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THE TRADESMAN'S AN.P.J GENERAL
MUTUAL LIFE ASSUP.ANcE,
AND NATIONAL BEN
..FIT SOCIETY.
Enrolled and Empowered under ..:ne Acts of Parliament of the
10th George IV., and the 4t?'... and bth William IV., commonly
known as Tidd Pratt's Ajar
There are multitudes of Life Assurance Companies, but all are
directed to meet t.ne wants of classes superior to those contem-
plated by this or".dce. This establishment is peculiarly adapted to
the greatm',ddleclass of society. The professional man, the man
of liini`.ed income, the tradesman, the working man, all have
hith.erto looked in vain for an establishment adapted to their
'means, their desires, and their necessities. Societies with high
sounding titles, large nominal capitals, and long lists of noble,
honourable, and right honourable directors, have been established,
or attempted to be so ; but if the veil were withdrawn, it would be
found that the capital was in a great measure ideal, and the direc-
tors gentlemen who never could take an active part in working the
society, and never intended to do so. Morever, when those esta-
blishments have real capital and proper responsibility attached to
them, they are found to be merely 4' Proprietary Companies"
(i. e.) Companies of Shareholders who have to be paid a large per
tentage upon the proceeds before such proceeds can be appropriated
to the benefit of those who advance them.
The working classes have been greatly assisted in sickness and
misfortune by the operation of Benefit Societies; why, therefore,
should not the middle classes apply to that principle to remedy
their own peculiar wants and necessities Y It is true that some
evils have attended ill-regulated Assurance Companies, but the
misery entailed upon the lower class by corrupt and ill-conducted
Benefit Clubs has been infinitely greater. In a large majority of
Benefit Societies, the treasurer, or influential person, is a publican,
at whose house the meetings of the club are continually held. The
effect of such a state of things is highly prejudicial to the 001-
being of a Society formed expressly to provide against t!-,e contin-
gencies of accident, sickness, or other misfortune, by inducing a
waste of its means in the purchase of intoxicating liquors ; thus
prejudicing the health and morals of the '.-nembers, while the very
funds to meet the necessary calls neon its benevolence are dissi.
pated. This Society is formed to embrace, if possible, all the
excellencies of the Life Assurar.ice Establishment and the Benefit
Club.

The Tradesman's Inst:aution has been formed on the principle
of mutual assurance, t'ne wily woae by which, it is now generally
acknowledged, the advantages of life assurance can be realised,
and its legitimate benefits made available to the assured. All the
surplus premk'ams not required to meet the actual claims of the
Society 11'ing returned to the policyholders, instead of a large
portion being divided among the shareholders, as in Proprietary
Companies.

In reference to Societies founded on this plan, Professor De
Morgan remarks, that the risk at the commencement is not great
in character, and is small in amount; and the quantity of risk
diminishes so much faster than the amount increases, that it may
safely be said, there is nothing in the commercial world which
approaches even remotely to the security of a well-established and
prudently managed Mutual Insurance Office.

When it is considered, that out of the vast population of the
United Kingdom scarcely lto,ooo persons have yet availed them-
selves of the incalculable benefits derivable from life assurance, it is evi-
dent that there is a wide field yet open for the operations of another
society, established on sound working principles, and embodying
advantages of a nature calculated to arouse the attention of the
middle classes to the system, and still further to extend its
blessings.

On these grounds it is that the Tradesman's Life Assurance, and
National Benefit Society, has been brought before the public; and
when its principles and objects are fully understood, and it is made
eltar that the plans adopted are not only novel in their application,
but hold out benefits to a numerous and influential class of the
community, such as cannot be secured from any other existing so.
ciety, the Directors feel assured that the Society must necessarily
be extensively supported, and consequently be attended with signal
success.

The Tradesman's Mutual Life Assurance, and National Benefit
Society, in addition to the usual advantages offered by Life Assur-
ance Societies, secures the long-desired desideratum of a liberal
provision in sickness and accident, as well as in old age ; thus
combining all the benefits derivable from Sick Clubs, on an ex-
tended and respectable scale, white at the same time, it carefully
and entirely avoids their universally acknowledged evils.
To the tradesman, professional man, and middle classes gene.
rally, an Institution of this comprehensive nature must obviously
be of the greatest importance, as it places them in a position to
reap advantages far beyond those which have been held out by
Benefit or any other Societies, and to a much greater extent. It
in fact opens to them an entirely new field for the application of
prudence and forethought, not only realising benefits to their fa-
milies, but providing for their own personal comforts, against the
contingent calamities of disease and accident, and against want,
destitution, and distress in old age.

The poorer classes subscribe largely to Sick Clubs for the purpose
of securing a protection against the contingencies of accident and
disease, but the middle clas'„es have no approximating Institution
to which they can reso:',. There is no fund in existence to which
the respectable tratiesrnan, the professional man, or others of mo-
derate incomes, mainly dependent en their own personal exertions,
can apply for adequate provision in times of sickness or accident;
nor is there any extensive Association in which they can accumu.
late their savings with security and profit, and at the same time
make them beneficially available in sickness, old ago, and death.
This great desideratum is now offered by the Tradesman's Mutual
Life Assurance, and National Benefit Society :—By the payment
of moderate premiums, the sum of 1/. to 51. per week may be se.
cured in sickness or accident, an annuity for life after a certain
age, and a provision for a family at death—combined advantages of
so important a nature, as to justify the Directors in anticipating
an extraordinary measure of success.

