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AT a MEETING held at LONDON HOUSE,
on Saturday, December 2, 1843, it was resolved to form
an ASSOCIATION for PROMOTING the RELIEF of
DESTITUTION, and for IMPROVING the CONDITION
of the POOR in the 'METROPOLIS, by MEANS of PA-
ROCHIAL and DISTRICT VISITING : and after several
intermediate meetings, it was resolved, on Saturday, De-
cember 16, to adopt and circulate the following Address and
Regulations :
The object which this Association has in viewi s, not merely
to administer immediate relief in cases of extreme destitution,
or of pressing want, but to improve the social, moral, and re-
ligious condition of the poor, by means which have been tried,
on a limited scale, in certain districts, and which have been
uccessful in proportion to the completeness of the system
which has been put into operation, and the care with which it
has been worked. It is obvious that to dispense pecuniary re-
lief indiscriminately, and with reference solely to the apparent
or actual necessity of the case, without inquiry as to the past,
or provision for the future, is, to say the least of it, but a half
measure of charity, and has a tendency to generate or increase
the very evils which it seeks to cure. An inquiry into the
causes of distress, and into the best means of preventing its
recurrence, by infusing into those who labour under it sound
principles of action, and forming them to habits of economy,
industry, and foresight, is obviously necessary, to ensure to the
exertions of benevolence their proper results. Mere liberality
in almsgiving, unaccompanied by an endeavour to remove the
causes of that destitution which calls it forth, will not answer
theyequirenzents of Christian charity.
This view of the subject plainly implies the necessity of com-
bining religious and moral instruction with the relief of bodily
want, and of making the latter, as it were, a preparative for
the former. Azd, therefore, although the primary design
of the Association is, to furnish the means of administering
to the extreme necessity of the poor, after due inquiry into the
circumstances of each particular case, its ultimate object is, to
aid in removing the moral causes which create or aggravate
want; to encourage prudence, industry, and cleanliness, as
parts of Christian duty, and to promote kindly feelings be-
tween those classes of society which are kept so far asunder
by the difference of their worldly conditions. And this may
be effected, it is hoped, by a judicious distribution of the funds
entrusted to this Association, through which individual bounty
may be applied to the relief of distress without fear of misdi-
rection or waste. A few only of those charitable persons, who
are at all times ready to give of their worldly substance to the
sick and needy, have either leisure to make personal inquiry
into each case which presents itself, or these habits of investi-
gation which are required for the detection of imposture. Dis-
trict Visiting Societies, when conducted on right principles,
opeis w safe and ready channel for the distribution of pri-
vate alms.
The description now given of the objects contemplated by
this Association clearly marks out the propriety, or rather the
necessity, of attempting their attainment through the agency
of the parochial clergy. They are, in virtue of their office,
almoners, as well as instructors, of the people ; nor can it be
doubted, that the evils under which the poorest classes labour
in our crowded cities and towns, have been greatly aggravated
by the inadequacy of our parochial system, with its existing
machinery, to meet the wants of an overwhelming popu-
lation. Two things are necessary, in order to replace the social
system in a healthy state; a more direct and friendly intercourse
between the different classes of society, and the general incul-
cation of Christian principles. In both cases the agency of the
Clergy is indispensable, and will be, under the Divine blessing,
effectual to these ends, if means are supplied for carrying on the
work, which is now so immeasurably beyond their strength
and resources. An Association, which aims at the attainment
of this object, may surely assert its claim upon the charity of
those whom Providence has entrusted with the means of doing
good, and who are bound to use them for the glory of God, in
promoting the temporal and eternal welfare of their fellow-
creatures.

