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London, England, 1844-02-19 00:00:00

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Tables ------------------- .
of Premiums at all ages, with the names of the President,
/pliicite-Presidents, Directors, and Managers, who are all responsible
Ba,kIINItS, may be obtained of Messrs. B. and M. Boyd, 4, New
—."uudings or of the Actuary, 10, Pall-mall,East.
JOHN KING, Actuary.

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NAIIONAL MERCANTILE LIFE ASSUR-
Alicia SOCIETY, Arthur-street, West, London-bridge.
(Established in 1837.)
DIRECTORS.
ltd,w_ _ CitAIRMAN -Robert Currey, Esq.
.ru Baker Esq• Thomas Ilex, Esq.
'7"Per, C ' •Iv pier, Esq. Joseph Cooper, Esq.
(limits Dakeyne, Esq. Russell Jeffrey, Esq.
da: ltedra„ afue, Esq. William R. Spicer, Esq.
a ee asploer. EEL.
Joseph Sterry, Jim., Esq.
"17 Starry -..-
...L. Robert Wilcoxon, Esq.

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

NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,

GREAT LEAGUE MEETING
The Weekly Meetings of the League will in future be held on
the WEDNESDAY in place of the Thursday Evenings as heretofore.
t lie next WEEKLY MEETING of the LEAGUE will take
place in COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE, oh WEDNESDAY EVENING,
February 21st.
GEORGE WILSON, Esq., will take the Chair at Seven o'clock.
The meeting will be addressed by Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P. ;
James Wilson, Esq., and other gentlemen.
Cards of admission to the Stage and Upper Circles of Boxes may
be had on personal application, at the Central Offices of the League,
No. 67, Fleet-street, during Monday and Tuesday ; no application by
letter can be attended to.
To prevent inconvenience from-the great pressure at the front en-
trance of the Theatre, the Council has resolved- to limit the issue of
Tickets of admission to the Dress Circle to the precise number that
can be conveniently accommodated.
Each Ticket will be numbered, and each number represent and
secure the seat in each box to be occupied by the bearer of the
Ticket. • . . .

EAST INDIA HOUSE, FEBRUARY, 1844.
THE COURT a DIRECTORS of the 2E
AST
• INIA COMPANY do hereby give Notice,
That a SPECIAL GENERAL COURT of the said COMPANY will
be held by adjournment at their House, in Leadenhall-street, on
WEDNESDAY, the 21st instant, at Eleven o'clock hi the Forenoon,
pursuant to the following Resolution, viz.:—
"To the Honourable the CHAIRMAN of the COURT of DIREC-
TORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY.
" HONOURABLE SIR,
" We the undersigned Proprietors of East India Stock request
that a Special General Court may be convened at the earliest period,
to take into consideration the following Resolutions proposed to be
submitted to them :

deek port is 6ft. Bin. from the water, and she was enabled to
keep some of her lower deck ports open when under double-
reefed topsails. She is considered by her captain and officers
to be the most perfect line-of-battle-ship in the service, and it
is considered doubtful whether even the Vanguard, 80, built
by the same constructor, which has hitherto beaten every
other line-of-battle-ship, would have any chance. with the
Albion. •

should have more work;" and cheers.) They were met
there without any feelings of jealousy among them,
and (continued Sir Alexander, addressing Sir Thomas
Lethbridge and Mr. Sandford) proud am I to shake you
by the hands.—(Sir Alexander Hood and the gentlemen
before-named then shook hands, amid the cheers and
jeers of the meeting.) He would never shrink from his
principles, but they were met there as one man to con-
sider how the revolutionary Leacrue--for he would
not mince his words—was to 'be met.—(Groans
and cheers.) Instead of " Swing versus the
Corn-laws," they would have truth opposed to fhlse-
hood. The Anti-Corn-law League had bearded, at
their own doors, the gentry, the yeomanry, the
tenantry, and the labourers of England. They said, " We
have got our 100,0001., and we will fight our battle in
every borough ; we will disseminate our sedition—our
daring sedition, among the people.—(Cheers and groans.)
This was their cry ; and he said, boldly, before the
assembled county of Somerset, that there was little hope
for England, if the gentry of England did not loose
their sails and go a-head of the Anti-Corn-law League.
—(Cheers and derisive cheers.) If they did not loose
their sails and shoot a- head of the 100,000/ by at least
50,0001.; and if every county did not subscribe, every
one giving according to his means, they deserved not
to have an acre to stand upon.—(Hear, heir, and loud
Cheers.) The blight of Heaven might destroy their
handiwork—the storm and the whirlwind might rudely
sweep the fair face of nature, and devastate their crops
—and there was not a man present who would not bend
with reverence to the Divine will—but that a blind, self-
interested band of men should debar the yeomen and
tradesmen of England from the just reward of their
labour, and from doing the best they could with their
native industry—(Cheers)—that the patriot yeomen of
England—the life, the strength, the very soul of their
country—that theSe should be bent to the earth, and
made the yoke-fellows of foreign serfs, never could be
by the will of Heaven ; and, if they only held together
in one indissoluble
_phalanx, never should be by the
dictation of man.—(Uproar.)

26, CORNHILL, LONDON.
Capital .Z. 500,000.
Empowered by Act of Parliament.

The many novel and varied advantages bestowed by this Institu-
tion, both in its life assurance and deferred annuity departments, par-
ticularly the power to borrow two-thirds of premiums without ex-
pense or forfeiture—the great reduction of rates on short policies--
the option of selecting benefits 'and converting policies so as best to
suit the interest or necessity of the policy-holder during life, as well
as to afford the full benefit to his family at death, and annual division
of profits, have already been so well appreciated by the public, that
the Society's great success and growing prosperity enabled the Di-
rectors, at their General Meeting in May last, to add to each policy
en the profit scale a bonus averaging fifty-five per cent. on the
amount already invested ; and this bonus, according to au equitable
scale, may either be paid in cash, or applied in reduction of future
premiums.

