The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-28 00:00:00

ANNUAL. PREMIUM TO ASSURE
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ANNUAL. PREMIUM TO ASSURE £lOO.
Age. For One Year. For Seven Years. Term of Life.
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25
.E.O 19 7 gt --tr-7 £1 15 1
30 11 8 12 1 119 10
45 17 8 110 9 34 7
50 113 5 119 0 319 3
60 31 1 315 5 60 10

In Assurances for Advances of Money, as security for debts
or as a provision for a family, when the least present outlay
is desirable, the varied and comprehensive tables of the Argus
Office will be found particularly favourable to the Assured.
A Board of Directors, with the Medical Officers, attend
daily. E. BATES, Resident Director.
A liberal commission to Solicitors and Apnts.

GREAT REDUCTION IN INSURANCE ON FARM-
ING STOCK.
THE FARMERS' and GENERAL FIRE
and LIFE INSURANCE INSTITUTION. Ern-
Powered by Act of Parliament.
Offices, No. 346, Strand, London.
Capital 500,0001. With 1,960 Shareholders Enrolled.
HON ORA RY DIRkCTOR S.
Doke of Rutland, a Trustee of the Royal Agricultural Society.
Earl of Stradbroke, a Governor of the Royal Agricultural
Society.
Earl of Coventry.
Earl Ducie, Vice:President of the Royal Agricultural Society.
Earl of Stair.
Earl of Stamford and Warrington.
Lord Stanley, M.P., Lancashire.
ItroouoisrrcddFß:tavyelneihaghm,
yGoorykesrhniorreo.f the Royal Agricultural Society.
Campdon, Rutlandshire.
And Seventy-two other Members of Parliament and Gentlemenl
COUNTY DIRECTORS.
f? Upwards of One Hundred and Seventy Gentlemen, Landed
prietors, or otherwise connected with Agriculture, and each
huaevinerbthe holder of Fifty Shares or upwards in the Institution,
they are r
are side appont. inted Local Directors in the Counties in which

ln FARMING STOCK
duty. sured vrithout the average clause at h. 9d. per cent. ; no
u

private COMMON INSURANCE.
„s. 6L, Houses and 'Shops, Is. 6d. 'per cent. Hazardous,
.c.i.
p.l' e Doub Insuraneely hazardous, subject to special agreement.
s may be effected for a longer term than one
01 Ewe, r! at Reduced Rates, by payment in advance. Insurance
s are on an equally moderate scale.
ANNUAL PREMIUMS ON LIFE INSURANCES FOR 1001.

uu i 41., I 50 I 60 I 70
14 11 I 2 4 1(21S10144516.11 21 10 16 2
EMovqments of all kinds for future or existing Children.
The usual Commission to Solicitors.
I,rprospectuses and Marks for Buildings may be bad of, and
tk ')P°SaIS for Insurances, &c., be forwarded to the Agents in
'"eir respective Districts, or to the Office in London. Agents
are
qpointed in the principal Towns in the Kingdom.
W. SHAW, Managing Director.

