The Sun.
London, England, 1850-06-08 00:00:00

THE TIMES LIFE ASSURANCE
AND UARAN AA COMPANY.

The first annual meeting of this new and pro-
mising Life Assurance and Gu trantse Company was
held yesterday, at its offices, 32, Ludgate -hill, at
which a considerable number of influential and
respectable gentlemen interested in the establishment
and advancement of the company were present and
took part in the proceedings.
James Wyld, Esq., M.P., the Deputy-Chairman of
the Company, presided, and amongst the gentlemen
present we observed Mr. J. N. Baker, of Walworth ;
Mr. Joseph Brown, of Regent-street; Mr. Charles
Latham, of Hornsey-road ; Mr. John Lilwall, 01
Knightsbridge ; the Count Louis de Massiac, Mr.
John Robinson, of Gresham-street, City ; Mr. Alex-
ander Webber, of Baker-street ; Mr. W. A. Kent,
of Milk-street ; Mr. D. Pratt, Dr. Cooke, Mr. Ed-
wards, one of the solicitors of the company ; the Rev.
John Wood, of Walworth; the Rev. Mr. George;
Mr. W. H. Domville, Mr. Thomas Winkworth, Mr.
M. F. Wagstaffe, of Lambeth ; Mr. Malcolm ; Mr.
H. B. Sheridan, the Manager of the Institution
and Mr. Thomas Farnell, Consulting Actuary.
The CHAIRMAN opened the proceedings by stating
that the meeting bad been called by public advertise-
ment, in conformity with the provisions of the deed
of settlement, and his first duty was to affix the seal
of the company to the register of shareholders.
[This was done accordingly.] The Manager would
read the report of the directors to the meeting, but
previous to his doing so he (the Chairman') would
call their attention to one or two facts connected with
their Institution. The Times Life Assurance and
Gua-
rantee Company had not been in existence more than
18 months. This was their first annual meeting, and he
was quite sure the encouraging aspect of their affairs
indicated the steady progress they had been making,
whilst it afforded an assurance of their future pros-
perity, and a guarantee that although at this moment
their balance-sheet did not present so large an amount
of profit as was realised by older societies, they should
have a sure and steady increase in this respect in
future. The report would show the amount of busi-
ness executed during the past year. The gross sum
assured by 217 policies, being the number completed
up to the 29th May last was 83,2221., producing an
annual income of 1,180/. 1 ls. 7cl.—(Hear, hear.)
The directors of this company had had a very large
amount of business proposed to them, but, from various
circumstances, they had thought it their duty to re-
ject, or rather decline, on prudential grounds, many
proposals for assurance which had been made to them.
The total number of proposals made to the company
to the 29th May last was 391, of the aggregate
amount of 133,5171., and producing an annual in-
come of 2,218/. ss. 4d. ; but, although a great num-
ber of those proposals which had been rejected had
been of a good and satisfactory character, yet in
rejecting them the directors kept in mind that the in-
stitution was yet young, and felt that it was better to
do a steady and sure business at that stage of its
existence than to incur any great responsibility by
multiplying the chances of risk.—(Hear, hear.) The
policies completed and paid upon since the company
had been established amounted to 217, of an aggregate
amount of 83,222/., and producing an annual income
of 1,180/. 1 la. 7d. The proposals accepted, of which
the premiums were not yet paid, were 62, with an
aggregate amount of 11,150/., and producing an
annual income of 2011. 10s. Bd. The proposals not
yet completed and under consideration were 45, of
the aggregate amount of 9,4251., and an annual in-
come of 188/. 18s. Gd. Tne proposals declined were
67 in number, with an aggregate amount of 29,7201.,
and an annual income of 647/. 4s. 7d. Now he
thought that when the report and balance-sheet,
which the Manager would read to
„,them, were
laid before the meeting they would find that the
affairs of this company were in a most satisfactory
condition. They had not as yet achieved any very
great results; they had been rather the more anxious
to do a steady and a permanent business. During the
past year there had prevailed throughout England
a tearful epidemic, destructive of life to an awful ex-
tent in all our large cities and towns, and which had
produced an almost total suspension in the business of
this office for very nearly three months, so that it might
be said, the period of actual business had not exceeded
nine months. He thought it right to bring these
facts before the shareholders, because, if the directors
had carried on their business during the period to
which he had referred, they might to-day have shown
a much larger amount of business, but he believed
it would have been accompanied with immense loss.
At the same time the directors had been careful not
to refuse a proposal which they could comply with
safely. It was satisfactory for him to be able to say,
that during the whole of the company's existence
they had not incurred a single loss.—(Hear, hear,
and applause.) During the past year they had
some changes in their directory. They had to
lament the retirement of Messrs. Bidgood and Elliott.
Hitherto the directors bad served the company almost
gratuitously—(Hear, hear)—a circumstance which
had enabled them to show a larger balance than they
could otherwise have done; and he believed it was
their intention to continue to do so. They had had
to regret the demise of one of their colleagues, Adam
Gerrard, E3q., who, during the prevalence of cholera
had died after a short illness. They felt it the more
because their deceased friend was a gentleman of
great energy and of distinguished talent, and he was
ever active in promoting the the prosperity of the in-
stitution among his friends and connexions.—(Hear,
hear.) He (the Chairman) would not
occupy the time of the meeting further than
by stating that the company had a sur-
plus of income over their expenditure. The
details of that expenditure and income he
believed were in the hands of every gentleman pre-
sent, and if he could give the body of shareholders
any further information as to the affairs of the com-
pany he should be happy to do so during the course of
the meeting.—(Cheers.) He would now call upon
the Manager to read the report.
Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN then read the report, as
follows :

