The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-27 00:00:00

J. T.

LONDON, 'FRIDAY E mir E
S N 7 DECEMBER 27, 1850.

Itowmtn, Rev. G. E

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Scott Robert and

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AND LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.
Established in 1836.
Empowered by Acts of Parliament.
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Sir Thomas Bernard Birch. Bart., M.P.,
Adam Hodgson, Esq., Samuel Henry Thompson, Esq.
DIRECTORS IN LIVERPOOL.
Chairman —WI LL NM NICOL, Esq.
Deputy-Chairmen --JOSEPH C. EWART, Esq. ; JOSEPH
ROI:NBA', Esq.
Thomas Brocklebank, Esq. George IT. Lawrence, Esq.
William Dixon, E,',q. Harold Littledale, Esq.
William E,,rie, Esq. John Maniot, Esq.
T. Steuart Gladstone, Esq. Edward Moon, Esq.
George Grant, Esq. Lewin Mozley, Esq.
Francis Haywood, Esq.
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, TO INVENTORS, PATENTEES, AND ()TREKS.
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
A NEW CAT \LOGUE will be published t:.rthwith. Par-
ties desirous of becoming depositors of Working MODELS of MA-
CIIINERY, and Illustrations of Improvements in S,,ieu,e,May apply
for insertion in the .New Eiition to this Secretary, Mr. 10.. WiNG-
BOTTOM. Steam Power can be Kipp'', d gratis to those parties
wishing to exhibit any process of manufacture. - •

SECRETARY—SWiIItOII Boult, Esq.
DIRECTORS IN LONDON.
Chairman —WILLIAM EWART, Esq., M.P.
Deputy-Chairman—GEOßGE FREDERICK YOUNG, Esq.
Sir W. P. de Bathe, Bart. ! lion. F. Pcnsonby.
William Brown, Esq., M.P. i John Ranking, Esq.
Matthew Forster, Esq., M.P. •J. M. Rosseter, Esq.
Frederick Harrison, Esq. Seymour Teuton, Esq.
James Hartley, Esq. Swinton Boult, Esq., Secretary
Ross D. Mangles, E,q., M.P. to the Company.
RESIDENT SECRETARY—Ilenjamin Henderson, Esq.
. .CONSTITUTION.
Liability of the entire body of shareholders unlimited. •
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Agricultural, Manufacturing, and merenage Risks freely Insured.
Foreign and Colonial Insurances effected.
Premiums as in other established offices.
Settlement of Losses liberal and prompt.
LIFE DEPARTMENT.
Premiums as low as is consistent with safety.
Bonuses not dependent on Profits being ;teetered, and guaranteed
when the Policy is effected.
Surrender of Policies favourably dealt with.
Thirty days allowed for the Renew 4/. of Pulicies.
Claims paid in three months after 'proof of death.
Policies not Disputed except on t:fte ground Of Fraud.
Full Prospectuses may be had on application at the Offices of the
Company as above, or to any Of. its Agents in the Country.

WILLY REILLY.—An Original Romlnce of
Irish Le, unde this title, fom he pef the celrated
WILLIAM CARLifETON,r author of "r Thet Traitsn titan d Storieseb of the
Irish Peasantry'," " The Black Prophet," " Valentine M'Clutchley,"
&c., &c., will be published in the WEEKLY NEWS of • TO-MOR-
ROW, ma instant, when an Extraordinary Issue of that Periodical
for all the Public Institutions in the United Kingdom, and Lucre sed
for the occasion to one-third of its ordinary size will take tlace.- The
same Number will contain Little Jack and the Brazen Mill, Ori-
ginal and appropriate Fairy Tale for the present Christmas; also a
most interestiqg Souvenir of Claremont, a scene from the private his-
tory of the late King of the French. Retrospects and Prospecta efthe
Old Year and the New. The Causeries of the Parisian Salons, with
all the fun and festivities of our merry neighbours. The Christmas.
bJoka and all the pleasant little works for the pleasant little people
reviewed at great length in a genial spirit, with copious extracts.
Price of the Weekly News, 6d.
Office, 1, Catherine-street, Strand, and to be ordered of all the
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NATIONAL PROVIDENT INSTITUTION,
48, Gr aeechurch-street, London.
For Mutua) Assurance en Lives, Annuities, &c.
Enrolled under the A,..lts of Parliament relating to Friendly Societies.
DIRECTORS.
Chairman—SAMUEL HAYHURST LUCAS, Esq.
Deputy-Chairman—CHAßLES LUSHINGTON, Esq., M.P.
John Bradbury, Esq. Robert M. Holborn, Esq.
Thomas Castle, Esq. Robert Ingham, Esq.
William Miller Christy, Esq. Robert Sheppard, Esq.
Edward Crowley, Esq, Charles Whetham, Esq.
John Feltharn. Esq. William Tyler, Esq.
Charles Gilpin, Esq,