ASSOCIATION for PROMOTING the RELIEF of
DESTITUTION in the METROPOLIS, and for
IMPROVING the CONDITION of the POOR, by
MEANS of PAROCHIAL and DISTRICT VISITING.
1. The object of this Association shall be to relieve Desti-
tution, and to improve the condition of the Poor in the Metro-
polis, by means of Parochial and District Visiting, under the
superintendence and direction of the Bishop and Clergy.
2. The Association shall consist of the general body of con-
tributors to the Fund, the Bishop of London being President.
3. The business of the Association shall be conducted by a
Committee of Members belonging to the Church of England ;
one-third to go out annually, but to be re-eligible; the vacan-
cies to be filled up by election at the Annual Meeting.
4. The Committee shall have power to defray, from the funds
of the Association, such expenses as they shall deem essential
for the efficient management of its concerns ; but no part of its
funds shall be applied to the payment of District Agents or
Visitors. 'I he attendance of five members of the Committee
shall be necessary for the transaction of business.
5. An Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held—the
President in the chair—to receive the accounts of the preced-
ing year, to appoint auditors for the ensuing year, and to fill up
the vacancies in this Committee.
The duties of the Committee shall be, to form and maintain
a fund for the purposes hereinafter specified, by occasional ap-
peals to the public, to receive contributions, and to administer
such fund under the following regulations :-
1. To obtain from the parochial clergy, and to afford to them,
information concerning District Visiting. For this purpose, to
enter into immediate communication with the clergy of each
metropolitan parish.
2. In such parish where a Visiting Society is in operation, to
request information respecting its working and results, and the
general condition of the poor.
3. Where a Visiting Society exists, but is confined in its
operations by want of funds, to render assistance.
4. Where there is no Society, to submit a plan, with the offer
of effective co-operation.
5. Where no provision for District Visiting exists, or seems
likely to he made, the case to be submitted to the Bishop.
The fund shall be administered to objects deserving of relief
without distinctien of religious persuasion.
I. Upon application from any incumbent, or from the curate
of any non-resident incumbent, a grant of money may be made,
to be employed in the relief of the destitute poor by means of
gratuitous district visiting.
2. Such incumbent, or curate, shall specify in his application
the constitution of the District Visiting Society by which he
proposes to dispense the money granted to him by the Commit-
tee, and the general objects to which it will be applied.
3. And shall render periodically to the Committee an ac-
count of the actual expenditure of the grant.
4. All grants shall be made for one year only, but shall be
renewable upon similar application, at the discretion of the
Committee.
In distributing the fends of the Association, care shall Le
taken not to interfere with the legal administration of relief to
the poor.
It was resolved to advertise the foregoing Address and Regu-
lations in the leading London journals.
A Committee was appointed, with power to add to its tim-
ber. The following noblemen and gentlemen have already
consented to act on the Committee :
The LORD BISHOP of LONDON, President.
The Lord Ashley, M.P. Philip Cazenove, Esq.
The Lord Howard Rev. W. W. Champneys
Viscount Campden Harry Chester, Esq.
The Lord Dudley Stuart Rev. Thomas Dale
The Lord R. Grosvenor, M.P. W. Clowes, Esq.
•
Hon. Wrn. Ashley W. Cotton, Esq.
Hon. Wm. Cowper, M.P. Raikes Curie, Esq., M.P.
Hon. and Rev. H. Montagu Rev. William Dodsworth
Villiers G. Carr Glyn, Esq.
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone,,W. Gregscn, Esq.
M.P. 'J. G. Hoare, Esq.
Hon. A. Kinnaird J. R. Kenyon, Esq.
Hon. and Rev. Baptist W. Henry K ingscote, Esq.
Neel John Labouchere, Esq.
Hon. Mr. Justice Patteson J. G. Shaw Lefevre, Esq.
Hon. Mr. Justice Coleridge Rev. H. H. Milman.
Rev. Sir H. Dukinfield, Bart. W. Norris, Esq.
Sir Walter R. Farquhar, Bart. Stafford H. Northcote, Esq.
Sir Robert H. Inglis, Bart.,, A. Robarts, Esq.
NI. P. Rev. W. Short
Very Rev. the Dean of Chi- Edward Thornton, Esq.
chester Henry Tritton, Esq.
Rev. R. Burgess Rev. J. Endell Tyler
Rev. A. 31. Campbe 1 Rev. J. G. Ward.
The Bankers of I..ondon are requested to receive centribu-
tiens to the fund, and to place the same to the account of the
following gentlemen, who have been appointed Trustees :
The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., Sir Walter R.
Farquhar, Bart., Sir It H. Inglis, Bart., M.P., and Henry
Kingscote, Esq.

