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RAVESEND STAR PACKETS.
Or Fore Cabin and Second Clam Railway NINEPENCE to
or from London and Gravesend.
Saloon and First Class ditto, ONE SHILLING.
To or from Blackwall.
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ill at tke Grays, Greenhithe, and Fluted Piers.
t the Piers as underlined (weather permitting).
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NSWICK WHARF, BLACKWALL, on the arrival of
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.—Twelve Months, 4/.
,s.; to be had of the
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BOAT TICKETS,
three Months, 11. It
"rickets : or Mr. Mo:
June 9, 1850.

P. 4s. ; Six Months, 21. 15s. ;
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ARGUS LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY,
39, THROGMORTON-STREET, BANK;
And 14, PALL-MALL.
Chairman—The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR.
Deputy-Chairman—WlLLlAM LEAF, Esq.
Richard E. Arden, Esq. T. Humphery, Esq., Ald., M.P.
William Banbury, Esq. Rupert Inglegy, Esq.
Edward Bates, Esq. Thomas Kelly, Esq., Alderman.
Thomas Camplin, Esq. Jeremiah Pilcher, Esq.
James Clift, Esq. 'Lewis Pocock, Esq.
Am:arm—Professor Hall, M.A. ; J. B. Shuttleworth, Esq.
Pmvsiciati—Dr. Jeaffreson, 2 Finsbury-square.
gURGEON—W. Coulson, Esq., 2, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
CONSULTING ACTUARY—Professor Hall, M.A., of King's College.
STANDING COUNSEL—Sir John Romilly, M.P., Solicitor-General.
SoticiTott —William Fisher, Esq., 19, Doughty-street.
ADVANTAGES OF ASSURING WITH THIS COMPANY.
Li addition to a large subscribed capital, Policy holders have the
security of an Assurance Fund of more than a Quarter of a
Million, and an Income of 70,0001. a year, arising from the issue of
upwards of 6,500 Policies.
BONUS, OR PROFIT BRANCH.
Persons Assuring on the Bonus system will be annually entitled
to SO per cent. of the profits en this branch (after payment of five
yearly Premiums) ; and the profit assigned to each Policy may
either be added to the sum assured, or applied in reduction of the
Annual premium.
NON-BONUS, OR LOW PREMIUM BRANCH.
The Tables on the non-participating principle afford peculiar ad-
vantages to the assured, not offered by any other Office—for where
the object is the least possible outlay, the payment of a certain sum
is secured to the Policy-holder, on the death of the Assured, at a re-
duced rats of Premium.

pnrmiums TO ASSURE £lOO.

With Profits. Without Profits.
£1 15 10 £1 11 10
2 5 i • • 2 0 7
3 0 7 2 14 10
4 6 8 4 0 11
6 12 9 6 0 10

WHOLE TERM.

Aged One Year. iSeYen Years,

20 £0 17 8 £0 19 1
30 1 1 8 1 2 7
40 1 5 0 1 6 9
50 1 14 1 1 19 10
60 3 2 4 3 17 0

One-half of the " Whole Term" Premium may remain en credit
far seven years, or one-third of the Premium may remain for life as a
debt upon the policy at i per cent., or may be paid off at any time
without notice.
Claims paid in ene month after proofs have been approved.
Loans upon approved security.
The medical officers attend every day at Throgmorton-street at a
quarter before two o'clock.

E. BATES, Resident Director.

AIETROPOLITAN LIFE ASSURANCE
SOCIETY.

No. 3, Princes-street, Bank.
The Directors hereby give notice to Members whose Premiums fall
dne on the sth of July next, that the same must be PAID within
Thirty days from that date.
The Premiums are paid Yearly, Half-yearly, or Quarterly, on
the sth of January, sth of April, sth of July, and sth of October,
either of which several days constitutes the commencement of the
year to Members. Persons, therefore, desirous of entering the So-
ciety as Members on the sth of July next, should appear or lodge
their proposals at the office on or before that day.
This Society, for Mutual and General Assurance, appropriates the
whole of its profits to the benefit of parties assuring their own lives
for the whole term of life as Members of the Society.

For the year ending the sth of April, 1851, an abatement of 51 per
cent. has been ' declared on the Premiums of all Members of Five
Years' standing and upwards.
RICHARD HEATHFIELD, Superintendent.
Princes-street, Bank, June 11, 1850.