EANICEIS.
MeSSV. Prescott, Grote, and Co.
ox, h ADVANTAGES.
Low of Two-thirds of the Profits allotted to the Assured- ER
RATES of PREMIUM charged for Assurances without
PREsr..„
A AsstriAuvUP3 Payable Annually, Half-yearly, or Quarterly.
'44,4 on-7-.CB of EVERY DESCRIPTION may be effected.
01/rit,w 4--rs, the important'
one, originated by this Society, of se-
to 14711,1 to the Assured himself on his attaining any given age,
OVAIIIy in the event of his earlier death.
" aPpli,m• ZARY, containing detailed particulars, may be had
I°ll at the Office, or of the Society's Agents.
JE}HEIN JONES, Actuary and Secretary,

The Victoria and Albert Royal steam-yacht, is ordered
to be got ready early in June, for the use of her Majesty.
She has had her boilers removed, and is being fitted with
tubular ones.

" 1. That from the Printed Papers recently laid before the Proprie-
tors on the subject of Sinde, it is the opinion of this Court that the
Proceedings of the Government of India which ended in the dethrone-
ment, exile, and imprisonment of the Ameers, and the seizure of their
country and private property, were uncalled for, impolitic, and unjust.
" 2. That this Court does therefore most earnestly recommend to
the Court of Directors the immediate adoption of such steps, by repre-
sentation to her Majesty's Government, or Otherwise, as may cause all
practicable reparation to be made for the injustice already committed,
and enforce the abandonment of a line of policy inconsistent with
good faith, and subversive of the interests of the British rule in India.
" We have the honour to be,
" Honourable Sir,
"Your obedient Servants,
" J. SULLIVAN,
" WILLIAM J. EASTIVICK,
" JOSEPH HUME,
" CHARLES FORBES,
" lIARFORD JONES BRIDGES,
JOHN POYNDER,
" ARTHUR J. LEWIS,
" A. HOGG, •
" THOMAS MARRIOTT.
" London, January; 16, 15144."
JAMES C. MEtVILL, Secretary.

SOMERSET COUNTY MEETING.

EXAMPLES.

TRIUMPH OF FREE-TRADE PRINCIPLES.
(Abridged from the Bristol Mercury of Saturday.)
On Friday a public meeting of the freeholders
and others, inhabitants of the county of Somerset,
took place in front of the Town-hall, Bridgewater, in
pursuance of a requisition to the High Sheriff of the
county (Hon. P. Bouverie), requesting him to call a
meeting to oppose the proceedings of the Anti-Corn-law
League. From an early hour the town of Bridgewater
was a scene of excitement, from the influx of the neigh-
bouring yeomanry and freeholders, and other persons
from different parts of this lake and important county.
Colours were displayed from many of the houses, and a
couple of bands of music paraded the streets, adding not
a little to the bustle which prevailed. At twelve o'clock
about 5,000 persons were assembled around a platform,
eroctod in front of the Town-hall, on which was the
High Sheriff, togother with a number of gentlemen con-
nected with the county. Amongst those prsent were
the following:—Hon.P.:P.Bouverie, High Sheriff, in the
Chair; Sir Alexander Hood, Bart., T. D. Acland, Esq.,
M.P., Francis Popham, Esq., Charles Powel Collins,
Esq., Sir T. B. Lethbrigde, Bart., Rev. Mr. Thring,
Captain Norris, P. Mildmay, Esq., *W. H. G. Langton,
Esq., T. G. W. Carew, Esq., Rev. Mr. Barnard, J. W.
Warren, Esq., Rev. W. Thomas, Dr. Macmullen, Ed-
ward Jeffries Esdaile, Esq., Henry Badoock, Esq.,
*Andrew Crope, Esq., *Captain Strachey, Rev. M.
Jolliffe, EdwardAshford Sanford, Esq., late M.P. for
the county; Henry Warre, Esq., *Captain Browne,
R.N., Colonel Luttrell, Lee Lee, Esq., Henry Charles
Trenchard, Esq., *John Browne, Esq., *— Edridge,
Esq„ Mayor of Bath; *William Beadon, jun., Esq.,
Langley St. Albyn, Esq., Edward Sealey, Esq., Edward
Coles, Esq., Edward Beadon, Esq., Sir George Adams,
K.C.H., Rev. R. Beadon, R. K. M. King, Esq., H. D.
Harvey, Esq., Captain Keats, &c., &c.; including a
large proportion of influential county families, an im-
men.te number of Church 'clergy, lawyers, stewards,
land-agents, &c., hostile to free trade.
Note.—Those marked with asterisks are free traders.
The Under-Sheriff (E. Coles, Esq.), having read the
requisition calling the meeting—
The HIGH SHERIFF said, in consequence of having
received the requisition referred to, he had felt it
to be his imperative duty to convene the meeting at
which they were then assembled, and and trusted that
the gentleman present, in the discussion which was
about to take place on a subject intetesting to them all,
would kindly attend to what was laid before them with-
out interruption, and with patience and good humour.
Mr. JOHN HANCOCK, of Halse, said he rose, being a
farmer of the county of Somerset, a small landowner,
and a considerable occupier of land, which station he
had held for fifty years, and had occupied his mind
with the study of agriculture generally. In the
first place, he would beg to make a few observations re-
pecting the protection which agriculture deserved.
First, they had the Church to maintain.—(Cries of "Oh,"
and " That's the evil.") Then they had the poor
and the way-rates to pay ; and he therefore
contended that they ought to have that protection
which would enable them to pay those rates and taxes
which they were called on to bear more than
the foreign groWer.- He did not want high
prices, and he believed his brother farmers did not, but
he wanted protection. They knew that corn could not
be grown in this part of the country for less than 71. per
acre, and that without rent.--(Cries of " Oh.") There-
fore, if all protection were taken away, corn from Dant-
zic and other northern countries would be let in, which
would bring corn down to 355. or 365. per quarter, and
there would be nothing to pay rent, and nothing to pay
for labour. It would be nothing more nor less than
putting 5L into one pocket of the labourer, and taking
8/. out of another. He was not for having cheap bread
and low wages, but for having good wages and tolerable
prices.—(Hear, hear, and " Oh.") He did not know that
anything more to say, and he would therefore move—
" That this meeting desires to express its decided con-
viction that a repeal of the existing corn-laws would be
highly prejudicial to British agriculture and to the nation
at large ; end, viewing with indignation and regret the
proceedings and avow-€.(l okiocts of the Association call=
ing itself the Anti-Corn-law League," is determined,
by all legal and constitutional means, to oppose and
counteract the same."