WESTERN LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY
Glee-49, Parliament-street, Westminster.
Capital 500,0001; 10,000 Shares, 501. each.
Deposit 5/. each Share.
;Ilia Society is established for the Assurance of Lives, upon
rr'eples combining economy with perfect security.
H. EA DIRECTORS.
W.„ `.l4eNVOrth Bicknell, Esq., 28, Upper Bedford-place.
Cabell, Esq., Newington-place, Surrey.
c),"Omas Somers Cocks, jun., Esq.,, Charing Cross.
Iv7.ge Henry Drew, Esq., Bermondsey.
ly.;:!am Evans, Esq., Millhank.
imam Freeman, Esq., Millbank-street.
jrancia Fuller, Esq., Poultry, London an 1 Croydon.
ja()lhn 4,3 Hunt, Esq., Whitehall.
Arscott Lethbridge, Esq., Greenwich Hospital.
voernalict Lucas, Esq., Milhank-street.
orge Rennet Pollock, Esq., Great George-street, West-
.T_ rninster.
nes Lys Seager, Esq., Millbank.
3 Hazley White, Esq., Millbank-atreet, and Swanscombe.
i"es!Pit Carter Wood, Esq., Artillery Place, Westminster,
"Y Wrench, Esq., King William-street, London Bridge.
TRUSTEES.
lam Whateley, Esq. I L. C. Humfrey, Esq.
George Drew, Esq.
AUDITORS.
Min ttiddulph, Esq. I John Freeman, Esq.
John Bazley White, jun., Esq.
CIMSULTINC COUNSEL—WiIIiam Page Wood, Esq.
p CON vEva Nemo COUNSEL—SamueI Jay, Esq.
HYsiciAN—William Richard Basham, E sq., M.D., 17,
k Chester-street, Grosvenor-place.
1-1 GRONS—Alfred Leggatt, Esq.; George D. Pollock, Esq.
R"Eits Messrs. Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., Charing-cross.
°Liorroas—Messrs. J. L. Bicknell and J. C. Lethbridge,
1425, Abingdon-street, Westminster.
1" OF PREMIUMS TO ASSURE £lOO FOR THE WHOLE
TERM OF LIFE.

`-!_lnnuaal
Prem.P Age, I Innual Prem II Age. I Axin.Pr.em.

.
?is,- RI 14 2 35 £2 11 0 50 £4 3 3
30 118 11 40 219 6 55 55 4
.2 4 8 45 3 9 1 60 615 3

bete is•
efi"Ject of this Society is to afford to the Assured all the
of Life-Assuranee, at a great reduction in the rates
irrei„in.

A pets FOR EXAMPLE.
04/ 11 aged 30, may with this Society assure his life for
~, • , by the annual payment of I I/. 3s. 4d., which in a Society
Lrre the Bonus is held out as a main inducement, would cost
Ttkill„ 13,/• is. 4d., or, in other words, for the same annual pre-
he'lll ne could at this Office assure very nearly 600/., wherebx
o.nderives AN INIMEDIATE AND CERTAIN BONUS
' lOW.
vibtli ined on
arded to the
A
a: Particulars as to Shares, Loans, Assurances, &c. may be
for
application to the Secretary ; and, if required, ov
country.
r eartios in the country eligible for undertaking Agencies are
"Nested to apply.
A very liberal Commission allowed to Solicitors and Agents.
EDW. T. RICHARDSON, Actuary and Sec.

P
LATE.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Manu-
facturing Silversmiths, .io. 14, Cornhill, Loudon (oppo-
site the Bank of England).—The best wrought Fiddle-Pattern
Silver Spoons and Forks, at 75. 2d. per ounce. The fallowing
are the weights recommended, but the articles may be had
lighter or heavier at the same price per ounce :

oz. s d. ..£ s. ti.
12 Piddle Pattern Silver Table Spoons 30 at 7 2 ... 10 15 0
12 ditto Dessert ditto 20 at 7 2 ... 7 3 4
12 ..ditto Table Forks 30 at 7 2 ... 10 15 0
12 ditto Dessert ditto 20 at 7 2 ... 7 3 4
2 ditto Gravy Spoons 10 at 7 2 ... 3 11 8
1 ditto Soup Ladle... 10 at 7 2 ... 3 11 8
4 ditto Sauce ditto... 10 at 7 8 .. 3 16 8
4 ditto Salt Spoons(gilt strong) 1 0 0
1 ditto Fish Slice 2 10 0
12 ditto Tea Spoons... 10 at 7 8 ... 3 16 6
1 ditto Pair Sugar Tongs (strong) 0 15 0

N.B. A price current, stamped as a newspaper, illustrated by
drawings, and containing every information relative to the pur-
chase of silver or Sheffield plate, may be had en application, or
will be sent into the country, free of postage, in answer to a
paid letter.

