The Sun.
London, England, 1859-12-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DE CE MBE It 12, 1859,

GREAT WESTERN RATT,WA Y.
CIIRTSTMAS IEOLIDAYS.—Return Tickets issued
on Friday, the 'gild December, and intermediate days, will be
available until Wednesday, the 28th, inclusive. -N.B. On the
Bristol and Exeter and South Devon lines Return Tickets
are not available on Sundays.
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GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS CHEAP EXCUR-
SIONS to the NORTH. On FRIDAY, December 23,
AN EXCURSION TRAIN will leave Paddington at
8 a.m. for OXFORD (Fares, lls and is 6d), Banbury
(14s 'and Cs CA Leamington and Warwick (Its and 8s),
Birmingham (20s and es 6d), West Bromwich, Wednesbury,
and Bilston (21s (id and 10s), Wolverhampton (22s 6d and 108
6(1),: Wellington and Shrewsbury (27s 6d and 138), Chester
(33s and 15s), Birkenhead and Liverpool (37s and 17s); re-
tuning on SATURDAY, December 31, from Liverpool
(landing-stage), at 8,10 a.m., and intermediate stations as
per handbills.

THE ECONOMIC LIFE. ASSURANCE
SOCIETY. .
6, Xew Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London.
'Established 1823.
The'lowest rates of Premium on tho Mutual System.
The whole of the Profits divided every Filth Year.
Assets amounting to £1,840,000.
The Bonus additions in 1859 (which averaged £GS per Cent.
on the Premiums paid) amounted to £175,000, the sum of
A 890,000 having been added as Bonus at previous Divisions.
The Annual Income exceeds £260,000.
ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary.

pCONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
-kJ SPECIAL NOTICE.-BONUS OF 1801.

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Proposals for Assurance should be made before the let
January, IS6O, to entitle the Assured to Participation in the
Division of Profits in 1864.

METROPOLITAN, COUNTIES, AND
GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.
27, Regent-street, Waterloo-place, London, S.W.
Life Assurance, Annuities, and Endowments.
Loans on real and personal security.
F. FERGUSON CAMROUX, Manager.

H E LONDON ASSURANCE,
7, Royal Exchange.
30th November, 1859.
The Cdrporation of the London Assurance give notice to
parties whose Lives are Assured in their Office, that no extra
Premium will be charged to them on joining any Volunteer
Corps for service in the United Kingdom, and that all Poli-
cies will be paid in full where death ensues in consequence of
such service. JOHN LAURENCE, Secretary.

LIFE ASSURANCE. - ADVICE OFFICE,
No. I, Finch-lane, Cornhill. LIFE POLICY HOLDERS
and you WHO MEAN TO INSURE YOUR LIVES write to Messrs.
DAVIES and Co. for their prospectus. It is to be had for
asking for. It will show you how to convert your present
Policy into a Jewel of intrinsic value. How to snake that
Policy, which now requires your constant care and watch-
fulness to save it from extinction, an INALIENABLE PRO-
PERTY, available-for present use as well as future consolation.
To study that prospectus, and act as it directs, may be the
means, when you are dead, or saving those who are dearest
to you from insolvency and want. Proofs unfortunately are
not wanting that such things have come to pass through the
agency of a policy of assurance.

LIFE ASSURANCE.-LAPSED POLICIES.
The holders of Lapsed Policies upon which five or more
premiums had been paid before forfeiture, are requested to
make known their respective . cases to. Messrs. DAVIES and
Co., Advice Office for Life Assurers, 1, Finch-lane, Cornhill.
Messrs. DaviEs and Co., advance money (at 5 per cent. per
annum interest) to continue the preaduins on policies in good
Offices.

NEW HORTICULTURAL GARDEN AT
KENSINGTON GORE.—The COUNCIL of the HOR-
TICULTURAL SOCIETY give notice, that the Fellows of
the Society and their friends having already offered the Council
more money on Debenture Loan than the Council anticipate
will be required, the Debenture List has been closed. The
List for Donations and Life Memberships is still open.