JENIEIN JONES, Actuary and Secretary.
En& Policy' cSum. Prem. Added. Bonus. Reduced.
4 3r. No. Age. Annual Bonus Cash Prem.
15(K EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN
1, chariot_ IF
LE ASSURANCE COMPANY, . X X s. d. X s. d. X s. d. X s. d.
Mansion-house, and 55, Chancery-lane, London. 18371 39 59 1,000 67 8 4 132 14 65819 9 819 4
ntarr•rima a 1838 ll4 56 3,000 175 15 0 296 9 7 123 0 6 16 9 7

The Entrance to the Dross Circle will, in future, be at the Private-
Box-door on the Queen's Side, in Hart-street.
The Cards of Registered Members only, will, as heretofore, admit to
the Pit and Galleries of the Theatre.

XZNT DIZECTORB.
tL,` XETT KINGSFORD, Esq., Chairman.
jklexem 'XJAMIN IFILL, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
John er Anders() E James Hartley, Esq.
,Itt tkins, u, sq.
to?ns Blade, Sq. John M'Cruftle, Esq.
Ptali p '4 Esq. John Maclean Lee, Esq.
I - • Brandreth.
ca 4 J. Marmaduke Roeseter, Esq.
AUDITOSS.
littis 14** Esq. Robert E. Alison, Esq.
teez, Anuirit—Marshall Hall, M.D.; F.R.S., L. and E.
TIiISBCILETARY—John Emerge, Esq•
S°LiclT°as--Messrs. Palmer, France, and Palmer.
~reoustt' ~ 'Mil ONLY COMPANY who are bound by their deed
4, wit,i oitilluon not to dispute any policy, unless they can prove that
tbiect niieed by fraudulent misrepresentation the great aim and
itt-dictr„been to render Life Policies COMPLETE QE CURL- nOOTIABLE DOCUMENTS, which shall owe their
Lk" be 4,--4 rtainty of the contracts upon which they are founded,
4", th'"aPendeut of the liberality or caprice of those who shall be
awe '"anagetnent of the affairs of the Company when the claims
eat''4l rQr tkis se the Company have, by a clause in their
Isneo „ constitution unhesitatingly deprived themselves of the
It n,aB e, objeeti.rig to
p unlesi t udertake to that
terulattntalhed from themolicy bY 'fraudulenhtey minsrepresentation.prove The
4tlidity o{; einoraon to all other Life Companies, which make the
183 of the
3. assurance contracts dependent upon the perfect correc
t
hlanY statet its required from a proposer for a Life
n".4l;ee-t144 argues ln which ha vengliven rise to almost all the questions which
etornis,.. the Courts, and to many extra-judicial com-
to 4,eare thus entirely abrogated ; and nothing but fraud, proved
thitt en committed against thew, can vitiate a policy granted by
1,71/",l3atty.
mutual sad tir,„B
~,TM„E ONLY COMPANY from whom the assured ou the
algo`;`4.Ple, receive the whole of the mutual . accumulations,
.tUarantee from the Shareholders for the sums assured.
titTalg IS THIP
ego '1448 i„ ONLY COMPANY who bind themselves to pay
Co tied Policies, although the debts for which they were
-" bare been liquidated before the claims arise. e
Drepon considering it only just towards the assured that where
bare been paid for asauring a given amount, that amount
and they undertake to do so without reference to
41118-1; the ascetuiting between the assured and his debtor.
4LMOST THE ONLY COMPANY who grant in favour
kthetntn ?,I:s whole world policies wheby the debt is secured,
The n.`"e detiter should go beyond hert limits of Europe.
IWer Calculated according. to the Carlisle Tables, are
no al upon young lives, where participation in the prollts
..,.ered. , and for short assurances, which, at the option of the
t ay be co ti d for life the rates are as low as a due re-
o nue
I,lt "iiaote security will permit.
ASCENDING SCALE Tr'

PELICAN LIFE A
70, LOMBARD-STREET
Established 1797.

.SSURANCE OFFICE,
C, and 57, CHARING-CROSS.

M. Attwood, Esq., M.P.
John Coope, Esq.
W. Cotton, Esq., F.R.S.
Sir W. Curtis, Bart.
Wm. Davis, Esq.

Kirkman D. Hodgson, Esq.
R. H. Lawrence, Esq.
J. Petty Muspratt, Esq.
G. S: Storey, Esq.
C. 11. Turner, Esq.