The rates of premiums adopted by this Society are calculated
on a scale somewhat lower than those of many Assurance-offices,
but at the same time they are sufficiently high to afford perfect se.
curity even under the most adverse circumstances. Indeed the
law of mortality is now understood as admitting of so little fiuctua.
tion when applied to a considerable number of persons, especially
those constituting the members of a Mutual Assurance Society,
that the general application of that law in framing scales of pay-
ments must necessarily be comparatively easy; and a Society for
Mutual Assurance at given rates of premium, can ascertain the
extent of its ability to meet all its engagements, with nearly the
same arithmetical accuracy as a trader who purchases a commodity
at a certain price and sells it at a certain profit.
Assurers for the whole term of life on the participating scale on
their own lives, or on the lives of others, will alone be considered
members, and the bonuses arising from the surplus funds will be
applied to the reduction of the future premiums, or in addition to
he sums assured.

To each policy, as it becomes a claim, will be added its full pro-
portionate share of the accumulated profits. _

DEBTS —For assurances effected by way of security for loans
of money, and in many cases where the least possible present out_
lay is desirable, the premiums of this Society, as detailed in the
Table for Short Terms, will be found peculiarly favourable. In
assuring the lives of debtors, however, for the whole term of their
lives, it is often an important consideration to the creditor, that
not only the amount of debt should be secured, but that some
means should be adopted for the return of the premiums when
the life drops. In many cases the policy is kept on foot by the
creditor, who pays the premiums, and thus entails upon himself a
certain eventual loss, whenever the life fails, without any hope of
remedy. In this Office, however, this contingency is provided
against by tables calculated fur the purpose; and creditors who
assure the lives of their debtors for the whole term of life, may not
only secure the debt, but also the return of all the premiums paid,
with a participation in the profits whenever the life fails; and
should the claims be paid off previous to the death of the assured,
and the assurer wish to surrender the policy, two-thirds of all the
premiums paid will be returned.
LOANS,—Two-thirds of the gross amount of the Premiums
paid, will, after the third years' payment, be at any time lent to
the assured, en the deposit of his policy alone, at the rate of 5
per cent. interest, per annum, payable in advance, to be paid off
at the convenience of the borrower, or deducted from the amount
of assurance at death. But non.payment of interest and premiums
will entail the forfeiture of the policy.
PURCHASE OF POLICIES. —" Institutions," says Mr.
Watt, " have to apprehend most danger from their rivals adopting
equitable principles in the
.purchase of policies. Hitherto Life
Offices have taken a gross advantage of misfortune; that is, a
party who is under the necessity of surrendering a life policy, is
never allowed from the office a fair consideration for the surrender.
The principle of returning the amount of premiums received, ins-
proved with their annual interest, under deduction of the amount
of annual risk and a proportion of the expense of management, has
never hitherto been conceded by Life Offices, as a right the
assured have to expect from an Assurance Company. Various
Offices have been in the habit of making advances to the amount
of the office value of the policy, but this does not meet the principle
nor the equity of the accommodation. We want the concession
of the principle, that a policy-holder may safely be made banker
to the Association to the amount his computed premiums exceed
in amount the risk run by the Office from year to year."

The Directors of this Society now make this concession, and
admit the principle. They give the full value, merely deducting
the proportion of office expenses, for the surrender of any policies
of three years' standing that may be offered to them, thus obviating
the fear of serious loss, in the event of the assured not being able
to keep up the payments.

CREDIT SYSTEM—In addition to the advantages enumerated
above, the Society will give credit for one half the annual pre-
miums during the first five years, the assured having the option of
then paying up the remaining half-premiums, or of leaving the
amount as a charge on the policy, to be eventually deducted from
the assurance at death; thus enabling parties to effect assurances
en their lives, and to secure a provision for their families, who
might otherwise be compelled to wait till a remote period, when
declining health would render them altogether ineligible.
POLICIES after five years standing, on being deposited with
the Directors, may also be kept in force by the annual payment of
half the premium and interest on all arrears, in which case, the
remaining portion of the premiums may be deducted from the sum
assured, when the policy shall become a claim.
DEFERRED ANNUITIES, or PROVISION for OLD AGE.
The arrangements made by this Society with regard to Deferred
Annuities, or Provision for Old Age, and the combined benefits
which they offer, will be found, on reference to the tables, of the
very greatest importance to all classes of society. According to
Tables XI., XII., and XIII., it will be seen that Annuities may
be secured at 50, 55, 60, or 65, with the option of receiving an
equivalent in Cash on arriving at the age stipulated ; that two-
thirds of all I'remiums may be borrowed after the Third Annual
Payment ; and that in case of death before the stipulated age,
three fourths of all money that has been paid will be returned to the
Representatives of the Assured.
A Provision of 11. per week in Sickness and Accident up to any
age, will be granted out of the moneys contributed by each Mem.
ber, after the Third Annual Premium, excepting always 5 per cent.
paid into the guarantee fund ; an Annuity of 251. after 65 years of
age until death ; and 1001. at death ; or larger amounts in propor-
tion; thus combining all the most important advantages to which
Life Assurance is applicable.
ENDOWMENTS.—Sums of Money, or Endowments, may be
secured for Children, at the ages of 14 or 21 ; or by Adults at the
ages of 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, or at death, if that event happen
this plan, parties may themselves
before the age specified. By
reap time fruits of their savings, and realise a provision for after-
life, at an age when they may wish to retire from active duties,
or may be incapacitated from continuing their usual avocations;
or should death occur previous to the age specified, the full amount
will be paid to the representatives.
Assurances may also be effected on Joint Lives or Survivorships.
From the foregoing remarks it will be seen, that the advan.
tages held out by the Tradesman's Life Assurance and National
Benefit Society are of paramount importance to the Middle Classes,
and to all such as depend on health and industry for
Fund the mainte-
nance and comfort of their families, as providing a against
Sickness and Accident; a protection for Old Age; and a remedy
against numerous frightful contingencies, for which a moderate un-
certain income affords no adequate provision.
Applications for Prospectuses, and other information, may be
Lade to Messrs. Badham and Houghton, Solicitors to the Imam.
ties, 4, Verulara.buildings, Gray's Ina.