SILVER SUPERSEDED, and those corrosive
and injurious metals called Nickel and German Silver
supplanted by the introduction of a new and perfectly mateh-
less ALBATA PLATE. C. WATSON ()ate ALDER-
MAN), Nos. 41 and 42, BARBICAN, and No. 16, NOR-
TON FOLG ATE, aided by a person of science in the ainal-
gation of metals; has succeeded in bringing to public notice the
most beautiful article ever yet offered : possessing all the rich-
ness of Silver in appea,rance—with its durability and hardness
—with its perfect sweetness in use—undergoing, as it does, a
chemical process, by which all that is nauseous in mixedmet.als is
entirely extracted—resistng a:1 acids, may be cleaned as Silver,
and is manufactured into every article for the Table.and Side-
board.

s. d.
Table Spoons and Forks, 9.
d.
I Sauce Ladles • ••• ..... 1 9
per doz
Dessert, do., per doz 1612
Soup Ladles 6 6
66
GT er aa
vSy Sp Spoons
no
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n, p.
.e.r.
.d0z......
35
66
C. Watson begs the Public will understand that this metal
is peculiarly his own, and that Silver is not more different from
Gold, than his metal is from all others • the Public will there-
fore have no difficulty in discovering the animus which directs
the virulent attacks made against him, by a party who is daliy
suffering from the unparalleled success which has marked the
progress of ins, New Plate since its introduction. C. W.,
unlike this party, courts comparison, feeling confident that the
result will establish its pre-eminence.
41 and 42, BARBICAN, and at 16 NORTON FOLGATE.

s. d. £ s. d.

Flour, best wheaten (per barrel
of 1961b5.) 1 5 0
Ditto, Rye ditto
Bread, wheaten, 41b. loaf 6i
Indiaii corn meal, per 100Ibs.
Beef, roasting per lb.
Ditto, boiling - to 0 4)
Mutton
Lamb 0 4 to 0 5
Veal
Chickens, in summer
Ditto, autumn and winter
Butter, per lb
Cheese, ditto 0 31 to 0 71
Rice, ditto
Potatoes, per, bushel 1 1 to 1 3f
Lard, per lb.
Pork, salted, ditto 0 2} to 0 3/
Hams, ditto
Shoulders, ditto 0 1 f to 0 2
Smoked beef, ditto
Ditto salmon, ditto
Ditto shad, ditto
Oil, per gallon
Tea, per lb., cheapest
Ditto, ditto, dearest
Coffee, ditto, raw, cheapest
Ditto, ditto, dearest ..
Sugar, loaf, ditto, best 0 7
Ditto, ditto, common 0 51
Ditto, New Orleans, ditto
Fruit, bunch raisins, per lb 0 1/ to 0 31
Dried apples, per bushel
Ditto peaches, ditto
Brandy, per gallon
Rum, ditto
Whiskey, ditto
. _ _ ...

It may be remarked, in addition to what is said by
the writer of the above, that while American wheaten
flour was in April last selling in the London market
at 38s. the barrel, duty paid, the same article is now
as low with us as 30s.

IRELAND.

LATE SHIPWRECK OF A RUSSIAN MAN-
OF-WAR.

The Ulster Times of yesterday contains the follow-
ing :—The Gipsy, of Belfast, Butler, master, arrived
here on Wednesday night, at twelve o'clock, from St.
Petersburgh, with tallow. On the 13th of September,
at four o'clock, P.l‘t., she fell in with a Russian man-
of-war, sailing to St. Petersburgh, forty miles to
westward of the coast of Norway ; the Russian vessel
was water-logged, masts gone by the board, and
was manned by a crew of 600 men. She unfortu-
nately struck on the rock, off Christiansand, on
Sunday night, the 11th instant, and became a com-
pleti wreck. The Gipsy rescued ten of her crew from
a watery grave, and a Danish man-of war steam-boat
took 90 on board, which, with the 10 saved by the
Gipsy, made 100 souls saved. It seems from the
account.; of thosa saved, that 600 men ming on board,
no less than 500 persons must have been lost.
OPERATIVE MOVEMENT IN ULSTER.