J. A. Gordon, Esq., M.D., F.R.S. I M. Whiting, Esq.

Sir Wm. Heygate, Hart

The plan of this Office will be found to comprise all the solid ad-
vantages of Life Assurance.
Persons have the option of Insuring upon the. Return or Non-
Return Systems ; and the Tables, which include Ascending and De-
scending Scales of Premium, have been formed to suit the con-
venience of all parties.
The Rates have recently been reduced agreeably to the most ap-
proved calculations ; they are also verified by the experience of the
Office during forty years, are as low as consistent with safety ; those
adapted to the RETURN SYSTEM entitle its assured to an equitable
participation in the surplus premium, according to the plan detailed
in the Company's Prospectus.
The Assured under both Systems will possess the guarantee of a
large Paid-up Capital, and the further security of a responsible body
of Proprietors, without being exposed to the liabilities of partnership.
Policies are purchased on liberal terms when the object of an
assurance is effected ; or, loans will be granted thereon to the extent
of five-sixths of such purchase-money.
Prospectuses and every information obtained on application at the
Offices as above, or to the Agents of the Company appointed in every_
city and principal town in the kingdom

• W. BEADON, Esq. rose, and was received with cheers
and some disapprobation. He said, he came forward to
propose an amendment on the resolution, which he be-
lieved would receive the approbation of the great majo-
rity of that large and intelligent meeting.—(Cheers).
And if there were present one individual from whom
he expected more than from another to receive earnest,
warm, and energetic support, it was the Hon. Baronet,
Sir T. Lethbridge, the great promoter, if not the origi-
nator of that meeting.—(Cheers and laughter). He
should call on him to support the amendment, for he
had a great respect for the worthy Baronet, whom he
believed to be an honest man—he should call on him to
support it, because it embodied sentiments with which he
knew Sir Thomas would fully accord. Beforo he read
the resolution, he would trouble them with a few brief
remarks—he should appeal to their common sense, and
refrain from fatiguing them with dry and uninteresting
statistics ; and he implored them to believe that, if he
failed to carry home conviction to their minds, the
fault was •not in the matter, but in the man.—
(Hear,) He would not insult their proceedings
by offering to refute the shallow and futile
arguments —if they might be dignified by
that name—the fallacies and high-flown but empty
rhetoric they had heard employed in support of the reso-
lution. What were they invited to do that day ; the
tenant-farmers of the county of Somerset were invited
to oppose that ugly unconstitutional .body, as it was
called, the Anti-Corn-law League. They were asked,
in fact, to support things as they were—(" No, no," and
"Yes.") He wished to disabuse their minds of all false
impressions, and to tell them what it was they were
wanted to do. They were invited there to support the
sliding-scale. The landlords might talk to them of a
fixed duty, but they had seen the fixed-duty men take
sliding-scale advocates by the hand—(Hear)—and let
them not.be deceived—they would, if they voted for the
resolution be voting for the sliding-scale.—(Cries of
"We wont do it They were called upon to support
the "No surrender" party.—(" No, no.' and uproar.)
Was there any one in that vast assembly so credu-
lous as to believe that, with a population increas-
ing at the rate of a thousand a day, the
sliding-scale would last 2 —(" No, no," and cheers.)
Did the Hon. Baronet, Sir Thomas Lethbridge believe
it ?—(A voice, " No, old Weathercock, don't believe it.")
The landowner professed to be satisfied with the conduct
of the Government. Why ? Sir Robert Peel had told
them that he did not contemplate any alteration in the
existing corn-laws • but Sir Robert Peel had also said
he could not tell them what might possibly occur.—
(Hear.) The landlords professed to be satisfied because
they had icil--:-(eriekind of pledge from the Premier ;
but were iant-farmers, satisfied with such a
and " Yes.") Well, per-
haps some of the lancuoras were really baLisfied ; but it
was rather curious, if they were so, that they had called
that meeting together.
Sir A. Hoop—To prevent the League going further,
and to show where it is wrong.

R. TUCKER, Secretary,

THE CLASSES for CHEMISTRY, STEAM
NAVIGATION, and. ENGINE DRIVING, at the ROYAL
POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, under Dr. JOHN RYAN, and
the Course on ELECTRICTY and GALVANISM, by Professor
BACHIIOFFNER, open on MONDAY, the 26th inst.
Terms and Syllabus of the Lectures may be had in the Office of the
Secretary, 309, Regent-street.

ASSURE

£lOO.

Thl*tt I Second I Third Fourth IReMainder
ree Yrs., Three Yrs.,Threo Yrs. Three Yrs. of We.

55 .
35 •• • . 1 l', el. £ s. d. £l. d. £s. d. £s. d. TiINE BROTHERS, having REMITTED
is "• .. i ! 7 I 9 9 116 11 2 4 1 211 3 1,1 during a very short time very large amounts of MONEY
55 "• • . ', 9 119 6 2 9 3 212 0 3 $ 9 DIVIDENDS to their Correspondents in Great Britain and Ireland ;
110 :••••. 2 3 ' 0 214 10 3 8 8 4 2 6 416 4 DIVIDENDS OF DIVIDENDS OF
• •... 11 1 410 9 510 5 610 1 79 9 £25,000, £lB,OOO, £9,000, £5,000,1 £9OO, £6OO to Manchester,
'"•---.............._tv _ 48 11 517 4 75 9 814 2 10 2 7
_£3,60010 London, , £7OO to East Retford, Notting-

DIVIDENDS OF
£9OO, £6OO to Manchester,
£7OO to East Retford, Notting-
hamshire,
£7OO to CoMe, Lancashire,
£7OO to Ryde, Isle of Wight,
£6OO to Cork,
£6OO to Bradford,
£6OO to Bideford,
£3OO, £3OO to Lisbellaw, Ennis-
killen,

