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EXTRACTS from the FIFTEENTH ANNUAL RE-
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ness transactions during the three quinquennt

Is for assur-
policies were
ig in annual

be new busi-
ial periods :

t ,
Fa, z .
0o 75 r. 0
R
•S' g a
~., 0 Amount c° Amount Annual
t,g '.'" .P.' Proposed. •.. Assured. Premiums.
fr., pi o f --
t p., 2
(3,., 54
- - -- ---
£ s. d. £ s. d.
.£ s. d.
1858 4,802 1,023,140 0 0 3,318 C 54.140 0 0 21,347 16 5
1863 13,244 2,779,666 0 0 9,746 2,037,383 0 0 63,507 19 10
1868 17,466 4,861,303 5 9 13,699 3,752,967 4 8 122,257 17 6
--- --
Total.. 35,512 8,664,109 5 9 , 26,763 6 444,490 4 8 207.113 12 o

35,5121 8,664,109 5 9

1( 6 444,490 4 8

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INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY, U.K.::LECTURES and LAW CLASSES, 1868-69.
LECTURES.
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Lau', ON'freyaneing, and the Law of Real Property and
Equity, will be delivered in the Hall of the Society.
LAW CLASSES.
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and will proceed concurrently with tho lectures. The
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LECTURES on COMNION end MERCANTILE LAW,
by CHARLES HENRY ANDERSON, Esq., Barrister-
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Tho Course will consist of Nine Lectures upon the fol-
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• c. The Contract of Sale.
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LECTURES en CONVEYANCING and the LAW o
REAL PROPERTY, by T. LL. MURRAY BROWNE
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Lecture I. Introductory.—Practical Matson the perusal
and examination of Abstracts.
Lectures 11., 111., IV. Settlements.-1. Settlements of
Personal Estate; a. Investment of Trust Funds; b.
Usual Trustee Clauses, Appointment of New Trustees; c.
Usual Powers and Covenants, &c.: d. Remarks on the
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Portions, &c c. Usual Powers : Remarks on the Leases
and Sales of Settled Estates Act; d. The Succession Duty
Act-3. Digenettiling: Deeds, the existing Law of Entail-
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Settlements.

Lectures V., VI. IV Usual Frame and Contents
of a Will-2. Principles of Construction of Wills-3.
Practical Hints on Drawing Wills.

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Fines-2. Surrenders and Covenants to Surrender-3.
Admissions-4. The Enfranchisement of Copholds.
Lectures VIII., IX. Miscollaueous Deeds.-1. Credi
tors' Trust Deeds-2. Separation Deeds-3. Articles of
Partnership, &c.
In these lectures and classes the Introductions and
Notes to Mr. Davidson's Precedents will be especially
referred to. _

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Real and Personal Property are recommended.
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Bar:riiter:at-Law:

This course will consist of Nine Lectures :
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Lecture 11. The Jurisdiction in matters of Account;
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Lecture 111. The Jurisdiction in matters, of Account,
continued: specially, between Principal and Agent.
Lecture IV. Tho Jurisdiction in matters of Account,
continued: specially, between Partners.
Lecture V. The Jurisdiction in matters of Administra-
tion : 1. The Administration of Assets.

Lectures VI.. VII.. The Administrative Jurisdiction,
continued : 2. The Administration of Trusts, as enlarged
by recent statutory enactment.
Lectures VIII., IX. Injunctions. .
Books recommended : —Story's Equity Jurisprudence,
chapters 8,9, 10, 13, li., 23 ; Hadrian's Administrative
Jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery.
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For Life Assurance, Annuities, and Guarantee of Fidelity in
Situations of Trust.
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Law Society's }Tall, Oct., 1868.
N.B. Gentlemen may subscribe for and atteni the lec-
tures and classes, either separately or collectively ; but as
the instruction given in the classes will have special re-
ference to preceding lectures, it is recommended that those
who desire to attend the classes should also attend the
lectures.

