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..or i i\D DRAINING ASSOCIATION. 



•»» U,B L L ^n stock oiM/.-Depoait. 5 per cent. 





Esq., 9, 



Keswick, 



•tton, 

 Rieh- 



.Isq.,Rich- 



,, Overton, 



Roondbay- 



Ribstone- 



*** Hon* iSd V-count Morpeth. 

 M. Milner, Bart. 

 2^S»iUiiirfl«ct Cayley, Esq., MP. 



PROVISIONAL COMMITTBB. 



Kirkham . J. Bailey Denton, 



*" , Gray . s . inn . squa re, London. 



John Grey, Esq., Dilston. 



Mr. Edwin Green, Havercroft, 



Barnsley. 

 James Hall, Esq., Scorborough, 



Beverley. 

 James Hammerton.Esq., Helli- 



field Peel, Skipton. 



J. Mildred Hustler, Esq., Brad- 

 ford. 



R. M. Jaque«, Esq., Easby 



Abbey, Richmond. 

 James Smith, Esq. (Deanston), 



13, Qacen-sq., Westminster. 

 Mr. William Tuke, Bradford. 

 Wrth power to add to their number. 

 Tht York ( and County Banking Company. 

 . «,««» iBt.-H. Hellenden Ker, Esq., l.incoln's-inn. 



Pbaivim 



^At7.-JohD H Ch'arnock, Esq , Wakefield 



U formed for the purpose of affording: to the 



by means of its collective capital, the funds 



^THOROUGH DRAINING OP LAND; and of 



MCrtataodinc the execution of the works required 



ta, ■ *«atfc««ost economical and effective principles 



-^■tai ■satof Tlit money advanced to be made, with interest, 



SEeSaMs aalf- yearly instalments as in the several cases 



r*riou« objects to which of late years collective 



__m more or lew successfully applied, it is not a little 



7»t the one which, of all others, offers the most cer- 



■illtlatill return, with the soundest security, should 



almost disregarded. The lime, however, has 



Mrtv«4. when an argent desire for Agricultural improvement on 



and a dearth of safe and profitable investment for 



t capital on the other, renders such an Association 



Jt to both the landed and monied interest, whilst 



unity generally an almost incalculable advantage 



_td by a proportionate increase of labour and food. 



i the council of the Yorkshire Agricultural 

 1 in York, on the 20th of December, 1843, a resolution 



v approving generally of the objects of this Association, 



. at the oraothly meeting of the Wakefield Farmers* Club held 

 tW Mb January, 1844, a resolution approving of the principle 

 octets of the Association, was unanimously adopted. 

 a; Uttatrting of the Royal Agricultural Society of England* 



July, I8U, Lord Stanley remarked— that "there 

 Wakin the whole country — no commercial speculation— 

 to safe, so sure and profitable, as that in which 

 may be engaged, by investing it under the 

 £°**< of y ur own soil/' And in reference to this Association, 

 Us LflttakiA. in a letter to the Committee says:— '* I am fully 



r benefits which such an Association is capable of 

 _ m _. the country, if confined to its legitimate object — 

 y toXfcg of capital on the security of an investment in drain- 

 Mf I 1*4 1 think it very probable that many landed proprietors 

 •"* ■***! themselves of the facilities afforded by an institution 

 -*f»o*eyoii land, repayable by instalments— a condition 

 »u*rh rew pritatc parties arc willing to lend. 

 HMg in Bind the important objects of the Association, and 

 perfect security with which its operations can be conducted, 

 ■**tively trifling expense (no large expenditure for pre- 

 tk*M .-- Jttag required;, it may be reasonably expected that 

 ™* War *™ r ttc ^Pital embarked will be such as to insure the 

 tw# l* 11 ^ 1 * 1 and permanent investors, thereby divesting 

 ^*^ ty f5?' aliTC ch *™cter which has stigmatised so many 

 projects, and which it is the especial desire of the Com- 

 fr avow, 



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A,TI1 "-street West, London Bridge. (Es- 



Directors. 



rt B«k? r a Er;' ,n, "' Robcrtc i , 3 cy ' ■» 



*Ppcr, Esq. 

 j>»keyne, Esq. 