FIRST REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS,
JUNE 7TH, 1850.
The directors have much pleasure in meeting the
shareholders for the first time in accordance with the
deed of settlement, and beg to lay before the meeting the
general balance-sheet of the company's affairs made up
to the 30th day of April last.
Pursuant to the terms of the deed of settlement the
following directors retire, but being eligible are candi-
dates for re-election, viz.—Thomas Nathaniel Baker,
Esq., Charles Latham, Esq., Louis de Alas:lac, Esq.;
John Lilwall, Esq., Archibald F. Paul, Esq.
The following auditors also retire from office, by the
provisions of the company's deed of settlement, but teing
eligible are recommended by the directors for re-elec-
tion; viz.:—William Abbott Kent, Esq., and Daniel
Pratt, Esq.
The company was completely registered under the 7th
and Bth Victoria, cap. 110, on the Ist day of June, 1849,
and the amount of business transacted as exhibited by
the balance-sheet now produces, embraces a period, there-
fore, of eleven months, during which time the directors
have mainly devoted their attention to the organization
of extensive and efficient agencies in various party of the
country, and the appointment of skilful and eminent
medical men to act as the company's le ferees, and who,
in addition thereto, would assist the agents to the utmost
of their power in advancing the interests and increasing
the business of the company.
The directors feel that this part of their duties in-
volved results of the highest importance to the share-
holders and the company ; and have the satisfaction of
announcing, that upwards of three hundred carefully se-
lected persons have been already appointed to act as
agents and medical referees ; and it is the intention of
the directors to proceed with ..the utmost vigour in the
increase of that number.
The directors wish to draw the particular attention of
the shareholders to the circumstance, that almost imme-
diately after the complete registration of this company
in the summer of last year, nearly every part of the
United Kingdom, particularly the metropolis, was
afflicted by the severest epidemic visitation which has
been known in this country since the great plague of
1665, and which for months spread terror and dismay
in every direction; and so fearful was the mortality in
this locality, and in one or two instances so narrow had
been the escape of the company from severe loss, that
the directors decided on not taking assurance business
until the sickness had abated.
In looking, therefore, at the amount of business trans-
acted by this company, it must be borne in mind that,
allowing three months only as the time during which the
cholera raged, the period for actual business has not ex-
ceeded nine months.
It is, therefore, with feelings of the liveliest satisfac-

tion that the directors beg to draw the attention of the
shareholders to the following statement, feeling assured
that under the above circumstances the hopes and wishes
of the most sanguine supporters of the institution must
be more than realised:—
Gross sum assured by 217 Policies, being the
number completed up to the 29th of May
last
Producing an annual income of

No. Aggregate Annual
-"u Amount. Income.