APPETITE AND DIGESTION IMPROVED. •
LEA and PERRINS' WORCESTERSHIRE
L SAUCE imparts the most exquisite relish to Steaks, Chops
and all Roast Meat Gravies, Fish, Game, soup, Curries, and Salad
and by its tonic and invigorating properties enables tits stomach to
perfectly direst the food.

The daily use of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe.
4uard to health.

Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrin', 6, Vere-street, Oxford-
street, London, and 68, Broad-street, Worcester; also by Messrs.
Barclay and Sons. Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell, and other Oilmen
and Merchants, London ; and generally by the principal dealers in

J. T. Conquest, M.D., F.L.S.PHYSII
The following statement shows t
Its commencement :

:ran.
Thomas Hodgkin, AI.D.
he progress of the Instituti•n from

N.B. To guard against imitations, see that the names of " LEA
and PERRINS" are upon the label and patent cap of the bottle.

Years ending. Policiesoof Annual Income. Amountof
Issued. Capital.
20th Nov., 183 s 616 jE5,021 12 2 AE10,736 3 0
~ ~ 1837 435 14,600 0 0 31,592 10.5
„ „ 1833 459 19,934 19 4 46,855 010
„ „ 1839 490 25,457 4 2 64,959 10 10
„ „ 1840 494 31,091 10 10 90,545 13 9
„ „ 1841 357 36,367 1 4 114,993 2 4
„ „ 1842 364 39,369 9 7 139,806 1 7
„ „ 1843 703 44,219 17 0 167,079 11 2
„ „ 1844 722 55,037 9 2 202,162 1 0
„ „ 1845 911 70,819 14 5 241,460 13 3
9, II 1846 1005 88,940 8 2 299,675 12 4
/I /I 1847 1234 111,113 13 0 367,172 16 0
11 ~ 1848 1423 126,232 7 6 440,028 15 3
PP 1/ 1849 1736 151,976 4 7 517,243 7 1
IP 1 9 1850 1549 172,500 16 9 623,869 14 7
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Total Number .. • • 12,498

12,498

Members whose premiums become due on the Ist January next
are reminded that the same must be paid within thirty days.
Copies of the Report presented to the Members at the Fifteenth
Annual Meeting, held at the f ondon Tavern on the 16th inst., may
be had on application at the Office.

JOSEPH MARSH, Secretary.

December 21, 1850.

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY.
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fall-mall,
ALcotnodfon 97, tieerge-street, Parliament Edinburgh;
8, Waterloo-place,
12, St. Vincent-place, Glasgow; 4, College. green, Dublin.
LONDON BOARD.
CHARLES GRAHAM, Esq., Chairman.
CHAB LE.; DOWNES, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
FL Blair Avarne, Esq. J. G. Henriques, Esq.
E. L. Boyd, Esq., Resident. F. Chas. Maitland, Esq.
Charles B. Curtis, Esy. William Railton, Esq.
William Fairlie, Esq. F. H. Thomson, Esq.
D. Q. Henriques, Esq. Thomas Thorby, Esq.
The bonus added to pol from March, 1834, to the 3'
Oecemleer, 1847. is as folio,