ROYAL POLYTECJINIC INSTITUTION.
The PROTEOSCOPE, au original Optical InStrnment, unli-
mited in its appliances to Nature and Art, a highly valuable addition
to LONGBOTTOM'S OPAQUE MICROSCOPE. The Pictorial Il-
lustration of the Passions, from Collins's Ode, with 'Focal and Instru-
mental Music, is the first subject exhibited by the PHYSIOSCOPE,
at a Quarter to Five o'clock in the Afternoon, and at a Quarter to
Ten' in the Evening. Dr. RYAN'S present daily Lecture is on
POISONS and their ANTIDATES, at half-past Three, and On the
Evenings of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at a Quarter to
Nine. Professor BACHHOFFNER Lectures on the alternate Eve-
nings. The Lectures abound in Interesting Experiments. Tho
HYDRO-ELECTRIC MACHINE, DIVING-BELL and DIVER,
&c.—The Music is Composed and Conducted by T. WALLIS, Mus.
Doc. Admission, Is.; Schools, Half-price.

TO BE SOLD, the LEASE of COMMODIOUS
PREMISES In THROGMORTON-STREET, formerly used
as a Banking-house.
For particulars apply t) Mr. B. L. Jones, Little Moarflelds; or to
Mr. Baylis, Solicitor, Redcre,,ss-arecte City.

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital £lOO,OOO.
Empowered by Act of Parliament,
DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The steady saccese and increasing prosperity of the Society has
enabled the Directors, at the last al-lanai investigation declare a
second Bonus, averaging 60 per cent. on the amounts inve ed on each
Policy erected on the Front scale.

ALLIANCE BRITISH and FOREIGN LIFE
AND FIRE ASSURANCE COMPANY.

This is to give notice, that the Profits of the Fire Assurance
Branch of the Company, appropriated to the Assured at the last
Quinquennial Meeting of the Company, will be in COURSE of
PAYMENT at the Office, No. 1, Bartholomew-lane, London, and
at the various Agencies throughout the kingdom, on and after
FRIDAY, the Ist November ensuing, from Eleven to Three o'clock.
The Policy Holders entitled to participate, are such as were as-
sured on the 3d of April last, on which day the profits were de-
clared, and who had made Five consecutive Annual Payments of
Premium previous to the 25th of March. Parties applying to par-
ticipate are requested to bring to the Office the last receipts issued
by the Office for their Premiums, or their Policies of Assurance.
A. HAMILTON, Secretary.
1, Bartholomew-lane, October 18, 1844.

BURGESS' ESSENCE of ANCHOVIES,
Warehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savoy-steps, London

JOAN BURGESS and SON, being apprised of the numerous en-
deavours made by many persons to impose a spurious article for their
make, feel it incumbent on them to request the attention of the
public, in purchasing what they conceive to be the original to eh-
serve the Name and Address correspond with the above. The gene-
ral appearance of the spurious descriptions will deceive the un-
guarded ; and, for their detection, J. B. and Son, submit the following
cautions:—Some are in appearance at first sight, '• the genuine," but
without name or address ; some " Burgess's Essence of Anchovies,"
and others " Burgiss's ;" and many more without address. John
Burgess and Son, having been many years honoured with suck dis-
tinguished approbation, tbel every sentiment of respect towards the
public, and earnestly solicit thorn to inspect the labels previous to
purchasing what they conceive to be of their make, which they bops
will prevent many disappointments.
BURGESS' NEW SAUCE, for general purposes, having given such
great satisfaction, continues to be prepared by them, and is recom-
mended as a most useful and convenient sauce ; will keep good Is all
climates.

Warehouse, 107, STRAND, corner of the Savoy-steps, London.
The Original Fish-sauce Warehouse.

ARCHER'S ROYAL PATENT FLANNEL,
warranted not to shrink in washing.

S. ARCHER begs to acquaint the Public that his PITENT FLAN-
NEL is sold wholesale in London on'y by Messrs. J. and R. Morley,
Wood-street ; Messrs. J. B. and W. Nevill and Co., Maiden-lane ;
and Messrs. Ward, Sturt, Sharp, and Ward, Wood-street ; and retail
by all the drapers and hosiers in England. He also wishes to acqrtaint
the public there is no patent flannel in being but his, and it has on
the head end of each piece stamped, Archer's Royal Patent Flannel,
warranted not to shrink in washing, and the public will find it to
improve with washing, and be found more durable than any otter
flannel to the consumer.

