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GRAVESEND and LONDON, by the BLACK-
WALL RAILWAY and the STAR PACKETS.
REDUCED FARES, and oily ONE PAYMENT THROUGHOUT.
The Public and the Friends of the STAR COMPANY are respect-
fully informed that the DIRECTORS of the BLACKWALL RAIL-
WAY COMPANY have made arrangements by which Passengers
will be conveyed between GRAVESEND and LONDON, for
EIGHTPENCE THROUGHOUT,
BOAT AND RAIL INCLUDED.
The STAR. PACKETS leave the Brunswick Wharf, Blackly:di,
Morning, at a Quarter to Ten and Eleven ; Afternoon, Four and Six.
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VICTORIA LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
TRUSTEES.
Sir JAMES DUKE, Alderman, M.P., Chairman.
BENJAMIN HAWES, Esq., Deputy Chairman.
BENJAMIN BARNARD, Esq.
CHARLES BALDWIN, Esq.
Peculiar advantages are offered by this Company. Thus--
Parties assuring the lives of others may make their policies secure,
notwithstanding the life assured may go out of the limits of Europe,
without the necessary permission of the Directors having been pre.
viously obtained.
Credit of half the premiums for the first five years allowed on po-
licies effected for the whole term of life.
On policies of five years' standing, half the amount paid, after the
first year's premium, may be borrowed thereon by the Assured.
Advances are a'so made to Assurers on real or undoubted personal
security, for terms of years, repayable by instalments.
Attention is particularly requested to the detailed Prospectuses of
the Company, which may ba obtained at the Office, IS, King
William.street, City. or by letter, addressed to the Secretary.
WILLIAM RATRAY, Actuary and Secretary.

AGED MASONS' ASYLUM.
The NINTH ANNIVERSARY of this Institution will take
place on WEDNESDAY, the 19th of June, at Freemasons' Hall, Great
Queen-street.
Colonel the Hon. GEORGE ANSON, M.P., in the Chair.
STEwARDs.—Bros. J. Hodgkinson, President ; ROLL Bell, Vice-
President ; IV. Eccles, Treasurer ; Z. Watkins, Hon. See.; and many
other Brethren.

GENERAL TOM THUMB (for a few days
longer), the American Dwarf, under the especial patronage
of her Majesty and the Royal Family, exhibiting every Day and
Evening, previous to visiting Paris, in (7ATLIN'S spacious INDIA'S
GALLERY, EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly, from Eleven to One,
Half-past Two to Five, and from Seven to Nine o'Clock, giving
illustrations of Napoleon, the Grecian Statues, Singing, Dancing, &c.
This wonderful man in miniature weighs only FIFTEEN POUNDS,
and is smaller than any infant that ever walked alone. The elegant
presents from her Majesty and the Queen Dowager may be also seen.
The General wears hie Court Dress daily at Half-past Twelve.
The General continues; to wait on the Nobility and Gentry on due
notice.

Dinner on Table at Six o'Clock punctually.
Tickets, 155., may be had of the Stewards ; at Freemasons'
Tavern ; and of Bro. Z. Watkins, Honorary Secretary, 108, Regent-
street.

The Brethren will not appear in Costume, and Gentlemen
not of the Fraternity are also most respectfully invited to attend.
THE CONCERT.
_ . _ .

Admission One Shilling.
The General has never appeared on the stage of the Haymarket
Theatre as has bean represented.

The following ladies and gentlemen have in the most obliging
manner consented to assist the cause :—Mrs. Chatfield, Mrs. W.
Seguin, Miss Turner, Miss E. Turner, Bros. Signors Negri and Brizzi ;
Jolley (and Pupils), W. Seguin, Collyer, with other friends. Accom-
panyh,ts—Signors Luigi, Negri, C. Horn, and ,R,lngsbury, Signor
Emiliani will give a Solo on the Violin.

ESTABLISHED 1821

Seven.
Tickets to be obtained for the Down-passage at the Fenehurch-
street, Minories, Cannon-street, Shad ell,
and Stepney Stations of
the Blackwall Railway; for the Up-passage on board the Packets.
Star-Office, Gravesend, May 17, 1844.