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Mediterranean, is to call at Portsmouth for supernume
raries.
Sampson, 6, steam-Frigate, to be commissioned at De.
vonpert by Captain Lewis T. Jones, is to have a comple.
meet of 200 officers and men.
PORTSMOUTH, THURsDA.Y.—L9Vers from Lisbon, re •
ceived this arternoon, state that the Retribution steam-
frigste, Captain Warden, arrived there on the 13th iao,
On the 18th the remains of thrce of the squadron of evo-
lution were consigned to their last resting-place—a sea-
man belonging to the Prince Regent, a marine who be-
longed to the Dauntless, and %ho was drowned alongside,
having, accidentally fallen overboard; and Lieutenant
Darrel, who died on the 17th. The latter, having been
a Roman C trholic, was interred in the Cemet(rio dos
Pragaree. The Arrogant, 46, Captain Robinson, sailed
on the 19th inst. for this port, and the Encounter on the
29th, for Gibraltar. The squadron has been ordered to
complete, from the Ist of January next (according to the
new scale of victualling), with four months of bread, salt
meat, flour, preserved meats, potatoes, and rum, and six
months with other provisions.
The Mermaid, convict ship, arrived at Spithead yester-
day from the Thames, and proceeded to Cowes this after-
noon to embark prisoners.
FALMOUTU, DEC. 24.—The late gales have been se-
verely felt by the shipping interest, as evidenced in the
arrival in this port to-day of the ship Sobraon, of Bel-
fast, Captain Rodger, a splendid vessel of 1,300 tons
measurement, laden with iron and wine, and bound from
Liverpool to Bombay. She had proceeded as far on her
way as 12 deg. west, and was driven bank to 9 deg. west
by the violence of the weather, when she encountered a
hurricane on the 14th inst. from the westward, in which,
besides shifting the cargo, she carried and cut away the
main and the mizentopmast, the foretongallantmast, the
mainyard, with other spar*, - guile, and rigging;' the
rudder also got damaged, and in this extremity she was
compelled to bear up for a port of refuge. Having suc-
ceeded in reaching the Lizard this morning, the services
of the Sidney steam-tug were engaged, and at noon the
ship was safely moored in the Cross Channel. Besides
the Sobraon, there has also arrived here to-day, with da-
mage" to boats, sails, &c., the Russian ship Furst Meats-
chikoff, Captain Lllen, from Richibucto, with lumber
for orders. The weather is now fine and frosty; wind
moierate at north and veering.
PLYMOUTH, DEC. 25.—Her Majesty's frigate Phaeton,
SO. Captain G. Elliott, sailed yesterday morning with
dispatches and stores for Lisbon.
The Albion, 90, Captain W. J. H. Johnstone, sailed
on Sunday to relieve the Powerful in the Mediterranean.
The Locust steamer, Lieutenant-Commander Curtis,
sailed yesterday for South America.
WooLwecie, DEC. 26.—The Volcano steam-sloop,
Commander Rivers, left Woolwich at 3 o'clock P.M. to-
day for Greenhithe, where she will have her compasses
adjusted to-morrow by Captain Johnson, and leave on
Saturday fore Ply mouth and the coast of Africa.
Late advices from San Juan de Nicaragua give ac-
counts of the trouble between the commander of the
British sloop-of-war Persian, 12, and the' American
steamer Director. While the latter vessel was prepar-
ing to ascend the river its officers were official informed
by Commander Bulinan, of the Persian, that if they at-
tempted to move without first obtaining permission of
the authorities of the town, he should fire upon them;
and, in conformity with this threat, he moved his vessel
to within 100 yards of the Director, so as to bring her
effectually under his guns without any protection. The
officers of the Director were obliged to submit. The
New York papers say, " Such high-handed outrages as
these will undoubtedly be speedily investigated."
The American frigate Brandywine arrived at New
York on the 4th lair, from Rio Janeiro.
APPOINTMENTS.
Charles J. Didham (1846), and Arthur R. Fox (1850),
to the Sampson steam-frigate, at Davenport.
Master—Thomas Bowen (1846), to the Sampson.
Paymteiter and Purser—Thomas Hoskings (1843), to
,he Sampson.
Second Masters—H. P. Ward, to the Sampson; Na-
poleon Lovell, to the Calliope, 26, at Devonport; and
George Turpin (1847), to the Britannia, 120, guardship
of ordinary, Portsmouth.
Master's Assistant—H. L. Kelly, to the Sampson.
Clerks—R. H. Bullen (1846) and 0. N. Spong, to the
Sampson.
Gunner—James Cook, to the Sampson.
Boatswain—Isaac Pool, to the Sampson.
Carpenter—John Tucker, to the Sampson.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN.
The locom.tive committee of the northern division
issued the following notice yesterday, with instructions
that it be read to each man on the northern division
(driver, turner, or fireman) by the foreman:—
"The directors, owing to the attitude assumed by
soma of the men who have threatened to quit their ser-
vice without due notice, have arranged to reduce the
number of trains, and have_received into their employ
hew !aerials in the place of those thus proposing to desert
their efiginre.' •'' '•
" This has been a matter of regret to the directors, but
compel!, d as they. are to provide for the publto service
and safety, they cannot periait the present state of un-
certainty to exist any longer.
!ley therefore request that any man who from any
cause desires to leave the company's service will at once
say so to his foreman, and a 14 days' notice from the
company will he immediately handed to him.
" The directors are glad to find that so many men
have agreed to stand by them, and they fully appreciate
such conduct."