A BSOLUTE SECURITY POLICIES, UN-
EA- FORFEITABLE, UNCONDITIONAL, and UN-
CHALLENGEABLE, itlsued by the PRUDENTIAL
ASSURANCE COMPANY, 62, Ludgate-bill, London,
E.C. Established 1848.
The Directors of this Company, in deference to an ob-
jection not unfrequently urged by persons invited to as-
sure, that the ordinary mode of Life Assurance is in their
opinion defective or uncertain, by reason of the operation
of the customary conditions, have resolved to promulgate,
the present Tables, and to issue Assurances under them
which shall bo absolutely Unforfeitable, Unconditional,
and Unchallengeable.
For the reason referred to, many persons hesitate or
decline to assure on the ground that, in the event of in-
ability. or unwillingness to continue payment of their pre-
miums, the Assurance will become forfeited. To this
class of the public the system now introduced will espe-
cially commend itself, being entirely free from all condi-
tions of forfeiture on account of non-payment of premium,
or from any other cause whatever; while at the same
time it absolutely guarantees at decease, when even a de-
fault is made in payment of the premium, a fixed sum in
respect of every premium paid. bearing the same propor-
tion to the total amount assured as the number of pre-
miums actually paid may bear to the whole number origi-
nally contracted to be paid.

Besides this important advantage, every policy will ex-
pressly state what sum can at any time be withdrawn on

,he discontinuance of the assurance.

The assured will thus always have the option of retain-
ing either agt ascertained fixed sum payable at decease,
or, in case of need, of withdrawing a certain amount, ac-
cording t ; the duration of the Policy, such amounts being
set forth on every Policy, and rendering unnecessary any
future reference to the Company on these points, as is the
case with ordinary assurances.
Creditors as!.uring the lives of debtors will appreciate
this feature as ono greatly protective of their interests, and
it will likewise commend itself to bankers, capitalists, and
others who are in the habit of making advances collaterally
secured by Life Policies, as they can at any time learn, by
mere inspection, the exact value, either immediate or re-
versionary, of a Policy of this description.
Every Policy issued on this plan will bo without any
conditions as to voyaging, foreign residence, or other usual
limitations. By this freedom from restrictions of all kinds
the objections before referred to will be entirely removed,
and the Policies will become at once positively valuable as
actual securities.

In addition to the foregoing statement of advantages,
the number of premiums is strictly defined. Tho longest•
term provided for is twenty-fire years, and the shortest
five years, as shown by the Tables. Thus, tankers, credi-
tors, and others holding policies of this class as security,
may always know the utmost amount they may be called
upon to advance so as to maibt,in the full benefit of the
Assurat.ces—a matter of great importance where policies
are held as collateral t,ecurity.

It is only neres,:ary to add that, nsn Yonsncinenco of the
policies ender these iables being unforfeltable and uncon-
ditional, they will also be nuchdlengeahle on any sirnund
whatever. They may therefor,: be aptly termed Absolute
Security

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question:)lo, and it obtains the largnst amount of new
buqin,ms of any office in the Kingdom. SPECIAL
AGENTS WANTED.

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A.D. 1720.

ROYAL EXCHANGE ASSURANCE
CORPORATION.
(Established by Chr.rter of his Majesty George the First),
For SEA, FIRE, LIFE, and ANNUITIES.
Offices—ROYAL EXCHANGE, London.
Branch Office-29, Pall Mall, S.W.

OCTAVIUS Esq Governor.
JAMES STEWART 11')DGSON, I•:sq Sub-Governor.
CHARLES JOHN MANNING, Esq Deputy-Governor.

DIRECTORS.

Robert. Barclay, Esq.
John G arra' t Cattle y, Esq.
Mark Currie Close, Esq.
Edward James Daniell, Esq.
William Davidson, Esq

William Totlow Ribbed,
Esq.
Wilmot Holland, Esq.
Egerton Hubbard, Esq.
Nevile Lubbock, Esq.
George Forbes Malcolmson,
Esq.
Lord Josceline WM. Percy.
Charles Robinson, Esq.
Samuel Leo Schuster, Esq.
Eric Carrington Smith, Esq.
Joseph Somes, Esq.
William Wallace, Esq.
Charles Raring Young, Esq.
mei Solly, Esq., F.R.S.

