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London, England, 1842-07-27 00:00:00

UNITED KINGDOM LIFE ASSURANCE
COMPANY,
_ _

8, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall, London.
Established by Act of Parliament in 1834.
DIVISION OF PROFITS AMONG THE ASSURED.
This Joint Stock Company, established by Act of Parlia-
ment, without limited responsibility, affords the most perfect
security in an ample paid-up Capital, and in the great success
which has attended it, since its commencement in 1834.
In 1841 the Company declared an addition to the Share-
holders of one-half of their Stotk, and also added 21. per
Cent. per Annum, from the dates of their policies to those par-
ties who had insured with Profits.
The Premiums nevertheless are on the most moderate scale,
and only a moiety need be paid for the first five years, where the
Insurance is for life.
The amount of bonus added to policies since the commence-
ment of the Company in March 1834, to the 31st December
1840, is as follows :
Sum Assured. Time AsinreJ. Sums added to Policy.
£l,OOO 6 Years 10 Months £136 13 4
1,000 4 Years BO 0 0
1,000 1 Year ... 9.0 0 0
Every information will be afforded on application to tho
Resident Directors, Edward Boyd, Esq., and E. Lennox Boyd,
Esq., of N.. 8, Waterloo• place, Pall-mall, London.
Frederick Hale Thomson, Esq., Surgeon, 48, Berners-street,
attends at the Office daily, about Half-past Two o'clock.

NATESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY
Y Office-49, Parliament-street, Westminster.
Capital 500,0001; 10,000 Shares, 501. each.
Deposit Si. each Share.
This Society is established for the Assurance of Lives, upon
principles combining economy with perfect security.
DIRECTORS.
H. Edgeworth Bicknell, Esq., 28, Upper Bedford-place.
William Cabell, Esq., Newington-place, Surrey.
Thomas Somers Cocks, jun., Esq.., Charing Cross.
George Henry Drew, Esq., Bermondsey.
William Evans, Esq., Millbank.
William Freeman, Esq., Millbank-street.
Francis Fuller, Esq., Poultry, London an 1 Croydon.
James Hunt, Esq., Whitehall.
John Arscott Lethbridge, Esq., Greenwich Hospital.
Edmund Lucas, Esq., Mill'. ank-strert.
George Kennet Pollock, Esq., Great George-street, West-
minster.
James Lys Seager, Esq., Millbank,
John Bazley White, Esq., klillbank-atreet, and Swanscombe.
Jr.seph Carter Wood, Esq., Artillery Place, Westminster,
Henry Wrench, Esq., King William-street, London Bridge.
TRUSTEES.
William Whateley, Esq. I L. C. Humfrey, Esq.
George Drew, Esq.
AUDITORS.
()emus Biddulph, Esq. I John Freeman, Esq.
John Bazley White, jun.. Esq.
CONSULTING COUNsEL—William Page Wood, Esq.
CONVEYANCING COUNSEL—SamueI Jay, Esq.
PHYSICIAN—WiIIiatn Richard Basham, Esq., 31. D., 17,
Chester-street, Grosvenor-place.
SURGEONS—AIfred Leggatt, Esq.; George D. Pollock, Esq.
BANKERS—Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing- eross.
SOLICITORS—Messrs. J. L. Bicknell and J. C. Lethbridge,
25, Abingdon-street, Westminster.
TABLE OF PREMIUMS TO ASSURE £lOO FOR THE WHOLE
TERM OF LIFE.

Age Annual Prern Age.lAnnual Prem. il Age. Ann.Prem.
---- -----
20 £1 14 2 ' 35 £2 11. 0 50 £4 3 3
105 118 11 40 219 6 55 55 4
30 24 8 45 39111 60 615 3

The object of this Society is to afford to the Assured all the
benefit* of Life- Assuranee, at a great reduction in the rates
of Premium.

FOR EXAMPLE.

A person aged 30, may with this Society assure his life for
500/., by the annual payment of 11/. 3s. 4d., which in a Society
where the Bonus is held out as a main inducement, woold cost
him 13/. is. 4d., or, in other words, fee. the same annual pre-
mium he could at this Office assure very nearly 6001., whereby
he derives AN IMMEDIATE AND CERTAIN BONUS
OF 1001.
All particulars as to Shares, Loans, Assurances, &c. may be
obtained on application to the Secretary ; and, if required,
forwarded to the country.
Parties in the country eligible for undertaking Agencies are
requested to apply.
A very liberal Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents.
EDIV. T. RICHARDSON, Actuary and Sec.