SILVER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
and injurious Metals, called Nickel and German Silver, sup-
planted by the introduction of a new and perfectly matchless
ALIIATI PLATE.

C. WATSON, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Folgate, aided by
a person of Science in the amalgamation of Metals, has succeeded in
bringing to Public Notice the most beautiful Article over yet offered ;
possessing all the richness of Silver in appearance, with all its dura-
bility and hardness—with its perfect sweetness in use, undergoing, as
it does, a Chemical Process, by which, all that is nauseous in mixed
Metals is entirely extracted—resisting all Acids—may be cleaned as
silver, and is manufactured into every Article for the Table and
Sideboard :

Fiddle. Threaded. King's.
Table Spoons aid Forks, 168. 6d. doz. 30e. 355.
Desert Ditto ..
Tea Spoons• • • •• • • bs. 6d. —12 s. 6d. 13s. 6d.
Sugar Tongs
C. WATSON begs the Public will understand that this Metal is
peculiarly his own, and that Silver is not more different from Gold
than his metal is froin all others—on its intrinsic merit alone he
wishes it to be tested, and from the daily increasing eulogiums he re-
ceives, he is convinced that nothing can prevent its becoming an
article of universal wear.

C. Watson's handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Currant
is just published, and Families who regard economy and elegance
should possess themselves of this useful Book, which may be had
Gratis, and Post Free, from the above ♦ddress.

CARSON'S ORIGINAL ANTI-CORROSION
PAINT, especially patronised by the British and other Go.
vermnents, the Don East India Company, the principal Dock Coal-
papier, and most public bodies, is particularly recommended to the
nobility, gentry, agriculturists, manufacturers, West India prof
prietors, and others, it having been proved, by the practical test °-
nearly tit) years, to surpass all other paints as an out-sioor preserva-
tive. It is adapted for every description of iron, wood, stone, brick,
compo, or stucco work, however exposed to sun or weather. It is
also very economical, any labourer being able to lay it on, thereby
avoiding the enormous charges generally made by painters. Colours
--light stone, drab, or Portland ditto, Bath ditto, yellow ditto, light
arid dark lead, light and dark chocolate, bright and dark red and
black, 345. per cwt. ; invisible green, 50s. ; bright and deep green,
COs: per cwt.: in casks of 281 b., 561 b., and 1121 b. each. Oil and
brushes. More detailed particulars will be sent free of post. The
original Anti-Corrosion Paint is only to be obtained of Walter Carson
successor to the inventors), 15, Token house-yard, back of the Bank
of England, who will show upwards of ONE HUNDRED VOLUN.
TAR TESTIMONIALS from the Nobility, Gentry, and Clergy,
who have used the Anti-Corrosion for many years. No agents. All
)rders to he seut direct

PATRONISED BY HER MAJESTY, HIS ROYAL HIGH-
NESS PRINCE ALBERT, THE ROYAL FAMILY? AND
NOBILITY, AND THE SEVERAL SOVEREIGNS AND

COURTS OF EUROPE.
ROWLAND'S MACASSOR OIL, for the
Growth and Preserving and Beautifying the !Inman Hair.
l'rice N. 6d., is., Family Bottles (equal to four small), 10s. NI,
and double that size, 21s.
CAUTION.—The words '4 Rowland's Macassar Oil" are engraved
on the Wrapper of each genuine bottle; and on the hack of the
Wrapper 1,500 times, containing 28,028 letters. Without this,
" None are genuine."
ROWLAND'S KALYDOR
or Improving and Beautifying the Skin and Complexion. Price
(3d. and Bs. dd. per bottle, duty included.
ROWLAND'S ODONTO,
or PEARL DENTRIFICE, renders the Teeth beautifully White,
and preserves the Gums. Price 2s. Skl. per box, duty included.
CAUTION,
Unprincipled Shopkeepers, for the sake •f* gaining a trifle mere
profit, vend the most deleterious compounds as the " genuine"
MACASSAR OIL, KALYDOR, and ODONTO. It is therefore
necessary on purchasing either article, to see the word " ROW-
LAND'S" is on the Wrapper. For the protection of the Public from
fraud and imposition, the Honourable Commissioners of her Ma.
jesty's Stamps have authorised the Proprietor's Signature to be on.
graved on the Government Stamp thus :
A ROWLAND & SON, 20, HATTON-GARDEN ;
which is affixed on the KALYDOR and ODONTO.

Sold by them and by Chemists and Perfumer%
•• • All others are FRADULENT COUNTERFEITS.

FORD'S PECTORAL BALSAM OF HORE-
HOUND, prepared by Mr. FORD, the PATENTEE.
This celebrated Medicine still maintains its high position in public
estimation. For the cure of Coughs, Colds, Influenza, and Pulmo-
nary complaints, it remains without a competitor. The well—known
properties of the herb, with the elegance and extraordinary Bal.
samic qualities of this preparation of it, has secured for the Pectoral
Balsam of Horehound the highest and most extensive patronage.
Sufferers from the complaints above mentioned, are earnestly recom.
mended to have recourse to this medicine ; one trial will convince
the most sceptical of its healing qualities. Influenza and common
Colds will be found to yield to its benign influence in a few hours ;
and in Asthmatic complaints, of however long standing, allevia, ion
and relief will certainly follow the use of it.