Total number of proposals
made to the company,
to the 29th of May last 391 £133,517 £2,218 5 4

Psoposals completed and
• paid upon 217 £83,222 £l,lBO 11 7
Proposals accepted, and
premiums not yet paid 62 11,150
Proposals not completed,
and under consideration 45 9,425 188 18 6
Proposals declined ..

201 10 8

Total ..... 391 £133,517 £2,218 5 4
The directors take the above statement as sufficiently
demonstrative of the success of the company during the
period it has been in operation, and as fully justifying

the expcetztion, that at! tic nextgenelal meeting results
still no_.r;:: la.ti4.l,tory tisitliii exl.;htte cc
the ,or_rt sup ,er6, ;:g gene; al
maehii,,y of tin- ( otup-any -ic,ill,-by that time, be materi-
ally iLcre,:sed and improved.
The directors feel that the atttntion of the share-
holders Way possibly be drawn to the large emount or
annual income njceted, under the head of eh ciined poli-
cies, they the nlore beg to assure the meeting, th.tt
although they have been can L.l not to n fuse a cese'
which promired safety to the office, still, in the discharge
of their duty, and having regard to the losses sustained
by other companies, they have been obliged to ;ejPct a
great number cf propoaals; believing that, without the
most judicious selection is the first year ( f the compan) 's
exigence, premature losses might arise which would not
only cripple the resources a the company, and press
with severity on the shareholders, but materially
d :lige: the very existence of the institution—and whilst
adverting to this point, the shareholders are congratu-
lated that not a single loss has been sustained by the
company.
The directors have much pleasure in remarking that
the average amount of each policy does sot exceed 3501.;
and the directors feel that it would be needless to point
out to the shareholders the various advantages arising
from this class of assurance, and from spreading the po-
licy liabilities of the company over so large a surface.
The directors have also much satisfaction in
drawing the attention of the meeting to the success
which has attended the guarantee branch a the com-
pany's business—a great many institutions having
accepted the guarantee of the company;. indeed,
the confidence felt by the commercial world in the
guarantee policies of this company is certainly exhibited
by the circumstance, that although the company has
been so recently instituted, still this department has al-
ready been supported by several of the leading railways,
bankers, charitable institutions, and other corporate
bodies, in addition to private mercantile establishments.
The system of applying mutuality to guarantee, first
introduced to the public by this company, is also meet-
ing with the most marked success, and is now under the
consideration of some of the largest corporations cf the
day, with a view to its adoption, it being generally felt
as a truth that by making the
guarantee premiums an
investment instead of a tax upon the labour and honesty
of individuals, the only objection that has been made to
public guarantee is at once removed, and the chances of
dishonesty materially lessened.
The directors continue to dispose of the shares of the
company—and invite the shareholders and their other
friends to co-operate with them in making every exer-
tion to obtain good and responsible
persons to subscribe
for the remaining capital ; in every case up to the pre-
sent time care has been taken, and the directors feel
gratified in stating that the shareholders are men of
known capital, standing, and respectability, fully calcu-
lated to give strength and support to an institution of
this character.
The directors also wish to urge upon the shareholders
the importance of their individually exerting themselves
in every possible way to promote the prosperity of the
institution which affords so many advantages to the
assuring public, and which, regarding the guarantee, is
fraught with such sterling benefit to th mercantile
world.
It is proposed that interest at the rate of 41. per cent.
per annum should be paid upon the subscribed capital.
The directors beg to lay before the meeting the regis-
ter of directors' attendances, by which it will be se en
that they have, by their individual attendances, spared
no exertion to promote the prosperity and success of
this company, knowing that such success must mainly
depend upon the amount of zeal, care, and attention be-
stowed upon it by all those persons who are interested in
the result.
The CHAIRMAN begged leave to move the adoption
of the report, and he should be happy to hear any
gentleman who wished to address the meeting.
Mr. THOMAS WINKIVOIITH, in seconding the adop-
tion of the report, said, although he was connected
with another kindred institution, his appearance at
this meeting was an adequate proof of the interest he
took in this company. Although there was an old
saying that two of a trade could never agree—(A
laugh)—he did not think he formed an exception to
that rule. In point of fact, he was not exactly in the
same trade with this institution. He was a part-
ner in it, and he was also a partner
in another society which was not exactly iden.
tical with this ; and if it were otherwise, still
he felt assured the field was sufficiently large for all
of them to succeed.—(Hear, hear.) He thought it
was a rule in political economy that no company
could prosper on the downfall of another, for when-
ever they disturbed the confidence which the public
had in joint-stock companies they did a mischief to
all who were engaged in them.—(Hear, hear.) He
must say the report which had been read was very
satisfatory ; and he hoped that the business, carried on
up to the present time in a manner which was
so satisfactory to themselves, would be more than
satisfactory at their next anniversary. The field
was exceedingly large in which companies like
this might operate ; and if they looked around
throughout the United Kingdom, and also abroad—
for there was yet much to be done abroad in the
way of life assurance—they would find how small a
portion of that field was yet occupied ; and therefore
the greater the activity pisplayed by this and
similar companies in a greater degree would
the public avail themselves of the objects
and benefits of those institutions. Having been
connected with this company from its first inception
he might be allowed to say he felt a great degree of
interest in its welfare, and he was convinced that it
would go on and prosper. To the directors he
begged to tender his thanks for the manner in which
they had conducted its affairs, and he had great
pleasure in seconding the resolution.—(Applause.)
The resolution was then put and carried unani-
mously.
The CHAIRMAN then said the next business they
had to consider was the re—election of the retiring
directors and auditors, who were eligible, and pre-
sented themselves as candidates for re-election. The
retiring directors were Mr. T. N. Baker, Mr. Louis
de Massiac, Mr. Charles Latham, Mr. John Lil-
wall, and Mr. A. P. Paul.