THE LONDON MARBLE AND STONE
WORK MI COMPANY, are enabled, with their PATENT
MACHINERY, to execute Chimney Pieces, Monuments, Tablets,
Slabs for Furniture, and every description of such Work, with an
accuracy, rapidity of execution, beauty and durability of Polish, and
reduction of cost, which cannot be obtained elsewhere.
The Public are invited to inspect their extensive SHOW-ROOMS,
containing tho largest stock in this country.
The Trade supplied with every description of Rough Slab Blocks,
or Scantlings; or Blocks sent to the Works cut to order.
Esher-street, Holywell-street, Milbank, Westminster.
Please to be accurate iu copying the Address, to prevent imposi-
tion, the Company having no connexion with any other Establish-
ment but that in Esher-street.

GUARANTEE SOCIETY.
Established by Act of Parliament.
SECURITY GIVEN for the FIDELITY of PERSONS in
SITUATIONS of TRUST.
Particulars maybe obtained daily, at the Society's Office, No. 21,
sultry, between the hours of Nine and FITC o'clock.
AGENTS.
Messrs. G. Edwards and Son • • • • Bristol.
Messrs. J. H. and G. Ridsdale • • Leeds.
Messrs. Hughen and Ronald . • • • Liverpool.
Mr. Nathaniel Lea • • • • • • • • —Birmingham.
Mr. Samuel Taylor • Manchester.
Mr. 11. Callender . •
By order, THOMAS DODGSON, Secretary.

F.CONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
34, BRIDGE-STREET, 13LACKFRIARS, LONDON.
Established 1823.
Empowered by Act of Parliament, 3 William IV.
DIRECTORS.

An ADDRESS (written by Bro. Douglas Jerrold) will be delivered,

The Right Hon. THOM A STliit:ia,AND LEWIS, Chairman.
HENRY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq, Deputy .Chairman.
Lancelot Baugh Allen, Esq. Thomas Edgar, E,q.
Stephen Nicolson Barber, Esq. Sir Alex. Duff Gordon, Bart.
Henry Barnett, Esq. Archibald Hastie, Esq., M.P.
Robert Biddulph, Est. John Mendham, Esq.
Robert Davies, Esq. William Routh, Esq.

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AUDITORS.
Francis Dumergue, Esq. I Charles Mortis, Esq.
Capt. Robert G rdon, John Gilliam Stillwell, Esq.
PHYSICIAN— ohn Ayrton Paris, M. D., F.R.S., 27, Dover-street,
President of the Royal College of Physicians.
SURGEON—Benjamin Travers, Esq., F.R.S., 12, Bruton.street.
SOLICITOR—Henry Young, Esq, 2, Essex-street, Strand.
BANKERS—Messrs. Hankey, Fenchurch-street
Amway—James John DownestEsq., F.R.A.S.
SECRETARY—CampbeII James Downer, Esq.
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TO IRONMONGERS.-A GOOD WHOLE-
SALE and RETAIL GENERAL IRONMONGERY BUSI-
NESS, in a flourishing market town in the west of England, TO
BE SOLD.
For partiCulars, apply to Mr. E theredge, commission agent, Yeovil,
Somerset.

The following are among the advantages offered by this Society:—
LOWER RATES of Premium than those of any other Office,
which entitle the assured to participate in the profits, and con.
siderably lower than those of any other Mutual Assurance Society.
THE WHOLE OF THE PROFITS divided among the Assured.
Three Bonuses have already been declared out of Three-fourths of
the profits :
The first, in 1831, averaged £lll per cent. on the Premiums paid.
The second, 1839, ditto £3l ditto since the Ist division.
The third, 1844, ditto 36 ditto since the 2d division
In addition to which all Policies entitled to the absolute bonus will
receive a contingent prospective bonus of £1 per cent. per annum, on
the sum assured, on becoming claims before 1849.
Assurances effected on the equal scale (of premiums in the year
1814, will participate in the Bonus to be declared in 1849.
No extra charge for residence in any part of Europe, nor for pro.
ceeding (in a decked, sailing, or steam-vessel), from any one port
thereof to another during peace, to Assurers not being seafaring
men by profession. Licenses are granted to go to any part of the
world upon terms proportionate to the risks.
Policies on the lives of persons dying by suicide, duelling, or by
the hands of justice, are not void as respects the interests of patties
to whom they may have been legally assigned.
Assurances may be effected Gn any and every day.
By order of the Hoard of Directors,
CAMPBELL JAMES DOWNER, Secretary.