Mr. Ford respectfully requests purchasers to observe that his sig-
nature will be on the outside wrapper to each bottle, and that the
name of his sole wholesale agent, Mr. Edwards, 67, St. Paul's Church-
yard, is engraved on the Government Stamp. Sold in bottles at
Is. rd„ 2s. 9d , 46. 6d., and 101. 6d. each, by Sanger, 150, Oxford-
street; White, 14, Cornhill, opposite the Royal Exchange; and by
most respectable Chemists.

THE neTer-failing effects of BLAIR'S GOUT
and RHEUMATIC PILLS in curing every description of
Gout and Rheumatism, have secured to them a celebrity unequalled
by any Medicine of past or present times.„,ilThey not only give relief
in a few hours, where the patient has been drivels *early to madness
by the excruciating tortures of this disease, but restore to perfect
health in an inconceivably short space of 'ime. They are equally
speedy and certain in rheumatism, either chronic or acute, lumbsgo,
eclat ca, pains in the head or face, aid indeed for every rheumatic
or gouty affection; in fact, such has been the rapidity, perfect ease,
and complete safety of this medlcine that it has astonished all who
have taken it, and there is scarcely a city, town, cr village in the
kingdom, but contains many grateful evidences of its benign influen e.
The following case selected from among those with which the pro-
prietor has been favoured, is submitted to the public :
Te MIL PROM', 229, STRAND.
Hurst, Sussex, Nov. 6 1F43.
Sir,—l have the pleasure to inform you that a / erson holding an
official situation, noticing in one of my bills that 1 was agent for
Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, was induced to try them; he sent
for a box, and had only taken them one day before he found wonder-
flul relief. The second day he was able to walk without his crutches,
and on the fourth day was cenapletely cured and able to perform his
ordinary occupation.
l'revious to this he was generally laid up every year for several
weeks, after leeches and fomentatioas had been applied, and medi.
sine, taken to no purpose. I have obtained the above statement from
a personal interview, aid have sent this for publication if you think it
worthy, and shall be mo t happy at any time to satsify any party
desirous of ascertaining its authenticity.—l am, Sir, your obedient
servant THOMAS WYBORN, Chemist.

Sold by Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London, and by his appoint-
ment by all respectable medicine vendors throughout the United
Kingdom. Price I's. 9d. per box.
Ask for Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, and observe the name
and address of " Thomas Prout, 229, Strand, London," impressed
3,Qcfnhe Government Stamp affixed to each box of the genuine

LONDON, CHATHAM, and NORTII KENT
ILAY.
CAPITAL 1,230,0001. R A , in 25W,000 SHARES of 501. each.
Deposit 31. per Share.
...PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE.
JOHN ANGERSTEIN, Esq., of Weeting Hall, Suffolk.
Sir BROOK W. BRIDGES, Bart, Goodnestone, Kent.
JOSEPH BAILEY, jun. Esq., ALP., 13elgrave.square-
J. C. COLQUHOUN, jun.,
M.P., Putney-heath.
Lieut.-General Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS, Bart., G.C.8.,
G.C.M.G., M.P., Green-street.
Sir ISAAC LYON GOLDSMID, Bart., St. John's Lodge, Re-
gent's-park,
CHARLES Ms GAREL, Esq., Wimp°le-strect.
FREDERICK MILDRED, Esq., Nicholas-lane.
WILLIAM C. MYLNE, Esq., New River Head.
WILLIAM PETERS, Esq., Nicholas-lane.
J. D. POWLES, Req., New 13ank.buildings.
H. T. PRINSEP, Esq., Hyde Park-gardens.
OSHUA WALKER, Esq., Abchurch.lane.
GEORGE WHITMORE, Esq., Austin Friars,

INGINEER.
CHARLES VIGNOLES, Esq., F.R.A.S., M.R.I.A.
COUNSEL.
FRANCIS HENRY GOLDSMID, Esq., Stone-buildings, Lin.

. _ .
coin's Inn.
SOLICITOR.
WILLIAM STEPHENS Esq., 30, Bedford.row.
IN LONDON.—Messrs. MASTERMAN,
134iNRIIRS.
PETERS, MILDRED,
MASTERMAN, and CO.
IN DUBLlN.—Messrs. BOYLE, LOW, PIM, and CO.
IN LIYERPOOL.—THE LIVERPOOL BANKING COMPANY
IN MANCIIESTIIR.—Sir BENJAMIN HEYWOOD, Bart., and CO'

Since the Prospectus of this Railway was issued to the Public,
the South-Eastern Company have laid out a Line of Railway from.
Ashford, by Canterbury to Ramsgate and Margate, under the
powers of their Act of the last Session. This circumstance has
induced the Committee to reconsider that part of the Plan,
by which was proposed to carry out the Railway from Fever.
sham to Ramsgate and Margate by a Coast Line, with a view to
the substitution of another Line, which should fall Into the Ash-
ford branch at or near Canterbury; by such a junction, a direct
Railway communication will equally be extended to Ramsgate and
Margate, while an important accommodation will also be afforded
to Canterbury and its neighbourhood, and the Line itself will be
made capable of extension to several other important points on the
Coast, which at present have not the benefit of Railway intercourse.
The Committee have determined upon this modification after a
mature consideration of its advantages, and they have the satisfac-
tion of knowing that it is In accordance with the wishes of the baba.
hitants of the district, through which it is proposed the Line shall
pass ; a direct Railway communication will thus be effected be-
tween Canterbury, Chatham, and Woolwich, and between all those
Important Depots and the Metropolis; and the important traffic of
Canterbury will be added to the estimated returns of the Company.