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NATIONAL LOIN FUND LIFE ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,

FOR GRANTING
LIFE ASSURANCES DEFERRED ANNUITIES, &c.
' No. 2h, CORNHILL.
Capital £500,000.
Empowered by Special Act of Parliament.
DIRECTORS. •
T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
i
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John Griffith Frith, Esq. John Rawson, Esq.
Hunter Gordon, Esq. Joseph Thompson, Esq.
Clement abor, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Professor Wheatstone, F. R.S.—Professor Graves, A.M.F.R.S.
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DIVISION OF PROFITS.
The Bonus just declared at the Meeting of Proprietors
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cent. in present Cash, or 10 per amt. permanent reduction of
future Premiums.

lAONDON, EDINBURGH, and DUBLIN
LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.'
No. 3, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house, andbs, Chancery-lane.

TRUSTEES.

K. Kingsford, Esq. I B. Iffill, Esq.

I J. Bidden, Esq.

DIRICTORS.
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TRIENNIAL ASCENDING SCALE TO ASSURE £lOO.

First Second Third Fourth Remainder
Age' 3 Years. 3 Years. 3 Years. 3 Years. of Life.
.
25 X! 2 714.1 9 9£l 16 111.E2 4 1 £2 11 3
35 1 9 9 119 6 2 9 3; 219 0 3 8 9
45 2 1 0 214 10 3 8 8; 4 2 6 416 4
55 311 1 410 9 510 5 610 1 7 9 9
60 4 811 517 4 7 5 9 814 2 10 2 7

THE HALF-PREMIUM plan of Assurance, as practised
by this Company, enables persons to retain to their own use
the cne-half of the premiums for the first seven years at 51. per
cent. interest. Thus, suppose the ordinary premium for an
assurance of 5001. to be 10/., the first payment by the half-
premium plan will be five guineas, being the one-half of the
101., and interest for the retained half; and if death should
occur in the first year, the sum of 5001. would be paid less the
Sl. retained. The assured may thus have the use for the first
year of 5/. ; for the second of 101. ; and so on till the end of
the seventh year, when the retained sums, amounting to 351.,
may either be repaid, or retained at Si. per cent. interest until
death, when the 35/. would be subtracted from the 5001. then
payable by the Company.
Every information may be obtained by personal or written
application to the Agents of the Company, or to the Manager
in London.

ALEX. ROBERTSON. Esq., Manager.