DISEASED AND HEALTHY LIVES
ASSURED.

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MEDICAL, IN VALID, and GENERAL LIFE
OFFICE, 25, PALL-MALL, LONDON.
TRUSTEES.
Charles Hopkinson, Esq., Regent-street.
Sir Thomas Phillips, Temple.
Alfred Waddilove, D.C.L., Doctors' Commons...,
DIRECTORS.

Edward Doubleday, Esq., 249, C. Richardson, Esq., 19, Bru.
Great Surrey-street. ton-street, Berkeley.square.
George Gun Hay, Esq., 127, Thomas Stevenson,Esq., F.S. A.,
Sloane street. 37, Upper Grosvenor-street.
J. Parkinson, Esq., F.R.S., 80, I Robert Bentley Todd, M.D.,
Cambridge. ter race, Hyde-park. I F. R. S., 26. Parliament-street.
Benjamin Phillips, Esq., F.R.S., Alfred Waddilove, D.C.L.,
17, Wimpole.street. I Doctors' Commons.
AUDITORS.

John Pursord, Esq., 7, YOrIc.:IJ. Stirling Taylor, Esq
terrace, Regent's-park. I 14, Upper Gloucester-place,
Joseph Radford, Esq., 27, I Dorset.square.
Cambridge. terrace, Hyde. Martial L. Welch, Esq.. Wynd-
park. I ham-place Bryanston.square.
STANDING COUNSEL—John Shapter, Esq., Lincoln's Inn.
BANKERS—Messrs. C.Hopkinson and Co., Regent-street.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. Richardson and Smith, 28, Golden square.
DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL STATISTICS—WiIIiam Farr, Esq.,
General Register Office.
ACTUARY—F. G. P. Nelson, Esq.

IMPORTANT to FAMILIES FURNISHING.
—A considerable saving can be effected in the purchase of
Furnishing Ironmongery, by visiting the PANKLIBANON IRON
WORKS, 53, Baker-street, Portman-square, where may be in-
spected the most extensive STOCK of IRONMONGERY GOODS In
the Kingdom, consisting of kitchen cooking utensils, German silver
wares, drawing-room stoves, shower and vapour baths, ornamental
iron work, garden implements, bed-chamber furniture, best Sheffield
plate, kitchen ranges, fenders and fire-irons, tea trays, ornamental
wirework, flower stands, table cutlery, &c. Every article being
marked in plain figures, at the lowest possible price, will fully con-
vince purchasers at this establishment of the great advantage result-
ing from Cash payments, as the proprietors warrant every article
of the very best manufacture, at a saving of at least 30 per cent.—
THORPE, FALLOWS, and Co., 58, Baker-street, Portman-square.
—A liberal allowance to merchants and captains.

This Office is provided with very accurately constructed tables,
by which it can assure unsound lives on equitable terms.
Similar tables enable the Society to grant increased annuities on
unsound lives, the amount varying with the particular disease.
Members of consamptive farniles assured at equitable rates.
Healthy lives are assured on lower terms than at most ether

GILDING—FLY SPOTS—TARNISH.
ARISIAN GOLD DETERGENT, 2s. 6d. per
Bottle. Ormolu Lacquer and Bronze, Is. 6d. each.—These
compositions are perfectly innoxions, and their effect sudden, asto-
nishing*, and lasting. Gilding, Lacquer, and Bronze, are instantly
restored to their original lustre, fly spots removed, and covering
from the fly rendered unnecessary.

offices.
The first Life Assurance Society commenced business in 1705,
and the principles of life contingencies, understood at that time to
a very limited extent only, have repeatedly undergone important
changes and improvements; but till the establishment of this So-
ciety in 1841 no attempt had ever been made to assure the lives of

