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London, England, 1824-04-10 00:00:00

SATUR,O4Y, APRIL 10, 1t24.

THE COUNTY FIRE OFFICE and PROVIDENT
.LIFE OE F I C ENTATIIEF:T, were the Original
Offices which effected Insurances woos the principle of combining
the security of at: adequate permanent Capital (in addition to the
fluctuating Funds arising from the I'rerniums) with the beneficial
rule of returning, at stated periods, the Surplus of the annual Pre-
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importance of this improvement is acknowledged by extraordinary
public approliation, and by the numerous imitations of it, which
new Offices have lately offered, and which older ones have adopted,
'in changing their Constitutions. The principle is of chief value,
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the Surplus, the fullest Value for the Deposits, Persons have no
reasonable motive for venturing on the lure of reduced and insuffi-
cient Premiums proposed to them by Adventurers, and which has
led to frequent instances of disappointment and ruin.
CArITALS, A MILLION Stemmer and upwards.
Sammy-mintr Tnousawn Partsmis have sougbt Protection in the
COMITY Orvaca, and have found it.
CLAIMS have been paid to Sixteen Hundred Claimants.
Exempt from the Expenses of Lawsuits, and also from the Sa-
crifice of an enormous Commission to Agents, to which some new
Offices submit, to induce them to canvas for Business, great Accu-
mulations have been made. In these, Persons who now insure par-
ticipate equally with the original Members.
firmness of 25 and 20 per cent. in consequence, have been inva-
riably paid to all Persons who have continued insured Seven Years,
upon Annual as well as upon Septennial Policies, and whether they
have been Claimants for losses, or other wise—X-194100 have been re-
turned in this way to about 25,000 Persons, insured, within the last
Ten Years---:an important advantage which nu other Insurance
Office existing has afforded.
Bomuses of £l3. Bs. and £26. 12s. per cent. have been paid on
Life Policies.
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whatever stamp,**and lie 'was confirmed in the expediency or the
measure by information that recently.had reached him. If, how.
ever, the question were asked him whether a similar course was re-
quired as to English Freemasons, he should distinctly say—No.
The cases of England and Ireland were, he was sorry to say, not
alike. If, for instance, one single exception were made in favour
of any set of persons, in legislating for the suppression of secret as-
semblages in the sister country, that one exception would directly
throw an invidious suspicion round the measure, which could alone
be obviated by its universality of operation in every case. For these
reasons, and upon these grounds, it becenie the dety of the F.xecu-
tive to exert its best endeavours for &nine down all Meetings of
the Secret Societies in Ireland:
The Earl of LIMERICK was satisfied with having done his
duty by presenting the Petition entrusted to him. He could also•
state, having belonged to the Masonic Society, that in all their,
Meetings they had confined their deliberation; simply to the legiti-
mate objects of their iostitteion—fratereity and charity. He must,
therefore, still &nitre that unfortunate necessity which renderod
one species of law necessary for Ireland and another for Eogland.
The Marquis of LANSDOWN said, that while agreeing with
the Noble Earl opposite (Liverpool) in the excellent' character the
Noble 'Earl had given to the Freemasoni of Ireland, that very trait
should induce them, he thought, to submit to some sactifice, as it
respected their own feelings, to that vest identification of in-
terests, arid that unity of :aws necessary to the common weltaro
of the Empire, sn long and ardently desired by all lovers of their
country. lie had risen for the purpose of saying thus much, and
also to declare his concurrence with the sentiments of the Noble
Earl orposite in directing the influence of Government, where un-
doubtedly it was most felt, for putting down Secret Societies of
every kind, and particularly in the northern part of Irefarid. Ile
himself yet remembered when an eloquent Coeamoner; in his
eatly life, had, referring •t Ireland, thought proper to describe
these wing of ofhce as over,lo,dow ir the metrueolls" of that king-
dons ; but this might he as truly said respecting the greater part of
Ireland, where the inauvere of the higher powers was generally
felt. He was, therefore, glad 'to find that Government was seriously
bent to exert its influence to free from insults those persons who
hitherto had endured so much contumely on party grounds.
Earl DARN LET could not conceive why the Fret masons of Ire-
land had not been exempted from the Act for the Suppression of
Secret Societies. He hoped for some amended Act, which should
put an entire stop to those disgusting processions in Ireland so cal-
culated to fosttlir prejudices the most hurtful to the public peace.
Lord STOWELL presented a Petition from the Members of
the Protestant Union in Ireland against the abovementiontd Lid;
which Petition was Lid upon the table of the Bosse.
Upon the motion of the Earl of Livetteoor., she Order of the
Day on which their Lordships had been summoned, was read,
when some amendments were introduced, both at the suggestion of
Lords Ltvearoor.. and Harteowar, in the Irish Burialsl3ill, which,
after some. remarks from different Peers, was read a third time,
passed,:and messaged to the Commons.
Earl BAT II U RST laid upon the table the draft of a Bill for the
better Administration of Justice in the Island of Newfoundland.
As a certain measure was before the other House for regulating
the Fisheries of NesvfoundLial, he wished no time to be lost in get-
ting both measures treoperate in unison.
The above Bill was Immediately read a first time, and the se-
cond reading was fixed for Tuesday, the House, upon the intima-
tion of Lord Dwasa.rv, to go into a Committee on the first open
day after the Easter Holidays. •
Te Marquis of LA NSDOWN, at the rising of the House, said
that it would not he possible for him to attend in the House oa
Monday. He had therefore to move their Lordships to discharge
the Order of the Dey, allointed for Monday, with regard to the
, Bill for facilitating the- Marriages of Dissenters from the Church of