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THE BANKS versus TIIE POST-
OFFICE.
TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SUN.
SIR,—You will confer much benefit on the public by
giving an early place in your independent paper, to the
inclosed statement taken from the Edinburgh IVedly
Chroniele of this morning.- In addition to the facts
therein contained, I can state from my own knowledge
than an order for 51. from the postmaster of Birmingham
on our Edinburgh post-office, dated Dec. 23, and payable
on the 25th, was then presented for payment, and
every subsequent day since, but the only answer or
satisfaction returned was, " No advice from Birmingham,
_although written to." The note. now . lies in the hands
of the holder, disgraced and dishonoured, under protest.
Is such conduct to be any longer permitted to pass with
impunity ?—I remain, your obedient servant,
Edinburgh, Dec. 30, 1843. W. M.
EDINBURGU, DEC. 28.—We have heard several com-
plaints relative to the transmission of money through
the Post-office. When it is sent inclosed in letters, the
letters sometimes do not reach their destination. When
it is transmitted through the Money Order office, the
Postmaster sometimes omits to send advice, and in such
cases, payment of the orders is refused, and parties put
to the utmost inconvenience. It was only lately that a
widow lady in reduced circumstances was watching her
son in bed, who was apparently dying of fever. His
articulation might have been imperceptible to any other
ear but that of an anxious mother. She, however, soon
overheard " Oh, that I could only see Dr. Ay.—l would
get relief." The mother had not the means of in-
viting Dr. Ay, upon the only terms agreeable to her
feelings, but she had an affectionate brother at some dis-
tance, and a letter was soon on its way to him stating
the situation of her son, the opinion of an able and at-
tentive young man from the Dispensary, and an account
of the expressed desires of the youth himself ; the re-
turn of post brought a post-office order for what was re-
quired, and the widow flew to her cloak and bonnet, and
in a few minutes was at the Post-office, " but who shall
paint the mother as she stood," when she was told the
order could not be honoured for want of advice.
'The feelings of women are strong, and when these
point in the right way, they are unerring guides—a few
seconds only was required to enable her to form a new
resolution. She was soon in the presence of Dr. Ay, and
in half an hour they were both at the bedside of her son,
conveyed in the doctor's carriage. Her son recovered;
the doctor would not accept of any fee, and thus the
feeling and sympathies that ever accompanies genius,
corrected in this, as in many other cases, the mischief
that pampered indolence produces.
We know a family who, about twelve months since,
had occasion to complain to the rostmaster-General of
a gross neglect of the kind alluded to from Birmingham,
but the only answer was to this effect, that the Post-
office department was not responsible for its servants.
The same family suffered for several days by a similar
neglect in summer, and they are again suffering at the
present moment by a third act of negligence, all occasioned
ln/ the same postmaster within twelve months, and it has
naturally occurred to the family that it is an intentional
neglect in consideration of the complaint upon the first
occasion.

IS this be true, and we have reason to believe it is,
then the postmaster referred to should be instantly dis-
missed ; but it is. possible the man may be so stupid, or
so indolent, that he treats every body in the same way,
and if that be the case, then, of course, he should ba
treated just as other stupid and indolent men are treated
by their masters who have an interest in their services.
Let the Postmaster General, however, treat the ser-
vant of the public as he may be advised, and let the pub-
lic conduct their own private affairs as they may feel
best for their own interest. They are just now giving
thousaxds per annum to the Post-office for the transms-
sion of money, which may be much better and more
sagely transmitted 'through the banks, of which there are
most respectable offices in every town, and the bankers,
we are told, now make it part of their business to ac-
commodate the public by transmitting the smallest sum
without any charge, A 1 bile at the Post office he is charged
threepence for the smallest sum he has occasion to send.
—Edinburgh Weekly Chronicle.

SH HIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM TIM MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.