RECENT TESTIMONIALS.
" I am highly satisfied with your Gold and Lacquer Detergents.
I hope to recommend them to some of my friends, as they answer so
well, especially the Gold Detergent."—From the Right lion. C. D'Eyn -
court, M.P.
" We first tried the Gold Detergent on a costly looking-glass frame
that had been a few years gilt. It removed the whole of the fly spots,
the dust, and stains, and the frame has now the appearance and bril-
liancy of the day it left the workman's hands. Next on two very old
frame.s—from their colour we were almost in doubt whether they
were gilded or not. The Detergent soon convinced us of the fact, by
removig th accumulated stains and tarnish of many years ; these
framesn soh
now the appearance of being nearly new."—Liverpool
Chronicle, Jan. 27, 1844.
"We have tried the Gold Detergent upon several old picture
frames, and must confess we were very agreeably surprised at the
result for it restores the splendour of gilding with very little trouble.
A single bottle is more than sufficient for all the picture and looking-
glass frames in a moderate-sized house."—Vide Nottingham Review,
April 5, 1844.
Sold by Upton and Co., 33, George-street, Hanover-square, and 6G,
Basinghall-street, City ; and the trade in general.

persons who suffer from disease.
The science of statistics has only within a recent period been
successfully applied to the duration and mortality of disease, and
hence tables on the probability of these results could not have been
formed ; and it would evidently have been unsafe and hazardous
for any society to have undertaken the risk of assuring the lives of
persons afflicted with any particular malady. The statistical in-
formation, however, now collected, and in possession of this office,
is of so great an extent as fully to warrant the extension of life
assurance to such cases, and, in fact, to place the application of life
assurance on diseased lives on a more secure basis than even that

on healthy lives.
It is hoped that while kept clearly in view that this Society, in
common with other offices, will assure the lives of healthy persons,
it is as yet the only one established to assure the lives of persons
labouring under disease ; and to this latter feature particular atten.

Lion is directed.
In the first place, because it opens a larger field for business than
all other offices can have unitedly ; and in the
Second place, because that branch of assurance must, from its
own nature, be less hazardous, and its principles rest on a more

SILVER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
and injurious metals called Nickel and German Silver sup-
planted by the introduction of a new and perfectly matchless ALBATA
PLATE.
C. WATSON, 41 and 42, BARBICAN, and 16, NORTON-FOL-
GATE, aided by a person of science in the amalgamation of metals,
has succeeded in bringing to public notice the most beautiful article
ever yet offered ; possessing all the richness of Silver in appearance
—with all its durability and hardness—witk 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.

permanent foundation.
These are two highly important facts, and we shall enter into an
explanation of each ; and first, as to the prevalence of disease.
The period of life most important to an assurance office is that be.
tween 15-60 years of age, and in the following remarks we refer
_ _

exclusively to this period or life.
It will be found that the deaths In the metropolis for the two
years preceding 1842 were, from all causes, 30,518 ; and from
consumption alone, 10,688 ; showing that more than one-third of
the total deaths in that period of life takes place from the preva.
lence of a single disease ; and if the same inquiry were instituted
with respect to other disease', such as asthma, dropsy, diseases of
the head, heart, &c., it would be found that more than one-half
of the whole population would, on medical examination, be refused
admission into an assurance office. If the inquiry be carried to
the principal towns in England, like facts are elicited—ln Bir-
mingham, Liverpool and Manchester, the deaths from all causes,
per annum, are about 5,023, while those from consumption are
1,988, forming considerably more than one.third of the whole. The
same thing will be found to hold good in the large towns In Scot.
land, in six of which the deaths in a given period, from all causes,
amounted to 23,078, those from consumption alone to 6,359, and
from six important diseases, 9,754; in the latter case forming more
than 42 per cent, of the deaths from all causes. On reference to
the returns from the city of Glasgow for 1836-1840 It will be
found that the deaths in that period, from all causes, were 14,107,
from consumption 4,087, and a list of five diseases, 6,423, being
more than 45 per cent. of the deaths from all causes.
The diseases here alluded to are such as exist in general in a
chronic form, frequently for many years prior to death, but which,
en a strict medical examination, would effectually exclude the
persons so affected from the benefits of life assurance ; and since
it thus appears that a majority of the population is included in this
class, the value and importance of the new feature of this society
cannel fail to be justly appreciated.
The second point to be explained is the fact that there

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Table Spoons and Forks, per doz.. 16s. 6d. •.f 30s. Od. • • 355. ed.
Dessert ditto, per doz.•.
Tea Spoons, per doz. • •
Sugar Tongs, each
Salt and Mustard Spoons, e9ch •• • • Gs. Od. • • 13s. 6d. .• 13s. 6d
Communion Services, &c.