The Line, as proposed to be modified, will commence, as origi.
nally laid down, at London.bridge, and will proceed round Green.
wich.park, by Blackheath, Charlton, 'Woolwich, Plumstead, Wick.
ham, Bexley Heath, Crayford, Dartford, Stone, and Northfieet, to
Gravesend, and thence to Stroed, Rochester, Chatham, and Bromp.
ton, crossing the Medway by a permanent bridge, and thence by
Rainham, Milton, Sittingbourne and Faversham, to Chilham and
Canterbury, falling into the Ashford branch at or near the latter
City.

The Committee will at the same time apply for powers to com-
plete the Line to Ramsgate and Margate, in case the South-Eastern
Company shall not effectually carry out their Line.
The undertaking will remain subject to any modifications which
may be considered advisable by the Committee, or be required by
the Government.

In the original Prospectus, the estimates of cost and traffic were
given in detail, showing a return equal to at least eight per cent.
upon a capital of 1,500,0001.

By the proposed modification of the Line, the capital will be re-
duced t• 1,250,0001., and by this reduction, and the accession of
additional traffic, in consequence of the extension to Canterbury,
the Committee feel assured that the profits will be considerably in.
creased to the Shareholders.

As a proof of the very moderate statements of traffic, upon which
the revenue was calculated in the original Prospectus, it may be
stated that according to official returns recently promulgated, the
number of persons who arrived at, and embarked from, Gravesend,
between the Ist of June and the 30th of September, in the present
year, a period of four months only, amounted to 1,491,923, ex.
ceeding by nearly 200,000 persons, the number assumed in the
Prospectus to pass to and from Gravesend in the entire year.
The Committee have been induced to defer the allotment of
Shares pending the consideration of this contemplated change in
the lower part of their Line, and the new survey rendered necessary
thereby ; but they now intend to proceed to the allotment imme-
diately after the 29th inst., and no application for Shares will be
received after that day.

A deposit of W. per share will be payable on the allotment taking
place, and at the same:time the Subscribers' Assent, and Parlia-
mentary Contract must be signed.

. _
The Committee, however, feel so confident in the superiority
and advantages of the proposed Line, that they engage to return
the whole amount of the deposits, without any deduction, should
their Line not be approved of by the Board of Trade.

. . -.--.
Prospectuses maybe obtained at the Solicitor's Office, No. 30,
Bedford.row, and further applications for Shares must be made to
the Provisional Committee only, at their Office, No. 13, Austin
Friars, Old Broad.street, London.
London, Oct. 18, 1844.
FORM OF APPLICATION.

LONDON, CHATHAM, AND NORTH KENT RAILWAY.
I request you will allot to me Shares of 601. each, in the
proposed London, Chatham, and North Kent Railway Company,
and I hereby agree to take the same, or such portion thereof as
may be allotted to me, and to pay the deposit of 3/. per Share
thereon, and execute, when required, the Parliamentary Contract
and Subscribers• Agreement.
Dated this day of 1844.

Name
Residence
Trade or Profession OOO
To the Provisional Committee of the London,
Chatham, and North Kent Railway.

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IRELAN D.
THE FEDERAL MOVEMENT.

DUBLIN OCT. 19.—The Mercantile Advertiser, a
commercial journal, seldom taking part in politics,
contains the following announcement :—" We have
learned that an important movement is in contempla-
tion, in reference to federal legislation for Ireland.
At present it would be premature to enter into de-
tails ; but, we have been informed, that in the course
of the next week decided steps will be taken to bring
the subject under public notice." It has been com-
municated to us that this statement refers to a meet-
ing of federalists, to be held in Belfast in the course
of the next week.
The recent letter of Mr. O'Connell is still the chief
topic of several of the newspapers here. The Dublin
_Evening Mail, replying to the Evening Post, declines
all co-operation with the federal movement.
" The Conservatives of Ireland (says the Orange
organ) deplore the aberrations of the Minister in
whom they put their trust ; but they know that that
Minister is not the principal of their party confedera-
tion, nor the embodyment of their party connexion
and power ; and they know that if he neither will
return to his duty of his own accord, nor be controlled
by his friends and supporters into measures more
accordant with his original professions, he may—nay,
he must, fall—fall by his own hands, and by them
alone ; and that his loss will not be missed by a party
too wise to weaken itself by disunion, by disruption,
by amalgamation with any of the discordant rival
elements which surround it. No. The Conserva-
tives will check—will control—will dismiss, if need
be—Sir Robert Peel ; but they ,will not break up
their own party—they will not exclude their own
principles from power and office, for the sake of help-
ing Mr. O'Connell to help the Whigs into place.
They will stand by the Legislative union to the
death, but they will form no federal union between
Whigs and Repealers."
The Freeman's Journal, the morning repeal organ,
thus concludes an article on the subject :—" As to
Mr. O'Connell's declaration respecting this national
federalism, we know not what anticipated movements,
or what just and wise expectation of conciliating par-
ties, who would not themselves make the first propo-
sition, may have drawn it forth before the federalists
themselves have make any public move. We know,
however, that the Irish people justly confide in him,
and that he would not unnecessarily distract the
power of this people by directing their attention at
this moment to a department of this international con-
troversy that it behoves England to look after rather
than Ireland. If there did not remain a portion of
our own people to be conciliated and won into our
ranks, by giving them ample assurance that repeal
does not mean separation, O'Connell's motto would
still be, ' Let Ireland make sure of the repeal, Eng-
land will be forward enough to look after the federa.

tive connexion."
Mr. Duffy, the editor of the Nation, has addressed
a letter to Mr. O'Connell, condemning as dangerous
and inexpedient any junction of the Repeal Associa-
tion with the federal movement.

