The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-02 00:00:00

PROMOTER LIFE ASSURANCE and AN-
NUITY COMPANY,
9, CHATHAM-PLACE, BLACKFRIARS, LONDON.
Established in 1826. _ _

• This Society is supported by an ample subscribed 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
Onlce.

A Bonus in ready money, at the.T4te, of 15 per cent. on the pre-
miums received (equivalent to a rdversiorfttry bonus of about 30
per cent.) was declared in May, 1842, on all beneficial policies on
which three annual premiums had been paid in the previous De-
cember.

A division of the profits takes place every five years, and the hold-
ers of beneficial policies can receive their bonuses in ready money, or
have them applied in augmentation of their policies, or in reduction
of their future premiums.
Assurers may contract to pay their Premiums either iu one sum, in
a given number of payments, in annual, half-yearly, or quarterly pay-
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. MICHAEL SAWARD, Secretary.

WHEREAS, a PETITION of WILLIAM
PORTER, No. 13, Upper Wellington-street, formerly
known as Charles-street, Covent-garden, in the county of Middlesex,
coffee-house-keeper, but formerly of No. 29, Bell-street, Paddington,
in the said county of Middlesex, then trading under the name of
David Procter, and then being a baker, having been ffied in the Court
of Bankruptcy, and the interim order for protection from process
having been given to the said William Porter, under the provisions of
an Act of Parliament passed in the Parliament holden in the fifth
and sixth years of the reign of her present Majesty, intituled "An
Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," the said William Porter is
hereby required to appear in Court before John Herman Merivale,
Esq., the Commissioner acting in the matter of the said petition, on
the 6th day of February, at eleven o'clock in the forenoon precisely,
at the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street, London, for the pur-
pose of being then and there examined touching his debts, estate, and
effects, and to be further dealt with according to the provisions of
the said Act. All persons indebted to the said William Porter, or
that have any of his effects, are not to pay or deliver the same but
to Mr. George Green, the official assignee, 18, Aldermanbury, nomi-
nated in that behalf by the Commissioner acting in the matter of the
said petition.

OILED LINENS.—The SAMPLE LINENS
L of those celebrated makers Knox and Co., for Irish linens, and
Beverage and Co for table linens, have been contracted for by
BROOKS and WIGHTWICK, in the Borough. These linens are
soiled only by showing to the trade as samples ; they are specimens
of the best made by these celebrated manufacturers, and are now
being sold at half the price of the same goods when clean. Splendid
damask table cloths, three yards long, 7s. Gd. each ; two yards
square, each 2s. Pd. ; five yards long superb damask cloths, suitable
for the table of the nobility, 20s. each ; fish napkins, 2s. Gd. the
dozen ; finest damask napkins, yard square, the dozen, 10s. Gch ;
Knox's extremely tine Coleraine Irish, twenty-six yards for 255. ;
stout and serviceable, twenty-six yards for 205., usually sold at Is. Gd.
per yard ; and a large lot of linen sheeting, commencing at 4s. 6d.
the pair, without a seam. Samples of these linens sent by horse and
cart to any part of town, or forwarded into the country if written
for, from Brooks and Wightwick's extensive establishment, 106,
High-street, Borough, facing the end of Union-street. The premises
being three hundred feet deep, country drapers will find it to their
advantage to call at the wholesale warehouse in King-street.