Lancelot William Dent; Esq.
Alexander Druce, Esq.
Fredk. Joseph Edlmann, Esq.
Charles Hermann Goschen,
Esq.
Riv ersdale Wm. G renfull,
Esq.
Francis Alex. Hamilton, Esq.
Robert Amadeus Heath, Esq.
Medical Referee, Sam

NOTICE.—The usual fifteen days allowed for payment
of FIRE FREMITTMS falling dux at Midsummer will ex-
pire on the l►tli of July.
FIRE and LIFE ASSURANCES may be effected on
advantageous terms.

FIRE DUTY.- This Tax having been abolished, tho
PREMIUM is NOW the only charge for Fire Insurances.
P.A.7IIING STOCK.— No Extra Charge is made for the
use of Steam Thrashing Machine:l.
The Reversionary Bonus on British LIFE POLICIES
has averaged nearly 2 per cent. per annum on the sum
assured.

Equivalent reductions have beon made in the Premiums
payable by persons who preferred that form of Bonus.
The Divisions of Profit take place every Five Years.
Any sum not exceeding £15,000 may be insured on ono
Life.

This Corporation affords to the AsFured
Liberal participation in Profits, with the gnaranteo
of a large invested Capital Stock, and exemption
under Royal Charter from the liabilities of part-
nership.
The advantages of modern practice, with the secu-
rity of an Office whose resources have been tested
by the experience of nearly a CENTURY AND A
HALF.

ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.
-ROBERT P. STEELE. SeerPtsrv.

111E7 ROPOLITAN GOSSIP—Sat •trclay.

But far more important than these personal questions is
the great national one, What will the Ministers do with the
bill? Will they accept all the Lords' amendments, or
will they reject them at the risk of throwing out the bill
and losing the whole work of the session, and exciting
a popular clamour against the Upper House ?
I have good reason for believing that Ministers
will shew themselves generous on all that
concerns vested interests, and will be ready to stretch
a point in order to give the largest interpretation of that
word; but they will not admit the principle of concurrent
endowment in any form, despite the articles in the Times.
It is impossible to say more than this ; it is impossible,
for instance, to tell if this or that amendment will be

rejected ; for so great is the diversity of opinion among
the Liberal members of the Lower House that the una-

nimity which sufficed to pass the bill might not suffice to
reject the Lords' amendments. Even now it is by no
means certain that the bill will pass at present. Indeed
a very distinguished member of the Ministry who was
standing on the steps of the Throne last night was hea rd
to remark, after the Chancellor had announced the
figures upon the first division, that he feared there wa
no chance of the bill becoming law this session. Ido not
attach verymuch importance to this expression of a momen.
tary vexation, which must have been greatly healed by the
subsequent Ministerial victory. For the present, every-
thing tends towards a conference between the two
Houses, and Ministers and journalists are just now
engaged in hunting up precedents. It may perhaps help
the Lords to a friendly result to know that Clerkenwell
has 5,000 handbills " Down with the Lords ! " ready
printed, and to be posted on the walls, if occasion
demands.

The new control scheme did not come into operation on
Thursday after all. The War Office has done its duty.
But Mr. Lowe is not satisfied, and has suggested some
grave objection to Sir Henry Storks's scheme. So there
is likely to be a good deal more committee sitting before the
matter is settled.

FOD.EIGN NOTES.

THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CAELE.

The opinion of the United States Attorney-General
respecting the landing of the French Atlantic Cable—
the .first announcement of which appeared in our
American telegrntn*---ba. 84 von rich mutola
the other side of the " pond." It will be remembered that
the law officer denied the right of any individual State to
allow the cable to be lauded ; such power belonged to
Conzress only. 3 t is generally thought, however, that,
until Congress legislates on the subject, the Massachusetts
grant will hold good, and tha cable will shortly be
landed in the State if all goes right with the treat
Eastern. Nor is it at all likely that the telegraph
company will experience much trouble when the matter
does come before Congress, for the second cable is a mani-
fest political advantage to the United States. In case of
war with England, the Americans will still have the
wire to France ; in case of a war with France there will
be the cable to England.