England.
Here the Order was discharged; when the Noble Marquis said
that it was his intention to renew his notice at an early day after
the Holidays.—At about six *lock this House adjourned.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPiAlata took the Chair at four o'clock.
Colonel GRANT rreserted.s Petition from certain Freeholders
and other Inhabitants of the County of Elgin, praying for an ainend-
men: of the Laws ;elating to the Salmon Fishery.—Referred to the
Committee on the salmon -
Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW g7.ve notice that he should, on en early
day after the meeting of Par;antent for tae next Session, move tor
leave to bring in a Bill to repeal the Laws relating to Usury—
(Cheers and laughter.)
Nr. NIONTEI7II resetlted a Petition from the Practitioners
of the Low iu the Town of Rearew against the Anomie's' license
Duty..--Mr. M. GKA Nepresented a similar Petition froni the County
of Angus.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. KENNEDY brought in a Bill for regulating the Relief of
the Poor in Scotland, which was read a first time, and ordered tte
be read a second time.
Mr. HORDOUSE presented a Petition from certain Inhabitant
Householders of Westminster against the existing practice of the
Law of Libel, under which Magistrates held parties accused of
libel to bail, before the finding of any bill of indictment by a Grand
Jury. It was, the Honourable Member said, a most extraordinary
fact, which he had ascertained on looking over the Journals of the
House, that the law under which this power was exercised, and by
which it was established, was actually passed through that 11eiee
in the form oft' a Bill to amend the Revenue Laws." It was
of four Bills brought in under that head, and was passed in the pe-
riod of four days through all its stages, without a single observation
being made upon it, or without; in fact, the slightest notice having
been taken of it. On the Bill being carried up to the House of
Lords and read there a first time, it excited the notice of a friend.
of his, who made inquiries into its history, but could never learn
who was the author of the Bill. On the motion for its second
reading in the House of Lords, the Earl of Stanhope, whose atttn-
tioll had been directed to the subject, opposed it, and the halal was
supported by the ex-officio personages, who seemed to feel them-
selves called upon to defend everything of that sort ; be meant the
Lord Chancellor and Lord Ellenborough, the late Chief eldstice of
the Court of King's Bench, and such other official personages, The
friends of liberty in that House, however, (melted themselves on
the occasion, and even Loid Ellenbriroueh, overcome by the forcible•
and manly reasoning of Lord Helland, was compelled tc admit that
the Bill ought to be amended. The House would be surprised to
learn, that notwithstanding that declaration from such a quarter,
the Bill temained unaltered, and passed into a law; and had been
acted on in violation of every principle of English justice, particu-
larly in the case u; Mr. K. G. Butt, to which he had endeavoured
lest year to call the :Locution of the House. The present Petition
referred in a particular manner to the circumstances of that case, as
illustrating the hardship and objectionable nature of the practice
complained of, and prayed that the House would take it into se-•
ricus consideration, with a view to its abolition. Ile should make
it his pal ticular study to inquire farther into this subject, for the
purpose of making it the subject of a mourn on some future occa-
sion.—The Petition was urdered be primed.
Mr. PRENDERGAST presented a Petition from the Soehety
of Free and Accepted Masons in the Province of Connaught, in
Ireland, praying to be admitted to the participation of the seine
immunities and privileges as are now enjoyed by, and to be placed
on the same footing iu ail respects, as the Freemasons of England.
—Ordered to be printed.
Air. BING presented a Petition from the Parish of Clerkenwell,
in the County of Middlesex, prayieg for the repeal of the Mouse
and Window Tax.—Ordered to be printed.
Mr. ELLISON presented a Petition from certain Owners and
s:keep:en of Land of the County of Northumberland, agaimit the
Wool.— 'l'u be laid on the tuber.,repeal of the Duty on Forage W
Mr. ELLISON then presented a Petition frosts certain Tanners
and Leather Dressers of theV.ounty of .Northuniheriand, _praying
fir the repeal of the Laws and liegulatious relating to the Dressing
of Hides and Skins, and the Taa on the saute.—To be printed..
Mr. LA guroN presented .i l'aitioa front the Artisans of Dar-
lington, praying fora t (Teal uf the Combination Laws.
ELLlS.presented. a similar Petition front the Journeymen
Printers of Dublin.
Par. HOPHOUSE -presented a similar Petkices from the Jour-
neynien Heel:binder:to the City and Liberty of Wrattanster.
These Petitions were severally ordered to beritted.
Mi. H. SUM NER ereeented st• Petition from *Farnham; pray.
issit: for. the Abolition of Negro Slavery.
illy. TILE Y NE.prese.awd a eimilar Petititot from the Town
. . . .
Iteand Neighbourhood of Meveeisseye
311 3NlllTApsresented .intitar Petition from Te'.ilford. • '
presented a Petition front Perth. • •
Mi. BY NO presented a similar Petition from .the Parish, of
CleekenwelleeeTheos fectitiona were ordered. to be priged.