Stn
1,..
•
1,44,7 tn yeeLE,RALP PREMIUM PLAN only one-half of the .11. rat.
the Arm:alum is required the other half being payable at tie convenience of the qassured ; thus allowing a Policy to be
tirelip,tle'l fee seven years at one-half of the usual rate, or to be
4,„, at
°lle-half of the usual sacrifice, and entitling the assured,
att,,eun,,ara }tenet. when loss of health may prevent him from
Ll,lleulit new Assurance to continue a Policy at a rate of premium
ar Aenreante° art ge seven' years younger. The Half-premium plan
litre ,s, as practised by this Company, thus enables persothnes
4, ,0 their own use the one-half of the premiums for
, " Years, per cent. interest. Thus, suppose the or-
leek blneiniiiin for an assurance of 5001. to be 101., the first pay-
.11:111* of Ymthe half-preminin plan will be five guineas, .eel --e 101 retained half ; and, if death
one-
s! - d oe, . ~ and interest for the being the one-
. ~t, ur in the first year, the sum of 5001. would be paid less the
e• St d'ed• The assar d , i• tl us have the se for the first year
la! • ' flll' the e a* ' • in the and of the
tett,
~_ second, of 10/. ; and so on t. ;ft rep,l ear, when the retained sums, amounting to 351., may either
45/.14114, z_ r retainedbtra at 51. per cent. interest until death when the
T .e sucted from the 5001. then payable byte
hCompany,
4° "'w
Se . it ONX lONDRED POUNDS ON LILLY YI.IZIIION IMMIX.
£. 5. d. Age. Z. X. d.
' - - Old I 40 - - - 111 I
- - 01 5 0 45 - - - 116 6
- 1 0 7 50 - - - 2 3 9
1 3 G 54 -

£3,600 to London,
£3,600, £BOO, £lOO to Edinburgh,
£3,600 to Dublin,
£3,600 to Beverley,
£3,600 to Halifax,
£1,200 to Forthleaven Harbour,
£9OO, £7OO, £7OO, £6OO to Li-
verpool,
£9OO to Hull,
£9OO to Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
They beg to CALL THE ATTENTION of those desirous to obtain
LARGE MONEY DIVIDENDS to the APPROACHING TWEN-
TIETH DISTRIBUTION of LUBECK, GUARANTEED by the
GOVERNMENT.

This distribution offers the possibility of obtaining more than
£20,000 upon One Share.
Owing to the great number of Money Dividends contained in this
improved and unrivalled Distribution,
EVERY TWENTY-TWO SHARES OBTAIN TWENTY-ONE
MONEY DIVIDENDS, and
EVERY HOLDER of ONE SHARE has a CHANCE of TWENTY-

ONE in. his FAVOR to ONE (ONLY ONE) AGAINST HIM,
as to the receipt of a Money Dividend.
Price of One Share, £1 ; Two Shares, £2 ; Three Shares, £3 ;
Four Shares, £4 ; Five Shares, £5 ; Six Shares, £6 ; Seven Shares,
£7 ; Eight Shares, £8 ; Nine Shares, £9 ; Ten Shares, £lO.
Direct for Shares, WITHOUT DELAY, to
HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK.
',V The NU Prospectus, with all particulars, may be had GRATIS
upon addressing a line to HEINE BROTHERS, at LUBECK.
January 1, 1844.

30
111.0,14,tu5...

2 12 5
_ - - -
1448 e, bq tieaud schedules are forwarded to applicants, free of ex-
Manager aud Agents.

ALEX. ROBERTSON, Manager.
14118 don ASENTS.
Aikrk, • . - Tyrrell, Wm., Merchant
Jyre„, rtli ..
C. H., Surveyor
41,2'orii _ '',_ Roberta.ne, L., Solicitor
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Ashb - - . - Crosse, M., Civil Engineer
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Sir ALEXANDER HOOD, Bart., rose, and was received
with mingled expressions of approbation and disappro-
bation. He said, he was most proud to have to second,
on that occasion, the proposition of an honest and well-
known yeoman of the county, who, as they saw, had
grown grey in its service—in doing that which was ex-
pected of a yeoman—good to his fellow-men, whether
tradesmen or labourers.—(Cheers, and cries of " No
corn-tax.") Why was be (Sir Alexander Hood) there
on the present occasion ? Because he had read in a
letter by one of the principal individuals of the Corn-
law League that which he should now read, and from
which they would see whether or not he was justified in
seconding the motion. The passage he alluded to said
" The corn-law may be repealed by clamour and by
force."—(Applause, groans, and cries of " No, no.")
There it was--and more, it went on to say, " Nay, they
must be so repealed, unless they fall before the calmly
expressed will of millions." Now, that passage struck
him as partaking very much of -threat and robbery.—
(Cries of "No," cheers, and disapprobation.) There was
another reason why he was present, and that also was
given by the very words of the papers of the Anti-Corn-
law Leagtie : he saw in one which he held in his hand
these words, " Swing versus the corn-laws."—(Hear,
and a cry "That won't answer.") In the county in
which they were they had, it is true, seen nothing of the
system which had been kindled by such documents as
that he held in his hand--(Cries of "No, no")—but in
many of the counties of England they had seen the
farmers' stores reduced to ashes.—(Hear.) And should
he not be a gross coward if he did not stand before them
—even if it were at the risk of being torn to atoms—
(" Oh,"oh")—if he did notystsuid by the farmers, who had
been in all times of difficulty and of danger the protec-
tors of their native shores ?—(Hear, hear, and cheers.)
It was a matter of congratulation to society at large to
find men of different shades of opinion all there to-
gether to express their disapprobation of the ma-
chinations of the Anti-Corn-law League.—(Cheers
and groans.) It was matter of congratulation
to them to find themselves supported by the yeo-
manry, the tenantry, the gentry, and, he would say, the
labourers too,--(" No, no," and great uproar)—in de-
nouncing what could be called by no other name than
the revolutionary proceedings of the League.—(Cheers
and groans.) He rejoiced ; it was one of the happiest
days of his life to see the yeomanry of the county of
Somerset coming forward, and, like men, prepared to
take their stand, if needs be, foot to foot and breast to
breast, against the enemies of their property, their
peace, and their prosperity.—(Cheers and disapproba-
tion.) In every age, and under every government,
certain characters were met with whose delight it was
to set friends and neighbours together by the ears, and
who would turn any country into confusion but England.
—(Hear' and applause.) One man wanted repeal,
another fixity of tenure—and he hoped to Heaven he
Could get it to his will and to his wish—another would
like to blot out the national debt as with a sponge.—(Cries
of " No," and " We won't rub out your pension.") Then
the large millocrat desired to amalgamate his mountains
of wealth with as much speed as his steam-engine,
and trod on the shoulders of the yeoman of England
(Cheers and uproar)—taking that from him which God
and nature had bestowed on him—the right to get his
.bread by the sweat of his brow.—(Cries of "You won't
let him get it.") John Bull had borne with a great
many insults from the League, but he took little notice
—save the notice of disdain of its proceedings—till he
saw individuals of rank banding-themselves with it.—
(Applause and uproar.) He then naturally referred to
history, and in turning to it he alighted on the fearful
and bloody history of 1798. Some of the generous and
noble of France banded themselves with the league of
that day—the league of the bloody Robespierre.—
(Partial cheering,_ and a cry " What have we to do
with that ?") They lent a hand to overturn the in-
stitution of that nation.—(Hear, hear.) God was
always just, and they themselves became the early
victims of their own murderous crew. He spoke
this in the language of warning—not so flinch to the
people of England as to the nobles of England; and he
stood there and said that those men of rank who banded
themselves with the League—be they who they might—
would be punished by the deprecations of the people of
England.—(Applause and disapprobation.) Profiting
by the example set them, the nobles and gentry of the
land had now determined, as far as in them lay, to de-
fend themselves against the most unconstitutional, most
dangerous, and most revolutionait measures with which
they were threatened.—(Hear, and tumult.) The Anti-
Corn-law League asked of what use had the corn-laws
been to the tenant-farmers ? Looking back through the
last 20 years—putting rents on one side—the farmers
had been benefited by from 13s. to 455. per quarter.
Where would the British farmer have been but for pro-
tection ?—(Hear, and a cry, " Better off.") He would
have been on a level with the serfs of Germany, living in
fixed poverty.—(Cheers and disapprobation.) Lord Spen-
der told them that by free trade the prices of the British
corn-grower would not be lowered, but the foreign
corn-growers' prices would be raised—he forgetting that
every quarter of foreign corn brought into this country
deducted such an amount from British labour.--(Hear,)
He should be glad to know what advantage this pro-
position of Lord Spencer's would be to the -Bridal pub-
lic, if foreign wheat were Poe to be lower than that of
British, sQ as to het the loaf cheaper,—(A voice, "We