POST.—In another column will be found an able
letter by Mr. Muntz on the subject of the Corn and
Currency Laws. Mr. Muntz avows hiaisclt the advocate
of a system of " genera protection for agriculture and
coinmerce.'"This system of general protection is, he
contends, to be attained only by means of sound money
laws. The corn laws he condemns, as yielding only
" partial and uncertain protection." We concede to Mr.
Mintz that our protective system ought to be universal.
We concede, moreover, that the most stringent corn-law
does not, in itself, constitute a protective system. In
opposition, however, to Mr. Muntz, we maintain that of
every thoroughly-protective system a stringent corn-law
must, in the case of a country so artificial in all its social
relations as England is, form a part. The most whole-
some money laws would not render a corn-law unneces-
sary. This is the point of difference between Mr. Muntz
and ourselves. We shall presently return to its consi-
deration. Let us, in the first place, however, glance at
some other of the positions laid down by the Member
for Birmingham. The corn-law of 1815 was, according
to Mr. Muntz; " right in intention—but the working
of it was bad and unjust, because it only partially pro-
tected the wages
.of labour." "" Had the framers," con-
tinues the Honourable Gentleman, "of the corn-law
of 1815 understood what they were doing, they
would have obtained their protection by coining the
precious metals of that nominal value which accorded
with the nominal value which their corn had obtained
during the war by the depreciation in the value of the
unredeemable paper-money. By that-plan, they would
not only have perfectly protected themselves—but would also
have protected all the other interests." We admit, once
more, that the corn-law of 1815 was imperfect; and
that, in order to render complete their policy of protec-
tion, the legislators of 1815 ought to have coined the
precious metals at rates according with the value of the
paper-money which circulated in England during the
war. We will add that, even after such an arrange-
ment, our protective policy would have lacked its surest
bas's—laws directly protective of the manual labour of
the empire. The prosperity of the labourer—that is
the only sound foundation of protective laws—and
that foundation hatbeen er delikrately weakened
the action of Alliar lasvagf:or been only in-
directly strengthen the case of the corn-law
of 1815. Mr. Muntz having laid down the proposition
that if the currency law of 1819 were repealed, the
corn-laws, too, might be repealed without injury to
English agriculturists—and Mr. Muntz having, more-
over, shown that the tendency of the Corn-laws has been
to raise wheat to 10s. a bushel, while the tendency of the
currency law of 1819 has been to lower wheat to 5s.—
we argued, as our readers may remember, that this pro-
cess of double repeal would leave matters pretty much as
they are at present. Mr. Muntz, however, regards our
view of his positions as a misapprehension of their true
nature and tendency. "I do not alone propose," he ob-
serves, " the abolition of the two laws. I also propose
to alter the nominal price of silver from ss. 2d. to 7s. 6d.
per ounce, in which the Bank would pay its notes ;—and
in this alteration lies all my contemplated protection and
improvement. It would protect produce and labour in
England 50 per cent. against foreign produce and labour."
Here, as it seems to us, Mr. Munta falls into error.
We regard as perfectly sound his proposition to coin
the ounce of silver into 7s. 6d. ; but such a change
wise and necessary as it is would,
_as-
suredly, not protect " English produce and la-
bour to the extent of 50 per cent." against the produce
and labour of foreign countries. The producers of Eng-
land need a double protection, and that double protection
it is the highest duty of every Government, to afford.
Producers need to be protected, in the first place, against
the influence of usurers and idle consumers. Producers
in this country need, moreover, to be protected against
the competition of foreign producers. Foreign producers
are apt and powerful instruments in the hands of idle
consumers and of usurers amongst ourselves. By means
of freo trade, our usurers and idle consumers would
mould foreign producers to their purposes. By means
of money laws, like the money law of 1819, usurers
and idle consumers have already abased, to a scarcely
calculable extent, the condition of all English producers.
The process of coining the ounce of silver into 7s. Gd.
would, immediately, subvert that empire which our
usurers and idle consumers have founded on the currency
law of 1819. Such a process would invert—wisely and
beneficially—the relations which now connect producers
with idle consumers. Producers would become strong
—idle consumers would become weak. The change
would, almost immediately, double the strength of the
British empire. The change in question would not,
however, we repeat, protect English productive, industry
against the productive industry of foreign countries.
Let the ounce of silver be coined in this country into
s. Gd. per oz.—and let free trade be established, at
the same time ; foreign producers would, forthwith, to a
fearful extent, supersede the native industry of England.
Now —the ounce of silver being coined into ss. 2d.- fo-
reign corn growers could, if a free trade in corn were es-
tablished, pour into our markets a quantity of grain suf-
ficient to paralyse our agricultural industry. The coin-
age of the ounce of silver into 7s. Gd. would not affect