C. Watson begs the Public will understand that this metal is pecu-
liarly his own, and that Silver is not snore different from Gold, than
his metal Is from all others ; on its intrinsic merit alone he wishes it
to be tested, and from the daily increasing culogiums he receives, he
is convinced that nothing can prevent its becoming an article of uni-
versal wear.

C. Watson's handsomely Illustrated Catalogue and Price Carrent
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 address.
Ivory Table-knives, 118. per dozen, Dessert, es. ; Carvers, 3s. 6d.
per pair.

TABLE. DESSERT. CARVERS,
doz. doz. pair.
31-in. handsome balance handle •. • • 18s. Od. 14s. Od. 6s. 6d.
4-in. balance handle, largest and best
made.. ....... .
Ditto with Watson's Albata Plate
handles, equal to v
siF ler ••• • • •
orks half the above price

as. 6d

Paper Tea-trays, 355. the Set of Three ; very richly ornament°
50s. the Set of Three.
A Five Quart 1,0111011 made Bronze Tea-urn 355. up to 5/.
A Set of Six London made Dish Covers 18s. 6d. ; Imperial /taiscd
Patent, 355. 6d. the Set of Six.
WATSON'S, 41 and 42, BARBICAN, and 16, NORTON FOLGATE.
These houses have for Fifty Years ranked pre-cmineat for their
Cutlery, which is always exchanged, if not approved.
'Send for his Catalogue.

much less risk in assuring diseased lives. This is a feature of
paramount and vital importance to the interests of this society, and
deserves to be carefully considered.
The real risk incurred in all assurance transactions consists in
the chance to which an office is liable of experiencing a different
degree of mortality from that expected by the tables on which its
caculations are founded. This difference is termed the fluctuation
of mortality, and will be found to be much less among diseased
lives than over the general population, and among selected lives.
The deaths from consumption in the metropolis per annum are
sufficiensly near the annual number which takes place in Glasgow,
from all causes, to admit of a comparison, and by reducing the
matter to figures it is found that while the fluctuation per annum
in the latter ease is as high as 45 per cent., in the former it is only
9 per cent., or, in other words, the fluctuation of mortality in
consumption was only one-fifth of the other ; and in Manchester,
Liverpool, and Birmingham, even with the disadvantage of
smaller numbers, the fluctuation does not exceed 3 per cent.,
showing a remarkable uniformity in the law which determines the
mortality of this disease, and that it is snore positive and absolute
In its results than that which regulates the general population.
Consumption has here beets selected, not because it was consi.
dered more favourable in its results, but simply on account of the
larger numbers affording a more satisfactory proof of the question
under consideration; but the same test has beets applied to a great
number of other diseases, and like results obtained. Among nine
diseases in the metropolis, including asthma, dropsy, rheumatism,
disease of the liver, of the heart, of the nervous system, &c., the
fluctuation was only 71 per cei,t., and in five diseases in a different
district the fluctuation was about 7 per cent., while among eleven
in another locality, and even with small numbers, the fluctuation
did not exceed 6.2 per cent. ; and taking the principal towns in
England, including Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds,
Sheffield, &c., the fluctuation over eleven of the more important
diseases was 6'4 per cent.
The remarkable uniformity in these results cannot fail to pro-
duce a conviction of the positive character of the law of mortality
in disease; indeed, there seems to be nothing within the whole
range of the doctrine of probabilities so well defined as the mor.
tality of diseased lives. The mortality of the general population
has frequently been referred to by writers as an example of the cer-
tainty of common events, but the preceding remarks must show with
how much greater certainty the mortality of diseased lives can be
depended on.
It is perhaps right to state, that, in applying the test of
fluctuation to disease, it has not been confined to one place or
class of lives, but has been extended to the principal towns. in
England and Scotland, as well as to many rural districts in Eng-
land, and included the experience of one or two large societies of
select lives. This has afforded an opportunity of judging of the
effects of locality and its sanatory condition en the duraticn of
life, and a remarkable fact has thus been developed, viz.,
that the value of life generally is much greater in the coun-
try districts than in large cities; but that of those persons
who suffer from disease the value of life is nearly the same. As
an example of this—the expectation at the age of 30 in the country
districts is 36.7 years; it•. cities (viz., Glasgow) 27.6 years—diffe-
rence 33 per cent. nearly; but take the case of persons of that
age in whom the consumptive tendency is developed, and who will
ultimately die of consumption, and their expectati,,n of life in the
counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, will be found to be 14'5,
in cities (Glasgow) 14'4. and in the metropolis, Manchester, Bir-
mingham, 13•9 ; difference 'Ol7 per cent. (or 1.57 per cent.) It
therefore appears that while the difference between country and
town life in the former C 330 is about 33 per cent., that in the latter
instance (consumption) the difference is almost nothing, and the
results nearly uniform. The same thing h.olds good with some
other diseases, which have been ir.vestigated in this manner. This
fact, although not generally understood, is only what might have
been expected by a careful consideration of the conclusion formerly
arrived at—that the fluctuation of the law of mortality in disease
is confined within a very narrow limit, and consequently little in.
fluenced by external circumstances.
lthence appears that the fluctuation in the mortality of diseased
lives is much less than a:nong select lives and the population gene-
rally, and therefore the risk of assuring diseased lives must also be

