31st instant, price One Shilling.
Office, No. 3, Whitefriars-street.

On the 31st instant will be published, price 7d, Part VIII. of
THE COLLECTED EDITION OF THE
WRITINGS OF DOUGLAS JERROLD,
containing the continuation of " MEN OF CHARACTER."
*** The First Volume, containing " ST. GILES and ST. JAMES,"
is now ready, price 4s. in cloth.
Punch Office, 85, Fleet-street.

CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT.
FOUR ILLUSTRATIVE VIEWS of the
CANTERBURY SETTLEMENT.
No. XI. of " THE CANTERBURY PAPERS" will consist of
Four Engravings, from Drawings made on the spot, in January last,
by Miss Mary Townsend and William Fox, Esq., with descriptive
letter-press. I. Port Lyttelton in Victoria Harbour, showing part
of the sits of the Town, the Sumner Road to Lyttelton, and the four
ships of the first Expedition—ll. Landing of Passengers from the
" Cressy," with the Emigrants' barracks, Mr. Godley's house, and
the make-shift residences of the first colonists—lll. Part of the
Great Canterbury Plain, from the top of the range of hills between
Port Lyttelton and Lyttelton, showing the site of Lyttelton on the
river Avon, the mountain range which forms the S.W. boundary of
the Settlement and forty miles of its coast—lV. The rivers Cour-
tenay and Hinds issuing from the mountain range and Harewood
Forest into the Great Plain.
Price of the Number, Is. 6d., oy by post in return for 18 postage
stamps,

J. W. Parker, West Strand, London.
Copies of the Number may be obtained at the Colonists' Rooms
6, Adelphi-terrace, and at the Shipping-office of the Association, 74,
Cornhill.

NEW WORK ON STRICTURE AND SPERMATORRHCEA.
Just published, Bvo., in cloth, price 3s. 6d., by post (free), 45.,
ATREATISE on the CURE of STRICTURE
of the URETHRA.; containing the True Reasons why that
Disease so often assumes such an intractable character; with Rules
and Instructions for the successful Treatment of every Form of
Urethral Contraction, based on the results of extensive and pro
longed experience. To which is added, Practical Observations on
the Treatment of Spermatorrhcea by Cauterization.
By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.L.
"These who complain most loudly are those only who know not
how to use the common instruments. . . . . The prac-
tice of surgeons has been marked with all kinds of violence, and in-
difference about the simple cure of diseases, and a passion for
operations, and all the excesses and horror of surgery."—John Bell.
H. Bailliere, 219, Regent-street, London.

Banshee, which vessel returned at 2 30 P.M. this day.
The following particulars of her passages will be inte-
resting to many :—Malta to Alexandria 72 hours, deten-
tion at Alexandria 3 days 22 hours. Alexandria to Malta
76 hours. The mails from this will bo taken on by her
Majesty's vessel Caradoc, and it is expected she will
make the run to Marseilles in 52 hours; so that under
ordinary circumstances the Bombay mail will be deli-
vered in London on the 28th.

Since its return from Tunis the squadron has been
cruising off the island, the ships being detached two by
two to enter the harbour, and complete water prior to a
more extended cruise, for which the Admiral left yester-
day morning. The probable destination of the squadron
is guessed at by many (Gulf of Spezia is mentioned),
but nothing is positively known. The Admiral's object
in getting away from Malta is more to preserve the
health of the men during the hot weather than any po-
litical motive.