The Belfast papers contain accounts of meetings
held on Shonahill, near Waringstown, for the pur-
pose of procuring higher wages for the weavers and
other operatives in the district. At one of those meet-
ings there were 2,000 persons assembled, and bonfires
were lighted at night on the summit of the hill. The
following account of the proceedings is given in the
Ulster Times, a Tory journal, and the writer seems
to derive satisfaction from the determination of the
extensive manufacturers to promote the combination
against the manufacturers of a smaller class:—" The
chief orator was a young man of the name of John
Mathews. He was elevated on a table, IN hich stood
on the highest part of the rock, and spoke for upwards
of an hour at once. He told his friends, in the first
place, to keep strictly within the bounds of the law,
and to give no offence to any person, nor offer any
kind of violence whatever. lie then drew up regu-
lations for prices of weaving drill, according to
what Mr. Lindsay is paying, which is 225. for one
hundred beers, with ls. off for every five beers down.
Mr. Lindsay was at the meeting, and spoke a great
deal, and recommended the weavers to stand out
stoutly for their full wages, and not to weave for
petty manufacturers, or any person who would offer
to pay less. He said, for his part, he could give em-
ployment to all the weavers on those terms, for five
miles round Waringstown. He gave 1/., to pay for
whatever expenses they had been at for printing.
Colonel Blacker was at the meeting all day, and got
up to speak, but would not be heard. Mr. Rowan, a
Magistrate, to whom the police had represented the
meeting as irregular, came for the purpose of dis-
persing it ; but when he saw that their object was only
looking for work and wages, he gave them his decided
approbation, and ordered the, police off the ground alto-
gether into another field. At the conclusion, they agreed
to have another meeting on Monday, in Bleary school-
house ; they all dispersed in quietness, and went
home peaceably. The meeting took place, according
to agreement, last night, and Messrs. James Browne
and John Henning, of Waringstown, appeared with
their list of prices for diaper and cambric; those
price; I understand, are the same as before the bad
trade commenced ; and they said they intend to con-
tinue to give them to as many as they can employ.
Mr. Browne spoke to the sam3 purpose as Mr. Lind-
say, wishing to discountenance any petty manufac-
turers, and encouraging the weavers to stand out.
There was a great disappointment occasioned by
Colonel Blacker not appearing, he having set off for
Dublin yesterday morning, after appointing to be at
the meeting. When about breaking up, they agreed
on meeting this evening (Tuesday) in Waringstown,
where all the proceedings were to be arranged for a
report in some newspaper. It is expected, when this
business is finally settled, that more meetings will take
place, concerning rent, and price of land, &c.

A letter from Toledo says—" Three men belonging
to the band of the Twelve Apostles had seized a
National Guard, who had given the Magistrates some
information respecting them, and have burnt him
alive. Having bound his hands and feet, they shut
him in a shepherd's hut, to which they set fire. The
Judge of the Tribunal of tha First Instance being in-
formed of this atrocity, repaired to the spot, but found
in the hut, which was reduced to ashes, only a muti-
lated corpse, which had no semblance of the human
form."

