

July 27,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 



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SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1644. 



y™ ICTORIA LIFE ASSUKAlNCE~ COMPANY.— 

 Trustees. 

 Sir Jas. Duke, Aid., M P., Chairman. 

 Benjamin Dawes, Esq., Deputy Chairman. 

 iknjamin Barnaul, Esq. | Charles Baldwin, Esq. 



iPeculiar advantages are offered by this Company. Thus— 

 Parties assurir.gr the lives of other* may make their policies 

 ecwre, notwithstanding the lite assured may go out of the 

 mits of Europe, without the necessary permission of the 

 tJirfcctors having been previously obtained. 



Credit of halt the premiums for the first five years allowed on 

 policies effected for the whole term of lite. 



On policies of five years' standing, halt the amount paid, after 



the first year's premium, may be borrowed thereon by the 



\ssured. 



.Advances made to assurers on real or undoubted personal 



security, for terms of years, re payable by iuMalrnents. 



Attention is particularly requested to the detailed prospectuses 

 q{ the Company, which may be obtained at trie Office, 18, King: 

 IVilliam-street, City, or by letter, addressed to the Secretary. 



Wim.iam Ratrav. \ctuary and Secretary. 



Tj UKVH iSKiTlSH liSSUKAiNCfc; COMPANY, 



-N Established l8oy His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, 

 KG.. President ; Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman, Chairman of the 

 Lmdon Board; Francis Warden, Esq. (Director H.E.I.C), Vice 

 dairman; John Webster, M.D., F.R.S., 24, Brook-street, 

 Pnysician. Third Division ok Profits. 



The Third Septennial Investigation of the Company's Affairs 

 ▼ill take place on 3lst December next. Parties joining the 

 Profit Scheme in the interim, will participate in the Bonus to 

 be then declared. 



This Institution is incorporated by Royal Charter, and is so 

 ^constituted as to afford the Benefits of Lue Assurance in their 

 iillest extent to Policy Holders, combined with perfect security, 

 »rr a fully subscribed Capital of One Million Srerlinjj. besides 

 an Accumulated Premium Fund, exceeding Four Hundred 

 Thousand Pounds, and an Annual Revenue of Eighty-seven 

 Thousand Pounds. 



Fire Insurances may be effected on Private Houses, Country 

 Mansions, &c, at the low. st rate of Premium. 



A Prospectus, containing Tables of Premiums; with the names 

 of the President, Vice Presidents, Directors, and Managers, who 

 are all responsible Partners, may be obtained of Messrs. B. 

 ami M. Bo yo, 4, New Bank Buildings, < j r of the Actuary, 10, 

 Pall- Mall East. __ John Kino, Actuary. 



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The proceedings of both Houses of Parliament pre- 

 sent few topics which call for notice. The business 

 transacted is now of that routine character which always 

 marks the close of the Session ; and many measures 

 which would have excited general interest at an earlier 

 period are now hurried through with all possible dis- 

 patch, or postponed altogether for further consideration 

 in the recess. It is stated by the Ministerial pipers that 

 the regular business of Parliament will probably be dis- 

 posed of by the end of the first week in August, that 

 Parliament, however, will not then be prorogued, but 

 the Session be continued by adjournment to the 24th of 

 August. The object of this arrangement is said to be to 

 afford time for receiving the report of the Judges and 

 miking up the judgment of the House of Lords on the 

 Writ of Error brought in by Mr. O'Connell and his 

 fellow-prisoners. In the Lords, the Bill for legalising 

 Art Unions has been read a third time without oppo- 

 sition or amendment. Various other; measures have 

 passed, including the Bill for preventing the further 

 progress of the celebrated Qui Tarn Actions, the County 

 Coroner's Bill, and a Bill for amending the Insolvent 

 Debtor's Act, drawn up by a select committee which has 

 engrafted the principle of Lord Cotteuham's Bill for the 

 relief of Insolvents, on a Bill somewhat similar in 

 its objects introduced by Lord Brougham. In the 

 ^Commons, on Friday, Mr. Gibson's motion for a special 

 commission to inquire into the cause of incendiarism in 

 the Eastern Counties, was opposed by Government, and 

 negatived on a division by 130* to 41. On the same 

 night Sir R. Peel made the important announcement 

 that Government are resolved to adopt speedy and 

 decisive measures for extending education in Ireland, not 

 only by increasing the element v schools, but by 

 enlarging the exUtiug means of ac;; mical instruction. 

