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ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning, Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

WANTED by a TRADESMAN (who is a
Widower), a RESPECTABLE DOMESTICATED WIFE,
of middie age, and whd has a sufall caPitpl.
Letters (post paid) addressed " I. V. Y., General Post-office, to be
left till called for," stating real name mid address, and particulars,
will meet with due attention, and the strictest secres; will be
observed.

PROMOTER LIFE ASSURANCE and AN
NUTTY COMPANY,

9, CIIATHAM-PLACE, BLACKFRIARS, LONDON.
Established in IFS.

This Society is supported by an ample subs ribed Capital, and by a
considerable accumulated premium fund.
Assurances are effected at a low rate of premium, without profits,
or at an increased premium, with participation in the profits of the
Office.

A Bonus in ready money, at the rate of 15 per cent. on the pre-
miums received (equivalent to a reversionary bonus of ahciit 31)
per cent.) was declared in May, 1842, on all beneAcial polioi s Oil
whets three annual premiums had been paai in tha previous De-
cember.

A division of the profits takes place every five seam, and th., lichl-
ers of beneficial policies can receive their hont:Fes in ready money, or
have them applied in augmentation of their policies, or in reduction
of their future premiums

Assurers may contractt o pay their Premiums either in one FIIIII, in
a given number of payments, in annual, half-yearly, or quarterly pa:•-
ments, or on the ascending or descending scale. .

Officers of the Army and Navy, on active service, Persons afflicted
with chronic and other diseases, and such as are going beyond the
limits of Europe, are also Assured at moderate rates.
Prospectuses and all necessary information may be obtained at the
Office. 31 IC lIAEL SA WAli D, F.ecret ry.

OYAL, FARMERS' AND GEN Eli \
NN IL, FIRE, LIFE, AND HAIL-STORM INSURANCE IN.
STITUTION.

Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
Capital, £5OO OM.
OFFICES—STRAND. LONDON.
HONORARY DIRECTORS.
Duke of Rutland, K.O. Earl Dude
Duke of Bedford Viscount Torrington
Earl of Stamford and Warrington Viscount Campden
Earl or Stair Lord Rayleigh
Earl Howe Lord Feversham
E id of Stradbroke • Lord Stanley, M.P.
The Proprietary of this Company exceeds 1,990 in number.
The share of Public Favour this Institution ha+ obtained proves
the appreciation of its system by a numerous body of insurers.
Every kind of Life Insurance, of Deferred and Immediate flout-
ties, and of Endowments for Children, may be accomplished on term;
as low as is consistent with security.
A Dividend of Four per Cent. is now in course of payment to the
Shareholder. In this office.
A BONUS of one-half the profits on LIFE POLICIES held by
Shareholders will be given at the end of every Five Years, by addition
to the sum assured, or by the reduction of premium.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.—lnsurances are effected a the lowest
rates. ________

HAIL-STORM DEPARTMENT.
ADVANTAGES OF INSURING IN THIS OFFICE.

. _
An actually subscribed Capital of £500,000, secured by 1,063
shareholders, whose names and addre ses are enrolled f ecording to
Act of Parliament.

Insurances effctei in one sure.
Division of profits amongst the insured every third year.
All losses, whether total or partial, paid in full, as soon aftcethe
occurrence as the valuati n can b comp'eted.
No average cla se, so that the sufferer will be certain of receiving
the full amount of the loss, to be settled as in the case of loss by fire.
Premium—Sixpence per acre for Wheat, Barley, and Peas; Four.
ence for Oats, Beans, Turnips, and Potatoes.
Glass in hothouses, gre nhousea, or private houses, 20s. per cent.
The surplus profits, after paying an annual dividend of £4 per cent.
to the shareholders, and providing for a reserved fund. will be divided
every third year bet een the shareholders and the insured.
Detailed Prospectuses may be obtained at the office, or will be for.
warded, post-free, upon application.
The usual commisaiol to solicitors.
Agents are appointed IR all the principal towns in the kingdom,
and where agents are not appointed, persons in active life, and de.
mous of being appointed, may are ly to
W SHAW, Managing Director.

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Superior hair, nail, tooth, shaving, and flesh brushes ; clothes and
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instruments, razors, razor strops and paste, and shaving powder ; ladles'
and gentlemen's dressing-cases, either with or without fittings, in
russia leather, mahogany, rosewood, and japan ware ; ladies' com-
panions and pocket-books, elegantly fitted ; also netting boxes, en-
velope cases, card cases, note and cake baskets, beautiful inkstands,
and an infinity of recherche articles, not to be equalled In London.

Now ready, in 1 vol., post Bvo., with numerous Illustrations by Leech,
Price 10s. 6d.