At Tunis the Admiral was well received by his High-
ness the Bey, who saluted him on landing with 17 guns,
and presented the squadron with bread, sheep, vegeta-
bles, fruits of all kinds, vermicelli, macaroni, soiree, sugar,
oil, and candles (made of beet' wax), fowls, ducks, and
geese. 50 bullocks, as well as wines and spirits, wero
also tendered, but these latter were declined.
PORTSMOUTH, JULY 28.—The Meander, 44, Captain
the Hon. Henry Keppel, arrived at Spithead this morn-
ing from the Pacific and Rio, bringing 860,000 dollars
on merchants' account, which Messrs. ember, of this
port, have the conveyance of to the Bank of England.
She discharged her freight into the steam-tender
Sprightly, Mr. George Allen, master commanding, which
brought it into harbour. The Meander sails this even-
ing, or at daybreak to-morrow morning, for Chatham, to
be paid off, She sailed froapa,4Astad early in January,,
18-18, for China.; She took-isiit fie& England Raja Brooke
and suite and a complete staff of officials for the new
settlement of Labuan. She sailed from China on the
28th of May, 1849; thence to Singapore and Batavia,
where she stayed 10 days; thence for New Ireland
(Guinea); and thence to Sydney, New South Wales,
where she stayed sixaffeeks in company with the Rattle-
snake surveying ship. The Meander sailed from Syd-
ney on the Ist of May, 1850, and proceeded to Tahiti,
where she remained eight days. All was tranquil there
between Qacen Pomare and the French Protectorate.
A French frigate and steamer lay there, and the French
gave a grand ball on board the former, which the officers
of the Meander attended. The Meander left Tahiti in
the beginning of August for Valparaiso, where she
arrived on the 2d of September, and remained under the
command of Rear-Admiral Hornby until the 25th, when
she sailed for Coquimbo (Chili), and thence to Callao.
where she remained three or four days, and then made
for Mazatlan to collect freight, which she was engaged
in a couple of months, Vaving her boats there while
she went to Guaymas, where she remained a month, at
the expiration of which time she returned, picked up
her boats, and left fa St. Blas, whence she sailed
on the Ist of March last for Valparaiso, and remained
there ten days, sailing on the 3d of May for Rio, through
the Straits of Magellan, in which she passed the Amphi-
trite, 26, Captain Frederick, then four days from Val-
paraiso, all well. She arrived at Rio on the Bth of June,
and sailed on the 12th for England. While at Rio she
saw a barque being towed oat of harbour by a small
steamer, which being suspected, the Cormorant steam-
sloop gave chase to her, fired at her, knocked away her
funnel, and afterwards made a prize of her. The barquE,-
got away, but the Plumper fell in with her and fired into
her. Lieut. Moore (acting), of the Gorgon, Mr. 0. W.
Brierly, the merino painter, and Mr. Ormsby, from
Valparaiso, have come home in this ship, which left at
Rio—the Tweed, 26; Plumper, 11; Cormorant, 6;
Rifleman, 6; and Sharpshooter, 6, all well. The Mean-
der has lost three of her officers since she has been
abroad—the Hon. G. Egerton, who was accidentally
shot; her surgeon, Dr. Clarke; and Mr. Searle. She
has also lost a number of her crew from fever, which was
caught at Labuan. She spoke the Edmonstone barque
in lat. 18 21, long. 39, on the 3d inst., from Corfu to
Jamaica, with troops; and on the 21st, in lat. 48 long.
26 40, the barque Josepha.
The Oberon steam-vessel went to Spithead to-day to
be in readiness to proceed with the Trafalgar. They
have been paid advance to-day.

tion and giving dir:ctions for her treatment, Mr. Leonard
left the house, and the prisoner shortly afterwards has.
teased out for another surgeon, bat before his return with
one the deceased had expired.
In cross-examination by Mr. Vann, on behalf of
the accused, the witness said, ths`, when she first en-
tered the room, the prisoner declared that the deceased
had menaced him with a knife, and that he knocked
her down under the apprehension that she was about to
stab him.

Ellen Cooper, a married woman lodging in the second
floor, deposed, that on reaching home shortly after
twelve o'clock on Saturday night, she heard a low moan-
ing in the prisoner's room, followed by an exclamation
from the deceased of " Oh, my brain! bring soma water
to bathe my temples, or I shall go mad! " On entering
the apartment with her husband, she found the deceased
1) ing upon the floor, and the prisoner, who exhibited ex-
treme anxiety and trepidation, was stooping over her
bathing her head and temples. On observing witness,
ho implored her assistance, and begged Mrs. Holman to
proceed for a surgeon, who attended the deceased soon
afterwards, but was unable to afford her any relief,
and immediately after he had left, she was seized with a
strong hysterical fit, which terminated fatally in a few
minutes.

Mr. Thomas Leonard, a surgeon in Tabernacle-square,
stated that on reaching the house and examining tne de-
ceased, who was perfectly insensible, ha found, as far as
he could judge, that she was labouring under an attack
of apoplexy. Ho observed a livid mark, apparently
caused by a violent blow on her right cheek. He con-
sidered that such a blow was calculated to produce con-
cussion of the brain, accompanied by the other symp-
toms he had described. The woman was-evidently in a
dying 4§,t,e; and on requesting the prisoner to explain
how the transaction arose, he replied that ahe had threat-
ened him with a knife, and that he therefore knocked
her down. Witness then directed him to send to his
surgery for some medicine, but added, that he expected
to be paid for it on delivery; upon , which the prisoner
turned round upon him in such a threatening manner
as led him to suppose that he intended some personal
violence, and he hastily left the place.
Police-constable Sylvester, G 226, stated that having
received information about one o'clock that morning
that a woman had been murdered by her husband, he
proceeded to the house and was conducted to an upper
room, where he found the deceased lying quite dead.
The prisoner entered soon after, and on taking him into
custody he entreated his permission " to go and kiss her
poor dead body" before he was conveyed to the station-
house. He then approached the bed on which the de-
ceased was lying, and after kissing her face three or
four times, exclaimed " My dear girl, what shall I do
now; my right hand is gone from me." Witness then
observed the knife produced lying upon the floor, and
on picking it up the prisoner remarked, " That is the
knife my poor dear girl used to defend herself."
The prisoner, who appeared at that time to be perfectly
sober, acs then conveyed to the station-house.
The prisoner, who was deeply affected and sobbed
convulsively throughout the investigation, declined
offering any observations, and was ordered to be re-
manded for a week to await the result of the post morteat
examination.