The Sun.
London, England, 1857-06-23 00:00:00

LONDON, 1 UESDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1857.

UNION ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
Cornhill, and Baker-street, London '
College•green, Dublin; and Gronengen-street, Hamburg.
Instituted in the reign of Queen Anne, A.D. 1714.
DIRECTORS. TRUSTEES, itC.
JOHN REMINGTON MILLS, Esq.. CHAIRMAN.
HENRY ALD WIN SOAMES, Esq., DEPUTY-CIIAIRMAN.
James Bentley, Esq. John Punter, Esq.
Thomas Bodley, Esq. John Rogers, Esq.
Daniel Britten, Esq. Henry Butt, Esq.
Nicholas Charrington, Esq. George Spencer Smith, Esq.
S. Preston Child, Esq. Nichd. Horsman dolly, Esq. .
William Gilpin, Esq. W. Foster White, Esq.
Thomas Lewis, Esq. Samuel Wilson, Esq., Aid. •
Thomas Mills, Esq., M.P. Stephen Wilson, Esq.
John Morley, Esq.
The Directors are ready to receive proposals for insuring every
description of Property in Great Britain and Ireland, including
hips in dock, rent of houses, loss by fire from lightning, and fann-
ing stock

BONUS ON LIFE POLICIES.
The following will Shaw the relative amount of the recent Pep,
.ennial Bonus added to the sum insured, on Policies for 1,0001.,
effected in Ureat Britain, according to the ages of the lives when
assured:— . _

Age when Anutent of Premium Bonus for
Policy received fir the
effected. the last Seven Years. same time. •
/ Being about 70 per
.. 1051. cton such amount
of premium.
25 .. 1681. Bs. 10d. .. 105/. Being6o p. et. do;
30 .. , 186/. 19s. 2d. .. 1051. Being 55 p. ct. do.
35 .. 9091. Ba. 4d. .. 105/, Being 50 p. ct. do.
40 .. 237/. 14s. 2d. . • 105/. Being 45 p. et. do.
This BONUS, including the previous additions, has been applied
either— - _ _ _

152!. 10s. 10d,

By having the Annual Premium reduced for the next Seven Years,
which in many cases extinguished the same for that period;
Or, by adding the amount to the Sum Insured;
Or, the present value thereof was received immediately in money.'
Further particulars may be obtained at the Offices, as •above, or by
written application to the Secretary.
Policy Stamps and Medical Fees paid by this Company.
Advances are made on the sole security of Policies effected with
this Office to the extent of their value

Two-thirds only of the Premium may be paid until death. .
Decreasing and Increasing Rates of Premium.
Persons whose Lives are Assured, and not being of sea-faring
occupation, are allowed during peace to pass by sea from ono part
of Europe, direct to any Other part thereof, in Steamer or other
decked vessels.

WILLIAM B. LEWIS, Secrotary.

ADY. FRANKLIN'S FINAL SEAR CELL--
J The Government having come to the con
elusion that the fate of the crews of her Majesty's ships
Erebus and Terror requires no further investigation on their
part, Lady Franklin, in accordance with her sense of what is

due to the lost navigators, is now fitting out an expedition at
her own cost. .

As a preliminary measure she sought assistance from the
Admiralty, by asking for the loan of the Arctic ship Redd-
lute, which had been restored in perfect order to, our Queen.
by the American nation, and also for the gift (as granted in
her former private expeditions) of such stores frOm her Ma-
jesty's dockyards as are available for this special Service only.
Compliance with these requests having been declined, Lady,
Franklin is now devoting her whole fortune to this final
search ; and a large screw yacht (the Fox) lying at Aberdeen,
has been purchased, which the distinguished Arctic officer.
who has accepted the command of her (Captain McClintock,
R.N.) has pronounced to be perfectly adapted to this em:'
ployment.
Not repeating the arguments we formerly made use of to
induce the Government to undertake a final and exhaus-
tive search, we hold to the opinion that it is the duty of
Englishmen to examine that limited area whence the traces
of our missing countrymen were derived, which, though
it lies to the south of well-searched tracts, and has been ap-
proached by vessels that have returned without loss, has
never yet been explored.
Supported by the advice of those experienced Arctic sea-
men, in whom she has every reason to confide, Lady Franklin
makes this last effort to clear away the mystery that shrouds
the fate of her husband and his crews, and possibly to resale
from their insulated icy abode among the Esquimaux some of
his younger companions, who may still be prolonging a dreary
existence.