Mr. BEADON continued—No, it was not to prevent
the League going further ; it was because the landowners
did not feel secure in the Premier's declaration—the
real object was to coerce an unwilling and vacilating
Minister.—(Cheers and uproar.) The Minister had de-
clared that he was for a sliding-scale or nothing ; and
let him tell those who relied on this declaration, that
they were leaning on a rock of sand ; the Minister would
trip them up on the first opportunity.—(Cheers and dis-
approbation.) They were asked to subscribe money—
for what object ? (A voice, "Not to contest Devises.")
They were told it was for the purpose of petitioning the
Legislature—no such thing; petitions did not cost any-
thing ; he held in his hand a petition which he hoped to
carry by and bye, and it would not cost a farthing. No,
the money was required for some ulterior object
which did not appear—perhaps to send the pro-corn-law
lecturers into the towns.—(Loud cries of "No.") Well,
he thought they had better not attempt that. If the land-
lords liked to do so, let them subscribe ; but let the tenant-
farmers keep their money in their pockets. Let them not
stultify themselves and be opposing what they called an
unconstitutional body, by the establishment of another.
If they really believed the League to be an unconstitu-
tional body, let them petition the Queen to issue a pro-
clamation to put down the ugly monster—(Laughter)—
but let them keep their money in their pockets. He was
anxious that they should not be misled in what they
were doing, and he, therefore, warned them that that
was a political movement.—(" No, no," and cheers.) He
would ask them to consider what grounds they had for
placing confidence in their leaders ? Those leaders
formed the very political party who, in the days of
Adam Smith, petitioned against turnpike-roads, al-
leging that they would injure the interests of agri-
culture.—(" Oh, oh.") Yes, the landowners around
London actually petitioned the Legislature not to
allow the formation of turnpike-roads, because the
produce of the country would then flow in, and the poor
unfortunate landowners round London would be under-
sold. Were these fears well-grounded ? No; the price
of land near London had been rising ever since. The
same party, when Catholic Emancipation was proposed,
predicted that Church and State would be swallowed up,
and nothing but Popery would remain in England.—
(Hear, hear.) What was the fact ? The Church of
England now boasted that they never were se strong.—
(Cheers.) The same party opposed the Anti-Slavery
movement ; they said, if slavery were abolished there
would be no more sugar, for the negroes would not work,
but would rise on their masters. They contended that
they were not designed by the Almighty to stand on a
level with their white fellow-men, but were destined to
work in chains to the last. What had been the result of
negro emancipation? They had sugar cheap, and they
would have it cheaper yet, while all the ominous predic-
tions had proved false. The same party, when Mr. Huskis-
son proposed to reduce the duty on wool from 6d. to Id. per
lb., cried out that the flock-masters would be ruined.
The Hon. Baronet, Sir Thomas Lethbridge, had said the
sheep-walks of Wiltshire and Dorset would become
valueless ; and they had been told that if the flock-
masters were ruined they would have no mutton, and a
sheep would be a curiosity. The Hon. Baronet actually
went up to London with a deputation f•om the farmers of
Somerset, to endeavour to deter Lord Liverpool and Mr,
Huskisson from reducing the duty.—(Hear.) Had the
forebodings of the party been realised ? No such thing.
The same party, too, predicted that railroads would ruin
agriculture—they said there would be no horses left to
eat the oats, and the oat lands would be thrown out of
cultivation. What was the fact ? Ho believed that
oats formed one of the best commodities the farmers
had to dispose of. The same party, in 1815,
said, that unless wheat were kept at 80s, per quar-
ter, the land would be thrown out of cultivation,-
and yet in a few short years, in 1822, wheat sunk
20s. per quarter, To crown all, the same party in
1841 asked for the votes of the tenant-farmers of Eng-
land, pledging themselves to keep things as they were ;
and yet, the moment they got into the House they be-
trayed them to a man, and passed the tariff and the one-
sided Canada Corn-bill.(Cheers and groans.) They
did this with the House of Lards at their back, and with
a great majority in the House of Commous ; and why?
—because they knew that the principles on which they
had solicited their election were unsound. After some
further remarks Mr. Beadon continued—These were the
men who now asked them to have confidence in their
foresight, talent, and integrity.—(" Oh, oh.") Let them
contrast that with what the free-trade advocates .had
foretold. They had said, the corn-law of 1815 would
derange the currency, and injure the farmers and all the
interests of the country; and the numerous appeals to
Parliament to remove and remedy distress, had proved
the truth of their predictions.—(Cheers and tumult.)
Mr. 13Padoli proceeded, at great length, and amid fre-
quent interruption, to support his resolution, but the
meeting terminated so closely on the hour of our pub-
lication as to render it impassible to give anything like
a full report. He showed the injurious effects of the
corn.sitms on tenant-farmers, and their injustiee towards
the labourer, and concluded by moving the ibilowmg
amendment and petition l—
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J. BROWNE, Esq., then proposed the petition, em-
bodied in the first amendment, as an amendment on the
present resolution, and in so doing addressed the meet-
ing in an able speech, in which lie exposed the fallacies
used by the friends of the corn-laws, and showed the
unjust and cruel influence of those laws upon the labour-
ing classes. The question was simply one between
the landowners and those who had no land, and
the former taxed the bread of the latter to pay
the interest on their mortgages, to educate their
sons for the Church, and portion off the rich and
influential men of the county of Somerset their
daughters. Those were the grounds upon which
asked the meeting to vote in support of laws which were
ruining the industry of the country. Mr. Browne then
proCeeded to show that all the protection on agriculture
was designed solely for the landlord's benefit, and con-
cluded by expressing his conviction that, as education
advanced, it would be perfectly impossible that such "r..•
secuting laws could be continued.