The following is the letter :
" TO DANIEL O'CONNELL, M.P.

" My dear Sir,—As you state in your late important
letter to the Association that you are at presen t
balancing the respective merits of repeal and fede-
ralism, I am anxious to throw a few thoughts on the
subject loosely before you. If I were still a member
of the Association, I would do so there ; as lam not
I prefer the familiar medium of a letter to the less
kindly and respectful one of a newspaper article. I
learned, during the three happy months I spent in
Richmond, how considerate you can be of adverse
opinions—how courteously you treat, and, and how
candidly you weigh them—a circumstance which I
would be equally unwilling to forget or abuse.
" You are aware that I am not prejudiced against
federalism. Last year there was an unjust and un-
reasoning clamour against it among repealers of great
enthusiasm and small capacity. They called it names,
made jokes about it, and did everything but try to
understand it. At the risk of abuse and misrepre-
sentation, I, and those working with me in the
Aration, stood in the way of this prejudice, claiming
the federalists as allies, and demanding soft words
and fair treatment for them. We insisted that men
of trained intellects, and great personal respectability,
who had formed their opinions deliberately, were en-
titled to have them treated with respect. We asked
and obtained for them a recognition of that principle,
without which co-operation is impossible—' the right
of differing.' It is clear, then, that prejudice is out of
the question.
" But I confess I should be sorry to see repealers
go any further in that direction. The federalists
are useful allies, but most unsafe leaders. As we are
going the same road, it is good to march cordially
along with them; but those who go farthest are
clearly entitled to go foremost. We ought not to
change or confound our places.
" You see I assume, and I think it is capable of
easy demonstration, that whether federalism be a
better thing than repeal, or a worse thing, it is at all
events a totally different thing.
" I think it essentially a worse thing.
"In the first place, the Imperial Representation,'
on which it is based is calculated to pertuate our moral
and intellectual subjection to England. It will teach
the aristocracy still to turn their eyes to London as
the scene of their ambition. It will continue to train
them in English manners, feelings, and prejudices;
and to establish permanently a centre of action apart
from their native country. By the same process it
will plant deeper the physical evil of absenteeism. It
will compel our Lords and Commons to reside out of
the country, and continue the drain upon our re-
sources, on which you found so strong an argument
for repeal. In this respect I think it a .worse cure
for absenteeism than Dr. Maunsell's teetotum Par-
liament.

"In the second place it becomes necessary to can-
vass the use of this imperial representation. Cuibono?
We are asked to give up a part of the powers and
prerogatives of our domestic legislation to secure an
influence in the Parliament of ithe empire, and we
ought to be shown very distinctly the benefits that
will flow from it. how will an Irish minority :then
be able to influence a House where it is powerless
now ? A strong and substantial claim for domestic
legislation arises out of the difference with which our
interests are treated by the English majority—what
guarantee is there, or can there be, that it will be
different hereafter ? This is a subject which I respect-
fully think claims your earnest attention.
" In the third place, federalism, as it is interpreted
by some of the soundest men of that party, demands
local Parliaments for the three divisions of the em-
pire, and an imperial one in common. Now, if this
principle be insisted upon, federalism is an imprac-
ticability, for it implies a re-organisation of the Bri-
tish Constitution. Apart from any other objection to
it, it raises a new and tremendous difficulty which
does not exist against repeal. IVe want to restore an
institution of which we have been robbed ; the
federalists, who insist upon pushing their principle
as far as it will go, want a reconstruction of the em-
pire upon a new basis. If lam not deceived in be-
lieving this to be the object of the party, are we not
wooing shipwreck, if we embark in the same boat
with them ?

" Moreover, some of the federalists do not con-
template a House of Lords for Ireland. They would
give us a legislative council, consisting of one
chamber. Here we have a second innovation, and, of
course, a second difficulty. They ask a thing foreign
to the British Constitution, and a thing which, for
that very reason (however good it may be intrin-
sically), would undoubtedly be refused. But is it
good ? It would leave us a demi-Parliament, about
as useful relatively to an entire one as half a pair of
scissors to the whole ; and it would exile the chief
landed proprietors in the country—viz., the Peerage.
Very bigoted and heartless that Peerage may be ; but
while it possesses the soil of the country, our business
is to keep it under home influences. The section of
the federalists who would have no Peers in our do-
mestic legislature, while they would have them in
the Imperial Parliament, contrive to make absenteeism
a duty.
"lederalism appears to attract you chiefly becauser
it seems to provide a better security than repeal
sfo
the connexion with England ; and I amn?
t
lonnge party in
ssuronped
rithat
at this when I recollect your strongfee
subject. But you (or Ireland)
the other;
but
other; and she is
this transaction ; England is
keen and selfish enough to secure her own interets,
whatever form the alliance may take. You are the
'
arbitrator, not for both countries, but for Ireland.
The gentlemen on
the other side will take care of the
stability of the bargain.
"Federalism has undoubtedly the advantage of re-
peal in one point : it is less hated—ignorance and
Prejudice have not blown it. Anti-repealers are not
trained to regard it as a raw-head-and-bloody-bones.
They look with comparative calmness upon it, and
are certainly more likely to become reconciled to it
than to repeal. But it would not be in a better, but
a worse condition, for effecting this purpose, if the
national party adopted it to a man. The Lords used
to think it an excellent
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13111 s, that they were countenanced by O'Connell;
and I fear party prejudice at home would treat fede-
ralism in the same way. To be misunderstood and
misrepresented, is the tax upon greatness ; and since
you are a millionaire, you cannot complain of being
taxed in proportion.
" But it has this advantage, It has on the other
hand the pervading and incurable evil of aiming in the
wrong direction. Its prevailing idea is England, as
that of repeal is Ireland. The two principles might
be represented by lines running parallel, but tending
to opposite directions. Which you will choose, upon
mature deliberation, I have little doubt.