 The Premier decliued to give any further indication of 

 the intentions of Government, but from his admission 

 that the College of Maynooth is not adequately sup- 

 ported, it is believed that the grant to that establish- 

 ment next year will be materially increased. On Monday, 

 the Railways Bill passed through committee, after 

 an announcement by Mr. Gladstone that Government 

 had assented to certain modifications, in order to meet 

 the objections of the Railway Compauies. Mr. Sheil's 

 motion for the production of papers relative to the 

 French colony of Algeria led to a long discussion on tbe 

 policy pursued by this country in regard to the French 

 settlements in Africa, from the first diplomatic remon- 

 strance made by Lord Aberdeen in 1830. Both parties, 

 however, seemed disposed to feel that the French settle- 

 ments had too long received a tacit acquiescence to ren- 

 der the production of papers advisable ; and after an in- 

 cidental debate on the state of the navy, the motion was 

 negatived without a division. The Poor Law Bill 

 has also been one of tbe chief topics of discussion. 

 Various amendments have been proposed, the objects 

 and results of which are fully given in our Parliamentary 

 Report; and after numerous divisions, the Bill passed 

 through committee on Thursday, to be read a third time 

 last night. 



In France the Parliamentary Session is also drawing 

 to a close, and both Chambers will probably be prorogued 

 in the course of the next week. The accounts from 

 Algiers are not very precise or satisfactory, but there 

 seems to be no doubt that Marshal Bugeaud has found 

 it necessary to resort once more to decisive measures. 

 The last advices state that the Emperor is anxious for a 

 pacific arrangement with France, but his troops appear 

 to be entirely beyond control, and are continually harass- 

 ing the Marshal with fresh aggressions. Rumours have 

 been current in Paris that the Prince de Joinville has 

 found it necessary to bombard Tangiers, but no official 

 confirmation of the report has been received, although 

 the papers generally admit that there is little hope of 

 terminating the differences with Morocco otherwise than 

 by force of arms. — From Spain we have accounts of further 

 executions without trials, and attended by many of those 

 circumstances of cruelty which have already excited the 

 indignation of all civilised nations against Spanish 

 Governments. The whole country seems to be in a state 

 of disorganisation, and the expedition against Morocco 

 is supposed to be promoted by the Ministry as a means 

 of diverting the public excitement from their own acts 



a state of dangerous ferment, another execution for poli- 

 tical offences connected with the insurrection of last year 

 having taken place at Bologna. The recent revolt in 

 Calabria is said to have failed solely from the want of 

 promised supplies, and although the different Govern- 

 ments announce that tranquillity is retored, the secret 

 discontent of the people is the source of much anxiety 

 and apprehension. 



f^ome Nctos. 



Court. — The Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince 

 of Wales, and the Princesses continue at Windsor 

 Castle, and are quite well. Oa Sunday, Her Majesty 

 and Prince Albert attended Divine Service in the private 

 chapel. In the forenoon, the Queen and Prince, accom- 

 panied by the Princess Royal, walked in the pleasure- 

 grounds of the Castle. Her Majesty and his Royal 

 Highness took a drive in the afternoon iti a pony- 

 phaeton. The Prince of Wales and the Princess Alice 

 were also taken their accustomed airings. On Monday 

 morning her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing 

 in a pony phaeton, and visited the Duchess of Kent at 

 Frogmore-lodge. In the afternoon, the Queen and 

 Prince also drove out in a pony phaeton. On Tuesday 

 morning the Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by 

 the Princess Royal, walked in the pleasure-grounds of 

 the Castle. Her Majesty and the Prince also rode 

 out in a pony phaeton. The Prince of Wales and the 

 Princess Alice, accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttle- 

 ton, were taken an airing in the forenoon, in an open 

 carriage. In the afternoon Her Majesty and the Prince 

 took an airing in a pony phaeton, the Prince driving. 