the passer of foreign corn growers to produce such a
disastrous result. After the suggested change in our
money laws, foreign earn and English corn would rise
in precisely the same proportions of nominal price. If
English wheat be now worth, on the average, 50s. a
quarter, foreign wheat may be grown and imported to
any extent fur 40s. English wheat would obviously,
after the coinage of the ounce of silver into 7s. 6c1., rise
to 755., while foreign wheat would rise to 60s. ; sixty
shillings of our money would, in short, after such a
change in our currency laws, possess the same value as
40s. possess now ; and since, under a free trade
system, foreign wheat to any extent might now be
procured for 40s„ so might it be procured to
any extent for 60s. ; if the change in our monetary
laws, proposed by Mr. Muntz, were adopted by our Le-
gislature. No rvfbrm, in short, of our unsound money
laws would render unnecessary comprehensive and strin-
gent laws for the protection of British industry from the
effects of foreign competition.
ADVERTISER.—And so the " Oastler Liberation
Fund" is to be the Starvealls' instrument of mystifica-
tion and abuse, for damaging the characters of the manu-
facturing capitalists, in the hope of marring their efforts
for emancipating industry from its fetters; and William
Busficld Ferrand, M.P. for Knaresborough, is to be the
Coryphmus of the party, in whose behoof it is to be em-
ployed. The work in which the lion. Gentleman is en-
gaged is most congenial to his feelings, and if he succeed
as well in this mission as he has in former missions,
having the like objects in view, the Starving interests
will owe him not a few obligations. So long as Mr.
Ferrand was satisfied with throwing the filth of his abuse
at random, recklessly assailing every manufacturing
capitalist who ventured to think that the working classes
can have no interest in the maintenance of laws which
limit the quantity of food to be distributed amongst
them, while they force foreigners to become our rivals in
the production of those articles which formerly furnished
employment for the masses of our population, and
wealth for the country ; so long as the lion. Gentleman
was satisfied with such a mode of warfare against the
objects of his malignity—imputing to them hypocrisy,
' fraud, oppression, and treason, in the wholesale, without
descending to particulars, or specifying the precise
nature or extent of their delinquencies, he could
scarcely fail, in some degree, to damage the character
of those he thus foully assailed, and to afford satisfac-
tion to those who found him the fitting tool for pro-
moting their selfish and sordid objects. To venture
beyond this was, a hazardous undertaking for such a
genius as the Member -for jinaresborough, and it sur-
prised us not a little to see that he was permitted to
enter upon it. Dunderheaded as the "country gentle-
men" are, they are seldom found lacking that sort of
cunning that avoids unnecessary danger or exposure.
Mr. Ferrand, however, was permitted to essay his
powers against the manufacturers in a more specific
manner; and, as might have been foreseen, a more signal
failure was never before witnessed. His " devil's dust"
affair ended, appropriately enough, in smoke; his dis-
coveries in the practice of "trucking" proved to be "a
mare's nest ;" and his equally confident averments
connecting the master-manufacturers with the turn-outs
and riots in the manufacturing districts, were proved,
after a series of' gravely-conducted judicial investiga-
tions, to have been unfounded and malignant slanders.
It might have been imagined that after all this the
Member for Knaresborough, if so lost to all sense of
decency himself as to still present himself to the public
gaze, would have been thrown overboard and abandoned
by the party in whose behalf he stood furward. But,
no ; such is their utterly forlorn ease, that even Mr.
Ferrand, " with all his blushing honours thick upon
him," is not too contemptible a thing to be put forward
as their champion and—Jack Pudding. Mr. Ferrand is
making a tour of the country, avowedly to aid the fund
for the liberation of Mr. Oastler ; but not less avowedly
to assail and abuse the master manufacturers generally,
and the members of the Anti-Corn-law League in par-
ticular. A tolerable specimen of his mode of proceed.
ing was furnished at Liverpool, last week, at a meeting
called in behalf of the Oastler fund :—" I am here," said
this discreet and truth-loving gentleman—" I am here
to bring forth evidence against a party, and you
have driven me to it. Those parties first en-
tered into their conspiracy at Manchester. They
sent for O'Connell—and for the employment of
O'Connell, let the factory children tell the price—
the bargain was made for the destruction of the Pro-
testant religion ; and, in return, O'Connell was to
be assisted in his efforts to obtain a repeal of the
Union." Look at that, all ye quiet, peace-loving, church-
going old ladies in the kingdom ! It is none other than
William Busfeild Ferrand that speaks, and his word is
the word of—a Member of Parliament 1 A conspiracy
was concocted at Manchester—O'Connell was sent for
(the purpose does not clearly appear, but that there was
one none can doubt, for) his employment was proved by
his refusing to aid the Starvealls in adding to the wages
and comforts of the poor factory people, by limiting
their hours of work, enhancing the price. of.the articles
they produce, and thus narrowing the niarkets fur their
sale ! One thing is clear, however, that the great ob-