POPULAR LIBRARY.-NEW VOLUMES.
Price ONE SHILLING in fancy bds. ; or bound in cloth, Is. 64.
EL DORADO. 2 Vols. By BAYA 'tD TAYLOR.
KNICKERBOCKER'S HISTORY OF NEW YORK.
By WASHINGTON IRVING.
Also, in this Series,
WASIIINGTON IRVING'S CONQUEST OF GRENADA.
WASHINGTON IRVING'S LIFE AND VOYAGES OF COLUM-

BUS, 2 vols.
WASHINGTON IRVING'S
WASHINGTON IRVING'S

COMPANIONS OF COLUMBUS.
TOUR OF THE PRAIRIES. Abbots-

ford and Newstead.
WASHINGTON IRVING'S SKETCH BOOK.
WASHINGTON IRVING'S TALES OF A TRAVELLER.
WASHINGTON IRVING'S BRACEBRIDGE HALL,
WASHINGTON IRVING'S LIFE OF GOLDSMITH.
WASHINGTON IRVING'S LIFE OF MAIIOMET.
WASHING roN- IRVING'S SUCCESSORS OF 3IAHOMET.
HERMAN MELVILLE'S TYPEE ; or, a Residence in the Mar-
quesas.
HERMAN MELVILLE'S 03100 ; or, Adventures in the South Seas.
EMERSON'S REPRESENTATIVE MEN.
In ordering the above (the only One Shilling Edition), be
pleased to specify the I'OPULAR LIBRARY EDITION.
London : George Routledge and Co. ; and of all Booksellers, News-
venders and Railway Stations.

ANY have assumed the use of the word
j P. ALLETOT, but the ONLY PATENTEES of the design and
tn aerial used in this unexpensive and gentlemanly article of dress
Are, H. J. and D. NICOLL, Merchant Clothiers, Paletot Patentees,
and Manufacturers of Cloth, who have agents in every principal
Town in the United Kingdom and its Colon,e,. Their London Ad-
iress being REGENT• STR MET or CORNHILL, id eQt :
No. 114 REGENT. STREET, forms a department for PALE-
TOTS, &c.
No. 116 (the next house), is devoted for MILITARY and DIPLO-
MATIC UNIFORMS.
No. 118 for ROBES and every novel or established article of
costume.
120 is exclusively for BOYS' and TOUT IS' CLOTHING, of tut-
asual excellence; and at 22, CORNIIILL. Specimens of all may be
seen.

In each Department skilful and intelligent Assistants attend, and
the admitted fact, " That an article to be really cheap should be
really good," is practically sustained.
WHOLESALE WOOLLEN CLOTH and SHIPPING Entrance at
the rear in WARWICK-STREET, and CHANGE-ALLEY, in the
CITY.

11. J. and D. NICOLL, 114, 116, 118, 120, REGENT-STREET,

and 22, C6RNIIILL:

growers by no means anxious sellers. Fine fresh wheat readily
made is per quarter more money, and oats 6d. Beans rather
dull, and prices in favour of the buyer.
EDINBURGII MEAL MARKET, JUNE 11.—There were in
the meal market to-day 20 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs.
imperial, whereof 19 sold thus :—7 at 11 10s Od, 7 at 11936 d,
5 at 119 s Od, and 0 at 116 s ; average price of the wh&le
11936 d 7-12 tbs. ,q sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at 275. 13 sacks
pot-barley, whereof 12 sold thus at 114 s, 2 at 11 Is, and
18 at 1/ Os Od.

EDINBURGH HAT AND STRAW MARKET, JONE 11.—
Oat straw, from 7s Od to 9s Od per kemple of 16 stenet tron ;
wheat ditto, 8s Od to 9s Od ; barley ditto, 7s Od to 8s Od.
Hai, from is to is 2d per stone.
DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, JUNE 10.—There were 128
bags oatmeal at this day's market ; sales dull ; best
oatmeal same as last week ; second 6d down ; that sold at
26s 6d was of inferior quality.

First Second
... 30s Od 28s 3d
••• —3 Od —a 01
... —3 Od —a Od
... —s Od —a Od
••• —s Od —s Od

Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 ibs.
imperial ' ••• •••
Barleymeal, per ditto
Peasemeal ...
Flour ... ...

Third
265 6d
—s Od
—8 Od
—s Od
....s Od

;T.—YESTERDAY.
Braddyll
Creswell ... .... .
Hetton
Haswell l6s 3d
Jonassohns
Lambton
Lumley l4s Odl
Russell's Hetton
IStewart's
ICaradoe .... ".. ..
Howdon 143 3d
Heugh Hall
South Hartlepool
South-Kenos -
Thornley
West Kelloe ... .
Whitworth l2s 3ci
Adelaide Tees
'Maclean's Tees l2s MI
Tees
Hartley:— ............
IlHoward's W. HNeth. 13s 6dl
Sidney's Hartle
y 13s 9c)
narket. 199.