A. CitossE, Esq., of Broomfield, came forward as a
landc•wner to ..:,00nd the adoption of the petition pro-
posed by mr. Drowne. I'LL. r stated that all his interest
was in land, and expressed his beher abolition
of the corn-laws could no longer be withstood. -
Mr. SANDFORD then objected to the petition moved by
Mr. Browne being put, as it had been before rejected.
Mr. BROWNE maintained that he had a right to put it
in its present shape.
The than SHERIFF having decided in favour of Mr.
Browne, then put the amendment, in favour of which full
three-fourths of those present held up their hands. Tho
contraryvote having been taken, the High Sheriff declared
the free-trade petition carried, amid the deafening (wait.
mations of the meeting.
Mr. TURNER, a tenant-farmer, renting 1,0001. a-year,
then came forward and proposed the following vote of
thanks to the Anti-Corn-law League :
" That in the opinion of this meeting, the gratitude
and thanks of the people of Great Britain and Ireland
are justly due to the Anti-Corn-law League for their
unwearied exertions in diffusing a knowledge of political
economy, and for their endeavours to abolish the corn*
laws and establish the principles of free trade."
Mr. JOHN SUMMERS, a tenant-farmer, having seconded
the motion, it was put to the meeting, and adopted by at
least ten votes to one.

T. D. ACLAND, Esq., M.P., then moved a vote Of
thanks to the High Sheriff, which was seconded by Mr.
Browne, who expressed his belief that, however he
might have erred in his judgment on the first re-
solution, Mr. Bouverie waa incapable of anything unjust
or dishonourable.
The vete having been carried by acclamation,
The HIGH SHERIFF returned thanks.
The meeting separated shortly before five o'clock.

NATIONAL ANIMALS' FRIEND
SOCIETY.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
This Society has been particularly active during the.
past week in no less than twelve 'prosecutions, viz. :
Samuel Baily took into custody George King, in the
employ of John Gore, scavenger, for cruelly beating a
horse—Fined, 40s. Also, Chas. Farns, for cruelty to a
horse, laden with coal—Fined, 7s. Also, Jas. Hughes,
of Bishop Stortford, with torturing a horse by the canal
side—Fined, 40s. and costs. Thos. Radcliffe took into
custody Thomas Pickett, of St. Pancras, for working a
horse with dreadful wounds—Fined 10s. and horse
killed. Mr. Henry May, Secretary, charged henry
Knight, of Adam-street, Botherhitho, before Mr.
Chief Magistrate, with cruelty to a horse laden with
wood. The Worthy Magistrate took the trouble to vs.
cute his seat to see the animal, and was horror struck.
Three gentlemen also expressed their strong feelings to..
wards the inhuman muster—Fined, 20s. Thomas (31:-
Plume, with the assistance of Henry M. May, has suc-
ceeded in obtaining several convictions at Richmond, for
cruelty to animals.

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—, artiss
and agricultural labourers, but to the farmers themselveans,
beyond all measure.