The Rev. JONATHAN GEORGE begged to move the
re-election of Messrs. Baker, De Massiac, Latham,
wall, and Paul as directors. He should be excused
from making any lengthened remarks; 'but he might
say he thought the two grounds on which a motion of
this kind should rest were, first, the thorough ap•
probation and satisfaction of the shareholders
of the way in which the business of the
company had been conducted by the directors, and
secondly, his own close and intimate knowledge
of the character and conduct of some at least, if not
the whole, of the retiring directors, as men of pro-
bity, character, business, and high respectability ; and
he therefore most cordially moved the re-election of
them.
Mr. RICKERBY seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.
The CHAIRMAN said the following gentlemen re-
tired as auditors, but were also eligible for re-elec-
tion—Mr. \Villiam.A. Kent and Mr. Daniel Pratt.
Mr. JOHN LILWALI, said he had great pleasure in
moving the re-election of those gentlemen es auditors.
They had already very satisfactorily filled the efface
of auditors, and that was the best guarantee the
shareholders had of their fitness for the post.
Mr. CHARLES LATHAM, in seconding the resolu-
tion, said he might be allowed, he trusted, to advert
to the general advantages of life assurance and the
guarantee business. lie was thinking of the different
tastes of individuals which divided them into
particular groups. There were some gentle-
menwere very much disposed to look with peculiar in-
terest pre
stonF'etnhte he
study of ea botanical taste, who
flowers, for instance; but he
thought, with all their beauty, variety of colour, and
tint, and shape, and scent, there were groups of still
i
an beings—(
gphseorf flowers. He thought
order of importance—
such a one as we found in
and he, for one, was a
htghereemraeteewarrelitrnetgegrr
ore
osuutpptsisi aoonff groups ruoi
great admirer of a group of
that kind, and especially
Heur, hear)—
our domestic establishments. We looked on that
group with peculiar interest, because it had attractions
which the vegetable kingdom did not possess. It
sometimes happened with that little group, which they
might take as a kind of miniature representation of
the entire world, that its liveliness was interrupted,
or rather the beauty and harmony of it, by the loss
of one of its members. But it sometimes occurred
that a greater loss than that was sustained, deplora-
ble though that might be; occasionally the maternal
head of that family was snatched away, and the ten-
derness and happiness which she had diffused over
that little group was far ever withdrawn, and only faintly
compensated by the care and attention of another.
But still there had been left the more important head,
in many respects—he meant the father. It now and
then, however, also happened that that more import-
ant head, engaged as he was in commercial or pro-
fessional pursuits, was snatched away with equal
suddenness. The very anxiety, indeed, which he felt
for those dependent upon bins might cause such in-
jury to his health as to bring him prematurely to his
end. lie had a case before him, in which a man in
the receipt of a good income, had been suddenly re-
moved by death, but who had not left anything like
a competency to those who survived him ; and he
(Mr. Latham) feared he had not availed himself of
the benefits which institutions like this offered to
every provident man.—(Bear, hear.) It was in con-
sideration of the uncertainty of life that societies of
this kind had their origin, and they only demanded
from an individual a sum which he, from his own
choice, thought proper to pay; and though his
death should occur the day after a policy
was executed and effected, the sum insured
was immediately available to his surviving relatives.
That showed the great importance of institutions of
this kind. He might just advert to one more case,
and that was of an individual of that isolated charac-
ter, who stood in the position of something like a
little island in the vast Pacific ocean—he meant, of
course, au unmarried man.—(Laughter.) Such an
indivi ;nal might say he was quite apart from the
world, that he had no partner and no descendants;
but still that individual could not say those societies
had nothing to do with him, for it might so happen