 On Wednesday morning the Queen and Prince Albert, 

 accompanied by the Prince of Wales, walked in the plea- 

 sure grounds of the Castle, and also took an airing in a 

 pony phaeton, visiting the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore 

 Lodge. The Princess Royal and Princess Alice, accom- 

 panied by the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, were taken their 

 usual walks and rides. In the afternoon the Queen rode 

 out in an open carriage, the Prince and the equerries fol- 

 lowing on horseback. On Thursday morning Her Ma- 

 jesty and the Prince took an airing in a pony phaeton, 

 and again in the afternoon, the Prince driving. — The 

 v : sitors to Her Majesty this week at Windsor have been 

 the Duke and Duchess of Buccleugh, the Marquis and 

 Mar hioness of Douglas, Earl and Countess De Grey, 

 the \ ountess Wratislaw, the Earls of Aberdeen aud 

 Westmoreland, Sir R. Peel, Sir H. Wheatley, and the 

 Rt. Hon. H. Labouchere. Colonel Arbuthnot has suc- 

 ceeded Colonel Buckley as Equerry in Waiting on the 

 Queen, for a few days. — The apartment selected for the 

 accouchement of Her Majesty at Windsor Castle is in the 

 Augusta Tower, situate between the Victoria Tower (in 

 wnich are the rooms appropriated tor the nursery of the 

 Royal family) and the York Tower, and commands a 

 beautiful prospect to the southward, extending over the 

 Long Walk, Windsor Forest, and the Great Park, and 

 hounded by the Surrey hills. Two engines, attached to 

 special trains, are to be kept in constant readiness, with 

 their steam up both day and night, at the Paddington 

 terminus of the Great Western Railway, to start at five 

 minutes' notice lor the Slough station, to convey the 

 great officers of state to Windsor Castle upon their being 

 summoned from town on the occasion of the accouche- 

 ment. A powerful alarum has been fixed at the Galvanic 

 Telegraph-office at Paddington, communicating with the 

 telegraph at Slough, for the purpose of arousing the 

 attendant who sleeps at the office, in the event of a 

 telegraphic express reaching the terminus from Windsor 

 during the night. A trusty person has also been 

 appointed to remain in attendance at the office of the 

 Slough station throughout the night. It is computed 

 that a message can be expressed by the aid of the tele- 

 graph from Windsor Castle to Buckingham Palace in 

 25 minutes. 



The Queen Dowager, accompanied by Prince Ed- 

 ward of Saxe Weimar, arrived on Thursday morning at 

 Marlborough House from the Continent. Her Majesty- 

 landed at Woolwich, and is in excellent health. 



The King of Saxony.— His Majesty arrived at Bow- 

 ness on Thursday evening, accompanied by the Saxon 

 Minister and his suite. The evening being very fine, his 

 Majesty took a boat on the lake to enjoy the beauties of 

 Windermere, and returned to the Royal Hotel to dinner. 

 On Friday his Majesty was early astir, walking over the 

 adjacent heights to see the many beautiful views of the 

 lake and surrounding country, and lelt at 9 a.m. for 

 Ambleside. A number of the respectable inhabitants and 

 visitors were there assembled to witness the arrival of his 

 Majesty, who returned the greetings of the company in a 

 friendly manner. On alighting from his carnage, his 

 Majesty, accompanied by a part of his suite, took the 

 road to Keswick, leaving the carriages to follow, wishing 

 to avoid any display, and to dispense with any token o( 

 enthusiasm which those assembled might wish to offer. 

 His Majesty arrived at Carlisle on Friday evening. Imme- 

 diately on his arrival the King, accompanied by tbe Mayor, 

 visited the castle, cathedral, &c, and after remaining all 

 night at the Bush Hotel, left at 12 o'clock on Saturday for 

 Hamilton Palace, the seat of the Duke of Hamilton, 

 where hia Majesty arrived on Sunday morning. On 

 Monday evening, his Majesty unexpectedly visited Ulaa- 

 gow. After spending a few minutes at the Buck s tieaa 

 Hotel, his Majesty drove off to the College, and »peni a 

 brief space in the museum, his visit not <*™V"*"™ 

 than ten minu.es altogether *^*£ t %Z 

 the Exchange, but in such a quiet »«« 

 manner, that the circumstance —not , " n '™. 

 the few gentlemen who were present in the room uU a 



