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jT NITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London ; 97, icorge-street, Edinburgh;
12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow ; 4, College-green, Dublin.
LONDON BOARD.
CHARLES GRAHAM, Esq., Chairman.
CHAP LES DOWNES, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
H. Blair Avarnc, Esq. J. 0. Henriques, Esq
E. L. Boyd, Esq., Resident. F. Chas. Maitland, Esq.
Charles B. Curtis, Ee. William Rallton, Esq.
William Fairlie, Esq. F. H. Thomson, Esq.
D. Q. Henriques, Esq. Thomas Thorby, Esq.
The !Amos added to policies from March, 1834, to the 31st
Decemer, 1817, is as follows:

BEER TRADE ASYLIJM—FREEHOLD LAND WANTED.II
THE CO Al AIITTEE of the METROPOLITAN
BEERSELLERS' PROTECTION SOCIETY, having at the
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MR. THOIIAS TATE'S NEW WORK.
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(IN tho STRENGTH of MATERIALS; con-
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of hoqs, and some articles of clothirg belonging to
the master, which he had_ pawned in Pettic )al-lane,
and was taken into custody in the gallery of the Victoria
Theatre.

The COMMON-SERGEANT said, as the prisoner's offence
previously had been of a trivial nature, his punishment
would be light, and he was sentenced to two months' im-
prisonment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
FALSE WEIGHTS.—A man named Luis Myers was on
Tuesday brought before Alderman Gibbs upon the fol-
lowing charge:—
Mr. Turner, assistant-inspector of weights and mea-
sure?, said—l was in Lower Thames-street, with Mr.
Harvard, the city of London inspector of weights and
measures, and I saw the defenclint selling nu s there
with this weight (producing a weight which appeared to
be a half-pound weight). It is only a quarter of a pound
weight. I was not near enough to him to see whether
he sold the nuts by it a; a half-pound•weight. Upon
examining it I found it to be unstamped. There is a
fictitious stamp upon it, and impositi.ns are constantly
practised with weights of this kind. I got hold of the
weight, and he snatched it away. He had a barrow with
his nuts, and there was a machine upon it. There are
two other weights which he had in his possession, and
which are also unstamped.
A policeman said, I was called by the inspector of
weights and measures in Thames-street, and took the
defendant into custody. I saw him, try to throw some-
thing away, and I afterwards picked up the two weights
which I produce.—(A. weight which was spread out to
appear like a pound weight but was no more than a half-
pound, was then produced.)
Turner, the assistant inspector, added—The half-

pound weight produced was in use on the occasion. The
other weights he had in his pocket, to be used, no doubt,
when opportunities occurred.
Mr. Harvard said the defendant bad been marked as a
dealer in the unfair way described, and contrived, by
substituting the expanded weight, to charge his cus-
tomers just double the quantity be:sold, so that the trick
was more profitable than the old one of cheating by
light weights. The defendant was in the habit of let•
ting out barrows, which were supplied with similar bad
weights, and he gave a wrong address on being ap-
plied to.
Alderman Gnus said he bad beard of the extraordi-