On such an occasion we, whose names are hereunto sub-
scribed, feel confident that this our appeal will not remain
unanswered by the British people, who will, we doubt not,
tender to the widow of the illustrious navigator that sym-
pathy which his fame and her devotion must call forth, and
will aid her in carrying out an enterprise involving, as we
believe, the honour of the nation.
We earnestly, therefore, entreat our countrymen to unite
with us in contributing to this noble object
_ _

Roderick I. Murchison, Pres. Royal Geographical Society,
; Francis Beaufort, Rear-Admiral, F.R.S. • Wrot-
tesley, Pres. Rl. Society ; Edward Sabine, M.-General Treas.
Rl. Society, F.R.G.S. • Robert Brown, F.R.S.,V.P.L.S. ;
Richard Collinson, Captain R.N., F.R.G.S. ; ohn Barrow,
F, R. S. , F. R. G. S.

SUBSCR'

IPTIONS.
C. Coote, F.R.G.S. £lO 0 0
Mrs. J. M. Batty 1 1 0
J. C. Janson, Esq 5 5 0
C. Babbago, F.R.S 10 0 0
Lieut. R. N. Hugbes 2 0 0
J. Murray, F.R.S.,
G. S.
J. era wfurd, F. R. S

, - -
R.G.S.
J.P. Gassiot,F.R.S 25 0 0
Sir A•Elton, Bart.,

5 50

ICE AND REFRIGERATORS.—The best
Pure BLOCK ICE and. REPKIGERATORS are to he had only
at SWEETING'S Fish, Oyster, and Ice Establishment, 159, Cheap-
side, City.

BADVN WAISTCOATS, tip for one Guinea ;
the new summer trousers, one guinea; the Beaufort frock
coat, two gritneas. Excellence and economy.—GEOßGE HOBSON,
tailor, 57, Lombard-street. .

TO the• SPORTING WORLD. DEER
-
STALKING and GROUSE-SHOOTING.—The undersigned
is ht 24, Breiv&-street, Regent-street (in a Una with Glasshouse-
street), with all the necessary CLOTHING for deer. stalking, grouse-
shooting, salmon-fishing ; and some new and beautiful Tweeds, for
own wear, &c. Plaids, Tirtans, Socks, Winceys, &C. A large
stock of the famous Highland Cloaks, for town and country use, And
for Deer-stalking. The favourite Flora McDonald Cloaks for Ladles,
in all the best colours.—Rooms open from 2 to 6 o'clock, until 10th
July; when McD. returns to Inverness.
Loudon, May,1857. D. MACDOUGALL, of Inverness.

ISTHMUS OF SUEZ • SHIP CANAL.-
A PUBLIC MEETING 'will be held- of the Bankers, Met.
chants, Shipowners, &c., of London, on WEDNESDAY, the 24th
hasthnt, at the London Tavern, at One o'clock p.m., for the purpose
of hearing the explanations which I am desirous of laying before
them relative to the proposed Ship Canal across the Isthmus of Suez.
• • • •Sir JAMES DUKE,•-Bart., M.P. in the Chair.
FERDINAND DE LESSEPS.
Bath Hotel, Piccadilly.

CHELSEA NEW BRIDGE, Battersea-park.
The Large OPEN AIR DEMONSTRATION will take place
onvThursday next, at 6 p.m., June 25th, at the foot of the Bridge,
near Chelsea Hospital, Middlesex side, to consider the hest means to
be taken to obtain the repeal of the Act empowering Toll Bars to be
placed on•the above bridge,

Sir JOHN VILLIERS SHELLEY, Bart., M.P., will preside,
And Sir De Lacy Evans, Lord Robert• Grosvenor, J. Allcock, Esq.,
and other metropolitan Members have promised to attend.

By order of the CoMmittee.
WALTER THOMAS JONES, Hon. Sec.

LORD NAPIER, AT WASHINGTON.

We take the following characteriskic account of
the festivities of the English Mission at Washing-
ton from the New York Berald