*22«^cer, Esq. 

 "•■ry •tarry - 



Bmt 



Thomas Bax, Esq. 

 Joseph Cooper, Esq. 

 Russell Jeffrey, Esq. 

 William R. Spicer, Esq. 

 Joseph Sterry, jun., Esq. 

 Robert Wilcoxon, Esq. 



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 *•!. T ,n /*« event of his earlier death. 



£! « ?7.v CO ££ in5n & det a«led particulars, may be 

 uon at the Office, or of the Society's agents. 



Jsskin Jones, Actuary and Secretary. 



IMU cLnc MP , AXY * No - 3 « Charlotte-row. Mansion 

 5c i.^ Wry - lane ' London. 



"I Company whn ». h„..„.i u~ »v.i_ j — j _*• 



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ltrIr.- f i Wi Jr i ' fr ° m vhom the assured on thc 



*aarafti»7lr C ln * wn °l« of the mutual accumulations, 



*■ * 'fcTSnLn the Shareholders for the sums assured. 



-^J h *«l«r?£2K"f». W i J ,infl , ««"»selTe» to pay the sums 



5LV« Wei lkmiX-rf v, debts for whlch <h«y >»ere effected 



£2* +ES£i i ££ ^ h .? eby thc dcbt ls secured, although 

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reaVsTreaulr^^ ^ ha,fof tne Premiums forthe 



< WfofthI 11 . 0ne ,* 1,alf of tbe asoal rate, or to be 

 -"*•! oi tne usual sacrifice. 



Alex. Robertson, Manager. 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844 



DISEASED AND HEALTHY LIVES ASSURED. I 'THE NEW RAILWAY PAPER.— The First Nimhi 

 M EDICAL, INVALID, and GENERAL LIFE £ ?*U^^£^^^ 



1>JL OFFICE. 25 PaU Mall. London ,-This Office ; to provided A det«W «g^£ ™„*'™l£ ^ «fr^ t i ^e Office, 



with very accurately-constructod Tables, by winch ,t ran Assure ^"WJnUtoC-stMgl North. Strand. Londoa. 

 Diseased Lives on Equitable Terms. Increased Annuities granted 

 on unsound Lives, the amount varying with the particular 

 disease. Membersof Consumptive Families Assured at Equitable 

 Rates. E. G. P. Neibok, Actuary. 



PROVIDENT LIFE OFFICE, 50 Regent Street, Feb. I'j, 1841 



BONUSES DECLARED, 529,306/. i;«. yd. 



NOTICE is hereby given, that all Persons who hold 

 Policies in this Office, bearing date prior t he year 1834, 

 may receive the present value of the Bonuses which have been 

 added to their Policies, upon application at the Head Office, or 

 to the Agents through whom the Policies were issued. 



GEORGE BEAUMONT, Actuary. 



REAT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE 



SOCIETY, 14, Waterloo-place, London. 



Directors. 

 The Chisholm, Chairman. Win. Morley, Esq., Deputy. Chairman. 





James John Kinl< ch, Esq. 

 Henry Law son, Esq. 

 Robert Power. Esq. 

 The Reverend F. W. Johnson 

 Vickery, A.M. 



John Brightman, Esq. 



Francis Hrodigan, E<q. 



James William Deacon, Esq. 



Jonathan Duncan Dow, E*q. 



Alexander Robert Irvine, Esq. 



John Ingiis Jerdein, Esq. 



Auditors. 



C. B Rule, Esq.—T. C. Simmons, Esq.— Kcorge Thomas, Esq. 



Physician.— John Clcndinning, M.D., 16, Wimpolo strict. 