ttieek the heel of skill or energy he might called
'A to' rietiefetsle the =situation wheal he map live
tined with ere (lit ; that he might resign or in ie 't
have a gentle -hint thriee—he- had -better retire.
Now in cases of that kind this secisty provided an
annual sum to any person according to the age at
which he thought propeer to join it. lie thought that
this society commended itself to the family men, to
whom he had the honour to belong, and also to those
%el-Jo were unmarried.—(Year, hear.) With respect
to the guarantee department, there sere many persons
of great talent and respectability who, having the
offer of lucrative employment, were unable to avail
themselves of it from their inability to give the re-
quired security. Persons were often placed in posi-
tions of the greatest delicacy in being called upon to
give that security by young men who had a claim
upon their kind offices, and who, in default of that
friendly turn being extended to them, would have to
give up opportunities and chances of well-doing in the
world which might never return.—(Hear, bear.)
That was a strong argument in favour of guarantees
being provided by public companies, and such
guarantees it was one of the objects of this institu-
tion to furnish.—(Cheers.) Mr. Latham concluded
by bearing his testimony to the indefatigable assiduity
which the directors had evinced in conducting the
affairs of the company.
The resolution was carried without a dissentient.
Mr. D. PRATT then moved a resolution to the effect
that interest at the rate of 41. per cent. should be paid
upon the subscribed capital.
Mr. Maecoaar, in seconding the motion, felt assured
the directors would not have made that proposal un-
less they were perfectly satisfied they could do it
safely.
This resolution was also agreed to.
Mr. W. A. KENT had great pleasure in moving
that a trifling sum be awarded to cover the necessary
expenses of the directors during the past year. The
time, labour, and responsibility which- were entailed
upon gentlemen who sought to establish an institution
of this kind could onlybe estimated by those who like
himself bad witnessed it. There were plenty of per-
sons ready to join such a society when it was esta-
blished, and " to take their fill ;" but not so many to
lend their assistance to its formation. He begged,
therefore, to propose that 701. be allowed for the ex'
penses of the directors during the past year.
Mr. D. PRATT seconded the resolution, which was
carried unanimously.
Mr. MALCOLM proposed a vote of thanks to the
directors fur their services.
Mr. EDWARDS seconded the resolution. He thought
the directors were entitled to the respect and confi-
dence of the meeting for the way in which they had
conducted the affairs of the company, and coupled
with the consideration that they had given their ser-
vices gratuitously, he thought the thanks of the
meeting were peculiarly due to them. Mr. Edwards
then took occasion to throw out a suggestion to the
meeting to the effect. that the principle of assurance
might be made available to the numerous class of
persons who held leases of property for terms -of years,
by the application of which those leaseholds might be
rendered equivalent to a freehold interest.
The resolution was put and carried by acclamation.
Mr. LJLWALL moved a vote of thanks to the ma-
nager and other officers of the company. To their
medical officers, their actuary, their standing counsel,
and the officers generally, the obligations of the share-
holders were severally due. With regard to their
friend Mr. Sheridan, the manager, every one of them
must have noticed the great zeal and activity he hud
displayed in promoting the interest of the company.
—(Hear, hear.) The balance-sheet proved that
he had conducted the business of the coul-
ee ny with very great success. Mr. Sheri-
dan was, therefore, entitled to the thanks
of the meeting, and he (Mr. Lilwall) moved those
thanks accordingly. He had also great pleasure in
bearing his testimony to the singular care which the
