The Sun.
London, England, 1834-12-27 00:00:00

BRUSSELS PAPERS.

BRUNSWICK, DEC. 17.—1 n the sitting of our Diet the
day before yesterday, the Budget was voted. The AsSem-
bly had, in a preceding sitting, instructed the Committees
to negotiate directly with the Ministry on the points of
difference, and in consequence of a conference, the Minis-
try presented a different estimate, on which the Committee,
in its Report, says, " The Committee is happy to be able
unanimously to recommend the proposals of the Ministry,
in which the desire expressed for a reduction of the expen-
diture of certain departments has been fulfilled, as far as
circumstances will at present allow."

The amount of the expenditure, according to the new
estimate, is 3,056,082 dollars ; so that it does not exceed
the revenue. All the alterations were adopted almost una-
nimously by the Assembly, • and the proposal of the Com-
mittee adopted, that the Assembly thanks the Government
for its endeavours to improve the finances, and for the atten-
tion paid to the wishes of the Assembly, and, at the same
time, requests the Ministry to submit to his Highness the
Duke their humble petition, that he will be pleased to take
into consideration the proposals before made for a change
in the organization of the Military Administration.
STOCKHOLM, DEC. 12.—1 n the committee of the Diet
to-day the proposal to provide for the Extraordinary Esti-
mates by loans, and not by taxes, was rejected by a majority
of 71 to 41. 2dly. The estimate for muskets in 180,000
rix dollars was the only one that was agreed to, and that
only by a majority of 60 to 59. This was probably the
reason that all the others brought forward today were re-
jected, viz., 170,000 dollars for fortifications at Carlserona
by 63 to 56 ; 25,000 for coast batteries by 74 to 45 ; from
50 to 100,000 for artillery for Kingspolin by 68 to 51 ;
50,000 for avenues to Stockholm by 60 to 59 ; for the re-
pair of the fortress of Karlsten in Marstrand, by 60 to 59 ;
and for general instruction 1,500 dollars by 66 to 53. For
canals, three sums of 100,000, 70,000, and 50,000 dollars
were proposed, and the smallest sum voted by a majority of
68 to 51 ; some of the minority voting for 70,000, some
for 100,000,

COBLENZ, DEC. 17.—Tius morning, before six o'clock,
there was a slight shock of an earthquake, which lasted
but a few seconds, and respecting which we can give no
ether particulars.

MUNICH, DEC. 14.—The news of the betrothing the
Crown Prince of Bavaria to the daughter of the Arch-
Duke Charles, seems to be quite certain. It was reported
some time ago that the King of Greece was to be betrothed
to a daughter of the Emperor of Russia, but it is now said
that the Grand Duchess will marry the Crown Prince of a
great western kingdom.
DUSSELDORF, DEC. 19.—Our journals contain a letter
from Dr. Maurenbrecber, Professor of Law at Bonn, in
which he asks for the assistance br the public, he having
been empowered by the bigh.tst authorities, who have com-
municated to him all tie necessary documents, to investi-
gate the claims of our country to the Dusseldorf gallery of
pictures, ni.,w in Bavaria, and if it appears that these claims
are ";ell founded, to adopt legal measures against the Ba-
varian Government, to oblige it to restore this gallery, once
the pride of our city.
HAmstrac, DEC. 23.—BonsEK-HALui.—The lottery
loans are for the most part higher ; in other securities,
there is little alteration, and for the January account they
are sellers.

ALTMOLDOVA, Nov. 20.—(From the Ofen journal.—
The operations on the Danube under the direction of
Count Stephen Szecheni have been carried on with great
activity. In October nearly 1,000 day labourers were em-
ployed in blowing up the rocks at the waterfalls between
I.pupkova and Szvintza. It was a magnificent scene
the Danube on the one side throwing up fire and rocks,
and on the other the workmen in groups among the rocks
and thickets, and the engineers and detachments of troops
on the banks. The men employed in blowing up
the rocks the imperial mines in were from the
vicinity, and at Neumoldova in particular the work-
ing of the mines was entirely suspended for a time, in
order that the operations might be pursued as vigorously
as possible. The water being uncommonly low the result
was very successful. About 1,000 cubic fathoms of rock
having been blown up and brought on the banks. The
writer of these lines was present when the first
ship passed the Canal, on the Ist of November, and
cannot express the pleasure he felt on this occasion. All.
the doubts that he had entertained of the practicability of
the navigation are removed ; and we felt a confidence that
our desart would soon become a paradise, and our hearts
were filled with gratitude to the Government for the be-
nefits which it had in contemplation to procure for us, by
rendering the Danube navigaahle.
VIENNA, DEC. 16.—Five per Cents. 99; Four per Cents.
901; Bank Stores, 1,279.—A//genteine Zcitung, Dec. 21.