THE PORCELAIN TOWER;
OR, NINE STORIES OF CHINA.

By T.H. SEALY.

" Full of arch drollery, and illustrated in a liindred spirit by
A more humorous or entertaining little volume has not appeared this
season."—Sun.

" We cordially recommend this very piquant and pleasant book ito
all laughter-lovers."—Court Journal.
Richard Bent'ey, New Burlington-street.
To be had also of all Booksellers.

HOOKER'S BRITISH FLORA

Just published, Bvo., with 12 Plates. 145., plain ; with the Plates
coloured, 249. cloth,
THE BRITISH FLORA 2 Vol. I. ; comprising
Phienogamous or Flowering Plants, and the Ferns. By Sir
WILLIAM JACKSON HOOKER, K. 11., LL.D., F.R.A: and L.S.,
Fifth Editien, with Additions and Corrections ; and 173 Figures, il-
lustrative of the Umbelliferous Plants, the Composite Plants, the
Grasses, and the Ferns. In 2 vols.
Vol. 11., in Two Parts, completing the British Flora, 245. bds.
London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longinans.

LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
Fleet-street, next St. Dunstan's Church, April 8.1444.
I.,,tice hereby given thAt the DIVIDENDS on the CAN I'AL
STOCK of this Society for the year 1843, are in the course .al pay-
me) t, and can be received any day (Tuesday excepted), between Vac
hours oflen and Three o'clock.
By Order of the Directors.
GEORGE KIRKPATRICK, Actuary.

ALLIANCE ASSURANCE COAIPAN Y.
The BONUS on the STOCK of the ALLIANCE BRITISH
and FOREIGN LIFE and FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY, de-
clared at the Court of Proprietors on the 3d Inst., along w:th the
Half-yearly Dividends, will be iu course of payment on Iltraro.i,
the 18th Inst. A. HAMILTON, Se:retary.
Bartholomew-lane, April ID, 1844.

ing •of interest, and the rise in the price of the
public *ecuritie:l, . afford an index, is a bone
file increase, not made at the expense of coil)-
, 'nerve, hut made in company -with great com-
mercial improvement; anti as a consequence of it. The
rapid increase in the amount of money in a country
is, however, according to Mr. Locke, the best proof of
the prosperity of that country: . It is of no con-
sequenc'e, says that great man, to the happiness of a
people what may he the absolute amount of money
in a country as regards theuiselves, but the rela-
tive amount as regards their neighbours is im-
portant, for they who have least money must
buy at the dearest and sell at the cheapest among
strangers, anti the increase or diminution of money
in a country is a certain sign of prosperity or the
reverse, as the case may be. When, therefore.;
we have arrived at such proof of an ex-
traordinary increase, both absolute and rela-
tive (the relative is proved by the differing rates
of foreign interest) in the amount of money in the
country, as the state of the market exhibits, we have
a fair occasion tai congratulate our fellow-subjects,
and we hoped that we might congratulate them
without offence. There is, indeed, a question 'Wholly
distinct from the increase of the national wealth,
which dishonest. or short-sighted controversialists,
on both sides of the question :that divides public
opinion, are apt to confoundewith that, increase—
namely, the distribution and employment of the wealth
possessed. Money is a power, and the nation which
possesses most money is questionless., other circum-
stances being equal, the most powerful for good
or for evil ; it is not, however, the possession of
power that makes the happiness of the nation
or the individual, but its proper use. "To be
weak is miserable." A weak nation must he a
wretched nation ; but a powerful nation is not neces-
sarily a happy one. The happiest country is that
which is rich, and in which wealth is distributed
with the nearest approach to equality that the pre-
servation of order and the security of all men's
rights will permit. The sacredness of the rights
of property must for ever prohibit the inter-
ference of the State to produce this equality by active
or direct means ; but nevertheless, though no Legis-
lature can properly interfere to correct the inequality
in the distribution of wealth, the means of preventing
that inequality growing to be an intolerable evil
are not hey end the reach of bold and wise
statesmen. .• There is no doubt much to undo, fur
needy all the legislation of the last half century,
down to the New Poor-law, has gone in the wrong
direction—has gone to make the rich richer and the
poor poorer, until at last morality and common sense
have been outraged by an arrogant claim, boldly
asserted, for " the rights of capital," a phrase which,
if it means anything, can only mean the right of the
rich to profit at their own discretion by the privation,
the extended labour, amid the sufferings of those who
are not rich.

FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
BOARD OF GREEN CLOTH, ST. JAMES'S
PALAcE, _APRIL 12, 1844.
Notice is hereby given, that the carriages coming to
her .Majestv's Drawing-room, on Thursday, the 18th of
April, are to fall into the line at the top of St. James's-
street, come do, n the left hand side, and enter at the
iron gate nearest to die Palace, set down at the Arcade.
return by the iron gate nearest to Marlborough-house,
and pass through Pall wall into St. James's square, by
George-street. When called, they are to pass from St.
James's-sluare, by Charles-street, into Regent-street,
dermyn-st r,-t.t, come down St. James's-street, as
!w-lore, take up,
.and go away through Pall-mall.
No hackney cAnrages will he permitted to come
within the ki;te:.. For all perons having the privilege
of the intiCe, tickets will be delivered at the Board of
Green Clili. on Tuesday next, between the hours
of eleven and three o'clock ; their 'carriages are to
euter the ert,e at Constitution-hill, pr.ceed down St.
Jame:-'s Park. through Staple-hard, into the Ambassa-
(Lr's•court, set down, and go out into Cleveland-row.
The carrite...ei of the Arnba-sadors, Foreign Ministers,
Ctabnii t Ministers, and Great Officers of State may
at erwards wUt in the Ambassadors'-court, and. those of
ether tersohs having the entree may wait in Stable-
yard or St. Ja,,es's-park till called ; they are then to
tak,, up in the stinie order as they had sat down, ar,d
lass away up the left-hand side of St. James's-
street. N'o carriage will be admitted with company a
send time with the same ticket, to prevent which, it
must be prod,,e. d at Constitution-hill-gate, and Stable.
yard-irate a!so, where a corner of it will be torn oft by
the Marshalnien in attendance ; and no person can be
allowed the privilege of the entree by any other approach
to the Palace than the gates last mentioned.
LIVERPOOL, Lord Steward.
MASTER OF THE HORSE'S OFFICE, keRII. 10.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint
Master George Grant Gordon to be Page of Honour to
her Majesty, vice Wernrss.
St. JAMES'S.-PALACE, MARCH 2 5.
The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of
Lord Forester, to appoint John James Robinson, Esq.,
one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen,
at-Arms, vice Matthew Clement Walker, who retires.
DOWNING-STREET, APRIL. 11. . - -
The Queen has been pleased to appoint A. M Mundy
Rig., to he Colonial Secretary for the province of South
Australia.

The Queen has also been pleased to appoint J. M.
Collier, Esq., to be Treasurer for the Island of Tobago.

- WAR-OFFICE APRIL 4.
MEMORANDUM.—Iier Majesty has been graciously
pleased to permit the 40th Regiment to bear on its rty,t-
mental or second colour, and likewise on its appoint-
ments, in addition to any other distinctions heretofore
granted, the Words " Candahar," " Ghuznee," and
" Cattbul," " 1842," in commemoration of the services of
itshttinel,teignimtrientyedaurrilnBg42th.e second campaign in Affghan-

WAR OFFICE, APRIL 12,
Sth Light Dragoons—Cornet E. Tomkinson to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Smythe, who retires ; the
Hon. 0. F. Toler to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Torn-
kinson, April 12.

Scots Fusilier Gu4rds—C. T. Wemyss,
.
Esq. (Page of
Honour to the Queen), to be Ensign and Lieutenant,
without purchase, Aprit 11 ; Lord B. T. M. Cecil to he
Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice the Hon. J.
W. Fortescue, who,e appointment has been cance;led,
April 12. . _

18th Foot—Lieut.-Colonel T. S. Reignolds, from 49th
Foot, to bo Lieutenant Colonel, vice -Adams, who ex-
changes, April 12.

24th Foot—Gent. Cadet, Hon. R. Handcock, from the
Royal .Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Woodgate, uho r,tires, April 12.
26th Foot--Gentleman cadet R. W. Clerke, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Sir G. Welker, Bart., appointed to the Coldstream
Guards, April 12.
49th Foot—Lieut.-Col. H. W. Adams, from the 18th
Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Reignolds, who ex-
chanties, April 12._