Solicitor.— Walter Pi ideaux, Esq., Goldsmiths' Hall. 



Bankers.- -Union Bank of London. 



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The whole of the Profits divided annually among the Holder 

 of Policies on which five Annual Premiums shall have been paid. 



Credit given for half the amount of the fir*t five Annual Pre- 

 miums, by which means Assurances may be effected and loans 

 for short periods secured with thc least possible present outlay ; 

 and after payment of thc arrears, thc Policy-holder will bi ne 

 entitled to participate in thc entire profits of tins Institution, 

 precisely in the same manner as if he bad paid thc whole amount 

 of his Premiums in advance in thc usual way. 



Thus, for example— a person in the 25th year of his age, in- 

 stead of paying 2/. 6*. per annum for an Aisurancc of 100/., 

 would be required to pay 1/. 3#. only during thc first five ars, 

 when, on payment of thc arreats of Premium, amounting to 

 51. 15*., his share of the profits would be such as to reduce his 

 future Annual Premiums to very little more than the half Pre- 

 mium of ll. 3s. originally paid by him. The Great Britain is 

 the only Mutual Assurance Society In which this very great 

 accommodation is given to the Assured. 



Credit allowed for the whole of the first five Annual Premiums 

 on satisfactory security being given for the puyment of thc same 

 at the expiration of five years. 



Transfers of Policies effected and registered .without charge at 



the Office. .... 



Claims on Policies not subject to be litigated or disputed, except 



with the sanction, in each case, of a General Meeting of the 



Assured, to be especially convened on the occasion. 



Holders of Policies of looo/. entitled (afterpayment of five 

 Annual Premiums), to attend and vote at all General Meeting! 

 of the Assured, who will have thc snpciintcndcncc and control 

 of thc funds and affairs of the Society. 



Full particulars arc detailed in the Prospectus, which, with 

 every requisite information, may be obtained by application to 



A. R. Teyine. Mnnaping Direc tor, 



rnH! lRISIrOArlMEKS' GAZLlTEand HORTl. 



II 



1 



— CULTURAL JOURNAL. Edited by Ldmuno Murpiiv. 

 A.B. T.C.D., Landscape Gardener and Improver of Estates, Ac. 



This Paper was commenced in May, 1642, and having been 

 adapted to the circumstances of Irish Farming— now in a trans 

 tion-state from the worst to an excellent system— not only points 

 out the best practice, but, giving plain instructions how every 

 operation should be performed, is now recognised as the ORGAN 

 of AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENT in IRELAND, where the 

 advantages which have already resulted from it are universally 

 recognised. The result of practices recommended, and of expe- 

 riments on all subjects connected with the improvement of land, 

 and the Increase of its produce, arc freely communicated to 

 the Editor and recorded. Selections of the most practically 

 useful articles arc made from the various works on farming with 

 which the press now teems, and utterly eschewing politics— so 

 long the bane of the Irish Farmer— and devoting its columns 

 exclusively to Agricultural and Horticultural improvement. 



THE FARMERS' GAZETTE has the distinguished honour to 

 be damped with the approbation of those eminent individuals, 

 Wm. Blacker. Esq., James Smith, Esq., of Dean n, and the 

 late Mr. Loudon, and is received with such confidence that thc 

 practice of having its contents read at stated periods to assem- 

 bled farmers is becoming general. The circulation of the IRISH 

 FARMERS' GAZETTE has of late been extending even in 

 England and Scotland, where, up to this period, no effort has 

 been made to bring it under notice, but where the principles of 

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 be equally useful as it has been found to be in Ireland. The 

 most practically useful essays en Farming are, from time to 

 time, struck off for distribution in thc shape of TRACTS FOR 

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 On the Dairy— A Catechism of Thorough Draining and Sub- 

 soiling— The Culture of Flax-Management of Manure and 

 Green-Cropping and House Feeding, are nearly ready. Also, on 

 the 1st Jan. was published, the " Irish Farmers', Gardeners', and 



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The decision of thc House of Commons on Friday 