medical officers had shown to protect the interests of
the company. Mr. Farnell, the consulting actuiry,
had also paid great attention to its business. Their
solicitors, one of whom, Mr. Edwards, was present,
were also entitled to the best thanks of the meeting.
He would just for a moment refer to the guarantee
department of the company. He thought that branch
of their business was not only calculated to prove re-
munerative and satisfactory to the general body of
the shareholders of the company, but was also likely
to be productive of great public benefit.—(Hear,
hear.) Every person, instead of applying to a friend
for security, and so placing his friend in a most de-
licate position, could now come to the public gua-
rantee department of this society, and make a pro-
posal which would be at once accepted. He had
great pleasure in moving the thanks of the meeting to
the officers of the company generally.
Mr. W. A. KENT seconded the resolution, which
was carried without a dissentient.
Mr. H. B. SHERIDAN, the manager, said it was cus-
tomary for persons like himself, standing in the rela-
tion of officers of a public institution such as this, to
acknowledge the sense they entertained of compli-
ments paid to them by the body of their proprietors.
On the part of himself and the other officers he had to
express his lively sense of the acknowledgments of
the meeting of the manner in which his brother offi-
cers and himself had discharged the duties that bad
devolved upon them. He could only say for them
and himself, that they would continue to strive with
the same amount of energy to promote in every way
the success and welfare of this institution.
Mr. BAKER, in moving a vote of thank to the au-
ditors, briefly bore testimony to the assiduity which
they had evinced in discharging the duties entrusted
to them.
Mr. WAGSTAFFE had much pleasure in seconding
the resolution, which was carried unanimously.
Mr. J. BROWN, in moving a vote of thanks to the
Chairman, took occasion to lament the apathy which
existed in the public mind with respect to life assu-
rance. The people, he said, would not "go wash in
the pool of Siloam." As respected their relation to
this company, he thought the shareholders and di-
rectors were like ants or bees—they were all bringing
honey to the hive. They should do their utmost to
disseminate a knowledge of its advantages among
their friends and connexions, beginning with their
domestic servants, going through their more intimate
relations, their trading friends, and every class of in-
surers within their influence.
The CHAIRMAN briefly acknowledged the compli-
ment. He regretted that his Parliamentary duties
had left him so little time to assist in carrying out the
objects of this institution, in whose welfare lie took a
deep interest. Life and fire assurance was a thing
almost exclusively confined to England; and he
thought a great deal might be done by awakening
public attention to its benefits on the continent gene--
rally. The directors of this institution, through the
instrumentality t f their friend, M. Louis de Massiac,
were now endeavouring to bring its merits into notice
in Hamburgh and Stettin. By means of institutions
of this kind men were urged to have regard to their
temporal existence, just as Christianity taught them
to look forward to their future life. The principle of
life insurance, he believed, was first developed iu the
seventeenth century, when it had long to combat with
the prejudices of the people, for at that time there was
as great a reluctance felt to effect a life assurance as
to make a will, because in insuring their lives they
almost thought they wereinsuring their deaths.—(A
laugh.) The tables of this institution were so econo-
mically constructed as to fall within the means of the
whole middle class of this kingdom, and it had pecu-
liar claims on their attention and support— (Applause.)
The meeting, which was of the most satisfactory
kind throughout, then separated.