THE CHRIbTAIAS RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—On the Lon-
don and North-Western, during the four days preceding
Christmas Day, the number of parcels and packages
sent "outward " by the mail and ordinary trains was
little short bf 25,000, and "inward "of 10,000. Neatly
5,000 parcels went down the line on Monday. By the
Great Western Railway there were 15,000 parcels out-
ward, and 10,000 inward bound. By the Great Northern
Railway, " in and out," there wore about 10,000, exclu-
sive of goods trains, as was the case on the Eastern
Counties Railway, of corn, meat, &c., from the agricul-
tural districts. The London and South-Western, South-
Eaitern, and Brighton Railway Companies had a larger
complement than usual of Christmas traffic.

THE PALACE OF INDUSTRY.
Though but a small fraction of the whole work of
the building remains now to be executed, it is found
that, in consequence of the shortness of the days, and
other multiplicity of details which belong to the in-
terior fittings, it will be impossible to complete the
work by the time stipulated for in the contract, viz.,
the 31st of December inst. An extension of the time
has been readily granted by the Commissioners to
the contractors., who are fully entitled to considera-
tion, from the novelty and extent of the work,
which renders calculation beforehand extremely
difficult. On the day after that above-named,
however, the power of the contractors to admit
visitors to the building will cease and de-
termine, and pass to the Commissioners, who will
probably take possession pro forma, on the Ist of
January, 1851. In order that the contractors may
give effect to their appreciation of the efforts of the
Society of Arts towards the accomplishment of this
great national object, they will receive the members
of that body within the building on the 31st instant,
the last day on which it would be in their power to
pay them that well-deserved compliment, which they
originally intended should be the first formal recep-
tion after the completion of the building. The com-
pany will assemble in some of the finished offices,
and Professor Cowper, of King's College, will read a
paper on the various matters of science which have
been applied in the progress of the works. A private
meeting of the council of the society was held last
night, at their house in the Adelphi, to determine on
the line of proceedings, of which this will be the
principal feature.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—A certified Cure of Scrofula
by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—The following certificate
from Mr. Alcorn, of Jerry's Plains, New South Wales, was
forwarded to Professor Holloway by Mr. Pinkey, chemist, of
the same place. " This is to certify that my daughter, aged
seven years, was aillicted with scrofula for three years, and that,
after she had been attended by several respectable practitioners,
without success, I was induced to try Holloway's Ointment
and Pills, which remedies in about three months completely
cured her, and she is now in the best of health. This can be
verified by various persons in this vicinity, where I have re, ided
for twenty-two years. (Signed) R. Alcorn. Jan. 1, 1849."
Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establish.
ment, 244. Strand, London.

SUPPOSED BURGLAR SROT.—A respectable young
man, giving the name of Tyrell, was brought before the
magistrates at Manchester on Monday, charged with shoot-
ing a young man named Joseph Haigh, about seven days ago.
The prisoner, who had surrendered voluntarily, said he W 7.9
sleeping at a lodging-house in Hutton-street, and about three
o'clock in the morning he heard some one attempting to
force the back door and the back window shutters alter-
nately. He looked out from the back bed-room window, and
saw two men there. lie told them to desist, and threatened
to fire if they did not. One man still persisted, and Tyrell
having a large sum of money in his pocket, and suspecting
that these men had some knowledge of it, he in his alarm
fired a pistol at the man who was still vigorously attempt-
ing to force the door. The naJn then exclaimed ‘,
your impudence !" and went away. The prisoner did not
know whether the charge took effect at the time, but called
a policeman and told him what he had done. Haigh, it ap-
pears, received the charge in one shoulder, and went away.
Next day he called at a dispensary for something to dress
his shoulder with, not telling that the perforations in it had
been produced by a pistol-shot, but stating that he had
fallen down some cellar steps. The neglect has now ren-
dered it doubtful whether he will recover; and hence in-
quiries were made after the person who fired the shots,
which induced him to surrender. Haigh has been once con-
victed of burglary. The prisoner was admitted to bail in
two sureties of 501. each.

AN EAGLE CAPTURED.—A few days ago a large
eagle, quite a rara aria in this part of the country, was taken
in a trap near the mansion of J. Arkwright, Esq., of Hamp-
ton-court, Herefordshire, by one of the under-keepers. Th•
man had much difficulty in taking the bird from the trap, as
it had only been caught by one of its claws. With the aid
of a forked stick he got the bead of the bird under his foot,
and was enabled to take the bird alive. Its wings, when ex-
panded, measure seven feet from tip to tip. It is said to be
of the golden species.— Worcester Journal,