WATCHES BY WEBSTER AND SON
CHRONOMETER and WATCH *MANUFAC-
TIMERS (Established 130 years), 3, BIRCHTN-L A NE.
The Finest Description CHRONOMETERS and
WATCHES at the lowest prices consistent with maintaining
that character for superiority of workmanship which has dis-
inguished their establishment during that period.
The COMPENSATED DUPLEX WATCH, upon the
principle of their Chronometers, to which Government awarded
the prizes three years in succession, combines the most per-
fect accuracy with the utmost elegance, and is not surpassed
by the Pocket Chronometer.
Webster's newly-introduced Centre Seconds, for he medical
profession, elegant and novel in appearance.
Also, their Patent Detached Lever and small Flat Horizon-
tal, for Ladies, all equally reduced in price, an warranted.
Old Watches taken in exchange. A selection of fine Se-
cond-band Repeating, Duplex, Lever, and Horizontal Watches,
by the most eminent makers, at little above half the original
cost, and nearly equal to New, warranted. Post Letters
promiitly attended to. •
Webster and Son, Chronometer Makers to the Lords of the
Admiralty, 3, Birchin-lane, Cornhill, London.

PATENT LEVER WATCHE-
This celebrated construction (the most accurate on which
watch can be made) is now offered at the following prices,
with the latest improvements i. e. the detached escapement,
jewelled in four hole, hand to mark the seconds, and mato
taining power to continue going chile winding up,
SILVER CASES
With double-bottom casts, capped
With hunting cases, capped 6 1( 6
GOLD CASES.
Size for Ladies, with eleg int gold dial
Ditto in double-backed cases l4 14 0
Size for Gentlemen, enamelled dial 13 13 0
Ditto extra full size, capped l7 17 0
A Pamphlet, containing observations respecting the various
constructions on which watches are made, with the prices both
in god and silver eases, and a variety of sketches of new de-
signs, which have just been completed in gold Chains, will be
sent, gratis and postage free, on application by letter to A. 11
SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, No. 9, Cornhill, Lon-
don, opposite the Bank of England.

EASE AND COMFORT IN SHAVING.
MESSRS. R. and S. COWVAN'S invaluable
CANTON S'PROP, or QUADRILATERAL CHINESE
tAZOR SHARPENER, renders the operation of shaving no longer
painful to the most tender skin. By a very simple process the
keenest edge may speedily be given to the 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
whencethe most flattering certificates have been sent, which may be
&C , may be obtained, as well as of all re-pectable
seen at the luventors, B. and S. COWVAN, 164, Fenchurch-street,
the'United Kingdom, price ss. (id., 7s. (id., and
bihad, Cowvan's Canton Razor Strop Paste, at
packet. The Shaving Powder Is. 6d. per box.
Caution—None are genuine, except those marked and
Spelt "B. and IS' CONVVAN E'
tiperfumers, whereman
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may
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ROMAN INSCRIPTION DISCOVERED] AT BATTI E •
BRIDGE, NEW-ROAD.—A Roman inscription has within
these few days past been discovered at Battle-bridge,
otherwise, by an absurd change Of denomination, known
as King's-cross, New-road, St. Pancras. This discovery
appears fully to justify the conjectures of Stukeley
and other antiquaries, that the. great battle between
the Britons under Boadicea, and the Romans under
Suetonius Paulinus, took place at this spot. Faithful
tradition, in the absence of all decisive evidence, still
pointed to the place by the appellation of Battle-bridge.
The inscription, which, in parts, is much obliterated,
bears distinctly the letters LEG. XX. The writer of
this notice, has not yet had an opportunity personally
to examine it, but speaks from the informatics of an
antiquarian friend. The twentieth legion, it is well
known, was one of the four which came into Britain in
the reign of Claudius, and contributed to its subju-
gation. The vexillation of this legion was in the
army of Suetonius Paulinns when he made that vic-
torious stand in a fortified pass, with a forest in his
rear, against the in,,urgent. Britons.- The position is
sketched by Tacitus ; and antiquaries well know that
on the high ground above Battle-bridge there are ves-
tiges of Roman works, and that the tract of laud to
the north was formerly a forest. The veracity of the
to lowing passage of the historian is therdwe fully
confirmed :—" Diligitque locum artis faucibus, et a
tergo Silva clausam ; satis cognito, nihil hostium nisi
in fronte, et apertam planitiem esse sine metu insi-
diarum." He further tells us that the force of Suetonius
was composed of " quartadecima legio, cum vexilluriis
vicesimards et e proxiwis auxiliares." Tacit. Annal.
lib. xiv. So that, almost to the letter, the place of this
memorable engagement seems, by the discovery of the
above inscription, to be ascertained.—From a Correspond-
ent of the Literary Gazette.
The harvest has commenced in the counties of
Devon and Cornwall, with excellent prospects. Many
fields of wheat in the immediate neighbourhood of these
towns have been saved, and if the weather continues fine
as at present, of which there is every prospect, the
sickle will be in general use in the course of next week.
It is the generally received opinion, that finer wheat has
not been seen for many years.—Plyntouth Herald.
THE lIARVEST.—The weather is auspicious, and to-
day the first fruits of the harvest in this neighbourhood
will be reaped in a field near Bideford. We are rejoiced
to say that the result of subsequent inquiries confirms the
encouraging statement in our last, viz., that the wheat
harvest, if not abundant, will produce an average crop ;
and it is gratifying to add that the general opinion, ex-
pressed from all quarters at the late meeting at Bristol,
was, that the crops would not be so much below an ave-
rage through the country, as was feared a few months
ago, the filling of the ear being particularly good.—
North Devon Journal.

PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—The following dis-
tinguished personage; have lately honoured Mr. Beard's
Photographic establishments by sitting for portraits :
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, her Royal Highness
the Duchess of Cambridge, Prince Esterhazy, Dukes of
Sutherland, Argyle, and Marlborough ,• Marquises of
elikenesses of the Exeter, Stafford, Worceeter, Douglas, and 'Westminster;
Earls Spencer, Craven, Shaftesbury, Ross ; Lords De
Tabley, Monteagle, Listowel, Jeffery,' Vivian, Beau-
clerk, Ingestre, Fowley ; Baron Parke ; Sirs Frederick
)t;lrie duplicate Gn l
and the Nobility are exhibited
), James Clarke, and G.
pre-
ceding Poll Cockburn, cPollock
list(th e0A:I Attorney-General),
je
of the
among Mr. Beard s specimens, and serve admirably to
show the almost unerring precision of his peculiar sys-
tem of photographic delineation.
Tim NEw HISTORICAL ROMANCE, " MASSA-
NIELLo."—We are requested to state that the new histo-
rical romance of " MussaniOlo," edited by Horace Smith,
Esq., author of " Bratnbletye Ifouse," &e., in 3 vols.,
is published this day- lay Mr. Colburn, of Great. Mar-
lborough -street, and may now be had at all the libraries.
Mr. Colburn has also just published-1. The Manoeuvring
Mother, by the authoress of " The History of a
Flirt," 3 voli.— 2.. The Lottery of Life, by the Countess
of Blessington, 3 vols.-3. Passion and Kinciple, edited
by Captain Chamier, 3 vols.-4. The School for 11'i ve
s,
Third, and the ex-
traordinary by Captain Marryat, cheaper edition, 3 vols.,
by the authoress of "Temptation,"
1--lin addition to
- "-.8.-5. Joseph
21s. Also just ready, 6, The Czarina., au historical
romance, by Mrs. thifiand, 3 vols.
theNsiiiisigsuillairjßiNnlt:eYriesstpalnVcUriosity of the details which
Nvlicohf Giteoorgceeatslioened in the domestic
this new volume of Miss Burney 's Court Diary gives,
relative t o the insanity,
scenes
life of the Royal Family, this portion of the work con-
tains characteristic anecdotes. of a large number of
distinguished individuals, who did nut R
-gure in the
preceding volumes. Amongst them will be found,
Charles Fox and William Pitt, Sir Philip Francis (the
reputed author of Junius), Mr. Wyndham, Lord Chan-
cellor Thurlow, the Princess Dascnkaw, the celebrated
French savans, Sausure and Lalande, Mrs. Jordan Bun-
bury the caricaturist, Archdeacon Tucker, Dr. Stil
lingileet, &c. ; and among the array of Courtiers,
Court Beauties, and Fashionable .s, .we find the Dtichess
of Ancaster, the Ladies Boldernesse, llarconrt, Mul-
grave, Bathurst, Plymouth, Carmarihen, ",,,ward, Au-
gusta Campbell, D'Oyley, Sx• ; Lords Baltimore, Ports.
mouth. Chesterfield, Walsingham, Mulgrave, Courtown,
Bathurst, Salisbury, MOun norriss, &c. &e,
. .
Wool-Arlen-, JULY 25.—The Sulphur, 8-}tug bark,
Captain E. Belcher, C.R., Commander, arrived on Monday at
Woolwich frem China, and is to be paid off here. She has
been on foreign stations for a period of about five years, em-
ployed in the surveying service on the coasts of New • South
Wets, East Indies, and China. The eof theo.l i,th
.. men off
duty of the Royal Horse Artillery were assembled on the grand
mounting parade at a quarter before 9 o'clock on Saturday
molting last to witness the degradation of gunner lloyd, who
was found guilty by a Court- martial of embezzling his officer's
(Lieutenant De Winton's) money, and afterwards deserting
from the service. After having the letter " El" publicly im-
pressed on his person, in presence of the troops, agreeeably to
the recent regulations, he was escorted to the Penitentiary,
where he willbe confined 12 months, in terms of his sentence.
The weather, since our last, has been all that could
be desired. There has been almost an uninterrupted
sunshine, with a high temperature, and not a drop of
rain. The crops of all kinds, and in all localities, have
accordingly progress6d most favourably.—Ross Ad-
vertiser,

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On Saturday evening, about eight o'clock, a man
60 years of age, went up to the parapet of the Arc de Triomphe,
and after crying out several times to the persons below, " gare,
gare," precipitated himself from this great height, and was
killed instantaneously,