BonronD's PANORAMA ROYAL, LEICESTER-
sQuARE.—The following distinguished visitors have recently
honoured Mr. Burford's Panorama with their presence :
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Fields Marshal
the Duke of Wellington, Bishops of Rochester, Chester,
Bath and Wells, Litchfield, Chichester, Manchester, Marquis
and Marchioness of Chandos, Lord and Lady Charlemont,
Lady W. Horton, Earl and Countess of Harewood, Earl
Lestow ell, Earl and Countess Grey, Earl of Besborough, the
Persian Minister and suite, Lady Touro, Sir W. and Lady
Gordon, Sir J. Duke, Bart., Lord and Lady Portman, Vis-
count Cantelupe, Lady Darnley, the LadyiMayoress and the
Misses Farncombe, Sir P. and Lady Egerton, Earl and
Countess of Stamford, Lady Yard &flier, Lady Colburn,
Lady Arthur, T. H. Btampston, Esq., M.P., Joseph Hours,
Esq., Mr. Sergeant Thompson, Lady Ashburnham and the
Hon. Misses Ashburnham, R. Travers, Esq., M.P., Mrs.
Col. Wharcup, Col. and Mrs. Rouse, Hon. Mr. Bosanquet,
Lady S. Lindsay, Hon. Miss Elliott, Sir T. and Lady Duck,
S. Becks, Esq., M.P. Marquis of Salisbury, Countess of
Harrington, Lady Pollock, Countess Poulett, Col. and Mrs.
C. Thompson, Sir 11. and Lady Paton, Lord Adolphus
Fitzclarence, Countess of Mansfield, Sir G. and Lady Bur-
ton, Countess of Rowden, the Turkish Ambassador, Lord
Howe, Lady Hamilton, Lady Packington, Lady Buckley,
Lady Mackenzie, Lady Staunton, Lady Seymour, Lord and
Lady St. Germans, Lady Coster, Lord and Lady Enfield,
Hon. Mrs. W. Stratford, Lady T. Hope, Lady L. Cavendish,
Hon. Misses and Masters Cavendish, Lord Landes, Sir J. C.
Ross,.Dowager Lady Abinger, Sir T. Fellows, Sir. J. Armi-
tage, Marchioness of Aylesbury, Marchioness of Huntley,
Marchioness of Worcester, Sir J. and Lady pym, Mr. Jus-
tice Flood. Hon. A. Keppel, Lady Leith, Sir J. and Lady
Johnson, R. Ricardo, Esq, M.P., Baron de Cetter, Doctors
Barford, Vivian, and Kynaston, Hon. 11. Golbourn, M.P., Dr.
Spry, J. Coster, Esq., M.P., Lady Tyrconnell, Hon. Mrs.
Askew, Lady Newburgh, Gen. Ashmuty, Gen. Wernys,
Admiral Sir 'l'. Cochrane, Sir G. Arthur, Earl of Harrington,
Earl and Countess Fitzwilliam, Earl and Countess Limerick,
Lord and Lady Villiers, Lady Huntingfield, Duke and
Duchess of Beaufort, Lady Overstone, Sir J. and Lady
Lushington, Sir F. Roe, Sir C. and Lady Wake and the
Misses Wake, Capt. Howard, Earl of Jersey, Mr. Justice
Fielding, Hon. C. Ilardinge, Lord and Lady Roden, Lady
Cowley, Capt. Sir E. and Lady Sawin, Miss Burdett Coutts,
Capt. Austin, R.N., Capt. Knowles, R.N., Lady Levingstone,
Lady Farrar, Lady Goving, Lady H. Moyston, Ludy C.
Sterling, Lord Donoven, Sir M. A. llerbert, M.P., Viscount
Mandeville, Viscount Barrington, Duchess of Bedford, Duke
and Duchess of Leinster, Lord and Lady Morley, &c., &c. &c.
HANOVER-SQUARE Rooms.—Mr. and Mrs. H. W.
Seguin gave their grand annual concert at these rooms yes-
terday morning. A host of talent, including Mr. Sims
Reeves, M. Benedict, Miss Lueombe, Miss Williams, Ma-
dame Lablache, and M. Thalberg, appeared on the occasion,
and their performances were loudly applauded by a full and
fashionable audience. The beneficiaires were very flatter-
ingly received, and their vocal efforts were throughout of a
nature eminently calculated to sustain the excellent reputa-
tion they have long enjoyed as concert singers.