It is remarkable that the average duty, Bs. 4d.,
amount entered,
entered
is so near the fixed duty proposed by the
3 other duties paid
having 8 s
Mel-
bourne Ministry, and that of the 0,457,931 quar-
terse
tdo un ti , b
et lei
lel
509,598, little more than a fourth of that which
paid the Bs. duty. We point out this circum-
stance, not as any argument for an eight-shilling
duty (which we are convinced would be too
.high), but as it shows that the best working of
;Sir Robert Peel's new scale is within the range
of the eight.shilling duty, with all the objection
belonging to so high a duty, and without the
steadiness which would have belonged to the
whole operation of a fixed duty.
We see that the Quarterly Review, whence
the above table is taken,.repeats the hacknied
fallacy that the eight-shilling fixed duty would
have been so much added to the price to the
consumer. The obvious truth is, that the duty is
paid by the foreigner or the importer, whose
Profit is the difference between the foreign price,
the charges of freight, &c., and the British mar-
ket price, minus the duty. To say that the duty
would be so much added to the home-market
price is in effect to say that the corn would not
be in the market at all ; and this addition of the
duty to the market price is only fancied to take
place when corn has reached 725. At all prices
below, •it is seen clearly enough that the foreign
importer sells at our market price, and that if he
did not pay the duty, his profit would be so
much the more, and not his price so much the
less. If, ‘vlien our average is Os., the foreign
imijort could be made at 455. without the duty,
the importer would sell at 625., and ' the differ-
ence made by the duty would be, that he would
have a less profit by Bs.
We object to an eight-shilling fixed duty as
too high, not-from fear of its operation in the
event of any one very bad harvest, but as it
would to some extent check the supply which it
would be desirable to have in seasons when
prices in this country may be nearer to those of
Europe and America. It is only by a low fixed
duty, if
by any, that we can secure a steady
and regular supply, securing us against the cala-
mity of prices starving the poor; and much as
we desire a free trade in corn, regarding it as we
do as the consummation devoutly to be wished
and steadily to be kept in view, yet a low fixed
duty we must be prepared to accept as a step-
ping-stone to the better state of things, saving
too violent a shock or alarm to existing interests.

The prospect is cheering; the sliding scale is
working out a demonstration against itself. The
last change was the beginning of the end of it.
The Times gives warning that what has been done
shows cause for more to be done :

" We would now suggest, not as being in any hurry
about the matter, but tbr the mature consideration of
Government, whether an experiment which has
hitherto answered so well does not tempt to a further
advance. If the duties are really of so little im-
portance to the farmer as the experience of-the last
four months would show, and their reduction so
efficacious in throwing into our hands an abundance
of the staff of life, it may be thought that we are
wanting to ourselves in not pursuing
to its legitimate
limits a course of so great promise, and open to so
little okection. And, indeed, the very fact that the
great increase of supply has not been sufficient to
lower the prices would seem to imply a sudden and
proportionate increase in demand, and to give force
and application, even beyond the speaker's intention,
to Sir R. Peel's argument, when he urged that the
population of the country was increasing faster than
their means of subsistence, and that it was the plain
duty of the Parliament to keep pace with that increase
by the gradual extension of our sources of supply.
It can hardly be unsafe, one would think, to carry on
this necessary system of extension, at least till the
plenty which it is to accomplish begins to affect the
market.

" Lastly, the new scale bore a kind of approxima-
tion to a fixed duty. The variations were compressed
within narrower limits, and the differences were in
themselves smaller and more regular. The result has
been a vast increase in the revenue, and a more steady
and sound state of the market. Here, too, we would
venture to suggest that the result is not only satisfac-
tory but encouraging. Success invites progress.
Advantages which have been gained by the present
might surely he doubled by a more extensive reform.
And such, we hope, before long will be the opinion of
the Conservative leaders.

" We owe to Sir It. Peel thanks for what he has
done. He has done, events show that it is so,—he
has done all that could be done at the moment. A
bolder attempt would have effected the disruption of
his own party, and that at a moment most critical for
the well-being of the country. But we shall still
hope to be more in his debt before we have done with
him. There has never been any one reason given for
his stopping where he has done. Figures are not
principles ; and we have not yet heard any argument
figures composing.the present Corn-
that there they were. The scale
Corn-
law Iry the
scale, particular.
excepting
has slid once; there is no Visible reason why it may
nit absolutely collapse. Duties have diminished once
—we look to see them waste away a little more."