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London, England, 1859-02-12 00:00:00

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COM PANY,
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The Funds or Property of the Company as at 31st Decem-
ber, 1857, amounted to £47,801, invested in Government or
other approved securities.
Annual Income, upwards of £lll,OOO from premiums alone.
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ACCOMMODATION IN PAYMENT OF PREMIUM.—OnIy one-
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requires to be paid for the first five years, simple interest be-
ng charged on the balance. Such arrangement is equivalent
to an immediate advance of 50 per cent, upon the annual pre
mium, without the borrower having recourse to the unplea-
sant necessity of procuring sureties, or assigning and thereby
parting with his Policy, during the currency of the Loan,
irrespective of the great attendant expenses in such arrange-
ment.
The above mode of insurance has been found most advan-
tageous when Policies have been required to cover monetary
transactions, or when incomes applicable for Insurance are at
present limited, as it only necessitates half the outlay formerly
required by other Companies before the present system was
instituted by this Office.
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SARDINIA.

(From the Correspondent of the Times)

TURIN, FEB. 8.
The speech of the Emperor Napoleon, of which a sum-
mary, received at Stefam's telegraph office, agrees in sub-
stance with a more • copious one that has reached this Go-
vernment, was the great topic of conversation last night at
Count Cavour's second ball of this season, and continues to
be so this morning. It has given decided satisfaction here.
It is looked upon as a confirmation and extension of the
New Year's greeting to Baron Hubner, and to mean war.
It is natural that the Italians should interpret it in a sense
conformable to their wishes. I think I am not mistaken
in saying that the passage in the Imperial discourse least
pleasing to their ears is that in which Napoleon declares
his determination to adhere to the English alliance; and
this feeling of dissatisfaction, this bitter drop which alloys
their cup of joy, is doubtless rendered the stronger by the
tenour of Thursday's debate- in the English Parliament.
They grieve to see Lords Palmerston and John Russell de-
claring that Austria has a right to her own, and that
treaties must be maintained as a protection against anarchy
in Europe. They hoped that those ancient backers of Italy
and supporters of free institutions would have manifested
other sentiments, uttered more consoling words. They deplore
and wonder at the absence from the debate of all reference
to the idea of Italian nationality, so predominant here. From
the first it has excited their surprise that this should obtain
so little attention in England. With them it is everything.
Their objects is not to obtain any particular form of Govern-
merit ; their cry is not for constitutions, popular represen-
tation, and the like ; what they want, the one aim that
absorbs them, is to drive out the Austrians. They Want
Italy for the Italians ; they hope to obtain this by means of
_France ; they having faith that France, having rendered
them the service, would quietly withdraw her legions, satis-
fied with a self-approving conscience, and that Italian
affairs, left entirely in Italian hands, would then run as
smooth as a locomotive with greased wheels. They aro
rich, you perceive, in faith and hope; as regards charity,
they hold to the maxim that it begins at home. From the
period of the very first indication of the plans and designs
that have lately assumed such considerable proportions and
attracted so much attention—as far bask, that is to say, as
the beginning of last summer—l have observed that the
view England would take of the question has been a point
.of considerable anxiety to the Italian party. That anxiety
has naturally increased as matters appeared to be drawing
to a head and threatening a crisis. There are many here
who know how to estimate the strength and resources of
England ; who apprehend the influence which a desire to
preserve her affiance might have on the Emperor of the
French ; who dread the weight of her sword and purse,
were they thrown into the scale at some well-chosen
moment before the fight had been fought out. I have heard
many say, from the very beginning, "It England
will remain neutral our game is secure ," for
not a doubt is entertained of the Austrians being
promptly and completely worsted by the Franco-
Piedmontese army. Some sanguine persons may,
perhaps have cherished a hope of England being induced to
Join in compelling Austria to give up possessions to which,
it is here maintained, she has no just right. The tone of
the English press must have gone far to dissipate such de-
lusions, which Thursday's debate cannot but have finally
destroyed. Nevertheless, I must say that hitherto, and as
far as my observation goes, the course England has shown
herself disposed to take has not here excited feelings of
bitterness towards her. Here and there an emigrant may
grind his teeth, but the majority speak regretfully rather
than wrathfully, in sorrow, not in anger. They seem sur-
prised, as well as grieved, at the backwardness of free Eng-
land in the cause of Italian nationality, and they find no
way of explaining it. "Haw is it," said to me this very
day a fine-spirited Italian gentleman, who has served with
our armies, and has the reputation of an Anglomaniac,
"that Englishmen who are national in the highest degree,
and who would perish to the last man to keep the foot of
days ago,
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a‘giliain,adtßhhueass
the foreigner from their soil, have not more sympathy for
our present aspirations ?" "It is so long," said another,
sßknianevoiw(B) itiraFirncevon,aszetheioigann.p,rnot7h..asao,tzneaosheinceughpuiaiesredbdyecootrmre..
indifferent to the sufferings of others " "What would
shire, and if Russia or France pretended to have acquired,
by means of conquest, the right to rule an English pro-
vince ? Luckily for the English, the hypothesis is more
we
themselves for ftohre
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place." Such is the style of remark one commonly hears.

TIIE EX-KING OF DELIII.—The ex-King of
Delhi arrived at Rangoon on the Bth instant, in her
Majesty's steamer Megvera. On Thursday, at four o'clock,
he was landed with his attendants, and taken under a Eu-
ropean escort to the mainguard. There he will remain for
the present. His destivation is Totmghoo,—Rangoon
Dec, 11.