C 1-1 EPPE'S SODA AND POTASS
I. WATERS, and /Eft ATED LEMON
The continued preference of the public for the above celebrated
preparations (notwithstanding the low price at which imitations are
frequently vended), so abundantly proves their superior quality, that
it only remains for the manufacturers to express their acknowledg-
ments, and to caution consumers against an imposition oen prac-
tised I")y unprincipled persons filling Schweppe's bottles with a spu-
rious composition, and passing it off as Schwe ppe's manufacture.
None is genuine without a label representing the name of their firm.
SCII WEPPE'S L QUID MAGNESIA, for the cure of sea sick-
ness, gout, acidity, &c., is an invaluable medicine, scientifically made
with the aid of their powerful machinery, and patronised universally
by the medical profession.
Sold, together with the above, by most respectable Chemists in
the United Kingdom; 51, Berners-street London; and a their
Branch Manufactories at Liverpool, Bristol, and Derby.

EASE AND COMFORT IN SHAVING
MESSRS. B. and S. COWVAN'S invaluable
CANTON STROP, or QUADRILATERAL CHINESE
RAZQR SHARPENER (Patronised by his Royal Highness
PRINCE' ALBERT), renders the operation of shaving no longer
paintul to the most tender skin. By a very simple process the
keenest edge may speedily be given tothe bluntest razor or penknife,
B. and S. Cowvan's peculiarly tempered razors and shaving powder.
Specimens of the Strops are now exhibiting at the Royal Polytechnic
Institution and Royal Adelaide Gallery, Lowther Arcade, from
whence the most flattering certificates have been sent, which may be
seen at the Inventors, B. and S. COWV AN, 164, Fenchurch-street,
where the Strops, &c., may be obtained, as well as of all respectable
perfumers, &c.. in the United Kingdom, price ss. 6d., '7s. 6d., and
Its. CA. Also may be had, Cowvan's Canton Razor Strop Paste, at
Is. per packet. The Shaving Powder Is. 6d. per box.
Caution—None are genuine, except those marked and Spelt
B. and S. COWVAN
N.B. A liberal allowance to the trade and shippers.

less.
To apply this conclusion to the affairs of an assurance office, it
may be stated, that supposing the number of lives in a society,
taking only select lives, was such that the table of mortality would
indicate 100 deaths per annum, it would be necessary to have
always sufficient funds at immediate command to meet 145 deaths ;
on the other hand, an office assuring only diseased lives need not
provide for more than 109 deaths per annum; that is to say, the
risk of assuring diseased lives is to that of average lives as 9 to 45,
or only one.fifth. This fact is highly important to the interests of
this Society, and establishes beyond doubt the safety and correctness
of the principles on which it is founded.
For further information, reference is made to the prospectuses
and other published docura,_gits of the Society, which may be ob-
tained, on application at the Society's offices.
F. G. P. NEIBOX, Actuary.