 night on the 10 hours clause of thc Factories Bill — by 

 which both the Government and Lord Ashley were left in 

 a minority, has so far embarrassed the] question that thc 

 introduction of a new Bill has become imperatively neces- 

 sary. Our readers are aware that on Monday week thc 

 House, by two successive divisions, virtually sanctioned 

 Lord Ashley's proposition of 10 hours, in oppo ? ition to the 

 12 hours clause proposed by Ministers. On Friday night 

 Ministers attempted to induce the House to reverie this 

 decision, and were again defeated, their motion that female 

 labour should be restricted to 12 hours having been nega- 

 tived by a majority of 3. Immediately afterwards, how- 

 ever, the counter-proposition of Lord Ashley, stipulating 

 for a restriction of labour to 10 hours was defeated by a 

 majority of 7, although it was the identical proposition 

 which the House on Monday had affirmed by a majority 

 of 9. The general excitement which followed this result, 

 and the importance of the interests which it affects, induced 

 Sir J. Graham to postpone till Monday the announce- 

 ment of the course he would pursue in the future manage, 

 raent of the Bill. On Monday, therefore, he stated that 

 Government would neither consent to a compromise, nor 

 leave the law as it now stands, but would move to rescind 

 the order of the day by which Jthe Committee on the 

 disputed Bill was constituted, aud would immediately 

 bring in a new Bill. He stated, however, that while this 

 new measure will contain such provisions as are likely to 

 receive the sanction of the House, the Government arc 

 still determined to resist all limitation of the hours of 

 labour to less than 19 hours. Lord Ashley announced 

 that he would not oppose the withdrawal of the Bill, but 

 it is understood that his Lordship will again take the 

 sense of the House on the 10 hours clause when it it 

 discussed in detail after Easter. 



From France we learn that the recent decisions of the 

 House of Commons on the Factories Bill have been the 



JOURNAL of ECCLESIASTICAL and GENERAL LITE 

 RATURE. Contents : l. The Knights Templars. 2. Sees of Ban- 

 gor and St. Asaph : Additional Bishoprics. 3. The Agamemnon 



of jEschylus. 4. German Writers on the English Church. 5. 



Lord John Russell's Translation of Dante's Francesca da Rimini, j i tQ : Q f conversation. The prevailing impression 



6. Wordsworth's Theophllus Anglicanus. ;. The Chinese War. i general iu,m. "i . ..,/,. *£-__. .. 



Notices of New Books. Foreign and Colonial Ecclesia»tical 

 Intelligence and Correspondence. Missions to the Heathen. 

 Rivivo Toys. St. Paul's Churchyard, and Waterloo«p1*ce. 



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THE ECONOMY OF WASTE MANURES : a 

 Treatise on the Nature and Use of neglected Fertilisers, hy 

 Johv Hannam. Written for the Yorkshire Agricultural Society, 



and published by permission of the Council. . 



••Mr. HanuanVs excellent Treatise on Waste Manure* points 

 out the great loss of manure going on on almost every farm, arm 

 it gives directions which will be found extremely useful for tne 

 preservation of all kinds of manures in their most effective 

 state."— A ddress of the Council of the Yorkshire Agric. S'jc. 

 London: Longman, Bgow.v, Gsekn, and Lovomans. 



in Paris was one of surprise at the defeat of Government, 

 the Ministerial papers describing it at a triumph of the 

 philanthropic party which carried Negro Emancipation, 

 and the Opposition papers regarding the restriction of 

 labour as a certain precursor to a fall in wages, and to 

 increased difficulties among the working classes.— A tele- 

 graphic despatch from the Spanish frontier announce, 

 the arrival of Queen Christina at Madrid, on " e eT€n '°» 

 of the 23d. The meeting of Queen Isabella wit* 

 her mother took place it » »"<>* distance _ from 