The Devon lighter, with Mr. Mills and a party of
riggers and seamen, will probably sail to-day for
Pembroke, to navigate the Liberty brig to this port,
where she is to be fitted for commission.

The crew of her Majesty's ship Albion got up her
lower yards and topmasts yesterday.
The infantry of the Dockyard Battalion, under the
command of Colonel W. Edye, marched from the
parade ground on Saturday afternoon to Granby-
square, where they were exercised.
The Amphitrite, Captain Mac Dougall, arrived at
Valparaiso on the 19th April, with a large freight of
specie on board, and was ordered to proceed to Eng-
land early in the ensuing month. Lieutenant
Walker, who took command of the ship on the decease
of Captain Eden, and had charge of the treasure for a
period exceeding two months, will, we are happy to
say, receive a very handsome sum, as his "pro rata
itineris" proportion, which, with the promotion be
bas so justly earned, and which we trust the Admi-
ralty will not withhold from him, will in some degree
compensate him for the anxiety he must have under-
gone. We hear the highest accounts .of the efficient
state of the Amphitrite.
By late accounts from Monte Video we are sorry
to hear that the yellow fever was raging with great
severity, and some of the morning papers yesterday
announced the death of Commander Schonberg, of
her Majesty's ship Cormorant ; we have, however, the
pleasure to state that no official report of this commu-
nication has been received at the Admiralty, and we,
therefore, have, every reason to believe that it is no-
thing but a rumour.—Herald. _ _ _

The ship Gilmore. Captain Maw, from Colombo
(Ceylon), for London, laden with coffee and cinna-
mon, was off, Plymouth on, Tuesday, the 11th inst.
Sbe brings home passtingers Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher
and three children, who proceed to London in her, and
Mr. Lamb, G. Fraser, and two sons, who landed
here. The Gilmore left Colombo. January the 19th,
and St. Helena the 13th of March. There were no
ships of war at St. Helena. Eleven slavers which
had been captured were breaking up, and 1,500
liberated Africans were on the island when she left.

Wind westerly.
WOOLWICH, JUICE 12.—The Right Hon. Sir
Francis T. Baring, Bart., held a levee yesterday at
Whitehall, and it was attended by the following
officers:—

Rear-Admiral John Peter Douglas.
Captains—Sir George A. Westphal, Knt. (1819),
Thomas Martin (1826), Edward R. Williams (1827),
William Ramsay (1838), Hon. Henry A. Murray
(1841), and Gordon G Macdonald (1846).
Commanders Adam Cuppage (1830), John
Wheatley (1832), R. B. Crawford (1842), and
James F. B. Wainwright (1850).
Lieutenants—William H. Dixon' (1807), John R.
Baker (1828), John 0. Freeland (1838), Charles
Wake (1846), W. Thorne, F. H. M. Martin, and E.
Chambers (1849).

Surgeon—John Robertson, M.D.
The Sampson steam-frigate arrived at Devonport
from Woolwich, in charge of Lieutenant Robertson,
at seven o'clock, A.M., on Sunday last, having made an
excellent passage round, averaging on the entire dis-
tance between the two ports a speed of,very nearly
ten knots per hour, against a head sea and strong
wind. Tha draught of water of the Sampson
during her voyage to Devonport was 14 feet 5
inches forward and 14 feet 6 inches aft, and her
engines worked remarkably well, being supplied with
steam from three boilers on a plan of Mr. Humphrys,
Chief Engineer at Woolwich Dockyard, which pro-
duced an ample supply of steam without the least
symptom of priming. The plan also possesses the great
advantage of allowing the boilers to be placed low in
the vessel. Lieutenant Robertson, and the riggers
who navigated her, embarked in the evening of the
day on which they arrived in the Confiance steam-
vessel on their return to Woolwich, where they ar-
rived yesterday evening, having touched at Ports-
mouth to take in a supply of coals.
The Retribution steam-frigate will be out of the
hands of the engineers fitting her engines to-morrow,
and is expected to be tried down the river on Satur-
day, or in the early part of next week.

APPOINTMENTS.

Mate—J. G. F. Dyer, to the Victory flag-ship at
Portsmouth.

Midshipman—Lord Francis M. Conyngham, to the
Albion, 90, at Devonport.
Clerk—Joseph Hayward (1844), to the Havannah,
19, New Zealand.
Clerk's Assistant—William Noble, to the Dolphin,
3, Sheernees.
Naval Cadet—Cecil G. Sloane Stanley, to the
Albion.