The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-02 00:00:00

" 7 UTI QUI PROrIDL"

Regularly as the Parliamentary campaign opens
do our old friends the " Provident Clerks' Associa-
tion, whose motto stands at a the head of this ar-
ticle, impose upon us the agreeable duty of chro-
nicling their upward march to wealth and great-
ness. Amid all the crashes and amalgamations
which have shaken the assurance world during the
past year it is truly gratifying to mark the pro-
gress of this hardworking and well-managed insti-
tution, and for many years we have had but one
report to make, viz., of their deserved and un-
varying success.
The secret of this success lies, not in the honored
names of BARING, HANKET, PRESCOTT, and
ROTHSCHILD, which head their prospectus, not in
the numbers or influence of the body by whom the
office was originated (and to which even now
many suppose, from its title, its business 'is re-
stricted), but in the energy and integrity of its
direction, in the clearness of its accounts, and the
publicity which from the first has been courted by
its directors. In the succinct and intelligible
balance sheet the members may read the exact
amount of their receipts and expenditure,
the items of each, and, better still, may learn

in what securities the whole of their funds, now

amounting to £124,000, are invested. An office
which thus courts every investigation, and transacts
its business in the light of day, has nothing to fear;
and we rejoice sincerely to see that, being one of
the seven selected by the Postmaster-General for
his wise and beneficent Life Assurance measure, the

activity of the directors has been rewarded by the
lion's share of the business thus created.

The adoption, too, of the system of " paid up

policies" is a step in the right direction, and cannot
fail to be highly appreciated by assurers of al

classes. The one blot in the great system of Life
Assurance is thus removed, and the assurer, while
regarding with pleasure the policy which provides
for his family, can now do so without a feeling of
anxiety as to its possible sacrifice from his inability
to keep it on foot. We are glad to see from the
report that this feature was hailed with acclama-
tion, and its good results will doubtless appear in
the increased popularity of the 'office.

With an annual income of between thirty and
forty thousand pounds, yearly increasing, and a
constituency numbering more than 5,000 members,
each of whom has a strong motive to spread its
prosperity and promote its. welfare, and with a
direction equally honest and energetic, we have
not a moment's doubt that the prosperous career
we have so long chronicled will be well maintained,
and that the Provident Clerks' Association will
continue to occupy the rank it has fairly won among
our best and soundest Life Assurance Institutions.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange has
returned to Fenton's Hotel from a visit to her Majesty at
Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness was attended by
Count Rechteren do Rosando, Count de Bylandt, Lieut.-
Colonel J. A. Van den Bosch, and Colonel Seymour,
Equerry to the Queen.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge had
a select party to dinner, last evening, at his residence at St.
James's Palace.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duebess of Cam-
bridge and the Princess Mary and household arrived at St.
James's Palace, yesterday, from Cambridge-cottage, Kew,
for the season.

His Excellency the Swedish and Norwegian
Minister and Countess Platen entertained at dinner yester-
day evening his Excellency the Prussian Minister and
Countess Bernstorff, his Excellency the Austrian Minister
and Countess Apponyi, Countess Marie Paumgartea, hi
Excellency the Saxon Minister, the Earl of Hardwicke,
Countess Frances Waldograve and Mr. V. Harcourt, M.P.,
Count and Countess A. Hamilton, Baron and Baroness
Hochschild, Count Brandenburg, Count Jaucourt, Captain
Falbe, &c.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon come to
town to-day from the Grove, near Watford.

The Duke and Duchess of Argyll arrived at
Campden Hill yesterday, from visiting her Majesty at
Windsor Castle. The noble duke and duchess entertained
a select circle at dinner last evening.

Tho Earl of Beverley and Lady. Louisa Percy,
Lord and Lady -Monson and family, Lord and Lady Sin-
clair, and Count and Countess de,la Fold, are passing the
season at Torquay.

Lord and Lady John Russell had a dinner party
last evening at their mansion in Chesharn•place, when his
Royal Highness tho Prince of Orange honoured the noble
lord and lady by his company. The Prince of Orange was
attended by Count de Bylandt, Count do Rechteren, and
Lieutenant-Colonel Van den Bosch, and Colonel F. H. Sey-
mour, Equerry to her Majesty, in attendance on his royal
highness. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset, his Ex-
cellency Baron Bentinck, the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and Mrs. Gladstone, the Earl of Minto, the Earl and
Countess of Derby, the Earl and Countess Stanhope, Lady
Georgiana Romilly, Lady Dunfermline, the Countess of
Lichfield and Lady G. Anson, Hon. Evelyn Ashley, &c.,
were present to meet his royal highness.
General Le Comte and Madame Yermacloff and
Admiral Pasini have left the Brunswick, Jermyn-street,
for Paris.

We are authorised to state that the Queen, having
accepted the services offered by the very numerous corps of
volunteers formed throughout the kingdom, has been graci-
ously pleased to notify her intention of appointing a day for
the special and exclusive reception of the officers of those
corps, it having been represented to her Majesty that they
generally are desirous of presenting themselves as volunteer
officers before her Majesty.
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lodges, now forming the North London District, 1 was
opened in 1823, 2 in 1837, 2 in 1838, 2 in 1839, 2 in 1840,
8 in 18-11, 7 in 1842, 10 in 1813, 22 in 1844, 8 in 1845,
2in 1846, 2 in 1847, 2in 1855, lin 1857, and that just
established as the " Perseverance" Lodge. The gross sur-
plus capital of this district to which the branch belongs is
nearly £69,000 to meet the claims of members in sickness
and at death, and assist widows and orphans. Many past
officers assisted the District Officers, Messrs. Rough,
Harr.nis; g
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members
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the
evening.
LATE CAPTAIN IIAhItISON.—A meeting of
merchants w;as held at half-past three
'll the chair. The meeting was
worship the mayor was
and
considering the best means of
Tue,day, in the rown-hall, Liverpool. His
u clock on
called fur the purpose of con:i
wners
Harrison, and resolutions were u
0. and also to procure
promotion of the object of the meetin,,
testifying their respect for the memnaonrtytnoefutsliiye
algatreeeCdatpot,aiinn
subscriptions for the Harrison Fund.
h borough coroner
MURDER AT LIVERPOOL-I%A -
of Liverpool held an inquest yesterday.
body of a man, apparently an American sailor,
I''Dock
found with his tiroat cut on the east side of Canada .
The
(Wednesday)hoenwthaes
monyiNteiro3n,,dtahyeldaeeste.asTohne
otaffhaaivrinagt presentbeen id
enitstfi
police have nd clue to the perpetrators of the crime.'
inquest was adjourned. envelopeded while t