The peculiar turn of our Spitalfields weavers to be-
come bird-catchers and fanciers has long been proverbial; but
in this they are completely outdone by the inhabitants of Ruhl.
a large manufacturing village in Germany, mostly cutlers, who
have such a passion for the common chaffinch, • that Some of
them are said to have gone 90 miles from home to take.serue
of these birds, and have given one of their cows in exckange
for a fine songster.

Interval Ori.. Amount
Age Date Date between ginal of Total
at of of Assuronce Sum Additions Sim
Entry. Assurance. Decease. and As- by way of paid.
Decease. cured. Bonus.
Yrs. piths. £ X. s. d. 4. sd.
47 1615, Jan. 1827, Feb. 12 1 1000 316 14 0 1316 14 0
34 1815, Jan. 1833, July 18 6 100) 434 1 4 1434 1 4
48 1816, Dec. 1833, June 16 6 300 123 19 1 423 19 I
51 1817, Nov. 1831, April 13 5 500 186 14 0 686 14 0
66 1818, June 1832, April 13 10 800 313 16 9 1113 16 0
33 1821, Dec. 18zi0, Nov. 8 11 2000 270 0 0 2270 0
36 1822, April 1832, Oct. 10 6 1500 250 17 6 1750 17
25 1823, Dec. lEt32, Dec. 9 )500 31,0 1 3 2880 1 6
54 1424, Dec. 1832, Sept. 7 9 3000 360 0 0 8360 0 3
34 1826, March 1833, June 7 2 SOO 61 7 0 561 7 0
40 1e.40, May 1830, Dec. 7f 500
33 1882, March 1832, April If 1000

Those assurances marked thus t were not entitled to any addi-
tions; but the extremely short period of their endurance shows the
benefit of Life Assurance in a very striking manner. Many other
instances might be adduced to the same effect; but the above are
quite sufficient for the purpose.
It may, however, tend to convey a clearer view of the advan-
tages arising from the principle on which this Institution is founded,
to show in detail the additions progressively made in the Equitable
Society to a Policy opened in 1796—that is, after the additions
(which had previously been irregular) began to be declared at re-
gular periodical intervals. Taking the original amount of the Po-
licy at £1,000., the additions stand as follows, viz.:—
Rate of Addition per
Date of Declaration Cent. per Annum on Amount of
of Addition. Sum Assured. Addition.
Ist Jan. 1800
lBlO
lB2O
1830 3 0 0

Sum of Additions at Ist of January, 1830 2,070
And original Sum Asssured l,OOO

Total £3,070
Had the sum originally assured been 5,0001. instead of 1,0001.,
then the total sum recoverable under the policy would have been
15,3501., and so on in proportion. This statement, while it shows
the important advantages of the principle of mutual assurance,
shows at the same time the utter fallacy of the opinion occasion-
ally stated, that it is only in the infancy of such institutions that
the full advantage of the principle can be obtained ; for the rate of
addition declared by the Equitable goes on, it will be observesk, in
an increasing ratio.
The immense benefit thus derived from assurances opened in the
Equitable Office at length drew the public attention so strongly
towards it, and so greatly increased the number of proposals of as-
surance, that, in order to prevent the business of the Society at-
taining an unmanageable magnitude, a resolution or bye-law was
passed in 1816, excluding those assured subsequent to that date
from any right to participate in the surplus funds or profits, until
the policies entitled to this benefit were reduced to a given definite
number ; so that a party now taking out a policy at the Equitable
has not the slightest chance of entering on its peculiar advantages
for a long period of years.
This Institution was in existence two years prior to this import-
ant change in the constitution of the Equitable, and it has in con-
sequence received a great many proposals which, but for this mea-
sure, would have probably gone to the Equitable. The benefit
which the parties have obtained by doing so will at once be evident
from the fact that a policy opened in the Equitable in the course of
the year 1817, if now emerging and becoming a claim, would be
only entitled to an addition of about 91. per cent., while a policy
opened in this Office in the same year, and now becoming a claim,
would be entitled to an addition of 451 per cent., which is yearly
increasing.
There can indeed be no doubt that this Office is now rapidly ap-
proaching the same position (making due allowance for the compa-
ratively limited field of business which Scotland affords) that the
Equitable held in England previously to the enactment of the law
already explained. In proof of this no stronger fact can be stated
than the large and rapid increase of the accumulated fund and an-
nual revenue already noticed. The Accounts produced at the
Twentieth Annual General Court held in January last, showed
that in the last year alone an addition was made to the previously
large accumulated fund or capital of no less than Sixty Thousand
Pounds sterling. Independently, therefore, of the great benefit
arising to the parties interested, from assurances which may become
claims from sudden and premature death, and of which the expe-
rience of this Society affords many very striking instances, it is also
evident, from the principle of its constitution, and from the expe.
rience of the Equitable, that, even considered as an investment of
money, without any particular reference to the benefit of assurance,
a policy now opened in this office, and steadily kept up during the
whole period of a pi olonged life, may become a very valuable inhe-
ritance indeed. And this benefit is not operative only at death, but
may, even during the lifetime of the assured, be made available to
the most valuable purposes.
It is also proper to state that in only one instance has this
Society felt itself compelled to enter a court of law in opposition to
a claim made under its emerged policies; and in that instance the
propriety of their procedure was fully evinced by the immediate
abandonment of the claim. This occurred very soon after the
Soc:city commenced business ; and during the many years that have
since elapsed, every claim brought against the funds, under emerged
policies, has been at once discharged, and a great extent of good
both to the public and individuals thus accomplished.
7ABULAII VIEW of the SUMS, including ADDITIONS, ,
payable under POLICIES of 1,0001., and so in proportion for
any higher or lower amount, if becoming claims during the re-
maining years of the current Septennial Period of the Society's
Progress :