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COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal, arrived in town at twenty minutes be-
fore six o'clock yesterday afternoon in a carriage and
four, escorted by a party of Lancers from Claremont.
Ills Royal Highness the Prince of \Vales was in the
next royal carriage ; and the Countess of Mount Edg-
cumbe, Lady in Waiting, Colonel Arbuthnot, Equerry
in Waiting, and gol,.nel Wylde, Equerry to Prince
Albert, followed in another Royal carriage.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert were received at
Thickifigham Palace by the Lord Steward, the Lord'
Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, Viscount
Hawarden, and Sir Frederick Stovin, the Lord and
Groom in Waiting ; and the Marquis of Granby. and
Captain Francis Seymour, the Lard and Groom in
Waiting to Prince Albert.
Sir Robert and Lady Gardner had the honour of
dining with her Majesty, at Claremont, on Wednesday
evening.
Yesterday morning the Queen and Prince Albert took
their accustomed early walk in Claremont Park.
Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice was taken an
airing yesterday in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham
Palace.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager attended Divine
service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St.
James's.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town.
yesterday morning for the Royal Military College at
Sandhurst. His Royal Highness travelled by the South
Western Railway.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge,
attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt, took an airing yester-
day, to her residence at Kew, in an open barouehe. The
R. Duchess returned in the evening to Cambridge
House.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
two o'clock, at the Foreign-office. It was attended by
Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of 'Wellington, the Lord
Chancellor, Lord Wharncliffe' the Duke of Bumtench,
Earl of Aberdeen, Sir James Graham, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of Ripon, the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, and Sir Edwd. Knatchbull.
The Council sat two hours and a half. _ _

M. Murphy, the Mexican Minister, transacted busi-
ness yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Dispatches from Sir Charles Metcalfe, Governor of
Canada, and the Governors of the other North American
provinces, were received yesterday at the Colonial-office.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat
yesterday. The Lords present were Lord Brougham,
the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, the Chancellor of
the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty
Court. Mr. Roebuck, Queen's Counsel, was heard on
pn appeal from the Arches' Court, of Canterbury—
Piggott v. Bearblock and Newman—relative to a church-
rate at Romford, Essex.
Dr. Addams wa3 heard for the respondents, and in
support of the rate.
Lord Brougham gave judgment on the part of their
Lordships, reversing the decision of the Court below, on
account of the retrospective nature of the rate. With
respect to costs, their Lordships reversed that part of
the decision of the Judge in the Court below, which
gave costs against the appellant ; and were pleased to
order that the appellant should neither pay' nor receive
costs, either in the Court of Appeal of the Privy Couneil
or in the Court below.—Their Lordships then adjourned.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S.—TESTERDAY.
DERBY.
S to 1 agst Col. Peel's lot—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's lot—taken
9 to 4 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—taken
10 to 3 agst Mr. Crockford's Ratan—taken
12 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Bay Momus—taken
13 to 1 agst Col. Peel's Orlando
20 to 1 agst Mr. Lichtwald's Leander—taken
20 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar
30 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Qui Tarn
50 to 1 agst Mr. Ford's Phalaris
100 to 1 agst Mr. M. Jones's British Tar.
The arrival of Ratan in town yesterday, en route for
Epsom, coupled with a report that he is perfectly well,
completely restored him to favour ; 700 to 200 was
taken three times, and 10 to 3 at least to I,ooo!.—this too,
in addition to some heavy bets at the West-end on Wed-
nesday night ! The Ugly Buck was not less in de-
mand, 5 to 2 having been taken once in hundreds, and
9to 4to nearly 2,000/. ! The new favourite, Bay Mo.
mus, was backed freely at twelve to 1 ; Orlando, but to
no great amount, at 13 to 1 ; and Mr. Ford's horses,
singly and jointly, at a considerable improvement on the
last quotations. All sorts of prices were laid against
Leander, from 14 up to 20 to 1. We return him at the
latter figure, believing it to be his genuine price. Nothing
said about T'Auld Squire, Running Rein, or lonian.
OAKS.
7 to 1 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Sister to Martingale
7 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Barricade
8 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Princess—taken
12 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Merope—taken
12 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's All Round my Hat—t,
20 to 1 agst Baron Rothschild's Emerald—taken
20 to 1 agst Mr. Rawlinson's Charming Kate
25 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's The Bee—taken
30 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Buzz—taken
40 to 1 agst Sir R. Bulkeley's Coal Black Rose—t.
The Princess was backed by three or four parties.
Merope for a "rouleau" or two, All-round my-Hat for
about 2001., Emerald freely, and the other favourites for
small sums at the odds given above. Crenoline is amiss,
and will probably be declared not to start before the
week is out.
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