52;71 Foot—Lieut. J. H. Alleyne to be Captain, by
piirehaie, vice the Hon. H. C. Grey, who retires; Ensign'
L. 11. Peel to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alleyne ;
A. G. Corbet, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Peel, April 12.
59th Feot—Lieut. W. Fulton to be Captain, by pur-
chase. vieeiFuller who retires ; Ensign R. C. Holmes to
ptain E. J. Elliot to the Major, by pur-
chase, Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fulton ; E. F. B. S.
t,y purchase, vice Elliot, April
Stanhope, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Holmes,
April 12.
to have the rank
79tla Fo„t—Captain
chase, vice Ishain, who retires ; Lieutenant R. J. M.
Ensign W. A. Mainwaring to
be Lieutenant, by purchase. vice Napier ; 0. Graham,
Napier
ii:E. runtsotionganbn ate,nCd:ipc liliunliii i 1; t 11.
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Mainwaring,
April 12.
CE, APR'', 9.
ad West India Regiment—Lieutenant R. H. Mac-
donnell to be superseded, April 12.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant C. Lee, from the 77th
Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, April 12.
-MEMORANDUM.—The Christian names of Ensign
Coxon, of the 45th Regiment, are George Stacpo!e.
RoyaloFßFeglCimEenOt
Captain and Brevet
Major J. H. 'Wood to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Darby,
or William.
re-
tired on full pay ; Second Captain F. Weller to be Cap-
tain, vice Wood ; First Lieutenant T. B. F. Marriott to
be Second Captain, vice Weller ; Second Lieutenant
James Drummond Teller to be First Lieutenant,
Fp:OinAßraptniNidleAr)lCievet.m.i
vice Marriott ; Ca
Ernst Jackson to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice the Hon
W. Arbuthnot, retired on full -pay ; Second Captain T.
Knatchbull to be Captain, vice Jackson ; First Lieu-
tenant T. Elwyn to be Second Captain, vice Knatchbull ;
Second Lieutenant C. J. Strange to be First Lieutenant,
vice Elwyn ; Captain and 13, evet Major G. Durnford to
be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Macbean, retired on full-pay ; Se-
cond Captain J. H. St. John to beCaptain. vice Durnford ;
First. Lieut. C. J. Wright to be &eon! Captain, vice St.
John ; Screed Li,.ut. R. Gregory to be First Lieutenant,
vice Wright ; Second Capt. R. J. Daeres to be Captain,
vice Morgan, neired on full pay ; First Lieut. G. A.
F. Derinzy to he Second Captain. vice Dacres ; Second
Lieut. 11. P. Newton te be First Lieutenant, vice De
rinzy, April 1.
BANKRUPTS.
CHARLES CLACK. haberdasher, Beech-street. Bar -
hice.n, to surrender April 19, at half past two, and May
24, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell,
official assignee, Basinghall-street ; James, Basinghall-
stree t. _ ... . . .

SUSAN SAUNDERS, lodging-house keeper, Gol-
den-square, St. Jain, s's, April 23, at two, and May 22,
at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, offi-
cial assignee, Coleman-street ; Cheere, King's Bench-
walk, Tempe. .
FREDERICK WILLIAM PALMER, colonial broker,

Mincing-lane, April 23, at eleven, and May 14, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee,
Aldermanbury ; Shearman and Slater, Great Tower-
street.

NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY.
R. Dinham, farmer, Tiverton, Devonshire.
J. Johnson, beer-seller, Birmingham.
E. Gater, dressmaker, Oxford.
I. Cohen, jeweller, Hastings.
H. Channon, porter, Exeter.
J. Larkin, hatter, I?atcliffe-highway.
J. Bee, printer, 'rickhill, Yorkshire.
W. Pugh, grocer, Wednesbury, Staffordshire.
T. Hartshorn, beer retailer, Porto Bello, Staffordshire.
W. Mardon, piano-forte manufacturer, Great .Portland-
street, Cavendish-square.
M. Haynes, Weston-super-Mare, Somersetshire.
W. Dickin, land surveyor, Chorlton-upon-Medloek, Lan-

ca.shire.
F. Whitehead, mail-cart driver, Long Melford, Suffolk.
E. M. Buxton, lodging-housekeeper, Newington.
W. G. Stanaway, coach painter, Hammormith.
J. Burree, market gardener, Hale-street, Poplar.
T. Nixon, plumber, Kettering, Northampton.
W. K. Thurlow, licensed victualler, Chingford, Essex.
E. Newman, dealer in. hay, Westbury, Wiltshire.
J. Jewer, Pimlico.

P. M‘Nolty, currier, Chanies-street, Bedford-square.
J. R. Brook, printer, Rochester.
G. Rhodes, cutler, Sheffield.

C. Challiner, blacksmith; Rotherham, Yorkshire.
J. Wall, jun., Bristol.
H. C. Carter, carpenter, Hammersmith.
C. Chard, sen., miller, West Lydford, Somersetshire.
W. G. Sladden, Clrpton-square, clapton.
H. I. Sladden, Clapton-square, Oapton.
T. Johnston, travelling draper, Wellington, Shropshire.
E. Dolley, manufacturing perfumer, Meards-street, Soho.

Bourn, Lincolnshire, May 3—G. and S. Seccombe,
tailors, Tavistlck, May 3—J. Rushton, jun., livery
stable-keeper, Nottingham, May 3—J. W. Dyer, plumber,
Colchester, May 3—T. Hancock, coach smith, Canter-
bury, May 3—T. Megary, coal merchant, Love-lane,
City, May 3.