nary success with which the ingenious deception was
practised, and bad given directions to the police to
watch the movements of the numerous vendors in the
streets. He trusted that buyers would be on their guard
against the barrow gentry, who were thus availing
themselves of the appearance of the weights to inflict a
heavy imposition.
The defendant said he never had used the weights for
more than they actually represented, and pleaded that
he was justified in using stamped weights, whatever
their appearance might be.
Alderman GIBBS said the weights were not only made
for the purposes of deception, but were unstamped, and
the defendant must pay the penalty of 205., or go to
Bridewell for 14 days. The weights were, of course,
forfeited.
The defendant declared that nothing should induce him
to pay the penalty, and his commitment was accordingly
made out, and he was sent to prison.
Next day, after the routine business of the justice-room
was concluded, the defendant, who did not relish the in-
terior of our City prison, having paid the penalty, and re-
leased himself from the disagreeable alternative, walked
into the presence of the Alderman, and said he was de-
termined to " pull" tho witnesses for perjury committed
in swearing that the weights which bad been taken from
him were unstamped. He produced a weight which he
said was the counterpart of one of those which had been
taken from him, and said that nobody could deny the
fact that it was a legitimate weight. He had purchased
it of a tradesman, who assured him that it was regularly
stamped.
Alderman Genes said the weight produced was not
City stamped, and was not recognised by the City autho-
rities. He also informed the defendant that there
were some tradesmen who refused fictitious stamps, and
that the weight produced was one of that description, and
he advised the indignant costermonger t exercise due
caution in pursuing his trade, as he might meet an in-
quisitive policeman at every corner.
JOSEPH ADY AT WORK AGAlN.—Joseph Ady
fa-
voured the Lord Mayor with the following communi-
cation:—
" 13 & 14 Vict., cap. 61.—August 14, 1850.—Act to
extend the Act for the more easy Recovery of Small
Debts, &c., under 501. at the County Courts.
" My Lord Mayor,—The Act above quoted is lying
before me. lam of opinion that it supersedes all former
Acts relative to debts, &c.; that it is beneficial to cre-
ditors by enabling the Juge of the Sheriffs' Court to
give time to a debtor to pay by instalments, instead of
imprisoning him with felons, to gnaw his food like dogs,
even when he has no teeth, and for no other crime than
poverty.—Respectfully, JOSEPU ADY.—Aug. 19, 1850."
BOW-STREET.
PICKING POCKETEL—J. Taylor was charged with
picking the pockets of Mr. J. W. Watson.
The prosecutor stated that, shortly before ten o'clock
yesterday, he was passing along Wellington-street North,
when he beard footsteps behind him, and immediately
afterwards the prisoner darted by him. This attracted
his suspicions, and he found his handkerchief was gone.
He followed the prisoner along the Strand, when, finding
that he was being pursued, he threw the handkerchief
into the road, and endeavoured to make his escape, but
was stopped by several persona who were following in
the chase.
Mr. HALL said that during the last fortnight three
handkerchiefs had been most adroitly taken from his
own pocket on his way to this court. He had lost so
many handkerchiefs in a similar manner that he had been
compelled to adopt a new plan, and he always now car-
ried his handkerchief in his breast.
The prisoner was fully committed for trial.
MAI?YLEBONE.
MURDEROUS OUTRAGE ON THE POLlCE.—Martin St.
Leger, a beershop keeper, in Devonshire-street, Lieson-
grove, John St. Leger, his brother, and Michael McDon-
nell, were charge with having violently assaulted several
police constables, two of whom, Sergeant Steer and
Constable Cooper, bad sustained injuries which pre-
vented them from attending.
It appeared from the evidence of police officers, most
of whom had swollen and blackened eyes, and their
foreheads and other parts of their face strapfed up with
adhesive plaister, that on the same morning, between
two and three o'clock, an entry was made into the beer-
shop alluded to, owing to the police being satisfied, from
hearing the rattling of balls, that there was gambling
going on therein, and that they (the officers) upon in-
terfering, were attacked by the prisoners, the implements
which were used in the attack upon them being a poker,
at the
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a large stick, a fire shovel, and a thick staff. Some of
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gin 81, Hawkins 73. and Knight 69 D. So violent were
the blows that two constables had their staves broken
by the poker, which was aimed with terrific force at their
heads, and had they taken effect
as intended they (the
officers) must have been killed.
In reply to the magistrate
, Inspector O'Brien said he
did not consider it all probable that either Steer or Coo-
per would be able to come up to the court in less time
than a week.
The prisoners, who were all given to understand that
they would ultimately be sent to take their trial upon
the charge, were remanded till Thursday next.
WESTMINSTER.
NOTORIOUS IMPOSTOREL—Simon Teza Dunbicki, a
Pole, well known as an impostor, styling himself the
Count Dembicki, Col. Count de Skarbeco, wearing a star
tached to a crimson ribbon upon his left breast, and
Joseph Rosbrowski, a fellow countryman, described as
" his man Friday," were charged with attempting to im-
pose upon the benevolent.
Hereford, chief officer of the Mendicity Society, stated
that seeing the two prisoners in St. James's-street, about
ten that morning, be watched them closely for some
hours, and saw them make a variety of calls on ther
route from Rupert-street to Pimlico, at which latter
place, having procured the assistance of a police-consta-
ble, he took them into custody, and found the following
petition upon Dembicki, which he bad seen him present
to persons at different houses where he solicited alms, in.
company with the other prisoner:—
" Subscriptions in favour of Col. Count Do Skar-
becke, who came from Amerika, and will returning at
his famille in Poland." (To the above was appended the
names of several subscribers for various amounts.)
At the time the prisoner knocked at the various doors
he put on a very handsome crimson cap with a gold band
and tassel, and with the star upon his breast cut a very
imposing figure.
Mr. BURRELL inquired what the officer knew of the pri-
soners?—Horsford replied that Dembicki had been re-
peatedly convicted from nearly every police court in the
metropolis. • He had repeatedly seen him smoking his
cigar and taking his wine at a tavern, and he had been
very successful in his operations upon the benevolent.
The other prisoner, who went by the appellation of " his
man Friday," had been committed with him fur three
months from the Lambeth Police Court.
Upon being asked what be had to say, Dembicki of--'
fected the most profound deafuess.
Hereford intimated that this was assumed, from re-
membering that he had
played the same trick when be-
fore in custody at this court; he bad that day, in the
course of watching the accused to Pimlico, passed and
repassed close to them several times, and found by their
conversation that Dembicki's hearing was excellent.
Mr. BURRELL committed
them both for three months to
the House of Correction, a sentence which Dembicki ap-
peared to hear without the slightest difficulty.
SOUTHWARK.
DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERY. R. Archer and F.
Davis were brought up for re-examination, charged with
being concerned, with another man (not in custody), in
the late daring highway robbery in the vicinity of Sr.
Saviour's Church, Southwark.
Alfred Greenland, the young man in the employment.
of the firm of Messrs. Sanders, cheesemongers, of Col-
lingwoodeitreet, Blackfriars-road, who Was knocked
down and robbed of a bag containing 3751. on Thursday
ISA between WO And ten 9'olock thmksuipg, 4444