" Forgive me if I take a step further, and question
the policy of embracing federalism. This is beside
my original purpose ; but as no sovereign prince of
the world of public opinion was ever more tolerant of
counsel, I do not fear that you may dismiss my sug-
gestions without seine consideration. At all events,
since I have been a pseudo martyr, I have some kind
of claim to be a real confessor.
" I am fully convinced, then, that if federalism were
desirable, it would be retarded, not advanced, by the
national party falling back upon it. With all
respect for the federalists, it must be said that they,
are haunted by a petty and ridiculous fear of agita-
tion. Perhaps they have not the vigour for it—
perhaps their habits disincline them to publicity—but,
at all events, they have always kept carefully a day's
march behind the people. If you had commenced by
asking federalism three years ago, the majority of
these men would be speculating at this hour upon
`justice to Ireland,' and the restoration of the Whigs.
This may not be true of individuals, but it is true of
the party ; and I prophecy that, if you ever, by any
chance, fall back upon their ground, you will find it
deserted. Federalism is the shadow of repeal—it re-
cedes and advances with it, and you cannot get nearer
to it or farther from it.

" Again, they are a juste milieu party, between re-
pealers and anti-repealers—the precise convenience
which the Ministry and the people may require to
open a negotiation. Sir Robert Peel could offer to
Mr. Caulfield or Mr. Porter what he dare not offer to
Daniel O'Connell—for the English aristocracy will
never forgive you your triumphs. Would it not be
well to leave this bridge where it stands ? _ _

" I learn from the Whig journals, and from the
report in all men's mouths, that the federalists are
about to make a decided movement, embracing men
that we had no hope of twelve months ago. This is
well—it strengthens you tenfold in overthrowing the
present system; but it leaves the policy of a junction
with them where it got it. That must stand or fall
upon other grounds.
" I do not gather from your letter that if you
settled down into a preference for federalism, you con-
template proposing the adoption of that principle by
the Association. I earnestly hope you do not. Either
the adoption or rejection of it would be an evil—the
rejection of it as a breach of discipline towards you,
the leader of the movement ; the adoption of it, upon
many serious grounds.
" 1. The overwhelming majority of the members—
clergymen and laymen—joined as repealers ; it would
be all but impossible to collect their suffrages on the
proposed change, and no chance meeting at the Con-
ciliation-hall would be entitled to alter the fundamen-
tal principle upon which the body was organised and
supported.
2. The Committee of the Association is, I take
it, no more entitled to abrogate its constitution, than
the Irish Parliament was to abolish its functions. The
great constituency outsid.? is, in both cases, the body
in whom alone the power resides.
"3. Any such general change would weaken the
moral weight of the Association. In an individual a
deliberate preference of a new opinion to an old one
may argue courage, candour, and magnanimity; in
a nation it is generally a sign of weakness ; and in
our case, surrounded by enemies at home and abroad,
it is sure to receive the worst interpretation.
" Finally, need I say that I regard the federalists,
as I have always done, with respect, and that I quar-
rel with their opinions no more than is necessarily im-
plied in preferring better ones.
Forgive me for occupying you so long, but the im-
portance of the subject will excuse a worse offence.—
Believe me, my dear Sir, very faithfully yours,
" CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY.
" Ilathmines, Oct. 18, 1844."
UNIVERSITY FOR ALL SECTS.
Two or three weeks since a rumour prevailed in
the Tory circles, that Sir Robert Peel has it in con-
templation to propose a large grant for the establish-
ment of a new university for the education of Roman
Catholics and Dissenters, as well as members of the
Established Church ; and that, independently of this
new lay college, the annual grant for the education
of the Roman Catholic clergy, in Maynooth, is to
be increased.

The Statennan, an ultra-Tory journal in the interest
of the High Church' party, thus refers to the sub-
ject :—" A rumour has. been for some time gaining
ground, that a sum of 100,0001. will be asked for and
(as a matter of course) granted in next session of Par-
liament fur the erection of a great university in Ire-
land, in which cheap education will be afforded in a
system of secular instruction, in which also profes-
sors of all denominations (Roman Catholics and Uni-
tarians) will be eligible, and ;where degrees of all
kinds will be conferred."
THE NEW DEAN.
The Queen's letter has been received, ratifying the
appointment of the Reverend Dr. Collins to the
vacant deanery of Killala. The Government have
not yet had the courage to sustain their own policy
by promoting a clergyman friendly to the national
system of education.
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