Sir T. LETHBRIDGE then addressed the meeting at
great length in opposition to the proceedings of the
League, and in support of the resolution; but our -space
will not admit of our giving a report, and, as the Eon.
Baronet spoke amid frequent interruption, and his argu-
ments were necessarily much detached, it-would be diffi-
cult to give any very condensed abstract of then. . -
W. GORE LANGTON, Esq., on rising, was received with
loud cheering. • He said it had been his intention. to
have remained a quiet spectator of the proceedings ; but
after the speeches which had been made on both sidtv,
he felt called on to offer a few observations respecting
his father's conduct. He felt confident that, whatever

political opinions might be entertained b• the meeting,
the generous feeling of the yeomanry of Somerset would
grant him a patient hearing, whilst he spoke in the
name of one who once held the proud situation of their
member for the whole county, and now represented the
eastern division of it.—(Cheers.) He would not enter
into the discussion of the merits or demerits of a fixed.

or a sliding scale. That questicinh:4i;en- again and
again ably argued by the advocates on either side.
Ile would ask the farmers if any one like his father,
whose income was derived from the products .of
the land, could be • hostile or indifferent to the
interests of agriculture ?—whether his interests were
not identified with theirs ?—(Cheers.) His father had
a long experience in political matters, and it had shown
him the danger and injustice of class legislation, and
the importance of that vital and inseparable bond which
united agriculture and commerce together.—(Cheers.)
Gentlemen had called that meeting under the pretence
of opposing the measures of the Anti-Corn-law League ;
but, he would ask them, was it not rather with the
view of upholding a system under which agriculture
and commerce had alike languished, which set class
against class, and threatened to sow dissension in their
once happy and united land ?—(Great cheering.) • He
would now conclude by stating that his father cordially
and entirely differed from the resolution proposed by
Mr. Hancock, and seconded by Sir A. Hood, and as
cordially approved of, and concurred with that proposed
by his friend Mr. Beadon, and seconded by Mr. Perrott.
(The Hon. Gentleman concluded amidst three rounds of
•
enthusiastic applause.)
The Rev. Mr. THRING then spoke in favour of the ori-
ginal motion, condemning the proceedings of the League. •
The Ilion SHERIFF then put the amendment to the
meeting, when, according to our Judgment, at least two-
thirds of the meeting held up their hands in favour of
it. A show having been taken against it, and oa the
original motion, the freo traders were loudly cheering in ;
the confidence of having gained a victory, when, to the
surprise of most persons, the High Sheriff, who could•
not have commanded a view of the whole meeting, de-
cided that the original motion was adopted.
This decision led to much debate, Mr. Browne, Mr.
Beadon, Captain Strachey, and others, urging that a
division should be taken, or at least a fresh show of
hands be called for.

The HIGH SHERIFF refused to accede to either pro-
posal, and the greatest uproar prevailed, the requisi-
tionists stoutly objecting to the question being again
opened, and the free traders maintaining that the show
was two to one in their favour.

The HIGH SHERIFF still refusing to re-open the •
question,
E. A. SANDFORD, Esq., moved the adoption of a peti-
tion to the following effect ; but the noise which pre-
vailed
rendered the arguments by which he supported
it quite inaudible. .
The petition, which was addressed to both Houses
ofparliament, called upon them " to resist the insidious,
persevering, and unconstitutional proceedings of the
Anti-Corn-law League," and stating that the peticionera
had " long-suffered—too long," the proceedings of that
Association to pass without opposition, The petition
went on to state that the petitioners had many burdens
to bear, and that unless the present amount of protec-
tion should be maintained, the consequences would be
fatal to them, and subversive of the peace and order of
the country.]
Mr. BLANDFORD, a tenant farmer of Orchard Portman, •
seconded the resolution.

SPREAD OF FEVER FROM DESTITUTION.—DOCtOr
Southwood Smith has just given his annual report upon the
state of the London Fever Hospital during the pact year,
from which it appears that the admissions during the period
were 1,462, being an excess of 418 above that of any pre-
ceding year. Fever raged most violently in the Centrid.
Northern, and Southern Districts, which was attributable to
the undrained, close, and filthy condition of these localities.
A large propottion of the inmates were agricultural labourers
or provincial mechanics, who had come to London in search
of employment, and who were seized with the malady either
on the road or soon after their arrival, evincing the doss
connection between fever and destitution. These poor crea-
tures ascribed their illness—some of them to sleeping by the
aides of hedges, and others to a want of clothing, many being
without stockings, shirts, shoes, or any apparel capable
of
defending them from: the inclemency of the weather; while
the larger number attributed it to want of food, being driven
by hunger to eat raw vegetables, turnips, and rotten apples..
Teir disease was attended with such extreme prostration as
generally to require the administration of an unustially large
proportion of wine, brandy, and ammonia, and other Winn*
lents. The gross mortality was 15% per cent. An unpre-
cedented number of nurses and other servants of the hos-
pital were attacked with fever, nareely 29, of whom six died.
TURLATE MR. LOUDON.—On Saturday a meeting of
the friends of the late Mr. Loudon was held in the Horticultu-
ral
Society's Rooms, Regent-street, with the view of adopting
whatever measures might be deemed beat for relieving Kr
family from the state of pecuniary embarrassment in which
they had been left Dr. Lindley took the chair at two
o'clock, and, in an address of some length stated the circum-
stances under, which the late Mr. Loudon had involved him*
self in pecuniary difficulties. It was not, Dr. Lindley re-
marked, through any personal extravagance, for he lived is
a moderate style. It was solely through the losses he had
sustained by the publication of his " Arboretum Britanni7
cum"—a work which had been published at ansexmsewiwor
10,000/. At the time of his death, his loss byuthudiou;
widow
about 2,600/. It was proposed to relieve
by get t.
and family in two ways; first,
mirers of Zr. 3 Loudon to purchasenecol.nieg3otfheh friends ewnodrsioa n; dat
Resolutions to this
secondly, by subscriptions
mukuof wously adopted, and a Com-
mitteeefieet were proposed and - •to effect. The name. of the
lth'reemsidiennt of the Horticultural
Sp-
d at the close of the meeting. as a sub..
ciety, was annotinc.
DukeeatP 13°Deivnotendslitioerec,arrasy
of 21/.o,nliendsulitn sweielilubetel troealiteetdhefoorpitniiir
bore
n:44
opfr
Mn.
Loudon and family.
The Duke of. Devonshire, in testimony or his
Ni.ai:Than s
satisfaction of the exertions of the numerous dependents na
his Chatsworth estate, on the recent occasion of the Qus
and Prince Albert's visit to that princely seat, gave *bowl.
tiful entertainment to the whole of the work peolite
on Tuesday last, when neatly 300 were at, the &my...