THE MONET LOST THROUGH MR. SUMNER'S SPEECH.
Heavy losses on all sides were the effect of Mr. Sumner's
speech on the Alabama Claims Treaty. Nobody attempts
to disguise this fact. The Anglo-American Times corn-
plains that Mr. Sumner has been abused in England, but
is, nevertheless, constrained to admit that the t•ffect of his
famous exordium was most disastrous in checking the upward
tendency of the United States Bonds. " They were
arrested at the very moment when, in response to Secre-
tary Boutwell's policy, the accumulations in the Treasury
consequent on the buoyancy of the revenue returns and

the retrenchments of the Administration, they would have
had a rapid and continued rise. Supposing that they would
(as they ought) have gone over 9), and that the European
holding represents nearly £200,000,000, the gain which
would have accrued but for the political attitude assumed
equals a score of millions of sovereigns." Numerous
English capitalists, too, were deterred by Mr. Sumner's
effusion ; and as American securities pay a very high rate
of interest at a time when people cannot find a safe
market for their money, the loss on this side of the Atlantic
must be enormous. This, on the admission of a journal
which complains of the abuse heaped on Mr. Sumner, ii
the net result of his speed). Is the treatment ac-
corded to a man who has worked such mischief too hard?

Chaos is come again. There never was such an im-
broglio of parties as there was last night. 213
voted against Government, in order to restore the
Irish clergy their houses and glebes, 113 voted against
them on the proposition to give houses and glebes
to Roman Catholics and Presbyterians. Consequently
there was an overwhelming Ministerial defeat in the
first instance, awl a decisive Ministerial victory in the
second; with this further result, that the bill is rendered
utterly inconsistent and absurd. In truth it had been
rendered pretty much so before. The Peers having passed
the second reading of the bill in order to save their order,
are now emasculating the bill in order to save the Church.
But even from their point of view they have
bungled lamentably. The Duke of Cleveland's
proposal was at least intelligible and consis-
tent. A large number of Liberal peers supported
it, Lord Houghton whipped for it, Lord Russell and Lord
Halifax spoke for it. But, fortunately for Ministers,
there was a split among their opponents. The 11-I,',g and
the High Churchmen were prepared to endow all ; the
Tories and the Low Churchmen were prepared to endow
only one. Consequently the most serious danger which
the Government had to encounter, that which the Times
has been plotting day after day, was escaped. The old
motto, _Divide et inipera, mill cnce more prevail. True
the Earl of Malinesbury has threatened to raise the
question again en the fah clause, NI bleb disposes of the
surplus. On the other hand, the Duke of Cleveland voted
for the resteratien of the glebes to the Protestant clergy
only on the condition that they were granted all round;
so that what is lost to the Government in one direction is
gained in another.
Very funny was the scene at the second division this
morning. Lord Hatberley and Lord Cairns—the Chan-
cellor and the ex-Chancellor—went into the same lobby,
walking shoulder to shoulder, laughing heartily at this
"concurrent" vote. On the first division so large was the
number of peers voting with the "Not Contents" that
the door had to be reopened and the first of the "Not
Contents " readmitted to the House before the last had
passed out of the House by the Bar.

It is generally considered that Lord Cairns's career as
leader of the Opposition will not be of long duration.
His influence is daily decreasing ; that of Lord
Salisbury is daily increasing. The last-named peer
has, however, his foes among his own party. Never over-
burdened with modesty, he has, in consequence of the
leader in yesterday's Times hailing him as dictator of the
situation, become intolerably overbearing. Thus both the
leading Conservative peers contrast very strongly with the
leader of the Liberals. Lord C ranville's praises are in the
mouth of everyone, and his splendid temper under the
combined adverse influences of the gout and repeated
defeats is the theme of universal admiration.

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