Year of 1 AMOUNT OP NET SUSS PAYABLE, IP CLAIM EMERGE IN
Entry. 111
1,93/ 1837. 182 R
1535.
—Z. d. X. s. d. • s. d. X. s. d.
1915 1475 16 0 1196 14 5 i 1517 I'2 2 1538 9 0
1820 1250 16 0 1218 10 0 1286 4 0 1203 18 0
182! 1234 18 0 152 7 6 126017 0 1287 6 6
12.2 1219 0 0 1v317 5 0 1253 10 0 1270 15 0
1823 12 13 2 0 12.20 ;.; 1237 3 0 1254 3 4
4824 1187 4 0 1204 00 i 1220 16 0 1237 12 0
I 1,, '2 5 1171 6 0 1187 17 6 12,4 9 0 1221 11 6
18.:6 1155 8 0 1171 15 0 1189 2 1204 9 0
1827 1139 10 0 1155 12 6 1171 15 0 :287 17 6
191.8 1123 12 0 1139 10 0 I 1155 8 0 1171 5, 0
1620 1107 14 0 1123 7 6 1139 1 0 1154 14 (1
1830 , 1,91 16 0 ; 1107 5 0 1122 14 0 1138 3 0

This Table proceeds on the supposition that the Claim emerges
after the Annual Contribution or Premium has been paid for the
year in which it so emerges. If the Claim emerge before such
payment, the sums payable will be those set down in the Table as
applicable to the immediately preceding year.
The ordinary Court of Directors meet weekly for the purpose
of receiving and deciding on applications for Assurance, which
are
int nowves granted to the extent of 5,000/., on approved single or
jo li.

Assurances effected through the Head Office or Agencies before
the books are shut for the current year will have the advantage, in
the declaration of additions at next investigation, of a Full Year's
standing over those assurances which may be delayed beyond that
period. In consequence of this important advantage, there has been
regularly for some years back a great pressure of business imme-
diately preceding the closing of the books. Last year no fewer
than sixty-four proposals of assurance were under the consideration
of the Court of Directors at their latest meeting in December ;
and after all, various proposals were lodged too late to secure the
expected advantage. It is therefore respectfully requested that
parties intending assurances would lodge their proposals as early as
possible in the month of December, which would be attended with
much convenience to the Officers of the Society, and at the same
time prevent the risk of disappointment to themselves.
Every facility to the carrying through of Proposals of Assurance,
ea .as to be completed within di current year, will be given, both
at the Head Office in Edinburgh, and at the following
AGENCIES.
Liverpool.—Messrs. A. Oughterson and Co., I, Dale-street.
Manchester.—Wm. A. Cunningham, 28, George-street.
Huddersfield.—Hugh Watt, Banker.

HUGH M'KEAN, Agent,
15, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, December 1.

The Lord Chancellor will give his first dejeuner
since his accession to office to the new Lord Chief Baron and
the Judges on Monday, the 12th of January, at his residence
in Hyde Park-terrace.

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A singular library exists at Warsenstein, near Cas-
sel ; the books composing it, or rather the substitutes for them,
being made of wood, and every one of them is a specimen of
some different tree. The back is formed of its bark, and the
sides are constructed of polished pieces of the same stock.
When put together, the Whole forms a box, and inside of it are
Atored the fruit, seed, and leaves, together with the moss which
grows on the trunk, and the insects which feed upon the tree ;
every volume corresponds in size, and the collection altogether
has an Acellent effect.—Mirror.