the circumstances already described, was now asked
whether he could identify Davis, who was only taken
into custody the previous day. The reply was that he
had no doubt he was one of his assailants, and that when
he saw him at this court he pointed him out from
amongst a crowd of persons, although he was dressed
differently to what he was on the mbrning of the
robbery.

It was stated to the magistrate that the third man
concerned in the offence was still at large; that he with
Davis was apprehended on the previous day in a public-
house near the Victoria Theatre, and that while in cus
tofiy, and on the way to the station house, he struck
Sergeant Jones, of the L division, a desperate blow on the
head with a lite-preserver and made his escapP, and
that since then he had deserted his usual hauuts, and
was suppoed to have left town.

Mr. IiEA DON —Th.n I shall remand the prisoners
until Thursday next, and probably by that time the
other man will be in custady, and then the depositions
can be taken. The prisoners were then remanded.

tenant; and Mr. Moresby Clerk (another son) is to be
the secretary, if this notice does not shame the Admi-
ralty out of tolerating so gross a family job. The se-
cretary to a commander-in chief should be a man of
sound jungment, well-tested discretion, and practically
aNuailited with at I,ast minor matters of diplomacy.
At all events, he shou'd be a man of mature yam But
in the present case the gentkman selected is, if we are
rightly informe=d, not more than 19 years of age. He
has had no r x -erience as a clerk, for he has not even
passed," and his name does nit, consequei tly, appear
in the Nary List. The idea, too, of tending out an
Admiral in a smail frigate (the Port'aud of Java,
one of which will be commissioned in a few hours
for this service) to such a station as the Pacific is a
weakness we did not think the Admiralty would
be guilty of c unmitting a second time. It is far more
essential to have an able line, of-battle-ship on the
Pacific than on the West India station, as in the latter
case we can detach a home force (such as the Lisbon
squadron) in 21 days, in case of need; but in the firmer
no such ready facilities for anon( nting the strength of
the squadron in an emergency exists.
The Adventure naval transport, Mr. Wellington,
Master, R N., Commanding, arrived this morning from
the Brazils and Coast of Africa stations. Her news
from the former has been anticipated by other arrivals.
She left Ascension on the 7th of July. Captain Hutton,
the Governor, and all on the island were well, and well
off for provisions. The Contest, 12, Commander the
Hon. J. W. S. Spencer, had left the station for the
East Indies. The Centaur steam-frigate, Commodore
Fanshawe, C. 8., had been two months at Ascension, but
sailed on the 2d of July for the Bights. A court of in-
quiry had been held on board the Snap tender, about a
fortnight prior, relative to the conduct of Sir. Carrington,
clerk, who was subsequently dismissed from the service
by the commodore. Drunkenness was the cause. Mr.
Eeles, late clerk of the Bonetta, was appointed to the
vacancy. Captain Buckle, flag-captain to Commodore
Fanshawa, we regret to announce, was very ill at the
date of our advices. The Adventure brought a mail
and 21 invalids from the African squadron, and a freight
of 30,000 L sterling in gold dust from Rio. The invalids
have been sent to flaslar, and the freight will be con,
veyed to the Bank of England to-morrow by Messrs,
Chambers, the freight agents of this port.

RAIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.
THE GREAT NORTHERN.
The auditors of this company have reported to the
chairman and directors that the books and accounts up to
the 30:1t of June last are correct, and in every respect to
their entire satisfaction.
The capital account to the 29th of June, 1850, shows
an array of receipts as follows:-From deposits and 11
calls, 4,731,0491. 165.; from paid in advance of calls,
35,995/.; from extension capital account, 72,376/. 145.;
from calls and instalments of preference capital, 798,1071.;
from loans on mortgage, 1,077,7901. These, with some
minor items, make up a total of receipts of 6,723,4071.
18s. 6d.
The same account shows the following amount of pay-
4s. omf e
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5,070,934/. Bs. 73.
for works and materials. The charges for land and tom
pensation amounted to 1,168,997/. 10s. 7d.; the adver-
tising, printing, postages, and parcels, amounted to 8,581/
12s. 2.1.; the office expenses, rent, &c., to .5,5461. ss. 5d.;
the travelling expenses, to 2,655/. 6s. 7d. ; the directors
and auditors cost 8 6321. Bs. 4d. ; the salaries amounted
;0 17,813/. Is. 23. ; the law and engineering expenses in
Parliament to 129.959/. 18s. 63, ; the interest paid on
capital and advances on loans was 307,662/. 3s. 9d. In
all, the expenditure of the company, previous to the com-
mencement of the half-year which ended on the 29th of
June last, was 5,406.157/. 1 Is. ; the expenditure of the
last hall-year has been 986,806/. Os. Bd., of this sum
143,8591. 18s. 93. went for land and compensation ;
440,0761. 19s. Id. for works and materials ; 129,719/. Bs.
43. for interest on capital and advances ; the advertis-
ing, &c., account for the half-year, amounts to 9221. 78.
23.; the office expenses, &c., to 1.0451. ls. Id. ; the tra-
velling expenses to 3191. 18s. 103. ; the directors and
auditors to 1.0251.; the salaries to 1,985/. 16s. 73. The
total expenditure of the company since the commence-
ment has been 6,392.963/. 11s. Bd.
The balance 1. ft is 330,444/. 6s. 103. Of this balance
there is 232,163/. 14s. Bd.in cash, and 98,2801. 12s. 2d. in-
vested in shares in other lines.
The revenue statement for the half-year ended the
29th of June last, shows a return from traffic of
68,043/. Gs. Gi. ; from interest on cash balance of 191.
lls. 31; from fines of 31. 17s. 83.; in all 68 OW 151. sd.
The tall expenditure for the half-year is 43,873/. 16e7d.
of this 40,1121. 19s. 3d. Las been incurred for " working
charg es."
There are some open claims on the company for
station accommodation at Peterborough, Retford, and
Gaiesford.
During the half-year the engines of the company ran
wish passenger trains 383,139 miles; wish goods trains,
167,048; piloting, &c., 40.28.5; ballasting. &C., 18.621;
in all, 609.093 miles. There were consumed 192,023
cwts. r f cokee--35.31b5. per mile run; of which the cost
was 8,0.521. 173. per mile run. The total
working charge of 40,1121. 19s 3d. is equal to 58.95 per
cent. on the gross earnings, and to Is. 313. per mile on
the total 609 093 miles run.
The account of the Fossdyke and Witham Navigation
for the half-year ended the 29th of June last shows a
loss on the half-year of 3,374/. 10s. sd. The receipts
amount to 8,0291. 4s. 10d.; the expenditure to 11,3831.
151. 31.
The net revenue account of the Greet Northern Rail-
way Company to the 29th of June, 1850, is in substance
as follows:-The company is credited for balance of
traffic account to the 31st of December, 1849, the sum of
15,634/. 18s. 73.; for balance of traffic account to the
2)..h of June, 1850, the sem of 21.192/. 185. 10d., in all
39 827/. The sets-off against this are-Dividend of 5
per cent. on perpetual preference 12/. 10s. shares,
10,0004; guaranteed rent on Parliamentary capital of
600,0001. due
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Navigations, 3,374/.; in all, 31 926/. 15s. 73.
This leaves a balance of 7.9001. Is. 103. on the half-
year in favour of the company.
We may observe, in conclusion, that we have been