thought not. They know little of that mysterious
impenetrable being, who always made up his
mind before he acted, and then, tiger-like, sprang
upon and made sure of his prey. They was a say-
ing that when a tiger had onco tasted of human
blood he would not descend to meaner food. It

might be that the Emperor, having tasted of power,
would not be satisfied with anything less than an
increase of that power. Were he contented him-
' self, he might not be able to control his army, espe-
cially now, when that army had been flushed with
victory in the Crimea and in Italy, and anxious to
avenge injuries neither forgiven nor forgotten.
Their duty now was to trust to no man. (Cheers.)
Their duty was to arni.to the teeth; not to be ex-
travagant with their navy in the way they had
been, but to spare no expense- in .making it effi-
cient. They should also do that which the noble
lord. had recommended them to do, vie., to join the
volunteer corps, so that they might show front to
the French and avoid invasion. How was it they
were so unprepared, and that .the French had crept
up as they had by their side ? It . was owing to
that miserable party feeling. (A Voice—Free dis-
cussion.) He knew it was free discussion, and ex-
pected to be hit hard if he deserved it. Their
present condition was owing to the fact that they
had pandered to the peace party—peace at any
price ; and the Conservatives had done the same
thing, thrown themselves into the arms of the
peace party, and now they find they had trusted to
a broken reed, and had become pierced and deserted.
As to the meeting next year, Lord Derby had stated
at Liverpool that he intended to be magnanimous.
He (Mr. Kendall) hoped he might be, as the ministry
would have enough to •do ; and that he believed
Lord Derby to be more magnanimous than Lord
Palmerston. Lord Derby could afford to be mag-
nanimous, for though he was pressed on by a hungry
party, still they-were not halfso hungry as those that
were pressing on the noble member for Tiverton.
(Laughter and cheers.) The hon. member then pro-
ceeded to say that there were two measures of im-
portance likely to come forward next session, if
foreign matters were not too pressing—the Church
Rates and the Reform Bill. The Church rate bill
of Sir J. Trelawny the speaker characterised as a
"robbery," but, notwithstanding, he much prefer-
red that to the bill proposed by Mr. Walpole. The
latter would only have caused disruption in the
church, and he would rather have a robbery per-
petrated than have the peace of the church broken
by ill-feeling between the members thereof. He
highly eulogised the conduct of Sir J. Trelawny,
but 'expressed a hope that they should make out a
stronger case for continuing church rates than
they did last session. As to the Reform Bill they
must wait to see what it was, but he thought Lord
S. Russell ought not to have opposed the second
reading of Lord Derby's bill. Having enlarged
on this point, the- speaker said he must now touch
on local matters. He had had the honour of pre-
sentiug various petitions from the ratepayers of the
county praying that they may have a voice in the
county expenditure, and he had been asked to sup-
part the prayer of the petition. The speaker ob-
jected to an undue proportion of any class in the
management of this matter, and proceeded at length
to defend the county expenditure, contending that
it. was impossible a greater check could be exer-
cised upon it than was done at present. As to the
County Asylum, of which he had been chairman for
20 years, a strict vi.ilance was also exercised over
its expenditure, and he could not prove to them
that they were more economical in this respect than
they were in any other county, then he would not
be chairman next year ; and having repelled some
attacks which had been made upon him in reference
to the management of the asylum and county gaol,
he said he should be happy to answer any question
that might be proposed to him.
In reply to a question as to what 'position the
rating .of mining duos now occupied,
Mr. KENDALL said that in consequence of the '
death of Mr. M. Willyams, and the pressing busi,
!less which had come before Parliament, the matter
had been delayed, but as soon as he saw a fair chance
of success he should urge the measure on.

Mr. W. SNELL, a yeoman, adverting to the re
marks of Col. Coryton and Lord Valletort, as to the
volunteer corps, said that he had heard many theo-
ries broached for the purpose of accounting for the
apathy of the yeomanry on the " volunteer" ques-
tion, and the one most generally received was that
they lived in remote districts, and their ideas did
not flow quite as fast as those of persons in towns ;
that they were dull, and had, a certain thickness of
skull. (Laughter.) His theory, however, was, that
being engaged in a more healthful occupation than
those in towns, they had strong nerves, and their
nerves had not been acted upon as those of towns-
people. (Cheers) He did not think there was
occasion for half the panic which had taken 'dace.
He believed the people had been misled by the same
party of the Manchester school who misled them in
reference to the Corn-laws; that was the reason—
and he had been pleased to see it—why such a
panic had ensued, and the agriculturists had been.
uninfluenced thereby. He thought if they did jus-
tice to the agricultural interest they need not fear,
but that the yeomanry of the country would do their
duty. He also advocated the proper payment of the
soldier. The speaker proceeded further to dilate on
the state of military affairs and the readiness of the
yeomanry to do their duty.

in most instances is likely, to attain speedily to a
rata of dividend considerably exceeding the" mini-
mum interest guaranteed by the Government of
India. When this occurs the shareholders in tho
several Indian undertakings will have every reason
to congratulate themsklves upon having become
connected With works which are already bringing
about a vast improvement in our Eastern Empire."