much struck with the neatness and clearness of these ac-
counts, and with the admirable form adopted of making
them out.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.-Already there is con-
siderable traffic on the new line, the long-distance pas-
senger trains being generally well filled, and the number
daily on the increase. The time by the fast trains is
well kept; and the distance between London and Peter-
borough (76 miles) is usually accomplished a few minutes
within 21 hours. Through passengers from Hull may
be interested in bearing something of the route by which
they travel. From Huntingdon to London, the scenery
so well known to travellers by the old stage coaches, is
again open to view, the railway taking the picturesque
route by St. Neot's, Sandy, Biggleswade, Ifitchin, Wel-
wyn, Hatfield, Barnet, and liornsey. The Hertfordshire
portion of the line presents a panorama of surpassing
beauty; there are several cuttings, Red no less than
eight tunnels between Hitchin and London; but at every
opening the view of hill and dale, and woodland scenery,
is strikingly impressive. It skirts the fine domain of
Knebworth, near Stevenage (the property of Sir E. B.
Lytton, I3art ), and the turrets of the mansion, sur-
mounted by a large flag waving in the breeze, are
visible above large clusters of oaks and limes. It
also, near Potter's Bar, passes through the Hert-
fordshire estate of Colonel Sibthorp. A little more than
ista es,
of 3
a mile from Welwyn is the Digswell viaduct--a work of
ph ayo
edaniyn
1,563
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semicircular rch
of brick-work in cement, and with ad-
ditional four rings forming the back ribs. The piers,
which have a light and graceful appearance, are hollow
from the surface of the ground, in the cellular form, with
stone-work inclosing the cells. There are 40,000 cube
t parapet
is 1,
yards of brick-work, and 50,000 feet of stone in the
structure; the number of bricks actually used vxas six-
teen millions, and the cost of the erection was 75,000/.
or 80,0001. The viaduct is the largest in the kingdom,
with two exceptions-those at Stockport and Congleton,
and neither of the latter is either so light or so elegant.
From this spot, rich pastures and cora lands extend
far away, embosomed by stately woods, which, circling
round, seem like the galleries of a vast amphitheatre.
Tewin Water, Brocket, Dockleys, and other seats,
dot the near landscape, and through an open-
in the trees a glimpse is obtained of Hertford
Heath, and, rising above the loftiest woods, the
tower of Little Berkhampstead. There is another
viaduct in the parish of Welwyn, called Robbery viaduct
(said to have derived its name from the frequency of
highway robberies there at a former period). This con-
sists of seven semicircular arches of 22 feet span, and
60 feet high from the top of the road to the parapet.-
The new carriages of the Great Northern Railway are
solofty that a man six feet high can stand upright in
them.

RAILWAY TO WELLS.—In consequence of a requisi-
tiert, numerously and respectably signed by the citizens
of Wells, the Mayor, E. N. Wells, Esq , convened a
tneetiott, which was held on the 20-h inst., for the pur-
pose of considering the propriety of memorializing the
directors of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company on
the necessity I,f a speedy construction of a railway Iron]
Wells to Bleadon, in pursuance of the powers of their
Act of Parliament of 11th and 12th Vic., c. 77. The
Mayor, in opening the proceedings of the meeting, in
a short hitt forcible speech, remarked on the great want
of railway communication with Wells. and the promises
held out by the Bristol and Exeter Company as to con-
structing the line to Wells. His worship then called
en any gentleman who bad any proposition to
make to bring the same before the meeting.—
Henry Seymour, Esq., said he held in his hand a me-
morial (which be intended to more for adoption by the
meeting) to the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company,
Urging on sbat body at 912C0 SCittik9 steps fog cOnstrityPil